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Chapter 14
Bound Hero
Harry felt like his muscles were on fire as he glowed with golden light, white wings on his back spread out for what might as well have been miles, maybe even seen from space, glowing, and a constant source of the feathers made out of cool hot energy that were blasting around the grounds of Hogwarts. He was like a beacon, a column of light shooting up around him, touching the sky and forming a super cloud of golden white light over Hogwarts, her grounds, and Hogsmeade.
He stood out in front of the castles main entrance. The castle itself covered in foreign markings of purple, pink, blue, white, green, and every other colour imaginable, sparkling as stone wore to nothing and crumbled from the school in a boom as he drew from the schools lay, and denied the school that energy, and it turned out the school was shoddily put together with magic and held together from the lay of the natural Zero Point Energy the planet gave off from its life as it was strong enough to be obvious around the school and the reason the school was built there.
Teachers and students alike had abandoned the school, some of which were firing everything and anything at Harry to stop him, but it was no good as he was drawing too much power. He was dressed as Joker, holding his arms out to the heavens, chanting, his attackers' spells only hitting the column of light and were harmlessly absorbed.
Harry was gritting his teach in agony as he came to one conclusion. "There isn't enough power! The lay line isn't a powerful enough conduit!" he muttered as the column of light darkened and more of the castle crumbled away, collapsing the whole front of the school, including the Great Hall into rubble, but that could be fixed.
However, all that did was make the cloud a little larger and Harry feel excruciating hunger. He staggered and his wings of light flickered away, the column splashing into nothing moments later with it as Harry collapsed out cold to the ground in a small thud just as it started to rain like magical fireworks.
Harry woke later in a tiny cell to the oppressive cold of the dementors, soul-drinking monsters, and some pointless wards, and the wizards said he was evil – well, Dumbledore and probably the minister did. He pulled himself up from the floor and stretched his muscles. He needed something to eat; he was so hungry he was worried the next person he saw will be on the menu, and there were few who could stop him, whether through strength or because he cared for them.
Harry looked down to discover his clothes had been taken as he was naked, which was annoying as he liked his joker costume, but they hadn't returned his hair colour or removed his makeup they did take his mask, but that would self-detonate as he didn't want some loser taking credit for his magic, if they were smart enough to reverse engineer his magic, which he doubted they were. His wand had been taken too, which was the norm, so he couldn't hold that against them. Harry did amuse himself with the thought of who his wand Echo attacked when she reformed into a kick-arse little dragon – the sky dragon spirit could be quite picky with who she'll let touch her. He could already sense his wand. She had already escaped, and he could summon her, but he knew he needed it to stay where it was so it wouldn't be lost when they do unto him the vilest of punishments that Dumbledore wouldn't have tried on a mass murdering terrorist like Voldemort; Harry would have worried about her.
Shrugging unconcerned as his plans were moving forward from plan-A to plan-who's-counting, so Harry checked the door and it was of course locked, so pushing both hands out towards the sealed oak, the door buckled under the weight of his power, he first felt the ward buckle and break, as his eyes melded into black the door and wall it was in cracked and caved, bursting open and to the floor, useless, and proving his superior power as he wasn't even using a wand.
Stepping out of the cell, Harry looked around the empty corridor. "Wow, someone as dangerous as me, and not one guard?" he muttered to himself, feeling disappointed.
However, Harry left the ministry cellblock and headed upstairs where he could smell some food. Therefore, the naked Harry Potter, or Harry Evans, or whatever, whoever he was now walked out into an empty aurors dining chamber. He had no shame in his body even if the place had been crowded; it would not have bothered him, but he might have had to beat a few people up to get a sandwich.
Finding some food was easy as he started eating straight from the buffet table, scoffing more than he ever thought he could eat and then some more. It was not too bad either. He had not pegged the ministry as a place to serve up a good meal to their minions.
"You should run while you have the chance!"
Harry wasn't startled, food in transit as he turned to see Nymphadora Tonks, with her bubble-gum pink hair and hot figure hidden away by her auror robes. She was blushing, and it was no secret she was not looking at his face.
"Yo, hey Dora," he greeted with a smile, using the nickname he had ever since they first met before he started school since she was Sirius's cousin, and he seemed to be the only person, other than parents to get away with not using her last name as a nickname. "Security around here sucks, and some bastard stole my clothes. It's a fucked-up world when you get dumped in a jail cell and get robbed by the 'law' 'enforcement' guys!"
"T-they want to humiliate you," she replied, finally looking up at his face. "Though, someone almost lost a hand when your mask blew up," she said with a small smile while thinking about it before looking his powerful body up and down. "Then your wand almost killed a man by melting his face off – I doubt that will fully heal, but wand lore, so not your fault or problem," she added with a thoughtful look before shrugging and looking him over some more. "But now I've taken… a good long look, they're not going to humiliate you, just make a lot of girls want to free you. I haven't seen you naked since… I mean, never mind-," she trailed to a stop, blushing.
"Yeah," he said with a shrug, amused with her as he finished what he had started eating before walking over to her and sitting up on the table she stood next too. "I'm afraid I can't run away… well I could, but they'll chase me until I've killed them all. You should know me. Even when we played games, I always had backup plays for the possibility that I should lose – or maybe, I just tried my backup plan first because it would have been so much easier, and – sorry, Dora, for my next stage in life I can't be a killer.
"But I should warn you, Dora. Dumbledore and his Order are bad news," he said as if warning her of a coming drizzle. "If you hang out with those douches for too long, you'll become nothing but a mindless follower, and I love you. I want you to live your life and be happy."
She suddenly threw herself into his arms, hugging him tightly, he held her, smiling as she spoke. "I'll follow you Harry, but you have to go. I can sneak you out. You can leave the country. I'll contact Sirius, he has some contacts."
"No," he said, pushing her back, though she kept hold of him, he kissed her lips tenderly, smiling wider. "I'm sorry, Dora, but I have to let this happen. If I don't, they'll never give me any peace, but rest assured, this is not the end of me. Throughout history every visionary is mocked, hated, and feared, even Merlin, but look to them, they were great men and women, remembered for their victories, not their failures."
"Then you're going to become a great man, Harry," she said, leaning down her lips touched his and they kissed deeply before Harry pulled back, smirking.
"You should capture me now as people are on their way," he said, smiling. "Though taking this further would have been more fun."
"Y-yeah, I know," she said sadly, as she pulled from his arms and drew her wand, and all went dark as he let her stun him.
"Sorry!" was her last word to him as she held him in her arms holding back her tears as she couldn't afford for anyone to know she had loyalties beyond the Ministry of Magic or Dumbledore.
To Be Continued...
