A/N: It's Monday again and I come around with a new chapter. This chapter…I don't know…one third is exactly as I wanted it…one third was supposed to happen but only much later but the last third…I don't know what made me write it, I honestly don't know. Maybe it is those incense sticks I use? Trelawney would be ecstatic! Probably some tribe about me opening my inner eye…I don't know.

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Chapter 34: Harry Impossible

It was about two weeks and a half since Harry suddenly appeared in his living room at Hogwarts after having pranked the American ministry. At the moment Severus was sitting in an armchair in front of the fire nursing himself a cup of coffee while reading a book, but his thoughts continued drifting to what Harry had done. He had to admit that while the deed itself was quite Gryffindorish, how the boy had handled the accusations towards him were indeed very Slytherin in nature.

Though he had to admit that the British Aurors are not the brightest, only because someone didn't use their wand doesn't automatically imply that said person didn't use any magic at all as Harry so impressively demonstrated. But then again the British community was of the firm opinion that wandless magic was nearly impossible to achieve after all, completely forgetting that Merlin himself was quite accomplished in hand-magic.

The Potions Master was in the middle of his musings about wandless magic when he heard the tell-tale sound of an incoming portkey behind him. With a groan and wondering what the boy did now he turned in his chair to look at him.

"What did you do this time?" he asked shocked when he saw who was standing behind the boy, Lily Potter.

"Why do you always assume that I did something? Can't I just come by for a visit?" Harry asked indignantly not even realising that he brought his mother with him, but only received a rise of Severus' eyebrow. "Okay, okay, it was an emergency you know? I had to save this from Loki and Sirius," he said holding up a small box in explanation before handing it over. "For you!"

"Indeed this seems to be a reasonable emergency, thank you," Severus told the boy who smiled broadly at him.

He knew that Loki had a massive sweet tooth. So he wouldn't argue with Harry about it especially when it was one of the delicacies meant for him, but he still wondered how the boy had managed to bring Lily with him, who at the moment stood behind Harry gaping in shock.

Loki chose right that moment to show up and stared longingly at the box but quickly backed up when he saw Severus' glare.

"How did you do it?" Loki asked Harry with shock, surprise and a bit awe now that he concentrated on the real issue.

"Do what?" Harry questioned confused.

"Getting here of course! Not to mention that you managed to take your mother with you!"

"Huh?"

Harry's confusion even rose when he finally turned around only to come face to face with his equally confused mother.

"I used the Portkey Severus gave me," he muttered in disbelieve.

"You not only managed to portkey out of heaven but also took someone with you, whom shouldn't be able to leave to begin with!" Loki exclaimed.

"I…I don't know," Harry whispered, watching how Loki now walked around his mother in a circle.

With every step, Loki took his eyes went wider and wider, in the end, one might fear that they might pop out of their sockets. Loki looked the epitome of shock.

"This is impossible! How…? What…? She's alive," he rambled. "Alive! As in utterly, completely and absolutely alive! As in not dead…! That shouldn't be possible. Definitely impossible! There is no way…."

His rambling made every one of them stare at Harry who flushed red in embarrassment.

"I don't know how it happened," he tried to explain when he had an idea. "Loki could you perhaps bring me back? I'd like to try something."

That brought Loki out of his shock and grabbing Harry's shoulder they both vanished leaving behind a shocked speechless Lily and a confused Severus.

Harry and Loki landed in the living room of the heaven and as soon as they did Harry bolted from the room.

"Dad?" he called out while entering the kitchen where they had been when he activated the Portkey.

In the kitchen at the table sat Sirius, who had come with them to visit Lily and James, and James, worry and confusion written all over their faces. They were mainly worried though not knowing what happened when Harry had activated the portkey and vanished together with his mother. When Harry burst into the room, they both looked up in relief seeing that Harry was unharmed though Lily was nowhere to see.

"Where is Lily?" James asked his son, his worry slowly returning.

However, Harry didn't answer the question but just walked over to him and grabbed his arm. "Dad, I need you for a moment," he said, and without another word he activated his portkey again, this time vanishing together with his father, leaving behind an even more confused Sirius.

"What in the name of sanity just happened?" Sirius asked no one in particular.

"I have no idea, but it would be a good idea to follow them," Loki answered before grabbing Sirius and vanishing too.

In Severus' living room now four people stood gaping at each other, none of them knew what happened or what to say. It was this setting to which Loki and Sirius arrived. However, not soon after Loki showed up again, Harry began to sway before falling unconscious. It was only credited to Severus' quick reaction that he didn't collapse and fall to the floor. Severus lifted him up and carried him over to the couch where he gently laid him down closely followed by Lily who worriedly fussed over her son while James just watched the two.

That was also what brought Loki out of his stupor. He rushed over to Harry and instantly began to assess what was wrong with the boy. A few diagnostic charms later Loki sighed in relief.

"He only drained too much of his magic, but other than that he is fine," the pagan finally said.

"Harry drained his magic? But how?" Severus asked more confused than ever, and he didn't like it not knowing things.

"Hell, I don't have the faintest. If I had to make a guess, I would say that Harry used his magic to revive Lily and that reviving James so soon afterwards drained it to a level that made him fall unconscious. However, that should be impossible, and I mean really impossible. Magic cannot in any given way, no matter what, revive a person the way Harry just did. I mean yes there is the magic of Necromancy, but even that magic cannot fully bring back the dead, they would only be empty husks," Loki rambled again. "The only ones who would be even remotely able to bring dead back like that would be either a demon or an angel. I am absolutely sure that Harry is neither…so no I have no idea how he did it. And there is normally a price to pay…but not with Harry…it is as if he just reversed death."

"So basically you say that thanks to whatever Harry did, James and I are alive again?" Lily asked for clarification.

"Basically…yes," Loki answered looking up to her.

"Well, that will be interesting to explain," Lily mused with a low chuckle.

"Interesting to explain? It seems that Harry is able to bring back the dead without any repercussion whatsoever!" Loki exclaimed before he became serious. "No one can ever know of this. He would be hunted!"

Right at that moment, a knock echoed through the room. Severus who kneeled at Harry's side next to Loki looked at everyone worriedly before he stood up and walked over to the door. He opened it wide enough to see who knocked but not enough for whoever was out there to see what was going on inside.

"Dumbledore, what do you want? I'm in the middle of a very complex brewing process," he lied to the man expertly in the hope of getting rid of him less he learned what was really going on.

Dumbledore, on the other hand, looked sternly at the Potions Master over his half-moon spectacles. "Severus, you should know better than to try and lie to me," he scolded the man.

Severus looked at the old man for a long moment before he sighed and pulled the door open entirely to grant him entrance. Dumbledore strode in with a smile and a twinkle in his eyes, completely ignoring the glare Loki shot him.

"James, Lily, it is nice to see you two though I have to wonder just how it is possible for you two to be alive in the first place," he said with a warm smile before he worriedly turned towards Harry who was still unconscious. "I hope he is alright?"

Loki nodded curtly towards the headmaster still not sure whether it was a good idea to let him know what happened. Dumbledore in the meantime walked over to one of the armchairs and sat down, chuckling lowly over the worried and apprehensive glances he received.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about anything going on in this room, I'm merely curious to what happened here. I felt the wards shift and came here to investigate," he told them.

Loki took a deep breath, sitting down at the end of the couch Harry was lying on before he conjured up enough chairs for everyone. When they all sat, and an elf brought them tea on Dumbledore's order he began to tell the man what happened.

"I have to say, that Harry has remarkable abilities, especially for his age, but I would suggest that he is careful to when and how he uses them lest someone catches on and tries to kidnap him to abuse those abilities. The worst that could happen is that someone wants to kill him to prevent him from using them all together," Dumbledore mused once Loki finished.

"That is exactly what I said," Loki replied when Harry began to stir.

"What happened?" Harry questioned once he regained consciousness.

Loki looked at him and held out his hand over the boy's chest pushing some magic into him to speed up the process of regenerating his magical core.

"You nearly completely drained your magical core with whatever you did. I helped to regenerate it but you cannot perform any magic for the next two days or you run the risk of depleting it completely resulting in you losing your magic," Loki explained while helping him sitting up.

Harry winced, leaning against his mother who sat down next to him and placed an arm around him. "Not wanting that."

"Thought as much. How do you feel?" Severus asked concerned.

"A bit weak and I have a headache but besides that…," Harry replied with a shrug.

Severus flicked out his wand and not soon later a potion vial came sailing through the air, falling into the man's waiting hand before he handed it to Harry.

"Drink that it will strengthen you and help with the headache," he explained.

Harry dutifully took the potion.

"So the big question now will be how we explain that two people, who were dead for the last ten and a half years, are suddenly alive again," Sirius spoke up for the first time since he arrived. "Not that I'm not grateful for having you two back, but that will be extremely hard to explain."

"True," Loki nodded. "At least the goblins will be able to verify your identity and since it isn't the first time that someone presumed dead returned the Ministry has a procedure to reinstate you as alive giving back your titles and standing. The problem with that is that you'll have to tell them just how you got back."

"Why is that a problem? I brought them back," Harry asked confusedly.

"Harry, you brought them back without suffering any repercussions for it. Do you have any idea what certain beings would do to have such a power? You can never tell anyone about it! It is a wonder in itself that at least Death didn't show up yet and throw a fit," Loki told him.

"Is it really so bad?" Harry didn't understand Loki's problem.

Loki sighed. "Harry…yes, certain parties can bring back the dead, demons for example, but for that to happen, you have to pay with your very own soul. Angels also can bring back the dead if they desire so but they have to give an extremely good reason for doing so because otherwise, death shows up and said person is dead again before he even realized that he was alive not to mention the trouble said angel would be in for defying the law that blatantly."

"So we have to fear that we'll end up dead again any moment?" James asked apprehensively.

"Honestly? I have no bloody idea. This is a situation that is unprecedented. But that gives me an idea...I think I know how we can forgo telling the ministry just how you got back," Loki said now with a Cheshire grin. "A feigned demon contract."

Harry hummed lowly. "Crow or Al?"

"Crowley, though I wouldn't call him Crow to his face if I were you," Loki instantly retorted. "But we cannot call him here…."

Dumbledore looked at the pagan for a long moment before he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "I can let him in but only this one time," he said sternly.

"Are you sure?" Loki inquired, Dumbledore was on hell's list of those they desperately wanted to finally claim after all, but Dumbledore only gave him a strange look. "Okay, okay, I'll call him."

Loki took out his mobile phone and quickly called Crowley asking him to come to Hogwarts. It wasn't much later that Crowley appeared in the living room looking at everyone before his gaze fell on Dumbledore. It seemed that he wanted to say something when his eyes widened.

"You're not Dumbledore," he finally said.

"Very perceptive," the old man replied with a smirk, ignoring the stares he received upon that revelation. "Dumbledore is out of hell's reach."

"Who are you? What did you do?" Crowley hissed lowly his eyes narrowing on the man.

Dumbledore, or at least who impersonated the man, chuckled lowly. "I gave him and his lover a nice little place in heaven where they can…live in peace before taking his place."

"You're an angel," Crowley exclaimed though he couldn't tell which angel because as it seemed said angel suppressed his aura so that he couldn't get a read on it, but it must be a high-ranking one because otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to do what he did.

"And that is everything you'll need to know. Anyway, we didn't call you here to talk about Dumbledore but because we need your help," Dumbledore replied.

"What do you want?"

"Well, we have to reinstate two people as alive with the British Ministry without revealing the real reason to why they are alive again, to begin with," Loki answered the question. "My idea was to fake a demon contract as a pretextual reason."

Crowley hummed lowly looking at everyone present. Lily, James and Severus were quite tense, not used to deal with demons and therefore cautious. Harry, on the other hand, looked pleadingly at him while Loki and the wannabe Dumbledore watched him expectantly.

"That won't be cheap," he said in the end.

"What do you want?" now also Loki looked apprehensively.

That was an excellent question that Crowley thought through carefully. He had three ways to go but which was the one that would gain him the most?

One, he could demand to know just what angel thought it a good idea to cancel the contract with Dumbledore by giving him a place in heaven. But that won't gain him all that much. Sure, it would be nice to know but alone knowing that an angel was hiding as Dumbledore was worth a lot and the gain of knowing which angel wasn't all that high.

Second, he could ask for the details of how they managed to bring back the boy's parents and yes he knew very well who the two were after having done some research when Loki approached him with the request of getting his other relatives into hell. However, this was a tricky request and could either be worthless when the angel in disguise as Dumbledore had a hand in it or could be invaluable, but the risk was extremely high.

Third, he could use this situation to bind Harry in a contract to deliver him the soul of Riddle once he managed to collect all the pieces. Since the boy was prophesied to do so, to begin with, this would be a highly profitable deal. What would cause some trouble though would be the fact that Loki would want to have a word in the wording of the contract and he didn't want to piss off the pagan. On the other hand, the boost he would gain by claiming Riddles soul and getting him where he belonged would probably be worth it. As long as he didn't add anything that would harm Harry, he would be safe. Would he be truthful he would have to admit that he liked Harry and he wasn't inclined to hurt him.

So he made up his mind, the third option was the one that would gain him the most so a deal with Harry it was.

"I want a deal with Harry," he told them but hold up a hand to stop the impending explosion of everyone except Harry.

Crowley observed with interest that the boy just was curious and not in the least bothered that he practically asked him to make a demon deal. However, he quickly had to elaborate before the adults would try to kill him for even suggesting something like that.

"Not a normal deal so stop worrying," Crowley added. "What I want is just a signed contract that Harry would deliver the soul of Riddle to me once he collected all those blasted pieces. No going to hell after ten years, no hidden conditions, just him delivering that idiots soul for me resurrecting his parents."

Harry cocked his head in contemplation before he looked at Loki. "What do you think?"

"You're not really contemplating making that deal, are you?" Sirius exclaimed. "This is madness, you cannot trust a demon!"

Lily and James in the meantime looked at each other for a long time seemingly having a silent conversation. In the end, James nodded while Lily sighed but also nodded. Severus, on the other hand, sat in his chair, tapping his mouth with his right index finger and deeply lost in thought.

"What I think is," Loki began giving Sirius a pointed glare that he should shut up resulting in the man throwing his hands in the air and slumping down in his seat. "That I'll read the contract before Harry signs anything. Did you really think that I would let Harry become entrapped in a demon contract?"

"So you want to send Harry on a wild goose chase after those blasted soul pieces?" Sirius retorted heatedly.

"Sirius, stop for a moment and think. Crowley never said that it would have to be Harry who searches and finds the soul pieces…," Loki argued but was interrupted by Severus.

"Ultimately it would be us searching and finding the soul pieces, giving them to Harry and he hands them over," he commented in a low voice that was well-heard none the less.

Crowley smirked. "I don't care how he gets Riddle's soul as long as he gives it to me in the end."

"What if someone else manages to collect the entire thing before Harry can?" James suddenly asked.

"Unlikely," Loki muttered already thinking about how to get the rest, but when he looked up, he saw the man's confused face. "I already have two of the pieces, the one Severus and I extracted from Quirrell and the one from Harry's scar," he explained absentmindedly not realising what he just admitted.

This resulted in a shouting attack of Sirius while James and Lily just looked sadly at Harry having already known about it. Dumbledore looked confused while Harry, on the other hand, was surprisingly calm.

"So that was that black smoke that came out of my scar when you gave me that tattoo," he deducted silencing Sirius' rant with it.

"Why do I learn about this little detail only now?" Severus asked in a deceptively soft voice.

Loki swallowed hard and looked sheepishly at the Potions Master, that man can be more frightening than a seasoned demon. "I forgot to tell you?" he said making the statement sound more like a question.

"The next time you come to know about something that might threaten Harry's health you instantly inform me about it, is that understood?" Severus asked the pagan threateningly receiving a fearful nod in return. "Good."

"What surprises me, is that I wasn't able to detect it when I made sure that Harry was alright after what happened at Godric's Hollow," Dumbledore spoke up.

"It seems that Riddle did something so that the soul pieces can't be detected though I don't know what, even I wasn't able to detect either the one in Harry nor that Quirrell was possessed. However, I think we got a bit off track. Crowley, you set up the contract, and I'll read it before Harry signs it," Loki addressed the demon who had silently observed them for the last few minutes.

It took Crowley and Loki only a few minutes to set up the contract, and it was simple and straight forward. The deal would cover up the sudden returning of Lily and James Potter to the living for Harry delivering the soul of Riddle without stating how he got the soul or giving a time limit. Afterwards, Harry signed it. Crowley went on his way with a smirk that would have made a shark look tame.

"So, now that this is out of the way there is only one question unanswered. Who are you really?" Loki addressed Dumbledore.

A/N: I bet with you that neither of you expected THAT! Though I issue a challenge: Who is Dumbledore? *hint* it's not Zachariah (that dick is only usable as a pranking target)! 'til next chapter!