a/n: Hello everyone, I know I take a long time to update my story but hopefully I will change any who on with the story.
"regular talk"
"thoughts"
"flashback"
Danny was at the moment laying on his bed, eyes wide open blood-shot staring at nothing.
"I will open a portal for you to get back young phantom only if you give me your word that you will return, it is of the utmost importance that you do, dark days are coming and you have to prepare yourself" clockwork said looking intently at Danny's eyes.
"Dark days you mean the return of Voldemort right?"
"yes, young phantom. you have to be ready…" as clockwork was talking he waved his stop watch tipped staff and the hands of a clock appear out of thin air turning in opposite directions tearing the space it moved through creating a swirling blue portal. "and before you go as a parting gift, remember any oath is nullified after the oath taker is dead." As clockwork said that, with a grin he waved his staff again but in Danny's direction the portal moved engulfing Danny and transporting him back to Hogwarts right by the painting of the dancing trolls.
Danny rights himself on to a sitting position on the bed and begins fishing for something inside his pocket. He pulls out his hand to see in it a little medallion of a cog with the initials CW in the middle of the tiny cog and a paper that says "wear it at all times it is a portkey, to activate it touch it and say mortem and it will bring you to me for your classes on soul magic, let's meet after curfew every Sunday." Danny put the medallion around his neck and fished out his wand and burned the paper into ash.
"I can't believe this just happened… Voldemort's return, chosen by death, half alive and half dead it all seems impossible like a horrible nightmare... at least the upside to this I can tell my friends everything now, I don't have to hide anything" Danny thought while he was rubbing the tiredness out of his eyes.
He got out of bed, changed his school wear to his PJs and laid down on the bed, unfortunately as his eyes began to drift off, the other students began to rise for their next school day disturbing the peaceful rest of the young halfa.
Inside an unused dusty cobweb-filled classroom gathered Danny and his friends sitting in a semi-circle on old wooden chairs, that looked precariously about to crumble if anyone ever sat on it but miraculously still holding on after the fact.
"Danny are you okay, you look tired have you had any sleep?" Sam asked in worry for her friend.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine actually I'm great yesterday I found out something that would hopefully answer all of your questions…" Danny said smiling a bit to his friends happy that he can finally tell them everything.
Danny began explaining what happened to him from the incident at the archway to his powers and to his meeting with Clockwork and what was said in that meeting.
"Wow, Danny that's… Heavy" Tucker said wearing a shocked face.
"tell me about it, I can't believe they expect me to do this, me going after the dark lord?" Danny looked agitated. "I forget to tie my shoes sometimes, and they expect me to do this?"
"Danny, Don't worry. death must have chosen you for a reason and you heard what clockwork said, if He who must not be named, truly made horcruxes then he truly is still here and from what I gathered from my dark books, horcruxes are made in a most terrible horrifying way. It is so horrible that most of the authors only mention it by name or mention that the way to make a horcrux is to split your own soul but never a practical on how, as it is too dark." Sam announced trying to assure Danny.
"Was that supposed to make me feel better…"Danny looked at Sam with an indignant look. "cause if you were shooting for reassuring that was not the way to do it I mean the guy is a mass murderer who killed many people; Also, don't forget that he tried to kill a baby and killed the baby's parents and that he supposedly split his soul, as you say, to gain immortality!" Danny whisper yelled.
Sam looked unimpressed. "Danny! you have an opportunity to help a lot of people and discover new things the wizarding world has never seen. There is no point crying over spilt milk, look on the bright side… Tuck pack me up on this" Sam turned her gaze on her other best friend to help her out.
Tuck looked like a deer caught in headlights looking at both his friends he then closed his eyes, took a deep breath and let it out in a huge sigh, opening his eyes again, he looked at both his friends "Look Danny, Sam is right…"
Sam gave a smug look at Danny but halted as Tucker continued speaking. "But Danny does have a point. Why choose him and not let's say Harry potter? the guy does have the most obvious connection to you know who. I don't know, something smells fishy about the whole thing, there is something we still haven't figured out and if death truly wanted he who must not be named punished for what he has done then why not talk to other people who have the power to actually do something, like let's say, Dumbledore? The point I am trying to reach is that even if it is a great opportunity for Danny to explore the mythological ghost zone that his parents theorized its existence, and to help bring down the wizards' equivalent of Hitler…" Tucker said as he looked with apprehension to his two friends. " there is still too much unknowns that make me feel uncomfortable… the best thing to do in my opinion is to tread carefully Danny, you also said Dumbledore and Snape found out about one of your secret powers, I say keep them in the dark still. Until you have a bigger understanding about this thing that is going on with you, so you would be sure about what you should do." Tucker finished looking at his friends seriously.
The both of them looked at him with shocked faces, they never thought Tucker was the kind to say wise words.
Danny adjusted the bag on his back and nodded a thankful smile to his best friend, then he walked to the closed door and turned back to his friends. "I don't care what happens now you guys, as long as I can talk with you about it I'm fine." He said smiling to his two friends. They smiled back in happiness at his words and with a shared look between Tucker and Sam they Jumped at Danny engulfing him in a huge group hug.
They got out from the unused classroom laughing together, growing closer than never before.
It was a beautiful day at Hogwarts. The greenery by the school's gates were refreshing to the soul the skies were bluer than blue with a splattering of little clouds flouting around untroubled. Hagrid was tending to the Hippogriffs enjoying the day even in the presence of the dreadful Dementores nothing was going to ruin as good a day as this, unfortunately for Hagrid he didn't count for something more dreadful than a dementor. As he was tending to the Hippogriffs, the wind picked up, temperature dropped and the clouds gathered into a black unidentified mass. As Hagrid sensed the sudden change he started looking around turning his head upwards looking right and left at the skies.
Then suddenly, "excuse me Sir would you please open the gate for me."
Hagrid startled, looked at the gate, and right behind it stood a woman tall with sharp features, wearing a black-flattering-to-her-figure dress, moon rimmed glasses, hair worn like two horns and as red as blood. "and who might you be mam?" Hagrid asked feeling miserable all of a sudden.
The women looked at him from above her moon rimmed glasses. And with a smirk said. "Why I'm Penelope Spectra of course."