The Lagacy
"The Life-force is as strong in you
as it is strong in me,
the difference is what you
hold captive I set free."
Part 4: Blood Red ThroneOn a staircase, Harry was talking to a statue.
"Marshmallows..." He said, and the statue gave way.
"I'll do it!" Yelled Harry while bursting into Dumbleders office.
"Ahhh Harry! I've been expecting you. So you have decided to uphold the Legacy."
Said Dumbledar in a low bassy voice.
"I cannot avoid fate. Better to ride out and meet it than to cower away." said Harry while flashing his "HP" logo.
"Such wise words from one so young. Do you find your path is true?" squireld dumbledoor while squinting his eyes in order to look wiser.
Harry squinted his eyes as well because he wanted to look wise too.
"The true path is determined by your alignment. I am aligned to you my head master. My aim is to rid the world of Voldemort." Said Harry sure of himself.
Dumbledoor lent back on his chair and said "The path you choose may be evil whatever your alignment. Your heart may be true, but would you do anything to kill
Voldemort?"
"Yes!" replied Harry surely. "I would do anything to rid the world of his curse!"
Dumbleder leaned forwards onto his desk and gave Harry a piercing stare. "Would you willingly sacrifice your friends?".
"I... No... I would not... never." Harry took a few steps back.
"Doubt is not your enemy Harry, only your reluctance to confront it. Fear will break you if you let it Harry. Remember this while you undergo your quest." Dumbledor gestured Harry to leave. "Now go. Snape will tell you what you have to do".
Harry left the office puzzled. His cloak hanging off his shoulders and waving along with his hair from the wind in the corridor. He reached Snapes office. He knocked.
"Come in Potter!" said Snape. Harry opened the door and went in. "How did you know it was me?"
"Your thoughts rant on like a mental elder Potter. Do the word a favour and deal with your teenage rants and unfairnesses before they kill you." said Snape. Harry didn't respond. "Now, read this. It will tell you exactly what to do. If there's anything you don't understand then I recommend you do not undertake this quest, lest you desire to rid us of your insolence." Snape through a letter containing the quest instructions to Harry.
"How dare you speak to me like that!" Snaped Harry.
"You bore me mageling... Now get out." said Severus and turned his attention to his buisness.
Harry stood up and stormed out of the office slamming the door behind him.
"Your instructions Harry..." Said Snape calmly. Harry blushed and went back in the room and took his instructions and left the room, this time closing the door properly.
He opened the letter and read it's contents:
"Find a party of six before you undergo your quest. Be true to your path. As soon as you are assembled, a thestrell carriage
will be waiting for you at dawn just outside the Shrieking Shak. I assume you know the way there. Once you arrive at your destination you will know what to do. This message will self distruct in 20 seconds.
P.S. I was kidding about the self distruct thingy.
P.P.S. Actually I wasn't!"
At which the letter exploded with a tiny poof, enough to smudge Harrys face and make him angry at Dumboldors immaturity.
But what was this? Out of the ashes emerged a... Phoenix? No... it wasn't a Phoenix... It looked... reptilian.
"Hello master!" The thing said with a squeaky voice much like Dobbys.
"Who... What are you?" Harry asked in a dumbfounded manner.
"I am a pseudodragon. My existence is of your nature. My name is of your choice."
"A... A pseudodragon? I've never heard of... and what does that have to do with my nature?" said Harry confused.
"As an Imp would serve evil, my kind follow your alignment. You are a servant of good although that is one perspective of our divine morality. Yet you chose to ignore the rules of man moreso that one may consider you a lawful citizen." said the thing.
Harry didn't understand. "I don't understand!" He said. "I know I'm good. I'm not evil".
"That is beside the point" said the pseudodragon calmly. Whomever you're aligned to, good or evil, your aim is what is sought."
Harry looked completely lost.
"You will understand in time." said the thing. "What will you call me?"
Harry thought a bit. "I will call you Therion!"
"Thank you master" said Therion and jumped on Harrys shoulder.
"I guess you're the first member of my party." said Harry.
"You would conseder me a member? No master I am not worthy I am but a familiar. Tis a good way to bend the rules and consider me a familiar. We need people master the more of us the better if not the merrier." Said Therion in the same tone as everything else he has said this far.
"Look..." said Harry "Stop speaking in riddles. What do you mean by "better but not merrier" and why can't I use more than six people anyway, and why do you count as a familiar and not, let's say, Ron? Yes, why wouldn't Ron be considered a familiar?"
THERION: "Ron was your red head friend was he not?"
HARRY: "Yes"
THERION: "He is dead?"
HARRY: "Yes"
THERION: "You killed him?"
HARRY: "He was annoying"
THERION: "Does that justify your actions"
HARRY: "I dunno... I guess not..."
THERION: "Have you notice your behaviour lately master? Have you noticed how you swing from Murder to Justice to Gangster Rap?"
HARRY: "Not really... I feel different every day... I dunno... It seems normal to me."
THERION: "Forgive me, but it is not normal my master. There is something about your lineage that you do not know."
HARRY: "My Lineage?"
THERION: "Your parents Master. Mr James and Mrs Lilly... There is another"
HARRY: "Another what? I have a sibling."
THERION: "Yes and No".
HARRY: "Stop speaking in riddles!" (Harry was starting to get pissed off now)
THERION: "You have many Half-Siblings. The other I mentioned was part of your conseption... you have a third parent."
HARRY: "WTF!"
THERION: "Chaos master... You are the son of Chaos!"