Chapter 6: Confrontations

Tom,

Harry agrees to the plan. Put your part in place. We will have to schedule a time to have the Head of the MLE, Bones right?, to be listening. Lets say we send him on Friday after dinner around 7pm. That gives you four days to get ready on your end. If you need more time, let me know and we can stall. If I don't hear from you I'll go ahead as planned.

Severus

Tom looked at the note. Four days should be just enough. He sent an owl with the package to his contact in the department with the information. 'Lets just hope this works. Worst case scenario at least Harry is out of there.' As an afterthought he sent an owl to Lucius as well asking him to be there that day when Harry arrives.

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Harry ran into his common room after his talk with Professor Snape and grabbed Draco to drag him to the dormitory. After Draco put up a silencing charm at Harry's request he began talking, "Drake, I have to talk to you, but you have to swear to me that you won't tell anyone, at least till the weekend."

"Of course Harry. You know you can trust me. What's going on?"

"I won't be here after Friday. I'm not sure if I'll be coming back or not though. It depends on what happens."

"What do you mean you're leaving? How can you leave? Where will you go?"

"Calm down Drake. It's a plan Professor Snape came up with. I'm having trouble pretending to everyone and it's killing me so I get to go see Dumbledore Friday with a recording device so the Head of the MLE can hear everything and I'm going to confront him and tell him I know that he's Voldemort and get him to tell me as much information as I can. He doesn't want to fight me if he doesn't have to so he will try to convince me and hopefully tell me a lot..."

Draco interrupted him. "But he'll kill you Harry! He'll never let you take that to anyone! You should know that!"

"Don't worry. I have an emergency portkey to Tom for when the situation get's sticky. Professor Snape said your dad will probably be there so I don't get too nervous around Tom and I at least know you and have heard a lot about him."

"Just be careful Harry. I don't want you to get hurt. And remember to use that portkey at the first sign of trouble before it gets out of hand." Harry rolled his eyes as his best friend seemed to be channeling their head of house with the same speech.

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Harry, Draco, and Professor Snape's nerves were wearing thin as Friday got closer and closer. Thursday night Professor Snape gave Harry a dreamless sleep potion so that he could get a good night's sleep. He had to be at his best for this to work and his reflexes had to be sharp enough to get out of there.

Harry woke up Friday morning feeling refreshed, but more afraid than he thought possible. He knew he had to do this though. He didn't know what would happen after, but it was the only way out for now. He wasn't really apprehensive about meeting Tom like everyone thought he would be. He felt that he knew Tom very well from having read his journal and was sure he would like him. Feeling safe never really entered into the equation because he had never felt safe so he didn't even know what it felt like. He didn't think Tom would hurt him. He seemed very nice from the journal and that's all that mattered to Harry.

How he got through the day Harry would never know. After dinner Harry approached the gargoyle outside the headmaster's office and turned the recording device on. After he muttered, please let me out of this alive he strode up to the headmaster's office.

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Amelia Bones sat in her office with the receiver for Harry's recording device. She wasn't sure what she was supposed to be hearing, but one of her best men said it was extremely important. When the first thing she heard was a child's voice hoping to stay alive she sat up in shock. They couldn't possibly be letting a child go into a dangerous situation. At that point she called in all of the auror's on duty hoping that she could find out where this was taking place in time to get the child out alive if things got bad.

As the rest of the auror's gathered in her office she called for silence and they began to listen.

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Harry knocked on the door to the headmaster's office. "Hello Harry. Good to see you. Come in. What can I do for you my boy?"

"I just want to know why sir."

"Why what Harry?"

"Why did you kill my parents? Why did you try to kill me? Why are you Voldemort? Why were you Grindelwald? Why all the games? What do you want from me?" Harry asked all in one breath. He was so afraid he was crying now as Dumbledore was getting more and more angry.

"How did you find out about that boy?! Who told you?!"

"Please sir. I just need to know why."

"Fine. Not as if you can do anything about it anyway. No one would believe you. There is a prophecy saying that you are a threat to me, not that I believe those things mind you, but better safe than sorry. That's why I killed your parents and tried to kill you. As for why I am Voldemort and was Grindelwald that should be obvious even to you. Muggles are a disease. They are cruel inferior beasts. Just look at what your so called family did to you. Now I have a proposition for you. Join me and you need never worry about me again."

"Are you going to kill me if I don't?"

"Not right now, but eventually yes. It's not like you can do me any harm at the moment."

"Aren't you afraid I'll tell the ministry?" Harry said fishing for information at this point now that he knew he wasn't going to die immediately.

"The minster knows all about me and is on my side so there is nowhere for you to go there. I am Albus Dumbledore, the most influential wizard of all time!"

Harry gasped at this revelation. This plan was all for nothing. The minister could make it all go away. He may not know much about politics, but he knows about people in control and how they make everything work the way they want it to. Harry started to cry again and began to get angry at the injustice of it all. "You won't get away with this! I won't let you! I'll tell everyone I can everything I can. Someone will believe me and I will stop you."

Dumbledore was beginning to lose patience with this insufferable child. It looked like he wasn't going to get the child on his side now. Who knows someone might believe him. He could at least make things difficult for him and that couldn't be allowed to happen. "I changed my mind boy. It looks like you will be too much trouble to let live. I can't have you making things difficult. Avada Kedavra!" He cried.

As soon as Dumbledore said he would be too much trouble to let live Harry knew what was coming. He said "sacrifice" as soon as Dumbledore said the killing curse. The portkey activated just as the curse ended and thus missed him by about a milisecond as he disappeared.

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Amelia Bones and the aurors sat completely dumbfounded in the aftermath. All Amelia was capable of thinking at that moment was 'the boy died. We didn't make it.' After a moment they all heard the boys voice again saying "I made it! That was too close!" The entire office erupted in cheers thankful that the boy survived. Then they all began talking at once.

"Should we go arrest Dumbledore?"

"I can't believe Dumbledore is evil!"

"We let the dark lord be the headmaster of a school?"

"How can this be happening"

Amelia yelled out "SILENCE!" When everyone had gotten quiet she began to speak. "If we act immediately the minister will just find some way to get him off and get us fired. We have to do this subtly. The first thing we are going to do is make copies of this recording and get it into the hands of every member of the wizenagamot save Albus Dumbledore and Cornelius Fudge. We should be able to get the ¾ vote for no confidence as long as they don't have the entire body under control. I will give a copy to the members personally so that it doesn't seem like a setup and has an air of validity. Each of you will have a copy to take to the members of the press. We need to time the release in the press for the same day as the meeting so that no one gets wind of this beforehand. Everyone will also have personal copies to keep including me so that no matter what happens there will always be a copy available. Everyone clear?" At their agreement Amelia set to work.

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Harry landed in the middle of what looked like a large sitting room. He looked around and realized he wasn't dead. "I made it! That was too close!" At that point a man walked in and pointed a wand at him and incanted a spell aimed right for Harry's face. Harry saw it out of the corner of his eye and started to panic. The spell hit him and nothing happened so Harry turned around and began to yell. "Who are you? What did you just do to me?!"

"I'm sorry Harry. I had to destroy the recording device. If anyone saw me then they would think it was a setup of some kind if they don't already. Forgive me? I really didn't mean to scare you. I'm Tom." He said as he let his wand fall to the ground in plain sight of Harry.

Harry let out a deep breath. "I wish someone had told me you were going to do that. I thought I was about to die after all."

"Again you have my deepest apologies. May I take back my wand now?"

Harry still had his wand trained on Tom. He still wasn't positive this wasn't a trap. "I thought Draco's father would be here. When I see him I'll believe you."

Harry saw Lucius walk in behind Tom without a wand in his hand. "We thought you would feel more threatened if we both came in at once with spells being shot at you and since Tom is the only one who can destroy the recording device I let him come first. How are you? We were so worried when we heard Dumbledore say the killing curse. We thought he got you."

Harry put his wand away and nodded for Tom to get his wand. "I'm alright. Just a little freaked at how close that was." As he was speaking Tom retrieved his wand and began walking slowly to the skittish boy. When he reached him he dropped to his knees and pulled Harry into a hug and couldn't help but cry.

"We looked for you for so long. I knew what kind of place that bastard would put you in. We all tried so hard to find you and get you out of there, but we couldn't. I'm so sorry. I promise we won't let anything happen to you again." At that point all the air deflated out of Harry and the events of the last few hours caught up with him and he broke down in tears of relief and happiness. He could totally get used to this hugging thing. He looked over at Lucius and noticed that he too had tears in his eyes.

After a few moments Tom let go of Harry and apologized for being so forward. "This hugging thing is new for me but Professor Snape said to never be afraid to show affection and there was nothing to be sorry for." Harry said shyly. "I'm sure I'll get used to it and it is kinda nice."

Lucius stepped forward and asked Harry if he could hug him too. Harry shrugged and nodded and Lucius gave him a hug as well. Tom had recovered from his emotional outburst by this time and asked Harry if he was hungry.

"I'm not really hungry. I had dinner before I went to see Dumbledore, but I am kinda tired. It's been a very stressful day."

"Of course. Let me show you to your room."