DISCLAIMER: J.K. Rowling owns Harry Potter. I don't.

CHAPTER SIX – A Brief History

"I love you Hermione," Harry thought just moments before he felt his soul ripped from his body, taking the spiritual essence of Voldemort with him.

It was a pain unlike any he had ever felt before. To him, it felt like the cruciatus curse times a hundred.

He could hear the screams coming from what was left of the bastard that had murdered his parents, but couldn't see anything as he was blinded by an intense white light.

Then suddenly…

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Harry sat up gasping for air, his body covered in a light sheen of sweat. He tried to look around, but his vision was blurry, meaning he wasn't wearing his glasses.

"Harry?" someone whispered from beside him, and a moment later, he felt someone hand him his glasses.

As his vision came into focus, he saw he was laying on a bed underneath a patchwork quilt in a quaint little room. Looking out the window, he could see the village of Hogsmeade, which told him he must have be in a recreation of the Three Broomsticks.

Turning to the direction of the voice, he saw Hermione sitting there, looking quite nervous.

"Well, at least I made it to Heaven," Harry said.

"What?" asked Hermione, confused by what he had just said.

"Heaven," Harry repeated. "I mean… I know I'm dead. I gave up my life to save everyone. And since you're here, it must be Heaven."

Hermione couldn't help but blush a little as she looked away.

"Harry… You're… You're not dead," Hermione said after a moment of silence. "I mean… You were. But you're alive again."

"I'm alive?" Harry asked and Hermione nodded.

Harry let out a cry for joy as he jumped out of the bed and hugged Hermione.

"I'm alive!" he shouted as he spun them around before setting her down. "I'm… Also naked," he noted as he look down.

Harry quickly yanked the quilt from the bed and covered himself up as his cheeks burned in embarrassment.

Hermione also blushed, though hers was more from the sudden thoughts that entered her head upon seeing Harry in all his glory.

"So," said Harry as he finished covering himself with the quilt. "How did you do it?"

"Do what?" asked Hermione.

"Bring me back," said Harry. "I mean, you are the most brilliant witch I've ever met, so if anyone could do it, it would be you… Also, how long have I been gone?"

"Well… It's been close to three months since… You know," said Hermione.

"And Voldemort?" Harry asked.

"Gone," said Hermione. "And you'll be glad to know that Fudge was sacked a week later. Especially when everyone found out he had ordered Umbridge to do anything to silence you… Speaking of which, the toad is currently enjoying a lifetime stay at Azkaban, along with anyone that was found baring the Dark Mark."

"Okay," said Harry. "And what about how you brought me back?"

"I didn't," said Hermione as she sat back down. "No one knows how you came back. Just that you suddenly appeared next to Hagrid's hut."

"Wow," said Harry as he sat down on the edge of the bed. "Wait, if I appeared next to Hagrid's, why aren't I in the hospital wing?"

Hermione looked away from Harry, unsure of how to tell him the news about the school.

"Hermione?" said Harry and she refused to look at him. "Hermione, what aren't you telling me?"

"It's gone, Harry," she said quietly. "Hogwarts is gone… Sometime yesterday… It was completely destroyed."

"WHAT?" shouted Harry as she stood up and before she knew it, Harry was running out of the room wearing nothing but a quilt wrapped around him. She ran after her best friend, trying to stop him, however after growing up being chased by his cousin and his gang, Harry was too quick.

She found him at the gates of the school, falling to his knees as he stared at what remained of the first true place he ever considered home.

Ginny and Luna, who had the room right next to Harry's had heard when he had woken up. The two of them smiled and breathed a sigh of relief knowing that Harry was alive and sounding well based on his cry of joy of being alive. However, they both panicked when they had heard his response to finding out about Hogwarts and opened their door just in time to see him run off.

The two girls rushed to Ron and Neville's room, waking them both up and dragging them outside. At first, the two boys argued until they were told Harry was awake and had run off.

When they went outside, they saw people talking and pointing as they looked at the road leading from the village up towards the remains of the school.

Following the road, they came to a stop when they found Harry on the ground as Hermione held him.

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"Are you sure about this?" asked the head Unspeakable, who had just read over the report that had just come in from the Hall of Prophecy.

"Mostly," said the other Unspeakable. "As you know, prophecies aren't one hundred percent. Most times they never come true or if they do, it might not happen for hundreds or thousands of years from now."

"But you don't think that's the case here," said the head Unspeakable.

"No," said the other Unspeakable. "Not after the report that came into the Department of Magical Law Enforcement a few hours ago."

"Yes, I saw that included here," said the head Unspeakable as he looked through the small stack of parchment he had before him. "If this report is accurate and Grindelwald has in fact escaped…" The head Unspeakable trailed off for a moment as he started looking through various other stacks of parchment.

"Sir?"

"You heard what happened yesterday at Hogwarts, correct?" asked the head Unspeakable.

"Of course… You don't think…"

"It's too close to not be possible," said the head Unspeakable. "Grindelwald escapes and Hogwarts gets destroyed with Dumbledore missing and possibly dead… And it does fit the prophecy. Grindelwald was an old foe of Dumbledore's, and if Dumbledore is in fact dead…"

"Then who is the hero? And the betrayer with the name 'M'?"

"I don't know who the hero is," said the head Unspeakable. "As for the betrayer… Tell me, how well did you do in your History of Magic class?"

"Not bad. Then again, Binns was the teacher so it was mostly learning it on my own because I could barely stay awake in his class."

"What about the time of Merlin?" asked the head Unspeakable.

"Royal wizard to the kingdom of Camelot. Secretly trained as an apprentice under Gaius due to then king, Uther Pendragon's fear of magic."

"And what do you know about Uther's daughter?" asked the head Unspeakable.

The other Unspeakable's eyes shot wide open. "You mean…"

"Yes," said the head Unspeakable. "Morgana… What I am about to tell you isn't widely known. More than likely, it's something that sounds like it should be printed in the Quibbler… There is a secret organization that believes that Morgana is the one true witch. The witch that all other witches derive their powers from. Before then there were nothing but wizards. They view her as the savior of the world because she will one day return and cleanse all those she deems unworthy."

"Sounds like You-Know-Who."

"Morgana makes You-Know-Who look like a muggleborn first year with all of her powers," said the head Unspeakable. "Supposedly, stopping her nearly killed Merlin. And when he did, he bound her magic into six items. Her wand. A battle helm. A battle plate said to be able to withstand the killing curse. A gauntlet. And a cloak. After he bound her magic within these items, he sent the Knights of the Round Table to various points across the world to keep them separate. To keep them safe."

"And the prophecy says she will return unless…"

"Unless the hero who has returned can stop her," said the head Unspeakable.

"Then we need to find out who this hero is."

"I agree, but…" the head Unspeakable said, and then stopped when the door to his office opened. It was one of the recently hired Unspeakables.

"Have you guys heard?" the new Unspeakable asked.

"Heard what?" asked the head Unspeakable.

"It's all over the wireless," said the new Unspeakable. "Harry Potter is back."

A/N: Sorry for the delay in getting this chapter out. I had a bit of writers block that didn't go away till about 4am, and even then, this isn't my favorite chapter. It's pretty much all filler, but I needed to get it done so I can get the Unspeakables to find out about Harry and then be able to get the adventure going.

Also, for those wondering why Harry thinks he's in heaven when he sees Hermione, remember that the last time he saw her she had been hit by that curse in the Department of Mysteries. And yes, while Neville had said she was still alive, but weak, and after just returning from the dead himself, it's easy to understand why he would think she might not have made it and they were in the afterlife together.