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Chapter 1: The Angry Phoenix
It was the gloomiest journey aboard the Hogwarts Express Harry ever remembered. The train was mostly empty as many students had returned to their homes before Dumbledore's funeral. The entire train had an atmosphere of sadness. Not a single laughter or cheerful conversation could be heard throughout the train. He was still clutching the fake Horcrux. He was still having a hard time believing that Dumbledore was really dead. He recalled the last moments of Dumbledore's life. He had frozen Harry just before Draco rushed out of the door and disarmed the Headmaster. He had used the split second to protect Harry rather than defend himself. He felt angry now for the old man's stupidity. Why had Dumbledore immobilized him when he was already beneath the Invisibility Cloak? Instead he could have easily defended himself, even in his weakened state. Harry could have helped hidden under the cloak, undetected .
Harry also felt guilty for getting angry at the old man. Hadn't he sacrificed the chance to defend himself to protect Harry? He must have expected Voldemort or a Death Eater of the inner circle to come out of the door rather than Draco Malfoy. Maybe Dumbledore couldn't think clearly due to the potion. It didn't matter now. Harry's mentor was now gone. Dead!!!
Dumbledore was also the last thing standing between him and Voldemort. Now there was no one to protect him from Voldemort. And also there was now no one to stand in his way in this fight against Voldemort. Harry was hoping that somewhere along the way to the Dark Lord he will encounter Snape. He would cherish the encounter.
He looked at Ron and Hermione who were sharing the compartment with him. Hermione was leaning her head on Ron's shoulder with her eyes closed. But Harry couldn't make out if she was sleeping or not. Ron was looking outside the window thinking something.
There were a lot of things on Harry's mind too. He was formulating a plan. He wasn't of age yet unlike Ron and Hermione. He couldn't do magic without alerting the ministry. He really wasn't worried about being expelled. Not since deciding not to return to school. The school might get closed anyway. But he didn't want another encounter with the Ministry. Not after has last encounter with Minister Scrimgeour. He didn't want to give the Ministry any opportunity to pester him or worse – Break his Wand. The only weapon which could defend him from Voldemort.
He was also thinking about Ginny. She was in a compartment with Neville and Luna. All his friends seemed quite surprised when Harry had passed their usual compartment seeing her inside. Ron and Hermione had of course followed Harry to an empty compartment. So far Ron and Hermione hadn't mentioned Ginny and Harry was thankful for that. He had broken up with her to protect her. Did he love her? He wasn't sure. But he was damn sure he didn't want her to get hurt because of him. He felt guilty of plenty of people's death and he didn't want the list to get any longer. He couldn't bear the thought of anything happening to Ginny.
And then there were the Horcrux's. There could be as many as four left. The locket, the cup, the snake and something of Gryffindor's or Ravenclaw's. Harry didn't even know where to start looking. His only clue was the fake Horcrux and the letter within sighed R.A.B. Who the fuck is this R.A.B anyway?
"I think its best if we will join you at your Uncle and Aunt's home tomorrow" said Ron. "I'll need some time to make Mom understand and I am sure Hermione will like to spend at least some time with her Parents."
"We can join you today if you want Harry" said Hermione. "But tomorrow will be fine too" She added seeing Harry's expression.
"I was thinking this over" said Harry. "You don't have to join me until my Birthday."
"But Harry- " Harry cut her off and continued "I cannot do magic. At least not until I'm of age. My best option is to stay in Privet Drive under the safety of the Blood Ward. The wards in Privet Drive will protect me till my seventeenth birthday. Without able to freely do magic I will be just a liability before that."
"But Harry underage wizards can use magic to defend themselves." said Hermione.
"Last time I tried that they send me to a trial and tried to make sure I would be convicted" replied Harry. Hermione bit her lip when she remembered what had happened when Harry had used magic to protect himself and Dudley. "I won't give the ministry another chance. Its still about two months till my birthday and I would like to use the time to improve my knowledge in defensive magic, and I might as well try to learn other skills, Occlumentary for example."
"You are right Harry, We cannot take risks now" replied Hermione. "I and Ron need training too. We are going to face a lot of dangers and its better to be prepared. There are some kinds of magic which the Ministry can't detect Harry. They can detect accidental magic and wand magic but you can learn the magic they can't detect during your stay at Privet Drive."
"And what magic are you talking about?" asked Harry genuinely interested.
"Well the ministry cant detect Animagus transformations. They also cant detect wandless magic." replied Hermione.
"Isn't wandless magic a very advanced magic? Only very powerful wizards have been known to do wandless magic" asked Harry. Ron also looked confused.
Hermione sneered slightly at their Ignorance before continuing "All wizards and witches are capable of wandless magic. When their magic leaks uncontrolled during extreme emotional states it's called accidental magic. But if this magic is focused and used with a calm mind it's called wandless magic. It has a different magical signature so wandless magic cannot be traced by normal detecting charms. And underage wizards aren't expected to do wandless magic so I don't think Ministry tracers are tuned to detect wandless magic for underage people. You are correct Harry, only the most powerful wizards and witches have been known to use wandless magic frequently. But I don't think you will have any problem mastering it. You are a very powerful wizard Harry. You mastered the Patronous charm while still in third year. You chased away more than a hundred Dementors, A great feat for a wizard of any age."
"Can you do wandless magic Hermione?" asked Ron.
"Well I can in very small amounts. Wandless magic requires a lot of focus and is very exhausting. All I can manage is to lift a small scrap of paper. Wands are really helpful to focus magic. That's why most wizards don't even bother trying wandless magic."
"Even you can't do wandless magic properly and expect me to learn it?" Harry asked. Hermione mastered almost every spell before him. She could cast non-verbal spells already, whereas he could only use the non-verbal spell he had learned from The Half Blood Prince's book. SNAPE's book. The very thought of Snape made Harry angry beyond belief.
"I think you are a more powerful wizard than me Harry. You inflated your aunt accidentally. A very difficult feat without a wand. My accidental magic's don't even come close to that."
"But that's because you never got as angry as me. I can't even do non-verbal spells."
"That could be because you are highly suggestible Harry. You easily believed what you were told as a child and it formed an impression in your sub-conscious mind. You were taught earlier that you to say the words of the spell to make it work, and you still believe it is necessary. If you truly believe you can do spells non-verbally you can easily do it. You could do the spell in Snape's book because you believed it was a Non-verbal spell. There is no such thing as a exclusive non-verbal spell. Every spell can be casted verbally or non-verbally."
Harry pondered for a moment what Hermione had said. True he hadn't ever heard of a spell being only non-verbal. He believed the spell in Snape's book (Levicorpus) to be non-verbal because it had 'nvbl' written beside it. 'nvbl' did remind Harry vaguely of a class of levitating seplls. He closed his eyes and said to himself ….I believe I can do spells non-verbally….I believe I can do spells non-verbally…… I believe I can do spells non-verbally. He opened his eyes, pointed his wand towards the book next to Hermione and thought 'Accio Book'. The book jumped to his hand though it moved slower than it would have in case of a verbal spell, but it was a start. Both Ron and Hermione gave him encouraging looks. Harry and Ron both spent the rest of the trip practicing non-verbal spells under Hermione's guidance. After a few hours, both Ron and Harry had become quite proficient at non-verbal spells. Neville had stopped by their compartment once. He didn't stay long. There wasn't much to talk about.
Just before the train reached Kings Cross, Hermione started planning their strategy. She insisted that she and Ron could start researching about R.A.B taking help from the rest of the Weaseley's if necessary. Maybe Mr. and Mrs. Weaseley knew something about him. She would also ask Professor McGonagall. Ron and Hermione will apparate to number four Privet Drive time to time to check on Harry. Hermione also decided she and Ron needed to practice their defense skills and would apparate to The Burrow to discuss their schedule. Harry envied both of them and couldn't wait till he became of age, and start popping wherever he wanted to go.
At the station Harry quickly said goodbye to his friends, and a quicker goodbye to Ginny and left in a hurry. I must protect her even if it breaks my heart, He thought as he hailed a taxi. He did not want to go to Privet Drive immediately. He was not intent to face his relatives just yet. He had not informed them he would be coming. Instead he decided to go to Diagon Alley. "Take me to Charing Cross Road" he told the driver. He didn't think a short visit to Diagon Alley could be Dangerous. The Leaky Cauldron was as deserted as his last visit. Tom was gloomily wiping glasses. He looked up hopefully and was surprised to see Harry.
"What are you doing here Harry? It's dangerous for you to roam around alone these days."
"Hello Tom, Could I have a Butterbeer." Harry replied sheepishly, "Don't worry I don't Intend to stay long." But Tom was right. He had to be careful. He must change his looks somehow. He left his trunk and Hedwig with Tom end entered Diagon Alley.
Diagon Alley was more deserted than the last time he was here. He bought a copy of the Daily Prophet, The headlines was unsurprisingly 'DUMBLEDORES FUNERAL'. He saw the picture of the tomb encased in fire. He didn't bother to read but stuffed the copy in his jacket pocket. He didn't notice the two men who were eying him from a distance. Neither did he notice one of them apparating away and other following him from a distance. Harry headed straight to Weaseley's Wizard Wheezes.
Upon entering one of the twins saw Harry. He nudged the other and both the twin's reached Harry. "HARRY!!! Our financer, What a great surprise. And what the hell are you doing here? Half of You-Know-Who's goon's are looking for you." Harry was asking himself the same question since he had entered Diagon Alley, It felt unsafe. He couldn't explain the feeling. Why had he come to Diagon Alley anyway? To stay away from his relatives as long as possible? He did have some business in Gringot's but it wasn't that important. It wasn't certainly worth taking any risk. Coming to Diagon Alley seemed like a good idea before but not now.
The twins shop was certainly more crowded than the rest of Diagon Alley. But compared to his last visit the shop looked almost empty. And he also saw many new products on the shelves. But Harry wasn't in the mood to see any prank stuff. "Nice to see you too Fred, George. And why don't you watch who you are selling your stuff to?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You sold Draco Malfoy the Instant Darkness powder. He used it to get past your brother and sister during the attack on Hogwart. This ultimately resulted in the death of Dumbledore" said Harry. From the looks on Fred and George's face he knew he had said the wrong thing. He had implied that they were responsible for Dumbledore's death. "I am sorry, I didn't mean it like that. All I want to say is watch who you sell the stuff to next time."
The Twins expression's had turned grim. "Hard to believe Dumbledore's really dead. We didn't sell Draco anything. We know better, than to sell this stuff to just anyone. Someone else must have bought it for him." Fred said.
"I'm sorry. I should have known you wouldn't sell anything to Draco. And if these Death Eaters want something they usually get it. They even got Dumbledore." said Harry.
There was silence. The twins didn't even attempt to make a joke. Harry would have been glad if they had.
Remembering more important matters Harry said, "I need to disguise myself. You are right. Diagon Alley is a dangerous place for me."
Fred and George's mood suddenly lighted up at the opportunity to disguise Harry. Harry shuddered mentally and hoped the twins hadn't decided to disguise him as a canary or ferret. "Follow us Harry." They entered the defense against dark arts room. It was better lighted and more crowded than Harry's last visit. He saw the twins assistant Verity in staff robes helping the customers. The twins didn't stop here. They went through a door at the back of the room which read EMPLOYEES ONLY. Harry followed with some hesitation. It was a medium sized room and clearly it was the twins research area and workshop. It contained benches with lot of cauldron's, potion's and weird looking gadgets. The twins opened a cupboard which contained some cloaks and a lot of boxes.
"What we have here, Harry are the products we only allowed to sell to the ministry. The Aurors helped us to come up with some of the ideas. But most of them are our own inventions and the ministry doesn't want the wrong people to get their hands on these." George said proudly.
"But we will give them to you Harry. Consider this the refund of your loan, because these stuff isn't cheap. And don't mention this to anybody, okay. We are not supposed to give this stuff to anyone outside the ministry." Fred added.
"Would you please show me the stuff?" Harry said impatiently. "I can pay for it. It isn't a problem."
"No way Harry. Take as much as you like. We will hex you if you ever think of paying. We owe our entire business to you Harry. This is the only way to pay you back Harry. We know you would never accept Galleons from us."
Harry sighed. He knew it was no use arguing with the twins. And he really wanted to see the products which the Ministry had banned from the normal public. "Could you just show me the stuff please. I promise I won't even dream of paying you."
Fred pulled out one of the boxes and tossed Harry some candies from them. At Harry's expectant look he said "These candies contain polyjuice potion. It's just what you needed for your disguise. But be careful. We couldn't fill much potion in a candy. It will only last for about twenty minutes."
"No I didn't have this in mind when I meant disguise. I just need something to cover my scar and hide my face a little. I have business in Gringots and I can't do it looking like someone else. By the way who do I turn into after eating these polyjuice candy's? "
"We don't know for sure. We collected hair -err- rather summoned hair from a lot of muggles. Each candy will turn you into a different person. We used muggle hair because wizards might sue us if we used their hair and if they found out." said Fred. George after some thinking took out a wizard Hat. "This can cover your scar, and it comes with advanced shield spells. It goes with this cloak and this inner vest. Their shield's far better than the ones available for public. They can reflect almost anything short of an unforgivable and also protect you from physical damage."
Fred pulled out another box and took out another box. "These will further help you to disguise and also to do something more." In it seemed to be white plastic containers for muggle contact lenses. "Are those contact lenses?" asked Harry. "Yup, But we have added plenty of charms to them. Got the idea from Moody's magical eye. We both are wearing them."
Harry grinned , "You mean you can see through anything through them?"
"We can see through walls, invisibility cloaks, disillusionment spells and last but not the least – CLOTHES" George replied with a larger grin. Then his tone became more business like "We have also added other charms to these. You can see in the dark, we have also added a zooming feature so you can see things really far, and (WINK) the zooming feature can be used with the see through feature." Harry blushed slightly and replied, "Well don't let Ginny or Mrs. Weaseley find out about these features."
"We would never dream of it. If you ever tell them you are dead."
"I am not that stupid" replied Harry.
"And don't even think of looking at our sister with these on. Anyway we are not giving this to you to go around looking at chicks. We are giving you this to look through you-know-who's robes."
"Yuk, His Avada Kedavra may not kill me, but that will certainly disgust me to death. Give those to me. I can't wait to try them" said Harry.
"Wait let me put some charms on them so that they compensate for your glasses" said Fred. He started muttering some spells and waving his wand over the lenses. George added excitedly "They come with stiking and cleaning charms. You don't have to take them off ever."
Fred passed the white capsules containing the lenses to Harry. Harry had always wanted contacts but was unsure how to put them on. But magical contacts were easier to put on. "Just hold them under your eyes and say 'Occulus Attacho' ". Harry took off his glasses and said "Occulus Attacho". The lenses jumped out and attached to Harry's eyes. He looked around and felt he could see more clearly than his glasses. He could also see some of the things glowing. "Why are those things glowing?" He pointed to some things on a bench. He had not noticed these things till now.
"It's because those things have disillusion and notice-me-not charms on them" Fred replied.
"Cool. How do I use the other features?"
"To look through something just want to look through it. To use the zooming feature just want to look closely at something. You can combine both features."
Harry concentrated on looking through the wall to the next room. The wall in between suddenly turned transparent. He could look at the customers browsing the shelf's. Some of the items in the shelf's were glowing. On zooming he saw these were amulets. "What's with those glowing amulets?"
"They are just emergency portkeys under disillusionment charms. Once you put them on nobody but the wearer can see them. Well almost nobody. It's useful if you get kidnapped by Death Eaters. Well stop bothering about those and zoom further. It's fun."
Harry obeyed. He zoomed to the front of the shop. He could see it almost as if he was in the front room. There was just a feeling as if looking through glass. The wall's and the customers in between looked like made of glass. He saw a pretty blond teenager in the front room and zoomed his view closer to her. Then with heart throbbing made her clothes transparent. She was beautiful. Harry was blushing so hard he thought he must be glowing pink.
"She certainly has got great tits, Huh Harry?" Fred said following Harry's line of vision. This comment made Harry snap out of his zooming and see-through and blush further (if that was possible.) Had Harry zoomed his view to the outside of the shop he would have seen a hooded man waiting outside patiently.
"What else have you got in there?" Harry asked eager to change the topic.
"We gave Little Harry our best toy and he is too ashamed to use it." said Fred laughing. Fortunately for Harry George was too busy looking at the blond through the wall to further embarrass him. Harry was really amazed by the twin's ability to turn one of the saddest days of his life to a normal joyful day.
"If you ever want to take those lenses off, which I seriously doubt you ever will, you just have to hold the container below your eyes and say 'Oculous Detacho'.That's all." said Fred.
"I don't think I will ever take them off Fred. You both are absolutely genius, you know that?"
"Yes we know" replied George, his attention finally returning to the room "but thanks for reminding us". Fred was taking out another box, it contained more wrapped candies. "We call these Steel Candies. On eating them you become invulnerable to physical attacks for half an hour. A bulger may hit you at full speed and you wouldn't even notice it. It doesn't protect you from magic attacks though."
"Check this out Harry" Fred said tossing out more candies from another box. "These are truth candies. They contain a powerful truth serum. Not as strong as Veritaserum but close."
"Wow, are you guys handling the task of providing the Ministry weapons for the war all alone. I thought it was the unspeakable's job to research and invent new thing's."
"You haven't seen the weapons yet Harry. And the unspekable's are crazy. They try to create complex magic like Dimension magic and try to eliminate Time paradox. If you ask them to play with the fabric of reality they do it happily. But if you ask them to make weapons and tools for the war they would say it's beyond them." said Fred laughing.
"And speaking of weapons" George dragged a crate and opened it. Harry grasped. Inside were muggle handguns and grenades. George picked up a pistol and showed it to Harry. George continued "This my friend is a perfect example of misuse of muggle artifacts. But since we are working for the ministry we are perfectly safe unless of course you get caught with it Harry. Be very careful with it Harry. We have put a lot of charms in it. The bullets will never run out. And mind you, it shoots silver bullets. Good against Vampires and Werewolves plus also kill's Death Eaters. We have also added silencing charm and also a charm to remove the recoil while firing. It's also rustproof and auto cleaning and absolutely maintenance free. Harry you are the proud owner of the first 'Wizard's Handgun' in history. We haven't even delivered a single piece to the ministry yet."
Harry with his mouth open observed the gun in his hands. It felt lighter than expected perhaps because of a lightweight charm. Fred conjured a bull's eye on one of the walls and explained the safety catch to Harry and asked him to shoot the target. After a first few shots Harry's accuracy improved. There was absolutely no sound and just slight recoil to indicate the gun was fired. "Wow Harry you are a natural. Here you will need this." Fred handed him a glowing thing. Harry realized it was a shoulder hostler. The glow indicated it had a disillusionment spell on it. Harry put it on and placed his new pistol in the hostler. Diagon Alley seemed a lot safer with his new weapon.
"What about those?" Harry asked pointing to the submachine guns and hand grenades in the box.
"Sorry Harry, you can't play with those. Those guns have a very high rate of fire and can't be trusted in the hands of a teenager. Those guns are only for the ministers personal bodyguards. And don't even think about the hand grenades. They have been charmed to enhance their damage and also add magical damage to their blast. Effective against highly powerful shields and wards. Also can take down extremely powerful magical creatures like Dragons, Chimeras etc. You get the picture."
"Ya, I definitely don't want those. Do you have anything else?"
"Well no, we are developing new stuff and coming up with new ideas, But don't have any thing else to give you illegally. You can take anything from the outside rooms." Fred said.
"How do you get all these guns and explosives. It's not easy to traffic guns. I hope you didn't steal them from the muggles."
"NO Harry!!! We would never do such a thing. The Ministry gave us one of each as a sample and we simply magically duplicated them." George replied with a fake hurt expression on his face.
"And how much is all the stuff you gave me worth?"
"Harry don't even think of paying us." Fred had his wand pointed at Harry threateningly.
"No I wouldn't think about paying for these. But the thing is I need two more sets of these –err- defensive wear and two more pistols. I would like to pay for those."
Fred and George quickly started packing the extra cloak's and guns. They also added more of each type of candies. "What are you doing? I said I would pay for them." Harry asked glaring at them. "We wouldn't hear of payment. And we know who you need these things for." said Fred.
"Who?" asked Harry but instantly felt stupid. The twin's knew. It was obvious.
"You want them for our brother and his girlfriend. And you thing we will let you pay for things intended for our own family?"
Harry sighed. There was no arguing with the twins. In the defense against dark arts room Harry picked up a couple of things including the emergency portkeys and the instant darkness powder (which wont affect his new lenses, the twin's had insisted). The twins also gave him a bottomless bag which could be reduced to fit in his pocket. Thanking the twins Harry exited the shop. He didn't notice the man reading The Prophet look at him in confusion. Harry's appearance had changed. The hat has covering most of his forehead and he wasn't wearing glassed and his robe was different than couple of minutes ago. But this didn't fool the man. Edward White folded the prophet and started following Harry Potter.
Edward couldn't believe his luck. He knew Harry 'The Wonder boy' well. Who didn't. Specially a Hogwarts ex-student. Edward doubted if Harry even knew him by face. He was just another Slytherin who had passed out last year. White was honored to serve the Dark Lord at such a young age. He had received the dark mark only a fortnight ago and was eager to prove his worth. He was disappointed when he was posted in Diagon Alley as a 'SPY'. He didn't feel anything like a spy. It felt like a stupid guard duty, until he saw Harry Potter today. He instantly sent back his partner Greg to assemble a hit team to kidnap The Boy Who Lived. White could easily hit Harry from behind with a killing curse. End of story. But that privilege belonged to the Dark Lord. He had quickly dismissed the idea of Stupefing Harry. Harry's abilities were legendary. If half of the rumors in school were true he didn't want to face Harry alone. His hands were itching to grab his amulet which would summon the hit team.
White couldn't risk a attack the Weaseley's Wizard Wheezes. It had too many people and the Weaseley twins were no cowards. Every Slytherin had been afraid of the twins in school, though they would never admit it. It would take Harry only a moment to apparate away. He had to be caught by surprise. When he will present Potter to the Dark Lord, he will be rewarded with a position in the inner circle. Edward cursed when he saw Harry entering Gringotts. It will take an army to attack Gringotts. He will wait outside. He had all the time in the world.
Harry wanted this to be over with as quickly as possible. He had inherited Sirius's vault and was eager to take possession and get out. He still had a hard time dealing with Sirius's death. But that grief was overshadowed by dumbledore's death. He approached a goblin behind a desk and asked, "I have recently inherited a vault. Whom do I have to speak to look into the details?"
The goblin looked at Harry and asked rather arrogantly, "Name?"
"Harry James Potter" The goblin looked mildly surprised. He called another goblin who took him to the office of the manager. The manager smiled toothlessly. It was the first time Harry had seen a goblin smile.
"Ah!! Mr. Potter I am Besfoure the manager of this branch." He shook Harry's hand rather reluctantly. Wizards were never known to shake hands with goblins, who were considered lesser creatures. "It's a pleasure Mr. Besfoure" said Harry. The goblins grin widened. "You have inherited a considerable amount Mr. Potter. Close to two million galleon's plus an estate. Plus you have more than three hundred thousand galleon's in your existing vault. That makes you an esteemed customer."
"Could you elaborate a bit?"
"Certainly, esteemed customers have extremely low transaction costs, we also deliver your money to you anytime and there are many other privileges. Please sign this document to take possession of your new vault. "
After signing the goblin gave Harry a booklet, a key and what appeared to be a amulet with Gringots written on it. "What's this?" Harry asked eying amulet.
"It's our home delivery request amulet. You just have to press it in the center and ask for the number of Galleon's you want and it would be apparated to you directly."
"Really? Would it work in here?"
"Certainly, It would work anywhere in the world."
"And can I ask for muggle money with it."
"Certainly Sir. You can ask for any muggle currency in the world. There would be a small transaction fees of course."
Harry didn't bother worrying about the transaction fee. He pressed the center of the amulet and said "Two hundred galleons and five hundred pounds please." A pouch appeared on the table in front of him. He opened it to find the galleons and pounds in it. Harry sighed. So much money and he probably won't live long enough to enjoy it. He suddenly asked the manager, "Does Gringotts also handle will's."
"Yes sir, would you like to make one."
"Yes"
Harry wrote his will in the sheet provided by Besfoure. He left the estate and seventy five percent of the money to the Weaseleys and twenty five percent to Remus Lupin. He handed over his will to the manager. "Would you like to take a look at your new vault sir?"
Harry was about to decline when he decided a little more time away from the Dursleys won't hurt. Besides Gringott's was now the safest place in all of Britain. "Yes please" replied Harry.
Vault number 108 was far deeper than Harry's regular vault. The trolley ride was longer. Harry grasped at the size of the vault. It was as big as the Gryffindor common room. There was a huge pile of galleons in the middle. Along the walls were shelves containing various artifacts and jewelry's. He looked at them closely. There were beautiful necklaces, amulets, rings, bracelets etc. decorated with diamonds and rubies. He didn't touch any of them. These things belonged to the Black family. There could be cursed with dark magic on them.
He turned his attention to the other things. There were orbs and other magical instruments similar to the ones in Dumbledore's office. He also saw something similar to a pensive but didn't touch it. Along the other wall were weapons decoratively hung. Swords, daggers, Amours and shields. There were also a few old fashioned wizard staff's. Long, engraved with runes and beautiful orbs at the top. Harry had never seen these before except in pictures. All the great ancient wizards like Merlin were depicted with staffs. Harry picked up one of the staffs. The blue orb at the top started glowing emitting yellow light. The staff started shaking in his hands and started heating up. Harry quickly put it back deciding that he would do some research about them before trying to do magic with them.
Moving to the back of the vault he saw a few books. These books were no doubt illegal dark magic books since they had to be kept in the vault and not in number 12 Grammauld Place. Well if he was going to fight dark magic he could as well learn something about it. He expanded the bottomless bag and stuffed the books in it hoping none of the books were cursed. The bag the twins gave was very convenient. Harry didn't need to cast magic to expand or compress it. It was voice controlled. After putting the books in, Harry touched the bag and said 'Reducio' and put the now small bag in his pocket. With a final look around Harry exited the vault.
White was tired of waiting. He was wondering if Harry had slipped by in another disguise. If that was the case at least he would be punished by the Dark Lord. He shuddered at the thought. Finally he saw Harry Potter exiting Gringotts. Relived he started following from a safe distance. If Harry was going out of Diagon Alley, White would take his chances and stun him. White grinned seeing Harry enter Flourish and Blotts. The moment Harry came out of the shop he would summon the hit team and take Harry by surprise.
In Flourish and Blotts Harry moved to the advanced magic section and picked up books of Occlumentary, Animagus transformation, Defense, Healing charms and Wandless magic. If Harry had been practicing 'Constant Vigilance' like Moody he would have noticed the faint pop. Had he turned towards the sound he would have seen Bellatrix Lestrange apparating right next to Edward White just outside the shop. Sadly Harry was too busy at moment using his new 'X-Ray' vision to admire the girl behind the counter.
While Harry was busy studying the female anatomy, Bellatrix was absolutely furious at white. "What is the meaning of this" she hissed, "your pal came more than a hour ago saying you had cornered Potter and we should stand by with a hit team. And all this time we are sitting there killing flies while you are sight seeing."
"Err…….I…..I….." stammered White. Bellatrix was a member of the inner circle and White was almost as afraid of her as he was of the Dark Lord.
"Shut up. Where is that Brat?"
"Err…In the shop behind you."
"Idiot!!!" said Bellatrix quickly turning her back towards the shop. "Why didn't you say so before? He will apparate away the moment he sees me."
"I…I…Tried to…"
"Shut up. Fools like you are not worthy to serve the Dark Lord. I will wait over there", She pointed to her right "so that the brat cannot see me. You wait here and summon the hit team as soon as he gets out"
She strode away. "Bitch!!!" White muttered.
Harry put the books in his bottomless bag after paying for them. He started moving towards the door and saw a man outside eying him. 'The guy looks familiar' thought Harry. 'Where have I seen him before? Must have seen him in Hogwarts. Ya definitely. Must be an ex-student. Should I go and say Hello—'. Suddenly the guy was pressing an amulet. Harry was wondering what the hell he was doing when suddenly.
..POP..POP..POP..POP..POP..
Five masked Death Eaters were standing before him wands pointed towards him. Before Harry had a chance to react, all the five Death Eaters fired different stunning and binding spells at him. To their surprise all the spells reflected off Harry and headed back to them. Almost simultaneously the five death eaters fell, incapacitated by their own spells. Edward looked down at his fallen comrades and then back at Harry with horror. 'How did he do that?'
Harry smiled at Edward. The man was almost shaking with fear. 'Must be wondering what sort of a super wizard I am reflecting all those spells without even a want. Damn the twins are good. I couldn't even feel a thing' Harry thought. Still smiling menacingly at Edward, Harry started pulling his wand out of his cloak with deliberate slowness, further frightening the man. He pointed his wand at this man when suddenly, "Crucio".
Pain exploded in all of Harry's nerves as the spell hit him from his right. He fell down gritting his teeth determined not to scream. He won't give these death eaters the satisfaction of seeing him break. His entire body was shaking from pain. Eyes tightly closed and tears coming out. Somewhere a tiny voice inside his mind was saying 'Hold on, Hold on, You have suffered much worse. You have endured a Crucio from Voldemort himself. This pain is a joke compared to his Crucio.' Harry tried to open his eyes but failed. He used his new lenses to look right through his closed eyelids. He saw the man with the amulet reviving the fallen Death Eaters. He looked towards the source of the curse and saw Bellatrix Lestrange. Instantly the memory of Sirius falling through the veil flashed through his mind and raw hatred passed through his mind overshadowing all the pain. 'Bellatrix I will kill you today even if I have to die for that.' Thought Harry. He tried to move his arms but his body wasn't responding. Finally after what seemed to be an eternity the curse was lifted. Harry tried to reach his fallen wand but a hex from a Death Eater sent it flying away.
"Harry my boy how are you doing" Bellatrix said coming closer.
"I am great Bella. How about you? Are still sucking that half blood Voldemort's cork?" replied Harry.
"Crucio"
The curse came as Harry had expected. He quickly moved his right arm under his cloak towards his shoulder hostler on his left side and moved his left hand in a similar fashion to his right side and brought both his knees up to his chest. To the Death Eaters it looked as if Harry had rolled up into a ball from the pain. Harry gritted his teeth holding on to the hatred as his only support. He was looking at the Death Eaters through his closed eyelids. Seeing them laugh was further fuelling his rage. 'I'll be the one laughing at you in a minute' he taught. With a monumental effort he stopped his body from shaking.
"Oww!!! The poor boy has fainted" said Bellatrix lifting the curse. Harry quickly unclasped his gun from the hostler.
"Bind him" Bellatrix ordered.
One Death Eater shot a binding spell at Harry which reflected back to him. The Death Eater quickly fell back tightly bound. Harry used this opportunity to pull the gun out of the hostler, still hidden under his cloak and made sure the safety was off.
"The brat has a shielding charm on him. We must use a stronger binding spell. Free that idiot." Bellatrix said pointing at the fallen Death Eater who was struggling against his own bonds.
Quick as lighting Harry pointed his gun at Bellatrix and fired three shots. "Ahhhh!!!" Bellatrix shouted from pain and surprise drawing the attention of the rest of the Death Eater's who had just finished freeing their friend. Harry quickly shot another Death Eater and had pointed his gun towards a third Death Eater when "Crucio". A Death Eater had reacted surprisingly fast. The rest of the death eaters one bye one pointed their wands at Harry and shouted "Crucio". Harry was screaming in pain. Five cruciatus curses at once was far worse than Voldemorts curse. Harry wished he was dead. In some part of his mind still working Harry hoped he wouldn't be driven crazy like the Longbottoms.
Suddenly Harry heard a song. A song which gave him strength and hope. A song which took away some of his pain. A Phoenix song. Harry felt the song was within him not without. But the song was of rage, terrible rage. The song seemed to echo Harry's rage. And suddenly all the curses were lifted. Harry opened his eyes and saw all the Death Eaters looking up at the sky, at the source of the song. Harry looked up and thought it was a meteor falling towards them. As it came closer he saw it was a Phoenix burning in red and golden flame, leaving a trail of similar red and gold flame. It was beautiful. Everyone in Diagon Alley who was fleeing at the sight of Death Eaters stopped to see the spectacle.
The burning Phoenix scooped and picked up a Death Eater with its claws and lifted him off the ground. The Death Eater instantly bust into flames. The Phoenix suddenly dropped the burning screaming Death Eater from a height of thirty feet. The poor man crashed into a building. The other Death Eaters stared firing curses at the bird. The Red, Green, Blue, Yellow spells never came close to hitting the Phoenix. It was too fast. It picked another Death Eater and slammed him into another Death Eater. Both men fell one on top of the other. The wizard on the top (the one which had been grabbed by the Phoenix) was on fire. The robes of wizard below him also caught fire and both men were screaming in pain.
Edward White like most other wizards believed that 'Angry Phoenix' was just a myth. Nobody had seen an angry Phoenix anyway. But today he found out the legend was true. And he didn't wait around to find out anything else. He apparated away just as the Phoenix slammed into his friend Greg's chest knocking him down and then sat on him burning him. By this time Harry's strength had returned due to the Phoenix song. He picked up his pistol and shot the two Death Eaters whose robes had caught fire. One of them was trying to put out the flames on his robe with his wand, but he never got the chance.
Harry looked around. The Death Eater who had crashed into the building wasn't moving, just burning silently. The Phoenix was still sitting on the last Death Eater. Most of the man was already burnt. The stench of burning flesh hit Harry's nose but he didn't bother. He walked to the last moving Death Eater. Bellatrix Lestrange was lying on the street breathing painfully. There was one hole in her chest and two more holes in her stomach. She looked at Harry standing with hate burning in her eyes. She spat blood at him. Harry calmly raised his gun aiming at her head. 'This is for you Sirius' he thought and pulled the trigger.
Harry looked at the Phoenix and stretched his hand towards it. Fawkes flew to Harry's hand. Fawkes had flown around crying for Dumbledore. Then Fawkes had chosen his new wizard – Harry Potter. He had sensed his new wizard in pain and had rushed to him. When he had seen Harry under attack he became angry and attacked the Dark Wizard's. Being a creature of the light Phoenix's weren't angered easily. But the death of his last wizard combined with the potential death of his new wizard had angered Fawkes.
Harry retrieved his wand and said to Fawkes, "Can you take me home boy?"
With a bust of flames Harry was in his bedroom at number four Privet
Author's Notes: There, the first chapter of this great epic is completed. I have taken the first step and now it's your responsibility to encourage me the rest of the way. How do you do it? Write nice reviews of course. All your suggestions to improve this story are welcomed. If you want to point out my mistakes, do so in sweet words, because I am sensitive. You don't want to hurt my feelings do you? You all know how dangerous an Angry Phoenix can be by now, don't you?