Chapter 17

Severus swept into his private chambers and grabbed his deck of cards from their hiding spot from inside the mantle above the fireplace. He sat down on the couch. It was time to see what held in store for those he knew and loved.

Severus shuffled the cards he placed a card of an empty throne. He laid a card of crosses and blood. Severus brow frowned at the card of death. He laid down the card of the lighting child. He laid down the last card, which was blank. Severus waved his hand over the it and two babies appeared on it.

"What's going to happen? The throne is empty. Are we going to lose the king." whispered Severus.

Severus laid down a blank card horizontally over the empty throne. He waved his hand and an image of Dumbledore appeared over it. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. He laid a card of image of war horizontally over the lighting child. Severus laid the last card down horizontally over the babies, and the image of death appeared.

Severus closed his eyes at what he saw. The future looked dark and full of pain and death. Dumbledore would take over the throne. He waved his hand over the cards. "What will come if we win the war?" he whispered and opened his eyes.

The cards slowly went blank and new images changed, and the king appeared over Dumbledore. The lighting child appeared over death. The card of peace appeared. The last card the image of two babies rested on top of the death card.

Severus sighed in relief the feature was safe and everything would be as it should be. He put away his cards just as a tattoo on his right arm began to tingle. He lifted his sleeve and a tattoo of a serpent with a crown that laid on top of it. He remember the day he had received the tattoo of the convent. It was the members that sat at the round table. It was those that severed the king and protected him and his queen. Severus shook his head to clear of his past and ran down to his lab and grabbed a vial full of blue liquid. He touched his mark on his right forearm and vanished from Hogwarts.

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Remus and Padfoot walked around the Black Lake. Remus stopped dead in his tracks when he felt his mark tingle. He lifted his right sleeve. The king was calling his convent to gather at the round table. It had been nearly twenty years since had called the men.

"Padfoot should we go?" asked Remus. The dog barked and nodded his head. "Right than we go." Sirius shifted into human form. They both touched their marks and vanished from Hogwarts' ground.

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Severus knocked on the open door of the library. Tom turned around and saw the Potions Master. Severus bowed slightly before entering the room. He quietly handed the king the vial that held the potion that would control the voices that controlled him.

"Thank you Severus. I owe you a great deal of gratitude for your service." Tom said gently and took it from the man before him. He took the potion that allowed to push the voice from his mind. "Must you make everything taste so vile."

Severus smirked slightly. "Sorry. If added anything it would render the potion useless."

"Shall we make our way to gathering room." Tom told the young man.

Severus stepped aside and allowed him to go before him. He followed the king down the corridors of the once elegant castle.

Tom pulled open the doors to the gathering room and saw the men of his convent. The men he hadn't seen in years. It was good to see them once again. He didn't see the one man that would have one day take over the throne, James Potter. The wizards bowed and the king walked over the round table.

"Step forward and take your seats." Tom told them.

The wizards walked over to the table and joined their king. They pulled out their wands and placed them onto the table. They sat down waiting for the king to begin.

"It's been nearly twenty years since we last gathered. Men of the convent I've called you here, even the danger of Voldemort breaking through at anytime. It must be called." He told them. "Severus please tell them what you have foreseen."

The men turned to the Potions Master. Severus explained what he had seen in the cards. The death and destruction of the wizarding world if the war was to be lost. Than what would happen if the war was to be won.

"Than we must do anything everything in our power to insure your victory my king." Minerva said as she walked through the double doors.

The men quickly rose to their feet after the king rose for his chair. Tom walked over to his wife. He was stunned to see his wife. He took her hands into his own.

"What are you doing here? It's far too dangerous for you to be here."

"You've called. So I've come as expect of me." Minerva told him.

Tom sighed kissed her forehead and motioned to her rightful seat. She once took nearly twenty years ago. Minerva smiled at her husband and took her seat. She watched her husband return to the round table.

"Severus if something dangerously occur you will get the queen to safety." The king told him.

"Of course my Lord." he told him with a slight bow of his head.

Tom sat down followed by his men. "How is Hermione doing Remus?"

"She is doing just fine. Sirius and I are keeping a close eye on her along with Severus."

"Good keep it that way. And keep Dumbledore away at all cost. And her family?"

"As of now safe." Kingsley said from the doorway. "I will get them from harms way if something should occur." Tom nodded in agreement.

"Mr. Ollivander, what of the Elders Wand does it exist?"

"Yes your majesty. It does."

"And who has that wand?"

Ollivander thought for a moment and remembering not ever giving Dumbledore a wand. "I fear Dumbledore has that wand sir."

"He has the wand! Dumbledore has the wand of death. Are you positive?"

"I'm positive sir."

"Than we must do something about this problem. But what is the question. Convent you are dismissed. I must have time to think." the king told them and rose from his seat. The men bowed and left the gathering room.

Minerva walked over to her husband and he pulled her into the room. Severus stood hidden in the shadows watching over this king and queen. Tom held his wife and queen close. He rested his head on top of her head. It was wonderful to have her in his arms once more. It was to become short lived. He pulled back from her.

"You must go now. Severus take her and leave quickly."

Severus took his queen before she even had a chance to say a word they had vanished from the room. Voldemort stood where the once beloved king had been. The Dark Lord swept from the room to plan his next attack. The Granger family would be next on his hit list.

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