The Real Dark Lord
Chapter 7
A year later and the incident at the graveyard was all but forgotten, slowly Tom was concocting a plan to try and kill the boy who lived.
He had heard tell that Dumbledore had re-instated the Order of the Phoenix, told so by his 'faithful spy' Severus Snape. Much as he trusted him, I couldn't see where his loyalties lay.
Also there was now a prophecy which involved Tom and the boy, Harry Potter. He was desperate for it, he kept thinking of ways to get it without raising suspicion. He tried having Draco use the imperius curse on a member of the Order but was unable to get it, they tried again with an Unspeakable and failed yet again.
So in his last attempt he opened Harry Potter's mind, something he had only just found out that he could do. He had not realised that for a long time Harry Potter could see into his mind and Tom could see into his. So he sent him an image of his godfather in the Department of Mysteries being tortured by Tom, it worked.
As we all appeared in the Department of Mysteries one by one, in the dim light you could see the horror on the boys faces as they realised it was a trap and the young girls all screamed as we appeared.
I was rudely elbowed by Bellatrix, who had just broken out of Azkaban and was none too pleased to find that I was with Tom. She had always made her love (Some say obsession, I think they are right) known to him, but he couldn't care less.
"Hand over the Prophecy and no-one gets hurt." Sneered Lucius as he took off his mask.
Suddenly they all stood together and started firing curses, I jumped out of the way as one shot past my face, Then we were chasing them, Lucius was sailing after them.
In a ditch attempt to lose us they broke the orbs that held all the prophecies and they came shattering down off the shelves, a million ghostly figures arising from the shards.
We managed to surround them but they just got through a door, we ran through different rooms until we followed them and fell into a strange circular room. As all of the boy's followers landed in a heap we managed to grab them and leave Potter standing on his own.
Lucius walked up to Potter and tried to stand tall, look confident.
"Did you actually believe, or are you truly naive enough to think that children stood a chance against us? I'll make this simple for you, Potter. Give me the prophecy now...or watch your friends die."
As Potter was considering handing the prophecy over a voice made us look up from our captives.
"Get away from my Godson"
Suddenly Sirius Black appeared and punched Malfoy in the face.
"It's the Order." Screamed a death eater beside me, I didn't have time to check who.
As another battle ensued I tried to stun and fight my way closer to Potter; we couldn't let him escape again, not after we had got so far.
I sent the cruciatus curse at anyone I could see, being careful to avoid any of my Lord's followers, but before I could get close enough to Potter Bellatrix shot a curse at his godfather and hit him in the chest. I looked up to see Dumbledore had arrived as well and had got many of the death eaters captive, I ran out of the room just as I saw Black fall through a veil and disappear, then I heard Bellatrix behind me.
She pushed past me and I ran through only to watch her be bowled over by a cruciatus curse shot by Potter. She shrieked with laughter at his pitiful attempt and then rolled over and pressed her arm to the Dark Mark. As Bella attempted to curse Potter I heard him, and he appeared in the atrium.
Lord Voldemort was here.
I hung back tense, waiting to be grabbed by a member of the Order. Tom saw me and went onto distract Potter and Dumbledore until I could move over and hide then the Duel began again. Tom attempted to hit Potter with a Killing curse but was prevented, more curses were shot, shattering the golden fountain behind Potter.
As they used the statues of the fountain as shields, Dumbledore enchanted them to go and fetch ministry officials and immobilize Bellatrix.
I tried to shatter them whilst they were distracted, but I missed one. As the duel heated, Tom possessed Potter in a last bid to hope Dumbledore would kill him to kill Tom, but Potter was able to force him back out. Bellatrix slipped into one of the fireplaces and I ran to his side just as the Ministry turned up and we disapperated back to the Malfoy's.