There are some AU elements so please don't expect everything to match cannon.

A/N: The Characters and the universe all belong to J.K Rowling. Nothing is mine.

There were two piles. Two piles of ingredients that were meant to signify the birth of the Phoenix that lives in the shadows. On top of one pile of ingredients sat a vial with 7 drops of Daniels' blood in it.

I had run away, literally, from the meeting at Hogshead. By the time I had arrived, Dobby had arranged the piles into the proper order and collected the blood from Hedwig's talons into a vial. Dobby had started becoming even faster than before. Though it had been only two days, he had started practicing the exercises mentioned in the Japanese to English translated notes that I had given him.

He had no hand signs down yet, but his control was slightly better. Trevor sat there with a happy grin on his face literally bouncing on his heels. He definitely had done good work in collecting these ingredients. I knew just the thing to give him after a bit more of research.

I took a deep long breath, gathering myself before starting the rituals. We decided to conduct the ritual of Godspeed first.

I willed the room to take on a pure white look, with every inch of the floor covered in shining white marble. I drew the ritual circle, more like a hexagon, and the markings on the ground with the blood of a dead pig. The corners of the hexagon were to be covered by 3 precious metals on each corner, in the shape of a triangle.

So, it was a complicated looking hexagon with triangles at each of its six tips, which were adorned by rare metals. Inside the triangles formed by these metals several additional ingredients were placed. I asked Hedwig to place herself in the center of the hexagon so that I can begin with the ritual.

I took out my wand and started chanting the wordings of the ritual in ancient Mesopotamian. This language was that of times even before Mesopotamia, so that is why while I did understand the phonetics of the script in which it was written, since it was the same as that of Mesopotamians, I did not understand the meaning behind the chant.

The ritual circle started to glow in a greenish hue. As the chanting went on the greenish hue kept on becoming stronger. Suddenly, there was a blank space in the chanting manual and after that space written in bold letters was 'OOLU'.

Not wanting to interrupt the flow of the ritual, I took that blank space as a pause for a second and then loudly exclaimed the words 'OOLU'.

As soon as I said 'OOLU' the two diagonally opposite triangles on the top left and bottom right ejected something like wind tunnels towards the center where Hedwig was. Hedwig seemed to get caught in some sort of sphere of wind which was extending to the two edges of the ritual hexagon.

Seeing that Hedwig did not seem to be in any kind of pain, I continued with the chanting. Two minutes into the chanting and the word came up again.

I again shouted 'OOLU' and this time fire shot out of the two triangles that were on the top right and the bottom left. This fire laser or whatever thingy made a perfect 'X' with the air tunnel covering Hedwig in a fire-air sphere combo thingy.

If not anything else, this ritual is at least flashy.

I continued with the chanting and came up with the last set of chants. The chanting headed towards a high Crescendo where it ended in one last verbal exclamation of the word 'OOLU'.

As soon as I shouted out that last OOLU, the remaining two triangles on the tips were joined in a flash by bolts of lightning with Hedwig in the middle. Covered in fire-air-lightning spherical badass looking combo ball, Hedwig seemed perfectly calm.

Immediately the elements and the ritual ingredients and everything concerning the ritual started to coalesce towards the center, like Hedwig was a planet who was pulling everything inside of him. Everything converged into a big black ball of darkness.

Then suddenly, there was a flash of light just for a second, a golden Hedwig with her wings spread for an even smaller fraction of time and then everything was back to normal.

The room was pure white again, with a somehow even whiter Hedwig standing calmly in the middle. Everyone was gob smacked by what they had just witnessed.

"Hedwig?" I cautiously questioned.

She disappeared. As soon as I called out her name, there was like a gentle breeze and Hedwig was gone, Disappeared into thin ai-

"Hoot."

I nearly died from shock when Hedwig hooted from behind me. I could not detect for a fucking single second that she had moved. It was crazy!

The ritual had worked and we all started cheering like crazy. Hedwig made rounds of the room, hooting and disappearing at will. Dobby and Trevor were jumping up and down, while I was ecstatic myself.

"All right Hedwig, stop wasting your seconds." Hedwig did one last vanishing act before sweeping down and settling herself on my shoulders.

"All right everyone, please give a loud round of applause for the first official success of the Shadow Phoenix."

Everybody cheered one more time ecstatic from our high. "But!"

Everybody quieted down at this, "But, we still have one more ritual to go."

As I said this I went over and picked up Daniel's blood from the pile of ingredients. "This shall be our key to the defeat of Voldemort."

"I have been very secretive regarding the details of this ritual, and I am truly sorry for that." This ritual held such great potential, that I could not help be wary of even a simple slip by anyone.

"This ritual, which was born out of the idea of the Universal Radius, is a three stage ritual. Every stage will give us a better understanding of our enemy and increasing influence over their psyche."

"It is not some omnipotent ritual which will give us Imperio level control over our enemies. Nevertheless, it is a trump card which works on simple hints and suggestions based on manipulating key words and feelings." I took out an ashen looking parchment from the pile of ingredients, it was parchment created out of the bark of a dying Yggdrasil.

The parchment was extremely long, folded into a circular roll. I took out my wand and spoke some spells. The parchment's entire material rearranged itself into an ashen looking notebook. "I believe a notebook is going to be better for what we are going to be attempting here."

"This notebook…" I paused for dramatic effect, "is going to contain the name of the entire force behind Voldemort."

Wait for it.

"Every single one."

Dobby had a question it seemed, "But Master Harry Potter sir, nobody knowing who all in Voldemort's army sir."

"Excellent question Dobby, and that is exactly what the first stage of the ritual is for. The first stage of the ritual is designed to list every one of Voldemort's followers name inside the Shadow diary in my hand." Shadow diary's the cool name I have given to the notebook.

"Now you may all wonder, how exactly are we going to accomplish that?" They all nodded.

"It's simple; by judging their feelings." That threw everyone for a loop. I knew this was going to confuse everyone, so I told them to get on with the ritual, as "I will explain the details, while conducting the ritual."

This time the shape of the ritual circle was a spiral, with the center of the spiral being a snake head. I drew the coiling snake on the ground with the pig blood again. I don't know how many times I had to control my urge to vomit, but I just put a clipper on my nose and persevered.

I completed the drawings on the ground and double checked them again. It certainly looked like a snake, but a coiled snake with very fancy tattoos all over its body.

The ingredients also had to be placed in conjunction with the tattoos, and not just as random piles on top of the snake's body.

Say, if you had purple grass and you had to place it on top of a symbol that resembles a cat. Then the finished work would look like an artistic looking cat crafted from purple grass, tattooed on a giant ass snake.

Doing this took time. A lot of time, as a person with common sense can imagine. It was 4 hours into the job that it was finally done.

I wiped my brow from the sweat that had coalesced there and willed a chair to appear in the room so I could rest for a second.

I sat down on the chair with a sigh of relief as I gathered my bearings.

I looked around and saw that Hedwig and Trevor had dozed off probably bored with nothing much to do and Dobby was obviously awake since he had been helping me setup the ingredients.

"Tired Dobby? Why don't you also sit down?"

Dobby just shook his head, "Dobby just nervous Master Harry Potter Sir, Dobby want it over quickly"

"True that."

I also wanted this quickly over, "'kay Dobby go and wake the others. Let's begin."

I went and retrieved the Vial of blood, which was going to be the trigger of the ritual and floated it in the air just above the Snake's Head, the center of the circle.

Soon I was joined by the rest of the SP and we all stood at the edge of the circle. Dobby had the Shadow's diary in his hands which now sported a miniature version of the snake on its front cover.

It was time for an explanation, "As soon as I drop these seven drops of blood on the mouth of the snake, the snake will transmit sub-conscious triggers regarding the owner of the blood throughout the entire world."

"The owner of the blood in this case will be Voldemort, and not Daniel, because of the filters placed in the ritual to exclude Daniel, the snake shape of the ritual circle being a very basic example of it."

Everybody nodded their heads a little, getting the gist of it.

"So every person's sub-conscious in the world will receive a message which, if I may put it in a layman's term would say 'Voldemort'."

"As soon as the word 'Voldemort' registers in everybody's conscious, a feeling will be evoked in each one of them."

Dramatic pause.

"Every person will have a different feeling, but the Shadow diary is meant to capture the name of the individuals with two particular set of feelings."

I have thought an infinite number of times on this, and I am sure this is the correct path.

"The feelings of loyalty and Hate."

Everybody looked extremely contemplative at this, even Dobby was frowning.

"The Majority of the book is going to be filled with the names of the people who reciprocate to the trigger with the feeling of Loyalty. I have thought extremely hard on the specifics of the ritual, and the ways of interpretation of the term 'loyalty'; and I am a convinced that the name of the entire Death eater force, or those who have been officially recruited, or those who really want to be a part of his team will appear on the notebook. Nobody more; nobody less."

"Take the example of Peter Pettigrew. Peter Pettigrew serves Voldemort for the sole reason of fear, so one may argue that it is fear not loyalty which keeps him bound; but one forgets that Magic recognizes loyalty born out of fear as loyalty. It does not matter what the reason is."

I am getting into the explanation now. "One may also argue that it may include impressionable minds of young children who have no understanding of the world yet. Though the list will include wannabe Death Eaters, it will be only really wannabe a Death Eater gang and nobody else, since adoration and Loyalty have the key difference of obeying. Those who magic believes to be the obeying kind are on the list."

I take a deep breath to continue, "The last few pages of the book will be filled with people who fall in the category of 'hate'. Now listen carefully!" I raised my finger at this.

"As you may believe, Hate will not encompass the Order of the phoenix or Daniel or whoever you might be thinking of in your mind."

This confused Hedwig and the others.

"You see their feelings can be summarized to rebellion or even intense dislike. But Hate; Hate is the literary opposite of the word 'Love'. If you hate someone that means you base your entire existence around the destruction of that person. Your every action is meant to bring his end."

"If Voldemort were to die at the hands of Daniel tomorrow, the majority of the world will celebrate."

But.

"But… there will be a few individuals who will hold a piece of regret in their hearts that they could not personally rip Voldemort to shreds."

There was absolute silence as my statement sunk in. "I want to know who these people are."

"That covers about the first step of the ritual. As the ritual progresses you'll get to know the rest as well."

Nobody made a sound as the vial started tipping towards the snake mouth in order for the ritual to commence.

1..2..3..4..5..6.. and the last drop of blood..7.

A reddish glow started to spread from the mouth of the snake towards its outer body. Soon, the entire snake was glowing Red.

Suddenly there was a huge pulse that emanated from the Ritual circle. That was the trigger.

I did not feel any sort of interference with my mind. Good, that's how it is supposed to be. People are not meant to know they are a part of this.

Meanwhile there was another pulse, and another, and another…

The pulses started radiating from the circle at an interval of 5 seconds. We waited for 5 minutes before the first pulse returned to the circle.

Immediately as the pulse returned there was a glow from the Shadow diary. Our first batch of names had appeared.

The first batch was pretty mixed, with a few well known ones like Bellatrix Lestrange and Avery mixed in. Before we could read further the pulses started returning one after another, making the list grow by the minute.

After 5 more minutes of this radar magic show, we finally had a complete list; and GOD it felt Glorious.

Here in our hands rested the entirety of Voldemort's forces' record. Every single fucking one of them.

But, it was not over yet. The circle now started sending pulses at an even faster rate, 2 pulses about every second.

I decided to explain to my confused audience. "This is the second stage of the ritual. The snake is now sending the name of each person in the loyalty section to each person in the loyalty section."

So, basically we are testing out every person's feeling towards every other person. The question clearly etched on each of their faces was. 'What is this going to achieve?'

"As you may know, these people work in groups, in circles. Everyone is not a death eater per se; there are bugs in the ministry, there is an inner circle, there is an outer circle, there are the wannabe's. So, what we are going to be doing here is organizing this huge random list of people."

"Magic is going to test them on their feeling of familiarity, camaraderie, proximity, animosity and other such things to form an evaluation."

Holding true to that the list started arranging itself in an extremely fast manner. It would shuffle and then reshuffle, and finally after 2 minutes it settled on its final answer. The same happened on the list of 'hate' but it only took a few seconds.

Finally the circle, or the snake should I say, took on a blue-green color and closed its eyes as if going to sleep.

"That is the beginning of the third stage of the ritual. It will open its eyes for the final stage when I need it to, but the final stage is useless to us for now, so let it sleep."

Saying that, we finally came to the end of this long day. I heaved a tired but proud sigh as I raised the Shadow Diary to my eye level.

"Members of the Shadow Phoenix, Rejoice, for we now have made our first step in this war against a madman."

Everybody cheered extremely loudly at this, me included.

"From tomorrow onwards, the real war shall begin."

Saying that we all nodded our heads seriously, and Dobby saw this as an opportunity to bring something to eat for everyone.

"All right everyone, DIG IN!"

Tables and chairs appeared in the room and all of us began to eat. Well…

I tried to eat human food while the rest just spoiled my appetite by showing their preferences in appetite.

"No thank you Trevor, I don't think I prefer houseflies to treacle tart."

Ugh…

Deciding to eat later, I opened the shadow diary and flipped towards the section which listed the people who hated Voldemort. I was randomly glossing over when…

The diary fell out of my hands; as a name caught my attention.

Luna Lovegood.

I certainly did not expect her to be here.

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