Chapter 6: The Wand and The Girl
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Disclaimer : Obviously I'm not JK Rowling and I don't own Harry Potter (i wish) nor any character and place that JKR created and all the normal stuff blah blah (Though I do kind of own any spell that was created by me)
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Throne Room, Marvolo Mansion 1989
Lord Voldemort was not easily provoked out of his calm. But there was one man in the entire world who could get on his nerves very easily. The self proclaimed leader of the light, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, who the hell even had this kind of name? Voldemort smirked. With the raid he was planning today, it would give the Order a wake up call. His raids were dwindling down on numbers, as he spent time training his heir Harry or more commonly known as Brian now. With the attacks lowering, the Ministry started some rumors on how he was weakened or some bullshit like that. But on the other hand, Dumbledore had his Order members more uptight than normal. The Order Auror's were patrolling everywhere, the Ministry splitting up the Wizarding World into sectors, some were the Order's responsibility, usually the most hard hit sections. The less attacked areas were in the hand of lazy Ministry Aurors. Those were the sectors he was switching too. Lucius did a bit of changing of the sectors and the ones with more light wizards and resources were handed over to the Ministry Aurors. That was where he was raiding today. Straight into the heart of the shopping district, Diagon Alley.
"Master? The scouts have reported back." A voice squeaked behind him.
"Please continue Wormtail." His voice was colder than normal. Wormtail gulped loudly and continued.
"Parts of Knockturn Alley's apparition wards have been dismantled, we are ready." Voldemort stood up suddenly, causing Wormtail to stumble backwards slightly.
"Get the Death Eaters in position, apparate on my command. Take the full on members of the Legion too."
"The Legion my Lord? Only your heir and Malfoy are full on mem…"
"Just take everyone who have been given masks! Now GO!" Voldemort motioned Wormtail out with a thrust of magical energy, practically smashing the man out.
"Nagini! Tell Brian to get ready!" The huge python slithered off Voldemort's arm and into the shadows.
"Yesss, Massster, shall I tell him to meet you at the courtyard in ten minutes?" The Dark Lord pondered for a moment about the time he needed to get ready. It was about ten minutes, Nagini knew him too well.
"Pleassse do that."
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Brian accioed his robes from his wardrobe, just to speed up the process, he was about to go on his first raid! He put on his special robes he reserved for his first raid, a pure black robe with threads of silver and grey woven randomly around the black cloak, giving him the appearance of a wraith. Brian then grabbed his golden mask and placed it on. He stared into the mirror at his own reflection. Indeed, the fear factor was upped by the mask and cloak, it would do well. He spared one last glance at the mirror then grabbed a handcrafted wand made by his father and continued down the corridors leading to the apparition point.
By the time he arrived, his father was giving out instructions to the Death Eaters going.
"Remember, today's goal is to scare the old man. Burn as many shops and send up the Dark Mark anytime. If you see Dumbledore himself, contact me. Oh, and do not burn Ollivanders, do not burn the wand shop. Off you go." With that, pops sounded and the Death Eaters were off.
"Father. Do I apparate with you?" Brian looked up expectantly.
"Yes, but before we go, I must tell you something. Today's raid was to have a distraction for you to go to Ollivander's and get your wand." Voldemort looked down at his son. " I know crafted one, but that wand cannot handle the more powerful spells, so you will get your wand early. Do you understand? Don't engage in fights unless absolutely necessary."
"Yes, father," and he grabbed his father's hand and disapparated straight to Diagon Alley.
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Diagon Alley, 1989
Brian had never seen something so chaotic in his life. Wizards were screaming and running, glass was broken, Death Eaters were firing curses all around, and some braver people were fighting back, as no Auror's arrived yet. Brian smirked as people screamed even louder as the Dark Mark was fired into the sky like a giant evil firework. He has hustled straight to Ollivander's wand shop and Voldemort thrust him towards Ollivander, who was still in his shop tending over a wand. Brian took off his mask, blowing his hair out of his eyes.
"Ollivander the Death Eaters outside, please get him a wand. Now." The Dark Lord's cutting tone sounded and Ollivander looked up. He didn't know who in their right minds would be buying a wand at a Death Eater raid but nevertheless, a customer was a customer.
"Of course sir." He dipped his head in greeting and straight away he immediately grabbed a wand from the first shelf and gave it to Brian.
"How's this one? Nice and springy, 10 inches, willow wood, dragon heartstring." The moment the wand touched his hand, Ollivander snatched it back.
"Hmm… How about this one?" He accioed a wand that was high up and put it in Brian's hand, " 10 and ¾ inches, pliable, ash wood, unicorn hair. No, no, that won't work." As Ollivander snatched the wand back, Brian's eyes were drawn towards a wand box on the side that was covered with dust.
"Can I try that one?" Ollivander looked at it and didn't speak for a few moments.
"Most certainly young man." The box zoomed towards Ollivander and he gently plucked out the wand and handed it over to Brian.
"This one is 11 inches, holly wood, with a phoenix feather, very nice and supple." The moment Brian touched it, he felt the most wonderful sensation he had in his life. A gentle tingling up his arm and around his body and with a jolt a wisp of smoke shot out of it. Ollivander jerked back as the smoke became a snake that was hissing at him. The Dark Lord chuckled at the sight.
"This wand is the brother wand to the Dark Lord's wand you know?" Voldemort stared at the man, somewhat surprised. Brian gaped.
"You could also try another one, child." Ollivander turned around to pick up another box when both father and son said,
"No! This one is perfect!" Ollivander shrugged and a bag of Galleons was thrown on his table. The Dark Lord turned around briskly and started towards Knockturn Alley to apparate away. Brian hurriedly put on his mask before anyone saw his face.
They were halfway to Knockturn Alley, thick in the battlezone when someone cried out, "The Aurors! They're here, even the Order Aurors!"
Voldemort cursed under his breath, this was expected, but Brian was supposed to be back at the mansion. The Aurors immediately engaged the Death Eaters who slowly started to retreat. The Dark Lord tried to hide Brian under his robes before anyone noticed, but he was a second too late.
"He has child captive!" One of the Aurors yelled and they all turned towards the Dark Lord. They renewed their efforts to get to the supposedly "kidnapped" child. Brian looked up with puppy eyes and asked the question he did not want to answer.
"Can I duel a bit?" Voldemort sighed. Brian was not going to be talked out of his first potential duelling experience. He was too stubborn, the Dark Lord would have said yes if it was only Ministry Aurors, but Dumbledore's were more dangerous. He sighed.
"Yes, but stick close to me…" But Brian ran off the second he said yes. Merlin's beard, he was going to ground Brian after this madness. He watched slack jawed as Brian ran straight towards the Order of Phoenix Aurors, was he mad? He saw as James Potter and Sirius Black both ran towards the boy with their arms wide reaching out to grab the child. But Brian stopped abruptly and held his wand up. All the Order members looked questionally at the boy. The boy looked around chuckled.
"Terra fragor!" Brian did a complex motion and suddenly the ground around Brian rippled and exploded upwards when the ripples reached the Aurors. The Aurors closest to the ripple were hurt badly and couple Death Eaters were also thrown up, but no one really cared. All the Aurors were thinking the same thing. Who the hell was this kid?
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Throne Room, Marvolo Mansion 1989
Lord Voldemort paced around the throne room with a boy sitting on a small chair to the side.
"Let me ask you this one more time," The Dark Lord paused pacing and walked towards the boy. He lifted the boy's head up and stared right into his eyes. "What were you thinking?"
"I was duelling. Sort of." The boy shrugged.
"Arghh! Now the Order knows of you! Dumbledore will search every file in the Ministry to try and know your true name. Dammit Brian, why couldn't you just have chosen a crappy Ministry Auror and duelled him instead? No, you had take on all of them at once! Merlin!" Voldemort's hands were shaking with anger and anyone other than Brian would probably be begging for mercy about now. But as it is, Brian conjured his book titled "The Darkest of the Dark: Offensive Spellwork" and started reading as his father ranted about.
"Wormtail! Take that muggle that we captured today up here. I need to torture someone right now." Wormtail immediately ran down to the dungeons, appearing several minutes later with a small girl in tow. Brian looked up from his book when he saw the girl. She had brown bushy hair, brown eyes and a tear streaked face full of grime. Brian usually didn't care much about these prisoners his father brought up to torture. Something was off about her, he didn't know what it was yet though.
"Girl what is your name?" His father harshly asked the girl, dragging the girl towards her with magic. The girl mumbled something incomprehensible and his father got more angry.
"Crucio!" The girl started to convulse on the ground in agony, Voldemort only held it for a while before stopping.
"Wha.." Voldemort started to ask again but Brian stopped him.
"Wait, let me ask." Brian walked towards the girl who looked up at him startled. "What is your name?"
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Hermione was really scared. She was walking home from school when a bunch of dark robed people took her away and locked her up in a dungeon. A rat man then dragged her up to a dark throne room where she saw a man point a stick at her and ask her name. Hermione tried to choke out her name but her vocal cords were still raw from all the screaming. The man then did something that hurt so much that it was like thousands of needles pressing into her skin. But then a boy came into view to stop the man. This was all so wrong, why did the boy just watch her get tortured? The boy came up and she looked up into the endless emerald orbs that were his eyes.
"What is your name?" Hermione blinked back tears.
"My name is Hermione." She whispered as she couldn't speak loudly. The boy looked at her and asked another question.
"What is your last name?" She swallowed some saliva to soothe her throat and replied.
"It's Granger." The boy stood up and looked at her weirdly. He went back to converse with the man in hushed tones. She caught some words that made no sense at all, like "Mudblood", "magic", "half-blood", and "try". Then they started hissing at each other, she looked at them as if they were mad. Finally the man sighed and sat down on his throne, signalling that the boy had won the argument. He took out his own wand and pointed it at her.
"Rennervate." A red light streaked towards her chest and immediately she felt better.
"Can you sit up? Or even move at all?" Hermione nodded her head and was able to stand up with the help of the boy.
"Merlin's beard. It appears that we found a Mudblood witch." The man said to the boy, who nodded his head. He then turned and asked her a question she would never forget.
"So, Hermione, ever heard of magic?"
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Okay, just so if you are wondering how in the world does using Rennervate tell if Hermione was a possible witch or not, my version of the spell basically only affects people with magical cores, if you tried it on any random muggle, it wouldn't work at all. So yeah.
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