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Chapter 22. The dark follower.

25th May 1986.

Albany.

Deep Woods.

9:30 AM.

Lucius Malfoy hated uncivilized terrain. He was born and bred with high standards, and usually, those standards were far from the conditions on this manhunt for the remains of his dark lord. He had to contact a necromancer to figure out how to track and point to a location for his wraith. He never believed that he would be reduced to acting a bloodhound just to get his dark master back.

Things began changing at the end of April and only for the worse. First, Azkaban had all those deaths and Black escapes, then the rest of the branded Death Eaters disappear. Only Severus and himself were alive, then Barty Crouch Jr is located and the dead Peter Pettigrew turns out to be alive. Black gets his name cleared and the next thing he does, he kicks Narcissa out of the family, and welcomes back Andromeda, and the Tonks family, instead.

The ministry gets to hire foreigners for the daily tasks, and Moody makes everyone take a mandatory oath. So all the people affiliated to the pure blood movement are eliminated out of the payroll due to their lack of magic, or life.

And lastly, the Leaky cauldron is turned into a four-star location and exclusive only for mudbloods and half bloods. It became a nightmare to be the only death eater who was still walking around in the Alley. No more reverence, not even from his family. Narcissa demanded a divorce shortly after being kicked out of the Black family. She took her mother's maiden name, half of his remaining fortune, Draco, hell she even took Dobby the house-elf too. She received an offer to reside in Australia.

Severus wrote to him and said that he would care for Draco as his own son, as well as raise Theo and their newest sibling. Agatha had accepted his offer of marriage and was now pregnant. Severus was now working as a Potions Master for Gringotts in Australia and their life, though not wealthy, could accommodate Narcissa and her son. But Lucius would do well to stay away, he was a branded killer to not only the English but also to the Australian people too.

Lucius understood Severus had gotten rid of the dark mark. Well everyone would pay, hence his journey and ongoing search for his master. People had forgotten about a few important things, and he would bring back his master and show the world fear, including Severus and Narcissa.

He stopped at a dark copse of trees and realized the Horcrux vibrated, recognizing an imprint of Voldemort nearby. It was then that something hot, pierced Lucius on his right leg and he lost balance.

He turned to his injured leg and then he noticed two muggle weapons pointed at him, behind those, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

"Well, I always knew you were an idiot, but, seriously, to go on this journey, just to bring this noseless bag of shit, because, your life turned to ashes, really?" Asked Sirius.

He was going to curse Remus, when he heard a quiet, voice say, "Expelliarmus,"

Lucius lost his wand to Amelia Bones. She stepped forward and added, "Accio Horcrux," the diary flew to her hand.

Behind her, a great big snake with red eyes was moving swiftly to strike Amelia when it encountered a dome of elf magic and got knocked unconscious. Amelia noticed the house-elf behind her and nodded to him in thanks to his magic.

Harry as Oli, snapped his fingers, and the last two pieces of Voldemort, got reduced magically and placed inside a lead box. He nodded to Amelia and disappeared with the box too.

"It's okay Ami, I know Oli's master. Whatever is left of Voldie is soon to go moldy, now, Lucius."

Lucius knew he would not bow down to this bastard, and instead, he bit on one of his teeth, releasing cyanide into his bloodstream and breathing his last less than a minute later.

After five minutes, Amelia confirmed Lucius Malfoy's passing. To which Sirius and Remus would only add in stereo. "Coward,"

Amelia added, "He's not on British soil, so his passing though tragic and self-inflicted is not on us, let's finish this up, gents,"

One Port-key spin later, Sirius, Remus, and Amelia landed inside a Gringotts room, and they all dispatched unwanted luggage.

Lucius' body was disintegrated into fertilizer and no one asked about him again, except for Draco, when he asked his mother why his father had stayed behind. To which Narcissa only replied, "Because he had other things he would rather do than be here, I'm sorry dear." Draco shrugged, and said, "well that's dumb, why would he not like playing on the beach?" Narcissa smiled, and supplied, "that's a good question, now why don't you go play with Theo? Look, he's building a sand castle." Draco turned and said, "Okay," and that was the last time Draco remembered Lucius, he was too happy just being a little boy, and all was good.

Meanwhile,

Harry had all the pieces of Tom Marvolo Riddle. He soaked the lot in a bath of Basilisk Venom. Once the pieces were charred phylactery, he shifted form to Oli and in one very convenient pack he threw the thing through the veil, just like he did with the cubist microbe painting. That had all those Death Eaters gone, while everyone continued with their everyday life. It was then that he noticed he was not alone, Amelia Bones came out of the corner. She inquired, "Hi, what did you just throw onto the veil?" Oli turned around and replied, "Garbage, just garbage, and good riddance,"

Amelia smiled and said, "Go on now, this is not a public place, and you shouldn't be here."

Oli nodded and then realized Sirius was behind her, sporting a happy smile. The house-elf smiled and vanished away. He was glad for the old dog; he deserved happiness.