The Journey of a Dark Phoenix
Summary-
Harry Potter is the younger twin brother of Andrew Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, and the favorite nephew of their aunt and uncle. After a beating from his cousin and older brother, Harry meets a strange man that is invisible to everyone but him. The man takes Harry as his apprentice and teaches him the ways of a Dark Wizard. When the boys are thrusted into the Wizarding World at the young age of 11, Harry turns the Wizarding World upside down.
Chapter 13-
Perhaps it was because he was so busy with Quidditch practice three nights a week on top of all of his homework and studying, but Harry could hardly believe it when he realized that he had already been at Hogwarts for two months. The castle had quickly become home to him, it made him feel like he had grown up there. And now that they had mastered the basics his classes were much more interesting.
On Halloween morning they all woke to the delicious smell of baking pumpkin wafting through the corridors. What made the day even better was when Professor Flitwick announce in Charms that he thought that they were ready to start making objects fly. Something that they all had been dying to try since they had seen Professor Flitwick make Neville's toad zoom around the room.
Professor Flitwick put the class into pairs to practice on a feather. Harry's partner was Draco, they smirked when they were put together Professor Flitwick had just made the day even better, but in the back of Harry's mind he felt that something bad was going to happen. Blaise had gotten partnered with Neville, Daphne had gotten paired up with Millicent. It seemed that everyone had been paired up with who they wanted, well everyone but Theodore and Pansy, Theodore had wanted to be paired up with Harry and Pansy with Draco, but instead had gotten paired together.
"Now don't forget that nice wrist movement we've been practicing!" Professor Flitwick squeaked from on top of his pile of books that he always stood on. "Swish and flick, remember, swish and flick. And never forget to say the incantation properly, it is very important that you say it correctly. Remember Wizard Baruffio who said 's' instead of 'f' and found himself on the floor with a buffalo on his chest."
It was very easy to preform the spell correctly with Draco as his partner helping him pronounce it correctly, they worked perfectly together. With a swish and a flick and a 'Wingardium Leviosa' the two of them were the first to send their feathers into the air on their first try. "Oh, well done! Everyone see here, Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy have done it together and on their first try too! Twenty points to Slytherin, each." The class went quickly with everyone either figuring out how to do it or blowing up their feathers a few times.
At the end of the class Harry and his group were walking to their last class of the day and walked passed Andrew and Ron who where just coming out of Herbology and were heading to Charms and got a snip-it of their conversation. "Damn Beaver, can't leave people alone. Can you believe she tried to boss me around, like she knows how to handle Devil's Snare. And can you believe that she actually dared to correct the Professor?" Andrew asked his little group of followers who laughed.
"If she is so smart, then why can't she figure out that no one here likes her. Honestly, she's a nightmare. No wonder she hasn't got any friends!" Ron said just then Hermione walked by Andrew and Ron, purposefully bumping into both of them, then passed Harry and his group. As she passed Harry was able to see the tears rolling down her checks and heard her sniff.
"What is wrong with you!" Neville yelled, pissed that one of his friends had been hurt, he started to moved towards Ron and Andrew to hurt them but was stopped by Harry who grabbed his shoulder. Neville looked at him confused and quickly became angry at seeing Harry's calm face.
"Don't." Harry whispered to him looking around at all the spectators, Percy and Oliver included.
"But Hermione-" Neville started.
"Fighting Ron and Andrew won't solve anything that happen, it will only make it worse. Do not worry about Hermione, I will deal with it. If she is not in class then after class I will go find her and deal with it. So do not worry." Harry whispered to Neville, Neville glared at him before nodding, "Now I believe we have a class to get to." The group made their way to their History of Magic class and got to their seats, Harry quickly found Hermione's empty seat and waited to see if Hermione would come in and fill the empty seat. When she never showed Harry had to fight back a smirk, it hadn't taken long for Andrew and Ron to break her down, and now that she was it would be rather easy to build her back up the way he needed her to be.
During the class Harry set his note taker to work and meditated to see if he could find Hermione's magical signature. He quickly found it in the girls bathroom near the Great Hall, and, if he was reading her aura right, she was trying to make herself feel better, but was failing if the rise and fall of her aura was anything to go by. After class Harry was the first to put his stuff up and the first out of the door, he had a job to do and it wouldn't do to have someone else get to her before him.
"Oi! Harry Wait up!" Draco cried, Harry looked over his shoulder and slowed down just enough that his little group could catch up. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Harry said.
"Then why did you basically run out of the classroom?" Blaise asked.
"Hermione wasn't in class." Daphne said with a knowing look.
"So." Blaise said.
"I promised Neville that if Hermione missed History of Magic after what happened with Andrew and Ron right before class then I would go look for her. Well during class I search for her Magic and found it, now I'm going to her." Harry said and Draco had a look of annoyance before he sighed and glared at the ground.
"Why are you going to her? Why not let Neville go to her?" Draco asked.
"Because Harry has to be the one to go to her, if he doesn't then everything will be messed up and Hades will never get his rebirth, we need Hades to be reborn for this war to end." Daphne said.
"How do you know this? And who is Hades?" Blaise asked.
"I have my ways, and when the time is right he will come to us. Come on guys, we need to get Harry there before someone gets to her first." Daphne said and the group made their way to the Great Hall, when they got to the side hall were the girl's bathroom that Hermione was in Harry split off from the group, but only got three steps away when Daphne's voice stopped everyone. "Where do you think you are going Draco, Harry must do this alone." Daphne quickly reached over and pulled Draco, who had tried to follow Harry, back to the group, "Don't worry Harry, I will keep Draco from doing something stupid." She took a step toward the Great Hall before seeming to remember something, "Oh, don't lock the door and when the door opens after you get in there, protect your head as best as you can and remember that I have Draco under control." With that Daphne lead Draco and the group to the Great Hall.
Harry watched them go with a confused look, what had Daphne meant by that? Why would he have to protect his head? Would some random girl try to attack him for being in the girl's bathroom? Well, what ever would happen, Harry would remember to protect his head. Harry sighed and quickly walked to the girl's bathroom and knocked on the door. "Hermione? Are you in there?" He called through the door, he didn't get an answer which he expected. He slowly pushed the bathroom door opened and cautiously poked his head in, he didn't see anyone but he could hear sniffling which alerting him that Hermione was in-fact still in there and with that knowledge he stepped into the bathroom. As soon the door had shut a stall opened and Hermione walked over to a sink and turned the water on, she splashed her face a few times before looking up and into the mirror. She snapped her head towards Harry's direction and the two had what seemed like a small staring contest.
"What do you want? Come to make fun of me too?" Hermione asked.
"No, I came to see if you were okay and to apologize." Harry said.
"Apologize for what?" Hermione asked.
"Andrew is my twin and I knew that he would become a bully and would most likely pick on you. I should have stopped him." Harry said.
"Why didn't you?" Hermione asked.
"Do you want the truth or a pretty lie that you would make me seem like a nice guy and you fall for the act and become my fake friend only to become my enemy once you find out the truth?" Harry asked and Hermione looked at him.
"The truth." She said.
"I didn't stop him because I needed him to break you down so low that without help you would never be able to build yourself up again." Harry said and Hermione looked at him in horror.
"Why? What did I do to make you hate me?" Hermione asked, tears began to fill her eyes again.
"I don't hate you Hermione." Harry said.
"Then why did you let your brother do this?!" Hermione yelled, pissed. Her magic suddenly rose from her body, looking like rivers of liquid chocolate and in response Harry felt his magic rise up.
"I let this happen because you are a very powerful witch," Hermione went to interrupt but Harry quickly wrapped his magic around her head and covered her mouth to stop her from speaking, "Silence, let me finish. As I was saying, you are a very powerful witch, yes, but you need training, training that Hogwarts cannot give you, but I can. And for me to be able to train you correctly I needed you broken so that I could build you up the way that you needed to be to become as strong as you could get." Harry said then unwrapped his magic from her head.
"But why." Hermione asked.
"At first it was only because you were powerful and I could sense that you would be useful to me in the future. But now I have found out that with out you a person that can stop this war would never get reborn. You are needed on my side to stop the war." Harry said and Hermione looked at him suspiciously.
"You're not lieing to me are you?" She asked.
"No, actually if you would have picked the lie I would have made up some sappy story about how I thought you would have been strong enough to put Andrew in his place, or known not to listen to him because Neville was your friend and since you are Neville's friend then you are my friend seeing as me and Neville are friends, or something like that." Harry said with a smirk.
"But you and Neville are friends, right?" Hermione asked.
"Oh yes, we are good friends. He helps me and Draco in Herbology and we help him in Potions." Harry said.
"So how are you going to help me?" Hermione asked.
"First thing that we have to work on is your bossy attitude, you'll need to learn when to use it and when not to use it. Then we will work on your magic control and confidence and we will continue on from there." Harry said then held out his hand for Hermione to shake. "So, will you let me train you?"
"I guess." Hermione said and took his hand just as Harry's magic flared warning him that something big and dangerous was heading their way. Harry spun around just as the bathroom door opened and a huge mountain troll walked in. Without thinking Harry pushed Hermione under the sink they were by before the troll say her.
"What ever you do, stay there and don't make a sound. Someone has to have saw the troll and have informed someone and they would get some other teachers to come after the troll." He whispered to her just as the troll noticed him. He ran into the stall to get the Toll to look away from where Hermione was hiding, he screamed as the stalls were smashed by the trolls club, as a piece of wood hit his head he remembered Daphne's warning. "She knew this was going to happen, but this had to happen." He muttered. He poked his head up and saw Hermione's scared face and saw that the Toll was about to turn around.
Without thinking Harry jumped up from the pile of broken wood that used to make up the stalls, grabbed one and lodged it at the troll's head. The troll swung his club at Harry who quickly dropped to the ground to dodge the club. This happened three more times before the troll figured out why his target wasn't dieing and grabbed Harry and threw him at a wall. Harry only had time to put a spell on him that would protect his head from caving in from the impact with the wall. The last thing that Harry heard as he was thrown was Hermione screaming his name, the last thing that he saw was the door opening and then darkness as his back came in contact with the wall.
~The Journey of a Dark Phoenix~
Daphne couldn't help but feel really bad as she lead the group to the Great Hall, she knew how much Draco was suffering by not being with Harry. She knew that he couldn't help how he was feeling, it was the soul that was trapped in side him that was causing all the confusion in him. If only she could unlock that soul's memory, that would solve Draco's problem. The only thing was, she couldn't unlock his memories, only Hades could. And right now Hades couldn't unlock the memories for he was asleep waiting for his rebirth that he never got.
"You never did explain who this Hades was." Neville said as they got to the Great Hall.
"Hades? As in Harry's Eagle Owl?" Draco asked and Daphne knew that he was forcing himself to participate in the up coming conversation in a way to keep his mind off Harry, it would not work.
"Hades can't be reborn, he is an Eagle Owl, plus if he could be reborn how would an Eagle Owl help end this war?" Blaise asked.
"The Hades I'm talking about is not Harry's Eagle Owl, he is a Phoenix, a Dark Phoenix. A very powerful Dark Phoenix, one we want on our side." Daphne said as they got to their table. "All I can tell you is that he is in a deep sleep and that only Harry can actually wake him up, but in order for Harry to be able to wake him up he needs the help of six people, Hermione included, and Harry will have to sacrifice something, what I do not know. That is all I can tell you." Everyone silently accepted the information that Daphne gave them, even though it brought more questions than answers. Daphne looked at Draco with a sad and regretful look, she wanted to warn Draco about what had to happen to Harry in the next three weeks. It was going to be a very painful three weeks for Draco since he would not be able to do anything to help Harry. Daphne looked away from Draco with a sigh and looked around the Great Hall.
A thousand live bats fluttered from the walls and ceiling while a thousand more swooped over the tables in low black clouds, making the candles in the pumpkins stutter. The feast appeared suddenly on the golden plates, as it had at the start-of-term banquet. Neville was just helping himself to a baked potato when Professor Quirrell came sprinting into the hall, his turban askew and terror on his face.
Everyone stared as he reached Professor Dumbledore's chair, slumped against the table, and gasped, "Troll - in the dungeons - thought you ought to know."" He then sank to the floor in a dead faint.
There was an uproar. It took several purple firecrackers exploding from the end of Professor Dumbledore's wand to bring silence. "Prefects," He rumbled, "Lead your Houses back to the dormitories immediately! Professors, follow me to the dungeon."
"Has that old full forgotten that our dormitory is in the dungeons?!" A few older Slytherins yelled and Elizabeth stood up and took charge.
"In light that our dormitory is near the danger, we are going to head toward the library and away from the danger. Follow me quickly." Elizabeth ordered and the Slytherins, including Draco and his group, followed her, but as soon as they got to the side hallway that lead to the girl's bathroom Draco quickly ran down it and to the bathroom.
"Malfoy where are you going?!" One of the Snake twins asked.
"To warn Harry!" Draco yelled back.
"Don't go alone idiot, what if the Troll has gotten out of the Dungeon and is down there?!" An older Slytherin yelled.
"All the more reason to get to him!" Neville yelled and followed Draco, the rest of the group following him. Myari and Nikki looked at each other before following them. All the other Slytherins suddenly stopped when they heard the sound of Harry screaming, they quickly stopped heading towards the library and ran to help Harry. As soon as Draco got to the bathroom door everyone heard Hermione yelling Harry's name and Draco flew through the door in time to see Harry sliding down the bathroom wall unconscious.
"HARRY!" Draco yelled, his eyes turning silver and a swirl of Moss Green and Emerald Green magic rose from Draco and flew towards the Troll and easily cut it's head off. It rolled towards him and he glared at it and then with a loud angry growl he lifted his leg and brought it down, crushing the troll head before he kicked it way from him. It hit the wall with a loud bang and stayed there for a minute before falling to the ground revealing a huge hole in the wall. Everyone backed away from the angry wizard as he slowly made his way to Harry's limp body.
"He's not dead Draco." Daphne said, making sure to stay a safe distance away from him. His eyes suddenly snapped to her and she had to fight from flinching away.
"You knew." He growled and everyone looked at her shocked, "You knew that a Troll would find it's way into the castle and into this bathroom when Harry was confronting Hermione. You knew that it would attack Harry and nearly kill him. That was why you told him to protect his head."
"It had to happen Draco." Daphne said and Draco growled at her.
"Lier." Draco said and Daphne could tell that he was loosing control and if she didn't do something everyone here was in serious danger.
"I didn't want to have to do this Draco, but you are leaving me no choice." Daphne said before a black bubble suddenly surrounded Draco.
"What did you just do?" Millicent asked.
"I just saved everyone's lives." Daphne said as the bubble disappeared to show Draco laying on the ground. "He's not dead, just unconscious, he will wake in a few hours calmer and ready to listen." Suddenly Professor Snape and Dumbledore made their way through the crowd of Slytherins.
"Oh my Merlin." Professor Snape breathed as he saw the decapitated Troll and Harry and Draco unconscious. Movement under a sink away from everything caught his attention and he saw a wide eyed and frightened Hermione huddled under the sink. He slowly walked over to the frightened girl and knelt down and gently pulled her into his arms, his reputation be damned when this little girl might have just got traumatized. She whimpered and he gently ran his fingers through her hair.
"There, there, it's alright. It's over, it is all over." Professor Snape murmured trying to calm her down.
"Harry, he-he-" Hermione started but was stopped by a great big sob.
"Shh, it's alright." Professor Snape whispered.
"My dear child, what happened here?" Dumbledore asked in his grandfather voice and Professor Snape glared at him and suddenly stood up, Hermione still in his arms.
"Albus, can't you see that Mrs. Granger is in shock." He said as he situated Hermione so that he could carry her in a more comfortable way. "Give her some time to calm down before you question her." He walked passed Dumbledore and looked at the crowd of Slytherins. "Well, two of you make yourself useful and take Mr. Malfoy and Mr. Potter there to the Hospital Wing."
"Yes sir!" The Snake Twins said before levitating the two unconscious boys and followed Professor Snape to the Hospital wing.
~The Journey of a Dark Phoenix~
He didn't know where he was all he knew was that it was dark and he was floating, he didn't even know if he was conscious or not, but he did know that he hurt everywhere. "Hey," A male voice called through the darkness, "Hey, are you okay?" He tried to make a sound, or move in some way to let the man know something. "Well, at least you're still breathing, that's good."