Title: Kiss.

Author: AspergianStoryteller.

Genre: Supernatural/General.

Summary: When a Dementor tried to Kiss Harry Potter, it got more than it bargained for. And Harry did not walk away unaffected. Don't own Harry Potter.

Chapter 7: Dark Mark.

Ron and Hermione would have asked more, but they knew what Harry meant after three years of it at Hogwarts.

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'Troy! Moran! Dimitrov!'

Feverish excitement drenched the air with loudness and charged feelings.

'Mullet scores!'

Delighted and triumphant screams arose from the Irish fans. The positive atmosphere intoxicated to some degree everyone, even the Bulgarian fans. Watching the totally amazing magical sport, surrounded by happiness and cheer, Harry barely noticed the tiredness from an early start to the day lifting. He felt great.

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'Morsmordre!' A colossal skull composed of emerald stars and a snake poking out like a tongue erupted into the air and rose up, causing screams to rise with it. As Harry looked at it from below, something inside him stirred. It was deep inside, in a place that still felt cold in remembered nightmares, that now felt drawn to the sign of Voldemort in the sky.

Listen to the screams of fear. One glimpse of it and they know despair, and delicious terror...

'Harry!'

'Come on mate, don't space out now! We've got to hide!'

'What?'

'That's the Dark Mark! It's You-Know-Who's sign!'

Pop! Pop! Pop! Twenty wizards Apparated into the clearing with their wands drawn.

'DUCK!'

'STUPEFY!'

Magic rippled over Harry's head and rebounded off of trees. The beams of red light were vivid against the neon green of the Dark Mark.

'*Stop! STOP! That's my son!*' Mr. Weasley arrived, looking terrified.

In the immediate aftermath of the Death Eater reappearance Mr. Crouch's house elf Winky was discovered with the wand that conjured the Dark Mark. While stressed and fearful arguments went on, still bathed in eerie emerald light, Harry couldn't help looking up at the source of it every now and then. While it creeped it him out, knowing this was the sign of Voldemort, something about it was familiar and seemed to draw his gaze. The stirring inside him was also familiar. A sort of green-light feeling that he remembered working with to fight a Dementor. It wasn't close enough to hurt really, but when Harry went a bit deeper down, curiosity drawing him, something stabbed at him, and he jerked away quickly, back into awareness of the now finishing discussion in the clearing.

On the way back to their tent Mr. Weasley spared a look at Harry. Harry wondered if he was thinking about his distracted behaviour that day. Should he tell him about the Dementor attack and its effects? Even if his job was one involving Muggles, perhaps he might have clues or advice to offer? Harry knew he could count on the Weasley families' support, they were almost family to him, but he didn't want to worry Arthur while he had so much going on right now, nor did he wish for Molly Weasley to be frightened for him. He'd have to think about it.

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When they got back to The Burrow and had some time alone to talk, Ron and Hermione's reactions to Harry telling them about his scar hurting were almost exactly how he predicted them to be. Once the issue had been discussed, he told them the details of his encounter with Viktoria, and more reluctantly, the odd feeling he had experienced back in the forest clearing under green light.

'A Dark magic book!' Hermione was almost shrieked. 'Oh my goodness, Harry, things like that are illegal!'

'Not in Bulgaria apparently,' Harry reminded her.

'Blimey guys, you don't suppose she could have been involved with Death Eaters do you?' Ron asked.

'I don't think she'd be that stupid,' said Harry. 'It'd be way too obvious. Anyway, what do you think about Dark magic?'

'Evil.'

'Dangerous and illegal.'

'That's what everybody thinks, but,'

'Oh Harry, you're not seriously thinking about trying it out are you?' Hermione sounded rather worried.

'I'm just curious. I mean, if there's a possibility that Dark magic is what Viktoria said: just different, then maybe it's worth looking into. We don't have to actually do it, but learning more about it couldn't hurt right?'

Now Hermione looked torn between excited to learn something new and terrified to get into something so dangerous.

Ron was also torn. Dark magic had a really bad reputation for being dangerous and evil. Practising it was something wannabe Death Eaters did! Dark magic had nearly taken Ginny's life! But then again, they'd done plenty of dangerous stuff at school before; being Grythindors and Harry's friends were mostly responsible for that. They always came out alive. Surely they could do this too: investigate the Darkness a little and be okay. Heck, it would probably turn out to be like studying.

'Let's give it some more thought before we try anything,' Hermione eventually said. 'There's a lot going on anyway.'

'Alright.'

'Sounds fine to me. I hope it's more interesting than homework.'

'And now Harry, let's talk about that odd feeling of yours...'

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Anon: about abilities? Maybe. I've not quite finalised that and I don't want to risk overpowering Harry. Actually, I'm more likely to do nearly the opposite by, uh, injuring him a tad bit more that JKR did.

*Quoted from the book.* What do you think? Sorry if it seems like I'm rushing over things, I just don't see much point in rewriting stuff that's going to be the same as cannon. Tell me if I can improve that.

This isn't going to be Dark!Harry story exactly, but it's not quite a Light! One either. I plan on sticking relatively close to cannon (for now) and writing as far into the series as I can go, but I'll keep my mind open to extra stuff. Actually, how do you think HP characters might go about procuring space gear? Just a thought. Thanks for reading!