Unfinished Journeys, Untraveled Roads - 4 - Kommisar Pottera
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by Polydicta
A selection of unfinished tales that have been abandoned.
Each 'chapter' represents a single story.
Ongoing warnings for smut, language, character death, bashing, torture, mutilation, religious/social iconoclasm and reader brain damage. Brain bleach is highly recommended.
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Disclaimer:
All fiction is derivative and fan fiction doubly so. I make no claim to own any part of any of the following, all I have done is an attempt to put together the elements in a novel fashion, using words and ideas like Lego ™ bricks.
There is no money involved – all I do is to share what I do for my own amusement.
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Unfinished Journeys, Untraveled Roads - 4 - Kommisar Pottera
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Chapter 1 - Prologue
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"Da, it is nussink, Professore Med-veshchʹ1. It iss my … udovolʹstvie2 … my pleasure. Young kamerad Pottera vill be made most welcome. If, as you say, your Temnogo Vlastelina3, your Voldemort is not, how you say, polnostʹyu mertv4, completely dead, he will need the best trainink. It is my country's honour."
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The negotiations complete, Dumbledore closed the international floo connection to his contact, one Magicheskie Glavnyĭ Komissar Pietr Kolesnyĭmaster5. The Chief Commissar of Aurors in the Russian Ministry of Magic was a powerful ally, and had been counted amongst Dumbledore's friends in his early days.
Albus knew that he was condemning the son of his friends to a hard childhood, but this was the only way he could see for the lad to have any hope of survival.
It was with a heavy heart that the old mage said goodbye to Harry Potter, and handed him over to the Russian Magical Attachée, Komissar Rostovshchik6.
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The Russian ministry had their own seers and scryers, all specialists and experts. They had researchers in obscure arcane lore, necromancers, oneiromancers, psychomancers, telomancers and every other field of magic, and they held a single consensus: Lord Voldemort, the Temnogo Vlastelina would be back in no more than fifteen years. What was more, they could see that their young charge was fated to be the one to either defeat the Dark Lord, or to cement his ultimate victory. There was no middle ground.
At the highest levels were decisions made. Recommendations were brought before the Grand Soviet, recommendations that would see the first ever use of the new time dilation facility for an extended period.
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Med-veshchʹ: Honey-thing – a nickname for a bumblebee.
Udovolʹstvie: My Pleasure
Temnogo Vlastelina: Dark Lord
Polnostʹyu mertv: Completely dead
Magicheskie Glavnyĭ Komissar Pietr Kolesnyĭmaster: Magical Chief Commissioner Pietr Kolesnyĭmaster (Peter Wheelwright)
Komissar Rostovshchik: Commissioner Rostovshchik (Scrivener)
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Chapter 2 - Platform Nine and Three Quarters
It was chaos at Kings Cross station. The chaos wasn't helped by three figures in military uniform striding across the concourse speaking Russian. An elder man was accompanied by a young woman and a young man. Arriving on platform ten, the elder man and the young woman embraced the younger man firmly, and made their farewells. The younger man stepped through a brick wall and was gone from sight.
The smell of steam and coal-smoke greeted him, reminding him of his home in Stalingrad or, as they were calling it once more, St Petersburg. He missed the sharp air of home, the bite in the air from the far distant Steppes.
Squaring his shoulders and ignoring the stares, he boarded the train behind the scarlet behemoth of an engine. Once seated, he removed his cap revealing a close-cropped mass of black hair and startling green eyes. Above his eyebrow was a silver scar in the shape of a lightning bolt.
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The snack trolley arrived and Harry bought a few of the first English magical sweets that he had had a chance to try.
"I am sorry, I only have Katya7, I didn't find a chance to change them after I arrived in England," he said in a thick, Russian accent, offering one of the large gold coins.
"Never mind dear, gold is gold as the Goblins say."
The young man smiled. "Goblinov i svoi zolotye8."
"Sorry, dear?"
"Oh, excuse. I said, Goblins and their gold. It is part of a Russian saying meaning … how is it … to each his … own, no?"
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His journey was disturbed on two occasions by a small, ferret-faced blond boy and a girl who seemed to be made up entirely of nervous energy and bushy brown hair. The first was rude but seemed to be intimidated by Harry's military appearance, the girl was respectful and helping one of the first years to find his missing toad.
"Does this toad havink a name?"
"Neville calls him Trevor…"
Harry's wand was raised. "Ya prizyv zhaba Nevilla, Trevora!"9
A few moments later, a toad flew through the door and into Harry's hand. The girl thanked him politely and left with the toad.
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"Mr Potter! Mr Potter?"
"I am Komissar Pottera, madame."
Professor McGonagall looked up into the startling green eyes of the young man towering over her.
She smiled. "It is a long time since I last saw you, Mr Potter. You have grown."
Harry smiled at the elder witch. "Perhaps more than ten years of growink, no?"
"The headmaster warned me that you had changed, but I had no idea. Now, please follow me and we'll get you to the castle."
They approached the carriages and Harry paused. "Smerti loshadyeĭ?10 How remarkable."
"You can see them?"
"Yes … there was much … krovavaya boĭnya11 … death and destructions after the Old Soviet collapsed. I am a soldier, after all, no?"
McGonagall was shaken. At least Albus had seen fit to not place the boy … man, she corrected herself, with the first years.
"Forgive me, Mr Potter, but how old are you, exactly?"
The young man smiled a crooked smile.
"I am havink eleven winters, but many, many more days, you are understandink? Eleven winters and twenty-two years I am havink."
"You were under two-to-one time dilation?"
"Nyet, five years at seven to one with days off, four years in service with Magiya Psihicheskaya Korpusa12 … part of the Russian army, no?"
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Katya – Russin gold coin equivalent to about 1½ Galleon or 100 Imperial Roubles (Old Russian money)
Goblinov i svoi zolotye, Gnomy i ih zheleza: Goblins and their gold, Dwarfs and their iron. Each to his own.
Ya prizyv zhaba Nevilla, Trevora: I summon Neville's toad, Trevor
Smerti loshadyeĭ: Death horses (Thestrals).
krovavaya boĭnya: Carnage.
Magiya Psihicheskaya Korpusa: Magical Psi Corps.
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