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Chapter 14

"SILENCE!" Fury roared, finally managing to get quiet. "Now, this is shocking, I know- how Loki was on our side in that, I don't know, and I don't know how this wizard managed to meddle enough to get us disbanded, but I do know that Jade has given us time to stop that, and she sent something else." He held up a cylinder container. "This was next to the camera when it appeared. The contents were several sheets of paper containing information on how Voldemort survived that Halloween night. He created something called Horcruxes-"

"He wants immortality?" Thor asked. "I'll be more than happy to deny him that."

"So, you know what they are already?" Fury asked. "Good. But Jade sent information detailing that Horcruxes are soul containers, for those of us who don't know. A witch or wizard can split their soul and place a piece into a container, and it will anchor them to this world. The only way to split a person's soul, though, is to commit murder. Voldemort made seven of them. He has yet to make the seventh, which he will make when he returns. If we allow him to return. The sixth one, was unintentional. And is the reason that we need to get Loki on side. And soon."

"Why? What is the sixth Horcrux?" Steve asked.

"The night Voldemort attacked the Potter home, his soul was very unstable from the five other times he split his soul apart. So, when the curse rebounded, a part of it tore off, and latched onto the only living thing in the house."

"You mean to tell me, that a shard of that dark bastard's soul, latched onto my daughter?" Tony asked.

Fury nodded. "Yes. More specifically, it's located in her scar, where the curse hit her. But, the notes say Loki was able to remove it."

"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm all for going to look for him and inviting him to dinner." Tony said.

"We'll have to approach this in a slightly different manner, Tony." Thor said. "He won't just accept this." He waved a hand to the now blank screen. "We'll have to form a plan to get him on side. And a good one at that. I don't think dinner will quite work."

"What I meant is I'm willing to do anything to get that soul piece out of my daughter." Tony said. "Now, do you have a plan?"

"Not yet." Thor said. "Subtlety is not my speciality."

"This is going to take time. Time which Jade has given us." Fury said. "But Stark, first chance you get, you pull your daughter from Hogwarts. Start looking at private tuition if you can find someone available for that."

Tony nodded. "Of course. I think it would be best if I start to intensify her training in other areas too. I don't want Jade dependent on her magic."

"I'll be more than happy to help with that, Tony." Steve said. "Voldemort won't know what hit him by the time I'm finished with her training."

Tony nodded to him.

"Another matter to consult- how to deal with Dumbledore. The state of the future seems to be mostly his fault." Fury said.

"Get him over here, and get something on him that will be enough to land him in prison. Permanently." Bruce said.

"I was thinking something along the lines of putting him six feet under." Tony said. "He's old. Who's to say that he won't have a heart attack from the stress of learning he may once again need to lead a war?"

Jade sighed as she looked at the phone.

"What did your parents have to say?" Hermione asked.

"They really want me to come home." Jade answered. "They're worried about something, and they won't tell me what. Dad said he would the moment I'm home, because it was too delicate a matter to discuss over the phone. I mean, I know there's a chance of phone hacking and everything, but still."

"On a scale of one to ten, how worried did they sound?" Hermione asked.

"Worried enough that it sounded as if dad was going to ask Iron Man and several other heroes to come and pick me up right now."

"That bad huh?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah. That bad." Jade said. "He really did sound close to pouring his entire bank account into the Avengers to convince them to come and get me." Not that he would have to do that. All he had to do was ask, and they'd be at Hogwarts before you could say 'just hang on a moment'.

Hermione could see her friend was worried. So she decided to lighten the mood. "I take it by the lack of the bubbling cauldron this morning that the potion was completed?"

"I finished it last night."
"And?"

"It worked." Jade grinned.

"What does it do?"

"Well, now I know that it finished, I think I can tell you." Jade smirked. It had been bugging Hermione for ages. "It was a new, and improved, version of the animagus potion. I took it last night."

"Who improved it?" Hermione asked.

"I did." Jade said. "It's what I've been annotating in the book I keep with me."

"You did?" Hermione was shocked.

"Hermione, my dad's a genius, and my birth mother and adoptive mother are or were both very smart. I was bound to inherit some of it."

"Jade I think you inherited all of it!" Hermione said. "You should still be in the beginning phases of the potion up till early November!"

"Just, do me a favour, don't tell anyone, alright?"

"Alright." Hermione said, nodding. She knew why. Jade wanted to keep her true talents hidden. She had enemies, especially as Jade Potter. "But, what's your form?"

"A wolf with black and white fur." Jade said. "I'm starting on the transformation tonight, in the room of requirements. That'll take me another couple of weeks, but I'll have it done soon enough, I'm sure. I can help you after that, if you want. I just want to make sure I've got it right first."

"That sounds great." She said, smiling. "Have you been sleeping better lately?"

Jade shook her head. "No. I haven't. I keep having these dreams. I haven't had them in years. But, they're worse now. There's another voice. One I don't recognise, backing up the ones calling me worthless. A good for nothing freak."

"You are none of those things." Hermione said, sitting beside Jade. She wrapped an arm around her friend's shoulders. "You are talented, kind, unbelievably smart, and more. And you have people who love you. You don't have to listen to the dreams, Jade."

"I know. But it's hard. There's still a part of me. A part that's still there from my time with the Dursleys. I buried it deeply, but that scared little girl from the cupboard under the stairs is starting to surface with the dreams, and it terrifies me. I don't want to become her again. All the hard work my parents did to help me become who I am today, all my tutors and friends back home. I'd be letting them all down. I don't want to let them down." Jade sniffed and wiped a tear from her cheek. She hadn't realised that she'd begun to cry.

"You won't let them down." Hermione assured. "Trust me. You're too strong to revert back to that. Now, I don't know the full state that you were in then, but I know who you are now. You'll be fine. Trust me. And, if ever you need to talk, I'll be here."

"Thank you Hermione." Jade said. "How about we go to the common room? Start our homework?"

"Go wash your face first." Hermione said. "Unless you want people to ask questions."

Jade stood and went to the bathroom to wash her face.

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