Chapter 36—Your wrong, no you are wrong, take that back!
It took almost a week to get everyone out of the hospital and back into the normal routine of Hogwarts living. Most people still thought that the Elder wand was a myth. Some of the participants limped in and some had bandages none were happy with the DA and the Ministry. However after a week everything was back to normal. So entering the Great Hall for breakfast it was not unheard of that the two dumb purebloods were at it again…
"You're a no nothing poor blood trader… which got Ron to go for his wand. Draco was faster with a 'Stupefy' which took Ron down to the floor. Draco was not finished and pointed his wand at Ron and yelled 'Cruc...' I hit Draco with an 'Impedimenta' which I thought would end the whole thing but Snape attacked. 'Sectumsempra' he shouted which drew my attention and my shield. My next move was to give as good as I got 'Stupify', 'Incarcerous', 'Expelliarmus'. I don't think Snape expected any return spells and all three hit him. If stupidity could present itself more blatantly, an 'Expelliarmus' took my Olivander wand and was followed with a 'Stupify', they were sent by the Headmaster. I side-stepped the 'Stupify' and gave him an 'Expelliarmus' and a 'Confrigo' with my spare wand from France but to my surprise the 'Expelliarmus' hit him and knocked him backwards so the 'Confringo' missed. His wand seemed to almost float through the air and into my hand. It was then that I felt something like I have never felt from a wand before, a thrilling acceptance and feeling of home.
"Call for the Aurors." Hermione yelled.
The teachers seemed to not know what was going on so Hermione handled that and forced McGonagall to do a 'floe' call for Aurors. Unfortunately Dumdum had my Olivander's wand. While the student and teachers were in a state of confusion Dumbledore for some reason starting to undo what I had done. First he freed Draco and turned to Snape to undo everything. As he finished freeing everyone he turned to me but he got a present he wasn't expecting from Draco, an 'Avada Kadava' to the chest. Snape grabbed Draco and they activated a port-key.
~"What just happened?" I asked in semi shock.
~"I think those two showed their true allegiance just now." Hermione stated as she returned with McGonagall.
The confusion was running amuck as the students were stunned, scared and with Aurors arriving, it was just bedlam.
Amelia had arrived with ten Aurors. "So Lord Potter what have you and your lovely wife been up too today?"
"I'm not sure but I think our local Deatheaters have been under orders from Moldeshorts." I was of course guessing.
"AND if you look the other side of the teachers table you may find a nasty shock left by Draco Malfoy, aka student Deatheater."
So started a long day, first telling what happened, and then making statements. Then there was clarifications from everyone who saw things differently of what had really happened. One student tried to make a statement that I had taken a knife to McGonagall. Witnesses were never that reliable.
During a break in all this fantastic fun…
~"Harry you do know what you got from that fight, don't you?"
~"Besides a headache, no!"
~"Gringotts stated that you were a descendant of the Peverell brothers, I think you are now are in possession of the Elder Wand, or the DeathStick also called the wand of Destiny."
~"And?"
~"I guess you need a library trip to show you, you may very well hold what the entire world will kill for."
~"Oh great, something else that can cause me to hide."
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At least all that cursing in the Great Hall got us a new Professor Slughorn in Potions. This made just about everyone not in Slyterin happy. The downside was the great funeral that was to be held at Hogwarts.
~"So do we go to the funeral or not Foxy."
~"Paws you know we should but I just can't. Let those who respected him do their morning and let us go visit our parents for a couple of days."
"Mipsy, Dippy.' POP-POP "Yes Master Harry."
"Pack up our things for a three day say at the Grangers if you will please." POP- POP
~"Well Foxy there's no time like the present, a little Flame if you please." We arrived in the Granger garage in a flash.
While we were enjoying the pool in the back yard of the Granger's, Hogwarts was holding a funeral and a massacre. Hogwarts grounds had to be opened to the public to celebrate the funeral of the Great Leader of The Light etc, etc. So anybody that thought that they were some body turned up to be seen and say a few words for the Dailey Profit. So there were the Ministry heads, the Minister, the Board of Governors, and the Malfoy's minus Draco, the Weasley's and on and on went the list. So when the fifty or so Deatheaters who were mixed in with the other two hundred mourners, sightseers and had to be there types, no one noticed. That is to say until they dropped their glamor charms and started casting 'Avada Kedava' all over the place. The circus turned into mass hysteria of fleeing people, deadly curses and bodies. The few Aurors there were more for crowd control not deadly fighting in a crowd. We got some of the news from the Dailey Profit the next day, the rest from the students when we returned.
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"Oh God Harry it was horrible, people running in all directions, people who fell got trampled. They had no place to run because the school was locked." Neville was telling a first hand tale of the event. It became evident what the Deatheaters were after within a few minutes of the story. They forced everyone away from the coffin and grabbed Dumbledore's wand. Once they had the wand the shot the dark mark into the air and then the Deatheaters all port-keyed away."
~"Oh boy is Voldemort going to be mad." Hermione giggled.
~"That means he knows that the Elder wand is in play." That had me thinking. "I think when he gets my Olivander wand he will probably know I have the Elder wand, I think its time your parents took a very long trip."
"You guys are awfully quite, the attack really got to you two." Neville asked.
"In a way Neville, Voldemort will be looking for me very shortly; right now he is probable madder that you can imagine." I answered.
~"Paws you know what that means?
~"Err."
~"Ragnok." Hermione was getting ready to charge forward so we flashed to the Granger' garage.
"Hi Kids, what brings you back here so soon?" Dan asked.
"Well it's going to be hard Dad but things are getting out of hand and you and mom are no longer safe here."
"Oh just the news we needed, we decided a while back and this will fit right in to our plans." Emma stated as she entered the room.
"Yes we have this house and our practice up for sale. We figured a couple of months of travel and then a nice small apartment. This house is just too big for just the two of us."
"That's just great, but when you come back you will have to move in with us. When I say it's getting dangerous we mean lethal dangerous." I added.
FlashBack: Riddle Manor, known to everyone as Voldemort's hideout:
Voldemort was ecstatic when they handed him the wand they took from Dumbledore's dead hands. That was until he realized that this wand was an Olivander wand and not the DeathStick he craved. Six of those in the room were dead before anyone knew Voldemort was angry. "Harry Potter you are dead!" screamed Voldemort. Now two days later, entry into the room was guaranteed a long 'Crucio' session under Vordemort's wand?
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"Harry old friend, it has been a while. What can Gringotts do for you today?"
"We need every ward that is not already on the apartment added and all those that are already there to be as strong as possible. Also restricted entrance to you, Hermione and I along with the Grangers. Then a port-key for the Grangers, to get into and out of the apartment to a secure or safe place." It was my turn to get revved up."
"Simple enough you have the Galleons, anything else." Ragnok was already counting the Galleons to be made.
"Can the Goblins make a wand?" I hoped that the answer would be yes.
"Yes indeed we have the skill even if we are not allowed to carry or use a wand. Why are you asking?"
"I need a wand that looks exactly like this that I can use and then I need this wand buried so deep in Gringotts it can poke Death when he sits down. This all has to be extremely secret as if this wand ever get unburied all hell will break loose."
"A place like that I have under construction right now, if you want we can show the wand to our artisan and then bury it in a fairly secure location." Ragnok smile got our attention, he had something in mind.
The artisan took the wand and made a mold and paid attention to the ruins on the thicker part of the wand. We then left and got a super cart ride down towards the middle of the world, well it seemed that deep. When we arrived Ragnok stopped the work and ran everyone out of the cavern.
"You are extremely lucky as you will see in just about an hour. Right now let me give you a place to put that wand you never want to see again."
Ragnok went into a large alcove off this cavern and using his sword pried up three stones which exposed more rock. He then chipped a line in the exposed rock so that the wand could lay in it. We put the wand in the small trench and Ragnok put the three stones back in place. I was about to ask or say that won't protect the wand from theft when Ragnok raised his hand for silence.
"Just a few minutes and you will have your answer."
Ragnok left for a few minutes and here came the crew back in. There was work on the existing stone floor and some on the walls. They looked to be putting in the last of something that resembled steel rods. It got interesting when they dragged in a large hose at least is was large compared to a Goblin. They then started spraying the floor with a fine coating in one direction which seemed to dry in seconds and anchoring the rods in place. They put in more rods with hoops in the alcove area and sprayed in the opposite direction. Ten minutes later Ragnok handed me his sword and said for me to try and dig up the wand. The floor covering the wand was like steel; I could not even chip or scratch it.
"So you see it's fairly protected as it is but in an hour or so the alcove will be the home of one of our famous dragons. Safe enough for you Harry?" Ragnok was laughing quite well. "You see that floor will take a dragon's clawing so I think we can go see the artisan for your new wand."
~"Paws since the original wand is safe let's get you a super wand."
~"Thanks Foxy but it feels like I just lost a friend."
~"Its in your blood, the wand was given to your ancestor so it would be like part of you."
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The artisan was a real character but we got the last laugh on him. He was not nasty but he kept shooting snide remarks at me in particular. The Elder wand was brown and 40 cm long but it looked weird. It looked like it was pieces stuck together. It was smooth wood that suddenly became swollen and looked like some one had drilled small holes all over the swollen part, then another smooth section of wand to another larger swollen section. The thing didn't really have a handle but on the next to last section there was two and a half centimeters of white wood with what looks to be ruins craved into it, but the Goblin and Hermione said that it was not any ruins that they knew. There just was no tree that would grow something like that yet what looked like six sections was all one piece of wood.
The ribbing by the artisan was started when I told him my wand had a phoenix feather as its core. He wanted to know if I expected him to run out and pluck a phoenix. So I turned into a phoenix and dropped a feather and Hermione did the same. That got him to grumbling about Elder wood and loosing Thestral tail-hair to wrap the feathers for the core and all for a stupid wand. It turned out not to look like the Elder Wand but actually worked better than my French wand.