The prisoner
Chapter seven: Two down and five to go, Malfoy unleashes Death Eaters
Dumbledore and Harry arrived outside a brick wall opposite Barnabus the Barmy and his tap dancing trolls, Harry and Dumbledore began walking up and down the corridor after Dumbledore had cast thousands of revealing charms to discover that it was a room of need. 'I need to find Tom's Horcruxes." Harry and Dumbledore as they paced past the wall, to their surprise a door appeared and drawing his sword, Harry and Dumbledore slipped inside.
Harry unsheathed his sword and stepped into shadows and the half of his body that was in the shadow became that of the Ghost Rider. Summoning his "penance" eyes into his human body, Harry began gazing around, what he found shocked him. "Professor you have WRAITHS!" In here, Dumbledore extended his senses and he picked up the same presence. "You're right." Harry looked into the gloom and the same sickly sensation of a Horcrux was detected. Harry immediately knew that it was Voldemort's because his scar had been the same.
Harry followed the trail and their up the top of a towering pile of broken tables, chairs and books stood a crate with Voldemort's soul in the middle. Harry clambered up the leaning tower of doom and snagged the box. Suddenly the table gave way activating a ward that revealed the wraiths in all of their menacing glory. Ghostly pale, white unseeing eyes, decomposing flesh and instead of hands two or three pairs of evil serrated claws that would love nothing more than to eat demigod flesh.
Harry, shoved the chest into Dumbledore's hands and began to bundle him out of the door. Now the ward was triggered, Dumbledore could see what Harry could see and his face turned grey. Harry began smoking at the finger tips "Run, Professor. DON'T LOOK BACK!" Dumbledore was itching to look back but he felt the flames beginning to chase him so he ran faster. Harry ignited a ball of hellfire in his hand and launched it at the Wraiths, it detonated and consumed three of the evil little fuckers.
The Wraiths screamed in agony "Flay...you...alive...half...blood." They rasped from destroyed voice boxes, Harry wagged his for fingers in the traditional 'Come and get some' manor. Incensed the Wraiths hurled themselves at Harry. Fortunately for Harry, they weren't that bright however the fuckers were the epitome of pack fighters. Growling to himself Harry unsheathed his Stygian sword which caught on fire with the black flames of the underworld. Harry cleaved two Wraiths in half vertically they disintegrated into dust upon impact. "BACK TO HELL!" Harry snarled as he stabbed the sword into the thousand year old magically saturated floor of the room of requirement.
It was like a vacuum had been switched on, screaming and snarling the wraiths were dragged to the fissure in the floor and were promptly swallowed by the black flames. Looking around the room, Harry picked up some ancient books on battle magic which he thought could be useful and slipped them inside his jacket. Wrenching the sword free which sounded like the stone was crying from the pain Harry sheathed the sword and walked out the room. Unbeknownst to him that in the far corner of the room was a magical cabinet and hidden under several dark concealing charms stood Draco Malfoy.
Harry had sensed the Dark Mark but thought nothing of it, he followed Dumbledore back to his office where after an intense discussion with Dumbledore, Harry had promptly grabbed the shotgun stepped into the shadows and aimed it at the Candy bowl which was now the container of the Horcrux after Harry had wrestled it out of the Diadem. "Smile you son of a bitch." Harry growled before unleashing a slug of hellfire directly into the candy bowl which was eradicated into fine powder. Dumbledore stared at the power of the shotgun "That's a very lethal contraption Mr. Potter are you sure it's safe to carry around students."
Harry smirked "Students with wands? It's only dangerous if in the wrong hands or I'm being careless. Guns kill as do wands. Except guns do it messily and en masse whereas wands kill one person at a time." Dumbledore nodded and handed back Harry's weapons. "Professor, I smelt a Death Eater in the room." Dumbledore nodded "As did I. Draco Malfoy." Harry's lip twitched "He's going to release Death Eaters into the castle. We aren't prepared." At that Dumbledore nodded but replied "We will hope he sees the light whilst we take down the Horcruxes." Harry grunted and left with a vague dismissal of Dumbledore's hand.
Harry stormed back up to Gryffindor tower. "Potter stop there!" Shouted a voice he really didn't want to hear. "What is it Granger? Why did you stab me in the back?" He growled his hand itching towards his sword. Granger smirked "I want to be better than you. When you were tried I thought it would be the most opportune time." Harry snarled and went for his wand as did Hermione. "OSIS FRAGMENTO!" Screamed Hermione and a midnight blue spat towards Harry, who spun and mid-spin wand came over his shoulder "Pyrus Impactus, Vulmine Impactus." Twin spells one fiery red and the other electric blue hurtled down the corridor.
Hermione dodged into an alcove as the smash and burn and electrocute spells whizzed past her. Drawing her wand she went to respond with some of the darker curses she had learnt but Harry wasn't there! Suddenly she felt a chain wrap around her neck "You don't get it Granger. You've never been able to beat me magically. What was the point? You wanted to be recognised? Adored? Respected?" If you want those things you won't get them in the magical world, you may as well cut your losses and clear off. Lift your wand to me or even breathe wrong in my direction you WILL pay." Growled Harry from behind her before slipping into the shadows leaving Hermione alone.
Hermione broke down in the corridor in tears, crying at what she had done. She had betrayed her best friend for what? Books? Knowledge? Hermione stood up and trudged her way to the common room, she would try and right wrongs. Hermione slipped into the common room to see it eerily similar to how it was before Harry was arrested. First years were asking the elders years for help. The elder years milling around playing games or chilling with their friends.
Her eyes picked out Harry who was lying on the couch with his head in Katie's lap as she fiddled with his hair making it messier than it normally was. Harry groaned, stretched, rolled and face planted onto the floor making Katie giggle. Suddenly the alarms were sounded and McGonagall's voice echoed throughout the school "The school is under attack everyone under age must stay in their dormitories and don't panic." These words sparked pandemonium in the Gryffindor common room.
Harry withdrew his wand and let off twelve blasts from his wand "Thank you. Everyone who is willing to fight and is NOT a fourth year or below follow me, however some of us will need to stay here and look after the younger years." The students nodded but only Ron and Neville followed. "Don't try it mate. I'm sticking with you." Neville nodded in agreement, after one kiss from Katie, Harry and the other two Gryffindor's left the common room.
They had stumbled into a warzone. Upon leaving the portrait hole they had found themselves staring into the hungry demented stare of Fenrir Greyback, "Look what we have here a blood traitor, ickle Longbottom and a convict." Harry grinned darkly causing Ron, Neville and Greyback to step backwards "Smile you son of a bitch!" Harry growled before combusting into flames whipping off his chain which began to glow red "Greyback you are guilty for your crimes against humanity. Your verdict is death. See you in the punishment fields fucker." With an idle flick of his wrist the chain slipped past Harry's head and like a cobra buried itself in Greyback's chest.
Greyback stared at it, turned red and combusted into ash. Harry smirked demonically as Ron and Neville paled "Harry, what the fuck are you?" He asked without a stammer, he knew what had to be done but he couldn't admit that Harry did not scare him. "I'm the Ghost Rider." Harry replied in his rasping voice. They rounded the next corner to find McGonagall duelling six Death Eaters and struggling. Harry knew that at least three of them were rookies and one was an experienced Eater and the other two were veterans.
Neville and Ron both launched reducto's, stunners and disarming curses at the masked Death Eaters. McGonagall spun around to see Ron and Neville launching spells at her attackers and a skeletal being, she quickly stunned Avery and McNair. She winced as the spells took out the other four death eaters. The four Death Eaters were bound and gagged and revealed to be four Seventh Year Slytherins. Harry went to deliver his penance stare but recognised their pure souls. Harry drew his sword and slammed it into the ground "SERVE ME!" He growled and a group of Skeletons crawled out of the ground "Guard them."
Harry stalked on with his sword drawn with the transfiguration professor and two students in his wake, they sped up feeling the vengeance and justice flowing through their veins because of his presence. Dolohov was next to fall to Harry's wrath, he was picked up and slammed into the wall, Dolohov screamed as Harry burnt out his soul with the penance stare. Then almost casually Harry engulfed the body in flames incinerating it.
Harry smelt Malfoy cornering Dumbledore and rushed into the shadows just in time to see Snape cast "AVADA KEDVRA!" Harry stared as Dumbledore's eyes dimmed and the life left them, Harry snarled with rage and sent a blast of power through the earth and it began to shake causing Snape to stare at Harry Potter. "Potter...Think you can beat me?" Sneered Snape. Harry snarled and rushed towards him "I'M GOING TO RIP YOU APART AND TAKE YOU TO TARTARUS PERSONALLY!" Snarled Harry as a thunderstorm whipped up. Lightning crackled around his body as he lashed out with the chain which caught Snape square in the shoulder the lightning brought him to his knees.
Harry grabbed Snape's head "Wait... Potter... Set up...Arranged...Ages Ago...Know Horcruxes...Have Mercy." Snape gasped as the hellfire sockets gazed up on his onyx eyes and he felt his soul beginning to burn. "One chance. Don't fuck up. Do it make this quick. Make seem like you mean it." Growled Harry. "I'm GOING TO KILL YOU!" Harry screamed. "CRUCIO!" Bellowed Snape, Harry was hurled backwards as he thrashed under the torture curse. "Severus we must go. Leave the toying of ickle Potter till another time." Cackled Bellatrix, as she sashayed over. Despite being insane and in out of prison for a few weeks Bellatrix was quite beautiful. Pale white skin, luscious black hair that fell over her eyes and brilliant violet eyes illuminated by black eye shadow, slim and curvaceous body. 'No wonder she earnt the nickname the beautiful torturer.' Harry thought.
"Potter...as much as I'd love to play with you. I have duties to attend to." Cackled Bellatrix as the surviving death eaters of the Lestrange Trio, Snape, Malfoy, Flint, Crabbe, Goyle, Parkinson and the Carrows grabbed a portkey and as they left they heard Harry say one last thing. "Smile you sons of bitches." Harry summoned a ball of hellfire into his hand and launched it a frightening speed at the Death Eaters who vanished just before it hit them. "Run whilst you can."
Harry trudged over to Dumbledore's body and knelt beside it as he murmured ancient Greek funeral prayers as it swarmed by teachers and students.