Desperate Measures I: Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
Characters: Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Fred and George Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, Dora Tonks, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Molly and Arthur Weasley, Ted Tonks, Andy Tonks, Minerva McGonagall, Filius Flitwick, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Pomona Sprout and Albus Dumbledore
Time-Line: The day after school starts and the announcement about the Tri-wizard tournament.
Synopsis: After hearing about the tournament, Harry, to keep from getting smacked about cheating, comes up with a plan to rid them of Voldemort once and for all. By going undercover in the tournament, creating a fourth school, Harry, his friends and other members. That decided enough already with the current status quo, create a new academy, that later. Gives birth to their own version of the Order, as the year goes by, and danger looms on the horizon now.
In the form of the current Order, as Harry signs on to become a junior Auror, Albus Dumbledore, determined to do things his way. Starts in becoming the new threat, in place of Lord Voldemort.
Warnings: This story is going to be a what if Harry acted rationally, and planned ahead for his strategy now, in the event his name came out of the goblet. This is also going to be another evil Dumbledore and everyone seeing him. And as the next Dark lord of the wizarding kingdom. Just based on his 'For The Greater Good' remarks now.
Disclaimers: I do not own Harry Potter, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros.
Chapter 1: The World Cup And The Riot
"Harry! Are you all right?" I heard, as the pain from the blast shot through me, before coming to, to find my best friend standing there with a candle. "Hermione, Mione, sorry it's happening again, the pains in my scar are starting again, he's getting stronger." I said and she nodded sternly. "Bad dream or worse, this is a sign, we've got trouble this year." she said and I nodded. "The second, so when did you get here exactly?" I asked her, and she put it down then gently.
Before hugging me, I tightened my arms around her. "Meow!" I heard, as her cat jumped on the bed. "Hey boy, yeah I missed you too." I said smiling, looking at her cat, she smiled. "Just now. You?" she asked and I nodded, as I ran my hand through his head fur. "Last night, it was close, 13 years, there's my way to pay off the damn car." I said and she nodded. "Wake up! Wake up, Ronald, Ron wake up, we're running late this morning." she said and he woke up then quickly.
As I picked up the cat, and he pushed himself into my chest purring. "Thanks for protecting me mate." I said and he mewed, as he leaned his head into my chest, knowing I meant, his trying to arrest Peter Pettigrew. My parents betrayer, who was masquerading as Scabbers, the Weasleys pet rat. As after meeting all three of my dad's gang, and getting the truth, I decided to get Sirius cleared, and now, seeing through my visions, I now had direct proof here now.
Peter had gone back to Riddle, or to us, Tom Marvolo Riddle, the real name of Lord Voldemort, the most feared dark wizard in Britain, next to Gridelwald now. As a result of Crookshanks's intervention, I been completely protected, but seeing him in a new way. I come to become completely fond of him and he now saw me, as the twin brother to Mione, so his kitten. "Hey mate wake up, room invasion." I said and he came too, saw her and Crookshanks and sat up.
"Bloody hell." he said and I started laughing, as she hugged him, and he smiled. "Laugh it up Mate, Crookshanks, downstairs boy, now please, and Mione, just get in now." he said smiling and he meowed gently and she nodded smiling then. "Honestly, get dressed and don't go back to sleep. Come on, Ron! Your mother says breakfast's ready!" she said and we nodded, as we washed up, changed and headed down for breakfast then, before we headed out the door.
"Watch it, before you trip out here, we're going with the Diggories." I said, as I been running the rounds everyday for the last 3 days. "Ron, where are we actually going?" Mione asked and he sighed. "Don't know." he said and then called out to his father. "Hey, Dad. Where are we going?" he asked and he smiled. "Haven't the foggiest. Keep up!" he said and we nodded as we heard an adult voice then. "Arthur, it's about time, hello son." he called out to us and I smiled then.
"Sorry, Amos. Some of us had a bit of a sleepy start." Arthur said and I smiled and ran up to join them. "More like we had the cat invading the bedroom and a fast meeting ensued this morning between us right now." I said and Arthur started laughing at that, as Ginny took my hand and I smiled at her. "Still dreams?" I asked and she nodded with a sigh. "It's okay." I said to her gently then softly. "Just a bad memory, you never lost me love." I said softly to her then.
"Thank's Harry." she said smiling and the duo smiled knowingly then. "This is Amos Diggory, everyone. Works with me at the Ministry." he said, before a teenager fell out of the trees right in front of us. "And this strapping young lad must be Cedric, am l right?" he added and Cedric nodded smiling. "Yes, sir. This way." he said and we nodded. "Merlin's beard! You must be Harry Potter." Amos said smiling and I nodded. "Yes, sir." I said, shaking his hand smiling gently then.
"Great, great pleasure." he said and I smiled as we walked. "Pleasure to meet you too, sir." I said smiling, seeing a very nice and kind man then. "Ron told me about what Mr. Weasley does, what's your office exactly." I asked and he smiled. "I'm head in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures." He said and we froze. "Does that include House elves and werewolves Sir?" I asked and he nodded. "Yes why exactly." he said and I nodded.
"There's your reasoning for why I got slammed with a warning two years ago." I said and he nodded sternly. "Draco's house elf, he dropped a pudding on my uncle's guest, at a dinner party, and I got a message from the Mafalfa Hopkirk, but she blew my only protection. But without that attempt, Ginny would be dead and half the muggleborns petrified right now." I said and he nodded. "I'll handle this, I assume you freed this elf, son." he asked and I nodded gently then.
"Yeah I did, but after he realized I had, Lucius pulled his wand on me, and got out the first syllables, Avada something and Dobby blasted him across the hall." I said and he nodded sternly. "That was the killing curse he was preparing to say." Arthur said and I nodded. "Well if he had, I think that destroys the reason why my scar keeps hurting." I said and they all nodded. "I never saw that coming, you're a horcrux!" Percy, Arthur's third oldest, said gently to me.
"Anchor little brother, you're an anchor, a piece of his soul, and you killed the diary, so one destroyed, one found, could be more, there are and we have him now." Bill, his older brother, said and I nodded. "So we destroy them all and kill him and be done with it." Ron said smiling and he nodded and Mione, he and I sighed in relief. "I'm not being destroyed in the vessel, there should be a way, without killing me in the process." I said and they nodded in agreement then.
"Issues in our family, huh?" I asked and Ron started laughing and nodded. "Yeah family, if you and Ginny, then fine, I don't mind, this makes you my brother fully." he said and Mione smiled then. "This is going to be a long year now, but we're your brother and sister in law, if Ron and I get together, but Ron we're not doing this, whatever this is. That it's meant to make friends, but I'm 14, and whoever it is, is too old, you just right." she said and he smiled in relief then.
"Hey ow, guys watch it, before you run me down." Cedric said to the twins then. "We're not grade schoolers guys, take it easy right now, as for this, the truth is out finally now here now." I said laughing and they nodded. "That must be what he's refusing to tell us, you're a horcrux, so we keep this between us, till we tell Barty." Arthur said and Amos nodded in agreement. "He's my boss guys, Bartemis Crouch Sr." Percy said to me and Mione and we nodded gently then.
"This is going to be a long day, if we're meeting reps from every department at the ministry." Mione said and they chuckled and nodded. "I take it he hates the dark arts?" I asked and he nodded. "Mione, we both seen this before, we're muggleborn, The Outsiders, he, Remus, Severus and Hagrid look it, but they're harmless. Had it reversed, must be the girls, Dora's aunts." I said and she nodded. "I see where you're going." Percy said and said it sternly.
"Her aunts are Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy, husbands are known Death Eaters, and Bellatrix is one." Arthur said for him then and I nodded. "And there's our proof, just because it runs in the family, doesn't mean he too could be one. Andromeda, pulled away from that, as did Sirius, but they explained it to me, when they chose forms. Lilly said when he decided on Rat, it meant literal rat, as in ratted out now." Ron said and they nodded in shocked disbelief then.
"Sirius would be too obvious, but he would've died before he betrayed us, my parents and me." I said and they all nodded in shock. "You said 12 years, didn't you, but don't rats live no longer then 4 years." I asked and he nodded, and Amos looked up. "Strangely long life for a common garden rat, you see anything else strange." he asked and I nodded. "Missing toe, forward paw on the left paw, it looks like something cut it off." I said and he nodded gently to me then.
"Strange, that's where Peter Pettigrew got his finger blown off." Percy said and froze and looked at me. "You got to be kidding me, I had him, before the twins got the map?" he asked and I nodded. "I wish I was, but I'm not Perc', you been holding him hostage all this time, he didn't know where I was moved to, but knew where I went every summer now. When you're not out of town here, so the contest, it just exposed his location." I said and they nodded sternly then.
"Leaving Black to the inevitable conclusion right now, we're your in-law family, that we're all stationed to the same dorms, and that's why he, Black, broke in twice, to arrest Peter. We had it wrong and if Peter phased back in the dorms, it's like 'what the hades, he's supposed to. Now, be dead, Professor call the aurors, here's why he escaped, Pettigrew is alive, he's the traitor!'." George, Ron's elder brother said to me and Percy and Fred nodded in agreement sternly then.
"False accusations, Sirius is innocent and exposed him to us: Percy, twins, you three had been protecting us, Ginny and mum." Ron said and they nodded sternly. "Now that's dangerous, if it only works at the school, so all this time we had an escaped criminal hiding in our house here. We been holding him hostage till you came home and when you did, the truth comes out, we're more loyal to you, then we are to Dumbledore, as he can't explain this away if dad was killed."
"Pettigrew knew, mum remembered the story, she's calling Madam Bones, and they're doing the reversal and the truth comes out." Charlie, his other older brother, said sternly and Arthur and Amos nodded. "Trying to arrest the bloody rat that's why he came to the school, he been looking for Peter, only to realize the bonds of friendship. And familial connection between us, because you're close to being betrothed to Ginny now." Arthur said sternly and I nodded gently to him.
"Sirius's exact words were, he'd have died, he'd have died before he betrayed his friends, mum and dad, Frank and Alice, or Remus, even him, but the words were spoken with such pain. I knew he was furious and grieving still, but his next remark made clear here now. That Peter should have realized, selling out a fellow Order member, they'd have killed him, if Riddle hadn't." I said and he nodded. "The death penalty, understandable." Arthur said sternly to that news.
"Your father and Sirius were training to be aurors, before going into the Order, baby." Bill said gently and I nodded. "Well the family of the deceased gave judgement." Mione said and they all nodded sternly. "And you decided for us, that it was the dementors, after he shot and killed everyone on the block now." Amos said sternly and I nodded. "Exactly right now, but we're doing this twice more, 13 years, that's 37.5 billion." I said and the Weasleys nodded sternly.
"Wrong number Harry, 630,500,000,000/5=126,100,000,000, that's the amount, though knowing we had the killer all this time, that your boss, in the next sector over is quintupling it." she said and I nodded as Percy answered that. "Considering we been holding Peter hostage since you were 16 months, only makes sense baby, as such here, the exact amount now. Is exactly 630,500,000,000x5=£3,150,500,000,000." Arthur said and she and I nodded gently.
"Divided again by 13 years totals out to 9,700,000,000 galleons." Percy said and they nodded sternly. "Oh wait till Mr. Crouch finds out, he's going to realize, instead of being at large, I been holding your betrayer hostage all this time, till Black escaped. And then when we exposed him to the masses, Dumbledore's reputation is destroyed." Percy said and I nodded. "Yeah that and his word on Severus means nothing after this." Arthur said sternly and he nodded smiling then.
"Dad I've got the first 9.7, you keep the rest and use that to get the house updated, and finish the quartet's education now." he said and Arthur nodded smiling gently. "Fair enough, lord, wait till Barty finds out, he used to be the MLE head, when your uncles were still alive. Alright obstacle course, basilisk, and now this, followed by said extreme sports as you consider it. In the muggle world, it's considered college X-games for wizards." He said and Mione chuckled.
"We had your family's betrayer, so we had an innocent man in prison all this time, he did it all, sold out your location, and then blew apart the entire block, before cutting his finger off. And escaping into the sewers, that's what happened that night." Arthur said sternly and I nodded then. "My godfather is a good man, but the animosity between him and Severus, we saw the entire thing, and they never know when to stop." I said and Ron hid a smile at the memory.
"And was that really necessary right now, we had 90 minutes to 2 hours, before the moon came out, we don't have time for this." Mione said and I nodded. "I think we scared the Hades out of Severus, if he refused to listen to them right now, after 3 years of dangerous. In situations and them finding us at the scene repeatedly, he reached his limit, he had only hours. And before the moon came out, and had to give him his potion." I said and she nodded in agreement then.
"Should we tell Minerva next, her, Filius, Pomona, Severus and Hagrid?" she asked, meaning our teachers at the school, and our adult friend, Rubeus Hagrid and I nodded. "If my name comes out of the whatever it is, then yeah we will, before we get slapped with something else this year. We create a junior, ministry approved Order, and that's next years training, the dueling club." I said and she and Ron, Ginny, Cedric and the twins exchanged smiles at the consideration then.
"Hey we better pick up the pace." Fred said and Arthur nodded. "Yes, it's just over there." Amos said and I nodded then. "Shall we?' Arthur asked and we nodded. "Oh, yeah. We don't want to be late." he said and we headed up the hill till we reached it. "Come on. Nearly there now." he said as we arrived at a specific spot. "Get yourself into a good position." Arthur said and I said it carefully. "Why are they all standing around that manky old boot?" I asked and Ron smiled.
"That isn't just any manky old boot." Fred said smiling and George nodded. "lt's a Portkey." he said and Arthur nodded. "Time to go!" he said and Mione looked at us. "What's a Portkey." she said and Arthur quickly said. "Ready! After three, One, two. . ." Amos said and Arthur said it quickly. "Harry!" he said and I quickly grabbed it as Amos finished it off. "Three!" he said as we zapped out, and appeared in another location then. "Let go, kids!" he said and she said it.
"What?!" She said in shock and he said it again. "Let go!" she said and we let go, and it was like sky diving, but from 40 feet above, as we landed sprawled around each other, before the sextet landed then. "l'll bet that cleared your sinuses, eh?" Amos said and I nodded, as Cedric offered me a hand, as Arthur said it. "Total shambles, as per usual." he said and I nodded as I said it. "Thanks." I said taking his hand, as he pulled me up then, and I looked at where we landed.
"Go on, look at that!" Amos said and I smiled. "Oh wow." I said and Mione nodded then. "Well, kids, welcome to the Quidditch World Cup!" he said and we nodded as she took my hand then. "Stay together! Keep up, girls!" Arthur said and we nodded, as Ginny was on my other side "Look!" Ron said smiling and I nodded, as we saw fireworks going off all over the place "Come on, keep up, girls!" Arthur said and Ron smiled. "Blimey!" he said and he chuckled then gently.
"Parting of the ways, l think, old chap." Arthur said to Amos and he nodded. "See you at the match." he said and we nodded. "See you." Arghur said and Fred called out as he said it to Cedric. "Cedric, Ced, come on." he said and we nodded. "See you later, Cedric." he called out and he smiled, and waved to us, as we arrived outside our tent then. "Home sweet home." he said and Ron said it. "You're going to love this." he said smiling and I looked at him then.
"What?" I said and went in behind Arthur, as I saw a house sized tent. "Excellent, excellent." he said smiling and Mione said it to Ginny. "Ginny, look!" she said and she took a look "All to the bath, excellent." she said smiling and Ron hid a laugh then. "Look." she said and Arthur chuckled then. "Girls, choose a bunk and unpack." he said and then looked at Ron. "Ron, get out of the kitchen. We're all hungry." he said with a bemused smile, knowing he was a bottomless.
In pits and the twins nodded. "Yeah, get out of the kitchen, Ron!" They said together, and Arthur said it gently then. "Feet off the table!" he said to them and they got their feet off the dinner table. "Feet off the table!" "Feet off the table!" they said together and I nodded in amazement. "l love magic." I said smiling, as I checked my watch. "Alright mate, I get you're hungry, but let's get settled, if it's about to turn into madhouse around here, we got company dropping by here."
"Though we do, and 3/4's of the dorm are dropping in here." I said and Arthur started laughing. "You spoke too soon, we have." Ginny started to say as we heard an explosion, and I looked out the tent. "Hey baby, ahh no no, no playing with mummy or daddy's wand, may I have that." I said and the little boy gave me the wand as I put it in my pocket. "Dad, you better get out here, our neighbor's engorgement charm backfired here." Ginny called out and he walked out then.
"Alex, your son's playing with your's or Amy's wand's again." he said, seeing a 7ft slug there and Mrs. Parker walked out then and saw it. "Kevin, you know we talked about that, no playing with our wands now." Mr. Parker said and I passed him his wand and he stuck it in his back pocket. "Kids, hey girls, be careful, it's bit crowded here right now, low to the ground now." I called out to a couple 5 year old witches, and they nodded smiling, as they were barely 3ft off the floor.
"Well we got babysitting duty here, in addition to touching bases with our friends." Mione said and I nodded as Ron started laughing as they walked out behind me and Ginny. "Ginny, Harry, guys, guys, over here." I heard and turned to see Colin Creevey and a beautiful blonde her age. "Hey guys, Mr. Diggory said you were here." I said and she nodded. "I'm Luna Lovegood, Harry." she said and I nodded then. "Nice to meet you, and hey bro." I said and he smiled at the title.
"My brother and his best friend are starting school this year, Harry, but there it is, but we get trouble this year, we need to move it off campus after I told dad the truth. After Riddle attacked me, Justin and the girls with the snake through Ginny, anything happens, we need to relocate." he said and I nodded sternly. "Agreed, we're taking this year off, and getting it off campus, right now, as enough is enough." Ginny said sternly and Ron, Mione and I nodded sternly then.
"Hey guys!" we heard from Seamus Finnegan and Dean Thomas and we smiled. "Hey mate, doing alright?" I asked and they nodded smiling. "Hey Mrs. Finnegan, nice to meet you finally." I said smiling and she smiled. "You too honey, girls, Ron, nice to meet you." she said and they nodded. "We got trouble, this bloody scar is acting up again here, this is what Dumbledore never told anyone here, I'm a horcrux." I said and she nodded in shocked fury at that remark then.
"That's what the prophecy means, in order to kill him, you have to destroy it, after you destroyed the diary?" She shouted in fury and I nodded. "I call schizophrenic break from reality here." her husband said sternly and she nodded in agreement. "Make that delusions of grandeur, Mr. Finnegan." Mione said to him and he nodded sternly. "Yeah, he's out of his bloody mind, but it gets even worse, we had the betrayer all this time, Scabbers." Ron said and she nodded.
"Are you saying he's animagus?" she said slowly and I nodded. "Not just any, Peter Pettigrew, he's unrigistered, he's also the secret keeper, Sirius too obvious." I said and she nodded. "So that's what happened here right now, Sirius came to the school to arrest Peter. And the snake and incident with the chamber, he and Remus exposed Peter to you, and if you called Minerva. And down and with her, Pomona, Filius and Poppy, you get witnesses." she said and I nodded.
"Pettigrew sold you out and Black went to hunt him down." Seamus said sternly and I nodded then. "If he changed him back in the dorms…" I said and Dean covered his eyes. "Mass hysteria, how the bloody heck is he still alive, he's supposed to be dead right now?!" Lee Jordan, who was with the twins, said in shock. "We're protecting you sure, but evidently from the wrong man, so Peter is the traitor and the mass murderer, Sirius is innocent." Penelope Clearwater said to me.
"Hey Penny." The five of us said together and she nodded. "And yeah it's reversed, Dumbledore knew, he just decided to hide this part, I need to check the wills. But those wills are the nail in his coffin, the prophecy stated, in order to stop Riddle, I have to destroy it. In every single Horcrux, as long as the one inside me lives, we're never going to be free of this. So one option, horcrux hunting before the end of the tournament." I said and they and blood traitors nodded.
"And to quote this now, I didn't want Seamus going back next year, and it's because, once word of this gets out, Dumbledore is out of his mind for his interpretation to that prophecy. He's crazy, dangerous, out of control and a loose cannon on deck, so best to relocate you cubs. So a quiet this year and equally as next, but it's going to be a warzone, between both sides. In the Order, one sanctioned, the other taking his cult's place." she said and I nodded in understanding.
"I get why, but your son is one of my best friends." I said and she nodded. "Where's Nev'?" I added and she sighed. "Aggie couldn't make it this year, so probably best this way, in case of trouble, though there is, it's we got Death Eaters here." she said and I nodded. "Hey guys, just got in now!" we heard from Bem Malcolm and I smiled. "Hey guys watch it before…." we heard as I heard another explosion. "Alright kids, everyone settle down!" she called out to that gently.
"Someone brought along the fireworks, and the box exploded." Arthur said laughing and I nodded smiling to that. "This is going to be a long day, if we keep this up right now." Luna said bemused and I nodded, as I gave her a hug, and she tightened her arms around me. "What you call us again, we like muggles, want to be friends and hate the dark arts?" I asked and she nodded. "We're called blood traitors, we don't believe in that malarkey." he said and I nodded.
"Though considering some of us are muggles, only makes sense here, Darren and I are muggleborn." Emily said and I nodded gently. "You knew mum?" I said and she smiled and nodded. "You're second generation Gryffindor, as are the boys, Alice, your mother and me, Gryffindor: 1978 to 1986." she said and I smiled. "So she made it going on 5 years later, okay that helps right now, I needed that, thanks Aunt Emily." I said and she smiled at the title.
As we ended the conversation at that, and prepared for what was going to be a very long night, as we headed for the pitch. "Get your Quidditch World Cup programs here!" a salesman said and Ron looked up from our position. "Blimey, Dad. How far up are we?" he asked, before we heard the adult voice of our arch enemy, Draco Malfoy. "Well, put it this way: lf it rains..., you'll be the first to know." his father, Lucius, said with a smirk, as Draco himself said it with a smirk.
"Father and l are in the minister's box..., by personal invitation of Cornelius Fudge himself." Draco said to us with a firm boast. "Don't boast, Draco. There's no need with these people." he said to him, and I turned Mione away, before she decided to give Draco another blow to the head, and he slammed his cane on my arm, as I looked at him then. "Do enjoy yourself, won't you? While you can." he said and Arthur gripped my shoulder protectively to that response.
"Could say the same about you, you know what that snake is worth?" I asked and he paled at that. "It's worth enough to buy out your entire fortune, 100x's Draco, even better you just gave me my way to destroy them all: the diary." I said with a stern smile. "I'm a horcrux, you fool, so if you shot me, you destroyed another one." I said and they paled in shock and fear. "But stay away from us, or you're back in that court room." I said and they quickly left at that remark.
"Nice scare tactic, it's illegal to use those curses." Arthur said and I nodded smiling sternly, as we went further up then. "Come on up. Take your seats. l told you these seats would be worth waiting for." he said and I nodded, seeing this is what I missed growing up magical now, dad or Sirius taking me to games, before bringing me for the championships. As the Minister, Cornelius Fudge, announced, I sat there, with a sense of contentment, listening to the announcements.
"We get trouble, it's going to result in a riot on the field." I said and Mione started laughing then. "Too late, they brought Veela, look at the ref." she said and I looked down, as he was acting strangely. "Now we can't have that, somebody slap the referee!" the back up commentator called out, and a medi-wizard charged out and smacked him across the head, before pointing upward. "Mate focus, you got broadsided." I translated and Ron and the twins started laughing.
"They're like sirens, so cover up, when they start dancing." I said, in understanding the dangers then and he, the twins and the trio nodded smiling then, as the girls were on both sides of me. "Good evening! As Minister for Magic…, it gives me great pleasure, to welcome each and every one of you…, to the final of the 422nd Quidditch World Cup. Let the match. . . . . .begin!" he called out and sent a blast out of his wand, watching the game I remembered last year's.
"Just imagine having these girls, at the campus, once they start dancing, it's turning into total pandemonium here." I said and she started laughing and nodded, as the game ended at the final score of 170-160, in favor of Ireland, as it was so crazy, we had multiple playbacks. As Arthur, after putting on the lantern, went to see what all the noise was about. "Oh would you guys pipe down out there, it's getting late, almost time for bed." I said at the racket outside.
"Sounds like the lrish have got their pride on." Fred said in response to that and Arthur came charging back in. "Stop! Stop it! lt's not the lrish. We've gotta get out of here. Now!" he said and we charged out then, as I saw flames all over the place. "Get out, it's the Death Eaters" I heard someone scream. "Get back to the Portkey, everybody, and stick together!" Arthur shouted to us and we nodded, as he finished and he said it then twins then quickly.
"Fred, George! Ginny is your responsibility." he said and I looked at him. "What about you?" I said and he said it quickly. "Go! Harry!" he said and I nodded, as we struggled to keep from getting separated then. Keep up, you lot!" Fred shouted to us, before the masses separated us, losing my glasses, I got kicked in the head, before hearing Mione and Ron's voices call out "Harry! Harry! Harry!" they shouted out then, as I saw a man then, as he shouted out a spell.
"Morsmordre!" he shouted and I saw a strange symbol, a skull with a snake for the tongue, as Mione and Ron charged to me. "Harry, where are you?" she said and he nodded. "God am I glad to see you guys." I said and they nodded in relief. "Harry! We've been looking for you for ages!" she said and he nodded. "Thought we lost you, mate." he said and I nodded. "What is that?" I asked, before I heard multiple pops. "Oh my god, get down" I shouted and we quickly ducked.
"Stupefy!" we heard get shouted, as we covered up, Ron and me covering her protectively then. "Stop, stop, that's my son!" I heard Arthur scream sternly as he ran to us, and we tried to stand though we were all shaking in fear then. "Ron, Harry, Hermione, you all right?" he asked and Ron nodded. "We came back for Harry, we got separated." he said and he nodded. "Which of you conjured it?" I heard a man say -Crouch, you can't possi.." Arthur started to say in shock.
"You've been discovered at the scene of the crime." Mr. Bartemis Crouch Sr. said to us and I repeated it. "Crime, wait a second we never did this, we're the Golden Trio, we don't do dark arts, we got separated from each other, heard someone shout out the incantation. To trigger that, you appeared and you barely missed us." Ron said and he froze. "Indeed Barty! They're just kids, why would they do this, to scare us out of our wits." Arthur said to that remark.
"What crime?" I added and Mione said it into my ear quickly and I knew she was shaken up. "lt's the Dark Mark, Harry, it's his mark." she said and I nodded slowly. "What, Voldemort, that's his signature, his cult, that mark belongs to him?" I said and Arthur nodded "Those people tonight, in the masks, they're his too, aren't they, his followers?" I said and he nodded sternly. "Yeah. Death Eaters, the cult of him, they're Death Eaters." he said sternly and I nodded to the news.
"Get up, get up, we're okay, if they never arrived when they did.." I said and she nodded as Ron helped her stand up. "What do you mean if we never arrived when we had now." Crouch said and I nodded. "I mean said pains in my scar, it's a horcrux, allowing me to talk to snakes, and is really resulting in visions, on his side of the line. That the man they and I just saw, was in that vision, planning something out, with him." I said and he nodded in shocked disbelief then.
"First my visions and now this, and the man I saw out here tonight, was in my vision, they're planning something alright, it's all connected." I announced and they nodded in shock. "Are they connected to the repeated migraines, as you call them, that you're getting, baby?" Amelia, said and I nodded. "Directly connected, every time he starts getting angry, or stronger, it starts feeling like someone pressed a branding iron to my scar." I said and an unspeakable nodded.
"You screwed up this time Tom, we know you got something planned here, it's your way to bring yourself back huh, well it's not happening, you hear me." I called out and knew they realized I realized he was getting stronger, they were preparing to rev up again. "Not hallucinating, he's a wraith, and getting stronger every second, that man we saw tonight, he's in his vision. Along with Peter, Arthur." she said and he nodded sternly and they nodded slowly to that next news.
"A Nightmare On Elm Street, part 4, The Dream Master, the bringer realized he was getting stronger, by her constantly ending up inside his house and boiler room." I translated and every muggleborn parent nodded sternly to the news. "You're the dream master, you got a line right into his head, the connection, by your scar!" Crouch said and I nodded. "Exactly, Lucius said enjoy ourselves while we can, he meant they're starting up again." I said and he nodded.
"Peter, as in Pettigrew?" Amelia said and I nodded. "Arthur had him all this time Amy, he's an unregistered animagus, Black registered himself during the war, right before James died. Black realized he would be too obvious and switched at the last second, but the idea backfired. While realizing he turned them in, directly as he went to get some groceries. With Harry too young for the smaller candies, he got ones big enough to keep from choking on it, his first Halloween."
"Resulted in his losing his family, and the murderer, the real murderer, was arrested by my best friend and his own." Amos said and she nodded. "There's why Sirius escaped, he was coming to bring him in, and Severus got in the way of that!" Cornelius Fudge said sharply and I nodded. "Then thank god, Peter never phased back in the dorms, or there's a mass case of hysteria, he's supposed to be dead." she said sternly and I nodded, as I saw the absolute fury in his eyes.
"Yeah now they done it, Minerva must be furious right now, we keep getting complaints, but every time she said it about him controlling Severus, all he says is he has his complete faith." she said and I nodded. "Not good enough, he hates all students except his own house, in fact this year, he was picking on us, because I developed, or redeveloped such a bond. And with Remus, he lost his mind completely and lied to you." I said and they all nodded in fury then.
"Dumbledore may claim Severus is not still working for him, but helping a fellow death eater to escape right now. And by allowing a school boy grudge get in the way of true justice, says exactly the opposite to me. And when said supposed reveals the truth to his own godson and his friends, we had it reversed now." Crouch said sternly and I nodded. "Me too." she said and Fudge nodded then. "And me." he responded and Mione and Ron exchanged relieved looks.
That they said that, knowing he saw exactly what Dumbledore refused to see here, that though Severus may claim he changed, the fact he allowed him to escape, said traitor in everyway. That it could said and none of us trusted him anymore to protect us now. "Are you the…." I started and Crouch nodded. "After my son, I got shuttled to my current position, though I think I will take back what rightfully belongs to be me, as I have zero tolerance." he said and I nodded.
"You despise the dark arts with in everything in you, they destroyed your life, well you're what I grow up to become now." I said sternly and he nodded in understanding. "I lost my faith in Dumbledore anyway, so Severus is a death eater, just Dumbledore's word, and he's freed. And just like that, while my godfather rots in jail, he may look it, but he's harmless here. In fact now, to prevent Remus from attacking us." I said sternly and Arthur crossed his arms then.
"Point taken, Sirius proved more then anyone, he's willing to protect you, and by risking death, by getting into a face off with a werewolf." Fudge said and I nodded. "Well I lost my faith in the Order to protect me, so maybe you can do better on that this year." I said and he nodded. "Fair enough, if it's been one misadventure after another, you need normalcy this year. So after this, we give you said 3 years of normalcy now as we round up the leftovers that escaped here."
"If we have a prison break out at Azkaban, or just escaped justice, all on Dumbledore's philosophy, of no forgiveness is the path to the darkside." Amelia said, smiling at actually turning to them for perfect protection and Fudge nodded sternly. "As for triggered this, they took off towards the woods, that way, a man no older then 40." I said and Crouch nodded. "All of you follow me me." he said to them gently and they nodded as he said it to me gently.
"A man, Harry? Who?" Arthur asked and I nodded gently to him with a sigh. "I don't know, I didn't see his face." I said, looking at Crouch and he nodded. "How old exactly, you at least get the age, in appearance?" he asked and I nodded. "No older then our parents, 35 to 42 years old." I said and he nodded. "Junior, if you did this, you are in so much trouble, young man." he said sternly and I nodded. "Is that why Winky is here, he's on parole?" I asked and he nodded.
"He loves quidditch, but I should have known letting him out of the house, would result in another riot." he said sternly and I nodded. "He's your son, is he a…" I asked and he nodded sternly. "He is, there's a piece of history, I prefer not to think about baby, fact of the matter is Riddle, as you call him, completely destroyed my life, corrupting my son. You're everything I wanted him to become, a good boy, and equally kind man." he said gently and I nodded gently.
"Sir, if he's no older then our parents in the men, do we have any members that got out, on whatever claims curse?" I asked and Crouch nodded as he relaxed. "He's a couple years younger, by two years, you see anything else if that was found next to my elf." he asked and I nodded. "Yeah, she was looking like she was trying to drag something away from that riot, they must be planning something, my premonitions, this and whatever next." I said and he nodded.
"Well I see this becoming a new mentorship between us." I said and he smiled in understanding. "Getting you away from the old Order, and you becoming an Auror now, Arthur told me everything and thank you, I will grant that total in amounts. After everything you did for us, helping your family is the least we can do." he said and I nodded. "Can you put Sirius on parole, let him roam, till I find Peter and bring him back?" I asked and he and Amelia Bones nodded.
"Tell him to come back, and we're granting him a pardon, he was thrown in jail without total proof, as Arthur already arrested Peter, he's free to go. So we just arrest Peter twice and be done with it in your case, we have our murderer in your case, it was Peter." She said and I nodded in relief, they were letting him go now. "That we're pretending this is the first he heard of it, after he tells us what you have planned this year, so two weeks." I said and she smiled.
"I'm working for you, and he doesn't even know it now, so you grant Sirius a pardon, and I'm preventing his full return now, by him I mean Riddle, him." I said and Crouch's eyes narrowed. "That's what you call him, Riddle, that's his real name, Tom Marvolo Riddle, that's who he is, he's half, not full." Crouch said and I nodded "Yes Sir, he murdered Myrtle Warren, and petrified the current set and nearly killed Ginny, via the diary." I said and he nodded sternly to me.
"So you killed him, before he killed another muggleborn, via this diary, passed to you by Lucius Malfoy, okay thank you for telling me, Amelia." he said and she nodded. "They're at it again now, sorry Cornelius, but I'm returning to my post again, I'm also his new headmaster. So screw with my students, you're being eviscerated, he's my baby, I'm not losing him now. So we do this our way, we lose no one else, wait and see, it's a multiple murder." he said and he nodded.
"Not trying to scare you, but that." I said, pointing up at the mark. "Well it means something, he's getting stronger, if I'm having pains in my scar, it's close to starting again. We have to take action, reverse his plan instead of an Order trap, make it a death eater trap. I'm going in willingly, if my name comes out of it, whatever it maybe." I said and Arthur paled then. "Harry you're not ready for this yet." he said and I sighed. "It's our only chance." I said and he sighed.
"The bloody lunatic is a wraith, but he's getting stronger, so best guess, is his escape, has him nursing him back to health, via the permanent form of an animagus." I said and Ron went pale then. "I know what you're saying trying to say, if he's a parselmouth, he's using a snake animagus, one permanently transformed into one. And he's feeding off their magic, to make himself stronger, a maledictus." Arthur said and Crouch nodded slowly at that news then.
"This is my job Arthur, for two years I prevented his return, this prophecy is not coming true, but I got another one from Trelawney last term. 'Tonight, he who betrayed his friends, whose heart rots with murder shall break free. Innocent blood shall be spilt and servant and master shall be reunited once more'." I quoted and they nodded. "It's reversed, our betrayer is a rat, literally, Sir." I said and he nodded sternly to the news then.
"But Wormtail is the murderer, Prongs and Padfoot became aurors and Mooney became a defense, teacher." I said and Crouch nodded. "I assume those names have significance to you, you know their real names?" she asked and I nodded. "What's was dad's chosen career, before he went to the Order, Remus, Sirius, Peter with Frank and Alice?" I asked and he nodded. "He wanted to be an Auror, I was MLE chief 16 years ago." Crouch and I nodded to him and said it.
"Remus?" I asked and he nodded, before closing his eyes. "Remus is Mooney, Padfoot is Black and Prongs is your father, making Peter Wormtail." Arthur said, and I nodded to him. "You committed a fatal mistake here in my world, there is a story where the dangerous looking ones. Are really good people and harmless, though ready to defend themselves when necessary, but the well dressed and privileged are vicious, mindless monsters." I said and he nodded sternly.
"Think it over, does it always have to be Slytherin that's the evil, cold blooded and dangerous, did anyone of you have a family member that got it, not from Slytherin?" I asked and they looked down, knowing they took the easy way out. "What am I even fighting for, if you turn on my family and adopted family at a moment's notice." I asked and they sighed then. "Why you immediately assume it was Sirius." I asked and they started shaking at that remark then.
"Let me guess, it's Lucius's wife and her sister, therefore you assumed him too?" I asked and he swallowed hard. "Was there a trial, or you immediately throw him in Azkaban." I asked and he went pale, realizing he screwed up. "It wasn't me, Dumbledore, gave me evidences to put him behind bars then." he said and we nodded in shocked fury then. "Then we're coming to the ministry tomorrow, as we work this out, I want to see what he's hiding from me here now."
"But Wormtail that's his nickname, the others are Padfoot, Prongs and Mooney, more directly, if you saw my patronus, Prongs is my spirit animal. It's dad, dad's my patronus, he, Wormtail and Padfoot are animagi, dad's a stag." I said and they nodded gently. "Three friends, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, Remus is a werewolf. And that's common knowledge to us, so Sirius is a dog, hence his middle name Orion, the dog star." Fudge said slowly to this.
Realizing Severus Snape, our potions teacher lied to him, we had told him the truth. "Making the duo, Peter a common Garden and Remus as Mooney, going by animals. Remus a wolf, Peter is a common garden and Black some sort of wild dog, or sheep dog, so he's deerhound. Harry, tell me the truth, what really happened that night, we can call a retrial?" she asked and I nodded gently. "If you been in touch, he's on a parole, you tell us." she asked and I nodded gently.
"What happened was after he brought Mione, Ron and me into the tree, Remus told me he saw us on the map, and Sirius said the real killer was still at large and he certainly wasn't it. It been years, I had no memory, that any of them or dad were animagi, till I saw them in action. Before Severus got the drop on us, and a fight between them ensued, though I stunned him true. But I wanted the truth, and told them to show me, show me the truth, and they did a reversal spell."
"I now believed the guys fully here, I was turning Peter into you, no him, what's coming never happens at all now, so I decided the final judgement. Said the dementors, but we forgot one thing, it was the night of a full moon, and he forgot his potion now. So in the changing, Peter escaped and ran for it, Sirius prevented Remus from attacking us. And I found him on the bank of the lake, we were attacked and, in truth, it took everything I had to stop them all at once."
"And then passed out, came to and Mione told me here, Severus reversed it." I said and she nodded sternly, and they exchanged shocked looks at the truth then. "So.., a school boy grudge is enough to have him commit cold blooded murder." Ludo Bagman said sternly and I nodded. "Even if it means the bloody tosser is once again at large then yeah, no Peter, he never comes back and I kill him and be done with it." I said and Crouch nodded sternly, in fury at this.
"I got the truth from Sirius, it's reversed, dad's map was the code breaker, the trio hexed it to tell the truth, as I said Peter's a rat, literally and as our house has the only rat, Mr. Weasley…..." I said and they nodded in shocked disbelief. "You mean we had an innocent man in prison, you keeping in touch with Black?" Arthur asked me sternly then and I nodded gently. "You been holding my betrayer hostage for 13 years, Peter is my dad's betrayer." I said and he nodded.
"Arthur had him all this time, and if not for Severus he would never have escaped, so I call that here, he helped a criminal escape. You saved your godfather, not the same thing, can we see it from your point of view. Being as here veritaserum is illegal to use on a minor, but we can by the penseive." Crouch said to me and I nodded. "Tomorrow, I can show you tomorrow, only me right now, so you see this from my point of view right now, sorry guys, my godfather."
"It has to be me, and me only, I can render the final judgement, as for the snake, we split the snake and pass the add on to the Clearwaters, Creeveys, Warrens, Hagrid and Finch Fletchleys." I said and she and Ron nodded. "Agreed, your family, but we adore him and Remus, so we did it together, we get him cleared. We destroyed it and we can take the winnings from that snake, depending the amount and live off that now." Ron said and she nodded in agreement then.
"We can get him back to town, first him and then Harry, and he can tell you exactly what happened the night Peter escaped." she said and Fudge nodded smiling gently. "Alright in preventing his return, we do this on Monday, and he's free to go now." he said and we nodded smiling in relief. "Anyone bring their owl with them." I asked and Emily nodded. "I need to borrow it." I started to say, before hearing a familiar screech then, as Hedwig arrived then.
"Girl, get ready, we're calling him home, papa is getting released from false captivity." I said and she gave a chirp to me and they chuckled at that. "I'm bringing him home, we made a fair deal, I go in willingly to stop evil owl, for good, and arrest bad rat for them. They let papa owl out on a full pardon now." I said and she hooted happily then and Ron smiled. "Nice wording mate." he said and they nodded. "Let Barty go, we just set the trap." I said and Crouch nodded then.
"He's going after the Professor, not Dumbledore, but your Auror Commander, the professor." I said and they nodded. "Well at least that's not part of your predictions, we just label that one out, but looks like. Everything is connected to the tournament now, betrayed by someone you call friend, that friend now, is Junior, pretending to be Alastor." Crouch said and I nodded. "He any tics?" I asked and he nodded. "Acting like a caged animal." he said and I nodded gently.
"If any of you are muggleborn, we're on Chapter 9, we're changing the story from here, new future." I said and they nodded smiling. "And this just says it all, if Dumbledore can't see this, he's not all seeing, all knowing, he's only human, corrupted by the very power he carries." Amelia said sternly and I nodded. "Sirius, listen to me, we had another sign, they're revving up again, but listen to me here, after hearing from me exactly what happened, in Snape's case."
"They realized he's allowing his school boy grudge to get in the way of true justice, he lost his get out of jail free card, Junior also just escaped, alert everyone connected to dad. Loyal only to dad, like you and Remus are right now, I told them everything I knew here. I found the key to his power, and I'm destroying them all, I'm going in willingly, and meet us. And at Arthur's house, on Monday, we're doing your trial finally." I said and signed my name and gave it to her.