Ginny looked at where Alex was sitting reading a book or at least where she was looking at the wall blankly rather than paying attention or reading. "You're like a thousand miles away Alex."

Harry looked away from the secret passage behind the painting in the Gryffindor library. "I was just thinking."

"I figured, what about?"

Harry whispered, "Secret passages."

"Why?"

"Because I'm fairly sure there is a secret passage way behind that painting."

Ginny turned and looked at the painting in question, "What makes you say that?"

Harry said, "Just a feeling and the map." He thought, 'That and the fact that I can see through walls.'

Ginny glanced over at the entrance to the common room where the various prefects were keeping watch on the rest of the Gryffindor students while several teachers searched their stuff. She was just glad that McGonagall had put her foot down at the idea of Snape searching their stuff. She didn't care if he was the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, he was as far as she was concerned a mean spirited monster that paid way too much attention to her girlfriend. She whispered, "In that case, we probably shouldn't say anything until McGonagall gets done searching the dorms for evidence of whatever happened to the Slytherins or the Ministry."

Harry rubbed his temple to try to deal with his headache, "I just wish I had had enough time to better secure my trunk."

Ginny whispered, "Relax, your diary is sealed to your blood, you've got your map, your cloak is a family heirloom and McGonagall already knows about it so that shouldn't be a problem. You'll be fine unless there is something in there that you're not supposed to have?"

Harry shook his head, "Not that I know of." Hermione had Snape's potion book and all of the cards in the library so there wasn't anything in his trunk for them to find that he shouldn't have but at the same point. It was just frustrating that they were going through Alex's stuff like she was some sort of criminal. He took a breath and tried to calm himself down.

Ginny said, "Then stop worrying about it. I doubt Dumbledore will let the Ministry give us veritaserum when there is no evidence that anyone here had anything to do with the Slytherins or the Ministry workers vanishing."

Harry said, "Remind me to have Dobby warn us if they put anything in the drinks." He frowned as his mind thought of all of the horrible potions that could be slipped into drinks. He frowned slightly as he noticed Moody sneaking into the Gryffindor reading room under an invisibility cloak. 'Great, just what I needed. I should deal with this before Ginny says something she shouldn't.' Not that she actually knew anything about the attacks but there were other things that she did know about that he didn't need Moody hearing.

Ginny said, "I guess it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you."

Harry laughed as he reached out and grabbed his empty tea cup as calmly as he could. He turned without warning and tossed it at Moody as hard as he could. He used the distraction to grab his wand from behind his ear and point it at Moody. Before the tea cup had even hit the floor he was already using a silent summoning charm to rip Moody's wand out of his grasp and take it with his off hand.

Moody scowled, "What the hell Potter?"

Harry leveled both wands in Moody's general direction, "Reach for another wand and I will break every bone in your body. Slowly take the damned cloak off whoever you are." He didn't want Moody to know that he could see him just find thanks to his upgrade.

"Don't shoot Potter." Moody reached up and took his hood off.

Ginny stared at the head floating in the entryway, "What are you doing here?"

"The Headmaster is a bit worried about Potter."

Harry snorted, "So he sends invisible people to spy on me." Harry ignored the fact that the edges of his vision were getting blurry.

Ginny said, "That's rather stupid considering how on edge everyone is."

Harry pointed Moody's wand at one of the empty chairs, "Take a seat and no drinking from your flask while we wait for someone to go get Professor McGonagall."

Moody snorted, "You're taking this a bit far Potter."

"This isn't the first time that someone has used polyjuice to take your appearance. You're not a teacher and you're sure as hell not a student. Either way you have no business being in here. If you really are Moody then you can tell Dumbledore that I don't appreciate people spying on me, if you're not Moody then I think Dumbledore will have a couple of choice words for you." Harry silently stunned him with an overpowered stunning charm that sent him crashing into the bookcases. 'That's for the long ass freezing cold broom ride to headquarters you paranoid bastard and the stupid ass escape plan that got Hedwig killed.'

Ginny stared as Mr. Moody crashed to the floor amongst a pile of books. "We're going to get in trouble for that."

"Probably but at this point I really don't care. Dobby, I could use your help."

Dobby popped in, "How can Dobby help Miss Potter?"

"I'd like this spy returned to the Headmaster's office if he's there. Tell him that I don't like people spying on me."

Dobby asked, "And if he's not there?"

Harry pushed away the first thought that sprang to mind which was telling Dobby to drop him in the lake. He figured Dobby might actually do it and that would end badly even if it would be satisfying to watch him sink. Harry blinked a couple of times as he tried to figure out where that thought had come from. 'I need more sleep.' He shook his head and said, "If he's not there then bring him back and I'll tell Professor McGonagall that someone is spying on her girls."

"Dobby can do that." Dobby snapped his fingers and vanished with Moody.

Harry winced as he rubbed his temples again to try to get his headache to go away, "He's going to be rather annoyed when he wakes up."

Ginny said, "Most likely. We might as well do our homework while we're waiting for the teachers to search the dorms and for someone to come shout at us."

"Good idea."

Harry had gotten a couple of paragraphs written before Dumbledore showed up with a disgruntled looking Moody. "Ah, I see that he wasn't an imposter this time around."

Dumbledore looked down his nose at Alex, "I believe you have something that belongs to Moody."

Harry levitated Moody's wand over to him. "I was just making sure he wasn't a Death Eater in disguise considering he has no business being in the dorms."

Moody grumbled as he took his wand and put it in his robe's pocket. "Dumbledore asked me to check on you."

Dumbledore asked, "Is there something that you'd like to say to Moody?"

Harry figured Dumbledore wanted him to apologize but he didn't see that happening, "I'd say sorry that I mistook him for a threat but I've been told by a psychotic bitch that I must not tell lies."

"I was looking for an apology for attacking him."

"He's not a member of the staff unless you've changed things recently and neglected to inform us, he's got no business being in the dorms, he was wearing an invisibility cloak so no, he's not going to get an apology from me. I do however apologize to you for wasting your time. The next time I catch someone spying on me I won't bother you, I will stun them, tie them up then pour truth potion down their throat and ask why they're spying on me. If I don't like their answer I'll turn them into the Ministry. Was there something else?"

Moody asked, "You do realize that truth potions are illegal to make without a license, right?"

"There are other potions than veritaserum. Potions that are perfectly legal to buy. So no, I'm not admitting to any illegal activities..." He felt a probe on his mental defensives. "And I will light you on fire if you don't stop illegally trying to look at my memories. Which one of you was it? I'd like to know when I fill charges against you."

Dumbledore said, "There is no need for that."

"Fine, I'll file charges against both of you." He was glad that Alex had included that bit in her diary when she had been looking up ways to send Snape to prison or worse.

Moody said, "For someone that doesn't want to admit to illegal things..."

Harry snorted, "Actually it's not illegal to light someone on fire for illegally trying to look through your memories. It's a perfectly valid defense against someone trying to read your mind."

"That hasn't been used in centuries."

"It's still on the books. Next time I will light you on fire you piece of shit peeping tom!" He blinked as he totally hadn't meant to say that last part, it had just slipped out.

Ginny said, "We should probably calm down."

Harry took a breath and glared at Moody, "Perhaps you should go." He grabbed the chair as a wave of dizziness hit him as well as a probe on his mental defenses.

Moody glared at Alex. "What is wrong with you?"

Dumbledore said, "I'm going to have to ask for an apology for that base slander."

Alex glared at Moody, "If he drinks Veritaserum and swears that he's never used his magical eye inappropriately then I'll apologize, until then fuck no. While we're on the subject Snape is a piece of shit bastard that likes digging through memories he has no business trying to look at. Actually you know what, to hell with this school, to hell with Britain and to hell with saving you ungrateful pieces of wizard shit from Voldemort and his death eaters. I'm going to stake his fucking head on a pike in Diagon Alley then I'm going to murder every last fucking one of his followers." She looked at Ginny, "Then I'm going to walk down the alley fist fucking my girl until she passes out from ecstasy but first I'm going to go deal with a certain potions professor."

Dumbledore stared at Alex, "Professor Snape has my complete trust as does Moody."

"Then you're far stupider than I thought." Alex raised her hand and wandlessly summoned Moody's eye out of his head much to the shock of everyone present. She grabbed his eye with her left hand then flame teleported to outside Snape's office.

Ginny blinked in surprise as Alex vanished an a burst of flames. "I'm going to have to go with that not being normal..."


Harry looked around the small forest clearing he found himself in. He had just enough time to notice a blur before he was crashing into the moss covered ground and bouncing thanks to the fist that had just hit him in the face hard enough to send him sprawling. Harry rolled out of the way of a groin stomp. He held his hands up, "I give up."

Alex glared at Harry as she took a step back, "What did you say?"

Harry looked at the extremely pretty and angry naked red haired girl that had her fists up in a combat pose. "I said I give up."

Alex sighed, "Are you sure I can't beat you up a little?"

Harry asked hopefully, "No?"

Alex sighed, "If you're in here and I'm in here that means the other is in control. That's going to end badly."

Harry asked, "The other?"

Alex said, "She's my anger and darkness or at least that's what she claims but I don't think that's actually true. My scar hurt most of last year, then the visions then things went screwy. I've felt off ever since the Ministry when Voldemort partially possessed me. I'd been losing time, waking up in places that I didn't remember. Journal entries were missing that I was sure I'd written. I blew it off the first couple of times as not sleeping but eventually I realized there was something wrong. Then you showed up and I was in here with the other watching out of a window. Nice work with the ministry by the way."

Harry asked, "Do you have any idea how to get out of here?"

Alex laughed, "If I did then you would have been locked in here with the other and I would have been in control." She plopped down on the moss. "I've just been so angry lately."

Harry said, "I'm guessing that it's your connection to Voldemort."

Alex sighed, "Maybe or maybe it's just losing Hermione... Tell me about your Hermione."

Harry asked, "Now?"

"I don't think we're going anywhere, if you walk into the trees you walk out the other side." She waved and conjured a viewing portal that showed a very blurry hazy picture of what her body was seeing that was almost worse than seeing nothing at all. "I don't think we're going anywhere for a while."

Harry focused on the image and it got clear enough to see an image that looked like Snape's office, "Is that Snape?" He stared as the entity in control blew him apart with a silent spell to the back of his head. "Shit..."

Alex scowled, "I wanted to do that."

"You didn't like him much did you?"

"No, he tried to pull up images of Hermione and myself naked the first and only time I tried to get mental training from him, after that I refused to be alone with him or let him near my mind. Thankfully Hermione helped me learn from a book, it was less painful and worked a lot better."

Harry winced, "Ouch. For what it's worth, I'm sorry. This little joyride through different people's bodies wasn't my idea."

Alex watched as Alex looted Snape's office then flames seemed to cover the image then it went back to being a hazy mess where she could barely make out shapes, "What's with the flames?"

Harry glanced over at her than glanced away as he remembered that she wasn't wearing clothes, "That would be our flash teleport ability."

Alex turned away from the scrying window and looked at the messy haired boy that looked like pictures of her father had when he was younger, "Where did you learn that?"

"The last reality I was in wasn't a nice one. Dumbledore was evil rather than just a bit overprotective and he had a bound phoenix. I took advantage of his set up and stole some abilities."

"You hurt Fawkes?"

"I didn't take his ability to renew himself and he should be fine once that happens. I wasn't thinking straight anyways otherwise I probably wouldn't have done it. As for my Hermione, she's not really mine..." He looked down at his hands. "She's my friend and sort of my genie in a bottle without genie powers but she loves another girl more than me."

Alex asked, "Who?"

"Puck who is actually her younger alternate from a perverted world..."

Alex started laughing.

Harry frowned then had to smile as he watched his alternate or sister laugh. "I guess it's fairly funny."

Alex laughed a couple more times then wiped at a tear and asked, "What started the body jumping thing?"

"I died."

Alex winced, "How?"

Harry sighed, "Sixth year sucked though not as bad as fifth. In my world only Sirius died in the Ministry. Sixth year was spent trying to figure out what famous objects Voldemort had used to keep from dying. At the end of it Draco managed to repair a vanishing cabinet and lead a group of death eaters into the school. Snape killed Dumbledore and things went to hell."

Alex scowled, "I'd wondered but I wasn't expecting him to actually pull it off. I guess it's a good thing that he's dead."

"The ministry fell and people died trying to extract me from the Dursleys in a stupid ass plan that involved brooms and an overland flight... long story short Ron, Hermione and I went on the run..."

"You were still friends with Ron?"

"You have to remember that I'm male."

"True, he just couldn't accept that I wasn't interested in him."

"He didn't understand the whole liking girls part did he?"

"It was more that I just thought he was a pig. First year he made Hermione cry. That was the end of his chances at something more than just acquaintances then there was forth year with that stupid tournament where he accused me of putting my name in that stupid cup. I mean seriously why would I bother, I've got a vault full of gold. A thousand galleons is nothing."

"So you like boys?"

Alex said, "I may have had a couple of fantasies of asking Sirius to fuck me in his dog form and a dream or two about Cedric, Fred and George but never Ron." She blushed, "Don't judge, I wouldn't have ever asked... so your story."

"Ah well, we managed to recover one of the horcruxes. It drove Ron a bit crazy and he left. That allowed Hermione and I to get a lot closer."

"That's good right?"

"You would think except what we didn't know was that Dumbledore had given Ron a way to find us. He stumbled in while we were in the middle of having sex and flew into a jealous rage. He killed us on Christmas day."

Alex snorted, "No wonder you hate him."

Harry sighed, "I'm trying not to blame him or the other Rons for killing us but it's hard. Anyways, another me or something showed up after I was dead and explained that I'd be jumping between worlds doing tasks and fixing things or something like it."

"How does Hermione fit into this?"

"She's attached to an extra dimensional library. She can shift back and forth with stuff and people."

Alex smiled, "That's sort of neat, at least you get to see her."

Harry smiled, "True. Anyways we were having fun exploring the perverted world where our parents are still alive."

"Mum and Dad?"

"Yep and Sirius and Remus."

"Wicked."

"It was other than the Ministry was running a slave trade for children."

Alex winced, "Muggleborns?"

Harry laughed, "Actually no, half bloods and purebloods actually. Apparently muggleborns were protected by the crown who was some centuries old king."

"That's different."

"That's what I thought." He smiled, "My sister had Ginny for a pet."

"Really?"

"They adored each other, it was fun watching them have sex."

Alex said, "Okay, that settles it, I really need to figure out how to look through your memories of that world. The other was doing it so it should be possible."

Harry shivered, "That doesn't fill me with confidence."

"Me either. She was more than a bit unhinged but thankfully or not she was more interested in your memories than messing with me in here."

Harry said, "Sorry..."

"It is what it is. Why did you leave?"

Harry said, "We didn't mean to, I would have happily stayed for years in that world but all good things have to come to an end. We'd finished the year and were enjoying ourselves and then I opened by grades and I swapped worlds."

Alex asked, "Just like that?"

"Sadly, the problem was that my Hermione had some visitors in her library so they got pulled along."

"The younger Luna, Hermione and the cute little girl right?"

Harry said, "Yeah, that was Gabrielle."

"Oh... I don't suppose I can go with you when you leave?"

Harry asked, "Really?"

"Is it possible?"

Harry said, "It might be. Why would you want to leave?"

"Other than Ginny, I've got nothing here for me. The ministry ruined my reputation last year, my friends think I'm the touch of death. Then there is the fact that the Other killed Snape which will probably land me a life sentence in prison if Dumbledore has his way. Mostly though you've got a Hermione that seems kinky enough that she might let me snuggle... it's not the same but it's something."

Harry said, "We might be able to bring you with us if Hermione pulls you into the library. I've been a bit too nervous to actually test what happens. We'll have to see once we get out of here and get things sorted."

"Sorted?"

"I'm assuming that you'll want us to take your vault and stuff with you, right?"

Alex said, "I'm not leaving it for any of the people here. I'd leave the Black vault to Tonks but that's about it. Other than killing Voldemort for personal revenge I've got nothing holding me here."

Harry said, "I guess that means we should try to get out of here."

Alex said, "Good luck with that."

"I've got an idea." He focused on the scrying window and pushed magic into it until it snapped to crystal clarity. "Here goes nothing." He jumped through the viewing window and stumbled as he found himself back in control of Alex's body.

Alex laughed as she punched her dark doppelganger in the face as she fell out of the portal. "You and me are going to have words." She grabbed the other girl by the hair and started punching her in the face repeatedly.


Harry felt his stomach heave as he noticed the macabre display that the dark Alex had been admiring. Both of Draco's parents were impaled on red hot spikes sticking out of their once pristine living room floor. Their steaming entrails were artfully spilled on the floor probably from an entrails expelling curse. Even worse than the smell was the fact that something the dark Alex had done was keeping the Malfoy's alive as they twitched on the poles and slowly roasted form the inside out. "Note to self, never make her really angry." The whole area was covered in dark magic that he could see clinging to things with his mage sight. He glanced down at the strange wand in his hand. He reached up and touched Alex's wand behind his ear to make sure that it was still there, it was which was a relief. "At least she probably didn't use Alex's wand for most of this."

He took a minute to examine the mix of spells in the area and noticed the ward kept them from teleporting off the spikes. "Hermione."

Hermione shifted in, "What's going..." She stared at the mess in shock, "What the hell?"

Harry said, "Yeah... apparently Alex has a dark half and it took control during a conversation with Dumbledore and Moody."

"Anyone hurt?"

"Snape and well them..." He gestured to the Malfoys.

Hermione asked, "Anyone we care about?"

Harry shook his head, "Not that I know of but I only caught bits and pieces of what she was doing. On the upside, I got to talk with Alex."

Hermione smiled, "That's good right?"

"Yeah, she wants to leave with us once we kill Voldemort and anything else we need to do."

Hermione said, "In that case we should probably grab Dobby and loot this place to the ground of books. He can probably take us to their vault as well."

Harry smiled, "That's not a bad idea. From there we can charm one of the goblins into taking us to Bellatrix's vault."

Harry almost jumped out of his skin when a naked Bellatrix walked into the room from the kitchen carrying a silver tray and a large knife and asked, "You have need of me Master?"

He stared at Bellatrix as he realized that the dark Alex must have mind raped Bellatrix while he and Alex had been talking, "What are your present orders?"

"I'm supposed to cook them for the Death Eater feast tonight."

Hermione shivered, "We really need to find a way to deal with Alex's dark side because she scares me."

Harry said, "I'll second that."

Hermione asked, "What do we do with her?"

"We tell her to get dressed then we have her take us to her vault."

"She's a criminal, they're not just going to let her walk into Gringotts."

"The goblins aren't going to care. It's all the same to them."

Hermione frowned as she realized that he was probably correct, "That's probably a better plan than trying to break into Gringotts."

Harry waved his wand and conjured a pair of robes for Bellatrix. "Put these on."

Bellatrix smiled happily if a touch vacantly, "Yes Master."


Harry was just glad that the dark Alex hadn't erased everything in Bellatrix's mind when she turned her into a slave as it meant that she could remove several traps so that they could loot the vault. Thankfully it had only taken about twenty minutes of looting before there was nothing left worth taking, just a couple of cursed objects that would duplicate if anyone other than Bellatrix touched them. "I don't suppose you know a way to move the piece of Voldmort that's in Alex to some other container?"

Hermione said, "No, it would have to be alive..." She trailed off as she realized that Bellatrix was alive and willing to help with any ritual they wanted to do to her. "Okay, I've got a horrible idea that might work."

"What's that?"

"We might be able to talk Alex's dark half into jumping into Bellatrix."

"Is that possible?"

Hermione said, "We'd have to do some research on what we have but I think so."

Harry looked down at the cursed dinner plate that would duplicate if someone other than Bellatrix touched it, "Part of me wants to see what happens if I use the same ritual as I used on the stone on one of the duplicating items."

Hermione looked at Harry, "That's insane, we have no idea what it would do to you."

Harry laughed, "Hell no, I was going to do the ritual on Bellatrix."

Hermione frowned, "Okay, that could be interesting or very bad depending on what she gets out of it."

"Sounds fun doesn't it?"

Hermione sighed, "I'm sort of glad that Voldemort was an unimaginative bastard for the most part outside of curses and torturing people."

Harry said, "Does that mean you'll get the supplies?"

"Under protest if only so that I can tell you it was a horrible idea when it ends badly."

"Admit it, you're just as curious as I am to see what happens to her."

Hermione smiled, "It would certainly be a numbers advantage if we got it to work correctly."

Harry said, "There are a couple of cursed items, we've got forty minutes before the goblins are supposed to come back to get us, that should be plenty of time for a couple of tests."

Hermione said, "I'll be back." She shifted back to the library to get the supplies they would need for the ritual.

Harry shivered slightly as he watched Bellatrix stand in the middle of the vault quite happy to just stand there until she got more orders. 'Even if those spells are useful, I really should look into discovering a defense against them because being reduced to that scares the hell out of me.' He ignored the voice in his head whispering that he should have her take off her robes and do jumping jacks. He wasn't sure if that was his own subconscious or Alex's dark half but he really didn't want to walk down that road right now.

Hermione shifted back with the supplies for the ritual. She handed him the supplies, "I'll be researching how to get the dark Alex out of her and into Bellatrix."

Harry said, "Thanks, I'll work on the ritual."


Puck walked over to where Hermione was sitting with a fair number of books scattered around her table. "What are you working on?"

Hermione looked up at Puck and gave her a smile, "I'm trying to figure out how to get a dark spirit or personality out of Alex and into someone else."

"Have you tried Doctor Max's codex on possession?"

Hermione said, "Nope, I remember scanning it for curses but I haven't had the chance to read it yet."

"I was looking into Harry's scar and trying to figure out a way to deal with it. It's got a bunch of formulas that I don't understand but it had some interesting ideas, you might have more luck."

"Thank you."

Puck said, "Not that I'm all that worried about it but at some point I could use some help working through the second year books. It's easier with a teacher and we could do with a proper potions lab if we're going to be stuck here."

Hermione sighed, "I'll make some time once we get this mess taken care of."

Puck smiled, "Good. We should also hit a primary school and grab some books and such for Gabrielle and Ariel."

"I'll put it on the list. Can you get that book for me, between what's in there and what's in here we should be able to coble together something."

"Yep." Puck grinned as she headed off to find the book in question. "We really need to organize this mess."

Hermione looked around at the piles of books sitting on shelves and tables as well as anywhere they had room to pile them. She muttered, "Hopefully we'll have a nice quiet jump the next time around."


Hermione smiled as she finished writing out the last of the ritual that should move the proto horcrux/dark version of Alex to a different person then shifted back to Harry. "Harry..." She trailed off as she saw the stacks of naked bodies piled up in the vault. It took her a second to register that there were five naked Bellatrixes walking around tidying up the stacks of dead Bellatrixes and one laying on a table with Harry standing over her. "What is going on?"

Harry brought his hand down hard on Bellatrix's naked ass. "Making copies."

Hermione stared as a second naked Bellatrix split from Bellatrix and solidified on the table next to her. "Why are you spanking her?"

Harry said, "The other potion is hitting her and she's a girl." He probably wouldn't have had a problem hitting Bellatrix if she had all of her memories but hitting this version of her would be like kicking a puppy. Thankfully she enjoyed getting spanked

Hermione stared as the copy of Bellatrix got up off the table, "Orders Master?"

Harry smiled, "That makes six living copies..."

Hermione's gaze jumped to the dead bodies then back to Harry, "What the hell Harry?"

"Apparently there are some flaws in the process. Most of the copies aren't alive, some of them were alive and brain dead and some of them seem like perfect copies."

Hermione looked at the dead bodies piled up, "What are we going to do with them?"

Harry said, "I'm not sure. I sure as hell don't want to use that ritual on myself until I figure out how to fix the flaws or how long the copies last."

Hermione shivered, "I brought the ritual to transfer the dark Alex into Bellatrix. Can you hold it together long enough to make it work?"

Harry said, "I think so."

Hermione pulled her eyes off the dead and started setting up the ritual that would hopefully deal with the nasty creature in Alex's head.


Alex smiled as a vortex opened in the mindscape behind the Other, "You're not going to win."

The dark Alex wiped the blood off her mouth where Alex had hit her then smirked, "Is this more of your plucky hero shit?" She waved a hand and healed her face, "I know what you are, who you are. I've looked at your dark desires, I've stared into your heart of hearts. I am your dark and warped desires given voice. I have your memories, I have Harry's memories and Riddle's knowledge. You can't possibly hope to defeat me." She smirked, "Besides, I can protect your loved ones, something you couldn't do. I can bring Hermione back to life and we can fuck them all day long. We can make Lavender a puppet, Susan Bones would look good as a naughty maid. I've always wanted to fuck McGonagall unconscious. We could be great you know."

Alex said, "You're nothing but a twisted piece of spirit."

The dark Alex hissed, "I'm not Riddle, I might have started out as him but I'm you, only better."

"Then prove it, kiss me like you mean it. Show me that you can love." Alex stepped forward as if to kiss her dark copy.

"Passion and lust baby." The dark Alex smiled as she stepped forward to kiss Alex.

Alex waited until she was too close to dodge then kicked her through the vortex.

The dark Alex stared in shock and betrayal as she flew backwards through the portal.

"Without love the rest is worthless." She dropped to her knees, "I'm sorry Hermione, I couldn't do it." She wasn't sure if the other her had been lying about being able to bring her lover back but the price was too high. She would have ripped through a thousand enemies to bring her lover back but she wasn't going to turn into the type of monster that would turn her friends into puppets.


Harry tightened the leather straps on the copy of Bellatrix that they had done the transfer ritual to. She looked the same other than the lightning bolt scar on her forehead. "How are you feeling?"

The dark Alex/Bellatrix mix thrashed and pulled at her bindings and glared at Alex, "I'll fucking kill you."

Harry said, "At least I know which personality was pulled out of Alex."

"You can't keep me here forever Harry." She flash teleported out of the bindings and prepared to jump at Harry.

"Stop and no teleporting without permission. Be quiet unless asked a question."

The dark Alex gulped as she realized that she couldn't say anything or move.

"No attacking myself or my friends. No trying to run away. You can move."

The dark Alex sighed in relief as she found that she could move her arms again.

"Answer me honestly, do you want to live?"

The dark Alex said, "Yes."

"If I let you live can I trust that you'll leave innocent people alone?"

The dark Alex scowled, "Not like I have a choice if you order me to leave them alone. It's not in my nature to attack innocents. I'm more Alex than I am Riddle."

Harry asked, "How would you like permission to kill Death Eaters?"

"I'd like that very much."

Hermione asked, "Harry?"

Harry said, "If everything works correctly then we're going to be leaving this world as soon as we grab Ginny, some books from London and the rest of Alex's stuff. We can have Dobby drop the cup off with Dumbledore when we collect Ginny and then we leave. The only Horcrux left is a snake, Dark Alex/Bellatrix shouldn't have any problems getting close enough to kill the snake and Voldemort."

The dark Alex looked over at Bellatrix, "If you're going to be stealing my Ginny, can I have Bellatrix?"

Hermione asked, "What do you plan to do with her?"

"Fuck her and have fun with her." She noticed Hermione's frown, "Don't look at me like that baby, I take good care of my pets." She looked back at Harry, "Besides, even with your neat flame teleporting trick I managed to copy, I'm going to need some help to kill all of the Death Eaters."

Harry felt a little like he was making a deal with the devil but at the same time leaving a psychotic version to clean up the corruption in the wizarding world might just keep it from getting worse. "Let's discuss terms."

The dark Alex smirked, "Excellent."

"No harming innocents."

"Just to check, the Dursleys aren't innocent right?"

Harry snorted, "They're fair game considering what Alex said about them."

"Good." She was really hoping that she was going to get to kill Dudley's gang as well, they can't possibly count as innocents.

Hermione sighed, "We should probably write a list of qualities..."

The dark Alex smirked as she ran her hands over her new body, "Do you mind if I fuck Bella while you work on your list?"

Hermione said, "Now you're just trying to distract us."

"Is it working?"

Hermione sighed, "A little bit."

"Excellent."

Harry laughed then started working through a list of commands that would hopefully keep the dark Alex from causing too much trouble.


Dobby popped into the Professor Dumbledore's office floating Hufflepuff's cup, "Excuse me Sir but Miss Potter wanted you to have this."

Dumbledore looked at the cup, "That looks like Hufflepuff's cup."

"It is Sir. It has nasty magic on it. Miss Alex also said to tell you that she dealt with her connection to the dark thingy and that she shouldn't have any more episodes where she goes off the rails. Dobby is not sure what that means Sir." Dobby set the cup on Dumbledore's desk.

Dumbledore sighed in relief, "Thank you."

Dobby wrung his hands, "Dobby has to apologize but Dobby is quitting."

"Oh?"

"Miss Alex offered Dobby a job managing her library. She offered ten times what Dobby is making here but Dobby talked her down to double."

Dumbledore smiled, "Good for you Dobby, you have my blessings and tell Miss Potter that I apologize for insisting on politeness when she was obviously struggling with her own issues."

"Dobby is also supposed to say that the dark thingy will be dead by the morning if you destroy the cup, Sir."

Dumbledore smiled as he walked over, took the sword off the wall and stabbed the cup that was a mess of dark magic. He watched the grey smoke leave the cup, "Done."

Dobby said, "Goodbye Sir it was a pleasure working for you."

"You as well." Dumbledore lost his smile once the elf was gone, "Hopefully this time he stays dead. Maybe I can get McGonagall to talk to her and see if she's doing okay after this mess calms down."


Ginny stared at Hermione and Alex, "Hermione? What's going on?"

Harry shook his head, "Yes and no... I'm not actually Alex and this isn't actually your Hermione."

Ginny pulled her wand and pointed it at not Alex, "Who are you?"

"I'm Alex's alternate from another world. Hermione is an alternate as well."

"That shouldn't be possible."

"Welcome to my life Gin."

"Don't call me that."

Harry sighed, "Sorry Ginny."

"Is that why you've been acting strange lately?"

"Since Hermione's birthday, actually I appeared here right in the middle of the argument with Ron."

Ginny frowned as she thought back over the fight, "That explains why you just punched him instead of something worse. Why tell me now?"

Harry sighed, "Because we're leaving."

Ginny tightened her grip on her wand, "What?"

Hermione said, "We set things up so Voldemort is going to be defeated within a couple of hours. Alex wants a clean start so she's jumping with us."

Ginny looked at not Alex, "Where is she?"

Harry said, "I'm sort of stuck possessing her."

"I think you need to explain that one and quickly."

Harry sighed as he started explaining about meeting Alex in the dream world and about dying and an overview of jumping bodies.


The dark Alex smiled as she stared down at the mostly naked screaming young man that was tied the hood of his dad's sports car with barbed wire. "Scream all you want Piers, no one will hear you, no one will see you. Even if they did everyone hates you." It was amazing what a couple of muggle repelling charms would let you get away with.

Piers couldn't understand why no one was even looking in their direction. He stopped screaming to try plead again even though he was fairly sure it wasn't going to help anymore than the last time he had tried it. "Let me go, I can pay you."

"You mean that your daddy can pay, sorry I'm not interested. Why you ask?"

"What did I ever do to you?"

"You made life hell for me... well maybe not me but my little sister. Yeah, let's go with that. Anyways, the reason that I don't care is that once I get done with you I'm going to go back to your house, kill your father, put on a pair of rubber gloves, those nice thick ones for doing the dishes then I'm going to fist fuck your mother up the ass until she dies."

"You're insane!"

The dark Alex smirked, "I might be a little unhinged. Then I'm going to take a carving knife and skin her. Then I'm going to wear her skin and march down to the bank, take out all of their money and burn the house down for the insurance payout."

Piers thrashed around and screamed as he tried to get someone to look at him. "Why... why me?"

"Why did you pick on people, why did you bully younger children? You had everything handed to you on a silver platter and you still wanted more. You did it because you could, it made you feel special to be a monster. Do you feel special now you piece of shit?"

Pier sobbed out what he hoped was the correct answer, "No."

The dark Alex grinned, "Good. So now the question is, do you want to die before you watch me kill your parents or do you want to burn to death inside the house when I light it on fire. There is always a chance that someone might save you. Of course the other choice is that you prove that you're a real monster."

Piers' brain latched onto the important detail, "How?"

"I'm glad that you asked. I'm going to hunt down the Dursleys after I kill your parents. I'm going to cook Dudley. I need a taste tester that can tell me house delicious he is."

"You're sick."

"You're not doing a very good job convincing me you're a monster. Do you want to live or not?"

Piers whimpered, "Yes."

"Excellent I think this is the start of a very fun hunting trip. I bet your 'friend's' will be so surprised when we hunt them down and you eat them. It might take months for you to eat them all but I think you're up for the task." She sighed as he passed out, "Blah, ruin my fun." She used her wand to conjure a spear and enervate him.

Piers shrieked, "Leave me alone!"

"You're not innocent but you're not enough of a monster. So I guess I'll feed you to Dudley. It's probably better this way as I'm fairly sure that he'll eat anything."

"Please!"

"I bet a lot of kids said that as you hit them." She used an entrails expelling curse on him then waited for his pain to fade for a couple of seconds before ramming the spear up his ass. She cast a dark spell on Piers that would keep him mostly alive and conscious for another hour. She turned to look at where Bellatrix was fingering herself while holding the video camera, "Even mind wiped you're a disturbing bitch."

Bellatrix smiled, "But I'm your bitch Master."

The dark Alex grinned as she flicked her wand at the car and set it ablaze. "We've probably got another ten minutes before we have to get back so we can finish cooking your sister and ex-brother in-law for the party tonight. I want to make sure she's got enough time to absorb the poison in the marinate." If the poison wasn't enough to kill the Death Eaters than the dark curses she was placing on the 'food' should be.

"Don't you think they'll be suspicious that the roast is human shaped?"

"Nah, we'll just tell them that we caught a couple of muggles."

"Okay." Bellatrix asked, "Then do we get to kill the muggles on your list?"

"Yep, I've got a long list of acceptable targets."

"What then?"

The dark Alex smirked as she used Harry's metamorhmagus abilities to change to look like Narcissa Malfoy. "Then we set up a roasting business in Knockturn Alley using your dead copies while we work on creating an army with the rest."

Bellatrix said, "I bet they'll be tasty boss."

The dark Alex smirked as she walked over and pulled Bellatrix in for a kiss, "We've got a couple of minutes, shall I fuck you like an animal while we watch him burn?"

"You say the nicest things Master."


Hermione asked, "Are you sure about this?"

Harry said, "No but this is what she wanted and Ginny is already in the library. I'm still surprised that she's willing to jump worlds with us."

Hermione said, "Considering how much Molly nags her about finding a proper boyfriend I'm not. Are we ready?"

"We've got the mundane school supplies and we've got enough food to last years as long as we're careful with stasis charms. There is nothing holding us here."

Hermione asked, "Do you think that leaving the dark Alex alive was the best call?"

"She swore not to hurt innocents or have her people hurt innocents or hire people to hurt them. We left a fall back plan with Tonks just in case things don't pan out using the dark Alex. She seemed pretty eager to go after the Death Eaters. It should be fine Hermione." He was really hoping that they could take Alex with them like she had promised. He was also hoping that they didn't screw things up completely.

In that case hold on and don't let go."

Harry grabbed Hermione's hand.

Hermione held on tight to Harry as she tried to shift. She felt the same pressure that she had felt the first time she had tried to take Harry to the library. She pushed against the pressure and put her all into bringing him over.

Harry did his best to ignore the pins and needles in limbs as Hermione pushed against whatever force was trying to keep him in the world. He blacked out for a moment as a wave of pain swept over him.

Harry groaned as he woke up in the misty place between jumps. "Did it work?"

The slightly older Harry snorted, "Alex is safely in the library and is free of the dark taint. You didn't fracture your soul this time, so I'm calling it a win."

Harry relaxed, "Good, wait, fracture my soul?"

"Trying to get to her library isn't a good idea right now. Eventually you'll figure out a better way but for now, best if you don't pull that stunt again without do consideration."

Harry asked, "What's next?"

"I suspect that you'll kick yourself but I could be wrong."

"Why?"

"Because you walked off with a couple of hundred people in card form." The older Harry smirked.

Harry rubbed his face in frustration as he realized that in all the confusion and last minute details he had forgotten about the people, "Damn it."

The older Harry smirked, "Ah well, I'm sure you'll figure out something to do with them."

"What's the next world like?"

The older Harry said, "Do you want the good news or the bad news?"

"How about some good news for a change?"

"Your first major task won't happen for a couple of years which means that you'll have plenty of time to shore up your mundane education, fuck the girls and have some fun. Take a breather and see a shrink, you need it."

Harry grumbled, "By that I'm assuming that there are more tasks after the first."

The older Harry smirked, "Yep."

"What's the first task?"

The older Harry smirked, "That's part of the bad news, you have to kill a god and prevent the destruction of the multiverse."

"Did you say God?"

"No, I said a god. The other one doesn't exist. Don't worry, you'll know it when you see it or not as the case may be."

Harry asked, "Can you cut the cryptic shit?"

"Well I could but then I'd have to kill you and that just gets messy."

"Really?"

The older Harry looked at the younger Harry, "No. Seriously, take some time and fuck your girls, you need to relax. The cryptic is just because it's fun."

Harry scowled, "You're not my favorite person right now."

"I'm not my favorite person all the time either."

Harry asked, "What was the other Alex?"

"A combination of Alex's darkness, the darkness you brought in with a seed from Riddle that let it all happen. He was pushing anger and rage through the connection ever since the ministry, trying to increase her feelings of guilt over the botched mission."

"Great... and I let her go."

The older Harry shrugged, "She's not going to hurt innocent people, she's too much like Alex for that. If you had went in to finish Riddle off Alex would likely be dead or worse. You did what you could and that world will have far less problems for a long time because of it."

"Anything I should know about the next world?"

"You cannot die my friend, you have the blood of kings!"

Harry had enough time to wonder what the hell the other Harry was talking about before he found himself waking up.


Alex smirked as she looked around the library, "I'd say it worked."

Ginny tossed herself at Alex, "Are you okay? Are you, you?"

Alex caught Ginny and hugged her, "I'm okay. I feel fantastic actually. I've got quite a few of Harry's memories but I'm good." She looked at Hermione, "Hi..."

Hermione smiled, "You are gorgeous. Sorry..."

Alex looked around the cluttered library. "This place is awesome."

Hermione said, "It's actually pretty cool. We're still finding secret passages."

Alex smiled as she pulled out Moody's magical eye, "Do you want some help with that?"

Hermione stared at the blue eye in her hand, "You didn't give it back?"

"Blame Harry. I just got control of my body back and he left it in his pocket." She looked around, "Where is he?"

Hermione said, "Hopefully he's in the next world. It might take a couple of hours for him to call or it might only take a couple of minutes."

Puck giggled as she walked through the isles of books that Dobby hadn't gotten to yet. "Until then you can help us organize."

Alex turned and looked at Puck, even knowing what to expect from Harry's memories it was still odd to see yet another Hermione copy, "You really do look a lot like Hermione."

Puck said, "That's because I'm my world's Hermione. I'm Puck Hermione Granger. Pleased to meet you."

Alex said, "I'm Alexandra Lily Potter for the record. I know who everyone is now, I've got a lot of Harry's memories..." She trailed off.

Hermione asked, "Something the matter?"

"Okay, if you woke up as a guy wouldn't you play with the equipment at least once?"

Hermione stared at her, "Wait are you telling me that he didn't?"

Alex shook her head, "No, I'm sort of offended and pleased an just mystified."

Puck snickered, "I want to play with your equipment."

Alex turned and looked over Puck's naked body, "You do, eh?"

Puck licked her lips, "I want to lick you, I want to touch that creamy smooth skin, I run my fingers through your crimson hair while you suck on my tits and tickle my bits." She looked over at Ginny and gave her a smile, "I want to fuck your girl from behind while you watch her scream in ecstasy. I want your mouth on my lips," Puck touched her crotch to show which lips she was talking about before slipping a finger inside, "while your girl sends you to the moon." She slipped her finger out and back in. "I want to pin you to the bed while we drink our fill." She looked at Ginny and licked her lips. "I want to watch you dance on a table while a dozen girls fuck themselves watching your breasts bounce. I want to fondle your breasts while Hermione makes you scream with her tongue. I want so many things but I'll settle for a kiss." She brought her juice covered finger up to her lips and ran her tongue over it.

Alex stared at Puck, "Fuck me."

Puck grinned, "Only if Ginny helps."

Ginny asked, "Bed?"

Hermione transfigured the table into a bed.

Alex smiled as she pulled her dress off then fell backwards onto the bed with her arms spread, she winked at Puck, "I want you to lick my tits, touch my bits and finger fuck me till I see stars."

Hermione pulled her shirt off and tossed it onto the table. "Ginny?"

Ginny looked at Hermione, "Yeah?"

"I want to strip you, I want to touch you and I want to fuck you."

Ginny laughed as she decided to worry about the reality of things later, "I want your hands on my ass, I want your knee between my legs, I want to slip and slide. I want to fuck you like there is no tomorrow."

Luna for her part quietly worked the camera as the girls worked on relieving stress and in Alex's case a lot of pent up emotion.

Dobby was very glad that he had plenty of work on the other side of the library.


Hermione reached out and poked Harry's shoulder, "Wake up Harry, we're landing shortly."

Harry blinked a couple of times as he found himself somewhere other than the ghostly realm, "What's going on? Where are we?" He glanced around and realized that they were on a muggle airplane, something that he had never been on but something that he recognized from television.

Hermione snickered softly, "We're about ten minutes from Sunnydale."

Harry was just about to ask where that was when he realized that Hermione looked a touch too young to be his Hermione, not much but enough that it was noticeable. "Ah good..."

Hermione said excitedly, "It's a great opportunity." She lowered her voice, "Normal high school and special training on the side, a new start in a different country without the Ministry screwing things up."

Harry sighed, "It's never that simple." He was hoping that she would give him a couple more pieces to go on because not knowing where he was exactly was frustrating.

Hermione whispered, "We've been over this, the town is a nexus of magic, it makes it virtually impossible for the Americans to monitor things. Not that they are nearly as crazy as the British about such things."

Harry asked, "I think I've been in a bit of a daze lately because this isn't adding up... your parents?"

Hermione put her hand on Harry's forehead then whispered, "You don't have a temp, did you borrow my wand and obliviate yourself while I was sleeping?"

Harry asked, "Why would I do that?"

Hermione frowned as she realized that Harry didn't seem to know why he was supposed to be upset, "This discussion can probably wait until we're not trapped in an airplane."

Harry sighed then whispered, "You're probably right, if I obliviated myself it can't be a good thing." A botched obliviate spell seemed like a decent excuse until he could figure out what was going on and why he was on a plane over America.

Thankfully it didn't take them all that long to land and depart the plane. "Now what?"

Hermione said, "Now we find Sirius and we unpack."

Harry asked, "Sirius is alive?"

Hermione glanced around and gently hauled Harry to an out of the way nook, "What's the last thing you remember?"

Harry said, "Sorry, things are a little fuzzy."

If Hermione hadn't been watching Harry for the last hour she would have suspected polyjuice or something but he had been physically fine if moody for most of the trip. "Do you remember being attacked by the dementors?"

Harry made a guess that she was talking about fifth year as she looked too old to be a third year. "I got a warning from the Ministry for that..."

Hermione sighed, "Yes and they found you guilty because Mrs. Figg couldn't properly describe a dementor. They snapped your wand..."

Harry felt a bit like someone had kicked him in the gut. "That part I don't remember."

Hermione sighed, "Without a wand there was little point in going back to Hogwarts. Mrs. Weasley wanted to wait and have Dumbledore fix things. Ron thought it was a great excuse not to have classes and that it wouldn't be long before you got another wand. Dumbledore wanted you to press on and attend classes and everything even though you didn't have a wand. He even suggested something like doubling up on potions because you could still make potions..."

Harry stared at her, "That's mental. I'd have killed someone inside of a week or two."

"That's what Sirius said. You really don't remember any of this do you?"

Harry said, "Nope, I remember showing up at the trial then..."

Hermione sighed, "We're going to need to have Sirius look at your head. After they snapped your wand you sort of sunk into depression and got whiny..."

"Thanks..."

Hermione smiled, "It's understandable. Long story short Sirius decided that there were better places to live, places where the government didn't try to smear a fifteen year old young man for telling the truth about a madman coming back from the dead. I talked to my parents and they agreed to sell their practice and join us in America."

Harry asked, "Why here?"

"A couple of reasons, dentists make a lot more over here. There's a dark nexus here, it prevents all sorts of outside tracking spells. It should keep the British ministry and the order away from us."

"Dark nexus?"

"They're places were dark magic bleeds through from elsewhere. They attract all sorts of nasty monsters. None of this is ringing a bell? I know that Lupin mentioned them back in third year. Ah, well."

Harry asked, "I don't remember that. As much as I hate asking, what about school?"

Hermione smirked, "Mundane high school, Sirius and Tonks are going to tutor us on magic privately."

Harry sighed in relief, "Good, a fresh start away from things sounds good. Ron?"

"He said he'd be rubbish and that his parents would never let him go. That and Mrs. Weasley would have told Dumbledore which would have screwed everything up. He doesn't actually know where we were going, just that we're going to take muggle classes. I'm pretty sure he figures we're in London or somewhere like that."

Harry sighed, "It's going to be weird without him but maybe it will give him a chance to shine."

Hermione asked, "Are you still mad because he didn't believe you about the tournament?"

Harry considered and realized that he really wasn't angry at Ron anymore or at least not this Ron. The horcrux had obviously idled his head caused him to do something that wouldn't have happened otherwise. "Nah, I'm okay. I'm just trying to figure out the next step."

Sirius smirked as he walked up, "The next step is we head to the house and get you unpacked."

Harry spun and looked at Sirius, "Hi."

Sirius smirked, "How was your flight Harry, Jane?"

Harry blinked as Hermione answered, "Good but I think Harry obliviated himself."

Sirius looked at Harry, "What do you mean?"

Jane 'Hermione' Granger whispered, "He didn't remember that his wand was snapped or much of anything pass going to the trial."

Sirius asked, "Can I do the same? That way I wouldn't have to remember either."

Jane scowled, "It's not funny, memory spells are dangerous."

Harry said, "I'll be fine, you might just have to fill me in for a little while."

Sirius said, "Let's go, I rented a car."

"You can drive?" Harry felt a shiver run down his spine.

He whispered, "It can't be that hard, muggles do it all the time."

Harry coughed, "Ah..."

Sirius laughed at Harry's expression, "Relax Harry, I actually have a license, Lily made me get one years ago. Of course they drive on the wrong side of the road here but we should be fine."

Jane said, "You're not filling me with confidence."

Sirius laughed, "What's the worst that could happen?"


Sirius saw a blur then felt the car lurch as they hit something or someone. He hit the breaks and came to a stop and realized that there was someone hurt in the road. "Shit." He was just glad that he had only been going twenty five or so. "Stay here." He got out of the car to check on the injured guy only for the guy to get up and jump at him. He apparated back to the car and drew his wand. "Vampire."

The vampire looked at the guy with the thin stick that had teleported or something, "What the hell?"

He pointed his wand at the vampire, "Incendio."

Harry stared as Sirius's spell lit the guy on fire and then turned him to ash, "What the hell?"

Jane rolled her eyes, "You didn't read the documents that Sirius showed up with did you?"

"What?"

Sirius pointed his wand at the front of the rental, "Repairo." He smiled as the dent in the hood smoothed back out.

Jane said, "Dark nexuses are gathering places for monsters and ravenous vampires."

Harry sighed, "Right. Because a quiet normal vacation was too much to ask for."

Jane said, "It'll be fun and we get to take real classes and learn magic on the side. The best part is that I don't have to deal with any Slytherins."

Sirius got back in the car, "Sorry about that. Apparently the Americans weren't joking about there being a vampire problem."

Harry zoned out as Sirius continued driving. 'I need to get a wand as soon as I can.'

Five minutes later Sirius pulled up to a Mansion, "Home sweet home."

Harry stared at the large mansion, "You bought this?"

"It needs some repairs but that just means it was cheap and we've got magic which means we can have things repaired in a couple of hours that would take months."

Jane said, "That should give us plenty of room for a library."

Harry smiled, "Maybe this whole adventure won't be so bad." He wanted to get settled in so that he could call Hermione so that he could get one of his wands at least until he could pick up another.