Chapter 22

Harry had asked a couple of portraits directions for the headmasters office and stood in front of the gargoyle guarding it.

"Blood pops."

The gargoyle jumped to the side and a staircase rose from the floor in a spiral, Harry jumped on one of the steps and let the magic take him up with Emma fidgeting as they finally reached the door to the headmasters office.

Harry reached a hand up and was about to knock when Dumbledore's voice calls out to him.

"Come in Harry my boy."

Harry held back a snort at the old man's theatrics and pushed the door open, the room was similar to the man that resided in it, a large assortment of books and items that seemed to serve a purpose yet one could not prove what they did. A short staircase led to a large mahogany desk which Dumbledore sat behind, filled with paperwork.

Behind that was even more book shelves and another set of staircases that Harry guessed lead to Dumbledore's private quarters, finally a large perch which held a glorious red and gold colored bird that seemed to radiate life and warmth to Harry's senses.

"What brings you to my office today Harry?"

Emma had moved over to the bird perch and both the bird and Emma stared into each others eyes not blinking in until with a huff, Emma pads back over to Harry and nudges him towards the bird making Dumbledore chuckle in amusement.

Harry let Emma push him until he stood infront of the bird and just like Emma, stared deep into the bird's eyes, then with a feeling like falling backwards after slipping, Harry finds himself lying on his back in a snow covered plain. He quickly jumps to his feet and finds that he's in his true form, fully armed and armored Harry thought that this was similar to his trail he took before coming to Hogwarts, then a voice speaks from behind him making him spin and look at the one who grabbed his attention.

The figure was a man of decent height, six foot give or take an inch, he was of a darker complexion almost as dark as the void between stars, bright golden eyes stared at Harry, bright red and gold robes covered the man leading to Harry to make his next sentence ring with truth.

"So I'm guessing that you are the bird in Dumbledore's office and we are no in my mind."

"Yes, though I am known as a phoenix, my name is Fawks, it's a pleasure to meet you lord Potter."

As Harry was about to enter another figure joined them, Harry turned and he saw someone he had never seen before but could tell how it was immediately.

She stood up to his shoulder putting her at fifteen feet, her hair was white and appeared to almost glow, her skin was white to the point of almost blending in with the snow, her ice blue eyes carried flecks of emerald in them, she wore furs and skins in thick layers and worn in the style of Fenris.

"Emma, how did you get here?"

Emma simply huffs at Harry before pulling him down to hug her pup.

"If you think I'm going to leave you with the flaming chicken pup, then I need to start reminding you who I am."

Harry just chuckles at Emma's words and hugs her back, Fawks just shook his head at the wolf's antics, but he wouldn't begrudge a mother watching over her pup.

After pulling away from the hug, Harry turns to look at Fawks and finally address the current issue.

"So why have you pulled me here?"

Fawks motions towards the plains.

"I thought this environment would be better suited for the conversation we need to have and the fact it will help to keep you calm."

Harry makes no move to acknowledge Fawks words and Emma simply rolled her eyes at the fire chickens antics.

"The fool known as Tom Riddle or his better known title, Voldemort, invoked some dark magic to stay alive."

As Fawks talked a few plinth with a large mirror popped out of the ground and started to show images of a forest glad and a very familiar portal to Harry and Emma.

"He called on beings so ancient that not even I know their origins."

From the portal a large bloated green hand stretches out from the portal and taps Voldemort on his head, and pulls out an ethereal version of the man now on the ground, another bloated hand reaches out and starts to rip the ethereal form apart.

Creating seven different chunks of the man, one piece was placed back into the man, leading to his form twisting and changing, becoming malnourished and pale, almost as if he had died and was decomposing. The six other pieces where placed in objects that had been laid infront of the portal, as the thing begins to return through the portal, Voldemort stands up, and his face looked like that of a skull.

His eyes were like burning embers and his veins appeared as if they carried black sludge through his veins instead of blood.

The plinth sunk back into the ground and left no sign it had ever been there, Harry and Emma simple stared at the space the image had been.

"As you can see, Voldemort is not truly dead and had made a deal that is yet to be filled, I ask that you see this never be accomplished."

Harry didn't even look at Fawks, he simply pulls out his wand and lets it change into a staff, then with energy burning in his eyes, Harry turns and loos into Fawks eyes, and asks a simple question.

"Where are those items and where is his souls shard?"

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As Dumbledore watched Harry, Fawks, and Emma freeze as they had a connection of minds, he couldn't help but be worried, it had been over half a century since Fawks had done this, and the last time this happened, they had just barley managed to stop Slytherin's monster from closing the school.

Albus knew that if Fawks was doing this then something different from previous years was happening and that it could lead to the loss of many lives.

As Albus was about to see if he could join in on their conversation, he was alerted to someone coming up the stairs and waiting at his door.

"Do come in Prof. Belica, Prof. Snape."

The door swung open and in walked and amused looking Belica and a rather wet and soggy looking Snape, Albus was almost tempted to chuckle at the sour look on the poor man's face, but he wouldn't.

"What happened to you Serverus?"

With a glance at Belica Snape simply straightened up and tried to act as nonchalant as possible.

"I simply fell into the lake while I was taking a walk around the grounds, I have also seemed to have lost my wand, so if you would headmaster."

Albus pulled out his wand and with a flick, dried Snape out, Snape of course brushed himself off and with a nod turns and walks towards the door, but Belica stops him.

"Aren't you forgetting something Bat?"

The stiffing of Snape's shoulders would have almost made one think his shoulders were made of stone, Snape turned around and then spoke quickly.

"It had come to our attention that young mister Malfoy had caused an issue during Prof. Belica's class and subsequently was sent to the hospital wing. He was uninjured but then proceeded to lie to myself and several others about what happened."

Albus raised an eyebrow at this, he already knew what had happened being tied to the wards, but to hear Severus actually admit to it was a surprise, even after what Belica did to him, Albus thought Severus would rebel or tried to have him fired.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I need to deal with Mister Malfoy and replace my wand."

With that Snape quickly left the office, and Belica simply chuckled at the parting bat.

As Dumbledore went to admonish Belica, a wave of power washed over them, turning to the origin of the wave, and there stood Harry with the image of a giant man in armor outlining him with Emma also having an image of a large wolf outlining her.

"Harry my boy, what's wrong what happened?"

Harry didn't react for a few seconds before with what seemed to be considerable effort, Harry seemed to reign his power in before Harry turned to address Albus.

"Your phoenix just gave me some information that changes every thing."

Harry then turned to Belica and with a voice filled with authority he said.

"Call the legion, we have a taint to cleanse from this place."