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HARRY
POTTER
AND THE
CURSE OF THE LYING PROPHECY
PART 1
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HARRY POTTER
AND THE CURSE OF THE LYING PrOPHECY
(FAN FICTION BASED ON THE WORKS OF
J.K. ROWLING)
TEJ
RAVAL
CONCEPT BY: NAVJOT SINGH
& DEEPAK DAWER
Gratitude for the man who brought the cover picture to life
and had been a constant companion, Jaideep Sherry.
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THE CURSE OF THE LYING PROPHECY
TEAM'S NOTE:
THE AUTHOR:
- Tej Raval
-Navjot Singh
THE ENHANCER:
-Deepak Dawer
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PROLOGUE
‚Where?‛
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‚Yeah, I just thought maybe it was…‛ Curtis left his words
incomplete joining Jake in moving ahead.
‚What stories?‛
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‚Famous, eh?‛
‚Or infamous, whatever. Now let’s get the krimps and get
out of here before we catch someone’s sight.‛ Curtis
adjusted the bag on his shoulder and moved ahead.
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‚Well, we can do something about that,‛ said Jake pulling
out his wand, ‚Lumos maxima!‛
A sound came from near the bushes they just walked past
simulating both of them to be alert. Jake quickly put his
wand back allowing darkness to take over again.
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take a look on what was happening around. As soon as he
scanned the dark view in front of him, a ray of mild light
stuck his eyes with the sound getting louder and before he
could understand or reason anything, a giant lantern
appeared from behind of the bushes beneath a fellow tree
which was held by a figure even larger than the lantern
with his face shining in the yellow light.
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wouldn’t ever send you here for a freakin' crop so stop lyin’
to me and gimme your bags.‛
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***
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‚I…I sure will….‛ He said after staring at Luna for a few
seconds realizing there was not much he could do about his
son’s punishment and being a ministry of magic member
did not seem to make a difference either. He looked at both
the boys standing in the corner while Luna got busy into
writing some letters on her desk. Getting up slowly, he put
on his hat and settled his coat while Luna turned her
attention back to him.
Jake felt humiliated and his look to Curtis made it clear that
he blamed him and his father for all of this. Both of them
were about to leave when Luna stopped them. ‚And by the
way you will both be costing 50 points each to your house,
unfortunately.‛
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Jake stormed out of the chamber followed by nervous steps
of Curtis as Luna continued with her letters.
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CHAPTER ONE
UNUSUAL INTUITIONS
‚Lily, get your head out of that phone for a minute and
help me out here. The cookies are ready, take them out.‛
Ginny said in a loud tone from kitchen.
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‚He’s washing the plates today. Now come here and help
me, Lily.‛ Ginny almost yelled while pouring the soup.
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and Lily . Of whom, James had graduated from Hogwarts
and went to Romania for studying dragons. Albus Severus
Potter was about to begin his final year at Hogwarts the
following year while Lily, her fifth. The trio of Harry, Ron
and Hermione had been living their lives full of stories to
tell.
‚You look a bit off today. What’s the matter?‛ Harry held
Ginny from behind gripping over her shoulders followed
by her waist, smelling the fragrance off her beautifully red
hair.
‚Well, that was my life for about two decades of it. Quite
an experience there,‛ Harry giggled, ‚Tell me, Gin. What’s
wrong?‛
‚Bad dreams.‛
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unpleasant.‛
‚No, Harry! It’s not that I know it. It just makes me feel
abandoned and depressed all of a sudden and I don’t even
know why!?‛
***
{A Week Later}
The sun was almost set when the lobbies of the ministry of
magic were crowded once again for the day was to end and
all the employees left their desks to leave for home; except
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for a few. A meeting was announced about an hour ago
which was still going on in the conference hall. People from
Aurors and wizardry research departments were present
including the head of auror department, Ron and minister
of magic, Harry himself. Harry was standing with the
support of his chair while the fat man sitting in the farthest
left corner to him spoke overlapping all other voices.
"Well look who's talking," Ron said, "The man who couldn't
keep his balance on his broom because the stick shoved up
his butt." The entire room giggled. The man gave a terrible
look and fell silent.
"Oh no, Minister," spoke a tall, thin and brown haired man
on the table, "Please do not mistake it to be just herbs. They
can do a lot more stuff than we can think of. We have learnt
about this in wandlore. They are used for several causes,
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like curing snakebite wounds, resurrecting damaged
wands, make various potions,..."
"Oh, yes, yes actually that's the most common use we make
of it although it is too rare and expensive but we at
Ollivanders have used it quite a few times for our
customers, one of them being Mr. Weasley a few years
back." He now wore a smile as he expected Harry to be
impressed by the information he gave. Ron looked down in
embarrassment.
"So Joseph, how many krimps are exactly needed for each
wand?" Harry folded up his sleeves making everyone
realize that the meeting was not going to finish anytime
soon.
"Five or maybe ten if the damage is severe."
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"Actually, Ms. Eades is right, we should be focusing on
some other reasons for the cause, it might be something
terrible." Bradshaw said.
"No it's not easy, but whoever's doing it, is...-" Harry took
his eyes off everyone trying to arrange things in his mind.
"I bloody wish you are thinking the same and wishing it's
not true." Harry turned to him.
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"I don't know, mate. But I do know that you destroyed it at
your own hands, and it could be one heck of a deal to
resurrect it."
Harry took out his wand and waved it all over the room,
shutting down the curtains and locking the door. Ron lit up
the lamps with his lighter.
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‚-…Sir! It says URGENT.‛ She almost yelled at her boss, ‚I
read its cover...I did not mean to, but…‛
Harry took the piece of paper from her hand cutting her off
in between. As soon as he touched the fold to open, it got
snatched from between his fingers and floated mid air in
front of him. Ron and others got up from their chairs.
Harry moved a couple of steps back as the paper caught
red flames and sobbing voice of Lily, his fifteen year old
daughter echoed in the room.
After Lily’s cry, the red flames swallowed the paper and
burnt it to ashes which fell on Harry’s shaking feet. Every
person in the room including Ron who struggled to figure
out his own reaction were baffled and left in shock. Harry’s
body language changed drastically in a matter of seconds
and sweat took over his already tired face. His feet
suddenly felt heavy, his mind was going numb with the
thought of what might've happened to Ginny. He grabbed
his stick, the one he used while walking, which he rested
on the table on his side of the desk and prepared to leave
right when Ron interrupted him.
***
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"I was upstairs with Lily, helping her with her holiday
potions assignments when I heard mom calling out my
name to open the door." Albus sat in front of Ron in the
bedroom upstairs, "But I didn't answer."
"So any chance you saw who actually did that? Any
glimpses or appearances that you caught? Anything?" Ron
asked.
All three of them moved down to the room Ginny was in.
Harry just took his seat in fron of her after placing a pillow
on the back of her head when they entered the room. Albus
sat on the corner of the bed near his mother's feet, Ron took
a seat next to Harry and Hermione stood opposite to the
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bed. Ginny was barely awake and weak. She had a lot of
bandadges on her body from the multiple wounds she
received by the broken glass of the bedroom window when
the attack occurred.
"What? Cho Chang did this to you?" Ron fired his questions
again.
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"She..." Ginny turned her head to Harry, "She used the
legilimancy spell, took away a lot...-' she was further
interrupted by her own coughing.
"A long story." Hermione said while Ron left the room
following Harry.
"No you don't," Ron came forward looking him in the eye,
"we do."
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CHAPTER TWO
THE VEIN'S PREY
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"I know you, Harry Potter. You're the biggest of all those
freaks ain't ya?" Hansen said in a disgusted tone, "but what
brings you here to my door Mr. Potter?"
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"What the fu-"
***
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scars on Ginny's body pained him as if they were his own.
Ever since the attack, he was feeling more insecure than
ever. It was his family's safety that had been compromised
and he had been able to find no clue on it. Only things he
knew about the incident were those he was given handy by
the culprit himself. He decided to take a few days off the
ministry work and be home with Ginny to look after her
recovery.
"It's fine if you're not, Gin. It's not the first time they're
going to Hogwarts." Harry said.
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Harry got up putting down the pillow he held in his hand
on the bed. He went closer to the fireplace to figure out the
dialler of the head-only floo network on the other end.
"It's me- Ron. Harry, we need you here right now. If Albus
and Lilly can be with Ginny for a while..."
"What happened?"
"I'm coming." Harry said staring into the fire, shaking with
both, anger and fear.
***
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said walking besides him and pushing the door inside as
they arrived, to let Harry in.
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"WHY!?" He yelled.
"I DON'T KNOW!" Cho cried out her tears that were
getting uncontrollable now. She sobbed painfully. Harry
took a moment to calm himself and continued.
"What's the last memory that you have, Cho!?" Harry asked
in a louder tone pointing his wand at her.
"I don't remember a thing," Cho sobbed heavily, "I felt like I
was asleep...since no idea when...and then suddenly I woke
up when they grabbed me...and put me here. I feel like I
did something horrible... But I don't know anything about
it. I don't know me, I don't know you, I don't know
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anything!"
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voice.
"I did what I had to do, Mr. Bradshaw." Valor said in a cold
voice.
"Oh is that so? You did what you had to do eh, what's with
all the aggressive spells and stuff you come up with every
time in a situation, is it just you or does it come naturally
when being raised by a goddamn death eater!" Bradshaw
growled.
"Shut it, Bradshaw. It has nothing to do with his past. It's all
history and he's twice as good as you are." Ron interrupted.
"Of course, Mr. Minister." Valor said sliding out the black
colored wand with a short handle.
"What?"
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"You're right. It's more than enough." Harry stared away.
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CHAPTER THREE
NO ONE, NOWHERE
"So?"
"So, I don't want you out there in the open. We still don't
know who did this to you."
"But?"
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Harry asked her to change quickly and walked out of the
front door towards the car with an arguably successful
attempt of controlling his smile. Albus and Lily were
already in the car.
"It's time now, dad. We should really leave now. Rosy and
Hugo are already there." Lily said as Harry walked up to
the car.
***
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"It only seems like yesterday when we got in this train for
the very first time, doesn't it?" Hermione said.
"Weasley." He nodded.
"By the way, if you might know, there's been a lot of krimp
theft news these days." Harry spoke to Draco again.
"Yeah. Well, don't let this out but, the attacks were made
using a dummy. And it was Cho Chang. She did it." Harry
said.
"Yeah, he's right. She also killed two of the aurors while
breaking into the ministry who were working on the
krimps case and we still don't know how she broke in." Ron
came back to a serious note.
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"I will see if I can find anything. Scorpius won't be here
now so I don't have much to do. I could help." Draco said.
"Nothing. Just, uh, keep your eyes open. I don't think it's
just about you alone. This compromises the safety of whole
wizarding world. Attack on the minister's closed ones
doesn't indicate anything much different than that." Draco
finished saying what might be an altered version of
whatever he was to say before.
"Hey come on, it's time." Hermione called out for the men
as the train whistled, indicating departure time.
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a few steps, Harry realized that it took Draco far more than
normal time to get through the breach.
The moment Draco was hit with it, his body instantly
developed slits on his skin and the Malfoy blood was
spilled on the floor within seconds. He soaked in blood and
collapsed immediately.
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immediately holding a stretcher and helped Draco to get on
and took him away.
"Are you okay, Mr. Minister?" A man from the crowd came
forward and asked.
"Except what?"
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"Oh my god!" Ginny exclaimed, "This is...how is this...I
don't..."
"That it was stolen. From her mind. Wasn't it?" Ron asked,
figuring out the whole situation.
"Yes. When you were attacked, Cho must have used the
legilimency spell on you. You said you saw a lot of things
from your memories in a flash, didn't you? Was this a part
of it?" Harry asked.
"I'm not sure, but maybe it was. It did feel strange after I
gained consciousness." Said Ginny.
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"What? No! Of course, no, Harry you can't just go alone to
Hogwarts, I'm going with you." Ron spotted the worrying
firmness in Harry's voice.
"I need you guys to stick together. Ron, I need you to stay
here and protect Ginny and Hermione. I'm going to
Hogwarts anyway. It's much safer there. Also, I'll be able to
see if I can find something about the krimps. And I'll see
the kids too, and warn them to stay away from danger
maybe." Harry convinced his family to let him go.
"No, Ginny. This is the first clue we have ever since it all
started and that too when the culprit himself gave it to us. I
can not risk your safety once again and let him make a fool
of ourselves!"
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CHAPTER FOUR
HOGWARTS
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the years since he left Hogwarts, he had visited only a few
times on occasions of work. However last time Harry
visited there, Hagrid had grown even more salts between
the peppers on his head and beard. This time, Harry had
decided he would not miss anything out and he knew
exactly where to start with as he arrived in front of
Hagrid's hut. He adjusted his overcoat a little and resettled
the stick in his hand which was almost frozen to his palm.
He closed his eyes for a second and then walked towards it
only to find an oversized lock hanging on the door of the
house of an oversized man.
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"Glad to see you, Neville." Harry said reaching up to him
and hugging him.
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warned the kids well. It's been pretty quiet for two weeks."
Neville walked Harry to towards the main lift to office.
"Of course, they wouldn't want you to. One of them was a
fourth year Hufflepuff, Nubian. And the other was Jake
McNair, a fifth year Slytherin." Neville said, supporting
himself as the lift moved up.
"When did you say you caught them? Any exact day?"
"I told him about it." Neville said to Luna, looking down.
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"Yeah, and I'm not very happy about it. When were you
guys going to tell me all this?" Harry spoke to both of them,
"There's so much more than wrong going on with
Hogwarts and you've never even sent an owl."
"No, Harry. It's not that bad." Neville tried to justify, "We
have been trying to find the cause and we never let thing
escalate more than that. We at Hogwarts here are capable
of protecting it. We didn't want the kids and parents to
panic by sudden intervention of the ministry in school
matters."
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"Room of requirements? That's all the way up to seventh
floor, but do you think it will show up?" Neville asked.
***
Harry and Neville stood by the door and took a look at the
class of defence against dark arts where Harry was able to
have a little glimpse of Lily amidst the children. The father-
daughter duo exchanged smiles and then Harry moved
ahead. They spent quite a few hours wandering around in
the lobbies and watching students enhancing and
mastering the magic in them. It was no less than a ride to
the olden days for Harry. Neville even took him to the
flying class of third years who were learning the advanced
principles of Quidditch.
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"Well it is an honor, students, to introduce you to the
greatest seeker of his time, to which Madame Hooch shall
agree, Harry James Potter!" Neville was quite excited about
the day, "Oh and he's also the current minister of magic,
did I miss that?"
"There they come." Harry said, spotting his son from far
away, coming forward.
"Why?"
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"Draco wrote to us about it. He didn't want Scorpius to be
worried. He wouldn't be able to do anything anyway."
"Work." Harry said, "How have your days been till now?"
***
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Finally after visiting all the classes and corridors, they
arrived on the seventh floor corridor and before they could
reach the front wall, the room of requirements presented
itself on it as soon as Harry and Neville came nearer. Harry
pushed the old door inside after decades.
"I don't think so." Harry said looking at the insides of room
of requirements, destroyed and messed up in all corners.
The cupboards were broken and burnt, so were the walls.
There was not a single inch of floor visible as it was
drowned in the pieces of wood and paper as well as sand.
The room had never been in this condition ever before.
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"Yes...legilimency was practiced over Ginny when she was
attacked. And to make this place look like this...it's
definitely someone from the inside."
"Yeah...yes.."
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"Where's Hagrid?"
"Harry?"
‚Yeah?"
"I need to send an owl first and then I'm going to see
Hagrid. Don't tell Luna about the room."
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***
"So how's yer day been like?" Hagrid settled on his giant
couch.
"Brilliant." Harry said gulping down his tea, "In fact, the
best part was a completely messed up room of
requirements."
"I don't know. I'm just a lot scared." Harry stared into
nothingness.
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"Scared? Harry, yer the greatest wizard alive in the
wizarding world. And I knew it right from the time I
carried ya on my bike when you were as tiny as a dragon's
egg. Everybody knew the day would come when Harry
Potter will lead them into glory and these days are exactly
those. So that doesn't give you right to be scared, Harry.
You were chosen to live, not to die. So don't think that
way."
"I saw him, Hagrid." Harry looked at Hagrid, "I saw him in
front of me. I was there when he attacked Draco. I could
feel those vibes. He's not some punk trying to humiliate
me. Both the attacks were serious ones and there's no way I
could ignore that. Everyone involved in it is someone I've
spend my best days with. Someone's using them against
me."
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"Although I have something to show you, here." Hagrid
handed over Harry a piece of krimp.
"Yeah, I took it from them. They were little kids! What kind
of kid would do that."
"Nah, I'm fine. Just that sometimes I wish I could stay little
forever. And learn about everything from Professor
Dumbledore. You know, having a mentor makes a
difference."
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Harry handed the newspaper to himself trying to look
carefully in the picture that showed Albus Dumbledore's
younger brother Aberforth Dumbledore. He was seen in a
dreadful condition inside some dark room, yelling
something and collapsing on ground. All his hair had gone
white and he looked over a hundred and fifty years old
even by muggle means. Harry took a look at the article
written by Gracy Skywalker, and turned up.
"Yes. All he does since past few years is to take your name
all the time. People used to make fun of him but then
everyone realized it was much more serious. But he doesn't
harm anybody though, he keeps himself locked in his home
and keeps saying your name."
"Who? Aberforth?"
"Yeah."
"What for?"
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"Maybe he has something to tell me. I can use everything I
can get at this moment."
***
"By the way Harry, be careful with that old man." Hagrid
said while walking.
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"Know this, here it is" Hagrid gestured towards the door of
Aberforth's house, "Be careful with him when we're inside,
Harry. You don't know how he's gonna react, he's never
spoken to anyone in years."
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Inside, Aberforth didn't leave Harry's coat that he grabbed
until he threw him on a chair. The room was dimly lit with
only a lantern spreading its light in a very little area. Not
many objects around were visible but the smell of dust in
the air suggested that not many of them had been
disturbed by touch in a long time. Harry felt a little
uncomfortable when he took a proper look at Aberforth
who was now closing the last window ensuring both of
them were alone. He had turned older than his elder
brother ever was and for some reason he was not as healthy
as he used to be. Pounds of weight lost, meters of hair
grown, and here was Aberforth Dumbledore standing in
front of Harry Potter looking at him with a gaze from his
pair of brown eyes beneath his wrinkled forehead. He
walked slowly towards Harry who hadn't said a word
since he entered the house.
"You're the kid who lived and who fought for his
home...Hogwarts, you used to call it your home eh?"
Aberforth's tone went a little low as he stared away, still
close enough to Harry's face to let his beard rest in his lap.
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"Hogwarts will always be my home." Harry spoke firmly.
"You just like everyone else think I'm just a madman who
has caged himself in isolation, don't you?"
"Why don't you tell me what you have to. I know you've
been longing to talk to me. What was it for?"
"No one will die! I'm going to find out who he is and I'm
going to stop him! If you want everyone to be safe then tell
me who he is and where can I find him!" Harry screamed.
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fear is not limited to me... It mustn't be. You must fear him,
Harry or he will make sure you do."
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"It's the last memory of Albus that was kept secret from
you and subsequently the world. It is the memory that
changed everything and he wished me to give this to you
when the time came."
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CHAPTER FIVE
THE BURIED MEMORY
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Dumbledore he didn't know of, he saw Snape who was
always on the side of good despite of what he might have
represented. He saw Albus Dumbledore predicting that he
was a Horcrux and making the decision to sacrifice himself
so that things would go as they were supposed to and
Harry could live. He saw the undying, unconditional love
of Severus Snape for his mother Lily, who married
someone who used to bully Snape. After seeing something
as disturbing and moving as that, Harry now was
completely numb about what could this last secretive
memory could have in store for him. He knew that when it
came to Dumbledore, you can not expect anything much
simple and that made him curious as well as nervous. He
knew it had something to do with the current happenings
and attacks on his family and friends but he was too scared
to find out what it actually was. Maybe because it was
Dumbledore who had a habit of getting Harry's adrenaline
to his knees, even after being dead.
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Harry felt as if he was falling from a great height but
hardly did he feel any surface of impact when the fall
stopped. He wasn't sure where he was exactly because it all
seemed too dark at first. A scene gradually started taking
shape in front of his eyes and he could simultaneously hear
a sound of a sudden blow of wind as if someone just
apparated to the place. The visuals slowly became clear and
it was one of the scenes he was always afraid to watch as it
was a familiar one. He saw a tall man with long white
beard wearing a typical wizard's gown and standing at the
door of the Godric's hollow. Harry recognized both, the
man and the house; only that he was never aware of his
presence that night. He pulled out a cloak and covered
himself inside it, for which he had to bend himself a little
owing to his height. As soon as he put it on, he disappeared
into the fibres of the invisibility cloak. Harry suddenly felt
like he too was inside the cloak, or maybe inside the head
of the man. Albus Dumbledore opened the door and
walked inside the house and Harry could follow him
without realizing he had no physical structure right now.
Dumbledore entered the house's living area which led to
the lobby connecting to the bedroom of the Potters. He
stopped suddenly upon hearing voices from the room. He
went a little bit closer and took his hiding in a dark corner
opposite to the room.
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"Nobody had a clue that he could be the one! But it's done
now, let's just move from here right now, it's not safe Lily."
Said a man of blackish brown hair wearing spectacles.
Lily looked in the eyes of James for a few seconds and then
kissed him, enough to assure him of how much faith she
had in him and his love for their child. She then turned
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around as James began to gather things they would need
before leaving. Lily sat on her knees in front of the tiny bed
inside which little Harry was trying to stand on his feet by
the support of the edges. She looked at her son deep into
his eyes like she had never looked before.
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highly excited particles formed in front of Riddle who was
not sure what was it all about. It was like a shield that
wizards would use in a duel to protect themselves from a
curse or spells, only that it looked much bigger and
stronger than that. Lily cried out loud on watching her
husband's soul getting enveloped inside the green flames
that had just left his body along with his life.
She tried to reach him but before she could make it that far,
Tom Riddle raised his wand again, prepared to penetrate
the shield formed by James' death and kill little Harry in
order to beat the prophecy.
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up and brought his eyes back to Lily who was now trying
to crawl towards the wall in order to pick herself up.
"Avada Kedavra!"
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memory tube fell from his hand on the floor and he did not
care to pick it up. He looked around only to find darkness.
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Harry stopped upon hearing his name and turned around
slowly to find Neville looking at him with a strange face
which probably was due to a similar look on his own face.
He completely ignored Nevile's question and turned
around again and started walking back on his path. Neville
chased him down the lobby, finally catching up and laid a
hand over Harry's shoulder.
"Okay."
"Harry?"
"Yeah?"
"Those students you asked for, they have been told to meet
you in the quidditch dressing room. Rest classes would not
be available and plus, dressing room's a little away from
the main castle so you could use some privacy."
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dimly lit room with some candles. The walls had brown
and black wallpaper and the wall opposite to him was
decorated with various individual portrait frames
including the small ones of the staff members whereas the
ones hanging a little higher than them were a little bigger
in size and they were all the headmasters in the history of
Hogwarts. Harry saw the picture of Luna at the end of the
tail. He kept going up from the tail and walked a few steps
in the room itself. He paused a little over the picture of
Snape which had a little wooden plate beneath it that said
'Severus Snape, Headmaster: 1997-1998'. The Severus in the
portrait behaved just like the real one and just gave a look
to Harry with a stiff face, however, his eyes seemed soft
and deepest Harry had ever looked into. Next to him was
the portrait Harry was not wanting to look at but he had to;
'Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster 1971-1997', it read.
Harry's feet stopped right in front of the old man staring at
him with a mild smile on his wrinkled and bearded face.
His body was shaking, his hormones were clearly not
under his control, he could feel a shiver on his spine and
the heat in his ears. No matter how hard he tried to hold
back, tears were finally trying to bulge out of his eyes
behind the glasses. Mixed emotions of anger, rage,
frustration, hurt and shock did not allow any of it to
express itself to its fullest and it killed him inside; he felt an
acute pain in his chest and his head was feeling like being
stomped from all directions.
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"Why?" Harry said in a lower tone, sobbing as tears rolled
down his cheeks, with his teeth crushing against one
another.
The thunder rose to its greatest that night as the boy who
lived slept on his worst night.
***
"I don't know, I didn't see him all day." The boy said.
"Keep this." The hood stretched out his left arm with
something enclosed in his palm that he dropped in the
boy's hand.
"When exactly?"
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"I won't.. Of course, I won't." The boy said in fear.
The boy with the lantern held the stone tight and overruled
his fear with a smile that did not point at anything very
pleasant.
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CHAPTER SIX
"What took you so long? I got Curtis and Jake here an hour
ago." Neville came up to him and tried to keep up on his
pace.
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two, I need to know what did you do with the krimps you
stole, NOW!"
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Harry was stunned by such a response from a 15 year old
and he sensed the sudden darkening of the lights and
blowing of the wind. He looked around and ended up
finding nothing but Neville staring at him with the same
question on his face too.
"Pity." Jake said and started laughing as the air hit the room
like a cyclone.
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"Neville!" Harry yelled an unheard scream.
"Stupefy!"
"Petrificus Totalis!"
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Harry's body suddenly froze like a stone. His broom left his
grip and his body couldn't oppose even a little against an
even bigger fall, smashing him right into the ground,
collapsing his insides nearly completely. He was shaking,
with pain, with fear, with anger and with will to come out
of his restricted movement and pick up his wand. He even
managed to crawl a little after a few seconds as the effect of
the spell began to lay off. The hooded man arrived on the
ground and so did his dark army. This time, accompanied
by Jake who was still wearing the smile that pissed Harry
off.
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"Uh... " Harry struggled to form words,
"Wh......who.....aarghh..‛
"Well, now that you're finally realizing that you have lost,
maybe you deserve to know that. But before that, I have
some closures for you, Harry." He said.
He pulled back his hood uncovering his face and his hair
ruffling out of it, attached to his pale skin on a semi
bearded face. His hair reached his shoulders and his
eyeballs glowed green. A very familiar but only more
dangerous than usual face became visible to Harry after
giving an infinite suffering to him and his friends.
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Harry, in his most shocked emotional state managed to
form words, "Va......wha-...... Valor!"
Valor McNair held his head high like a king as he stood tall
in front of a collapsed Harry Potter.
"Yes..." Valor said in his deep, dark voice, "And soon to be,
the most powerful being among both, wizards and
muggles, a master...of death."
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"But the only good thing about my life, the one person I
loved..." Valor turned around and looked Harry dead in the
eye, "...was snatched away from me. All the light in my life,
all the progress I made on the path opposite to THIS!
GONE! - Crucio!" He waved his wand and his loud tone
sent a shiver down Jake's spine.
"Reducto!"
"Expelliarmus!"
"Avada kedavra!"
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Green flames originated from the tip of Valor's wand and
wounded Harry inside them, relieving him from the stress
of the struggle he was undergoing since the very first
moment of their encounter. Harry suddenly felt like
blacking out in front of his eyes and lost all the energy from
his body. He gradually stopped feeling different parts of
his body. Various good and bad memories from his entire
life appeared in front of his eyes in a flash. He saw his
younger self receiving the Hogwarts acceptance letter in
huge numbers through owls, little Harry driving in the
flying car along with Ron, meeting Hermione and being
saved by her on several occasions, catching his first snitch
in his first quidditch match, destroying Riddle's diary,
Cedric dying in front of his eyes in the graveyard, holding
his prophecy ball and watching Dumbledore protect him
and go toe to toe with Lord Voldemort, death of his
godfather Sirius Black, moments of fun with his friends
Ron and Hermione, having tea at Hagrid's place and riding
Buckbeak, holding the resurrection stone and watching his
parents so closely, discovering about Snape's memory and
love for him and the way he protected him all the time,
going all head and shoulders with the dark lord himself
and defeating Voldemort, breaking the elder wand and
throwing it away, marrying Ginny, having three beautiful
children, waving them on their first journeys to Hogwarts,
taking care of Ginny after an attack, watching Draco
bloodied by Valor, discovering about Dumbledore's last
memory and crying out loud and finally watching Valor's
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wand pointed right at him just a fraction away from
putting an end to his life. The green flames took over him
leaving nothing but bright white light in front of his eyes
sinking inside his soul pulling it out of his body, leaving
him completely lifeless laying on the ground within a
matter of seconds.
"NO!" Albus' voice couldn't come out to it's best and got
lost somewhere in his voice box. Scorpius and Neville lost
the momentum of their brooms owing to their diverted
concentration. Ron and the other Aurors came running as
fast as they could.
Albus almost fell off his broom and could only manage to
run a few steps as his feet went numb, his body froze
completely and voices faded out from his ears and a sharp
sound of nothingness hit him. His brain barely functioned.
Scorpius came running from behind and held Albus by
shoulder picking him up and supporting him, followed by
Neville. Ron was the first one to reach Harry, he broke
down in tears on his knees in front of Harry's dead body
lying there. He took Harry's head in his lap and cared the
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least about his tears dropping on Harry's coat. One of his
tear drops fell on Harry's glasses which had received a
crack from the curse that hit it. His eyes were still open.
Albus walked to his father with submissive steps and
straightaway hugged him on the ground grabbing his chest
with both his arms and burst out in tears. He felt a void
inside his own lungs that still made him feel heavier. He
choked on his words and couldn't utter any. Albus sobbed
over his father's body as all the times of his moments with
him triggered inside him. The other Aurors stood with
their heads down and those wearing hats took them off as
voices of sobbing and crying were audible among them too.
There were no words coming out of anyone's mouth and
everyone just couldn't come up with anything else other
than tears. Ron gently took of Harry's glasses and closed
his eyelids with his shaking fingers. Neville comforted
Albus and held him from shoulders. He looked a bit over
Albus' head and saw someone walking towards them from
near the entrance of the stadium. He handed Albus to
Scorpius and ran in that direction controlling his own
emotions, wiling off his tears.
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"Nobody, just go back to the castle, Luna! You should not
be here! Please just listen to me!" Neville said in hyped
tone.
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CHAPTER SEVEN
GUARD OF HONOUR
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Hermione kept Lily in her arms. Ron's eyes looked drained.
They were so dried up that it wouldn't be too hard to make
out that he had been crying his life out and was finally out
of tears to shed. Everyone stood with their heads down as
the funeral proceeded. From Ginny, Ron, Hermione, James,
Albus and Lily to Neville, Luna, Hugo, Rosy, Draco,
Scorpius, Hagrid and everyone found themselves
drowning in darkness life never before with no ray of hope
to hold on to. The idea of the world without Harry shook
them all from their very core. Except for the sobbings, there
was complete silence It was a silence like never before. A
horrible, horrible silence. Neville came forward finally to
break it.
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wizarding world. It sure does pain me deep inside that
we've lost him today. And I might as well make it clear that
the culprits will be put to justice. Harry is gone, but he will
always be with us by all means other than physical. He still
is a ray of hope. He still makes me feel brave. Although it is
still difficult for me to believe that he isn't with us anymore,
I assure all the students and everyone else, that all of us
together will make Harry live, in our hearts. We will pay
our tribute by bringing the long lost peace back. We are
going to make this happen, not without him, but for him."
"Harry James Potter was the one man we all have looked
up to in all our lives. We felt safe knowing that he's around.
We felt there is someone who is as scared as we are and still
is brave enough to face the worst fate. He taught us that
one can be scared, be vulnerable and at his very lowest, but
can still have the courage to fight against all odds and
protect his loved ones. For me he was among those rare
people that made me feel that weird is not bad, but
different. And being different is good. Harry has been an
idol for all of us and I believe with him gone, he has yet
managed to induce a certain things in us that will help us
defeat the evil. With him, we have learnt that no matter
what, when you have love and will in your heart, you will
definitely be able to overcome the toughest and triumph in
the sun."
She pulled out her wand and said, "Let us vow today that
we will live for everything Harry Potter ever stood for. I
urge you all to join me in providing the guard of honor to
th-"
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She was interrupted by Draco Malfoy who made his way
from the back to the front and drew everyone's attention.
He was wearing a black coat and his face looked dull. Luna
stopped as he approached and left the space for him. Draco
was looking down as he walked and did not look up as he
spoke, standing in front of everyone. His shaking tone
expressed nothing but pure, rage.
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invisible for a moment, it was just this white light and
nothing else around.
***
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James and Lily sat in the living room with Ginny who was
still wearing the black dress she wore at the funeral. Lily
sat besides and James stood by the corner. He wanted to
say something to his mother but soon after a short lived
struggle with words inside his mind, he figured there was
nothing in the world that he could say to console her. How
do you console someone whose soul has been snatched out
of their body in a fraction of a moment? There is no going
back from that. There is no restoring that.
"And I'll make some tea for mom then." Lily said getting up
from her seat.
"Yes you do. It'll make you feel better. James you need
some?" Lily tried to lighten the atmosphere, of course
unsuccessfully.
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Lily went to the kitchen to make tea, leaving Ginny who
was now alone in the room lost somewhere within herself.
James walked the lobby upstairs to the very last room
which used to his. He opened the door only to find it just
like he left it. The walls of the room were stacked with
posters of quidditch world cup. His bed had a brown
colored bedsheet with that being his favourite color. He
saw his old cupboard just as neat as it could be. His study
table with a lamp under which were kept a couple of quills
and a bottle of ink. Besides the lamp was a picture frame.
He picked it up and cleaned the dust from its surface to
find a motion photograph of the while Potter family. Albus
and Lily who were a lot shorter in their respective body
heights at that time, stood in the front and on their right
just behind Lily he saw himself- a fairly tall brown haired
boy with glasses who resembled a lot to his grandfather
whose name he carried. On the left corner stood Ginny and
Harry. Ginny stood next to James, occupying nearly the
centre and next to her on the corner was Harry. James'
finger involuntarily went his father's face. The complete
family in the picture was smoking at him and adjusting
themselves in the position for the picture. Suddenly, a tear
fell on the frame. Perhaps, James did not realise he had
them in his eyes until it fell. He quickly wiped his eyes and
then the frame and put it back on the table. He cleared
some space on the table to put his suitcase on it. He undid
the clips and and opened it. A couple of his clothes
stumbled right out as even after being an adult, he wasn't
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quite good with the stuff like that. He took them out one by
one and placed them in an open cupboard in the corner of
the room.
"Yes the cloak, it's gone!" James' voice went down and yet
loud again as nobody still understood. He made it clearer,
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"The invisibility cloak! It's gone! I can't find it anywhere-it's
gone!"
"Are you sure you looked in all the places?" Lily said.
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CHAPTER EIGHT
THE MASTER OF DEATH
It was the very first day and nobody had a clue of what to
do and where to go and how to work. Nothing had
changed except for the death of the minister of magic
which wasn't the first incident in the history where a
minister was assassinated but this time, it was a lot
different. It was mind boggling and triggering restlessness
among the employees and the staff because the shadow of
protection that Harry's name gave them, was gone and
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more than that, the thought that the man who killed Harry
Potter was roaming out there free and way beyond their
reach was even more terrifying. All the representatives of
various departments of the ministry were gathered in the
conference hall this morning in order to decide who should
be the new minister of magic. Ron and Hermione, both
were present in the meeting representing the Auror's
department and the department of magical law
enforcement respectively. Everyone sat around the table
and Ron initiated the discussion.
"Meryl's right. And it is no doubt that you are the next best
person for that chair." A senior lady minister spoke. Her
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words were supported by a lot of people as everyone one
by one put forth Ron's name for the minister of magic
except for Bradshaw as in his opinion, Ron would be a
disastrous leader.
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that and work together, I'm sure we will see the dawn past
the darkness pretty soon."
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Jake did so to a table seemingly bare but he ended up
touching the invisibility cloak which was placed over the
surface of the table. He was astonished to see the invisible
surface on one side of the cloak and even tried putting his
hand behind it.
"Truly!"
"A lot. There are three as they say- the elder wand, the
invisibility cloak and the resurrection stone but I believe,
there are four. The fourth one being a wizard powerful
enough to wield all of them altogether and make one the
master of death."
"Yes...indeed, father."
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EPILOGUE
"Answers to?"
"Why?"
"Yes I did! And I need you to tell me right now! Why did
you do that!?" Harry yelled.
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"I do not know what I did was right or wrong, Harry. But it
sure was necessary." Dumbledore said looking eye to eye.
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{TO BE CONTINUED}
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"The last enemy that shall be
destroyed, is death."
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