Harry Potter and the Inner Circle

Chapter 1

Draco was at a full dead on sprint as he ran through the castle in the direction of the Headmaster's office.

His fellow Death Eaters were backing him up as they sent deadly curses behind them, causing their pursuers to duck for cover. This gave them a momentary advantage as they continued on.

They acted fast as Rowle cast a deadly Death Eater ward, that would block all unwanted pursuers entrance, as they made it to their final destination.

However, right before they got there, they were stopped in their tracks by four opposing pointed wands.

In front of the entrance to the headmaster's office stood the Deputy Headmistress and the Charms and newly appointed Potion and DA professors.

"You repulsive human beings! How dare you attack a school with defenseless children! " roared McGonagall.

"We just wanted to play with all the little kiddies!" shrieked Bellatrix Lestrange in a dark comedic tone.

Three of the four professors showed a look of anger and disgust as the battle was about to begin.

They didn't notice a handful of black balls, no bigger than a snitch, that came in and rolled below their feet.

When they stopped rolling, right in the center of the professors, they exploded before dispersing black smoke that encompassed them fully. The smoke caused the teachers to gasp for air and choke before four fast paced stunners came in, hitting their marks right in the chest region.

Draco, Bellatrix, Fenrir, Rowle, Amycus and Alecto all looked around in alarm till they saw a figure come in from the shadows.

It was a hooded, black cloaked, man with a signature metal Death Eater mask.

"Change of plans. The dark lord wants Snape to remain a spy here. Let's end this game of chess and take out their king. Lead the way, Draco" reported the new arrival.

Draco nodded his head in agreement before the dark group made their way up the spiral staircase, after having blasted the gargoyle to bits. They blasted the doors to Albus 'one too many names' Dumbledore's office off their hinges before spreading out in the room.

Their wands were drawn on their target, but the Headmaster of Hogwarts seemed to not have a care in the world as he sat behind his desk.

"It was rather foolish of you all to come here. I am not a supporter of violence, but you have endangered the safety of my students and that is a rather unforgivable decision… Draco I feel so sad for you...I truly thought you could be saved...I was mistaken" Albus remarked before he sighed out loud, his hand loosely on his wand, giving a brief glance at Fawkes.

"Quiet you manipulative old fool! The only thing you have ever, and will ever, care about is your reputation as the conquering hero" spoke up the masked Death Eater.

"I am sorry, but seeing as you are the only faceless person in the room, I am not sure how to address you" Dumbledore replied calmly.

"Ooooh. My most extreme apologies ...were are my manners...let me identify myself ...I am the one whose life you tried to mold into your masterpiece the day you left me at the doorstep of the most despicable and inhumane people I could have been left with...hello headmaster" exclaimed the Death Eater.

He took off his mask revealing unruly jet black hair and bright emerald green eyes with a furious glow to his expression.

"Harry!? What!? No!? You can't!...I...I made…." Albus started.

"You made sure I was tested? You made sure I passed all my trials with flying colors? You should have known the day the sorting hat placed me into Slytherin was the day that your plan was never going to succeed!" Harry spit with venom.

"I have been fooling you since day one, just like the dark lord had. You are so blind and naive! Do you really think I was never going to find out all the things you have done for the 'greater good', you manipulative old fool!?" he asked rhetorically.

"I always wondered what led my mother and father into caring so deeply in following you. Of course, I thought you might have used compulsion charms on them, but even I know you couldn't have the power to control so many people...that is until I paid a visit to Gellert and found out about that wand of yours" Harry informed him.

"My mother was an orphan because of Grindelwald and you placed her in the care of loving muggle parents whose minds you altered, but you made sure her sister would resent her. In turn my mother would always strive for the acceptance of her fake sister, and for muggles" he revealed further.

"You hand picked my father and Sirius to be friends and lead the charge for the light forces. You put a compulsion charm on my already rambunctious godfather to defy his family and come to the 'light' side with my father. You kept them together by sticking them with a child with an incurable sickness, banking on them doing the compassionate thing and watch out for him. Then you put the cherry on top by putting in a boy who idolized them!" Harry continued to the surprise of Dumbledore whose eyes bulged in shock.

"What is it that you were hoping to form? Leaders for your own personal use? Making two Gryffindors head boy and girl!? The perfect bit of caring, popular and powerful? I am baffled as to how no one questioned that choice ...But then you got rattled when you saw that they were becoming too powerful…It was no worry to you though...you came with a plan to have them taken out…"

"It started by taking away Remus and then followed it by making Peter the secret keeper and followed by making sure Sirius went into hiding away from them. Then you just needed a crackpot seer and a well placed Death Eater to manipulate the Dark Lord. Either way, you knew you would win. In the end, you thought you struck the jackpot till you examined my scar".

"You thought things would be different this time...you just needed to be able to mold the new savior better at an early age. Send him to the vilest of creatures and then to Hogwarts, where I would come into the loving arms of a grandfatherly-like teacher to be molded into a perfect asset...Merlin you are such a hack!" Harry roared.

"Harry my boy, you are not thinking rationally...I would have never…" Dumbledore tried to start convincingly

"Liar!" Harry roared.

"You have one and only one chance to maybe have your life saved. I talked to Nicholas and he told me about your interest of the Elixir of Life. He was afraid of what could have happened if he had not come in time to retrieve the stone…"

"That's right, I know it was him and not you who brought me back in my first year...He supplied me with veritaserum that, by the way, has no way around it's effect. No matter how much of an immunity you have built up" Harry said, taking out a vial before he levitated it on the Headmaster's desk.

"Drink up. If you pass certain questions...I may let you live" Harry commanded.

"Harry I will gladly..." Albus started, then with a quick look to Fawkes, was protected as the phoenix fire flashed in front of him.

Before they could react, Dumbledore sent out a stunner.

With a quick swish of his wand Harry sent the bird flying out of the way as the Death Eaters fired quick curses at the Headmaster.

The old man blocked them with an extremely powerful shield, as Harry dodged the stunner.

With a wave of Harry's hand, he almost disarmed Dumbledore with wandless magic. It just needed a tad bit more power.

Dumblefore was still engaged in battle with the 6 other Death Eaters so Harry decided to proceed with a snake handled throwing blade. He pulled back and released, letting it soar forwards as it pierced through the air, just making contact with the wand hand of the Headmaster.

A joyous moan of pain came from their opponent when the blade made its way through, before Dumbledore dropped the elder wand.

He quickly dove to retrieve it but it was too late.

Harry easily summoned the wand to his outstretched arm, before the older man could get to it. He easily caught it with the skill of a seasoned seeker before a large smile krept on his face.

"You know, I am not very good with unforgivables…but with this new wand…." Harry started looking at the alarmed looking Headmaster.

"Harry no ...please... don't do this…think of what your parents..." the manipulative leader of light tried, using his last verbal weapon to try and gain sympathy.

"Avada Kedavra!" Harry roared as the green sickly light came out of his wand and soared through the air.

It hit its mark straight in the chest, with so much force that it blasted the former headmaster off his feet and through the back window.

"You will never speak of my parent's again you manipulative bastard!" Harry yelled as he grasped his wand with so much pressure that his knuckles started turning white.

"Fawkes...Leave this world of man...it is not worthy of you..." Harry stated.

The Phoenix sang a sad note before disappearing in fire forever.

"Well done Harry! I daresay I could not have done better myself" exclaimed Bellatrix as she made her way over and placed her hands on his arm and shoulder seductively.

"That's enough of that Bella. You all need to head out immediately before the Aurors break through our barrier. I doubt it will last too much longer, Rowle. The Order will make their way here soon enough...Draco...hurry up, do it...this will be your final task into the ranks" Harry commanded.

"Right...I am sorry about this" Draco stated and Harry merely nodded.

"Reducto!" Draco shouted aiming at Harry's arm the made a sick crack.

He then sent a stinger at his face and a cutting curse to his leg and finished with a burning curse to Harry's shoulder.

"Son of a bitch this hurts...this should convince the others let's move out" Harry stated and they did.

They came down the steps only to see a small part of the outside wall disappear to reveal an archway leading out. From it came Neville, Dean and Seamus all with wands drawn.

Bellatrix and the others mirrored them to attack till Neville spoke up.

"What are you waiting for!? Go get out before they get here" Neville spoke to them as the Death Eaters looked surprised, until Harry motioned for them to go.

"Perfect timing" he grinned to three, who were some of his highest valued assets.

"We aim to please...my lord" Seamus returned with his signature Irish smirk.

"I am always one for humor, but we should get going" Dean added.

"Agreed" Neville confirmed before giving a minor concerned look because of the state that Harry was in.

Harry just shrugged off his look "Don't worry about me, Nev. Let's just head out and...start things" he ended with a smirk of his own before they sealed the secret passage and headed out.

The group waited in the secret passage until a group of aurors stormed the castle and sprinted through to the commotions and noise of the Order. The light did not even leave anyone back to stand watch.

"Too damn easy" Harry laughed to himself as he led his forces out after vanishing his Death Eater attire.

The groups split as the Death Eaters and Draco headed out to the grounds.

Harry told Seamus and Dean to go call for the Order to report they had found an injured Harry chasing the Death Eaters out. They did as told before he sat down to fein injury and appeared dazed from the fight.

Neville stayed behind and administered basic student healing treatment to Harry to keep up the charade.

The first to arrive was Tonks.

"Oh Merlin!" she gasped and let out a small sob as she slid next to Harry and gave him a careful hug. The metamorph and Harry had been close friends since the first time they met.

"Harry what did they do to you!?" she asked with a tear streaking down her cheek.

"It's alright. They just got a couple lucky shots...I was overpowered...I tried to stop them but..." Harry said, faking like he was ill and weak.

The Order came in next, with some aurors, before Harry got as fully healed as they could get him.

As things started to settle, shouts of fear and anguish could be heard from outside. The group wasted no time and were out in an instant.

No one saw the small smirk grace Harry's lips as students came into view, crowding around a body.

It was the newly revived professors and Hagrid who broke up the students as they made their way through the crowd before they too gasped in shock.

Harry started to have tears escape his eyes as he fell to the ground and clutched his head down in his hands and began to shake upon seeing the dead corpse of Dumbledore.

Too almost all, it seemed like the young man was crying in hysterics for the loss.

However, his tears were made from joy.

The manipulator who had gotten his parents and many others families killed and the man who isolated Sirius and sent Remus to the wolves, along with causing Peter to betray his parents and Severus to betray his true love, was finally vanished from the world of the living.

A soft hand touched his shoulder and helped him up, leading him back into the castle.

He melted into her opulent aroma and rested his head on her shoulder. Her blonde locks mildly tickled his chin and his body went more into her curvaceous figure as she helped lead him further into the dungeons to the boys dorm.

As they entered, Blaise and Theo immediately stood up and with one motion the girl moved her head, motioning for them to leave.

The two male snakes got the message and left the couple alone.

It was a nice silence that followed them as they made their way into the dorm room before getting into his bed.

"Did everything go to plan, Harry?" she asked.

"It went...Daphne...it was bloody brilliant" he smiled gleefully to his girlfriend as they talked until they fell asleep in the arms of the other.

Part 1 completed on AO3:

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Took my stories down because I didn't want to get in trouble after reading about new new restrictions and guidelines.

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Thanks!

- LJAG

Draco was at a full dead on sprint as he ran through the castle in the direction of the Headmaster's office.

His fellow Death Eaters were right backing him up as they sent deadly curses behind them, causing their pursuers to duck for cover. This gave them a momentary advantage as they continued on.

They acted fast as Rowle cast a deadly Death Eater ward, that would block all unwanted pursuers entrance, as they made it to their final destination.

However, right before they got there, they were stopped in their tracks by four opposing pointed wands.

In front of the entrance to the headmaster's office stood the Deputy Headmistress and the Charms and newly appointed Potion and DA professors.

"You repulsive human beings! How dare you attack a school with defenseless children! " roared McGonagall.

"We just wanted to play with all the little kiddies!" shrieked Bellatrix Lestrange in a dark comedic tone.

Three of the four professors showed a look of anger and disgust as the battle was about to begin.

They didn't notice a handful of black balls, no bigger than a snitch, that came in and rolled below their feet.

When they stopped rolling, right in the center of the professors, they exploded before dispersing black smoke that encompassed them fully. The smoke caused the teachers to gasp for air and choke before four fast paced stunners came in, hitting their marks right in the chest region.

Draco, Bellatrix, Fenrir, Rowle, Amycus and Alecto all looked around in alarm till they saw a figure come in from the shadows.

It was a hooded, black cloaked, man with a signature metal Death Eater mask.

"Change of plans. The dark lord wants Snape to remain a spy here. Let's end this game of chess and take out their king. Lead the way, Draco" reported the new arrival.

Draco nodded his head in agreement before the dark group made their way up the spiral staircase, after having blasted the gargoyle to bits. They blasted the doors to Albus 'one too many names' Dumbledore's office off their hinges before spreading out in the room.

Their wands were drawn on their target, but the Headmaster of Hogwarts seemed to not have a care in the world as he sat behind his desk.

"It was rather foolish of you all to come here. I am not a supporter of violence, but you have endangered the safety of my students and that is a rather unforgivable decision… Draco I feel so sad for you...I truly thought you could be saved...I was mistaken" Albus remarked before he sighed out loud, his hand loosely on his wand, giving a brief glance at Fawkes.

"Quiet you manipulative old fool! The only thing you have ever, and will ever, care about is your reputation as the conquering hero" spoke up the masked Death Eater.

"I am sorry, but seeing as you are the only faceless person in the room, I am not sure how to address you" Dumbledore replied calmly.

"Ooooh. My most extreme apologies ...were are my manners...let me identify myself ...I am the one whose life you tried to mold into your masterpiece the day you left me at the doorstep of the most despicable and inhumane people I could have been left with...hello headmaster" exclaimed the Death Eater.

He took off his mask revealing unruly jet black hair and bright emerald green eyes with a furious glow to his expression.

"Harry!? What!? No!? You can't!...I...I made…." Albus started.

"You made sure I was tested? You made sure I passed all my trials with flying colors? You should have known the day the sorting hat placed me into Slytherin was the day that your plan was never going to succeed!" Harry spit with venom.

"I have been fooling you since day one, just like the dark lord had. You are so blind and naive! Do you really think I was never going to find out all the things you have done for the 'greater good', you manipulative old fool!?" he asked rhetorically.

"I always wondered what led my mother and father into caring so deeply in following you. Of course, I thought you might have used compulsion charms on them, but even I know you couldn't have the power to control so many people...that is until I paid a visit to Gellert and found out about that wand of yours" Harry informed him.

"My mother was an orphan because of Grindelwald and you placed her in the care of loving muggle parents whose minds you altered, but you made sure her sister would resent her. In turn my mother would always strive for the acceptance of her fake sister, and for muggles" he revealed further.

"You hand picked my father and Sirius to be friends and lead the charge for the light forces. You put a compulsion charm on my already rambunctious godfather to defy his family and come to the 'light' side with my father. You kept them together by sticking them with a child with an incurable sickness, banking on them doing the compassionate thing and watch out for him. Then you put the cherry on top by putting in a boy who idolized them!" Harry continued to the surprise of Dumbledore whose eyes bulged in shock.

"What is it that you were hoping to form? Leaders for your own personal use? Making two Gryffindors head boy and girl!? The perfect bit of caring, popular and powerful? I am baffled as to how no one questioned that choice ...But then you got rattled when you saw that they were becoming too powerful…It was no worry to you though...you came with a plan to have them taken out…"

"It started by taking away Remus and then followed it by making Peter the secret keeper and followed by making sure Sirius went into hiding away from them. Then you just needed a crackpot seer and a well placed Death Eater to manipulate the Dark Lord. Either way, you knew you would win. In the end, you thought you struck the jackpot till you examined my scar".

"You thought things would be different this time...you just needed to be able to mold the new savior better at an early age. Send him to the vilest of creatures and then to Hogwarts, where I would come into the loving arms of a grandfatherly-like teacher to be molded into a perfect asset...Merlin you are such a hack!" Harry roared.

"Harry my boy, you are not thinking rationally...I would have never…" Dumbledore tried to start convincingly

"Liar!" Harry roared.

"You have one and only one chance to maybe have your life saved. I talked to Nicholas and he told me about your interest of the Elixir of Life. He was afraid of what could have happened if he had not come in time to retrieve the stone…"

"That's right, I know it was him and not you who brought me back in my first year...He supplied me with veritaserum that, by the way, has no way around it's effect. No matter how much of an immunity you have built up" Harry said, taking out a vial before he levitated it on the Headmaster's desk.

"Drink up. If you pass certain questions...I may let you live" Harry commanded.

"Harry I will gladly..." Albus started, then with a quick look to Fawkes, was protected as the phoenix fire flashed in front of him.

Before they could react, Dumbledore sent out a stunner.

With a quick swish of his wand Harry sent the bird flying out of the way as the Death Eaters fired quick curses at the Headmaster.

The old man blocked them with an extremely powerful shield, as Harry dodged the stunner.

With a wave of Harry's hand, he almost disarmed Dumbledore with wandless magic. It just needed a tad bit more power.

Dumblefore was still engaged in battle with the 6 other Death Eaters so Harry decided to proceed with a snake handled throwing blade. He pulled back and released, letting it soar forwards as it pierced through the air, just making contact with the wand hand of the Headmaster.

A joyous moan of pain came from their opponent when the blade made its way through, before Dumbledore dropped the elder wand.

He quickly dove to retrieve it but it was too late.

Harry easily summoned the wand to his outstretched arm, before the older man could get to it. He easily caught it with the skill of a seasoned seeker before a large smile krept on his face.

"You know, I am not very good with unforgivables…but with this new wand…." Harry started looking at the alarmed looking Headmaster.

"Harry no ...please... don't do this…think of what your parents..." the manipulative leader of light tried, using his last verbal weapon to try and gain sympathy.

"Avada Kedavra!" Harry roared as the green sickly light came out of his wand and soared through the air.

It hit its mark straight in the chest, with so much force that it blasted the former headmaster off his feet and through the back window.

"You will never speak of my parent's again you manipulative bastard!" Harry yelled as he grasped his wand with so much pressure that his knuckles started turning white.

"Fawkes...Leave this world of man...it is not worthy of you..." Harry stated.

The Phoenix sang a sad note before disappearing in fire forever.

"Well done Harry! I daresay I could not have done better myself" exclaimed Bellatrix as she made her way over and placed her hands on his arm and shoulder seductively.

"That's enough of that Bella. You all need to head out immediately before the Aurors break through our barrier. I doubt it will last too much longer, Rowle. The Order will make their way here soon enough...Draco...hurry up, do it...this will be your final task into the ranks" Harry commanded.

"Right...I am sorry about this" Draco stated and Harry merely nodded.

"Reducto!" Draco shouted aiming at Harry's arm the made a sick crack.

He then sent a stinger at his face and a cutting curse to his leg and finished with a burning curse to Harry's shoulder.

"Son of a bitch this hurts...this should convince the others let's move out" Harry stated and they did.

They came down the steps only to see a small part of the outside wall disappear to reveal an archway leading out. From it came Neville, Dean and Seamus all with wands drawn.

Bellatrix and the others mirrored them to attack till Neville spoke up.

"What are you waiting for!? Go get out before they get here" Neville spoke to them as the Death Eaters looked surprised, until Harry motioned for them to go.

"Perfect timing" he grinned to three, who were some of his highest valued assets.

"We aim to please...my lord" Seamus returned with his signature Irish smirk.

"I am always one for humor, but we should get going" Dean added.

"Agreed" Neville confirmed before giving a minor concerned look because of the state that Harry was in.

Harry just shrugged off his look "Don't worry about me, Nev. Let's just head out and...start things" he ended with a smirk of his own before they sealed the secret passage and headed out.

The group waited in the secret passage until a group of aurors stormed the castle and sprinted through to the commotions and noise of the Order. The light did not even leave anyone back to stand watch.

"Too damn easy" Harry laughed to himself as he led his forces out after vanishing his Death Eater attire.

The groups split as the Death Eaters and Draco headed out to the grounds.

Harry told Seamus and Dean to go call for the Order to report they had found an injured Harry chasing the Death Eaters out. They did as told before he sat down to fein injury and appeared dazed from the fight.

Neville stayed behind and administered basic student healing treatment to Harry to keep up the charade.

The first to arrive was Tonks.

"Oh Merlin!" she gasped and let out a small sob as she slid next to Harry and gave him a careful hug. The metamorph and Harry had been close friends since the first time they met.

"Harry what did they do to you!?" she asked with a tear streaking down her cheek.

"It's alright. They just got a couple lucky shots...I was overpowered...I tried to stop them but..." Harry said, faking like he was ill and weak.

The Order came in next, with some aurors, before Harry got as fully healed as they could get him.

As things started to settle, shouts of fear and anguish could be heard from outside. The group wasted no time and were out in an instant.

No one saw the small smirk grace Harry's lips as students came into view, crowding around a body.

It was the newly revived professors and Hagrid who broke up the students as they made their way through the crowd before they too gasped in shock.

Harry started to have tears escape his eyes as he fell to the ground and clutched his head down in his hands and began to shake upon seeing the dead corpse of Dumbledore.

Too almost all, it seemed like the young man was crying in hysterics for the loss.

However, his tears were made from joy.

The manipulator who had gotten his parents and many others families killed and the man who isolated Sirius and sent Remus to the wolves, along with causing Peter to betray his parents and Severus to betray his true love, was finally vanished from the world of the living.

A soft hand touched his shoulder and helped him up, leading him back into the castle.

He melted into her opulent aroma and rested his head on her shoulder. Her blonde locks mildly tickled his chin and his body went more into her curvaceous figure as she helped lead him further into the dungeons to the boys dorm.

As they entered, Blaise and Theo immediately stood up and with one motion the girl moved her head, motioning for them to leave.

The two male snakes got the message and left the couple alone.

It was a nice silence that followed them as they made their way into the dorm room before getting into his bed.

"Did everything go to plan, Harry?" she asked.

"It went...Daphne...it was bloody brilliant" he smiled gleefully to his girlfriend as they talked until they fell asleep in the arms of the other.

Additional Chapters on AO3

" /works/24032248"

Took my stories down because I didn't want to get in trouble after reading about new new restrictions and guidelines.

\_(*o*)_/

Thanks!

LJAG