Summary: It's Harry's fifth year and the war between Good and Evil is starting. Voldemort is on the rise and is trying to tip the balance to the side of Evil. Harry discovers new powers not even the Gods could dream about and learns some interesting facts after he is thrown into Azkaban by Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge. What Fudge doesn't know is that he just triggered the series of events that will lead to the greatest battle the history of muggles as well as the history of wizards have ever seen.
Warning: swearing, angst and tragedy.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Author's note: this is my first attempt at fanfiction so don't expect too much and enjoy reading this fic.
Harry potter and the Betrayal of Trust
Did that hurt?
Part 2
"Shit," Ares cursed "we missed the beginning of the show. What the..."
Down in the quarry
"CRUCIO"
Lucius knew this is going to be a really, really, really bad day.
A giant sickly red beam shot forth from Ares's sword, amplified by the item and Harry's anger. The beam connected with Lucius who let loose an unearthly scream (after all it isn't really earth where they are)so horrible that Hades and Ares had to cover their ears a hundred meters away.
The two gods of War, Heaven and Hell respectively both winced and backed up further. However, being above the quarry, and a good long distance away from Harry's 'revenge', it didn't make a whole lot of difference.
Harry just stood there, stony faced looking down at Lucius Malfoy writhing on the ground in agony while his brain started to ooze out of his ears.
Malfoy's last thought was that Cruciatus cast by Voldemort was a blessing before his nerves were fried and his mind descended into peaceful oblivion.
Harry had to confess, if the person deserved it, it did feel satisfying.
"Oh now Lucius," Harry said with a malicious gleam in those red and green blazing eyes "you're not getting away that easily"
"Rememdium Insania." Harry said while aiming his sword at Lucius's head and repeating the spell several times.
He had read about the spell in Moody's book and it is used to repair damage done by Cruciatus to the mind but it normally only helped in minor cases.
In this case, unfortunately for a certain Lucius Malfoy, it also repaired extensive damage because of the power behind the spell, not only amplified by the sword but also by Harry's anger.
Malfoy gasped as he dropped back down from peaceful oblivion to the reality of true hell and started to shake violently.
"Please," Malfoy gasped "no more."
"Why would I stop, you didn't when I begged you to stop."
"Please" Malfoy whimpered.
"Let me see," Harry said while rubbing his chin thoughtfully "umm…no"
He heaved the sword above his head and lashed out with it.
The blade dropped down and connected with Malfoy's right shoulder cutting straight through any bones in its way with its forever sharp edge.
Malfoy howled in pain and grabbed his shoulder while blood started gushing out of the deep gash and started whimpering while rocking back and forth and tried to stop the blood pouring out of his body.
"Get up you," a voice from the hole where Harry had blown the elder Malfoy in "you are not worthy of the Malfoy name." Mergan said as he crawled out of the hole, his face severely mutilated and several dozen bones broken throughout his body.
"Now, now Mergan," Harry said in a sickly sweet voice "I told you not to speak unless I tell you."
"Pellere" Harry yelled and Mergan was thrown back into the hole at high velocity.
A loud crash, Mergan hitting the back of the small cave, the earth shook as it was shifted and the cave was made a little deeper by using Mergan's body as a drill. Another thump was heard as
Mergan slumped to the ground, face first.
"Are you sure people can't die again in here because Harry is sure testing the limits of that theory." Ares said in awe.
"I certainly hope so." Hades replied while gazing trough his omnioculars and he waved his sceptre that appeared out of thin air in Harry's direction.
"What did you do?" Ares asked.
"I created a shield around Harry. I think that if he gets any angrier he's going to blow this place up."
Harry was losing his patience with Lucius.
"Will you please stop being such a wimp and answer my simple question." Harry said and aimed Ares' sword straight between Lucius's eyes.
Knowing what was coming if he didn't pull himself together he took a deep breath and calmed himself.
"That's better" Harry said "Now I have a few questions, if you don't answer..." and he let the tip of the sword rest on the bridge of Lucius's nose.
Lucius shuddered.
"Why didn't you stop cursing Hermione when I begged you?" Harry asked in a harsh tone "And I want an honest answer." He said while putting some pressure on the sword.
"I don't know." Lucius replied. "It just felt good to torture the little mudblood." He knew that didn't sound good but he assumed his fate would at least be a little better than when he would have lied.
Harry opened his mouth to utter a curse but Lucius stopped him.
"Listen, I'm sorry, I shall part ways with the Dark Lord and live a better live." Lucius said very quickly in a frightened voice "Just stop and help me get out of here, please, I know you couldn't kill someone Potter, this is all just an illusion isn't it." Malfoy asked in a pleading voice.
"Lucius," Harry said "you have no life anymore. You're dead so you can't improve it, rest assured this is no illusion."
Lucius slumped in defeat as he finally grasped the concept that he was truly dead and this was not some kind of nightmare.
"Now, back to the questions I have for you." Harry said "If you answer them truthfully I might not hurt you."
"Until the end of time." Harry muttered under his breath as an afterthought
"Alright, what are the V-vaults?" Harry asked back at a normal volume and Lucius nodded.
Lucius swallowed, he was about to reveal one of Voldemort's biggest secrets.
"They are V...V...Voldemort's vaults" Malfoy choked out "he had them built by the goblins especially for him fifty years ago."
"They are a vast complex of vaults where all the money of the Death Eaters is held, it is used to support the Dark Lord's operations and a lot of it is invested in companies throughout the world." Lucius explained.
"Has Voldemort" Malfoy shuddered "recruited new Death Eaters already?"
"Yes, but I do not know their names, only the ones who recruited them know their names."
"Where is Voldemort now?" Harry asked.
"I don't know." Lucius said and Harry put a little more pressure on the sword and a trickle of blood escaped from where the sword rested on Lucius' nose.
"Truly, I don't know." He yelled in a frightened voice "when he summons us we just follow the mark's trace and it leads us to where he is."
Harry nodded, it sounded believable and it meant that no one could betray Voldemort's residence.
"Where was that dungeon you portkeyed me and Hermione to." Harry asked.
"Deep below Malfoy mansion, the Dark Lord uses it for rituals to gain strength."
Lucius was being most cooperative and Harry saw that Malfoy was truly afraid of him.
"Okay, that's all I need to know, for now." Harry said and the fire in his eyes died out a little "now let me tell you something about 'Lord My Head Is So Far Up My Arse I Think That People Exactly Like Me Are Less Than Me'."
"What do you mean?" Lucius asked a little curious.
"Did he never tell you," Malfoy shook his head "'Lord' Voldemort is actually a half-blood named Tom Marvolo Riddle" and Harry wrote the letters in the air using the sword and rearranged them.
"No, you're lying." Malfoy cried.
"Nope I'm not." Harry said casually and walked away his eyes returning to normal.
"All of this torment has been for nothing." Malfoy muttered and in a fit of rage did something very stupid, he opened his mouth one last time.
"I just wished that Weaslette had never been discovered using the diary and the beast had killed your little mudblood friend." Malfoy yelled after him "And if you weren't such a stupid little defiant brat and Lord" he almost spat the word "Voldemort wasn't such a stupid fool with his honourable duel to let everyone see he could kill you, you would be dead now and I would have danced on the graves of those two whores and yours as well."
That stopped Harry dead in his tracks.
Suddenly the quarry was cast in an eerie red glow of a blazing fire and the temperature seemed to drop below zero.
"Shit! Now the bastard's done it." Ares exclaimed.
"A good piece of advice," Hades said while lying down on the ground, "take cover."
Ares nodded and did the same.
They cast a powerful shield around them combining their power and poured every ounce of magical power they had in it.
Harry turned around very slowly and looked at Lucius with a perfectly calm expression.
"You will burn in hell for that," Harry said calmly "oh wait, we are already in hell, now we just have to get to the burning part."
Lucius knew he had put his foot in his mouth this time.
Lucius remembered what had happened in the dungeon and kind of knew what would follow.
Harry saw a fire where a blacksmith was casting another pickaxe and drew the fire towards him and gathered it all in a ball that hovered an inch from tip of the sword while Harry aimed the sword between Malfoy's eyes again.
He started fuelling the tiny ball of fire with his anger and the fire in it seemed to grow more intense until it turned from a blazing orange into a very deep bleu ball that glowed and pulsed.
The quarry was now lit in an eerie red glow and a pulsing bleu light, and the two colours battled for control.
The earth shook as Harry fuelled more and more power into the tiny sphere.
"Burn in Hell Malfoy, the lot of you!" Harry roared and released the sphere which shot straight at Malfoy, trough his head creating a hole the size of Harry's fist, people can't die twice so Malfoy still felt the pain and tried to feel the hole with his hands, if he could, he would probably scream his lungs out, literally. Meanwhile the ball hit the solid wall of solid rock behind Malfoy and made a small hole in it. The area around the hole was covered in the remains of Malfoy's brains.
Suddenly an enormous explosion shook the underworld and a brilliant flash of blue light was seen from a quarry on the Plains of the Damned. The heat of the blast was so enormous that the people on the edge of the plain were left severely burned and a giant blue blazing fire dominated the quarry for a good five minutes before it died out.
When the dust finally settled twenty minutes later Hades and Ares were standing on the top of a gigantic cliff from where a vast smoking crater had formed. On the opposite side of this crater was a canyon which stretched on as far as the eye could see in the direction where Harry had aimed the tiny sphere of blue fire, and in the middle of this crater lay a lone figure with a severe case of magical burn-out.
"I think he got him pretty angry." Hades said calmly while standing up and brushing the dust from his clothes and looking around at the burned landscape and his singed clothes.
"You think so, even our combined shields couldn't hold back the heat completely." Ares said while he dispelled the weak remains of the powerful shield "So, what now?"
Hades just pointed his sceptre at Harry and levitated him from the pit of the crater to where they were standing. He had some trouble doing it because the shield had robbed both Ares and Hades of most of heir magical power for the day.
"I think Harry needs medical attention." Hades said and with a wave of his sceptre the landscape was restored to what it was one hour ago but without the people, but tomorrow all of the damned would start working again as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred. Two certain Malfoys on the other hand would still remember very vividly what had happened.
They both saw people starting to piece themselves together as atom by atom had to be recollected and put in the right place.
Hades and Ares started walking back while Harry floated between them.
Hades looked behind him as they were walking back and saw the most terrifying place in existence.
In the distance a lone black castle stood proudly, an exact copy of Azkaban Fortress, but with some small differences.
The guards of this place were no dementors, but something far, far worse.
In this Fortress the most feared creatures lived.
The castle was surrounded by a river of molten lava a mile wide with no bridge or any other means of transportation to get across.
Instead of the blue energy stone on the highest tower there was a pure black energy stone that pulsed with power.
Hades breathed a sigh of relief a he saw that no damage had been done to the fortress and the black power stone.
But what he didn't know was that because of the shock of the explosion a small crack had appeared at the bottom of the fortress's wall.
One of the inhabitants of the fortress did notice this and started to laugh for the first time in what felt like an eon, it probably was one in this realm.
"Brothers and sisters," he yelled "soon the time will come when we will rise again and claim what is rightfully ours." All the inhabitants laughed, but mere seconds later that laughter turned into howls of pain and agony as the guards of this dreadful place attacked their minds.
Hades turned around abruptly as he heard a noise coming from the fortress but dismissed it as a figment of his imagination.
They walked back to Hades's residence and planned to levitate Harry back to his bedroom hoping that Hermione was still asleep.
"I would kill to see their faces when they wake up in the same bed together at the same time." Ares said while Hades gestured him to be quiet and to not to not wake them up but to their disappointment they saw the door to the library open and Hermione walked out carrying a pile of books that she could barely carry.
She put the books on the table and noticed the two men standing.
"Oh, and who are you?" She asked and suddenly noticed Harry being levitated by Hades.
"What did you do to him?" She yelled and pulled out her wand aiming it at Hades.
"Whoa, easy there," Ares said "we didn't do anything. Harry is suffering from magical burn-out."
"How can he have a magical burn-out?" She asked "We're not allowed to do magic out of school."
"On earth maybe" Hades said and chuckled when he saw Hermione's perplexed expression.
"What do you mean, on earth?" She said indignantly "where else would we be?"
"Allow me to introduce myself," Hades said and bowed "I am Hades, king of the underworld, Ruler over Heaven and Hell."
"And I am Ares," and he bowed as well "God of War."
"Very funny" Hermione said.
"You don't believe us, fine. If Harry wakes up he will verify our identity." Hades said and moved further to put Harry in his bed but suddenly lost control over Harry he almost let him drop onto the floor but Hermione cast a quick levitation spell of her own and took it over from Hades.
"For gods you don't seem to be powerful if you can't even handle a simple levitation spell." Hermione said.
"We will explain that in a minute, would you please put Harry in his bed, it might be some time before he regains consciousness." Ares sighed and plopped down on one of the couches.
Hermione did as she was asked and seated herself opposite Ares and Hades who had plopped himself down in the meantime as well.
"Okay, now explain." Hermione said in an authorative voice not unlike McGonnagall.
Ares just handed Hermione one of the omnioculars and something that looked like a pear of earplugs.
"What are these for?" Hermione asked while looking at the pair of plugs.
"We have adapted the omnioculars some so that they can record sound and those are for listening to it." Ares explained and he closed his eyes "forgive me if I take a little nap, I'm quite exhausted. If you look at the recording you will understand everything." And Hades grunted his agreement.
Hermione put the plugs in her ears and pressed the play button.
15 minutes later she put down the omnioculars on the small table in the center of the couches, she lost her grip on the device and it hit the table top, she hugged herself and shuddered, realising how much Harry cared for her if he went as far as to cast an unforgivable as retribution for hurting her.
She just sat there for five full minutes trying to blink back the tears but finally the dam burst and she slumped down in the couch not having the strength anymore to compose herself.
Ares noticed her distress while Hades slept further, he had used more of his power by using his sceptre while Harry had borrowed his sword.
He got up from the couch and seated himself next to Hermione and rubbed her back soothingly.
"Are you okay?" Ares asked concerned.
"Yes I'm fine. It's just..." Hermione hesitated, she didn't even know this man but she had to talk to someone. "How could Harry risk a life sentence in Azkaban just because someone hurt me? How could he be so calm while doing it? I'm afraid he'll turn dark when I see him like this, and it's all because of me." She cried and started hitting the arm of the chair.
"Harry won't turn dark, he did it all becuase he cares deeply about you, you are almost family to him and he can't stand it to see you get hurt." Ares said with conviction and his eyes glazed over for a second as he relived some of his own memories.
"How can you be sure of that? You were there, he is a kind-hearted person. He shouldn't be able to do something like that." Hermione sobbed.
"I just know, Harry or Hades will explain it to you and he can do something like that because of very strong emotions that fuelled him and something that he borrowed from me." Hades said.
Suddenly they heard a door open in the Harry's chamber and someone vomiting.
"I think Harry has awoken." Ares said but before he could finish his sentence Hermione had jumped from the couch and stormed into the bathroom.
"Harry, what's wrong?" Hermione asked while she stormed in and almost knocked Harry unconscious with the door.
Harry looked definitely ill. He was shaking and had an expression on his face as if he had seen the devil.
Before Harry could form a reply he rushed back to the toilet and emptied his stomach whatever content was still in it.
Hermione kneeled next to him and looked at him with concern.
"What is it Harry?" She asked in a soft voice.
Harry leaned against the wall and sunk and slid down on the floor.
"Hermione, I just tortured a man to insanity and brought him back. I mutilated him and his father and killed thousands, figuratively, and hurt much more to my understanding." Harry said miserably "How could I let my emotions get control over me like that?" He yelled as he slammed his fists on the floor. "You must despise me now for sinking to their level." He grumbled.
"Harry, how could I ever despise you for defending me?" Hermione whispered while embracing him in a comforting hug.
She hauled him on his feet with visible effort and guided him to the living room.
"Come on, lie down a bit, you're probably still exhausted and she helped him towards one of the larger couches, Hades and Ares had mysteriously disappeared without making a sound.
She helped him lay down and seated herself and put his head on her lap.
Harry used his occlumency to calm himself while Hermione stroked his hair and he liked the feeling and it helped him relax and his occlumency went a lot smoother while he slowly drifted into a light slumber.
Hermione just sat there and felt him relax and heard his breathing become deeper and regular before she started to nod of as well.
Meanwhile somewhere in Scotland, Hogwarts castle.
Albus Dumbledore just walked aimlessly trough the castle while sucking on a sherbet lemon thoughtfully, he always found it relaxing, just walking through the castle, just walking.
But not today, as his mind was occupied with a certain young man.
He turned around a corner and practically walked into McGonnagal as she rounded the corner as well, in the opposite direction.
"Albus, I've been looking for you," she said and noticed that he looked ancient and worried "Something has happened to Harry." She said and saw that Albus's reflexes' immediately kicked into high gear.
"What is it?" He asked prompting her to continue.
"He has disappeared from Florean Fortesceu's Ice Cream Parlor by portkey together with Hermione granger, the ministry has tried to follow the trace already but they have failed." She said trying not to panic, these were to students that were very close to her and she could not let anything happen to them.
"Call the Order, we will have an emergency meeting as soon as possible." Dumbledore said and he stalked of towards his office and Minerva had to try and keep up.
They parted ways on the second floor, Dumbledore towards his office and McGonnagall towards the fifth floor.
She walked trough a few corridors and stopped at a large statue of a knight in white marble in one of the more remote corridors. It stood out from most of the other statues in the castle and it represented Godric Gryffindor in full armour but not many people know this except for the ones that recognize the sword that rests on the pedestal on which the statue stands.
Minerva put the tip of her wand on the top-most ruby.
"Minerva McGonnagall." She stated loud and clear.
The knight sprang to live, picked up his sword and pushed against the wall behind him, revealing a secret passageway.
After taking a spiral staircase down one floor she came in a large chamber with no windows, lit only by flickering torches that sprang to live as soon as she entered.
In the middle of the room stood a stone pedestal with a large ruby placed in its surface.
McGonnagall put her hand on the stone and spoke in a loud and clear voice.
"Message to all members," the stone glowed briefly "Albus has ordered an emergency meeting, something has happened to Harry and a fellow student, gather in the Order Headquarters as soon as possible. End transmission." The stone glowed briefly once more and Minerva sighed and sat down on the far side of the room where floor seats were standing on a raised platform for the four most senior members of the order.
Hades and Ares walked in Harry's living quarters two hours after they left and found Harry and Hermione firmly asleep on the couch.
"It looks like they've made themselves comfortable." Ares complemented and Hades nodded his agreement while smirking at the two of them.
Hermione had put herself down as well and Harry had snuggled up to her while she held him in a protective embrace with Hermione against the back of the couch and both of them turned in the direction on the opposite wall.
Hades tiptoed over to them and poked Harry in the ribs but Harry just grunted his disapproval and turned on his other side and inhaled deeply.
Suddenly he recognised the sent and opened his eyes.
He saw Hermione's face very close to his and tumbled out of the couch as he yelped in surprise but not before Ares snapped some pictures.
"If this continues like this I can open an entire photo gallery by the first of September." He smirked.
"What's all the commotion," Hermione yawned "and Harry, what are you doing on the floor?" Hades conjured a one of the pictures he had just taken and showed it to her.
Hermione blushed scarlet and groaned in protest.
"I think it's time for you two to return, people are starting to get worried about you two." Hades said.
Harry and Hermione nodded and got up from the floor and the couch respectively.
"Hades," Harry asked, "could you teach me how to play chess like you two did."
"Sure, it's part of legillimency, I'll teach you how to do it next time you visit, deal."
"Deal." Harry said and walked into the bedroom to collect his, Hermione's and Lucius's wands.
He came back in the living and asked Hades to transport them straight to his room in the Leaky Cauldron.
Hermione hugged him awkwardly and closed her eyes in preparation of the journey.
Harry closed his as well and felt the faint rush of wind.
As they arrived in his room neither of them opened their eyes, they just stood there in silence and Harry hugged Hermione back. The last few days had been hard on the both of them.
Harry didn't now how long they stood there, comforting each other when suddenly a voice startled them and they jumped apart.
"Harry, Hermoine, where have you two been?"
Author notes: Reviews are still VERY welcome. My Yahoo group is still open for everybody who wants to join and discuss my fics or anything else related to HP. The address is http/groups. New chapters will always be posted there first. The next chapter will be up in a few days or after the first of August because I'm leaving on a cruise along the scandinavian coast. And don't start thinking this is usual for me, the last time I traveled this much was somewhere in '96. of course it has to be the same year as the one in which I start writing fanfiction.(sigh) another two weeks in which I can't write but my journey to Sicily has been very productive for my storyline so maybe I'll have a lot of inspiration when I get back.
Special thanks to my beta reader Ekstasis for doing a wonderful job on this chapter.
Review responses:
Quillian: sorry about that.
Rlmess: yes, there is. Now I just need to find a good name for a projector that you can hook up to one of those omnioculars, suggestions anyone.
Athenakitty: Not all the DE's. I'm not going to answer that qeustion because I would reveal to much about my story by doing so. Sorry.
gaul1: pain, destruction, blood, you get the picture.
Defender of the Dark: strong emotions can make someone do things they will regret later.
Shadowed Rains: who says there won't be mangled bodies. Don't forget that Harry hasn't been to far in hell, those were only the minor cases. Where else would almost the entire Malfoy clan reside, I can't imagine them sitting in heaven with their attitude.
Illusionaric: Yes, we have a winner, five points to whatever house you are in.
badger-dude: Its only the start indeed, I had expected to be somewhere round the end of october in chapter 15 but instead it's still the first of August. Do you people think I should speed things up a bit or not.
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