Chapter 26: Chapter 26: Finishing the Quest.
The golden trio were looking for Dumbledore to warn him of the conspiracies surrounding the philosopher's stone but were unlucky to find him away on a ministerial business.
"With Dumbledore gone we have to do something, we need help but who to trust?" Harry asked while Ronald tried to chip his 2 cents.
"We might not have the head master, but there is someone who can match the professors in their fields." Hermione said.
"Not him, he is the big boss of all Slytherin House. Do you think he would help us against Snape?" Ronald protested.
"Sure, let's just skip the Snape part and have him come with us." Harry came out as the voice of reason.
They walked into the dungeons and came to face a wooden door with a black knocker. Harry took the ring in hand and knocked the door.
"Who's there?" came out a voice.
"It's me Harry, we have something that requires your immediate assistance."
The door opened and revealed a huge room with lots of bookshelves and a workshop behind which Thomas was tinkering with some potions.
"So, how can I help you guys?"
"We know about the philosopher's stone and someone will try to steal it." Harry stated while Hermione was drooling at the sight of the bookshelves and Ron at the weapon stand.
"No need to worry your little heads over it. It's all under control but since you guys are here and know the things you are not supposed to, let's give you guys a front row seat to the drama."
"What??" came the three shocked voices in unison.
"Come on, we don't have all day now, chop-chop." Thomas presented his hand and urged the trio to take it.
The next instant, they apparated to the room where Quirrell-mort was busy scrutinizing over the mirror of ERISED. Thomas shot an EXPELLIAMUS and chained it with an INCARCAROUS. Black chains rose from the ground and bound the body of the struggling Quirrell-mort.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet you Tom Marvolo Riddle, I was quite intrigued to hear about someone who has been around claiming to be my father's heir. So, please be kind enough to explain just how a child born of a muggle and squib managed to fool the world into believing that you are a pureblood, my father's heir no less."
Thomas said as he took off the turban, revealing the parasitic face of the Dark Lord. The wretched face had a lot of complicated emotions veiling the malice it holds.
"Excuse my rudeness, let me introduce myself. My name is Thomas Slytherin, the current Lord of the House Slytherin and the son and successor of the Duke Salazar Slytherin." Thomas said with a noble bow.
"Now, there is no need to get down to the nitty-gritty. I see that you have made a few horcruxes to stay tethered to the mortal realm. Tell me what else you have defiled and I will spare you the tedious torture before ending your tale."
A few minutes of waiting passed and seeing that there was no change in the situation, Thomas decided to close the show and finish the quest he was given.
"Harry, do your part and place your hands on his or should I say their head. Don't remove it no matter what happens, even if these guys turn into ashes."
Harry was clearly distressed by the job he was given, still walked on and placed his head on the bald noggin of Quirrell-mort and the roasting began. Harry like in the cannon had no specific hatred or life or death situation with Quirrell-mort and was about to lift his hands seeing that he was basically killing someone.
Ron and Hermione were not needed anymore and thus they were put to sleep with a simple wave of the wand and the IMPERIUS acted again. Harry was again controlled by Thomas and like a dutiful puppet, as he completed the roasting of Quirrell-mort.
The soul of Voldemort was trapped in a crystal orb and sealed by Thomas.
The stone was retrieved by Thomas and kept with him and a duplicate was placed in the mirror. Harry who woke up from the IMPERIUS, now knew who had helped him with Snape and was thankful to Thomas despite not knowing how he had done it.
With a simple feather weight charm, Ron and Hermione were kept alight and taken to the med bay in case of some PTSD.
Poppy snatched the three from Thomas and started with the treatment. Thomas asked Albus to come back with Amelia and Fudge, Thomas sent a letter to Ragnok, explaining to him about the horcruxes and asked him to bring the cup of Hufflepuff along with him.
He apparated to the Gaunt Shack and retrieved the ring and since Nagini was not yet turned into a horcrux, he set out to retrieve the locket of Slytherin and Ravenclaw Diadem. Gathering them up, Thomas waited for the others and then after Amelia arrived, he took her to the Malfoy Manor and seized the diary of T.M. Riddle.
In the presence of Albus Dumbledore, Amelia Bones, Cornelius Fudge and Ragnok the Goblin King, Thomas took out the orb containing Voldy and the rest of his horcruxes, including Harry.
The minister was on the verge of soiling himself, and hid behind the headmaster. The headmaster was clearly sad seeing that his student had gone so astray, even made such accursed items.
"Gentlemen and lady, today we are gathered here to send this stray little soul back to the arms of death, where it belongs. For that, we shall witness a little ritual performed by yours truly, which shall entail the summoning of the avatar of Death itself and hand over the pieces of the soul to it. The materials used would be THESTRAL BLOOD and THE HALLOWS bestowed by death itself to make the connection and then with the use of the soul separating spell, we shall remove the souls from the artefacts and let death do its job."
"Any doubts?"
No one was about to doubt some ritual they had never heard of and when it came from someone arcane as Thomas himself. But Fudge could not help himself and asked, "what's the soul separating spell?"
Thomas sighed, "what's with you and always trying to think on how to abuse the arcane spells."
"Well, the soul separating spell was made as the means to discover astral travel, the wizard who developed the spell wanted to free the soul from its vessel and form the astral projection and locomotion. The idiot forgot to consider that the soul can not remain in the living realm once it loses a vessel to reside in. He died in depression that he could not complete his dream, but he did make this spell."
"That's the history lesson and for the spell, it's AVADA KEDAVRA."
The people had shocked faces that had disbelief written all over them.
"You mean that the worst unforgivable, the killing curse was a charm created in a failed project. Talk about grand origins." Amelia sighed.
"HAHAHAHAHA, some bloke named this an unforgivable. Well, it can be used for murder but why be so in-efficient. The spell can be dodged and even reflected back, needless to say the theatrics that were added in the spell creation to make it look gaudy. Killing Curse HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I am really dying HAHAHAHAHAHA"
Thomas broke into a laughing fit and the others were jarred at the information Thomas gave them, the curse that could not be escaped was termed "in-efficient" by him and he even found this hilarious.
"Damn, this era is really doomed. Pops, after I am done with this Voldy matter, we are going to whip the wizarding world back to its feet and get it up and running. Starting with Hogwarts and then the rest of the Britain and let the others learn from us."
Back to the matter, Thomas started drawing the runic circle and chanting and then separated the souls from the horcruxes and re-united them in the orb. With the hallows to act as the anchor, he summoned the avatar of death, it looked like a bigger Dementor but with an aura of death and ruin in its wake and it spoke in a raspy voice.
"Why do you summon me to the mortal plane?"
"To hand a soul that has eluded you for long and to return the hallows your creator left in mortal hands." Thomas said plainly.
"Fine, if such is the Divine will. My lady sends regards, she expects a meeting with Lord Angel in due time."
"In due time envoy, and send your lady my regards and relay to her that the old man wants no such artefacts in mortal hands again and that will be all."
The envoy left with the hallows and the orb containing the soul of Tom Riddle. The others who witnessed the interaction understood nothing, as the words spoken sounded like runic gibberish to them.
The next few years, the Wizarding world saw a revolution that brought back the glory days of their civilization and the things were back on the track again, Micah had given up on his pursuit for the female Micah and started courting the next best thing, Fleur.
Painstaking efforts of four years and finally she had accepted his courting and they became 'a thing'. Thomas made Nymphie quit the auror forces and blood-adopted her in the Slytherin Family and passed the lordship to her and that needed a lot of convincing to both her and her parents.
This time around, Harry grew up like a normal wizard and learned of his heritage, got a proper reformation after Sirius Black was released. The release of Sirius Black was attributed to the Potter will where the couple had stated the truth and little old Peter was dragged to Azkaban and then the Dementors did the rest.
Quite surprisingly, Amelia and Sirius were already engaged before the debacle and they rekindled their relationship, much to the dismay of harry and Susan who were experiencing their first awakening of pubescent romance. Harry's DOGFATHER (godfather) had encouraged the young couple since they had no blood ties and were siblings in name only.
Hogwarts got revamped with a much larger array of subjects and teaching staff, back to the good old days and getting even better.
Albus retired from his positions and became the alchemy professor, Minerva became the Headmaster, Sirius was accepted as the Transfiguration. Professor and Severus finally got his dream job as the DADA professor after Thomas got rid of the curse on the position.
Seven years had passed since the Voldy issue was dealt with and now it was time to return. You may ask why not stick to the cannon, simple, there was no need, this is a fan-fic. It will have changes, explore a different corner sometimes and mostly give something interesting to read.
And for the years Thomas spent before and after the cannon were to increase his knowledge and strength, he had a dire mission to bring the wizarding world back to order as you will soon know.
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