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Chapter #28: The evil within us.

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“Harry, what’s wrong?!” Asked Hermione desperately as she went on her knees to assist her boyfriend who suddenly fell on his knees.

He was whimpering and whining, it was clear that he was trying to suppress the pain he was feeling and Hermione felt desperate, she wanted to help him but things were looking very complicated for the moment.

“Harry, love, please tell me what’s wrong!” Hermione begged but then her eyes widened.

Something was starting to come out of his scar it was some black mist that reminded her of that time when they killed Voldemort’s snake. Unaware of what Harry and Hermione were going through, weird things were happening across the country too.

Meanwhile at Little Hangleton...

Dumbledore arrived at this little town that he had visited countless times, he knew it was useless but he needed to retrieve information about Voldemort, anything that could help to find how he managed to survive would be appreciated, he had a theory but he needed some evidence to confirm his beliefs.

He was about to enter inside a certain shack that belonged to the last descendants of Salazar Slytherin, the gaunt family, however, something crazy suddenly happened as the place started to burn, Dumbledore became a little worried, so, he cast a notice-me-not charm to hide what was going on and then his eyes widened.

A black mist was coming out of the shack, and then the mist acquired an interesting figure, it had the face of Voldemort and it was looking at him with complete disdain, it was clear that the thing knew who he was but there was nothing that the entity could do before it dissipated.

Meanwhile at Gringotts…

A red-haired man and a blonde French woman were walking outside one of the most important vaults of the bank, his name is Bill Weasley and her name is Fleur Delacour, they’re both workers at Gringotts, and this was a rare occasion for them as due to their work they barely have time to be together.

However, here they were in the underground with the excuse of depositing the monthly interest rate to the Potter family vault as Fleur became his account manager since she started working here, Harry gave her a job when no one believed in her.

Before they reached that place, they couldn’t help but snog outside the Lestrange vault, it was a sweet irony to do it outside of the vault belonging to one of the most bigoted families in the country, they both were sure that if the Lestranges saw a pureblood like him kissing a veela like Bill was doing they would surely be enraged.

However, before they could continue, something strange happened, a screeching sound started to come out from the Lestrange vault which caused both Bill and Fleur to look at it with their raised wands, they were surprised to see some kind of chalice floating in the air.

Then, something started to come out of the chalice, it was a black mist that suddenly took the form of some kind of snake-man, he was looking at them with disgust before it disappeared.

“Bill…Did you see that—” The woman with the French accent was stopped by Bill.

“Yes dear, I need to speak with the director and then with Dumbledore,” Bill said with a shocked expression he had a bit of an idea of what happened, after all, he had seen similar things in Egypt.

Meanwhile, at Grimmauld Place, Sirius wore a bored expression while he was sitting on one of the couches in the living room but he wasn’t alone, his cousin Nymphadora Tonks was telling him a long story of deception while Kreacher, the bigoted house elf was serving them tea with a disgusted expression.

“I honestly don’t know what to do Sirius, no matter how much I try, Remus doesn’t pay attention to me!” Complained the younger witch.

“Frankly Tonks, you’re a good girl, and you’re too young to ruin your life because you think you can save that self-pitying man I call my best friend,” Sirius said before sighing. “Don’t misunderstand me, I love Remus but I have never seen him dating anyone now that I think about it…He became worse the moment James and Lily got married—” Sirius's eyes then suddenly opened wide.

“What?” Asked Tonks with a confused expression.

“Now it makes sense…Oh my poor friend, I think he's not only rejecting you because he’s a werewolf but…I think he prefers the company of other gentlemen,” Sirius said with a shocked tone.

“What? There’s no—” Tonks was about to say but then she suddenly stopped.

Then she studied the situation and realized that maybe she was overstepping his boundaries, if the man truly was interested in other men or not it was not her business, but then that meant that she had been too selfish, she felt like she should’ve realized earlier.

“You know what? That makes sense…I think I’m going to stop chasing after him and instead just be friends with him, I can help him to accept his feelings, after all, I’m bi so I know what he's going through,” Tonks sighed. “I’m glad we had this talk, Sirius, there’s this teacher, her name is Septima Vector, she's a few years older than me and she asked me out I think I’m going to accept her offer,” Tonks giggled.

But before they could continue something interrupted their thoughts as something was coming out of Kreacher’s clothes, it was a locket, and then, their eyes widened when the locket opened by itself before a black mist came out of it screaming so many deadly curses, they had to cover their ears as the sound was too painful for them.

Then they stared at the mist before gulping, the thing took the form of Voldemort, or at least the form they had seen in Harry’s memories.

“Filthy scum…You’re all going to pay for this!” The black mist said before finally disappearing.

Tonks and Sirius were completely in shock, they didn’t know what happened but there was something clear, they needed to tell Dumbledore about it.

“Yes, it finally happened, the locket, the curse is gone…Master Regulus I finally completed the task you gave me!” Kreacher said happily and that caught their attention.

“Wait a minute Kreacher…What do you mean Regulus asked you to do this?” Questioned the heir of the Black family.

Kreacher was hesitant but then he was ordered to answer the question, so, he told Sirius everything, from Regulus betraying the dark lord to taking one of his cursed objects and failing to destroy it leaving the task to his faithful elf, it didn’t take too long for tears to escape from Tonks and Sirius' eyes, however, they decided to properly grieve later, it was time to tell Dumbledore what happened.

Meanwhile at Malfoy’s manor…

Voldemort and his followers were sitting at the main table of the house and of course, Voldemort took the seat of the head of the house while Lucius was on the seat where his wife usually sits.

“So…Is there any clue about who killed Nagini?” Asked the dark lord on the verge of snapping.

“I’m afraid we haven’t found who did it my lord, not even the order knows how that happened, Arthur Weasley was on the verge of death, so, he can't remember anything,” Snape’s words made the dark lord sweat.

“Could it have been the boy somehow, my lord?” Asked Lucius before realizing his mistake.

“Don’t be foolish Lucius, that boy can’t even do a proper legilimency attack, there’s no way he could find a way to make an entrance to the ministry and kill my dear Nagini without being noticed…In fact, the other day he tried to invade my mind, instead, I made him experience how it feels to lose your body,” he had a creepy smile right now.

Meanwhile, Snape couldn’t help but gulp because in fact, he was the one who made the legilimency attack and somehow, that attack was too powerful that it reached the dark lord thanks to the connection Potter shares with him, to say that Snape got traumatized about that event would be an understatement.

However, before they could say anything else, the dark lord fell on the ground and started to scream in pain causing everyone to stare at him with confused expressions.