The Power of Three

As with all things Harry Potter, their exit did not go unnoticed by most of the occupants of the Great Hall. Daphne saw it and considering how close Harry and Megan were getting, damn that lucky girl, she guesses that they were going to spend some time alone before the task. Daphne really didn't think anything about it until she saw Luna moving quickly and with purpose not too far behind them. She knew Luna well enough to know that she never moved like that unless something was up. She waited a few minutes before finishing up and exiting the hall as well. As she stepped out the doors of the castle, she saw the little blond heading down to the lake and followed her to what she knew was Harry's rock.

Harry looked up at her approach and said "Good, I was trying to figure out a way to get you out here. I need all of your help working through some things."

"No offense Luna but do you think she needs to be here for this Harry? I know she won't reveal anything, well not that anyone but you could probably understand but secrecy has worked well for us so far."

Harry looked at Luna for a minute before saying "Yeah, I think she does. I don't understand some of it and Luna's unique way of looking at things may give us the insight we need."

Luna stuck her tongue out at her cousin before sitting next to Daphne.

Harry said "It all started with the wand this morning. That glow was weird and I actually felt the wand bond to my core. It wasn't anything like when I got my holly wand."

Luna asked "May I see your wand Harry?"

He snorted at her but pulled it out of his wrist holder. When he handed it to her, she studied it for a minute before saying "This wand has a very old magic feel to it. When I found you earlier, you said you were in a trance. What did it show you?"

He hesitated for a minute before saying "I saw the history of the wand as it passed through different hands through the ages. The older ones were a blur because they went by so fast but I could almost feel joy from it every time it was in the hands of a Potter."

Luna looked dreamily off in the distance and said "The Potters are descended from the Peverells. Did it react with your cloak?"

"Yes."

"May I ask what the cloak showed you?"

"It has never left the Potter line except once. Dumbledore had it after dad's death. How he got it I don't know but it was given to me in first year. I don't think it ever worked for him."

Megan asked "Has anyone else ever used it?"

"Not without me. I have two things of my father's and I don't just lend them out."

Daphne said "This is all interesting Harry but there's got to be a reason for your needing to talk."

"Are there any stories of how Dumbledore got this wand?"

Megan said "Rumor says he won it from Grindelwald."

Harry sighed "Well, that may be what he told everyone but, he killed my grandfather trying to get it from him. My grandfather used his last bit of magic to banish it to the Potter vault so that Dumbledore wouldn't get it."

Daphne said "Yet he somehow managed to gain possession of it and kept it until you took it from him."

"Yes, the wand showed me a lot of things but not everything. It slept in the vault until it was awoken by Dumbledore with Bearclaw watching. They did something to force it to serve the Headmaster. The only problem is that I have no time reference to go by. Was it before or after my parents were killed?"

Megan was following his thinking and said "You think Dumbledore set up your parents to be murdered so he could get control over you and the family vaults. He made sure there was no resistance to his plans and everyone who could have taken over your guardianship managed to be incapacitated in some way."

Daphne said "Whoa now, that's a pretty big leap."

Harry said "You're not operating with the complete set of facts either. Could all this be real?"

Luna replied in a soft voice "Men have been willing to do anything to have possession of that wand."

Daphne asked "Elder?"

Luna just nodded her head.

Megan said "Those are just children's stories."

Luna said "And yet we have a wand that has a long and bloody history. We have the perfect cloak that has been passed down from father to son for generations and yet it has never lost its abilities. And we have an old coot that has always been interested in the subject. He even talked to my father about it one evening and if I remember right, he was asking his opinion on what the stone could be."

Harry asked "What are you talking about?"

Megan said "The Deathly Hallows. They are supposed to be three incredibly powerful magical artifacts that when united would give the holder the power over death."

Luna said "Let's assume you have two. Can you feel the third?"

"I feel my magic pulling me back towards England."

Daphne said "If Dumbledore killed to get it once, he might try again."

Harry said "It's possible but I don't think that will be the case now. The look in his eye this morning when it bonded to me was one of resignation and he knows that I have possession of both items now and they both work for me. Maybe he thinks they'll give me some protection from death already. That's what I needed to talk to you about. I think he has been setting me up to die since my parents did and I keep surviving somehow. I have a feeling that even if he got his hands on the objects now, they still wouldn't do what he expects. He may try to force them to work for him but it wouldn't be the same as the objects bonding to him."

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