Chapter 5

In canon at the end of this school year, Perri grew runs off to find Voldemort, upon finding him they hatch a plan to revive the dark lord.

That is not going to happen this time around.

I know Voldemort will find some other way to come back and when ever he does, I'm fucked. He will call for me and when I don't show up trouble will follow.

So, with those thoughts I have taken it upon myself to help the good guys stop Voldemort, I won't fight him head on but I can try to deal with the Horcruxes.

There are 7 in total, Nagini the snake, Hufflepuffs goblet, Riddles diary, Slytherin's locket, the Gaunt ring, Ravenclaw's diadem and Harry himself.

Off them, the diary is already destroyed. Nagini I can't reach, I won't even attempt to go near Voldemort who keeps the snake close.

The goblet is in the Lestrange's vault in Gringotts. Some planning is needed to get to that.

Slytherin's locket is with Kreacher, I'll have to ask Sirius to order his elf to hand it over, whenever I meet him.

The Gaunt ring is in the shack at little hangleton, that has a nasty curse on it, I will need someone else to deal with it or get a lot better with dark magic and curses before I attempt to go near it.

Harry Potter himself can be saved for last.

That leaves the diadem, I can find it right now in the room of lost things. No time like the present huh, lets get on with it.

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I only have to search around the room for a few minutes before I come upon an old looking tiara. It has a blue sapphire shaped like an oval. Etched upon its surface was Ravenclaw's famous quote: 'Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.'

Even from afar I can feel a dark presence from it. I cast a levitation charm on the tiara and carry it to a relatively empty part of the room.

It is really tempting to put it on, a significant increase in my intelligence or brain power would be really helpful but I know what it will do. Kreacher, Ginny and Ron, even Harry were affected by the Horcrux. So, no chance I'm putting it on.

What I'm about to do could go horribly wrong, taking a deep breath I ready my wand.

"Pestis Incendium"

A stream of orange fire erupts from my wand and engulfs the tiara. Even when I'm standing a good 15 feet away from it, I can feel the searing heat of the fire. It has a dark presence to it, where the Horcrux had one of silent dread, the feindfyre is like a raging inferno of darkness, which wants to eat everything in its way.

I have practiced this spell before but only once out of curiosity and it was a bitch and a half to cancel it.

This time it's a little better, as soon as the dark face of Voldemort leaves the destroyed tiara, I shout "FINITE INCANTATEM"

The fire dies down slowly, but surely after a few seconds it snuffs out. The result, a melted glob of metal and stone, and a dark nose less face fading over it.

One down, five to go.

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With Sirius gone, the rest of the year for the denizens of Hogwarts was peaceful, uncharacteristically so when compared to the last 2 years.

Apart from a few 6th and 7th year girls waking up in random places everything else was normal.

It's the end of May, only a couple weeks before exams start. So, all the students are cramming as much knowledge as they can in the shortest amount of time. Same as me, I also plan to leave the castle soon, so I'm using most of my time to better myself.

I have copied tons of books from the library, acquired a plethora of useful things from the ROR and my leglimency is probably the best of my skills with all the practice I've had.

I broke into the restricted section of the library even, and let me tell you even a semi competent wizard can do it, their defences are atrocious. A single proximity ward along with a light curse on the books to scream when someone touches them is all there is. There were some quite dark books there which I have added to my collection.

My grasp of runes and arithmancy is also finally acceptable.

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With all my recent advancements in magic I'm finally confident enough to go to the forbidden forest. I make my way out of the castle under the invisibility cloak. Nearing Hagrid's hut I can spot a beaten path behind it, which goes into the forest. I follow the path and when I can no longer see the castle behind the trees is when I take off the cloak.

My appearance has changed a lot. I've finally lost all the fat this body had, my hair is a lot fuller and in a simple short clean cut. The only thing I would change is the face, it's still ugly by my standards. No matter what I tried the rat like look refuses to go away. Something to do in the long term then.

With my wand in hand, I confidently stroll through the forest. Although the name forbidden forest might seem daunting but it is only named so, as it is forbidden for Hogwarts students to enter.

It's nowhere near as dangerous as the ones in Brazil, Congo, India and Sweden. But still with quite a large population of acromantula's, trolls and centaurs and even some rare hippogriff's it can be deadly for untrained wizards.

My aim today is to just test my magical prowess. Fight a few trolls or even an acromantula if it is alone. I walk along in the forest and it is really not as bad as remembered. Peter's memories of travelling through here are of absolute dread and running away every time they see any animal but the marauders were little students then so it's expected.

I wandered inside the forest for a few hours finding some interesting plants I read about in the books, none were rare enough to be worth taking.

Eventually I reached a small clearing with a lake maybe 30 feet wide. There are 3 trolls on the other side. Two of them are fucking each other and the third one seems to be taking a nap. 2 males 1 female.

Hmm can I take on 3 trolls? Well, I have trained a lot. Let's do it, if things go south, I'll run away. I transfigure a few rocks into spears and levitate them in front of me. Then I cast a powerful "depulso", the banishing charm and the dozen or so spears go careening towards the trolls.

The result is devastating, the troll on top of the female one has a half a dozen few spears sticking out of him, one of them seems to have gone right through his neck. He raises his arms towards his neck in shock, sadly he's already dying.

The female troll under him only has a single spear stuck on her arm. The sleeping troll is woken up by the sounds, sadly he was too far away for the spears to reach him.

The female troll throws off the body of the dying male on top of her.

Both of them look around and spot me, let out ugly roars and charge into the water. They really are dumb.

Smirking I overcharge my next spell again, "Mufulgur"

A massive bolt of lighting emerges from my wand and strikes the trolls in the lake. A huge sound goes off as if a bomb exploded. I have to shield myself from the shockwave as massive amounts of heated water vapor explode. Casting a light "protego".

The result is two very fried and dead trolls in the lake, whose water level is considerably lower than before.

I myself am surprised by this result; I didn't expect my spells to be so strong. Then a big smile comes to my face, maybe my prodigious progress in magical studies and practice for the last 8 months wasn't just wishful thinking, maybe I'm that talented, maybe it was my gift when I came to this world, all that matters is that I'm strong.

"Hahahahahaha" a loud laugh rings around the clearing.

That day more than a dozen trolls died to my wand.

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Dumbledore paces around in his office as he's always done. The last half a year has not been good for the ministry of magic, Hogwarts and Dumbledore himself.

The first time ever in its history, a prisoner escaped from Azkaban. Most of Europe uses it to house some of its most dangerous criminals, questions were raised on its ability to keep them there.

Sirius ran off to Germany and the British ministry was ridiculed in the aftermath of the ICW case. He still can't believe such an oversight was made in handling his case.

There were a lot of voices to remove him from the position of supreme mugwump and the Chief warlock. As during the end of the last war he was overlooking the wizengamot, he had passed the sentence on Sirius, granted he was pressured a lot but he himself had cast the fidelius charm, Sirius was the secret keeper. How could that be his fault.

Thankfully he was able to keep both positions. He already planned to step down from the ICW next year but being ousted would have left a bad taste in his mouth.

Then the whole incident of Penelope Clearwater. The thought of that brought a frown to his face, the ridicule he had faced, the hit to his reputation, it was going to take a long time to recover it.

Philippe de Gaulle was on a war path, with the criminal who attacked his apprentice still unknown, his ire was focused on Hogwarts and Dumbledore himself. He had done all in his power to find the culprit, checking most of the students, even the teachers with subtle probes of leglimency. But alas he couldn't find anything.

Penelope didn't return to Hogwarts after that, she's going to appear in her N.E.W.T.S privately at the ministry.

Apart from all that he had received information from a few sources that Voldemort is hiding somewhere in Albania.

With all the events set to take place this summer and next year at Hogwarts, frankly he was worried about something else going wrong.

His weary bones complained in pain as he sat on his throne like chair, heaving a big sigh. The fight still continues for the greater good.

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Today is probably my last night at Hogwarts, I've packed everything I could probably use in mokeskin pouches, I have 3 on myself. One contains all the currency I found; in total I have over 2000 galleons in it. Which in the grand scheme of things is not a large amount. The general conversion is 1 galleon to 25 pounds. Even the Hogwarts yearly fee is 1360 galleons. So around 50,000 pounds in galleons. Which for what I have planned is not enough.

The second one has daily useful items like clothes, shoes etc, although most of them I have transfigured myself, so they are not permanent, making me re-apply the charm every couple of weeks. Have to get a proper wardrobe sometime.

The last one has books and other items like the magic suppressing shackles etc.

As I plan on leaving tomorrow, I have decided to have a last blowout.

There are two girls in front of me, Amanda Walker, the busty 6th year Hufflepuff and Amy Robinson, a 5th year Gryffindor. Amy although a bit young, is a raven-haired beauty known for being one of the most beautiful girls in her year.

Although Amanda has been in this room a lot, it's Amy's first visit. Right now, the two girls are making out while undressing each other. Both of them are under very powerful imperio's, tasked to behave like porn stars.

I'm seated on a sofa already naked, as the two girls look at me with lusty smiles. I smirk back. Although their faces look like they are into it, their eyes tell a different story.

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