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The Rise of the Dark Mark by chiron

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Format: Novel
Chapters: 32
Word Count: 184,958
Status: COMPLETED

Rating: 15+
Warnings: Mild Language, Mild Violence

Genres: Horror/Dark, Action/Adventure, Angst
Characters: Harry, Ron, Hermione
Pairings: Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione

First Published: 01/18/2007
Last Chapter: 09/10/2007
Last Updated: 10/30/2007

Summary:



With the death of Albus Dumbledore, the magical world is thrown into a storm of chaos. There is no one now to stop Lord Voldemort and the minions of the Dark Mark....

except one
Victim
Visionary
Winner



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Chapter 1: Number Ten
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All Characters and past events © JK Rowling. Some quotes and the forum banner © Mani Ratnam. Only the plot and dialogues are mine.






Yet another long day was drawing to a close, ending what had been yet another week of nightmares. As the Prime Minister sat in his seat in his office, he couldn't help wondering whether his life had been lifted out the scenes of a horror film. He definitely knew a horror film could easily be made with him as the central character.
He couldn't help being overwhelmed by the now-omnipresent feeling of utter helplessness. The irony of his position was not lost on him. Here he was, "one of the most powerful leaders" of the "free world", just a phone call away from the most powerful man on earth, and yet he felt as powerless as the average man on the street.

When he had won the election, he had never known he was signing up for all this. He had supposed it to be a more or less easy life. It had been, till last year. He had had a nice time, meeting Presidents, Prime Ministers, kings and the like. Life seemed to be getting back at him now. It had given him non-stop agony for the last twelve months.

It had all begun with the collapse of a relatively new bridge in Brockdale, killing many, and what was worse, giving his opponents a chance to catch him with egg all over his face. It was followed with a so-called hurricane in West Country, and horrific murders just few yards from this very office.

The Opposition had placed him over the coals for a whole two weeks. They had thoroughly embarrassed him in Parliament and - what was worse - on national television as well. He had been called an incompetent, a fool, and far worse things. He had become the butt of sarcastic jokes by all the leading daily editors. In fact, a straw poll conducted just last month had revealed that he was now the most despised man in Britain and the most ridiculed man worldwide.

He had become a laughing stock of other Heads of Government all over the world. The talk in diplomatic circles, he had been told, went 'The British Prime Minister? You...

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