Red dragon

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"Okay guys you have two choices. Come or Stay. Either way I need to go down."

"Harry we're not going to leave you." George nodded. "Just- what exactly are we going to face down there?"

"I am going to kill the king of serpents." Harry pulled away from Oliver's protest.

"Harry that's it I'll tell my mother."

Harry turned to glare at Oliver. "Oliver look Draco is in the hospital wing; last time it was Hermione…"

"What do you mean last time?"

Harry realised he hadn't told his puedo brother or the twins about his 'past'. "It's a really long story that we don't have time for at this exact moment." He told them. "Now that snake murdered Myrtle; how long do you think it's going to be until that happens again."

"Murdered?"

"So what do we do?" Fred asked the black haired boy.

"We attack its eyes."

"You said we can't look in them." Hermione asked.

"I have a plan."

"If it doesn't work?" Oliver glared at his brother.

"Let's not think about that." Harry walked into the chamber. "Right Guys swords and wands out ready. Now stand there and close your eyes until I tell you."

"But Harry."

"Oliver I know what I'm doing. Now do as I say… or I will quit Quidditch forever."

"Haaar…" Oliver let his voice drop. "Okay I'll trust you; but if you die I will kill you." There was a fear in Oliver's voice but Harry smiled; he had always cared about Oliver. He was as true a friend as you could find.

"Harry?" Ron asked.

Harry wasn't listening. "Close your eyes; now." He took a deep breath and placed his hand on his chest before calling. "I am Slytherin; I summon you." The parceltongue flowed easily from his mouth.

The hissing began and the snake began to emerge. "My lord; you live….. You are not THE LORD!" The snake hissed in outrage.

"Clearly." Harry pulled his wand and with his eyes closed cast a complex and specific spell. "Confodere oculorum caeco." Hermione had created this spell in Harrys memories; He just had to hope it would work on snakes.

A second of silence and bright light before a huge terror inducing hiss came from the monster. The spell had worked; the basklists eyes were white and bleeding. The snake was blind.

Harry thanked whoever it was that watched over him.

"Okay guys you can look now."

"Harry what did you do?!" Hermione shouted rubbing her eyes. She could see but everyone was a little damaged from the backlash of the spell. It was temporary.

"It's blind; he now needs to bight you to kill you."

"It's venomous too?!"

Harry ignored her and grabbed his sword in his hand. Harry mocked the snake as he slammed his shield into its teeth.

Oliver jumped in to shoot curses at the snake. He couldn't believe Harry was doing something do dangerous.

"Oliver aim for the mouth and the eyes; its skin repels magic."

"What do we do then?"

"Why do you think we have swords?" Harry thrust his sword into the snake's eye.

The twins teamed together staying away from the teeth but gouging- with their swords- into the snakes back. They were tearing a huge hole just above the head trying to get into its brain.

"Oh in Merlins name." Ron gasped as he watched his brothers climb up the snakes back.

Oliver stood by Harry as the younger boy thrust his sword up towards the mouth. The two boys held a shield at each of the fangs protecting themselves and each other. Hermione cast stunning charms at the snakes eyes and Ron caught up his courage and charged his sword at the snakes' side.

Harry and the twins broke through to the brain at about the same time. Two swords pierced the brain; one from the top and another from the bottom.

It hissed and screamed but quickly died.

"We actually killed it." Ron gasped.

"We're not dead."

"That was the coolest thing I have ever done." Fred and George high fived each other; to Oliver's glare.

Harry sighed and looked at the tiny jar he had swinging around his neck. Three phoenix tears; they were really expensive and he hadn't even needed them. A hundred galleons a drop.

"Okay that's it we are all getting out of here." Oliver grabbed Harrys arm.

"I just have one more thing to do." Harry placed the diary on the floor and then smashed his sword into the fang so that it snapped to the floor. Everyone protested as Harry picked it up. "Hermione do you have a quill?"

Hermione's hand shook as she handed him the feather.

'Goodbye Tom'

Harry wrote.

'It's not over.'

Tom wrote back as Harry slammed the fang into the diary so that it spilled out ink. The part of Tom Riddle's soul perishing.

"Now we can go." Harry wrapped the fang up and placed it in his pocket; he may just need it later.

"I can't believe how stupid you are?" Oliver exclaimed. "Why would you do something that dangerous?"

Harry sighed and began telling Oliver and the twins his past- as he told it to Hermione, Draco and Ron. It was only a half lie and it made far more sense than the truth.