It had been so busy in the last month, some of the death eaters had been careless when they were out of the Manor and had gotten caught. Tom, Hadrian and Lucius were trying their best to get them out, as it had only been a month since the article on Kingsley had been released many people were getting scared.
Hadrian had been able to send out his fifth year in a letter to Rita a few days prior and the article was due to come out today. The Circlet and the Inner Circle were all in the meeting room when the owls came in delivering the paper and any mail that was for them, Hedwig then went in search of Salazar while the other owls did whatever they wanted.
The article read:
Order of the Phoenix?
I have received another from Mr Collins, he says that there will be one more letter after this one readers as Harry Potter only made it past his sixth year in school. His fifth year was just as bad as the others.
The first change was Miss Dolores Umbridge taking the role of Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, however I have been told that she didn't teach them any spells mostly theory work that should not have been studied in this class.
Miss Umbridge then went on to changing all of the rules in the school this could be from hand holding and kissing to reporting for tea with her and being questioned. She then went onto to try and fire the Divination professor at the time, but she was not the headmistress and therefore was not able to.
Mr Potter asked the woman why she wasn't teaching them how to defend themselves when a man like Voldemort was back in the world. She yelled at him telling him that the dark lord is dead, that he is not coming back and that the boy is lying, she gave him detention.
However this was not an ordinary detention.
"Harry told me that he had brought his own quill since he knew that she would ask him to write lines, but when he got there she told him to use one of her own. This quill was dark and Harry said that he could feel pain coming from it, never the less he took it and began writing when his hand began to sting. He had been told to write 'I must not tell lies' and he had to watch as those words scratched themselves into his skin. He didn't know what it was but I did and I told him, a blood quill, something that is illegal and in fact considered to be dark. Dumbledore hired the woman and he surely should have known about her methods, especially when more people came to Madame Pomfrey because of this." Mr Collins told me in the letter.
I was shocked when I read this information, a Ministry worker using something as evil as a blood quill it was so wrong.
She was then made headmistress and created a squad that made school miserable. Harry Potter and a few of his friends created an army behind her back on the orders of Albus Dumbledore, an army that Harry Potter would teach and one that the rest of the school would not know about. It was named Dumbledore's Army.
It had been going well until one of the members was taken and question under the truth serum, to which no one can resist. The student told them everything and where to find their base, the room of Requirement within the bowls of the school.
Dolores called for the truth serum but there was none left, so she threatened to use the illegal Crucio curse on Mr Potter to get answers. As we all know this is dangerous to use on an adult, it being used on a teen could have been serious, however she didn't care.
After some quick thinking she was taken by the Centaurs, mainly for the fact that she and others had labelled them as dark creatures and wanted them rounded up so they can be locked away. Yes they were dark creatures but no one deserved to be locked up, even those animals.
Harry was then taken over by Voldemort and heard the full prophecy, a prophecy that was made about him since just after the boy was born. It was learned that Harry had a connection to Voldemort through the scar on his forehead, it allowed the boy to see into the mind of the man as well as dream what the man was doing. And as you can guess most of the time was not very good, whenever Voldemort was angry Harry Potter would feel that pain as well in his scar.
Dumbledore had kept this prophecy a secret from Harry for a long time, the boy knew that he had survived the killing curse and killed the dark lord when he was only 3 months old, but he was never told that only he could kill Voldemort. He also found out that they cannot both live, that one must die at the hands of the other, this meant only Harry could do the job.
After that things went back to normal, but Mr Collins told me something in the letter that was interesting.
"Harry confided in me that he was beginning to have doubts about Albus Dumbledore. The old man would not allow Harry into any of the order meetings saying that it was not important, however Hermione Granger and all of the Weasley children were allowed into the meetings. Harry was beginning to piece together a few things that were starting to make sense to him now, and he was beginning to see Dumbledore in a whole new light." Mr Collins said in the letter.
So is Albus Dumbledore really the leader of the light that we think he is? Or is he really a dark lord in disguise?
Keep reading to learn more.
Rita Skeeter.
The dark was now laughing, the light was seriously going to doubt Dumbledore when they read this, most of the families in Hogwarts wouldn't have been told about the blood quill being used as a punishment. When they hear of this Dumbledore will be blamed as he hired the woman into the school.
"Well done Hadrian but there is something else that I want to move onto, something that is not about death and darkness." Tom said, even Hadrian looked confused.
"And what is that my love?" Hadrian asked.
Tom smiled and placed his hand on Hadrian's stomach. Hadrian was now into his forth month of pregnancy and his bump was beginning to show, there was no movement from the child but the bump showed that they were growing as they should inside their mother. "Our baby, while he or she will grow up on the dark side it is not a darkness and it is about gaining life not death." Tom explained while the room smiled at him.
"What do you want to talk about?" Lucius asked in a worried tone.
"There is nothing to be worried about my friend. We just need to discuss names and how we are going to decorate, this place will need baby proofing and we also need to set up a nursery for him or her." Tom said with a smile.
And so they spent the rest of the day talking about this. They had decided that they would discuss the names when they find out the gender, they did not want to wait until the birth to know what they were getting so after their next appointment when they learn the gender they will start to discuss names.
They decided that the Nursery would purples and blues if it was going to be a girl, with lots of toys and clothes that a cute baby girl could ever want. They also decided that it would be reds and greens if it was going to be a boy, with all of the toys and things that a little boy would want.
They talked for hours, Hadrian and Tom putting Narcissa, Tonks and Bellatrix on styling the nursery. They decided to draw up two plans, one for a boys room and one for a girls, but not start doing one until they learned the gender. The boys would help them move the things in the room, help with the painting and any other things that need doing, but the women were the ones designing the room and deciding where everything is put.
Once the women had enough information they went of together somewhere to start the planning, however it was late and Hadrian got tired a lot quicker then he once did, so Hadrian and Tom bid everyone a goodnight before going up to their rooms.
They bid each other goodnight, told each other that they loved them and then fell asleep. Tom fell asleep quicker then Hadrian did so Hadrian was able to feel Tom snuggle up to him and rest a hand on his growing stomach as if protecting it from the world. Hadrian smiled when he saw the contented look in his mates eyes, he knew that the one thing the man wanted more then anything was a family and Hadrian was glad to be giving that to him.
The nightmares that the pair used to get have lessoned but they still pop up every once in a while, however this night there was nightmares, no screaming and no terror. There was only peacefulness in the room and in the bed when the two fell asleep.
Tom dreamed that he saw himself, Hadrian and a little boy, who he assumed was their son by the looks of him, standing on a battle field and smirking at the light as they told them who each of them were. He was happy in the dream and he knew that that would in fact be coming true in just a few more months time.
Hadrian also dreamed of him, Tom and a small boy, who he too guessed was their son since he looked so much like a mixture of the two of them. However in his dream they were standing in court room surrounded by people as the traitors were brought in. Hadrian and Tom watched, they sat so close together that there legs touched, which was where their son was sitting. They watched as one by one the traitors were brought in, he watched them plead that they did nothing and that they loved him, but he just smirked and shook his head. The scene then shifted to a large room, Dumbledore kneeling on the floor, the courts had allowed the headmaster to be killed with the killing curse shot by Tom and from Hadrian. It was rare for the court to sentence a prisoner to death by the hands of other people, but Hadrian and Tom think it had something to do with what the man had done. Hadrian smirked as he watched Dumbledore shiver in fear, before he and Tom fired their killing curses at the same time, Hadrian smiled as he finally watched that fake twinkle in the mans eyes vanish.
Both Hadrian and Tom smiled in their sleep, moving even closer to one another. They knew the battle was coming soon and they knew that their was going to be deaths, but they also knew that nothing bad was going to really happen to the dark. It would be the light that suffered more of the deaths and not the dark.
It would not be long now before they were free, and muggles left the wizarding world.