Together, Or Not At All: a Harry X Voldemort|Tom

The Cloak...

Narrator's POV

Back in the present, the summer neared its end when they got their Third Year Letter saying "THIRD-YEAR STUDENTS WILL REQUIRE:

•'The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 3' by Miranda Goshawk

•'Unfogging the Future' by Cassandra Vablatsky (if attending Divination)

•'Intermediate Transfiguration' by Emeric Switch

•"The Monster Book of Monsters' (if attending Care of Magical Creatures)

•'Numerology and Grammatica' (if attending Arithmancy)

•'Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles' by Wilhelm Wigworthy (if attending Muggle Studies)

•'Spellman's Syllabary' (if attending Study of Ancient Runes)

•'The Essential Defence Against the Dark Arts' by Arsenius Jigger."

And they wasted no time to head to Diagon Alley.

***

As always, they started at Gringotts to refill their coin pouches.

Once Silverchain led them into the Slytherin Vault, Tom gathered some change and decided to look around the artifacts and books.

Unfortunately, there weren't many books —Tom guessed most of Salazar's works were in the Chamber of Secrets— but there was plenty of snake styled jewelry.

Harry looked up and down the row of jewelry and saw one empty necklace holder.

"What do you think went there?" Harry asked Tom

"Don't know," Tom replied, pointing something out, "must be like a locket or something to leave that big of an imprint."

Along another wall, they found a long tapestry that showed every member of the Slytherin-Gaunt line that traced all the way to Antioch, Cadmus, and Ignotus Peverell —Tom's ancestor was Cadmus.

They repeated the process in the Potter Vault and Harry found an invisibility cloak that he found quite interesting, causing Silverchain to quietly chuckle.

Eventually, when they got to the tapestry, Harry became confused.

"Antioch, Cadmus, and Ignotus Peverell." The tapestry read, eventually leading down to read, "Harry Potter." on Ignotus' line

"Antioch, Cadmus, and Ignotus?" Harry asked, "I saw those names on Tom's tapestry. Wait, does this mean that Tom and I are related?"

"Extremely distantly, but yes. But you have the lordship over the Peverell Family since Ignotus was the last living of the three." Silverchain answered, "The tale of the Deathly Hallows are explained in a book called 'the Tales of Beedle the Bard'."

Both have collected money and Harry with the cloak, they left the bank.

***

After buying the books they needed for class, Harry found and paid for "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" since Silverchain said it had the tale of their ancestors, the Peverell Brothers.

Once they returned to the orphanage, Harry sat next to Tom on his bed and they read the story,"The Tale of the Three Brothers".

"Three brothers, travelling along a lonely, winding road at twilight reached a deep treacherous river where anyone who attempted to swim or wade would drown. Learned in the magical arts, the brothers conjured a bridge with their wands and proceed to cross. Halfway though the bridge, a hooded figure stood before them. The figure was the enraged spirit of Death, cheated of his due. Death cunningly pretended to congratulate them and proceeds to award them with gifts of their own choosing. The eldest brother, a combative man, asked for a wand more powerful than any in existence. Death granted his wish by fashioning the Elder Wand from a branch of a nearby elder tree standing on the banks of the river. The second brother, an arrogant man, chose to further humiliate death, and asked for the power to recall the deceased from the grave. Death granted his wish by crafting the Resurrection Stone from a stone picked from the riverbank. The third and youngest brother, who was the most humble and wise, did not trust Death and asked for something to enable him to go forth without Death being able to follow. A reluctant Death, most unwillingly, handed over his own Invisibility Cloak. The three brothers took their prizes and soon went on their separate ways. The eldest brother travelled to a village where a wizard whom he had quarrelled lived. He sought out a duel and fought the wizard using the wand, instantly killing the latter. Leaving his enemy dead upon the floor, the eldest brother walked to an inn not far from the duelling site and spent the night there. Taken by his conscience and lust of the Elder Wand's power, the eldest brother boasted of this wand gifted by Death and his own invincibility. That very night, Death transfigured to a murderous wizard. The unknown murderous wizard crept to the inn as the eldest brother slept, drunk from wine. The wizard slit the oldest brother's throat for good measure and stole the wand. That was when Death took the first brother. The second brother returned to his home where he lived alone. Turning the stone thrice in his hand the figure of the girl he had once hoped to marry, before her untimely death, appeared at once before him, much to his delight. Yet she was sad and cold, separated from him as by a veil. Though she had returned to the mortal world, she did not truly belong there and suffered. Finally the second brother, driven mad with hopeless longing, committed suicide by hanging from his house' balcony so as truly to join her. That was when Death took the second brother for his own. Death searched for the youngest brother as years passed but never succeeded. It was only when the third brother reached a great age, he took off the Cloak of Invisibility and gave it to his son. Greeting Death as an old friend, they departed this life as equals."

"So, three Deathly Hallows," Harry mumbled, "I wonder what would happen if you collected all three?"

"I don't know, but it would be interesting." Tom replied

"This invisibility cloak has to be the Cloak of Invisibility from the story." Harry added, gesturing to his trunk that now held the cloak

"It has to." Tom agreed...