raised by dementor

chapter 53

A team of aurors arrived as Harry expected a few minutes after the Dementors had secured the students, Harry knew they were coming. Logically he knew the minister would want to find out what was going on quickly and also he would send a team of aurors who were highly skilled.
"You're in for it now Potter," Ron snarled as he noticed the Dementors moving to the side in order to allow the team through, Harry was slightly surprised to see the minister himself leading them, obviously he had caused a crisis which was bigger than he originally thought
"Harry," he greeted with obvious confusion in his eyes as he overlooked the scene, knowing he had a few moments before questions would be asked Harry gestured for Dora,
"Minster Fudge please meet Peter Pettigrew," Harry dropped the bombshell there and then as the man in question was once more dragged before the students, the courtyard was slightly warmer now as Harry's influence extended to protect more and more people, he needed positive emotions so they would believe him. For a moment Fudge looked disbelieving until he actually saw the man, his eyes widened as his mouth dropped slightly, Peter was currently unconscious but Harry assumed he would wake up sooner or later.
"Amelia?" he turned to a woman to his right, Harry recognised her as the woman in charge of security and felt pleased he had rendered two of the most important people in the ministry silent.
"It is," she gasped walking forward to study the man,
"Didn't we do this part a few minutes ago?" Draco asked and was silenced by a glare from Cho,
"He's supposed to be dead," Umbridge pointed out the obvious and Fudge rolled his eyes slightly but didn't let her see it, then Pettigrew woke up. The Dementors effect so high up had a serious effect which Harry had no intention of relieving, so instead he woke him up
"It was him all along," Sirius announced and all eyes, as well as wands were on him as the aurors looked unsure, Fudge looked at the Dementors but frowned when he realised they were not doing anything, he then looked at Harry.
"Dramatic," Draco announced softly
"Would you care to explain Mr Potter?" he asked confirming what he had thought at the beginning, there was a lot more to Sirius Black than public opinion dictated , Harry moved forward to explain but suddenly he was pulled to the side by Crabbe who had seen it first.
"Down," Madam Bones screeched pulling Fudge down as a series of curses rained down from the windows, the Dementors; immune moved to protect the students while shield after shield sent the curses flying , Harry swore under his breath; he had forgotten to mention the coup, he had been too focused on the moment he knew Sirius had been waiting for all this time. The moment of his innocence being proven, instead he was forced to wait until the aurors returned fire and sent the men above running for cover. Harry knew this was going to happen, the figure had warned him and yet he didn't listen,
"What is going on?" Fudge demanded looking at Harry, he was for a moment standing tall and obviously angry with being attacked, it wasn't hard to see he would order Sirius locked away any second.
"Dumbledore was intending to hold the students hostage, he wanted the Wizengamot to depose you," Harry answered rising to his feet,
"Thanks Crabbe," he breathed knowing his friend had saved him from an awful lot of pain, Fudge's gaze however was now much more interested.
"Professor Dumbledore would not do that," one of the aurors answered but Madam Bones, Umbridge and Fudge knew differently, they knew what had happened and also they had been watching him.
"Then explain the attackers," the minister retorted but it was a question the minister did not want answered, instead he was focused on Harry. He believed him and slowly he walked towards him
"Listen up," he directed at his team and also the students to some extent, maybe even the Dementors
"Over the last three years Albus Dumbledore has been under investigation for various crimes, using dark magic, finical manipulation, forcing marriage and more. While I know you see him as a hero that time is now ending, the people in that school who attacked us may be in a treasonous conspiracy and we are going to end it. So Dumbledore is to be put under arrest on suspicion of high treason while we work out what has transpired, now ignoring that there are a number of men in that school, all of whom we don't want near children," Fudge began his speech and Harry was surprised at how it was done, charisma, slight manipulation and honesty,
"We're basing this on the world of a child," an auror interrupted
"This is going to get boring," Luna decided as Fudge turned to him
"Yes we are, and we're also basing it on the fact we have been attacked, dispute that," he snapped angrily not wanting to face Dumbledore hero worshippers, the auror in question said nothing.
"Then let's go," he commanded as the clock tower exploded in orange light. Harry spun around knowing what was going on and for some reason felt a twang of guilt or affection towards what was going on, he didn't know why but he suddenly felt involved. He moved to fly over
"No," Cho pulled him back down roughly as the aurors charged through the main door, they could already hear and see spell fire,
"We go together," she told him and Harry nodded, he didn't have much of a choice seeing as he had lied to them for some time,
"Wow standing here is really productive, why not go to the clock tower and see what the hell is going on," Draco suggested gesturing to a door and while everyone was focused on the minister they slipped away without being seen.
Meanwhile
"Sloppy," was the strangled cry emitting from Lily Potter's dead lips as the body ducked to avoid another stunner, Doge had been the culprit and a jet of black lightning knocked him down. The only challenging spell had been Dumbledore blowing up the internal clock to distract him
"Crucio," Molly Weasley spat but Lily's body was dead and the spell could do nothing, only power equal to the creature could hurt it, a basilisk was the only example it could think of. Then a gnarled clawed hand gripped her by the throat and promptly threw her against a wall and listened to the squelching sound it made as her head smashed against the solid surface.
"No," Arthur realised what had happened and charged, a foolish mistake because a round of lightning electrified his moving body and the pain forced him to the floor before he could process what had happened, a spell then hit its face. Part of it came loose and it took the creature a few moments to realise a slicing curse had removed a portion of its jaw,
"Diggle, always the one to be surprising," the creature smiled before unleashing a wave of energy powerful enough to shatter the man's bones, the crippled mess was certainly dead and Dumbledore looked down. He was on the platform overlooking the battle, he had been firing spells down and destroying things but seeing Diggle die shook him.
"Avada," Dodge was back on his feet but the creature flicked him away like nothing, he hit a few inches away from space Molly hit but he was an old man and the creature knew he was dead. His choice of spell however, the battle was now lethal but now it was only down to two people, the creature and Dumbledore.
"So the master and the student do battle," the creature cackled as it walked upwards, the floor was in pieces above with cogs dotting the floor and shards digging into dead feet, he could see the entire castle from the space a giant clock once occupied but now it was on the ground. Then without needing to look further the creature fired a blot of energy which Dumbledore, blocked; he had expected him to
"I am more powerful than you," the creature warned as it dodged a killing curse. Dumbledore said nothing, obviously focusing and hoping the elder wand would help him, it would not and another spell was fired followed by another and another each weakening Dumbledore's shield.
"You shouldn't have betrayed me," the creature spat unleashing black lightning which Dumbledore had to use magic and manoeuvring to dodge
"You were a mistake of nature, my own family created you and you think you can fight me?" Dumbledore demanding and years of being subservient to the creature surfaced in fury.
"You created all of this, Tom Riddle to fall and rise, Harry to be the saviour twice thanks to magic you were pumping into his grandparents," the creature retorted
"Oh really? I'm sure they were mostly your plans," Dumbledore pointed out and the creature nodded
"I created Harry Potter, gave him the power he needed and yet he defied both of us, ruined your plan to be hero worshipped and,"
"Our plan," Dumbledore affirmed
"I suppose Dumbledore but the point is this, we sought to control nature and nature fought back, a Dementor star child caused of all this to end. Our plan failed and you betrayed me and launched this ludicrous coup ," the creature answered
"It failed because of you, his power is your power and you made him, now here we are. The ministry hunting us, a failed coup means both of us will end and if have to go down you're coming too," Dumbledore hissed drawing his wand.
"There," a voice caused both of them to turn, the creature saw Harry and his friends, all of them and then he saw Dumbledore was no longer aiming at them, the creature owed a debt to Harry and swore never to meet him again,
"Well here it is," the creature sighed acceptingly before spinning around to intercept the green jet, his debt was repaid and the creature fell from the platform, a slow graceful thing and if the curse didn't kill Lily Potter's destroyed form then the fall would. So it fell secure in the knowledge it was done.
Harry
"No," the mouthed seeing the one link he had to his other self, his greatest enemy and greatest ally, the person he had helped and who had helped him, he saw the body of his mother fall to the floor.
"Stay here," Harry commanded, they had all moved away from Dumbledore's killing curse but now he needed to fight,
"We will," Draco agreed and then Harry nodded at his oldest friend, a silent goodbye was passed before Harry flew towards the upper platforms, Dumbledore was racing to the roof where he would be able to escape through flight. Harry wasn't going to let that happen
"You," a croak of a voice meant all of them looked
"She's alive," Cho realised rushing towards the deformed, maimed figure that smiled ever so slightly, a disgusting thing in many ways.
"Cho Chang, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle. Harry Potter's best and dearest friends," it greeted
"The ones you tried to kill," Draco interjected and the creature did nothing
"You are correct, but there is one among you who I did not try to kill, listen to me girl it's you he loves, you are the only one who can stop him now because we all know what he must do" it whispered with fading breath
"Who are you talking to?" Luna asked looking at Hermione and Cho, neither of them knew
"Why are we listening to it?" Draco asked very untrustworthy of this thing, who seemed fine by his emotions,
"Love can kill the monster," it breathed before the light behind Lilly Potter's eyes went dark for the last time as the monster inside her left the world of the living.
Meanwhile
"You can't run," Harry announced flying up the very top of the clock tower, it was shaking and ruined thanks to an explosion but he faced the old man who had controlled him right from the start.
"So Harry, it comes to this," the man sighed looking at him with regret and longing
"Indeed it does," Harry agreed as the old man grabbed his wand, Harry however had no intention of playing fair, he had seen someone die tonight and while he didn't have concrete feelings on the monster it had changed, helped him and now it died for him. So did the sorting hat and whoever else was victim to this man, so through his anger he gripped something inside him that he not used willingly for a long time. Then he allowed his Dementor form to begin taking over and Dumbledore took a step back in disgust and horror, as he changed words came to Harry.
For Blood and Hate his heart remains closed this had been fulfilled years ago when Harry rejected the blood purity ideals
For Darkness for Light; evil never grows he had worked with both the light and the dark and had done things that changed him but never did he allow himself to become wholly evil and always he kept his inner self in check.
For the end to met a truth must unveil If not for the creature he would never have found Arianna who had stayed alive long enough to stop her brother
With terrible loss and terrible betrayal Arianna had been lost to Dumbledore who betrayed the figure, the two were linked.
The darkness falls and recoils The last line of the prophecy vanished into Harry's head and knowing the creature fell it was part done but now was the moment of truth, he would have fight his inner self once Dumbledore was gone but now Harry did not face Dumbledore. Instead a thinner, skeletal version with darkened eyes, paler skin and a Dementor's mouth,
"Let us end this," said the embodiment of Harry's evil moving towards Dumbledore.