The Necromancer

// THIS IS AN OLD CHAPTER. THE NEW CHAPTERS ARE IN VOLUME 2. YOU CAN READ THESE CHAPTERS IF YOU WANT SOME INSIGHT ON WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN LATER BUT SOME EVENTS CAN BE DIFFERENT BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW CHAPTERS.

---------- POV Dumbledore ----------

Evening has just fallen when I hear my stairs move to welcome my visitors. Lilly and James Potter.

"Albus, what happened, did something bad happen to Harry?" Lilly is already planning the worst and yet it breaks my heart to have to tell her something completely different.

"Sit down, have a lemon sherbet, it will do you good." They refuse the candy; these are really not popular today. "A serious incident took place today and quite frankly I don't know what to do anymore."

"Stop beating around the bush professor and tell us frankly what's going on." James has always been impulsive.

"Rose's boyfriend brought her to the infirmary today, she was poisoned by another boy with a heavy dose of amortentia." Lilly puts her hand in front of her mouth, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Oh, my poor baby. Who dared to hurt my baby?" I find it difficult to continue, I can feel the drama coming. I breathe a long sigh before continuing. "Upon investigation, it would appear that the responsible for all of this is Harry." Both parents look at me, Lilly her eyes still full of tears but the shock of the revelation is such that she stops before bursting into tears. James puts a hand on his wife's shoulder, but Lilly jumps up, pushing her husband away.

"This is all your fault! You rotted our son's mind with our so-called superiority, I told you to stop but no, you had to turn our son into a monster. He is even capable of hurting his own family!"

"Lilly is strong, she will get over it. And we will punish Harry properly to get him back on track. Everything will be fine Lilly."

"No, it's not going to work out, James. How do you expect me to look my son in the eye after what he has done!" She takes a moment to breathe. "I have to get out of here. I have to see Rose." Lilly leaves us alone with James.

"What are we doing professor?" James looks confused.

"We will try to put things back in order." I take a second to catch my breath. "It would be better if Harry finishes this year at home while the situation calmed down here. No mail, no outing, no outside communication. I would come and give him his exams and then we can look at his possible future at Hogwarts. "

"But you can't leave him like that. We need him to be trained for when he has to fulfill the prophecy!"

"Things have changed James, I discovered other things that could prove useful in our fight against Voldemort. Harry is not the only one I have to take into account now and what just happened is too serious, I can't let it go again. "

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I'm sitting next to Rose's bed, resting my head on her arm, waiting for her to wake up. I pulled the screens so we could have some privacy from the horde of assholes that got there soon after McGonagall left.

I hear a small moan and I see Rose waking up very slowly.

"Slowly, everything is ok, I'm here."

Rose doesn't answer me, tears running down her cheeks. I put my hand on hers, but she pushes me away screaming.

"Don't touch me!" She folds her knees against her and begins to sob. "I'm dirty."

"Shh, no Rose, don't say that. You're not dirty. The only thing that's dirty about this fucking school is the boys who attacked you."

I hear the door to the hospital wing open and someone in heels approaching us, turning around I see Lilly Potter with her hand over her mouth in horror at her daughter's condition.

"We can't date anymore, you're too good for me, I feel dirty."

"It's not true, everything will work out, I promise you." I turn my gaze to Lilly. "I can't stay any longer, Madam Pomfrey has already made an exception not to leave her alone with them. Can you give me news of her condition?"

"Yes" as I am about to walk out the door. "Sean. ... Thank you"

It's been two days since I left Rose in the infirmary. Lilly preferred to transfer her to the Ste Mungo hospital for fairly obvious reasons. The boys who took part in the assault were all found confined in the Gryffindor dormitory, they are no longer allowed to go out except to go to class and all their free time such as meals and interclass, they must spend it in the Gryffindor common room. No one but me really knows what happened and why these boys are locked up. The headmaster made me promise that I would not reveal what happened that day. Fortunately for Dumbledore, I have a minimum of honor and I'm not the man to break his oaths, so I didn't say anything about what happened. On the other hand, everyone understood that it concerned Rose when people started to notice her absence and they are now socially isolated by the rest of the school.

I honor my oaths but above all I honor my debts and tonight it's time to settle one. I put on my wizarding outfit that I wore when I was introduced to the Order of Merlin. The silvery Serpent symbol on my mantle reflects the light of the Moon, it is not as a Hogwarts student that I am avenging myself tonight but as a Necromancer.

I take out my map and head for the chamber of secrets, once inside I prepare everything, I need to conjure the spirits. I vividly remember the spells of the necrotic grimoires in the family libraries.

"torquerentur exspiravit, I call upon you spirits who still walk in this world, marked by the horrors of your lifetime. Answer the call of your dark lord, ultionem spirituum"

A cold wind swept through the room as the ghosts of Hogwarts materialized in front of me. Their eyes are as black as ink.

"You have called us, master." They all respond to me in synchronous ways, like automatons.

"Men have disrespected my friend, you will torture them for fourteen days and fourteen nights. Then you will bring them here to me in one piece to suffer their righteous punishments."

The ghost of the bloody baron walks towards me. "Who are we going to punish, my master?"