Ivy Potter, Year Four | Raised By The Malfoys

Chapter Fifty Four: Identify

          We landed in the front of the stadium on top of Cedric's body. Harry and I sobbed into his chest as we held him. My leg began to bleed out again but I couldn't feel it. Over the band playing and cheers, Fleur's scream silenced it all. Professor Dumbledore tried to pull off Harry and Charlie ran to me.

          "No! I won't leave him!" Harry cried and flung himself over Cedric again.

          "Ivy, let go. Ivy," Charlie said but I fought him pulling me off.

          "No! I can't!" I screamed and sobbed.

          The Minister for Magic and our teachers came to us. Hagrid was holding back the crowd and I heard the twins calling for me. Harry told Professor Dumbledore everything. Lord Voldemort returned and he killed Cedric. We couldn't leave him and he told me to bring back his body. When I looked up and saw Draco, he was horrified. My face was streaked in Harry's blood and my hair was cut just below my ears. Mad-Eye got a hold of Harry and Charlie managed to pull me off. Mr. Diggory fought through the stands as Mad-Eye led us away.

          "That's my boy! That's my son!" he cried out in pain, "No! NO!"

          Charlie picked me up in a front piggyback and held my legs up as I sobbed loudly into his neck. I had forgotten that I couldn't walk with my injury still bleeding out. Harry was sobbing as Mad-Eye brought us back to the castle. We were brought into his office when we returned and Charlie was told to sit me down next to Harry but Charlie didn't leave, despite the professor telling him to. Charlie took my garter belt off my right leg and strapped it tightly over my left thigh to stop the bleeding. The professor was understandably overwhelmed. As an ex-Auror, it's their worst fear that Lord Voldemort would return. Charlie began to touch my face as my lip started to bleed again. Mad-Eye asked us so many questions until one caught my attention.

          "Were there others? In the graveyard? Were there others?" he asked with his back to us.

          I moved Charlie's hand from my face, "Nake, snake. Cobra, cobra. Aitrosnepres."

          "Ivy, what are yo-" Harry started but I covered his mouth as Lilyth emerged quickly from my sleeve.

          "We never said anything about a graveyard. Professor," I said with some venom at the end.

          Before Charlie could draw his wand, Mad-Eye stunned him.

          "Protect Charlie!" I ordered Lilyth and she coiled herself around him.

          "No wonder my master wants you alive," Mad-Eye said with his voice changing.

          "You traitor," Harry muttered.

          Mad-Eye began to explain how this all began last summer. How he and Lord Voldemort tortured information out of Bertha Jorkins and then killed her. Then, he mocked Charlie's passion for dragons because the five miniature dragons are literal miniaturized dragons. Charlie didn't discover any mutation or new species because Mad-Eye used a strong potion to shrink them. He used Hagrid and Charlie to purposely help us with the tasks we were given. He put our names in the Goblet of Fire. He gave Neville that book purposely so we would discover Gillyweed. Mad-Eye told Cedric about putting the egg in water and hexed the cup to deliver Harry to the graveyard. Viktor was under his mind-control and I was never meant to go to the cup. However, since Mad-Eye learned the use of my hair, that is why Tom returned to his younger and more powerful version of himself, entirely in his prime. I was wanted alive and Mad-Eye was about to kill Harry when Professor Dumbledore blasted the wall beside us.

          I ran to cover Charlie and Lilyth went to Harry. Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall arrived as Mad-Eye began to turn into Barty Crouch Junior. It was revealed through Veritaserum that Junior was using my hair to amp up his polyjuice potions to pretend to be the real Alastor Moody. When asked where the real Alastor is, Junior looked at a chest compartment where Alastor was being held hostage inside. We learned that Mr. Crouch was killed after he found Harry and Viktor and his corpse was transfigured into a bone that was buried.

          We helped in all of this. He discovered the use of my hair and Harry gave him the Marauder's Map. It was orchestrated from the very beginning. Professor Dumbledore left Junior under the supervision of Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape escorted me and the real Alastor to the hospital wing. The professor was supporting Alastor since he was weak from being in the compartment for almost a whole year. Lilyth was carrying Charlie and I leaned on her as we walked behind the professor. Once I got to the hospital wing, Alastor was already on a hospital bed and Madam Pomfrey was being informed on what happened and the severity of our injuries. I helped Lilyth put Charlie in a bed and Professor Snape caught me as I passed out when Lilyth returned as a tattoo on my arm. I thought I heard him call me Lily.