Running Out of Time

Master of Deception Uncovered

【Harry's POV】

I was continuing my eighth year of Hogwarts with Ron, Draco and Hermione, we were all happily chatting. These were my great friends. We all cared for each other and kept each other safe. It felt nice to have told them my deepest secrets that I was trying to warn them about.

Hermione when she learned about it was shocked and kept apologising for not realising it sooner, Ron mentioned the twins did seem to be more concerned about me when they got me their second year and he didn't think much of it and apologised deeply for not realising and getting jealous of me which I told him that he simply didn't know better.

Draco said that he knew about it but he couldn't do anything about it because his father was working with Voldemort and it would risk me never defeating Voldemort. We all knew that he cared a lot about us. He hated making fun of me, he hated calling Ron a blood traitor and he certainly hated calling Hermione a mudblood, especially after she had gotten a scar that said those exact words.

We all agreed we were all friends and we were wrong about our first impressions of each other, it was so strange that we all got the wrong impression of each other. As we continued talking, an owl came and dropped me a letter from the Ministry of Magic.

I looked at it with curiosity, "mate, you should probably open it, it's from the Ministry after all." I opened it and read what it said. The Ministry requested my presence for some unspecified things they wanted to talk about with me.

They requested that I come alone. Draco noticeably was reading the letter over my shoulder, "that's strange...do you suppose what it means when they want to talk to you alone? It just gives me goosebumps reading that."

Hermione took the letter from my hand and read through it quickly, but then froze when she saw the last part, "that's...that's not good, it doesn't mean anything good Harry, it means that they want to take you as the accused. I've read about it, they did the exact same thing to Sirius...but why would they accuse you of anything?"

"You saved us Harry, why would they have any reason to accuse you?" Her words shook us, but there was nothing we could do. I got up, "I'm sorry, but I have no choice but to go, the Ministry calls me and if I have to stand accused, then I have to, I promise I'll be fine you three."

Ron told me, "mate, we'll be there with you, if those Ministry guys think they can send you to Azkaban, we'll fight until the end for you to not go there." I nodded, "thank you, now I will ask Professor Mcgonagall if I may use the Headmistress' office floo to go to the Ministry."

I went off with permission and I went towards the Ministry front desk, suddenly I was surrounded by aurors, I was surprised to say the least that there were so many of them just to take me for a trial, hopefully it won't be a farce like Sirius' had been.

They took my wand and locked shackles over my wrists and legs. They took me in front of the most powerful and respected houses were all there, I noticed Draco was missing, but he quickly ran in and took a seat. I knew he would vehemently defend me against the Ministry. There were a group of people who were watching me.

Amongst them was Luna, Neville, Ron, Ginny, Hermione and most surprisingly, George. I looked upon the Ministry and saw the new Minister of Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt.

When he saw that I was there, he turned to everyone else, "welcome everyone, to the trial of one Harry Potter."

I looked angrily at him. I could feel something coming from inside me, I can't quite understand what it was. Everyone suddenly turned to me in shock, Malfoy muttered under his breath, "I can't believe I didn't realise it sooner...the one who had the favour of Thanatos..."

I'm certain I was the only one who heard it as nobody seemed to look at him. I glared, "whatever you think is going on, I'm not a dark wizard in any way, don't you dare try to accuse me of something I didn't do."

Kingsley gave me a cold glare back, "well, I can not necessarily say that you did do anything, but I have the will left behind by one Albus Dumbledore. Allow me to read it, Necromancer?"

I looked at him confused as I didn't know why he called me a necromancer. He read it aloud, "'I, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, have written this will as a last resort to deal with the last bits of darkness that lurks within our nation. I had believed that Harry Potter would be our saviour but as it turns out, I realised he would destroy our world."

"He is a Necromancer and a Parseltongue, having opened the Chamber of Secrets on his second year and tried to make it seem as though it was Ginny Weasley who had been petrifying the students of Hogwarts. He had been developing his dark magic in secret, without any of his friends ever knowing. I fear he has manipulated them to the point where they believe his lies."

"He has gotten so many people killed in the second wizarding war if I believe that the casualties were very high. No matter, I suggest that you put him to death if he hasn't already made himself unable to die.' As said, he has lied and manipulated many people, and I suggest we follow Dumbledore's advice."

So many people looked at me with fierce contempt for the lies that Dumbledore did, I was shocked Dumbledore would do such a thing. Draco looked at Shacklebolt like he was insane and the feeling in me was growing.

I put my hand against my chest, I felt a cold but burning feeling in my chest. I didn't know why...I looked down at my hands and saw that they looked like they were blackening I looked back up with widened eyes when I heard everyone gasp and move away from me, including the aurors near me.

Shacklebolt shouted, "aurors! Take him to the veil of death before he kills us!" They quickly grabbed me and dragged me towards the veil of death, fear grew in me as I knew I was undoubtedly going to die the same way Sirius did. I saw my friends run over here and was demanding that they let me go, that I was innocent and Dumbledore was lying about me.

They didn't seem to listen as I was tossed into the veil, my eyes widened yet I didn't know what was going on. I could feel something pushing me back out of the veil. I didn't understand, I looked at my hands as they darkened more and more until they were black and it ended at the edge of where my elbow was at.

I was shoved back in and I felt someone catch me. I looked up and saw my mother, she looked different, she was wearing a black dress with real pomegranate coloured roses and spider lilies on her dress. She gave the aurors a cold look and told me, "dear, you don't deserve to be treated like this, continue back to life."

She pushed me back out and the veil shut off mysteriously. Everyone looked at me and where the veil was. I was so stunned by the fact it closed. Eventually, they ended up forcing me to go be in Azkaban, they snapped my wand in half for the lies Dumbledore made them believe.

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HAHAHAHAH!!!! I AM ALIVE BITCH!!!! Ahem, my apologies for being gone for so long. If you read one of my other stories (I'm not certain which has it) you would know that I had took a VERY long break due to stress related to writing, but alas I'm alive. I am going to try and take the story as slow as I could, sorry for the chaos of this beginning chapter. I'm trying to control it at the minimum, k? I hope you enjoy the rest of the story when it comes out. ALSO who do you think I shall ship with Harry? Tom or Draco?
~Signed, Lady Magick Nightmares