Are We Destined To Make The Same Mistakes

Chapter 12 - Poppies Wedding

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So are you ready the carriage will be here shortly" Y/n said while holding her bag, Tom huffed and recited his spell once more, the birds bones crunched as it rearranged back into place and a few moments the bird was flying and chirping away, Y/n clapped and hugged Tom, “you did it, I knew you could do it” Y/n wasn’t sure why she was encouraging his behaviour, this was far darker than he should be doing but knowing Tom, he would have gotten that information later anyway considering he had a lake full of the undead protecting the locket.
Tom felt his heart beat faster he finally understood no matter what he did he couldn’t shake the feeling of Y/n from his mind or heart and that made him enraged, he had too much on the line for a pointless fling.
“Well we must be going" Y/n said while dragging Tom towards the carriage he was so lost in his thoughts he hadn’t realised until Y/n dragged him out of the carriage and he came face to face with poppies parents, he had somehow blocked out an entire carriage journey.
Y/n greeted poppies parents knowing how much they loved seeing her and began retelling her stories of her adventures with Harry not knowing they were based on her life, after her tale of Basilisk, she walked inside the house, dragging Tom along she didn’t  want to give him any opportunity to talk to poppies father so every time she saw him wondering she asked him a question. Tom was becoming increasingly annoyed, not wanting to be rude he had to answer.
“Tom dance with me" Y/n said while dragging Tom towards the ball room, Tom sighed and followed her in.
They danced for what felt like ages until Y/n was so distracted she hadn’t noticed that Leroy had taken toms place, Y/n scanned the room noticing she had failed once again Tom was talking to poppies parents with a sly smile.
Letting go of Leroy’s hands she walked over towards them.
“Ah here’s you’re fiancé now” poppies father said as he saw Y/n walking towards them, Tom turned, giving Y/n a look of pure hatred, making her wonder if she should interrupt them after all, but knowing how much Tom would destroy everything she loved, she had to try and stop him even if it ment getting hurt in the process.
“greetings Mr and Mrs Parkinson, its an honour to have been invited to such an event, my parents wish you a good fortune and hope to see you soon” Y/n said while curtseying, lifting her head once Mr Parkinson began to speak.
“ah Y/n, its been too long, and do call me Johnathan. Its nice to hear you’re parents are getting along again” Y/n nodded tuning out the politics he was ranting on about, until she noticed he mentioned Tom, this pricked her interest.
“Tom has been informing me of how much he values and wants to be within the ministry, I know you and you’re judgement perhaps you could give me some in-site into you’re fiancé” Johnathan raised an eyebrow as Y/n chucked at him, “of cause Tom will work until he achieves everything he puts his mind to, he doesn’t know when to stop when trying new things and he’s incredibly smart, I would say annoyingly” Y/n could feel Tom stiffen next to her, he wasn’t sure why she was praising him, and from the look on the ministers face he appeared pleased with her answer, so it didn’t surprise him when he offered him a job.
“Perhaps you could be placed in accounting, you’re skills of a wizard may be far greater than half of my auroras but I wouldn’t want to put a high schooler in danger” Johnathan said while grinning, tom shocked his hand and ventured out into the crowd of people, taking Y/n with him.
“What was that?, first you do everything to stop me from talking to him and then you do a 180 and help me get into the ministry, what are you planning?”  Y/n laughed at Tom she always loved making him wonder but she didn’t know the answer her self she had ment to tell the minister that he was not loyal would kill anyone for power and wouldn’t care who he had to black mail to get what he wanted but that wasn’t what came out of her treacherous mouth, perhaps she was just making it worse by being here but she had given up caring, no matter what she did the outcome would be the same so she was just trying anything she could to get a better future.
“perhaps I believe you won’t succeed in that plan of yours” Y/n said while he twirled her on the dance floor, earning a smirk to form on his face.
“Perhaps that’s all the encouragement I need" Tom whispered into her ear, earning a scowl in return.
The music started to fade and in walked poppy she, was dressed from head to toe in pink sapphires, her dress an elegant ball gown, hair tied back into a bun. Her look was perfect, Y/n noticed poppy was smiling on the outside but inside she looked as though she wanted to cry.
Sensing the sudden change Y/n walked towards poppy. “poppy, you look amazing, care if I steal her for a moment ?” Y/n hugged poppy as she looked at Johnathan with a pleading look, earning a sigh and a nod.
Y/n took poppy to the washroom and began to question her, the moment Y/n opened her mouth poppy began to cry, balling out how she hated the ball and how she hated her parents both came out in a sob.
“Poppy what happened?” she stared at Y/n with puffy eyes and slowed her breathing so she could talk properly “they... they... want me to get married" Y/n understood her dilemma so gave her a hug of reassurance “it can’t be that bad, who is it anyway?” Y/n said while wiping away poppies tears saving them for later. “he’s name is Edward Finnegan, he’s almost double my age and he doesn’t even have hair" poppy began to cry once more, earning an eye roll from Y/n, how she wished jenny wasn’t in Africa, she always knew how to calm the blond down.
“perhaps you could ask you’re parents to let green grass marry you, I saw how flirty you two were,” that earned another sigh “or Harrison?” another sigh “there both not rich or powerful enough, I’ve already given my father a list and he ripped it infront of me, he said ‘my word is final'" Y/n sighed and decided to once again play around in poppies head, showing her all the fun times she had with Edward, even though she’d never met him, Y/n only stopped when she felt her stop shaking.
“oh, how I can’t wait to marry Edward, did I tell you of the adventures we had, poppy began to list off countless places and treasures she had found, while Y/n tried not to laugh, leaving poppy to her self she ventured back into the hall and noticed Tom was dancing with a red head, Y/n couldn’t understand why she felt the need to drag the woman by her hair and take her place but she did so anyway much to the others complaints around her, she quickly wiped there memories and they went back to dancing once more.
“I didn’t know you were the jealous type” Tom said as they began to dance once more, Y/n rolled her eyes “I am not, but I can’t have you corrupting people, its my job to stop you” Y/n said with a toothy grin while tom just laughed, she was doing a terrible job at stopping him and she knew it.
“what makes you think you can stop me?” Tom said while dropping her down and spinning her with the beat, they were talking as if it was a pleasant conversation but Y/n knew the hint of anger within it.
“oh that would be telling" Y/n said while stepping away from him as the music ended and ventured towards the dinning room.
Y/n you must meet my little brother he’s dying to meet you, poppy said while dragging her towards the seated child, he didn’t look much older than twelve, his eyes Ruby red and black hair making her wonder if it was Tom for a second until she noticed the smile that was reaching his eyes, Tom would never smile like that and that made her relax and sit beside him.
“I’ve heard so much about you, my sister won’t stop talking about you, I am quite interested to know why that is?” the boy said with a sweet smile.
“and what is you’re name cutie, you remind me of my brother when he was little" Y/n said while ruffling the child’s hair earning a laugh in return.
“Michael, my names Michael and yours is Y/n is it not?” Y/n laughed and nodded at Michael.
“Yes, and I have some stories to tell you if you’d like?” Michael nodded and smiled with glee.
Y/n told Michael of all the adventures her and Harry got up to in her school years while the dinner arrived.
“That can’t have happened” Michael was saying while Y/n was retelling her tale of the Triwizard tournament.
“Oh trust me it did, he almost didn’t get me in time, the merperson was quite forceful with his trident” Michael was on the edge of his seat he was so interested in how the events would unfold but just as Y/n was about to tell him how they managed to get free, poppy made an announcement, earning a scowl from Michael as she spoke.
“Thank you for coming to my ball, I’d like to inform you that tomorrow I will be marrying my beloved fiancé” poppy said with all smiles and giggles as she announced the marriage, Y/n was shocked, she had done this to her friend she knew she wouldn’t truly love him but only smiled, sometimes she scared her self how much power she possessed to change ones mind and fate in one go.
“so how did you escape?”
“Oh easy, he blasted us out of the water and back to safety, he came second after...” Y/n stopped short remembering the death of Cedric was hard for her, it had been the first death she’d witnessed and had harden her.
“who was first?” he was almost bouncing in his chair.
“Cedric, a Hufflepuff seventh year"
“anyway enough about that, the next challenge was the worst yet, it was a maze, within the maze Harry had to fight off giants, vines and even a magic pixie that would give you riddles and Harry was never good at those. But the worse part was that when Harry got to the centre he wasn’t alone, Cedric was with him, they raced for the cup both getting it at the same time.”
“So they both won?” Michael asked with an eyebrow raised, Y/n sighed.
“If only, perhaps things would have been better but no. The cup was a port key and as they travelled they noticed they had landed at a grave yard, within moments Cedric was killed and Harry was crucioed and that’s it"
Michael stared at Y/n and began to whine “how did Harry escape, you can’t just leave it like that?”.
Y/n looked into the pleading eyes of the child and smiled, she knew tom was listening she could see him ever so slightly lean forward every time she spoke, so as she stared down at the boy she began to whisper him the rest of the tale.
“But that’s insane, that can’t be true, no man can come back from the dead” Y/n was shushing him while staring at Tom, he had an eyebrow raised and his fork had been slammed to the plate.
“Perhaps I could tell you a tale on how I managed to fight off a Dementor next time" Y/n said while leaving the house, Michael was so intrigued in her stories he hadn’t realised the feast had finished and half of the guests had left.
“Why don’t you stay deer, you could be poppies bride maid?” Johnathan said as Y/n was half way out the door.
“but what of my date, I couldn’t leave him unattended, sir?” Johnathan laughed and smiled.
“Perhaps you could be wed tomorrow as well?” this caused Y/n to pout and walk towards poppy “sometimes I hate you’re fathers jokes" she whispered in poppies ear, causing her to erupt in laughter “very well, he could be a groomsmen if you wish" Y/n smiled and nodded within moments her bags had been transported back into there rooms.
“Speaking of riddle, have you seen him?” Y/n said while looking around the room.
“no my deer I thought perhaps he retired for the evening” Mrs Parkinson spoke above a whisper.
Y/n knew tom wouldn’t just go to his room, he was no doubt snooping through the library or the study to gain more information, So it didn’t surprise her to see Tom ruffling through the desk.
“ah so this is where you’ve been all evening, found any interesting plots?” Y/n said while looking through his pile of papers.
“yes, not that its you’re business” Tom said while taking the paper from her.
“fine be that way" Y/n said while burning the paper turning it into ash in seconds , Tom scowled and Y/n laughed.
“so what was that story you were telling the child?” Tom said clearly not wanting to miss out on anything he could use for later.
“nothing really just a competition my brother was forced to partake in, he won so it wasn’t that bad.” Y/n said while walking out of the study knowing Tom would follow her out.
“Yes but he mentioned someone coming back from the dead, that cant be possible" Tom was racking his brain to find out how one could achieve such motion without a horcrux.
“Well its simple he had a horcrux, but without a body to return into he was a soul wondering the earth, he used a potion of sorts and my brothers blood to come back, don’t ask me what it was, as I wasn’t there" Y/n turned to see Tom had that exact question on the tip of his tongue, scowling for a moment he reworded his question “who was the man?” Y/n rolled her eyes “Don’t ask stupid questions” Y/n flicked her wand at him and within an instant she was gone.
Y/n had been quite good at making people see things and as she walked past Tom he was unable to see her, believing he was alone once more.
Y/n smiled remembering how she would use this trick on Voldermort when she wanted to gain information for him, he was a powerful wizard but no one could detect her if she chose not to be seen.
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Y/n was walking along the hall following Voldermort and his group of death eaters they appeared to be in a heated discussion, just as Y/n grew close she noticed Voldermort had one of his followers by the throat.
“Now you listen here Avery, I will not be bested by a child, if you can not do a simple task of retrieving him, what use do I have for you?” Voldermort’s voice was snakelike each word slicing at Averys skin.
“my Lord he is too skilled” Voldermort threw Avery to the ground and laughed “the boy can barely do expelliarmus correctly and you’re telling me my death eaters can’t defeat him, perhaps you need reminding of what true pain feels like”.
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Y/n was once again in a clearing the open woods surrounding her as she witnessed Voldermort killing muggle after muggle, she couldn’t help but feel relieved he wasn’t coming after her at that moment but just as she walked closer towards him, she felt his breathing stop, he turned around and noticed her, she had forgotten to use her spell, in moments he had carved her back and laughed, she grabbed her wand and applied her spell, he looked around for a moment and yelled clearly he had a weakness in seeing powerful magic.
Y/n awoke screaming, her dreams felt real perhaps it was because she had lived them but as she walked towards her mirror she noticed her scar had become more prominent, no spell could hide it, excepting defeat she ventured towards her wardrobe, trying to find a dress that could cover her back, much to her annoyance there weren’t any, sighing she chose a red dress that hid part of the letters only leaving riddle so grabbing a red scarf she hid the rest.
The guest around the table gave her a questioning look, she was wearing a woolly scarf in summer after all but paid it no mind eating her porridge as tom sat beside her.
“what’s with the scarf, its ninety degrees outside?” Tom said while flipping through his paper, Y/n shrugged and turned away from him, much to her horror he tried to pull her scarf off, earning a growl from her and a death glare.
Tom was only trying to help he wouldn’t want her to get sun stroke but the way she was acting made him wonder what she was hiding.
But before he could try taking her scarf off once more, the groom entered the breakfast table “ah thanks for coming, the wedding will be at noon” he said while eating his full English breakfast.
Tom stared at Y/n and noticed she had begun to talk to the boy from yesterday again, something that made him increasingly jealous of, he hadn’t experience such feeling but every time she spoke to the child it was as if she didn’t give him the time of day, not to mention the child looked a lot like him causing him to think of what his child might look like, each thought causing him want to burn this place to the ground to forget the whole thing but as he stared on he realised how lonely he truly was.
“The room went cold, everything numb and right behind me was a dementor, people cowered but I wasn’t scared, I pointed my wand and said Expecto petroleum” Y/n waved her wand and a steam in the shape of a snake flew out of her wand, Michael stared In  awe at the Petronas, clearly never seeing one before.
“And then it was gone" Y/n nodded as he smiled and ate his breakfast.
Tom looked out at the view before him and wondered how different everything would have been if he was born in such a family but slowly ripped the thought away, he was more powerful than everyone combined and he would do greatness without a family, but something inside him was beginning to wonder how true that was.
“so tom let’s go" Y/n said while dragging him towards the venue.
Poppy smiled as her father christened the wedding and made it official, everyone clapped as the wedding finished and the party began, everyone had a drink in there hand.
Y/n smiled as she drank, drink after drink she hadn’t realised she was falling until she landed into toms arms, he had caught her once again “you’re always catching me when I fall" Y/n slurred out causing tom to laugh at her drunkenness, “and you’re always stopping me so we’re even" he said while putting her back on her feet, the moment she turned from him, she heard a glass shatter, noticing too late how her scarf had fallen along with her.
“what is that?” he spoke above a whisper, anger clearly rising as he stroked the letters on her back.
“its nothing, just a punishment” Y/n said while hiding it once more.
“what punishment? Who did that?” Y/n sighed “saw something I shouldn’t have, Voldermort gave it to me" Y/n said while looking into toms eyes , seeing the hurt and frustration flash through his eyes.
“Does it hurt?” he said while trying to heal it.
“not anymore, but my concealment charms have stopped working”
“Oh I put  a ban on spells around the house today, as I wouldn’t want anything to happen" Johnathan said while looking at a slack jawed Y/n.
“I didn’t know you could do that" Johnathan laughed as he held a finger to his lips.
Smiling at the happiness around her Y/n finally felt as though she had done the right thing, perhaps tom would be a mad man who murdered all of her friends and love ones but at this very moment he was smiling while spinning her around the dance floor and she couldn’t ask for anything more.
Noticing the lack of focus Y/n was giving him, Tom reached for her neck and began pulling her towards him, before Y/n could break her trance he was kissing her, it felt strange to her, sure he’d kissed her before but this was more soft and needy as if he was a child begging for something sweet.
A moment passed and as if a switch had flipped, Tom stopped and angrily stepped away, tugging at his hair as he left for the library to once again master the necromancy spell.
Y/n being speechless and breathless from the display didn’t notice when Leroy stole her hand and walked her towards the tables.
“What was that?”  Leroy said while sitting down next to Y/n.
“I am not sure, I was remembering a dance I was at with my brother” she said while fuming with her hands.
“just be careful, he’s got a couple screws loose that one, and did you see the way he did a one eighty it was as though he hated being near you" Leroy was trying to be nice but the words got to Y/n, she knew tom was far from sane and infact quite murderous but deep down she still cared, she hated having to sit and nodded as Leroy spoke about protecting her from him and how tom would drop her the moment she wasn’t useful to him, but what she hated the most was that Leroy wasn’t wrong, Tom did do all that and wouldn’t think twice about leaving her.
While tom lay in the library, books piled around him, a zombie bird chirping he couldn’t help but wonder what had compelled him to kiss her, perhaps it was her perfume she wore or perhaps it was the fact she wasn’t paying attention and he needed to remind her of who he was but Tom couldn’t help but touch his lips as he remembered the tenderness of there kiss, he almost got up to find her only to catch him self and read once more, he found it extremely difficult to focus however each chapter he red he would get side tracked thinking of her face or her smile and then have to reread the whole thing again, causing a scowl to form on his masked face.
Y/n stared out at the sea of dancing couples, she had always detested  couples and how they couldn’t stand a moment away from one another, she remembered when Harry and Ginny got together, it was like she was joined to him at the hip and anything he was doing she would do too, along with the constant kissing it was unbearable but as she watched on, she couldn’t think of anything other than dancing with Tom once more.
Slowly Y/n ventured into the gardens, she couldn’t take looking at the couples any longer and decided  looking at the statues around her would be much nicer, she stopped at a rather pleasant looking one, smiling to herself she whipped her wand out and pointed it at the statue, moments later the statue came to life.
“I must have reached the limit of his spell" Y/n said after realising the minister had put a ban on spells.
The statue opened his eyes, eyes of brown and blue, his smile devilish and daring while he wrapped his arms around her and spun her around the garden.
“and what is you’re name?” he said while kissing her hand, Y/n had only made him alive to have someone to talk to about her past and not have to deal with the outcome but here this statue was flirting with her, perhaps she did have an awful luck with guys.
“its Y/n and what is yours?” Y/n looked up at him as he began to ponder that very thought.
“I do not remember, Perhaps you could choose one for me?”
“how about Arthur, named after a king” Y/n said while the statue smiled “my name will be Arthur from now on”.
Y/n had poured out her heart to Arthur, he smiled and nodded, even cried at the sad bits but didn’t  judge her for her past deeds instead choosing to hug her and smile.
“you’ve had a hard life but from what I heard, it all seems to lead to one man, why not kill him so no one dies?” Arthur said while grabbing a rock and skipping it across the pond, Y/n smiled and threw a rock as well deciding to make a game of it instead of answering his question.
Hours past and Y/n had won, Arthur spun her around in victory and proceeded to help her back towards the house when she noticed a flash of red hit Arthur in the chest, he was on the floor unravelling, Y/n was crying while trying to keep the pieces of rock from falling away.
Moments later she was standing in a pile of rock, Arthur no more and Tom standing before her.
“Why did you do that?” Y/n said wand at his throat within a second.
He was about to strike her when he noticed her eyes were puffy and leaking, stroking the tears he spoke “it was a golem, there illegal in Britain, if the minister had saw, you’d be in Azkaban no matter what family ties you have, it would be out of his hands” Tom said while letting her cry into his jacket.
“you still killed him, he was the only one who understood me" Tom didn’t know why but this pained him, it was as if she had just punched him in the gut, so without a second thought he had wrapped his hands around her.
Y/n stared at the view before her, wondering just how nice the whole day had been, when the sky begun to turn black, the area around them became frosty and cold, Y/n looked around for the cause knowing that a dementor was close by, spotting it in the tree lines she ran towards it feeling Tom trying to restrain her for a moment but she soon broke free and got towards the dementor.
She could hear her brothers screams, it unnerved her, pointing her wand at the creature she cast her Petronas, it slivered around and cast the dementor away, Y/n looked back with a smile towards Tom as he walked towards her, but as she looked on, she saw the house was on fire, the dementor had been a distraction.
“Tom look out" a flash of red hit the tree next to Tom as he ducked.
“Were surrounded” Tom said while hiding Y/n behind him, they both began to fight off spell after spell.
“Why would Grindelwald attack us?” Tom stared at Y/n as if she was clueless while killing yet another row Grindelwald’s followers.
“perhaps its because the minister of magic lives here?” the sarcastic way Tom said it made Y/n huff and kill a follower out of rage, earning an eyebrow raise from tom in return.
“Well let’s go" Y/n said while setting the forest ablaze, tom followed towards the house where he came face to face with Grindelwald.
Grindelwald had the minister by the throat, using his wand to slice at the ministers neck ever so slightly.
“I want to know where you’re keeping it!” Grindelwald hissed as he sliced more of the minister, as the moments drew on and no response, Grindelwald held his wand up, summoning a follower, he stepped forward with poppy bound behind him, he turned away from minister and began to slice at poppy earning a muffled cry “now you’re going to tell me where you put the philosopher stone or this one isn’t going to see the sunrise" he said while staring at the minister, the look of pure panic and horror set upon his face as he watched his daughter getting sliced.
“let her go, I’ll tell you" Johnathan said after a moment, Grindelwald stopped and walked back towards the minister “where is it then?” Johnathan sighed “it was buried with Dumbledore, it was the safest place" Grindelwald smile dropped, he had loved Dumbledore once and even started this war for him and now he was gone, ignoring the aching feeling he had, he vanished in search for Dumbledore’s grave.
Y/n walked into the room and helped poppy up, dressing her wounds, while tom stared at Johnathan, he couldn’t understand why he had given Grindelwald what he wanted and while he stared on at the man he thought how foolish love truly was, for now anyone could use that to gain information from him.
“Tom don’t just stand there we have to go, we can’t let him get the stone" Y/n said while dragging him towards the fire place.
“Why?” Tom stopped short to look at her, her face showed a mixture of panic and anger.
“Dumbledore’s dead, he was supposed to capture Grindelwald and with the stone who knows how powerful he could get" Tom rolled his eyes and sighed “so why not let the auroras do there job” Y/n laughed, she knew tom was just trying to get her mad, he wanted the stone for more power, so it would be crazy of him not to want to stop him.
“OK let’s go!” Y/n said while dragging him
“Eilean na Moine” Y/n said as she dropped the powder around her and tom.