Saving You

Chapter 5

A/N:
Harry is now called Harrison.

Harrison's POV
"How much do you remember?" I asked.

"Not much. My memory is disorganized at the moment." Voldemort said.

"Do you require some time to get your memories in order? We got about a week for the next Wizengamot session. But do I have your permission to tell the goblins that Voldemort is dead?" I asked.

I had to make sure he was mentally able to accept what I had to tell him no matter what I felt about it. I do not want him to go spell happy at me even if I know I can hold my ground against him.

Voldemort nodded. "You can call me Marvolo before I can change my identity." He said.

I nodded as I apparated to Diagon Alley and walked into Gringotts. Armhowl was patrolling at the gates.

"Armhowl, I need to meet with Ragnorok immediately." I said.

Armhowl turned to snap before he saw that it was me and nodded as he guided me to Ragnorok's office.

When Ragnorok saw me, he asked, "What happened?"

"Can you announce that Voldemort is dead?" I asked. It was at that moment that a parchment appeared on his table.

"This seems to be the death certificate that Lord Death has told us about. I shall give a copy to the ministry and keep this with me." Ragnorok said.

I nodded.

"What has he become now?" Ragnorok asked.

"Honesty, he is a bit disoriented. He needs time to organize his memories so that he can work with us. He wants a new identity, so we might come to the bank tomorrow or before the Wizengamot session." I said with a sigh.

"So you are giving him the time to organize his memories so that he won't burst out on you when you reveal the future?" Ragnorok asked.

I nodded. "We need him. We need his intellectual brain to wipe the influence of Dumbledore." I said.

"Do you believe he will remain sane?" Ragnorok asked.

I nodded. "Death has warned him. If he were to tear his soul apart or go back to his mass murder ways, he would be wiped off the face of Earth and have a nice chat with Lord Death in Death Realm." I said.

Ragnorok nodded. "Good to know." He said. "Should I announce that you killed Voldemort?"

I nodded. "Only then can we get the eyes of Dumbledore on me. He has to think he needs me by his side for his image to be even better." I said.

Ragnorok nodded.

I left the bank after Ragnorok and I discussed the story of how I took Voldemort down so that he could inform the ministry the same.

I went to the apparation point near the bank and apparated back to the Manor.

"Please, please tell me this is not what I had become?" Marvolo asked the moment I stepped into my study.

He was sitting on the edge of the couch with his face in his hands.

"I'm sorry, Marvolo, but that is what you had been. I need you to be calm when I tell you what happens in the future." I said as I walked to him and sat in front of him on the table.

He took a deep breath and nodded.

"You continued in the same way. You recruited students who came out of Hogwarts, though most were Slytherins. You attacked the families that went against you. But it all changed one night." I said.

"Please tell me I died." Marvolo said. He looked disgusted with what he had become. He wanted to make the world a better place politically, but his insane self took the war path.

"No. That was the day one of your death eaters, Severus Snape, heard a prophecy about someone who had the power to kill you." I said.

I didn't want to make it hard on him now. He already looked devastated. Better take is smoothly. I would have taunted him, but he looked like he wanted to die any second. But I don't want that. This world needs him.

"What was it?" Marvolo asked. He was shaking at this point.

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hands of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..." I recited.

"I went after the child, didn't I?" He asked. He wanted me to tell 'No' so badly, but I had to be honest with him.

"Yes. You did. The child was me. The problem was that Severus only heard half the prophecy and told you what he heard. When he realized that the family in danger was mine because only Lily Potter and Alice Longbottom were due in July. I was born on July 31st. So, I was deemed the prophecy child. Severus wanted mom to be safe, so he went and pleaded with Dumbledore to keep us safe. Severus promised to spy for him as long as we were safe." I said.

"What happened? The Potters have highly warded Manors. They must have stayed there. Even I can't break those goblin made wards. That would be suicide." Marvolo said.

He was right. If the Potters stayed in their family Manors, I wouldn't have needed to come back in time. But they had to listen to the old man.

I shook my head. "No. They didn't. They listened to Dumbledore and stayed in Godric's Hollow. They put a fidelius charm on the cottage with Dumbledore as the caster and Sirius Black as the secret keeper." I said.

"The Blacks are a tough bunch. They can keep something to themselves if they want to." He replied.

"Yes. He could. The only problem was that it would be obvious that Sirius Black would be the secret keeper, so at the last moment, they changed to Peter Pettigrew. Peter was a death eater. So, during Samhain, Peter told the Potters location to Voldemort, and he arrived to kill." I said.

"Why did they change? They should know what a Black is capable of." He said.

"They know what Sirius was capable of. But Dumbledore wanted the fame." I said.

"Don't tell me Dumbledore convinced Potter to make Pettigrew the secret keeper knowing that he was a death eater so that I could kill you and then he could kill me at my weakest and proclaim himself hero." He asked.

When I nodded, he scoffed. "Should've known."

"Lily was Severus' best friend and his first and only love. So he begged you to spare her life. You agreed. You killed James and warned Lily to step aside three times before you lost your patience and killed her." I said.

"Why did I agree?" He asked.

"No one knows. It could be that he was the one who got you that prophecy." I said.

He nodded.

"When you killed Lily, her death triggered something she prepared in advance, so when you caste the killing curse at me, it rebounded and hit you, blasting your body. A part of your soul stuck on my head, making me a horcrux. Only Dumbledore knew about it as he picked me from Sirius, who came the minute you blasted away." I said.

"I guess that Black was your godfather?" He asked. I nodded. "Then you grew up with Black?"

I shook my head. "He caste a compulsion on Sirius to chase Pettigrew and gave me to my mother's magic hating sister and her family." I said.

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