Dursley's Choice | The Dursley series #2 |

♧ Chapter 13 ♧

Audrey was able to move while Voldemort was distracted, she crouched next to Cedric in tears. Harry held them close. Afraid to lose her again.
"Accio!"

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As they impacted with the cold ground, a mixture of band music sounded but quickly died out as Fleur shrieked in terror. Dumbledore and the other teachers attempted to cleave the two weeping champions from Cedric's body, having no luck as they cried in agony; the Minister for
Magic advanced upon the scene, "For god sakes Dumbledore what's happened?!"
"He's back! He's back! Voldemort's back-"
"Cedric asked me to bring his body back! We couldn't leave him, not there..."
"It's alright children. Harry, Audrey, you're safe now you all are"
"We're not Sir. I couldn't stop it! I thought it was me- not him! M-my... Look what they did to me!" Audrey lifted a shaking hand, her veins blackening as the ruby radiations melted into the air; Dumbledore and the other professors were gobsmacked.

Then, the painful cries of Amos Diggory reached their ears as he saw that his only child was dead. "That's my son! That's my boy... my boy..." he wailed in distraught, the stands were silent, Harry had been pried off of his friend's body by Moody and left Amos and the surrounding people to grieve. Amongst the tears she whispered into his ear, as if he could hear her, "If it had been different. You would be alive... It should've been me! Not you! You didn't deserve to die... I will stop at nothing to avenge you Ced" she kissed his frosted cheek softly, "I promise."

At the exit to the stands, she saw him. The man who'd cursed her to become who she is now, his only visible features were his ember orbs; Audrey's anger bubbled and boiled until she couldn't bare anymore, advancing towards him. However he ran off. Typical. She chased after him, finding herself in the castle, her father grinned at her as he closed the door to Moody's office? Why of all places would her father hide in a Professor's office?

A pang of realisation hit her, like a church bell's resounding echo amongst the land of the dead. The voices whispered to her, until she could hear nothing but their dead, monotones hissing, "Do it... open it... OPENITOPENITOPEN-"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!" Audrey cried. Allowing the magic to flow out of her in waves, she burst the door open with a deafening bang;
Moody and Harry turned to her in utter disbelief, "Ms Dursley? What do you think you're doing?"
"Drie are you-"
"

No I'm not. Harry, something's not right. I've been trying to figure it out all year but as much as I tried I couldn't think of it, until I realised..." She met Moody's face with a scowl, "He's not Moody. Isn't that right professor?" He didn't look at them directly anymore, he stared off like he saw someone behind the two. "Marvelous creatures Dragons aren't they?" He said it as if to mock Hagrid, scowering through potion bottles, "Did you think that miserable oaf would've took you two into the forest if I hadn't suggested it? You think Cedric Diggory would've told you to out the egg underwater if I hadn't told him first myself?! You think Neville Longbottom- the witless wonder- would've given you two the Gillyweed if I hadn't given him the book that led him straight to it? Huh?!"

"It was you from the beginning. You put our names in the Goblet of fire? You bewitched Krum?" Harry proclaimed still shaking from his new cut on his arm, "You two won because I made it so. And now the deed is done-" he hissed, clutching both of their arms tightly. Audrey and Harry winced in pain. "The blood that runs through your veins, runs within the Dark Lord" his face contorted as if he were a clay golem. Audrey held Harry tightly in fear, her breathe hitching as Moody stomped towards them. "Imagine how he will reward me, when he learns I have... silenced!! The great Harry Potter-"
"EXPELLIARMUS!" Dumbledore exclaimed, bursting through the Defence Against the Dark Arts' teachers office.