La Pietra

24

"Why do you want to bring him back? Don't you know that he's bad?" Harry asked, a bit shocked and very curious as to why this strange man wanted to bring back someone so evil.

"Because, Harry, he was a great man. Everyone says he was evil and bad, but he wasn't. He was the one who brought light into the world upon things that others had turned bad and put into the dark. Things that people like Albus Dumbledore had done. He tried to fix things in the Wizarding World, and bring peace. But Albus destroyed him, his body is no more, and now his soul goes from holder to holder, he possesses the person or animal in a way, to try and find someone who will help him. Will you be the one Harry?"

"How do you know these things..?" Harry asked. He was almost speechless. Almost.

"Because me and Tom have been connected for quite a while Harry Potter. Months, ever since he came across me in Romania. He asked me to help him."

"Dumbledore just hired you. Would he not have sensed Tom connected to you? He should have done something."

"Oh he did feel it. He knows that Tom is connected to me. And yet he didn't care, because he has a plan Hardy Potter, a plan that involves you. He wanted Tom to come and find you, and he wanted Tom to kill you Harry. Dumbledore knows the power that you possess. And it is stronger than his power, so he wants it gone. He also knows that when you die, he will inherit any items of yours, including that of which is in Gringotts Bank. Your vault possesses great secrets. But Tom is no foolish man. He knows that you could help him, and that you would want to help him, after finding out the secrets of Dumbledores. Can you help Harry?"

Harry was silent for a moment. Why should he help a man who had supposedly destroyed much of the Wizarding World, and is rumored to have done so many bad things? But if what Quirell is saying is true.. then Dumbledore is the real enemy here.

"How would I be able to help?" Harry asked after a moment of thinking.

"I need the Sorcerers Stone Harry, so Severus Snape can brew the Elixir of Life and we can preform a ritual to get Tom his body back. But we need the Stone first. Do you know where it is?"

Harry shook his head and then looked back at the mirror

'I just want what's best for the world.' he thought to himself.

Moments later, he felt a weight in his pocket. He looked down and there was a lump, and when he put his hand in to retrieve the item, he gasped as he felt the coldness and hardness of a stone. He pulled it out of his pocket and there it was, the Sorcerers Stone in all its red glory.

"Professor.." Harry trailed off.

Quirrell, who had turned away and was pacing, turned to him again. He gasped as well and walked to Harry, taking the stone.

"Dumbledore must have expected different events to happen. He always was a foolish man. He must have thought that you wouldn't believe me and planted the stone in the mirror so it would appear for the one with good intentions. We need to find a way to make it look like.. like I was killed and that you could take the stone back to Dumbledore." Quirrell said.

"We could break it, the stone, and Professor Snape could use the piece that we keep to make the Elixir. The rest I could give back to Dumbledore. He wouldn't notice I'm sure. How do we break the stone though?"

"We use what we have. Magic."