The Wizard's Triad
dennisud
The Wizard's Triad
By
dennisud
Disclaimer: I own nothing of The Harry Potter stories series or
events, other than this idea
I had. Events directly following the final battle in DH. This is an H/
Hr/L with a few more
unique couplings later!
The battle was over. The survivors were being tended to those that
were alive or mourning
the dead. And at the center of all the mayhem was the one who won,
Harry Potter.
Harry looked disheveled and almost catatonic holding an equally
exhausted Luna
Lovegood. Leaning on his back was Hermione Granger, with Ron Wesley's
head on her lap
unconscious but breathing, absentmindedly brushing his hair with her
hand both mixed
with blood and dirt. All three staring out into space taking comfort
in their close
proximity coming to terms with what they had experienced.
They were at the center of an ever widening circle of carnage. The
dark lord himself a
desiccated corpse a few feet away with a final look of astonishment.
The last look he
would ever have. Around him in a haphazard arch were his vaulted inner
circle, all dead
and in various forms of disembodied poses, showing their final last
minute of existence,
almost all with a varying look of their former master. Around them in
an ever widening
circle were the casualties from both sides. Dead and dying, scarred,
mutilated, and
scarred for life.
'Lupin... Tonks... Moody... even Snape, all dead.' was all that ran
through the head of a
very reluctant and exhausted Harry Potter. 'It's my fault, my
responsibility. ' he said to
himself.
Then, he felt Luna moving in his arms. "No, not you, not anyone else
but Voldemort!
Remember that Harry James." Luna, the mystic of his friends with her
gray eyes piercing
his thoughts and mind. Knowing she always said the truth especially to
him. She seemed
to always know what he was thinking as if she could read his mind.
`Maybe she can!' He
thought.
"She's right Harry! Tom Riddle is the one true person who's at fault
here, not you." Harry
closed his eyes taking in what both girls said as Hermione continued.
"When he killed
Moaning Myrtle fifty years ago, to this final battle he was the one
solely responsible not
only for those who died, but for your life and your pain. Please take
what we said to heart
Harry as you know how rarely Luna and I agree on something." Hermione
said behind him
using her other hand to rub his back, while he felt Luna nodding as
she snuggled into his
shoulder.
Harry Sighed heavily. "Oh alright you two I'll not go all depressive
and angst ridden on
you." Hermione patted his back as Luna swung her arm around his,
trapping both his
hands between them. But he didn't care he had his friends around him
and he finally
relaxed. He still wondered about Ginny, but he saw down the rising
ground they were on
that Neville was with her, and from what he saw, She was in good
hands. As they settled
down for a well earned rest several Aurors came up to them and within
a few hours they
settled themselves in conjured beds in what was left of the Great Hall
of Hogwarts.
The critically injured that had not been sent to St. Mungos was housed
there as a
temporary clinic with Madam Pomfrey heading the temporary staff sent
there. The lesser
injured were there, as were the shell-shocked and their surviving
relatives.
Later that night;
A sole figure sole through the battlegrounds towards the forbidden
forest. The person
thinking no one could see him in his invisibility cloak was on a
mission, to scatter the
Deathly Hallows, and for him to get away from all that had happened. A
single girl high in
the Ravenclaw tower saw him. How no one knew but herself, yet she took
this all in and
then made her way down to follow at a distance. She had a few things
to give to him and
to her other best friend.
Luna Lovegood healing arm now in a sling to a path only she could see.
The path of her
friend and someone she care more for each day. As she skipped along as
though she
didn't have a care in the world, she stopped suddenly looking around
her attentively. She
then walked steadily to the trunk of a rather large tree and yanked
off the invisibility cloak
harry Potter was wearing. "There you are Harry I have been looking for
you."
Harry Potter was at the same time, angry, befuddled, and confused.
`How the hell did she
do that'?
"Well Harry, I have been able to know where you are because I gave you
something a year
ago that kept me apprised of your movements." Luna answered in her
normally flighty
tone. "Oh, and it helps me know what you're thinking too." She smiled
and giggled.
Harry thought for a while as Luna stood there silently allowing him to
come to a
realization; "The Butter beer cap! That's how!"
"Very perceptive my dear Potter! Yes and it has many uses too…" As
Luna continued Harry
thought back to the incident that had him acquired the said cap!
FLASHBACK:
As they made their way to Professor Slughorn's Party Harry
was nervous and fidgeting, while Luna was taking in her surroundings
with an airy look.
Then she took Harry's hand, and right before they made it
to the entrance, she pulled him aside and then looked up at him with
an airy look.
"Harry… I have something for you."
"Oh Luna its ok you didn't have to get me anything…"
But he stopped as she smiled and shook hear had slowly.
"No, Harry it isn't for this festivity." She then pulled a small
envelope with something
within it seemingly poking out from under its surface.
She took it and put it into Harry's hands. "This is to be opened when
you defeat
Voldemort."
Harry was speechless. He looked at his friend perplexed then asked.
"Wha…how do you
know I'll win Luna?"
She smiled and then unexpectedly hugged the still surprised boy who
reacted stiffly at
first then relaxed. She looked up at him still smiling and said, "Oh
Harry I know you'll win,
Just promise me you'll read the letter in this, and let me know if
you'll accept what it
says."
She then moved away from the still surprised boy, and took his arm
then gave him her
normally airy look waiting for him to react.
After a few moments he slipped the envelope into a hidden pocket in
his dress robes,
nodded and smiled at his blonde haired friend. "Ok Luna I promise."
The then made their way back to the Entrance to the party.
End Flashback
"So you read my letter, yet you're here and not back with us?" Luna
was now sitting on
her feet eye level with a now humble Harry. So… you just threw away…"
Luna stopped at
Harry's halting hand. He then took out from one of his cloaks pockets
that same letter. A
little crumpled and with a few easily viewed wet spots.
"I read it at least a dozen times while Ron, Hermione and I were on
our mission, and I
remembered your offer, but I forgot it during this battle so can you
forgive me. I had
wanted to talk to you about this and now with your revelations about
the butter beer cap.
Well I now know you can at least help me with this now."
Luna took that in and simply asked; "Aren't you angry with me, keeping
an eye on your
even from here. Weren't you disappointed with me when I was taken…?"
"No Luna." He then moved and took hold of her shoulders and squeezed
them, carefully
as to not injure her arm any more. "I also knew where you and everyone
else were though
your way was a bit specific." He smiled a tired smile at her now
brightened face.
She nodded and then explained to a now attentive Harry that the Butter
beer cap had a
locating, and mood reading charm, as well as port key built in.
"A port key… to where? Your house was a shambles after the Death
eaters went through
it?" Harry looked at her confused.
"Well, Harry as the Weasley's we have a large plot of land at Ottery-
St.Catchpole , and we
have a summer cottage at the far end of our land. The port key would
take you there to
recuperate and plan out what you want to do next." Ever the Ravenclaw
Harry just smiled
again at his friend and seemingly more as he thought.
She smiled back and nodded then pulled out her wand, "I'll have Winky
get your things
and I have contracted her to help us this summer." Harry look a bit
off then understood.
He nodded then she added, "I'll have to follow you in a bit, got to
give Hermione her cap
too."
"Wait, why does Hermione need a cap?" Luna looked a bit solemn, and
then she looked
intently into his eyes.
Luna sighed, "Remember the time when Ronald left you two, he spent
that time at his
brother's home."
"Yeah I remember quite well, Hermione was crying a lot and I felt like
we were alone."
Harry recalled all of it and a sense of dread slowly sunk into him.
"Well, As you know several of our classmates and their families were
lost in DE attacks
and so a few were also staying there at Bill Weasley's home." Harry
nodded for her to
continue. "Well Ronald got closer to someone there … that's all I can
say for now Harry,
just please be there for her as I will. Can you do that for Hermione,
and for me?" Luna
took his hands both of them still dirty and squeezed while she
continued to look deeply
into his eyes. He reluctantly nodded already figuring out what Ron
might have done under
the influence of the locket and his seemingly unstopped jealousy. 'Oh
Gods what could he
have done that could affect Hermione? OH NO!'
"Luna, are you saying that…" A horrible thought came into his mind,
with Ronald's
mindset as it was when he left he could have…!
"Harry, Please be her best friend, and I will too, please." Luna was
now crying, a rare sight
and Harry did was he could taking her into his arms and rubbing her
back as she did the
same for him. After a few moments she reluctantly broke their embrace
and got up pulling
him up as well. She didn't want to tell him how she felt yet, that was
for a later time. For
now she indicated with her hand to give her the butter beer cap and
with a swirl of wand
moment it glowed for a fraction of a second. She handed it to him they
both nodded then
right before she tapped the cap she stood up on her toes and kissed
him full on the lips.
A rather bewildered Harry Potter disappeared when Luna shoved the cap
into his hand
and tapped it.
After a few moments to collect herself mentally & physically, brushing
off the dirt from
her legs she headed for the great hall and her second delivery that
night.
Later, She met up with Hermione who was sitting next to Ronald's bed.
His parents were
at the foot of the bed looking worried. "Did he tell her, or have
you?"
A startled pair of Weasley parents looked at the odd Ravenclaw. "Luna
dear don't do that
we nearly had our souls flow out when you startled us." Said a jittery
Molly Weasley, but
Luna's intense look cleared away anything else they could have said.
Mr.Weasley then spoke.
"He's still unconscious and we… we haven't has the chance to tell
her." Luna Sadly
nodded then went to Hermione.
"Can I have a quick word with you Hermione?"
Course I need a quick break anyway." As the girls left The Weasley's
looked intently at
Luna, she merely shook her head as she took Hermione's hand and headed
to the nearest
girls Loo.
After both had done their business Luna gave Hermione the butter beer
cap with the
stipulation that;
-harry would be at the location the cap's port key would be
-She should only activate it outside the Hogwart's & The Borrow's
wards.
-Hermione should be there by tomorrow to help her with Harry's various
issues.
To say Hermione was not pleased was an understatement. Who was this
girl taking Harry
away and then telling her she would be needed soon??!?!?
"Luna why have you take Harry away, I…The Weasley's and I are his only
family, Why …"
and she went on for about 5 minutes as Luna listened to the tirade
with her patented
dreamy look. As Hermione wound up her speech.
"First I found Harry in the Forbidden Forest a half-an-hour ago, and
not here, he was
miserable and blaming himself for everything, I need you to help me
clear his mind of this
ludicrous thought and I feel the both of us are the best people to do
this, or are you
going to let the babbling borrkings get you to start another rant."
A speechless Hermione processed what Luna said and after a few moments
She got to
about a few inches of The smaller girls face and said; "I'll believe
you Luna on the basis
that you have never lied to me or Harry, yes even with those
outlandish stories of Mystical
animals we can't see. But I will be using the port key by tomorrow so
we three can talk.
Fair enough?" Luna nodded then handed Hermione the portkey'ed Butter
Beer cap and
then hugged her. She then turned and left the Loo out to the entrance
to Hogwarts and As
Hermione saw Luna skipped down to the school gates before she turned
waved at her and
she disappeared.
Shaking her head, `That girl will drive me to drink' Hermione thought
to herself as she
made her way back to the castle, The Weasley's and Ronald. What she
didn't know was
how her world already a mess with oblivated parents in Australia, to
having no real home,
will be turn on its ear again when she got to the Borrow!
Over the next few weeks many funerals and celebrations brought much of
the cataclysmic
events to a relatively quiet close. But events within the coming weeks
would have long
lasting effects not only on those affected but in the Wizarding world.
Next: The Borrow The Revelation, the Betrayal, and a new home!
Michael Haney
Looks like a good start to what could be a very good and extremely
emotional fic. I'm guessing this will be a story about Harry coming
to terms with everything that's happened. Maybe he'll have some Post
Traumatic Stress to deal with and his friends will need to be by his
side to help him out with it. I see hints of a double pairing
brewing, at least that's what Luna seemed to allude to when she was
talking to Hermione ... or its just that I'm a pervert from the
"Church of Happosai" thus I see innuendo in everything. ;-p
Either way I think this is going to turn out to be one of your best
stories yet. The potential for drama and emotion in this is just
through the roof. I'd be you're Beta but I don't have a lot of free
time anymore as I'm full-time job hunting right now and I'm majorly
behind on my own stories. Otherwise it would be my honor.
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The line wrapping made it difficult to process and I don't know if when
I reply it will be the same or not. I have taken the liberty, possibly
wrongly so but done to save time on my part, of acting as 'editor'
instead of 'corrector'. Changes are not annotated. Hopefully it helps,
but maybe it made it worse. *shrugs*
dennisud wrote:
What I need are comments fixes and a Beta! Thanks all!
The Wizard's Triad
By
dennisud
Disclaimer: I own nothing of The Harry Potter stories series or events, other than this idea I had. Events directly following the final battle in DH. This is an H/Hr/L with a few more unique couplings later!
The battle was over. The survivors were being tended to by those that were alive or mourning the dead. And at the center of all the mayhem was the one who won, Harry Potter.
Harry looked disheveled and almost catatonic, holding an equally exhausted Luna Lovegood. Leaning sideways on his back was Hermione Granger, with Ron Wesley's head on her lap- unconscious but breathing. She was absentmindedly brushing Ron's hair with her hand covered with blood and dirt. All three staring out into space, taking comfort in their close proximity and coming to terms with what they had experienced.
They were at the center of an ever widening circle of carnage. The dark lord himself a desiccated corpse a few feet away with a final look of astonishment- the last look he would ever have. Around him in a haphazard arch were his vaulted inner circle, all dead and in various forms of disembodied poses, showing their final last minute of existence, almost all with a varying look of their former master. Around them in an ever widening circle were the casualties from both sides. Dead and dying, scarred, mutilated, and scarred for life.
'Lupin... Tonks... Moody... even Snape, all dead.' was all that ran through the head of a very reluctant and exhausted Harry Potter. 'It's my fault, my responsibility. ' he said to himself. Then, he felt Luna moving in his arms.
"No, not you, not anyone else but Voldemort! Remember that Harry James." Luna, the mystic of his friends with her
gray eyes piercing his thoughts and mind. She always said the truth- especially to him. She seemed to always know what he was thinking as if she could read his mind.
`Maybe she can!' he thought.
Hermione, while not knowing what brought on the blonde's comment, was not about to let her friend seemingly blame himself. "She's right Harry! Tom Riddle is the one true person who's at fault here, not you."
Harry closed his eyes, taking in what both girls said.
Hermione started rubbing his back with her free hand from her place behind him. "When he killed Moaning Myrtle fifty years ago, to this final battle he was the one solely responsible not only for those who died, but for your life and your pain. Please take what we said to heart Harry as you know how rarely Luna and I agree on something."
Harry felt Luna nodding in agreement as she snuggled into his shoulder. He sighed heavily. "Oh alright you two. I'll not go all depressive and angst-ridden on you."
Hermione patted his back as Luna swung her arm around his, trapping both his hands between them.
But Harry didn't care. He had his friends around him and he finally relaxed. He still wondered about Ginny, but saw down the rising ground they were on that Neville was with her, and from what he saw, she was in good hands. As they settled down for a well earned rest, several Aurors came up to them to help and within a few hours they settled themselves in conjured beds in what was left of the Great Hall of Hogwarts.
The critically injured that had not been sent to St. Mungos were housed there as a temporary clinic with Madam Pomfrey heading the temporary staff sent there. The lesser injured were there, as were the shell-shocked and their surviving relatives.
Later that night, a sole figure stole through the battlegrounds towards the forbidden forest. The person thinking no one could see him in his invisibility cloak was on a mission. One to scatter the Deathly Hallows, and for him to get away from all that had happened.
A single girl high in the Ravenclaw tower saw him. How, no one knew but herself. Yet, she took this all in and then made her way down to follow at a distance. She had a few things to give to him and to her other best friend.
Luna Lovegood with her healing arm now in a sling, took a path only she could see. The path of her friend and someone she cared more for each day. She skipped along as though she didn't have a care in the world before she stopped suddenly and looked around attentively. She then walked steadily to the trunk of a rather large tree and yanked off the invisibility cloak harry Potter was wearing. "There you are Harry. I have been looking for you."
Harry Potter was at the same time, angry, befuddled, and confused. `How the hell did she do that'?
"Well, Harry, I have been able to know where you are because I gave you something a year ago that kept me apprised of your movements." Luna answered in her normally flighty tone. "Oh, and it helps me know what you're thinking too." She smiled
and giggled.
Harry thought for a while as Luna stood there silently allowing him to come to a realization "The Butter beer cap! That's how!"
"Very perceptive my dear Potter! Yes and it has many uses too…" As Luna continued Harry thought back to the incident that had him acquired the said cap...
FLASHBACK:
As they made their way to Professor Slughorn's Party, Harry was nervous and fidgeting while Luna was taking in her surroundings
with an airy look.
Then she took Harry's hand, and right before they made it to the entrance, she pulled him aside and looked up at him with
an airy gaze.
"Harry… I have something for you."
"Oh Luna, it's okay, you didn't have to get me anything…" But he stopped as she smiled and shook hear had slowly.
"No, Harry it isn't for this festivity." She then pulled a small envelope with something inside it seemingly poking out from under its surface. She took it and put it into Harry's hands. "This is to be opened when you defeat Voldemort."
Harry was speechless. He looked at his friend, perplexed, then asked. "Wha... How do you know I'll win Luna?"
She smiled and then unexpectedly hugged the still surprised boy, who reacted stiffly at first then relaxed. She looked up at him, still smiling. "Oh Harry I know you'll win. Just promise me you'll read the letter in this, and let me know if
you'll accept what it says."
She moved away from the still surprised boy, took his arm, then gave him her normally airy look while waiting for him to react.
After a few moments he slipped the envelope into a hidden pocket in his dress robes, nodded and smiled at his blonde haired friend. "Ok Luna I promise."
The then made their way back to the Entrance to the party.
End Flashback
"So you read my letter, yet you're here and not back with us?" Luna was now sitting on her feet, eye level with a now humble Harry. "So… you just threw away…"
Harry's halting hand stopped Luna. He then took out from one of his cloak's pockets that same letter. It was a little crumpled and with a few easily viewed wet spots.
"I read it at least a dozen times while Ron, Hermione and I were on our mission, and I remembered your offer, but I forgot it during this battle so I hope you can forgive me. I had wanted to talk to you about this and now with your revelations about
the butter beer cap... Well, I know you can at least help me with this now."
Luna took that in and responded with a questioning gaze. "Aren't you angry with me, keeping an eye on you even from here? Weren't you disappointed with me when I was taken…?"
"No Luna." He then moved and took hold of her shoulders and squeezed them, carefully, as to not injure her arm any more. "I also knew where you and everyone else were though your way was a bit specific." He smiled a tired smile at her now brightened face.
She nodded and then explained to a now attentive Harry that the Butter beer cap had a locating, and mood reading charm, as well as port key built in.
Harry looked at her, confused. "A port key… to where? Your house was a shambles after the Death eaters went through it."
"Well, Harry as the Weasley's we have a large plot of land at Ottery-St.Catchpole , and we have a summer cottage at the far end of our land. The port key would take you there to recuperate and plan out what you want to do next."
'Ever the Ravenclaw,' Harry just smiled again at his friend- and seemingly more- as he thought.
She smiled back, nodded, then pulled out her wand. "I'll have Winky get your things and I have contracted her to help us this summer."
Harry looked a bit off then understood, nodding in affirmation.
"I'll have to follow you in a bit- got to give Hermione her cap too."
"Wait, why does Hermione need a cap?"
Luna looked a bit solemn. She looked intently into his eyes and eventually sighed. "Remember the time when Ronald left you two? He spent that time at his brother's home."
"Yeah I remember quite well, Hermione was crying a lot and I felt like we were alone." Harry recalled all of it and a sense of dread slowly sunk into him.
"Well, as you know, several of our classmates and their families were lost in DE attacks and so a few of those were also staying there at Bill Weasley's home."
Harry nodded for her to continue.
"Well... Ronald got closer to someone there … that's all I can say for now Harry. Just please be there for her as I will. Can you do that for Hermione, and for me?" Luna took his hands both of them still dirty and squeezed while she continued to look deeply
into his eyes.
He reluctantly nodded already figuring out what Ron might have done under the influence of the locket and his seemingly unstopped jealousy. 'Oh Gods, what could he have done that could affect Hermione? OH NO!'
"Luna, are you saying that…" A horrible thought came into his mind, with Ronald's mindset as it was when he left he could have…!
"Harry, Please be her best friend, and I will too, please..." Luna was now crying, a rare sight.
Harry did what he could taking her into his arms and rubbing her back as she did the same for him.
After a few moments she reluctantly broke their embrace and got up, pulling him up as well. She didn't want to tell him how she felt yet, that was for a later time. For now she indicated with her hand to give her the butter beer cap and with a swirl of wand it glowed for a fraction of a second. She handed it to him. They both nodded, then right before she tapped the cap she stood up on her toes and kissed him full on the lips.
A rather bewildered Harry Potter disappeared when Luna shoved the cap into his hand and tapped it.
After a few moments to collect herself mentally & physically, brushing off the dirt from her legs she headed for the great hall and her second delivery that night.
It wasn't much later before Luna met up with Hermione, who was sitting next to Ronald's bed.
His parents were at the foot of the bed looking worried.
"Did he tell her, or have you?"
A startled pair of Weasley parents looked at the odd Ravenclaw.
"Luna dear, don't do that! We nearly had our souls flow out when you startled us!" said a jittery Molly Weasley.
Luna's intense look cleared away anything else could have said.
Mr.Weasley relented. "He's still unconscious and we… we haven't has the chance to tell her."
Luna Sadly nodded then went to Hermione. "Can I have a quick word with you Hermione?"
"Of course. I need a quick break anyway."
As the girls left The Weasleys looked intently at Luna, who merely shook her head as she took Hermione's hand and headed
to the nearest girls Loo.
After both had done their business Luna gave Hermione the butter beer cap with the stipulation that:
-harry would be at the location the cap's port key would be
-She should only activate it outside the Hogwart's & The Borrow's wards.
-Hermione should be there by tomorrow to help her with Harry's various issues.
To say Hermione was not pleased was an understatement. Who was this girl, taking Harry away and then telling her she would be needed soon??!?!? "Luna why have you taken Harry away, I…The Weasley's and I are his only family, Why …" She went on for about 5 minutes as Luna listened to the tirade with her patented dreamy look.
Luna seem unfazed as Hermione wound up her speech. "First I found Harry in the Forbidden Forest a half-an-hour ago, and
not here, he was miserable and blaming himself for everything, I need you to help me clear his mind of this ludicrous thought and I feel the both of us are the best people to do this. Or, are you going to let the babbling borrkings get you to start another rant?"
A speechless Hermione processed what Luna said and after a few moments she got to about a few inches of The smaller girl's face and Looked her right in the eye. "I'll believe you Luna on the basis that you have never lied to me or Harry. Yes, even with those outlandish stories of Mystical animals we can't see. But I will be using the port key by tomorrow so we three can talk. Fair enough?"
Luna nodded then handed Hermione the portkey'ed Butter Beer cap and then hugged her. She then turned and left the Loo out to the entrance to Hogwarts.
Hermione watched as Luna skipped down to the school gates, turned and waved before she disappeared. She shook her head. `That girl will drive me to drink' Hermione thought to herself as she made her way back to the castle, The Weasleys and Ronald. What she didn't know was how her world already a mess with oblivated parents in Australia, to having no real home, will be turn on its ear again when she got to the Borrow...