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Weapon (Possession Chapter LXIII)

Chapter XII - Between Light and Dark

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Harry suppressed a yawn as he walked into the Common Room. The
shadows had roused him early today and he was slightly curious as to why, but
not so curious that he wanted to wake everyone in the dormitory.
::It's the first OWL today,:: they murmured to him
as he sat in one of the chairs.
::Oh?::
::And Blaise and
Millicent's gifts will arrive.::
::Heh!:: He was careful
to keep the amusement from the portion of Fawkes he
could feel. ::I'm looking forward to it.::
::We have also removed the bond with Virginia Weasley, as ordered.::
::So you have,:: Harry said as he felt the place
she had been in his mind. There was still a slight link but the blue power was
absent... Or rather, the connection to her was now in his favour. He could feel
her, she could not feel him, and he could draw from her energy if that's what
it took. He shrugged. For now, it would be enough and he would tell her what Fawkes and Dumbledore believed soon and then that game
would be fully in motion.
He undid a few buttons on his shirt, keeping an ear out for the other
students as he looked down at the now revealed phoenix tattoo. It was still a
charcoal colour, the bird beautifully defined. ::Can
you get rid of this?:: He asked.
::No.::
For a brief moment Harry felt nothing but rage and as he was gathering his
power to lash the shadows - if they couldn't get rid of it, why had they
allowed him to go through with it, without even warning him? - they spoke again.
::You can get rid of it yourself.::
::What?:: Harry held back his strike.
::When Fawkes is
destroyed, the Order as held together by him will cease to be. There will be a
new phoenix, never doubt, but they will have to make their own Order, if they
can.::
::So it will fade then?::
::Yes. Fawkes' Order of
the Phoenix
will be destroyed and we will finally have justice for one thousand years of pain.::
::Justice?:: Harry raised one eye brow,
questioning, but the shadows were silent. He smiled slightly. It was okay.
Something had happened one thousand years ago, something they still remembered.
Even if they didn't tell him, it would eventually reveal itself to him. It just
added to the interest. ::How do I kill a phoenix?::
::You can't. They just burst into fire and are
reborn. Even if you then kill the fledgling, it just happens again.::
::How do you destroy a phoenix then?:: Harry
reworded his question, remembering what the shadows had said. They could be so
finicky sometimes! Destroy, kill - was there really a difference?
::There is a very large difference. You corrupt the
light, turn it to dark, and then we will adsorb the being known as Fawkes into us. It is only then that the physical body of a
phoenix will die.::
::He will become a shadow?::
::Yes,:: the echoing whispered voice that Harry
heard changed as it seemed to become a single voice rather than the whole.
::Master, when I was alive, my name was Kali. I was
the phoenix who communed with Merlin. My Light was corrupted by a being
summoned by Morgiana, and thus I am eternally now a shadow, your servant.::
::How?:: Harry asked again. ::You
have told me that Light and Dark must both exist because without Light there is
no Dark and without Dark there is no Light. So how can one become so fully the
other?::
::Light and Dark aren't that different from each
other Master,:: the echoing voice of the whole returned. ::In
our case we could become Light, if we consumed your whole. Of course we don't
want to, so we won't but there is a balance Master. We, Dark can become Light,
and creatures such as Fawkes, who are Light, can
become Dark.::
::I know about the balance,:: Harry said, ::but how
do you corrupt Light? Kali said it was a creature summoned by Morgiana. What
creature was it?::
::There are two things that can corrupt Light,
Master. The individual, and a being of the type who
corrupted Kali. For the individual, species does not matter, human, phoenix,
basilisk, dementor, animal, anything is both
Light and Dark, and anything can chose to forsake either side. This is what
happens when we seduce something, we encourage them to forsake the Light, only
after they have forsaken it may we consume it, unless of course we have your
permission. The Dark Lord Voldemort, for example Master, has forsaken the parts
of himself that are Light. Humans don't need as much as they have really, if
they are prepared to be ruthless. Not many are though. He admits the necessity
of Light, but he also recognises that he only needs a very limited amount of
Light. In this case, that Light is you Master. You are actually a unique
individual Master. You cannot forsake your Light, because we have taken your darkness.:: They seemed to grin before they continued. ::The
alternative, Master, is for an external force to corrupt the Light within
someone but that can only be done by something that understands both Light and
Dark, and who could be the two extremes.::
::What is it?:: Harry snapped.
::There is a level of magic above that which you
know Master. Spiritual magic and energies. Wizards
don't use these. In fact it's been theorised that what you call magic is simply
an overflow, the excess as it were from this spiritual magic...::
::What is it?::
::A tenshi, Master, a being of pure spiritual energy,::
the shadows said.
::Where am I meant to find any spiritual being, let
alone a tenshi to corrupt Fawkes?:: Harry growled, as
he pulled his shirt closed, buttoning it back up. He couldn't afford to have
the other students know, not yet.
::With the battles that will be fought, we rather
imagine some will be attracted since they find the atmosphere of fear to be
quite pleasurable.::
::So I just walk up to one and ask?:: He asked
sarcastically. ::Even with the last war, there was no
mention of anything on the battle fields.::
::They aren't interested in you humans until you
become spiritual energy, that's why not even you wizards see them. We will ask
if we sense one though, failing that, Kali does know the spell to summon one
and you can... or rather, the Dark Lord can perform it for us.::
::Why can't I perform it?::
::Because you'd automatically kill the tenshi you
summoned, Master. You are going to need a dark tenshi master and all that Light
we find so delicious is very poisonous to those creatures of Dark, and a dark
tenshi, while also a spiritual being, is Dark. They aren't completely and only
dark like us, but they are dark enough and your spiritual energy is powerful
enough now, that they would be affected by your light.::
::Couldn't the dark tenshi just corrupt it?::
::In your case, no. Master, you are unique. You are
a being who can exist solely as Light, while we exist solely as Dark. But
Master, as you well know, Light is not a definition of
good, and Dark is not a definition of evil. They are something else.::
Harry nodded. He knew he was one half of the shadows. They were Darkness. He
was Light. One single individual to serve as the Light for
all of them, to keep the balance. That's why he was Master. He was the
Head of their collective, the only individual the whole could not sacrifice. ::You don't seem to dislike them the way you do other dark
creatures,:: Harry said, knowing they would understand the question.
::Not all dark creatures have forgotten that we are the masters, and while
it is true the dark tenshi have not forgotten, as spiritual beings they are
also not subject to our rules, not completely anyway. We are very generous to
those who haven't forgotten but they don't need our generosity.::
::I understand the balance, but is there anyone or
anything balanced within themselves? Equally Light and Dark?::
::There is one. We aren't sure what species they
are. We weren't paying attention when he was created so we don't know if he was
always balanced or if he forsook either Light or Dark
until balance was created. He has been alive for centuries.::
::Powerful?::
::And how.::
::Vampire?::
::No. But they are also not any of the other
eternal creatures. We don't know what they are, and we have been trying to find
out for a while. He can see us. We suspect he could speak with us but he has
refrained since he knows we are yours... well, he knows we are someone's. Do
not concern yourself Master, he is, and has been for the last several
centuries, studiedly neutral and he will remain that way. And before you argue
that either side could force him, neither will do so, because they both need
him too much.::
::Keep watch please, though. I don't really want to
find out the hard way that he has picked the wrong side.::
::We will, Master, we will. We have our own
interest in him.::
::All right,:: he sighed. ::We'll
find a way, somehow, for everything,:: he added. ::Now, you've been putting
this off for too long, since Blaise and Millicent are
about to get a surprise today, show me Draco's response
to seeing me.::
::Heh! You're going to
talk with him today, aren't you?::
He nodded. ::What ever delusion he's spun for
himself, don't you think I should give him to opportunity to test it? Unless...
you want me to stay away from him?:: Harry recalled
that he had given Draco to them.
::No, no, no,:: they said quickly. ::We're going to torture him slowly. A whisper here, a nudge
there... It should be amusing to see what he will plan. Then... well, we will
see how well he has entertained us before we decide how to finish him.::
::Mercy?::
::No, more customisation. We don't want to decide
on a course of action when a different one would prove more entertaining.::
::Ah,:: Harry nodded. ::Now
show me.::
::Close your eyes.::
Harry complied and suddenly he wasn't sitting in the Common Room but he was
once again in the Great Hall, sitting at the Gryffindor table, surrounded by
the Weasley's chatting amicably. He looked around as
Ron and Hermione kept talking, not noticing his in attention.
Dumbledore was watching on with an indulgent smile. Snape
looked somewhat surprised. For a spy, if you knew what to look for the Potions
Master was amazingly easy to read. But then, Harry mused, not many people knew
what to look for. The other Professors just seemed relieved. Most of the other
students were ignoring him except for...
::Patius Gibels,:: the shadows identified the Ravenclaw
fourth year who was glaring at him.
::Death Eater?::
::Parents are.::
::Lucius' or Voldemort's?::
::The Dark Lord's.::
Harry smiled. ::I gather he hasn't told everyone
about the change of attitude towards me?::
::You gather correctly.::
::I will be careful then.::
::Gibels will wear the
Dark Mark before the summer is over.::
Harry nodded as he continued to look around. There were a few more students
who were watching him. They were just hiding it better than Gibels.
Obviously most of the Slytherins were but he was
surprised by some of the others. There was more interest from the Hufflepuffs than he had been expecting and he mentally
noted a few of them who could be pursued later. No one ever suspected the Hufflepuffs... If they ever learnt to use
that advantage... well... It would be an interesting battle.
There were two Aurors at the door who were
glancing towards him now and then but as he continued to talk with the Weasleys, they seemed to relax. Their ease was a ruse. It
was reassuring. He would have been disappointed if he could deceive combat Auror's so quickly.
Finally he turned towards the door, where a flicker of movement told him
that Draco was about to appear. The blond Slytherin
was surrounded by several toadies, Crabbe, Goyle and a few others of little importance. He seemed
puffed up, confident and, Harry looked closer, he was slightly amused at
something. Draco paused at the entrance, looking around the Great Hall, and
Harry could see the exact instant that the blond saw him.
It had been gradual up until that point. The blond had noticed that the
Gryffindor table was not depressed and that the other students were talking
happily. He'd seen that the teachers seemed relieved and that had caused him
some worry, a slight fading in the arrogant confidence but then when he'd seen
one black head surrounded by red and one brown, he'd known.
The arrogance seemed to drain out of him and his face became slack. He
stopped talking mid sentence, his lackeys giving him an odd look before they
too saw the truth. Grey eyes opened wide and there was a quick intake of
breath, the blond hyperventilating as his mind tried to deny everything. His
small hands were clenched into fists that trembled slightly.
Harry laughed. Oh, yes, it was amusing to see someone's beliefs so totally
destroyed.
Then between one breath and the next, Draco straightened, blinking carefully
as he tried to assume a more normal expression but Harry could see the strain
in the Slytherin. Whatever he had thought, the belief
that he knew he had killed Potter was gone and beneath the practiced gaze of
arrogance Harry could see the doubt. If something he knew he'd done could be
undone so easily, what else did he not know? What else had changed?
After a long moment, Draco began moving towards his table, his strut showing
only his usual arrogance, his lackeys trailing after him, slack jawed and
disbelieving as they cast almost continual glances in the direction of the
Gryffindor table.
Ah, that was funny. Not as dramatic as he'd thought it would be but then in
public, where his image and reputation depended on it, Draco could think
quickly. He wondered what story the Slytherin had
concocted for himself.
::We're not telling,:: the shadows said smugly as
the image faded.
::Why not?::
::Because that would be telling. You'll find out
soon enough.::
::I guess I will.::
::Get to breakfast, Master, you don't want to miss
the other surprise.::
Harry snickered mentally and stretched, opening his eyes slowly, blinking in
the sudden light as he made it seem he'd been asleep for a little while. Ron
and Hermione were both watching him, sorta... They
were also reading their notes as fast as they could.
"'morning!" He said easily.
"Good morning Harry," Hermione returned the greeting. "Please
tell me you didn't sleep there?" she asked, barely looking up from her
notes.
"Nah, I woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep! I didn't seem to
have that problem here."
"Why didn't you wake me?" Ron moaned.
"Because before this OWL you need two things Ron, lots of sleep and a
good breakfast," Harry said. "So, shall we go and attend to the second
one?"
"We should," Hermione answered for them both, snapping Ron's book
closed as they rose.
"I still say you have all the luck," Ron muttered as he followed
the others out of the common room.
"I've got to do them soon," Harry countered with a smile, closing
the portrait behind them.
Breakfast was going to be interesting.
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