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Cabinet Conundrum	By : Blackkitten23 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 22703 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 9
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Chapter List
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(I’m thinking)
“I’m speaking”
Pairing: Yaoi M/M, Harem – top Harry x bottoms Draco / Cedric / Theo / de-aged Severus / Tom (TMR)
Last Time
“exactly … cover me” Draco whispered and as Theo watched for people who might spot them, though that was unlikely because everyone was there to pay their respects, he went behind Cedric and stunned him with a spell …
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“oh shit” Blaise hissed as the second to the last memory finished, which was of the one conversation he watched with Draco and the others by the lake side.
The memory showed that the argument was about Harry’s temper again. At least in the beginning. The rest was Cedric trying to convince Harry to not go anywhere near Dumbledore, but of course Harry felt the need to protect Sirius and Remus and insisted on going to Grimmauld to force out the traitors.
It was no surprise Sirius Black lost it and went on saying ‘it’s wasn’t his job … I was his godfather … I should’ve been protecting him’. It got so out of hand that Remus and an auror had to drag Sirius out of the room. At least they tried to …
“we need to find Draco and Theo now” Blaise hissed in Severus’s ear as everyone was watching Sirius get escorted towards the door. Like Draco, Blaise, Greg and Vincent saw a problem with the memory. There was only half of the memory shown and the most significant part was cut out. The question was why? Also the fact that Draco, Theo and Cedric were missing only spelled trouble if the two Slytherins were thinking along the same lines as those in the courtroom.
“why? This may be too much for him” Severus whispered back catching Tom and Lucius’s attention.
Blaise frowned as he glance at the spot where Cedric was sitting before and shook his head “I’ll explain later. Right now we need to stop them from doing something stupid-”
A loud crashing sound echoed through the room startling everyone. The witches and wizards all stopped and focus on the door that was blow off it’s hinges by Hagrid. Cradled in the half giant’s arms was the body of Harry Potter. Despite the shrieks of protest coming both inside and outside the courtroom the half giant stormed up to the front of the room and carelessly dropped Harry on the floor much to the outrage of the onlookers especially Sirius and Remus.
“Headmaster Dumbledore loved Harry. He couldn’t have done the things he is accused of. None of them would!” Hagrid bellowed ignoring the aurors surrounding him “some people said it was possible to fake a body. That’s what this is! Someone took Harry and faked his death using a replacement to frame those close to him!”
Amella held in her rage and tried to remain impassive as she signaled for silence from the outraged crowd “our healers scanned him thoroughly and the fact that they got medical records makes that a very unlikely possibility” she sighed in frustration as Hagrid refused to step back and considering the half giant’s strength it was safer to comply “since you are clearly not going to cooperate we will do a much more in depth scan right here”
Hagrid smiled in triumph thinking he got his friend off the hook. Dumbledore forced himself to smile at the half giant and resisted the urge to roll his eyes. In the old wizard’s opinion the half giant was a fool and was always an easy pawn. At first he thought nothing would come of this, but the he noticed someone in the back of the audience. He spotted Tom right in the seats near other known Death Eaters and, much to his immense shock there was Severus’s mother Ellen! The very woman he thought was killed during her rescue attempt! If they were here that means this was a plot! Perhaps the half giant was onto something and that very thin thread of hope was all Dumbledore had to cling to though he seemed to believe the thread was thicker than it really was.
“oh dear, I think he saw me” Ellen fretted. For years she had nightmares of the Order members breaking into her home and dragging her to that dark cell. John Doe saved her from that terrifying moment and died for his efforts, but not before she was hit with a killing curse. Of course that’s why the light side believed she was dead. Who wouldn’t after seeing someone hit with that curse, but John did something to her chest and everything froze for a second right before that green light hit her. When everything started again for her she was alive and surrounded by the very concerned Malfoy family and Tom in the Malfoy manor. Whatever John did kept her alive through the killing curse.
“it’s alright Ellen. He saw me too, but what is he going to do about it? He’s in no position to start screaming and accusing anyone. It would only make him look even more insane. That sick bastard should stay quiet” Tom whispered feeling angry that this man would go so far and creating such a cruel scheme. The gleam in the old fool’s eyes told Tom that Dumbledore suspected him of some sort of deceit, which isn’t true. The dark wizard had no hand in any facet of Harry’s life, but that gleam remained.
However after each spell that gleam dimmed. One by one each spell or test came back negative. To be extra thorough the goblins preformed old spells to rule out the influence of Necromancy and even sliced off a finger to remove any doubts. This was Harry Potter’s corpse …
Amella glared up at the big caretaker “are you quite satisfied?”
“but … but the headmaster …” the half giant’s argument died in his throat. Hagrid sheepishly tried to respectfully pick up Harry’s body, but no one let him. Sirius and Remus took care of Harry. Looking like his world had just crumbled around him the half giant allowed himself to be led away and to be arrested for tampering with a body and disturbing the court.
Seeing an opportunity Amella raised her hands to silence everyone “in light of what has happened we will resume in an hour” she announced and everyone started filing out of the room.
“clever … she’s going to use this chance to learn what Hagrid knows. Dumbledore is screwed” Lucius said with a smirk.
Tom nodded as he watched all of Dumbledore’s hope vanish “so it seems” he said sending the fools a disgusted look. That just served to anger the old wizard further who looked like he was going to throw a tantrum.
“that’s great, can we go get Draco now?” Greg exclaimed hurriedly.
“alright, alright, but what are you so worried about?” Narcissa asked as she and the others began walking out of the courtroom.
“I think he and Theo kidnapped Cedric” Blaise hissed.
“what!” Ellen gasped softly.
Tom frowned “why would they do that?”
Severus sighed “this is about that language”
“yes, I’ll explain later. Just hurry” Blaise, Greg and Vincent rushed ahead clearly more aware of the urgency of the situation.
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Greyback looked at the Hufflepuff laid out on the bed tied up in ropes “I didn’t peg you two as the kinky types” he said as he leaned against the wall.
Draco shot the werewolf a glare “this is nothing like that!”
“right, without Potter in the picture that is” Greyback snorted implying that the two Slytherins in the room would gladly get kinky if Harry was involved.
The blonde scowled “I’m not in the mood for this perverted werewolf routine!”
“and I’m not in the mood to put up with brats who have gone mental so tell me why you called me here already. I happen to have kinky plans of my own that I’d like to get back to” the werewolf winked suggestively making his plans very clear.
Theo put a hand on Draco’s shoulder to calm him down before he slugged Greyback “is there a spell that can copy the knowledge of a language from someone’s mind so it can be used on a memory in a pensieve? Professor Snape said there was”
“yeah, but that’s dark magic and considered illegal since it’s taking from someone’s mind and normally done so without permission” Greyback said already not liking the subject.
“do you know the spell?” Draco asked impatiently.
The werewolf’s eyes narrowed “yes, but why in merlin’s name would you want a language from him?” he shot a look at Cedric who wisely remained quiet throughout the ordeal so far “what language could he know that you can’t translate with a regular spell?” Greyback asked as he looked Draco in the eyes.
“I don’t know, but they were part of a plan and I need to know what it was since he won’t say anything then I will find the answer any other way. It’s this spell or torture and I doubt anyone wants me to get aunt Bellatrix involved” Draco explained. He was so close to getting his answers and he didn’t want to wait any longer.
If there was even the slightest chance Harry was alive out there somewhere then he needed to know. If it wasn’t for the fact that it was Severus, his own godfather, who told him about the murder in the first place then he would never have believed it. His godfather would never lie to him least of all about that, but he couldn’t get that smirk out of his mind. What if, by some miracle, Harry planned something? Something that could fool everyone and destroy Dumbledore all in one fell swoop. It would be nearly impossible, but if anyone had a knack for doing the impossible then it had to be him. It had to be the boy who stopped Voldemort. It had to be the Gryffindor who stole his heart. It had to be Harry. Something was going on. Filch was in on it. Diggory was in on it and he vowed to find out what it was …
Greyback sighed and glanced at Cedric who remained impassive “since I clearly can’t talk you out of it I may as well do this, but you’re taking the heat from Tom or Severus or whoever finds out about … this” he gestured to the entire area Cedric occupied implying he wanted none of the backlash for the kidnapping or illegal spell.
All the tension in the two young wizards’ shoulders completely melted away and they nodded agreeing to take the consequences of their own actions. They watched as the werewolf tapped Cedric’s temple and pulled out a long red wisp instead of a silver memory. They took him to the pensieve that had the memory floating inside, which was still set up in the library downstairs. Greyback dropped the red wisp into the memory and it began glowing red.
“there it’s done- oh shit, I had nothing to do with it! They made me do it!” Greyback yelped as To and the others came storming into the library. Draco shot the werewolf a glare for being a coward.
Severus took one look at the re glow coming from the pensieve and knew what spell was cast “where’s Cedric?” he asked hoping his godson didn’t go so far off the rails that he’d hurt Cedric or this could be hard to hide and may lead to trouble.
“upstairs tied up … in fact I’m just going to go up there and watch him so he doesn’t do something that will make this situation even worse than it already is” Greyback muttered as he quickly left the room.
“thank you Greyback” Lucius said before looking at his son “kidnapping Draco? Have you completely lost it?”
Blaise pushed passed everyone and grabbed Draco by the shoulders “listen Draco I know what you’re thinking. The memory at the lakeside was shown-”
‘and let me guess, there was no kiss right?” Draco asked though it seems he suspected he knew the answer already.
Severus blinked “kiss? What kiss?” he asked on behalf all those who where just as confused as him, but he was ignored.
“yes the half of the memory where the buttoning and kiss occurred was not shown, but before you say what I know you’re thinking you have to know what happened after you left and committed a crime. Hagrid ripped Harry out of his coffin and insisted the body wasn’t real” Blaise felt a little guilty when Theo ad Draco looked hopeful, but he had to tell them the truth “they tested for everything. Golems, clones complex blood transfigurations even the goblins got involved , but it all came back negative. Harry is dead. I’m sorry”
Draco fell silent for a second, but then looked at his friends with determination in his eyes “you all saw what I saw from that vanishing cabinet-”
“vanishing cabinet? Where?” Tom asked curiously.
“Hogwarts, it’s not important” Draco muttered.
Tom pouted “I think it is-”
“well it isn’t” Draco snapped making Tom wince “I have to know what they were planning” Draco said and moved over to the pensieve with Theo. Everyone understood that some closure was needed so they all surrounded the pensieve on its slim pedestal and were pulled into the now translated memory …
Pensieve Memory
The memory started in the dim cabinet with Draco from the memory gently opening the cabinet ”I do hope you’ll stop playing around-” the speaker, who sounded like Filch, paused as if he spotted the cabinet door moving “we aren’t alone master”
“oh? Who is our eavesdropper?” the second speaker asked in a careless tone. Draco opened the door a little further thinking at the time it was safe, but Draco is only just now realizing that he was in danger as he watched who everyone could see was Harry Potter.
“the Malfoy brat. I would very much like to eat him” Filch said without giving the memory Draco any indication they were speaking of him.
Harry scoffed “don’t bother. He has no clue what we’re saying anyway and is harmless unlike Umbridge or some of the other fools we’ve had issue”
Filch grinned “that bitch had it coming for using a blood quill on you”
“yes, I quite enjoyed seeing her fall from that tower for what she did. I was having enough trouble maintaining a connection as it is, I didn’t need more damage. Now you were saying Argus?” Harry asked surprising those watching the memory. It was apparent that the two knew each other, but not only were they on a first name basis they were involved with the demise of a ministry worker!
Argus smirked “I understand why you want to play in your potions class. If I had a professor that tantalizing I’d have thoughts elsewhere too, but you shouldn’t play dumb for these exams. Your stupid bookworm is going to believe she’s actually clever”
“I will actually bother this time. I am anticipating the face she’ll make when she sees she’s not the smartest. Have any interest in dining on her?” Harry asked casually. A bit too casually for the subject at hand.
“no, I ate the flesh of people like her before. Lacking creativity makes the flesh bitter” Filch said looking greatly disgusted.
Harry snickered “I’ll keep that in mind my friend. Perhaps Sirron will eat her”
“he will, he has more lowbrow tastes-ah yes, that reminds me. He has been in a fit lately. The fool claims the Malfoys and company have thrown a little vigil for John Doe again” it was quite insulting to hear Harry laugh at their honoring the man “why is he so annoyed by that? Sure in life he was the pedophile I was sold to, but in death … under my control … he was John Doe. They like John the walking corpse who found what was needed, saved the ones needing saving and the one who died at the right time not the muggle filth- … whose name I just realized I don’t know” Harry commented before shrugging it off. The people listening were dumbfounded at the news and weren’t sure how to process it. Clearly Harry knew what John Doe did, but how the hell is that possible when he was only 11 at the time?! Also what is all this about John being a muggle sicko? They know he had magic … well, they knew he knew about magic. Really the only magic they saw was the reducto he used to kill himself …
“I explained that to Sirron for the umpteenth time, but the act still rubs him the wrong way even though he was the one who butchered the pest before he could touch you … John became excellent for your training” Filch smirked.
“yes … most useful. I have to deal with that training one last time and soon” Harry said and this is when the conversation became serious.
Filch frowned “so soon?”
“we both knew I’d have to make the shift permanent much sooner than others what with my body suffering from the treatment I endured before you and Sirron interfered” Harry sad with an amused smile.
“quite right. It will be a problem right before the potion exam so the night after the first exams should be a good time. I assume you’ll place this body under the blood control once more” Harry nodded absentmindedly “it will be a very entertaining show”
Green eyes sparkled with amusement “indeed. I have been drugging the red haired fool. He doesn’t even know his magic is being blocked. I’ll stop the dust the after the second day of exams. it should be plenty of time”
“yes his magic will recoil so hard that it will almost be strong enough to do a fatal blow” Filch smirked.
“key word is almost. I will have to provoke that old buzzard into breaking the wards he thought he was oh so sneakily tampering with. Shouldn’t be difficult really. Dumbledore’s temper can be worse than Ronald’s at the worst of times and I intend to make my puppet preform the worst act I have planned. Poor old fool. I wonder who quickly he will fall once his convoluted schemes begin falling apart” Harry pondered as he looked up at the ceiling seemingly lost in a daydream.
Filch smirked “how bad should we make it?”
The green eyes closed as Harry considered how to answer and there was that sadistic smirk “I want them completely destroyed. First their names, their jobs and then their flesh”
Argus Filch bowed in respect “I will take every action to make sure your plans are completed during your recovery … what of the human who desires to be your mate?”
“Cedric” Harry’s eyes softened, but then hardened as he looked at his hand in disgust “I intend to give him my answer today, but I won’t complete anything in this corpse”
A simple nod of understanding was all that was needed “I will enjoy the events that transpire” Harry simply hummed in agreement and they both headed for the door and out of sight.
After the door creaked open earning an amused snort from one of them Filch could be heard saying “if the eavesdropper ever understands …”
“it matters not. No dark wizard would mess with a Necromancer” Harry could be heard saying just before the memory faded away …
Pensieve Memory Over
“he’s alive-” Draco exclaimed just before he was grabbed by Tom.
“this isn’t a joke Draco. Which room is Cedric in?” Tom demanded frantically.
“upstairs across from yours” Draco answered and gaped as Tom off.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, but soon followed after him. when they caught up they found Greyback out cold on the floor with nasty claw wounds on his chest and no Cedric Diggory …
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