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crossoverficTitle: The Soul Has Bandaged Moments
Author: serendu
Summary: Harry Potter was 18 when he first stepped into Atlantis
Disclaimers: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by J.K Rowling and Bloomsbury Publishing also Kawoosh! Productions and Gekko Film Corporation, and Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Television. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Pairing: None
Notes: The uncertainty over my job continues. I now have only one piece of coursework outstanding! I lost the first part of this chapter and thought I might have to redo it. Then I found the stuff I written! So this chapter can now be completed…
Another letters chapter. I’ve wanted to post it since about chapter 17… Only the others insisted they be read first! I hope this clarifies a number of points that reviews have raised…
Previous parts can be found here at my journal: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22
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Mail received for Agent H. Potter via the P.O. Box as per Agent Smythe’s orders collated and filed for the past year in date received order.
***
Month received: November.
***
Daily Prophet Special!
YOU-KNOW-WHO FOUND DEAD! PETER PETTIGREW ALSO DEAD!
Ministry Dumbfounded!
Report by Rita Skeeter.
In the early hours of November the 1st, yours truly, Rita Skeeter, attended an urgent owl and found the bodies of You-Know-Who and a much older Peter Pettigrew! Pettigrew’s arm was revealed to have the Dark Mark, a sure sign of following You-Know-Who! Both killed by an unknown curse!
This reporter asked the Ministry the following:
Is this the final end of You-Know-Who? See page 3.
What curse killed You-Know-Who? See page 5.
Could Pettigrew have been alive all this time? See page 6.
Was Sirius Black Innocent? See page 7 and 8 for a full review of Sirius Black’s life of crime!
***
Month received: November.
***
Daily Prophet Special!
LORD SIRIUS BLACK EXONERATED!
Ministry says: Pettigrew was guilty all this time.
Report by Rita Skeeter.
Today the Ministry of Magic announced that Lord Sirius Black had been exonerated and his time at Azkaban struck off his record. The new Minister Rufus Scrimgeour stated, “Lord Black is innocent. His trial was a travesty under Fudge. Unfortunately we have reason to believe that Lord Black has passed away since his escape from Azkaban. As such, we shall be contacting his Gringotts representatives to ensure the compensation will be passed to his heirs.”
This reporter asks:
Is Sirius Black now at peace? The evidence. See page 2 & 3.
Are the Malfoys the heirs? The complexities of the Black inheritance. See page 7.
The Black family tree – or why Sirius Black was thought to be a criminal. See page 9.
***
Month received: April.
***
Dear Harry,
I spent weeks trying to work out how to answer your letter – hoping that I would manage to write something that would make sense. Then, after I did, I realised that if I did send you a letter directly, Dumbledore might start paying more attention to me.
So I’m sending this to my grandmother and she can send it on to your post box.
First off – thanks for telling me the prophecy. It explains a lot of things – especially some of the looks the headmaster has been giving me recently. I’ve been avoiding him ever since you sent your letter to me. I don’t want him getting ideas about me replacing you!
I suppose I ought to tell you what has been going on in Hogwarts. Snape continues to be awful – although he teaches DADA now – his lessons have not been fun.
It’s been quite strange now that You-Know-Who is gone again – even though it has been months. Headmaster Dumbledore has been quiet about the whole thing and the Ministry don’t seem to have a clue how he died. We’re all still pretty unsettled though – as though no one can really believe he’s gone for good this time.
Ron has become – sorry if this offends you – a complete pain. He treats everyone as though he is the Boy-Who-Lived, and everyone seems to be falling for it! Hermione called him on it at the beginning – but no one seemed to listen – least of all Ron. Even I tried telling him – but Ron, well, you know Ron. Let’s just say he wasn’t listening and leave it at that. One other thing – everyone seems to be ignoring Hermione now. I don’t know if Ron said something – but I do know she’s pretty upset. I have been doing my best, but you know how Gryffindor is – once they turn on you – you’ve had it. Hopefully this will all blow over soon.
Oh – and one final thing – Luna has left Hogwarts! Her father had an offer to run the Quibbler internationally – so she’s gone with him. She did tell everyone before she left that she was really heading off to represent Earth at some major interplanetary meeting. Although she kept calling people from earth Towri, or Tau’ri or something – because that’s what they’re called by people from other planets! I think Luna may have finally gone over the edge on this one! I think Hogwarts will miss her crazy madness!
Right – I must get off and get Snape’s essay started. He’s coming this way!
All the best,
Neville Longbottom.
***
Month received: June.
***
Mr Harry James Potter
P.O. Box 32
Surrey
Dear Mr Potter,
Please find enclosed an entire list of the contents of the combined Black and Potter holdings. Please note – the majority of the Potter holdings cannot be touched by yourself until you attain the age of eighteen as per your family inheritance laws.
Yours faithfully,
Ragnak
Account Manager
Gringotts (London Branch)
Diagon Alley
London
***
Month received: June.
***
Mr Harry Potter
P.O.Box 32
Surrey
Dear Mr Potter,
As requested we have consolidated your shares in Grunnings Drills. As such you are now second only the Board of Directors in your stock holdings. Please see the attached report for the options you now have available in regards to the firm.
Please note: The annual shareholders meeting will take place in two weeks; if you or your representatives wish to attend please contact Mr Nicholas Henry on 0207 653567 as soon as possible.
Please do not hesitate to contact me in regards to this purchase, or any other query you may have.
Best regards,
Mrs. Christine May
Senior Trading Analyst
Telephone: 020 789 2489
Fax: 020 789 2488
Email: MayC@SteanMarx.com
Stean Marx Bank
Canary Wharf
London
***
Month received: July.
***
Mr H. J. Potter c/o MK Solicitors.
Surrey.
Harry,
You should be sent this on the advent of my death. I am sure you have many questions. I hope this will answer some of them.
Let me start at the very beginning with this statement.
Vernon, Dudley and I were pawns to the headmaster of your school.
I used to try and be nice to you.
Then – after I did – things would go wrong. Let me give you some examples.
Vernon lost his job – after I bought you and Dudley new toys.
I miscarried my daughter – after we booked a family weekend in celebration of being a family. The holiday was cancelled after Vernon rushed me to hospital. I lost a significant amount of blood and was told that I couldn’t have any more children.
I was too upset to tell anyone other than Vernon. We hadn’t told anyone about the pregnancy as it was in its early stages. You and Dudley were too young to understand. Not even Marge knew.
Then that awful Mrs Figg commiserated me on my loss. She offered to mind you if you were ever too much trouble. Or if Vernon, Dudley and I wanted a break from you.
I hadn’t told her I was pregnant. That was when I knew she was one of them. And that was when it started.
First – I wouldn’t pay attention to you when you cried. After a week of that – Vernon found a new job.
When Dudley first locked you in the cupboard by mistake whilst I was out doing the washing on the line – we left you in there for the night. The next day our mortgage was paid off in full by an anonymous benefactor.
When I ignored you and your achievements whilst praising Dudley – Vernon was made a permanent employee.
We knew what was happening. In his first letter to us Dumbledore had told us exactly what he expected of us – and of you too. You were to become his weapon, and we would be the fire that forged it through adversity. He wanted us to belittle and betray you – so he could come like a saviour for you when the time came.
I never wanted you to go to that school. At least at home you couldn’t come to any real harm. For years I hoped… But then the letter came.
Do you know why we left the house when they sent so many? Do you think that is what happens to all those who don’t answer their letters? Of course not – it was another production set up at the hands of that vile man – all for the sake of his precious world.
Dumbledore always told us what happened to you by letter. Every year I wondered if this was the one I received telling me you hadn’t survived. It haunted my dreams.
I will not excuse my husband. Vernon gradually became used to the circumstances of our good fortune. I was aware he soon took the initiative in his treatment of you. The result? He now thinks that what he did is acceptable and his career reflects what he did.
And Dudley? My son? He became a monster.
I do not believe what I did was acceptable to you. I know it was wrong. Dumbledore took the affection I had for my sister and twisted it into something evil. He left a baby on my doorstep to be abused by me. He forced me into being a monster – for the love of my family.
I cannot excuse my actions to you. However, I have enclosed the letter you had on your basket when I opened the door that morning. I hope it will help you understand why I made the choices I did.
I suppose the final question I must answer is this. How can I tell you all this now? Why not sooner? Simple. Dumbledore ensured I couldn’t tell you this whilst I was alive. Once I died, he believed that the knowledge would die with me. But the great Albus Dumbledore underestimated this mere muggle His nasty spell did nothing to stop me from writing all this down and arranging for it to be sent by my solicitor after my death.
A final few words before I finish. Do not blame yourself for my death – however I died. I knew it was inevitable, the moment my sister received her letter. I may not have had your magic, but I’ve always known things before they happened. I’ve always wanted it to be something mundane – like a bus – instead of at the end of a wizard’s wand. I hope this was the case.
Do as you will to my husband and my son. I hope they will learn in time what we did was wrong. I would ask you to help them – but I can understand if you cannot. I am not sure I would be forgiving. In this world you reap what you sow. It is a lesson past due to the both of them.
Finally – to Harry James Potter – I leave to you the letters Dumbledore wrote to me. They should be passed to you by my solicitor along with this.
I also leave to you all the belongings I kept which belonged to your mother. They are in storage. My solicitor can give you directions and the key.
And most of all – I leave you my love, Harry James Potter. Know that I loved you very much and wish that everything had been different for us all. I hope you achieve everything that you wish and live a long and happy life, and I hope that you follow your own path and not the one that the Wizarding World wants.
Mrs. Petunia Dursley.
***
Month received: December.
***
Reuters Shareholder Notification: Grunnings Drills. (GUD.L)
Trading has ceased on the FTSE100 for Grunnings Drills (Reut. Code: GUD.L Stock Quote. Company Profile) after shareholders demanded an inquiry into a possible misappropriation of funds. Grunnings has in recent months seen its share price plummet thanks to what the firm has claimed is poor trading in the machinery markets. Analysts, however, have pointed to a series of scandals centring round board member, Mr Vernon Dursley, who many believe may be held accountable for the latest potential disaster to hit the firm. Some sources are claiming that this has the potential to be one of the biggest money laundering scams the UK has ever seen.
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Reuters belong to Reuters. If I owned them – I’d be a heck of a lot richer.
Thoughts, comments, queries?
Author: serendu
Summary: Harry Potter was 18 when he first stepped into Atlantis
Disclaimers: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by J.K Rowling and Bloomsbury Publishing also Kawoosh! Productions and Gekko Film Corporation, and Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Television. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Pairing: None
Notes: The uncertainty over my job continues. I now have only one piece of coursework outstanding! I lost the first part of this chapter and thought I might have to redo it. Then I found the stuff I written! So this chapter can now be completed…
Another letters chapter. I’ve wanted to post it since about chapter 17… Only the others insisted they be read first! I hope this clarifies a number of points that reviews have raised…
Previous parts can be found here at my journal: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22
***
Mail received for Agent H. Potter via the P.O. Box as per Agent Smythe’s orders collated and filed for the past year in date received order.
***
Month received: November.
***
Daily Prophet Special!
YOU-KNOW-WHO FOUND DEAD! PETER PETTIGREW ALSO DEAD!
Ministry Dumbfounded!
Report by Rita Skeeter.
In the early hours of November the 1st, yours truly, Rita Skeeter, attended an urgent owl and found the bodies of You-Know-Who and a much older Peter Pettigrew! Pettigrew’s arm was revealed to have the Dark Mark, a sure sign of following You-Know-Who! Both killed by an unknown curse!
This reporter asked the Ministry the following:
Is this the final end of You-Know-Who? See page 3.
What curse killed You-Know-Who? See page 5.
Could Pettigrew have been alive all this time? See page 6.
Was Sirius Black Innocent? See page 7 and 8 for a full review of Sirius Black’s life of crime!
***
Month received: November.
***
Daily Prophet Special!
LORD SIRIUS BLACK EXONERATED!
Ministry says: Pettigrew was guilty all this time.
Report by Rita Skeeter.
Today the Ministry of Magic announced that Lord Sirius Black had been exonerated and his time at Azkaban struck off his record. The new Minister Rufus Scrimgeour stated, “Lord Black is innocent. His trial was a travesty under Fudge. Unfortunately we have reason to believe that Lord Black has passed away since his escape from Azkaban. As such, we shall be contacting his Gringotts representatives to ensure the compensation will be passed to his heirs.”
This reporter asks:
Is Sirius Black now at peace? The evidence. See page 2 & 3.
Are the Malfoys the heirs? The complexities of the Black inheritance. See page 7.
The Black family tree – or why Sirius Black was thought to be a criminal. See page 9.
***
Month received: April.
***
Dear Harry,
I spent weeks trying to work out how to answer your letter – hoping that I would manage to write something that would make sense. Then, after I did, I realised that if I did send you a letter directly, Dumbledore might start paying more attention to me.
So I’m sending this to my grandmother and she can send it on to your post box.
First off – thanks for telling me the prophecy. It explains a lot of things – especially some of the looks the headmaster has been giving me recently. I’ve been avoiding him ever since you sent your letter to me. I don’t want him getting ideas about me replacing you!
I suppose I ought to tell you what has been going on in Hogwarts. Snape continues to be awful – although he teaches DADA now – his lessons have not been fun.
It’s been quite strange now that You-Know-Who is gone again – even though it has been months. Headmaster Dumbledore has been quiet about the whole thing and the Ministry don’t seem to have a clue how he died. We’re all still pretty unsettled though – as though no one can really believe he’s gone for good this time.
Ron has become – sorry if this offends you – a complete pain. He treats everyone as though he is the Boy-Who-Lived, and everyone seems to be falling for it! Hermione called him on it at the beginning – but no one seemed to listen – least of all Ron. Even I tried telling him – but Ron, well, you know Ron. Let’s just say he wasn’t listening and leave it at that. One other thing – everyone seems to be ignoring Hermione now. I don’t know if Ron said something – but I do know she’s pretty upset. I have been doing my best, but you know how Gryffindor is – once they turn on you – you’ve had it. Hopefully this will all blow over soon.
Oh – and one final thing – Luna has left Hogwarts! Her father had an offer to run the Quibbler internationally – so she’s gone with him. She did tell everyone before she left that she was really heading off to represent Earth at some major interplanetary meeting. Although she kept calling people from earth Towri, or Tau’ri or something – because that’s what they’re called by people from other planets! I think Luna may have finally gone over the edge on this one! I think Hogwarts will miss her crazy madness!
Right – I must get off and get Snape’s essay started. He’s coming this way!
All the best,
Neville Longbottom.
***
Month received: June.
***
Gringotts Bank
Diagon Alley
London
Mr Harry James Potter
P.O. Box 32
Surrey
Dear Mr Potter,
Please find enclosed an entire list of the contents of the combined Black and Potter holdings. Please note – the majority of the Potter holdings cannot be touched by yourself until you attain the age of eighteen as per your family inheritance laws.
Yours faithfully,
Ragnak
Account Manager
Gringotts (London Branch)
Diagon Alley
London
***
Month received: June.
***
Stean Marx Bank
Canary Wharf
London
Mr Harry Potter
P.O.Box 32
Surrey
Dear Mr Potter,
As requested we have consolidated your shares in Grunnings Drills. As such you are now second only the Board of Directors in your stock holdings. Please see the attached report for the options you now have available in regards to the firm.
Please note: The annual shareholders meeting will take place in two weeks; if you or your representatives wish to attend please contact Mr Nicholas Henry on 0207 653567 as soon as possible.
Please do not hesitate to contact me in regards to this purchase, or any other query you may have.
Best regards,
Mrs. Christine May
Senior Trading Analyst
Telephone: 020 789 2489
Fax: 020 789 2488
Email: MayC@SteanMarx.com
Stean Marx Bank
Canary Wharf
London
***
Month received: July.
***
Mr H. J. Potter c/o MK Solicitors.
Surrey.
Harry,
You should be sent this on the advent of my death. I am sure you have many questions. I hope this will answer some of them.
Let me start at the very beginning with this statement.
Vernon, Dudley and I were pawns to the headmaster of your school.
I used to try and be nice to you.
Then – after I did – things would go wrong. Let me give you some examples.
Vernon lost his job – after I bought you and Dudley new toys.
I miscarried my daughter – after we booked a family weekend in celebration of being a family. The holiday was cancelled after Vernon rushed me to hospital. I lost a significant amount of blood and was told that I couldn’t have any more children.
I was too upset to tell anyone other than Vernon. We hadn’t told anyone about the pregnancy as it was in its early stages. You and Dudley were too young to understand. Not even Marge knew.
Then that awful Mrs Figg commiserated me on my loss. She offered to mind you if you were ever too much trouble. Or if Vernon, Dudley and I wanted a break from you.
I hadn’t told her I was pregnant. That was when I knew she was one of them. And that was when it started.
First – I wouldn’t pay attention to you when you cried. After a week of that – Vernon found a new job.
When Dudley first locked you in the cupboard by mistake whilst I was out doing the washing on the line – we left you in there for the night. The next day our mortgage was paid off in full by an anonymous benefactor.
When I ignored you and your achievements whilst praising Dudley – Vernon was made a permanent employee.
We knew what was happening. In his first letter to us Dumbledore had told us exactly what he expected of us – and of you too. You were to become his weapon, and we would be the fire that forged it through adversity. He wanted us to belittle and betray you – so he could come like a saviour for you when the time came.
I never wanted you to go to that school. At least at home you couldn’t come to any real harm. For years I hoped… But then the letter came.
Do you know why we left the house when they sent so many? Do you think that is what happens to all those who don’t answer their letters? Of course not – it was another production set up at the hands of that vile man – all for the sake of his precious world.
Dumbledore always told us what happened to you by letter. Every year I wondered if this was the one I received telling me you hadn’t survived. It haunted my dreams.
I will not excuse my husband. Vernon gradually became used to the circumstances of our good fortune. I was aware he soon took the initiative in his treatment of you. The result? He now thinks that what he did is acceptable and his career reflects what he did.
And Dudley? My son? He became a monster.
I do not believe what I did was acceptable to you. I know it was wrong. Dumbledore took the affection I had for my sister and twisted it into something evil. He left a baby on my doorstep to be abused by me. He forced me into being a monster – for the love of my family.
I cannot excuse my actions to you. However, I have enclosed the letter you had on your basket when I opened the door that morning. I hope it will help you understand why I made the choices I did.
I suppose the final question I must answer is this. How can I tell you all this now? Why not sooner? Simple. Dumbledore ensured I couldn’t tell you this whilst I was alive. Once I died, he believed that the knowledge would die with me. But the great Albus Dumbledore underestimated this mere muggle His nasty spell did nothing to stop me from writing all this down and arranging for it to be sent by my solicitor after my death.
A final few words before I finish. Do not blame yourself for my death – however I died. I knew it was inevitable, the moment my sister received her letter. I may not have had your magic, but I’ve always known things before they happened. I’ve always wanted it to be something mundane – like a bus – instead of at the end of a wizard’s wand. I hope this was the case.
Do as you will to my husband and my son. I hope they will learn in time what we did was wrong. I would ask you to help them – but I can understand if you cannot. I am not sure I would be forgiving. In this world you reap what you sow. It is a lesson past due to the both of them.
Finally – to Harry James Potter – I leave to you the letters Dumbledore wrote to me. They should be passed to you by my solicitor along with this.
I also leave to you all the belongings I kept which belonged to your mother. They are in storage. My solicitor can give you directions and the key.
And most of all – I leave you my love, Harry James Potter. Know that I loved you very much and wish that everything had been different for us all. I hope you achieve everything that you wish and live a long and happy life, and I hope that you follow your own path and not the one that the Wizarding World wants.
Mrs. Petunia Dursley.
***
Month received: December.
***
Reuters Shareholder Notification: Grunnings Drills. (GUD.L)
Trading has ceased on the FTSE100 for Grunnings Drills (Reut. Code: GUD.L Stock Quote. Company Profile) after shareholders demanded an inquiry into a possible misappropriation of funds. Grunnings has in recent months seen its share price plummet thanks to what the firm has claimed is poor trading in the machinery markets. Analysts, however, have pointed to a series of scandals centring round board member, Mr Vernon Dursley, who many believe may be held accountable for the latest potential disaster to hit the firm. Some sources are claiming that this has the potential to be one of the biggest money laundering scams the UK has ever seen.
****
Reuters belong to Reuters. If I owned them – I’d be a heck of a lot richer.
Thoughts, comments, queries?
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Date: 2007-05-07 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-07 08:38 pm (UTC)Considering how many times I've re-read it to make sure things are still making sense - I'm not surprised when anyone says they will do the same!
Thanks for the review!
serendu