Chapter 48.3- Doom Days
Added 2025-07-28 04:45:45 +0000 UTC“So now Harry, can you tell me what happened? As much as you can remember. Not just what is relevant— every sound, every smell, every feeling that itched at your skin and made you want to react. I need to know all of it.” He said, and his was the time for me to make a choice. Tell him, or don’t tell him. I laughed internally. That was not a choice— not really. i couldn’t face Voldemort on my own— nothing about that engagement with him had been enough to convince me otherwise. And even if I was silly enough to think that, there was no chance I’d beat the death eaters. Besides, I thought, looking at the old man, there was no way to confirm what he knew or did not know, so it ws safer to tell the whole truth lest he look upon me as an enemy.
“So I guess it started when I took the cup in the maze” I said, taking a deep breath and only slightly faking the shudder that ran through me as I thought of that trap. I’d never been so helpless— in either of my lives. The only way out had been surrender. I would find that man, I knew, and I would show him why Doom never surrendered. I vowed it to myself.
“I appeared on the podium. But I couldn’t leave it. There was some sort of pink dome all around me. The man— there was a man in a hood there—“
“A man? You are sure it was a man?” Dumbledore interrupted.
“Well, their voice sounded masculine but I couldn’t exactly ask about their genitals or gender identity” I snarked back. He looked like he still had something to say, but he stepped off the matter.
“The man told me about the dome. Said it could absorb all kinds of magic and even the magic in my own body. I tried sending the most powerful spell I knew but it did nothing to the dome”
“Which spell was it?” As if, I would admit to using a killing curse here.
“Fulgur tempestas” I said, and Sirius whistled while Fleur looked at me in shock.
“You never cease to amaze me, Harry. Continue.” He said with a nod of his head. I wondered if he was sucking up to make up for all the shit he’d been pulling
