Legacy of Harry Potter

November 1994

Ministry of Magic

Harry after leaving the ministry of magic arrived back to Hogwarts. As soon as he arrived at Hogwarts, Harry immediately summoned Narcissa.

"Lord Potter," she questioned. "Is something the matter?"

"Yes, Miss. Black," he said. "I want you to find out the whereabouts of Dumbledore."

"Use any method you wish… use all the resources you want. I want Dumbledore's location as soon as possible," instructed Harry.

With this Harry himself was about to leave Hogwarts in pursuit of Dumbledore but Minerva came panicking in the room.

"Harry," she said in a hurry. "There this is this woman who urgently wants to see you."

Harry raised an eyebrow at this. To warrant such a reaction from Minerva, things must be serious.

"What happened?" He questioned.

"I had gone to see off some of the students when I found a woman rapidly approaching the Hogwarts wards," she explained. "She was gravely injured… her entire body was bloodied and she was on the verge of death."

"Probably due to her injury, she had apparated a bit far away from the Hogwarts wards and was running towards it," she continued.

"From the moment, I took hold of her, she has been muttering about seeing Lord Potter," Minerva added. "First, I brought her to the hospital wing and right now, she is under Pomfrey's care."

Harry stood up as he questioned, "Who is she?"

"Rita skeeter," Minerva replied.

Although the name did sing a bell in Harry's mind, he was not able to properly recall the woman.

"She was a press reporter for the daily prophet," Narcissa explained. "She was fired after you took over the newspaper."

"She was on the forefront of writing articles maligning your image," she added further.

Harry nodded in understanding as he along with Minerva and Narcissa arrived at the hospital wing.

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Harry soon arrived in the hospital wing. Rita Skeeter was lying on the hospital bed and her condition seemed much better.

"Lord Potter," she almost tried to jump to her feet but madam Pomfrey held her back.

"Mr. Potter," said madam Pomfrey. "Though she seems fine, her condition is terrible."

"If not for her relentless and stubborn behaviour that she has something very important to talk to you, I would have long made her unconsciousness," she said. "I am deviating away from my medical expertise and hopefully you would make it short."

Harry nod and approached Rita.

"Miss. Skeeter," he said. "I heard you wanted to see me."

"Yes, Lord Potter," Rita said. "Things have turned to such an extreme that I had no other options."

"But first of all, I would like to ask for your forgiveness for all what I had written in newspaper," she said and though Harry knew that whatever she had done was only for her personal benefits and she would not be feeling any genuine remorse, he still gave a polite nod.

"Lord Potter," Rita continued. "In reality, I am an unregistered animagus."

"My animal form is beetle… a house beetle," she said with a sigh. "As you can guess, I used my beetle form considerably for my news reporting. I would spy on people, lords in their parties and using all the tricks I uncovered and produced a lot of secrets before the public."

"Hopefully, when the time comes, Lord Potter will keep it a secret," she sighed.

Harry nodded and prompted her to continue.

"These days, I have been wandering to get some explosive news," she continued. "And after the conference that Dumbledore did and all the revelations he made, who better target that old senile man."

Now, Harry had his interest really piqued. She might know something.

"I followed him for some time," she said. "And everything seemed normal but then I found him inside the ministry of magic more specifically in the department of regulations and control of magical creatures."

"Dumbledore, in the department swiped out a snake with his fake magical construct. Initially, I found his behaviour strange but as soon as he left the ministry, all his facade left him."

"He turned gleeful… extremely happy and I was utterly confused," she continued. "But then the old coot started to talk to himself."

She continued with a shudder, "I learned that the snake had a piece of soul of you- know- who. That the snake was one of the horcrux. I was so terrified but even then, I followed him."

"He kept on muttering strange things. Like how all the power would be his… like he would wield unparalleled power."

"I did not know need a genius mind to comprehend that Dumbledore was planning something evil… he reeked of evilness of foulness."

She scoffed with disgust, "To think that the man whom I had hated because he was too light was darker than even the dark lord."

"I kept following him and he arrived at a very isolated place. It was a castle of and in my ignorance I believed that I could even intrude the castle but a ward appeared just before the entry and injured me to this state."

Harry narrowed his eyes, "I was able to apparate just in time. But I think that Dumbledore must know that someone had been there."

"Where is he?" Harry questioned. He could not waste any time. If Dumbledore knew that someone had been following him, he might run away.

Whatever his intentions were, they seemed extremely evil and Harry had to stop that.

Rita Skeeter gave Harry the location and it did not even took a moment and he vanished from the spot.

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