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Time - Chapter 1: Fight at the Department of Mysteries
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A.N - Okay, this is the start of the new project that I will be working on. As usual, the first twenty chapters will be Free Access. I know that many of you have already read the first eight or so chapters that I uploaded a while ago. But now I will give those a retouch and add them one by one. The rate will be the same as usual, six chapters per week. So by next week you will see new ones.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this one -
Synopsis: During the events at the Department of Mysteries, Harry suffers an incident involving a large amount of time turners and becomes trapped in time.
Chapter 1: Fight at the Department of Mysteries
Lucius and Bellatrix approached the group of students as several more Death Eaters positioned themselves on the sides, some distance away.
“Potter, just give me the prophecy, and no one will be hurt,” Lucius declared in a calm but cold tone of voice.
“Like anyone is going to believe that, you snake!” Ron blurted out.
“Well, he is certainly lying,” said Luna, not looking very concerned about the situation she was in.
Harry peeked at Hermione and Ginny, who were at his right. The girls gave him a nod in response.
They understood as well as he did that there was no easy way out of this one.
Harry was the first one to throw a spell at Lucius.
“Expelliarmus!”
Lucius deflected the spell with no difficulty, but then Harry’s companions started to launch charms and jinxes at the Death Eaters, and those started to fire back.
“Reducto!”
Ginny threw it at one of the Death Eaters, but ended up hitting one of the shelves containing thousands of crystal orbs that held the prophecies.
“It’s collapsing, RUN!” Harry yelled in alarm at his friends, and they all started going in different directions.
It was chaos as the prophecies smashed against the ground and the residual magic that had been contained inside flew everywhere, continuing the chain reaction of destruction.
Harry was sprinting as fast as he could with Bellatrix Lestrange in pursuit.
“Come here, Potty! If you stop running away, Aunt Bella may be nice to you,” Bellatrix said in a mocking voice.
The Department of Mysteries was a labyrinth, and Harry had no idea where he was going.
As he turned a corner, he heard the sounds of a fight ahead, but he had no choice but to keep going forward. The present corridor had no other exit but the one door at the end.
When he passed the entrance, Harry spotted his friend Neville fighting against Amycus Carrow, who seemed to have lost his mask during the pursuit.
The Death Eater threw some red curse that Harry did not recognize, and Neville had barely managed to get out of the way.
“Neville!” exclaimed Harry while running. He pointed his wand towards Carrow.
“Expelliarmus!”
The charm hit true and disarmed the Death Eater.
Harry moved to the center of the room and pulled Neville behind a big desk for cover while checking on his friend.
“You ok, mate?” asked Harry.
Neville nodded.
“I’m fine, but what do we do now? They are blocking the only exit.”
Harry peeked his head for a moment. Bellatrix was walking towards the center of the room while the other one was standing at the door.
“I’ll distract Bellatrix while you try to take out the other one.”
Harry left the safety of the desk and ran as fast as he could towards the other end of the room that was filled with shelves. He turned around and pointed his wand at Bella.
“Accio wand!”
“…………….”
Nothing happened, and then Bella started to laugh out loud.
“I’m sorry, but you really thought that would work, little Potter?” Bella said in a mocking tone.
Carrow also started laughing and didn’t notice that Neville had left the desk and was pointing his wand at him.
“Petrificus Totalus!”
Carrow was taken by surprise and did not manage to evade in time. He then fell to the ground, completely paralyzed.
“Idiot,” muttered Bellatrix.
“Expelliarmus!” yelled Harry.
The blue charm collided against a barrier created by Bella.
“You need to learn more spells,” Bella teased him.
Neville attacked too, and the three of them were soon entangled in a duel, and it was not going well for the two boys. The female Death Eater was proving to be a very skilled witch.
An incendiary spell forced Neville to move far away from Harry, and he was now almost at the entrance of the room. Bella was still at the center, and Harry was at the back.
“Confringo!” Neville used the blasting curse against Bella.
This made her raise her eyebrow in surprise, but she easily moved out of the way.
“Not bad, you may actually be better than the Potter boy,” said Bella.
They all heard a loud noise at the back of the room and turned towards it.
The curse that Neville had used ended up hitting the lower part of one of the shelves, breaking it and making it fall to one side.
“Harry!” Neville cried, realizing what was about to happen.
The shelves were placed in a domino style, going around the circular part at the end of the room, and Harry was right in the middle of the circle.
The shelf that Neville broke ended up colliding against two other shelves, making them fall at both sides and starting a chain reaction that would end with all of them falling.
Harry tried to escape, but when the first shelves fell, a strange silver mist started to fill that entire area.
Harry turned his head to one of the still-intact shelves and recognized the objects stored in the room.
“Time-Turners!” Harry exclaimed.
Harry decided that he needed to take a risk and cross through that mist, whatever it was.
He started running as fast as he could, but the moment his body touched the mist, everything seemed to slow down.
He heard Neville yelling something at him, but could not understand the words...his mouth was moving very slowly.
He then noticed Bella was running very slowly towards the door.
Harry felt like he was floating and could not control his body, and had to just stay there and observe his surroundings.
He then saw that the movements of Neville and Bella were getting slower and slower with every second that passed, to the point where they stopped moving.
He tried to look behind him, but everything was covered in that silver mist. He also noticed that the mist was coming out of the broken Time-Turners.
“There must have been thousands of those things in here,” Harry said softly.
Neville and Bella were now moving so slowly that they looked like frozen figures.
Harry had also become unable to move as the mist reached his waist.
The silver mist, however, didn’t seem to have any problem moving and kept rising up and covering more and more of the space where Harry was; it now reached Harry’s chest.
“What’s going to happen to me…” Harry was wondering about his fate, unable to do anything about it.
The mist continued to rise until it reached Harry’s face.
And then… everything went dark.
