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Title: Harry Potter and the Unbreakable Link (20/20)

Author: Silvestria

E-mail: [email protected]

Category: Mystery

Keywords: Hermione Estella Harry Voldemort Epithanos

Rating: PG

Spoilers: All books

Summary: 7th year fic in the good old traditional style. Voldemort has a daughter (only he lost her), Harry has a dream, Dumbledore has a past and Hermione has a problem. Major revelations about the Potters, and the beginning of a possible romance...

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Epilogue

A small woman pulled her cloak round herself more snugly and shivered in the cold wind. She was standing as far away from anywhere as possible, on a deserted Yorkshire moor. Looking around she pulled out a wand and drew a long shimmering line round herself. It glowed blue. Then she cried "Apparecchio!"

Immediately the air on the line began to shimmer slightly. She could see people fuzzily through it. She stepped through the line and closed the air behind by saying, "Deapparecchio!"

There were only six people there, all swarthed in black cloaks like the woman herself. There was a tall man, standing a little aloof from the rest. There was a very impatient man with another very close to him. There were two people who seemed to be wider than they were high. And there was the leader, a short man with a silver hand.

These were all that was left of the famous British Death Eaters.

The short man turned to the woman and asked sharply, "Are there any more coming?"

She laughed to herself. Peter Pettigrew was never the brightest at recognizing people, though he'd seen her more than enough in the past. "No, I believe we are now complete."

Pettigrew nodded absently and turned to the two impatient death eaters, "Well Lucius, I see you've brought your son. Draco Malfoy, do you swear alegience to me and your Lord?"

The son nodded and drawled lazily, "Of course, though the Dark Lord isn't really in a position care about new recruits I'd say. He's rather dead, isn't he?"

Peter hissed, "He will return! Now listen to what I have to say! Any more speech of that kind and you'll lose your head!"

The woman bit her lip to stop herself interfering. If she were in charge that wasn't the way she'd go about instigating fear in the ranks and she didn't like watching people behave stupidly.

Pettigrew paused for effect. Then he said in a hush, "His Lordship has left a will!"

The six others crowded closer in. Lucius cried, "Well?"

Pettigrew was enjoying the attention, something he had never got when he was merely Voldemort's second in command. "I will now produce the document!"

Going to give us a rabbit out of your hat while you're about it, are you? she thought sarcastically. Get on with it.

Peter Pettigrew pulled out his wand and moved it slowely in circles around a particular spot. A bright white light increased until it was unbearable to look at. Then it stopped and he was holding a piece of parchment rolled up and tied with green ribbons.

The Death Eaters communally gasped. The lady made no movement whatsoever. Pettigrew unravelled the scroll with a flourish, "Behold the last will and testament of our Lord!"

"Will you read it aloud?" asked the aloof man, speaking for the first time.

Pettigrew smiled, "This is a very private document. Only the most trusted of his lordship's command should have the right to see its contents."

He skimmed his eyes greedily over it and then stopped somewhere on the second page. "I will read you this section. It should give you hope. Here." He started to read.

"'My last bequeathment is to England, my country. Knowing how much my faithful followers will mourn my departure, I have left them with one promise. One day the group that I have initiated will be stronger than ever before! All England will be under the command of the Dark Lord! There will be no witches and wizards who are not completely pureblood left! Muggles and Mudbloods will be exterminated! Hogwarts will be a school of the Dark Arts! And to rule over this new England I leave my heir!'"

Peter paused and Lucius cried eagerly, "More! More!"

Voldemort's new first in command nodded and continued, "'My heir will be the descendent of someone very close to me. He will be the most powerful witch or wizard that ever lived and he will exist to build up my regime into something the likes of which the world has never seen, not since the reign of my glorious anscestor, Salazaar Slytherin. Await his coming!' Here ends his will, faithful Death Eaters!"

She felt sick and couldn't speak. It couldn't be...? Lucius also was frantic, "What does it mean, 'descendant of someone very close to me'? When is this heir coming, anyway?"

Pettigrew backed off, "I really- I have no idea. We most only watch and wait, and then, at the right moment- strike!"

The aloof man muttered something about a meeting and left the cirle. She smiled, yes, go back to Dumbledore. He'll be very pleased to hear your news.

Pettigrew was saying something to the Malfoys, but she was no longer interested. She had heard all she needed and she apparecchioed out. Pettigrew continued explaining his plans for a few minutes then the meeting broke up.

When everyone had left Pettigrew folded up the will and shoved it in his pocket. He then pulled out a quill and searched through all the compartments in his cloak for something. A choclate frog card of Harry Potter, some string, a pocket calendar and then a small scrap of poor quality notepaper. He checked that it was the right piece, then picking up the quill added to what was already written there. There were two bullet points on it with tick boxes next to them. They were empty. Pettigrew drew a new box, near his new point. The paper now said,

- Find the daughter.

- Find the mother.

- Find the heir.

Smiling slightly he crumpled the paper back into his pocket and apparated away.

To be continued...

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