Harry Potter: A Different Tale

"Yes, our group has always carried portkeys with us." Harry explained "They were made to activate on a specific phrase, if he wanted out, he could have got out before you three had finished saying stupefy. With that being said, don't bother trying to find him again. I've put his house under a Fidelius charm, you won't be able to find him and I'm not the secret keeper before you ask. Now, why were you lot after Ryan? Ah yes, I know, it's because Dumbledore wanted to learn more about me, correct?" Harry glared at the older man

"Harry, please see sense" Dumbledore pleaded "we are both essential to winning the war and we need to work together"

"I'd rather die than work with you" Harry responded

"Harry, please tell me what I've done to make you hate me so much and I promise to do my best to make amends"

"You want to make amends?" Harry asked softly

"Yes, I do" Dumbledore nodded, hoping that he was making some headway with Harry

"In that case" Harry spoke as he looked at Dumbledore, his eyes narrowed in hate and he looked like he was resisting the urge to charge and bite the man's head off, he continued speaking, his voice dripping with hate "you can go to the middle of Diagon alley. Stand in front of everyone, throw away your wand, get on your knees, remove your stupid bright coloured robes and plead to be sent to Azkaban. Plead for the dementors kiss, plead for the veil. You can tell people you're crazy, you can tell people that you're insane, you can tell people that you are a heartless bastard who deserves to die for all that he's done and you can let me kill you or at the very least let me watch Voldemort or the public kill you. You can stay the hell away from my family, you can drop dead in an unmarked grave somewhere where nobody can find you. That's what I want from you Dumbledore, that's how you can make amends." Silence reigned supreme amongst the order members, none of them capable of reproducing the hate Harry had shown, even to their worst enemy.

"H...Harry" Dumbledore started speaking "I..."

"Am a manipulative bastard who does more harm than good." Harry cut him off "You can keep trying to get information out of Ryan, but it won't work. He's a loyal friend, he's loyal family, we stick together and we don't betray each other."

"H...Harry, please, everything I do is for the greater good, I just..."

"If you truly cared for the greater good" Harry interrupted "then you'd aim that wand at yourself and end it. The way I see it, you're much more harmful to all of us than Voldemort ever was." Harry gave the man one last glare and turned and walked away, straight out of the room.

"Oh sweet Merlin" Adrian sighed as Ron and Hermione came up to him and Rachel outside the great hall, for the last few days Adrian had done a good job of avoiding the two as he always went to sleep after Ron and woke up before him while also immediately going out of class before either could talk to him

"Let's get this over with" Rachel rubbed her eyes, as Hermione and Ron stopped in front of the two

"Well?" Ron said with a smirk

"Well what?" Adrian played dumb

"I told you your snake brother was evil!" Ron said triumphantly, as if he had just won the tri-wizard tournament

"We did tell you" Hermione added in her signature 'I know better than you' voice which this time was laced with a 'I told you so' "Adrian, it's time for you to wake up and admit that he's evil"

"He's not evil" Adrian sighed

"Adrian, he attacked aurors and helped Bellatrix Lestrange escape!"

"Yes, but maybe he had a reason for that" Adrian replied "I'm not going to make any judgements until I get the answer from him"

"What answers do you need?!" Ron shouted, attracting a crowd "He's evil!"

"He's not evil!" Adrian shouted back

"Ten points from Gryffindor!"

"Do you really think I care?!"

"Twenty points from Gryffindor! I'll take more and more until you admit that you're freak of a brother is evil!"

"You can't do that!" Rachel glared at him

"I can! I'm a prefect!" Ron stuck his tongue out at her

"So am I" Daphne walked up to the group with Rose and Tracy behind her "Thirty five points to Gryffindor for standing up to your brother, and as for you" She glared at Ron and Hermione "nice to know the Gryffindor prefect has no problem with taking away points from people who disagree with him and nice to know that the other prefect has no problem in letting it happen"

"He shouldn't be shouting at prefects!" Hermione argued

"Prefects shouldn't be shouting at him nor should they be trying to force him into saying that his brother, his flesh and blood, is evil. You took away points from him for not agreeing with your opinion about his brother, that is an obvious abuse of your powers"

"Miss Greengrass is correct" Snape and McGonagall walked up to the pair "twenty points to Slytherin" Snape said to Daphne

"Me and Professor Snape witnessed the entire conversation" McGonagall glared at the two Gryffindor's "Miss Greengrass was correct in saying you've been abusing your power, what do you have to say for yourselves?"

"But he's evil!" Ron argued "He's a bloody monster who attacked aurors and he's a thief and a murderer! We all saw him turn into a snake monster in that graveyard! And he nearly killed Dumbledore!"

"If Harry wanted Dumbledore dead then he would've been dead" Daphne responded

"Harry doesn't do things without a reason" Adrian said "I don't know why he did what he did but it's not because he's evil"

"Yes he is!" Ron shouted

"Mr Weasley!" McGonagall reentered herself back into the conversation "That is enough from you! You and Miss Granger will follow me now!" She ordered and lead the two Gryffindor's away

"Mr Potter" Snape said to Adrian

"Yes sir?" Adrian asked

"Twenty points to Gryffindor for defending your family" Snape said before turning and leaving

"Thank you" Rachel said to Daphne

"Don't worry about it" Daphne said "I'm not going to let anyone call my fiancée evil"

"Thanks again anyway" Adrian added

"You guys are welcome" Tracy spoke up "now come on guys, Astoria is probably waiting inside for us"

"Goodbye" Daphne said to Rachel and Adrian as the girls made their way into the great hall

"Rachel" Adrian said to his girlfriend "do...do you think Harry will be alright?".

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