TFA: Chapter 17: For The Greater Good

> *"So you’d throw me to the wolves to protect your golden boy?"*
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— Harry Potter to Albus Dumbledore concerning sending him back to the Dursleys. For the Greater Good.

## Summary:

Harry Potter follows Charlus Potter into the third floor corridor to stop him from getting himself killed. Lady Voldemort asks him to join her, and Albus Dumbledore informs him that he will be returning to Privet Drive.

## Plot:

**June 4th, 1992:** Harry Potter considers the missive he received from Neville Longbottom over the Magical Texting Parchment. He decides to follow him into the corridor to stop him from running into whomever is trying to steal the Philosopher's Stone, while first getting Blaise Zabini to contact Professor Hurst and get Daphne Greengrass to contact Professor Snape.

He enters the corridor, finding the Cerberus dead. He investigates the trapdoor, and decides to jump down and learn Arresto Momentum as he falls, in a similar manner to how he learned the Protego Shield and the first stages of Occlumency. He succeeds, and lands in the Devil's Snare, dispelling it with fire. He finds the room with the keys, and hops on one of the brooms to fly and get the key. In the next room, he finds Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. When Hermione sees him, she attempts to pull her wand, but Harry disarms her before she can. He asks her about what is going on, and when she isn't forthcoming with that information, uses legilimency on her to find it out. He subverted the chessboard by flying over it, and drinks the proper potion he learned from Hermione's mind.

In the mirror room, he sneaks in with the invisibility ring, and used a cutting curse on the neck of the figure in the room. Because he said it aloud, Professor Hurst was more than able to block Harry's spell. She then proceeds to critique his technique, and explain to him how he could have been more successful in his attempts to kill her. From this, Harry determines she was the one to send him the Disillusionment Ring. Harry is shocked that she could be in cohorts with Lady Voldemort, and she explains that she has been covertly preaching her philosophy to him. She reveals that Amelia Hurst was Lady Voldemort the whole time. Lady Voldemort explained that she intended to kill him as a baby, but was unable to, for reasons unknown, and how she had fled to Albania as a spirit. She recounted how she had slain an American witch and used her body as her own. After bemoaning the limitations to her body, she explains that she needed the stone to get a proper body. She also explains that she just wanted to kill Charlus, not Harry, and that she had nothing to do with the troll nor the death of Terrence Higgs. She then explains to Harry that it was a prophecy that had her pursue Harry and Charlus to kill them.

She then offers for Harry to join her, and together rebuild the world anew. Harry considers this, but ultimately decides against it. He tells her he wanted to, but that he wouldn't, then and frees Charlus. Voldemort tells him that she understands, that she would have made a similar choice at the age of eleven, and that they will continue this conversation at a later date. When Harry tries to curse her she ends up incapacitating him. She is about to kill Charlus with a killing curse when he puts his hands around her, that starts burning her body through nebulous, unknown means. Due to this, her body is burned up and dies, her spirit escaping.

**June 5th, 1992:** Daphne Greengrass sits with Harry Potter in the hospital wing for a while, where she is complemented by Professor Snape for how she, Blaise Zabini, and Tracey Davis handled the situation. They convene in the Speaker's Den to discuss what could have happened, and when they leave, Grace Weitts discovers the Speaker's Den.

**June 8th, 1992:** Harry awakes in the hospital wing, where Charlus coolly explains everything that has happened, and gets angry at him for hesitating when Voldemort asked him to join her. While they argue about that, Albus Dumbledore and James Potter enter and Dumbledore takes Harry to his office, where he can have a discussion about it. Dumbledore confirms to Harry that Charlus was indeed the Boy-Who-Lived, not Harry, and that it was because Lily Potter sacrificed herself for her children. He also explains that Voldemort wasn't gone and that Dumbledore will only tell him why Voldermort wanted to kill him and Charlus when he is older. After this, Dumbledore explains to Harry that he needs to return to Privet drive to power the blood wards there, and that James agreed to the plan, that it is for the greater good, and that Dumbledore will know if he tries to escape.

**June 20th, 1992:** Harry is depressed for the weeks following Dumbledore's proclamation, and frustrated at the blatant favoritism to Gryffindor House. On the train to London, he gets his marks, and finds out that he got O's in all of his classes, and an O+ in Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Transfiguration, thus tying with Emily Riddle for the most O+'s received in first year.

At Privet Drive, he finds out that the diary Voldemort gave him was glowing blue and had a message from an Emily.

In his office, Albus Dumbledore ponders the third stanza of the Great Prophecy.

## Prophecy Revealed.

*Main Article: Prophecy*

*“Only when the twins’ bond is broken by the cruelty of betrayal will The Eternal War come to pass, and either must die at the hand of the other, for neither can live while the other survives. As The Eternal War nears its crescendo, darkness shall suppress all light and only when the fabric of Death is torn to the wayside shall The Saviour make his final stand.”*

— Stanza Three