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"Dialogue"
'Thoughts'
Chapter 12: The Return
Harry rushed towards the sound of the voices and entered a small room where He found Hermione and Ginny lying on the floor, while a Death Eater he didn't recognize was pointing his wand at them.
"Hermione, Ginny!" Harry called for them.
The three occupants of the room turned their heads towards him.
"What is this?" The Death Eater was the first one to speak in a tone of confusion.
"Harry? What happened to you?" Ginny asked with concern and bit of something else.
Hermione was clutching her arm in pain, but even then, she looked at Harry while making a weird face. "Harry! What are y— Why are you naked?!"
"Huh?..." Harry looked down at himself… He was indeed naked. "What?! Where are all of my things?..."
He seemed to have lost all of his belongings after returning to the real world. The only object that remained on his person was his hat for some reason.
"I had a lot of good stuff in my bag… what a waste." Harry lamented.
"Well, it seems like the main target has decided to show himself." The Death Eater pointed his wand at Harry, not really caring why the boy had suddenly appeared with no clothes. "Incarcerous."
"Harry!" Both Hermione and Ginny cried at the same time.
Ropes made of magic came out of Dolohov's wand and traveled toward Harry at great speed, but before they could touch him, they seemed to be sucked into the hat that Harry was wearing and disappeared.
"What was that?" The Death Eater had no idea what had just happened.
Hermione and Ginny were equally confused and could only stare at Harry with shock in their faces.
"How annoying…"
Harry then made a hand movement towards the masked wizard… but nothing happened.
"Eh?..." He exclaimed in a confused tone.
Glancing down at his own arm, he quickly realized what the problem was.
"My runes are gone too?!"
The Death Eater didn't understand what Harry was trying to do, but the man wasn't going to just stand there and do nothing in response.
He made a complex wand movement, and a bright purple flame came out of his wand before it flew toward Harry.
"Dodge it," A voice told him.
Hermione and Ginny looked around but could not find the owner of that voice.
Harry moved out of the way of the curse without much effort.
"You are being picky now," he said.
He then looked to a spot next to Ginny where her wand had fallen.
"Accio." Ginny's wand lifted from the ground and levitated into Harry's outstretched hand.
"Good thing I learned some wandless magic. Now… let's see if I remember how to use this thing." Harry said while observing Ginny's wand.
He felt a very weak connection, which was normal considering that He was not the owner.
"I suppose that will do for now."
"Crucio!"
Harry heard the Death Eater say before the curse impacted on his body, and his senses were filled with an extremely intense pain for a second before it disappeared.
"I felt that…" Harry complained.
"How are you still standing?..." The masked wizard said with disbelief.
"This is what you get for spending so much time sitting at your desk. You got rusty!." The same void that previous instructed Harry to 'dodge' was heard again.
This time, they all realized that the voice came from the strange pointy hat that Harry was wearing, as they also saw it move while speaking.
"Did that hat just talk?" said Ginny with bafflement.
Hermione stared at the hat with curiosity, almost forgetting the terrible situation they were in.
'It almost looks like the Sorting Hat, but it's not it. There are several glaring differences,' she thought.
"How can you be standing after receiving my curse?!" said Dolohov, shocked. Not really caring about a talking hat.
Harry didn't answer him and instead pointed his wand at Dolohov.
"Stupefy."
The enemy wizard saw the blue light approach him and gave a confident smile. "So simple."
He put his wand in position to deflect the stunner, but failed to notice that the blue light had already divided into two sparks. One was flying straight toward his wand, but the other one went lower and ended up hitting him in the belly.
The masked man was pushed back by the strength of the spell and fell on the floor… unconscious.
"Idiot, how can he fall for a simple trick like that?" the hat said in a mocking tone.
Hermione and Ginny could not believe that Harry had just beaten an adult wizard with one simple spell. But they were also trying to avoid looking at him too much since He was still naked.
"Harry, put some clothes please!" said Hermione, trying not to peek and feeling embarrassed by the whole situation.
Ginny was just looking away so they could not see how red her face had become.
With a movement of the wand, Dolohov's black robes removed themselves from his limp body and traveled to Harry, who then put them on.
"A bit big, but will have to do..."
Harry then approached Hermione and Ginny, who were still on the ground. Ginny seemed to have hurt her ankle and was unable to stand, so Harry went to her first.
He pointed the wand at her ankle and muttered a soft chant.
"Harry, what are yo— My ankle! It doesn't hurt anymore!" Ginny said, looking completely baffled.
He didn't say anything and got close to Hermione, who seemed to have a deep gash on her leg.
Hermione was going to say something, but after seeing how He had healed Ginny, she decided to wait for a bit.
Harry again waved the wand over Hermione's wound, and this one disappeared in an instant.
"Amazing… when did you learn healing magic?" Hermione asked, feeling half curious and half offended that Harry decided to do some extracurricular study without telling her.
"I'll tell you later. Now, we need to move. The others might be in danger," Harry said calmly.
The only reason he was still not freaking out for having returned to the real world and finally gotten to see his friends was that he had played this scenario a million times in his mind. Trying to think about what he would do if he returned to the same moment where he left, and how he would try to save everyone.
Thanks to his mastery of the mind arts, Harry still had vivid memories of the events that took place before his time-turner mishap. And He remembered that He and Neville were fighting against Bellatrix.
Harry gave Ginny her wand back and went to pick the one that belonged to the Death Eater, whose identity he never got to learn.
He felt an even weaker connection than the one He felt with Ginny's, but he estimated that it would at least be usable.
"You are right, Harry. We need to help others. Ron and Luna were being chased by Malfoy and someone else," said Ginny.
"Do you know where they went?" asked Harry, but Ginny shook her head.
"I do! Come on, let's go," said Hermione after standing up.
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