Harry Potter and the race for the Key

Chapter 1: A dark cave

Somewhere in a dark cave:

It was a dark purplish-greenish sort of day. The sort of day where all lord Voldemort wanted to do was kick back in his evil chair, eat yellow flavored grass and listen to Eminem on his muggle CD player. Unfortunately he was WAY behind on his evil plotting and the voices inside his head were bugging him to get back to work. See the voices inside his head tell the dark lord what to do. When Tom Riddle was born something weird happened. See on the day that he was born Hitler died. Unfortunately for Tom, Hitler had teamed up with a bunch of other evil guys including but not limited to John Wilkes Booth, Mao Zadong, Vlad the Impaler, Czar Alexander, Mousellini, Hirohito, PeeWee Herman and Barney. They tortured a wizard in to explaining about the wizarding world and they knew they were either dead or dying or going to die so they decided to procreate themselves on to a different person's child, using magic. Unfortunately the first attempt did not work correctly. Instead of a child with the brains and intelligence to reach COMPLETE WORLD DOMINATION (evil music), he only got an overly-perverted would-be science teacher (later known as Gregory). On the second attempt, the got a muggle born named tom riddle. The evil laughter was heard for miles around as Hitler died laughing. This would be the child that would rule the world and achieve COMPLETE WORLD DOMINATION (evil music) There was an unexpected problem however. They were dead. They couldn't train this boy to be evil enough to reach COMPLETE WORLD DOMINATION (evil music). So they begged the devil for help. And the devil decided that he would help them and instead of giving the boy a devil for his left shoulder, he put a spell on the boy so he would have three shoulders. (two shoulders visible and one invisible shoulder) so that the angel would get confused and land on the invisible shoulder and a devil would take its place on the right shoulder. And you know what they say "out of sight, out of mind". So basically, Tom never knew he had a shoulder angel and therefore under the influence of the two devils grew up to be the worlds greatest evil power ever, LORD VOLDEMORT (different evil music) on the outside. But on the inside he was just a normal teenager. Yes, a normal teenager. That was one of the biggest side effects. Tom would always be a teenager on the inside. And it was that teenagerism that got him in trouble with the voices inside his head (A.K.A. the shoulder devils). It was that teenagerism that made him fall for a certain unattainable girl, a girl named Lily. And it was that crush on the women that would eventually become Mrs. Lily Potter and give birth to Harry Potter, which would be his undoing. No one ever knew why he wanted to kill Harry. Kill James, yeah the got that, but why a baby barely a year old. Because Tom knew that Lily would never marry him unless she didn't have any other choice. So he tried to kill Harry so that Lily would come and be his dark queen, but when things backfired, he had to listen to the "I told you so" 's coming from the shoulder devils. Later on Lord Voldemort would believe that it was Lily's love that had saved Harry, but it wasn't. When Harry Potter was born, he had two shoulder angels. OH well, back to the dark cave. Voldemort was bored of thinking evil thoughts, but the voices said he had to. "Oh well" he thought to himself "At least I can have some evil music while I think evil thoughts" as he put his new Eminem CD in the CD player.

#4 Privet Drive, somewhere in England:

As the first few measures of "Without Me" began to play in that dark cave, a boy named Harry Potter sat up in bed. Yawning, he put on his glasses and began to watch the sun rise, something he'd discovered he liked to do. The sun rise was really pretty and he liked to think that some day he'd maybe watch the sun rise with Cho. Unfortunately it wasn't going to be a peaceful morning at Privet Drive.

"Harry, you better be dressed before I get up there!!" Harry's Aunt Petunia shouted shrilly from the bottom of the stairs

"Coming" Harry replied sleepily

Harry got up and dressed still half asleep. Harry decided to put on the socks Dobby had knitted for him last year. Personally, Harry thought the socks were hideous, but so did Aunt Petunia. She hated those socks SO much that she refused to look at him and sent him to his room when he wore them. Therefore, Harry wore them every chance he got.

"HARRY!!!!"

"Hmmm" Harry thought to himself "Even for Aunt Petunia, wanting him down there at this time in the morning could only mean one thing, That he was in trouble."

Harry walked downstairs and into the kitchen.

"Harry! Where have you been?" his aunt yelled at him "You got a letter to day from one of your friends and the owl couldn't find your room! Its been down here all morning! Take it away!" Harry's aunt suddenly grabbed his sleeve and looked at him carefully "OH! You're wearing those awful socks! Well they'll have to do. I need you to go over to the new neighbors house and invite them for dinner."

"Why can't Dudley go?" Harry questioned

"BECAUSE!" His aunt yelled, "just get going"

Harry turned and headed toward the door thinking how happy he'd be when he went back to school in three weeks. Little did Harry know that he was no the only one with problems.

The Burrow, somewhere in England:

Ronald Weasley stared at his picture of Hermione Granger with a deep look of concern on his face. Two weeks ago he'd starting having disturbing dreams about Hermione. Just dreaming about her wasn't odd, he'd been dreaming about her since after the Yule Ball last year (even if he'd never admit it), but these dreams were different. Those dreams had been about going out with Hermione, beating up Krum for cheating on Hermione, being married to Hermione. These dreams were about were about Hermione being tortured, Hermione falling long distances and he, Ron, not being able to save her. The really scary ones though, were of Malfoy and Hermione. Malfoy drugging Hermione, Malfoy torturing Hermione, Malfoy taking advantage of Hermione. And the worst part was that these didn't feel like his other dreams. They didn't even feel like nightmares. It almost felt like the day before he'd gone to Hogwarts for the first time. That night he'd had a dream that felt like these. The dream had been about the ride to Hogwarts. He'd dreamt that he would meet two people that would change his life forever. And the next day on the train he'd met Harry and Hermione, and they'd certainly changed his life forever. But what if these dreams came true too?

"Ron!" yelled Fred "Where are you? You'd better get your bloody butt down here!"

"Why" Ron asked

"'Cause mum's going to blow a socket if you don't!" replied George

"Fine! I'm coming" Ron replied starting toward the door. After hiking down four flights of steps Ron walked into the family room. His mother was standing there tapping her foot impatiently. And Fred and George were mimicking her from behind. Ginny was sitting in a chair reading.

"Ronald Weasley!" his mother yelled, "Where have you been?"

"Yes ickle Ronnikins! Do tell mum where on this bloody earth you've been?" Fred repeated

"Fred! Shut your dirty mouth!" his mother answered

"Who me? I haven't said a word!! It was George!" Fred insisted

"Well then, George! Shut your mouth!" their mother countered

"It wasn't it me! It was all Fred! Fred! Fred! And Fred!" George yelled

Their mother spun around to glare at them "Tell me who said it now!" she yelled at her children

"It was Ginny" the twins yelled at the simultaneously

"What?" Ginny asked poking his head above her book "Did you call me, mum?"

Everyone except Ginny cracked up laughing.

A Plane somewhere over Bulgaria:

Hermione sighed looking out over the bleak Bulgarian landscape from her plane window. "Why she wondered "did I ever agree to come visit Viktor? It wouldn't be so bad if they'd let me use floo powder, but my parents won't let me and Dumbledore suggested that I act like a muggle." Hermione sighed again The inside of the plane was completely gray. The seats were gray. The floor was gray. Even the food was gray. Hermione sighed for the third time.

"WILL YOU STOP THAT ALREADY!!!!!" The muggle next to her yelled

"Huh?" Hermione was confused.

"You sighed again! You've been sighing all day! Why can't you just go see a psychiatrist like everyone else"

"What was this man's problem?" she thought to herself

The stewardess walked by and noticing the disruption tried to calm the man down.

"Sir, if you'll just please sit down we can figure out what the problem is and find a solution." The stewardess explained "If you can't sit down though, I'll have to go talk to the captain."

"You'll go see the captain!!!" The man shouted, "I'll go see the captain! And I'll yell at him too. I'm not sitting down until that girl moves. She has done nothing but sigh ever since she got on this plane!! She's probably thinking about her problems. Well let me tell you something missy, I've got more problems in my little finger than you do in your entire body!!! And you don't hear me sighing!!!!"

Hermione looked at the man. He looked vaguely familiar, like she'd seen him somewhere. The question was where?

An undisclosed location, Somewhere in England:

Sirius Black sat nervously watching the muggle TV he'd stolen. There had been some nasty muggle attacks lately that scared him. These muggle attacks were not only nasty, but they had to be the work of a muggle who knew about the wizarding world and had friends in it. Just then a sudden noise caused him to jump 3 feet in to the air.

"OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

The noise sounded distinctly like a wolf howl. Sirius got up cautiously and made his way to the kitchen door, where he found his best friend, Remus Lupin, sitting on the floor literally howling in pain. Sirius started to laugh. Almost two months ago, after Voldemort had returned to power, Dumbledore decided he needed some operatives in undisclosed locations. His obvious choices were right in front of him. Sirius Black was on the run for crime he didn't commit and Remus Lupin was a werewolf shunned by society and unable to get work. Plus they both had a good experience with living without magic.

"Will you stop laughing? I'm in pain here!" Remus yelled even though he was laughing too

"Well its not everyday I see and ex-hogwarts professor lying on the ground in pain. Normally the just scare the crud out of me!" Sirius laughed

"Well, they used to scare me too, until I was one."

"I wonder if that greasy, slime ball of a professor, Snape ever is stupidly silly like this?" Sirius contemplated

"Yeah, Snape's a comedian and I'm the bloody Queen of England" Reamus reminded him

Both of them cracked up at the thought of Snape being a comedian. After another ten minutes of laughing, Sirius managed to stand up.

"I wonder how Harry is doing?" Reamus asked from the floor "Why don't we check on him."

"Alright" Sirius answered and walked over to the window where he used a magically magnified telescope to peer into the Dursley's curtains.

"Oh bloody drat!" Sirius swore " I can't see a bloody thing!"

"Well" said Reamus "I've been thinking about it for a while and I think its time to have a dinner party, not unlike the one Harry is inviting his wonderful neighbors to now."

"How do you know their sending an invitation?" Sirius asked suspiciously

"Because" Reamus answered "Harry is walking across the street looking happy and sullen at the same time."

"OH, so now you read emotions!"

"No, actually I just heard his aunt yell it at him" Reamus replied

"Oh grrr on you and may you rot in a mud puddle!" Sirius exclaimed

A plane, Bulgaria

The man was still arguing with the stewardess. Hermione had offered several times to move but they weren't paying any attention to her now. Therefore she had decided to sit quietly in her seat and figure out where he had seen that man before.

"Look at her! The nerve! Just sitting there! Probably thinking about those awful problems!" the man yelled startling Hermione "This is it! I've had enough! I'm going up there to talk to your stupid muggle captain!"

"Something" she thought to herself "didn't sound right about that sentence." Hermione gasped. "He said muggle!"

She stood up attempting to run after him, but the stewardess told her to sit down. Just then the captain's voice came over the intercom

"We are experiencing turbulence. If you will all put your seat belts on we can be through this without any problems. Thank you."

Everyone but Hermione had put his or her seatbelts on. Just then the plane hit turbulence.

"Ssssssssscccccccccrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecccccchhhhhhhhhh"

Someone had turned on the intercom without noticing. The angry man's voice boomed through the intercom.

"You idiots couldn't steer a plane if your lives depended on it" he yelled at the pilots "let me do that!" The sounds of a brawl were loud over the intercom. Suddenly the plane took a dive. Screams and prayers were heard everywhere as the plane headed toward the ground.

"Were all gonna die!"

"I'm too young to die!"

"Why me?"

"Dear Lord, Help us!"

As the plane neared the ground, people decided it would be easier to jump out the windows. Unfortunately the seatbelt light was still on and everybody's seatbelts were locked in place until the light went off. Hermione thinking quick, tried to magic the seatbelt light off, but it was no use. All the sudden the plane hit a bump, sending Hermione right through the window of the plane. As Hermione fell the almost 15 feet from the window, the plane crashed.

Privet Drive, Somewhere in England

While Hermione was falling, Harry walked across the street, kicking a rock. Happy to be out of the house but angry that he had to talk to neighbors and not paying mush attention at all, Harry had a near miss accident with a speeding car. As the driver sped away cursing Harry, Harry thought about this dinner party. Harry pitied these neighbors. The only reason they were invited to dinner was that Aunt petunia was curious. They didn't own a car and they didn't seem to leave their house a lot. Aunt Petunia HATED when her neighbors were the private types; she couldn't spy on them then. Therefore she invited them to dinner. Harry having finally reached the door, Rang their doorbell. A tall thin, clean-shaven, vaguely familiar looking man answered.

"Hullo Harry. We've been expecting you."