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Prologue

The final battle began and now everyone was involved.

The young witches and wizards joined forces with the older ones.

All Hogwarts students who were old enough were there with the professors fighting. Led by Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall and the other staff members.

The Order of the Phoenix was there too, Alastor Moody, Nymphadora Tonks, Rubeus Hagrid, Grawp who was Hagrid's half-brother, the Weasleys and other members as well.

The whole Order was fighting side by side with an army of Death Eaters, a wizards group who were followers of Voldemort which included, Lucius Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle, The Lestrange couple, together with Ludovic Bagman who was accused as being a spy and others.

Besides wizards who were fighting, there were many magical creatures too.

The Order had some of the greatest and rarest creatures in the Wizarding World with them, Buckbeak the hippogriff, Dobby and all the Hogwarts House- Elves, Fawkes Dumbledore's phoenix, Firenze the Centaur, Aragog the acromantula and Thestrals the winged horses.

The Death Eaters and Voldemort had on their side all the giants, an army of goblins, Nagini Voldemort's female snake, a nundu which is a gigantic leopard considered the most dangerous beast because it's breath can kill, occamy the dangerous snake, werewolves, quintaped a dangerous carnivore, runespoor a giant three headed snake, several banshees, boggrats, dementors and pogrebins, those annoying creatures who make people lose their hope until they collapse.

The entire place was obscured by all the curses that flew around. There was great commotion, wizards screaming while fighting for their lives. Inside this commotion were two main figures, Harry Potter and Voldemort. Their fight was the hardest of all, sending many curses to one another. Then it happened again.

"Avada Kedavra!" "Expelliarmus!" cried out Voldemort and Potter at unison.

Their curses cross fired and they had a split second to react before the others curse hit him. Having Quidditch reflexes, Harry dodged the curse easily as did Voldemort.

At that moment, Voldemort's expression turned into a weird look. "Potter, I figured out a different ending for you "

Voldemort's laughter echoed, as if they were in the mountains which they weren't. They were in the Quidditch World Cup stadium. It looked different than before as it wasn't the marvelous place that it used to be. The majestic golden walls weren't there anymore, everything was destroyed.

Harry, felt dizzy and terrified by Voldemort's unpredictable response. He made certain that his fear will not be shown. Fortunately he had learned how to use Occlumency so Voldemort will not "read" his mind. It was like all his thoughts disappeared in a second.

Voldemort took out an eerie ancient roll of parchment. He started muttering some unrecognizable words.

At the sound of his voice the entire place seemed to become quiet. Only his voice could be heard growing louder after each word spoken but still maintaining its low tone. He repeated once again what appeared to be some sort of phrase. But this time his voice wasn't the same, what once an almost audible voice now had turned into a scary voice comparable with the magnificent peals of thunders during a tempest. Hearing it was like a chill running through the entire body freezing the blood and echoing over and over again inside your head.

After that strange sound a vortex was created. It was gorgeous, multicolored and appeared very deep. All the combatants stopped to gaze at this sight. They were overwhelmed by this twist that Voldemort had created. Voldemort seemed to enjoy his moment of attention.

He laughed. "Fools, now you'll understand the great power Voldemort possesses, you'll regret all you've done," he gazed down at them, as if trying to remember their faces. "You are in a time loop." was the last thing he said before he disappeared.

What happened next, no one anticipated. Not even the Death Eaters knew what was going on, they were completely in shock.

The vortex grew larger and larger until it engulfed everyone and they were drawn into it, with such force that they couldn't do anything to resist.

Then blackness took over.

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Harry Potter a raven-haired boy, with the scar on his forehead, had other deeper scars as well. Not only mistreated by his aunt and uncle, abused at school by his big fat-pork-face cousin Dudley and his cohorts and he was an orphan as well.

He got his scar from his famous encounter with the most evil dark wizard ever known, Lord Voldemort, an encounter he didn't remember as he was a little baby. During that fight Voldemort used the deadly Avada Kedavra. The curse backfired and Voldemort disappeared. For ten years, no one heard from him but then in the eleventh year he reappeared.

Harry got his letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. On the first of September at eleven o'clock he was sitting in a compartment on the Hogwarts Express. There he met again with Draco Malfoy, a pale boy with blond hair and silvery eyes around his age. They first met each other in Madam Malkin's store and now they both were there, waiting to arrive at their new school. Malfoy seemed to Harry quite arrogant and snobbish. He disliked him instantly.

Harry made some friends on the trip, Hermione Granger a very clever girl with bushy brown hair and brown bookworm eyes and a tall, thin red-haired freckled boy, Ron Weasley.

Harry was speaking with Ron and Hermione when suddenly the compartment door slid opened. Draco was there with his two minions Vincent Crabbe, a heavy and mean-looking boy and Gregory Goyle, a boy with short hair and long arms, both wearing black robes.

"So, we meet again. You're the famous Harry Potter," he sneered.
"Yes, I am," replied Harry calmly.
"What are you doing right here with this lot?" Malfoy inquired.
"Just sitting and having a normal conversation".
Ron remembered his father speaking badly of Lucius Malfoy accusing him of being a Death Eater.

"Get out from our compartment, you Death Eater's son," shrieked Ron.

Draco answered in fury, his voice full with anger "Make me, Weasley".

Seeing Malfoy's twitched face, he quickly regretted his remark.

Although Harry didn't understand exactly what Weasley meant he knew it was hurtful offence.

Harry decided to split them apart, before they'd really start at each other and cursing.

He was angry with Ron for this rude unprovoked comment on Malfoy. Despite his intense dislike for Draco he thought this attack was uncalled for. When Draco and his body-guards exited he was calling to Malfoy to stop. When he didn't Harry followed him to his compartment.

"Sorry about that, it was very rude of him to say a thing like that," Harry apologized.
"What do you care," spit Malfoy.
"Well, it was just unfair," Harry said, "Let's leave it behind, "I'm not like Ron; I'd like to meet you".
"Fine," said Malfoy with an uncaring aire.

They talked for a while about everything and nothing in particular.

After some time of chatting with Malfoy, Harry went to sit alone. He was quite nervous about everything, so he decided to look through the window. The scenery changed from broad green fields to dark, ones. They had just arrived at the Hogsmeade train station. When the train stopped all the students were taken then by row boats to the castle, as this was their first year there.

They were sailing across a huge deep lake where it was rumored that a giant squid lived.
After spending some time on the boat they arrived at the castle where they were greeted by a tall black-haired severe looking witch wearing square glasses who guided them into a small empty chamber.

"Welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy.I am Professor McGonagall."

"You will be sorted into your houses. There are four of them, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. Each one of you will be sorted to one of them, and there you will live, sleep and have classes with the rest of your housemates. You will spend your leisure time in your house's common room," explained the Professor.

"We will call you soon when we are ready to receive you. Meanwhile stay here," after that she left the room.

Five minutes later she returned.

"We are ready now. Follow me".

The students didn't know whether to feel great relief or great fear.
With many thoughts troubling their minds the first-years entered the room.