Disrupting the 'norm'

A/N Thank you for the reviews!! Narcissa, your question will be answered in this chapter. To be honest, I hadn't really thought about how Grindy would know. Now I have it all worked out.
Missi, that was so funny. Thank you!
Also, I feel I should warn the readers that I'll pretty much pick and choose what parts of the regular canon I want in my story and what points I don't. Some things are obvious, like Dumbledore being alive, and such. Anyone who has read all six books should know what's real and what's not.
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Last chapter:

"Headmaster, the Veritaserum should be wearing off soon," Severus said quietly, slightly shocked by all that he had heard. Dumbledore nodded then turned back to Tom to ask his final question.

"Tom, who is He?"

"Grindelwald."

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Tom Riddle came out of his Veritaserum induced daze, to find five wizards, and an ugly old told of a witch, staring at him completely gob smacked. He could remember what had just happened and was surprised at the questions he was asked. He had expected to be interrogated about Grindelwald's (spelling?) where abouts, how he had managed to possess Peter Pettigrew, etc, but it had almost seemed like Dumbledore had been trying to help him, criminalize (is that even a word?) him less. He wondered what the Potter baby's name was, who the other people in the room were. Dumbledore watched him looking at the minister and Lucius. "My apologies Tom, I believe introductions are in order," He said, smiling kindly, as he pointed to each person as he introduced them, "This is the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, his Senior Undersecretary, Dolores Umbridge, Lucius Malfoy, and Harry Potter. You already know Severus of course."

"Lucius Malfoy!" Tom cried, "I know that name!! Grindelwald was very fond of him!! He's evil!!"

"Now Tom, Lucius is a spy for me, as was Severus. They are the reason why we were able to banish Grindelwald from your mind. Though I must say none of us ever expected this." Dumbledore said, shaking his head slightly. "Now, I have a few other questions I wish to ask you, Tom. Did Grindelwald ever tell you how he discovered you?"

"He was looking for recruits, he had a spy here at Hogwarts, the spy read the Book or Enrolment,(1) and copied down the names of wizards from promising families, ones that were powerful already, and ones that had leanings to dark magic. When Grindelwald received my name, he thought the heir of Slytherin would be the perfect cover if he was ever, 'defeated'. He told me you were evil, Professor, he told me that you wanted to hurt me, that you were a Dark Lord." Dumbledore looked startled by this, but Tom continued speaking. "I believed him, he said he would help me get away from the orphanage. When you came to invite me to Hogwarts, He told me I had to go, that I would learn things, and he would protect me from you. Hogwarts was so isolated then, I had no idea that He was the evil one, no one talked about it. After I graduated, I learned the truth, but I had not felt Him in my mind since I was sixteen, I thought he was gone for good. Then you defeated him, Professor, his body was destroyed, but his soul had an anchor inside me, like the diary, He used me as a Horcrux. I was the only living thing, He had been connected to so when his body was destroyed, he took over mine." Tom was crying by this point, becoming quite hysterical, as if he had only just realized the levels of horror had been forced to endure.

As Tom continued to sob, his magic began to reach uncontrollable levels, his magical aura expanding. After being unused, and locked away for over half a century, it was looking for way out. The windows began to shake, the candles lining the walls of the infirmary flickered and went out, as Tom's brilliant green aura reached out, the others in the room scrambled back, hearts pounding in terror. Tom Riddle was the heir of Salazar Slytherin, he was incredibly powerful, and he was bout to cut loose. Noise like the crashing of thunder, sounded in each persons ears and as it reached its deafening crescendo(sp), another equally brilliant blue aura rose up to meet it, all eyes turned toward Albus Dumbledore, as his own immense power carefully surrounded Tom's, his own soul reaching out to calm the boys inner turmoil, and help him reign in his devastating magic. As things began to still and the brilliant green receded back to the boys body, both he and Dumbledore collapsed in exhaustion.

Severus and Lucius looked at each other, as Madame Pomfrey, hurried to check on both the Headmaster and Tom, the same thoughts running through their minds.

"Luc, what was that?" Harry asked shaking slightly, "How was Dumbledore able to stop Tom from levelling the Hospital Wing?"

Lucius took a deep breath as he looked at the still silent, Minister and Umbridge, and whispered,
"They're soul mates."

The End!!
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Just Kidding!!

Albus Dumbledore slowly came awake to the unpleasant sound of banshee screeching, at least it sounded like banshee screeching. He wondered how a banshee had gotten into his bedroom, and how his nice comfortable king sized bed, with all it's satin pillows(2), had become a narrow, hard, slightly starchy one. He shifted, slowly opening his eyes and staring up at the ceiling of what he realized to be the Hospital wing. He suddenly remembered what had happened, to land him in the Infirmary. He looked around for the source of the god awful caterwauling that had woken him up, and saw Dolores Umbridge and Poppy Pomfrey screaming at each other.

"How dare you order the Minister for Magic to leave!!!!??" Umbridge screeched, "What kind of authority do you think a mere Mediwitch has?"

"This is MY Infirmary!" Poppy screamed, back, "I have to very exhausted patients here who need rest!" Severus, who had been watching Dumbledore and Tom sleep, cleared his throat, "I believe your screeching has ensured that neither Mr Riddle, nor the Headmaster has gotten much rest."

Both women turned to face the two prone figures, Madame Pomfrey hurrying over to check on them. "Albus! What were you thinking? Expelling magic like that? What if you hadn't managed to calm him? The Hospital wing would have been completely levelled!"

"I am sorry, Poppy, I didn't even realize what I was doing. It was very instinctual," Dumbledore said, trying to look contrite. Inside, though, he was cheering, he felt complete in a way he never had before. After all his long years of loneliness, searching for love, he had found it in a most unexpected place. He realized suddenly why all the soul mate finding spells he had tried never worked. Tom's soul had dampened by Grindelwalds, the very touchy soul mate spells, would never have been able to penetrate such darkness. He looked to his left and met the beautiful green eyes of Tom Riddle. He was worried about Tom's reaction to finding out they were soul mates. Dumbledore was old, his body not nearly as strong and viral as it once was, where as Tom's youth had been restored. Tom was beautiful, smooth, flawless skin the color of bone china, ebony hair falling attractively around his shoulders, lean muscles, despite this he had an air of delicacy around him; long pianists fingers, slender neck and long beautiful eyelashes. Albus had age spots for gods sake! Someone so beautiful would never voluntarily be with someone as old as he was, he became angry. The fates had been so cruel to young Tom, snatching a way his life, and then bonding him to an old man. Continuing his inner rant, Albus began to feel more depressed when he heard a soft humming in the back of his mind, it sounded like a nursery rhyme he remembered vaguely from his childhood. The humming calmed him, and he realized it was coming from his other half.

Tom smiled at him. It did not bother Tom that Albus was older, and he wanted to reassure his soul mate. He could feel the waves of emotions coming from Albus, could here his thoughts. Albus made him feel beautiful. For so long he had had only his own company, locked a way as he was inside his body, thoughts of weakness and hopelessness his only companions. Now he had Albus for a companion, forever.

The two newly found soul mates were so absorbed with each other they did not realize they had an audience, Poppy tried to get their attention to tell them that they would be fine after a little rest; Fudge and Umbridge (words said with as much malice and disgust as possible) tried to force Dumbledore to talk to them; and Severus, Lucius, and Harry just stood back and watch as the deepest of bonds formed between the two powerful men.


(1) Book of Enrolment, This is an imaginary text I just thought up for my story. There are references, in the books, to several people having their names down ever since they were born. In the Book of Enrolment it has the name of the child and it's parents.

(2) Can't you just picture Dumbledore’s bed!? Four poster, satin curtains hanging from the top, piles of luscious pillows, velvet and silk blankets and sheets, OMG the Decadence!!! This is pretty close!! http://www.easternaccents.com/bedsets.asp?CollectionID=423&CategoryID=9

A/N I will update as often as possible, but sharing a computer with like 5 other people makes it difficult. Please review!!
P.S. I know these chapters are short and I'll try to get longer ones up