Whatever It Takes: Complete

Whatever It Takes


As soon as he reappeared back in his own timeline landing in Albus’s office in the process, he lurched forwards. Apparently the process of reappearing the second time around was worse on the stomach and the head then it had been the first time around.

Harry clutched his stomach and would have fallen face first, kissing carpet if someone had not grabbed him from behind around the middle, carefully steadying him against their strong chest, their decidedly male chest.

Harry moaned in discontent at the dizzy feeling he was experiencing right then. He leaned into the chest unknowingly as he regained his ability to see one of everything instead of two. He opened his eyes and let out a huge sigh as the sickness faded and the fear of having to see what he had eaten again had become a distant possibility.

Suddenly Harry went rigid as he remembered where he was and why he was there. He let out a deep breath and instantly took in a familiar and comforting scent. Harry started to tremble as he wondered whether he had been successful or had in fact gone stark raving mad with grief, only to imagine being surrounded in that comforting and familiar scent.

He whimpered, unknowingly speaking his thoughts aloud for the others in the room to hear, “Please, oh god, please let him be alive. I can’t stand this, it’s too fucking much.” Harry felt the sigh that came from behind him, more so then he heard it.

Harry had to stifle a sob of part relief and part disbelief as he felt the hot breath of whoever was holding him up right, puffing against his ear. A warm and soothing voice whispered into his ear, “Oh, I’d say you’ve most definitely succeeded love. And all the pain you have felt won’t be even a distant or unpleasant memory come morning.”

Harry lost it then and finally let himself truly let go and broke down in uncontrollable sobs of relief. Very gently, he finds himself spun around to be hold up against the chest of one very much alive and relieved, Cedric Diggory.

Cedric gently guided them backwards to a nearby chair. Cedric carefully lowered himself into it, all the while settling Harry into his lap. Harry then curled into the taller boy and buried his face in his t shirt covered chest, as he allowed himself to finally release six months worth of pent up pain, frustration, and anger.

Harry could not wait until the morning, when all he had felt and seen over the last six months would be erased and replaced with new memories. He hoped the new ones would be good, that they would be worth all he had endured.

After a brief time, Harry removed his face from Cedric’s chest when he heard someone clearing their throat, in away clearly used to gain his attention. As apparently listening to the sound of his lover’s healthy heart beating was enough to make him drowsy, combined with the effort of the emotional backlash he had just endured.

He noticed for the first time, that Albus, Minerva and “The Powers that be were present once more, along with Amos and Lara Diggory. Cho and Snape were not, though Hermione and Ron were this time around.

The female member of “The Powers that be” commented, “Welcome back, Harry Potter. I am pleased to confirm what I am sure you yourself have already figured out. You succeeded in preventing Cedric Diggory from being murdered during the third and final task. Time has been partly restored to complete order.”

Cedric asked, “What do you mean by saying time has only been partly restored?” The reply he received stunned him and the others. “I say it has only been partly restored, due to the fact you are alive. Though time will only be completely restored when I and My brother change yours and everyone else’s memories of what events have taken place” the female said in reply.

The male added, “Neither of you will remember come morning what has occurred over the last six months. That includes your professors, along with the entire wizarding world. No one is allowed to remember, it would defeat the entire purpose of what I and my sister have allowed Harry Potter to go back and change.”

The female continued, “You can’t possess the memories of two different versions of events, only one, the one I and my brother are going to create, though none, except for me and my brother will be any of the wiser.”

Harry spoke up for the first time, “This means that neither I nor anyone else will remember having ever met you. This is why no one believes of your existence, why they think you are only a mere myth.”

Harry suddenly frowned as he asked, “If no one is allowed to remember, then why did professor Dumbledore know of your existence?” Albus answered, “Because I am what his known as an agent of the light. I work for “The powers that be” Harry.”

He added, “I was once what was known and called a champion of the light, during the days I trained and then finally defeated Gellert Grindelwald. After that I was approached by “The Powers that be” and asked to serve as an agent for their cause.”

The male explained, “Albus Dumbledore was asked to become an agent when you were born Harry. He was approached to be a guardian protector. He is to protect and guide you up until the moment you face Voldemort for the final time. You are a champion of the light, just as Albus Dumbledore had been.”

The female added at Harry’s questioning look, “I and my brother cannot tell you much of your involvement with Voldemort, only Albus Dumbledore can tell you this on the eve of your sixteenth birthday.”

The male finally revealed, “When Albus Dumbledore dies, he will be given the choice of passing on into the afterlife, or he will be granted the option of becoming a member of “The Powers that be”.

Hermione asked, “Can anyone become and be chosen as an agent of the light?” The male replied, “No. Not everyone is granted the chance to become an agent. Usually they are former champions, or magical beings, or ones who have some kind of amazing and unique power or gift.”

The female added, “Those who have years of knowledge and wisdom are chosen.” She continued after a brief pause, “Albus Dumbledore was chosen to become an agent due to two reasons. One he is a very powerful and wise wizard.“

She concluded, “And finally he was chosen as Harry Potter’s guide because he understood and endured Harry Potter’s situation and is the only one I and my brother deemed suitable to train him.”

Ron asked, “So you mean, because Harry is constantly having problems with “you know who”, that later on down the line he might be approached to be an agent?” The male answered, “It all depends on what powers or gifts and knowledge Harry Potter is to gain over the years to come.”

The female said before she and her brother disappeared from the room “Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory will endure and discover many a secret and revelations to come, as will their children. Time and experience with reveal all.”

Everyone sat in silence looking stunned, as they eyed the constant and ever calm and casual looking Albus Dumbledore.

AN: Go back and read all of the chapters. I have edited and changed bits and pieces here and there, though the general plot has remained the same. I am back on track with this story. This was a sort story, a prologue I suppose. The next story will be based on Harry fifth and Cedric seventh year at Hogwarts. There will be no Umbridge. Also what the powers that be meant will be revealed in the story to come. Chapters to the next story should be posted as soon as I write them. Expect a new chapter by the beginning of November at the latest.