Fate's Request: A Harry Potter FanFiction

"You got it Sue, Padma. That's all for today, right? Or was there anything else you two wanted to go over?" David asked after both girls had successfully cast all first-year Defence Against the Dark Arts spells.

"Nope! Thanks for the help David," Sue replied.

"Yup, thanks a lot, we really appreciate it," Padma added after Sue.

"No problem, I've got some homework to get too, I'll see you two later," David replied truthfully, he had been quite busy of late and was a little behind.

"No problem, we still on for next week?" asked Sue.

"Uhh, I think maybe the week after instead, so we have more spells to go over," David answered.

"Oh… yeah, you're right, the week after next it is. See you around David, Padma. I need to talk to ask Professor McGonagall about something we covered in her class. Bye," Sue replied, leaving with a wave of her hand.

Both David and Padma chorused good-byes, collected their book-bags and went their separate ways, Padma to catch up with her sister, and David to his dorm room to get homework out of the way.

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Following the little defence lesson, he had given Padma and Sue, David quickly fell into a routine and the headmasters prior mentioned time teaching Defence ended.

"A quick announcement before we dig into our most appetising dinners, please," Professor Dumbledore said, addressing the entire school.

"As I'm sure many of you have realised, my short tenure as Defence Professor has come to an end. Luckily our new Defence Professor has safely arrived on our shores and shall take up his post immediately, please, give a round of applause to your new Defence Professor, Professor Lupin," the headmaster completed, bringing about polite but restrained applause from the students and almost all Professors.

As David saw a ragged looking Remus Lupin enter from a side door, wave and take a seat among the staff, he caught the look of barely restrained fury in the eyes of Professor Snape.

~Shit, he's supposed to be here next year… He's meant to teach Harry the Patronus Charm! This is what I get for meddling…~

Hiding his pain inside David slowly filled up his plate with an assortment of vegetables and meat, and began eating, excruciatingly slowly.

"Are you alright David? You seem to have a case of the Wrackspurt's," she asked, with a worried expression on her face.

"Huh? Oh, sorry, Luna. No, I just have a lot on my mind," David answered, his mind racing.

"Hmm," was all he got in reply, from Luna, who thought that David was showing tell-tale signs of a Wrackspurt infestation.

"Pity, I guess it shows even the smartest of us are susceptible to their influence…" Luna mumbled to herself in sadness.

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Later that night, when he should have been sleeping, David was wide awake looking off into the night sky from his small dorm window.

Seeing David truly worried, Fitz let out a quiet song to comfort David.

Smiling at his familiar, David looked down at Nala, who was curled up in his l.a.p, sleeping. He didn't know if Nala had sat there to comfort him, or simply because she found his l.a.p comfortable. Shaking himself from the distractions, he continued to ponder the issue that was Remus Lupin, and all the various issues him being here this year instead of the next could bring about.

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David's sleepless nights continued on all weekend, leaving his newfound friends, Luna, Sue and Padma a little worried, noticing the bags under his eyes whenever they saw him.

David, of course, dismissed their ministrations, telling them he just had a lot on his mind and would be fine after downing a sleeping draught. Which he most certainly wouldn't do, he needed to fix this unforeseen mess.

It was deep into the night when David was going over the feasibility of various plans to get Harry to learn Patronus Charm next year when an idea struck him.

"The diadem…" he mumbled to himself as he abruptly sat up from the chair that had been acting as his bed for the past couple nights.

"That could work… Need to buy a containment device or something. Do they even exist? They must, all sorts of other dark objects other than Horcrux's out there, maybe Borgin and Burkes… but would it contain the jinx?" David muttered to himself, pacing around his room in excitement.

"Mel!" David shouted, calling his trusty house elf to his side immediately.

Any other time and he wouldn't have done so, as he felt Mel worked hard enough as it was, but this was an important matter.

"Master, is everything alright?" Mel asked, knowing David never usually called her this late at night.

"Yes, everything's great! What do you know about containment devices?" David asked immediately.

"Depends on the purpose, you can make the simplest version yourself, by placing an Unbreakable Charm on a jar or some other item," Mel answered.

"Yes, that thought did occur to me… But I was thinking more along the lines of a containment device for a dark magical object. A very powerful one in fact," David replied back.

"I see, I'm not sure-" Mel started, before getting cut off Mel.

"Borgin and Burke's. They deal with dark objects all the time. Can you go in, in the morning and purchase one?" David asked, quickly.

"Of course, Master, I'll do it first thing. Is there anything else you need?" Mel asked, slightly worriedly.

"No, no. I'm all fine Mel, that's all I needed from you," David finished.

Getting a nod from Mel, she was about to snap her fingers and return to the manor when David interrupted, "Uhh, actually, could you bring over one of the Sleeping Draughts I've made? Maybe a half-strength vial, It is fairly late," David asked sheepishly.

With a smile on her face, Mel responded, "Of course, I'll be right over."

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"Hmm, at least you're getting more sleep," Poppy said while scrutinising every inch of David, poking him all over with her wand.

David merely stood quietly, letting her do her work.

"Well, everything seems to be in order. Get your shirt back on young man," Poppy scolded him as if he was the one who had decided to take off his shirt in the middle of the infirmary.

While holding in a groan, David watched Poppy bring over a vial, that was filled with a clear liquid.

"Just need a drop of your blood David, to see how our new potion is working," she explained as she pulled a small silver knife from her pocket.

Giving Poppy his left hand, she quickly gave his index finger a small poke and caught the single drop of blood that came from the wound, before it closed back up immediately.

Now tainted with his blood, Poppy swirled the clear potion around in the vial until it turned red, with a grey hue.

"Excellent," she said, as the potion changed colour.

"Good news?" David asked.

"Yes, the potion is doing its job, without the effects of the Blood-Replenishing potion, this vial would have turned black eventually. As you can see it's slowly turning grey, rather than black," she explained, quite happy her invention was working as intended.

"Now, go drink your potions. I'm very busy this morning!" Poppy said as she left David alone in the infirmary, returning to her office.

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Soon after leaving the infirmary, David quickly returned to his dorm and summoned Mel.

"Mel, do you have it?" he asked immediately.

"Master… it's still very early. Borgin and Burkes don't open until nine…" she explained in an exasperated tone.

Laughing at his mistake while scratching his head in shame, David asked about Mel's cataloguing of the Room of Requirement.

"Mel, you've been cataloguing the Room, right?" David asked.

"Yes, I've got a list of items I've taken out… would you like to view them? Or the list?" Mel asked, why he was wondering about her actions in the Room of Requirement.

"The diadem I asked you to find and then steer clear of, did you find it?" David asked seriously.

With fear rushing over her as she remembered the feeling that accursed tiara had given her when she found it, she nodded and said, "Yes, I found it. I avoid the area now…"

"Good, keep doing so. But I'm going to need you to show me where it is tonight."

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"It seems the Wrackspurt's have stopped bothering you, David," Luna said with a smile on her face.

This comment by Luna brought confusion to both Sue and Padma. Looking at each other for a cue and noticing that neither of them knew what the first-year was on about, they, in tandem turned to David, who seemed to be trying to swallow quickly, in an attempt to reply to Luna.

Gulping, David replied, "Yeah, feel a lot better now, had a lot on my mind but it's all more-or-less solved,"

"That's good to hear," Luna said with a smile, returning to her own assortment of fruits and nuts for breakfast.

"Yeah, it is David," Padma furthered, agreeing with Luna.

Sue Li merely hummed and nodded in agreement as she downed an English muffin.

David smiled, glad that his two class-mates didn't bully Luna.

Unfortunately, he had seen Cho Chang and Mariette Edgecombe giving her annoyed looks a few times, so he promised himself he would continue to be vigilant around Luna. They had bullied Luna horridly in the books, he would make sure it didn't happen this time though.

"Well, we'd better get going, we have Defence with the new Professor, see you, Luna," David said after finishing his meal and checking the time.

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"Here it is Master, the containment device. Mr Borgin said this particular one is designed to hold the most powerful of objects," Mel said while holding a clear crystal box in both of her hands.

David took the crystal containment device from Mel, thanked her and proceeded to inspect it.

"How much did it cost Mel?" David asked as he traced the intricate runes with a finger.

"Ten thousand Galleons, Master," Mel answered immediately.

"…I see…" was all David could get out, ten thousand Galleons was a lot of gold. Mel would have to sell some more items from the Room of Requirement after this.

Eventually, he finished his inspections on the containment device after using several spells and even an attempt at deciphering its creation process with his Artificing mat, which was met with failure.

Confident that this was a legitimate containment device, and sufficiently sturdy, David handed it back to Mel.

"Right, I'll summon you to the Room when I get there," David explained, grabbing the Map and expertly disillusioning himself.

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"Here it is Master," Mel said as she stood in front of a shelf that housed the lost Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw.

~Shame it's been tainted with Voldemort's soul, would have been immensely fascinating to learn it's secrets~

"Thanks, Mel, you can go now. Remember not to do anything with this containment device and diadem," David explained, staring at the Diadem intently.

Without a reply, Mel popped away.

After eyeing off the Diadem and hoping his theory that the jinx on the Defence job was in fact tethered to the Horcrux, for all the magical theory he had read had suggested a jinx this powerful would need a source. Voldemort's soul was an excellent source of continuous dark magic, perfect for placing an eternal jinx on the job that he had not been accepted for.

Sighing, David grabbed a piece of thick parchment and lodged it underneath the Horcrux, not wanting to touch it at all.

Summoning his wand, David levitated the piece of parchment, opened the lid to the crystal box and lowered it inside, promptly shutting the lid the moment it landed.

From the corner of his eye, David could see a thin red line of magical energy, that went off in the direction of the entrance to the Room, snap.

Hoping that this was, in fact, the jinx being contained, David placed the box back onto the shelf.

After turning towards the exit, David decided to place a notice-me-not charm around this particular shelf. Just in case.

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AN: So, while it's never explained just how the jinx was placed, we do know that it was placed following being rejected for the Defence job. As Voldemort used this opportunity into Hogwarts to place the diadem in the Room of Requirement, I thought it would make sense that the origin of the jinx was a piece of his soul.