Fate's Request: A Harry Potter FanFiction

"Are you sure you don't want to come as well, David?" Hermione asked as she packed away the last of her clothes.

She was off to the Burrow to spend the end of the Summer holidays with Harry, Ron and his family, watching the Quidditch World Cup.

"No, I'm fine, Hermione. Besides it would be a little weird if I showed up without an invitation," David said for the tenth time, touched, but absolutely not willing to sit through a Quidditch match. He didn't even watch his house play, the World Cup was no different to him, besides, he had important plans following the end of the match.

"I'm sure the Weasley's wouldn't mind," Hermione, said almost begging.

"I'm sure Arthur and Molly Weasley wouldn't mind, but Ronald and I don't get along. I don't want to ruin his holiday or anyone else's," David answered as he shut her trunk for her.

Giving up, she hugged him warmly, whispering, "I'll miss you."

"I'm going to miss you too, but don't worry, we'll see each other soon enough. Only a couple of weeks until school starts and if do end up returning home after the World Cup, I promise I'll come to stay for a bit," David said hugging her tightly.

"Then I'm definitely heading back home after the World Cup then, I'll ask Harry if I can use Hedwig to keep you updated!" Hermione cheerily replied.

"David, Hermione! We need to get going! Your mothers waiting in the car," Daniel Granger called from the bottom of the stairs.

"Well, we'd better go," Hermione said as she grabbed her trunk, with David doing the same with his own.

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"Off you go you two," Emma said as she glanced at the time, she and her husband were running a little late.

"Thanks for letting me stay Dan, Emma," Daniel said as he opened his door to step out of the car.

Smiling, Daniel Granger replied, "It was our p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e, David. You're welcome anytime."

Emma smiled and gave David a quick wave as he got his and Hermione's trunks out of the back and following a brisk goodbye between Hermione and her parent's, they were left alone at the entrance of the Leaky Cauldron.

Hermione would floo over directly from there, and David planned to do a little shopping before he got Mel to pop him back home.

David gave Hermione another hug goodbye and made his way into Diagon Alley, drawing his wand as he snuck into an abandoned side alley, casting the Disillusionment Charm after he checked he was in the clear. He followed up with shrinking his trunk so he wouldn't have to drag it around.

Under the protection of his powerful invisibility charm, David weaved through the various witches and wizards doing their shopping and made his way into Knockturn Alley.

Under his Disillusionment Charm, David pulled a small vial out of his pocket and downed the liquid within.

Immediately his body began to change, fat grew in places where previously they didn't exist, his height fell to five feet, leaving his clothing baggy, but a little spell could fix that.

This change was thanks to the Polyjuice Potion that was in that vial, along with the hair of an unsuspecting muggle.

His disguise complete, David un-did the charm and made his way into a small dingy shop, hidden away in the cesspool that was Knockturn Alley.

The small shop, that was covered in cobwebs and dust had a distinct smell of cauldron cleaner, a smell that was particularly unpleasant.

"What's ye name?" a gruff looking goblin demanded as soon as David closed the door behind him.

Rather than answering, David flicked an odd gold coin with his thumb towards the goblin shop owner, who caught it immediately with a glare.

The goblin inspected the coin with an expert eye and even bit it to give it a test, eventually, he grunted and ushered David over, "I gots de stuff ye ordered, wizard."

The goblin reached under his counter and pulled two small, intricately made boxes out, containing the goods David spent most of his summer hunting and bribing away for.

A small stolen vial of Thief's Downfall, the incredibly powerful potion that was used by Gringotts to discover those foolish enough to attempt and rob the bank was housed in one of the boxes.

Thief's Downfall could only be found in Gringotts branches around the world, as the goblins guarded its secrets vigorously.

The second box was full of Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, a rare imported ingredient that was non-existent in Britain, at least until the Weasley twins began to import it.

Having already paid for the vial and powder, David bundled them up under his left arm and briskly left the dodgy shop without so much as a word.

With the small fortune under his arms, David quickly made his way into a deserted alley to call for Mel and return home, unfortunately, Knockturn Alley's reputation really was deserved.

He was soon surrounded on both ends of the alley by four wizards, clearly wanting to steal what David had bought after staking out the goblins store in the hopes of finding a decent score.

He sighed internally, for he was extra cautious in making his way to the goblins shop, but it seemed if you didn't have a reputation here, you were fair game. He would have suspected the goblin of double-crossing him, but he came highly recommended and Dawlish himself testified to that.

This may have been an inopportune moment, but David made the most of it. He'd been itching for an unplanned fight for a while now.

As the crooks were about to threaten David, he wasted no time in fl.i.c.k.i.n.g his Acacia wood wand into his right hand and cast a nonverbal Diffindo straight at the duo to his left, he intentionally underpowered the spell so as to not decapitate them.

The spell left both of them screaming as blood poured out of their either carved open foreheads or blinded eyes. The screams shocked the two to his right into action, but David was already prepared, he cast a quick Portego, and followed up with Bombarda aimed at the cobblestones, blinding them due to the amount of dust it released.

He could have used the powder for the same effect, but he had potentially bigger plans for this and didn't want to waste the rare product just yet.

"I'll f.u.c.k.i.n.g kill ye! Ye bastard! Avada Kedavra!" roared one of the crooks David had blinded with dust from the Bombarda.

David immediately pushed himself up against the alley wall and watched as the deadly killing curse flew past him, landing right into the c.h.e.s.t of one of the blood-drenched crooks, ending his short life immediately.

The fact that they would be willing to use the killing curse so easily motivated David to end this right here and now before more deaths occurred.

David cast a flurry of overpowered Stupefys at his would-be muggers, dropping them all to the floor, unconscious. He followed up with tightly binding the remaining three with conjured ropes, called for Mel and let off red flares with his wand, calling Aurors to the scene.

"Master?!" Mel shouted as she popped next to David and witnessed the carnage he'd caused.

"Shhh, quiet! Get us out of here, now," David whispered quickly, grabbing Mel's shoulder with his wand arm.

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"What happened?! Are you alright? David! Tell me-," Mel shouted at David, clearly panicked.

"I'm fine, do you have the Polyjuice Reversal Potion?" David asked as he set the small boxes on the counter.

Glaring at David, Mel pulled out the potion form her pocket, giving it to David.

He downed it immediately, thankful he was no longer the short round muggle anymore, but his clothes were a little tight. Mel fixed that with a snap.

"They stopped me almost straight after I left that goblins shop, Mel. There was nothing I could do other than fight back," David explained as he grew comfortable in his own skin again.

In a berating tone, Mel stressed, "You should have let me go, Master!"

"You know the rules of that place Mel, Witches and Wizards only. No idea why, but those were the rules. Don't worry. I won't be going back, I've got what I wanted," he explained to Mel, attempting to calm down from the adrenaline rush he was experiencing currently.

This did little to temper Mel's anger towards David, so he just sheepishly smiled and changed the subject.

"Did you send the letter to Madam Bones?" he asked, the sheepish smile still on his face.

"Yes…" Mel huffed.

"Did you read it?" he asked, almost certain she did.

Mel mumbled something that resembled 'maybe', making David snort in laughter.

"You sent it under the same pseudonym that got Lockhart arrested, right?" David asked.

"I did, Dawlish also re-arranged the Auror duties for the night of the World Cup, all the very best Aurors shall be patrolling on the night, and their reserves have been increased as well. He was quite happy about that, it seemed his boss, Rufus Scrimgeour approved of his plans," Mel answered.

David hummed in acknowledgement.

"Master… if what was written in that letter is correct, Dawlish will probably suspect you are one of the Death Eaters that avoided Azkaban," she expressed, worried.

"Maybe… Probably, if he's any good at his job. It doesn't matter in the end, he's stuck with that Vow whether he likes it or not," David responded, not worried about Dawlish falsely thinking he was a Death Eater who was turning on his former comrades.

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Later the next day, David made his way down to the Potions Lab, where he found Mel analysing Thief's Downfall.

"How's it coming?" David asked as he pulled up a chair and began going over her notes on the potion.

"Not well Master, this potion truly is a masterpiece. But it has many needless ingredients, I believe they were added to make replication far more difficult. Impossible even," Mel explained as she snatched back her notes, adding to them.

"I don't believe that for a second," David replied as he grabbed his own half of the vial of Thief's Downfall and began slowly working on it in silence, Greenie would be handling meals until David returned to Hogwarts so that Mel could focus on recreating the potion.

Hours went by and David came to a similar conclusion as he distilled a few drops of Thief's Downfall into its base parts, finding many ingredients that just didn't make sense for them to be in such a potion.

But that was the key he needed, each 'distraction' ingredient bonded and altered the true potions ingredients in certain ways and by reverse engineering these he could determine the base parts of the true potion.

As such, the long and arduous process of seeing how the various 'distractions' reacted with other ingredients began.

He and Mel were so occupied with their work, that David almost forgot about the World Cup, he was reminded by Hedwig angrily chirping at his window after a late night of work.

Penning his reply that he couldn't wait to spend a few more days with her once the World Cup was over, David allocated more time in his duelling room for the night of the World Cup.

He may need it.

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"You comfy there Fitz?" David asked as Fitz snuggled into his battle coat's expanded compartment, made to hide Fitz during his foray into the World Cup after-party.

Chirping in reply, David requested Fitz to Flame them over to the World Cup through their bond after he cast a Disillusionment Charm on himself.

In a flash of fire that couldn't be hidden with the charm, David appeared in a forest and cast a point me towards the World Cup grounds.

Fitz really was a boon, he could bypass any type of warding, even those designed to stop magical creatures, Phoenix's really were amazing powerful creatures.

With Fitz by his side, David entered the heavily warded grounds of the World Cup without alerting the Aurors and made his way towards the campsites, to watch the chaos unfold and drop a Death Eater or two if the Aurors still managed to fail in stopping them.

As he found the deserted tents, David knew he'd arrived a little early, but then again determining the exact time the match would conclude was impossible.

As such, David climbed up onto a tree branch overlooking the campgrounds and waited patiently for Lucius and his slippery friends to begin their fun and games.

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"Madam Bones, reports of masked individuals causing chaos on the campgrounds are coming in," Kingsley reported to the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

"It would seem our mysterious informant is right, again, doesn't it Auror Shacklebolt?" Amelia Bones asked of her most skilled Auror.

"Indeed, it does Madam," he replied with that deep, calming voice of his.

"I hear Rufus has stepped up security, much to the irritation of Bagman… I believe we should assist, for our informant says many of the masked individuals are Ministry employees... Is your team ready?" she asked, standing up from her posh leather chair, leaving her court robes behind, ready to step into battle.

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David watched on as the Aurors struggled to keep order, it seemed the civilians were the main reason they failed to catch any of the Death Eaters initially.

With a shake of his head, David made his way towards the gathered Death Eaters, who were torturing the poor muggle and fighting off the rare Auror or Ministry employee brave enough to engage.

Thankfully, Madam Bones soon arrived, followed by a contingent of Aurors that worked directly for her. He could even see Dawlish and others making their way over, now having hope with the arrival of more Aurors who weren't bogged down dealing with civilians.

The muggle dropped to the ground in a thud as the Death Eater's and Aurors started battling.

David cast a Portego over the man, protecting him from stray spellfire.

It really was a spectacle, but Lucius and his friends were using the Unforgivables in their panic, not expecting his many Aurors or Madam Bones herself to show up.

While they hadn't killed anyone, yet, many of the Aurors were forced onto the defensive immediately. This was probably why Voldemort was so deadly, even though a minority supported him and his Death Eaters, the killing curse really was Voldemort's most powerful weapon.

Strangely enough, everyone came to a standstill as the Dark Mark appeared in the air. It struck fear in all their hearts, even the Death Eaters.

"Dawlish! Take your squad in the direction of the Dark Mark!" Amelia shouted as she shot off a stunner rapidly, causing one of the Death Eaters to collapse.

But they didn't respond with attacks as one of their own fell, "RUN!" a voice that was so obviously Lucius Malfoy screamed as he tried to pick up his fallen comrade.

Unfortunately for him, Kingsley Shacklebolt was far too quick, as he conjured ropes wrapped around his arm and pulled the Death Eater out of his grasp.

Knowing they had to come up with alibies as the Aurors now had a prisoner, they apparated away immediately, much to the fury of Madam Bones.

"How in Merlin's name were they tied into the wards?!" she shouted at the contingent of Aurors, who all felt it was a little unfair, they didn't deal with warding. That was another department.

In her anger she shot another stunner right into the face of the masked Death Eater, soon showing his face to all the gathered Aurors.

"Its Nott…" one of the Aurors gasped.

"Kingsley, I want you and your squad to raid his home now. Bring in his son for questioning. I'm going to have to move quickly if I want to administer Veritaserum before it gets blocked," she ordered swiftly.

"Proudfoot, Savage, grab Nott and come with me. Snap his wand first," she ordered.

"Madam, there's another one here!" an Auror shouted, pointed at a crumpled figure.

David had stunned this Death Eater himself as he saw that the Aurors were going to fail in capturing more than one measly Death Eater.

"Who is it?" she asked, curiously, for she didn't see anyone stun this Death Eater.

"W-Walden Macnair…" the Auror who pointed him out answered.

"I see…" she said as she raised her wand and Macnair, wrapping him tightly in conjured ropes.

"Snap his wand and bring it with us," she ordered as she waited near Nott's unconscious form.

David knew tonight was technically a win, but he wanted more captured Death Eaters as Lucius was probably talking with the Minster right now, blocking any attempts at getting Wizengamot approval to administer Veritaserum on the captured Death Eaters, pure-blood rights and all that rubbish. The minister would eat it all up, gold would help.

Alas, it would help with distracting the media when Cyrus brought forth David's case and also weaken Voldemort, slightly.

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AN: So a lot of you didn't like the previous chapter. I'm sorry that was the case, but I really need to stress that David isn't here to change the timeline and intervene needlessly. There was nothing he really needed to do at the end of third-year. If you remember how he struggled to decide with what to do regarding the Basilisk, he made his peace with having to allow certain things to just occur, allowing Harry and co. to grow, regardless of how little he thinks of Ron and Harry.

But I think another problem that could be avoided is that fact you all have to read one chapter at a time. Just remember that there is more to come and more opportunities to change things. He won't always be 'watching', he will change things for the better.

Patience, please!

And thanks for reading.