Harry Potter: Rise Of The Spiral

Since the day Dumbledore was removed from his post as the Headmaster, things were looking better for Hogwarts.

Flitwick worked hard to improve the standard of education. Of course, he had help from the board that was being advised by Edmund himself, not that anyone could figure that out. Things a simple henge and shadow clone jutsu could achieve makes one wonder why Edmund wasn't controlling the whole magical Britain by then.

He simply didn't want to control anything or anyone. The wizarding world had seen too many delusional old men and women trying to gain power and control over the masses. They wanted to mould the world as they saw it should be. Even though their intentions would have been honest, a person can get drunk with all the power and control they have over things.

Dumbledore was one such old coot. As a young man he was ambitious and wanted to make the world a better place. He and Grindelwald worked together to gain power and status. They believed the world needed a powerful leader who only wanted to serve the masses and was ready to make many hard but necessary decisions for good of the world.

While Grindelwald dabbed into darker arts, his mind got muddled with the euphoria of dark magic's power. Dumbledore on the other hand was more subtle. Even he wanted more power for himself and had begun to believe that him being more powerful was for the good of the world. For power, he was ready to make sacrifices if it meant he could make himself strong enough for the world to follow him.

Meanwhile, Dumbledore's sister was unfortunate enough to become an obscurial. Such power was enough to tempt the two to try and take it for themselves, forgetting the love they had for each other. They dueled ferociously while trying to extract Ariana Dumbledore's obscurus.

With a sudden sense of urgency, Grindelwald fired a killing curse towards Dumbledore.

Dumbledore immediately countered with his own killing curse and when the spells met, a huge magical pulse was generated that killed everything withing the radius of a mile.

When the dust settled, Grindelwald was lying on his back, groaning in pain while Dumbledore stood victorious, only to see his sister lying dead near him.

Due to that massive magical pulse, a strange phenomenon had occured. Dumbledore always wanted a powerful wand. His d.e.s.i.r.e was so strong that a part of Dumbledore's soul had split itself and latched onto his wand. The process was triggered by murder of his sister and the innocent muggles in close proximity.

Grindelwald hastily made his escape while Dumbledore got busy destroying all evidence of his involvement. Not long after aurors apparated to his location, only to find a massive fire that had engulfed a large area and had killed hundreds of muggles.

After that incident, Dumbledore lost part of his rationality. He blamed himself for killing his sister but reasoned that it was a necessary sacrifice. His wand had become strong and more compatible with him. He had even absorbed a part of his sister's obscurus and had reached a new level of strength. It was time to begin his rise in politics, and the best way to do so was right in front of him.

He waited for Grindelwald to create chaos and when the wizarding world was in peril, Dumbledore jumped in and defeated his lover, gaining the ever lasting gratitude of wizarding world.

It was euphoric, the power he was bestowed upon. It made him feel infallible.

When Tom Riddle began his own quest for power, Dumbledore sat in the sidelines, amused by what the little boy was doing.

But Dumbledore never imagined that in fear of his death, Tom would start creating Horcruxes. It happened so quickly that Dumbledore was unable to do anything and soon, the situation was out of his hands.

Then, on that fateful day, the prophesy was made. A child born as an equal to the dark lord. Dumbledore had imagined that the child would grow up to defeat Voldemort but no, Tom was defeated by the child while she was just an infant.

Such unimaginable power. Dumbledore couldn't let such a child gain so much strength that one day she could overthrow him. So, he left her at the doorsteps of her muggle aunt's house, an aunt who loathed magic. The girl would grow up downtrodden and impressionable, hungry for love. His plan was to create a perfect martyr who would follow him and sacrifice it's life. Iris would destroy the Horcruxes and sacrifice her life to destroy the last one that resided in her scar.

After that, he would once again defeat a dark lord and be hailed as second coming of merlin. Then, with the momentum of his rise in fame and power, he would go international, becoming the supreme head of ICW, gaining complete control over the magical world.

Edmund finally understood his endgame. Dumbledore wanted to become the supreme overlord of the world. Iris' death being the crucial part in his ultimate rise.

He immediately recieved information from his clones who had been searching for Voldy's trinklets and had been successful in their endeavors.

Helga Hufflepuff's cup was in Gringotts bank. The goblins, after a lot of bribing, had finally allowed the clone to take the cup out of Lestrange vault.

The Gaunt ring was easily extracted from Gaunt Shack with the decaying curse easily dispelled from it.

Edmund approached the grave and waved his wand to see for any wards around it. He found none and casted a blasting hex to remove the cemented top of the grave.

Inside was a decaying corpse of a young human with a wand held in it's hands.

The corpse was of Ariana Dumbledore and the wand was Albus Dumbledore's first and only Horcrux.

It was only a matter of time before Dumbledore would be mortal again.

(ROTS)

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