Lightning Strikes Twice (Harry Potter)(Time Travel)

Chapter 66: Albus Dumbledore

A/N: Here's the new Chapter! Which also means the next four chapters are up on my Patreon for early access as well as the chance to vote on the direction of the story!

To set expectations for this chapter, I don't subscribe to Evil!Dumbledore theory. Well-meaning but old and sometimes incompetent is where I'm at with Dumbledore.

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Albus Dumbledore had been around the block a few times, as the kids might say. To borrow another bit of common parlance from the younger generation, he was not used to being ‘thrown for a loop’ so to speak. He was not so egotistical or arrogant to believe he knew everything there was to know about everything, to be fair. But at the same time, he usually liked to think he had his finger on the pulse regarding the things happening in his own backyard.

… The events of the last few days had made it abundantly clear that he did not. No, rather, it was more like the events of the last year if he was truly being honest with himself and self-reflecting. Even if things had certainly escalated massively over the last few days, first with the seeming death of the Dark Lord and then the discovery of his followers all dead in their homes or place of business, the truth was, it had started long before that.

Everything had started when Harry’s name had come out of the Goblet of Fire. Not only had that been beyond Albus’ expectation, but even young Harry’s reaction had been… a little off at the time, if he was being honest. The Headmaster had chalked that up to being in a state of shock, but given everything that had transpired since, Albus had to wonder. Things… were not adding up.

He liked to think he had a fairly good idea of what kind of young man Harry Potter was growing into. Certainly, Albus had put a lot of effort into ensuring the sort of bright, upstanding, and courageous wizard that they would need to face off against Voldemort whenever he began clawing his way back.

That was something Albus had known for a long time now to be a possibility. It wasn’t until after young Tom’s original defeat that he’d heard whispers of the other wizard’s efforts towards achieving immortality, but once he’d begun to re

All that the Headmaster had to decide… was which place to search first.

 -x-X-x- The Vote: [X] Investigate the Gaunt House first - 77%

[ ] Investigate the Cave first - 23%

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