Clanverse whatif: Yugi and Harry and the Broken Chains: Part 3

By the time the pair of them had been through the chest, Yugi was pale and shaking and Yami was ready to slaughter someone. They had tendered their resignation from Hogwarts twice before, once before they had even started at the madhouse Dumbledore had the audacity to call a school. The way they had remembered it, though, the Headmaster had shown up, given them the basics about the school and they had jumped at the chance without a second thought.

In hindsight it was so out of character for them he should have been wary, but it just hadn’t occurred to him.

The second time they had tried to withdraw was worse. Most of the broken and damaged memories weren’t actually the fault of the wizards doing the sealing. No, that had happened because Yami had failed in his most important task and Voldemort had gotten into Yugi’s soul room in an attempt to possess him and the pair of them had fought.

It was a net loss of about three years worth of memories, most of them from between the time Yugi had solved the Puzzle and gone to Hogwarts. Thankfully though there weren’t many of them that were in a huge chunk together and with the ‘fuzzy’ memories regained, Yugi was easily able to piece together his history a bit better.

Yugi had been in a lot of pain after the fight. Voldemort’s attacks on his soul had left him in a dire state. It had only been through Yami’s intervention that he was still here. The wizards would have removed him from Yami’s side if they had had their way, placing him in St. Mungo’s long term care ward where he would have been kept sedated ‘for his own good.’

Yami, of course, had said no. Firmly. So firmly in fact it had ended in a Shadow Game between the Pharaoh and the Headmaster. Though Yami didn’t remember the Game, suggesting that it had been wiped from his mind, it had obviously ended in their favour. It was after that game that they had tried to withdraw from the school.

They had remembered none of this before they had found the chest. The memories that they had had before hand spoke of a swift recovery and little to no interact with healers or teachers.

The final set of memories they had found were of events that had transpired over the last school year. Things like Yugi’s Shadow Game against Draco and the battle against the basilisk had been hidden away in the chest. Yami had seen the memories before, Yugi had shared them with him after he had come round from the petrifaction. Yugi, however, felt like he was seeing events for the first time.

“They have to be doing this to the others too.” Yugi mumbled as he tried to settle down, the truth of how close he and Harry had come to dying multiple times and how little Dumbledore seemed to care for the safety of his students seriously worrying him. Yugi’s eyes widened he thought about the fact that most of the memories that had been sealed away involved Harry. “Harry!” Yugi yelped, “We promised we’d check up on him!”

“I know.” Yami nodded, having caught the man in the process of editing the duplicate of that particular memory. “But I was more concerned about...”

“Yami, we left him with the Dursleys.” Yugi interrupted, “The Dursleys! We know what they’re like. Harry’s told us multiple times, apparently. And they took our memories of that away!” Yugi paused, determination creeping into his features, “We have to go get him.”

“How?” Yami asked, not disagreeing with his other self, but trying to think through the logistics of kidnapping their friend and bringing him to Japan. “And are we bringing Hermione and Ron too?”

“Ideally.” Yugi was thoughtful, “There’s no way their memories haven’t been tampered with somewhere along the line. But I’m not sure how to do it without worrying their families or alerting Dumbledore.”

“Even if we just go and get Harry we’re going to need help.” Yami admitted, “We couldn’t smuggle him back on a plane and we don’t, exactly, have any way to get to England without...what?” Yami asked warily as Yugi got a speculative look.

“Mahado, the Dark Magician.” Yugi explained, “He’s still hanging around right?”

“As are the rest of the Duel Monsters we accidently summoned.” Yami nodded.

“He might have a way of travelling we haven’t considered, or a few spells we could use.” Yugi pointed out, “And even if he hasn’t, he might be able to help us find one. He’s a fully trained magician after all, we’re still students.”

That was a surprisingly good idea and Yami couldn’t help but wonder why they hadn’t gone to Mahado regarding what he could teach them before.

“Let’s talk to the others, then we’ll make rescue plans.” Yami grinned at him, a vaguely vindictive smirk that spoke of trouble ahead for their adversaries. “Don’t worry. Now we know that they’re doing, they won’t be getting away with it again. I won’t let them.”