Disclaimer: Harry does not belong to be, but rather belongs to JK Rowling.
A/N: This is the sequel to Harry Potter and the War of the Wizarding World. I suggest that you read that first or else you won't have any idea what's going on in this story.
Summary: This is a story about Harry's summer before and during his seventh year at Hogwarts. Just after Harry turns 17, Privet Drive is attacked and Harry is forced to protect the family who had never showed him love. Shortly before the start of school, a close friend of the trio disappears and Harry is thrown into turmoil. School begins and the friend returns, but only as the shell of a person. Harry has much more on his plate this year with N.E.W.T.S and the battle against Voldemort coming ever closer.
Title: Harry Potter and the Battle of the Worlds
Ch. 1
Summer with the Dursleys'
Harry had been staying with the Dursleys' for only a week. So far everything was like it had been the previous summer. The Dursleys' left him to wander around the neighbor or lay in the lawn without a second glance in his direction. They sometimes would have him clean the weeds from the garden or cook breakfast, but for the most part they left him alone.
At night when Harry was working on his homework and his Aunt and Uncle had gone to bed for the night, Harry would receive a knock on his door. The first night home this knock had startled him, having believed he had awoken his uncle and was about to get a telling off. However, when he opened the door, he discovered his cousin standing awkwardly in his doorway. Although Dudley was still in top shape, he had put on a few pounds since the last time Harry had seen him. Harry, now taller then he had ever been and much more fit, could easily handle himself in a fight against Dudley. The knock sounded at the exact time it had done every night that week. Harry opened the door to see his cousin, once more, standing in his doorway.
"Dudley?"
"Er-mind if we talk?" Harry stood with a smile on his face before stepping off to the side to allow his cousin into his room.
"What is it that you want, Dud?" Harry asked uncertainly. Dudley shrugged his large shoulders before settling down in Harry's desk chair. Harry sat across from him on his bed waiting for Dudley to begin.
"I was just wondering if you did anything fun this year at school or anything-er-not so fun?" Harry smiled at his cousin. After talking with his family last summer before leaving for Headquarters, Dudley had asked question after question on the activities Harry had performed while away at school. His cousin seemed almost envious at how powerful Harry actually was with his magic.
"Actually I did, but I wouldn't call it fun. The wizarding prison, you know the one where my Godfather was falsely imprisoned with the Dementor guards, well, Voldemort tried to take it down in order to get his faithful followers free. Only, his plans didn't quite work out as we found out about it and were able to prevent him from taking the prison. Although, some of his Death Eaters did go free..." Harry added quietly, watching his cousin's face fall into disbelief.
"And you were there?" Harry nodded. He wasn't exactly sure why his cousin found his life so exciting, Harry would have given anything to live the life of normalcy that his cousin lived. "And the girl? I haven't seen her before." Harry smiled as he thought of Tally.
"She's Tally. She moved here from America last summer and transferred to Hogwarts. We became friends and play on the same Quidditch team together. She didn't really get along with Hermione, so it took awhile before I really got to know her. We started dating around Christmas." Dudley's face had a confused look on it when Harry had mentioned quidditch, but his mind was on Tally, so he didn't comment.
"Hermione? Is she the ugly girl with the frizzy hair?" Harry frowned at him,
"Hermione isn't ugly. She is one of my best friends and you will reframe from insulting her or you can get out of my room."
"Okay, okay, sorry!" Dudley held up his hands in defeat.
"Why are you so interested in Tally?" Dudley shrugged his shoulders,
"She just seemed so different that's all. Plus, the way the two of you snogged, she has to be easy." Harry abruptly stood up and faced Dudley. Dudley, sensing Harry's anger at the boiling point, quickly stood up and walked to the door, "Is it true then? I don't mind having seconds." Suddenly every window on the upstairs floor exploded as Harry lundged at Dudley. Harry could hear the screams and yells coming from his Aunt and Uncle's room, but he didn't care, only wanting to to hurt Dudley for saying such things about Tally.
Harry felt one of Dudley's fists connect with his cheek, but didn't care. His own fists had connected to some part of Dudley's anatomy more than once and he could hear Dudley grunt under the blows. Harry's door flew open and Harry was yanked off his cousin and onto the floor.
"WHAT IN BLOODY HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" His uncle screamed.
"DAD! I came in here to talk to him and he just jumped on me like a mad-man!"
"I DID NOT! You were calling Tally a whore!" Aunt Petunia ran into the room and screamed at the sight of her son and nephew.
"DUDDERS!" She ran to her son and pulled him over to her for a closer inspection. "What did you do to him?" She rounded on Harry. Harry, who was now sporting a gash on his cheek from where Dudley had hit him, only glared at his aunt.
"Answer her Boy." His uncle thundered.
"Nothing he didn't deserve."
"That's it, we're locking you up for the rest of summer. Can't ruddy well have you storming the house and killing our son!" Petunia, Dudley, and Vernon quickly exited the room with the slam of the door and Harry heard the click of the lock as it turned. Having been able to do wandless magic for months now, Harry waved his hand and heard the door unlock itself. His uncle cursed and locked the door. Had it been under any other circumstance, Harry would have found this whole situation humorous, his uncle locking the door only to have it quickly unlock itself. "BOY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" His uncle yelled as he whipped open the door to find Harry in the exact same spot where he left him, his wand across the room on his nightstand. His uncle looked bewildered for a moment.
"If you lock me in here, I will tell everyone and you know they will come here and hex the hell out of you for mistreating me!" Harry said through clenched teeth. His Aunt, who stood behind her husband, whimpered at the thought while his uncle swelled considerable.
"Fine, FINE! We won't lock you in here, but you are to never and I mean never come near us unless it is absolutely necessary."
"Fine by me." His uncle slammed the door behind him once more, but did not lock the door. With a quick wave of his hand, the window that had exploded from Harry's rage was replaced fully intact back in his window frame.
That incident with Dudley had happened three weeks ago and Harry had not seen his cousin since. Harry awoke every morning at 6 to go jogging, something he picked up while dating Tally, after his jog, we would shower and make breakfast for his Aunt, Uncle and cousin. However, after grabbing a bite for himself, Harry would return immediately to his room before any of his family members emerged from theirs.
After the jog, shower, and breakfast, and having finished his homework the week before, Harry would look over the daily letters he received from his friends and Order members as well as read the Daily Prophet. Though the Battle of Azkaban was still fresh in everyone's mind, Voldemort had yet to make anymore moves. Harry was beginning to think that he had others plan being worked out. He hadn't had a vision or any type of sign from his scar, it was just a feeling he had in the pit of his stomach. Voldemort was going to strike, but Harry didn't know when or where.
Now the morning of his 17th birthday, Harry looked through all the birthday cards sent by his friends. Hagrid sent his usual asortment of baked goods and a book about magical beasts and how to care for them. Next he received many mince pies, candies, and clothing items from the Weasley family. All the letters from his friends had been void of gifts. This perturbed Harry, as his friends never neglected to send gifts.
Harry's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the doorbell. He quickly exited his room and down the stairs to the door. Upon opening it, he stood in stunned silence at the visitor on his doorstep.
"Hi!" Her voice was still as sweet as the last time he had heard it. Stepping quickly out of the door and into the morning air,he swept her into his arms. Her laugh escaped from her lips as he swung her around. Oh how he had missed her laugh! When he set her down, he leaned in and kissed her softly, she continued to laugh throughout the entire kiss.
"Nice to see you too, Harry." She said still laughing as he finally released her.
"I'm sorry, I just missed you so much!" Tally blushed at that and looked down slightly, "How come you didn't tell me you were coming?"
"What and ruin the surprise?" She asked with a mischievious smile playing on her lips.
"How'd you get here?" Tally shifted her weight and pointed to the black car sitting in the driveway. "You can drive?"
"Of course, been able to do it since I was 15." She frowned slightly, "Which was only a year and a half ago, but you get the idea." Harry was surprised by this. Being raised as a muggle still hadn't given Harry the incentive to learn how to drive. "So, are you going to invite me in?" Harry laughed and stepped aside allow Tally into the house. There waiting in the hallway were the Dursleys'. Uncle Vernon's had swelled to an alarming size with a purple face and twitchy mustache. Petunia, still as skinny as ever looked pale as her horse teeth bite down on her lwer lip. Dudley, however, had an odd sort of look that Harry didn't like at all. He almost seemed like he very much wanted to steal candy from a baby as he eyed Tally.
"Hi, I'm Tally." She introduced herself, holding out her hand to them. Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia looked insulted at the gesture, but Dudley took a step closer to her. He reached out his hand, but Vernon stepped between them and roughly knocked Tally's hand away. She cried out in shock as Harry cried out in anger,
"What is the matter with you? Don't you have any respect?"
"Respect? For Freaks like you? I don't think so!" Vernon Dursley yelled in response. Tally looked angrily at the Dursleys'. Harry grabbed her hand and yanked her up the stairs to his room, slamming the door closed behind him.
"Nice family. Do they always treat your guests this nicely?" Tally asked sarcastically. Harry could still hear the anger in her voice. Harry paced the room in order to regain control of his emotions. Tally sat on his bed and sighed. "So this is where you sleep?" Harry snorted as he looked around his room. His belongings were thrown precariously around his room from the hours he had spent there.
"Yeah, sorry about the mess, but I wasn't expecting company." Tally smiled at him.
"I have a gift for you." She reached into her oversized purse and pulled out a wrapped gift and handed it over to Harry. "Now remember, I'm a huge sentimentalist." Harry laughed and opened the gift. Inside was a three framed set. Inside each frame was a picture of Harry and his friends. The first one was of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Tally, Ginny, Blaise, Neville, and Luna. It was taken during their last Hogsmeade trip. On the other side of the set in the last frame was the entire Gryffindor house, plus Luna and Blaise taken at Tally's request. And in the middle frame stood Harry and Tally. This was taken by Blaise in Hogsmeade on Valentine's day. The snow was falling around them as they huddled closer for warmth, both blushing slightly. Harry smiled at the pictures. He looked happy in all of them. "Do you like them?" Tally asked next to him, also staring at the pictures.
"I love them, thank you." Harry kissed Tally lightly.
"Good, I made copies for myself, so don't be surprised if they surface. I don't expect you to keep these in sight of all your dorm buddies, but I wanted you to have a picture of all of us." Harry was still staring at the pictures, watching his friends laugh at some joke or playfully messing with someone's hair to get a rile out of them. "I also gave copies to everyone. Obviously not the one of just the two of us, but I felt that everyone in the other pictures deserve a copy. You know, to remember." Harry nodded at her. Suddenly the doorbell rang again and Harry ran from his room with Tally close behind him. The Dursley's stayed in the kitchen, obviously afraid it was more of Harry's freakish friends.
"Hi Harry!"
"Ron, Hermione! Come in, come in!" Harry laughed as his friends hugged him. Behind them he saw another car pull up and out popped Blaise and Neville. Both hugged Harry and exchanged pleasant greetings. Lupin and Mr. Weasley emerged from the car that Blaise and Neville had just exited.
Once everyone was in the living room and had settled down, Harry asked the only question on his mind,
"How come no one told me you all were coming?" Everyone laughed.
"Wouldn't have wanted to ruin the surprise, would we?" Mr. Weasley answered good-naturely. Harry heard the front door open and slam close, followed by the start of the car engine and a squeal of tires. Ron, who was standing closest to the window, peered out to see what the comotion was.
"Looks like your relatives didn't want to stay for all the fun." He commented
"You should have seen how they reacted when Tally arrived earlier. They must have had a heart-attack when you all arrived." Lupin frowned at Harry's joke.
"Still haven't changed then?" Harry shook his head, "I would have thought that after everything we had told them last year they would have changed, at least a little anyway." Harry shrugged his shoulders.
"So-er-Harry, did you get Tally's gift?" Hermione asked. Harry smiled at the reminder of the photographs and nodded his head. It was clear that Hermione was trying to change the subject, but no one seemed to object. "Did you like it?"
"Of course, I loved it." Tally smiled at him. Neville and Blaise laughed.
"You should have seen her working on that. She never put it down. Looking for the perfect pictures and making copies of them. She even forced Blaise and me to help and would get angry if they weren't just right." Harry laughed along with everyone else.
"That wasn't even the worse of it. As soon as we were done with those, she immediately had us do our homework, so that it was completely finished by the time she left. And she was only there for a week." Blaise added. Tally shot him a mocked angry look that caused everyone to laugh.
"I can see Tally demanding that of you." Harry commented.
"I can top that one. Have Hermione live in the same house with you during your summer. My homework has been done since the third day ofholiday." Ron cried out, causing more rounds of laughter. Hermione, however, did not look so pleased.
"Ever wonder why they are so anal when it comes to such things?" Blaise asked.
"They're girls that's why!" Ron said loudly. Harry couldnt' help but laugh. Both girls sat in silence, Tally looking slightly amused while Hermione looked slightly upset. Lupin and Mr. Weasley smiled happily at their enthusiasm. This continued until the girls finally cried out,
"WE'RE RIGHT HERE!" Although they were laughing along with the rest of them. Lupin and Mr. Weasley decided to take the five of them shopping in town for Harry's birthday. The goup laughed continuously throughout the trip and only became downhearted when they had to return to Prive Drive.
Lupin and Mr. Weasley left them to their own devices while theyhad goneto chat with Ms. Figg. The group decided to walk around the neighborhood. Every-so-often a neighbor would stare accusingly out the window at the group, believing they were off to do some mischief. The five of them walked to the park that Harry often went to during the evenings when he had become to clausterphobic to stay in his room. They sat on the grass and talked about summer and their up and coming apparation exam.
"There are going to be a lot of Hogwarts students there on that day to take the exam. So many of them turned 17 in the second half of the year and couldn't take it during Christmas holidays." Tally commented.
"Who will be there?" Neville asked.
"I know for sure that Parvati and Padma will be and I think Dean and Seamus. Terry Boot and Susan Bones, and Hannah Abbott. Those are the only people I was able to talk to about it."
"I know for sure Malfoy will be there, along with Crabbe, Goyle, Nott, and Parkinson." Blaise added. Harry groaned atthe thought of seeing Malfoy.
"I wish I was taking the exam. I feel so left out because of it." Hermione stated, frowning slightly. Ron put a comforting arm around her. Harry smiled at this small gesture, he knew they were happy finally being together.
"Is it strange to be able to do magic now?" Tally asked. Since her birthday wasn't until the 12th, she was still unable to do magic outside of school. Harry laughed suddenly,
"I haven't actually done any magic. I forgot that I can now."
"Nev, tell him what your first spell, your only spell has been since last night." Blaise said laughing. Neville blushed and bowed his head.
"Come on, Nev!"
"Tell us!"
"What spell?"
"This has to be good." Where the encouraging words sent Neville's way to get him to open up.
"Alright, alright. My Gran taught me a couple of spells before I turned 17 and when I was finally able to do magic outside of school, she wanted to make sure I could do the spells." By this point Blaise was red in the face and holding his sides from laughing.
"Tell....them....Nev." Was all he could get out between his laugh. Neville reluctantly continued.
"It was Scourgify." Immediately Ron and Tally burst into laughter, causing Blaise to erupt with laughter all over againwhile Hermione shot them glares. Harry sat there for a moment.
"What kind of spell is that?" Tally was sent into another round of laughter at his question, which caused Harry to frown.
"They're cleaning spells. Housework spells that sort of thing." Hermione answered him. By then, Blaise had regained control of himself.
"Oh, you should have seen it. She made him clean everything and I mean everything. She told him that now that he is a man he is to be taking care of her at all times now. That way, when he has a girl of his own-"
":cough:Luna:cough:" Ron interupted, causing Tally, Harry, and Hermione to chuckle.
"-he will do the housework while she does everything else."
"She doesn't think I'll get a job outside of Hogwarts. She doesn't think I'm a good enough Wizard."
"What, she said that?" Harry asked in disbelief. Neville nodded his head.
"Oh Nev, I'm so sorry." Tally said. She had a sympathetic look on her face as she eyed Neville.
"Neville, you know that isn't true, right?" Hermione asked. Neville hung his head once more.
"Neville, you came to the Ministry with me and fought damn hard. You should be proud with how you stood up the the Death Eaters and made it out intact. You were with me to the very end, even when they...when they cursed you." Harry added quietly. Even though it had been more than a year since the Ministry incident, Harry had never actually spoken to any of them about it. Blaise, who hadn't been friends with them the previous year, had only heard the rumors about what had happened. Tally was the only person, outside of Ron and Hermione, who Harry had spoken to about the whole ordeal.
"I couldn't even help you fight!" Neville cried out, his voice filled with hate for himself.
"You broke your nose, Neville. It's not like you went and hid, you tried to fight, you just couldn't say the words properly. No one ever held that against you. I never will, just like I will say anyone else failed me because they were cursed. I can honestly say that I was honored that you all chose to fight with me. Even with your own lives are at stake." Though this isn't the conversation Harry cared to have on his birthday, he was glad he had said it. He knew he had never thanked them for coming, at least not properly and it felt right to say it now.
"He's right Neville. We don't blame Harry for anything that has happened, it was our choice to make. He will never blame youor hate you for something you couldn't have helped. You fought bravely and your Grandmother should be proud of that!" Hermione said. Tally and Blaise both looked a bit uncomfortable, knowing they were the outsiders of the conversation, but Blaise patted Neville in a brotherly manner in hopes of showing that he agrees with them, while Tally took his hands into hers.
"Nev, you sat by my bedside even before you knew my name. You wanted to hurt the bad man that put me there before we had ever spoken. You were my best friend from the moment I woke up to this moment now. So much has happened since and I know that if I were to be back in that bed, I would wake to find you there. To me, that is brave." Neville laughed,
"How is sitting by a bedside brave?"
"Because you have hope of seeing me wake.Something so many people had given up on." She smiled when Neville blushed and released him.
"Well, I find you all to be brave." Blaise commented.
"Why's that?" Ron said, raising an eyebrow in Harry's direction.
"Because you became friends with a Slytherin." The five of them laughed good-heartily at Blaise. Since becoming friends with him, Harry had found Blaise to be anything but a Slytherin. He didn't have a cocky attitude or the need for attention. He didn't find himself better than everyone, and he certainly didn't believe in the ways of the Dark Lord. He had the money to show off and the means of the richest men, but he chose to hide it. He never wanted to be arrogant or rich or popular. He simply just wanted to be. Blaise, tall and built much like Ron and himself,with light brown hair, square hard features that Harry had learned attracted many girls, and honey colored eyes, felt as though he had never belonged. Most of his family were followers of Voldemorts, or at least believed in his cause. Blaise's parents, however, were anything but Voldemort supporters. Blaise was raised to believe everyone to be equals and so, being placed into the Slytherin house had caused great problems in his life.
"You can thank Tally for that one."Harry said, "She's the only one who would ever trust a Slytherin and get us Gryffindors' to like him." They each laughed and told jokes for awhile. Every so often, telling a story of their past, or talking about the future. Either way, that day beneath the tree in the muggle park in Surrey, solidified their friendships.
The sun had set as the five of them made their way back to number 4 Privet drive. Along the way, they ran into Dudley and his gang. Immediately Dudley's friends had started taunting Harry and his friends, while Dudley stood in front looking terrified. Glancing at his friends, Harry noticed that all of them had amused looks on their faces, especially Blaise who had always surrounded himself with people like Dudley and his friends. Blaise noticed Harry's stare and raised his eyebrows at him. Harry smiled,
"Hey Big D, how's life going?" Dudley snorted and turned to walk away,
"Hey Dud, come on, he's mocking you. You can take him!" One of his smaller friends said to him. Blaise and Ron laughed loudly at his cousin.
"How about the fat one, you can take him down." Someone else said, indicating Neville. Although Neville was still slightly larger than the rest of him, he was no longer the heavy set boy he had once been. Neville had grown quite a few inches and his body had leaned out. It was quite apparant that he had begun to take care of himself. After hearing the comment, Neville threw them a disgusted look,
"Oh you think you can, do you?" He challenged them. Harry was thrown off by Neville's dare and could only think that maybe their chat in the park had lifted his confidence in himself. Harry, Ron, Neville, and Blaise took a threatening step towards Dudley's group of friends. The four of them easily towered over half of Dudley's friends. Some of them shrank back warily. Dudley finally spoke up.
"Keep away Potter. You and your freak friends just keep away!" Harry laughed, however, he stopped when one of the more well built guys of the group stepped forward.
"Yeah Potter, you and your friends go, but be sure to leave the girls." Disgust was quite evident on both girls faces, but they glanced at each other and smiled.
"Alright, we'll stay. We're in desperate need of some...fun" Tally said, stepping quickly up to Dudley, while Hermione walked up to the one that spoke. Harry, Ron, Blaise, and Neville looked on in silence. "Who wants to go first?" Though Harry knew Dudley was terrified of Harry and his male friends, the thought of something happening between himself and Tally made him nearly wet himself in excited. Dudley quickly took ahold of Tally's shoulders. She smiled at him and placed her hands on his shoulders. The boy in front of Hermione quickly copied what Dudley did, obviously unsure of what to do. As Dudley bent down to kiss her, Tally brought her knee up quickly and connected with his groin. Dudley cried out and doubled-over in pain. Hermione had slapped the guy hard in the face, causing his nose to bleed. As both of them sat howling in pain, Harry and his friends laughed.
"That's for being a disgusting pig!" Hermione cried out to them.
"And for believing us the weaker species!" Tally added. Dudley's friends picked him off the ground and they quickly ran away. Harry laughed again at the sight of them.
"SEE YOU AT HOME, DUDDERS!" Harry yelled after him. Harry pulled Tally close to him and they continued their walk back.
As they made their way back to Privet Drive, a series of 'POPPING' sounds occurred. Harry quickly whipped out his wand and indicated to his friends to do the same. They were just around the corner of Privet drive. The popping sound continued and they heard spells being cast. They slowly rounded the corner and froze at the sight in front of them. There, surrounding number 4 Privet Drive, were over two dozen Death Eaters throwing curses at the wards.
A:N/
HAHA! Surprised??? Told you all that I would have it up soon! How do you like it so far? Fanfiction changed the document manager so my comp freezes more, quite annoying....Anyway, I'm just going to acknowledge the peopl who reviewed the last chapter of War of the Wizarding World:
Indigo Feline: Thanks for the title suggestion, I'm obviously going with that one. Ron and Hermione's parents don't know about them...yet. Feel free to make your reviews as long as you wish. I love reading them!
Trunks2598: I'm excited I finished too. I thought I would take longer. Anyway, glad you liked the story and I hope you like this sequel.
benwa: Thanks for liking the story. I thought I was spelling Quidditch wrong, but no one ever corrected me andIwas way to lazy to actually look it up. Thanks though, I'll be sure to spell it correctly in this story.
Serbo-Maco: Thanks! Is this a soon enough update?
darkdanny: YAY to you liking my story AND Tally. I think she's cool too!
