The Ministry of Magic is suddenly brutally, and viciously attacked! Takes place in the future when Harry and Ginny work at the Ministry
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Friday, the thirteenth of April, started out like any other April day in London. Cold, rainy, and miserable. Harry Potter had never been very superstitious, but after looking at Mrs. Weasley's clock he began to feel on edge. One of his and Ginny's wedding presents had been her clock. That clock had never been wrong before, so when Harry and Ginny woke up to find both of their names on Mortal Peril, they started getting the superstitious vibes. They were both a little shaky as they grasped hands to apperate to work like they usually do. When they were in the Atrium they kissed each other good bye as usual and headed toward their separate lifts. Harry to the fourth floor and the Head of the Magical Law Enforcement office. And Ginny to the second floor and the Head of the Muggle Protection office.
That's when they really started to freak out. It was fine when they were together cause they could watch out for each other. But when they were apart, they had no one. About an hour later, Harry started to hear the explosions. At first he thought it was some prank or maybe some faulty artifact brought in as evidence. Then as they started getting louder and closer, Harry began to worry, and he had flashbacks of the clock and the date. He immediately started feeling worried that something might have happened to Ginny. He pulled out his wand, wrenched open his office door, and stepped out into sheer chaos. Everywhere he looked people were running. Most had their wands out and heading down the hall towards the stairs that led down to the Department of Mysteries. A thick plume of black smoke was coming from that direction along with the bangs and screams of many duelers.
The rest of the people running were running away from the battle. Most of these were wounded people or people carrying bodies that couldn't walk on their own. The rest were people like the boy from the Daily Prophet, or the Hogwarts student who they hired to come clean the owlrey every so often. Harry reached out and grabbed a man who was holding his arm (that he about lost by the look of it) and asked him what was happening. The man said about 60 to 70 unknown Dark Wizards apperated into the Atrium about a half hour ago. They instantly started to send stunning and killing curses into the fray of people moving about the Atrium. After they cleared away a path through the carnage, they proceeded down the corridor towards the stairwell that led to the Department of Mysteries. The man must have known who Harry was because he told him that as far as he knew, Ginny was still fighting it out against two of the attackers at once. A huge wave of relief washed over Harry as he heard those words. He immediately rushed off toward the battle to find Ginny and get her out. As soon as she was safe then he could round up his team and purge the Ministry of these so called intruders. As he rounded a corner and started to see some of the duelers, he pulled out his wand. He charged right into the fray, sending stunning spells at all the attackers he could see, while also searching the mob of Ministry officials for Ginny. He found that the battle was mainly situated around the staircase leading to the Department of Mysteries. A group of people from the Department had blockaded the stairwell and were fighting hard to defend the secrets they had uncovered and kept for so long.
Finally, Harry spotted her. She had fought her way through the crowd of intruders and was attempting to assist the people from the Department. She seemed to be dueling three people at once. Harry took aim and knocked off two of her adversaries. One with a stunning spell, and the other with a jinx to turn your teeth into ice cubes and your arms into tree branches. Ginny's head whipped around to see who had helped her. That's when her third dueler hit her with a severing charm in the chest and a stunning spell in the face. She collapsed into a big heap right at Harry's feet. The intruder who was dueling her then ran off towards the stairs in an attempt to get past the Department members who were already dueling two to three intruders. Harry cried out in pain as Ginny hit the floor in front of him. He crouched down in front of her, trying to assess her injuries to see if he could heal and revive her there. He remembered seeing all those bodies that couldn't walk out, being dragged out. He knew he couldn't heal the deep gash that ran from her right shoulder, down to her left hip. He also knew that he probably shouldn't revive her, because then she would feel the pain of her injury.
He turned and spotted a St. Mungo's nurse that had arrived on scene to help with the wounded. Harry got the nurse's attention by sending a few sparks from his wand towards her. She immediately looked up from treating a cut above Dean Thomas's eye. As soon as she saw Ginny and how bad the extent of her injuries was, the nurse ran right over. After Harry told the nurse what happened, he jumped right into the battle. He started dueling two intruders at once that were about to jump past the Department members and run down the stairs. The two men that Harry was dueling were skilled in dueling and were quite strong spell casters. But they were slow, so Harry, who was a very fast dueler, was able to take care of them quickly. The moment Harry's first opponents hit the ground, he ran off to intercept one of the attackers that was attempting to sneak up on the St. Mungo's nurse while she was working on Ginny. As soon as he was in range, Harry sent a stunning spell at the attacker. It missed and hit the wall behind him, leaving a big crater in the drywall. The intruder whipped his head around, and with a slash of his wand, he and Harry began to duel. Harry was surprised to find that this adversary, was actually a good dueler. He was as strong as the other two, and just as fast if not faster than Harry. Harry had to really stretch and use all of his power just to not get killed!
Finally, the St. Mungo's nurse stood up while muttering something about not needing protecting. In about three seconds, the nurse had disarmed, jinxed, and stunned the intruder. Harry quickly thanked her and ran off towards the place where Draco Malfoy was battling four intruders at once. They had almost hemmed him into the center of the circle they were forming when Harry got there. He quickly stunned one and fatally cursed another. The two remaining men looked at each other and turned tail the other way. They must have decided they didn't want to fight those two, especially after one killed one of their guys, and the other was able to hold off all four of them. Harry and Draco looked at each other for just a moment before they each ran off in separate directions. Draco ran off to help Parvarti Patil duel three intruders. Harry ran off to find the St. Mungo's nurse to make sure Ginny was okay.
He finally spotted her over by the Department stairs. Apparently a Department member had been wounded. The nurse was standing in front of him, dueling his attackers in an attempt to save both his life, and his life's work in the Department of Mysteries. As soon as Harry got there, he rushed over to take the intruders off of the nurse's hands so she could get back to working on the wounded. The nurse had been dueling three people at once. By the time Harry got close enough to touch her, that number had been reduced to one (the other two having been scarred for life). Harry slashed his wand once and began to duel. The nurse, realizing what he was doing, bent back over the wounded Department member (who happened to be Justin Finch-Fletchley) and began to heal all that she could of his wounds. After Harry had disposed of the attacker, he turned to the nurse and asked what had happened to Ginny. The nurse told him that it was no ordinary severing charm that hit her in the chest. It was some type of curse that the nurse couldn't heal right there. She had sent her to St. Mungo's with a bunch of other wounded Ministry members that were being apperated out. Harry breathed a huge sigh of relief. Now he could concentrate on making sure that the Ministry wasn't defeated instead of worrying about her safety. She would be safe at St. Mungo's until he got there. Or so he thought…………
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Next chapter coming soon! I am almost finished with it!