WANTED

J K Rowling owns all the rights to the books and the amazing characters she created. I write only to satisfy my imagination and use my creativity and make no money from my writings.

Yes, here I am starting another story without finishing others, but I've had a very bad few months, have been ill, have writers block and needed some unexpected surgery. Hopefully, I will be back to my old self and will finish the other stories, but I had another idea so here goes!

Chapter 1 – Blame Harry Potter

Some people in Magical Britain were calling it a battle for the ages, whereas others, such as the Ministry of Magic, fiercely denied it had happened. "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is dead – and staying that way" proclaimed Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge. "In fact he had never resurrected as that lying, attention seeking Potter scum claimed."

However, many people, including Aurors, Unspeakables, Hit Wizards and, unfortunately, lots and lots of Muggles had witnessed parts of the truly impressive fight between Harry Potter and You-Know-Who. It had made the Muggle newspapers and the news – with pictures and films.

The facts were these: (1) Apparently, Lord Voldemort HAD RESURRECTED exactly how Harry Potter had described; (2) Harry Potter had been at his relatives' house for three days when his Aunt Petunia sent him to the shops to purchase some snacks for her dearest Dudley and his wonderful friends; and (3) While on route to the shops, Lord Voldemort apparated in front of Harry stopping the shocked boy cold and said with the ugly, disgusting facial feature that passed for a smile on the snake-like man "Boo! I have you now, there is no escape or rescue on the horizon only your well-deserved and long awaited DEATH."

Voldie had learned his lesson and wasn't going to play with his prey, torture the brat or even boast about this and that to the kid. He was simply going to kill the child where he stood, give a chuckle or two, and return to his new lair. As the creature raised his wand to utter the fatal words, a desperate Harry kneed old Voldie in the family jewels as hard as he could, Voldie doubled over in shock and pain, while Harry grabbed Voldie's wand and ran for his life.

Harry was a very fast runner due to the circumstances of his upbringing and having a bully and sadist for a cousin. He was very close to the shopping center and if he made it there, he knew he would be safe, as Voldie didn't have a wand because Harry had stolen it and still held it in his hand.

For anyone else or under different circumstances if he made it to the shops Harry would have been safe at least until he could contact someone be it Muggle police or hopefully someone from the Magical World. Hell's bells and cockle shells, he'd even settle for Rita Skeeter to have been tailing him looking for dirt as she'd would contact Aurors and stayed until help arrived – in the safety of her bug form – so that she could have the scoops of scoops – the Dark Lord who apparently wasn't dead but alive (although death/resurrection hadn't done him any favors considering how he looked) versus the Boy-Who-Lived (but would probably be dying any second).

However, with his usual bad luck, just like with cops and hookers, a Rita Skeeter was never around when you actually needed one. Harry was so close to the shops, but once again old snake face popped in front of him, but not as close as before as apparently he was still hurting, AND HE HAD A WAND – HIS TRUSTY ORIGINAL ONE.

"The wand which you cowardly stole from me is an alternate, as I didn't want to risk our brother wands fighting each other. NOW DIE!

But the frustrating child was not cooperating (as usual) and turned the alternate wand on Voldie and used the Reducto curse to blow up the cement sidewalk in front of "Snakes" and then ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE.

In Britain, there is a little thing called CCTV, which is a surveillance camera that records what is going on in a certain place. Naturally, they were at the shops and general area and recorded their little camera hearts out. Police were immediately notified by the cameras and by the people in the shops or walking or driving down the street, etc. concerning the strange and dangerous occurrence happening in their otherwise peaceful neighborhood.

Harry Potter was fighting for his life (as usual) but he was also conscious of the people who would be hurt thanks to Voldie's attack. Unknown to even Hermione or Dumbledore, Harry had been brushing up on some dark spells while preparing for the Tournament. Good old Dobby found him some books (from who knew where) and Harry had practiced them, or at least the wand movements, in the privacy of his bed with the curtains drawn and a silencing charm cast. Now he found out that his practices actually worked and he used any and all curses, spells, etc. he could remember to fight Voldie and lure him away from Muggles.

Voldie was almost impressed with the boy's repertoire of spells and curses, some of which bordered on being quite dark. Evidently, Potter had done some private studying as Dumbledore would never allow such magic to be taught or practiced at Hogwarts when he finally became Headmaster. A person could actually save their life using that kind of magic.

As Harry fought and tried to lead Voldie away from the people, a lot of damage was done to windows, shops, cars, sidewalks, telephone poles and other mundane objects that got in the way of the battle. People were doing their own filming and the news media arrived with their film crews and the police were at a loss as to how to stop the conflict between a monster and a scrawny kid without using undue force – such as shooting them. A type of knockout gas was used with confidence by the police only for the two fighters to wave their sticks and what looked like a big bubble appeared around their heads and they continued fighting.

A "special unit" from Scotland Yard had been called in, which consisted of Muggleborn wizards who left Magical Britain when they couldn't find a decent job. They were eagerly snatched up by government officials who "knew things" and although much of their work concerned Muggles, they took care of things until Aurors and Obliviators arrived.

But the Muggleborns didn't know how to act as it was Harry Potter and Lord V (back from the dead like the kid said) doing the fighting and the Muggleborn police didn't want to risk using magic in front of the crowds that had gathered to watch the fight. They weren't allowed by the Ministry of Magic to use magic unless any Muggle witnessing it could be obliviated by the Magical Government. Also, the way the fighting was heading, if they tried to help they risked injuring Muggles. The gas had been their only hope.

Meanwhile, back at No. 4 Privet Drive, Petunia was watching her "afternoon programs" when they were interrupted by breaking news. Dudley was on his way down from his room to complain about the lack of snacks when he heard his mother shrieking followed by a thud. He cautiously made his way over to his mother to see that she had apparently fallen off the chair and knocked herself out, when the newsman got his attention. There, on the telly for all to see, was his freak of a cousin fighting some really, really ugly and more freakish than Harry and was using MAGIC for the world to see.

Although he would never admit it, Dudley was fascinated by the fight and the use of freakishness and was shocked that his idiotic cousin was so good at using it. Mesmerized by the battle, Dudley didn't hear Piers come down demanding where the snacks were when he too looked at the TV. After a few moments Piers asked "Is that your freakish cousin?" "Looks like" Dudley replied.

It was Amelia Bones who finally ended the battle when she and several Aurors and Muggleborn policemen advanced on the two combatants. Fudge was still refusing to admit Voldie was back and had gone so far in his paranoia that he was calling back the Aurors and Hit Wizards as it was a waste of resources. Amelia Bones had dragged him through the floo to the PM's office and forced him to view that "telly thingie" showing the fight but he was still refusing to see it as anything but a trick – probably arranged by Dumbledore – and it was then that Amelia, with the cooperation of the Muggle PM, relived Cornelius Fudge of his position as Minister of Magic.

` A few Muggleborns attached to the PM's office then apparated him to St. Mungo's for "treatment" and at the request (or rather forceful demand/order) the PM told Amelia Bones "Stop this NOW as most of the world will have seen the films, heard the reporters and now know that…Magic exists. I wager even your lot can't do the mind altering thing you do with such exposure."

Unfortunately, Amelia agreed with him and went off to alert her troops while sending a trusted Auror to alert the Magical government of what had happened and… "You just tell them what happened" she told the Auror as she left to try and put a stop to the mess.

Upon arrival she saw that both wizards were fading fast so if there was any chance of halting the combat and stopping the destruction, injury and deaths that had already occurred, it was now or never. She yelled "attack" and she and her forces surrounded the still quick and frantic movements of Harry and Voldie.

Neither combatant noticed or heard Amelia's order, as Harry was about to be well and truly killed. Voldie had managed to destroy the boy's wand (or rather Voldie's extra one) and now Harry was dodging death while making his way over to a fallen Muggle. About a dozen Muggles had tried to stop the carnage and attack but they were hit with falling debris from the spells and curses flying about. Some made it out, although four were wounded and two were killed. Harry was trying to reach the rifle the Muggle had dropped, grabbed it and without thinking or wondering if the safety was on or off, he aimed and fired at Voldie. He didn't know whether or not he had found his target because all he saw was a certain green spell heading for him. Without thinking about anything else but survival or even knowing what he was doing, Harry accidentally apparated away from it all.