So, a second idea, not exactly complete, but it's something, I may continue this in the future, but I'm not sure about it. Enjoy.

disclaimer: The characters are not mine, plot has probably been used before by someone else, but most words are my own.


So it begins...

28th of July, 1996

Private drive 4, Little Whinging


It was the evening of the 28th of July, the sun had just gone under, and Harry had just come inside after finishing his garden chores, or rather, almost finishing the garden, it was just getting to dark to finish it though.

After only an apple as his dinner, he made it to his room, where he went ahead and tried to do his homework. After only half an hour of doing so, he was shocked out of it by the galleon that was hanging from his neck heating up.

Harry ran towards his trunk and took his wand out of it, and ran downstairs. When he was outside he moved to the same place he went to in his 3rd year to catch the nightbus. Before he called for it though he looked at the galleon to find out who of the DA it was that was in trouble, He became even more worried after he read who it was.

"Hermione Granger, Hampstead"

Harry quickly called the Knight Bus, and not three seconds later he entered it with great haste, he found that another four members of the DA were already there.

Ginny and Ron weasley, Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom.

"Where to sir?" Stan asked Harry.

"Granger Residence, Hampstead, with great haste please." Harry answered before turning to the four others in the bus.

"You heard him Ern!" Stan said with a grin on his face, "Great haste he said!" After this announcement the bus shot away.

"So, I was at least not the only one who got the message?"

"We all got it, I did not expect it to actually come to this when we got the galleons." Neville said slightly nervous.

The bus made a quick turn to the left and drove on at breakneck speed.

"So, we got a plan of action?" Ron asked, slightly green, and clutching his hands to the headboard of his bed, after nodding in agreement to Neville.

"Take out any hostiles as quick as possible and secure Hermione and her parents, and preferably taking them to some safehouse." Harry answered, while holding on for dear life to his bedpost.

"Have we got any idea of the layout of her home?" Ginny asked after the bus had turned again and all the beds had moved to the other side of the bus.

Everyone else shook their head.

"Any idea how many hostiles?" Luna asked, followed again by "no's".

"Have we got any useful information?" Ginny asked.

"Ehm… Where we are going… That's everything we've got." Harry answered trying to not fall off of his bed as an unexpected turn had come up again.

"Bloody hell! We really need a better way of transportation." Ron complained after another turn and him flying to one of the other beds.

"And a way to have more info, these coins are great, but they really lack on the details department." Ginny said dryly.

"You can complain later, now we're almost there, so prepare for breaking…" Stan said just as dryly as Ginny. Which was followed within a second by the bus coming to a complete stop, which caused all of them but Stan to fly forward.

After paying Stan they got off of the bus and took their wands out.

"So… Anybody know where it was Hermione lived again?" Ginny asked.

"We could just go to the only place in the area where there are wards up." Luna suggested. "That's most likely where Hermione is at, as there are no other magicals in this area."

"Okay, I presume you know how to see them then?" Harry asked the Blonde.

"Ofcourse I do, it's right there." Pointing to a strangely empty bit of land.

At that moment the place seemed to shimmer. The five ran towards it ready for everything. They broke the wardline, and were still uninjured but quickly met by spellfire after breaking it. A small duel later and a lot of Reducto's, Stupify's and expelliarmusses later the three wizards in black robes and white masks were lain on the ground.

They were quickly bound and their wands collected before Harry took off their masks. He recognized the 3 boys. All were last year graduates.

"What are you doing! We have to get inside!" Ginny scream/whispered.

"Ron, Ginny, go to the back, and break in through the back entrance, send up a flare when ready, red if you are being held up, but want us to enter, orange when one is wounded, or green if you have the all clear. Nev, Luna, take position on both sides of the front window, when you see the flare, blow it open, I will take the door." Harry commanded his friends.

After quick nods Ron and Ginny moved to the back of the building, and the others took up their positions. None of them could see inside as the curtains were closed, but they recognized multiple voices inside, and could hear a ruckus coming from the upstairs area.


10 minutes earlier, Granger Residence, Hampstead


Hermione awoke to a ruckus outside of her home, after looking outside and seeing wards go up she quickly picked up her wand , activated her coin and ran out of her room, immediately ducking a bright purple spell that was hurled her way.

Hermione quickly went into the offence sending every single spell she could remember at the white masked man standing at the head of the staircase. The man was able to dodge a stunner and a expelliarmus, but after that was hit by a drying spell, a tanning spell and a reductor to his feet, and another stunner, the man fell down the stairs taking with him another death eater that had just come half way up the stairs to see one of his comrades fall down to take him with him. Both men were lieing on the bottom of the stairs unconscious.

"What's going on here!" Jean Granger asked opening the door to her and her husband's room.

"Mom, get back in your room, and try to hide. We are under attack. I'll hold them of for as long as I can." This was followed by a spell from the downstairs area grazing her head, leaving a small cut on her right cheek and impacting the wall behind her where a long diagonal slash was created. Hermione immediately returned fire, again firing everything she knew at the man downstairs.

The man tumbled over the unconscious body's of his compatriots and was hit by a braiding charm, followed by a make up charm, and a disarming spell, and finished off with a cutter to his wand arm and reducto to his knee.

Meantime her mother did what her daughter told her to do. She even opened her window so it looked like she had climbed out of the building, and quickly hid in the back of the closet trying to control her breathing.


in the mean time, Ministry of Magic

Department of Underage Magic


In a giant room stood a group of people around a giant holographic map of Great Britain. It was as usual a very quiet day at the compartment, and John wallenheim, a 98 year old first and second world war war veteran was keeping his eyes open for activity in the region in the Southern part of England(he got the shortest straw, so had to keep an eye on the biggest populated area of the UK).

The others in the room were still discussing the "news" of the dark lords return after two months had passed.

"I'm telling you, he will hit big, he will go after huge targets first. Most likely take out prime targets like Madam Bones, or the minister!" One of the man said, a weasel like man named Jeremy Miller.

"No, no, no, I believe he will first go after those who fought against his forces last May!" Glen Richards, a muggleborn said.

"Why would he do that Glen, He must certain-?" Jeremy's sentence was cut off by an alarm, and John saw a red dot appear in a small town called Hampstead. This was quickly followed by seeming lines moving to over 50 places in the UK, and after that at the same location spells seemed to be fired at lightning speed.

"John, put all the info on the big screen!" Glen commanded.

After all the info was on the big screen, the man in the room were gaping at the faces they saw.

50 names appeared on the big screen, under which all 6 of the students that fought in the battle of the D.O.M last May.

Location of signal origin,

Granger Residence, Hampstead.

"Warn the DLME!, You were right Glen, they are going after the students!"

Within three minutes a MEMO was send to the DLME.


Head of the DLME office, three minutes later


Amelia bones was sat in the quiet of her office doing a bit of paperwork when a knock came from her door.

"Enter!"

One of her lower class aurors came in with a MEMO in hand.

"Madam, I think you wanna' see this."

After reading the MEMO Amelia turned a bit pale.

"So it begins…"She murmured more to herself then the other woman in the room. "Call all off duty aurors, it seems we will need them, send everyone that is here right now under the leadership of Auror Shacklebolt to the granger residence."

With a quick nod the lowly auror made her way out of the office to fetch everyone needed.

"This is going to be a long night…" Amelia said pulling her hand through her hair and standing up to get another coffee, it would seem like she would be in need of it.


Department of Underage Magic


another 5 red blimps had appeared in the same location as the first one that had been activated. The three men were now concentrated on most of the faces they saw, and were writing everyone down to send their locations to the DMLE. It seemed like they had a lot of work to do this evening.

None of them noticed the 5 extra blimps, or multiple of other places lighting up all over the UK.


Back garden, Granger Residence, Hampstead


When Ron and Ginny made their way into the back garden they were met by several spells heading their way. Both rolled out of the way, and started firing spells back at the three witches and a wizard stationed there.

They had a lot of trouble holding out against them, as it was 4 vs 2, but they were keeping them occupied.

After a while they decided to give the "okay" sign to the others, as it would mean there would be four occupied deatheaters, which meant, four less to worry about for the others. Ron put up his most powerful shield he had ever made, while Ginny fired a red flare into the air to signal to the others they were being held up, but were holding, and the others should move.

The death eaters immediately reacted, thinking they were calling for back up, and started their barrage at a far faster pace.

The two heard falling glass followed by a scream coming from the inside of the house, and not half a minute later the backdoor opened and Neville started shooting spells at the back of the deatheaters, of which one turned around to fight him

Ginny and Ron were surrounded in a corner behind a garden couch when suddenly they felt the wards come down, and three people in red robes ran around the corner of the house and started their own barrage on the death eaters.

Two of the death eaters immediately disapparated, and this brought Ginny and Ron out of their cover, and together with the aurors and Neville, they stunned, disarmed and bound the remaining two death eaters.


Front garden, Granger Residence, Hampstead


The three on the front side of the house saw the red flare, and got into action. Harry moved into the front hallway, immediately peppered by spellfire, he however did hear the breaking of glass, and the scream of a man in the room to his right. He fought off the lone woman standing in the hallway, he was having a lot of trouble with the woman, but he knew within seconds he would be getting backup.

In the mean time on the 1st floor Hermione was fighting of one of the death eaters who had forced her back from the staircase and into her parents' room. She knew people were fighting on the ground floor, and was now trying to fight for as long as possible, but she was feeling the exhaustion creeping up on her. Her attacks were getting less accurate, and the spells from the other man in the room were almost impossible to dodge for her at this point.

Neville destroyed the glass, and banished the curtains out of the way into the room where it landed on another death eaters head, who was swiftly tied up and disarmed, the rest of the room was clear.

"Luna, help Harry out, he seems to be having a bit of trouble." After a quick nod, Luna was quick to move to the side of the doorway to the hallway, while neville moved to the backdoor, ready to assist Ginny and Ron from behind the enemy.

Suddenly the wards went down, and the woman disappeared with a pop.

"Aurors, put your wands down!" A voice said from Behind Harry.

Harry and Luna seeing their path clear now that the last Death eater standing between them and Hermione had disapparated decided to move upstairs to find if Hermione and her parents were unharmed.

"We'll do after we see if our friend is unharmed!" Harry screamed to the auror whilst quickly moving up the stairs, Not noticing who it was he just screamed at.

The two quickly made their way to the only room in the house were there were still people fighting and blew the door off it's hinges and started throwing spells from behind at the only death eater left fighting, not noticing the auror still standing at the end of the stairwell looking at the room.

"Accio mask!" The mask quickly flew to harry, who just stepped aside leaving the man standing exposed. "Lucius Malfoy, why doesn't this surprise me. Stupefy, expelliarmus, reducto, stupify."

Only the reducto made its mark, leaving the man without a left arm.

Hermione and Luna quickly started firing spells again, and still the man held. He was part of Voldemort's inner circle for a reason, and it was not just his silver tongue or his wealth.

Finally the stunned auror shook himself, and entered the fight, now four vs one from two different sides meant that Malfoy quickly fell(The blood loss did help immensely).


10 minutes later.


Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Ron, Luna, Neville and mrs Granger were sat in the newly restored sitting room. A healer was busy looking all of them over for, and healing of injuries when one of the aurors came into the room.

"And, what do you think you are doing here the auror asked to the boy who lived and his friends, The exact same group of friends who had fought the death eaters at the ministry just a few months earlier he noticed.

"Well, we got a signal that one of us was under attack." Harry began.

"And we decided to assist." Ron finished.

"All of us made this decision on our own." Luna said as extra clarification so no one would get into trouble.

"How did you know she was in trouble?" the auror asked.

"A great invention of Hermione, though it could do with a bit of an improvement…" Ginny said.

"At the moment it only shows the location and person that is in need of assistance." Neville explained to the confused auror.

"This was as far as I had gotten okay…" Hermione said a bit put out. "I did everything I could, but I understand what you mean, if it could carry a message, and have a bit more information it would be far more useful, Just give me ideas on what it could use, and I'll see what I can do."

"I think the department of mysteries is going to want to see this way of messaging each other."

"Sure." Six voices answered that.

"So, how did the five of you get here?"

"The knight bus." Neville answered, followed by Ron.

"It is a fast way of moving around Britain, but we really do need something better, it does not work great if you have to fight quickly afterwards…" He seemed to get green whilst thinking about this.

"Yeah… it's not the most comfortable, but it is very fast." Harry agreed.

"Well, I would like it if you came with me to the auror department, I think our head will want to talk to you."


What do you think? let me know. Do you have questions, please ask, I most likely won't be able to answer as I am not sure yet where this would go.