Harry Potter and the Shadow Legion

Part 2

Chapter 2

The battle was not going well, that much was clear as commander Anderson stood in his command post on the roof. The outer lines had already been overrun and the legion had been forced to pull back to the courtyard before the palace. Leaving hundreds of fallen behind.

On the front lines, Dan was beginning to lose hope. The giants and trolls had broken through on the centre and his and Ivan's companies had been decimated. Sergei was amongst the first casualties as the he tried to help one of his soldiers, and was crushed by the club of a giant.

Ivan was desperately trying to keep his soldiers together as they were trying to bring down the giants with concentrated rifle fire. The giants and trolls were wielding large rudimentary shields made from trees that they used to block the rifle fire allowing them to reach the front lines with few casualties amongst them and cause large numbers of casualties amongst the Legionnaires.

The acromantula had been the first to reach the lines but the Mammoths had taken most of them out with their flamethrowers. In turn, massive volleys of blasting curses and Fiendfyre had taken out most of the chieftain tanks. While the Mammoths had been pushed back by the trolls, who used brute force to destroy them, but at the cost of more than 20 trolls per tank.

The large tracks of the Mammoths were hampering their manoeuvrability, as pieces of broken asphalt and rubble got stuck between the links, causing them to get stuck and become immobile. Leaving them vulnerable to the trolls.

To Anderson's dismay, casualty levels kept rising and they had already lost hundreds in the first hour alone. He could only hope that Aurora and Gabrielle would hurry up, so they could avoid this from ever happening.

Suddenly he heard a soft noise behind him and turned around. Letting out a sigh he said, "It's about goddamn time you got here. Things are not going well." Aurora and Gabrielle had landed directly behind him and he saw Gabrielle wore a small hourglass on a long golden chain around her neck.

"I see you were successful," he sighed and indicating the battle below them he added, "I don't know how long you need, but we are getting slaughtered down there."

Aurora nodded and said, "I'll go even the scales then." After giving Gabrielle a loving kiss, Aurora ran to the end of the roof and jumped off it. Changing in mid-air she landed between the trolls that were tearing up Dan's and Ivan's companies.

Opening her mouth, she unleashed a torrent of red fire and burned half the trolls in front of her. When they saw the dragon shape of Aurora land between them, the Legionnaires regrouped and charged forward.

Dan and Ivan had a moment to breath and thanked Aurora with a short salute, as they rallied their remaining soldiers and led them forwards.

Aurora was still amongst the wreckage that was left of the Victoria Memorial, when she was attacked by the enemy dragons. Two Hebridean Blacks, one Romanian Longhorn and a Peruvian Vipertooth.

The Hebrideans landed straight on her and tried to force her to the ground, opening her up for attacks by the Longhorn and the Vipertooth. One of the Hebrideans was unlucky enough to land directly on her tail, which swung up and crashed him into the other Hebridean, causing them to fall off her.

Turning to face her new opponents, Aurora unleashed a torrent of fire at the nearest Hebridean. The dragon jumped up to avoid it, causing the fire to fly on and incinerate the remains of a large tree.

The longhorn was the first to try his luck and tried to take a bite out of her neck. Aurora dodged the bite and caught the longhorn's own neck between her massive jaws. When she bit down, the longhorn thrashed in pain, until her jaws snapped shut and the decapitated remains of the dragon fell on the ground.

Letting out a mighty roar Aurora challenged the other three to come at her, which they did as one. The Hebrideans charged at her and each caught one of her front legs between their jaws.

Meanwhile the Vipertooth had lunged at her neck and was clawing at the thick scales that covered her muscular shoulders. Tearing them off with its claws, Aurora roared in pain as her hide was torn open. The two dragons latched onto her front legs and were biting down, trying to sever them.

Seeing the plight of Aurora, Dan and Ivan led fifty of their remaining soldiers and opened fire on the nearest Hebridean. The hellfire rounds were not powerful enough to break through its scales, but the napalm stuck to its skin and a few bullets hit its wings, tearing large holes in the thin membrane.

The Hebridean roared in pain and that was all the distraction Aurora needed. She ripped her front leg from the Hebrideans mouth, opening large and very deep gashes on the limb. Knocking the dragon down, she raised her claw and ripped at the dragon's head, tearing it apart and crushing the skull.

With one front leg free, Aurora was able to tear the Vipertooth from her neck. She grabbed the smaller dragon in her right paw and closed her jaws on its squirming neck. Pulling her head away, she ripped the dragon's head of and tossed the body at the nearest clutch of Death Eaters, crushing them beneath it.

The last dragon had released her and was trying to escape when Aurora turned her attention towards it. She jumped after it and grabbed its tail with her right claw. Dragging the dragon back, she grabbed its head with her left claw and crushed the skull with the sheer strength of her claw.

Letting the head drop, she strengthened her grip on the tail and started swinging it around, felling giants and trolls alike, as she tore through the Death Eaters' ranks. Now that their most powerful allies had been killed, the Death Eaters lost hope and started their retreat.

Leaving thousands of dead, they started aparating away, leaving the dark creatures to be slaughtered by the remaining Legionnaires.

When the last of their enemies had been destroyed, the exhausted remains of the Legion gathered before the ruined gates of Buckingham palace. The hundreds of wounded were being treated by the Legion combat healers.

Elizabeth had finally allowed Harry and the girls to leave the palace and the kids rushed into the throng of healers and soldiers before the gates, looking for their parents. They found Dan at the side of a bed on which lay Ivan.

The giant Russian had lost his left arm to a vampire, while he tried to cover Dan's side as he was shooting the Hebridean latched to Aurora's right front leg. The kids slumped down as they saw their 'uncle' lying on the bed.

"Where... where are my mothers," asked Harry as soon as Dan realised they were there.

First he hugged his daughter and then the others while he said, "I don't know Harry. I only saw Aurora, but she disappeared soon after she tore those dragons apart".

"DRAGONS," exclaimed the quartet as one.

"Long story, don't ask. Let's just find her and Gabrielle first." While Dan said this, Gabrielle came running towards them.

It shocked them all to see how she looked. She was covered from head to toe in blood and her face spoke fear and worry.

As soon as Gabrielle reached them, she grabbed Harry and hugged him tight. "Thank Merlin you four are safe." Turning to Dan she asked fearfully, "Where is Aurora, I can't sense her anymore."

The others went wide eyed with shock as they heard this and Dan began giving orders through his earpiece. All around them the legionnaires who were unharmed, or only lightly wounded rushed towards the battlefield to search for their missing leader.

Gabrielle and the kids likewise rushed towards the corpse-strewn battlefield to search for their partner and mother. After maybe five minutes of frantic searching they heard someone yell and draw attention. They had found her.

The group rushed towards were she was and from all sides soldiers and healers rushed towards the same place.

Aurora was in her human form again and laying with her legs beneath the ruined torso of a troll. The Legionnaires who had found her were trying to remove the carcass but it was too heavy.

As soon as Gabrielle arrived, she pushed the Legionnaires aside and incinerated the carcass in a matter of seconds. Now that the corpse was off her, they could see the extent of Aurora's injuries.

Fleur fainted and Hermione and Ginny had to throw up at the sight, while Harry just stood still, to shocked to even move.

Aurora's gauntlets were ripped open on her forearms, showing long deep cuts that went to and through the bones. Her legs were broken on several places by the weight of the troll and she wasn't moving.

Her chest plate was still intact but the shoulders and back plate were torn to shreds, the flesh and muscles beneath them ripped apart by vicious claws. Most disturbingly, a sickly orange fluid was dripping from the wounds on her back and shoulders.

Gabrielle was hysterical and hovered above the ruined body of her wife. "No, no, no, no, no this cannot be true. You can't die, not now, not when we finally have the family we always dreamed about."

"Mom", Harry's soft voice was heard by everyone as the silence on the field was deafening. When Gabrielle looked up at her son he added, "What... what is that orange stuff in her wounds?"

Looking again at her wife's wounds, Gabrielle noticed the orange fluid she had missed the first time. Cursing loudly, she turned to Dan and asked, "What kind of dragons did she fight?"

Dan thought shortly and said, "Two Hebrideans, a Longhorn and a relatively small, smooth-scaled, copper-coloured dragon." Several of the present healers gasped as they recognised the description.

"Vipertooth", whispered Gabrielle softly, as she realised the same thing. Planting a soft kiss on Aurora's unmoving lips, Gabrielle turned her around and said, "Hold her."

Dan, Sirius, Remus and Kingsley responded and carefully took hold of Aurora. Turning her around she laid face down on Gabrielle's lap. Gabrielle undid the clasps keeping the armour in place and removed the torn back and shoulder plates and gauntlets. Ripping open the silk undershirt she removed the pieces of torn silk from the wounds and removed the ruined bra beneath it.

Closing her eyes, Gabrielle placed her hands on the torn flesh on her partner's back. A soft blue glow appeared as Gabrielle began to slowly clean the wounds by burning out the Vipertooth's venom. Stinking orange mist rose from the wounds as the poison was burned away, leaving clean open flesh behind.

As soon as the poison was gone, Aurora's healing kicked in and the clean flesh and muscles started healing before their eyes, leaving only soft pink skin behind. When her back and shoulders were once again whole, Aurora gasped in air and started moving again.

"Oh thank god", exclaimed Dan, at the same time as Harry and the girls said, "Mom." Gabrielle didn't say anything but carefully pulled Aurora up against her chest and hugged her as tight as she dared on account of her wounds.

The large gashes in her forearms were already closing and her legs were mending themselves. The combat healers looked amazed at what they saw, as they had heard about their amazing healing powers, but never saw it in action.

It took a few minutes for the last of her wounds to heal, but when the last gash on her left arm closed, Aurora opened her eyes and smiled softly at Gabrielle. "Hey sweetie. Saved my life again did you." Aurora's soft voice sounded like the laughter of angels to her partner and the kids.

"MOM." Harry and the girls said as one and they threw themselves at Aurora and Gabrielle.

Aurora groaned softly and whispered, "Careful please, still sore." The quartet hurriedly released Aurora and just gathered around them.

"To bad your armour is destroyed," said Dan as he picked up the shredded back plate, only to see it didn't even show a scratch. "How, how," was the only thing he could say and

Gabrielle managed a soft smile. "Our armour is special Dan, it is connected to our bodies, and shares our healing powers."

Gabrielle reattached the pieces of Aurora's armour and helped her sit up. "How are you feeling sweetie?"

Aurora grinned weakly and said softly, "You know me, hard to kill. I'll be fine love, I think we should get a move on, we're running out of time."

When Aurora said the word, 'time', Gabrielle remembered why they had been here in the first place and quickly helped her wife on her feet. Turning to the others she said, "Dan, kids, come with us, we need to see Elizabeth."

They quickly made their way towards the partially destroyed palace. At the gates they were awaited by Elizabeth and the top-squad. Elizabeth looked pleased to see Aurora and Gabrielle and asked, "Were you successful?"

Both Angels nodded and Elizabeth smiled, "Good, then let's get on with it and do the best we can." She led the group towards the familiar sitting room and they all sat down.

Elizabeth turned towards Amelia and said, "Agent Bones, I assume you have many questions, but I ask you to keep silent until the end." Amelia inclined her head and Elizabeth turned towards Aurora and Gabrielle.

Gabrielle reached beneath her chest plate and removed the small golden chain with the hourglass, which she had hidden before she left Anderson.

The top squad immediately recognised the devise and Sirius gasped, "So that's why you went to the ministry."

Gabrielle nodded and replied, "Yes Sirius. We are going to rewrite history and prevent this entire battle from ever happening. I have copied all of commander Anderson's memories of the battle, so we can study them later on and make improvements to our equipment where needed."

"But, won't you messing with history, disrupt the timeline?" asked Kingsley confused.

Aurora grinned and since she had almost fully recovered she said with a hint of humour, "In any normal case that would be true, but Gabrielle and I are different. We are like the Time-turners, we can exist on only one place at once. So if we go back to before the story about Harry was revealed, we can prevent it from ever happening and save thousands of lives, without disrupting the timeline. We have to hurry though because the Time-turners have a max of twelve hours. And only five minutes remain if we want to have enough time to prevent this whole mess. And seeing as none of you will remember any of this, we're off."

Without further ado, Aurora and Gabrielle stood up and Gabrielle put the chain of the Time-turner around Aurora's neck as well. Smiling to the others, they donned their masks and Gabrielle turned the little hourglass twelve times causing the world to spin around them, pulling them out of the present and into the past.

When the world stopped spinning they found themselves in the time room at the DOM. Luckily the room was empty, as was the cabinet that housed the Time-turners.

Grinning beneath their masks, Aurora and Gabrielle set to work. They had to make it look like an accident, as they didn't want anyone asking questions or go looking for them. They stood back-to-back, raised their hands and two large fireballs formed before them.

One blue and one red fireball hovered before them and kept expanding slowly. Lowering their left hands, they joined them together and just as the fireballs were about to hit the floor and ceiling of the room, they flamed away.

Reappearing in Amelia's office a few floors above, they could still feel the explosion in the DOM as the entire ministry shook with the force of it.

They were about to knock, when the door was thrown open and Amelia sped out, running straight into Gabrielle, causing them both to almost fall on the ground. Only Aurora's quickly outstretched arms prevented them from falling down.

Amelia cursed softly until she saw who it was she had crashed into, "I'm so sorry my Lady, are you all right?"

Gabrielle gave her a reassuring smile and said, "I'm all right Amelia, don't worry about it. We have just come to ask you for an official arrest warrant. We know of someone who is about to release a piece of information to the press which could cost thousands of lives, if we don't intercept it."

Amelia nodded slowly and ushered them into her office. Once they all sat down, she aimed her wand at the door and cast wards to prevent anyone from disturbing them or eavesdrop on their conversation.

"Is this official business or Legion business?"

"Legion business," was all Aurora had to say for Amelia to understand. The warrant was to be for capture, dead or alive. With dead the most likely result.

"Who is it about?"

Aurora and Gabrielle shared an identical disgusted look and Gabrielle said, "Some filthy rat called Mundungus Fletcher."

At that name Amelia looked up in slight surprise, "Hmm, it's about time someone put a stop to his illegal activities. I suggest you file a complaint telling that he stole something from you, and died tragically when you cornered him and he started a fight. It is the easiest way to solve this."

Aurora and Gabrielle nodded agreeing and Aurora said, "Very well, then I would like to report that a certain Mundungus Fletcher, has stolen a priceless golden cup that had belonged to my father."

Amelia grinned and replied, "You report is duly noted my lady. Unfortunately, most of our personnel is occupied at the moment, so if you want to hunt him down in person you have my permission to do so."

Aurora and Gabrielle stood up and Aurora said, "Thank you very much Madame Bones, we'll see to it at once." They said goodbye, before turning around and leaving the office. They each pulled their cloaks around them to hide their armour and quickly made their way towards the exit.

Walking towards the elevators, they could smell the smoke coming from the DOM and grinned inwardly. Their 'distraction' would ensure that no one would work on their report about Mundungus, before they had found him and silenced him.

They calmly walked through the atrium and exited the ministry by way of the elevator.

Once they were above ground again, they heard the bells of Big Ben ring 9 times, they had less than half an hour to find Mundungus, before he would report the news to the BBC.

They flamed towards the address Saul Croaker had given them and they reappeared before a small row house in a suburb of Manchester.

The house was obviously hidden by magic, as the window frames were rotting and the house seemed to be in an overall miserable shape.

They could sense intruder charms were placed all around the house so there was no way to get in without being detected. Gabrielle said softly, "Charles, Fredrick."

The two elves appeared with a pop and Charles said, "You called mistress?"

Gabrielle nodded and said, "Yes Charles, Fredrick. In this house is a man who has information that could possibly lead to the deaths of thousands of people. So it is crucial we catch him before he releases that information. There are intruder charms around the house so we can't get in, but you can. I would like to ask you to go in and keep him there until Aurora and I can get to him." Charles and Fredrick both nodded and vanished with a second pop.

There came a lot of noise from inside the house and they could hear Fredrick yell, "We have him mistresses."

Aurora and Gabrielle grinned at each other and Aurora said, "It is so stupid of the magical population to forget what other magical beings can do."

They ran towards the house and Aurora kicked the door in, causing the intruder charm to go off and an alarm to start ringing. "We is upstairs," they could hear Charles yell and the sound of a scuffle could be heard. Apparently Mundungus was still trying to escape.

They hurried up the stairs and saw the three combatants were rolling around on the landing. Fredrick had taken Mundungus' wand and the badly smelling excuse of a wizard was trying to get it back. He was being hampered in his efforts by Charles, who was hanging on his neck and trying to choke him.

Aurora hurried to the clutch of struggling bodies and delivered a brutal right hook to Mundungus' head, knocking him out cold. Gabrielle accepted the wand, which Fredrick offered to her and put it in her belt.

Aurora had grasped Mundungus by his filthy red hair and was dragging him down the stairs. Charles had already run downstairs and was shoving a large kitchen chair to the middle of the room.

Aurora forcibly put Mundungus in the chair and Charles helped her to bind his hands and feet to the chair with a piece of rope she pulled from one of the bottomless pouches on her belt.

When he had been secured and Gabrielle and Fredrick had joined them, after searching the first floor for anything of importance, Charles snapped his fingers and a bucket of water appeared.

Aurora caught the bucket out of the air and thanked Charles. Telling him and Fredrick to return home and prepare for the arrival of Harry and the girls. When the elves were gone, she threw the ice-cold water at Mundungus, who awoke with a gasp and looked wildly around him with his bloodshot eyes.

"'Oe the bloody 'ell are yeh." When he had shaken the water out of his eyes and saw the faces of Aurora and Gabrielle he paled. Aurora and Gabrielle had identical dark looks on their faces and while Gabrielle sat down opposite him, Aurora drew one of her knives and started to play with it.

"So tell me, Dung," began Gabrielle on a threateningly calm tone, "where exactly did you get the info that our son is her Majesty's grandnephew?" Mundungus was too busy watching the knife Aurora was playing with to notice Gabrielle's words until Aurora threw it between his legs, only a fraction of an inch away from his groin.

"My wife asked you a question, you piece of filth." The venom in Aurora's voice was clear and when she drew a second knife from behind her back, he swallowed and turned towards Gabrielle, who repeated the question.

"I... I... I don't kn... know wha... wha, yeh'r talking 'bout."

Aurora growled softly and Gabrielle said, "Unless you have been living under a tree, I'm sure you know what happened to Lucy Malfoy."

It wasn't a question but he nodded nonetheless. "Good. Now unless you want to turn out like him, I suggest you start talking."

Mundungus swallowed and stammered. "Them sai'd the'll murdur me if I rattet em out."

Aurora threw the second knife between his legs, this one even closer than the first. "And what do you think I'll do, if you don't. I'm kind of hoping you don't though, as I have some idea's I wasn't able to use on Malfoy as we needed him alive."

Drawing one of the daggers from her boot, Aurora got a little closer and whispered in his ear, "I really like to test out a theory from one of my favourite comic book villains called The Joker. He said that if you cut open the corners of someone's mouth, that person would be able to give you a literal, ear to ear smile."

When he heard this Mundungus panicked and yelled, "A'right a'right, I'll tel yeh. It was Rookwood, Augustus Rookwood from the DOM. E's a spy for yeh-now-wo."

Gabrielle gave him a soft smile and said, "Thank you. That wasn't so hard now was it, and to make sure he doesn't get a chance to kill you..."

Before she finished speaking, Aurora threw her dagger straight into his throat, causing Mundungus to bleed out in seconds. Retrieving her knives from between his legs, she put them behind her back and drew the dagger from his throat.

Cleaning the dagger on Mundungus' filthy coat, she placed it back in her boot before throwing a small red fireball at him. While his body burned to ashes, Gabrielle threw his wand at his burning remains before she and Aurora calmly left the room, not at all feeling guilty about his death. If someone threatened their family, they would pay the price no matter who they were.

They flamed back toward the ministry and appeared just outside the door the DOM. They quickly pushed an identical button on their belts, activating the built-in disillusionment charm, and vanished from sight.

Opening the door, they carefully made their way into the DOM and arrived in the familiar circular room with the twelve doors. Sighing they started trying doors until they found the one they were looking for.

The seventh door opened into a large room, filled with many shelves with hundreds upon hundreds of thick books. The Family Records room. They snuck into the room and closed the door behind them.

There were only three people in the large room, two women were working behind a desk and one man, who was reading in a book between one of the shelves. Seeing as there was only one man, they snuck up to him and when they could read the title of the book he held, they knew he was their guy. 'The ancient and Noble family of Pendragon'.

Standing behind the man, Aurora pinched the nerve in his neck that caused someone to faint and caught him, while Gabrielle caught the book. While Gabrielle placed the book back on the shelf, Aurora dragged the unconscious body of the man out of the view of the two female workers in the room.

Gabrielle and Aurora both took hold of the man and they flamed away.

They reappeared in their usual spot, outside the doors to Lord Ragnok's office at Gringotts. Knocking on the door, Aurora dragged the still unconscious man behind her. When Ragnok told them to enter, Gabrielle opened the door and Aurora dragged him into the office.

"Well, well, who have we here," said Ragnok on a mock questioning tone. "are you planning on making another addition to the Legion's war chest."

Gabrielle grinned and said, "Yes we are. This is Augustus Rookwood, employee of the DOM and spy for Voldemort."

Ragnok gave them a feral smile and opening a drawer on his desk, he removed a pair of magic repressing handcuffs and threw them to Aurora, who put them on Rookwood.

Ragnok took up the small golden bell on his desk and summoned his goblin aid. When the goblin opened the door Ragnok said, "Please bring me an overview of Mister Rookwood's accounts and possessions." The goblin bowed and left.

Slapping Rookwood hard in his face, Aurora woke him up and he looked bewildered around him. "Where am I, who are you. How dare you to kidnap me, don't you know who I am."

"I know exactly who you are, Augustus Rookwood. You are a spy for Voldemort and gave crucial information to Mundungus Fletcher and told him to make it public. We already killed him and now it is your turn."

Rookwood paled and fell to his knees, "No please don't kill me. I'll give you anything you want."

"Hmm anything you say," Aurora mused with a knowing look at Ragnok and Gabrielle.

"Very well. Since you were involved in a complot that would endanger my son and potentially mean the death of the Queen, you are guilty of high treason. This is punishable by death, but since I'm feeling merciful, I'll let you live and invoke the Right of Conquest."

Rookwood paled and fell down on his hands and knees, torn between the joy of being allowed to live and anger at losing everything he owned. While he was wallowing in self pity, the goblin aid returned with a parchment scroll.

Handing the scroll to Ragnok, the goblin left again and closed the door behind him, while Ragnok opened the scroll.

"Hmm," he muttered softly while reading the scroll, "it would seem that Mister Rookwood had some stakes in varying businesses, including Borgin and Burkes, Nimbus and the Daily Prophet. If I add this to the rest of your shares, you now own 56% of Nimbus and 48% of the Daily Prophet. If you want, I could try to obtain the rest of the Daily Prophet shares so you'll become the full owner. It could never hurt to have your own newspaper."

Aurora and Gabrielle thought about it for a moment and Gabrielle asked, "What would that cost us?"

Ragnok grinned and said, "It would not hurt your coffers at all. Mister Rookwood here has just graciously donated nearly 25 million Galleons to your vault. The Daily Prophet shares are currently going for about 18 Galleons per share, and your 48% consists of 648,000 shares. So the remaining 702,000 shares should be obtainable for about 13 million Galleons."

Gabrielle looked at Aurora and said, "Well it would be nice to have our own newspaper."

Aurora nodded and replied, "You're right love. It would be nice." Turning to Ragnok she added, "Do it, but do it quietly. Don't tell them who is buying the shares."

Ragnok nodded and said, "I'll make sure it stays quiet." He looked towards the sobbing Rookwood on the floor of his office and said, "And what is to be done with this piece of filth?"

"Don't worry, we'll take him with us. He'll serve as an example." Aurora's words caused

Rookwood to look up and stammer, "But you said you wouldn't kill me."

Aurora gave him a dark look and replied, "I won't kill you. She will."

When Aurora finished speaking, Gabrielle grabbed Rookwood's head and twisting it around she broke his neck. The corpse slumped to the floor and Gabrielle removed the now useless handcuffs and handed them back to Ragnok.

Aurora kneeled besides Rookwood's dead body and started to remove his robe. When it was of she threw it in the fireplace and the flames consumed it eagerly. She continued to undress him and burn his clothes until the only piece he wore were his underpants.

Taking one of her daggers from her boot, Aurora placed it on his chest and carved a word in his flesh. When she was done it said, 'TRAITOR', above an arrow pointing at the dark mark on his left underarm.

Ragnok grinned and said, "You're really getting good at this carving business Aurora, maybe you could give my leatherworkers a few pointers sometimes. Those idiots managed to ruin a very valuable piece of dragon hide."

Aurora grinned and answered, "I'll see what I can do. But for now we need to be off, as we have to drop him off at the ministry, before we change to pick up the kids."

Ragnok inclined his head and said, "Please tell them to be here at eight o'clock, we begin early." Aurora nodded and after they donned their masks she and Gabrielle each took an arm of the corpse and flamed away.

They reappeared in the middle of the atrium and threw the corpse into the crowd. "LEARN FROM HIS EXAMPLE," Aurora yelled through the deathly quiet atrium before she and Gabrielle flamed away again. Back to Potter Manor.