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ATTACKS AND RETURNS
Daphne Greengrass and her two friends Tracy Davis and Lily Moon, had just left Gladrags Wizardwear in Hogsmeade on their last visit to the village of their 6th year at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. The girls had just ordered some of the latest summer dresses and shoes ready for a trip to Milan before their 7th and final year at Hogwarts.
"Well I don't know about you two but I sure could use a drink, those exams were worse than O.W.L.S and I thought they were bad." Tracy said with a tired air about her, she wasn't physically tired or magically but mentally tired, having to remember the precise ingredients in three different potions not forgetting when to add them and which way to stir them at any time not to mention all the theory and practical in all of her five courses, Charms, Potions, DADA, Herbology and Transfiguration.
Tracy, who was the shortest of the three best friends, standing at 5"1 with a slim build, had dark brown hair to match her eyes and was hoping to follow her mother and aunt in Healing at ST. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, thus she needed top scores in all of her exams from O.W.l.S onwards. She hoped that in maybe ten or twenty years she could take over as the Hogwarts school nurse, that is if the war against You-Know-Who was over, Tracy and her parents Michael and Michelle Davis were purebloods but they didn't not believe in the Pure-blood supremacy act the Death Eaters spouted, they believed that every being, magical or not, human or not, deserved to live their lives how they wanted without fear of death or discrimination.
"You think those were bad, you just wait till next year, there's a reason they call them nastily exhausting, you know." Daphne said in a mock wise voice causing her two friends to snort at her antics.
"Yeah but that's if Hogwarts's is even still open by then." Lily said in a grave voice as they began making their way to the three broomsticks. Lily had light blonde hair and stood at 5"5 and was just as slim as Tracy.
"What do you mean?" Tracy asked her as they dodged around students making their way around the village.
"Oh come on you've read the papers, You-know-Who and the Death Eaters have been killing countless Muggle's and Muggleborn's all year, plus He killed Madam Bones after just a week of her appointment to Interim-Minister and every other appointed after her." Lily replied the fear in her voice was palpable, her own father was a Muggleborn and her mother a halfblood, every time black envelopes came during the morning post, she feared she was about to get one informing her that her parents had been murdered, but so far she had been lucky not to get one.
"Yes and if the prophet is to believed only Potter can stop You-Know-Who and he's vanished off the face of the earth, and according to Malfoy's bragging, Potter has finally looked after number one and checked himself out of the war before He could kill him." Daphne said in a slightly sceptical voice.
"And yet if Longbottom and Lovegood are to be believed, Potter has left to train until he can take on the war and win." Lily said as they passed the Hog's Head pub.
"Well let's hope he returns very soon." Tracy said in small fearful voice as she froze in her tracks staring straight ahead, eyes wide.
"Why, are you hoping for a bit of Potter loving?" Lily laughed, however her laughter died in her throat as she noticed her friends pale, fearful face. "What's wrong?" She asked, however for an answer Tracy pointed up the road, her whole arm shaking in fear as she did so, Daphne and Lily looked where she was pointing and they two went as white as sheets.
For on the path back to Hogwarts, around thirty Death Eaters and a Giant and a Troll had just appeared and within seconds all hell broke loose as the Death Eaters all fired the killing curse into the crowd of the villagers and students, killing at least 15 people instantly.
"ATTACK." Shouted the lead Death Eater and with the command, the Death Eaters began attacking the students and villagers, the four Aurors on duty were already dead. The giant set about smashing the post office which was closest to him and the troll started attacking the Zonkos.
"Protego." "Reducto" Daphne quickly shielded against a Death Eaters spell before quickly returning her own spell however the Death Eater just swatted it aside as though it was an irksome fly, this wasn't some rookie or idiot this was a very dangerous opponent and Daphne didn't think she could win this fight but she was going to go down fighting nonetheless. As she looked around she realised that she was alone and had somehow been separated from Tracy and Lily in the chaos.
"Stupefy." McGonagall was satisfied to see her opponent drop to the floor stunned before she quickly sent off a Patronus message to Albus Dumbledore, hopefully he could rally the Order and help them because no one who was in the village right now could possibly stop that giant or that troll, Flitwick might have stood a chance but he was in Diagon Alley and Snape who may also have been able to stop them had been called to the Dark Lord's side three days ago and hadn't been seen since.
Unfortunately no help would come from the Order or Aurors as other places had been hit before Hogsmeade; but help would come.
ST. Mungo's
Twenty Death Eaters appeared outside the run down department store Purge & Dowse Ltd, which held the secret location to the Magical Hospital. The Muggle's walking around didn't even seem to notice them.
"Father, before we attack the hospital how about we kill some animals." Draco Malfoy asked his father who was leading the attack on ST. Mungo's.
"I don't see why not Draco." Lucius smiled at his son from behind his white mask, Draco as a new recruit had on a black mask, as did the other eighteen Death Eaters.
"Quick change of plans, before we storm the hospital we are going to do some pest control." Lucius said motioning the Muggle's walking around. The Death Eater's quickly turned from the hospital and took aim at a Muggle each, all waiting for Malfoy Sr. order.
"NOW."
"AVADA KEDAVRA." Twenty killing curses hit their targets and twenty Muggle's dropped to the floor dead.
"ONCE MORE." Lucius shouted over the screaming and panicking Muggle's.
"AVADA KEDAVRA." Another twenty Muggle's dropped to the floor dead as the rest screamed even louder, they couldn't see what was killing them only a bright green lights appearing out of nowhere
"LAST TIME." Lucius shouted with laughter in his voice at all the panicking Muggle's running around like headless chickens. He was proud of the new recruits, they will make fine Death Eaters, after a year of training they worked like a well-oiled machine.
"AVADA KEDAVRA." The Death Eater's had been on the scene less than two minutes and already sixty Muggle's were dead, it really was a wrong time to be shopping on that Saturday morning.
"AND NOW THE HOSPITAL." Lucius commanded; as one the new recruits turned and pointed their wands at the front entrance of the hospital and fired.
"CONFRINGO." BOOM! The front entrance to the hospital exploded inwards in a shower of brick, glass, wood and fire instantly killing nineteen witches and wizards waiting to be seen in the waiting area.
"Pick a floor and kill at least ten people on that floor." Lucius commanded the recruits, as there was twenty of them and five floors, a group of five would go to a floor and kill two people each before they all met back up in the waiting area to take the Portkey back to Malfoy Manor to report their success to their Lord.
"Avada Kedavra." Draco quickly killed the receptionist who had been running towards the fireplace no doubt to get Aurors on the Floo, it didn't really matter as the Aurors were all busy in Diagon Alley but better safe than sorry.
The Death Eaters all ran towards the stairs and began going up, killing any and all patients and healers they past. As they reached the 1st floor five broke away to go kill some more patients and healers, all over the hospital all you could hear were the screams of the terrified patients and healers and the shouted killing curses of the Death Eaters.
"My Lord will be most pleased and will reward me most handsomely." Lucius thought to himself as he broke away from the new recruits and made his way to the fifth floor and the permanent residents ward, there were two patients he wanted to kill so there would be no chance of them been healed and re-joining the Aurors.
As he reached the ward he was angered to notice that the two Longbottom's were nowhere in sight, in fact none of the patients were to be seen anywhere. Growling in anger he turned around to leave but was stopped short when he found a wand pointing right between his eyes.
"Drop your wand." The man said in a deadly quiet voice as he glared at the Death Eater in front of him.
"Now, now no need for violence, after all we are both gentlemen here." Lucius said in his most charming voice as he held up his hands in surrender.
"Gentlemen, you and those vermin have killed at least a hundred people in the last hour, now I said drop your wand." The man hissed in disgust his wand was steady and a curse was on the tip of his tongue.
"We both know that that's not going to happen, the second your spell fails, as it always does, I will kill you." Lucius growled in anger, how dare this fool order him to drop his wand.
"I wasn't a complete fraud." "Reducto." At point blank range the spell could not miss and with that Lucius Malfoy's head exploded like a melon hit with a sledge hammer, splattering the wizard in blood and brain matter as the body dropped to the floor.
"One down." Said Gilderoy Lockhart who had been looking out of the ward window when the Death Eaters appeared and killed all those muggles and his memory had come flooding back. He had quickly grabbed his wand before stunning all the residents and healers in his ward and lying them on beds and hitting them with Disillusionment Charms, thus saving their lives.
"It's time to make up for all the credit I have stolen and show the world I really am a good fighter." Gilderoy thought to himself as he turned to face the door at the sound of footsteps.
"Father what's taking you so lon…"
"Imperio." Draco fell silent as Lockhart's Imperius Curse took control of his mind. "Go stun as many of your fellows as possible."
Draco quickly left the ward to go carry out the command, his will power was just too weak to overcome someone who hadn't been using any magic in the last four years and thus their magical power and reserves had built up so much that even the hardest of spells would come easily to the ex-professor.
"I'm back you Death Eater scumbags." Gilderoy said to himself as he went to help the patients he had saved.
Diagon Alley
Albus Dumbledore grunted in pain as Bellatrix Lestrange's cutting curse caught him in the shoulder. He was covered in little cuts and bruises all over his body, as was the woman he was battling.
Twenty minutes ago one of the Weasley twins had alerted him and the Order to an attack on the Alley, and now Gambol and Japes was completely destroyed, a giant had crushed it to the ground before he and Flitwick who had been shopping in the Alley had killed the giant between them.
Madam Malkin's robe shop was engulfed in flames, Malkin herself had perished in the shop along with her two daughters.
Garrick Ollivander stood in front of his wand shop fiercely battling two Death Eaters at once, for an old man he was very mobile and very well versed in spells and duelling.
Countless witches and wizards lay dead or dying on the floor as even more cowered behind displays or in shops, too fearful to fight back against the thirty Death Eaters.
"Cowards." Remus Lupin thought as he battled a very familiar Death Eater, who had long greasy hair visible under his mask, he knew that Snape had to keep up appearances otherwise his cover would be blown. However if the cowardly public took up arms against the Death Eater's attacking, they would easily overwhelm the Death Eaters four-to-one, five-to-one if you included the Order and Aurors.
Remus knew that Hogsmeade was also under attack but as they were busy battling the Death Eaters here in the Alley no back up could be sent to help and the five Order members and the teachers and Aurors in the village would have to do, hopefully the group Harry had taught in his fifth year would take up arms to help their classmates and the villagers.
Albus knew that it was time to take off the kid gloves so to speak, he knew that Bellatrix would not willing leave the alley until she had killed every man, woman and child there and not only that but Tom had ordered an attack on children which crossed a line not even Gellert had crossed. Thus as he blocked a spell from the crazed witch he stunned her motionless with his next spell.
"Avada Kedavra." Bellatrix was stunned like a deer caught in headlights that the muggle loving fool Dumbledore, the lord of the light and all that's good had fired the killing curse at her and thus she failed to move out of the way as the killing curse lifted her off her feet and sent her flying down the alley, dead long before her body hit the floor. Albus Dumbledore was pissed off, his magic flared around him as he began ripping into the Death Eaters with abandon, luckily he recognised his spy who he allowed to escape but the other Death Eaters were not so lucky.
Hogsmeade
Minerva McGonagall knew that her life was surely over as she landed on her back and her body exploded in pain, the Giant had just smashed her with its club, luckily she had managed to get up her strongest shield in time and had managed to save her own life but every rip was broken and her left lunge was collapsed.
At least she could console herself in the knowledge that before her death she had managed to take down three Death Eaters and the Troll, she just wished she had been able to help her students who needed all the help they could get, the DA that Harry had taught were doing their best along with the Order and the rest of the Students willing and able to fight but it was a losing battle against the Giant and Death Eaters, the other two professor's on patrol were already dead, Rolanda Hooch had been flattened under the foot of the Giant and Bathsheda Babbling had taken a killing curse meant for third year Astoria Greengrass.
As the Giant approached her to deliver what was surely the killing blow Minerva pushed herself to her feet, if she was going to die she would die standing on her feet with her head held high, not cowering and moaning on the ground.
However as the Giant raised its club, a tall hooded wizard suddenly appeared out of nowhere to stand in front of McGonagall, Minerva was a tall witch standing at 5"11 but this wizard towered over her and his shoulders were very broad, and power just radiated off of him, so much so that even the Giant stopped in its tracks as it stared at the new wizard in front of him. Suddenly the wizard raised his wand above his head.
And suddenly from the tip of his wand a huge fire erupted: crimson and gold, a ring of fire that surrounded the wizard and as his arm moved the fire moved with him, swirling like a flaming lasso, and then without warning the wizard pointed his wand at the Giant and the fire shot at him like a huge flaming arrow, within seconds the giant was engulfed in fire but before it could start running around in an attempt to put out the fire, the flames began to burn white hot and the giant was reduced to ash its screams still echoing across the village and nearby mountain range.
All the fighting had stopped, every student, order member and Death Eater was staring at the wizard in shock, who in the world had the power to produce a firestorm so powerful as to reduce a full grown giant to ash. Whoever it was the Death Eaters as with a flick of his wand, the wizard sent white hot flames at the remaining Death Eaters and just like the Giant they were reduced to ash, and just like that the Battle was over.
"Not to sound ungrateful, but who are you?" McGonagall asked the wizard in front of her who had without a doubt had just saved her life along with perhaps hundreds more with the death of those murdering scum called Death Eaters.
"I'm hurt that you have forgotten me already professor, I've only been gone a year." The wizard said with a snort as he removed his hood to reveal messy jet-black hair and as he turned round McGonagall found herself looking into bright green almond shaped eyes.
"Harry." Gasped Minerva in shock as she stared up at her missing student who had just made a most dramatic return that could not have come at a better time. But he looked older, far older than he should have after just one year away, he looked to be in his early twenties.
"The one and only." Harry grinned, his voice a deep baritone unlike his voice was the last time she had seen him, and he sounded like a mature man instead of a teenage boy.
Ministry of Magic, Department of Mysteries, Hall of Prophecy
Lord Voldemort grinned in triumph, he finally had the Prophecy in his hand, he had learned in the last year that after a Prophecy was smashed it was replaced by another copy and would continue to be replaced until the Prophecy was fulfilled and the white smoke inside would turn black and thus it would be removed by a worker, but until then only who it was about could touch it.
Voldemort knew that with his Death Eaters attacking Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley and ST. Mungo's the Aurors would be far too busy to try and stop him, what little resistance he had in-counted were dead and now nobody would stop him from hearing the full Prophecy. He smashed it on the floor and Sybill Trelawney's ghostly image rose from the floor and began to speak in a deep voice not her own.
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…
"So only the boy can kill me and only I can kill the boy, looks like I've already won this war, Albus Dumbledore cannot defeat me and neither can some teenage boy."
With that Voldemort Apparited away ripping through centuries old Anti-apparition wards like they had been cast by a first year Hogwarts student.
End of Chapter
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