A/N: I was really disappointed in the amount of reviews I got, but oh well, I simply can't abandon the story no matter what. ;) Anyways, I'm sorry but Harry won't be returning to Hogwarts in this chapter. But due to a great idea I got in the bathroom, I decided to give this story a new twist. I might be changing the Summary of the story a bit too. Enjoy
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CHAPTER 6: Joining the war
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It was a fine Sunday morning and Harry Potter was sitting besides his parents graves. He hadn't visited them in a long time but today emotion was overwhelming him for no reason at all. Sable was circling around apparently sensing his master's distress and giving him space.
His return to Hogwarts was close and with that, his return to being the boy-who-lived again. He was seriously beginning to doubt if going back to Hogwarts would be a good thing as it would once again place him into the war he had so carefully avoided until now. He had no news of what death eaters were doing and to put it simply hadn't cared.
But going back to Hogwarts or not, he would have to be a part of the war, he was destined to be a part of the war. After all, only he could kill Voldemort and on the other hand, Voldemort taking over would make matters much worse. So it was settled, he had no choice whether or not to take part in the war, but then arose another problem.
He couldn't fight the war alone, there is no such thing as a one man army in a war. He would have to choose sides. Voldemort's side was out as he would eliminate all threats to him. Joining the Order of Phoenix would once again make him Dumbledore's puppet. The Aurors and Ministry were under a lunatic and were incapable. That left only one option, he would form his own group and they would fight under him.
But where to find the people, Harry was lost in thought. Master, what are you thinking…… Sable asked him. I'm thinking of a way to gather people to fight for me. Sable was also slithering now in what appeared to be a tense way. It seemed as though he was thinking. Master, I could gather serpents to fight for you……. Harry smiled at his first real friend after his escape, That would be helpful Sable, but I still need wizards.
At that moment Harry heard a huge blast from a few blocks away. Harry quickly put on the grey robe he had worn to Diagon Alley and wand in hand went to search for the source of the noise. Harry arrived just in time to see five black robed hooded figures circled around a lone figure who was on the ground, twitching in pain. In the background a house was burning and the Dark Mark was hovering above the house.
Harry immediately perceived what was happening and started towards the circled black robed figures. Harry blasted the man in front who had his back to him in pieces with a single curse. He had learned from experience to show no mercy to the deatheaters. Now that he had the deatheaters attention, he put up his strongest shield yet, the Fortus Block. The deatheaters were firing curse after curse but the shield was thankfully blocking them all. The unforgivables, Harry simply dodged.
Harry was now putting all his power into the shield, his plan was to exhaust them and then go into the offense himself but at this rate he probably might have exhausted himself. That is until Harry felt something connect with him, deeply as if touching his magical core. An evil grin crossed Harry's lips which was viewable just beneath the hood to the two deatheaters who were advancing towards him.
They hesitated confused, but that was all they did before they were thrown with such force backwards that they crashed into the burning house. The house already weak from burning so much fell down upon the deatheaters after such an impact.
The remaining two deatheaters renewed their curse throwing out of fear rather than anything else but Harry was advancing quickly. A neatly placed cutting hex and one of them had his neck have cut. He died before his body reached the ground. The other deatheater seeing the scene fled in terror.
The deatheaters had put anti-apparation wards on the house, Harry felt, so their victim must have been a wizard. The remaining deatheater was running wildly trying to clear the wards to apparate away. But just before he could place his final step on the street, an enormous cobra emerged from the bushes and sank his fangs right where his heart would have been. The deatheater died instantly.
Now Harry turned his attention towards the victim of the deatheater attack who was confused as to who was his savior. The man got to his feet instantly, even though he had suffered torture at the hands of the deatheater. "Thanks" he muttered. He was a young man in his mid-twenties. He was quite tall but also had some muscle on him. The young man turned to stare at Harry. "Did Dumbledore send you?"
"No", Harry answered roughly. Harry turned to leave but the man was following him. "Who are you?" the man questioned this time. "Not safe here, follow me", Harry took the man to a muggle restaurant. Even if other deatheaters did appear, they wouldn't go looking in a muggle restaurant. Meanwhile, Sable had after ensuring that his master was safe returned to Godric's Hollow.
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"You could at least raise your hood so I can see your face" the man named Roland Phillmore told Harry. They were sitting in a muggle restaurant and the man had introduced himself. He was an auror in training who had lived alone after his parents had been killed by Voldemort. He thought that Voldemort was trying to lessen the aurors by killing those in training as they were more vulnerable.
"Why did you ask if I was sent by Dumbledore?" Harry asked, speaking for the first time since arriving in the restaurant. "er..Do you know about the Order of the Phoenix?" Roland seemed nervous. "Yes". Roland seemed relieved by the answer, he thought he should reveal his alliance to this strange person as this person had just saved his life.
"I'm a member of it and I just thought Dumbledore would send someone to help me." Harry started laughing at that. Roland was confused, why was this person laughing. "Whose side are you on?" Roland countered. "Nobody's, I walk my own path, a path to ending this war once and for all." Harry replied.
"But that's what the Order of Phoenix is doing" Roland was starting to think that this person, whoever he was, was crazy. "Tell me then, Roland, has the Order ever sent you to attack the deatheaters, have you ever attacked a deatheater base, have you ever sent a search party to even find Voldemort's headquarters. The order is weak, they are just buying time, delaying Voldemort's return to power. Rarely anybody knows what the Order is, they don't show their allegiance in the open, which at least the deatheaters do."
"What other option do we have, the ministry is weak and filled with corrupted officials." Roland was getting tense. "Join me" Harry joked. "Ok, since I owe my life to you anyways, I will. And since Dumbledore didn't protect me, and I had to see the house of my ancestors burn, I sure as hell wouldn't be going back there." Roland was angry at Dumbledore. Now it was Harry's turn to be tense.
Harry started thinking, maybe this could be the start of the group he had been planning. But he had planned to start it at Hogwarts. But this was better, way better. "Meet me here at this time in a week." That would be the day before his departure to Hogwarts and by then Harry planned to get some more people.
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For the next week, Harry spent every night flying over muggle London, in his invisibility cloak. Wherever he spotted any deatheater activity he tried to rescue the people. And if they were wizards, Harry offered them a chance to join him. He told them all to meet him in that muggle restaurant where he had first met Roland.
Of course, the wizards the deatheaters were after were not only important people but also great wizards. He managed to save a husband and wife who were both unspeakables in the ministry, another auror in training named Stephen and much to his surprise, a newly instated deatheater, who had been caught by the few dementors still under the ministry. They were about to kiss him when Harry had arrived.
Harry didn't know how many of these people would arrive. None of them had seen Harry except in gray robes under a gray hood and in the meanwhile, Harry started working on a disguise for himself. It wouldn't do well to show up as Harry Potter. He also planned to show Sable so as to make the people sure that defying him wouldn't be nice.
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Meanwhile in Dumbledore's office:
Snape had just returned from a death eater meeting and had news for Dumbledore. "Some deatheater attacks have been intercepted by extremely powerful gray robed wizards. I'm
guessing that since the attacks were spread out across London, there would have to be more than one. Of course I could still be wrong. The dark lord has ordered us to capture whoever these are or is."
"This seems to be an interesting turn of events Severus. It seems we have a new competitor in the battlefield. It would be to our advantage to make an alliance with however this competitor is."
Dumbledore was quietly contemplating whoever these new people were. "No news from Potter yet?" Snape asked. "I'm afraid nothing but a note that he would be attending Hogwarts." Dumbledore once again started to think signaling that Snape was dismissed.
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Harry was quietly sitting in a corner. It was the right day and time. His face was once again covered under a hood. He smiled when he saw that those he had invited had all come. They started sitting around the table Harry had occupied, looking at each other with confused looks. No one dared speak for everyone had seen Harry's temper and power.
Harry abruptly got up once they were all settled. "Follow me"
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A/N: Ok next chapter : We'll get more info on what Harry plans to do with his group and of course, return to Hogwarts.
On to more important matters (for me at least), please people, review. I mean, I could do with some suggestions every once in a while. After all the trouble I go through to update so fast, you could at least review. (ok that was enough begging for reviews :P)