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Chapter 6

Fallen Warrior.

Harry P.O.V

We walked to the park, and once in a secluded spot, a few others waved their wands and disillusionment spells were lifted off brooms, Thestrals and a large black motorbike with a sidecar. I walked over to the bike.

"Is this it, Sirius' bike?" I asked.

"Yeah, Arthur's made a few changes. that one there was my idea." Hagrid said pointing at a large purple button.

"Please be careful Hagrid," Arthur said. "I'm still not sure that it was a wise idea, and it is definitely only to be used in an emergency."

I got in the sidecar and made sure that I had a good grip on all my things with my knees. Hagrid seated himself on the bike and when everyone was on a broom or Thestral moody stood so every one could see him.

"Right, now we all need to leave at the same time, otherwise the whole point of the diversion is lost." Moody said. "One, two, THREE!"

We all rose into the air as one. The wind rushed past me and started to make my eyes water. There was so little room in the car that my legs were starting to go numb. The group rose up into the air, up and up, only to end up surrounded by about thirty death eaters.

Curses started flying everywhere and Hagrid yelled. The bike flipped over and my stuff started to slip out. I managed to grab my bag and Hedwig's cage but my firebolt slipped. I watched as my broom fell towards the ground. It had been my first present from Sirius. My mind quickly turned back to the fight as a flash of green hit Hedwig in her cage. She gave a squawk and fell to the bottom of her cage.

"No! Hedwig!" I screamed.

Hagrid got the bike and sidecar back up the right way and I noticed that we were being chased by four death eaters. I started firing stunner after stunner at our pursuers. A curse hit the sidecar and it started to break away. A giant hand grabbed me by the back of my top and pulled me onto the bike, just as the sidecar broke away. I barely managed to keep a hold on my bag and wand.

"Hold on Harry! This'll do the trick." Hagrid pushed a green button and a brick wall came out of the exhaust. It expanded in mid air. The first three Death Eaters avoided it, the fourth wasn't so lucky. He fell and one of the lucky three held back to help him. Hagrid pushed the button again and this time a net was released. But the Death Eaters were ready for it this time and they avoided it. What was worse, the one that had held back to catch the one that fell had caught up with us again. I sent a blocking jinx at them and the nearest Death Eater swerved to avoid it and his hood slipped, to reveal the strangely blank face of Stanley Shunpike-Stan.

"Expelliarmus!" I yelled at him.

"It's her! It's the real one!" The Death Eaters yell reached me over the roar of the bikes engine. My blood went cold as the Death Eaters disappeared from sight. How had they known?

Suddenly my scar burned in pain. "Hagrid! He's coming!" I yelled. Was this it? Would Voldemort succeed this time?

"Hold on!" Hagrid shouted. He pressed the purple button and with a roar, white hot, blue dragons flames erupted from the exhaust pipe. The bike shot forward and I clutched desperately to Hagrid, and my things. The pain in my scar increased and I looked to my side to see the pale snake-like face of Lord Voldemort. He was flying through the air, with no broom or Thestral to aid him. I started firing every curse that I knew at him. If I died, I'd die like my parents, like Sirius. I'd die fighting.

A death eater was about to fire a curse at Hagrid, so I stunned him quickly. A high pitched voice reached my ears and the pain in my scar forced my eyes shut.

"Avada,"

My wand moved and pointed of it's own accord. I heard a crack and Voldemort scream "No!"

Hagrid pressed the dragons breath button again and the bike shot forward. I heard Voldemort screech something and then nothing. Suddenly the bike was falling. It hit the ground and I was thrown off it and into water. I felt a few things crack and I passed out.

When I came round I was lying on something soft and I was warm and dry. I opened my eyes to see a man with moss green eyes and blond hair smiling down at me.

"How are you feeling Miss Potter? You broke a couple of ribs, I've just repaired them." He asked. "I'm Luke Francis."

"Uh, I'm… fine, what happened, where's Hagrid?" I asked, sitting up.

"Don't worry, he's fine, my wife's treating him now. He'll be fine. The bike crashed, what happened, did you add one extra feature too many?"

"No, there were Death Eaters, they knew about the date some how."

"Death Eaters? Well now we know that our protective charms hold." Luke said. The door opened and Hagrid came in. he rushed over and swept me up into a hug that almost re-broke my newly repaired ribs.

"Blimey Harry, how'd you get us out of that, I thought we were both goners."

"Yeah, me to, I cant believe-" I cut off as Marie Francis entered the room.

"What… what?" I spluttered.

"Hello again Harriet. Glad to see you're awake." She said. "Yes, I'm apart of the Order, and so is my Husband. We joined not long ago. Dumbledore asked us, I hope you don't mind, but, I asked someone round, mid you, he's not going to be very calm and level headed. He wasn't on the phone anyway."

There was a bang from somewhere in the house and I reached for my wand.

"You're wand's right here." Luke said and he handed it to me. "You may want to get a good look at the person you're shooting at before you start firing hexes."

The door to the living room burst open and Remy burst in looking anxious.

"Remy!" I said. I flung myself at him and wrapped my arms round his neck. He wrapped his arms around my waist and held me close.

"When Marie called, I was so worried." He said in my ear.

"I'm all right Remy. My luck against Voldemort seems to be holding up."

He pulled back slightly, so that he was looking at me and holding me at the same time. "Voldemort?" He whispered.

I nodded. "And about thirty Death Eaters, they ambushed us when we left."

"I knew I should've stuck round." he said.

"Moody would've only hexed you."

"I don't care." Remy said. "I should've been there, I could've done something."

"Not really, unless you could fly somehow." Hagrid said. "'Cause that's where we were ambushed, in the air."

"Yeah, well…" Remy said, I could see he was struggling with the concept that he wasn't there to help me when I needed help.

"You'd better hurry up," Luke said, "Or you'll miss the portkey."

"Yeah, we better had." Hagrid said.

Luke led us out the room and down a corridor. He led us into a small bedroom and pointed at a silver backed hair brush.

"Well, there it is, and I doubt that you'll have any death eater problems through the last lap of your journey. You're going to have to let Harriet go, Remy. Otherwise you'll be going to."

"Doesn't seem so bad." He mumbled.

"I don't think that the other order members that Harriet will be staying with would appreciate a complete stranger just dropping in on them, Remy." Luke said.

"Damn." Remy said.

Hagrid looked round, "Harry, where's Hedwig?"

Tears stung my eyes. "She got hit." I said.

"Aw, Harry… well, at least she had a good old life." he patted me on my shoulder and Remy tightened the hold around my arms.

"I'm sorry, Harry. I know how much she meant to you." Remy said.

"The portkey." Luke said. I looked at the brush, which was glowing blue.

"See, you soon," I said to Remy, "I'll be fine." I kissed him on the cheek and slipped out of his grip. I put a finger onto the brush and Hagrid imitated me.

I looked at Remy once more before I felt a familiar tug behind the naval jerked me away from him.

My knees slammed into the ground and when I looked around I saw that I was in the front yard of the Burrow, the Weaslys home. Hagrid was also on the ground.

Mrs Weasley and Ron came running towards us. "Harry? You are the real Harry? What happened, where are the others?"

"Aren't they back yet?" I asked.

"No," Ron said, "Ginny and Tonks were supposed to be back first. But they missed their portkey. So did dad and Fred. You and Hagrid were third, if they made it, Lupin and George should be back in about a minute."

There was a glow of blue to the side of us and Remus and George came spinning to the ground. George was unconscious and his face was covered in blood.

I ran forward and grabbed his legs. Together Remus and I carried him into the house and through to the sitting room. We placed him onto the sofa and when I got a good look at his face I gasped, one of his ears were missing.

No sooner than Mrs Weasly had bent over her son than Remus had grabbed me by the arm and pulled me, none too gently, into the kitchen, Hagrid was struggling to get in through the door.

"Oi! Let her go! Let go of Harry!" Hagrid said.

"What creature was in the corner when Harriet Potter firs visited me in my office at Hogwarts?" He asked giving me a shake, "Answer me!"

"A- a Grindylow in a tank wasn't it?" I asked.

He released me and fell back against the kitchen cupboard.

"What was that about?" Hagrid asked. He'd finally gotten in through the door.

"I'm sorry, but we've been betrayed. The Death Eaters knew we'd moved you to New Orleans, and they knew when we were coming to pick you up."

"Then why aren't you asking me?" Hagrid asked.

"You're half Giant, Polyjuce potion only works for human transformations." Remus answered.

"None of the order would have told Voldemort what was happening." The idea was just too horrible, I wouldn't believe it of any of them. "And he only caught up with me towards the end. He didn't know who I was in the beginning. If he'd been in on the plan, he would've known that I was with Hagrid."

"He caught up with you, how?" Remus asked.

I explained briefly about how the death eaters had recognised me as the true Harriet.

"But what happened to let them recognise you?"

"I… I saw Stan Shunpike… you know, the conductor of the Knight Bus? I tried to disarm him instead of … well you know! He doesn't know what he's doing, does he? He's been Imperiused!"

Remus looked aghast. "The time for Disarming is past! These people are trying to capture and kill you! That was a good and unusual move when you used it two years ago against Voldemort, but the amount of Death Eaters that witnessed it!"

"Are you saying that I should've killed him? He doesn't know what he's doing!"

"But the death eaters seem to think it's your signature move! Please don't let that happen! If you're not prepared to kill, at least stun instead."

"We were hundreds of feet up, it would have done the same job as the killing curse!" I said. "I won't blast people out of my way, just because they're there! That's Voldemorts job!"

Remus' retort was lost.

The next to return were Hermione and Kingsley. I also found out what happened to George's ear, Snape, and Sectasempra. Mrs Weasley had managed to stop the bleeding, and he'd be fine, but he'd never get his ear back.

The next to return were Arthur and Fred. George had come round after that and made a joke about feeling saint-like because he was holey.

Tonks and Ginny had come back next, and it seemed that Ginny had saved Tonks' life.

"Are we the last back?" Ginny asked.

"No," Hermione said as she released Ginny from a hug. "We're still waiting for Bill, Fleur, Moody and Mundungus."

Not long after, Kingsley left to go look after the Muggle prime minister. That was just before Fleur and Bill got back, bringing some bad news which they broke to us all in the living room.

"Mad Eye's dead." Bill said. "We saw it. It happened just after we broke out of the circle. Mad Eye and Dung were close by us, Voldemort went straight for them. Dung panicked, disapparated, Voldemorts curse hit Mad Eye full in the face- there was nothing we could do."

The rest of the night was spent quietly. We all went to bed feeling the loss of a great man.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed.