AN!: This chapter contains a lot of death and violence. Readers discretion is advised. This is my tribute to George R.R. Martin. This chapter is my Red Wedding. It will make you cry. Hell it made me get a little misty eyed rereading it and I wrote the damn thing. I honestly think this might be my best chapter yet. I hope you like it and I hope you don't hate me after you read it. Every death is for a reason.

On a lighter note I have three rough draft chapters done for the other story I'm working on with TheBlackHand724. I will be posting the full story on my page sometime in July if things keep going like this. As a result of me writing two stories at once, this story will be coming out slightly slower than usual. But I like the work I'm producing and I hope you like it too.

Date: Monday June 27, 2016. Time: 8:00pm GMT. Location: The Burrow, Ottery St. Catchpole.

For the first time in weeks most of the Weasley clan was seated around the dinner table. Between Order meetings and the twins shop a family dinner was a rare thing. Conversation around the table flowed easy and free. The Twins were talking about a new invention they came up called the tar bomb. It was a black ball about the size and feel of a racquetball with an orange button. When you pressed the button for three seconds and you tossed the ball it exploded covering someone with five gallons of gooey sticky black tar. They also really wanted to show off their new lime green dragonhide dusters they just bought. Little did they know but these two things would save their lives that night.

At the stroke of nine the fire in the fireplace flickered purple before it went out. At the same time they felt wards go up around the house. The twins and Ginny were out of their seats in a flash and headed for the windows with their wands up. They saw a big group of Death Eaters surrounding the house. Fred elbowed the window to break the glass and let off a blasting hex at a group of three DE's that were rushing the front door. He hit two of them blowing the two men in half and covering the third man in gore. While he was doing that Fred opened the kitchen door and pegged two DE's with Tar balls to the face which would end up suffocating them both. Fred rolled out of the way of the open door and the hail of spells that came flying through.

One of the spells, a blasting hex hit the stone fireplace behind Author pelting him with sharp bits of stone and cutting up his face and neck. These wounds would later prove to be deadly. But at the moment Author felt no pain as adrenaline pulsed through his system. He was up and standing by the window firing spells back at the DE's. Ron tried to get his Mum upstairs away from the flying curses. Molly got all the way to the stairs before a stray Avada Kedavra hit her in the side and dropped her like a ton of bricks. Ron tripped over his mum and landed in a tangle of limbs at the base of the stair.

Three DE's blew a hole in the living room wall drawing Ginny's attention away from the window she was covering, just long enough to catch a bone breaker to the side of the head killing her instantly. Unlike the fight at the Granger's house. In less than ten seconds two Weasleys were dead and a third was rapidly bleeding out.

Three DE's rushed into the living room through the big hole in the wall. Two of them died from a bone breaker and a cutting curse from the twins. But the third one made it into the house and hit Fred with a powerful blasting hex. The spell didn't penetrate his coat but the force of the blast blew him ten feet through the air where he landed in the kitchen, his head just missing the cast iron stove by a few inches. George turned his wand on the Death Eater that blasted his brother and cut the man in two with a cutting curse.

A blasting curse hit the house and caved in a portion of the stairs. Ron rolled out of the way of most of the debris only to catch a cutting curse to the left leg that severed his leg in two below the knee. He brought his wand up and blasted one of the three men that came through the new hole only to take two AK's to the chest. Arthur turned and hit them with a cutting curse that killed both of them. He got the satisfaction of knowing he killed the two men that killed his son before the blood loss got to him and he passed out. At that point five aurors popped into the yard and started firing spells at the last five Death Eaters still standing causing them to retreat using portkeys.

In two minutes fourteen people died. Ten Death Eaters and four weasley. Fred had six broken ribs and a punctured lung. Thankfully he was unconscious, George was awake and had his wits about him enough to see all of his dead family members covered in blood, a sight that would haunt his nightmares for the rest of his life. The Aurors charged into the big hole in the wall with Shack in the lead and he almost took a blasting curse to the face. George saw it was him and jerked his arm to the side blasting the couch.

"Sorry Shack." George said rushing to Fred's side.

"My god." Shack said seeing the carnage. "We Need a Healer In Here!" He called out and two aurors popped away.

"What a fucking bloodbath." Auror Marc Goldstein said shaking his head.

Monday June 27, 2016. Time: 8:13pm GMT. Location: The Rookery, Ottery St. Cathpol.

Just a few miles away from the Burrow Luna Lovegood sat in her room reading a book on magical horned lizards of the American southwest. She was half way through the book when her eyes turned white and she dropped her book. The sound of the heavy book hitting the floor alerted her father from the other room. Xenophilius walked into his daughter's room and saw her white eyes. He pulled his wand and rushed to her side. In an instant her eyes cleared up and she grabbed her head.

"Crabapples! That hurts. Raise the wards. We're about to be attacked by ten Death Eaters." She said taking a small silver box out of her pocket. She pulled a small vile out of box and downed it with a sigh.

"I'm going to raise the wards." Xeno said rushing out of the room. He ran down the winding staircase to the bottom floor of the castle tower style house. He pushed the entry way table out of the way and tossed the rug to reveal the ward stone. He had just enough time to jam his house ring into the stone before the front door was hit with a blasting hex turning the heavy wood and metal door into hundreds of toothpick sized bits of shrapnel that covered the distance to Xeno in a split second and tore into his back and side like buckshot before the wards went up sealing the tower in a blanket of magic. Xeno rolled over on to his side and looked through the open door. He saw five Death Eaters casting spells at the barrier to no avail. He smirked and gave them the double bird salute before he passed out from the pain and blood loss.

Luna ran down the stair and levitated her father up the stairs to the first floor kitchen where she deposited her father on the kitchen table before she locked the heavy door and sealed it with a half dozen spells. Luna ran to the floo and saw the fire was out. She ran into the bathroom and grabbed the first aid kit. She came back into the kitchen and vanished her father's clothes. She saw the dozens of little holes that covered his back and right side. she poured a blood replenishing potion down his throat and began summing the small bits of wood and metal shrapnel out of her father's body and sealing the holes with the few healing spells she knew. The whole time she worked she thanked the gods for Hermione showing the DA how to do this, but in the back of her mind she knew this was too many wounds. She needed to get her father to a healer soon. Outside she could hear the sounds of the Death Eaters trying to bring down the wards. She knew she only had so much time before the wards fell. She just hopped the fools at the ministry saw all the spells she was casting and sent help.

Luna healed about a third of the wounds on her father's body when she heard the wards shatter. She ran to the door and threw up a wall of stone with a small arrow slit she waited a few seconds until she heard the sound of the stair creaking before she stuck her wand through the arrow slit and hit the door with a blasting hex turning most of the door into shrapnel and pelting the DE's on the stars the same way they got her dad. She was rewarded with screams. She summoned the broken pieces of the door and banished them back at the DE's getting another round of screams. She summoned the bottle of cooking oil from the kitchen and banished it through the hole before she hit it with a blasting hex followed by a fire spell making a huge grease fire that covered the stair and the most of the entryway. She heard more screams and shouts and that made her grin coldly. She waited a few seconds before she hit the grease fire with a jet of water which made the fire spread and intensify.

"Listen up you fucking rabid dogs! The house is enchanted to be fireproof! You're not! You better run while you still can!" She said summoning the two camping lanterns from up stairs along with the big bottle of kerosene.

She waited a few seconds and banished the bottle of kerosene into the raging grease fire making a huge fireball. She ran back to the kitchen table and continued to work on her father for a few more minutes. She heard the sounds of apperating followed by spell fire. She ran to a window and saw five Aurors exchanging spells fire with two DE's before they vanished. Luna opened the window.

"Aurors! My father's badly wounded. We need to get him to St. Mungo's. I'll levitate him out to you!" She called out.

"Please do." Hestia Jones called up to Luna.

Luna floated her father down to the Auror and she watch them vanish. She vanished the stone wall and using a potion master spell she hused out the flames and vanished the burnt oil and debris. That's when she saw the charred remains of six dead Death Eaters. She lost her dinner at the sight and felt dizzy. Two of the aurors rushed up the stairs and grabbed her before she passed out. She was taken to St. Mungo's where she sat in the waiting room next to George waiting to hear if her efforts to save her father's life were good enough.

Date: Monday June 27, 2016. Time: 9:00pm GMT. Location: The Bones residence, Devon.

Amelia Bones was just getting out of her bath to answer the floo when the floo died. She pulled her wand and she had just enough time to run to the front door to check on her auror detail before the wards went up and fifteen Death Eaters landed in her front yard. In the blink of an eye her two Aurors were downed by a pair of blasting hexes. She slammed the front door and punched the ward panel by the front door to bring up the house wards. She ran up stairs two at a time all the while thinking she was happy Susan wasn't home. She just made it to the top of the stairs when the wards feel and her front door was blasted in.

Amelia fired blasting hexs at the front door and managed to get one of the Death Eaters but she didn't see the Death Eater come through the dining room window. She took the Killing curse to her hip and tumbled down the stairs falling into a pile of limbs at the bottom of the stairs. The Death Eaters spent a few minutes ransacking the house before they all hit the house with fire spells. By the time the overworked auror force made it to the house there was nothing to save. They spent fifteen minutes putting out the fires and searching the house for Susan's body only to be called away on another Death Eater attack. Shack, who was the highest ranking Auror on duty at the time called in first shift to cover the investigations as his team moved onto the next crime scene.

Date: Monday June 27, 2016. Time: 9:15pm GMT. Location: Longbottom Manor, near Kent.

Augusta Longbottom was half asleep in her favorite chair in the Library when she heard explosions outside. She got out of her seat on her unsteady old legs and using her cane she hobbled to the front entryway. She was halfway to the Longbottom crest on the entryway floor when the front door was blown in and three Death Eaters rushed into the house. Before she even got a good look at them she was hit with a bone breaker hex to the chest and thrown ten feet through the air until she hit the library door frame and snapped in half.

Ten more Death Eaters ran into the house and over the next five minutes they ransacked the place taking anything the was worth something and not nailed down. At the five minute mark the three DE's outside shot up red sparks and the twelve men inside the big manor house set fire to the rooms they were in and ran out the front door. Six minutes after they arrived the fifteen man team was gone along with most of the Longbottom's liquid assets. Ten minutes later when the overworked aurors got the call that the wards around the Longbottom house were dropped they got their just in time to see the house burn to the ground. They just managed to put out the fires when they got another call. It was at this point that they called up every Auror on the payroll. It would prove to be not enough but there was only so much they could do at this point.

Date: Monday June 27, 2016. Time: 9:30pm GMT. Location: Digory manor, South Molton.

Amos and his wife Maggie were sitting in their den. The radio was on and the news was playing but neither of them paid much attention to it. Both Diggory's were deep in their cups. They had been for over a year now. Amos was a functioning alcoholic, and his wife was barely functioning. When the wards went up around the house neither of them felt it. The first sign something was wrong was when their front door was blasted in. The noise startled them both. Amos got to the doorway of the den before he was hit with an AK killing him instantly. Maggie barely got out of her chair when she was hit with a cutting curse that took her head clean off. The house was ransacked and fires were set. The DE's got out just before the freshly recalled aurors arrived on scene to put out the fires and see if anyone was alive.

Date: Monday June 27, 2016. Time: 9:45pm GMT. Location: The home of Mafalda Hopkirk, East Sussex.

Mafalda was just heading to bed when wards shot up around her house. She had enough time to get out of bed, put on her slippers and housecoat, and walk to the top of the stairs when her front door was blasted in. Three DE's rushed into the foyer, and two of them hit the elderly witch with cutting curses splitting her in three. Six more DE's rushed into the house and ransacked the place over the next three minutes. At that point they set fires and got out just thirty seconds before the auror team got there.

Date: Monday June 27, 2016. Time: 10:00pm GMT. Location: Peasgood residence, Wiltshire.

Arnold Peasgood was asleep in bed with his wife Penny when the wards around his home came down. He woke up when his front door was blown in. He was out of bed with his wand in hand a second later. He rushed out of his bedroom door and took an AK to the chest. The Death eater that got him booted open the door and hit Penny with a bonebreaker hex to the face. Nine of the ten DE's stripped the house over the next two minutes before they set fires and got out just in time. In fact when Shack popped into the Peasgood's front yard he saw the last Death Eater vanish.

"MOTHER FUCKER!" He screamed as the stress of the night was starting to get to him. His aurors shared a look and they felt their bosses pain. They put out the house fire just in time to get the next call.

Date: Monday June 27, 2016. Time: 10:06pm GMT. Location: St. Mongos, London.

Luna sat with George in the waiting room. Every twenty minutes an auror would show up floating body bags. They walked the dead right through the waiting room. Every body bag they saw made the two wince. By ten the two were freaking out on the inside. That's when things got sadder. The doors opened and Neville, Susan, Hannah, and Mary Abbot came rushing in. Neville saw them and jogged right up to them he hugged Luna and that's when she saw the tears in his eyes. Susan hugged her next and again Luna saw the tears. In that moment she knew who was in two of the body bags.

"Your aunt and Grandmother?" She asked softly.

"They think so. We have to identify the bodies to make it official." Susan said before breaking. Neville hugged her to his chest as tears rolled down his eyes.

"What about you two?" Neville asked.

"They attacked the Burrow. They killed my mum and dad and Ron and…." He couldn't get the last name out. He broke. For the first time that night he broke.

"My god." Neville said taking George's arm.

"They hurt my dad badly when they blasted the front door. I managed to hold them off and start to heal him but it's bad. They've been working on him for the last hour and a half." Luna said as two healers and a nurse came into the waiting room.

"Mr. Weasley?" One of the haelers asked.

"Yes?" George said in a choked whisper before he cleared his throat and tried again.

"Come with me please?" the Healer asked.

"Ms. Lovegood?" The other healer asked.

"Is my dad okay?" Luna asked in a broken voice.

"Come with me please." The healer said ignoring her question.

The nurse ushered the rest of them down the stairs to the morgue. George was lead to a recovery room where his brother was sitting up in bed looking haunted. George hugged him hard enough to make Fred cry out in pain.

"Watch the ribs." Fred said without a hint of his usual humor.

"Your brother suffered six broken ribs, a punctured lung, a broken collar bone, and a good concussion. He will need to spend the night here." The healer said.

"But he's okay?" George asked.

"Yes." The healer said but he was cut off by a scream from the next room.

George ran out of the room and into the next room where Luna was hugging her dead father as the healers were trying to pull her off. George shoved his way into the room and pushed the healers back. He hugged Luna from behind as sobs rocked her small frame. He hummed to her. At this point he was in such a level of shock he didn't even know he was doing it. He held her for a few minutes until she let go of Xeno's body.

"What happened?" Fred asked limping into the room.

"He was hit with dozens of wood splinters. We thought we got all the splinters out but he had one lodged in the back of his heart. He was in recovery when he coughed and the splinter came out and he started bleeding internally. Between the blood loss and all the blood replenishing potion he had in his system he bleed to death in a matter of seconds. By the time we figured out what was going on he was too far gone to save him." The healer said looking like he was going to be sick.

"George, we have too…" His thought was cut short when they heard an explosion from the lobby that rocked the building.

In a flash both twins had their wands in hand and Luna was a second behind them. The three rushed down the hall with blood in their eyes. They made it to the mouth of the hallway where the waiting room was and they saw twenty DE's. The twins and Luna brought their wands up and started firing cutting curses into the group with a cold efficiency. In the first five seconds six DE's were down and the rest all turned their wands on the three. George saw it and pulled the other two back into the hallway as the corner blew up pinning them in the hallway.

The Death Eaters started to spread out and advance on the hallway only to be cut down by spell fire from the side stairway as Neville, Susan, Hannah, and her mum came up from the morgue. The DE's made a dash for the stairway as they tossed spells behind them to keep the two groups pinned down. As they made the dash up stairs the two groups ducked out of cover and returned fire managing to kill two more DE's before they made it up the stairs. The two groups merged into one and gave chase up the stairs as Shack lead his team of Aurors into the building.

Shack caught the tail end of the group heading up the stairs and he knew the fight was on the second floor. He lead his team up the side stairwell and they came out behind the group of DE's, half of which were keeping the group of kids pinned down in the main stairwell, and the other half were firing blasting hexs into the long term care wards in an effort to kill as many people as they could. Shack, with the frustrations of the night weighing heavy on his head charged into the hallway and started casting fireballs at the group of DE's killing them almost instantly.

"Hold your fire! We got them all!" He called out and the group ran up the last few stairs. Neville saw where the DE's were downed and ran past the charred bodies into the long term care ward where he found carnage. He didn't even bother to look for his parents. There wasn't anything left of anyone. He ran out of the room and was violently ill. Susan ran up to him and held him as he cried.

Date: Monday June 27, 2016. Time: 10:17pm GMT. Location: Diagon Alley, London.

While every Auror was busy all over the country no one was watching the Alley. All of the teams that made it back that night and every Death Eater they had sitting on the sidelines, more than 300 in total, portkeyed right into the middle of the alley and spread out like wildfire. In groups of threes and fives they smashed in storefront windows and took what they could before popping away. The exception to this was Ollivanders, the apothecary, and WWW. These stores each got groups of twenty. They each carried a big duffel bag and they took everything they could before vanishing. One lone Death Eater stood in the middle of the alley looking at his watch. At the one minute mark he fired red sparks followed by a canon explosion spell that shattered windows and rocked buildings to their foundations. That was the signal to get out.

One minute and ten seconds after they landed in the alley they were gone. It would take days to get a total estimate of the damage they did, and how much they got away with. But the numbers were staggering. The apothecary was finished for the next few weeks as the owner tried to get replacement stock. Olivander's closed his doors and a few hours later he was seen leaving with a bag over his shoulder. No one would hear or see him again until the end of the war.

Tuesday June 28, 2016. Time: 6:45am. Location: Diagon Alley, London.

It was early morning by the time twins finally got to their shop to look at the damage. They took one look at the place and knew they were finished. They spent an hour picking through the ruminants of their shop and filled an expanded trunk. The twins waked into the bank and asked to see their account manager. After a short conversation they found out they were broke. With their father's death they inherited their father's debt. Between the mortgage on the Burrow, back taxes, the hospital bill for holding their families dead bodies, and the upcoming July's rent for their shop they had nothing. They left the office with less gold in their pockets then when they walked in.

They saw Neville sitting in a chair off to the side. He looked like he was just hit across the face with a wet fish. Susan walked out of a conference room holding Luna. Both girls looked like they could barely stand. The twins walked over and hugged them all.

"How are you guys holding up?" Fred asked.

"I'm not." Neville said pulling a flask out of his jacket pocket and taking a deep drink.

"I don't know what to do. First my mummy. Now my daddy…" Luna said trailing off as she sobbed.

"My aunt was all I had left." Susan said.

"That is not true! You have us." George said hugging Susan as they were approached by a tall blond woman in a white business suit.

"The twins, Susan Bones, Neville Longbottom, and Luna Lovegood?" She asked in a calm understanding tone.

"Yes?" Fred asked.

"Please come with me." She said leading them out of the bank. She pulled out a gold card and expanded it to the size of a A4 paper and held it out for them.

"Touch the card and I will take you to Harry." She said.

"Harry?" Luna asked.

"Yes. He's been in hiding for a few days." Abby said. When they all touched the portkey she tapped it with her wand and they landed on a sidewalk. Harry appeared out of nowhere and pulled the two girls into a big hug.

"I just heard the news. I'm so sorry. They attacked Hermione's house last night and ever since then we've been under lockdown. Here read this." He said holding up the brass name tag on the gold key ring. One by one they all saw the house appear.

"Come on in guys. Let's get you something hot to drink." Harry said leading them inside.

They were all seated around the den holding cups of hot tea in a matter of seconds thanks to Mary. There was a deep dark sadness hanging in the air. Harry sat next to Hermione and Luna who refused to let go of him. Susan and Neville sat next to each other on the other couch and the twins took two side by side chairs.

"Guys, I don't know what I can say in this situation. I don't know what to tell you to make the hurt go away. I can't fix this. I can't take last night back. Had I known any of this was going down last night you know I would have been there to help. What I can do is offer you all a home. Luna, Neville, Susan, Fred, George. We are all orphans. But you all know that's not true because we have each other. As long as I'm alive you have family. Fred, George, you two have been my big brothers since I first met you and Ron and Ginny…" Harry said trailing off as the weight of his friends deaths hit him again.

"Nice words but it doesn't matter. All that matters is that I kill them all!" Neville said angrily.

"Neville, you can't kill them all. Not by yourself." Hermione said softly.

"No but I can fucking die trying!" He said flinging the tea cup across the room in frustration as he shot out of his chair and started pacing.

"I want to kill them all! I want to get my hands around Malfoys scrawny little neck and squeeze until his fucking eyes pop out of his head! I want to burn their fucking manor house to the ground with them in it! I want to hear them scream and beg for death!" Neville yelled making everyone in the room flinch.

Harry stood up from his seat and stopped Neville from pacing with his hand on his shoulder. Neville tried to brush his hand away, but Harry held strong. He forced the bigger boy into a hug and held on to him until his breathing calmed down and he started sobbing.

"They have to die Harry. They all have to fucking die." He sobbed clutching Harry like a life raft.

"They will all fucking die. You have my word. I will help you do it. I'm not going to let you do it by yourself. That's not what brother's do." Harry said loud enough for them all to hear it.

"He's right. It's not what brothers do." Fred said joining the group hug with his twin. The girls latched onto the group too.

"We're in too. Now we need a plan." Hermione said.

"I got a guy that sells magical body armor and enchanted guns. We get a bunch of stuff, and we spend the next few weeks getting good enough to hit Malfoy manor. Once we get Lucius under truth potion we'll have a long list of names to work with. From there we go hunting and we don't stop until we kill them all." Harry said coldly.

"It's a good plan kid. My question is why do you have to be the ones doing the killing? Why not send adults to do the dirty work?" Dan asked as he and Frank walked into the room.

"Someone has to bring down the wards. Old manor houses are we protected and after last night they are going to triple and double their wards." Harry said.

"Right. So we need a guy that can bring down wards. But why do you kids have to go? Why not hire a team of killers to do the killing? People with the skills and training to assault a house and kill all the occupants. People like our old SAS buddies. Hermione can you fix other injuries like you did my leg?" Dan asked.

"Maybe? I'm sure we could hire a good doctor from the states." Hermione said with an understand smile.

"Good. In that case we know about two dozen guys that would love nothing more then to kill wizard Nazis for a bit of cash and some healing. They have all the training they need. They're a bit rusty but I'm sure two weeks to work out all the kinks and they'll be ready to go. Some of that fancy enchanted equipment you have would be a big help. Let the pros do the dirty work. You guys just sit back and enjoy the show. Or, if you have to be a part of this then play to your strengths. Hermione is the brains. I'm betting she could find a way to bring down wards easier. I'm betting a few of you can help with that. Harry you're going to organize everything with your elves. Once we get what we want we're going to need them to clean out the valuables and any evidence we leave behind before we set fire to the houses. You all have your talents and they're more valuable than brute force killing. Let us handle that." Dan said.

"Okay. I'll call Smith. I'm sure he would be more then willing to join this merry band of misfits for the right price. I'll also start buying equipment and land where we can train. I'm thinking a nice big farm in the middle of nowhere USA." Harry said.

"I have lots of gold I would like to pitch in and help pay for all of that. I also want to get my hands dirty in this. I need to." Neville said.

"We'll work with you guys to weaponize our pranks to fit your needs." George sad

"We'll need a lab space to work in." Fred added.

"I can get you guys a lab." Harry said with a smile.

"I need you two on my team. We need to hit the books hard. We need an easy to make truth potion, Veritaserum is a controlled substance around the world, and we need to know everything there is to know about wards." Hermione said hugging the two girls to her side.

"And so began the fellowship of the Dead Death Eaters." Harry said breaking the tension in the room.

"First things first. We have to bury our dead." Susan said softly.

"And we will do it as a family. No one needs to make a big funeral if you don't want. I have property all over the world. We'll pick a place and hold a small family gathering. We will get through this together." Harry said softly.

"We can help with that." Andy said from the doorway. Andy, Emma, and Dora came into the room and hugged the kids. Abby stood in the doorway. Harry looked at her and she nodded as she pulled out her phone.

For the rest of the morning they sat in quiet contemplation. Luna was never more than a few feet away from Harry or Hermione. She was acting more loopy then normal and Harry was really worried about her. Hedwig, who for the most part liked to sit on the windowsill in the study walked into the den and hopped up into Luna's lap.

"Hello cutie, what's your name?" Luna asked in a daze.

"That's my owl Hedwig, I fed her one of the twins changing treats. I think she likes being a dog." Harry said.

"Of course she does, she's so soft." Luna said hugging Hedwig to her chest. Hedwig, every the knowing emotional support animal nuzzled into Luna and didn't look like she had any plans on leaving.

Harry scratched her head as Abby walked into the room. She handed him a heavy red leather bag and Harry stood up. He pulled the twins aside and handed them the big bag with 750 galleons. They looked at the bag confused.

"Abby said your folks had some debt that falls on you and your brothers now. Well I'm a brother too and I can pay it off. Make sure you get in touch with Bill, Charlie, and Percy. Make sure they're alright. We lost a brother and sister. We don't need to lose three more brothers." Harry said hugging the two taller boys. They both looked at each other and nodded.

"We'll go find them and take care of the house." Fred said.

"Well take portkeys before you go. You can't stay at the burrow and your shop is in shambles. You're staying here from now on." Harry said handing them two portkey cards.

"Thank you Harry." George said.

"You don't have to tank me. Brothers never need to say thank you. Now go, and watch your backs. You have your vests right?" Harry asked.

"We put them on the second you handed them to us." Fred said.

"Good, I'm going to get more. I want us all to have a few sets." Harry said walking them to the door.

"We'll be back later." George said before they both vanished.

"I really need to learn how to apparate. It's got a limited distance but it's really good for getting around a city." Harry said shutting the door and almost running into Abby.

"I just got off the phone with real estate and property management. The Granger house is under storage wards and untouchable. I also have a line on a 5,700 acre ranch in west Texas that I can get you for five and a half million dollars. That's a lot of land for a cheap price. For another hundred grand you can have a really nice training area, and housing for troops with a lot of land left over. The property is about three miles long and three miles wide. I also called Mr. Smith. He's open for business to you anytime you need him and he's willing to take a long term contract to work for you. I setup a shopping trip for tomorrow." Abby said.

"Thank you Abby. You've been a huge help." Harry said leading her to the small studdy off the entryway.

"I just wish I could do more." She said taking a seat in one of the chairs.

"You're doing everything you can. This is a fucked situation. No amount of doing on your part is going to fix it. I'm in the same situation. I can't fix this no matter what do. We just have to make it out the other side. We need to look at houses and see which property we can do the funerals." Harry said sitting next to her and pulling out a cigarette.

"The roof garden might be a good place for it." Abby suggested.

"If we were just inviting these guys then I would. But I think we'll be having a few outsiders and I want to keep the apartment off the books for now. That's if they even want to do the funerals someplace quiet. Susan might want to hold a public event because her aunt was a department head. The twins might want to do something at the burrow. In those cases we'll wait and see. In the meantime let's look at the Miami house and the L.A. house. I want some place warm. We're going to take a week and mourn the dead away from this cursed island. Some place where the sun shines and the cold drinks flow freely. Even if they hold their own funerals they can still spend some time with us to unwind. I want a week of drunken partying to get them over this black mark on their lives. While they're mourning the dead you and me and all these adults are going to be planing. I want to hit this training hard the week after that. The sooner they can see revenge the better. Maybe if we let them go through boot camp with the troops it will get their heads in the game." Harry said lighting the cigarette and taking a deep drag as he rubbed his forehead.

"Well I'm with you every step of the way. The bank assigned me to you for the foreseeable future. So I'll be moving in with you guys and working for you. I'm now the go between for you and the bank in regards to everything we have going on at the moment." Abby said.

"Good. I need your organizational skills. We're going to check houses tomorrow morning and pick a house for the wake/vacation, and we'll set everything up. Then Wednesday we'll move the group and anyone else invited to the wake to the house. We'll do the wake Thursday and we'll spend the next five days in a drunken haze. During that time we'll work with Dan and get his old SAS buddies to a healer, and situated in the Texas farm with all the equipment they need. How fast can the elves build a little two bedroom house?" Harry asked.

"No idea? A crew of humans can throw up a small house in a week. I've seen it done." Abby said.

"Right, Tom! Dobby!" Harry called out and the two elves popped into the room.

"Yes Harry?" Dobby asked.

"How fast can a team of elves build a small two bedroom one story house?" Harry asked.

"Depending on the size, materials, and amount of elves working on the project, I'd say anywhere between eighteen hours and two days." Tom said.

"And full elves would work faster then half elves." Dobby added.

"Right. Get as many free elves as you can on standby. I'll be bonding them over the next six days. Abby buy the land. Have the goblins ward it off. Tomorrow we'll take a look at the property and mark off areas to build. We'll get building supplies and put the elves to work building a small town's worth of buildings. A small town of well built small houses with expansion charms on the inside can house all the free elves as well as any troops we recruit. We can throw up some big green houses and grow enough crops to feed the elves. I'm sure there are magics that can grow food in a fraction of the time." Harry said hushing out his cigarette and waving his wand around the air to clear out the smell.

"We'll set it up Harry." Dobby said.

"Thank you. I'll make sure you have access to all the funds you need." Harry said.

"And I'll work with you guys." Abby said with a smile and the two elves popped away.

"Now let go back into the den." Harry said with a heavy sigh.

"You seem to be taking all this death in stride." Abby said.

"It's guilt Abby. I will always feel guilty I couldn't see this coming. I couldn't stop it from happening. I wasn't there when my friends needed me the most." Harry said.

"It's not your fault, you're not an omnipresent god." She said.

"Yes it is. It's my fault they were targets in the first place. Neville, Luna, Ron, and Ginny, ended up on the shit list because they followed me to the ministry a few weeks ago. Now Ron and Ginny are dead, and Luna and Neville have no family left. That's on my head." Harry said looking guilty. There was a blur of movement as Luna ran up to him and smacked the shit out of him.

"It's not your fault!" She yelled.

"Luna…." Harry tried to say but she shut him up with an angry look.

"It's. Not. Your. Fault!" She said yelling the last word drawing the rest of the group out of the den into the hallway.

"I put you on their list." Harry said softly.

"No you didn't! The Weasleys and Malfoys have been at eachothers throats for decades! Neville's gran was a thorn in Malfoy's side in the Wizengamot for years. My father printed the truth in his paper and thumbed his nose at the Prophet! How many times has Hermione made Draco look like a bloody fool?! Susan's aunt was the only honest cop in the ministry! We were all targets before you even showed up Harry! It's not your fault." She yelled.

"I'm sorry little sister. You're right." Harry said softly.

"Come here you big fool. You are doing more for us then we can ever expect from you. Now stop being stupid." She said hugging him.

"Yes Ma'am." Harry said.

The rest of the day was spent at the house. Neville and Susan never left each other's sides. Luna and Hermione stayed with Harry and Hedwig stayed planted in Luna's lap. The Twins came back that afternoon with word from their brothers. Bill and Charlie were making their way back to the UK. They were going to be staying at Percy's apartment until they got their shit together.

"They want to hold the wake at the Burrow. We told them you were willing to host the wake at one of your properties but they all bucked at that idea. They want to invite all the Order." Fred said.

"If that's the case I have to miss it. I can't be taken by the headmaster." Harry said. He went on to tell them about the Headmaster and his dark agenda which shocked everyone hearing it for the first time.

"We have to go talk to them and tell them not to mention you at all." George said.

"Yeah, and you can bet your ass we're not going to be inviting any Order members. We had no idea Harry." Fred said.

"I know guys. I didn't know until a few days ago." Harry said patting them on the back.

That night they had a quiet dinner and headed off to bed. Harry talked over his plans one more time with Abby before bonding 67 free elves. By the time he headed off to bed he felt dead on his feet. When he walked into his bedroom he found both Hermione and Luna still holding Hedwig in his big bed. Both girls were dressed in flannel pajamas. Luna looked dead from crying so much but she also looked more alive. He was sure Hedwig had a lot to do with that.

"You know, if I keep adding one girl a night to my bed I'll have no place to sleep in a few days." Harry said with a laugh.

"Are you really complaining about sleeping with two beautiful girls?" Hermione asked with a smirk.

"Not at all." Harry said walking into the bathroom to change into his own set of PJs. When he came out of the bathroom he slipped into bed and the two girls curled up to him on either side.

"Good night little sister. Did you take your potion?" He asked softly.

"I did." She said hugging the little dog to her chest. Harry looked down at Hedwig and saw the dog shaped bird smile a sad smile and nuzzle in for the night.

"Good. You need to sleep. We're here for you. If you need anything you let us know. We love you Luna. You're family." Harry said brushing her hair out of her eyes and kissing her on the forehead. Hermione watched this happen with a soft smile on her face. In her head she checked the 'good with children' and 'good father' boxes.

"I love you too, but I miss my daddy." She said as tears pooled in her eyes. Harry hugged her harder and Hermione rolled over and hugged Luna from the other side so she was in the middle.

"And you always will." Hermione said softly. "The missing never goes away. But the memories hurt less over time. One day you're going to think about your dad and the memory will make you smile. You'll remember little things like how forgetful he was, or how something made him so happy. you'll remember that and it will make you smile. And until then you have us to hold you and make sure you're okay. You take all the time you need. You lean on us as much as you need." Hermione said holding her as Luna lost her battle with sleep. Harry shared a sad smile with Hermione and Harry cut off the bedside light.

That night they had a fitful sleep. But not as fitful as the Headmaster had. The DE's had killed off a lot of prominent ministry personnel. People that owed him a favor. That was political capital he would never get back. On top of that the Grangers were gone, Harry was still in the wind, and Severus never came back. At this point he had to conclude that he was dead as well. If that was true then on top of everything else he lost his spy, and he needed to hire two new teachers for the coming school year.