Hogsmeade: October 1996:

Harry was happy to be here in Hogsmeade, it was a risk but he was not going to let a little thing like a war stop him. Thinknesse had tried to come to the valley a few weeks prior and had been repelled, Harry knew an attack by the dark lord V and his followers would grant a foothold for the dark lord in Hogsmeade. Or so he thought, and Harry knew that the plans put into place would prevent that. Or so he hoped, he just want to have one good day with Ginny in Hogsmeade without an attack. That was not to be, and he was glad he had prepared, this time he was going to use magic and bring the pain home to those who dared attack. The attack was well coordinated but Harry had weapons those fighting did not.

"You know what to do." Harry said.

"Always, all I want to do is chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I am all out of bubble gum." Ginny said quoting a muggle movie.

"This will be fun." Luna replied.

"Yea, I think Bruno will be coming out today." Neville said smiling grimly.

"Wish me luck." Ron said.
"As if that will help." Hermione replied.

The teens spread out, they had been training for such things and now they were as ready as they could be. Children don't belong in war, but the sad fact of the matter is that children had been in war since time began. Harry disappeared and began to pick of the more weak death eaters. Neville transformed to a bear and went after several werewolves. He killed two and saw Greyback, Greyback was strong but even he could not defeat a bear. He was maimed and lay dead in his gore on the battlefield. The glory that the death eaters hoped to have this day was not to be, they came to destroy and none would make it out alive, there were no inner circle here, but two hundred of the dark lord V's army fell in the first five minutes alone.

Once the villagers saw what was happening they joined in. From there it was a slaughter for the death eaters. The dark lord V had thought he could use most of his army this day, for whatever reason he would win Hogsmeade, and perhaps in a bit despite Dumbledore take the castle next. His plans would not bare fruit as his troops were mowed down. None would live and this would tip the ministry to call for the so called leaders arrest, that is of Harry Potter. This of course would not happen at all as the minister could not even get through to Hogwarts.

"So how does it feel to be a fugitive?" Draco asked when the paper came out with a 10,000 reward for his capture, "a lot of money."

"Not as much as the 50,000 reward to keep me safe and here." Harry countered, "and 100,000 reward for the arrest of a traitor named Thinknesse, he has violated just about every law he can, forced the muggleborn to hide out in America."

"Where they will be treated worse than here." Draco said, "they …"

"Let me stop you there, Eastern US, magical were not allowed to even talk to non-magical until 1941, in the West it was not until 1929 when the last scourer of a rotten line died. Now magical are not only allowed due to the equal rights amendment to the MACUSA charter, they are required by law to fight evil." Harry said, "after all you can't hide from a nuclear bomb even if you have magic."

"Ah, well so they have to be part of muggle society? That is mental." Draco said.

"Soon we all will, they will find us, it is a matter of time and we need to be ready to serve or they will kill us off, but not if we have shown we have something they need, and we do." Luna replied.

"We are suppose to be guardians." Ginny added, "and have forgotten that."

School went on from there, Harry did receive a letter that kindly told him that while it was most uncivil of him to post the reward, it was not, strictly speaking illegal. So the reward stayed until Thinknesse withdrew any reward on Harry, Harry publically removed the reward on Thinknesse but kept it private in case things happened. Charlus was upset that he was not in on the war front though he quite forgot how he had taken down two death eaters of his own. The hero of the battle was Neville, he had wiped out Greyback's clan and that had removed a major threat. The one who really made all this possible stayed in the background, Ron Weasley did not want the fame as he had thought it through and realized what a target that put on one's back.

Riddle Manor: November 5, 1996

Voldemort was very unhappy, yes he had control of the ministry but not of the magical peoples of Britain. He was not sure how that had happened, he could not even get into the department of mysteries. Part of him wanted to forget the prophecy and go under ground and regroup, the other part refused that. He was whole again, he had a new, better body now and it worked better, true he did not have the Potter brat's blood but his new body was handsome and beautiful and he felt better in it. Bellatrix had not followed his footsteps. She had new limbs, silver, the hand she kept covered with a long glove, her legs already were under her skirts. Her eyes were red and glowed with power. She was daintily eating little chocolates and drinking wine.

"My lord must we wait, why not attack Hogwarts, he is not there you know." She said.

"I know that, but we cannot attack." Voldemort said, "there are too many who can't be turned to our cause there, we must find a way to get them to work with us. Greyback is dead and the vampires don't want to help us, yet."

"What of the giants?"

"The last full colony was wiped out, how I can only guess." Voldemort said, "we need to bring this war to the muggles, then the people will come to me."

"How can we do that?" Bellatrix asked.

Before Voldemort could respond, McNair staggered into the room bleeding badly. He had been on a secret mission to infiltrate a muggle military base. It had not worked, not even with all the magical people on his side. It was as if someone had anticipated magical people trying to break into the base. As McNair lay bleeding out on the floor Voldemort realized he was going to have to change his plans once more. Was nothing going to go his way anymore?"

Hogwarts: November 1996:

Harry sat at a table pouring over the a map before him. This was going to be risky, but then things had worked out so well up until now. Voldemort had fully broke the ancient treaties and now was stripped of all British citizenship and was considered a traitor and invader. He and his followers were to be treated as the enemy, all but the man seated enjoying a glass of fine wine clad in his best robes. This was Lucius Malfoy and he was on his own side, but his own side was a side that did help the magical world. Harry still did not like him at all but knew he had to work with the slippery slimy frog.

What Malfoy had brought was a Malfoy treasure, or so he said. Harry was sure it had been looted form somewhere in the past. He put Lucius Malfoy up there with his birth father in people he did not like. Harry did like Lily and tolerated Charlus, Charlus was not to blame for what James had done. Lily was filing for divorce, which, unlike the muggle world had been legal in the magical world for centuries. If one or both parties wished it, it was legal and Lily was not going to stay with James. Harry was not upset by that at all, at least he had two mothers now, Petunia and Lily.

"So what are we looking for?" Harry asked.

"Hiding spots." Lucius replied, "I felt it was better this was used against the dark lord than he got to use these caves."

"Right below Sherwood forest." Harry said, "your ancestors got this from Robin Hood."

"Yes, on his dying bed." Lucius replied, "they were where he hid, most don't even know the caves are there, and the dark lord will never find them."

"What is in them?" Dumbledore asked.

"Things, treasure, weapons, Greek fire." Lucius said.

"Greek fire is what muggles call napalm." Harry replied.

"Phosphorous." Lucius corrected, "they used phosphorous, and used it well, it can burn in water."
"So that is what is in there." Harry said, "I am guessing it is magical?"

"Yes, like fiendfyre, but controllable." Lucius said, "very controllable."

"So what do we do with it?" Harry asked, "you said there is a dark revel."

"I don't' attend those, only those into ah blood do so, many of the inner circle don't. That is left to those with baser instincts. There is a dark revel in two weeks, the caves are not far from here in fact. You can wire the caves the muggle way, the dark lord will not test them for that."

"Then set a timer and poof." Harry said. "I hate war."

"Yes but you want to live don't you?"

"Yea but not become a monster." Harry replied.

He had to bring the war to the dark lord V, had to make him hurt and hurt badly. He was partly responsible for the breakup of his birth family, for the suffering of so many, many people. Harry was going to make him hurt, even if he did not get the dark lord. That was why he headed to the caves muggle style and with a few others set the ancient explosives that Harry hoped work. There was little other choice, the muggles had put more security on their munitions around the nation and this was the only way. The caves under the forest were full of other treasure, armor, weapons and the like. Finally it was done and Harry hoped that what they did was muggle enough that the dark lord V would not notice they had been there.

"I still don't get why we needed to use Lucius," Harry groused to Dumbledore later.

"He has that map of the caves in the UK." Dumbledore said, "all the magical and muggle."

"Did you say magical?" Harry asked, "as in magical aside from the goblins and dwarves?"

"I did indeed." Dumbledore replied.

"I think we just might be able to win this war." Harry said, "yes those caves will work wonders, if we can get some of the muggleborn back to help."

"I think we might." Dumbledore replied.

Harry felt hope, that maybe this war would not drag out that long. That perhaps a major loss of life could be avoided. There was even better news, the dark revel had ended in even more loss of life, Bellatrix it was rumored had even been there and should be dead now. Harry was not going to morn over her or her kind ever. There was more news, muggleborn that could fight were coming back, and he felt upset by that. He had fought to get them out of the country, now they were back? What good could come of that? He was sure so many were going to die even if the war was shortened.

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Yes about things going well for V, they aren't, and will not. Yes Lucius is around and helpful, for now. He is on his own side, and right now he is being helpful. The caves will play a part, and the war is going underground, literally.

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