Chapter Nine: The Attack:

Harry stood on the platform nervous for the first time since his first year. He had spent his summer training hard in body and mind. He now could get into Voldemort's mind and keep the old monster out, it was how he had found out about the attack on the train that was to take place today. Well he was going t show Voldemort and those death eaters that attacking innocent children would not be allowed. He got on the train with the other students watching as the prefects handed out flyers to all the students. They were portkeys to the school and once the attack began they would be taken to safety.

"Ready for a new school year?" Tonks, who had shifted to look like Hermione said by Harry's side.

"As much as I can be." Harry said, "I want to show that monster who is in charge and it is not him."

"He will think there is a spy still in his ranks." Ron said thoughtfully.

"Oh I got that taken care of, all guilt will point to MacNair, he should never have tried to harm Luna." Harry said grimly referring to an attack on Luna in Diagon Alley, right outside Fred and George's new shop, they of course had wounded the tall death eater and saved her life but he had got away. "Now he will learn a new level of pain."

"Good, serves him right." Ginny said walking by.

The students settled in for the train ride, the younger ones had no idea what was about to happen while the older ones were on edge. There was less happy talk and chatter and students could not help but notice that Harry was walking the train with the prefects. It was two hours into the train ride that something happened. Harry looked up and on a signal the portkeys were activated and the students were gone. In their place, clad in armor and ready for war were goblins. They looked happy and most were grinning, they did love surprises and this would be a great surprise! Finally they would get honor and hopefully a better standing in the Wizarding world.

"Here they come." Harry said wand out.

"This will be fun." Griphook said, "you still want blonde wizard alive if we find him?"

"Yes, and try to get Grayback alive too, professor Snape has a few potions he wants to try out on him."

"Yes sir." Griphook said, "this will be fun."

Soon the train had slowed and stopped and the death eaters popped in place just outside the train's anti-Apparation wards. On cue the goblins shrieked and screamed just like students and the death eaters strode onto the train ready for battle and battle is exactly what they got. They tried to get off the train but outside the train Aurors waited and they were going for the kill. Trapped the death eaters fought back hard but those sent would not leave here alive. The death eaters released their last weapon, Grayback half transformed started in on the goblins but several specially created potion bombs had him out cold on the floor.

Harry was battling Lucius who was not happy to face him but he had to fight back or risk his spot as spy. That and he was not going to get bested by the boy again! Finally though he was taken down and Harry bound him tightly and drug him off the train. Out of the fifty death eaters sent only two remained alive, Grayback now in a cage and in chains and Lucius Malfoy bound tightly and on his way to a private cell in the ministry officially. Unofficially he was going to Hogwarts where he would stay locked up until the end of the war. Harry had found out Voldemort was very close to killing him and though Harry did not like him much he had promised to do all he could to keep their last spy alive.

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Harry was tired after the battle and thought back to his summer training. He could tell no-one about what he had gone through to open up his core, it was a secret between him and the goblins. Not only had he opened up his core but he had absorbed the power from the connection to Voldemort and it was now fully one way. Harry was, mentally speaking far more powerful than Voldemort and indeed most witches and wizards were as Voldemort did not have a full soul anymore. He thought himself clever to create Horcruxes but he was a fool and in time he would learn just how much of one he was. For the time being Harry was going to have fun with a certain werewolf and that was why he was not headed to bed but to the dungeon were the evil creature was.

With him were Severus, who was teaching defense this year, Slughorn was teaching potions and wanted to see a feral evil werewolf up close, Remus Lupin who was teaching History of magic and Alastor Moody who was here to offer security to the school. They were met by Dumbledore and two American werewolf Aurors and one Sirius Black. He saw Harry and grinned hugging Harry as if he had not seen him in weeks. He had however seen him before the train ride, or what there was of it, and Harry knew he had to be worried about him for that.

"Glad to see you alive and well." Sirius said, "want to see the monster?"

"Who Lucy?" Harry asked.

"He is an imbecile not a monster, he would have to have brains to be a monster." Severus said coldly his fear starting to get to him.

"Sir you don't have to come down here." Harry said turning to Severus, "we can deal with him."

"No I want to, I want to face him." Severus said, "it's not like I have not had to face him before."

They came to the dungeon that Grayback was in and heard him growling, swearing and roaring in anger. They walked in and everyone there, Remus and the other werewolves included were glad that there were silver bars all around Grayback. He was standing on a steel mesh floor with silver under him so he could not dig his way out and he was in chains that he could not get out of and he was clad only in rags about his hips. He was at least cleaner than Severus had ever seen him though he was still an animal. He turned and saw Remus and sniffed and grinned at the other werewolves.

"Ah my brothers, you can help me." Grayback said, "get me out of here."

"Go to hell." Evan, a tanned short stocky man with a mop of tawny hair snarled. "You monster you should be put down!"

"Agreed, you took our lives Grayback and we are here to return the favor." Roberts a black man with long braided hair and violet eyes said. "You shoulda never left England, America says hi."

"You are all mine, Remus, you cannot wish to…"

"One more word filth and I will slit your throat myself!" Remus snarled wand out pointed at the evil werewolf, "I am going to enjoy you being studied and torn apart."

It was then Grayback felt real fear, he knew he was dead and he backed from his captors growling in fear and rage. He knew he would never get a chance to fight back and he looked from the three werewolves to the two potions masters and the three pureblood heads of houses and for the first time he felt the fear of his victims and he knew mercy was not coming for him ever.

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So there is the train ride back to school, Harry went through a very private ceremony with the goblins to open up his core and of course they love to help him out. Oh and yea I rescued Lucius, don't worry Severus has a new servant, I will not let him get away that easily. :)