The fury of the Dark Lord

The students of Hogwarts were just sitting down to dinner when the doors to the Great hall came crashing open and Bill Weasley came rushing in causing everyone in the hall to stop what they were doing and watch as the redhead raced towards Harry, who had stood to meet him halfway.

"Bill?" Ron Weasley asked his brother, however the eldest Weasley child ignored his youngest brother as he addressed Harry.

"Hogsmeade is under attack by Death Eaters and Dementors." An out of breath Bill informed Harry before he bent over to catch his breath. At once the members of the Legion rose from their seats with wands drawn as the rest of the students began muttering amongst themselves.

However before Harry could respond, Angelina Johnson came rushing through the doors and headed straight for Harry.

"Diagon Alley is under attack by Death Eaters and Giants and Madam Bones is requesting help." Angelina explained to Harry who then closed his eyes for a moment.

"Expecto Patronum." Harry intoned as he opened his eyes watching as a bright white light shot out of his wand and across the hall before it vanished from sight as it passed through the wall.

"I've just sent a Patronus message to the leader of the rest of my army requesting that they go help out in Diagon Alley." Harry explained to Angelina causing the rest of the students and teachers to raise their eyebrows in shock as none of them had known that Harry had an army outside Hogwarts.

"Tell Madam Bones to expect Victor Krum and around forty Bulgarian fighters in the next five minutes." Harry informed Angelina who nodded before rushing back out the great hall. "Headmaster Flitwick, secure the school in-case these attacks are diversions." He doubted that the attacks were diversions but one could never be too careful in war when it came to the protection of children.

"Legion members, let us go lend our wands in Hogsmeade." Harry began as he and Bill headed towards the doors followed by the fifty three legion members who all wore determined looks on their faces as they mentally prepared for the coming fight. "Use any lethal spell you know against the Death Eaters." Harry instructed as they broke out into a run towards the Hogwarts gates. Even from this distance they could see the flashes of spells flying through the air, the orange glow of burning fires that was no doubt businesses and homes.

Diagon Alley

Madam Amelia Bones cursed as she dodged yet another killing curse from Rodolphus Lestrange who was doing his best to end her life as they battled it out in the middle of the Alley even as the two Giants destroyed buildings around them.

"I hope Potter arrives with reinforcements soon." Amelia thought to herself as she sent a bone shattering curse at the last male Lestrange, who sent it back at her with a flick of his wand causing her to quickly raise a shield to protect herself against her own curse.

However, Lestrange had sent a piercing hex at her which caused the shield to shatter before a bludgeoning curse caught her in the stomach knocking the wind out of her as she was sent flying backwards about twenty feet before she landed painfully on her back.

Amelia looked up at the approaching Death Eater and seeing the mad glint in his eyes, she felt certain that her death was only moments away as he levelled his wand at her chest.

"How the mighty have fallen." Rodolphus chuckled darkly as he stopped ten feet away from the DMLE head, he knew she was not about to send a curse at him as her wand was lying about five feet away from her.

"Avada Kedavra." Lestrange spat as he watched with glee as the sickly green spell shot at the downed DMLE head.

"I wish I could have taken the bastard with me." Amelia thought to herself as she watched the sickly green curse jump out of Lestrange's wand and race towards her. However seconds before the death curse struck her, a brick jumped into the air seemingly of its own accord and blocked the oncoming curse saving Amelia's life in the process.

"What the fuck?" Lestrange shouted as he looked around trying to find the bastard who had saved Amelia's life; he did not have to look far because standing twenty feet from a downed Amelia stood Victor Krum and around forty witches and wizards who all had their wands pointing straight at him.

"Oh shit." Was the last thought to go through Rodolphus Lestrange's mind before he was hit with forty different curses that lifted him clean off his feet and sent him flying down the Alley before his already battered body smashed into the unforgiving wall of Gringott's bank killing him instantly.

"Madam Bones I presume?" Victor Krum asked as he helped Amelia too her feet as the rest of the small army of witches and wizards rushed past them to engage the Death Eaters and giants in battle.

"Yes and thank you, you saved my life." Amelia replied gratefully as she retrieved her wand before she turned back to Krum who quickly answered her unasked question.

"We are the second part of Harry's army and he asked us to come and assist you and the Aurors in battle, he would have come himself but it seems that the Dark Lord also ordered an attack on Hogsmeade and Harry and the Legion are battling Death Eaters and Dementors there." Victor explained as he calmly sent a blasting hex at a Death Eater who had their back to him dropping the man to floor screaming in pain as his spine was shattered; however his screams were silenced as one of the Bulgarian fighters hit him with the killing curse.

"If I survive this night I'll be sending Harry Potter a bottle of Ogden's finest Firewhiskey." Amelia commented to the Quidditch star, before they both engaged a couple of Death Eaters in combat.

"And I'll help him drink it." Victor laughed as he sent one of the Death Eaters flying through a shop window as Amelia took off the proverbial gloves and hit the Death Eater she was fighting with a killing curse.

"So much meaningless death and destruction." Hit-wizard Bradley Davis thought to himself sadly as he gazed around the Alley that was littered with the bodies of the dead. He could see at least fifty bodies of men, women and children and that did not include any that may have been trapped inside any of the collapsed buildings that the two giants had destroyed with their huge tree-like clubs.

Speaking of giants, he was pulled out of his thoughts as he saw around fifteen Aurors and Bulgarian fighters firing killing curses at one of the giants bringing the monster to his knees howling in pain and yet after fifteen or so killing curses to the chest and stomach the huge bugger was still alive showing just how resistant to magic giants really were. However, seconds later the giant collapsed onto its back as another fifteen killing curses struck it in the chest and face, as the giant fell backwards it crushed almost the entire Weasleys wizard wheezes joke shop.

Thankfully the Weasley twins who owned the shop were not inside as they had been the ones to raise the alarm about the attack and had been two of the first to engage the Death Eaters in battle.

For another half an hour, Aurors, Bulgarians and Death Eaters did battle. Neither side was giving an inch as they fought. Even with the forty Bulgarian reinforcements the Death Eaters still battled viciously showing just how much they had been training since the return of the Dark Lord. The Death Eaters were outnumbered by at least twenty people and yet they held their own brilliantly, slowly wearing down the Aurors and Bulgarians. After a half hour battle, red sparks suddenly exploded in the sky above the Alley and seconds later, the Death Eaters vanished shocking the Aurors and Bulgarians momentarily.

"Why did they just vanish?" Victor asked Madam Bones with confusion in his voice and on his face as he looked around the Alley to make sure the Death Eaters had really left.

"I have no idea." Amelia replied just as confused as Victor was as she too looked around the Alley at all the death and destruction.

"Morsmordre." A high cold voice roared seemingly coming from nowhere and everywhere. Seconds later a Dark Mark at least five times larger than a normal Dark Mark appeared above the Alley.

"That was the voice of the Dark Lord wasn't it?" Victor asked Amelia in a whisper fear clear in his voice as he and the rest of the fighters stared up at the huge mark.

"It sure bloody sounded like him." Amelia replied in shock as she stared at the huge skull. "But where the hell was he? I didn't see him at all throughout the battle." She shook her head before she turned her attention to the fighters still staring at the skull.

"Help our wounded and kill any of the bastards that are still alive." She commanded them in a hard voice as she pointed towards a Death Eater that was lying motionlessly in front of her. Amelia Bones was sick of fighting the Death Eaters whilst playing by the Ministry's rules, from now on she was going to fight them by Harry Potter's rules, that is to say she was not going fight them by any rules, from now on she and the Aurors would fight fire with fire.

By the time they had finished helping the wounded and gathering the dead, Amelia was ready to hit the bottle hard. Over one hundred innocent men, women and children had been killed in the battle; thirty more had been seriously wounded and sent to ST. Mungo's. twenty four of her Auror's had been killed whilst nine more had been sent to the hospital along with fifteen of the Bulgarian fighters, only one Bulgarian had lost his life and that was because he jumped in front of a killing curse that had originally been fired a little girl who had tried hiding behind a stack of cauldrons.

Meanwhile at Hogsmeade

As Victor Krum was saving Madam Bones' life a slightly winded Harry Potter, an out of breathe Bill Weasley and the Legion arrived on the outskirts of Hogsmeade village. What they saw gave them all pause.

Bodies of the dead or dying littered the street; buildings burned unchecked and amongst all this Death Eaters and Aurors battled one another. Hovering above the village and around the village were the Dementors. It seemed that the soul-sucking fiends were there solely to suck the happiness out of the Aurors, giving the Death Eaters even more of an advantage, as for some reason the DE's did not seem to be affected by the Dementors in the slightest.

"That's a lot of Dementors." Harry muttered to himself before he turned to face the Legion members. "Right this is what I want to happen, I shall take care of the Dementors whilst you all go lend a hand to the Aurors in groups of four, that way you will either even the numbers in any one fight or you'll outnumber the Death Eaters in the fight." He explained quickly shouting over the noise of a collapsing building behind them. At once the Legion members charged into the village and fight with Neville Longbottom and Bill Weasley leading the way, seconds later the Legion crashed into different fights their wands ablaze with lethal spells, quickly turning the tide in favour against the Death Eaters.

Harry watched the Aurors and Legion battle against the Death Eaters for a moment before he closed his eyes as he began gathering his magic to his centre as his mind began filling up with his happiest memories. For over two minutes Harry did this, his dark, emerald green Aura flaring around him as his magic built up in and around him. After two minutes Harry's eyes snapped open as his wand came up in front of him and he roared to the heavens above.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM." The very ground around Harry seemed to shake as his wand tip glowed a brilliant white as a bubble seemed to expand from his wand growing larger and larger as it spread towards the village. Seconds later a pulsing brilliant white bubble reached the edge of the village before it began spreading across the village causing any Dementor it encountered to let out an unearthly shriek as they were flung out into the surrounding countryside.

The battling Aurors and Legion members seemed to be given a boost of energy as the Patronus bubble passed over them as they began fighting the Death Eaters even harder. The Death Eaters however may have been outnumbered 5-to-3, yet they seemed to be evenly matched and more than capable of holding their own as they battled the Aurors and Legion.

Harry allowed his Patronus bubble to pulse over the village until he was quite sure that all the Dementors had been defeated. After letting the spell end he allowed himself a few seconds breathing time before he too charged into the village to do battle with the Death Eaters.

Neville Longbottom was in his element as he, Dean Thomas and Seamus fought against inner circle Death Eater Gibbon. It was not an easy fight by any stretch of the imagination; it was three-on-one and Gibbon was holding his own against the three teens as though it was one-on-one.

"Avada Kedavra." Gibbon shouted before snarling as Dean dodged out of the way of the killing curse that sailed past him into a burning building behind him.

"Diffindo." Seamus cast aiming for Gibbon's neck.

"Reducto." Dean fired aiming for the Death Eaters chest.

"Sectumsempra." Neville cast at the same time as his two friends cast their spells. The three friends thought for one second that the fight would be over, however Gibbon slashed his wand at the on-coming spells sending them back at their casters causing the three teens to quickly duck out of the way lest they be struck by their own spells, Dean fell on his backside as he did so and the Death Eater took advantage of his downed opponent.

"Avada Kedavra." The sickly green light shot out of his wand and shot towards the downed Dean smashing into his face seconds later.

Seamus cried out in pain and anger as he watched his best friend for the last seven years slump to the floor dead, his dark eyes blank and lifeless, and his body unmoving. The Irish born teen roared in anger as he jumped to his feet and turned to a chuckling Gibbon who was advancing on Neville who had dropped his wand as he misplaced his foot as he had dodged his own spell coming back at him. Gibbon did not see the angry teen that was advancing on him from behind.

Seamus forgetting for a moment that he was a wizard and could use magic grabbed a-hold of Gibbon by the shoulder spinning the DE to face him before he smashed his fist into the man's face as hard as he could, dropping the surprised man to the floor in one shot. Seamus then straddled Gibbons chest before he began raining punches down on the man's face as hard and as fast as he could over and over again as tears of anguish and pain streamed down his face.

Neville watched in shock as Seamus continued to rain punches down on the Death Eater with no signs of stopping anytime soon. After a few minutes of watching in shock, he pulled himself together and raced over to Seamus and began wrestling the teen off of Gibbon's unmoving body.

"Get off me." Seamus shouted at Neville as he wrenched himself free. The Irish teen then walked over to his fallen friend, dropping to his knees beside Dean's body.

"I'm so sorry Dean." Seamus cried as he reached over and gently closed Dean's eyes. "I got the bastard for you but I won't give in to the darkness over your death as I know you would not want that." He said to his fallen friend as he picked up Dean's wand and placed it in his pocket.

"I will continue training and fighting these bastards in your memory." Seamus cried as he leaned forwards gathering his friends fallen body in his arms before he stood up holding Dean in a bridal-like carry. "You'll always be my brother." He then began heading back towards Hogwarts completely ignoring the raging battle still going on around him; Merlin have mercy on anyone who tried to stand in his way.

Neville watched silently as Seamus carried their fallen friend towards Hogwarts. He hoped his friend would not give into the darkness of losing his best friend like he had promised. He took a moment to compose himself before he headed towards the nearest Death Eater and began fighting with vigour.

As Seamus was beating on Gibbon, Daphne Greengrass found herself been flung through the air by her opponent. She landed painfully on her back, crying out in pain as she did so. She looked up into the grinning face of the approaching Fenrir Greyback.

"So beautiful." Greyback leered at Daphne in a raspy voice as his eyes roamed over Daphne's downed form. "You know, you would be my most prized, most beautiful werewolf were I to turn you." Daphne gulped in fear and horror as she stared up at the most savage werewolf in British history.

"Sadly however, the Dark Lord has ordered that everyone who fights us must be killed." Greyback rasped as he levelled his wand at Daphne.

"Avada… ARGH." Greyback screamed in pain as he was hit in the face with a cutting curse.

"Like hell you're going to kill my sister." Astoria Greengrass growled as she came to stand beside her downed sister with fire in her eyes as she glared at Greyback.

"Expelliarmus." Astoria spat quickly disarming the werewolf who had been holding his hands to his face in pain.

"Finish him Astoria." Daphne shouted from the ground knowing that the savage brute did not need a wand to kill his opponents. However Astoria hesitated when it came to actually killing another human no matter how savage they may be.

"She doesn't have the stomach to finish me." Greyback laughed as he looked up at the two sisters even as blood dripped down his face.

"But I do." Remus Lupin growled as he came up beside Astoria, his wand pointed at Greyback's chest, a dark glare on his face.

"Ah Remus Lupin, the most powerful wizard I ever turned." Greyback rasped tauntingly as he grinned savagely at Remus.

"Sectumsempra." Remus spat as he glared at Greyback. The dark cutting curse caught the werewolf completely by surprise as he was expecting Remus retort to his taunt. The spell cut a long, deep gash on Greyback throwing him backwards. The gash started about halfway down the werewolf's neck and ended around mid torso, spilling huge amounts of blood on the ground.

Remus watched coldly as Greyback wheezed and coughed up blood for a few minutes until his body went still and he breathed his last breathe. He then turned towards the downed Daphne and bent to give her a hand up.

"Are you two ladies ok?" He asked as he pulled Daphne to her feet.

"Yes thank you." Daphne replied as she dusted herself off before she went and retrieved her wand.

"Are you both ok to continue fighting or would you rather head back to Hogwarts?" Remus asked as he fired a tripping jinx at a Death Eater that was fighting Susan Bones and Hannah Abbott about twenty feet from them.

"We'll continue fighting." Astoria replied getting a nod from Daphne.

"Very well stay close to me." Remus instructed as he led them towards the nearest Death Eaters. He wanted to keep an eye on Astoria after watching her freeze for those few seconds. In a battle such as this, you could not afford to freeze or hesitate otherwise your enemy would take advantage and kill you without a seconds thought.

Across the village Harry Potter stood in front of a downed Tracy Davis and Patil twins as he battled against four Death Eaters by himself. He was very glad for the dulling lessons that he had been receiving from Headmaster Flitwick for the last two months as he dodged and shielded against the DE's spells as he sent back his own at an incredible speed.

Harry slashed his wand through the air sending the four incoming spells back at the owners shocking his four opponents who quickly raised shields to protect themselves.

"Avada Kedavra." Harry's killing curse smashed through one of his enemies' shield before smashing into his chest dropping him instantly to the floor dead, he then quickly slashed his wand at the three oncoming spells blocking their spells once more as they tried to catch him unawares.

Tracy and the Patil sisters watched in awe as Harry dodged and shielded against the four Death Eaters before he dropped one with a killing curse before blocking the three others curses. They then watched as Harry traded spells with the three Death Eaters faster and faster his wand a blur through the air. As they looked they could see that the three DE's were hard pressed to keep up with Harry.

Minutes later Harry dropped another Death Eater with the killing curse before turning his wand on the two remaining Death Eaters. Instead of slowing down some or getting tired as he fought against the two, Harry seemed to speed up even faster as he battled the two. One of the last two Death Eaters was dropped with yet another killing curse only minutes later brining the fight to a one-on-one duel.

"I yield." The Death Eater shouted as he threw his wand at Harry's feet; after watching three of his fellow Death Eaters be cut down by Harry within minutes of each other, he knew he did not stand a chance against the Boy-Who-Lived.

"Sopio." Harry dropped the Death Eater with an advanced stunning spell before he turned and began helping the Patil's up.

"Now that's how you fight." An awed Tracy Davis said breathlessly as she allowed Harry to pull her to her feet.

"That it is." Harry agreed as he found himself staring into Tracy's bright blue eyes. For the longest second the raging battle seemed to melt away as the two teens stared into each other's eyes.

"Will you have dinner with me?" Harry asked the brunette as he began moving his head towards her.

"Yeah." Tracy answered breathlessly seconds before Harry's lips captured her own in a fiery passion filled kiss. For what seemed an eternity but was in reality only thirty seconds the two stayed locked in their first kiss before Harry pulled back with a shit-eating grin on his face.

"I've wanted to do that for over a month." Harry grinned as he cupped Tracy's cheek in his palm, the battle could bloody wait for a moment.

"I've wanted to do that since I was thirteen." Tracy grinned back causing Harry to chuckle as she leaned into his touch.

"Harry." Shouted one of the Patil sisters in shock causing Harry to spin around his wand coming up ready to fight a horde of Death Eaters. However, he found the two sisters staring into the sky.

Looking into the sky, Harry and Tracy saw red sparks exploding over the village. Seconds later, very Death Eater left standing vanished into thin-air as quickly as they had come. Harry stared around the village in shock at the quick departure of the Death Eaters, however before he could even think to order people to help the injured, a Patronus came shooting through the air to land in front of him taking the shape of a Lynx.

"The Ministry has fallen. The Minister for Magic is dead." The Lynx spoke in the deep, slow voice of Kingsley Shacklebolt causing Harry's jaw to drop in shock and everyone who had heard it to gasp in horror. Harry was wrong; the two attacks had been diversions. Only Voldemort had not gone after Hogwarts but the Ministry of Magic. Seconds later, Madam Bones, Victor Krum and the rest of the fighters from Diagon Alley Apparated into the village.

"The Ministry has fallen." Said a grim faced Amelia Bones as she approached Harry.

"I heard." Harry replied equally as grimly as he felt Tracy take his hand in hers.

"The Ministry workers and I have no choice but to seek refuge up at Hogwarts." Amelia explained to Harry before she was engulfed in a hug from her niece Susan.

"I'm sure Headmaster Flitwick will be happy to give you refuge." Harry replied as more Ministry workers began Appartating into the Village with their families, knowing that Hogwarts was the only safe place left for them all.

For the next two hours, the Aurors and Legion members worked side by side as they helped the wounded, gathered the dead and secured any captured Death Eaters. The villagers' of Hogsmeade who had survived the attack either helped children up to the school or help the Aurors and Legion in the body clean-up. In one evening the entire Wizarding world had felt the absolute fury of the Dark Lord Voldemort.

End of chapter

AN: well that's chapter twelve up. Fudge is dead and Voldemort has taken the Ministry of Magic. How was it? Please Review…