Hello Everyone, here is the next installment for you guys. Please read A.N
March – 1942
The world war – II picked up pace. Nazi's finalized the plan to eliminate the Jews. The plan was dubbed as 'The Final Solution'; six large extermination camps were set-up. It was known that Jews were burnt alive in these camps. In actuality this plan was set-up by Gellart Grindelwald.
Jews had a small community of wizards that were rumoured to have held secrets to immortality and spells of large destruction were also known to them. Many of the well known battle mages were Jews. Where there is fame there is jealousy, where there is jealous there occurs backstabbing.
Before the WW-II started, there was a wealthy Jewish wizard by the name of Alexandar Heifetz. He was a well known Potions master and healer. His wealth was immense. Alexandar had 2 children – 1 boy Alon Heifetz and 1 daughter Arella Heifetz. Where Arella was down to earth, beautiful and powerful witch, Alon was a slob and a squib. His inability to do magic was one of main reason for his jealous nature towards his sister. Even then he knew he could live easily of his father's wealth.
Alon was a spendthrift; he indulged in various vices like drinking, adultery etc. Alon often would use to sit in the apothecary/infirmary during the day and stole from the part of profits to keep up with his habits.
Alexandar used to travel to many places to directly buy the ingredients for his potions. On one of his journey he met an Orphan named Hillal, he knew he was a Jew due to the circumcision on his pirate part. Hillal didn't know about his parentage or surname, other than that he was a Jew. Alexandar grew fond of Hillal and asked him to accompany him. Alexandar found that Hillal was also a squib just like his son.
Alexandar passed on his knowledge of Potions to Hillal for the next 10 years. During this period Alon started swindling more money from the apothecary. Alexandar appointed Hillal to look into the accounts and increase their sales. Hillal reported the theft of money by Alon to Alexandar. This caused Alexandar to disown Alon and getting his beloved daughter Arella married to Hillal. Alon became jealous of his sister more because she had magic now his inheritance.
One not well known fact was that Jewish wizards had a group, which was headed by a leader. The leader held knowledge of a location of a secret place, which he took oath to protect. 17 such locations were located all over the Germany. These 17 locations hold a clue each for 4 places. Without information from these 17 locations it is impossible to locate the 4 new secret hidden locations.
In each of these 4 locations a part of medallion is hidden. When the 4 parts of the medallion are joined, the joined medallion would act as a portkey to the place known as Avalon. This place held some of the lost knowledge from Atlantis. This knowledge was so powerful that a whole island could be destroyed with a single spell. So it was nearly impossible to find this place.
Alexandar was one such leader and Alon was supposed to be next in line to be the leader and as such he knew about the story of Avalon. When he was disinherited, he went to Gellart and told him about this. Gellart promised Alon his inheritance and many good looking girls as slaves for this information. Gellart being a greedy bastard approached Alexandar to disclose location of 1/17 places and also the leaders of other groups/tribes who held the knowledge of 16 other places.
He was rejected and sent back. Gellart tried to fight Alexandar but was defeated easily with the help of his tribe. Gellart then planned to use Hitler, use his hatred towards Jews to capture all the Jews. Gellart would then separate the wizards from normal group and interrogate them about the locations. This led to the mass extermination of Jews.
Even with all his efforts, Gellart couldn't get what he wanted. He was able to locate 3 leaders of locations. He tried using legilimency to find the knowledge but the leaders were killed because of the oaths they took. Leaders secretly passed the location of the places to their disciples and had them migrated to Britain, France and Russia, where they would be safe. The leaders didn't know who the other leaders were. Only two people were aware who the leaders were – Albus Dumbledore and Harry Peverell, due to his memories from Dumbledore which he got in the future. Albus Dumbledore also knew the locations of the 17 places but was sweared to an oath, to never reveal their location or visit these places himself. Dumbledore being a noble guy agreed to this immediately. The knowledge of the Avalon was to be used only in dire need, World War – II wasn't one of them.
Alon murdered his sister & brother-in-law and took back his inheritance. Gellart's attack at Stalingrad was thwarted where he thought 3 new keepers of the location where supposed to have been hidden. Gellart was getting desperate because all his plans were getting ruined.
-Scene Change-
Wizengamot session was taking place. Harry wanted introduce some new ideas like more rights to Muggleborns and decrease the fees for Hogwarts. But him being new and not many connections he wasn't able to pass them. He was slowly building connections. He didn't want to tip pureblood supremacists about his plans. He truly was to follow the Grey path. He didn't want the Purebloods to hinder his plans or Light wizards to abolish all the traditions and give all the rights to Muggleborns. There had to be a balance. Quality of magic was falling down.
Dumbledore started the Order of Phoenix to battle against Grindelwald. He approached Harry to join it. Other prominent members included Ephilas Doge, The Prewetts, The Potters, The Weasleys, The Diggorys and other Light families which held important posts in the ministry. Many of the darker families were secretly funding the war for Grindelwald. They were hoping that he would share his power with them. In the new world they would be the rulers of the Great Britain where as Grindelwald would be the overall leader.
-Scene Change-
The Order of The Phoenix is group of Wizards who fought against the Dark Lords. Current leader of the Order is Albus Dumbledore. The meeting was taking place in old Dumbledore's place in Godric's Hollow. Harry Peverell for the sake of keeping appearances went to the graves of the Peverells and placed flowers on them while Dumbledore was watching and offering his own prayers to the grave of his mother Kendra.
When the Order was completely assembled, Dumbledore stood and started speaking "Welcome to the meeting of the Order of The Phoenix. Our group is mainly created to fight against the Dark Lord. We will represent the light. And today I welcome our new member Lord Peverell."
Harry stood up "Hello Everybody. To those who don't know me I am Lord Harry James Peverell. Normally I am neutral & so is my family but the crisis of Grindelwald puts me on the curb. He is risking the statue of secrecy. I am willing to join the fight against him lest he destroys our home and our way of life."
Harry received a brief applause for his speech. Dumbledore started gathering information from various members about the happenings of the war. Harry raised his hand and spoke "I have heard from my informer that Grindelwald is collaborating with the muggle named Hitler, who is one of the main instigator for the war. He is also supplying various potions that would make the muggle soldiers to act like Inferi or Zombies as they are referred by muggles."
"These soldiers wouldn't know pain and can continue without food for many days. It is really barbaric from what my informer told me. The drugged Soldiers are extremely thin with bones showing. The only ways to kill them is set them on fire or shoot them in the heads."
Dumbledore replied "Are you sure about this Lord Peverell? If this is true we should inform the muggle authorities of the allied nations unless they want to suffer more casualties than required."
Harry looked at Dumbledore and said "Ofcourse I am sure. Money can do many wonderful things. My informer is guy in higher authority. He is currently working for me and sends me report on weekly basis unless it is very urgent. We have caught a guy and replaced him with my own personal mercenary using runic illusion. Polyjuice is very difficult to obtain for such large quantities. I have many informers in other departments too."
-Flashback-
Harry printed an advertisement in the Daily Prophet that he would hire Mercenaries, Ex-Aurors for security purposes, with highly satisfactory pay.
Many people turned out for the selection process because of the mentions of high pay. He called the first guy inside the interview room and asked "Name?"
"Nathaniel Burrow sir"
"Past experiences?"
"I have worked as an Auror, Hit-Wizard."
"I see. You would have to prove your worth first. You must fight either of my wives."
Nathaniel looked at Susan and Daphne trying to see which one of them was more dangerous. Susan was acting more innocent, trying to get him pick her as his opponent. She was right, while she was looking innocent Daphne looked slightly intimidating, so he picked Susan as his opponent.
Both the contestants bowed to each other and took 10 steps away from each other.
Daphne was regulating the duel "No killing other than that everything goes. No serious maiming too. Harry would kill you if you do so. You may begin on countdown of three."
"Three" Nathaniel steadied himself.
"Two" Nathaniel lifted him arm slightly and pointed the wand at Susan.
"One" Nathaniel's wand's tip started glowing red.
"And Go!"
Nathaniel thought to fire a stunner first but thought it would be prudent to attack more viciously and fired a bone breaker at Susan's arm. Susan fired her own bone breaker to cancel the curse. Wizards could deflect a curse or cancel it with their own magic. Most of the simple ones could be easily deflected by an average fighter. It was thought to be impossible to deflect the Dark Curses and the unforgiveables.
Nathaniel fired three stunners at Susan, he overpowered the second one. He thought 1st and 2nd would weaken her shield, third would hit her. Before the 3 stunner could reach her Susan dropped her shield and slashed her wand diagonally downward and jabbed it towards Nathaniel, while shouting
"Spiegel Protego"
A concave dome appeared near infront of Susan halting the Stunners. The stunners were absorbed into the shield. The shield then grew in size surrounding Nathaniel from every side.
Susan questioned Nathaniel "Do you yield or want to continue? You don't have a chance now."
Nathaniel growled in response and started firing more dangerous curses, which were absorbed into the shield. Susan smirked and shouted "Remittimus"
All the absorbed spells multiplied and shot towards Nathaniel simultaneously. He was hit by 3 bone breakers, 2 semi-dark curses and before he could shout because of pain he was stunned by his 3 stunners, which the mirror shield discharged towards him.
Susan looked at Daphne to see her reaction. Daphne looked unaffected and said "What do you expect? We were trained by Harry himself. And look at him you got him all hot and bothered. We are going to have a sleepless night tonight. Harry just like Hogwarts express doesn't stop in between once he gets started. Hope we have huge doses of Pepper-up to keep up with him."
Harry waved his handed & healed Nathaniel of his injuries. When Nathaniel woke up he asked Harry & co. perplexed "You were toying with me weren't you? Why you require bodyguards I don't know."
"Yes Mr. Burrows my wife was toying with you. As for the bodyguard, it is one of your duties. Some job undertakings for me would be quite risky and also naturally the pay would be high depending on the risk. Further information would be provided after you join us. Now I have some questions I would like you to answer as you are competent enough with wand."
"Yes sir" replied Nathaniel respectfully. He knew this was not a man to be crossed. If his wife was toying with him, this man could kill him without lifting a finger. As if Harry was reading his thoughts, Harry replied
"I can easily kill you, if that is what you want?" as soon as Harry finished saying this, his eyes flashed red and Nathaniel was blasted back towards the wall.
Groaning Nathaniel stood up "You shouldn't have been able to read my mind, I have decent Occlumency skills. They were a requirement during my tenure in Auror department."
Harry smirked coldly and said "If you say they are decent, they are barely existent as per my standards. Don't worry would you like to join us?"
"Yes Sir. What would my work entail?"
"Not so soon. I want you to swear a magical oath saying you won't betray us and also not to reveal any of our secrets. If you want to terminate the contract we would have to be notified 2 weeks in advance."
"Very well. I, Nathaniel Burrows swear upon my life and magic to never betray Lord Peverell and his wives during my tenure. I also swear not to reveal his secrets before and after my tenure. So I say. So mote be it."
"Very well. Now lets start with your skills. Duelling form was slightly off, spells usage was ok, and more usage of Non-Verbal is required. Also more dodging exercises are compulsory. Fitness standards are low similar to that of High class Purebloods."
"Also Burrows you will be trained in stealth. Information will be provided to you on need to know basis for each case."
"Sir I am willing to learn. Can you tell me about the salary?"
"Hmmm. Aurors get 250-400 Galleons a month, hitwizards too make around 350-500 Galleons per month. So I am willing to pay you 750 Galleons per month which is basic plus any undercover missions will earn you 200-2000 Galleons. Additional monthly bonus of 100 Galleons will be paid if I am satisfied with the months performance. I expect hardwork Mr. Burrows and I am willing to pay for it. Remember I don't forgive traitors. If you betray me kill yourself if you have a chance. But if I get to you before that I can promise you a lot of pain and a slow death."
Similarly 35 other wizards/witches were selected. The amount of money they are spending wouldn't even make a dent in their monthly income.
-After 6 months-
For the last 6 months Harry trained the 10 witches and 26 wizards in stealth, occlumency, wards, healing, curses etc. He also showed them interrogation techniques.
The Peverell manor was always guarded by minimum of 8 persons a shift, with 3 shifts a day. Also on rotation basis a team consisting of 2-4 members were sent on errands.
Harry called for 3 of his best operatives. Nathaniel Burrows, Elladora Smith and Samuel Fox.
"I have a high risk mission. I want to know if any of you want to go on it?"
All three agreed to go on mission. Samuel enquired "Milord what does the mission entail?"
"I have recently caught 3 personal from the German side. I want you guys to infiltrate the camp as them. I have special runic necklaces, which will give you their form for 3 months. Every week I want you to send reports about the happening there. Obviously you will be paid additional 2000 Galleons per month for this undertaking."
The 3 wizards/witch looked at each other before giving Harry a nod, indicating they were willing to go undercover.
Harry looked pleased and said "Elladora I want you to impersonate the wife of whom Nathaniel will be impersonating. She is known for throwing lavish parties also a gossip monger. I want you to collected information in these parties." Elladora nodded at this.
"Nathaniel I want you to impersonate a wizard who actually is placed undercover by Grindelwald in Hitler's army. You have to collect information from both muggles and wizards. I know you can do this, I have full confidence in your abilities."
"And Fox you will join as personal guard for Hitler, from where you can gather more information."
All three agreed and went to their respective prisoners to learn everything about whom they were to impersonate. Using legilimency they had to gather knowledge on their mannerisms, hobbies, friends, enemies etc.
Harry had similarly placed 10 other wizards/witches in various spying jobs. This was one of his main sources of information. He received weekly reports from his guards.
-End Flashback-
The Order meeting was over after Harry providing the information he had. They were also notified of 2 attacks which were about to take place during the next month. These attacks were organised by Grindelwald, he want the ministries of 2 places to fall. Dumbledore was leading a group and Harry was asked to lead another. Harry using his memories of Dumbledore found out that he was going to a place which in previous timeline Dumbledore went to and the other group, in which now Dumbledore was going with were all killed last time. His great-grandfather was a part of that group.
Dear Readers do you want me to kill Dumbledore? I have 2 interesting twists, I can either kill him or keep him alive. If kept alive the twist would blow your minds away. The war will end in 2-3 chapters. Please Review what you think about the chapter. No flames please, don't like don't read.
