Death Eater hunting.

Lara appeared in Malfoy manor's apparition point, startling a death eater guard. His inaction cost him dearly. Moving quickly before the startled fool could move, she plunged a knife in his chest, before taking out her gun and shooting down two more who'd just come into the room.

The sounds alerted the other inhabitants that there was an intruder. Many of the death eaters were still fatigued, but that didn't matter, they were pureblood witches and wizards, who would be able to tackle them ?

Lady Saint was ready for them, putting herself into a trance before exploding with movement, moving faster than they could believe, she became a living breathing weapon, throwing her own body against the death eaters, some dressed in their night clothes, a witch with a long face fell down with her throat slashed, whilst 6 more died thanks to their own magic poisoning them. A couple even exploded as Lara decided to make the odds more even. Some of the death eaters found it hard to fight since they couldn't cast any spell of any kind, meaning they had to defend themselves muggle style. It was a clumsy move on their parts, since most wizards did nothing to actually exercise their own bodies.

When the last death eater had been killed, Lara turned to face 14 teenagers, some even close to her own age, others were as young as thirteen. Voldemort hadn't been indiscriminate with the ages his army could have, it seemed to Lara as if a five year old could join.

But Lady Saint didn't care, as she teleported in their midst, using hand to hand techniques, she snapped the neck of a pug faced girl, stabbed a red haired girl in the stomach with Belle, plunged Anna into a dark skinned boy and when she finished she found herself staring at two girls, one her own age, and the other aged fourteen. She could feel the dark mark on both their arms. They were both fair game, it was a pity they hadn't used their brains.

Lara didn't do anything, she didn't need to. She poisoned their magic's and set it to the killing curse killing them instantly. Swallowing slightly in regret and sorrow, Lady Saint carried on. She hated the idea of killing her own age group, even younger ones. Unlike Dumbledore, she knew there was no way to rehabilitate them. With the soul bond it was impossible. Death was their only release. It was that simple. Now she'd started she couldn't stop.

Walking into the ball room, she found herself facing the entire inner circle. Looking at them she identified a small majority as the parents of the children she'd just killed. She recognised Lord and Lady Parkinson, along with Mr. Nott.

Oh this was gonna be fun !

Lara's voice was as cold as it was menacing, the death eaters shuddered at the sound of her voice, " I hope you were expecting your children to fight and kill me, well done by the way. Sending kids to fight someone that doesn't fight your way."

One of the witches, probably the mother of those two girls rushed forward, wand in hand, eyes mad with rage and ignoring her husbands arm on her own wrist, even though he was furious as well. Lara took out her gun and killed her. The bullet went right into her head.

" That's for trying to control my life. I swore to make you pay the price. What better way than to murder your family ?"

That started the fight. Lara eyed the death eaters, who were bringing their wands to bear. She decided to let them use magic, but that didn't mean she couldn't have fun with them. Making a note of their positions, she jumped….

…right next to Mr and Mrs Zabini, who she killed instantly with two quick lightening flashes of her daggers….she jumped again, shooting down five death eaters.

The death eaters were startled by this tactic, they milled around trying to fight her. But Lara's jumps made them jumpy, no pun intended.

Lara moved quickly, slicing a death eater here, before jumping and shooting down two more in another part of the room. She was able to navigate easily. The Death eaters were milling about, trying to bring their wands to bear on her, but she was too fast, too quick and agile. They just couldn't hit her with their curses. In fact, quite a few of the death eaters were killed by their own kind rather than having Anna or Belle slash through their throats.

Lara, although she didn't often do this, except for training purposes, was enjoying this. She enjoyed arrogant and ignorant fools being taught lessons which would see them pay a price.

She jumped around the room, picking up speed, killing death eaters, punching them and breaking their necks, slicing their throats and shooting them in their hearts or stomachs. Moving around, Lara disposed of the death eaters, they were making it too easy for her; they were that frightened.

In the next jump, she was startled by the pair of death eaters in front of her; Dolores Umbridge and Cornelius Fudge. The Minister and the senior undersecretary of the minister, they were death eaters.

Lara's face mocked both of them as they brought their wands to bear. She'd gotten over her shock at seeing two people who'd tried to interfere in her plans. Now she'd ensure they'd trouble her no more.

" You're a nasty little witch Potter, it'll give me the greatest of pleasures to make you respect us." Umbridge sneered at Lara.

Lara sneered, " If you're thinking of trying to kill me with magic, don't because I've redirected your magic - " Umbridge snorted and cast the killing curse. She dropped down dead.

" To kill you," Lara mocked, wiping away a fake tear. She whipped out her gun and shot Fudge in the head. The inept fool had been stunned into motionlessness by the death of his own undersecretary that he wasn't able to move before Lara pulled the trigger.

The fool died instantly.

Ignoring the dead politicians and the death eaters, Lara left the room. She wasn't going to let Voldemort destroy the building, she was going to expose the pair of them as death eaters. The lot of them would be known as the animals they were.

Lily was in her husband's arms as Emma and Dan were sitting on the opposite couch, Hermione was reading a book but Lily could see the girl was uncertain. Lily didn't know, nor did she really care if Hermione was concerned about Lara and her disappearance. It was more likely she wanted to ask the only Potter child annoying questions.

Just then Lara appeared, covered in blood, exhausted. Her hair, normally neat, was slightly askew. She sat down, just as Lily attacked her, " Where have you been ? Why are you covered in blood ? You've been gone for hours." Lily was becoming hysterical.

" I've just destroyed a death eater camp, massacred the inner circle and the majority in the Malfoy manor. I also found something interesting…" Lara said, just as James interrupted her.

" Wait, Malfoy manor ? You broke into Malfoy manor ?"

Lady Saint shone through Lara's smile, " Yes, I've destroyed the inner circle. Now all that's needed to make tomorrow perfect is the Daily Prophet."

" Why ?" James asked suspiciously.

Lara's smirk grew larger, " It's a surprise."

The smirk vanished, " I killed quite a lot of death eaters tonight, including the junior members. I've already taken care of them."

Emma was startled and a little scared that someone could talk about murder this calmly, " What have you done ?"

" Displayed them in Diagon Alley, their marks revealed and exposed. That should be a warning, along with the Lady Saint sign, that becoming a death eater is a death sentence. Hopefully it should stall their recruitment processes."

Hermione's know it all tone was out for all to hear, it was so self righteous even her own parents couldn't believe it was their daughter actually speaking, it was like someone else was speaking through Hermione, " You shouldn't have killed them. Some of them may have been forced…"

" No, they weren't," Lara interrupted. " You need to take the mark willingly. They did and it started to warp their personalities. You can't reason with them, ever. "

Lara gave up at that point, realising there was no hope for this by the book girl, " You know what, go back to Dumbledore. He might actually have a use for you. You're certainly no use to me."

Lara went to bed.

Minister of Magic and Senior undersecretary death eaters !

James Potter almost spat out his mouthful of breakfast, the headline almost made him think he was dreaming, Dan looked over his shoulder as he read the news. The news that Fudge and Umbridge were - rather had - been death eaters was hardly news, it was shocking and it startled James. The implications were serious, if the minister and his own second had been marked as death eaters, then how far did the disease Lord Voldemort had let loose contaminate magical politics ?

James couldn't help but wonder what thoughts were running through the heads of both Voldemort and Dumbledore, he guessed that the dark lord would be furious whilst Dumbledore was befuddled. Though whether or not the old man knew that both of them had been death eaters made James think his old headmaster had gone round the bend.

If he had known, why hadn't he done anything ?

What was he trying to prove ? James was drawn out his thoughts by Dan's welcome voice. The muggle dentist had no idea just how welcome his voice really was at that moment.

" What does this mean ?"

James looked at his friend, " Its trouble. I always knew Fudge was easily bribed by Death eaters, allowing them free reign, putting their policies into operation, Umbridge, well she's someone I'd say was a Death eater. But I never, never thought I'd actually see it confirmed. This goes a long way to prove the identities of many of them."

Hermione came in, yawning. She saw the headline and gasped. James looked at her and nodded, even though Lara felt nothing but contempt for her, James felt as though this girl should be nurtured.

" Yep, I never thought it possible. Maybe now the war will be different."

But Hermione was thinking along the lines of something far more different, " But they could've been redeemed."

James shook his head, thinking this girl was far too naïve, but then Lily looked at the newspaper, " I think you're wrong Hermione, Fudge was a political animal. Umbridge was a pureblood bigot, evil and warped. I think they joined willingly, albeit for different reasons."

Emma piped up, " What reasons ?"

" Power," Lily said simply, " Fudge would've wanted to survive on the side of the winners. But Umbridge was out simply for the power of torturing the ones she thought were inferior. People like you, Hermione you could never believe Umbridge was redeemable."

Dan looked into James' face, " What does this mean ?"

James sighed, " Like I said, it means trouble. Fudge and Umbridge were two of the most powerful people in the country, and many were looking to them to help them through the war. It'll be a disaster for the magical world."

Hermione asked the number one question, " What does that mean for Lara ?"

" Nothing. Dumbledore wont do much to stop her, she knows that." Lily said in eating her toast.

" How can you be so sure ?" Emma insisted.

James paused again, " Lara is prophesised into killing Voldemort, she's also got the names of virtually each and every Death Eater, and she's not going to stop until they die."

Lily chimed in, " She calls them the ungodly, and that they need to die."

James nodded at what his wife had just said, " She's not doing anything that many would find reproachable, there are many in the magical world, including Dumbledore's own order, that want the Death eaters to die."

" The only problem is that Dumbledore will know who's doing the killing," Lily pointed out, " Lara did point it out at that encounter when we broke into Lara's manor."

" They wont be able to say anything," A voice spoke from the doorway. They all turned to find Lara. They didn't knw how long she'd actually been standing there, and she didn't say. They knew it would be a waste of time to actually ask the girl. She was wearing a shirt and joggers with simple trainers. By the slight redness of her skin, they saw she'd been jogging.

" I put a spell on Dumbledore and his little band when you broke in, it's similar in some ways to the fidelius charm. Only in this case I laced the speech with magic. If you try telling someone who doesn't know who I am then that person will find themselves unable to speak again." Lara explained as she walked over to the table.

Hermione gulped; she'd been threatened by Lara on quite a few occasions, she'd even seen the other girls abilities. If Hermione needed any more proof this girl was seriously dangerous, this was it. Making people swear to secrecy about something important without them realising it wasn't a picnic. It meant Lara could do what she wanted, whenever she wanted.

She didn't know that she was right. Lara had used the technique before, on criminals. It wasn't something she normally did but she had the ability, and that was all that mattered.

When you were a criminal you needed all the help you could get, it didn't really matter where you got it from yourself as long as the law didn't track it.

Lily and James thought the same thing, and yet they both felt proud that their own daughter hadn't thrown her life away because of vanity. They'd both been afraid of her reasoning when they'd first heard she was a criminal, now they could see that she'd taken some very wise precautions.

Emma and Dan looked at their daughter, " You broke into her home ?"

Hermione looked down, " Yes, Dumbledore took Ron, me and the rest to try and meet her."

Emma frowned, this wasn't the way she'd raised her own daughter. " Hermione Jean Granger, you should know better than to break into someone's home."

" Dumbledore said it wouldn't take long to persuade Lara to join us," Hermione tried to defend her actions, including that of her idol. It never occurred to her that her protest made her even more stupid in Lady Saint's eyes.

Lara looked at her with contempt, so no surprise there, " You and Dumbledore haven't really impressed me. Instead you've pissed me off, you've tried to kidnap me without taking the time to think whether or not I'm more of a hassle than you can imagine, you've continuously threatened me with wands and magic, ignoring the fact that I am more than capable of subduing you and dampening your magic."

Lara looked at her beadily, " Why wont you make it more interesting for me, or have you simply forgotten your imagination ?"

Hermione didn't have an answer.

As the week passed the Death eater casualties rose up and up. Many witches and wizards, especially those that many would hardly imagine as being death eaters, collapsed in the streets of Diagon alley, the ministry and Hogsmeade village. They died as their magic and their life forces were torn from their bodies, further examination showed that they were death eaters.

Amelia Bones had been inundated by the fact that Cornelius Fudge and Dolores Umbridge had both been death eaters, the investigation team dispatched to Malfoy manor had managed to identify the slaughtered death eaters, including families like the Parkinson's, the Crabbes and the Goyles. There had been surprises, like the Edgecombes.

But Fudge and Umbridge….

Amelia should've anticipated something like this, and yet she hadn't. but now she'd had time to think it over it did make some sense. Fudge had passed over many decrees over the years, bolstered by the influx of donations by well known Death eaters, many of those affected departments like Amelia's.

Umbridge….she wasn't much of a surprise, Amelia and the ex senior undersecretary had never truly gotten on. Amelia despised the woman, she was the worst form of witch imaginable, and she was the epitome of everything Amelia hated about her own world.

The most surprising thing found at the remains of both sites, the Death eater camp and Malfoy manor, was the sign in the air of a stickwoman with a halo. The muggle born Aurors had told her it was the sign of Lady Saint, a muggle criminal and jewel thief.

But what was it doing above the death eater camp, and the manor of an old magical family ?

Was this Lady Saint a witch ?

These questions nagged Amelia and it wasn't even morning !

Lara, Lily and Emma were in London. They'd all decided to leave for shopping and the fact they had a virtually unlimited amount of cash could see the stores becoming richer.

Hermione was with James and Dan, she'd decided to stay at the manor, and read her way through the entire Potter family library.

Emma's heart clenched at the thought of her only daughter, Hermione had always been authority loving, rule abiding, it didn't occur to her that not everyone in the world wanted to learn. The fact the girl wanted Lara to accept Dumbledore's gospel told Emma that her only living child wasn't being realistic.

Lara was a wild child, she did things by herself, she made her own rules, she lived by her own rules. Dumbledore didn't cross her mind, making Hermione's arguments moot.

Emma looked at Lara. She'd never seen the girl so relaxed, so happy. Emma sighed, she felt a little jealous, even though Lily and Lara were on a sort of probation she did envy their relationship. There was more love between these two than there'd been between Emma and Hermione.

Dan hadn't been exaggerating when he'd said that Hermione had been treating her parents badly, going off without a word, no explanation, always lying.

It hurt her that her own daughter had become someone Emma didn't know. Maybe Lara was right, Hermione was a lost cause.

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