"Where's the distraction?" Charlie asked nervously anticipating their capture any second.

"She said noon it's a bit early yet." Remus replied quietly.

"What are we looking for?" Charlie asked glancing around.

"No idea." Remus sighed. "She said we'd know it when we saw it."

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"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Harry asked for the tenth time as they hid by the Phone book that served at the entrance to the Ministry of Magic.

"I've got a plan." Buffy replied with a shrug. "We'll see how it goes you just worry about getting what you need."

"Everything's set." Hermione said creeping up behind them with Ron at her heels. "Are you positive you don't want to use the polyjuice potion." She said unsurely glancing at their blonde friend. "Everyone will know what you look like."

"And unlike before your tan wont be in jeopardy." Harry teased.

"If you can even call it that anymore." Buffy scowled glancing down at her lightly bronzed arms. "Oh well just chalk it up to another sacrifice to the greater good." She shrugged. "You all need to chill I've got the whole distraction thingy under control. So we good to go?" She asked sharing a meaningful look with Hermione.

"All set." Hermione nodded pulling out a familiar flask and three glasses."We'll only have an hour to get in and out once the potion takes affect." She reminded them as they dropped the hairs in their individual glasses.

"Ok." Harry nodded glancing around the group. "Everyone remember the place where we're meeting?" At their nods he continued. "And you all have your piece of the mirror?"

"Check and Check." Buffy replied. "Let's get this show on the road."

"Bottoms up." Ron said as the three of them drained their glasses grimacing at the taste.

Getting in was easier than they expected. The golden trio waited, trying not appear suspicious, for the arrival of their friend who insisted she had to come in through the visitor's entrance.

"Do you think she forgot the number?" Ron asked quietly.

"I'm going to go with no." Hermione replied nervously as they watched a stream of Aurors fly into the atrium.

"I think this is it." Remus said nervously as he and Charlie stood unknowingly across the room from the golden trio.

"What the bloody hell is going on?" Charlie demanded as they watched a petite blonde stepped off the phone booth elevator a familiar silver badge pinned to her jacket. She never falter even as twenty fully trained aurors stood wands pointed at her. Smiling sweetly at them she asked.

"Can any of you point me to the security desk? I'm supposed to turn in my wand for inspection." As she finished the first spell flew. She narrowly dodged the stunning spell, flipping over the shocked group. As she landed securely on the top of the newly restored fountain she drew her wand. "On second thought I think I'll hold onto it." She said her smile never faltering as the battle began.

"Well noone will notice us." Hermione sighed. "Come on the sooner we get done the sooner we can get her out of here."

"If she lives through this I'm going to kill her." Harry said furiously allowing Hermione and Ron to drag him away.

"Surrender and we wont hurt you." One of the Aurors demanded.

"I may be blonde but I'm not stupid." Buffy scoffed rolling out of the way as the stone wizard exploded beneath her landing in the midst of three Aurors she disarmed one quickly knocking him out as she dodged the others spells. A jet of light hit her in the chest partially hitting her visitor badge knocking it across the room and knocking her off her feet but she quickly regained her footing much to the shock and displeasure of her opponents. "Now I'm angry." Buffy said glancing down at where her badge and been pinned. "That was shinny I liked it." She pouted launching an offensive attack.

"What the hell." Charlie said bending down and retrieving the badge from where it had skidded to a halt against his boot. "It isn't bloody possible." He said reading it.

"We don't have time for this, we need to go." Remus replied. Charlie nodded shoving the badge into his pocket and following his friend out.

"How does that spell go again?" Buffy said mockingly. "Oh yeah, Bibity Bopity, Boom." She said pointing her wand at the fountain and shouting reducto causing it to explode in a million pieces. Using the dust filled air as cover she disarmed as many Aurors as she could. She hoped that her friends would hurry because if this went on to long she was going to have to start actually hurting the Aurors.

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"We're all set." Remus said as he laid the last candle in the designated spot.

"So we recite the spell and then....." Charlie trailed of unsurely.

"He comes back out." Remus replied.

"And what about the other things?" Charlie began. "We don't know what else we could be bringing with him."

"We went over this." Remus sighed. "It's a risk but we don't have anymore time to debate it. It's now or never."

"Ok." Charlie nodded. "Let's do it."

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"Come on where are you?" Hermione groaned flipping through stacks of records.

"What the bloody hell?" Ron cried as a huge explosion sounded above them.

"Buffy." Harry said concerned.

"Will you two help me look so we can get out of here!" Hermione snapped.

"Didn't you hear." Ron began.

"Yes of course I heard it." Hermione cut him off annoyed. "She's doing her part and distracting everyone we don't have time to worry about her right now. She knows what she's doing and the sooner we find those papers the sooner we can get ourselves and her out of here."

"I think I found something." Harry said handing her a scroll.

"YES!" Hermione grinned. "Ok we've got it let's go." She said as they ran to the door only to be knocked off their feet as the ground shook.

"Earthquake?" Harry said unsurely a the ground finally settled.

"I don't think so." Ron said nervously as a flood of screaming wizard flew past them.

"What is that?" Hermione said growing alarmingly pale.

"I don't know." Harry replied grabbing her hand. "RUN!"

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"We've got to do something." Charlie said as they dragged a semi conscious Sirius between them under an invisibility cloak. "We brought that thing here we can't let it hurt anyone."

"I know." Remus replied worriedly. "But nothing we throw at it seems to faze it."

"Buffy!" Harry called as they made their way into the dust filled atrium.

"What the hell is going on?" Buffy demanded making her way through the panicked masses to her friends.

"You tell us?" Ron replied.

"Don't look at me." Buffy replied annoyed. "I was kicking ass and then all hell broke lose.

"I think it's a demon." Hermione explained.

"How the hell would a demon get in the Ministry?" Harry asked confused.

"Side effect." Buffy groaned. "Well looks like I'm not done kicking ass."

"Side effect of what?" Harry demanded. "What's going on?"

"No time." Buffy waved off his questions. "I'm guessing it's coming that way?" She said pointing to the hallways most of the mob was fleeing from.

"How can we help?" Hermione asked concerned. "It's immune to magic."

"Find me a weapon." Buffy called pushing her way through the crowd. "Something sharp."

"Sharp right." Hermione said unsurely.

"Unless I know what kind of demon it is I wont know how to kill it." Buffy explained. "When in doubt beheading is usually a good fallback plan."