Chapter 25- Demon arriving

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As we watched the mini trash can headed back to Hogwarts where a mini door open and swallowed the trash can looking machine. Immediately the Hogwart's elves rushed out to clean up the mess. We collected our thoughts while in a group hug, but finally headed to the main doors of the castle where I was handed a note.

It read, Lord Perevell please see me in my office at your convenience... Headmaster Granger.

The gargoyle leaped out of the way and we entered the Headmaster's office only to collapse on the couch.

"Having fun are we? I do so love watching our little droid but that was first time I was able to order it to fire it on something that's supposed to be alive. At least it hurt our little demon enough to make it leave. The instruction booklet was not that precise on results."

I can see Hermione Granger leaking through but I was somewhat exhausted. I was wishing the equivalent of Colin Creevy was around somewhere to take pictures of the devastation from all of my 'Bombarda' curses. If only I knew.

The Headmaster continued to keep me awake but his next words gave a bit more informative.

"We apparently have a leak or spy. Getting over or through the Main Gate defenses could have been accomplished by some means which we are presently checking for. However, the wards at Hogwarts going down without help is not possible but yet they did. This kind of tampering is not supposed to be able to happen. This is quite worrisome and I strongly suggest you watch your back and that of your family. It appears that Hogwarts is no longer safe."

I was beginning to wonder if Hogwarts was ever safe.

Enough was enough and we flamed to our cottage in Hogsmeade and collapsed in our bed after putting the elves on alert.

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I slid a couple more bangers on my plate as the girls and I talked over breakfast.

"Okay I'm going to assign a number of elves to each of you, there should be at least one watching you at all times. I'm also going to put them in defensive mode."

"Harry is that wise, with Gabby and me just walking around and some jerk makes a pass it could get quite nasty."

"Look they are to going to obey you, just don't send them away or stop them from doing their job, I can't be with you girls all the time."

"We will agree Harry if you agree to have an elf with you at all times, fair is fair." Gabby gave me a stern glare.

We headed back to Hogwarts to continue our research into demons and their distraction. What we were not aware of was of the pictures that had been taken by however means, Furthermore, Voldemort had also been overheard in his diatribe during the skirmish.

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Well my one elf wasn't sufficient for the girls and soon the girls had multiple elves invisibly guarding me. I would never say that I didn't need the elves but it was the why that was surprising.

Apparently my photograph fighting demon Voldemort soon surfaced in the newspapers. After the photographs there came a article claiming Voldemort had called me Harry Potter. Whether someone did research or the newspapers did the research one conclusion came about, he's the original Harry Potter. One morning at breakfast the Daily Profit did an exposé's with pictures. They had pictures that were from last week, they also had pictures of me as Minister of Magic, and pictures from long ago in Daily Profit as the tri-wizard champion.

As soon as I saw the Daily Profit that morning I panicked and got up and without thinking asked the student population, as I waved the paper in the air...

"Are you sure? Do I look like I'm more than 300 years old? Just because I resembled these people does not make me that person." Apparently the wizard world had gone deaf, blind and stupid when it came to me and the students just stared. However, the general public believed that I was Harry Potter that meant that common sense was totally thrown out the window as it had been 300 years ago. As far as Voldemort being back? Ho-hum.

Meanwhile at Hogwarts the Headmaster had all my mail directed to the house elves for sorting. I had become anything you can imagine in the publics mind and there was somebody wanting to put it down on paper and send it to me. My elves sent students flying and kept a three foot person free zone around me. Meanwhile I and my family was scrounging around in every library looking for a solution to our demonic Voldemort problem. In the end we came to the conclusion that there was only one possible answer to our problem.

"Harry this old tomb says that the Constitutions of 1236 prescribe that "Fonts are to be kept under lock and key, because of witchcraft." Gabby added.

That led us directly into the ground for the purpose of proper disposal of holy water.

"Harry we are now flirting with beliefs of multiple religions. We pretty much have eliminated our choices down to using holy water but we definitely don't want to step on someone's religious believes in the use and disposal of something we only think can work." Daphne expounded.

"Well we'll just follow the guidelines as best we can and obtain a few gallons of holy water." That was easily said than done.

Our first problem was to get anyone to help us. This whole idea turned into a lot of work as we wish to use as many different religious blessings that could be obtained. In the end we succeeded but now we had to face Voldemort.

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We were deep in trying to plan where I could have a face-off with the demon without putting a gazillion people in danger. Sure Voldemort would show up if I made a public announcement where I would be but so would a whole bunch of the public to view me the oddity. Everybody wanted to see or touch or ask for some boon of the legend, Harry Potter. These problems were soon taken out of our hands.

The Claxton echoed through the halls of Hogwarts. We gathered our special bags containing the orbs of holy water and went to meet our fate.

Voldemort had brought his Dementors, Death Eaters and Vampires onto the grounds of Hogwarts. They seem to be a lot more of them than last time as we felt the wards falling on the grounds and the castle. We only approached to what we thought was a safe distance from him and waited for the Headmaster's droid. Our demonic Voldemort to seem to be changing as we watched. All we could tell was that it was going to be a very scaly monstrous thing when it finished its transformation. We move closer to the 'Thing' as the droid approached it when a monstrous clawed and scaly claw erupted from the ground, grabbed the droid, and dragged it into the ground. Was this appendage part of Voldemort? Seconds later the ground shook and I assume the droid was no more.

The girls started banishing the orbs containing the holy water at Voldemort while I took to the air. I made my Ariel pass dropping my orbs containing my donation. I flew to the ground to join the girls getting ready to transform and flash everyone away. We stood there watching not knowing what to expect. Would the demon hiss and sizzle or just melt into the ground? No, it stood there looking like a damp demonic and pissed off 'Thing'. Suddenly the clear skies opened up with thunder and lightning. A bolt of lightning struck downward accompanied with a deafening thunderclap. The shockwave threw us from our feet. The bolt of lightning had hit the demonic creature. Voldemort screeched and screamed but suddenly the earth opened causing the Voldemort 'Thing' to fall downward into the crevice.

The girls were not screaming in my head, nor out loud, so I figured they were in as much shock as I was. Aurors were rushing by us to engage Voldemort minions that were still standing. Several professors were helping us to our feet when a column of flames erupted from the crevice that the Voldemort 'Thing' had fallen into. The flames turned into a fiery image before it shot skywards into the heavens. The crevice closed, it appeared to have never been.

The Headmaster's office was quite crowded with the Minister, Ministry personnel, Hogwarts professors and four phoenixes. The white and black phoenix had joined Fawkes and Hedwig. Most of the people had been watching from the relative safety of the Headmaster's office and were now trying to describing the fiery image. Everyone believed that they had seen what they saw but no two descriptions were the same.

As quiet was restored to the Headmaster's office the phoenixes were now trilling and chirping to cover that we were actually mind speaking and I would translate what was important to the occupants of the office.

Fawkes started, "Hatchling you were just the bait caught in the middle, I'm sorry."

The black and white phoenixes started their twins speak, "As you are well aware of there are powerful entities…one overstepped his bounds… the offended retaliation upseting another…soon there were sides...call it a political war."

I explained what the phoenixes were trying to convey to the people in the room. The phoenixes continued. "When you and your first wife died…one of the entities took you under his proverbial wing...so when he became involved in the political war...words stopped and actions began...the demon escaped their control...you were just the bait...among the demon Voldemot's few human thoughts was the hate for you...the demon was drawn here as this is where his last human thoughts had died...you are free to resume your life until you are again called upon." The two phoenixes flamed away.

There was silence in the room until Gabby started giggling and then with a straight face said...

"Look on the bright side, it took them a couple of hundred years to argue and get us involved, let's get the hell out here!"

Fin