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The idea came from a plot bunny posted by Bobmin and Alyx so thank you to them too.


-'Good afternoon Headmaster.' Harry tilted his head back. Even lying on the ground he had a good view of the fuming headmaster as he strode purposefully towards them.

Dumbledore seemed to do a double take when he saw Remus and Severus standing there with grins on their faces.

Hermione seemed torn between being reprimanded by an authority figure and the exultation of what they had done.

-'I just destroyed one of Voldemort's anchors.' Harry put his hand on Hermione's knee when she opened her mouth to correct him.

Dumbledore stopped. He turned to the still smoking stone on the other side of the group.

-'I see. And what was your intent concerning the other anchors?'

Hermione opened her mouth again when Harry squeezed her knee.

-'Obviously it's going to take some time to find out where he hid them.' Harry was glad that Tonks had caught on and was schooling her features. 'In the meantime I think we're going to leave you be Headmaster.'

Snape stepped lightly away from the group as Harry started casting a spell.

Harry turned to the headmaster as Hermione touched the glowing portal.

-'How were things at Gringotts by the way headmaster?' He smiled at the shocked expression on the older man's face. He nodded at Snape before disappearing through the portal.

-'Why did you lie to him Harry?' Remus was waiting for him to the right of the glowing portal.

-'I don't think he's completely committed to beating Voldemort.' Harry said calmly as he conjured his normal clothing.

-'What do you mean Harry?' Tonks gasped.

-'I'm not sure myself to tell you the truth but I get this gut feeling that although he doesn't condone what Tom is doing his agenda doesn't call for him dying quite now.' He sat down on of the couches.

-'That's impossible Harry.' Hermione protested. 'He wants to stop him and his death eaters as much as anyone.'

-'And yet …' He trailed off.

-'So what were you trying to do by hinting that there were other of the things still existing?' Remus asked from his usual seat.

-'He's going to check on the ones he knows about.' Harry focused on him. 'Then when he finds out that those are gone I'm hoping he's going to double his efforts to find the others and tip Voldemort that he's not immortal anymore.'

-'And then?' Ron was sitting on the armrest as he followed the back and forth.

-'Then he launches an all out attack to get rid of me in the place he thinks I'll be.' Harry gestured to the 4 walls.

-'You think you can beat him then?' Tonks sat on Remus' armrest with a shocked expression.

Harry and Ron nodded in unison.

-'When do you expect this?' Hermione took a seat on the other side of the couch.

-'It's 6 right now so if it doesn't happen in the next two hours I expect it before noon tomorrow.' His calm tone belied the shock faces all around him.

-'In the next two hours?' Remus gaped.

-'But he can't attack you here, it's under a fidelius!' Hermione contradicted.

-'You think he's going to attack Hogwarts?' Tonks asked softly.

-'Yes, I think he's going to go for an all out attack there as soon as he hears I'm there. The death of Nagini will just be icing on the cake.'

-'How will you know...?' Hermione started asking.

-'... That he's attacking? I'm sure that even if Dumbledore tries to hide it from me Snape will let us know.' Harry grinned.

They were all trying to think of something to say when the fireplace erupted.

The green flames resolved around the bald head of Shacklebolt.

-'Tonks you there?' His tone was urgent.

-'I'm right here shack.' She waved at him.

-'Get back here and grab your gear, You-Know-Who just started an all out attack on Hogsmeade!'

Tonks stared at Harry in shock.

-'Go get ready Tonks. We'll meet you there.' Harry waved her to the fireplace.

When she had disappeared he stood up.

-'I'm not even going to waste my breath asking you to stay here.' He laughed as Ron's mutinous face turned into a grin. 'But I want you all to make it out alive so no stupid heroics, ok?'

All three of them nodded.

-'Then get ready, We'll floo to the three broomsticks as soon as possible and start kicking butt.'

Remus came back a few minutes later in what looked like a thick leather trench-coat.

His boots made heavy metallic clinks as he stood in front of the fireplace.

Ron and Hermione came in wearing almost exactly what they had worn through the day.

Both of them had tied their hair back and were wearing tight sweaters.

The holsters n their tights were obviously make shift but they would have to do.

-'Ok, give me a minute to buff and I'll get a buffet table when we get there.'

-'You think we'll need a snack? Hermione sounded surprised.

-'No, this is magic food, it'll heal you over time.' He let his full armor appear. 'You just have to not be interrupted while you're eating.'

Ron nodded.

-'Let's get to it then.'

Harry nodded and started casting.

The spells were bright in the dusk light but he could see them taking effect.

Of course he could only really use Dampen magic and Arcane intelligence but they were so powerful that they would make the difference in any even fight.

Remus grabbed the floo powder from the mantle and threw it in.

Going first Harry shouted their destination and let himself spin.

The journey ended as it always had, Harry sprawled on the floor and knocked into the legs of a table.

This proved to be a good thing as two stunning spells splashed on the hearth at chest height.

Harry rolled back towards the door as the wands aimed down to him.

-'Stop!' It was Shacklebolt. 'That's an ally.' He grabbed one of the arms pointed at him and pushed it up.

He was turning to Harry when the hearth flashed green again.

The wands belonging to the two aurors pointed at it again but this time they stopped short of casting.

Remus stepped gently out and walked to Harry.

-'Is everyone else coming too?' Shacklebolt asked.

-'Yes, Ron and Hermione are right behind me.' The werewolf nodded at him.

On cue Hermione stepped out of the fireplace.

When she saw the pointed wands she raised her hands gently.

-'It's ok Hermione, they're just worried because of the attack.' Harry said. He stood up and stared at Shacklebolt. 'I'll conjure a buffet table, it's going to have food and water for you to use. Drink when you're tired and eat when you're injured. Where's Tonks?'

-'She should be here any seconds.' The auror answered.

The floating table appeared just to the right of the fireplace and Remus and Ron immediately stepped forward.

There was too much food to hold comfortably but both en stuffed their pockets as was possible and let the rest vanish.

Hermione made her way forward as the fire turned green once again.

Tonks landed with the same grace as Harry.

She obviously had been prepared for the reception as she continued rolling and giving her name in a clear voice.

-'Hey Tonks, glad you could make it.' Harry gave her a hand to help her stand up. 'Food's over there, when you're ready we go.'

Tonks was wearing what looked like a riding suit. All of it was a dark green leather with bulges in the impact areas.

She was also wearing a tiny backpack clipped directly to the shoulders of her outfit.

Nodding she stepped to the floating table and her arms full she started filling her backpack.

As she finished closing the backpack Harry cast the buffs on her.

-'Let's go.' He stepped out the door without giving time to anyone to protest

The five of them spread out a little as they got into the street.

All except Harry turned to the spell fire and screaming coming from the direction of the station.

-'OK, here's how it's going to go.' He waited until they all looked at him. 'Remus, you're the most heavily armored, I need you to draw their attention and most of their spells, the spell I've cast on you will stop the brunt of their power and between the coat and your werewolf nature you shouldn't feel them for a while.' He turned to Ron and Hermione. 'I need the both of you to cast as fast as you can, anything you can think of that's going to stop them from casting back at me.'

-'Are you in danger from them?' Ron interrupted.

-'No not really but my spells require a few seconds to cast for the really powerful ones and if I get hit it slows my casting down.'

-'What do I do?' Tonks asked.

-'You're our next heaviest hitter, you stay behind me and you hit them with bludgeoning spells as fast as you can cast them.' he nodded towards the station. 'I'll target from right to left and you go from left to right.' He made a gesture to indicate what he meant.

When they all nodded at him he set off.

He let Remus take point and the others spread out to form a lozenge behind the werewolf.

They turned the corner into mayhem.

A group of maybe 6 death eaters was shooting spells at the doors and windows of the house on the other side of the street.

They were taking some form of cover behind the wall to a garden and laughing as one spell hit.

-'You're up Remus.' Harry whispered.

With a howl Remus ran to other side of the street and started running along the house next to the death eaters.

Harry realized this was a good idea as the DE's couldn't see him without coming out of cover.

The first man tried to jump from behind the wall into the street.

He had not expected the blast Harry sent his way.

With an explosion of flames the man's robes caught fire.

The body stopped twitching when two red bolts, a stupefy and a reducto cast by Ron and Hermione hit him.

Remus reached the low wall and with a shout grabbed another death eater and hauled him over the wall.

With a shove he threw him towards Harry.

The black haired man tried to get a spell off when the first missiles hit him.

He was trying to roll out of the way of the blue curse sent by Ron when he realized that the next 4 missiles simply swerved to follow his movements.

The impact seemed to take its toll as the man dropped to one knee.

He was still trying to raise his wand when the next set hit him and he keeled forward.

This turned out to be fortunate for him as Tonks finished incanting.

The left side of the wall glowed bright red then yellow and finally in a shower of white it exploded.

The screams of pain came from the far side of the wall.

When there vision cleared they could see that two black robes were slowly leaking red. One of them was the source of the screams.

Remus took advantage of the distraction to punch one the two surviving DE's so hard that he flew back.

The werewolf was turning to the last attacker when a spell caught him full in the chest.

The everbero was designed to shatter bones and drive the splinters deep into the surrounding flesh.

It was therefor a shock to the remaining black robed man that Remus didn't even register that he had been hit.

He was about to cast another spell at the snarling man in front of him when three rays hit him almost simultaneously.

The stunner from Ron would have been enough as it hit the man in the head.

However the vomiting hex that Hermione sent doubled him over as all expression left his face.

The banisher picked him up like a piece of straw and threw him at the wall of the house on the other side of the garden. Tonks looked on grimly when the cracks echoed as the body hit the ground.

-'Remus are you ok?' Hermione ran to her old professor.

-'I'm perfectly fine.' Remus sounded shocked as he examined his chest.

-'Then let's continue.' Harry nodded to the station at the end of the street.

The tiny train station was a battlefield.

The aurors had obviously been prepared for something as they had the end of the tracks where the engine was resting barricaded.

However their preparations had not been enough to stop the twenty or so death eaters that had taken the train and were shouting spells from the inside of the train.

The five of them stepped towards the aurors carefully.

Tonks stepped forward to reassure the dozen or so aurors that were crouching behind the heavy metal barrier they had constructed on the platform.

The rest of them crouched quietly as their friends tried to get an assessment of the situation.

When she had finished she turned to them and explained.

-'It looks like this was the main attack, the guys we caught on the street were probably just a scout party to get behind those guys.' She pointed at her colleagues. 'We have maybe twenty people on the train spread out among the first three or four cars.'

Harry nodded.

-'We need to get into the train.' He gestured to the engine next to them. 'Remus and I will get the door to the first car and you guys follow behind ok?'

As they all nodded Remus and Harry stepped forward.

The aurors gave them strange looks as they circled the barrier and started walking with their backs right along side the train.

When they reached the first car door Harry put his hand on the handle and with a swift gesture opened the door and jumped inside.

Remus jumped right behind him and closed the door behind him.

Harry was in his casting stance when his friend noticed the two black robed figures.

The death eaters had obviously been trying to flank the aurors when Harry burst in.

One of them got a spell off before Harry could finish his arcane blast.

Remus was surprised to see the young man stagger back.

With a grunt Harry released the power and looked on in satisfaction as the first of their opponent toppled forward.

With a gesture he sent an explosion at the second attacker and watched him fall forward, his robes smoldering on his prone form.

Remus nodded at him and started slinking forward.

When he had finished checking the compartments he nodded at Harry.

Harry stepped back to the door and gestured for the rest of his group to come.

When the five of them were standing in the corridor they took up their formation again and started towards the back of the train.

The pattern was repeated in the next car as they found a half dozen of the death eaters casting curses out of the windows.

The corridor was narrow enough that Remus merely had to stand there to absorb most of the spell fire.

Between Harry and Tonks the attackers fell down one by one.

Once the third car was cleared Harry used his evocation and gestured for Remus to get the door.

They were stepping back onto the platform after they had finished the last remaining attackers when Hermione spoke up.

-'This was way too easy.'

-'Yes it was.' Remus nodded.

They turned toward the barrier where the aurors were to see one of them run towards them.

Tonks stepped forward and nodded.

-'What is it?'

-'You know who is at the gates of Hogwarts!' He shouted as soon as he was within ear shot.

-'It was a diversion.' Tonks exclaimed.

-'Explains why it was so easy.' Harry acknowledged. 'I'll gate us there.'

Without another word he started casting the spell that would bring them to the entrance hall.

Remus was staring intently as the bubble opened in front of them.

He couldn't help the grin as he saw the auror step back in shock.

Harry immediately stepped through the space and vanished.

The scene that greeted him was almost funny.

Most of the teachers were in the entrance hall.

They had obviously been told only a few minutes ago that their greatest enemy was making a bid for victory. Some of them were already in robes and slippers.

Only Flitwick seemed to have prepared for a fight and was wearing what looked like a suit of leather armor.

When he had appeared McGonnagal and the diminutive professor had immediately trained their wands on him.

Harry almost laughed when Snape pushed their arms down.

-'Good evening Mr Potter, I take it you've been told.'

-'Yes professor, we just finished mopping up in Hogsmeade.'

Snape's eyes widened just a fraction.

-'How many?'

-'We got maybe two dozen of them altogether.'

-'That would explain it,' He stared at the closed doors. 'Between your work this morning and this you've depleted his forces.'

Harry looked at him curiously.

-'There have never been more then twenty or thirty death eaters Mr Potter, the wizarding world simply does not have the population to have the kind of armies you see in the Muggle world.'

The boy who lived nodded.

-'He's out there with 6 followers.'

-'The Lestranges?'

-'And Mrs Crabbe and Goyle if I'm any judge.' Flitwick piped in.

Harry nodded at the diminutive professor.

-'This ends tonight professor.' Harry looked at the door grimly.

-'So I had surmised Mr Potter.' Flitwick piped in.

Turning to the charms professor he smiled.

-'I'll take my group and we'll charge them,' He opened his spellbook. 'I'll use one of my dragons to make sure I have his full attention.'

-'Can we mount with you?' Ron asked seriously.

-'I don't think so, it's a one person mount. I'll charge forward and you guys come up behind me. My spells will all be for Tom so it's imperative that you get the others ok?'

-'What about killing curses Harry?' Tonks was checking her equipment as she spoke.

-'Remus might have a chance but I wouldn't try it even with him so dodge those please.' Harry smiled ruefully.

Hermione patted him on the arm.

-'Let's go then.'

McGonagall half voiced a protest at this when she heard the groan of the hinges behind her.

Snape had unlocked the doors and was cracking them open just enough to let Harry and his group through.

-'Good luck Mr Potter.'

-'Thank you.'

Harry stepped down to the grass before he summoned his dragon.

He had chosen the albinos dragon.

It would make a better target in the dusk and with a little luck they would focus on him and ignore his companions.

The gasps behind him told him he had made the right choice.

With a light gesture he urged the beast a few feet off the ground and then went straight for the group that was attacking the gate.

He smiled as the muffled swear from Tonks caught his ears.

With a swoop he passed 10 feet above the gate and started climbing.

He was almost 50 feet up when he reversed direction and let his dragon disappear.

The air held him for a second before the forest started whistling past him.

As the ground approached he cast the slow fall spell and gently touched down.

He realized his plan had worked when the first curse splashed on his dampening buff.

-'Good evening Tom.' He grinned at the tall men in his black robe.

He waved in the mans direction and let a fire blast explode.

Obviously they had come prepared as the flames almost instantly extinguished.

However the murderous snarl that exploded from the snake man's face told him that the little damage he had done was not expected.

Three voices started incanting.

-'Avada Kedavra!'

He blinked forward.

The three streaks of green light exploded out of the wands to either side of him.

As they sped towards his former position he pulled out his wand.

The form in front of him was probably Goyle judging from sheer size.

He had barely started turning around when Harry planted the wand through his jugular and let the explosion of ice freeze the hulking figures head right off.

The wands around him were twisting when he let a frost nova explode outwards.

Turning to his left he blinked once again out of the melee.

He quickly spun and examined the chaos.

His 5 remaining opponents were frozen in place.

One of the smaller men had weathered what looked like a painful blasting curse to the stomach.

His frozen feet meant he couldn't double over and he was leaning painfully forward as he vomited what looked like black sludge in the twilight.

A feminine shriek indicated that Bellatrix had spotted him.

The muffled thump to her left caught her attention.

The arcane blast had bypassed whatever shields Voldemort had cast and the pain obviously stopped whatever incantation he had been performing.

Harry gambled on their distraction and sent a second blast into the faltering dark lord.

He had not been expecting the increase in power of each subsequent spell as it drove him back.

The ice around his cursed follower melted and the small man toppled forward.

Rather then risk return fire Harry blinked once again to his starting position.

Another arcane blast pushed the dork lord into Bellatrix.

This time the pain seemed to have been enough to make him falter.

The snake faced man snapped around and hissed in anger at him.

They both glared and as Harry started launching a barrage of arcane missiles Tom pointed his wand and started incanting.

Voldemort stumbled when the woman that was supporting him partially exploded.

Bellatrix's leg parted company as a Reducto from the other side of the gate his her mid-thigh.

Combined with the first set of missiles impacting on his torso Tom Riddle was driven to his knee.

Another reducto and a stupefy passed through the bars of the gate and hit the tallest figures on either side of the dark lord.

The next set of missiles flew toward the prone form.

Voldemort had been prepared for this and he swatted his wand in the air as if he was batting the magic out of the sky.

His face registered surprise as the missiles kept true and once again struck him in the chest.

Harry blinked forward as the last standing death eater incanted the killing curse.

As the green light left the wand towards his former position he let an arcane explosion loose.

It refocused the dork lord's attention on him.

The bone white wand immediately pointed at him and let loose a bright yellow curse.

At such point blank range Harry had no time to dodge.

The curse picked him up and slammed his body into the gate behind him.

Landing on his feet the boy who lived immediately pulled out his own wand and slashed it at the prone man.

The bolt of ice passed through the blue curse coming towards him.

The curse lost its color as it passed the dampening buff.

It seemed to splash harmlessly on his magical armor.

The same could not be said of the ball of near absolute zero that impacted Tom.

It seemed to encase his wand arm in ice and continue a few inches passed his shoulder.

Another Reducto passed between the bars to Harry's right and hit the last standing death eater in the head.

The spray of gore was contained within the hood but when the figure finally slumped forward the hood caved in on the odd shape.

With the extra time afforded by the ice Harry started casting an arcane blast.

When it exploded on the prone man it seemed to sap him.

The second blast took so much out of Tom that he let himself fall on both knees in front of his nemesis.

The next blast appeared to cave in the mans chest.

Voldemort glared hatefully as Harry prepared the next blast.

When it impacted it seemed to provoke a muffled explosion inside the robes.

With a broken back appearance the figure slumped back.

Voldemort's eyes were still open in death but he now glared at the heavens unseeing.

A coughing sound to his right caught his attention.

Wormtail had taken off his mask and was trying to wipe the blood off his mouth.

He seemed to glare at Bellatrix as she moaned towards her lord.

Obviously she had been the one who had cursed him in the melee.

Averting his gaze Harry looked back at the gate.

Hermione was standing a few feet from the bars in shock.

Ron had his wand pointed at the prone figures and a determined look on his face.

Tonks looked professional as she kept scanning all the dark robes for any sign of life.

Remus was the surprising one. He had come the closest to the closed gate and was looking at his former friend with pity.

With a thought Harry blinked to the other side of the gate and turned around.

Opening his spellbook he pulled one of the least used spells there.

Focusing on the area where the bodies were he let loose.

With a roar a pillar of lava and flames exploded.

I started by burning the robes the bodies were encased in.

The whimpers of pain from Bellatrix and Wormtail were barely audible over the thrumming of lava and flames that engulfed their mangled bodies.

Harry kept his eyes on what was left of Tom.

At first the robes he wore seemed to protect him from the heat but as more and more Lava accumulated over him they burst into flames.

The spell ended before the mangled corpse could be fully consumed and without a second thought Harry cast the spell once again.

And again.

He only stopped when all that was left on the other side of the metal gate was a pool of molten glass and ashes.

Turning to his friend he smiled a small smile.

Tonks was holding on to Remus as she stared at the carnage that had been done.

Ron had put a hand on Hermione shoulder for comfort.

It was Remus that spoke up first.

-'So that's it?'

Harry nodded as he grinned wider.

-'That's it.'