Disclaimer: this story uses characters and settings from J.K. Rowlings wonderful creation Harry Potter. I get neither fame nor money for the stories I create off her work. All I get is the reviews my readers grace me with. This yet another collaboration with darkshadowedrose. This one is a bit of an even split the way The Day Albus Dumbledore Never Remembers is.

A/N: I'm thinking three more chapters will see this finished. So by Christmas it should be complete. I'll warn you you're going to hate/love how I end it.:D

Yet Another Universe

Chapter 53

Harry called his team as he thought of them together so they could make plans. Moody , Kingsley, Amelia, Filius, Bill and Sirius were a little surprised. Lex almost never called them all together unless he had news about Voldemort.

"Well I called this little shindig because at this moment Voldie is mortal. Yup I have successfully nixed his cruxes. And the very next time we meet I plan to punch his ticket to hell. To that end I've invited you all here, what we need is a plan. Now between the ministry doing an excellent job cleaning house and gathering up Death Munchers thank you so much Moody, Amelia, and Kingsley. Voldie will be hard pressed to field the numbers he did in the final battle in my world. With Albus gone again thank you Amelia. He probably won't hesitate to come after me here at Hogwarts. I am inclined to say let the bastard come, however, yes Filius, I know, that does nothing to protect the students. We have spring term short break coming up I suggest we send absolutely all the students under sixth year home and we stock this place with aurors. The older students should get the choice of going or staying, Then I try to piss him off and get him here and I know just the thing."

"What I need from you all is ideas, about how we should do this. What sort of traps we can set to take out Voldies troops etcetera."

"Hot Damn!" came Moody's exclamation.

For the next two weeks Harry changed into his dragon form and with the assistance of the centaurs he hunted down Aragog's children. The centaurs also hunted down and killed many of the dark creatures that lived in the forest. They agreed it made no sense to leave the dork lord any allies within the scope of the Hogwarts boundaries.

Two days before the break began Harry gave Filius the job of giving an interview to Rita Skeeter. In that interview Filius claimed it had been a research project and gave all the significant details Harry knew about Tom. Stressing the man was a liar and a hypocrite, talking about how his mother had been a squib and his father a muggle. That his grandparents on his mum's side had been so inbred that Marvolo called his wife sis and the two reasons his Mum was spared the attentions of her brother were she was ugly as a troll and she had been a squib to boot. He then spoke of Tom's orphanage years and followed it with how while even a school boy Riddle had been responsible for several murders. He then let Rita interview Salazar Slytherin's Portrait. Sal gave her even more details on the depraved and morally deprived young man he had meet so many years ago.

The day the express left it was fuller than normal, it was also the day the story printed. Harry had picked the timing carefully because he wanted Tom's attention firmly on him.

Harry's plan worked the day after the interview printed. Amelia stumbled through the floo and the first words from her mouth were, "Rita Skeeter was found tortured and killed under a dark mark an hour ago. We believe he's on his way here to kill you Filius."

Lex sighed torture by dork lord wasn't a way he would want to go, but Rita had tortured him enough times in the press he really couldn't garner too much sympathy. "Couldn't happen to a nicer cockroach." He looked at his teacher. "Well let's go get ready shall we."

Two hours later Harry in his re-made Basilisk armor stood next to Filius in his best goblin made armor and they looked out at the two hundred Death eaters and the various creature allies Voldie had been able to field. The two hundred teachers, aurors, and various oldest students looked terrified. Harry looked and said, "Well I'd rather face this than the thousand plus I faced on my home world. We won that day against superior numbers, but at a high price too. Okay everyone listen up. Students your job is to shield the teachers as much as you can and retrieve wounded. In the unlikely event we get overrun, your instructions are to get out via the tunnel by the humpbacked witches statue. Fred, George you are in charge of the retreat, if that happens, go into Hogsmeade and floo home."

The twins nodded, and they said in unison "Aye Aye Mon capitain!"and gave Harry a ridiculous salute that reminded him of a Red Dwarf episode he saw once and he grinned.

"Teachers your job is to keep us from being overrun. You won't like this but this goes for both you and the aurors. Those people out there are completely lacking a moral compass since you dare to hold a wand against them they will not hesitate to hurt, maim, or even kill you. If I see a single stunner being thrown I will personally hunt you down and kick your ass. If you have to choose between a cutting curse and a severing charm go with the severing charm. I'm not saying you must kill them, but better to take them out that them do that to us, use your judgement. Alright lets do this. Filius you're with me. I want Snakeface to see you then switch all his focus to me, at that point you get your ass back here and help the other teachers got it."

Filius nodded.

All the people in the castle looked at Harry's calm purposeful visage and took heart. With a few exceptions most had never been in this sort of pitched battle before. But he seemed convinced they would carry the day, and because he believed, they believed.