DISCLAIMER: See Chapter One.
AN: I wanted to have this chapter and chapter fifteen all in one but it would have been really long, next chapter we get to se the fallout from the attacks
Clubhouse, Leeds, England, 10/30/1997, 09:00
Harry sat in the mess hall, all training was cancelled today, Harry encouraged the members of the D.A who would be accompanying him to Malfoy Manor to sleep in late, the attack would commence at three o' clock Halloween morning. This was a high risk mission so he needed them well rested and at the top of their game tonight.
He had been waiting on this attack for months, been waiting to strike at Voldemort on the day this all started for him, the day that nose-less bastard killed his parents. This attack was personal and he would leave Voldemort's base a pile of rubble before the sun rose.
That didn't stop him from worrying, he had people that were depending on him to get them through this alive.
They had been getting a taste of combat all week but tonight would most likely be Be a sink or swim situation, there was no doubt his team would face opposition and he was hoping none of his team would freeze up and get themselves killed.
Then there was Narcissa Malfoy, if there was a way to get into the manor without bringing her with them he would feel much better, she was a scholar not a fighter. He had plans in place to get her out of the manor, he did not want to face Andromeda's wrath if something happened to Cissa.
"Your looking pretty intense this morning." Susan said pulling him from his musings.
He hadn't even noticed her taking a seat beside him. As excited as he was about this particular mission he was also anxious, the person he cared for the most in the world would be right beside him tonight and that both thrilled and scared him.
"I'm just thinking about the mission tonight. I really do hope operation trick paid off." Harry answered.
"Yeah me too, from what information we have, the device they use to monitor the taboo is located at Malfoy manor. So it would make sense that they would send the people from the manor to respond to the taboo." Susan replied.
"Yes, I just hope they haven't moved people from Nott Manor in to replace the ones we've been killing." Harry said thoughtfully.
"Stop worrying so much, we are as prepared as we can be, there is no sense agonizing over what will happen." Susan said firmly
"I can't help it, if it was just me going into this I could handle it just fine. But your going with me and it would kill me if anything happened to you." Harry said softly.
"Alright, enough of this." Susan said standing up and pulling him with her.
Harry was surprised when Susan started dragging him out of the mess tent and up the stairs.
"Where are we going?" Harry asked curiously.
"To take your mind off of tonight." she said as she pulled him onto the third floor.
"Huh, that's a great idea." Harry said smiling as they neared the transfigured bed hidden away towards the back wall.
"I thought you would see it my way. "She purred as she shoved him onto the bed.
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Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, London, 10/30/1997, 10:41
Narcissa Malfoy was a bundle of nerves this morning, she knew this was necessary to complete the bargain she made months ago with Harry. Still going back there absolutely terrified her.
She took another sip of her cooling tea, she had been up for hours now sitting at the table in the basement kitchen worrying.
'pop'
Narcissa turned to the source of the noise and saw her sister standing beside her old house elf Dobby.
"How are you feeling this morning Cissy?" Andromeda asked taking a seat across from her sister.
"Terrified, what if Lucius sees me helping get them in?" Narcissa asked quietly.
"Potter has assured me he will be getting you out of there as soon as you get them into the manor, he likes you I don't think he will let you get hurt." Andromeda said reassuringly.
"How is he handling this?" Narcissa asked curiously
"He's a bundle of nerves this morning, but I saw the Bones heiress dragging him to their little love nest on the third floor, so I imagine his mind is on other things right now." Andromeda said with a grin.
"How improper, I do hope she is on the potion." Narcissa said dryly.
"She is, not that it matters. The potion isn't always effective otherwise I wouldn't have been booted from the family." Andromeda said lost in her memories.
Narcissa snorted into her tea and blushed slightly. "And that doesn't bother you? She is an heiress, she will be shamed if she were to bear a child out of wedlock." Narcissa exclaimed.
"Moody was he guardian and is quite protective of her, if that were to happen there would be a wand point wedding." Andromeda answered unconcerned.
"Hmm, I suppose the two of them will wed when this is over, they are a good match." Narcissa said thoughtfully.
Andromeda rolled her eyes, and changed the subject slightly. "How has the Abbott girl been behaving?" Andromeda questioned.
"She is planning something, She has also been quite rude to poor Draco, he's been trying to be nice to girl and she hasn't been responding well." Narcissa answered.
Andromeda rolled her eyes again, Draco was a little brat, but to hear Cissa tell it he was some misunderstood angel.
"She has the Longbottom boy going spare, though from what Harry tells me it's an advantage in battle." Andromeda said sadly.
"Yes, she is acting like a little trollop, completely unbecoming of her station." Narcissa said her tone heavy with disapproval.
"Longbottom can easily call for an honor duel over this, he would tear that Smith boy apart." Andromeda said with a grin.
"Yes, but that won't solve anything. The Longbottom boy will end up hurt because of this." Narcissa said sadly.
"True, but he can do much better. It's best for him to find out now than later on down the road." Andromeda said dismissively.
"I suppose your here to take me to the orders headquarters?" Narcissa inquired.
"Yes, you need to be briefed and I figured you would be a ball of nerves this morning." Andromeda answered.
"I do not like doing this, I have never been a fighter." Narcissa said quietly.
Andromeda smiled remembering how Cissa was always more timid than her and Bellatrix when they were growing up. Narcissa was always more sensitive and her and Bellatrix were the ones that watched over her in Hogwarts, she had grown more confident as the years went by but right now she saw her baby sister through the grown up Malfoy matriarch.
"All you have to do is guide them through the tunnel and open the entrance to the manor, Potter has promised to keep you safe, I might have threatened to remove his bits and insert them somewhere else." Andromeda explained innocently.
"Thank you Andy, though please don't assault the future Lord of our house, I fear the house of Bones might call a blood feud." Narcissa said dryly.
Andromeda snorted before standing up from the table, Andromeda said. "We had best make our way to the camp, there will be meetings going on all morning."
Nodding Narcissa rose from the table and walked around to stand beside her older sister.
"Dobby." Andromeda called.
'pop'
"You's be ready to visit peg leggy man?" Dobby asked excitedly.
"Yes, would you please take us there?" Andromeda asked kindly
"Yes mistress Andy."
Dobby took both of there hands and disappeared with a soft, 'pop'.
Hannah was just waking up and her coin was clutched in her palm, she had been up late sending messages to Zac. It was a slow process since the coins only allowed a few words to be delivered at a time, she had setup the meeting to wait for Zac at a deserted mill on the outskirts of Leeds, she would have three weeks to plan her escape from this house in order for that to happen.
She knew the house would have a lot less people in it today, the mission preparation would start early, she knew the attack would occur sometime on the morning of Halloween, so she could really scout out the home without that Tonks lady breathing down her neck.
She really did hope the mission went well for the D.A, the people who killed her mother deserved to die, though even if she hadn't been booted out of camp she wouldn't be going on the mission, she was not a fighter.
Getting out from under the covers she decided to bathe and get dressed for the day, Malfoy was trying to get her attention since she got here maybe she could use that to her advantage. He wasn't bad looking, he was just an arrogant jerk, he did seem really lonely though...
If she could bat her eyes at him and get his help to escape this house in a few weeks time, that could definitely be worth putting up with him.
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Clubhouse, Leeds, England, 10/31/1997, 12:00
Harry and Susan returned from their stress relief and stepped of the stairs onto the main floor, the place was a madhouse the whole camp was awake and moving around. The tension within the room was palpable, they had no idea how to handle this kind of stress. Harry pointed his wand at his throat and cast a 'sonorus' charm before speaking.
"Good morning, I want everyone to report to the mess tent drink a cup of tea and settle down. All members of the assault and medical team will be reporting to the mess tent two at 'Camp Mad-eye' at seven o' clock tonight. Everyone will be going with us to the camp for tonight, pack the barrack tents up for transport by three o' clock. Thank you" Harry finished his speech and cancelled the charm.
Harry had realized a week ago that he couldn't take all the camps best fighters to Malfoy manor and leave the camp undefended, he also didn't have enough fighters to spare to leave any behind on guard duty. The Clubhouse was under the 'fedelius charm' but he would not risk the chance of the camp being attacked with only the younger members at the camp, his parents death proved you cant believe yourself untouchable even under a 'fedelius'.
The people who had been moving about the room had started moving towards the mess tent, the time between now and the attack later would be nerve wracking, Harry always hated the wait.
"Nicely done, we should get something to eat as well."
"The waiting is torture, I'm not sure I'll be able to eat anything." Harry said softly.
"You have to project confidence, if they see you as a ball of nerves, it will make them less confident about the mission." Susan stated.
Harry nodded, he knew she was right he would just have to push his own worries aside for the benefit of the others.
Entering the mess tent he took his usual seat across from Neville with Susan seated beside him.
"How you feeling today Longbottom?" Harry asked.
"Ready to get this over with." Neville answered simply.
Since the fiasco with Hannah, Neville had been really shut off. He didn't really interact with anyone, he just threw himself into his training and brooded about Hannah. They would have to have a talk about this but today definitely wasn't the day for that conversation.
"How is your medical team handling all this?" Harry asked Susan.
"Well the field team is ready to go, The healers that would normally stay at the clubhouse will be merging with Poppy's team at the camp." Susan answered.
"Will Hannah be coming back here after the operation?" Neville asked quietly.
"I don't know to be honest, she was about to partially compromise our location to an unknown entity, Smith is just a Hufflepuff version of Malfoy, so I will never trust him as part of my camp." Harry admitted.
"She won't answer any of my letters, I think she blames me for her getting sent away." Neville said morosely.
"Neville, I don't know what's got into her. Smith treated her like shit, but I don't think she ever got over him, none of this is your fault though." Susan said the last part imploringly.
"She said they broke up because Jones love optioned him." Neville said confused.
Susan was about to correct him until Harry bumped her side gently with his elbow and shook his head subtly. Nodding slightly at Harry she said.
"I'm sure we'll be able to get this whole mess sorted out soon, you just focus on getting through tonight."
She really hated giving him false hope, but he didn't need his head messed up going into this.
Neville smiled at her in thanks and went back to eating his steak and kidney pie, a little bit happier.
Her friend was really fucking up with Neville, he was a good man and treated Hannah like a queen. He could definitely do much better and Susan knew he wouldn't have problems finding someone that would appreciate him.
Her musings were interrupted by the arrival of the Weasley twins.
"the diversions are."
"In place at."
"Nott manor."
"We have also"
"Set another one up."
"At Hogwarts"
"They will detonate."
"At three am sharp."
The twins informed Harry in their usual ping pong style speech pattern.
"Excellent, would you two mind overseeing the packing, we're spending the night at 'camp Mad-eye'?" Harry asked.
"Yes Sir, Harrikins Sir." They said in unison while making a poor attempt at a salute.
"Gits." Harry muttered as they wondered over to the other redheads further down the table.
"What's the diversion?" Susan asked.
"I thought it would be good to sew a little chaos into the enemies ranks so I had them set up some of those fireworks they used in our fifth year to send into Nott manor tonight." Harry said with a grin.
Susan beamed remembering that day vividly, the fireworks drove the toad mad, they multiplied by ten when you tried to vanish them and would explode if you cast any other spells at them.
"So they won't be able to come to Malfoy manor to give aid?" Susan asked impressed.
"Exactly, I had the twins tweak the recipe. Everything their fireworks touch will catch on fire, granted Hogwarts and Nott manor are made of stone, but the large collection of occupied tents on their laws are quite flamable." Harry said with a grin.
"That will work out very well." Susan said excitedly.
"We need every advantage we can get." Harry agreed.
"Do you think it will kill any of them?" Neville asked.
"Probably not, most wizards can perform the flame freezing charm, it will be very demoralizing though." Harry answered after some thought.
"Shame that, still if it prevents them calling in back up it will definitely be worth it." Neville replied with a smile.
The conversations broke up as everyone began to prepare for the move, once the trunks were emptied from the main two tents Bill and the twins began the process of packing them up for transport. Harry had shrunk and pocketed his trunk like everyone else so they didn't have much left to do. The mess tent would be staying here since there were already two set up at Moody's camp it was unnecessary to bring it with them.
Dobby popped the main tents away as soon as they were packed up, unlike the smaller tents the Barrack tents couldn't be set up with a simple 'errecto' spell, so they would have to be set up by Bill and the twins upon arrival at the site.
"Alright I think we are ready to go." Harry said fishing a twenty foot section of rope out of the magical expanded pocket of his jacket.
Once everyone was holding onto the rope Harry called out. "Constant vigilance."
The portkey activated with the familiar tug behind the navel and the flash of blue light pulling them to camp Mad-eye.
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Camp Mad-Eye, Scotland, 10/30/1997, 15:45
The arrival went smoothly, they had the tents set up and got settled in. Their next meeting was at seven so Harry encouraged everyone to relax, he passed half doses of sleeping potion and suggested they get some sleep, tonight was going to be an all nighter after all.
Walking to his spot Harry cast a warming charm on the ground, it was significantly colder here than last time. The rains had been coming in and he knew his robes were going to be soaked even before he sat down.
Still he enjoyed being here compared to Leeds, the air was crisp and he didn't hear the steady flow of traffic in the background.
This spot was his favorite place on the whole property he could see a forest in the distance and what appeared to be a small herd of does venturing out of the forest cover to feed on the clover patch spread out in front of the forest.
This was a wonderful place, he would make sure to visit more regularly.
"Moody wants a word with you Harry." Bill Weasley's said, he was standing there watching the deer as well.
"How long have you been standing there?" Harry asked as he rose to his feet and cast a drying charm on his clothes.
"About five minutes, I haven't seen them before." Bill said indicating the herd a hundred or so yards away.
"Neither have I, what does Moody want?" Harry asked as he fell into step with Bill heading towards the house.
"No idea, but I have a hunch it's about tonight." Bill said sarcastically.
"No shit, I can't wait to get this over with." Harry grumbled.
"Moody isn't that bad." Bill said with a smirk.
"Not Moody, the mission you prat. The waiting is driving me spare." Harry replied with a scowl.
"Your wound pretty tight, maybe a good shag would do you some good." Bill suggested.
"Your not my type, your wife on the other-
"Oi, them's fighting words, I meant Susan you bastard." Bill exclaimed cutting Harry off before he could finish.
"I know what you meant, and it helped a bit, but I'm still a bundle of nerves." Harry said with a chuckle.
"I am with you tonight, we'll get through this just have faith in your team, and get Narcissa out of there A.S.A.P I don't want Andromeda out for my blood." Bill said as the reached the door into Moody's kitchen.
"Potter, I need you to look over the layout of Malfoy manor, the place is massive so you need to know how to navigate your way to the main ward stone. It's imperative that you drop the Manor wards before you begin the attack otherwise we can't back you up if shut goes south." Moody said as soon as Harry entered the kitchen.
He originally planned to have Narcissa lead them through the manor, but had recently decided that it was an unnecessary risk, so he would have to learn the rough layout on his own and make his way to the ward stone in the basement.
"Can I take these with me? I need Narcissa's feedback on where we will come out and the best route to get to the basement.' Harry asked.
"Go ahead, just be prepared to brief your team tonight." Moody said.
"No problem, anything else?" Harry asked.
"Not from you." Moody then turned to Bill. "Is the stone finished to kill the Malfoy wards?"
"Yes, but it will only give as a fifteen minute window, after that the wardstone will catastrophically fail just like at the ministry only several magnitudes bigger." Bill answered.
"Good, we have three goals: overwhelm and incapacitate the opposition, free all those imprisoned in the dungeons and collect any information we can." Moody said.
"I had better track down the Black sister's and start plotting out my route, see you later Alastor." Harry said walking out the door and making a bee-line for Andromeda's tent.
"That was rude, he didn't even wait to be dismissed." Moody commented with a grin.
"He's pretty high strung today." Bill said.
"So am I lad, now I have other people to brief so get out of my kitchen Weasley." Moody barked good naturedly.
Shaking his head bill walked out of the house to go find Fleur and maybe take his own advice from earlier.
Andromeda and Narcissa were sitting in Narcissa's tent drinking tea and gossiping if he were to guess, when Harry made a knocking sound with his wand and was invited inside.
"Harry to what do we owe this pleasure?" Andromeda asked.
"I need to confer with Lady Malfoy about the best route to the basement ward room." Harry answered unrolling the blue prints of the five story manor home on the table they were seated at.
Narcissa nodded and looked at the map of her home before pointing to a spot on the third floor, this is were we will exit the tunnel well the last sixty feet is really more of a vertical shaft that goes through the wall and underneath the manor, there is a metal ladder so your people will have to exit one at a time, once I open the painting your team will be able to pass through without any problems." Narcissa explained, Harry had taken a notebook out and was jotting down key points.
There was a servants stair case not far from the painting that hid the tunnel entrance that led down to the main floor on the west side of the manor, from there the had to follow the exterior wall three corridors down then turn left onto the kitchen corridor and there would be a single alcove that concealed a staircase that went down to the basement wine cellar. Harry paid rapt attention as she spoke and she even gave him specific directions to the ward room and the basement dungeon.
"The ward room has a blood lock on it so you will need my blood to enter" she said as she drew a small crystal vial from her robes and extracted a small amount of blood from her palm and filled the vial. " Just place a few drops on the door handle but do not touch the door, it will trigger the alarms throughout the manor." Narcissa warned him.
After giving him the route to the wards she told him where in the basement the dungeon was located, then she went into detail about the death eaters quarters on the second floor and where Lucius' study was as well as the hidden chamber underneath the drawing room.
Harry's was very glad he made the deal with Mrs. Malfoy, this information was invaluable to his team especially since they only had a fifteen minute window to strike and leave the manor.
'Rescuing that whiny ponce was definitely worth it.' Harry thought to himself as he was leaving Narcissa's tent an hour and a half later.
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Mess Tent, Camp Mad-Eye, 10/30/1997, 19:00
Harry's team was seated at the long tables as was a much larger contingent from the order at the other two tables inside mess tent number two.
Harry, Susan, Kingsley and Moody were stood in front of the tables waiting for everyone to arrive, Harry watched Narcissa and Tonks walk in and take a seat at the D.A table and Moody decided it was time to begin.
"We have been making the final plans for this mission and we are as ready as we'll ever be to press forward. This will be one of the largest operations we have ever carried out, the good and bad news is it will only last fifteen minutes. We will have to be fast and precise when we strike, after fifteen minutes the ward stone will catastrophically fail making the attack on the ministry look likes a petty act of vandalism in comparison. Now Potter has been studying the manor layout so I'll pass the floor to him" Moody finished.
"My teams will be entering the manor through a third floor secret passage, team one will be taking the second floor guest wing, where the death eaters inside the manor sleep. Use the potions bombs and a bubble head charm, there is little reason to engage them directly unless absolutely necessary, when the wards fail they will be vaporized any way.
Greengrass your shuffled to team three which will be raiding their hospital wing, take any medical supplies or anything else valuable for healing, They have a healer on staff so you will have to neutralize him first. Hermione you are being moved to team two which will be going through the lords study, there is a good possibility that Lucius might be in there so be prepared. Search for any valuable information you can find, be quick and be thorough.
Finally myself, Bill Weasley and his lovely wife will be making our way to take out the wards stone and drop the wards and we will also be freeing any prisoners we find." Harry finished speaking and Gave Kingsley a nod.
Kingsley cleared his throat and began speaking to his order teams.
"The three order teams will be responsible for the outside assault, mass effect spells stir up as much chaos as you possibly can when the wards come down, that will be the signal for the inside team to begin carrying out their assignments." Kingsley instructed.
"I'll be providing over watch from a broom, I can see the wards fall with my eye so I will signal a retreat at one minute before the wards stone explodes. You will have sixty seconds to activate your portkeys and get the fuck out of there." Moody finished giving them the overview.
Any questions?" Kingsley asked.
"Why don't we just take out everyone in the manor before we drop the wards?" Ron Weasley asked.
"It's too risky, if one of them signals the men on the grounds you wont be able to get back up inside the manor," Moody answered.
"Is there any thing else we should be looking for?" Daphne Greengrass asked.
"Garrick Ollivander, he's probably in the dungeons but if not you should try and locate him, he is a very valuable asset to the death eaters forces." Kingsley answered.
After a few more questions and a lot more explanations the teams were ready to go, they still had over four hours until the teams needed to start getting into position, but they were almost to the point of no return.
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Malfoy Manor, Wiltshire, England, 10/31/1997, 02:30
Harry's teams were currently waiting at the base of the ladder in the tunnel leading into Malfoy Manor, Harry and Narcissa were waiting not so patiently to climb the ladder when Harry got the greenlight.
Narcissa had led them through the hidden entrance that was located a considerable distance outside the manors wards. Harry was holding his coin waiting for Kingsley to give him the signal that the order teams were in place.
"I hate they waiting way more than the actual fighting." Harry confessed to Narcissa.
"I don't like either to be honest." Narcissa said shakily
Harry was about to say something to try and calm her when Harry's coin heated up.
The time had finally arrived they were finally here, Harry just hoped everything would run smoothly.
As his coin grew warm in his hand he gave Narcissa the signal to start climbing the ladder into the house, Harry soon followed and Bill and Fleur were right behind him, the vertical climb seemed to take forever but finally Narcissa reached the top and pushed against a stretch of the stone wall above the top of the ladder, there was an audible click and the wall slid open, Harry heard her casting a spell to freeze all the paintings on this floor as soon as she climbed out of the portrait hole.
Harry came out right behind her and whispered. "Good job Narcissa."
"Thank you, I can't say it's good to be back here though." She replied just as quietly.
"Dobby." Harry called out as Bill and Fleur appeared from the portrait hole.
'pop'
"Yes Master Harry Potter Sir?" The elf asked after appearing in front of him.
"Please take Narcissa back to camp." Harry asked noticing Narcissa's look of relief at his words.
'Pop'
Narcissa and Dobby disappeared and Harry noticed a good portion of the D.A had come through the portrait hole now.
Looking at Bill and Fleur Harry said. "Lets get to work."
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Hogwarts Head's Chambers, Scotland, 10/31/1997, 03:00
'BOOOOOM!'
'BOOOOOOOM!'
Bellatrix sat bolt upright as two very powerful explosions woke her from a nice dream about strangling puppies.
She ran to her window looking out over the grounds to see large Catherine wheels made out of flame rolling through the encampments on the east lawn setting the small village of tents aflame, she saw one of the men cast a spell at the one of the conflagrations only to hear.
'BOOOOM!'
The firework detonated throwing in quite a few of the men through the air.
The wheels of fire were destroying everything they touched and seemed to be targeting the Death Eaters and their tents.
Bellatrix heard several high pitched shrieks and volley after volley of rockets launched from outside the ward line impacting the ground with a powerful explosion sending men and earth flying through the air.
Bella heard three more colossal explosions and witnessed three large pink dragons composed of fire soar through the air breathing fire onto the grounds, sending the men in the camps fleeing towards the lake.
She realized she had been watching mesmerized as the fireworks destroyed the army camping on the grounds of Hogwarts.
Shaking herself she threw on some robes and her fluffy slippers and made her way to the fire place.
"Thadeus!" Bellatrix screamed into the fireplace,
"With her head now resting in the roaring fire in Nott manor's hearth she could clearly hear the sounds of the same chaos going on at Hogwarts. Realizing that calling for his assistance would be rather pointless, she pulled her head from the fire and called the D.M.L.E.
When her head appeared in Yaxley's office she had the displeasure of seeing more of Corban's flabby pasty body then she ever wanted to, as he was currently rutting his secretary over his desk.
"Yaxley put it away we have an emergency, there is an attack ongoing at Hogwarts and Nott manor." Bellatrix screeched absolutely disgusted and from the look of the poor girl she was too.
"Yaxley fell over in surprise and quickly staggered to his feet looking at her in surprise, unfortunately that put her looking up at him.
"Huh, I didn't they could get that small. Anyway get your people over here now." Bellatrix ordered before pulling her head from the fire, then she collapsed in her chair behind her desk and contemplated obliviating herself. It had been a long time since she had been with a man, but if they all looked like that she wouldn't be in any hurry toin the future.
'Happy Halloween" Bellatrix thought glumly to herself.
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Malfoy Manor, Wiltshire, 10/31/1997, 02:45
Harry, Bill and Fleur we're descending the stairs to the first floor, the house was deadly quiet, as they stepped out onto the ground floor hallway. This set of passages was mainly for servants and maids, so the chances of running into someone here was slim.
Apparently this had once belonged to a muggle aristocrat, before it was awarded to the Malfoy family in the middle ages, by one of the kings of the time.
They carefully followed Narcissa's instructions and made their way to the hidden stair case, making sure to remain as quiet as possible.
"Harry you search for any prisoners, we'll handle the wards." Bill whispered.
Nodding Harry handed Bill the Vial of blood. "You'll need that to open the ward room door. and whatever you do, don't touch the door" Harry explained after Bill gave him a puzzled look.
A look of understanding crossed his face and he asked. "Blood lock?"
Harry nodded and pushed the door to the wine cellar open and stepped through with Bill and Fleur following close behind him.
The room was rather large and they started strolling through towards the door on the other side between towering racks of highly valuable wine. About halfway through the room he heard the tinkling of bottles and turned to see Fleur grabbing bottles off the shelf and placing them in her bag.
"Zey have some very good wines, ze home will be destroyed anyway, it would be a shame to waste it." Fleur said in answer Harry's curious look.
"Whatever, let's get this done. We have five minutes." Harry said checking his watch.
"Once the entered the main basement Harry gave Bill the directions to the ward room and headed the opposite direction to the dungeon section of the basement.
He walked for a few minutes through a large potions lab when he saw a large oak door that was barred with a large iron hasp and an old-fashioned padlock, he cast the human 'homo revelio' spell and detected four human presences on the other side of the door.
Casting a silencing charm on the door he unlocked the padlock and eased it open, he saw a single man propped in a chair taking a nap.
Shaking his head Harry entered the room and crept up beside the sleeping man, one quick piercing hex to the sleeping mans temple killed the only guard and Harry watched him slide out of the chair onto the floor his blood pooling around his head.
Moving to the cells he unlocked both doors, in the first he found two men he recognized easily, Florean Fortescue and Garrick Ollivander. They both looked badly nourished, Harry could tell they had been fed just enough to keep them alive. They had gone missing during the summer of ninety-six so they had probably been held prisoner for over a year in this dungeon.
"Dobby" Harry called into the dimly lit dungeon.
'pop'
"Please get them to Madam Pomfrey immediately." Harry said as soon as Dobby appeared.
'Pop'
Harry watched Dobby disappear with both prisoners from the first cell.
Walking over to the next cell he was shocked to find a naked Pansy Parkinson curled up in the corner of her cell, trembling from fear or cold he couldn't be sure.
"Parkinson, why on earth are you here?" Harry asked in shock.
"Potter, did they catch you too?" Pansy asked ignoring Harry's question.
"No, we're sacking the manor. Why are you her?" Harry asked again.
"I'm betrothed to Draco Malfoy, he ran away so now I'm the Death Eaters plaything." Pansy whispered.
Nodding to himself, Harry said. "I'll send you to Draco then, punch the little bastard in the balls for me."
Harry summoned Dobby and had him take Pansy to Grimmauld Place, hopefully she would give Draco a beating for abandoning her to the death eaters."
Harry had barely stepped out of the cell when he heard Volley's of explosions in the distance, Harry checked his watch and saw it was three o'clock the bewitching hour had begun.
Second Floor, Malfoy Manor, 10/31/1997, 02:59
Neville was standing at the mouth of the guest wing waiting impatiently his men were stationed at intervals down the corridor disillusioned and wearing their bubblehead charms, they all had six potions bombs each and were waiting for the signal to begin. If everything went to plan they had one minute before they could begin incapacitating the manors death eaters.
'BOOM'
Neville called out. "Go!
He watched as doors started being kicked open and the potion bombs were being tossed in, his job was to provide assistance to any of his team that encountered resistance. But his team was very efficient and he was able to watch his team take care of all the occupied rooms on this floor.
"Clear" He hard one of his team members callout.
"Alright collect their wands and let's move to the hospital wing." Neville ordered.
"We took our thirty-two, the taboo traps must have worked pretty well." Justin commented as the fell in step with him as they all headed towards the first floor, they had eight minutes before the house went boom.
Drawing Room, Malfoy Manor, 10/31/1997, 03:08
Harry, Bill and Fleur had met up at the stairs leading out of the wine cellar and moved as fast as they could to the drawing room, with a wave of his wand Harry slung the large rug away from the trapdoor that opened the hidden chamber under the drawing room floor.
Looking at Bill, Harry said. "Do you thing get anything useful, we have six minutes."
"I can do it in two." Bill said with a smirk.
Fleur rolled her eyes. "Zat is what 'e says in ze bedroom as well." Fleur said with a giggle.
"Can't say that I blame him." Harry said before having to dodge a stinging spell from Bill making Fleur giggle more.
First Floor, Malfoy Manor, 10/31/1997, 02:59
Ron's team was waiting out side the study of one Lucius Malfoy, Hermione did some spell and confirmed he was in there, taking that ponce down would be a real privilege.
Ron was in charge of taking down Malfoy, but Hermione was the one running the show after the room was secure. They all heard the explosions outside the manor and the door they were watching suddenly burst open as a frantic Lucius Malfoy ran out the door into Angelina's stunning spell. The team then burst into the room and confirmed ithe study was empty.
"Hermione, the room is yours we have thirteen minutes so hurry up." Ron told his eager friend who scowled at him and entered the room.
She removed a beaded bag from her pocket and said, "I don't have enough time to sort through everything, we will just take the lot."
Over the next ten minutes Hermione packet every document she could find into her bag as the team watched the death eaters on the lawn scrambling to fight off the order who were raining a constant barrage of explosive hexes on the groggy death eaters who had been sleeping peacefully only moments ago.
"We're done here, lets move to The ground floor." Ron ordered.
Exiting into the hallway the ran into Longbottom's team as they turned the corner.
"How'd it go Neville?" Ron asked when everyone had lowered their wands.
"They have all been subdued, no trouble really. What do you plan to do with him?" Neville asked.
"Leave him, the wards will take care of him." Ron said callously.
"Perhaps we should take him with us, he would be a gold mine of information if we dosed him with veritaserum." Hermione proposed.
Before the debate could go any further a piercing hex cut through Malfoy's head, they all turned to see Angelina lowering her wand.
"There problem solved, lets go." She said matter-of-factly.
"You heard her lets go people, we have three minutes." Neville said checking his watch.
Malfoy Manor, Ground Floor, 10/31/1997, 03:00
Susan's team was waiting outside the room Narcissa had described as the Malfoy manor infirmary, they knew there was a healer always on call so they were prepared to take him down before anything else happened.
BOOM!
Susan and her team entered into the hospital wing after blasting the door open all the beds were empty and looking around Susan noticed the infirmary was stocked with a massive potions cabinet.
Their inspection was rudely interrupted by a man wearing a Victorian era night gown burst into the room from a side door and was struck by seven spells before he even registered they were there.
"Healer is down." said Ginny Weasley helpfully.
"No shit Weasley, everyone start packing up this infirmary." Susan ordered.
Susan cast an area wide unbreakable spell over all the vials and beakers in the massive potions cabinet and called for Katie to start loading her bottomless sack up with potions. By the time everything useful was loaded up under Susan and Daphne's supervision they had two minutes left before the house exploded from the inside out.
"Lets go, we have two minutes." Susan called leading her team through the manor.
They had just arrived in the entrance hall when the heard footsteps coming down the stairs, her team had their wands raised until the saw Neville and Ron in the lead hurrying down the stairs.
"We're good to go we have-.
"ONE MINUTE D.A!" Moody's amplified voice reverberated from the sky over the entire manor.
"What he said." Neville finished lamely.
"Have you seen Harry?" Susan asked worriedly.
"Right here." Harry said sprinting towards them with Bill and Fleur close behind him.
"Let's go, we have fourth-five seconds." Bill said urgently.
"Victory." Twenty-three voices said in almost perfect unison.
The entry hall that had grown quite full a few seconds ago was now completely empty.
Malfoy Manor Grounds, 10/31/1997, 03:14:45
"Order, activate your portkeys" Moody called from above as he flew his broom due north as fast as it would possibly go.
The thirty-six order members did not need telling twice and vanished in small flashes of blue.
Moody landed on a hilltop about a quarter of a mile from the property and watched as Malfoy Manor exploded outward, in a firestorm that swept across the lawns consuming everything in it's path.
"Happy Halloween Voldemort." Moody said as he activated his own return portkeys.