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A/N Hello once again. This is kind of short, but at least I got it out fairly quick. I'll try to work quicker in the future. Please Review when you are done reading. Sorry if the ending is kind of weird, but it's late and I'm really tired. Also, if anyone is interested in beta reading for me please email me at simplefan00@hotmail.com.

"Oh, crap!"

Albus Dumbledore, astride his broomstick on the top of a hill in the middle of Switzerland, looked around in confusion. His small forces were separated on three different hilltops and surrounded by about ten thousand Death Eaters and dark creatures. He could distinctly see the group of about three thousand Death Eaters moving directly at him, abutted by a large contingent of vampires and another of giants. Behind the front lines, Dumbledore could see the large tent that housed Voldemort and most likely Knoll at the moment. Turning around, he could see many thousands of Knoll's top troops, known as Demon Definers, along with werewolves and what looked like many veela. On all sides dark forces were setting up wards to prevent apparation to safety. To his left the Swiss hit wizards had already port keyed to safety, but on the right the aurors were stranded. Having apparated in, they were on foot and had no chance for escape. They were soon overrun by many Demon Defers. He could distinctly see when Vance Bones fell, tall among the masses that struggled around him.

Dumbledore was soon rocketed back to reality when an explosive spell hit right beside him, just missing Arthur Weasley. By this time the Death Eaters were almost all the way up the hill.

"Everybody lift off and follow me!"

Leading the way, ancient Professor Albus Dumbledore jumped his broom into the air, and went straight up, not stopping until everyone below him was just a distant speck. Followed by the rest of the Staff, he used the compass charm and set off for Bern and the Swiss ministry of magic at top speed.

Back at Hogwarts, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black were just returning from their espionage activities. Both ran directly up to the door to Dumbledore's office, only to find it guarded by Professor Flitwick.

"Where's Professor Dumbledore?"

"Jeez, what is it with people running to find Dumbledore today? He is absent, and will be gone for at least a few days. I am in charge until then," Flitwick said as he puffed out his little chest. Remus and Sirius both had to stifle a snigger.

"Oh, sorry then, sir. We won't be bothering your highness again." After a dirty look from Flitwick they took off down the stairs at top speed, bumping into three forms and all falling down.

"Watch it!" Sirius looked up a bit dazed from the floor and saw that he had run into Sean, Harry, and Hermione. "Oh, sorry."

"That's okay. Hey, why aren't you with Professor Dumbledore?" asked Harry.

"Actually, we're going to find him right now, and we gotta run. I'll talk to you later Harry."

"Wait! When you see him, you have to give him this letter." Harry handed Sirius a small parchment of paper. "It's life and death, he has to have it."

"Yeah, because that hot American girl will kick his ass if it doesn't get delivered," Sean added. Sirius looked at him funny.

"Sean, have you been drinking without me?"

"No, you'll have to ignore him, he's an idiot." Hermione gave Sean a look. "Just don't forget to deliver the letter as soon as possible to Dumbledore."

Sirius gave her a blank stare. "Deliver what to who now?"

Harry grabbed the parchment and handed it to Remus. "Maybe you better have this."

"Good idea. We really should be going now, so we have to run. Make sure you don't leave the school!"

"Yes, mother."

"I mean it! Now we have to leave. I'll catch you later."

In Bern at the Swiss ministry of magic, everyone was in an uproar. Many witches and wizards in dark green robes were filling boxes with papers, sending owls, and running around in fear. Dumbledore left the Staff of Merlin to try and calm things down, then went up to the office of the Swiss minister of magic, Jake Jackland. The door swung open as he approached.

"Oh, Albus, thank god that you are alive. My hit wizards started returning here about half an hour ago, and I had feared the worst for you."

"Myself and the staff got out fine, but the aurors were completely annihilated."

"My God!"

"I do believe that we are looking at a full scale invasion here, Jake."

"I know, I have already ordered the evacuation of all magical people to the French ministry outside of Tours and Beauxbatons. We stand no chance against them, and my intelligence says that they are already marching on us."

"I believe that is a good idea for now. I must return to England, I have situations there that I must deal with."

After a quick breakfast and a stop at the library for Hermione, the three returned to the Gryffindor common room. However, they were surprised to find it occupied by two people that did not expect to see.

"Hiya. Long time no see, Harry." Sitting in the rich red chairs by the fire was Anton and Abby.

"What are you doing here?" Hermione asked.

"We're here because Harry fucked up! Dammit Harry, we gave you a message to deliver of the utmost importance, and you decide to sleep late! What were you thinking!" Anton was shouting by the end of that.

"Take it easy Anton, we all make mistakes. I seem to remember a certain spell that started a fire in Bolivia instead of putting it out," Abby said.

Anton started to get shifty. "But that was just a minor detail."

"You burned twenty thousand acres of land and they couldn't put it out for six months."

"Fine! We'll forgive you for this one, but don't do it again."

"All right, I won't."

Anton seemed to notice Sean for the first time. "Who the hell is that?"

Abby had noticed Sean before. "Yes, who is that," she batted her eyelashes at him and made some other things more prominent.

"Name's Sean Granger, and who may I have the pleasure of speaking to?"

"I'm Abby, how nice to meet you."

"Same over here."

"I sure am hungry. Sean, do you think you could show me where the kitchens are?"

"I can show you a lot more than that." Sean and Abby walked out the door. Sean poked his head back in the door really quick. "I'm going to show her the long way to the kitchens, so don't wait up, ladies and gents and midgets." They walked off down the hall.

"Well, she'll keep him occupied for a while."

"Oh, I don't know Anton. I think that Sean will keep her occupied for a long time."

"I wouldn't bet on that, I've seen Abby at work before. I swear, how that whore became vice-"

"Enough, enough, drop it," Harry stepped in. "Can we get back to work now."

"Right, right," Anton started. "According to our sources, Voldemort and Knoll have joined forces and defeated Dumbledore. The British aurors were wiped out, but Dumbledore and the Swiss hit wizards got away. Voldemort is now marching on the Swiss ministry of magic, and the Swiss are evacuating to France. Dumbledore and his group are scheduled to return to England in a few hours. We don't know anything else except that dark forces have taken Switzerland and France will be next."

"So why don't we stop them?"

Anton sighed. "All right. You go get your wand and stand on the French border against two dark armies and see how you do."

"Okay, I get the point."

"Albus, I can't believe that you stole five hundred of my aurors and got them killed! You explicitly went against my direct orders. I will have you arrested for treason for this!"

Albus Dumbledore eyed Cornelius Fudge from behind his glasses. "I think you will find it hard to convict me of anything, seeing as at least somebody was taking action."

Fudge narrowed his eyes at Dumbledore. "We still have no proof of Voldemort's return."

"Only five hundred dead aurors."

"And whose fault is that?"

"I don't know, but seeing as I'm the only other one in the room and you aren't smart enough to think of anybody else, I would guess that you are insinuating me."

"All right Albus, I didn't want it to come to this, and I will give you one last chance. Will you obey me or will you stay with your failing order?"

"I do not want you as an enemy, Fudge, but if you get in my way I will crush you like an ant."

"Then that will be your downfall. NOW!"

Suddenly, seven wizards from Fudge's personal bodyguards leapt out from behind the door and jumped on Dumbledore, taking his wand and breaking his ancient spectacles. Throwing a black bag over his head, they led Dumbledore off into the dungeons.

Five hours later, Anton was still playing exploding snap with Harry and Hermione, as Sean and Abby were still missing in action.

"Maybe we should go looking for them," Hermione finally asked to Anton.


"No, absolutely out of the question. Trust me, you would see something that you don't want to see something that you don't really want to."

"What if they got lost, or got attacked, or something like that?"

"Hermione, listen to me for a minute. Abby is an American. You don't understand them and you never will, so you might as well stop trying. Every few months she gets all whiny and doesn't shut up, so she ends up going off with some guy, in this case, Sean."

"Lucky bastard."

"Harry!"

"Sorry Hermione. I know, I'll go get the Marauder's Map, and then we can see where they are."

Anton looked puzzled. "What the hell is that?" Hermione quickly explained to him what the map was as Harry ran up to grab it. When he returned, he activated it and they searched the map.

"There they are, in the charms closet."

"Well why are they in there?"

"Take a wild guess, Hermione."

"Oh…Ewww. That's my cousin!"

Meanwhile, Harry was continuing to look at the map. "Hey, get over here and look at this." He pointed to Dumbledore's office, where there were currently almost fifty dots. "What's going on up there?"

Anton stared at him. "I don't know, but we're going to find out. You have an invisibility cloak, right Harry?"

"Yeah."

"Go get it. This might be important."

Meanwhile, in Professor Dumbledore's office, the Staff of Merlin was in uproar. Nobody could locate Professor Dumbledore, Voldemort had taken Switzerland and was about to take France, and five hundred of the best English aurors had just been killed.

Things only quieted down when a tall figure with jet-black hair and in midnight blue robes walked into the room and held up his hand.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Snape was the first to ask.

"I am Professor Rostov from the Russian School of Magic in Murmansk. I have information on where Professor Dumbledore is being held."

"Held. He is the most powerful wizard in the world!" Mundungus Fletcher was incredulous.


"Well then contact your spies in the ministry, because Albus Dumbledore is being held under the ministry in the dungeons underground."

"Are you certain about this?" asked Remus Lupin.

"Yes, I am sure, and yes, I can get him out. However, I need two volunteers who are willing to go on a dangerous mission."

Sirius and Remus looked at each other, and raised their hands slowly.

"Come with me. The rest of you, sleep here tonight. No one is safe."

Sirius and Remus followed him out.

Unbeknownst to the members of the Staff of Merlin, three more pairs of ears were listening to the conversation. Anton, Harry and Hermione were eavesdropping from under the protection of the invisibility cloak, and also followed Rostov out. However, they went down to the cafeteria and pulled off the invisibility cloak.

"I can't believe this, they actually arrested Dumbledore."

"Yes, Harry, that is what they just said."

Anton gave them an annoyed look. "If you two could actually shut up for a minute, I could think." After a few moments of silence, he spoke up again. "All right, here is what we are going to do. I'm going to contact our intelligence officer Moeritz and have him bring the maps for the ministry up here. I will get an invisibility cloak, and then we will go into the ministry by pairs and rescue Dumbledore."

"But that's what Remus and Sirius were going to do."

"Anything they can do we can do better. As long as we don't screw it up."

"That's a good philosophy."

"I made it up myself, you like? Come on, we have to go get Abby.

When they reached the charms closet, Anton banged on the door.

"Abby, get out here, we need you."

Inside the closet there were sudden movements, and they could hear expressions of surprise.

"Um, Anton, now isn't really a good time."

"Let's go Abby, we have to save the world again."

"We can do it tomorrow."

"Now Abby!"

"Fine. Give me a minute." Inside the closet there was movement now and they could here snatches of conversations.

"Damn it! Where are my pants!"

"Um, Sean, you're sitting on my shirt."

"Can't believe this, about to score, interrupt us, kill everyone, everyone is against me, everyone must die…"

Finally both people emerged from the closet, both looking a little disheveled. Sean was looking pissed, and when he passed Hermione he punched her on the arm.

On the way up to the common room Anton explained the situation to Abby, and when they returned used floo powder to go to Germany to pick up some maps and another invisibility cloak. When he returned, he set the maps on the table and starting briefing them.

"Harry, you and Hermione will go in together under your invisibility cloak, entering here. You are to proceed down the stairs to this intersection on the floor where Dumbledore is being kept. Wait for me and Abby there, and then we will proceed together to release Dumbledore and get the hell out of there. Understood? We'll go in at midnight."

At midnight that night, Harry and Hermione entered the ministry of magic. It was still lit, but there were very few people working there at this time. They went in when a security wizard opened the door, then went right down the stairs. They had no problems at all, and succeeded in reaching the rendezvous point without trouble. However, there was no sign of Anton and Abby. They waited for a half an hour, whispering every few minutes to make sure that they just hadn't noticed them.

After waiting about an hour, they started to hear the barking of dogs. Turning to look at the disturbance, they saw about ten of the minister's bodyguards running along behind a pack of bloodhounds.

"Harry, we have to get out of here."

"But Anton told us not to move."

"Harry, those are bloodhounds. They can smell us. We have to go now!"

Taking off down the hall, they could hear the dogs barking in pursuit. Running as fast as they could under the cloak, they were running down an empty hall when they were knocked flat by something in the middle of the hall.

Looking up dazed, Harry could see the bloodhounds coming down the hall towards him. Realizing he had fallen out from under the invisibility cloak, he scrambled to throw it back on. However, he then saw what had caused him and Hermione to fall.

Looking at him in shock were Remus and Sirius, partially covered by an invisibility cloak.