Disclaimer: Everything belongs to J. K. Rowling, except the plot and a few
new characters.
Authors Note: This thing began in the summer before Harry's 7th year and this is not slash. Sorry for not posting this chapter before, I didn't exactly have much time this past week.
-Chapter Seven-
In the Great Hall things were only worse. It turned out that all of the Auror's that had been guarding the secret passages had returned and had no idea why they had disobeyed orders. Also the women, that didn't want to join the fight, and the kids were placed in a corner of the Great Hall with a powerful Shield charm put on them, and several Auror's were placed close by. Ginny was over there with them, playing with the kids to calm them down.
Harry was so busy discussing tactics and plans with Ron, Hermione, Draco, Neville and the Weasley twins that he didn't notice that Nowels, Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall and a man he had never met before come up behind them.
"Why don't we just use the Locking charm and lock the Death Eaters out?" Neville asked.
"We have already put them on the main-doors Neville, but unfortunately that means that we're locked in here too." Harry said.
"Can't one of the House Elves go and get help?"
"House Elves can't travel out of Hogwarts by magic, sure they can pop around inside but not outside." Hermione said matter-of-factly.
"Fred, George, I'm open for ideas." Harry said to the twins.
"Well," Fred began. "If what you told us about the Black Snakes Order is true Harry, then I bet that those attackers out there aren't Death Eaters."
"Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, has come with his statement." Ron said sarcastically.
"The Death Eaters wouldn't be so foolish to put their hope into a frontal attack." George continued. "Voldemort wouldn't be so foolish."
"Doctor Watson just made his diagnosis, and agrees with Mr Holmes." Ron said. "Now that that mystery is cleared, could we get back to the matter at hand?"
"They will most likely attack here, here and here," Fred said, pointing it out on the Marauders Map. "And of course the Astronomy Tower. Now, we should ask Nowels to place his Auror's inside the stature of the griffin on third, in the secret room at the beginning of the stairs up to the Astronomy Tower, and in the corridor with the painting of Sir Cadogan, you know, the lunatic."
"What about the House Elves?" Hermione asked. "Wouldn't they want to help us guard the secret passages or something?"
"Do you think we could keep them away?" Draco asked her.
"Alright, this begins to look good." Ron cut in. "Me, Hermy, Fred and George will look for Commander Nowels, Draco and Neville will find Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape, and Harry will get Dobby."
"Why do I get the House Elves?"
"Because they actually listen to you." Neville replied.
The little group turned to their tasks and stood face to face with the people they wanted to find. There was a long, slightly embarrassing silence.
"Just the people we've been looking for!" Harry said trying to get rid of the feeling he got when the grownups looked sternly at them. Just like being caught in the middle of a prank.
"Yeah. We've got this plan that actually might-" Draco began but was cut off by the man they had never met before.
"We heard." The man said this in a tone that clearly said that he thought their plan, along with them, wasn't worth his attention at all. "Let me introduce myself. I'm Hawkins. Richard Hawkins."
"Nice to meet you Mr Hawkins." Harry said, he didn't like the man at all and already knew were he had heard the name before. He decided to play with the man just like a cat plays with a mouse before eating it. "Aren't you the leader of the Order of the Phoenix's Second Squadron?" When the man nodded Harry continued. "That Squadron is rumoured to be one of the best. Weren't your Squadron chasing that infamous criminal, what's his name? Sirius Black?"
"He was hardly infamous." Hawkins replied. He was surprised at the tone of Harry's voice and knew that the boy was playing with him. Hawkins was determined not to follow Harry's rules. He knew the boy was called the Gamemaster in the Ministry of Magic. Well, he was certain he could, and would, beat Harry in the Big Game.
"So you caught him?" Harry asked lightly.
Damn the boy! He was a lot smarter than he looked. Hawkins had no reply for that. He was certain Harry knew about Black's escape and he was certain that Harry did this to mock him.
Dumbledore decided to step in before a fight broke out. He had to say that he didn't like Hawkins attitude, and it had been quite funny to watch him being outsmarted by a 19 year old, but he had to step in before Hawkins lost his control. Harry was just standing there, calm as ever.
"Commander Hawkins, let me introduce to you Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Fred and George Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy."
"Charmed, I'm sure." Hawkins replied glaring daggers at Harry. "Lets take a look at that plan of yours." He finished, but the rest could hear that he had wanted to add 'since we have nothing better to do' at the end.
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Harry, Draco, Hawkins and a few Phoenix Agents were positioned at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Astronomy Tower.
Harry and Draco were talking together, sharing all the information they had about the Black Snakes Order with the other. Hawkins and his group were at their posts, hardly breathing.
"When we get back, we've got to read up on the Black Snakes Order in that book of yours. What did you call it? The Book of Orders?" Draco said. "I still have no idea where you found it."
"I didn't find it, it found me." Harry replied.
"Potter, the more I know about you the less I understand you." Draco said. "This is boring. Can't those Black Snakes hurry up?" the words were barely out of his mouth when they heard voices.
"Shit!"
"Shut up. Want to tell them that we're coming so that they can invite us to tea? And get your foot out of that Trick Step."
Harry and Draco barely kept from laughing out loud. Even Neville had remembered to jump over that step when they had been in school.
"Get ready," Hawkins whispered. "NOW!"
The Phoenix Agents jumped out of the room, right in front of the Black Snakes. Harry and Draco strolled calmly after.
"In position!" the leader of the Black Snakes group said.
Hawkins glared at the man, who took his hood down. They where looking at a blond, blue eyed man. He had a terrible cut from his eye corner to the corner of his mouth.
"Hawkins," them man said in a silky voice. "So, we meet again."
"Wizards Duel, no rules." Hawkins replied. "Or are you a chicken, Kain?"
"Acinoryx!"
They could only watch as the black beam shoot towards Hawkins, who ducked and it hit one of the younger Phoenix Agents. The Agent screamed and fell to the floor, twitching and turning. A second later he erupted into flames. All that was left was a pile of ash.
"Damn!" Draco said in disbelief.
Hawkins didn't have to wait for his Agents to do something. They began to shoot curses and spells towards the Black Snakes, who, in turn, fought fire with fire. Some of the curses they used were qualified to be Unforgivable Curses.
One second Harry was duelling with a Black Snake recruit and in the next he was flying backwards after being hit by a Banishing spell, the same Krum had used. He landed way down the corridor, being stopped by a suite of armour that tried to play Baseball.
"Shit! What is this? Blow-Potter-Away-Day or something?" he growled as he got up.
Suddenly the Black Snakes leader stood in front of him, grinning like a mad monkey.
"I thought I saw you back there." He said. "You're Harry Potter, aren't you?"
"Last time I checked, yeah. And welcome to the 21st century." Harry replied.
"It would be and honour if I could duel with you." Kain said. "I hear you're quite good."
Harry didn't say a thing. He didn't really have a choice, so he watched Kain carefully. The Black Snake walked in circles round him, trying to make him nervous.
"Crucio!"
Harry barely had time to get out of the way.
"Coenonymph!"
As apparently nothing happened when the spell hit him, Kain grinned and pointed his wand at Harry again.
"Cichorcularis!" he yelled. But to Kain's surprise the spell came out of the wrong end of the wand, towards him, and a second later he was frozen to the spot.
"You disappoint me Black Snake. Big time." Harry said. "You should've known that that spell turns the point of the wand."
He let Kain stand there and glare at him, and hurried back to help the Phoenix Agents.
"About time you joined us Potter!" Draco yelled. "We were getting worried!"
"I had a little vermin-a-la-Kain problem!" both of them laughed.
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That's it for now. I'm going to try to get the next chapter up tomorrow, but don't expect miracles.
I want to thank Andrew and Lily Evans for reviewing.
Authors Note: This thing began in the summer before Harry's 7th year and this is not slash. Sorry for not posting this chapter before, I didn't exactly have much time this past week.
-Chapter Seven-
In the Great Hall things were only worse. It turned out that all of the Auror's that had been guarding the secret passages had returned and had no idea why they had disobeyed orders. Also the women, that didn't want to join the fight, and the kids were placed in a corner of the Great Hall with a powerful Shield charm put on them, and several Auror's were placed close by. Ginny was over there with them, playing with the kids to calm them down.
Harry was so busy discussing tactics and plans with Ron, Hermione, Draco, Neville and the Weasley twins that he didn't notice that Nowels, Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall and a man he had never met before come up behind them.
"Why don't we just use the Locking charm and lock the Death Eaters out?" Neville asked.
"We have already put them on the main-doors Neville, but unfortunately that means that we're locked in here too." Harry said.
"Can't one of the House Elves go and get help?"
"House Elves can't travel out of Hogwarts by magic, sure they can pop around inside but not outside." Hermione said matter-of-factly.
"Fred, George, I'm open for ideas." Harry said to the twins.
"Well," Fred began. "If what you told us about the Black Snakes Order is true Harry, then I bet that those attackers out there aren't Death Eaters."
"Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, has come with his statement." Ron said sarcastically.
"The Death Eaters wouldn't be so foolish to put their hope into a frontal attack." George continued. "Voldemort wouldn't be so foolish."
"Doctor Watson just made his diagnosis, and agrees with Mr Holmes." Ron said. "Now that that mystery is cleared, could we get back to the matter at hand?"
"They will most likely attack here, here and here," Fred said, pointing it out on the Marauders Map. "And of course the Astronomy Tower. Now, we should ask Nowels to place his Auror's inside the stature of the griffin on third, in the secret room at the beginning of the stairs up to the Astronomy Tower, and in the corridor with the painting of Sir Cadogan, you know, the lunatic."
"What about the House Elves?" Hermione asked. "Wouldn't they want to help us guard the secret passages or something?"
"Do you think we could keep them away?" Draco asked her.
"Alright, this begins to look good." Ron cut in. "Me, Hermy, Fred and George will look for Commander Nowels, Draco and Neville will find Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape, and Harry will get Dobby."
"Why do I get the House Elves?"
"Because they actually listen to you." Neville replied.
The little group turned to their tasks and stood face to face with the people they wanted to find. There was a long, slightly embarrassing silence.
"Just the people we've been looking for!" Harry said trying to get rid of the feeling he got when the grownups looked sternly at them. Just like being caught in the middle of a prank.
"Yeah. We've got this plan that actually might-" Draco began but was cut off by the man they had never met before.
"We heard." The man said this in a tone that clearly said that he thought their plan, along with them, wasn't worth his attention at all. "Let me introduce myself. I'm Hawkins. Richard Hawkins."
"Nice to meet you Mr Hawkins." Harry said, he didn't like the man at all and already knew were he had heard the name before. He decided to play with the man just like a cat plays with a mouse before eating it. "Aren't you the leader of the Order of the Phoenix's Second Squadron?" When the man nodded Harry continued. "That Squadron is rumoured to be one of the best. Weren't your Squadron chasing that infamous criminal, what's his name? Sirius Black?"
"He was hardly infamous." Hawkins replied. He was surprised at the tone of Harry's voice and knew that the boy was playing with him. Hawkins was determined not to follow Harry's rules. He knew the boy was called the Gamemaster in the Ministry of Magic. Well, he was certain he could, and would, beat Harry in the Big Game.
"So you caught him?" Harry asked lightly.
Damn the boy! He was a lot smarter than he looked. Hawkins had no reply for that. He was certain Harry knew about Black's escape and he was certain that Harry did this to mock him.
Dumbledore decided to step in before a fight broke out. He had to say that he didn't like Hawkins attitude, and it had been quite funny to watch him being outsmarted by a 19 year old, but he had to step in before Hawkins lost his control. Harry was just standing there, calm as ever.
"Commander Hawkins, let me introduce to you Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Fred and George Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy."
"Charmed, I'm sure." Hawkins replied glaring daggers at Harry. "Lets take a look at that plan of yours." He finished, but the rest could hear that he had wanted to add 'since we have nothing better to do' at the end.
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Harry, Draco, Hawkins and a few Phoenix Agents were positioned at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Astronomy Tower.
Harry and Draco were talking together, sharing all the information they had about the Black Snakes Order with the other. Hawkins and his group were at their posts, hardly breathing.
"When we get back, we've got to read up on the Black Snakes Order in that book of yours. What did you call it? The Book of Orders?" Draco said. "I still have no idea where you found it."
"I didn't find it, it found me." Harry replied.
"Potter, the more I know about you the less I understand you." Draco said. "This is boring. Can't those Black Snakes hurry up?" the words were barely out of his mouth when they heard voices.
"Shit!"
"Shut up. Want to tell them that we're coming so that they can invite us to tea? And get your foot out of that Trick Step."
Harry and Draco barely kept from laughing out loud. Even Neville had remembered to jump over that step when they had been in school.
"Get ready," Hawkins whispered. "NOW!"
The Phoenix Agents jumped out of the room, right in front of the Black Snakes. Harry and Draco strolled calmly after.
"In position!" the leader of the Black Snakes group said.
Hawkins glared at the man, who took his hood down. They where looking at a blond, blue eyed man. He had a terrible cut from his eye corner to the corner of his mouth.
"Hawkins," them man said in a silky voice. "So, we meet again."
"Wizards Duel, no rules." Hawkins replied. "Or are you a chicken, Kain?"
"Acinoryx!"
They could only watch as the black beam shoot towards Hawkins, who ducked and it hit one of the younger Phoenix Agents. The Agent screamed and fell to the floor, twitching and turning. A second later he erupted into flames. All that was left was a pile of ash.
"Damn!" Draco said in disbelief.
Hawkins didn't have to wait for his Agents to do something. They began to shoot curses and spells towards the Black Snakes, who, in turn, fought fire with fire. Some of the curses they used were qualified to be Unforgivable Curses.
One second Harry was duelling with a Black Snake recruit and in the next he was flying backwards after being hit by a Banishing spell, the same Krum had used. He landed way down the corridor, being stopped by a suite of armour that tried to play Baseball.
"Shit! What is this? Blow-Potter-Away-Day or something?" he growled as he got up.
Suddenly the Black Snakes leader stood in front of him, grinning like a mad monkey.
"I thought I saw you back there." He said. "You're Harry Potter, aren't you?"
"Last time I checked, yeah. And welcome to the 21st century." Harry replied.
"It would be and honour if I could duel with you." Kain said. "I hear you're quite good."
Harry didn't say a thing. He didn't really have a choice, so he watched Kain carefully. The Black Snake walked in circles round him, trying to make him nervous.
"Crucio!"
Harry barely had time to get out of the way.
"Coenonymph!"
As apparently nothing happened when the spell hit him, Kain grinned and pointed his wand at Harry again.
"Cichorcularis!" he yelled. But to Kain's surprise the spell came out of the wrong end of the wand, towards him, and a second later he was frozen to the spot.
"You disappoint me Black Snake. Big time." Harry said. "You should've known that that spell turns the point of the wand."
He let Kain stand there and glare at him, and hurried back to help the Phoenix Agents.
"About time you joined us Potter!" Draco yelled. "We were getting worried!"
"I had a little vermin-a-la-Kain problem!" both of them laughed.
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That's it for now. I'm going to try to get the next chapter up tomorrow, but don't expect miracles.
I want to thank Andrew and Lily Evans for reviewing.