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Chapter 17 The New Marauder & The Four Leaf Clover Irish School of Sorcery Attack

When Draco Malfoy arrived back in school it was the truly last day of fall and everyone was outside, except the Marauders. The Christmas Holidays were only two weeks away. He was met at the door by Ron, who ignored his questions and set off towards Gryffindor Tower, up through the common room and into the boys dorm, through the fake wall behind Harry's bed and into the Marauders domain. By this time he was bursting with questions and very confused.

Inside the others were seated on couches and in armchairs around a coffee table talking.

"Hello." Ira greeted him cheerfully; Draco took the remaining seat and looked around.

"Draco we've been thinking for sometime about your helping us with pranks, tell us, do you want to be a Marauder?" Ron asked.

"What? Oh, yes! I'd love to join you." He replied with enthusiasm. Harry clapped his hands together.

"Well then that's done, we'll need to add another hand to our symbol though." Everyone pulled out their badges, Harry tossed Draco one, they added a hand to the four already there.

"Now, lets see, how shall we celebrate this?" Ira asked, puling out their prank list. With evil chuckles they set to work plotting.

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Soon the Holidays were upon them, all the Marauders chose to stay at the school, many students did. In all forty-eight remained at school, an almost unprecedented number. Over the past two weeks thirty-four people had been killed, including two whole wizarding families and two Order members and one retired auror who had, when still working, killed ten of Voldemort's snakes.

Four days before the Holiday's started Harry woke at just past midnight from a dream, shaking. He leaped out of bed and dressed in half a minute. Then he sent his mind searching, trying to find Sirius, but his telepathy skills weren't up to it, Harry drew from his power stone and finally located his Godfather, half a world away investigating an Inca Wizard's tomb. Phoenix? The Four Leaf Clover Irish School of Sorcery is being attacked! The response was almost instantaneous. I'll call out the Order, we're going to have to evacuate, would you help get the Fortress ready? Miranda's in charge there right now. Harry sent his reply and turned, the other boys were awake.

"Harry?"

"What's going on?"

"The Irish School of Sorcery is being attacked, the Order's been called out, I have to go help with the evacuations." Harry replied before he leaped out the window and floated away from the school before calling his lightning.

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Harry arrived at the Fortress in time to join the Evacuation Team, which consisted of the Blur, Aqua, and Yellow Patrols along with ten of the thirty strong Broom Brigade and two healers. They took portkeys to the Irish school.

It was an immense building, not so large as Hogwarts, but close. Anything burnable was burning, the gates were open and fighting was going on in the corridors and classrooms between students, staff, and the death eaters. Harry started near the top of the building in a tower. There were ten students who had locked themselves in the tower, Harry got them out with a portkey, he then took care of the death eaters trying to get in and began working his way down.

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By morning the fight was just ending, a few small pockets of death eater resistance were left in the lowest dungeon, but most had fled back to Voldemort. Of about 900 students 322 were dead, 408 badly injured, 10 dying, 52 uninjured, and 100 mildly injured. Harry had some horrible damage to his left shoulder and right lower leg, but he was alive. 13 Order agents had been killed. He was dead tired, but still had a long job ahead of him.

Back at the Fortress Harry helped the evacuated students into large barracks, and then he visited the healers. His shoulder had been hit with a skinning spell and the edge of a disintegrating curse. But the wound was clean and not too deep and quickly patched up. His left lower leg had 1st degree burns and his knee was skinned from a fall on the rough stone steps of a stairway. It took a while but it too was healed, then he went to work helping to heal others. The healers had discovered that Harry had a strong stomach for the sight of blood and guts, he also had the ability to calm people with his eyes, he could also tell if they were lying about injuries by reading their thoughts, or hear their mental screams of pain. He was sent to help with some of the worst injured, but quickly had to stop, he just couldn't take their thoughts, it was just too much. He couldn't escape, couldn't cut off their voices, all around him, and nowhere in the Fortress was he free from their haunting screams. But Harry gritted his teeth and held on to his sanity, it took some major spell work to top him from biting his lip to shreds and stop the tears and dizziness that came from minds crying out everywhere. He asked people to use the blocking spell, but there were too many of them. By 10: a.m. Harry had had all he could possibly stand and he left. Back at school all classes had been canceled, to avoid worried people bugging him he snuck back into his secret rooms and locked them and went to sleep on a couch, and dreamed dreams of hundreds of minds screaming in pain and of a burning school ad the thoughts of the dying students, staff, death eaters, and Order members alike as they fought and died, being a mind read was tough.



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