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Harry Potter and the Return of the Dark LordChapter 13- The Battle
Once everyone was in the Great Hall Dumbledore informed the students and teachers of the attack on Hogsmead. "I have people informing others of the attacks who are prepared to fight. From today the Order of the Phoenix is back." The students said nothing. "Would the following students and staff please go to the chamber of the left of me and wait there. Harry Potter, Ronald Weasly, Hermione Granger, Justin Finch- Fletchly, Natalie Etoile, Luci Bellah, Nicole Morton, Marc Collins, Daniel Samsun, Padma Patil, Fred, George and Ginny Weasly," and so on the list was read out, ending with all the professors. Harry noticed that not one of the Slytherin's names was called, including Snape's, who he presumed was going on a spy mission. Also no students apart from Ginny and one other person was under the 5th year, but that was because they hadn't learnt enough to defend themselves, though Harry wasn't sure whether he was that good at protecting himself, but you have Gryffindor's Amulet, he reminded himself, which would surely help him some how.
Inside the chamber Dumbledore spoke to them, "You are the strongest students at Hogwarts and you will become new members of the Order of the Phoenix, a resistance against the dark side. We do not have time to make you full members now, but later we will. Before we start, is everyone willing to help?" Everyone in the small chamber nodded their heads silently. "I will warn you now, some of you may not return, but if this battle goes well, your lives could save many more."
He led them back through the Great Hall, which was now empty. "Is everyone ready and armed," he asked the sombre group. Quiet mummers of yes' could barely be heard.
As the left the castle screams from the nearby village could be heard and smoke could be seen above the trees that separated Hogwarts from the path that led to Hogsmead. Several eyes widened with fear, whilst Harry just gripped his wand even tighter. Dumbledore looked so angry that some of the professors avoided his gaze. Harry had only seen him this angry once before and that was when Dumbledore realized Professor Moody was actually Barty Crouch, a Death Eater who had been given the Dementors kiss.
Dumbledore stopped at the gates just out of view of the Death Eaters who where duelling with the local residents. Behind the group a large popping noise was heard and several more people were standing there including the Weasly's, Cornelius Fudge, Sirius and several people Harry didn't know. "GOOD LORD!" Fudge cried, "it is true!"
"ATTACK!" Dumbledore cried and everyone ran in to the street.
All over the street people were battling the forces of good and evil. The Gryffindor 5ht years stuck together, and with all their strength were able to stun a few Death Eaters with a curse that would keep them knocked out for a while. Nicole unmasked them while Ron named them, "Nott, Crabbe, Lestrage."
To Harry's right Hagrid was duelling a small Death Eater with his pink umbrella in his hand. Looking around Harry saw that no one was dead, just stunned, he wasn't sure why. Voldermort liked to kill.
Suddenly, a cold, high- pitched laugh sounded through the village. Everyone froze. "So…." Said the voice, "Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix had returned to destroy me. HAHA! I can only be destroyed completely by three people, and two of them are dead. The other will be dead very soon." A tall, pale figure swept out from the shadows of a building. "You may have noticed that my faithful followers have not killed anyone. That is because there will only be two deaths today, though the rest of you will die shortly after. Only the muggle loving fool, Dumbledore and the only person that can defeat me, Harry Potter will be dying today."
Everything was deathly quiet. "Why are you doing this, Voldermort?" Dumbledore asked him.
Why? Isn't it obvious? I want to rule the world, of course, with only the ones who are most faithful to me living in it." He looked around and saw that only half of his Death Eaters were standing the rest were lying on the floor. He walked over to the nearest one who was lying face down. Underneath the robes Harry saw a glint of silver. Near to Harry, he could hear Sirius mutter, "Wormtail!"
"What's that Black?" Voldermort said, "You recognize your old friend. If you want revenge on him, fine, kill him, he is useless to me anyway."
Sirius started to approach Wormtail, his wand in an attacking position, but Remus stopped him. "He killed Lily and James!" Sirius cried.
"No he didn't, Voldermort did, and Peter was just stupid enough to believe that Voldermort would give him all the power that he wanted, because he had never had any before."
"And why do you think that was?" Wormtail said from the ground, his wand pointing at Sirius and Remus.
