Disclaimer: I don't own them! Some of my own characters will appear but the ones from the books don't belong to me.

Author's Note: Well, this is my first Harry Potter fic. I hope you like it! Oh and, just so you know, it does have some couples in it. Please review.

Prologue

The Rise of Evil

Now, you might be asking yourself: "How could Darkness reign? After all, Harry Potter can always save the day! Unless…" No, you needn't worry about that. The Boy Who Lived isn't dead! We'll get to that later, though.

It all started in Harry's fourth year. Voldemort came back and a war flared up between the Good and the Evil witches and wizards. This didn't stop for the rest of Harry's time at Hogwarts. During their time there, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger did everything they could to help Professor Dumbledore keep the forces of evil from invading Hogwarts. Professor Snape pretended to return to Voldemort's side while actually being a spy for the side of good. Lucius Malfoy, on the other hand, pretended to not go back to Voldemort, even though he wasn't really fooling anyone. However, a lot of people were convinced that Draco had nothing to do with the Dark Lord. One of them was Virginia Weasley.

Ginny Weasley finally got over her crush on Harry in her fifth year. This was largely due to the fact that Harry had given up on Cho and had started to date Hermione. At first, Ginny was distraught. Then, however, she began to realize that she was receiving attention from a certain very blonde, pale Slytherin boy. (Three guesses who…) It didn't take her too long to realize that she liked him more than she had even liked Harry! However, Draco Malfoy was her brother's number one enemy and he'd been mean to all of here friends, made fun of her family's low monetary standing and had called Hermione a mudblood. Lately though, he had seemed a little nicer, and he hadn't made fun of them recently. On the last day of school, they started to go out. This lasted through the next year without any problems.

Then, however, halfway through Ginny's last year, Malfoy dumped her rather abruptly and dropped out of sight. After this happened, Ginny through herself into her studies, receiving top marks in all her classes. They were equal to Hermione's.

Meanwhile, Harry, Hermione and Ron had been fighting in the smaller battles to protect Hogwarts. With them were Fred, George, Percy, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, and dozens of others. Harry and Hermione had been dating since the summer before their sixth year. Now they were happily engaged.

Then it happened. Before, all victories on either side had been small, tiny pinpricks. After each battle it was hard to see who was ahead in the war. Then, one rainy morning, Hermione and Mrs. Weasley were out getting more supplies for the troops in Diagon Alley. Harry and the other Weasleys (except for Charlie and Bill, who were still out of the country, and Percy's wife of one week Penelope, who was back at their house with the flu) received startling news. Voldemort was planning to attack Hogwarts! It was supposed to be the last day of the term at Hogwarts. However, unbeknownst to any of them, Dumbledore had ended the term the day before and everyone had left the school that morning. However, Voldemort knew this. In fact he thought that it would be the perfect opportunity to stop Harry and his friends and their meddling ways. Harry and the Weasleys (except for…the ones mentioned above) headed over to Hogwarts. However, Mrs. Weasley and Hermione knew something was up. They had just finished shopping.

"We'd better hurry back to the guys," Hermione said.

"Yes, I suppose we'd better," Mrs. Weasley agreed.

"Mom!" they heard someone yell.

"Ginny? Why aren't you in school?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"Well, the last day of term was yesterday. We all cleared out this morning. I figured you would be here," Ginny said. Then she saw their confused faces. "What's going on? Didn't you know that Professor Dumbledore had changed the day?"

"No, we didn't, Ginny," Hermione said. Suddenly an owl flew down from the direction of where the others had been. It was Hedwig! Hermione took the letter she gave her and read it aloud.

"'Dear Hermione,'" it said. "'We just received word that Voldemort is planning on attacking Hogwarts right now. Don't worry! We'll be back as soon as we find out that everything's okay there. We've got to hurry though, so I'll see you soon. Love Harry.'" Hermione looked up.

"But, if the students aren't there," Mrs. Weasley began.

"Then it's a trap!" Ginny declared. "We've gotta hurry!"

"How are we gonna get there?" Mrs. Weasley asked. "We can't use Floo powder to get into the school, and the nearest grate is in Hogsmeade"

"Honeydukes!" Hermione and Ginny said in unison.

"There's a secret passage leading into the statue of the one-eyed witch's hump," Ginny explained.

"Good. Wait, how do you two know about it?"

"That's not important! We've gotta hurry!" Hermione said. They rushed to the nearest grate and transported to Honeydukes after leaving their purchases with the front desk. Then they scampered through the passageway. They finally reached Hogwarts and split up to check all the rooms. They met by the Great Hall.

"Anything?" Ginny asked.

"Nothing," Mrs. Weasley said.

"It's like no one's here."

"There's gotta be a secret room or something," Ginny said. Hermione's eyes lit up.

"Of course!" She got out the Marauder's map. "I forgot Harry told me to keep it for him." She said the key words and the map appeared. They all looked at it.

"Look! Right over there is a passages leading to a room at the very top of the highest tower," Mrs. Weasley declared. "The entrance is behind the first fireplace on the right of the Great Hall!" They hurried inside and ran up to the fireplace. Soon it was open and they rushed up what seemed like endless flights of stairs until they found themselves facing a door.

"Should we go in?" Ginny asked timidly. Hermione nodded determinedly and opened the door. The three of them gasped. Mrs. Weasley fainted. As soon as they had entered Harry had fell unconscious next to Ron, Fred, George, Percy and Mr. Weasley. Hermione and Ginny looked around for the culprits. Ginny gasped.

"Malfoy!" Hermione spat. Standing not five feet from our fallen heroes were Draco, Lucius, Wormtail, three of Voldemort's other followers and a cloaked figure that seemed to embody evil. It was Voldemort.

Hermione turned to look at Ginny, who had tears streaming down her face, glaring at Draco. Then she looked back at the group. She started to walk forward when they shimmered and disappeared in a flash of light. They had taken Harry and the others with them. Hermione and Ginny took Mrs. Weasley outside.

That was where the war started to get worse for the side of good. Voldemort won in less than half a year and most went into hiding. Most of the other Schools of Witchcraft and Wizardry around the world closed. Hermione and Ginny continued to fight with other Resistance fighters, but in a raid gone wrong, Ginny was captured along with other people accused of conspiring against Voldemort.

However, in the next two years, Voldemort couldn't reach full power. Most Muggles didn't even know he existed! This was because the President of the United States' little war with Iraq had escalated into a full fledged World War. The Muggles were too preoccupied with this to notice the other battles going on. However, Voldemort didn't care. He could still track anyone anywhere.

Or so he thought…

TBC

Author's Note: Well, I hope you liked the prologue. Now please go on and read Chapter 1. Please review! I'm not trying to sound like I'm threatening you, but if I don't get reviews, I don't think anyone likes my fic and I don't upload anymore chapters. However, even if I just get one review per chapter, I'm happy, although more reviews make me write more!