CHAPTER 12-

A/N: well. its time to write again. I happy about the way the story is going, except it seems I have too much going on at once somehow- but that is good sometimes.

Finally got to the attack right at the beginning of this chapter. kind of left you all with a little cliffy there, which is why this might take longer to get out. I want a little suspense from the little amount of people who still might be reading. which brings me to my next point-

Reviews!!! Only 2 last chapter! I'm still hoping there are people reading that have been before because they were new reviewers, I believe. I even hit the 20,000-word mark to help get more reviews. only to get less.

DISCLAIMER: I think this is the last chapter I should need to mention it so from now on I probably won't. I DO NOT OWN Harry POTTER-DO YOU BELIEVE ME NOW? Good.

CHAPTER 12-

Operation Hope

Hermione woke up early the next morning. No one knew Hermione had her own dueling robes, but she was always prepared for everything. She had all her stuff ready for her to get up and fly right out her dormitory window before she pocketed her orb, wand, and the marauders map and walked off to Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore's body had been moved up there the previous day to be locked in away from harm with Snape. Once Hermione made it there, she saw everyone was already discussing what was to happen.

"The heads of houses are to check all windows in the houses to make sure they are locked and unbreakable," McGonagall started. "Sirius has taken the liberty to blocking up all of the secret passages into the school. If possible, we need all houses in towers to shoot curses and charms out their windows to help. That'd be fifth year and up in Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. One thing changed from yesterday was the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey will be up here for any of the injured, and I will be going around the place helping everywhere help is needed. Mr. Moody has got a squad of aurors to believe our story of Voldemort's return and help during the attack."

Snape then stood up and began talking. "The all-out attack from hundreds of death eaters is to come earlier in the day then expected. They have found out that we knew of the attack on Azkaban and moved it to a later time today. We must keep as many people on their guard as possible," he finished, sitting down and looking around.

"Well then, I must go to inform the teachers, tell the students breakfast is in the common rooms, and get the house elves to serve through their magic transportation to the common rooms. Everyone who has nothing else to do may get a quick breakfast from the kitchens and take your positions," McGonagall said as he sat down.

Hermione and Sirius led everyone to the kitchens. They were greeted cheerfully by the house elves, who were only too eager to get something for them. A table was set up for them all and breakfast was served within five minutes of sitting down. They all ate fast, not talking much. The only sound came from Hermione and Sirius talking to Dobby and Winky. They were pretty shocked when they heard about the attack, too. McGonagall walked in just as they were finishing up to talk to the elves about staying out of Hogwarts.

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Harry and Ron spent their time in the house with Mrs. Weasley talking near the fire. The silent flames kept them very warm as Harry did most of the talking; asking himself and Ron and Mrs. Weasley questions he knew would not be answered. Harry looked over at the Weasley's positioning clock. He saw himself and Hermione were both added on. Next to the positioning clock, there was a real clock. Harry saw it was about to turn ten. Five minutes of silence later, it did.

"Well," Harry said, starting to get up. "I'm sure it's time for me to leave now. I'll turn up with Hermione no later then tomorrow night. Probably later then your dad, Ron." He looked at their shocked faces.

"Where might you be going?" Mrs. Weasley questioned. "And why?"

"Hogwarts. I must defend my first true home," he said. He then got ready and mumbled something they couldn't hear. "Transportus." He was gone in the blink of an eye.

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Hermione and Remus, both under invisibility spells, could see each other and enemies as they attempted to enter the castle through the astronomy tower. There had been only two groups of four that attempted so far. The battle had not technically started yet. It was about ten o clock.

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Harry appeared in the middle of the common room just a minute after professor McGonagall had came in to talk about fifth years and higher helping the battle by window. "Harry? What are you doing here?" she asked upon seeing him.

"I wanted to help with the battle. You all should've seen Ron when I told him about the attack. They were in shock when I left them too," Harry answered, with a slight smile.

"Wait a second, them?" asked a younger student.

"Yes, we met someone we knew while walking by."

"Well, Harry. You do know the invisibility spell, I assume?" McGonagall asked.

"Yes, of course."

"Well then, what are you waiting for? Use one on yourself and get to the astronomy tower."

"Okay," he said before muttering two spells. "Invisibilatay. Transportus." (A/N: not very creative, I guess) Harry appeared at the astronomy tower, invisible to everyone except Hermione and Remus, who actually counted as everyone at that point in time. They were both too shocked to say anything, but they quickly got over it as they saw another five groups of four swooped down on brooms. Harry acted first, shooting spells in all directions. He stunned half of them himself before they realized he must have been invisible too. When they got them all, Harry moved them out of the way and spoke first.

"Hi, how's it going?" he asked, quite casually, as if nothing was wrong. He saw there faces and looked puzzled at their expressions. "Uh, is the something on my face, or something?"

Hermione let out a laugh. "What are you doing here? Mr. Weasley said you were going to stay at his house," Hermione questioned him.

"I had other plans. Lesson 1: never let the first place you ever called home be destroyed. Lesson 2: protect you friends, family, and even small enemies from all danger. That's all I'm saying," he said, smiling as he watched the look of surprise start spreading over Hermione's face.

"Very wise words, Harry. Very wise indeed," Remus added.

"Thank you," Harry replied again, watching the next swarm of death eaters fly in. There were only two groups this time, making it easier. He stunned one group and moved them while Hermione and Remus took care of the other group.

It was a fairly nice day outside. Unusually warm for mid-October, which would charge when dementors came. The sun shined over Hogwarts and its grounds. Neither side would have an advantage with the weather. The forest's leaves had started to turn brown, red, orange, and yellow as autumn was upon Hogwarts.

Harry watched as he saw hundreds of beams of light shooting ever which way in Hogsmeade. Death eaters began to file out of the forest, some came from Hogsmeade. They advanced on Hogwarts as hundreds of tiny black dots in the sky became bigger. Apparently, some students saw this from the common room as spells shot to the ground and the sky. Some death eaters fell from their brooms, falling down far back in the forest, getting closer to the edge with each death eater down.

Harry had summoned his Firebolt from Hermione's room. He made it invisible as soon as he saw it. He hopped on and flew out to meet the death eaters, knocking many to the ground and confusing the rest because they didn't know what was making some fall off. Some of them scattered in different directions. Harry successfully threw off the air attack before it even hit Hogwarts. Harry made himself not be invisible for them last hundred or so. Students immediately understood and shot more spells towards death eaters, sending more towards the ground. About thirty death eaters got around him without his notice, but Hermione and Remus took care of them.

Only five of the death eaters left had decent brooms, and there were only seven left. Harry had a strong feeling they were previous Slytherin quidditch players. They were all flying at breakneck speed, dodging spells from the castle. One almost hit even Harry. He dived off the broom to avoid one spell and they ended the spells from there. Harry got the two slower death eaters, leaving only five left. As they continued to fly in a path, Harry pulled his Firebolt straight up, looked down, and gave a signal to continue shooting spells from the castle as he got another death eater himself.

There was one left on a Firebolt like his. They zoomed around in the air, each trying to knock each other off. Harry saw the dementors and suddenly got an idea. "Ah!" he yelled pointing towards the dementors and pretending to faint.

Hermione got her wand ready to help. "No!" Remus yelled. "It's a trick. He's gonna get that death eater and the dementors. Harry has learned to tolerate the power of the dementors for a couple of minutes while flying. There's also no guarantee he can feel them there."

"Okay," Hermione said back, lowering her wand. Harry started to fall slower, the last death eater gaining on him. He stopped, turned around, and stunned the last death eater, just as Remus had said would happen. Then he turned towards the ground attack.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Harry screamed. The silver stag erupted from the tip of his wand, charging fast towards the dementors. It hit a large group of them. Most disappeared as the stag turned around, lowered its head, and charged again. The rest of that group of dementors disappeared as the stag came back to Harry, who was stopped in the air. "Thanks, Prongs," he said to it, before it to, disappeared. He heard the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws cheering from Hogwarts.

Harry then went back to Hermione and Remus. "Alright, where are you?" he asked looking around. They both appeared in front of him. "We need to get down to meet the ground attack. Hop on." They both did before Harry took off, though this time, down the stairs. They flew through the hallways; shouting that the war has begun and that all order members were to get to ground level. They saw McGonagall heading towards their tower. Harry stopped flying forward. "We have secured the first wave of air attack and we're off to fight the ground attack. You may want to get up there and seal off the tower for any smaller groups that may come in up there, though I'm sure the rest of the students can take them down before they're over Hogwarts grounds," Harry told her.

"Alright. I'll seal it off and be down to help you with ground in about ten minutes. Get these two to Hagrid's and you'll find some useful stuff in there," McGonagall replied, rushing off to the astronomy tower. Harry urged his broom forward again and went into the main staircase, flying straight down the middle of the entire room, stopping just before he went too far. He went through the opening into the entrance hall, stopping only to open the front doors. They flew to Hagrid's hut, got off the broom and went in. There was a pile of Nimbus 2001's of the nearest couch. Hermione and Remus got one and went outside.

The fighting began. They saw hundreds of spells flying through the air. Thousands of death eaters charged on Hogwarts. Many looked foreign, though some looked English. Hogwarts was too outnumbered. They'd all be backed in the castle within just a couple of hours. Harry suddenly had another idea. "Try to hold off the death eaters. Remus, do you have any money in your office? I'll pay you back more then I spend," Harry said.

"Yes, I do. But what do you possibly need it for? We're in the middle of an attack here."

"You'll see. But I'll have to stop two places first," Harry answered zooming off towards the castle at top speed. He flew right through Remus's office window. He took all the money he could find and pocketed it. He flew back out the window, repaired it, and flew in another window along the third floor. He zoomed away down the hall towards the statue that opened to reveal a passage to Hogmeade after repairing that window. He opened the passage and wasted no time getting to Honeydukes on his Firebolt.

He flew out of the passage, went in and out of the main store, and down the street to Zonko's. He bought everything that could slip up anyone. He then transported himself to his house, got some more stuff, got a book of prank spells, and transported back to a tower on Hogwarts. He left a bunch of stuff in a corner before flying down throwing 'oil slick' pellets at death eaters, slipping up about twenty to thirty each pellet. Remus and Sirius smiled as they saw Harry was going to be just as his father was. He then shot spells to grow hair extra long and thick to cover their faces. Harry spotted Lucius Malfoy and turned his robes pink.

More dementors came out of the forest. They disappeared within ten seconds with all the spells that hit them. More death eaters came. They wouldn't stop filing out of the forest. There were thousands more every couple of seconds. Harry got some more pellets and used more spells. They continued to hold the death eaters back; there would soon be a wall of stunned death eater bodies. The students continued to shoot spells, hitting many death eaters early. Some knocked themselves out hitting each other after slipping on the oil from Harry's pellets.

The worst news came when another wave of air attack closed in on them. Harry flew up to meet them. With the help of the students, he knocked at least a hundred to the ground in less then twenty seconds. Harry was knocked off, but Cho spotted him falling and caught him on the back of her broom. Harry summoned his fire bolt and jumped on it. "Thanks, Cho," he yelled over to her.

"No problem, Harry," she yelled back. And they both fought the air attack with the help of Hermione and the rest of the students in the castle who were helping. As they were winning against the air attack, the death eaters started stunning a few on the ground. They had five aurors stunned or hurt and two teachers stunned or hurt. They finally got the rest of the air out and went back down to help ground. It seemed someone went to get more aurors because they saw spells coming from Hogsmeade and hitting death eaters. Then the aurors came into view from Hogwarts. They worked to get to Hagrid's hut. When they got in, half of them came out on brooms, and the other half stayed there to fight of death eaters from the back; those who were just emerging from the forest.

The order soon took and edge with this new help from the aurors, though hundreds of death eaters kept coming forth every two minutes. They kept fighting them off with stunning spells and oil pellets and hair growth spells but the death eaters kept coming at them. Harry knew there were still hundreds of thousands of death eaters still to come and that the battle would last a long time.

~*~ "I don't think you trust,

in, my, self righteous suicide,

I, cry, when angels deserve to die."

-System of a Down-

~*~ A/N: that's part one of the attack. I may have three but I'll probably only have two parts. I need to know if I made Harry Gryffindor heir or not because I'm pretty sure I don't want that to happen. I have to think about year 6 and 7 to see if I want to do that in this series. Can someone review that to me please?

Completed recommendation: "Fugitives of the ministry" by 'Triggy' see my favorites. it's where I got the idea of Ron being guilty of killing Dumbledore, not to mention the name 'graham.' Plus I know the story is far superior to my own, yet I have more reviews so please review to that story.

**Shakes collecting tin once again** review please!!!!!