The next few days everyone had gotten into a rhythm of getting up early, having breakfast, and then going out on to the pitch and practicing Quiditch for those that played and just sun bathing for those that didn't. After lunch, they would then start having dueling competitions and demonstrations between everyone. Sikandar and Sarah would demonstrate with the help of Hermione and Harry, some of the dueling techniques for blocking and hexing.
One such demonstration, Harry and Hermione was facing each other and bowed. Then they started firing off disarming curses, then the jelly-leg curse. Harry had been told to demonstrate how to erect a absorbing shield and he did it well. Hermione was demonstrating the reflection shield. Finally in the end they both decided to call it a draw because they were matched in skills and powers. Hermione then went on to tell the students a few details about the pros and cons of the reflection shields and the different counter curses that do the same.
"There are a few good things about the reflection shields. One it can usually reflect multiple curses at once. Usually, that is. It depends on the strength of each curse and how much power you put into the shield. The thing about the reflection shields are that they also take a lot of energy and they have a tendency of preventing the caster of the charms to no have a lot of energy left for other attacks. There are reflection charms that you can fire to counter most minor curses. And there are counter curses for most minor and major curses except the killing curse. Now I think Harry will tell you some of the good and bad sides of the absorbing shield."
Harry started speaking after thanking Hermione for her introduction, "Well like the reflection shield the pros for the absorbing shield is that they can block multiple curses at once but it has its limitations including the strength of spells. If you fire too much curses at the shield at once they collapse or explode by the absorption of the energy of the shields. That is the plus and minus sides of the shield. The absorption spell is very weak compared to the reflection spell. Most of you are not expected to be able to hold up a shield for more then maybe 2 or 3 curses at once, once you are practice with the shield. I think that we have done a lot today so why don't we retire for the evening."
Everyone went back to the great hall to grab some dinner and then went to their respective common rooms except the Durrani's and Ron. They went up to the Headmasters office to discuss a few things.
Upon sitting down, Albus started speaking. "I have some good news as to the Potter Castle. It is finally ready for habitation. Before anyone has any problems, the Potters have been paying their house-elves since the beginning of time. The house-elves are all given chances to take time off. There are a few house-elves that are left from the time that Lily and James lived at the castle. Tomorrow you all should go down to the castle and take a look at it and settle in. There is one other thing regarding the castle. There is a train service similar to the Hogwarts express that runs to the castle. The Potter express was retrofitted with a bullet train service so that the trip to the castle and both London and Hogsmede progressed faster. Part of the reason was for safety. Since Potter castle and Hogwarts both have ancient wards and defenses built in a long time ago it was decided that the Potter castle was to be the evacuation to from Hogwarts. We have only done that a few times. I think that should cover what needs to be said regarding the property. If it is alright with the rest of you, I have already asked Mr. and Mrs. Weasley if Ron can go with you tomorrow to see the castle and they have said it was fine with them. Now off with ya'll to bed. Tomorrow seems like it is going to be a long day for y'all."
They all nodded and headed to their respected rooms. Ron went to the Gryffindor tower while the rest went to the teachers' wing for their own beds.
The next morning, everyone got up and got ready. Because the Potter Castle station is in a muggle town that surrounds the Potter estate, they all got dressed in muggle clothing. They all met up and went to the great hall for breakfast. Ron was fashionably late like usual and so as usual was wolfing down as much of his breakfast as he could before everyone was ready to go. They stepped out of the entrance hall and found horseless carriages waiting for them to take them to the train station at Hogsmede. When they got to the station they found what looked like a bullet train engine attached to the rest of the train that would normally be attached to a bullet train but with the colors of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw on it.
(A/N: Potter Castle was built by Godric and Rowena)
The boarded the Potter Express and were amazed on how the interior was quite different from the exterior. Much bigger in size and had all the comforts that would be found in the Head Student compartment of the Hogwarts Express but it covered the entire train. The ride to the Potter Castle took 3 hours which is basically the same distance as to London but slightly toward the east.
When the Potter Express pulled into the station, everyone got out and were met by Horse Drawn Carriages, (A/N: the Horse Drawn carriages are there because of where Potter castle station is located.)
While they were getting into the carriages, Harry told the person behind the reins of the horses to try and take a scenic route to the castle so they can see as much of the estate as they could.
While they rode the carriage everyone got their first glimpse of the luscious green grounds and gardens. Then they got their first sight of the magnificent castle that was twice the size of Hogwarts.
After a little tour of the estate in the carriage, they finally pulled up to the front doors of the Potter Castle. When they entered they were greeted by a group of house elves with Dobby and Winky in the lead.
"Mr. Harry Potter, sir. Dobby is so glad to see you again. Professor Dumbledor asked me and Winky to oversee the cleanup of the Potter castle."
"Thank you Dobby. I now go by the name of Harry Durrani. This is my fiancé Hermione Durrani. She used to be Hermione Granger. This is my sisters, Amanda Durrani and Virginia Durrani. And next to Virginia is Cho Durrani. Winky I am so glad to see you are feeling better since last year. And I want to thank you both for helping clean up the castle."
Winky spoke up for the first time, "Winky is so happy to be able to help Master Durrani and his family. Dobby and Winky is to return to Hogwarts when you return but the house elves here will remain here to maintain the castle."
Dobby spoke next, "Lunch will be ready in an hour kind sirs. Please do go and explore around the castle till then. We will come get you for lunch."
With this Dobby and the other house elves returned to the kitchens or elsewhere to get back to there work.
Harry and the rest of the family started walking around the castle looking at all the rooms. Hermione and Harry found a very large library with what looked like ten times the amount of books that the Hogwarts library had in it. Out of desperation for time, Harry had to drag Hermione from the library with the promise to come back before they left to get some books. Harry had wanted to get some dueling books and some transfiguration books.
Their final stop on their tour was the dinning hall where they sat down for lunch. Dobby and the other house elves brought in the food and everyone talked while they ate.
Albus started talking to both Harry and Sikandar about where they should make the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix that was reinstated this summer.
Harry replied, "Albus why not use the Potter castle. The order was initially founded by Godric why not use his castle?"
Albus looked at Harry and thought about what he had proposed and came to a decision, "Harry you are brilliant. Potter Castle would be the best base for operations. We have enough room to house members when we have over night meetings."
Harry nodded and then turned back to his dinner and talking to Hermione. After dinner, everyone stood up and went back to the entrance hall to go out to the train station to take the express back to school. After a short trip to Hogsmede they all went up to Hogwarts and turned in for the evening.
Harry and Hermione didn't really sleep right away. They spent the next few hours going over some of the muggle and magical fighting books and seeing if they could maybe incorporate it into some of the training that was going on with the students at the school during the summer. They also came up with some more things that they can offer to a select few.
One of the courses that they were considering was martial arts. Before coming to Hogwarts, Harry had spent some time studying martial arts at a Dojo (training center) near Surrey and had a black belt in Karate. When Hermione heard this, she then realized why he was good at the seeker position considering he was so flexible and well balanced, which is needed in some of the martial arts.
"You know Harry, I now understand how you are so good at being a seeker. You are really flexible. I my self am a black belt in the same discipline. But I believe we need to find someone that is more qualified as a sansei then the two of us for the future. That is a great idea for the classes," Hermione said with a twinkle in her eyes.
After they finished that conversation Harry and Hermione went to bed and slept till about 9am in the morning. They got up and got ready. After getting ready they met the rest of the family in their common room and explained what they had discussed the previous night about.
Sikandar said, "I wish I had known about your black belts before. I had proposed the same thing to Albus when I met him while Harry was in the hospital wing after the third task last term. We were not sure if we would be able to get the class going because we didn't think we would be able to get someone to teach the class before the start of the term. Most of the sansei that are wizards are not really able to leave what they are doing right away and start teaching right away. Let us talk to Albus and the other headmasters and mistress at breakfast, speaking of which we are already late for."
They all went down to the great hall for breakfast. Sikandar went to the other headmasters and discussed Harry's and Hermione's idea for martial arts classes as extra classes for a chosen few. They all agreed that they would like that to happen and that since Harry and Hermione are both black belts that they should be the ones to teach the classes. When the decision was made, Sikandar stood up and made the announcement to the students that were present in the great hall.
"Good morning everyone, I hope you all enjoyed your day of yesterday. We have another class announcement to be available to everyone from the 1st year and up and the teachers. Harry and Hermione are black belts in martial arts and have offered to train a select number of people in the martial arts, specifically Tae Kwon Do. The details of the class will be made available closer to the start of the term. Thank you."
The rest of the day was spent making sure that everyone had done their homework and seeing if anyone had any trouble with their work. Hermione and Harry spent their afternoon with Timmy, Hermione's cousin, who is a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do discussing some of the things that they could be teaching.
Timmy spoke up during the conversation, "Hermione I really think that if we are going to have this class we should probably make it known that the students are to be willing to get up in the morning and run and do other things to help get into shape."
Hermione agreed, "I agree Timmy, to be honest I was hoping to start doing that again. It has been a while since I have had the chance to practice. I usually do the practices during the summer but last summer I was not able to because I was studying and taking my exams to start teaching."
Harry agreed with the both of them, "Honestly, I have been out of shape since the previous summer because I was not able to play Quiditch like I used to. Also I didn't spend the summer at home so I was not able to do the practices I did when I was before. I think we should start maybe practicing before school starts which is in a couple of days. If we are not able to start right away we can maybe put off the class till we are able to."
Hermione and Timmy both agreed and Harry went to speak with Sikandar and the other headmasters and mistresses about the decision to not start the classes just yet.
Harry was told by Albus that there would be a Order meeting tonight to discuss the security for the Express and King's Crossing.
Harry went back to the library where Hermione was helping some of the students that were there with some of their homework.
"Hermione, Albus has called an order meeting for this evening after dinner. We are going to discuss security for the Express and King's Crossing. They have also approved our request to hold off the start of the martial arts classes till we are ready to get on with it. Timmy is also approved to be our assistant instructor since he seems to be the only brown belt around," said Harry.
Hermione nodded and went back to helping. Harry started helping one of the students from Hogwarts with their potions essay that Snape had assigned for them.
"You have to remember that there are many things about some of the potions especially the truth serums that can be ineffective if just the wrong amount of a certain ingredient. Same thing can go the opposite way with the ingredients. Think about that. You will find that it helps to put the differences that the amount of the ingredients put into the potions make in the effectiveness of the potion," said Harry to the student.
The student, Dean Thomas, said, "I never really thought about that. What you are saying in other words is that if I make an error in maybe putting in the correct weight of maybe the powdered dragons scale, the potion would too strong. And vice versus. Thanks Harry that makes sense now. Now I can actually do this essay easily."
Harry smiled and nodded, "No problem Dean. I am glad to help."
Harry walked over to where Hermione was sitting and sat down next to her. "Hey hun how is it going," asked Hermione when he sat down.
Harry smiled back and said, "I am really enjoying helping some of the students that are having fun with the potions essays. Honestly I sometimes wonder what Snape taught in class. The only students that didn't have problems in his class were the Slytherine students."
Hermione nodded in agreement, "I have seen that. The other students are not so bad about the potions classes as ours are. I hope Bella will be a lot better for the students then Snape was. Maybe they will actually learn something. We had to learn it all with out his help till this summer."
Harry nodded agreement and then started yawning. After looking at his watch he realized that it was still 3 hours before dinner and decided to go back to his room and take a nap.
"Hermione I am going back to the room and sleep for a while. I am not feeling too well. Wake me up when it is time for dinner."
Hermione studied Harry with concern and said that she would join him in a bit when she finished what she was doing.
Harry walked out of the library and headed to his and Hermione's quarters. He couldn't understand why he felt like his feet was lead. While walking to his quarters, he started thinking about his symptoms and realized that he had been suffering from a cold or flu for the past few weeks with out really getting treated. Now he really felt really bad. When he got to his bed he just collapsed without taking off his robes to get more comfortable.
This is how Hermione found him half an hour later. She checked his temperature and found it to be high. Because she didn't have anything to take an exact number she didn't know exactly how high. She ran out of her room and headed to the infirmary to get Madame Pomphrey.
Upon entering the infirmary, Hermione got Poppy's attention.
"Poppy I need some help," called Hermione.
Poppy came out and asked, "What is wrong child?"
"It is Harry, Poppy. He has passed out in our quarters and I just found him. He seems to be running a high fever," exclaimed Hermione.
"I will get some stuff and then we can go down to see him," said Poppy before turning around and going back to her office to grab some potions and some instruments to test Harry.
When Poppy got back the two of them headed back to Hermione's and Harry's quarters and Poppy set out to check Harry out. Meanwhile, Hermione went to find Sikandar and Sarah at the request of Poppy after she started testing Harry out.
"Mom, Dad, something is wrong with Harry. He wasn't feeling well after lunch and went back to our room. I found him half an hour later passed out in bed. He was running a high fever. I got Poppy and she is right now checking him out. She told me after running some test to get you. She sounded concerned," said Hermione.
Sikandar and Sarah got up and followed Hermione back to their room where they found Poppy trying her best to get some potion down Harry's throat. Hermione went over and helped Poppy with Harry. Sikandar and Sarah took seats next Harry and waited for Poppy to finish her treatment.
After getting the potions into Harry she then put on a little device that Sikandar, coming from a medical family, recognized as a pulse-ox machine. The machine was to measure the amount of Oxygen that the blood and lungs were taking in. The level that showed on the meter was at 80%. erherhhh
Sikandar spoke up finally, "Poppy, why is his pulse-ox so low? He should be somewhere between 95 and 100 percent."
Poppy looked at Sikandar sadly and said, "I am afraid that Harry has suffered complications from both a severe case of pneumonia that he didn't get treated in time and lingering side effects of multiple Cruciatus curses causing some moderate damage to his lungs. He has a moderate or level 2 asthma. The reason why he passed out and wasn't easily woken up was because of a high fever and the pneumonia. I have given him some potions to fight the fever and all and luckily I was able to cure the pneumonia before any further damage was done. I believe he should be awake by tonight and should be able to get out of here by tomorrow evening. But I do want him to visit a pulmenologist to have his asthma checked and to get the inhalers he needs."
Sikandar and Sarah nodded that they would do so on the 31st and stay over night and then come with the rest of the students back on the 1st.
While they were talking, Harry's levels started coming back up and he started stirring. Hermione this and just watched for him to open his eyes. Finally he did and he smiled at the beautiful face in front of him. Hermione kissed him on his forehead and smiled at him.
Harry finally got the strength to ask what happened.
Hermione answered his inquiry, "Harry remember you had gone back to our room and went to sleep because you weren't feeling well?"
He nodded yes.
Hermione continued, "Well when I came in about 30 minutes after you left, you were sweating a storm and you were breathing badly. I went and got Madame Pomphrey and that is how you ended up here."
Harry nodded and said, "Thanks hun. Now I would love to know why I am hooked up with a tube in blowing air in my nose and a gadget on my finger hooked up to a machine that says 88% on it."
This was Poppy's turn, "Harry you have been suffering from Pneumonia and a very severe case at that. Because of the severity of the Pneumonia and the multiple Cruciatus curses that you received in June, your lungs were moderately damaged. The damage has now caused a condition known as Asthma. You have a moderate or Level 2 case of asthma and I think later you will start to be allergic to a number of things or otherwise. I am afraid you are going to have to refrain from being active in Quiditch. The machine you are attached to is a Pulse-Ox machine. It tells me how much oxygen your body is absorbing. The tube in your nose is basically supplying some Oxygen directly to you in a more forceful manner. At the rate that the levels are going up, you should be off the Oxygen now."
With that said Poppy removed the breathing tube from Harry's nose and turned the O2 tank. Then she sat down and watched the monitor to see if it became worse again. After about 5 minutes it started to climb again. Everyone let out a sigh of relief and Poppy commented on that.
"Harry your recovery is going faster then I thought. I think you should be able to leave here as soon as you are ready to. If you have any trouble breathing don't hesitate to come and see me."
With that Poppy took off the monitor from Harry. Harry got up and went to the bath room to change and came out and the whole family and Albus went down to the great hall for dinner. After dinner, the Durrani's and Albus went up to his office where they waited for the rest of the Order of the Phoenix members to show up for the meeting. While they were waiting, Harry started talking to Sikandar about where he would be going to see about his asthma. Sikandar had decided that he should take them to someone in Houston where he knew the muggle doctors better then in London. Albus agreed with it and said that after the meeting they should go ahead and head to Houston.
Sikandar sent a letter via Fawkes to his parents in Houston to have them setup an appointment for tomorrow for Harry so that he can see a doctor about his asthma. Just as Fawkes left with the letter, people started flooing in from outside and coming in through the office door for the meeting. Fawkes returned with a letter for Sikandar.
Dear Son,
We would be happy to setup an appointment for Harry to see one of the doctors here in Houston. We hope to see you tonight.
Love,
Mom and Dad
"Well that settles that problem. Mom and dad are going to setup the appointment for Harry tomorrow. Now that everyone has come in let us discuss a few things about September 1st. We need to discuss security of Kings Crossing and 9 3/4. It seems that it would be the best time for an attack on the students from both America and here. The ministry has already assigned some of the aurors to provide protection but I believe we need more. My family and I will be there automatically. There are about 5 at least here that are on the Auror teams that will be there also. How many of you can be there?" said Sikandar after reading the letter from his family.
All of the Order members that were not going to be there on behalf of the ministry said they would be there.
Harry stood up and started pacing, "I think we need to do our part of the protection a little more subtle then the way the Auror teams are going to be doing their side. We need teams that are going to be in muggle disguises and be able to filter into the muggle passengers around the station. This way we can have our teams blended into the crowds. Now because of the attacks on New York last year we can expect the muggle security around the station to be high. If you are approached by any of the muggle police men or army personnel that are around the station and asked to be searched. Please let them. This last week I have talked with the muggle cooperation department of the ministry and they have contacted the Law enforcement counter parts to the Aurors and they will know not to question you carrying your wands. By September 1st we will the authorization papers from the muggle ministry for all of you that are going to be there to authorize you to carry your wands. As soon as the Express leaves the station, those that are in muggle clothing need to apperate to Hogsmede and stand by there. Those in robes that are going to be on the platform need to ride the express. The Aurors will not be riding the express. My family and I will be on the express doing our part too. Are there any questions or comments?"
No body had any questions. They all thought that this was a really good idea.
Albus was the first to finally comment
or voice his opinion, "Harry I am really impressed with the way you have
planned this. Who helped you with this
planning?"
Harry pointed to Hermione, "Hermione helped me with the contacting of the law enforcement people and I worked on getting the cooperation department to contact their contacts in the muggle departments responsible for security of this kind. Just before we left for Potter Castle I received the confirmation that this was taken care of. They just need the number of people that are going to need the papers. I know my family and I are going to need it. We just need about 10 more."
At the end they got about 10 people that were willing to dress up in muggle clothing (with the help of Hermione and Sarah (A/N: I figured since most wizards and witches don't know anything about muggle clothing that they should help.)). After a bit of discussing between the two teams, muggle and wizard teams, they adjourned for the evening. Sikandar and his family apperated to Sikandar's parents house after the meeting.
They were greeted by Sikandar's parents, "Hey Sikandar, Sarah. You want to introduce us to the rest of the group."
Sikandar went on and introduced the kids, "Mom, Dad, this is our daughter Hermione and her fiancé Harry. These two girls are Harry's sisters, Amanda and Virginia. Finally this is Cho our other God Daughter. We have adopted all of them since they are our god children and we are basically all they have left. Harry, Amanda, and Virginia lost their only living relatives at the end of June during a death eater attack."
The teenagers shook their hands and all sat down in the family room. By now they were used to the muggle technology and so forth from their experiences at the Potter castle and just relaxed. After dinner, everyone retired to separate rooms. Harry and Hermione took the spare room near the kitchen while the rest took the spare rooms upstairs. Virginia and Amanda took the airbed on the floor in one of the rooms while Cho slept on the twin bed. The airbed was a queen size bed so it fit two people on it. The twin was a bit small. Sikandar and Sarah took their usual room and that was how they slept that night.
During the night, Harry and Hermione had a very vivid and scary dream.
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"Wormtail, how are the plans for the attack on Kings Crossing and the Express for tomorrow?" hissed none other then Tom Riddle.
"Master, we have the Dementors and death eaters ready to attack. We will attack as close to 11am as possible so we can do as much damage. I was wondering if you wanted us to capture Potter."
"Wormtail I didn't ask you to wonder or think. Crucio!" hissed Tom.
**********************End of Dream************************
Both Harry and Hermione woke up screaming. Harry was clutching his scar also.
Sikandar and Sarah ran into the room as well as Sikandar's parents and the rest of the family.
"Harry, Hermione, what happened. Was it another dream?" asked Sarah while trying to comfort the two kids down.
Hermione was the only one of the two that could talk at the time and she answered, "Yes mom it was Tom again. He is planning on using Dementors and death eaters on the attack on September 1st. It would have been ok if Tom didn't use the Cruciatus curse on Wormtail for making his own plans on capturing Harry."
Harry just nodded agreement with her comments.
Harry hugged Hermione and basically let Sarah embrace the two of them. Sikandar and his parents took chairs from the kitchen and sat down and the rest of the kids basically sat on the floor because of the lack of room for more chairs.
Sikandar continued to think about what Harry and Hermione had just seen in their dream and decided it was time he sent an owl to Albus to get him to alert the ministry of the need for more Aurors in the station.
"Harry, Hermione I suggest you go back to sleep. Harry how is your breathing?" asked Sikandar.
It was just then that Harry realized that he was starting to have some trouble breathing. He had first that that it was just the stress of the moment and nothing else but now he thought maybe it was more.
"Yea dad I am. I just noticed it now," replied Harry.
This brought Hermione out of her stupor and so did Sarah. Hermione went to grab Harry's inhaler that Madame Pomphrey gave him the other night and gave it to Harry. Meanwhile Sarah started rubbing Harry's back and chest to calm his lungs down. Once he used his inhaler he was a bit calmer and the breathing started getting easier. Sarah got up out of the bed and let Hermione comfort him. Everyone except Sikandar and Sarah went back to sleep. Sikandar and Sarah just wanted to wait till Harry was ok before leaving them selves. After a while they finally left and went to bed after the teens had fallen asleep peacefully and in a dreamless sleep.
The next morning was a little hectic since they had so many people trying to eat at the same time and have a shower at the same time. For Harry and Hermione, they took a shower together to conserve time and also because Hermione didn't want to leave Harry alone after the asthma attack the night before. At 10:30 they all apperated to a apperation point at the hospital. They then walked to the doctor's office where Harry had his appointment.
They entered the office of Dr. Williams and went up and signed in at the front desk.
The lady at the desk asked for the name of the patient.
"Hi I am Harry Potter Durrani. I have an appointment with Dr. Williams for 11:00," answered Harry.
A look of recognition came across the lady's face who took the momentary glance at Harry's scar before continuing on.
"Welcome Harry. I need you to fill this forms out with your history of health and so forth and bring it back, " said the lady while handing Harry a clip board with about 5 pages on it.
Harry went back and started filling out the information as best he could. Sarah filled in the address and phone number of her in-laws while Harry filled in the history part and was finally done. After giving the front desk lady his paperwork, Harry went back and sat down next to Hermione. About 15 minutes later, his name was called from the door near the window and Sikandar, Sarah, Hermione and Harry went in.
After the nurse took Harry's vital signs and ran a few breathing tests on him Dr. Williams came in.
"Good morning Harry. My name is Dr. Williams. I have gone through your tests that were just run and the results from the initial exams done back at Hogwarts infirmary by Madame Pomphrey earlier this week. You are indeed diagnosed with level 2 asthma. I will give you the prescriptions for the medications you will need to take every day. Now I would like to know when was the last time you had an asthma attack, whether it was a mild one or strong one."
Harry answered his questions and introduced everyone, "Hi Dr. Williams. First of all I would like to introduce you to my adopted parents, Sikandar and Sarah and my fiancé Hermione. As to when I had my last asthma attack, it was last night. I had woken up from a really bad nightmare and got really stressed from it and started having an attack. After using the inhaler that Poppy gave me before I left London, I was able to return to a normal breathing pattern."
Dr. Williams nodded and shook hands with the others, "I am pleased to meet you all. I am not surprised that you had a mild asthma attack after the nightmare if it was really bad. Just be careful and remember to keep an inhaler with you at night also. Now I do have a question. What year are you in at Hogwarts? I have a few students from Brenham that are going to be traveling to Hogwarts this year."
"Actually doctor, Hermione and I will be teaching starting this year. Sikandar and Sarah are the Headmaster and assistant Headmistress of the combined schools at Hogwarts. We are going to be meeting the rest of the American students at Kings Crossing tomorrow and make sure that they get to Hogwarts safely," said Harry.
Dr. Williams smiled, "You two must be really smart to have finished you schooling 2 years early. I am happy for the two of you. Well I hope the trip to Hogwarts on the express is uneventful this year with Voldermort back and all. Here are the prescriptions for the medications you will need. I would like to see you again in December and then in March and June. We can work around the school breaks and all. In the mean time you can have Poppy check you over after you have had an attack that has taken more then one dose from the inhaler to calm you down. Good luck in the new year and I shall see you in December."
Dr. Williams gave Harry the prescriptions he needed and walked them back to the front desk to check out. After paying the fees for his office visit and tests, they all left the office. After apperating to Sikandar's parents house and getting the rest of the family, they apperated to the Leaky Cauldron and stayed the night before going to Kings Crossing the next morning.
The next morning, Harry and his family apperated to platform 9 ¾ after wearing muggle clothing and exited the platform onto the muggle platforms 9 and 10. Since it was 10:30 still, Harry and his team spread out casually and made sure that they had the platform entrance and the main entrance to the station in view at all times. Harry and Hermione met up with the head students from the schools and they started positioning themselves to assist in the constant flow of students through the barrier on to the platform.
At about 10:50, Harry and Hermione started sensing the disturbance in the magical balance in the station. (A/N: Sounds like Star Wars doesn't it.) One of the things that was decided by the order members while they were away was to have muggle communication devices that they could talk each other.
Harry used his Walkie-Talkie and spoke, "Attention all security forces, Alert Yellow, imminent attack. Please be on guard."
Harry and the team started looking out for the attack.
At 10:55am there was a large boom. The all looked in the direction of the sound and found the Dark Mark floating in the sky. Harry announced the attack and then started attacking the death eaters. One of the Phoenix members extinguished the Dark mark. In the end there were a total of 50 death eaters captured and unfortunately 20 muggles injured. 5 deaths among the muggles were discovered after the attack was stopped. Fortunately the death eaters didn't make it onto the platform because of the anti-apperation shields and blocked fireplaces to prevent anyone getting in except through the barrier and that was covered on both ends by the Aurors and the Phoenix guards.
Harry took the lead and approached the muggle security forces that were attending to the damage and injured people.
While showing his paperwork to the guards he stated, "Hi my name is Harry Durrani, commander with one of the Teams of the Phoenix Guards. I would like to talk to whoever is in charge here."
After checking the credentials, the guard took him to a man that had the decorations that denoted that he was a commander.
The guard spoke up after getting the commander's attention, "Commander Davies, I have a Commander Harry Durrani of the Phoenix Guard special teams asking to talk to you."
When Harry heard the name he wondered if he was related to Roger Davies, the head boy of Hogwarts.
"Thank you Lieutenant, I will take it from here. Hello Harry. I presume you are Harry Potter Durrani, right?"
Harry nodded, "Yes sir I am. You wouldn't by any chance be related to
Roger Davies would you?"
Commander Davies nodded his head, "Yes I am. When I heard of the need for security at the station last week I knew it had to be because of the students. I thank you and your teams for your help today. We surprising only lost 5 people and have 20 injured. Did you lose anyone on your side both the students and the phoenix guards and the Aurors?"
Harry shook his head no, "No sir, most of the students that were to be there were already on the platform before the attack. As soon as I alerted the guards and the Aurors of the attack we had anti-apperating wards up around the platform and the train and also put blocks on the fire places so that the only way into the platform was either by port key or through the barrier. Either way we would have been able to detect them in time to make sure that no one was hurt."
Commander Davies spoke afterwards, "Thank you Harry. Roger told me that he was going to be here making sure that the students were safely on the train so I was worried. It is already past 11 am haven't you missed the train?"
Harry nodded, "Yes sir I did but I will be apperating to the train as soon as I am sure everything is secure here. The Phoenix guards are already on the train making sure everyone is safe. The Aurors are apperating the Hogsmede to ensure the safety of the students when they arrive."
After a few more things that needed to be done, Harry bid farewell to the Commander after promising to let his son know he was ok and apperated to the train to find a fight between Malfoy and Ron in progress.
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(A/N: This has been the longest chapter I have written yet. I hope you like it.)
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