A/N – I AM UPDATING!!!! YAY!!! This chapter might be a little weird because I am writing most of it as I go, and I don't usually do that. Oh, and letters in bold italics are Harry's thoughts.

~ Chapter 5: Another Attack~

CREAK

Harry woke with a start, but stayed still. He slowly moved his hand to his bedside table to grab his wand.

"Don't move," said a voice over by the door.

Harry froze, staring into the darkness.

"Who's there," he asked.

"Me," said a woman's voice. Suddenly, a wand tip lit up to reveal the horrible face of Bellatrix Lestrage.

"You," growled Harry, fire rising in his chest. "YOU!" he yelled. He jumped up and grabbed his wand.

Bellatrix quickly shrieked a spell and a moment later Harry was bound and gagged.

"I told you not to move," said Bellatrix. " Didn't your dirty, traitor of a godfather teach you to follow directions?"

Anger rose in Harry's chest. I wish I didn't have this gag on. If I don't tell her off right now I might burst! Suddenly, Harry's gag disappeared. He and Bellatrix both froze in amazement. Then Harry came back to his senses.

"HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO TEACH ME ANYTHING BECAUSE YOU KILLED HIM!!!!" yelled Harry. Now if I can only get my hands free so I can hit her with a good curse. Suddenly, the ropes on Harry's arms and legs fell off to. Bellatrix stared in amazement, but Harry, having great quiddich reflexes, quickly stood up and yelled "CRUCIO!"

This time the spell worked. Bellatrix screamed and fell over, writhing with pain. And the weird thing was, the more Harry thought about how much he hated her, the louder she screamed. Finally Harry pulled the curse off her. She got up shakily

"You t-think that will make me back down? The dark lord uses that curse on us all the time and he is m-much more powerful than y-you," said Bellatrix, but Harry could tell she was lying. She was getting weaker, Harry could sense it. He shot another curse at her, but she deflected it. It shot back at Harry and he dodged it. Harry and Bellatrix started fighting a full-fledged battle. Spells were shooting everywhere. Harry and Bellatrix were shouting at each other back and forth. Harry thought he heard fists pounding on the door, trying to get in, but he wasn't sure.

"CRUCIO!" screamed Bellatrix. This time it hit Harry right in the middle of his chest. He screamed and started to fall back. His head collided with the corner of something hard. He heard Bellatrix shriek something about defeating the "undefeatable" Harry Potter and saw three figure run through his bed room door, shouting his name, before everything went black.

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"Harry!" said a familiar girl's voice, from above Harry.

That's Ginny's voice. But why is she her?

"Harry, come on. Please be ok," said Ginny, as tears hit Harry's face.

"Try 'enervate'," said another familiar voice, this time a boys.

That's definitely Ron.

"We already did," said a different girls voice.

And Hermione.

"Well try it again," snapped Ron

"It won't do any good." Hermione snapped back.

"But it won't hurt," fought Ron.

"STOP!" yelled Harry and Ginny, at the exact same time. Harry, suddenly regaining his strength, got up and walked over to them. "Must you two always bicker? It gets really annoying"

"HARRY," yelled Ginny, as she ran over and hugged him, "Thank god you are alright! I was so worried! We all were."

Harry, realizing how much his head hurt said, "What happened to me anyway?"

"Well," said Ron, "Hermione, Ginny, and I got here really late last night. We decided to come in here and wake you up, 'cause we couldn't wait to see you."

"So, we unlocked your door and as soon as we opened it we heard a loud thump" continued Hermione, "We lit up our wands and saw Bellatrix hovering over you, shrieking about defeating the 'Boy Who Lived'."

"She was about to take you to Voldemort so he could finished you off when she noticed us. We leg locked her but she apparated away before we could contact ministry officials. But, as soon as she left we contacted my dad. He is going to get Dumbledore and be here any minute," finished Ginny.

"How long have I been out?" asked Harry.

"Only thirty minutes, but we were really worried about you," said Ron.

Hermione and Ginny nodded in agreement. Then, there was a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" asked Harry.

"Me," said Albus Dumbledore, as he entered the room, followed my Mr. Weasley, Aunt Petunia, and Remus Lupin.

Harry felt tears well up in his eyes. Sirius should be here too. He quickly wiped the tears away and focused again on the people who just entered the room.

"Thank god you are alright," sobbed Aunt Petunia, smothering Harry in a hug. "When I heard you had been attacked..." she then turned her attention to Dumbledore, "Harry isn't safe here Albus. Can't he and his friends stay at Hogwarts or Grimmuald Place for the rest of the summer?"

These words hit Harry like a knife. He felt a tear trickle down his face, but quickly wiped it away. Grimmuald Place...

"I won't stay at Grimmuald Place," stated Harry firmly.

"And you know as well as I do Petunia that he cannot stay at Hogwarts when none of the teachers are there," said Dumbledore.

"B-but you will be there," stammered Aunt Petunia.

"Yes, but not even I can keep up with these four troublemakers by myself. The whole Hogwarts staff can barley do it," said Dumbledore with a chuckle.

"But he isn't safe here," said Petunia.

"She is right Albus," said Lupin.

"And I don't feel safe with my children here either," said Mr. Weasley, "They have fought with Death Eaters too."

"And Voldemort knows Harry would do anything to save them," said Lupin, "They aren't any safer than Harry."

"Then we will just have to make the rooms safer," stated Dumbledore, "We will put wards similar to those at Hogwarts around the rooms."

"Ok," said Aunt Petunia, "But what about when they are in Diagon Alley during the day.

"We have order AND ministry officials stationed all over Diagon Alley," said Mr. Weasley, "They will be safe there."

"But last time Harry was being watched he still go attacked by dementors. How do we know something like that won't happen again?" worried Aunt Petunia.

"We know," stated Dumbledore, "because this time we have at least 10 fully trained wizards on guard instead of just one trustworthy squib."

"True," said Aunt Petunia.

Everything was quiet for a moment then Dumbledore said, "Well, we better get started on those wards!"

The adults quickly got to work and the kids ran down to the Leaky Cauldron to talk.

AN – Much better chapter if I may say so my self. Now I am back on a roll so I should be updating again soon. I am also hoping to update The Boy Who Lived soon and start a few new fics (details in my profile) PLEASE review and let me know what you think of this story and my other story and story ideas. I would LOVE some reader opinion! Thanks to my faithful readers who have kept reading even after my long break in updating. Again, I hope to update soon.