Disclaimer: I don't own the characters; they are property of JK Rowling.

Rating: R

Summary: Harry is the heir of Grindelwald; he is blamed by the Order for Sirius's death; he is accused by the Ministry to be a Death Eater; Hermione is the heir of Voldemort...and she is the only who trusts him...

Dark Harry-Hermione

Chapter Fourteen

"Nearing the Battle"

Next morning, for Harry and the others another school term begun...first lesson was Potions, with the new Professor, after Snape's death...a very young and well looking woman arrived, named Jane Hopkins, and she showed immediately an instant and radical change of behaviour, compared with the Snape's one...especially toward Harry...

For the first time, Harry enjoyed the Potions lesson, and his mood was excellent, when he entered the Transfiguration Class, where, however, McGonagall treated him with the bigger hate one could imagine...the same for Neville and the other Order of the Shadows members...yes, also Hermione was attacked by the Professor, for whom one time she was the best witch at Hogwarts...

Then, there was the lunch, and the Great Hall was full of harsh comments, when the Order of the Shadows entered, forming a compact group...Harry had decided that nobody of the Order should go alone in the castle, fearing assaults to them...Dumbledore looked them with rage, but remained silent...

After lunch, there was Care of Magical creatures, and Hagrid showed them the chimeras, but even him, who was one of Harry's best friends, couldn't help to attack him; at the end of the lesson, he invited Harry for a tea, and he accepted; while they were drinking, Hagrid said:

"Harry, sincerely, I don't want to believe to all the things Dumbledore and the Ministry say about you, but this summer you had passed the limit...you had attacked the Order of the Phoenix, Harry, the only organisation which could destroy Voldemort and his followers...I really don't know what I have to think about you...I thought you were against the Dark side, but now..."

"Hagrid, the Order of the Phoenix blamed me for Sirius's death...they wasted their time last year controlling me, instead than controlling Voldemort...and you have seen what has happened...the Ministry...Diagon Alley...St.Mungo's...Hagrid, the prophecy is clear...I have to destroy Voldemort...but for doing this, I need freedom...and the Order didn't give me it, last year...and they would have never given me it anymore...so, I had to destroy it..."

"Harry...I want to explain you, that without a group of people near you, you cannot destroy him...and the Order was this group..."

"Hagrid, I have a group of people with me...the Order of the Shadows, that I founded last year..."

"The Order of the Shadows? But this name is so dark..."

"Because our weapons are the dark creatures..." and then Harry explained all the facts to Hagrid, then he, for safety, put a spell on his friend, that would stop him to reveal all what he had said to him...

Some days later, Harry tried to regain his place in the Quidditch team, but even if the last captain, Ron, was dead, the new one wasn't more friendly with him...he was Seamus Finnegan, the Head Boy, and one of the strongest opposers of Harry and his Order:

"What you want here, Potter? We don't want you in the squad, so, go away!"

Harry turned, nothing disappointed...he tried, but actually he already knew that he would have been rejected...so, he went to speak a little with his new friend, the Potions Professor; he entered her office, and she was very kind with him...he felt that she could have been useful for the Order, so he asked her to join, but she refused; however, she assured to them all the support she could give them...

Every evening, the Order trained in the Room of Requirements, with Dobby out of it, to control the situation...but Dumbledore, or didn't know what they did, or chose to not care of it, so they were never interrupted or in troubles...they practiced a long list of Dark charms, and very powerful Shield Charms, because Harry was sure in the final battle they would have needed them; plus, they studied also the recorded habits of the Death Eaters, trying to learn all what was possible on them...

One day, Harry went to the Owlery, to send a letter to the Ringwraith:

"Dear Ringwraith, here we are training a lot; however I want to ask you if you have news about the Voldemort's whereabouts; I remind you that this is a thing of the greatest importance.
Harry Potter"

Then, almost a week later, he received the answer:

"Our Lord, we have found his whereabouts; or, at least this is what we think; I have sent one of us to control our information, to be sure we are not wrong; I'll owl you the final reply.
Ringwraith"

That evening, however, even if all of the members were used to the others' attacks, something shocking happened; Harry was walking just out of the Head Boy/Girl quarters, when he heard Hermione screaming in pain:

"Please, leave me! Ahhh! Please...I beg you!"

"Shut up, bitch! I cannot kill Potter, but I can at least kill the most important thing for him...he will pay for having joined Voldemort..."

Harry entered the room, cutting the portrait that closed it: "Diffindo!" he cried, and the picture revealed the entrance...he found Seamus on Hermione, half naked, on the floor...she had wounds on her body, but the worst thing was that Seamus was trying to rape her!

"Crucio!" Harry cried, blind for rage, and then he said:

"Finnegan, what you thought to do? Next time you'll touch her, I'll kill you, remind this!" and then he helped Hermione to dress again, and brought her in the Hospital Wing.

It was by now the last Monday on November, and apart for this event, all was calm; however, that morning, the "Daily Prophet" had another shocking new:

"Hogsmeade Destroyed!" was the first page title, and then the article said: "The village of Hogsmeade, very close to Hogwarts, was attacked yesterday by a great number of Death Eaters...all the shops were destroyed, "Zonko's", "Honeydukes", "Three Broomsticks", "Hog's Head", and even the quite unknown tea room "Mrs. Puddifoot's"...the Dark Mark was on most of the houses in the village...and without the Ministry's Aurors and the Order of the Phoenix to protect us, Hogwarts will be soon the next victim of the Dark Lord...so, even if this is hopeless, I want to try one thing...one plea, to the Boy-Who- Lived...Harry Potter, save us!!"

Harry immediately stood up, and ran to the Owlery:

"Ringwraith, we are in emergency! We have to attack, now!! Leave with all the other Ringwraith, and all the creatures...we will reach you in the forest near Voldemort's whereabouts as soon as we can...not before
two weeks, however...
Harry Potter"

Then he sent the letter by Hedwig, asking her the maximum speed to consign it; then, he ran back to the Great Hall and encountered all the other members out of it; he said only four words:

"Final battle is started"

Two weeks later, the first day of the Christmas holidays, they boarded on the Express to give the impression they were really going at home, at Malfoy's castle, as they had said, but Dumbledore knew that they were going to do something else...and a little hope reborn in his heart...

They reached King's Cross some hours later, and then Harry led all of them out of the station as quickly as they could; then, without caring of being seen by Muggles, they Apparated to the forest near Dover, where the Ringwraith and the Order's Dark Army were waiting them...