CHAPTER 35: Death Eaters
"Daddy!" Two voices could be hared throughout Harry's chambers. Harry had just gotten the rambunctious two-year-olds to bed and was beginning to start his homework. Groaning he put his quill down and walked into the bedrooms hall, where the two kids were sitting, hugging each other.
"What's wrong?" Harry asked, Lily spoke first.
"Monsters in room, daddy." Harry nodded and took both Lily and Daniel's hands and walked first into Daniel's room.
"Now, Daniel where is the monster in your room?" Harry asked.
"Clot."
"In the closet? Well let's see." Harry walked up to the closet and opened it up. Looking around he found nothing.
"It was der!" Daniel pointed.
"Okay, well I am going to cast a spell to keep the monsters out of your closet, okay?" Daniel nodded. Harry pulled out his wand. "Monstropio." A white beam shot from his wand and into the closet. "All better?"
"Yes." Harry smiled, and helped Daniel back into his bed, then covered him up tight.
"Tanks daddy."
Harry smiled, grabbed Lily's hand and walked into her room.
"Okay little bit, where was the monster in your room?" Lily pointed under her bed, eyes wide and filled with tears. Harry pulled out his wand again and performed the same spell. Lily grinned, and got back into bed.
"Tanks daddy."
"Your welcome sweetheart, good night."
"Night." Two voiced yelled as he walked out of the hall.
***
"Mummy! I thirsty!" Julie yelled.
"Mummy I wet." Souroch yelled a second latter. Hermione looked longingly at her homework as she got up. Conjuring a glass of water, she walked into Julie's room and handed it to her. Souroch walked in behind her. "Mummy I wet!" Hermione nodded.
"Now look you two, mummy has to get her work done, so if you need anything ask now, because in five minutes, I will not be coming back in here until tomorrow morning to wake you up." The two, two-year-olds nodded. Hermione smiled and picked up Souroch, taking him back to his room, and placing him on the changing table. After a quick change, Hermione tucked the boy in to bed.
"Mummy, why is der toit in my woom?" Hermione looked at the locked door that that led into the Child's bathroom. Lily walked in and sat down in Souroches bed.
"Well soon, the two of you will get to start to learn how to go potty in the toilet like big people do." Hermione smiled at the look of wonderment in the children's faces.
"Willy mum?" Julie asked.
"Yep, we can start anytime you want." Hermione smiled.
"Now mummy!" Souroch yelled.
"Not now, how about tomorrow morning."
"Okay." The two looked like she had just taken their best friends away.
"Well, the sooner you go to sleep, the faster morning will come." This got their attention, and before she knew it both kids were in there own rooms with their eyes closed, trying to fall asleep.
***
The next morning Ron stumbled out of bed at six took his shower, got dressed. Still not fully awake, Ron made his way to John's room and got two pairs of clothes out, then woke the child up.
"No, daddy, sleep." The boy tried to go back to sleep but Ron made him stand up.
"Oh no you don't if I don't get to go back to sleep, nether do you. Now which out-fit do you want to wear?"
"Dat one." John pointed at the green one. Ron nodded and placed the blue one back up. After getting the child ready for the day they made there way to Harry's chambers, where Julie, Lily, Souroch and Daniel were already there. Hermione and Harry were talking in the living room. Ron took John into the playroom, smiled at Mrs. Figg and walked into the living room, sitting down with his best friends.
"I was just telling Harry that my two have shown interest in potty training. I was very surprised because the books said that most kids won't start until they are at least two and a half, mainly after they are three. But they were both very excited at the prospect, so I got them up extra early today, and we talked about the toilet, and I showed them their kids' toilet. I then told them about their training pants, how they were just like underwear, only they can handle it if they did not make it to the toilet." Hermione grinned.
"So did you bring the kids toilet with you?" Harry asked.
"Yes, the two have different toilets, Julie wanted purple while Souroch wanted yellow." The other two teens nodded.
"Well I hope the others follow their lead and start to potty train soon. I am really tired of changing diapers." Harry smiled. They all got up and walked out of the chambers, talking and heading to breakfast, with their papers that needed to be graded for that day in hand.
"You know the kids are almost two and a half years old now." Ron stated as they walked through the massive doors into the Great Hall.
"That's true! They will be two and a half in February, it's January seventeenth." Harry stated sitting in his seat next to the Headmistresses seat which was empty for the first time that year. Ginny suddenly ran in and up to Harry. She gave him a quick kiss, and whispered in his ear.
"I just got back from visiting McGonagall, she's ill your in charge." Ginny grinned and sat beside him. Harry looked startled, his eyes wide.
"Then I-I'm active headmaster right now?" Harry asked.
"Yep, you might want to scoot over chairs for today." Harry got up slowly and moved over to the large chair beside him. He felt extremely uncomfortable, but bared his teeth and sat down. Ginny sat at his normal spot and they began to speak again.
"I was thinking about our wedding." Ginny stated. Harry looked her in the eye.
"Yes?"
"Well, I was thinking we could have it here, in the great hall. Look at how massive this room is, and beautiful. This room would be perfect, I have been picturing it since before we got engaged." Harry smiled in relief; it was obvious that this was not what he thought she was going to say.
"Okay, we can have it here, have you thought about a date?" Harry asked before taking a large bite of his pancake and marked off a grade on a students essay.
"This summer would be nice, or during Easter break, when it's not to hot or cold."
"Easter, huh? I like it, we need to really get planning." Harry stated eyes wide. "Already started, even have Minervra's permission to use the room. I was thinking about taking large white flowers putting them on vines and having them arch from the ceiling to the walls, on both sides of the room. Maybe some archways covered in flowers at the door of the room, a white carpet going down the isle." Harry smiled at the picture.
"It sounds beautiful."
"Yep, Hermione is going to me my maid of honor, and Lily is going to be my flower girl."
"I was thinking Ron should be my best man, Draco a groomsman, Sourosh John, and Daniel could be our ring barer, they may be old enough." Ginny grinned.
"Good, I will let Minerva know that we are going to have it the twenty-forth of April, and I will start to send out invitations. Is there anyone you would like to invite? I have all my family, which is large all by its self, and the Grangers, along with all my friends and their families."
"Well, I guess I could invite the Dursleys though I seriously doubt they would come, the minister of magic, he has been great to us. I have some friends of my own, the other teachers, I wish Sirius, Lupin and Dumbledore were here, they have been like fathers to me, along with your family."
"I know, but don't worry dad will bring his video camera, which he has magic-ed so that it will work on Hogwarts grounds," Ginny smiled.
"I know, but it just won't be the same."
"Well, let's not worry about it, start making your list and we can start sending out the invitations tomorrow morning." Harry smiled and nodded.
***
Lunch came, and Harry found himself once again in the Headmaster seat, with a bunch of owls, that had been flying in to him all day from parents, and the ministry. All part of being the headmaster, Harry had already learned what he needed to do on these days when he would be running the school. Suddenly a ministry owl flew in and dropped a letter in to Harry's hands hurriedly. Harry opened the letter and felt his breath catch in his throat as he read.
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Death eaters have been spotted near Hogwarts, we have reason to believe that they are headed your way. Take processions, and do whatever necessary to protect the students in the school. Aurors should be arriving within ten minutes.
The Ministry of Magic
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Harry tapped his glass causing the whole room to go quiet.
"Student's it has come to my attention that death eaters may be planning an attack." All the students started to scream and jump up. "QUIET!" Harry smiled remembering the number of times Dumbledore had done that. All the students went silent and stood still. "Now, I want ALL students to go to there common room's I will instruct the house elves to send food up for you. You are NOT to come out until one of the teachers comes and gets you. If we catch you out you will be seriously punished. Prefects will you please take your houses up to their rooms. Head boy and Girl you are to walk the halls and make sure none of the other students come out. Thank you." The room silently filed out. Harry turned to the teachers. Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Draco, Lavender, Neville have you been practicing your wandless magic?" They all nodded. Good, Hagrid I want you to go into the Forbidden forest and ask Aragog(sp?) for any help he can give us, be quick, and don't get hurt. Everyone who can do wandless magic come with me, anyone else walk the halls, if the death eaters do attack, come out and help fight. Everyone nodded, and Harry got up, they walked over to the hospital ward.
"Poppy, Minerva, I just got word that death eaters are heading this way, I have all the students minus the head boy and girl in there common rooms. Teachers are patrolling the halls, Hagrid has gone to ask the spiders for any help they can give us, and Aurors should be here soon. I wanted to know what the status of the words Dumbledore placed on the grounds were," Harry asked.
"Dumbledore never even told me what the words were, I have tried to find out what their status was but have been unsuccessful so far. I have been looking up new words to place on the school, just in case but have yet to find any." Minerva looked panicked.
"Okay, I'll see what I can do. Thanks!" The group walked out of the room and down the hall, suddenly a bright light appeared in front of them. Only Harry saw the light and he stopped. The others stopped behind him, not knowing why. The white lady appeared in front of him, and she shot the same white light she had shot at Harry right before he fought Voldemort, at the group behind him. They fell to the floor then quickly got up, now able to see her also.
"Harry is this the white lady you were talking about?" Ron asked in amazement. Harry nodded the lady spoke.
"Danger comes this way, the shields Dumbledore had on this school have been weakened, together you must all create a shield around the school, a permanent one. I will show you how, but it must be done now." The white lady flew outside, the teachers right behind her. "You must all get into a circle, sit down." The group hurriedly did as they were told. "Now I want you to place your hands out, fingers facing up palms out. Close your eyes and picture a gold shield, with the Hogwarts crest on the front. Now put all the power you have into the shield and concentrate." The seven could feel giant waves of power shooting through their bodies and out their hands. To all the other teachers who had come outside and the students who were staring out of every window in there common rooms and dorms, they could see a powerful gold light shoot from there hands connect with each other then shoot up into the sky. Suddenly a large gold dome appeared over Hogwarts grounds. "Now make your palms face upward and say shield diutyrnus."
The group did as they were told, and said the words together. Suddenly a silver bolt shot from their hands and the shield started to sparkle. The light stopped floating from their hands, and the teachers fell over in pure exhaustion. Madam Pomfrey ran over to them and McGonagall walked a little slower being sick. Pomfrey placed her right hand over Harry's head, and a light shot form it. Suddenly Harry felt good as new and got up. He walked around and helped Pomfrey give the others energy, soon the five eighteen year olds were back up and ready to fight any death eater that may have come in before the shiled was put up.
"You have all done well, much better then I expected. Now even though the shield is permanent, it can weaken over time. I suggest doing that spell again every seven years." Before they could ask anything, like what exactly did the shield do, the white lady disappeared. The group shook their heads and waited to find out if any death eaters were on the grounds.
"We should do codes." Harry muttered more to himself then to the others, but everyone heard him.
"Codes?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, Muggle hospitals and schools do it. They have a code for any kind of emergency. Code red is fire. Code blue is medical emergency. We should have that, a code orange could mean that the old staff has returned." Harry explained Minrva nodded. Before they could say anything twenty death eaters appeared in front of them.
Everyone pulled out there wand except for the teachers who new wandless magic, it was well known that wandless magic was much more powerful then wand. Hexes, curses and spells could suddenly be seen all around, as the battle began. Students were sending hexes and curses from the windows, the only thing that could really be seen from the ground was a mixture of colorful beams shooting everywhere. Each of the teachers who had the knowledge of wandless magic stood beside a teacher who did not, putting a shield around the both of them in an attempt to protect them. Suddenly spiders ran out of the forest and attacked the death eaters, Harry grabbed the deatheater closes to him and froze him, then he started freeing the others while they were pre-occupied with fighting the spiders. The other teachers followed him and as quickly as the fight started, it was over.
All the death eaters were either dead or frozen. The spiders dragged the dead away before anyone could stop them. The teachers dragged the rest of the death eaters inside the Auors ran inside five minutes later out of breath.
"You're a little late." Harry joked lying down exhausted from fighting and maintaining a shield for two for the fifteen minutes they were fighting. The others also lay down on separate beds. The death eaters were still frozen. The minister of magic appeared in the fireplace and walked over to the group.
"Ah, good work, let's see who we have here." The Aurors tied the death eaters up then woke them, Harry gasped at whom he saw.
"Daddy!" Two voices could be hared throughout Harry's chambers. Harry had just gotten the rambunctious two-year-olds to bed and was beginning to start his homework. Groaning he put his quill down and walked into the bedrooms hall, where the two kids were sitting, hugging each other.
"What's wrong?" Harry asked, Lily spoke first.
"Monsters in room, daddy." Harry nodded and took both Lily and Daniel's hands and walked first into Daniel's room.
"Now, Daniel where is the monster in your room?" Harry asked.
"Clot."
"In the closet? Well let's see." Harry walked up to the closet and opened it up. Looking around he found nothing.
"It was der!" Daniel pointed.
"Okay, well I am going to cast a spell to keep the monsters out of your closet, okay?" Daniel nodded. Harry pulled out his wand. "Monstropio." A white beam shot from his wand and into the closet. "All better?"
"Yes." Harry smiled, and helped Daniel back into his bed, then covered him up tight.
"Tanks daddy."
Harry smiled, grabbed Lily's hand and walked into her room.
"Okay little bit, where was the monster in your room?" Lily pointed under her bed, eyes wide and filled with tears. Harry pulled out his wand again and performed the same spell. Lily grinned, and got back into bed.
"Tanks daddy."
"Your welcome sweetheart, good night."
"Night." Two voiced yelled as he walked out of the hall.
***
"Mummy! I thirsty!" Julie yelled.
"Mummy I wet." Souroch yelled a second latter. Hermione looked longingly at her homework as she got up. Conjuring a glass of water, she walked into Julie's room and handed it to her. Souroch walked in behind her. "Mummy I wet!" Hermione nodded.
"Now look you two, mummy has to get her work done, so if you need anything ask now, because in five minutes, I will not be coming back in here until tomorrow morning to wake you up." The two, two-year-olds nodded. Hermione smiled and picked up Souroch, taking him back to his room, and placing him on the changing table. After a quick change, Hermione tucked the boy in to bed.
"Mummy, why is der toit in my woom?" Hermione looked at the locked door that that led into the Child's bathroom. Lily walked in and sat down in Souroches bed.
"Well soon, the two of you will get to start to learn how to go potty in the toilet like big people do." Hermione smiled at the look of wonderment in the children's faces.
"Willy mum?" Julie asked.
"Yep, we can start anytime you want." Hermione smiled.
"Now mummy!" Souroch yelled.
"Not now, how about tomorrow morning."
"Okay." The two looked like she had just taken their best friends away.
"Well, the sooner you go to sleep, the faster morning will come." This got their attention, and before she knew it both kids were in there own rooms with their eyes closed, trying to fall asleep.
***
The next morning Ron stumbled out of bed at six took his shower, got dressed. Still not fully awake, Ron made his way to John's room and got two pairs of clothes out, then woke the child up.
"No, daddy, sleep." The boy tried to go back to sleep but Ron made him stand up.
"Oh no you don't if I don't get to go back to sleep, nether do you. Now which out-fit do you want to wear?"
"Dat one." John pointed at the green one. Ron nodded and placed the blue one back up. After getting the child ready for the day they made there way to Harry's chambers, where Julie, Lily, Souroch and Daniel were already there. Hermione and Harry were talking in the living room. Ron took John into the playroom, smiled at Mrs. Figg and walked into the living room, sitting down with his best friends.
"I was just telling Harry that my two have shown interest in potty training. I was very surprised because the books said that most kids won't start until they are at least two and a half, mainly after they are three. But they were both very excited at the prospect, so I got them up extra early today, and we talked about the toilet, and I showed them their kids' toilet. I then told them about their training pants, how they were just like underwear, only they can handle it if they did not make it to the toilet." Hermione grinned.
"So did you bring the kids toilet with you?" Harry asked.
"Yes, the two have different toilets, Julie wanted purple while Souroch wanted yellow." The other two teens nodded.
"Well I hope the others follow their lead and start to potty train soon. I am really tired of changing diapers." Harry smiled. They all got up and walked out of the chambers, talking and heading to breakfast, with their papers that needed to be graded for that day in hand.
"You know the kids are almost two and a half years old now." Ron stated as they walked through the massive doors into the Great Hall.
"That's true! They will be two and a half in February, it's January seventeenth." Harry stated sitting in his seat next to the Headmistresses seat which was empty for the first time that year. Ginny suddenly ran in and up to Harry. She gave him a quick kiss, and whispered in his ear.
"I just got back from visiting McGonagall, she's ill your in charge." Ginny grinned and sat beside him. Harry looked startled, his eyes wide.
"Then I-I'm active headmaster right now?" Harry asked.
"Yep, you might want to scoot over chairs for today." Harry got up slowly and moved over to the large chair beside him. He felt extremely uncomfortable, but bared his teeth and sat down. Ginny sat at his normal spot and they began to speak again.
"I was thinking about our wedding." Ginny stated. Harry looked her in the eye.
"Yes?"
"Well, I was thinking we could have it here, in the great hall. Look at how massive this room is, and beautiful. This room would be perfect, I have been picturing it since before we got engaged." Harry smiled in relief; it was obvious that this was not what he thought she was going to say.
"Okay, we can have it here, have you thought about a date?" Harry asked before taking a large bite of his pancake and marked off a grade on a students essay.
"This summer would be nice, or during Easter break, when it's not to hot or cold."
"Easter, huh? I like it, we need to really get planning." Harry stated eyes wide. "Already started, even have Minervra's permission to use the room. I was thinking about taking large white flowers putting them on vines and having them arch from the ceiling to the walls, on both sides of the room. Maybe some archways covered in flowers at the door of the room, a white carpet going down the isle." Harry smiled at the picture.
"It sounds beautiful."
"Yep, Hermione is going to me my maid of honor, and Lily is going to be my flower girl."
"I was thinking Ron should be my best man, Draco a groomsman, Sourosh John, and Daniel could be our ring barer, they may be old enough." Ginny grinned.
"Good, I will let Minerva know that we are going to have it the twenty-forth of April, and I will start to send out invitations. Is there anyone you would like to invite? I have all my family, which is large all by its self, and the Grangers, along with all my friends and their families."
"Well, I guess I could invite the Dursleys though I seriously doubt they would come, the minister of magic, he has been great to us. I have some friends of my own, the other teachers, I wish Sirius, Lupin and Dumbledore were here, they have been like fathers to me, along with your family."
"I know, but don't worry dad will bring his video camera, which he has magic-ed so that it will work on Hogwarts grounds," Ginny smiled.
"I know, but it just won't be the same."
"Well, let's not worry about it, start making your list and we can start sending out the invitations tomorrow morning." Harry smiled and nodded.
***
Lunch came, and Harry found himself once again in the Headmaster seat, with a bunch of owls, that had been flying in to him all day from parents, and the ministry. All part of being the headmaster, Harry had already learned what he needed to do on these days when he would be running the school. Suddenly a ministry owl flew in and dropped a letter in to Harry's hands hurriedly. Harry opened the letter and felt his breath catch in his throat as he read.
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Death eaters have been spotted near Hogwarts, we have reason to believe that they are headed your way. Take processions, and do whatever necessary to protect the students in the school. Aurors should be arriving within ten minutes.
The Ministry of Magic
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Harry tapped his glass causing the whole room to go quiet.
"Student's it has come to my attention that death eaters may be planning an attack." All the students started to scream and jump up. "QUIET!" Harry smiled remembering the number of times Dumbledore had done that. All the students went silent and stood still. "Now, I want ALL students to go to there common room's I will instruct the house elves to send food up for you. You are NOT to come out until one of the teachers comes and gets you. If we catch you out you will be seriously punished. Prefects will you please take your houses up to their rooms. Head boy and Girl you are to walk the halls and make sure none of the other students come out. Thank you." The room silently filed out. Harry turned to the teachers. Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Draco, Lavender, Neville have you been practicing your wandless magic?" They all nodded. Good, Hagrid I want you to go into the Forbidden forest and ask Aragog(sp?) for any help he can give us, be quick, and don't get hurt. Everyone who can do wandless magic come with me, anyone else walk the halls, if the death eaters do attack, come out and help fight. Everyone nodded, and Harry got up, they walked over to the hospital ward.
"Poppy, Minerva, I just got word that death eaters are heading this way, I have all the students minus the head boy and girl in there common rooms. Teachers are patrolling the halls, Hagrid has gone to ask the spiders for any help they can give us, and Aurors should be here soon. I wanted to know what the status of the words Dumbledore placed on the grounds were," Harry asked.
"Dumbledore never even told me what the words were, I have tried to find out what their status was but have been unsuccessful so far. I have been looking up new words to place on the school, just in case but have yet to find any." Minerva looked panicked.
"Okay, I'll see what I can do. Thanks!" The group walked out of the room and down the hall, suddenly a bright light appeared in front of them. Only Harry saw the light and he stopped. The others stopped behind him, not knowing why. The white lady appeared in front of him, and she shot the same white light she had shot at Harry right before he fought Voldemort, at the group behind him. They fell to the floor then quickly got up, now able to see her also.
"Harry is this the white lady you were talking about?" Ron asked in amazement. Harry nodded the lady spoke.
"Danger comes this way, the shields Dumbledore had on this school have been weakened, together you must all create a shield around the school, a permanent one. I will show you how, but it must be done now." The white lady flew outside, the teachers right behind her. "You must all get into a circle, sit down." The group hurriedly did as they were told. "Now I want you to place your hands out, fingers facing up palms out. Close your eyes and picture a gold shield, with the Hogwarts crest on the front. Now put all the power you have into the shield and concentrate." The seven could feel giant waves of power shooting through their bodies and out their hands. To all the other teachers who had come outside and the students who were staring out of every window in there common rooms and dorms, they could see a powerful gold light shoot from there hands connect with each other then shoot up into the sky. Suddenly a large gold dome appeared over Hogwarts grounds. "Now make your palms face upward and say shield diutyrnus."
The group did as they were told, and said the words together. Suddenly a silver bolt shot from their hands and the shield started to sparkle. The light stopped floating from their hands, and the teachers fell over in pure exhaustion. Madam Pomfrey ran over to them and McGonagall walked a little slower being sick. Pomfrey placed her right hand over Harry's head, and a light shot form it. Suddenly Harry felt good as new and got up. He walked around and helped Pomfrey give the others energy, soon the five eighteen year olds were back up and ready to fight any death eater that may have come in before the shiled was put up.
"You have all done well, much better then I expected. Now even though the shield is permanent, it can weaken over time. I suggest doing that spell again every seven years." Before they could ask anything, like what exactly did the shield do, the white lady disappeared. The group shook their heads and waited to find out if any death eaters were on the grounds.
"We should do codes." Harry muttered more to himself then to the others, but everyone heard him.
"Codes?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, Muggle hospitals and schools do it. They have a code for any kind of emergency. Code red is fire. Code blue is medical emergency. We should have that, a code orange could mean that the old staff has returned." Harry explained Minrva nodded. Before they could say anything twenty death eaters appeared in front of them.
Everyone pulled out there wand except for the teachers who new wandless magic, it was well known that wandless magic was much more powerful then wand. Hexes, curses and spells could suddenly be seen all around, as the battle began. Students were sending hexes and curses from the windows, the only thing that could really be seen from the ground was a mixture of colorful beams shooting everywhere. Each of the teachers who had the knowledge of wandless magic stood beside a teacher who did not, putting a shield around the both of them in an attempt to protect them. Suddenly spiders ran out of the forest and attacked the death eaters, Harry grabbed the deatheater closes to him and froze him, then he started freeing the others while they were pre-occupied with fighting the spiders. The other teachers followed him and as quickly as the fight started, it was over.
All the death eaters were either dead or frozen. The spiders dragged the dead away before anyone could stop them. The teachers dragged the rest of the death eaters inside the Auors ran inside five minutes later out of breath.
"You're a little late." Harry joked lying down exhausted from fighting and maintaining a shield for two for the fifteen minutes they were fighting. The others also lay down on separate beds. The death eaters were still frozen. The minister of magic appeared in the fireplace and walked over to the group.
"Ah, good work, let's see who we have here." The Aurors tied the death eaters up then woke them, Harry gasped at whom he saw.
