~The Bad News and off to Switzerland? ~

The days to follow after the quidditch match were very uneventful, all accept for the boys mastering their elements. Everything was quiet until one night at dinner there was a giant rustling of feathers and everyone looked up to see a twelve pitch black ravens with parchment attached to their legs, four separated away and came in the direction of the gryffindor table, another four went to the hufflepuff table and the last four to the ravenclaw table. Harry didn't know what was going on but there was a look of pure horror on everyone else's faces accept for Dean, it seemed he didn't know what was going on either, the four that came to the gryffindor table landed in front of Ron and Ginny, on in front of Neville, one in front of Seamus, and the last in front of Dean. There were cries coming from the other tables and Harry knew it had to be bad news.

The ravens took off after their letter had been delivered. Ron had a look of pure hatred on his face and was holding Ginny while she cried, Seamus had a look of disbelief on his face, and so did Dean, Neville, just dropped the letter and looked ready to kill. Harry asked the others what happened and Ron showed him.

Dear Mr. and Ms. Weasley, we are sorry to say that your Brother Percy Weasley was murdered by deatheaters tonight at 6:30, we send our condolences and hope you can make it through these difficult times.

Sincerely

Ministry of Magic.

Harry looked over the other ones and they were similar to Rons accept for Deans it said that they were visiting with the Finnegan's and they were killed then. Harry couldn't believe it three of his best friends had just become orphans, while his very best friend, the one who took him in had lost a brother. Harry knew they were going to have a very difficult time and he was going to help them through it, as he knew exactly what they were going through. Dumbledore stood up and addressed the students, 'I'm very sorry for the people who had lost families tonight and are excused from classes to go see any remaining family members for one week, please, those who lost tonight, go and pack and you will be taking the Knight bus to see your families.'

As the Ron was the only one who had some family left was the only one who was leaving for a week, he didn't pack anything, he just called Max to him and he bid them all farewell, Harry gave him a brotherly hug as did the other boys. Harry, Seamus, Dean and Neville all sat in the Animagi Room with Jack, Jack, Bolt and Merlin and talked about the good times they had with their families, Harry mainly listened to the other boys, but he felt the exact same way all the time, an empty hollow feeling.

The week past very fast and the boys all learnt to cope with the loss, as did Ron after he got back. He told them as they walked to charms, that they were going to avenge all the deaths that had ever happened at the wands of Voldemort, Grindlewald, Omaden the Dark, Elric the Evil, Ralistein and all their followers. Dumbledore, told the boys of the names of the wizards that Voldemort brought back, he knew that it would be these four wizards, because they were all the most powerful in their times. They arrived at the charms room and Professor Flitwick started by showing the students how to make two-way mirrors with a tricky little charm, and he gave them all mirrors that they would cast the charm on, the boys all got it done in one try so they just sat around talking and occasionally helping other students when it looked like they needed it. The day past slowly for the boys and welcomed they soft grassy beds they made for themselves in the Animagi Room at the end of the day. A week after that day, Harry told the rest of the team that they would be playing Hufflepuff in their next match, the day before Christmas break. When Harry was walking to Defense with the other boys he saw a bunch of images flash before his eyes and he knew the other boys saw it too, they knew The Dark Order (that's what they called Voldemorts gang) was planning something during the Christmas break, he also knew it was in another country, Switzerland to be precise, they all looked at each other, and smirked, their chance to make them pay was going to happen the day after Christmas, they needed to tell Dumbledore, so they quickened their pace and showed up before the bell rang, Dumbledore was sitting at the desk and they told him all about it, they told him that their wands need to be made untraceable from the ministry so they could do magic outside of school, he nodded and did it quicker then expected by just muttering a few words and tapping their wands once each.

The rest of the class showed up and Dumbledore started explaining about an ancient spell that would, when cast upon the eyes, would make that caster be able to see if a someone was evil or not, they would know if the person was evil because a dark cloud would be over top of the persons head, if there wasn't then the person was still a person of the light.

Harry, Ron, Neville, Dean, and Seamus found that with their new found determination that everything came much easier to learn, they mastered the spell by the end of class and they could see no dark clouds above anyone's heads.

The days past and it was time for the Hufflepuff game, Harry didn't like putting them down but the Hufflepuff team was a bit of a joke this year, so it was much easier to score and Harry caught the snitch in ten minutes.

The boys all packed enough cloths and their trench cloaks for the Christmas break, they called Bolt, Max, Jack, Jake, and Merlin to them and they boarded the Hogwarts express, the ride was relaxing and spent mostly playing with the Snarks. Seamus, Dean, and Neville were going to stay at Rons for the holidays as Mrs. Weasley put it, of course we'll have the boys over, we would never turn away from boys who had lost so much. On the way back Harry was just messing around by changing himself into each of the other boys to see if Bolt would still recognize him, he did, when Harry found something out, They could change just individual parts of their bodies, so that meant that they could change their voice boxes so that they would sound different, and they wouldn't have to bother with the voice disguising spell when they were on missions as the Brotherhood.

They arrived at Kings Cross around lunchtime and when they stepped off the train with all their luggage, Mrs. Weasley ran to them and gave them all bone crushing hugs one at a time and said 'I am so sorry about your losses boys, I hope your all okay' they all nodded and said they were fine and the could cope with it. She smiled and looked down at the Snarks and said 'Oh these are the most darling animals I've every met!' every one laughed at this and then Harry said that they all knew how to apperate so they could get to The Burrow much faster, Mrs. Weasley eyed him carefully and said 'I don't want to know how you learned I'm just happy you don't have to floo back'.

They all arrived and noticed how much bigger the Burrow was, and Mr. Weasley told them that when Percy died the ministry gave them his pension that apparently Percy kept secret from them and it happened to be quite a large sum of money. Then Mrs. Weasley told them to get settled in and that they could whatever they wished for the week up to Christmas.

The boys did just that and Harry started drawing out a plan to stop the Dark Orders advance into Switzerland, they decided that since they knew the route they were taking and that the road they were marching on towards Switzerland was in the middle of a giant crevasse they would perch on top on each side and that when they came underneath them, Harry Seamus and Dean would jump down and fire spells while falling, then they would cast the slowing spell on them selves and Ron and Neville would give them cover, after they landed Neville, and Ron would jump down and enter the fight, they decided they would mainly use stunning spells, disarming charms, and the reflection charm so it would look like there was more of them. They thought this was a good battle plan and they agreed to it.

The rest of the week was spent having snowball fights with the twins and playing around as their animal forms at night. Harry told the others that since their opponents would of course have magical detectors they would have to apperate to about ten miles off of where they were going to be to intercept The Dark Orders forces, and have to get there in their animal forms.

On Christmas day they all woke up with the rest of the family and opened all their gifts, they all got numerous pranks from the twins, sweaters that had their animals knitted on the backs (a/n: the Weasleys know about the brotherhood), from Charlie they got books on how to treat burns and such, from Bill they got these cool looking necklaces, that had a single fang on them, Harry's a wolf fang, Seamus' a cougar fang, Dean's a Bear fang, Rons an eagle talon, and Neville's a hawk talon.

Deans present was really cool, they all knew dean made these by hand, it was a crest, that had the five of them standing like they were just before the Midnight fight started, silhouetted by the moon, and it said "Brotherhood of the Wolf on top in an old Gothic looking script. They were supposed to go on the back of their trench cloaks, they all thought this was awesome and cast a sticking charm on them to their trench cloaks. From Harry he gave them all silver rings, just simple silver bands, which had the name of their animals on each. Ron gave them all wand holsters that would attach to their belts, Seamus gave them all books on the history of the brotherhood that Dumbledore mentioned, and Neville gave them all books on warfare. These were all awesome gifts, the boys all thanked the Weasley's for all their hospitality, and they went upstairs to mentally prepare for the interception they were going to do, they decided that Hedwig would come along so when they saw the Dark Orders forces they could send her to Dumbledore and get some reinforcements to come. They all took a nap, and when they woke up it was mid-night, they went downstairs to see the whole Weasley family sitting in the kitchen waiting for them, well boys I know this is going to be hard for you but we have faith in you, good luck, and with that the boys walked out in their brotherhood attire and with a last look at The Burrow they apparated away.

There it is, ch 7 read and review please

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