Chapter #6

Disclaimer: All things Harry Potter belong to Rowling. No copyright infringement is intended. I do own all new characters.

Spoilers: HP SS, HP COS, HP POA, HP GOF, HP OOTP

Categories: Angst, Action/Adventure, Romance

Author: Aggiefan23

Chapter Number: #6

Chapter Name: Doing What You Have to Do

Rating: PG-13 (Mild Language)

Authors Notes: Well here is the next update. I hope you like this chapter and the book. Also note that this is NOT A SUPERPOWER HARRY story, it is just Harry growing as a wizard. By the way, let the twist and turns begin…. Hehehe.

{Burrow}

The door to the Weasly household opened slowly as Ginny, Hermione, and Ron entered the Burrow after taking a portkey to the front door from Grimuwald Place. The first room that they came to was the kitchen and it was empty and quite, they wondered the house looking for Harry when finally they made it to the living room where they found Harry sitting in front of the fire reading a book in deep thought.

Harry looked up from the book that he was reading and turned to face the people who had just entered the room. The look on his face was unreadable by Hermione, Ron, and Ginny. Finally, Harry spoke to the group.

"Hello."

"Hello, Harry." Hermione said as she sat down on the couch.

Then ensued the uncomfortable silence, or so they thought. It was really only uncomfortable for Ginny, Ron, and Hermione. Harry seemed quite content to sit in silence. Harry then went back to reading the book and there they sat there in silence once again.

Ginny thought that Harry looked very sad, but that still didn't mean that she wasn't mad at him for running away. She wanted to let out some steam that she was holding in and be dammed what Moody said about not saying any thing to upset Harry.

"Harry, where the hell have you been? You scared us half to death we thought that you had left us forever. What the hell were you doing?" She burst out. Moody just shook his head in silent laughter ensued. Harry looked back up from his book, very somberly.

"Ginny," he paused and then continued. "I just did what I had to do."

"And what the hell was that Harry?"

Harry looked like he was about to answer the question when all of a sudden he grabbed his scar and fell to the ground. His scar was burning so badly he couldn't even think straight, and then the pain subsided. He had just seen a flash of Voldemort giving Wormtail an order to attack the Burrow. As soon as Harry had registered that in his head, he turned to look out the window and saw ten death eaters walking out of the forest towards the Burrow. Once Harry registered what was going on he got up swiftly and walked towards the door.

"Potter, what are you doing, why did you…" Moody started, but he never finished his sentence because he too saw the ten death eaters coming up the lawn. As soon as he had drawn his gazed off the death eaters he saw what Harry was doing.

Harry was now at the door and he opened it but before he stepped out of it he looked to all those in the room with grave eyes, like he was going to do something that he didn't want to do. Once his gaze met the group he turned and walked out of the door he cast a locking spell on the house that not even Hermione or Moody could break and turned to face his life, his destiny… the fighting of evil. Only this time Harry knew something that they didn't know. He was not going to die today, for Voldemort was not here to deliver the stroke of death, these death eaters could all cast the killing curse's at Harry and he wouldn't die at least according to the prophesy, he knew that Voldemort would come one day and he was awaiting that day with anticipation, he wanted it over with, and as he found him self facing the death eaters before him he found disappointment that today was not the day, that either he would die trying to save the ones he loves or the weight of the world would be lifted off his shoulders. He sighed and continued up the path to meet his attackers.

As soon as Harry had closed the door, Moody ran to the door and tried to pry it open but to no avail, he then whipped out his wand and pointed it at the door.

"Alohmora" he bellowed yet nothing happed. He tried again and once again he was unsuccessful. He then moved to the window to try to get out and meet the same result as the door. "Damn, Harry what are you doing?" And there Moody, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny watched in horror as Harry was making his way up the lawn towards the death eaters.

Harry was making his way up to the attackers with many thoughts going through his head, most of which were along the lines of "This was a good idea" which was not helpful at all. When he was about twenty feet away a death eater called to him.

"Potter, give up now before this gets ugly."

Harry immediately knew that these death eaters were not from the inner circle of Voldemort for those that were close to Voldemort would not have offered him the chance to come peacefully.

When Harry stood steadfast the death eater spoke again. "Have it your way."

"Stupefy" screamed ten death eaters. Harry ran to the side and hid behind a tree and once the red beams of light had passed be burst forth.

"Stupefy, stupefy" Two death eaters had fallen before Harry was forced to run again from the beams of light coming his way. However, when the tree that he was hiding behind was hit with a curse it caught on fire and Harry was forced to run in the misted of more stunners coming his way.

Harry was running for all his might, the two he stunned were still down but everyone else was firing hexes and curses at him. As he was running he cast a curse that that would cause an explosion behind him and two more death eaters went down.

"Only six more to go" he thought to him-self. As he was still running he got caught with a cutting hex in his leg and he fell to the ground and screamed in pain. Once he hit the ground he rolled over to cast two more stunners at the death eaters, both landed their mark.

He forced him self up baring the pain in his leg and ran once more. He was now very close to the house and that was not what he wanted. "Four more to go" was going through his head. He came out behind a tree and was met with a body bind curse, but before the spell could reach him he bellowed.

"Protego"

The spell hit Harry's shield and rebounded towards the death eater and hit him straight on. He then turned to his right and saw that a death eater was trying to make his way into the house, Harry cast a stunner at him but he pain in his leg as getting to be so unbearable that he missed and hit a vase that was on the window sill, the vase shattered and the shards of it were blasted into the death eater most notably a large piece into his neck and he fell with a solid thud. Harry knew he was dead.

When the two remaining death eaters saw their comrade dead they took off in to the woods and once they were out side the anti-apparition wards disapperated.

Harry now breathing hard looked at the results, four stunned, two severely injured by the explosion the he had cause, one in a body bind, and one dead. He walked up to the one that was body binded and reversed that spell. As soon as the death eaters was alert and saw Harry he reached for his wand, but Harry stepped on his hand and spoke.

"Don't even try it." He then reached and picked up his wand and snapped it and spoke again. "I have a job for you, I want you to go back to Voldemort and I want you to give him this message I want you to tell him that I'm waiting" He then motioned for the death eater to get up and the death eater took off towards the woods and was gone.

Harry once again realized just how bad his leg hurt and made his way to the house when his eyes met the death eater that was dead, the death eater that he had killed. He just stood there looking at it until he heard a bang from the window of the burrow, he saw Moody, Hermione, Ron and Ginny all standing there and they looked upset, he undid the locking spell that he had put on the house and they all came running out.

Hermione and Ginny ran and hugged Harry then received a very painful hit on the arm once Ginny had released him.

"Harry, what are you doing? Why did you do that? Why did you just put your self in that kind of danger?" Ginny spoke with trepidation.

Harry looked again at the group and then spoke. "I did what I had to do." He then walked past the group and up the lawn to the house limping on his leg, but before he was in the house his gaze once more fell on the death eater that was dead, no he thought to him self… the person that was dead because of him.

He bent down to the death eater; all too aware that Hermione, Ron, and Ginny were watching him. He removed the mask and then put it back on. He knew this person. He wasn't just a death eater dead because of Harry; it was a student dead because of Harry.