The week passed by very fast for Draco. He was training really hard and he was able to learn things that Hogwarts would never teach him.
The day to the attack drew closer and Draco was worried about what might happen, so he decided to talk to Alexander that evening.
"Alexander," Draco began. "I was wondering if we could talk."
Harry didn't say anything and just sat down in one of the chairs in the room of requirement waiting for Draco to continue.
"Last week after our first training session I was informed that there is going to be an attack by the dark lord tomorrow evening, and I was wondering what I should do."
"Draco, I know this may be hard for you to hear, but we are going to do nothing."
"Why?"
"Because if you want to get into the Dark Lord's inner circle and become a spy, you will have to convince him that you are completely loyal to him."
"If we can't tell anyone, could we find someway to protect the rest of the student body?"
"Well when the attack happens, we could help move the students to the safety of their dorms, but that is all that I can think of."
"Okay, Thank you for your help Alexander," Draco said as he started to leave the room of requirement.
"Please call me Alex," Harry said while watching the other boy leave.
After Draco left Harry sighed to himself knowing that he was going to have to do something about the attack tomorrow, something, but he didn't know what to do.
Ron, Hermione, and Ginny sat in a corner of the Gryffindor common room trying to figure out the person that Alexander was. To them he was similar to Harry in many ways, but yet so different. It was hard for them to think of what to do.
All they knew was that Alexander was barley in the common room and was rarely seen outside of his classes. Even people from the other houses didn't see much of the mysterious figure.
Sighing Ron, Ginny, and Hermione got up and left the common rooms to go up to their dorms and wait for the next day to come.
The next day came and Harry was outside running around the Hogwarts grounds trying to figure out where the attack would take place later today.
If one was to come from the lake side they wouldn't have much of a strategically advantage because if a person was trying to surprise the castle residents, they would be clearly visible.
The main gates were ruled out, because what were the chances that Voldemort was going to walk up to the school through the wards where they were the strongest?
The attack would be coming from the forest; it was the most logical place to enter the school grounds because the wards were very thin because of how big the forest was and all of the magical beasts that could possibly hinder an attacker.
Harry went to all of his classes on a usual Friday. And after school Harry went down to the dungeons to find Severus.
The past month had been hard on Harry because of trying to get used to the new bond and Severus was not helping at all. He had pushed Harry away after the bonding and had left Harry all alone to deal with the new powers.
Even though Harry could talk to Severus through a mental link, he thought it would be best if he let Severus work out his problems by himself and not get in the way of his teaching duties.
"Severus," Harry called though the mind link. "Do you have a moment to talk?"
"Yes I do," Severus mentally shot back at Harry trying to snarl at him. "Make it quick, I'm in my personal lab."
Harry knock on the office door and heard Severus say come in.
Walking into Severus private potions lab Harry waved his hand shutting the door and warding it behind him.
"Severus, I have been informed that there is going to be an attack on Hogwarts tonight. I would like to ask you a favor."
"And what might that favor just entail?"
"You not coming up and fighting."
"Why would you want me to stay here in the Dungeons?"
"Because I am going to be testing the bond tonight and I don't want both of us drawing on each others magical energy out on the battle field until we can control our actions better."
"You know I hate being down here," Severus sighed.
"I know, but also Voldemort would have his way with you."
"I understand. Is there anything else you want me to do?"
"No, just wait and hope for the best," Harry said and left the room going up to the astronomy tower to think.
While the rest of the school was eating diner in the great hall, Harry sat in the astronomy tower looking out towards the forbidden forest to where the attack would come from.
Watching a blood red sun set over the lake Harry felt the air get suddenly colder around him.
"It has begun," He said as he walked down to the great hall.
Albus Dumbledore sat in the great hall eating his dinner which happened to be roasted chicken with corn when he felt a strong surge of magic shake the hall. Looking around the great hall he saw that the entire student body had felt the surge and they were all looking up at him as if he had something to do with it.
"Please may I have your attention," Dumbledore began to say at the same moment as Alexander burst through the doors.
"Professor, there is an attack on the school."
Chaos erupted as the students began to talk abut what was happening. They began to panic.
"Please go back to your dorm rooms immediately and the rest of the staff please come with me."
The students ran out of the great hall while the staff stood up out of their seats and went towards the front doors of the school only to be stopped by Alexander.
"Stop right there," Harry commanded.
"Why are you doing this? We are fully trained wizards and we have had more experience than you have ever had," said the new Defense against the dark arts teacher that Harry knew to be an incompetent fool.
"I am sorry that I have to do this," Harry said as he banished the staff members to the astronomy tower to watch the battle from above.
Walking outside, Harry closed the doors to the front of the school. He watched them be locked down with the metal bolt and beams that came out from the doors and locked themselves in place magically.
Now, not having to worry about the students, Harry turned around to see what was going to be attacking the school.
Dementors and werewolves.
"Shit."
Harry had been expecting Dementors, but not werewolves; this might prove to be an even bigger challenge than he thought it might be.
Still standing on the steps to the main entrance Harry stripped off his school clothing to reveal battle robes as well as an assortment of different weapons.
Carefully watching the line on magical creatures coming closer to him Harry began to chant. He was weaving a spell that would protect the people inside of the castle from the side affects of the Dementors.
"Absumi hic anima," Harry said and raised his hands so that his palms were facing outwards towards the slowly advancing Dementors.
Silver light came out of his hands and slowly began to create a barrier about fifty feet in front of Harry. Drawing his sword that was now visible to the staff that were now watching from the astronomy tower, Harry began to make his way towards the Dementors.
"Severus," Harry called out in his mind. "Would please tell the staff to start casting their own Patronus."
Feeling Severus silently acknowledge his request, Harry let the first wave of Dementors come towards him.
Harry saw the silver outlines of several patronus's being cast at the same time and let out a cry of aguish at the Dementors and threw himself into the ranks of them and began a furious battle.
Harry was fighting the Dementors and was almost done with them, when the werewolves that were waiting for something to happen joined in the battle causing Harry to use his magic.
Casting spells left and right, Harry began to bind the werewolves up with a silver cord. Knowing that the silver cord would slowly kill the werewolf that it touched. Harry began to feel himself beginning to get worn out from all of the fighting.
He had two choices, the first choice would be to cast his own Patronus that would be able to kill the Dementors but let the people who were watching the battle know who he truly was, or to continue to fight by hand and make himself weaker by the passing moment.
"Expecto Patronum," Harry said as he watched his stag burst forth from his hand with a golden glow followed by a Phoenix. Watching their strange flight as they dove down into the hordes of Dementors attacking them with their fierce claws and horns. Then the two golden creatures circled around the battle field landing to stand aside Harry surveying their victory.
As soon as the stag and phoenix disappeared Harry noticed that all that was left were the werewolves that were slowly dying because of the silver chords binding them.
Slowly walking around the battle field Harry noticed that Dawn was soon approaching and that he would get to look at the werewolves before he did anything with them.
Waving his hand towards the general direction of the school Harry allowed the doors to be unlocked so only the staff could come out and help him clean up the big mess that he had just made.
The sun slowly began to rise in the east allowing Harry to see what damage he actually inflicted on the magical creatures during the night. Walking to where a man looked familiar Harry looked down and saw that the man that he was looking upon was Remus Lupin.
This is what Harry feared. Remus Lupin, the last remaining Marauder was now dying.
"Why Remus?" Harry asked the sky looking up for an answer.
"Thank you sir," Remus began to speak coughing up blood. "You have finally freed me from this terrible curse."
With that last breath Remus Lupin passed away.
Harry knelt down by the man's side and started to cry. He had killed the last tie to his parents. He had killed Sirius, and now he had Killed Remus. He was a murderer.
Dumbledore walked down from the astronomy tower to where Harry was kneeling next to a dead Remus Lupin. He wanted to talk to Harry about what had happened to him, but he knew better than to allow the man to wallow in pity.
"Alexander," Dumbledore began in a grave voice that left no room for disagreement. "Please go up to my office where I will meet you later."
Harry got up and walked away from the battle that he had just fought walking silently up to the headmaster's office.
Dumbledore watched as Harry went up to his office and the rest of the staff began to come out in front of the school looking at Dumbledore waiting for him to tell them what to do.
"I would like Professors Snape, McGonagall, Flitwick, and Sprout please come with me to my office. I need to discuss something important with you."
The heads of houses left the battle scene and went up to headmaster's office to wait for him to come up.
Thank you to every one that has taken the time to read my story!! I would like to thank Audrey for talking to me online about my story and helping me when I run out of ideas.
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