Harry Potter
and the
War To End All Wars
By double0ducky
Chapter 7
"Harry's Sweet 16"
Harry woke up at 9:28 AM the next morning. He peeked into Ron's room to find that he was not there. He got dressed and walked up to the kitchen. On his way he thought about his dreams on the night. They weren't bad dreams but they weren't bad dreams but they weren't good ones either. They were all the same… troubling. Those dreams that bother you the first hour after you wake up that make you want to know the answer to a question but you don't know what the question is.
The dreams had been about Ginny. What about her he didn't know. That's what bothered him. He contemplated it until he reached the area outside of the kitchen. He saw Ginny sitting on the floor reading a muggle novel. She looked up when he walked in.
"Morning sleepy head. Happy Birthday," Ginny said, smiling warmly at him. At the sign of that smile all thoughts of his dream went away.
He returned the smile and said, "Mornin'. Why are you on the floor?"
"I don't want to go in because Fred and George are in there and I'm betting that they make fun of me for being snuck up on yesterday. I decided it'd be better if you come in with me that way they'll make fun of you too."
"Gee thanks."
"Anytime." They laughed and walked in. Ron, Hermione, Fred, and George were all talking quietly at the table. Mrs. Weasley was doing what else? Cooking. They looked up when Harry and Ginny walked in.
"Happy Birthday mate. I thought I was supposed to be the one that slept the longest." Ron said, smirking.
"Stole your job," Harry said, smirking back, "I guess yesterday wore me out."
Well you did learn and do a lot," Hermione said, always trying to find reason in things.
"Good morning to you too, Hermione," Harry said, with a chuckle.
"Sorry Harry. Good morning and Happy Birthday!"
"I was just kidding." Harry said. She shrugged.
"What about you?" Ron asked Ginny.
"I was reading," she said holding up her book.
Fred and George sat throughout this exchange quietly watching Harry and Ginny. Ron and Hermione had told them about the plan to make the Boy Who Lived a little happier by means of their sister. It would make Ginny very happy too of course but she doesn't need it as much as him. He was joking and smiling. They had expected him to be moping around and avoiding people.
George popped up and went over to shake Harry's hand. He grabbed one in both of his hands and Fred did the same on the other hand. "How you doing old chump?" George said with a big grin.
"I…i…m gooood," Harry said. his voice rattling from being shaken. Ginny was cracking up at him.
"We'd like to thank you for saving our baby sister from mean old Mad-Eye," Fred said. Ginny cracked up even more because she was right and they were still shaking Harry.
"A..a..ny tii…mme."
"Fred and George that's enough shaking Harry," Mrs. Weasley said but smiling just the same at their antics. "Happy Birthday Harry dear."
"Thanks Mrs. Weasley."
Fred and George stopped shaking Harry and patted him hard on the back. They took their seats at the table again still smirking at Harry. He sat down next to Ron and Ginny sat down next to him.
Mrs. Weasley placed food down in front of them an straightening up asked, "Looking forward to your big day today Harry dear?"
"Big day?"
"Your birthday party."
"Oh yeah. I forgot. Yeah I'm looking forward to it. Where is it?"
"At the Burrow," Ginny piped in, looking excited at the prospect of going to her home. Harry was in fact excited too. The Burrow was kind of a surrogate home for him, the first actual place that wasn't castle that people cured for him. Yeah, he was pumped. Pumped but a little nervous.
"Will there be wards and every thing?"
"What do you think Harry?" Fred asked, "Dumbledore's right paranoid when it comes to you."
"Yeah nothing's going to happen," George said.
Harry nodded. "Well come on you lot!" Mrs. Weasley said, "The party is going to start soon."
They all finished breakfast quickly and headed to the living room where they were going to take a portkey to the Burrow. It was a big pillow so they could all fit on it. They all grabbed on to it and were zoomed off to the birthday party.
When they hit the ground Harry fell down along with Ginny. (A/N: Beet you can't guess what's gonna happen next!) He fell on his back and she fell on top of him facing him. Instinctively Harry's arms wrapped around her petite waist. 'I could get used to this,' Harry and Ginny thought at the same time. She stared into his emerald green eyes and he stared right back into her chocolate brown eyes. Both had a strong urge to kiss the other but knew, thought that the other wouldn't approve.
Ron coughed behind them and they both scrambled up to their feet, blushing. Everyone was smirking at them. Harry trying to ignore that fact looked around to find that he was in the kitchen. It looked very… unlived in.
"Come on," Mrs. Weasley said, "Everyone will think we got lost."
The group walked outside where everyone was. They all saw Harry and yelled Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs. He stopped dead in his tracks. He thought it was just going to be the Weasley's and Hermione. He looked around and besides the Weasley's and Hermione saw Dumbledore, Tonks, Lupin, Hagrid, Mad Eye, Neville and Luna. There were some other Order Members there also that he figured were on security.
"W-wow!" Harry stammered. He walked out into the middle and looked around. There were buffet tables that were full of all his favorite foods. Ron was already over there.
"Happy Birthday Harry!" said Remus Lupin who had just walked up.
"Thank you, Professor," Harry said.
"Please call me Remus or Moony. I haven't been your professor for a couple of years now."
"Okay, Moony then," Harry said. Moony smiled. "This is my first birthday party you know."
"Really? That's awful. Those Muggles didn't even give you one when you were a little kid?"
"No."
"Wow," he paused, "Listen I found this in Sirius' vault," he said stumbling over the name but holding his composure and handing Harry a small red suede bag that said Harry Potter on it in bold gold letters. "I wasn't sure if you'd want it in front of the other. It was from your parents."
"Thank you. I'll open it right now." Moony started to walk away but Harry grabbed his arm, "I'd like you to stay. You knew my parents more than me." Moony looked at him for a minute then nodded and smiled in gratitude. Harry reached in and pulled out a note. It read:
Dearest Harry,
If you are reading this then to be blunt we are dead but you already knew that. Sirius is probably giving it to you. Since it was supposed to be transferred to his vault when we died. Hope the Dursleys didn't treat you to bad. We are so sorry we couldn't see you grow up very much if at all we don't really know. There are some other items in hear that you will need. One is a mirror that when you tap it with your wand it will flash pictures of us. We thought you would like that. The other things we can't tell you what they do. You have to find it out for yourself for it to work. Once again we love you and we're sorry.
Love,
Mum and Dad
P.S.
Semper Fi (It's a spell) Edoc'sil (it's a name)
Harry fought back the tears that were threatening to come. He handed it to Moony so he could read and reached into the bag to pull out the rest of the things. He pulled out the mirror first and watched some pictures of his parents flash by then tapped it again. He would save it for later. It was pocket sized so he stuck it in his pocket. The next thing he pulled out was a small journal with some entries inside but no name. There was also a small rock. It was smooth and very round. When he held it in his hand he could feel an inner power within it. He pocketed it.
Harry looked up at Moony to see him with a big smile on his face. "What?" Harry asked.
"You want to find out what that spell is?" Harry nodded vigorously. "Okay. Wait a minute. Everyone else is going to want to see this." Harry nodded. Moony turned to the crowed and yelled, "Everyone! Harry is about to get his first birthday present. Its from his parents." There were some gasps. Mrs. Weasley was one of the more prominent ones. They all gathered around to see what his parents could possibly give him. Moony nodded the ok to Harry.
Harry raised his wand in the air and yelled, "Semper Fi!" There was a flash and a few more gasps. A beautiful red and gold phoenix had just appeared in the middle of the sky in a flash of flames. Ginny and Hermione squealed and even Luna looked like she was excited about it. The wonderful bird was the exact opposite color scheme of Fawkes. Instead of mostly red and some gold this bird was mostly gold with some red throughout the body. The phoenix came down singing its beautiful song that never failed to cheer Harry up. It landed on Harry's shoulder and stopped singing. "Edoc'sil?" The bird trilled in acknowledgement. "What does it mean?" he asked Moony.
"It means unconquerable. Fits perfectly for a phoenix." Harry nodded, "The spell means always faithful. Edoc'sil will always be faithful to you and whoever is loyal to you."
"I like that."
BANG
Everyone dove to the ground and Edoc'sil took flight and circled above. Harry looked up and laughed.
"What the hell are you laughing for?" Moony hissed.
"Its just Fred and George's fire works," Harry explained, still chuckling at everyone's skittishness.
They all stood up laughing with Harry. The twins really had great fireworks. They just kept going and going with a different type every time.
The display went on and on for an hour, in which people ate the delicious food, talked or just watched the fireworks. When the twins announced that they were finished Mrs. Weasley decided that it was time to open presents. Everyone fathered around a big table and Harry drew from a hat who would go first. He chose Ginny. (A/N who else lol) Ginny pulled a small box from her pocket. She looked over at Professor Dumbledore who nodded in support and she handed the box to Harry blushing as she did.
Harry opened the little box up and gasped. Inside was a beautiful necklace. The medallion was platinum. It had a basilisk on the outside eating its tail and forming the perimeter of the medallion. Its eyes were a beautiful green stone of some kind. On the inside was a lightning bolt slashing across diagonally from the top right to bottom left. On the top left was a fierce looking eagle that looked like it was swooping down. On the bottom right was the Gryffindor Lion.
"I…its beautiful Gin. Thank you," he walked up and hugged her. It startled her for a second but once the shock wore off she hugged him back. He let go and put the beautiful medallion on.
"Its also magical. I learned how to make a protective necklace. With the help of Professor Dumbledore of course. It will block a lot of spells and curses. The power comes from those two rubies. When I put the charm on it they turned green. I guess that's your magical color or something."
"Wow thanks," Harry said. Touched that she would do that for him. They had both been rather caught up in the moment and when they looked up everyone was staring at Ginny in awe. "Um…why are you looking at her like that?"
They continued until Hermione, of course, spoke up, "Ginny well proklacy is a very rare gift. I… how… ugh," Everyone nodded, their words exactly.
Harry and Ginny looked at each other and cracked up. Hermione was speechless. "Well cool," Harry said, "Now we both have a special power. We can be different together."
'Together? He said together. Hooray!' she grinned. "Well onto the next present."
"That's me," Hermione said, moving past Ginny's new gift to the side for now. She too pulled a box out and handed it to Harry.
He opened it to reveal a beautiful silver watch with a black background and nonmagical replicas of his wand as the different hands.
"Wow its great Hermione thanks," he put it on.
"Tap it with your wand." She told him.
He did and saw a "clock" that had on the outside: ?, Dead, School, Home, Work, Out, and a line. He guessed that that was for a specific place if it could be traced. The hands had all the people at the party that wasn't a security person. (A/N think of the "Weasley clock in the second movie.) "Wow that's wicked Hermione thanks." He hugged her too.
"Me next!" Ron said. He ran over to the table and grabbed a box that was about 4 ft long, 3 ft wide, and 2 ft tall. He carried it over and plopped it down on the grass in front of Harry. Harry knelt down in front of it and tore the wrapping off. Inside was a miniature Quidditch field.
"Once you put up the hoops and activate the players you can play Quidditch. You control them with your wand. It helps with reflexes too."
"Wicked!" Harry said. Ron beamed. "Who's next?"
"I believe that would be me," Dumbledore said. Harry was shocked that Dumbledore got him something but didn't complain. Dumbledore walked over to the table and picked up a long package. He carried it over to Harry. He handed it to Harry. Harry took it and took the paper off. He opened it up and stared. Inside was the Sword of Gryffindor.
"Wh…why?" was all Harry could say.
"That you will have to find out for yourself other wise it will not work." He gave Harry a significant look.
"What is it mate?" Ron asked. Harry held it up to show everyone. When they saw what it they all gasped. They all turned to Dumbledore with questioning looks on their faces.
He shrugged and said, "On to the next present." Everyone stared at him some more until they decided that they would not get any information.
"Well I guess I'm up next," Moony said, "Hold on a minute I have to go get the present." He walked off towards the front of the house. Everyone gathered around Harry who was still holding the Sword.
"Oh yes," Dumbledore said, "I forgot to give you this." He pulled out a beautiful scabbard It was silver with red rubies running in a beautiful pattern down the sides. It matched the Sword beautifully. Harry took it and slipped the Sword into it. The sword fit perfectly and Harry looked down the bottom of the scabbard toward the hilt of the sword and saw a his name carved into it in the same lettering that it said Godric Gryffindor on the sword.
"Thank you very much Professor." Dumbledore nodded in response. At that moment Moony came around the corner holding on to Sirius' old motorcycle.
"Well, in the Muggle world you are now of the legal age to drive and in the magical world there is no age. So this is for you to use. It flies too. Unfortunately you can not use it until you learn how to. But that shouldn't be too much trouble. I'll teach you before the summer's over."
"Thanks a lot Moony this is excellent," Harry placed down the Sword and walked over to the bike. He ran his hand up its side. She is really nice isn't she?"
"Yes." The party admired the bike for awhile, Harry and his friends all sat on it to see how it felt.
Eventually they moved on to the rest of the presents. Fred and George gave him a box of their that had at least one of each of their products and some test products that they were "pretty sure" were safe. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley gave him a set of Defense books. Tonks and Mad Eye got Harry an Official Auror's Handbook. They said it would help him a lot with getting ready to become one. They also told him not to tell anyone because only Aurors were supposed top have one. Neville got him a Mimbelus Mimbeltona and Luna gave him a framed picture of the Crumple Horned Snorcack, looking straight at Hermione as she did so. Ron cracked up laughing at this until Hermione gave him a look that would have had a troll running for cover. Charlie gave him a pair of dragon skinned Quidditch gloves and Bill gave him a miniature mummy that walked around and did things for you when you tapped it with your wand.
When all of the presents were opened Harry and Ron sat on the grass playing Harry's new Quidditch game. Hermione and Ginny watched from the sides. Edoc'sil sat on Harry's shoulder surveying the scene with a great interest.
BANG
"Honestly Fred and George. We know its you. You can't fool us twice. " Mrs. Weasley yelled towards the grove where the sound had come from.
"We didn't do anything," the two said from behind her.
"Well who did?
"Edoc'sil go check it out," Harry said to the beautiful bird. She took off towards the grove. Harry watched her nervously. When she was over the grove a jet of red light shot up narrowly missing her. She shot back towards Harry who had his wand out and was walking towards the grove. She circled above him and the two headed forward. The whole party fell in behind him except for Dumbledore who walked up and put a hand on his shoulder. "I'm not staying here Professor," Harry said, "I'm protected. I have Ginny's necklace and I can conjure up a wall or shield or something like that."
"I wasn't going to hold you back but to ask you to be careful and to say good luck." Harry stared at him for a minute then nodded and the two headed off with Edoc'sil circling overhead and the others all behind them.
When they got close to the grove Harry motioned for everyone to fan out and get behind a tree. They would move stealthily from tree to tree. He listened closely using his "eagle senses" to hear better. There were voices up ahead. It sounded like they were arguing. He moved silently to the next tree and heard the voices arguing about how to attack.
"They don't know we're here why don't we just charge out and do what we do best?" said one of the people.
"They know someone is here now, idiot! You shot a curse in the air. Plus you can't apparate without making a noise," said another.
The next voice sent ice through Harry's veins. Bellatrix Lestrange was saying, "We'll still take them by surprise. They think that Weasley's wards will work and we can't get in."
Harry moved up to the next tree. They were close. He heard the others come up next to him.
"Lets go!" the first Death Eater said.
Harry peeked around the tree. There were about 11 Death Eaters running towards them. He ducked band readied himself, pointing his wand one way. When two Death Eaters ran past his tree he yelled out "Petrificus Totalis!" Both Death Eaters fell flat on their faces. He heard the others yelling out spells all catching the Death Eaters by surprise. Unfortunately only about five of the Death Eaters ran through.
Dumbledore motioned for them to fall back so they ran to where it was more open firing curses back as they went. When they were in the back yard they turned to face the grove with wands oat the ready. Dumbledore summoned the tables over and set them up as a wall. The group crouched behind them and waited.
All of a sudden there was a shout of multiple voices yelling the Reductor curse. The tables were all smashed to smithereens. Harry saw Tonks, an Order member named Hestia Jones and Bill Weasley fly back wards and land on their backs, unconscious.
Harry cast his powerful shield around his friends then turned and watched as the Death Eater's ran out of the cover of the trees. He stunned a Death Eater running at him. He saw Fred and George dueling another Death Eater. Moony had caught another Death Eater with a full Body Bind. Mad Eye was in a fierce battle with another the two were exchanging curses rapidly, it looked like Moody had the upper hand until the Death Eater sent a nicely placed cutting curse at Moody's peg leg sending him to the ground. The Death Eater pointed his wand at Mad Eye and said "Avada…" Harry jumped forward and yelled, "Expelliramus!" The Death Eater lost his wand, he turned and started to run but was caught in the back with a stunning spell from Dumbledore.
"That's it." Ron said as Fred and George took out their opponent.
"No." Harry said. Ron looked puzzled. Harry turned towards the grove and yelled, "What's the matter Bellatrix? Afraid of little baby Potter?"
She walked out looking extremely angry at being taunted. She shot a stunning spell at Harry. He blocked it with a shield spell. "Tarentallegra!" he yelled. She side stepped it easily. They circled before she yelled, "Avada Kedavra!" Harry heard Ginny scream but it sounded far away. He felt the powerful sensation surge within him. Everything seemed to slow down. He could see the curse coming at him but it seemed to be moving slow. He stepped aside and before the curse would have hit him he fired the curse that Antonin Dolhov had used on Hermione. "Arget Brisingr!" He waved his wand in an X motion.
Bellatrix looked shocked for a moment before the curse hit her and she crumpled to the ground.
The feeling left him and he looked around. Everyone had a shocked expression on their face before the all started talking at once.
"How did you do that?" Fred and George asked.
"I've never seen anyone move faster!" Mr. Weasley said.
"That was bloody brilliant mate!" Ron exclaimed looking at Harry in awe. He wasn't the only one though. Neville looked like he was ready to put a crown on Harry's head and call him "Sire" from now on (A/N: Dodd huh?) Even Luna had lost her normal dreamy expression. Harry took this all in until his eyes fell on Ginny. She was positively beaming. He just stared into her beautiful eyes for a minute smirking until Dumbledore shot purple sparks in the air quieting everyone down.
He immediately started to give orders to the Order (A/N: hehe orders to the Order) "Hagrid!" Hagrid popped up. He had been staying towards the back because of his spell inability. "Take these people to St. Mungo's." He bound Bellatrix with ropes from his wand made a Portkey and Hagrid was on his way with Bellatrix, Bill Tonks Hestia and a struggling Moody. "Dedalus!" Dedalus Diggle, an Order member on security, came forward. "You are to find out what happened to the wards since Bill is temporarily out of Order if you will. (A/N again: get it? Out of ORDER hehe that's awesome) Little Dedalus hustled off towards the grove. "Molly, I would like you to take the children back to Headquarters -yes, even Mr. Longbottom and Miss Lovegood. They have been through the past two biggest attacks set down by Voldemort and should be filled in. I would like them all to stay the night in the training room with Fred and George as protection." Mrs. Weasley hesitated a minute then nodded and taking a Portkey from Dumbledore gathered the group mentioned together and they were off. "Lastly I would like the rest of you led by Murtgah to search the area for anything else. Mr. Ramius go ahead." A man about 5' 10" with dirty blonde hair and silvery blue eyes in deep red robes and a sword on his side stepped forward nodded and strode off the rest of the Party following behind of them.
END CHAPTER 7
A/N: I am so sorry. Two months. If anyone actually likes this story you must be really mad. I'd like to thank everyone who reviewed. I am going to have a new system. When I finish part of a chapter I will post it. I will then post the next part as a separate chapter to but the same to all of us. If you get that then I feel sorry for you. Haha.
Mike