AN: There seems to be a little misunderstanding at the last chapter regarding to my answers to your reviews and my AN ;-) I don't intend to change any chapters that are already uploaded! What I meant was, that I am going to revise the last chapters of my story and change them in some aspects (as you should know by now the story is already finished on my PC)
I am glad you liked the duels, it's really hard to come up with new moves and ideas for that. So much is already written and I try to avoid copy pther authors. Thanks for your reviews as always.

Chapter 16 Attacks

It was finally the last day of his torture and Tonks kept stealing glances at him.

She was acting more nervous now when she was around him.

He sighed inwardly as she kept that behavior up during the breakfast.

He sat beside her and Rick on her other side. She took a glance at him and as he looked her into her eyes she looked down quickly and blushed.

As he knew why she was feeling the way she felt, he wasn't hurt.

He knew, her heart recognized him in spite of his disguise.

But she didn't knew it and it tore her apart and it hurt Harry, that it had to be this way.

As it was Saturday the students would got to Hogsmeade.

Harry scanned carefully the crowd of students in the Great Hall. He didn't think that anyone would try something with so many witnesses around but he wanted to be sure. His training as warlock kicked in automatically.

Some of the older Slytherins snickered again about Tonks and her bodyguards but a hard glance from Harry quieted them instantly. After the attack from Malfoy nobody dared to try anything at least until now.

He wondered how Tonks would react when he would show her his true self tomorrow. He was dreading the moment. He knew that she was going to be hurt but he hoped that she would understand the necessity.

"Jared?" asked Tonks.

He was driven out of his thoughts "Yes?"

"Is there really no chance, that we could go to Hogsmeade?" she asked with puppy dog eyes.

"No. We covered it already at least ten times during the last days." Jared answered annoyed.

"But maybe Harry is there and is waiting to meet me. He said he would be around." she whispered.

"Tonks, believe me, he is not in Hogsmeade."

"But how can you know it?" she pouted.

"He isn't and that is my last word!"

Rick snickered quietly behind his hand.

"Can we at least go outside?" Tonks asked dejectedly.

"Yes, we can take a walk outside but didn't you have to mark some tests today?" Jared answered. She sighed and nodded.

"You're right. I will do them first." she gave in.

In the afternoon they walked over the grounds of Hogwarts accompanied by Richard and Remus.

Moony was telling them about some of the adventures of the marauders as Richard stopped dead in his tracks with his eyes on Hogsmeade.

They could see smoke over the houses and flashes of light in the streets.

"We have to help!" Tonks yelled and drew her wand.

"That would put you in danger!" Richard said seriously.

"But… but we are capable fighters. We… we could help." she pleaded.

Both stared now questioningly at Jared.

"Harry wouldn't have hesitated to help his friends." she said pleadingly.

Jared sighed, he wanted to help too, "Shit! If something happens to you, Harry will have my head for it."

"Remus, you are going to alert Dumbledore about this! You can follow with them. We three will go. Tonks, if you leave my side for a second, I will kill you personally, is that clear?" Jared ordered.

She nodded sincerely.

"Good. Grab this branch, I will make a portkey to the shack."

The three disappeared a moment later and Moony ran to the office of the headmaster.

They reappeared before the shrieking shack with wands drawn and secured all sides instantly.

"Ok, we will go forward with Tonks between us. Keep dodging minimal because we cover for each other too. Shields are to use for protection, levitating or transfiguring for unblockable curses and… Rick, we both will be using our full arsenal."

"Yes Sir." Rick acknowledged the orders without hesitation. He had full confidence in Harry's abilities even as leader.

"Lets go in the direction of the Three Broomsticks. From there we will look for the Trio, they will be in the middle of the fight. If we find them, you are to protect them. I will keep an eye on Tonks." Harry added.

"Yes Sir."

They went cautiously to the middle of the town.

The first Deatheaters they met in the middle of the street after five minutes. There were six of them and the Deatheaters attacked them instantly.

The three blocked the curses without problems and Jared levitated a bench in front of a killing curse directed at Tonks.

Then they all retaliated. While Tonks was using stunners, Rick and Harry were using harmful or deadly dark magic freely.

From the six one was stunned by Tonks, one was hurt and unconscious by Jared and one by Rick, two were killed with choking curses from Jared and one was electrocuted by Rick.

Tonks looked unsure at them both, but she looked at faces made of stone and shuddered.

She realized they hadn't defeated the Deatheaters, the both Unspeakables had executed them.

"They must have two orders." Harry analyzed, "I imagine their main mission would be to capture you, Tonks. But I wouldn't put it past Voldemort to kill you just to hurt Harry."

"That seems to be so or this scum hadn't used the killing curse on me. That was already the case with Malfoy." Tonks answered with grim determination.

"Lets go on!" Jared commanded and they were fast in the middle of the battle.

"There is the target! GET HER!" a Deatheater screamed. And now the three of them were the target and the Deatheaters stopped hurting and torturing the students.

They saw, that at least some of the students were dead, mostly seventh years.

"No more mercy!" Jared ordered with an icy cold voice his eyes blazing with power.

Now they began firing curses freely and no one was harmless, they took care to avoid the students though. But areas where only Deatheaters stood were quickly covered with blasting and exploding curses which killed or incapitated Deatheater after Deatheater.

But they were still overwhelmed.

"Now we know it for sure That was a trap only to get you out, Tonks." Jared swore.

"I am sorry!" she answered with a guilty look.

"No, don't be! They would have hurt the students though. RICK! You will take care of the students and the Trio. We both will lure them away!" Jared ordered.

Rick nodded sadly, "Good luck!"

"Come, we retreat in direction of the Shack! The area is more open and at the shack while we have more cover. But we have to reach it first."

While he explained it to her and stepped back he levitated three times rubbish in front of at least harmful curses while Tonks continued to fire stunners.

They had killed or stunned at least thirty Deatheaters but that left at least fifty of them.

Their plan worked and nearly all of the Deatheaters followed the two of them.

They used now every chance for cover in the street and kept firing curses at the advancing Deatheaters.

Again Jared took five down with a powerful dark blasting curse.

Then he whirled around as he heard the crack of apparition.

He killed the three behind him instantly one with a skull crushing curse and two with his throwing knives.

"They try to surround us. We have to move faster."

They couldn't apparate, because they wanted that they follow them further away from the students.

Five minutes later they heard screaming from a house right from them.

Jared was firing curses and Tonks ran into the house. He heard a "Reducto!" and her screaming in pain as one of the Deatheaters in the house yelled "SHIT! NOBODY WITH POTKEYS NEARBY! WARDS UP!"

He knew instantly that that house was another trap and was now warded against apparition at least.

He jumped out of the way, as a whole bunch of killing curses came flying in his direction.

Two Deatheaters ran out of the house followed by stunning hexes from Tonks.

"At least she is still alive!" he muttered not allowing himself to feel any emotion, because he had to concentrate on the fight.

The two Deatheaters screamed: "We take plan two! Burn it! She can't move!"

"Damn!" Harry swore as an instant later the whole house was burning and he heard Tonks' screams and the laughter of the Deatheaters.

He concentrated for a moment and ran into the burning house right through the flames.

"You can't save her, bodyguard!" one yelled and laughed.

Harry looked after his girl and found her lying in the center of the room, the burning flames only inches away from her. He walked over unharmed from the flames and knelt down beside her. Her legs were broken. She stared at him unbelievingly with tears in her eyes.

He concentrated hard and pushed the flames around them away.

Then he examined her legs and straightened them out.

She screamed again and fainted.

He felt another ward going up as he mended her bones with a spell, tears of worry in his eyes now.

He knew, the flames couldn't harm them, but the falling debris could. They had to hurry but Tonks was passed out from the pain.

He could guess, that the second ward was against portkeys so that was no option. He had to carry her out. He lifted her on his arms and walked in direction of the backdoor.

He kicked it open and ran for the next cover. It was a good thing though, because curses hit the spot where he just was.

He laid her down on the ground and began to fight the again advancing Deatheaters.

He held his ground and defeated Deatheater after Deatheater but then one shot a killing curse at Tonks and he jumped down and rolled with her out of the way.

As they came to a stop, they both were hit with multiple stunners.

The last he saw was order members running to them, then all went black.

Rick and Harry's friends were running after Tonks and Jared as soon as they had subdued the Deatheaters before the Three Broomsticks and the Order arrived.

"Where is Tonks?" Dumbledore asked.

"This direction. They lured the whole bunch away, at least fifty." Rick said and ran.

They saw the house starting to burn, as they were two hundred meters away.

They also saw Jared running in and how the Deatheaters raised wards.

"She must be inside!" Hermione screamed and all ran faster.

They began to attack the Deatheaters, as they heard curses from behind the house.

They hurried to get there and arrived in time to see Jared going down next to an unconscious Tonks. As they ran to them a Deatheater with a rope jumped at them and all three vanished.

The remaining Deatheaters disapparated instantly.

Hermione and Ginny broke down sobbing.

"They … they have her."

"What happened?" Dumbledore asked somberly.

"It was a trap. They attacked the students only to lure Tonks out. They didn't hesitate to kill, but now that they have her alive, they will try to use her to get Harry." Rick explained.

"We have to find him!" Dumbledore said.

"It is not possible." Rick answered wearily.

"Are you not allowed to tell us where he is or do you mean that?" Dumbledore asked.

"I mean it. It is not possible. But we have a real chance now to end the war. She is likely to be taken to the headquarters of Voldemort. Thanks to Harry's charm we will know where it is now. I will inform the ministry and you can inform the order. Together we will start a full fledged attack and end it once and for all." Rick said determined.

"You are right. We have to plan it carefully though. We will gather all at Hogwarts?" Dumbledore said determined too.

"Yes, we will meet there as soon as possible."

"Why it is not possible to reach Harry?" Dumbledore asked.

Rick thought about it for a moment but then decided that the time for secrets was finally over. "Because, he is already there."

Dumbledore, Remus and Harry's friends looked shocked.

"You mean… you… JARED?" Dumbledore stammered.

Rick only smiled, "Yes, he is already a full trained Warlock!"

Dumbledore already had the information that they were Warlocks because as that they were introduced in the order from the ministry that Dumbledore got the day they arrived in Hogwarts. He also knew that Harry had planned to tell his friends about his education once it was finished. As he was going to be independent it was his secret to keep or to tell not one of the ministry. But Rick also knew that he would not tell it to any other person.

'Thumb!' Dumbledore fainted.

His friends looked, like they would join him soon.

"Tonks will have his head for that!" Ginny said grinning after a minute of shock.

Remus nodded, "And I will get what she left of him."

"Now. Now. It was his last test. He had to stay two weeks undercover as her bodyguard. If you ask me, that is punishment enough. What you all do not know is, that while he was away a week for you, he trained three years with me. How I can not reveal. Now think about how he felt these three years and how much he missed her. And now these two weeks! Now tell me again that you want to berate him."

They looked ashamed at this.

"Now we have a battle to plan. Would somebody revive the headmaster? But no word about this all! That all is confidential information and I only told you because I know Harry wanted to share this secret with you."

They nodded and Hermione revived the headmaster and then they started to gather their forces.

Schoggi: Die Sache mit dem AK sollte in diesem Kapitel erklärt worden sein ;-)

Daly: Du hast recht ;-) Ich verwende oft chuckling aber was soll ich tun? Sie verhalten sich nun mal so und mir fielen keine anderen Worte ein lachtÜ Aber ich versuch es für die letzten Kaps zu ändern.

banudan: You can write your reviews in German if you like. Makes it easier to read them ;-). There are already some readers who do that.

q3tog4: You're right about that. That sounded already bad as I wrote it. laughing But for the hell of it, I got not around it to formulate it in a better way I trust you understood the intended meaning though.

uten: ducking and hiding You may have a point regarding to the duels in the Room of Requierement. I wrote my opinion already in the last chap, at least if I remember correctly, so I won't go into further discussion ;-) As for your question, I answered it in the AN at the beginning of this chap.

courteany: Well, that is my opinion for Dumbledore at least for this story. But IMHO Harry isn't mean, only confident and protecting his loved one and his friends. But that may every one decide for himself. I hope you are going to read the last chaps despite of my mean Harry and manipulative Dumbledore.