Twin Power
Chapter Thirteen: Attack on Hogsmeade
School had been back in session for about three days when it happened. The students were sitting down to lunch, when an alarm went off, and the headmaster's head went straight up. "Student's classes are canceled for the rest of the day. Please head to your dorms immediately, the house elves will bring food up to you. Teachers and friends please come with me. Seventh and sixth years, you are in charge of helping to protect the school. Prefects, Head Boy, Head Girl, please make sure that the students are in their dorms, and do patrols to make sure that none get out, except sixth and seventh years. Thank you, now if you would in an orderly manner." As the students were herded out of the great hall towards their dorms, Harry gathered the upper class students, teachers and the other adults that were staying at the school. "Ok here is what is going on. There is a attack on Hogsmeade going on right now. I need five teachers to stay here to help the students with the protections, and also to get some volunteers to watch the little ones. Sixth an seventh years, you are to help the teachers that are here protect the students and the castle. The rest of you are to come with me, and help the Auror's that are already there against the enemy. If I remember right from the note I got, Lucious will be there, I won't let him get away this time. Ginny, this is the hardest thing that I am going to have to ask you to do, but for the children's sake, I'm going to ask you to stay here to help guard the castle. One of us needs to do it, and I need to take out Malfoy." He looked into Ginny's eyes with hope that she would understand. What he saw there made his heart leap, he saw that she understood. "Thank you Ginny, I'm going to put you in charge here to help out. I want you, Professor's Sprout, Flitwick, Trelawney and," this time looking over at his sister-in-law, "Hermoine to stay here to help out. The rest of us will go and help in the village. Before you argue Hermoine, I picked you to stay here instead of Ron, because I want Ron up in the air to help out from the sky, and you don't like flying on the broom." He gave her one of his winning smiles hoping that she would understand.
Both the women looked at Harry with worry on their faces, but nodded. "Don't you dare go and die on me now Harry. Our children need their father as much as they need their mother. Take out Malfoy, and let the others handle his goons. You to Ron, don't go and do anything foolish while your out there." She gave her brother a hug, and then gave Harry a deep kiss letting her love and strength flow through her into him for the upcoming battle.
Hermoine looked like she might want to argue, but then thought about what Harry said, and it made sense. "Ok Harry, I will do as you say. The school won't fall, we will guard it with our lives. If it looks like Malfoy is about to get through to take the school, we will get everyone out of here, and then destroy the school. There are plans on how to do that in an emergency." She gave her Brother-in-law a big hug, and then gave Ron a kiss and whispered into his ear, "you better come back in one piece Ron, we don't want our unborn child to not know their father do we?" She kissed and hugged him again and went off with the said teachers and students to protect the school.
Harry had heard what Hermoine had said to Ron and he looked at him. "Do you want to stay here and help mate? I would understand if you do, I can get one of the professors that I had assigned to protect the school to come with me instead." He looked at him with questioning eyes.
Ron looked at his best mate and just shook his head. "I'm with you all the way mate, Hermoine wouldn't want it any other way. Shouldn't we be going, don't want the Aurors to have all the fun now do we?" He gave Harry one of his lopsided grins, and the group left the hall on their way down to the village.
Halfway down to the village, they met up with about 30 death eaters, and were having a running battle. Their group was soon joined by 20 Aurors and 10 hit wizards. They soon decimated the 30 death eaters that were in their way, but they lost a couple of friends along the way. Moody fell to a misfired curse shot by one of the death eaters that was blocked. Shacklebot and Tonks were taken down by bone breaking curses that shattered there leg, and they were lost for the battle. A couple of the hit wizards took the killing curse that were shot at Harry to save his life, and he was grateful, sad but grateful. He would mourn the losses later. The rest of the death eaters were captured or killed easily. By the time that they were done with the battle with those thirty death eaters, they were down to 17 Aurors and 8 hit wizards, luckily none of the staff or others were taken out. They had around 35 people heading into town at the time, and they were only now facing the inner circle of Malfoy's group.
Harry broke off from the group and approached Malfoy. "Face me traitor. You are going to go down tonight. I have lost to many friends to you and your wannabe's. I challenge you to a Wizard's Duel to the Death. Do you accept?"
The elder Malfoy turned toward's Harry and laughed. "Do I accept, of course I do you little miscreant. Don't you think that I will be as easy as my master was. What are you offering up when I win?"
"If you win, you can get by the rest of us here. But when I win, the rest of your cronies surrender and face the consequences."
"Deal, I hope that your little castle can withstand my forces when I win." Lucious was laughing maniacally when he said this.
Harry could tell that the elder Malfoy had lost his marbles completely, and that he was going to have to take this seriously, or end it quickly. He cast his most powerful shield charm, and started chanting. As the curses started coming his way, the wall started to crumble, he was praying that it would hold out for a few more minutes while he got this spell ready. Just as he was starting to fire the spell, one curse got through to him. He got the spell off just in time before a nasty cutting curse hit him. He looked down at his body to see blood pooling up on his shirt, while he watched Lucious melt away like the wicked witch from the wizard of oz. "I got you Lucious, I won." With this last thing said, Harry passed out from loss of blood.
A/N: Ok I hope that you liked that little bit of battle. I'm sorry if I'm not a battle writer. There will be more angst in this story later on in the story, but that will be the last of it for a couple of chapters. No Harry isn't going to die, I don't kill off Harry in my stories when he's young. Please read and review as always. Donald
