Chapter 15 – The Beginning of The End

Something flapped over Artemis's shoulder.

The next thing he heard, someone shouting "Fawkes!" and he spun around.

Harry was caressing a majestic bird slowly and he was really happy about it. Soon he was not.

"Why did Dumbledore send us out of there if there was going to be chaos?"

"Huh?" all of them asked, bewildered.

"The Death Eaters have taken control of Hogwarts. They are fighting, but not enough wizards there to control the 32 of them."

"32?"cried Ron. "What bloody help are we going to give them? It's useless!"

"We just have to get there."

"How?"

"No Appration, no Portkey, what to do?"

"Car." Piped up Artemis.

"Car?" asked all of them.

"Butler. Car. Get Butler to drive an enchanted car."

"Sure," said Ron, "like we did in our second year. Get real, Artemis, this is impossible."

"Where is Butler anyway?" asked Harry.

"In fact, he's still at the Burrow."

"WHAT?"

"Thank you very much for your help. I really appreciate it."

Saying this, Butler began to walk out of the house, when a crack brought his attention back to the house.

"Butler! Don't go!"

"Here we go. It's Wingardium Leviosa. We need to do it now."

"On the count of three, one, two, three!" "Wingardium Leviosa!"

The Rolls-Royce floated up into the air. It was funny to see such a majestic car floating above the pavement.

"It's not going to work. You need someone to levitate it from below. Deactivate it. Lumbardia."

The car slowly went to the ground. "Try Levitra. It should work." Said Malfoy.

"Levitra." It worked.

"Let's get to business. Time to go. The war has begun." Harry spoke these last words as the car revved away.

Hogwarts castle was in utter chaos. Spells floating astray, injured wizards and Death Eaters were lying everywhere.

McGonagall and Snape were teaming up against Lucius and McNair. It was a close fight.

"Expelliarmous!" The spell blasted Snape off his back.

"Impedimenta!" yelled Professor McGonagall. It was supposed to work, but it bounced off the mirror and spiraled back to Minerva McGonagall, who ducked. Then the doors banged open for the second time.

The boys were back.

Harry and his gang stormed into the Great Hall. All the Death Eaters tried to close in on them, but to no avail. He blasted them off with a powerful curse. "That wasn't so tough, was it?"

They came in lines, with their wands raised.

"That wasn't so tough, was it?" Holly muttered, her Neutrino level to full, as she called Retrieval for backup.

She pumped a couple of blasts into the approaching Lucius Malfoy and McNair, who were incidentally attacking a helpless McGonagall. Snape got up slowly, unable to know which force had conjured this blue stream of light.

"We have to unshield! NOW!" Root and Holly did so immediately.

The silence followed.

"Who are they?" queried Voldemort, utterly shocked.

"Who are they?" asked Dumbledore, equally baffled.

"We are the fairies from Haven belowground," Holly said, fully knowing it sounded stupid. "We mean no harm."

"They're with us," said Harry for the first time.

Dumbledore spun.

"Why did you come back?" he pleaded.

"Your bird called us back. It felt we were the most reliable people. And to you all there," he gestured to the Death Eaters, "The wizards are headed here very quickly. So watch it or beat it." He sounded very much macho.

Voldemort's slits were getting even smaller. If one could burn holes through their eyes, he was surely destroying Harry.

"Potter, Potter, Potter, we aren't here to fight."

Both Harry and Holly raised their eyebrows.

"We are here to destroy."

With that, he turned to the platform.

"Oh Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four!

Did not one of your partners disagree with you?

Who disagrees with the greatest?

Whoever does does not live to tell the tale."

A great rumbling shattered the silence in the castle. Something big had just happened.

Without warning, Professor Flitwick ran for his life out of Gryffindor tower.

Two words were enough for the impact.

"It collapsed."

"Oh Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four!

They say the raven is always cunning.

Was your raven cunning, oh great one?

They ought to be shot."

The rumbling happened again. This time everyone knew what it was.

Ravenclaw Tower had just collapsed.

"Oh Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four!

Was it difficult to decide to leave?

Did the last object or accept?

She accepted, did she not?

She got what she got."

This time, there was no rumbling. Instead, something spectacular happened.