Chapter 3: What is Going On?

After telling his friends that they knew what to do, Harry yelled out to the members of Dumbledore's Army. "DA, you all know that you have a protective shield that won't let any spells hit you. You also know where your positions are, so lets make sure that the only one that will be dying tonight is Voldemort. Headmaster, do you want the rest of the students to stay in the Great Hall or to go somewhere else?"

Harry smirked at his friends in amusement as they watched Dumbledore sputter. He finally said, "If this is the only place that they can be…"

Harry replied, "No, I can open up the Chamber of Secrets. They will be the safest there. No one else can get into it." He turned to the others when Fawkes came flying in, holding Godric Gryffindor's sword and the sorting hat. Harry thanked Fawkes after he took the hat and sword. The rest of the school watched in amazement as he said, "Ron, you will be wielding Godric's sword. Hermione, you will be using Rowena's. Danielle, you get Helga's and Ginny, you get to use Salazar's." He said this as he pulled out the other swords and handed them to his friends. He pulled one more out and said, "And I will be using Merlin's."

The rest of the students stared in shock as the DA members left the room to get into position, than before they could say anything, they were orbed out of the room and into the Chamber. The staff was also staring at them and as they started to protest, Harry said, "We don't have time to argue. Any of the questions that you want to ask will have to wait until later. You can help fight, but unlike the DA, we can't give you a protective shield. I do promise you that if you stay here, than the only one that will die today will be Tom Marvolo Riddle."

With that, they turned and left the room. The staff stayed where they were, and watched the battle start. The students in the Chamber were also doing the same. They watched as the five teens school robes turned into the battle robes that belonged to the owners of the swords. Ginny brought down Salazar's sword on Lucius Malfoy in order to get him out of the way. All around them, the hexes and spells that were flying allowed them to plough through the rest of the death eaters.

Ron was the one who struck first. They each slashed Voldemort and got closer to him, even though he tried to kill them. He was caught by surprise when all five of them struck him at once and at the same time Harry started to chant.

Returnus Destructus Soulus

Desrtuctus the Spiritus

Destroyus the Bodyus

Voldemort screamed as he felt his body, soul and spirit being destroyed. The five friends waited until they were sure that he was dead, than turned to help capture the other Death Eaters. Harry smirked when he picked up a small rat that had a silver paw, that had been trying to run away. "You're not going anywhere Pettigrew," he said. After all of the Death Eaters had been caught and bound, the five of them signalled to the DA that they could all go back to the Great Hall. As Harry was walking, he orbed the other students from the Chamber into the Great Hall. By this time the rest of the Weasley family had gotten there and they were about to start asking questions.

The five of them sat down at the Gryffindor table as Dumbledore stood up. Harry said, "Before, I told you that you would get your chance to ask questions, but you need to think really carefully about what you want to know. You also have to continue with the parenting potion for the students that you have not got around to just yet."

Dumbledore sighed, "Then I will start with the parenting potion. Which means that you will have to come back up here to see your parents names form."

Harry stifled his groan of annoyance and quickly walked up to the Head Table. His blood had already been taken, so Dumbledore just spilled the blood into the potion. Harry had a blank look on his face as his parents names started to form. Dumbledore gasped in shock as the names Lily Potter and Severus Snape showed up. He quickly looked between Harry and his Potions Master in surprise and turned to Harry.

He was surprised at the blank look on Harry's face, he had thought that at this revelation he would be yelling in anger. The house heads stood up and as they were walking over to Dumbledore, Harry turned and went back to sit with his friends. The five professors didn't notice that he was gone until they looked up to see his reaction. Severus had paled quite a bit as he sat back down, but he didn't know what to think. Dumbledore looked at the five friends and sighed in exasperation.

"I think that it is time for you to explain what is going on. Mr. Potter, you don't seem to be surprised about this interesting fact."

Severus said, "Why don't you say what has been revealed? It seems as if this will be the only way to get a straight answer out of him, Albus."

Danielle grinned as Harry hit his head against the table a few times in annoyance. The rest of the students snickered even though they were confused about what was going on. Harry looked at Dane, Mia and Ron to see how much they should and could reveal. The other three nodded at him and he shrugged. He turned to the Head Table and raised his eyebrow, waiting for the questions to start pouring in.

Albus asked, "Why did you not look surprised and even angry that the potion revealed that Professor Snape is your father?"

"Does it really matter if he is my father? It doesn't change who I am."

"Come on, Harry. You are going to end up explaining everything to them anyways, so why are you responding like this?" Dane asked.

He smirked at her impatience. When Dumbledore cleared his throat to stop all of the whispering that the other students were doing, he looked at Harry and asked, "How long have you known?"

Harry lowered his head. "I was supposed to find out when I was 15. The charms that had been placed on me were also supposed to start fading when I found out."

Before he could continue, Severus said, "So the potion had to be wrong. You still look exactly like your father. There is no way that you could be my son."

Harry went to snap at the man, but his friends quickly calmed him down. Danielle took over, "What Harry was trying to say is that he didn't find out in fifth year, he found out earlier. When Harry, Hermione, Ron and myself were in first year, Mia and I found a journal that had the name Lily Evans written on it. Hermione read it and than she told us what it contained. When she did, we made the decision to keep this a secret for as long as possible."

Harry sighed, "I had decided that I would keep this a secret until I turned 15, but when Voldemort was brought back, I knew that none of us could tell anyone until Voldemort was truly dead, with no way to return. I know that I look like James and there is a reason for that. A part of the journal talked about the charms that she placed on me to look like James. When we first found out, the charms would have completely fallen in about 6 weeks."

As he trailed off Ron took up the story, "We found a way to get the charms to stay on, but the charms that we used could be taken down at any time with a sort of password. Harry chose to use the word 'Father' to keep up the appearance of James Potter and the word 'Family' to take the charms down so that he would look like he truly should."

As he was saying this Harry had taken out a chain from around his neck and muttered 'Family'. Everyone gasped as they saw what he looked like. Harry's hair had grown to below his shoulders, his face had thinned, his height looked to be around 6'2 and he looked to be more aristocratic. His friends started laughing at everyone else's reaction. He scowled at his friends which caused them to start laughing even more. Dumbledore and the rest of the teachers started in surprise at seeing Harry scowl just like his father.

Mr. Weasley asked, "Can any of you explain how you managed to defeat the Dark Lord so easily? And why you were able use the swords and were wearing the battle robes?"

Dane said, "Ever since our second year, Harry, Mia, Ron and I have been training. We had cast a spell this year, so we ended up teaching Ginny how to fight as well."

Severus looked at them, "And what, pray tell, was this spell that you had used?"

Harry smirked, "It was a spell to take away the powers that Voldemort had received from Salazar. And before you ask, contrary to popular belief, Riddle wasn't Salazar's heir, but his magical heir. We cast the spell and Ginny became the magical heir."

"Is there any other secrets that you would like to share with us sometime soon?" Albus asked.

Before anyone could answer, one of the Weasley twins spoke up, "So that is what the four of you were talking about when you were picking your courses in your second year."