Chapter 17: The Ending of The Wizard Era

Author's Notes: I have realized that this story has gone way too long without going much of anywhere and after almost two years of writing it I have been finding it increasingly more difficult to keep adding to this particular story. For those of you who actually have read it I am NOT abandoning this story, I am simply splitting it in two. The title makes not a whole lot of sense in context with the story and this sucker would continue well past the thirtieth chapter, which is further then I want to go with any single fan fiction. With that in mind I will be ending this story with Elanus and Samuel's departure from Hogwarts, and I will start a new one beginning with their hunt for the children. It will likely not include many 'canon' characters if any, although I may offer glimpses into what the wizard world is doing at the time. So I guess you could say it will be original fiction set in the "Harry Potter Universe" and really it'll be set in my take of that universe. Hopefully it'll be posted soon, I have my calendar set for about May 1st, but I hope to get a few chapters done well before that.

The chaos of the evacuation subsided after a few hours and soon the only students that were left were a few muggle borns being herded towards Hogsmeade.

Samuel and Elanus sat on a large crate outside the castle grounds. Samuel's fingers drifted over his guitar, the notes were faint as the guitar was not plugged in to anything. Gene, Maria, James, and Harry walked up and quietly waited for Samuel to finish playing. Maria smiled at her husband as he sadly put his guitar inside its case.

Maria took Samuel off from the crates a few yards and Gene turned to Elanus.

"I know, I hate to take him away from her too," Elanus said as if responding to his uncle's thoughts, "But I need him," he sighed, "Both of us may not come back."

"We have said our goodbyes, we are prepared if it should come to that," Gene said, "Do not hold back for our sake."

James nodded in agreement, "Come back with your shield, or on it. Either way we'll see each other again when we get home."

Elanus nodded, "And the two lovebirds?"

"The 'lovebirds' will be fine," Maria replied, "We will be together again, one way or another."

"You know as impossible as you say the odds are, I don't really plan on dying yet," Samuel said, "Mark my words, in a few months I'll be back here ready to teach more fledgling wizards about muggles."

Samuel could hardly know the hardship he and his cousin would be facing in the weeks to come. The only constant in his life would be sleeping during the day, and the struggle to keep himself and Elanus alive at night. They were the hunters, and the hunted and would become the hunters again in the days following.

Could this cabal of child stealing vampires be what Voldemort meant by, "Something out there worse then him"?