Chapter 13 : All Out War
For a moment, everyone gaped at the four founders who were very much alive right in front of them. Only Severus was grinning like a maniac at them. James's fears were confirmed and his brother had gone completely crazy. Nevertheless, the four greatest witches and wizards ever were standing in front of them ready to join their army.
"Whoa." Harry and Paige whispered together.
Erica and Sarah chose that moment to run out to see what was going on.
"What's going on?" Erica asked running up to her father. "Who are they?"
"Godric Gryffindor."
"Helga Huffelpuff."
"Salazar Slytherin."
"Rowena Ravenclaw."
"Yeah..right." Sarah said. "Realy, who are you?"
"They're telling the truth." David told her.
Sarah looked at him suspiciously. "And why is he here?"
"Shhh..." Lily said. "They are very much alive. Your uncle ressurected them."
"Uncle?" Sarah asked. "What uncle?"
Lily pointed to Severus and Sarah shreiked. Lily shushed her again and they all whached as Godric, Salazar, Helga, Rowena, James, and Severus began discussing plans. They finaly decided to take it inside the castle. Lily, Harry, Paige, Sarah, David, and Erica went to follow them.
"No." James said. "Stay here."
"WHAT?" Harry shreiked. "I have to."
"You do not." James said. "He wants to kill you and as your father I wont let that happen!"
"You have to let me go!" Harry insisted. "It was all apart of Trelawny's prediction. In the end I have to kill him or he has to kill me! There is no other way!"
"Than neither of you will die!" James said.
"At risk that everyone else will?" Harry asked. "You are willing to let the world die just so I can live? Guess what, I would not want to live in that world! I am going to fight whether it is with you or not!"
"He's got your stubbornness, James." Lily said softly with a weak smile.
James lookeed back at the castle. He apparently saw someone there, because he said, "I want you to whach him. Make sure he doesn't go anywhere."
Lupin walked out.
"Okay, James." Lupin said. "Come, Harry."
"NO!" Harry shouted. He turned around and ran off.
"HARRY, GET BACK HERE!" James shouted after him.
"He isn't going to listen. Let him go." Lily said.
"I wont! I'm not-" James began.
"Let's just go." Severus said. "We have buissness to do. I don't think Harry will find him before we do."
"How do you know?" James asked.
"Because he's in the castle."
HOGWARTS
Voldemort sat in the Great Hall with his army. The students were in bed, all asleep.
"We need more." Voldemort decided.
"M-more, m-my lord?" one fightened man asked.
"Yes, more, Andy." Voldemort said. "We should use the students."
"Wh-which students?" Andy asked.
"The Slytherins." Voldemort replied. "They will make a great army. And the Huffelpuffs, they'll be easy to manipulate."
"Th-that is a g-good plan, m-my lord." Andy said bowing.
"Yes, I know." Voldemort said. "It was, after all, my plan."
The Death Eaters began discussing how they would do it and Voldemort listened, apparently amused. He though their plans were silly and useless, yet he said nothing. Narcissa stood by his side looking at him with shock and fear. She wondered whether her new husband would actually put their stupidity into use.
"SILENCE!" Voldemort shouted. everyone shut up immediatly. "We will do this my way: we wake up the Slytherins and bring them down here. They, being Slytherins, will join us. We get them to bring in the Huffelpuffs. They can choose to join or die."
"That is a great plan, baby." Narcissa said. She kissed her husband on his head and commanded the army, "GO! NOW!"
They filed out and headed to the Slytherin dungeons. Around that time, Godric and Rowena were waking up the Gryffindore planning the same thing, only without using threats. The Gryffindors immediatly filed out in their pajamas, ready for a battle plan. Seamus and Dean volunteered to go get the Ravenclaws up. Voldemort's Army used the Great Hall to plan action. The Founder's Army used the Room of Requirment (which grew to fir them all comfortalbly) to plan their action. James and Severus whached as the founders created plans and the students listened intently. They were brave and strong and ready to fight. And they were proud. Meanwhile, every Slytherin and Huffelpuff was listening to Voldemort's plan, frightened.
Around midnight, Harry entered the Room of Requirment with Lily. James and Severus didn't notice it at first. Not until Godric said, "...and Harry, would you like to lead us there?"
All eyes turned to focus on Harry who was decked out in war cloths and had weapons hidden in various places. He had lost his glasses (which would only get broken) and replaced them with contact lenses. James and Severus stared at him. James walked over to him.
"I told you not to come." he muttered.
"He has to fight." Lily said.
"I am his father!" James said.
"And I am his mother.' Lily snapped. "I was in labor for three days with those twins and it was ALL-YOUR-FAULT!"
"How was it my fault?" James asked.
"I DIDNT GET MYSELF PREGNANT YOU MORON!" Lily shouted. "NOW, IF MY SON WANTS TO FIGHT, GODDAMMIT HE WILL!"
Lily marched Harry up to Godric, Rowena, Helga, and Salazar and said, "Well, what now?"
"We wait." Godric said.
The next day was all out war. No teacher had any idea of what was going on. Potions (which had a substitute) was horrible. The Gryffindors and Slytherins were very all too literally at eachother's throats. Harry had even managed to get Draco to pass out at lack of oxegen. No one realy cared what happened to anyone was long as they won the battle. DADA with Hufelpuffs and Ravenclaws was no better. After a few verbal attacks, one Ravenclaw pounced on a Huffelpuff and it was definetly war.
Then Care of Magical Creatures rolled around. McGonagall was chasing her Ravenclaw/Huffelpuff class as they marched outside to meet the Gruffindor/Slytherin class. The Ravenclaws joined the Gryffindors and the Huffelpuffs joined the Slytherins. McGonagall and the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher, Professor Tubbly, whached helplessly. Harry was the leader of the Founder's Army and Draco was the lead of Voldemort's Army.
"Ready to die?" Draco asked.
"I'd like to see you try." Harry said grining mischeviously. He knew something that he did not plan on telling anyone. Wands were raised. Each side had pained their faces either red and blue or green and yellow. They were on opposite sides of a black line that had been pained all the way down the middle of Hogwarts's grounds. Each side expecting to win, they charged.
"STOP!STOP!STOP THIS SECOND!" Minerva McGonagal shouted. "I WILL GIVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU A DETENTION!"
No one seemed to hear her. They went right a long shouting spells, curses, jinxes, and hexes at one another. Some of the Slytherins managed to learn some things from the Dark Lord. They planned to kill Harry for him.
"Avada Kedavra!" Draco whispered to his wand which was pointed to Harry. Some other people had also made Harry the target of their curse. Flashes of green and blue light shot toward Harry who was listed off his feet and thrown to the ground. Paige and Seamus ran over to Harry and got him off the battle feild, dragging him over to Professor McGonagal. Paige was in tears and Seamus had gone very white. The battle of the sixth years raged on.
"GET MADAM POMFREY OUT HERE!" McGonagal shouted to James who had stuck his head out of the window. "NOW! HARRY IS DOWN! HIT BY AN UNFORGIVEABLE! THEY WONT TELL ME WHICH-"
Minerva didn't need to finish the sentence. Once James hear "unforgivable" he had run off to fetch Madam Pomprey. Together they ran out onto the feild. Many students were down and it was hard to tell who was winning. Flashes of light were going every which way and hitting random people. They had long since stopped targeting and just started shooting out spells and praying for the best.
Madam Pomfrey dropped to her knees at Harry's side. She listed up his wrist to check for a pulse. Then she asked, "What curse was he hit by?"
"Uh...Cruciatus..." Seamus said.
"...Stophrey..." (A/N made that up)
"...Avada Kedavra..."
"And he's alive?" Madam Pomfrey asked shocked. "Damn, he is a luck, luck boy. Not dead yet."
"YET?" Paige shreiked. "YET? You make it seem like he's going to die!"
"He may." Madam Pomfrey said. "Those were three powerful curses. Two were Unforgivables. One was the killing curse. So I am very suprised he didn't die right away." She peered into Harry's face mournfuly and prayed for the best.
HARRY'S MIND- THE NIGHTMARE ROOM
Harry opened to eyes to find himself back in the Nightmare Room. Klyde was sitting right in front of him. Behind Klyde were two people: Death (decked out in black) and a very pretty young woman (all in white)
"Nice to see ya back, buddy." Klyde said. "Almost die again?"
"Yeah." Harry replied, eyeing the two guests.
"I'm ba-ack." Death sang in a horrible, cold voice.
"I'm here now." the woman said. "I'm an angel...Life."
"Oh...wow." Harry mumbled. "So...what, I'm half dead? Unconcious?"
"Unconcious." Life told him. "Hit by three powerful curses..."
"Cruciatus, Stophrey, and Avada Kedavra..." Death said. "Lucky for you, Life tagged along."
"It is not his time." Life insisted. "Only the Dark Lord can kill him. You know that. And if you take him with you...our boss will not be happy."
"God?" Harry asked.
"No, Hitler." Death said sarcasticaly. "Of course, God, you moron! Who else to angels work for?"
"Your an angel?" Harry asked raising an eyebrow.
"Just shut up." Death said. 'You will be allowed to go back. Just wait three minutes so Poppy can-"
But Life didn't let Death finish. She hurriedly brought Harry back to conciousness. The first face he saw was Paige's tearful one. Then he saw James, Seamus, Pomfrey, McGonagal, and Tubbly. At last, his eyes wondered over to the battle taking place merely yards away.
"Thank goodness!" Madam Pormfrey exclaimed. "That potion would've left you very weak, Mr.Potter."
"I gotta go back." Harry said getting up. His father's strong hand on his shoulder pushed him back down.
"No! You were almost killed!" James shouted.
"They..." - Harry jerked his thumb over to Voldemort's Army- "can't kill me. If I'm destined to die, Voldemort is destined to kill me. They can't."
"That's right!" Paige said. "Lord Voldemort told me the prophecy years ago. 'Neither can live while the other survives...' Does that mean one of you is dead?"
"I guess he's like a zombie!" Seamus said excitedly.
"No." Harry said so quietly only Paige, who was listening intently, heard him. "Neither of us is dead but neither of us is realy alive."
"So it's kinda half and half?" Paige asked.
"I'd guess." Harry replied.
Harry, Paige, and Seamus whached the battle with everyone else. Harry was too weak to go back out just yet and Paige and Seamus offered him company.
Half the Slytherins were up, one Huffelpuff was up. Only a few Gryffindors were out, but all of the Ravenclaws were. The battle was still raging on like a storm. The sky had turned dark gray, but no rain fell. Only thunder was heard in the distance. Flashes of light lit up the sky. Many more soldiers fell.
Draco, Blaise, Crabbe, and Zeke (the Huffelpuff) stood at the end. Harry, Paige, Seamus, and Parvati stood on the Gryffindor/Ravenclaw side (though Paige was in Slytherin)
"Ready to go down?" Draco asked loudly.
"Not quite." Harry replied raising his wand. " 'Cause I'm not goin' down tonight, Malfoy."
"Bring-it-on." Paige whispered.
"Crucio!"
"Stophrey!"
"Avada Kedavra!"
"Crucio!"
The teachers whached helplessly as the last of the sixth years fought. It was at that time that the school doors burst open and Godric, Rowena, Salazar, and Helga walked out. McGonagal, Tubbly, and Pomfrey stared shocked at them, for they had not seen them ressurected.
"STOP FIGHTING NOW!" Godric shouted.
The eight fighters stopped and turned to face the four founders.
"Get back to your leaders." Salazar commanded. "NOW! No trouble, go on!"
They all went back into the castle. The founders got everyone else up and back in the castle. Using the students was going no good for the founders or Voldemort. They were destroying eachother's armies, but hadn't yet hit their targets.
All the teachers who weren't informed of anything were send away into Hogsmeade. Everyone else went back to where they had had their meetings.
FOUNDER'S ARMY
Godric Gryffundor was pacing in front of the student soldiers. Salazar stood by him, Rowena and Helga were by the door.
"We should not have used you. You are far to young to be fighting. If you want to fight, come and see me after this meeting. But only if you are at least a sixth year. I don't want anyone too young to be killed. But it is your choice. We can't loose the innocents Lord Voldemort wants dead. Then we would be doing his job for him. We don't wand that. We want him dead. You may leave. Stay if you are sixth year or older and would like to join." Godric said.
More than three fourths of the students lead. Harry, Paige, Seamus, Parvati, Cho Chang, and a few other Ravenclaws stayed. The other people in the room were adults : Godric, Rowena, Helga, Salazar, Severus, James, Lily, and Petunia.
"Wow." Godric muttered. It was a veryu small army. "It-it will do."
"We can try and find others." Lily said reassuringly.
"Who would join?" Salazar snapped. He was frustated.
"We could make a fith year exception." James offered. "Let Sarah and David in."
Harry glared at his father. He got so worked up over Harry (who was the strongested student in the castle) joining, but was volonteering Sarah and David. Something was not quite right.
Paige seemed to be the only other who caught this.
Godric sighed. "Go fetch them. See if any other fith yearsc will join."
That seemed to help. Along with Sarah and David came a brave Huffelpuff sixth year, Ginny, Luna Lovegood, and two other Ravenclaws (Marc and Xavior) Lily had also managed to get in contact with Fre and George and the Order members.
"This is better." Helga said brightly. It wasn't near enough close to Voldemort's Army, but it was better than when they had started.
"Alright..." Godric said.
VOLDEMORT'S ARMY
Voldemort sat at the teacher's table in Dumbldore's spot in the Great Hall. He was drumming his fingers on the table and Narcissa was giving him a massage. David and a Huffelpuff were missing. As was Draco. Voldemort suposed he had gone to kidnap Harry with them. He didn't worry much...
"He need to kill him." Voldemort muttered.
"Who, darling?" Narcissa asked.
"James Potter." Voldemort replied.
No one heard this. They were all discussing their own plans.
"...We can hit him with those three curses like before, only more people can use them!"
"YEAH!"
"Or, we can kidnap Paige and lure him to us. He'd save her."
"YEAH!"
"Or we can get his parents. Now that he's got 'em he wont wanna loose 'em!"
"YEAH!"
Narcissa whached amused as she continued rubbing her husband's shoulders. "Funny, aren't they?"
"If funny means stupid, idiotic, useless, and crazy then yes." voldemort said. "I never liked children."
"Realy?" Narcissa asked. "You've got two daughters. Two grandchildren. One dead grandson. That's five."
"Why do you think I put Lily and Petunia up for adoption?" Voldemort asked.
"Oh..." Narcissa said. "Well, what do we do now?"
Voldemort grinned. "I have an idea."
"What?" Narcissa asked eagerly.
"We first ditch the kids."
"WHAT?"
"The useless ones." Voldemort said. "With help from our inside spy, we can get the kids to tear this joint apart...Probably eachother too. More deat, the better. Anyway, we can do our job in the graveyard."
"Always in the graveyard?" Narcissa moaned.
"Don't worry, my queen, it will all be over soon. Very very soon." Voldemort assured her.
I sure hope so. Narcissa thought.
THE NEXT DAY
Voldemort's plan was put into action. The next day, Voldemort's Army and the Founder's Army left the castle. Those left behind were left tearing the castle apart and attacking eachother. The teachers were back and in the middle of it all.
All out war.
The two armies met at the graveyard. Each on one side of a white line, like at the student's battle. This time the mood was very serious. Hearts were pounding wildly. Thoughts and fears swarmed through each and every person. Regrets were begining to come up more than ever. But there was no turning back. It was the time. The war was ready to begin. They had to leave everything behind them. There was only this one painful moment when everyone was too caught up to start anything. They glared at eachother for the longest time. At last, when ever thought and emotion and fears and regrets had left Voldemort and Harry to peace, the white line dissappeared.
It was time.
The war had begun.
END of Chapter 13
Wa-la! This is getting very exciting! The first part is almost over and I have something very interesting comming at it's end. Please read and reveiw PLEASE!
Chapter 14 : A War For Life
The final chapter! The war has begun! A war for life. The lives Harry wants to save and Voldemort wants to take. Who is Voldemort's spy? What happens when he tries to take over Voldemort's Army. Read to find out. The last chapter of part one. Chapter 14 : A War For Life.
