A/N: Thank you to all those that have been reviewing. Please continue. Mostly everybody has said they like the chapter length as it is so for now it will stay a little long. I'm open to suggestions to the story so please R/R.

Disclaimer: I wish I could be as good as JK Rowling but I'm not. This is her stuff and not to mention the influence that this story took from various fanfics.

Chapter 3

Attack at Privet Drive

Harry reappeared in the middle of his bedroom. After thanking Fawkes for the trip and patting his feathers, Fawkes took off in a ball of flames to join Professor Dumbledore. Harry was sitting by his window thinking, 'I wonder why they attacked Diagon Alley in the middle of the day? Maybe it was a diversion. This is the first moment in a very long time that there is nobody to stand guard.'

Harry got up and walked over to his desk. He decided to write a letter just in case something happened because if something was to happen than there wouldn't be time to write a letter. A moment later he heard his name being called.

Harry picked up the mirror and said, "Ginny Weasley."

Ginny's face appeared in the mirror. She blushed and seemed excited. Ginny said, "Harry, are you fine? You left so quickly that nobody had a chance to see you off."

Harry finally realized what had happened and said, "I'm sorry about that. I guess I got the feeling that they wanted me out of there so I just left."

"It's alright. I'm just glad that you're safe."

"How's everybody though? Are the Granger's fine?"

"Oh everybody is fine. Pretty much my entire family is here along with Hermione's family except for Bill and Charlie who went back to Diagon Alley to see if they can help out."

"That's good that everybody's safe. Are Hermione's parents going to freak out about this?"

"They seem to be handling it well. It turned out that Hermione has been easing them into what has been happening in the wizarding world over the last few weeks. Her parents wanted to take her out of Hogwarts but she managed to convince them that she would be in bigger danger if she was taken out of school."

"That's good. I don't know if Ron and me could survive a year without her pushing us to finish our work."

"How are you though?"

Ginny blushed, and said, "I'm fine Harry. I'm just glad that I now have a way to keep tabs on you Mr. Potter."

Sarcastically, Harry said, "I should've known better than to have told you about the mirror."

"It's too late now Harry. I get you all to myself."

Harry blushed and said, "Now, Miss Weasley, I don't think that Dean would like it very much if you ignored him for me."

With a light chuckle she said, "I never went out with Dean. I just did that to get to Ron. You know how he gets with any boy that shows any interest in me."

"You know, I don't think that Ron will ever give any guy a chance with you. I'm just surprised he didn't leave the Burrow once you got home and chased down Dean."

"He wanted to do that but I managed to calm him down. Ron isn't hard with every guy with me though."

"Well, name one guy that your brother wouldn't mind you go out with."

Ginny was hesitant to say anything. She blushed again and looked around her room. Than Harry said, "Come on Gin. You can tell me. This guy must treat you pretty well if he wouldn't mind you dating him."

"Well, it's…it's you Harry."

Harry was confused for a second which Ginny picked up on. He than said, "I thought that he knew that you were over me."

"In all honesty Harry, I never got over my crush on you. I know that you only see me as Ron's little sister."

"Ginny…"

"It's alright Harry. I can live with that. I'm really glad that you see me as a friend and became included in the things you do. You should know that there are many at school that envies the friendship that you, Ron, and Hermione have."

"Ginny…"

"I want you to be happy and if this makes you happy than I'm glad." There was a pause and than Ginny looked back at the mirror and said, "Hermione's at the door. She wants to get in. I'll talk to you later."

"Alright Ginny, but keep the mirror activated and I'll sit here in silence. I promise."

"Ok, if it gets too personal or Hermione says something confidential than I'm going to close the connection between the mirrors until tonight. If anything does happen, I'll talk to you when Hermione leaves."

"Alright..."

Ginny held the mirror close to her and made sure that Hermione didn't see the front of the mirror. She walked over to the door and unlocked it. Hermione walked into the room and sat on her bed while Ginny sat across from her on her own bed.

Hermione asked, "Why did you lock the door?"

Ginny said, "I just felt like being by myself."

Hermione didn't believe her, she said, "I heard you talking to somebody. Who were you talking to?"

"I wasn't talking to anybody Hermione."

"Well, if you're not going to tell me than fine. But I wanted to ask you something though."

"What is it?"

"Is there something going on between you and Harry? It's just that the two of you seemed pretty close after the reading of Sirius' Will. I meant when you hugged him. I don't think that most of the people noticed anything except for Tonks, Remus, and me."

"There's nothing going on between us. He just wrote me the same letters that he wrote you and Ron."

"What do you mean letters? He only wrote me one letter."

"Well, I just asked him a few things, that's all. He just answered some of my questions."

"Ginny, I know that you keep on telling me that you're over him but we all know that you're not. Besides, I think that he might have a thing for you now…"

While Hermione was talking, Harry saw that Ginny's face began to get red again in embarrassment. He didn't get a chance to listen to the end of the conversation because Ginny ended the connection between the two mirrors.

Harry found the conversation pretty interesting and decided to just wait until later in the night when Ginny calls him through the mirror again. Harry packed everything that he didn't need just in case something happen. He shrunk his trunk and placed it into his pocket.

Harry went down stairs to the kitchen to search for something to eat. He ran into his Aunt who was in the kitchen. His Aunt asked, "What do you want now?"

While holding back trying to sound mean, Harry said, "I wanted to find something to eat. I didn't get anything to eat yet. It has been a busy day."

Aunt Petunia took an apple and shoved it at Harry and said, "Now you have something to eat. Now go back to your room and stay there."

Harry took the apple and headed back to his room. He ate the apple while looking out at the street. He sat staring for a long time and ended up falling asleep. He was awoken some time later by the sound of someone calling him. Harry pulled out the mirror and called out for Ginny again.

Ginny said, "Harry, I'm sorry about that but Hermione finally left when Ron asked for some help on his homework."

Harry said, "I wonder when the two of them will realize that they were meant to be together."

"I think that they already know that but they don't want to admit to it yet. The two of them are very stubborn. Not to mention, Hermione probably wants him to make the first move and Ron is too scared to make the first move."

"You're probably right. I think we might have to do something about that."

"Harry did you get anything to eat yet? It took me a little longer to get back to you because in the middle of talking to Hermione, mum called us down to eat."

"Aunt Petunia gave me an apple to eat. It should be able to hold me over for awhile before I have to sneak down and grab something when the rest of them are asleep. At least they're ignoring me and everybody is minding their own business."

Just than Harry heard someone yell, "Reducto!" There was an explosion downstairs. Harry said, "Hold on Ginny, I'll be right back." Before Ginny could say anything he had opened the door and walked over to the top of the staircase.

Harry saw that there was a deatheater that just walked through where the front door used to be. Harry ran back to his room. He took the letter that he wrote earlier and attached it to Hedwig's leg. He told Hedwig, "Get to Remus as quickly as possible. As a matter of fact get to Grimmauld Place and give this letter to anybody who is there. Off you go girl and don't come back here. I'll come to get you if necessary."

Hedwig took off into the night and was flying as fast as she could. Harry picked up the mirror and said, "Ginny, there are deatheaters that are attacking. I have to go!"

Ginny yelled, "Harry get out of there! Don't try to fight them!"

Harry said, "Remember, don't let anybody know about the mirror. I'll contact you when it's all over. I've got to go." At that moment, there were several loud screams coming from downstairs. Harry tapped the mirror with his wand and the connection ended.

Harry instantly shrunk the mirror and slid it into the same pocket as his trunk. He slipped his original wand the holly wand into his pocket and with a flick of his wrist his right hand now had one of the new rose wands. He ran to the staircase and from the top of the staircase spotted his first deatheater. Harry yelled, "Stupefy!" The spell hit the deatheater and he fell over. Harry made his way downstairs and saw that the Dursleys were all gathered into a corner.

Three deatheaters turned to see their comrade fall. They turned their wand at Harry and yelled different spells at him. One of the deatheaters yelled, "Remember, don't kill him. That's for the Dark Lord." Harry managed to block the first spell and dodge the second spell but wasn't lucky with the third spell. The third spell was a cutting hex that sliced across his lower left leg. Blood was coming out of the wound and he screamed in pain as the spell hit him.

Once he stopped screaming, Harry yelled, "Reducto!" in the middle of the three deatheaters. Two of them managed to dodge the spell but the third was close enough to the impact that part of the wood that blew apart from the wall shot into his chest and he fell over and died.

Harry limped over to the Dursleys and stood in front of them. He yelled at them, "I'm going to try to get you over to your car. Once you get into it. Hurry and leave!" The Dursleys couldn't think of anything except to listen to what he was saying. Five more deatheaters showed up and Harry continued to shout, "Protego!" over and over again until he was able to get the Dursleys to the car. As they backed away from the house a spell hit the back of the car and blew up the trunk of the car but they continued to drive off.

After the Dursleys were safely away, Harry made his way back to the house to continue to fight. He managed to stun another deatheater but was immediately hit by two more spells that opened a wound across his chest and one across his back. Harry's blood was shot all over the front lawn as Order members were apparating near the house. Harry shot three more reducto spells at the front of the house where the deatheaters were at but only managed to take out one more deatheater. The spells were so powerful that half of the front of the house and lawn was either blown up or had craters in it.

A reducto spell hit the ground to Harry's right and blew him into the air and across the lawn. The Order members were still running towards the house when they saw Harry's body thrown into the air. Once he landed in the middle of a rose bush, Harry whispered, "Home to the Phoenix", when he saw the deatheaters make their way to him and he disappeared.

Just prior to Harry's disappearance, there were about ten Order members that had apparated about three houses across the street from the Dursleys. Among those that came to help were Tonks, Remus, Bill, Charlie, Mr. Weasley, and Moody. They watched in horror as they ran down the street shooting spells when they saw Harry standing on the front lawn with his clothes soaked in blood and barely able to stand. After they saw the red spell hit near Harry and saw him fly into the sky and land without getting up, all of them feared the worse. They made it to the house across from the Dursleys as some of the deatheaters engaged them for battle and other deatheaters made their way over to where Harry had landed.

The Order members defeated those deatheaters easily and all the remaining deatheaters apparated away including those that were surrounded to where Harry had landed. Some Order members that were led by Moody, Bill, and Charlie made their way into the house to make sure that it was secure while the rest went searching for Harry.

A moment later, Aurors showed up to run damage control but it didn't take long for word to get out that Harry was missing. The Order members that were not Aurors left and headed back to Grimmauld Place. All of the Order members were worn and worried about Harry's fate. When they arrived back, headquarters was in a state of chaos. Some of the people were talking about Harry had died while others said he was captured. It didn't take long for Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, and George to hear the commotion from Ron's room where all of them were gathered waiting for news on what happened to Harry.

They raced downstairs into the kitchen to see Remus, Bill, Charlie, and Mr. Weasley looking very grim and Mrs. Weasley crying. Hermione asked aloud to nobody in particular, "What happened? Is Harry hurt? Where is he now?"

The entire room went quiet as Mrs. Weasley stood up and said, "Now children, it's late now. All of you go up to bed. Let us take care of what happened to Harry."

Nobody left as Ron said, "We can't do anything until we know that Harry is safe." At that moment the Grangers showed up in a state of confusion just like all the kids. They asked, "What is going on here?"

Mr. Weasley placed a hand on his wife's shoulder and said, "Molly, the kids have a right to know. They are his friends and they wouldn't be able to think of anything until they know the truth."

Mrs. Weasley was going to say something but held it back as Mr. Weasley pulled her down to sit with him. Remus stood up and said, "Now everybody sit down and we'll tell you what we know about what happened tonight."

Everybody took a seat in the room and a few adults stood along the walls because there wasn't enough room and they wanted to have the kids sitting when they hear the news. Remus looked at all the kids with a grim face and said, "You all know that after Ginny said that there was a problem at Harry's home we were first a bit skeptical but gathered the Order just in case she was right."

All of the eyes in the room were on Remus. He paused, took a deep breath, and continued, "It took us about fifteen minutes to get about ten people to go help Harry. What some of you don't know is that we sent Charlie ahead shortly after Ginny said there was a problem. He went there and came back immediately to get help. When we got there, we saw that the front of the house was blown to pieces. Pretty much half of the front of the house was destroyed. We also saw Harry standing in the front lawn trying to fight them off. He really couldn't do very much because he was outnumbered by what we think were ten deatheaters. He was standing there with his clothes soaked in blood and barely able to stand."

Ginny and Hermione started to join Mrs. Weasley who was already crying. Hermione's parents went to hug her as Charlie went to take care of his sister. Remus looked at them and continued, "We think that a reducto spell was hit close to Harry and threw him across the lawn onto some bushes. When he landed, that's when we made it to the battle and started to fight. By the time the fight was over, Harry was gone. We didn't see him get up from the bush."

Ron asked, "Is he dead?"

Remus answered quickly after Ron asked the question, "We don't think so. We are waiting for word from Professor Snape to know if Voldemort managed to capture Harry. That's about all that we know right now but I'm not going to lie to you. It doesn't look too good right now because Harry was beaten up pretty good by the time we got there."

The room was in complete silence. They all sat there with some trying to think of something positive, while others were trying to figure out what happened before they got there, some were contemplating on where Harry is currently at, and some just prayed that Harry was safe.

At that moment a snow owl flew into the room that seemed like it had been in a hurry and been flying as fast as it could because it seemed a bit tired for such a short trip. It held out its leg to Remus and he took the letter from the owl. Remus said, "It's from Harry."

At that moment, Tonks, Kingsley, Moody, and Professor Dumbledore showed up. Everybody looked at all the people that just joined them as Tonks said, "What's going on? Why is everybody in here?"

Charlie answered her, "We just got a letter from Harry." He turned to Remus and said, "Go ahead and read it out loud. There's no point in hiding the contents of a letter that everybody knows that Harry sent."

Remus looked over at Professor Dumbledore for approval. The Professor with no twinkle in his eyes and also looking very grim nodded his approval to Remus. He than unrolled the piece of parchment and read, "Attack on Privet Drive. Need help as soon as possible. Harry."

Remus dropped the letter on the kitchen table and everybody just stared at the letter like it was poison. There was complete silence for several minutes thinking of how everything just went wrong in one night. Tonks spoke up and said what almost everybody was thinking, especially the adults, "We failed him. He called for help and we couldn't help him. Now all we can do is sit and wait."

A few people nodded while Professor Dumbledore spoke up, "Don't blame yourselves for this. We were caught off guard and there's nothing we can do about it now. Don't give up hope. Remember, Harry has always been able to surprise and amaze us with everything he's done and gone through so far. Never give up hope."

Everybody seemed to agree with everything the Headmaster said with the exception that it wasn't their fault. This was the first time that Harry was left without a guard since the end of his fourth year and this happens. Things were starting to break up when the fireplace roared with green flames. The person that came through was Professor Snape.

Professor Dumbledore asked, "Is there any news of Harry and how they got through the wards, Severus?"

Snape also looking very tired said, "The Dark Lord did not capture Potter. It turned out that Potter managed to disappear before they could capture him."

There were several sighs as the tension in the room lessened slightly. For everybody in the room, hope had returned to everyone's heart that Harry was alive. They still feared for him because he is injured and unprotected but after everything so far, people seemed content at the moment that he is not with Voldemort.

Snape noticing the tension in the room dying a bit continued on by saying, "It turned out that the Dark Lord had several curse breakers trying to break through the wards for some time now. It was actual luck that they managed to break the wards. They used some of the Dark Lord's blood which contained some of Potter's blood as the final key in breaking the wards. They have been going from house to house to see if they had picked the right house. The attack on Diagon Alley was merely coincidental and not a diversion. I did not know about the attack on Diagon Alley until it was too late. It turned out that the Diagon Alley attack was planned by some other deatheater that I don't know of yet."

It was at that moment that Ginny remembered about the mirror. She shot up and ran up to her room with tears in her eyes. Hermione made to follow her but Charlie said, "Just give her some time alone. She'll be fine. Just give her a moment." Hermione sat back down while several different people.

Ginny locked the door to the room and pulled out the mirror that she was carrying. She kept on calling out, "Harry Potter," over and over again. There wasn't any response. She was afraid that he might be too injured to use the mirror or might be dead. Ginny hoped that he left so fast that he forgot about the mirror.

After about an hour of lying in bed, there was a knock on the door. Ginny hid the mirror and opened the door. It was Hermione and Ron. They came in and asked if Ginny was fine. Ginny stared at them for a few moments than looked from Ron's eyes to Hermione's eyes. She signed and said, "I'm fine. I'm just thinking that's all."

Ron said, "Don't worry Ginny. Harry is too stubborn to go down this easily. He's been up against worse and survived so he'll be back again."

Ginny gave a hint of a smile because she knew that Ron was right. Than she said, "I'm just really tired now. I just want to go to bed."

Hermione said, "Alright Ginny. Why don't you go to bed and I'll be back in a few moments."

The two of them looked at each other for a moment as Ron was standing at the door waiting for Hermione. After the two of them left, Ginny slipped into her sleep clothes and laid in bed thinking about what Harry had gone through year after year. She fell asleep thinking of how Harry will come back and when he does she's not going to let him go anywhere.

Tanydwr: Thanks for the review. The Potter family is ancient. That was what I was trying to imply with the references back to the founders of Hogwarts when it came to Harry's new "toys." I'll try to be clearer in the story.