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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 6
Attack on Diagon Alley
Harry spent the week after his trip to Grimmauld Place going through a lighter version of the training that he had been going through most of the summer. Every night, Ginny and Harry talked to each other through the mirrors. The two of them enjoyed each other's company and every night didn't want to end their conversation. Harry learned that on the last Saturday prior to the start of school that the Weasleys and the Grangers will be going to Diagon Alley to get their school supplies.
Harry decided that he should go and get his supplies that day also. Harry got up at seven in the morning to get ready for the day. He decided to stay hidden but be prepared to fight if necessary. Harry dressed in a dark blue cloak and keep the hood up to cover his face. He asked Nightlight and Blaze to stay behind so they wouldn't draw too much attention. The two reluctantly stayed behind but Harry had a feeling that they were going to follow anyway but stay hidden.
Harry used his permanent portkey to appear in Knockturn Alley. He made his way to Diagon Alley and proceeded to do his shopping early in the morning with the shops just opening for the day. Harry went to Gringott's first to withdraw an obscenely large amount of money for shopping that day and for the rest of the year. He withdrew over five sacks of money and shrunk them as he went shopping. Harry then went to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions to get all new robes. He brought five new Gryffindor robes for himself and five new robes for Ron and Ginny. He also brought sets of white robes that either were trimmed in Crimson Red, Midnight Blue, Sky Blue, Forest Green, and Black. He replicated all of those robes with the Potter Family Crest over the left chest above his heart. He also brought sets of black robes that were either all black or trimmed with Crimson Red, Midnight Blue, Sky Blue, Forest Green, Silver, and White. He also replicated these robes with a set of robes with the Potter Family Crest on it. This gave him 24 casual robes to wear around. He brought sets of Brilliant Red, Dark Green, and Dark Blue dress robes and copied them like the other robes with the Family Crest. The last set of robes that Harry had made were special designed battle robes to help him fight.
The first of battle robes were all dark black with a cloak. It was fade resistant and designed to feel comfortable at all times. The robes major benefits came in three areas, it kept the body warm when in the cold, cool when in the heat, and dry when it is wet. The second benefit is that the robes don't make any noise and minimize any bodily noise that the person makes like breathing. The last area of benefit is the most needed. It reduces the effect of spells being shot at it. This combined with all the protection that Harry already had on him should protect him more than anybody would know in a fight.
The second set of robes were the same as the black battle robes but was white with what looked like strokes of shimmering red and blue around the outfit. When moving around in the white battle robes, it looks like fire dancing on the outfit. All of the robes were set to be done in three hours.
After telling the sales lady that he will be back later to pick up his robes, Harry went over to the trunk shop to pick up a new trunk to carry all the things that he will be bringing back with him to Hogwarts. After about half an hour of looking at different trunks, Harry ended up getting a seven compartment trunk that you can walk into it. The trunk looked just like any other trunk from the outside but on the inside, it was like a home with seven rooms. Harry decided to allow them to customize his trunk. Harry decided to have a library, a sitting room, a bedroom with bathroom, a kitchen, a potions lab, a training arena, and a guest room with bathroom. It took them fifteen minutes to get the trunk ready for him.
While the trunk was getting prepared, Harry walked over to Ollivander's to get a wand holster for his holly wand that he was going to attach to his right arm and slip the rose wand there to his lower right leg. After going to Ollivander's he headed over to the boot shop and got three set of boots. All of the boots were black but one of the pair of boots was designed to go with his battle robes. It was designed to do everything the robes did along with not leaving a trail anywhere he went.
Harry went back to pick up his trunk and headed over to the Apothecary. He brought a full set of supplies and potions for his potions lab in his trunk. Harry than went to Flourish and Blotts to get his textbooks and some extra books to place in the library in his trunk. It took him about an hour to go through all of the books to get and placed it in his trunk. He headed over to Weasley Wizarding Wheezes and noticed that the twins were not there. Lee Jordan was running the shop and Harry picked out all kinds of pranks and added it to his trunk.
Harry walked around to various shops to do some window shopping until it was time to pick up his robes. After his wait, Harry picked up all of his robes and decided to go get something to eat. He went over to the ice cream shop to pick up something small to eat until he got something to eat at The Leaky Cauldron. While sitting there, Harry picked up the Daily Prophet that was on the table next to him. His attention was immediately drawn to the cover story.
Escape from Azkaban
By Rita Skeeter
Last night when the last remaining dementors abandoned their post at Azkaban prison, the captured Deatheaters from the Ministry of Magic last May escaped during a massive prison breakout. Initial reports stated that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named showed up himself with an army of loyal Deatheaters to free all of his followers. As a result of the breakout it is now believed that all of those that broke free have joined the ranks of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. The Minister could not be reached for a comment. It would appear that our only hope will be Albus Dumbledore the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived.
Harry sighed and thought, 'This is great. Just not long ago they were calling us crazy and now they're placing all of their hopes in us. Fudge is a complete idiot, only if he would've taken precautions before maybe this wouldn't happen.' Harry heard several screams and people running and turned around to see what was happening.
Meanwhile, while Harry was running his errands during the morning, The Weasleys and Grangers showed up at Diagon Alley with Remus, Tonks, and Mad-Eye. They were half way through their school supply shopping when they went to Flourish and Blotts to pick up their books. They were there for about fifteen minutes when Tonks ran in and told them they all had to leave.
Mr. Weasley asked, "What's wrong? Why do we need to leave now?"
Tonks said, "I just got a report that said Deatheaters have just broken out of Azkaban and Diagon Alley is a high level target right now because word got out that the kids are here and there is fear that they will chase after them while they are in the open."
Mrs. Weasley gathered everybody up and sent Bill and Charlie to finish their shopping. The kids were at the center with the adults forming the perimeter and now picked up Fred and George for added protection.
They reached the end of Diagon Alley where it is a brick wall that joins with the Leaky Cauldron. Mr. Weasley tapped his wand on the wall but it didn't open up for them to get through. They heard several screams and everybody drew their wand to where the sounds were coming from. There were several pops and Deatheaters were apparating into Diagon Alley.
Mr. Weasley yelled and pointed to a corner where everybody turned to look at, "Everybody go over to the corner! Remus, Tonks, Mad-Eye, and Molly, form a perimeter and everybody else draw your wands just in case this gets ugly."
The adults formed a shield around all the kids and the Grangers with everybody having their wands drawn. Mrs. Weasley pointed, "Look, George and Bill are coming to help us."
Bill and Charlie arrived shortly after Mrs. Weasley finished speaking and joined the perimeter to protect everybody else. Charlie sounding tired and trying to catch his breath said, "Deatheaters have launched an attack. The Aurors have shown up and are fighting them right now but they're out numbered. I don't know if they will be able to hold them off."
All of a sudden there was a flash in front of them at the entrance to The Leaky Cauldron of a person dressed in dark colored robes. Tonks and Remus turned their wands cautiously at the individual because they didn't know if the person that just appeared was friend or foe. The robed person drew a wand in both their right and left hand and stood there shooting spells down the alley.
Deatheaters apparated in front of the robed figure with their wands pointed at him. He started dueling with them but was outnumbered three to one. He managed to hold them back until he was hit with a cutting hex across the left side of his abdomen. The robed figure continued to fight will favoring his left side. Nobody came to assist him because they didn't want to leave the kids unprotected.
The robed figure managed to stun and bind one of his attackers and two more Deatheaters apparated over to him. This cycle of eliminating one Deatheaters and two would show up to replace the fallen deatheater continued. Everybody watching the fight was in awe with the way the robed figure was fighting because of his fluid movements and balanced shielding, dodging, and attacking. At this point he managed to take out five Deatheaters. Everybody was amazed that he was able to fight off all of these Deatheaters all by himself.
He was hit but a bludging spell and flew back against the brick wall behind him. He got up slowly and at that moment, a blue phoenix and a white tiger appeared and charged the Deatheaters. When the robed figure managed to get back to his feet, his hood slipped off his head.
Ginny yelled and pointed, "That's Harry! We've got to help him."
Tonks, Remus, and Charlie rushed over to Harry and pulled him over to where everybody else was standing. Remus was tending to his wound while Harry was still in a slight daze. A moment later, Harry came around to the sound of Ginny's voice and Hermione holding his hand. Ginny said, "Come on Harry, come back. It's no time to play right now and find some place safe to get to."
Harry nodded grudgingly. He asked, "How is everybody?"
Hermione said, "Everybody is safe but the fighting is still going on right now."
Harry said, "You have to get out of here. It's not safe."
Ron said, "We can't because all of the exits out of Diagon Alley have been closed except for floo but a fireplace is too far from where we are."
Harry got up, looked around and saw that the fight was starting to wind down as the Aurors were starting to gain the advantage but it was still too dangerous. Harry held up his wand and said, "Summon!"
In a blink of an eye, Nightlight, Blaze, Sunrise, and Sunset appeared next to Harry. Harry said, "Sunrise, you take the Grangers out of here along with Ron back to Grimmauld Place. Sunset, you take Mrs. Weasley, Mr. Weasley, Fred, and George back to Grimmauld Place."
Mr. Weasley said, "We're not leaving anybody behind Harry. You better go."
Harry said, "I'll be fine. Don't worry about me Mr. Weasley. I have my way to get out of here." Harry turned to Nightlight and said, "I want you to take Ginny, Tonks, and Remus to Grimmauld Place." Harry than patted Blaze and said, "Blaze, will you please take Mad-Eye, Bill, and Charlie out of here."
Tonks said, "Harry, if all of you are able to leave than you should. Mad-Eye and me will stay to help the other Aurors fight."
Harry nodded and Tonks and Mad-Eye went to join the fight. Everybody else was taken back to Grimmauld Place. Harry used his portkey to get to Grimmauld Place.
A/N: Thank you to all of my reviewers and here are my responses to the chapter 5 reviews.
Dancerrdw: Thank you for the review.
Bommor: Thank you for the constructive criticism. I'll definitely take that into consideration when writing later chapters. The next few ones won't reflect it though because I've written ahead a few chapters already. I'm just spacing out the post to give me some time to write more so there isn't an unusually long delay for a posting.
Jouve25: Thank you for the review and there will be more issues due to Harry and Percy later : Thank you for the review. I'll check out your story soon. I'm trying not to read too many stories right now so I don't forget how mine is going.
Arye: It's correct that the blue and white phoenix is nightlight. I didn't realize the similarities until you mentioned it. As you can see, I have an obsession with Phoenixes.
Gardengnome3000: I hope this chapter doesn't disappoint you.
Beck: I'm glad to offer you the temporary 'fix' until this July with the next book.
Magic 8: Thank you and I will complete this story so don't worry. I just can't stand anything incomplete.
