Disclaimer: J. K. Rowling owns the Harry Potter Universe all other claimants to anything to do with the H.P. story are simply hangers on to her glory. I thank her for allowing us mere mortals to play in her world and I promise that while I have Harry in my care nothing bad will happen to him. I will leave that to J.K.R. herself in her books.

LOVE CONQUERS ALL

Chapter 11. A New Perspective.

Over the next few days Harry, Hermione and Ginny spent a lot of time in the training room, they were still learning what they could do with the aid of the ring and teaching Ginny to do as much as they could of what they had learned, she also spent a lot of time practising on her own, only very occasionally calling for help from Harry or Hermione.

To their surprise Poppy Pomfrey the school Matron visited them for three half days and she taught them many repair and healing spells and charms, she also instructed them on wizard first aid designed to keep the patient alive until they could be given proper medical treatment. Tonks assured them that this was essential knowledge for all Aurors.

The days were now flowing into each other in a complete blur of school work, essays and practical exercises, it was not too bad for those who had already taken their OWLs but for Ginny and Luna who were trying to make up a year in a few weeks it was really hard going, they were working every day and most evenings. In the next week they had the odd break for a video and one trip to the cinema, they saw the Blues Brothers and then spent two hours trying to convince Luna, Neville and Ron that it wasn't reality.

On the third evening the phone rang as Luna was passing it, she looked terrified, Hermione told her to pick it up, she picked it up and held it at arms length, Hermione had to come and take it off her and talk to her mother, but before she rang off she made Luna, Parvati and Neville all looking just as scared as each other say hello to her mother, they still looked terrified after they had spoken.

So after the call Hermione asked Harry if he would call her home in a couple of minutes and she took Luna to her home by Floo, when Harry called her she made Luna talk to him, this was better, then Harry made Neville come and talk to Luna. After about twenty minutes Harry made Neville give the phone to Parvati who had never used one either, half an hour later Hermione had to drag the phone away from Luna and then they both Flooed back to the flat.

When they arrived there Neville, Parvati and Luna couldn't stop talking about how much easier it was to talk stood up or sat in a chair, rather than kneeling in front of a grate, with your head stuck in the fire, so Harry and Hermione took the opportunity to explain to the pure bloods how phone numbers worked.

Ron said, "I reckon that the Floo system is better because generally you can use the people's names to get who you want."

Harry asked them, "How many fireplaces are there connected to the Floo network?"

Parvati answered, "I heard my dad say, nearly one hundred thousand and his office is next to the Floo regulation office."

Harry said, "Even some of your grates have code numbers, there are over seventy million telephones in use, in this country alone and it is difficult to imagine anything other than numbers working to make reliable connections."

Then Hermione explained that besides the telephone a lot of computers including ours here in the flat are connected to their Internet service providers through the same telephone system so that they could use the Internet.

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At lunch six days after they had last visited Harry told Tonks that he wanted to go to Diagon Alley for the afternoon and she didn't want to spare the time. So when he told her that he wanted Hermione, Ron, Parvati and Ginny to come with him as well she started to get really wound up.

So he smiled at her, then he went and put his arms around her neck and after he had kissed her on the cheek he told her that he missed her bubblegum pink hair and asked her if she was practicing to take over from Professor McGonagall.

Straight away he knew he had hit the bulls eye.

"Right!" she said, "I want you all washed, dressed and ready to leave in half an hour, anybody not ready on time pays for the ice-cream," needless to say they were all ready on time and the spiky bubblegum pink hair was back, then they Flooed to Diagon Alley.

Harry said, "I want to go to the bag shop first we have some things to pick up." They all looked puzzled especially when the very pretty young shop owner behind the counter gave Harry a big smile and told him that they were ready, she went out the back of the shop and came back with five different colour bags. She asked who's the black one was, Harry said that is mine, she took a card out of it, pointed her wand at him and read the charm off the card, then she passed him the bag and the card and said, "If you give the bag to someone else then you must cast the charm on them. Who does the copper one belong too?"

Harry pointed to Ginny, "what is it?" she said.

"It is a magic bag like the one Tonks has." The colour exactly matched her hair, when Harry saw the look on her face, he quickly continued, "It's your last Birthday present, maybe." The owner went through the same procedure again, charming the bag for Ginny.

Whose is the brown one, Harry pointed to Hermione, who said, "So what is this for Mr Potter?"

"School books."

"Don't try to be funny with me, you know what I mean."

"It's one early birthday present for you," He said hopefully and added mentally. "Also a great place to keep weapons and things."

She smiled at him and replied, "We still haven't settled about my broom, yet."

"Well you can pay for that if you want to, I told you that before, didn't I? The blue one is Ron's!" she smiled and kissed Harry on the lips. "Thank you," she said smiling shyly.

Well now the blue one? Hermione was whispering in Ron's ear.

"That is for Ron, and before you ask, it's your Christmas present," said Harry.

"Thanks mate." Ron said, giving Harry a manly hug. "We can carry our brooms everywhere now, without having to shrink them." If looks could kill the one Hermione gave Ron would have destroyed armies. The shopkeeper then asked. "So who is the Gold one for." Harry indicated that it was for Parvati, who thanked him and gave him a kiss on he cheek. Harry spoke to the shopkeeper about paying and she passed him a slip, which he signed so she could draw the money from his Gringotts account, and then he said, "That was a good price," then he continued Quietly, "do you think it will be possible for you to have the other two bags ready by the twenty third of August."

"Yes I will and I gave you discount for bulk buying."

"Thank you very much," he said as they left the store, "does any one need anything else?"

"I really need a very big, Vanilla Fudge Sundae with Nuts and Chocolate Chips," said Ron.

Parvati then said, "Aren't we lucky, Ron has just volunteered to buy everyone the biggest ice-cream they can dream of. Lets go and see what Florean Fortescue can do for us."

So they all went to the Ice cream parlour and had the biggest Sundae's they could envision, Luna paid for the ice creams, she said that it was because poor ickle Ronniekins looked so miserable.

Ron looked really mad, until Hermione put her hand on his. "Behave yourself or do you want me to tell her about Pumpkin-head," he immediately seemed to cool down.

Ginny was beginning to look worried, and said. "Harry do you think that we have finished here? I think we should go back to our lessons?"

Harry said that he had nothing else to do here and again asked whether any of the others did and they all agreed that there was no reason for them to remain in Diagon Alley. However as they got up to leave a big ruckus started, coming from the direction of Gringotts Bank, so they started off as rapidly as they could in that direction.

All the people were running away from the bank, so it was a struggle at first but the melee soon cleared and they were able to see what was happening.

It appeared that a bunch of about a dozen Death Eaters were attempting to invade Gringotts Bank, the doors of which were being defended by three or four Goblins. Harry straight away sent Tonks to get some Aurors from the Ministry, she 'Disapparated', he told Ron, Parvati, Neville and Luna to spread out then move forward slowly and to try not to let any of the Death Eaters escape in this direction then he, Ginny and Hermione vanished.

As they were moving in he held Ginny's hand and thought. "Spread out and hit them with stunning spells, fire one spell and move so they don't know where you are." Hermione obviously also received these instructions.

There were twelve attackers and it took the three about a minute and a half to stun them all, then they moved back behind the other four and reappeared luckily at exactly the same time as the Aurors Apparated in.

"What happened to you?" Ron snapped.

Then Harry said, "Shut up will you, you will all be told later." Two of the Aurors were talking to the Goblins who had been defending the bank; the other Aurors were binding the Death Eaters some of whom were quite young.

Except Tonks who came over to them and asked, "I guess that this was your doing?" When they all agreed she continued, "I suppose then, that you had better come up to the bank," so they all went to the Bank where along with the Aurors they were ushered inside and into a large private room by the Goblins.

One of the Aurors spoke quite rudely, "We would like to know what went on here and these Goblins seem to think that you 'Children' stunned all of those Death Eaters?"

Harry bristled at the emphasis the Auror had used on the word 'children' and produced his Assistant Auror pass, the others did the same, when all the passes had been checked and handed back Tonks introduced the Auror, "Harry this is Marvin Green, Acting Assistant Senior Auror."

From the way that Tonks had introduced Green Harry knew that she did not think much of him, or like him particularly, so he shook Green's hand and said, "Pleased to meet you sir, we simply came up behind them and stunned them, we were all in the battle in the ministry eight weeks ago, so seven of us twelve of them, surprise and from behind, not to difficult even for 'children'. What were you doing the night of the Ministry battle?"

Green ignored the question and said pompously, "Well being as how you are Assistant Aurors, you won't be getting any reward!" He stormed off taking the other Aurors with him but of course Tonks remained with them.

The Goblins were livid, they were shouting to each other in Gobbledegook, then one left and returned with a Goblin who looked like the General Manager who listened for a few minutes then put his hand up for quiet and spoke to the seven. "Gringotts Wizarding Bank is extremely grateful for what you have just achieved to aid the bank, even if that Auror isn't. Therefore in appreciation of what you have done, the bank would like to give you a reward of twenty five thousand Galleons for each of the Death Eaters you captured. So if you give your names to my assistant." He indicated a Goblin, who bowed. "He will credit the accounts of those of you who have them, or open accounts for those of you who do not, it works out as a very odd amount make it fifty-thousand Galleons each." He went around and shook each of their hands and said, "once again Gringotts Wizarding Bank thanks you," and then he left.

The other Goblins trooped out each shaking all their hands and thanking them on the way, leaving them with the chief's deputy who smiled at Tonks and asked, "Are these your charges?" smiling she nodded, "they are of great credit to you."

Tonks was smiling as she said, "Gang this is Griswold a very good friend of the Order."

Griswold shook each of their hands' and he told them that if ever any of them had a problem in the bank they were to come and see him personally. He led them to his large desk at the end of the banking hall where he took out a big ledger and asked for those of them who already had accounts to tell him their names first.

Harry pushed Hermione forward, and she blushed and said, "Miss Hermione Jane Granger." He tapped the ledger opened it, closed it tapped it again opened it and checked the credit, thank you again he said shaking her hand. Parvati then Ginny went forward after each other and received exactly the same treatment.

With an odd look in his eye, Ron said to Ginny, "Since when have you had a Bank Account?"

Ginny replied offhandedly, "Since one of my lovelier brothers decided that every girl should have one and opened it for me."

Then it was Harry's turn the only difference for him was the comment that if he did this too often he would soon need another even bigger vault.

None of the others had their own account, so if anything Griswold's job for them was even easier, Luna went first.

"Luna Lovegood," she said, he tapped his ledger and a key appeared, he checked the ledger and handed Luna the key then welcomed her to the bank. He had done Ron and was just going to start Neville when the General Manager came up, he and Griswold had a conversation in Gobbledegook, then he went away.

Griswold finished opening Neville's account then he said, "Nymphadora Tonks, I am sorry for calling you that, but the bank has decided to also give you a reward of ten thousand Galleons and I must say your full name to obtain the correct page, for your account, in the ledger," he smiled and shook her hand. "You have no idea how much pleasure it gives me to do what I have just done for you all, once again if ever any of you have a problem in the bank, please come and see me."

They all said goodbye to Griswold, by this time it was six o'clock and they were all feeling quite hungry so they left for the Leaky Cauldron and from there by Floo too the flat.

x-x

When the hungry group arrived at the flat there was a delegation to meet them, Mr and Mrs Granger, Mr and Mrs Patil, Mr and Mrs Weasley also the Headmaster. They were all trying to ask different questions at the same time, cacophony would be quite a reasonable word to describe the proceedings.

Luna was quite undaunted and became obstinate, "We came straight home because we are all hungry, you probably are as well and we don't mind talking to you all but we want to eat. Please."

So they all went through to the dining room.

This appeared to have grown since they were last in it and they were chattering generally while they ate so by the time they had reached the desert the parents all realised that their children were perfectly all right.

Arthur said, "Green has no authority to deny you all rewards, you shook his hand Harry, is he ok?"

Harry answered, "Except for being, 'an arrogant pig who should not be allowed in charge of a pig sty', and those are not my words."

Arthur replied, "Well I will have a word with Amelia Bones about him when I am next in the office. Anyway, you will be receiving twenty thousand Galleons each, it should be ten thousand Galleons for each Death Eater that you captured. I can't be bothered with those kind of sums; but I will be very surprised if the goblins don't give you more."

Ron said with a cheeky grin, "Well the Goblins have already given us over twenty five thousand Galleons for each Death Eater captured dad, so we have made seventy thousand Galleons each."

Mrs Granger was smiling and asked, "How much is that in real sorry Muggle money?"

Hermione answered, "About three hundred and fifty thousand pounds Mum, give or take a few."

"So none of you are poor?" Mrs Granger's smile had broadened.

Then Hermione bristled, "Harry has already given me about a half a million pounds from an inheritance he received when his godfather died, in a battle we were all in, so I am now worth well over three-quarters of a million pounds. Harry, I believe, is worth something in excess of twelve million pounds at the moment and I'm sure we would both give the lot to have Sirius, Harry's godfather back." Harry nodded. "What we do, we do because it has to be done, we stand up to evil because if we don't our world and yours will collapse, if money comes, then it does, but it is not why we do what we do, money doesn't matter, not really matter. I'm sorry to go on, but I am a bit stressed out after this afternoon, we probably all are, sorry."

Then Dumbledore said, "I think that all your parents have heard enough for their peace of mind and I think that the students need to rest."

Everyone agreed and they all stood up and moved towards the fireplace, Mr and Mrs Granger were cuddling Hermione for a long time before they left, as were Parvati's mum and dad who looked very proud of their daughter.

Then Arthur said, almost to himself, "Quite a few people must still be due rewards from that business in the Ministry and the Exmouth office." Molly cuddled them all including Tonks.

Then Arthur shook all their hands, he said just before he left. "As the Minister for Magic I will tell you all that we are very, very proud of each and every one of you."

They Flooed away and left them with the Headmaster who asked. "Now Harry, are you now going to tell me what really happened?"

Five of the others also said that they would like to know what exactly happened as well, so Harry asked them all to come and sit comfortably, so that he could explain to them.

"It was quite simple really, Hermione, Ginny and I became invisible and spread out, we cast voiceless stunning spells from behind the Death Eaters, every time we cast a spell we moved so that they wouldn't know where the next attack was coming from. The other four had been moving forward to prevent escapes so, when the Death Eaters were all stunned, we went back behind them and reappeared, luckily it was at the same time as the Aurors arrived and no one noticed, frankly the Death Eaters didn't stand a, cat in hells chance."

"Since when could Ginny disappear and cast voiceless stunning spells?" again Ron was clearly not happy.

Quietly Hermione said, "About a week ago, the night we showed you all some things in the training room Ginny was really upset so we started to teach her to do some of the things that the ring allows Harry and I to do. She has been practicing, hard, ever since so now fundamentally we three can all do most of the same things."

Ron was still not happy and grouched, "So when were you going to tell us?"

Then Ginny continued, "We had actually planned to tell you tonight, but now you all know, I think that Harry should tell you the rest."

"The first thing you have to appreciate is that nobody is going to learn to do all of the things that Hermione and I can do overnight, but we are prepared to teach you as much as your power will allow you to learn.

Our reason for having the delay in the next introduction was that we needed to learn ourselves, how too teach and how much, we could teach you, after all this is very advanced magic."

Professor Dumbledore then added. "Really all magic obeys the same set of laws and the more advanced it is the more power is needed to perform it successfully. It may very well be that things you cannot do now, you will be able to do in six months or a year's time, whatever any of you do you should not give up hope. Eventually you will all be capable of performing really spectacular magic and giving Death Eaters a bad time if ever they are foolish enough to cross your path. Now it is getting rather late and I have other people to see therefore I must be going, so I will wish you all goodnight and I think that I will probably see you all in the morning."

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A bit later they were all relaxing in the lounge when Neville asked. "Do you think that we four deserve all this reward money? We were only coming up behind you we didn't really do anything much."

Ron was looking daggers, but Hermione answered calmly, "Certainly, if we do then you do, if they had passed us you would of taken them out, so yes you three deserve your money. And what about my broom Mr. Potter"

Then Harry said, totally failing to stifle a yawn, "If it was only the fact that you hid the three of us that had been invisible, when we reappeared, you were worth your share, what the opposition doesn't know that we can do is to our advantage. The broom cost six hundred Galleons if you want to pay for it put the money in my account and stop nagging me. But you didn't want it so I don't see why you should pay for it, anyway I love you and you're my fiancé, so I am allowed to buy you little presents."

It was starting to get late, Hermione and Harry were becoming very tired so they decided to go to bed and they were asleep before their heads hit their pillows.

Ron said, "Where have they gone? For some snogging I expect."

Ginny snapped, "Don't be so ridiculous, they are absolutely knackered. They carry the worry for all of us with this link of theirs and it's very tiring for them, they don't have to do it, they have the weight of the world on their shoulders. I am very proud to be associated with them and I just hope that I am not being selfish."

Then Tonks responded, "I don't think you are being selfish, they know that the longer they do it the stronger they will become and the easier it will be for them to maintain, they do it for everyone and I do mean everyone."

Then Ginny said very quietly, "Hermione told me that they both have to remain virgins until it is all over, you know Voldemort dead and all that, or the magic won't work. I just can't imagine the strain of that."

Again Ron belligerently said, "Why? You're a virgin. Aren't you?"

Then Ginny riled at him again, "An insensitive prat to the end. Not that it's everybody's business, yes I am a virgin, but I am because I choose to be that way. You probably are as well, oh brother of mine, for whatever egotistical reason you might like to put on it, the fate of the world doesn't depend on me, or you remaining that way and I thank god for it."

Then Tonks said quietly, "You and me both Ginny, you and me both. Anyway it's getting very late and it's back to the grindstone tomorrow, so we should all get some sleep," so saying they all went to bed.

x-x

As it happened the next morning they actually didn't do a lot of work, the 'Daily Prophet', when it came, was full of reports of their exploits in Diagon Alley and outside Gringotts Bank in particular. The report was very complimentary to the seven of them, it included photographs of them all, but most of these were so old that it would be difficult for anyone to recognise them from the photographs. In the one photograph that the paper had found of Luna, it looked as if she was only six or seven years old.

There was also a long piece, in the middle of the front page, about the Auror, Marvin Green. It was a scathing attack on him telling how he had declared to all and sundry that the group were not entitled to any reward. Admittedly the paper had printed a retraction issued by the Minister for Magic's press office, but that was on page nineteen, in the bottom left-hand corner of the sheet and it was in very small type.

At eight o'clock a parliament of strange owls started arriving, they brought letters that were mostly complimentary, a fair few even had money drafts in them, and the only really distressing one was addressed to Neville.

It was from his overly protective Grandmother and it said, that he was not to put himself in danger, he was to come home immediately and stop all these silly games. He had made his family owl wait and he brought a piece of parchment, he wrote a reply on it.

'Gran - IF THAT IS YOUR OPINION AND YOU HAVE NOTHING CONSTRUCTIVE TO SAY THEN SOD OFF! - Your grandson Neville.'

Then he sent his family owl back to her, when he added the letter, to the business with his wand, it meant he was not very happy with her.

A few minutes later Professor Dumbledore arrived. Tonks immediately asked him about the danger from all the owls, which they were receiving, revealing their location? He told her that he had anticipated something like this might be going to happen and he had asked his brother Aberforth to extend their protection field to a half a mile. Also he has modified the field to include magical people as well as Muggles, from now on they would all see seagulls instead of owls.

Then Neville showed the Headmaster his Grandmother's letter and told him what his reply had been and continued. "Well you said that this apartment was for us all to use until we had finished school and I received enough money yesterday to more than keep me going, besides we have received twenty one thousand Galleons this morning."

At that moment Hermione burst out laughing. "Sorry Neville, I'm not laughing at you. This letter is from the Daily Prophet offering each one of us twenty five thousand Galleons if we will give them an interview."

All of them roared with laughter and Neville spluttered. "Not on your life."

Ginny added. "Any way, it is up to forty nine thousand Galleons and we still have about twenty letters to open." With that another three owls flew in through the window.

The Headmaster was smiling and he told them that he had only come by to ensure that they were none the worse for wear after their frolics of the previous day and as they appeared to be in fine fettle, he had other important things to do, then he left.

When they had finished with the owls it was back to work, Hermione was with Ginny and Luna in the study, she had Luna writing Arithmancy Essays and Ginny doing the same for Ancient Runes, the other five were in the training room, Ron and Neville were practicing Fencing, while Harry was teaching Tonks and Parvati wand-less magic.

After lunch Harry phoned his aunt and told her that they would be coming over that afternoon to collect the rest of his things. A little later that afternoon he and Tonks went to Privet Drive for what Harry hoped would be the last time ever. He left all of Dudley's old clothes and collected everything that belonged to him then they returned to the flat in Chudley Salterton.

It was then back to studying and teaching which continued, in a similar pattern, day after day seemingly without end, there was no doubt however that Harry and Hermione were gradually learning more and getting stronger. It was becoming obvious that they would be formidable opposition for anybody and they were able to keep up the intensive magic for much longer periods.

The rest of the group had also learned a great deal of very powerful offensive and defensive magic; this was especially true of Luna and Ginny who seemed to be like sponges, just soaking everything up.

x-x

Over the following days, only two trips were made out of the flat. The first was one by Harry with Hermione, Tonks had told them and the Headmaster, that she would only hold them back if she was with them. She also told Professor Dumbledore that as an estimate ten normal Aurors wouldn't cause the pair of them to raise a sweat. They had gone to Sirius's old vault and made a fairly complete inventory of every thing in it, they had removed all of the books and put them in the bookcases in Harry and Hermione's bedrooms in the flat. Then they had the Muggle money transferred to his cash vault, it totalled over one and a quarter million pounds. That had only left the jewellery and a great many papers some of which appeared to be very old, they determined that they should consult Dumbledore about both these thing, which Harry did a few days later.

When he had gone down to the vault with Professor Dumbledore, they came to the conclusion that some of the jewellery was very old and fine and worth a great deal of money, this he moved to his own vault. The other jewellery items were charmed, these Dumbledore removed in a secure container so that he could resolve what the charms were, Harry told him that if he was in doubt, just destroy all of the dark magic items.

This only left the papers and they were in a quandary as to what to do about those until Dumbledore suggested that Remus Lupin had both the time and the necessary knowledge to determine what they were. Harry was very much in favour of this idea, provided he could pay Remus for his trouble. The Headmaster smiled and told him to ask Remus how much he wanted paying to do the job and when he told Harry that he didn't want anything for doing it, to just put the money into his account and don't tell him that you have done it. Harry laughed it was all settled and when they returned to the surface he arranged for Remus Lupin and Albus Dumbledore to be allowed free access to the vault.

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