Sorry for the long delay on this chapter folks, my wife, kids and I just moved into our new home and have been busy getting unpacked. Also sorry for the short chapter I promise I'll do better next time. As for updates I will be updating weekly again. As well as I must note I have removed this story from due to abusive readers.
Harry Potter and the Time for War
By RBlack
Chapter five. To honor thy loved.
The following Monday Harry, Tonks and Hermione along with baby Alexandria, prepared to receive the hoard of guests they were about to arrive. Colin and the other guests that were meant to come that day were all busy preparing to arrive by special portkey.
An hour later Colin along with 80 other DA members were gathered in the front hall of the castle, in awe of the beauty that Potter castle brought to their eyes. Everyone knew that Harry had money but this didn't seem his style. The floors glistened with polished marble. The walls were decorated in fifteenth century mid-evil decor.
Looking toward the main staircase Colin noticed three people and one hold a small child descending to the main floor. Just moments later they were all greeted by Harry, Hermione and Tonks as well as baby Alexandria.
"Hello all" Harry spoke.
"Welcome to our home" Tonks informed the lot.
"Yes, welcome everyone" Hermione interjected.
"Merlin Harry we all suspected you wealthy but WOW this is huge." Someone in the back yelled.
Harry, Hermione and Tonks Chuckled.
After welcomes were completed Harry and his girls were surrounded by his school friends, he felt great, truly happy again. Everyone wished him well and gave him their well-wishing for his family and deep regrets that they could not help save Ginny.
"So how about we split into three groups and have a little tour of the place?" Hermione suggested.
"Right! Tonks, you take 1/3rd Hermione you the same and the rest of you lot with me." Harry finished.
Lunch was served a few hours later and the great dining hall in the castle was full of students and friends, All talking and laughing joyfully.
It was only a few minutes later when the laughter died down. Harry gasp in shock.
"You want to do WHAT?" Harry roared.
"We want to stay here with you and train Harry. We want to fight, we are YOUR army." Colin responded calmly.
"Colin, you can't mean that, you'll all die, I'm telling you, everyone will die!" Harry finished.
"Harry, if you don't let us train with you then you will damn us to die yourself. You're the best Harry, and your getting the best training. We all believe in you." Colin noted hard.
Harry was taken aback by this, he had not expected to be building an army over the summer, he though that it would just be his school friends wanting to stay with him.
He looked at Hermione and Tonks, and then finally thought of his daughter.
That's all the incentive it took.
"Ok, Colin everyone that wants to stay and learn to fight can and will be trained. Do you know how many there are?" Harry finished.
"All of us want to stay Harry." Lavender Brown spoke up.
"We all want to help you rid the world of HIM" Cho Chang spoke up.
"There are others too Harry" Colin interrupted.
"More?" Harry ask incredulously.
"Yes, there are about this many others waiting to hear from me if they can train also" Colin replied.
"But where will we put them all?" Harry turned to Hermione and asked as she looked intently upon him.
"We'll make due Harry." Tonks noted.
"Ok then, lets get to work." Harry noted with an air of finality.
A few hours later living quarters where arranged or everyone who wished to train.
Harry had magically asked the castle to arrange enough rooms to fit everyone. As it turned out the castle expanded a whole floor of rooms to fit six in a room similar to the Hogwarts dorms themselves, with room to spare including their own baths and living areas.
However the castle seemed to have the same sense of humor as Hogwarts did.
Each of the "dorms" were separated between boys and girls. Similar enchantments to Hogwarts were applied to allow the girls access to the boys rooms, but not vise-versa.
Later that evening after dinner Harry called all the house elves his family employed to the dining hall.
"Great elves in the employ of the Potter family. Please may I have your attention." Harry requested from the elves. "I am in great need of your services. Today we have formed an Army to defeat Voldemort, I request of you to keep the troups of this army in good health, as well I need you to keep this place safe from harm so that we may train for the war that is beginning. So what say you elves?" Harry asked.
Immediately it was as if someone had giving the elves the greatest gift of all nearly 200 house elves grinning and some broke into tears of joy of the great Harry Potter trusting them with such a daunting task.
A elder house elf came forward before Harry and bowed.
"Sir, I be Grutur I am elder elf for the Potters. We all say it is great honor of you to ask this of us and accept. However we elves of the Potters can do much more if allowed to." The elf spoke.
"Grutur, what do you mean you can do more?" Harry asked curiously.
"Sir, we are not normal house elves, as we are free we are much more powerful. That being we elves can teach you magic long forgotten to human kind and even then taught to few." Grutug noted.
Silence ruled for a matter of minutes while Harry pondered this new information.
"Grutur, once I have chosen the higher ranks for the army I will request of you to teach this magic to those I bring to you." Harry informed the elf.
"Thank you sir, thank you. Now you lot lets get masters wished in order much is to be done." Grutur spoke and the elves disappeared.
A month later 152 students of Hogwarts, were all training hard, they had all given up their summers to work hard to become freedom fighters, to become Potters Army.
The days were scheduled into classes, Dumbledore had arranged for all practical lessons.
After a one hour workout before breakfast they all split up into different classes.
Age did not matter here, these were lessons on survival.
The classes that Harry, Tonks, and Hermione with Dumbledore's aid were.
Defense against the Dark Arts.
Practical Offensive Warfare with Light Magic.
Healing
Potions
Transfiguration
Charms
And lastly muggle fighting and weapons.
Dumbledore had arranged for all the instructors to help out as well as a few trusted members of the order.
Potter Castle was still un-plottable and hidden; as such the ministry couldn't detect the mass amount of underage magic that was happening at the castle.
Harry was very proud of all his friends, well now students.
Each and every one of them had exceeded his expectations and more.
At the end of the month Harry decided to fill the ranks of his new found army.
The last day of the month he called the army together on the training field outside the castle.
Walking up to the platform he had conjured he pointed his wand to this throat and whispered "Sonorus".
"Friends, I have asked you all together today to fill the upper ranks of this newly found army. This has been a grueling month and you all are working hard and I'm proud to say when battle comes I can call you friend and ally. I'd like those whom I call to come to the podium and take your rank within the battle committee. " Harry spoke.
"As I call you your rank will engrave itself on your robes.
Hermione Granger - General intelligence division.
Tonks – General - Tactic's Commander
Colin Creavey – Master Sergeant – Battalion Commander
Hanna Abbot – General – Army Hospital and Potions
Neville Longbottom – General – Potions and Field Healing.
Seamus Finnagen – Master Sergeant – Air Battalion
Padma Patil – Master Sergeant – Research division
And finally Harry Potter – Commander and Chief." Harry called out.
Everyone including himself chuckled at the fact he'd called himself.
The Harry continued"Those of you I have called form your teams, and lets start the intense training."
Later that evening those that Harry had called that afternoon were meeting in the newly created "War Room" when Grutug appeared.
"Master Potter sir, you have those you wish of training I see. When shall we begin?" the elf asked.
"Tonight if that is acceptable Grutug." Harry replied.
"That is fine Sir" the elf responded back.
That night the commanders of Potters Army learned of new magic that as promised was long forgotten, and each night after that they continued to learn more, then passing that knowledge down to their teams during training.
A month later, the instructors were surprised at the students level of learning that they through themselves into. Eighty percent of the students were at or exceeding second year auror training.
Harry although devoted to raising his daughter, and taking care of Tonks and Hermione,
Also threw himself into his own training, his though was one-on-one with Dumbledore and Grutug.
He'd now perfected occulmency and legitemancy. As well as learned many new curses and tactics for fighting. Dumbledore even taught Harry how to make himself invisible wandlessly.
All in all it had been a quite summer, Voldemort must be regrouping after the last battle.
However so was Harry. Harry now had 152 soldiers at his command, In all Potters Army was as ready as they could be, and the Order Of the Phoenix was ready to stand by their side with the Aurors ready as well from the information that was passed to him by Dumbledore.
September first arrived quickly and Potters Army gathered their belongings from the castle ready to apperated to Kings Cross to ride the Hogwarts Express back for another year at Hogwarts.
Harry asked his Commanders to make sure that the train was guarded and everyone be prepared for anything.
Dumbledore had sent Harry a note informing him that there would be a special car for his Commanders to watch over everything on the trip back to school.
Gathering on the train the immediately went to the new car ment for them, surprised to see muggle video screens surrounding the wall on one side of the car. Hermione squealed in delight.
"He hooked the train up with video camera's this is wonderful we can watch everything from this car." She spoke.
Harry grinned nodding. He didn't let on that it was his and Mr. Weasley's doing to bring this new development into life on the express.
As they settled in the train launched itself into motion and was off.
Harry very content in what he had accomplished looked over at Tonk's whom was playing with his daughter, then to Hermione who's eyes were glued to the screens on the wall.
'It's been a long summer but I'd only change one thing' Harry thought to himself. An image of Ginny popped into his head and before he noticed he was letting a tear fall from his cheek. He missed her so much, it was as if part of his heart was missing he'd not allowed himself to think much of it while training. But now on the trip back to school he was allowing his guard to fall. But just for a moment.
Nearly two hours into the trip nothing of great importance happened, a few bullies here and there mostly from Slytherin, were quickly taken care of by prefects. Which indecently were also soldiers in Potters army.
Then it happened.
Hermione screamed "Dementors at our six, hundreds of them."
Harry and his commanders swung into action calling out orders to drive the hellish beasts away. Harry had gave his daughter to a third year girl whom he'd recruited as his daughter protector as the girl had a miracle way with wards and shields. And then ran off to fight.
Once on the roof of the train with about sixty others of his army he cast anti-apparition wards and anti-portkey wards on the train quickly as he also noticed about 30 death eaters flanking the train.
"Seamus, We need three teams on the flank we have death eaters incoming. Colin we need four teams to drive off these dementors." Harry called out.
Soon almost a hundred potroni where driving the dementors back and the air troops had subdued over half of the death eaters, the other half flew off in retreat quickly once they saw the sheer numbers of protectors on the train.
It was a good day Harry thought, even with the attack, none of his soldiers were hurt, he still had Hermione, Tonks and his daughter. A plus was they had captured sixteen death eaters, one of which was Peter Pettigrew.
As the train pulled into Hogsmeade station Harry and his group gathered their things, and together left for the Castle up the hill in a carriage to start a new year.