A/N: Well after a lengthy wait here is the next chapter, though many of you will be upset to find it is an Earth Prime world, but I have no choice but to put it in now.
Thanks to the following for reviewing: MarianeMalfoy, Silverscale, Pleione, and jbfritz
jollander: Well all I can say is what I did with Tonks was a critical part of my story not a cliché, but I can see where you would think it was. However I write what I have to, so my story goes as I plan. I do not write something just because everyone else does it. Its okay though I can see your point of it, and I was not trying to be offending with my comment to you last time.
I would like to say thanks to Chelanzar for beta reading this chapter.
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Recap
The Death Eaters all bow to their lord then quickly leave the den. Bella walks forward and once again bows before Voldemort. "Raise my dear." Bella stands up and looks Voldemort in the eyes. "Bella I have a special task for you, I want you to get a team together and go to Egypt. There is a set of scrolls there that I require before we can attack those fools. I want you to bring them to me, and Bella; do not fail me or you will suffer!"
Bella bows down and then leaves from the den as Voldemort sits back down on his throne and laughs out in a sickening insane tone. "Soon, Albus, soon you will meet your demise!"
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Chapter Thirty-Eight: War Breaks Out on Earth Prime
August 22, 1996: 12:30 pm
The small pudgy man known as Wormtail shuffled timidly into the throne room not wanting to see his master. He didn't want to speak with him, but he knew that he didn't have a choice about what he had to do. Wormtail proceeded towards the throne and kneeled in front of his master and kissed the hem of his robe. "Milord…"
Voldemort looked at Wormtail for a moment before he spoke. "What is it Wormtail?" Voldemort hissed as he looked at his servant.
"Milord I received a message that Spion wants to meet with you milord." Wormtail squealed as he remained on his knees.
Voldemort stared at Wormtail for a moment as he thought about what he said. Spion was the name that the man from Germany used, the man that gave him the spell to send Harry to his doom. 'What could Spion what to meet about now? Surely I have no need to speak with that man, then again he might have something I could use.' Voldemort thought as he glared at Wormtail. "Did he say when and where he wanted the meeting Wormtail?"
Wormtail sighed slightly thankful that his master wasn't mad about this, because if he was angry with this suggested meeting then it would be Wormtail who would have been punished. Voldemort never believed in the theory of not killing the messenger since he enjoyed punishing his servants when they did something he didn't like. "He… Spion wants to meet you in his safe house in an hour." Wormtail squeaked as he looked at his master.
Voldemort's red eyes flared for a moment and then a small sly grin came to his mouth. "I shall meet him alone now leave me!"
August 22, 1996: 1:00 pm
The light side wasn't having much luck every attempt to bring down Voldemort's force seemed to end the same way, they were always one step behind the Death Eaters. Dumbledore was beside himself wondering how he would be able to deal with so many failed attempts on capturing them. He decided to call all the members of the Order of the Phoenix to the school for a meeting. He had to find a way to solve this problem, a problem that only had one solution. There must be a spy in the ministry and they would have to find out who the spy was and prevent them from telling Voldemort what they were up to.
Tonks, Kingsley, and Moody were all brought in from the ministry for the meeting. Blade wasn't a member of the Order, so his presence was not required though Dumbledore had asked him to sit in on the meeting. Blade declined saying, "I have some business to handle and I am not at liberty to discuss what it is." Arthur, Molly, Bill, Charlie, Fred, and George Weasley were all told to come to the meeting, though they were instructed not to mention anything to Ron or Ginny about Harry's disappearance. Remus Lupin was also instructed to attend though he would have rather stayed in the library looking for solutions to their other problems. Severus Snape was also called in for the meeting after attending a meeting with the Dark Lord. Other member that arrived for the meeting were Dedalus Diggle, Elphias Doge, Mundungus Fletcher, Rubeus Hagrid, Hestia Jones, Minerva McGonagall, and Emmeline Vance.
Dumbledore looked at the gathered members of the Order who were all seated at a table in the Great Hall and he sighed before beginning. "As some of you have already been informed Harry Potter has disappeared."
A few of the members, the ones that knew already, just lowered their heads to look at the table while the ones that didn't know looked shocked and appalled. Elphias Doge an old wizard, with a wheezy voice and silver hair stood up and looked at Dumbledore. "When did he disappear and why are we just finding this out now?" the old wizard asked and then sat back down.
"Elphias I have not told all of you this because it would cause a panic that we could not afford to have happen. He disappeared some time after arriving home for the holidays and we have been working very hard to find him. I am telling you this now only because it seems that Voldemort." Most of the people in the Great Hall flinched at his name as Dumbledore said it. "Is gaining in power and his force is growing in size. I fear that he already knows what has happened to Mr. Potter and that is why he is massing such an offensive against us. If I am right then it will only be a matter of time before he tries to take over completely."
"Has there been any luck in locating Harry?" Molly asked while trying her best not to start crying again.
The twinkle in Dumbledore's eyes brightened slightly. "We did have a visitor that seemed to be the only person who could find Harry and he assured us that he would do everything he could to bring him back to us. However we haven't heard anything in a long while about it though."
Hestia Jones a pink-cheeked black-haired witch looked at Dumbledore for a moment before speaking. "This visitor you say you had are you sure he can be trusted to bring Harry back?"
"Hestia this man is the only one who could bring young Mr. Potter back, and I am sure he will." Dumbledore said.
Moody's magical eye was scanning the room as his good eye locked on Dumbledore. "Albus I know you didn't call this meeting just to discuss the missing Potter boy, so could we get to the issue of how Voldemort knows what we are planning before we do it?"
"Ah yes Alastor we should probably speak about that since that is one of the main reasons I brought everyone here today." Albus said as he looked at Moody and then looked at Snape. "Severus have you learned anything about the spy within the Ministry that might be telling Voldemort what we have been planning?"
Severus looked down at the table for a moment and the sneered slightly as he looked at Dumbledore. "No Albus, so far I haven't learned anything about the spy. There was been some talk about someone known as Spion wanting to meet with Voldemort, but that is all I have heard. Since Spion is the person's cover name, I have no idea who he might be or anything about him."
"Alas that isn't much to go on, though I want those of you who can to check into it and see what you can find on this Spion character." Albus said, as he looked at all the members seated at the table.
The meeting drew on as they discussed about the attempted Death Eater raids that had failed and other issues pertaining to the order and its attempts to bring down Voldemort.
August 22, 1996: 1:30 pm
Voldemort Apparated into the darkened room of the safe house where he was to meet Spion. The windows were all magically sealed shut preventing any light from entering the room as well as blocking anyone from being able to see into the house. The only light source was the small flickering of a candle that was placed in the center of a table. Voldemort waited for his eyes to adjust to the dim light of the room and then looked around it looking for the man he was to meet.
"Spion! I am a busy man now show yourself!" Voldemort hissed not liking the games that he was subjected to by this man.
There was a slight laugh that bordered on demonic that seemed to come out of nowhere as a man draped in black stepped out of the shadows enough that a small outline of his being could be seen. "Right on time Voldemort, I like it when people are on time."
Voldemort didn't like the disrespect that he was shown by this man, but he remained calm as he stared at the man's outline. "What did you want me for?"
"I have some disturbing news for you Voldemort." The man hissed mimicking Voldemort's hiss. "That Potter boy is not as dead as I first believed he would be."
"What?" Hissed Voldemort very much enraged.
"It seems that I was miss informed about the spell I gave you. He is trapped in a dimension, but only just. He will soon return and when he does you must be ready for him." The man hissed back at him.
"When will he return and how?" Voldemort hissed still rather pissed.
"He will return in one week and when he does he will not be alone. There shall be two others with him. A man and a woman that will come along with him, but they are not your concern."
"If they are with Potter then they are!" Voldemort hissed even more enraged.
"Fine do as you wish with the woman since she isn't important anyway, but the man with Potter will not be an easy challenge to kill. As I said you must be prepared for their coming, and so I have a few things for you before I disappear."
"Disappear?" Voldemort asked though inside he was a bit glad the man was leaving. The man seemed too powerful for his own good and Voldemort was slightly afraid of him.
"Yes Voldemort I will not be contacting you anymore after this, so you best listen carefully to what I have for you." The man said as he waved his hand and caused rolls of parchment to fly over to the table by the candle.
"How do you know so much about things that haven't happened yet?" Voldemort asked as he watched the parchments land on the table.
"I told you I just know, and I can't tell you how I know. Now listen carefully because if you don't you will fail. Do not speak of me or anything I have given to you to your servant Severus Snape!"
"Why not? He is one of my best Death Eaters." Voldemort hissed getting a bit more irritated.
"Just trust me he doesn't always have your best interest in mind."
"And you do? What do you get out of all this? Why bother helping me when you will not serve me?" Voldemort hissed losing his patience even more with the man who would not join him even after Voldemort promised him he would be his right hand man.
The man laughed as he glared at Voldemort. "Voldemort as I have told you I serve no man! I do what I must to ensure things go as planned and that is all I do. I am not doing this for you I assure you that, but I am honest with you, which is more than you can say about a few of those servants you have. Fate has everything planned out and I am here to make sure that things go according to that plan!"
Voldemort didn't know what to say clearly the man knew what he was talking about and clearly everything he told him so far had been true. Well expect for the spell, but even he said he was wrong and was honest about his mistake.
"Now then Voldemort you see those rolls of parchment on the table?" Spion asked and when Voldemort nodded he continued. "Each of them contains spells that you will need to exact your revenge on Potter and the Light Side. One of the spells there will enable you to bring down all the wards surrounding Hogwarts. I have laid out the exact plan of attack for you and if you follow my instructions then you shall come out of this battle victorious. However if you allow your ego to get in the way and try to do it on your own you will fail and I assure you of that, so I advise following my plan. There is a spell in there that will do nicely for getting rid of the woman with Potter, that is if you are able to hit her with it. She is not going to be an easy target to hit though because she will be very well trained."
Voldemort was once again speechless, he didn't know to be offended by the ego comment or thankful for the spells he was being given, so in the end he decided to keep his mouth shut.
"I assume you have already gotten the Scrolls of Death from Egypt." Spion said in a cold death tone that sent a shiver down Voldemort's spine.
"How? How did you know about those?" Voldemort hissed a bit shocked and scared that this man, a virtual nobody, knew so much about what he was planning.
"I know a lot Voldemort and by your tone I guess I was right that you indeed did send Bellatrix to get them already. This is good because you will need them to distract the Aurors enough before the Battle of Hogwarts."
Voldemort again became silent, which was a change for him since his ego never really gave room for him listening to someone else tell him what to do.
"There is also some plans in there for small battles that will weaken the forces of Light just enough to make them think you are not as powerful as you truly will be. After all you do not want to show off too much power before your major battles. There is also a potion in there that will make a lethal gas, which could come in handy for you in your planning efforts. Though I warn you if you have Snape brew it, be careful about telling him where you obtained it."
"What is your problem with Snape?" Voldemort hissed.
"Like I said he may be loyal to you, but I don't think he is as hell bent of mass murder as you are if you catch my drift."
Voldemort didn't know what to say again. He knew that Snape was a little weak when it came to killing muggles, but he also knew that Snape was completely loyal to him.
"That is all I have for you Voldemort, everything is explained in them rolls of parchment, so I will leave you to contemplate what you will do next." With that there was a slight pop and the man known as Spion was gone.
Voldemort stared at the spot that the man had been standing and then went to collect the parchments before heading back to the peacefulness of his lair.
August 22, 1996: 2:00 pm
Following the Order meeting Dumbledore kept a few of the members back to talk with them privately. Dumbledore looked at Snape with great intent the potions master had been quiet during the meeting only speaking when asked about his information on Voldemort. "Severus I want you to return to Voldemort and see what you can find out about Spion and any connection he might have to the Ministry."
"As you wish Albus." Snape said and then exited out of the Great Hall to go and see what he could find out.
Dumbledore turned to Moody, Kingsley, and Tonks. "I want the three of you to continue checking out the Ministry and see if you can find anything out about our spy. Until we know who it is no plans are to be given out to non order members."
All three nodded and started to walk off but Dumbledore told Tonks to wait behind as the other two Aurors left the Great Hall.
"Tonks my dear I have a special mission for you." Dumbledore said with a slight smile on his face. "I need you to continue checking out Blade and find out what you can about what he does. I must say his unwillingness to join the order is most disturbing to me, and I would like to know why he is so stubborn not to join us."
Tonks nodded and then left the Great Hall to complete the missions she was given by Dumbledore.
Dumbledore walked over and sat down at the table. "It's times like this that I feel so damn old." Dumbledore muttered to Minerva McGonagall, whom was sitting at the table waiting for him.
"It will all work out Albus we will get Harry back and then we will be able to bring down Voldemort." Minerva said without looking at Dumbledore.
"I know my dear, it is just a bit unnerving when I am at such a loss. I do not like being in the dark and so far this summer I have been so far behind Voldemort! He seems to know everything that is going to happen even before we do."
August 22, 1996: 3:00 pm
Tonks Apparated to her apartment where she lived and made her way into the bedroom to see Blade sitting on her bed. She ran over and hugged him tightly and then smiled as she sat down by him. "I missed you." She said as she placed her head on his shoulder.
"I missed you too Tonks. Did everything go as planned?" Blade asked as he ran his hand through her hair.
"Yeah the meeting went as I figured it would and as you guessed Dumbledore asked me to check you out to see what your all about and why you are being so stubborn about not joining his precious order." Tonks said with a slight smile on her face.
"I knew that old fool would be bringing you in on his hunt to bring me under his thumb, but that will not happen any time soon." Blade said with a smug look on his face.
"So tell me did everything go as planned for you today?" Tonks asked still with the smile on her face as she buried her head into his shoulder even more.
Blade held her close to him and kissed her neck lightly. "Yes my dear it did. Everything is in place that needs to be now all we can do is sit back and wait. I think we should take tomorrow off and just stay in bed all day."
"Sounds good to me, I hate not being able to spend a lot of time with you. Between your secret missions for them and my ludicrous missions for the order we don't get many days to ourselves." Tonks said as she enjoyed snuggling close to Blade.
"I know honey, and things will only get more weird once Harry returns. I keep forgetting to tell you that you are a great actress Miss Tonks." Blade said with a slightly evil smile.
Tonks laughed slightly as she looked up at Blade's face. "I was trained very well in deception. Though I do still have a lot of concern for him even if I know he is well. Since you couldn't tell me everything that happens to him. It makes it a bit easier to come off as a concerned Auror when you do naturally are concerned."
"Yes I know and you know I can't explain everything that happens to him. If there is something you need to know then I tell you, but otherwise I must keep a lot outside of council secret. Though I must say if it wasn't for you, most of the plans I have in place would not have come off so well."
"Well let's just hope that everything continues to go as planned since we can't afford for anything to go wrong at this time." Tonks said as she slid over and laid out on the bed. "Now then I think we should get to know each other a bit better before I go tell Kingsley that I can't come to work tomorrow."
August 23, 1996: 12:00 pm
Snape rushed into Dumbledore's office with a very concerned look on his face. "Albus, Voldemort is going to attack Diagon Alley again!"
Albus Dumbledore looked up from his parchment at the excited Snape. "Are we sure they will be there?"
"Yes sir, Voldemort is gathering a small force to attack Diagon Alley in a half hour. I just managed to get away to come and warn you, though I really must get back."
"Very well Severus go back and I will get the Order and Aurors to Diagon Alley to catch them before too many get hurt." Albus said as he watched Snape quickly leave his office and Dumbledore went to his floo to call the order members and inform them what was happening.
August 23, 1996: 12:30 pm (Diagon Alley)
Dumbledore gather all the order members that he could, though he was a bit disappointed that he couldn't contact Tonks. Something about her going away with Blade, but he figured her services were best dealing with getting information from Blade and not going after Death Eaters. The Weasleys were all busy, so they were unable to assist him on this mission, which was understandable. The men in the family were busy working and Molly was busy watching Ron and Ginny.
Kingsley and Moody brought a small force of Aurors, only those that were totally trusted by the order. The small group of Aurors along with the small group of Order members met and then headed into Diagon Alley to await the attack.
At 12:30 right on the button several pops were heard as a small group of Death Eaters entered Diagon Alley. They instantly started to fire killing curses at the Aurors that charged at them dropping about five of them instantly.
The order members that included; Albus Dumbledore, Dedalus Diggle, Elphias Doge,
Hestia Jones, Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall, and Emmeline Vance moved out of their spot to help the Aurors as another round of pops were heard and a second group of Death Eaters appeared behind them.
Two of the Death Eaters instantly sent killing curses at the backs of the order members killing Dedalus Diggle and Hestia Jones on the spot.
Dumbledore swore under his breath. "Its an ambush!" he yelled as he turned and started to send stunners at the Death Eaters behind them.
August 23, 1996: 12:30 pm (Ministry of Magic)
At exactly 12:30 a large group of Death Eaters made their way into the ministry and started to kill all those that they could. Aurors rushed to where they were and were mowed down as they came running down the corridor.
"Get Bones and Mockridge and make sure they don't escape." Came a cold female voice as she fired curses at the Aurors.
The large group of Death Eaters quickly separated into three smaller groups. One group went after the Head of Department of Law Enforcement, Amelia Bones. The second group went after the Goblin Liaison, Cuthbert Mockridge. The final group stayed where they were and continued to fight the Aurors that were coming at them.
August 23, 1996: 12:40 pm (Diagon Alley)
The odds weren't improving much for the Aurors or the Order members that were caught in the ambush in Diagon Alley. The Death Eaters had them pinned down and after the second set showed up they placed Anti-Apparation Wards around them so they couldn't Apparate out.
"We're surround by Death Eaters!" Emmeline Vance shouted as she sent stunners from her hidden location beside a building.
Dumbledore wasn't happy about his current situation, and there didn't look like there was anyway of them coming out of this alive.
Kingsley watched in horror from his position as the Death Eaters slaughtered three more of his squadron of Aurors. Moody's squad wasn't doing much better as he only had four left in his squad.
August 23, 1996: 12:40 pm (Ministry of Magic)
The group of Death Eaters that were fighting with the Aurors was winning without much effort. The Aurors kept using stunners, which gave the Death Eaters an advantage since they could just revive their fallen comrades. The Death Eaters were freely using the Killing Curse, so when an Auror dropped there was no way the Auror was getting back up.
The group that went after Amelia Bones ran into a group of Aurors, which the mowed down with Killing Curses, but when they got to Bones' office they found that she had already escaped.
The Minister of Magic, Arthur Weasley, was evacuated from the ministry along with all those that are members of the Wizengamot as soon as the attack had started.
The third group that was after Cuthbert Mockridge managed to find him right before he could escape and quickly nailed him with a killing curse dropping him to the floor. Once he was dead they headed back down to meet the others.
August 23, 1996: 12:45 pm (Diagon Alley)
At exactly 12:45 the Death Eaters sent one last round of killing curses and then dropped the Anti-Apparation Ward and Apparated out of the Diagon Alley.
Dumbledore was shocked as they all left and breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't think that his order would live through the ambush and in fact he had lost two members. Though the Aurors that had come felt the effects of the ambush the most as they were all about wiped out.
Dumbledore gathered all his members and used the Portkey he made to take them back to Hogsmeade were they proceeded up to the castle to discuss what had happened.
Kingsley and Moody were outraged by what happened. Moody looked at Dumbledore and spoke in a gruff voice. "We were set up and you know it Albus!"
Dumbledore didn't say anything as he believed it too, he didn't know what happened, but it seemed to the rest of the Order that Snape sent them all to their deaths in that ambush.
August 23, 1996: 12:45 pm (Ministry of Magic)
At 12:45 all the Death Eaters within the Ministry pulled out Portkeys and let the ministry after sending out on last wave of killing curses.
Bellatrix was the leader of the operation and went to the throne room to give her report to Voldemort. "Master we managed to kill over half of the Aurors and we killed Cuthbert Mockridge."
"What about Amelia Bones?" Voldemort hissed in a disapproving tone.
"She… she managed to get away with that blood traitor Weasley." Bella said in a low tone and waited for a punishment that never came.
"I should have known she would escape. We shall get her next time then and Bella do not fail me again." Voldemort hissed and then told her to get out of his sight.
August 23, 1996: 1:22 pm
Blade lay in bed holding on to Tonks as she continued to sleep. He looked at her and smiled. 'She survived the first attack, and now all I have to do is make sure she survives the next one.' Blade thought as he glanced at his watch and started to count down the seconds in his mind as he watched the time drawling closer to the time he was waiting for. 'Now we all stop without knowing it.' Blade thought as he watched his watch turn to 1:23 pm