In Serious Shit

"Wait, wait I can explain!", he said desperately and to the rest gathered he added "Over there, we'll be right back."

He motioned for them to follow him and they moved closer to the trees. "Guys listen, I'm sorry! I couldn't tell anyone! Really, Lav, I couldn't tell anyone. I had to do something; you all know how much Voldemort wants me dead." They flinched at the name and given the circumstances he couldn't blame them for that.

"You prat!" Fred and George said in unison.

"Can you imagine how guilty we felt!"-

"For not telling people that you were sneaking out? We thought"-

"You were out of your relative's house to visit us again!" The twins were quite a scary sight. By the end of their rant they were yelling pretty loud. Harry was sure they were going to beat him to a pulp and therefore was very surprised when they squashed him in a bear hug. Lavender didn't seem to know what to say and had taken up a moment of silence. If he thought the truth would make her quiet he would have told her ages ago!

"You bastard! You lied to me!" Ron yelled andhaving pushedFred and George out of the way tackled him to the ground. Harry fell flat on his back. Winded and gasping for air he tried to get Ron off of him. Ron straddled his waist and didn't hesitate to lay down a punch, Ron's fist made contract with his nose and before he could get down another the twins were heaving their brother off him. He rolled over to catch his breath and blood trickled onto the grass. He tasted blood in his mouth and putting his hand under his nose discovered the origin of it. His nose didn't feel broken so he allowed Lavender helped him up.

Ron was still struggling with his brothers but Harry made sure to stay a safe distance away. The other students had run over when they saw the fight, this was no longer a private issue.

"Your uncle eh Darian? I wonder what Sirius would think of that? But wait, doesn't matter, all your family is dead!" Ron said trying to get a rise out of him.

"Don't you talk about Sirius! My parents' is one thing, and bash the Dursley's all ye want. But Sirius stays outta this." Harry said dead serious.

Ron struggled harder and was about to say something nasty when Harry cut him off. "My uncle or not, Remus is always gunna be something to me, but you wouldn't understand that. You take everything you have for granite! In the mirror you saw exactly what you have now, the Prefect badge, captain, hell you would have won the bloody cup! For that matter, you should thank me. If I came back as Harry Potter, I'd have the captaincy."

That put Ron over the edge as he broke free and charged. He had his wand out and ready but didn't get a chance to use it. Ron suddenly stopped and fell back; apparently he had run into a solid albeit invisible wall just away feet from him. Ouch. Ron didn't get back up; he had hit his head on it and was out for now at least.

"Well he had that coming." Fred or George said. (Can't really be sure which one.)

"Um, I'm sure you've got more questions but they can wait until we're safe somewhere private right?" He said to the twins, wiggling his eyebrows. They nodded and he continues to the rest of the group. "Alrighty, Fred and George fix up Ron. I wanna show the rest of you something.

Harry asked them to group together as it would be easier if he didn't have to look in every direction. They did so and he pointed his wand at them, unsure if this was quite the best idea, and before they could decide to move he cried "Obliviate!" It was hard to cast on so many people and left him breathless. They had been learning how to do it in defense but most hadn't gotten it as it took a lot of magic. His victims were dazed for a few moments before they came back to themselves. "Are you all right?" He asked them. "We were under attack, I can't believe you chased them all off!"

"What, who?" Some of them asked.

"You don't remember? Oh good, I mean, really? Too bad, you were amazing. Lavender, you don't remember either?" She shook her head. Harry grinned very pleased with himself (they probably thought someone hit him with an insanity curse) and marched over to the twins and their unconscious brother and whispered "hey guys don't say anything alright?" They could keep a secret. He should have obliviated Ron too but you can't on an unconscious person and besides, it was about time Ron figured it out.

"What happened to your nose mister?" One of the younger students asked as he spat out some blood that had made it's way into his mouth. Ew.

"One of the Death Eaters got me, I'm fine though, heh heh heh." He didn't know how to make it stop bleeding; he'd never had a bloody nose before. Could be a tad problematic.

"Um, that always happens to my brother. He pinches his nose like this ab owers is ad ike dis" another explained. He thought the kid was misinformed. Wouldn't doing that make it bleed more? Feh, he did it just to appease shorty.

"Where's Duo?" He asked no one in particular. When nobody seemed to know he thought back, the last time he saw him was on the way to the clearing, Harry had been running in the lead, Duo must've gone another way. He thought that Duo had sat down behind him, ooops. Well he really had no time to worry about that. He growled with a frustration that was not his own, Voldie was frustrated? That can't be good. Disappointed would be good, angry even, but frustrated meant he needed someones' to take it out on.

One of the students suddenly screamed out and squirmed on the ground in pain. Harry could recognize that spell just by hearing the scream, crucio. Harry instinctively floored himself to the ground and prayed that the tall grass would keep him hidden while everyone else ran in the same direction and close together, they probably thought they were safer that way. Death Eaters ran after them from the forestright past him.

A cry to his left told him the Weasley's were down, they hadn't run but stayed with Ron instead. So there was at least one Death Eater still hiding in the forest. He had to do something. "Scatter!" He yelled as loud as he could. "Separate and run!" He yelled again just in case they didn't get it the first time. Well, he'd given away his position now.

He turned around to see the Death Eater come out and run at him. He stood up and dodged a stunner. He had dropped his wand when Ron had punched him so he took out his first one. The Death Eater came up close, Harry shot a series of cutters and bone breaking curses hoping disable his attacker. He didn't stop to see if any hit as the Death Eater was retaliating. A perfect disarm spell hit his wrist and he dropped his wand which flew straight to his attacker. Growling he back-flipped away till he was at a better distance and retrieved another wand from his robes, the one he had stolen earlier.

"How many fucking wands do you fucking fucked up fucker have!" The death eater asked in a bout of frustration. Although frustration would be an understatement. His voice was deep like Harry's so the Death Eater looked slightly foolish when he stomped his feet. The guy was having a temper tantrum!

Wait, I know that voice Harry thought. "Flint?" He asked in disbelief. "Marcus Flint? Your kidding!"

"Shut up! How do you know my name?" He took off the mask to reveal a man that was unmistakably the former Slytherin Quidditch Captain. "You a Slytherin?"

Harry was tired of talking and attacked strong. Whipping his wand or his head he formed what looked like a really long skipping rope and lashed at Flint. It connected with Flint's side as he had failed to dodge it. Consequently it sent him flying into as ridiculously large tree (seriously it was the biggest and hardest tree for miles, just for Flint) and his head connected with the trunk. Needless to say he did not get up.

Harry ran over to the Weasleys to find Ron in much the same state as he had left him and Fred and George had been stunned. He woke them up and left them with Ron. He was just about to enter the forest hopefully in the direction of Hogwarts when a twin called behind him "See ya Prongs Jr!"

The Death Eater appeared fed up and ripped off his mask. Professor Lupin somehow wasn't surprised, just extremely pissed off. "Snape" he said getting into a battle stance.

"Lupin" he replied, his face impassive. The fight began. It was a brutal thing, there was a lot of hate there even though most of the time both parties tried to ignore the fact. Snape finally went down dead and a very exhausted Remus limped away from the scene.

Remus jumped off his rock (literally, what else was he supposed to sit on) when he saw Harry and ran over to him. "Your hurt" Remus said. It was a statement not a question. Remus didn't look so good himself, Harry noted that Moony had limped over to him and was just exhausted.

"I'm fine" he protested as Moony's finger grazed down his bruised neck. It must have been worse than he thought because Moony didn't even glance at his nose. After he left the Weasleys (he was looking for Hogwarts again hoping to save the school or do something otherwise helpful) he ran into a few problems. He almost got strangled to death for one thing. So by the time he finally got back to the deeper part of the forest he was just a little banged up.

Remsu asked "was it you that made the thunder?"

"Errr, ya sorry about that. At least it didn't rain right?" Harry replied hopefully. The thunder storm had been a complete accident, his emotions were running too high perhaps? In any case his "mistake" had saved his life.

Harry continued "Anyway we need to obliviate the Death Eaters that attacked us, they saw and overheard some things." Remus nodded and together they obliviated them all. More specifically Remus obliviated all but the one Harry did before stealing Remus's sitting rock.

The students wanted to know what they could possibly have overheard as to their knowledge no real conversation had taken place. "We'll talk about that later. I believe it's time we left, don't you agree Darian?" Remus asked.

"Are you nuts?" was Harry's expected reply. "There are still people out there, we have to help them!"

"And how do you propose we do that?" the other teacher asked. Harry didn't know that teachers name but decided that he didn't like said character. "We have children here, including you! We can't help them, and if we leavem, where do we go? We should stay here, wait until we can't here the screaming anymore and pray that we won." Harry saw that there was nothing he could do to sway that person so he said nothing, besides the teacher could always stay behind and baby sit the younger ones.

Turning to the teacher Remus asked "Will you stay here and watch that scum?" He of course was referring to the Death Eaters.

When the professor nodded in the affirmative Remus went on to explain. "Darian has a portkey to my apartment in London. We are going to take it and get out of here. You and the older students should stay here and make sure they don't try anything. When it is safe take them to Albus. If we lose the school, I know it is cold to say this; you'll have to kill them. They are better to us dead than with their master. But I'm sure you knew that."

The teacher had something to say about all this and pointed at Darian "but why does he get to leave?" said the teacher acting like a two year old, minus the drool. Oh, no wait, scratch that. He was like a two year old. Period.

"Because he is injured, because he is my nephew and because I say so. Gotta problem with that?" Remus was an inch from the poor sods face now and glaring hard. The teacher cowered and fell off the log he was sitting on. Wonder if the prat knew Remus was a werewolf?

Remus turned back to everyone looking very satisfied with himself. Then Fred and George arrived with Ron through the woods. "Merlin Ron, lose some weight", one of them complained at their still unconscious brother. That typically isn't a good sign, it had been a long time since that fight. On the topic, after so long a time how did they gather up all the Death Eaters?And get most ofthe kids from the clearing together?

Lavender and the seventh year agreed to stay behind with the teacher. Fred and George claimed that if they were going to die in the war then they were bloody well going to see the last marauders home, it was in their best interest to look after Ron and Harry caught a look from them that said you owe us a conversation.

The rest gathered around Darian and Remus held out the necklace.