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Harry Potter: To The End

Chapter 2 – The beginning of the end.

Harry Potter was depressed. It was mere hours since Dumbledore's funeral and he was sitting on the Hogwarts express with his faithful friends. Hermione was seen reading a book and every once and a while she would sneak a peak over the edge at Harry shooting him furtive glances. Ron was snoozing with his head against the window sill. Ginny was absentmindedly stroking Crookshanks looking very deep in thought. All the while Harry Potter had his head against the window, but unlike his best mate, he wasn't in a world of dreams, he was thinking about how he was going to take life into his own hands.

About how he was going to get his revenge on the people that have caused the most damage to the magical community. Top of his list of course was Voldemort, that was easy, second was that greasy git Snivellus, oh he had a very special plan for the next time he finds Snape. Then of course Bellatrix Lestrange. After them, the dark order will fall upon itself and they will be caught quickly. But before dealing with Voldemort he must find the Horcruxes and destroy the parts of his immortality, then deal the stunning blow.

Harry Potter suddenly felt elated, and extremely happy, he felt an intense pleasure that wasn't connected with his own feelings. The laughter was ringing in his ears and he couldn't take it anymore.

All of the sudden with a mighty slap across the face Ron got him back to the present. Harry quickly sobered up and glared at Ron.

"What the bloody hell did you do that for," Harry said, fuming.

Everyone was staring at him as if he was fluffy with three heads.

"You suddenly went all stiff and started laughing like the window was the most funniest thing in the world, only it wasn't a normal laugh, there was something weird about it," Ron said slowly looking at his friend with worried eyes.

Harry, suddenly remembering why he felt so elated jump up and whipped out his wand.

"It was Voldemort, death eaters are on going on the train," Harry said quickly running to the door and slamming it open.

"Not now," Harry though desperately, getting into a flaming rage. He knew it was useless to get angry now and lose control but he was sick of this life, sick of having to defend yourself when you're supposed to be free.

Harry decided to try something he never tried before on purpose. He channeled the anger he felt, the injustice of it all, and the grief he'd been feeling ever since Dumbledore took that hateful curse to the chest and then something strange happened. Everything was clear and he knew what to do.

As soon as he got into the hall he could hear the screaming of people and knew the death eaters where on board. He charged down the hall recklessly with Ron and Neville at his back, Ginny and Hermione bringing up the rear.

A death eater was rapidly approaching in the opposite direction; Harry kept running until he was face to face with him. Then he realized who it was.

"Wormtail," Harry spat disgusted with the figure in front of him.

Wormtail seemed slightly nervous, he had no backup. "Figures," Harry thought, "That's how he used my father."

"Expelliarmus!" Harry cried out focusing on the grief this one person caused.

Wormtail dodged to the side slamming into the glass of one of the train compartments, breaking it and making the people occupying the compartment scream.

Harry leveled his wand but changed his mind and shouted, "Protego!"

A darkly orange to black colored curse shot by Wormtail bounce off it and went straight back at him with Harry's perfect aim.

The curse caught its mark and suddenly Wormtail started shrieking in pain for no apparent reason.

Collapsing in a heap on the floor Wormtail was still writhing in pain. Harry silenced him and bound him without even thinking of what he was doing and tried a new charm he was learning just for when he met Pettigrew again.

"Immoabeo!" Harry shouted at Wormtail.

Ron was the first to ask, "What did you just do to him?"

"Charm I've been looking for, it will make sure for the next twelve hours there is no way he can transform into his stinking rat form." Harry replied not taking an eye off of Wormtail.

Harry grabbed Wormtail and dragged him into an empty compartment and decided to shut the door on his leg rather hard.

"Woops, 'scuse me Wormtail missed my footing. You know, speeding train and all," Harry replied with a sense of amusement in his voice.

"Oh yeah, and just so you don't get any smart ideas, Petrificus Totalus!" Harry said pointing his wand at Wormtail.

Harry slammed shut the door this time, not on his foot, and placed a locking charm on the door. He will have Wormtails head, and he won't be getting away anytime soon.

Suddenly there was a battle raging down the hallways as both students from Dumbledore's Army and the Order of the Phoenix battling death eaters in every direction.

With a sudden cry of pain Tonks hit the floor with a thud, dead or unconscious, but he pushed those thoughts out of his head for now.

Harry charged into the death eater and started where Tonks left off with the duel against this vile piece of scum. Swishing and flicking his wand back in forth in some complicating rhythm he dueled as fiercely as he ever had before but it still wasn't enough, but that didn't stop the death eater from upping the stakes.

Through a compartment door the death eater grabbed a young girl, first year by the look. Then suddenly Harry saw her face and remembered who she was. She was a first year Gryffindor. Lilliana he thought her name was. She was thin and small with black long hair that reached past her shoulders and piercing blue eyes that looked at him in terror.

He remembered helping her with homework a few times in the common room. His rage built ten fold because of her involvement.

Then the hated voice of Lucius Malfoy shouted through the mask, "Potter, hand over your wand and come alone and I'll let her go."

Harry knew at once that he would not let anyone get killed and he could work some escape route out some other time, he dropped his wand to the floor at the same time Lillian shouted, "Harry no!"

He gave her a cheeky grin but felt it was probably seemed quite forced. The shouts were dying down now and another death eater came up from behind putting a wand to Harry's head.

"Let go of her and let her go back into the compartment." Harry said through gritted teeth.

Lucius summoned Harry's wand then complied letting go of the sobbing girl. A thought instantly formulated in his mind's eye, only it seemed really reckless but for some reason he knew it would work.

He charged forward acting as if he was about to knock down Lucius but dropped to the floor the instant he saw surprise flicker on the death eaters eyes behind his mask. Lucius and the other death eater acted at once, both shrieking, "Avada Kadavra!"

Harry opened his eyes to find Lillian shaking him awake, her tears falling on him. He looked at her through half closed eyes and a splitting headache.

"What happened?" Harry asked.

Lillian shrieked when she noticed he was awake and Harry groaned from the loudness of it. "Oh, I'm so sorry you just scared me, are you okay? Merlin you're bleeding everywhere."

Harry barely understood what she was saying due to the dull throb in the side of his head, and then he knew no more.

Harry was in a deep black hole that was quite empty. He didn't know how he got here but he wanted to get out of it, slowly but surely he felt himself moving. Then slowly he opened his eyes.

"Hospital Wing, figures." Harry thought, he looked to the side to see his faithful friends once again all camped out around him in various forms of slumber. Then his eyes came across Lilliana who was sleeping in a chair with her head laid against the side of Harry's bed.

Lilliana suddenly awoke when she felt someone's eyes on her and she started to tear up when she saw it was Harry looking at her groggily.

"How come you're here?" Harry asked softly, his voice raspy.

"Because it's my fault your hurt, and I wanted to thank you and make sure your all right and-" Lilliana babbled softly while she started sobbing again.

Harry put his hand over hers efficiently silencing her, she kept staring at him through tear stained eyes obviously shaken up over the close call they had both had.

"Hush, it's in the past now and the past cannot hurt you unless you let it." Harry told her gently rubbing her hand. She started to sob more and attacked him with a fierce hug reminiscent of Molly Weasley. Harry rubbed her back gently soothing the young Gryffindor gently.

Once Lilliana gained some control of her emotions, Harry asked if he could have his glasses back. Nodding, Lilliana put them on for him and Harry's world came into perfect view. Wiping her tears he asked "What happened?"

Lilliana complied instantly spilling out everything she knew in a rush, "Well death eaters got into the train and attacked, nobody good was killed, it was more of a scare tactic, well that's what one of the Ministry people said, a guy named Peter was caught and the only deaths were those two death eaters that had you. But I guess you lost your balance and fell into a window, and the glass that broke sliced your head and you have a skull fracture. Madam Pomfrey said you should stay for at least a week."

At this Harry groaned out loud making Lilliana giggle. "Don't worry," she replied, "I'm going to stay with you for as long as you have to,"

Harry cut her off and told her she didn't need to do that but the young witch had her mind set. Harry was touched deeply that she would just throw what ever she was going to do and stay with him.

"Thank you," Harry's said, his voice crackling not because it was raspy, but because of the emotion he couldn't quite place.

Lillian looked down and mumbled, "It's the least I could do,"

And this is how it started, for the next week Lilliana hardly ever left Harry's side unless it was to sleep or shower and change clothes. Hermione, Ron and Ginny also hardly left Harry's side but Lilliana was the one who spent the most time with him.

Doing anything and everything, talking throughout the night and playing games like Chess and Exploding Snap. Harry was getting stronger with each and every passing day.

Harry and Lilliana started to share a certain bond, but it wasn't anything that Harry had ever felt before. He certainly felt a friendship with the loyal girl, but it wasn't just that, he felt more like an adult then he ever did. As if he was a teacher and she a pupil. But he didn't think about it much, he really didn't think about anything much anymore.

Halfway during his medical stay, while showing Lilliana how to put up a shield incase she ever needed it, a burst of orange and red flame appeared before their eyes and Fawkes gently landed in front of Harry instantly startling the young wizard.

Lilliana jumped back with a look of fear on her face. Harry gently started to pet the beautiful birds golden feathers and asked, "What are you doing here Fawkes?"

"It's okay Lilliana, this is Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix." Harry said when he noticed how fearful Lilliana had become of the bird.

Lilliana shakily put a hand out and gently started to pet Fawkes who trilled happily in response. Lilliana smiled and started to pet Fawkes more enthusiastically.

Suddenly something very strange happened, Fawkes stood and looked straight at Harry and turn his head slightly staring into his eyes. Harry, having studied Occlumency while in the Hospital Wing, felt something enter his mind.

"Hello Harry Potter," a voice trilled into his mind. Instantly he knew it was Fawkes. He spoke back, "Hi Fawkes?" All the while Lilliana was staring at him oddly because of his sudden change in facial features.

"I've chosen you as my next wizard to bond with." Fawkes explained. "I became Dumbledore's familiar when I was just a young phoenix and stayed with him since." But before Harry could ask the phoenix elaborated, "A familiar is the form of a magical animal that bonds with a wizard, and thus increasing his magical power and sensitivity to magic. Dumbledore was a very powerful wizard and as his former familiar, I have his power which I will now transfer to you. That is if you will have me as your familiar, Harry Potter." Fawkes finished with a slight nod to him.

Harry replied shakily, "Er, if you want to Fawkes I would love you to be my familiar, does that mean you'll be staying with me?"

"Yes, Harry Potter." Fawkes trilled happily in reply. "Let me begin the transfer of the power."

Still staring intently at Harry, Fawkes started to glow bright red and burn up causing Lilliana flinch back her hand before she got burned.

Harry felt something stir within him, as if a phoenix sprang to life inside of his stomach and was trilling happily in reply to Fawkes phoenix song. Then Harry started to glow bright red and then it all ended. But Harry hardly noticed, he felt this unbelievable surge of magic flow through his veins, it was almost overwhelming. The phoenix in him trilled louder and louder until all he heard was phoenix song. Then Harry passed out and knew no more once again.