The Power the Dark Lord Knows Not
By: lbfan
Edits by: MollyCoddles
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters and background of Harry Potter. JK Rowling, AOL Time Warner, and some publishers own all of it. This story was created for entertainment purposes only. No profit would be made from this.
Chapter 6 – Raid
Harry Portkeyed into a familiar cell in Voldemort's hideout with his wife and his two best friends. Harry was going to check the door, when Ginny's warm touch got his attention. Turning around, Harry noticed Ginny and Ron had their wands out and pointed at a cowering man in the corner. His half-grey thin hair and pointed nose was enough to identify him as his family's traitor, Wormtail. Whimpering, "Please don't kill me," he shivered in the corner, clinging to the stump of an arm where he once had a silver hand.
Rage burned in Harry's eyes as quickly pulled out his wand.
Sensing what he was going to do, Hermione put her hand on his arm and lowered his wand. She gave him a look asking him to spare his life.
Irritated that his best friend denied him his vengeance, Harry turned his interest back to the door.
Before he could touch the door, Wormtail warned him, "Don't open the door. It is trapped."
Harry gave him a glare, then turned back and cast a Trap Detection spell on the door. Just as Wormtail said, there was a magical trap that would trigger once the door was opened. To prevent triggering the trap, Harry transfigured a gaping hole in the door where they could crawl through.
With a silent look shared between Ron and Hermione, they went to work taking care of Wormtail. Hermione conjured a large jar with lid, and Ron cast an unbreakable charm on it. Noticing what they were doing, Ginny commanded Wormtail, "Transfigure yourself back into a rat and crawl into the jar."
Wormtail tried to protest, but he eventually did as he was told. Except, instead of crawling into the jar, he attempted to make a run for it. Without delay, Ron cast a Freezing Charm on him and gruffly threw his former pet rat, Wormtail, into the jar. Hermione screwed on the lid tight, and Ginny put a silencing charm on the jar.
Ron, Hermione and Ginny exited the cell to find Harry disarming a few other traps in the detention hall. Once they cleared the doorway, Ginny called Tonks on the communicator, "Controller, we are cleared from the entry." The only other one who had a communicator with him was Ron.
Harry found a sleeping guard and quickly bound and stunned him.
Team Red One arrived and started setting up a perimeter of defense.
Ron motioned for Harry, Hermione and Ginny to follow him. He quietly led them down some deserted halls. They had to stop once and throw the invisibility cloak over them as they heard some voices approaching from around a corner. Two Death Eaters walked past them and never noticed the exposed feet sticking out from under the cloak.
As the Death Eaters were walking away, Harry and Hermione quietly stunned and bound them. Pulling them into a corner, they cast concealment charms on them.
Ginny stayed close to Harry for security. She was trying not to think about her captivity there.
The four of them eventually found themselves outside the meeting hall. In the hallway, magically preserved heads were displayed on staves. Their gaping mouths and droopy eyes were reminders of the cruelty Lord Voldemort used. Looking at the faces, Harry noticed that some were Death Eaters he once knew. Snape and Draco's heads were among them. He whispered, "They must have been caught. They now only serve as reminders to the others of Voldemort's intolerance to treason."
Ron whispered, "Nagini should be in there." He pointed to the double doors leading into the Hall.
Harry and Ginny took the other side of the doors while Hermione cast a Silencing Charm on them. On the count of three, they opened the doors and snuck into the large hall.
The hall was empty and deathly quiet. Straining his ears, Harry heard a rat scamper across the room.
Harry quickly shot a silent Enlargement Charm at the Rat. It caused the rat to become the size of a large hog. Scared, it could not escape in a hole or under furniture. It instead ran to the back of the massive room.
It was then when they heard it. A sudden snap and the enlarged rat ceased to make a sound. A minute later, they could hear scales rub against the floor as Nagini began to eat her prey. They quietly crept to the back of the room and lit up the room with their wands. Nagini was caught with her mouth full, attempting to swallow the giant rat.
All together, Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron cast the Amoris Copus Spell on the snake. Nagini squealed and squirmed until she eventually split open, sending blood everywhere.
The loud noise from the snake raised the alarm. With his hand on his ear, Ron announced, "It looks like we have trouble! Death Eaters are coming." Ron gave Harry a serious look. "Harry, we can hold them off. You know what you must do."
Harry snapped back, "I'm not going to leave you three alone. We just have to be happy with accomplishing the first task."
Hermione stated, "No Harry, Ron is right. I'll be with him. We can hold them off."
Grabbing his arm, Ginny pulled Harry out the door. "There's no time to waste. We have to end this."
Harry started to object, but they were already out in the hall.
Ginny hissed back, "Shhh." Pulling him by the hand, she headed down the hall to Lord Voldemort's chambers.
Harry took one look back and shared a concerned look with Hermione. They turned and went down the hall in the other direction. I hope they come out of this alive.
Quietly, they took the next right. At the end of the hall was a dead end. Harry cursed under his breath. This was where the room was supposed to be. His hands were sliding across the wall searching for something that that would open up a doorway.
Ginny whispered, "Quickly, someone's coming."
They could hear footsteps rapidly approaching from around the corner.
With no time left, Harry concentrated and Vanished the wall immediately next to him.
Suddenly, a large explosion was heard. Even though it seemed like the other side of the building, the walls shook. That must have been one of the green teams.
Thankful for the distraction, they stepped through the Vanished wall and quickly replaced it.
Harry's scar burned with intensity causing him to cringe in pain. Working through the pain, Harry replaced the wall. He did not notice the spells shot at them.
Fortunately, Ginny did and deflected them with a Shield Charm.
Harry quickly whipped around to see Voldemort glaring at them from the other side of the room. With some quick transfiguration, Harry conjured a stone wall to shield them.
Ginny bellowed, "Tom! Where's my wand?"
Voldemort quickly replied, "Expelliarmus!"
Again, Ginny silently cast a Shield Charm to protect them.
Voldemort hissed his reply, "I treasure your trinket as a reminder of the fun we had together."
She returned a Reductor Curse at him, but missed, hitting the ceiling above him.
Harry shot a Leg Locker Curse that Voldemort blocked easily with a wave of his hand.
Voldemort cringed as debris and dirt fell on him from the blast above his head.
Capitalizing on the distraction, Ginny Banished Voldemort into the wall behind him. She quickly followed up the spell by Banishing an Sickle at him. She had an extra one in her pocket from the earlier battle.
Dazed and out of breath, Voldemort barely cast his Repulsion Charm in time. The Sickle immediately shot back at Ginny.
The coin hit Ginny in the shoulder, sending her falling to the floor screaming.
Desperately, Harry silently cast a Displacement Spell on Ginny making it seem that he slid her behind the stone wall. Harry did not realize it, but his wall was not long enough and Voldemort could still see her image extending out the other side.
Acting quickly, Voldemort yelled, "Expelliarmus!" The spell hit Harry on his side, throwing Harry back into the wall behind him. His wand was stripped from his hand and few back to Voldemort.
Voldemort gloated, holding Harry's wand, "Each time I face you, the fight is a disappointment. You have lost!"
Defiantly, Harry glared back at him and said, "I am not finished!"
With the eye contact, Voldemort searched into Harry's mind and saw some glimpses of others in the building with him.
Harry immediately detected the intrusion pushed up his Occlumency shields. He kicked himself for not properly using Occlumency. Again, he made a mistake that endangered everyone else.
"Yes, you are done." Voldemort commanded, "Fall on your knees and kneel to me."
Maintaining his shields, Harry answered, "No!"
"You will kneel to me!" Voldemort hissed. "Imperio!"
The sense of weightlessness and dreamlike bliss came over him. In his head, Harry could hear the command "Kneel!" no… just say no…
"NO!" Harry yelled. He successfully threw off the curse.
Raging mad, Voldemort screamed, "Then you will die! Crucio!"
Harry fell to the ground, writhing as every nerve of his body sent signals of intense pain streaming to his brain all at once. He could not help but scream in the overwhelming agony.
Voldemort lifted the curse shortly afterwards. It was not his intention to kill him quite yet. There was too much fun to still be had.
Harry lifted his eyes to meet Voldemort's gaze. He saw the consuming hate and evil emanating from his eyes.
With Harry's defenses low, Voldemort attempted to break into his mind a second time. This time, he found what he was looking for. He saw the plans and friends.
Voldemort cackled, "You are weak. Because of you, everyone will die." A cruel smile stretched across his face as he looked over where Ginny lay. I'll start with your precious wife. Avada Kedavra!"
Harry could only watch as the jet of green light streamed over to the other side of the rock wall where her image was seen. The unquenched power of the spell hit the floor and exploded sending rock and debris falling over him and Ginny.
Following Voldemort's eyes, Harry could tell that he found Ginny's true location. The dirt lightly outlined her body lying in growing pool of blood.
Harry crawled to place himself between Voldemort and her.
Voldemort seethed. "You think you are so clever? You don't get it! You are going to die. She is going to die. All your friends are going to die. By coming here, you have given me the victory! Now everyone will know that I am the greatest wizard to have ever lived!"
Harry's scar seared with pain as Voldemort's hostile anger flared. Harry exclaimed, "Dumbledore was far greater than you will ever be."
"You lie!" Voldemort screamed.
A flash of flame erupted in the air and Fawkes flew into the room clutching a hat in his talons. Fawkes sang a few notes sending Voldemort cringing in fear and lifting Harry's spirits. The phoenix flew in front of Harry, dropping the Sorting Hat on the floor.
Harry quickly reached inside the hat.
Noticing his quick movements, Voldemort pointed his wand at Harry and cried, "Avada Kedavra!" The stream of green light streamed towards Harry, but stopped short when Fawkes flew into the path taking the ray of death for him. Fawkes dead form fell to the ground and burst into flames.
A tear ran down Harry's cheek as he realized another loved one died to save him.
Voldemort seethed. "You ran out of protectors Potter. There is no way out. Now, it is finished." Voldemort raised his wand to cast the final blow.
Harry heard the faint voice of Ginny, "I love you, Harry." Instantaneously, Harry was infused with feelings of love as he thought of Ginny and his love for her.
In direct response to the intense emotion Harry was experiencing, Voldemort heaved over and wretched on the floor.
Pulling the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat, Harry strode over and raised it in the air.
Voldemort gasped for breath.
With a swift movement, Harry swung the sword down over Voldemort's neck, severing his head off cleanly. The head and body fell into the pool of bile on the floor.
With his body still protesting in pain, Harry quickly gathered up his wand and ran over to Ginny. Relief flooded through him as he could sense that she was still alive. He immediately started to heal her as best he could. The Canadian training he received on healing was starting to pay off. Out of his backpack, he pulled out Pain-Relief and Blood-Replenishing Potions. One by one, he gave her potions and cast necessary spells until convinced that she was stable enough to move.
Tucking the sword in his belt and the hat on his head, Harry gathered up the small phoenix hatchling out of a pile of ashes and placed it in his pocket. Harry pulled the communicator out of Ginny's ear and inserted it into his own. He knew he had to get them out now.
"Brown team to Controller, the deed has been done. The second goal is complete. Evacuating wounded."
Tonks's voice filled his earpiece. "Wotcher, Harry! Well done! All Teams take defensive positions and start pulling out. Blue Four prepare to meet Brown on corridor 6A and bring them to safety."
Another voice filled the earpiece, "Blue Four to Controller, corridors 5 and 6 are filled with Death Eaters! We can't break through!"
Pulling out the map, Harry studied it for a while before announcing, "Brown to Controller, it is alright. Brown will find a way out. Expect us on corridor 4 in five."
Harry started to hear screams of protest, but he pulled the earpiece out of his ear.
With his wand out Harry gathered Ginny up in his arms and headed over to the far wall. With a wave of his wand, a section of the wall vanished to allow him to step through.
The adjacent room was an empty dining area. Quietly, he made his way across the room to the far wall. It was tiring carrying his injured wife, cradled in his arms.
With another wave of the wand an additional passage was created. This time the room was occupied. Luckily, the blond haired occupant was just as startled as he was.
Harry quickly cast "Incarcerous!" Ropes shot out and bound Lucius Malfoy.
Malfoy screamed, "I'll kill you Potter!"
From the looks of it, Malfoy was busy filling bags with gold and attempting to make a break for it.
Harry replied, "I don't have the time for you now, Malfoy."
He ran out of the door into the quite hallway. There was fighting down at the end of the hall and Harry made a run for it. He approached the group of Death Eaters from behind and yelled, "Hurry! Malfoy's in the treasury stealing all the gold!" They quickly turned around, and between Harry and the other order members, the Death Eaters were all stunned. Harry continued his way past the line of fighting towards the port keys and safety.
Looking nearly dead, Neville stopped Harry. "Here, take this." He handed Harry Ginny's wand. At Harry's questioning look, Neville explained, "Luna and I were imprisoned here as well. Unfortunately, Luna wasn't treated as well as I and is nearly dead. You better go. I've got your back." Seeing Harry's concerned look, Neville urged him. "Go on! Don't worry about me, I'll be alright."
As he approached the detention hall, Harry was greeted by Moody. Moody grunted into his earpiece. "Brown team has arrived at the Portkey. All teams pull back." He put a Portkey on Ginny and activated it with his wand.
The next thing Harry knew, he was thrown to the ground in middle of the camp. Harry cursed Portkey travel and gathered Ginny back up into his aching arms. He took her directly to their tent. He gently placed her on their bed. Harry called out, "Dobby!"
He continued to re-assess her condition when Dobby popped into the room.
Excited, Dobby hugged Harry's leg. "Dobby knews yous come back." Dobby suddenly noticed that his mistress had been critically injured and bit his lip in attempts to hold back his tears. "Does the great Harry Pottter need his Dobby?"
Harry stopped what he was going to pull out a phoenix hatchling out of his pocket. "Dobby, please gently place Fawkes on the ashtray of his perch."
Dobby carefully set the baby bird on the perch and returned to Harry's side.
"Dobby, have you any experience in nursing the sick and wounded?"
Dobby vigorously nodded. "Oh yes, many times my old masters had to heal from injuries at home instead of a hospital. Sometimes young master and mistress would have to be heals from their punishments they received."
It sickened Harry to think of the cruelty with which Lucius Malfoy treated his family. He cleared his mind and continued. "Dobby, Ginny has been injured with a coin like we shot at the werewolves. There are two wounds, one on the front and one in the back." Harry showed him where they were.
"I expect that it will take days to heal before she even becomes conscious. Please take care of her. She will need to be medicated, fed, cleaned and turned. Take extra care of her shoulder. I just recently healed the clavicle together."
Dobby assured him. "Don't worry Master. Dobby wills take good care of his mistress."
After he was sure that she was settled and safe, he collapsed and fell asleep next to her, his hand draped across her waist.
Alarms sounded, pulling Harry out of his deep slumber. It was early morning. It has to be the Ministry.
Harry quickly checked over Ginny to make sure she was fine. After giving her a quick kiss on the cheek, he gathered his cloak and wand and ran out of the tent to join the battle.