Author Note: And inspiration has struck and we are back to this.
When Harry and Luna returned to the castle they found Hermione and the others suiting up in the room of Requirement. "Whats going on?"
"Snape was called away to a meeting of the Death Eaters. Apparently all of them will be there. So we are going to raid Millicent's home and uh. Deal with her father."
Harry nodded and began to gather his gear. Luna joined him. "So what is the plan?"
"Well Millicent will help us get into the manor, then she'll have to stand by while we set things up to render him non-hostile." Hermione stated.
"Who's going to watch Margaret?" Harry asked quickly.
"Hannah will." Susan said pulling her headset on.
"Will it be done with extreme prejudice?" Luna asked while zipping into the bodysuit.
"You've been talking to uncle Bill a bit too much." Hermione laughed strapping the utility belt on.
"He is a very interesting person that has done a lot of exciting things. His aura is borderline gray. However he is a good person." Luna observed.
Hermione nodded, "Yeah he is. Okay everyone equipment check get ready to go. On the bounce in five."
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The teams landed in a small woods on a rise outside of a Gothic Victorian manor house after they had snuck out of the castle through a tunnel the Room had provided for them. The house was bordered by a wrought iron fence on a low stone wall, which Millicent had briefed them was the border of the wards. The house was protected by anti-apparate, and the floo was password protected to just him. She did not even have the ability to use the floo.
Sweeping outward they moved towards the fence, once they got near a pair of Great Danes, one white with black spots and one pure black, came charging out barking and growling. Millicent tried to calm them down but they did not respond.
"I'm sorry, they must smell you guys." Millicent said with a frown.
Luna stepped forward and began to sing, a soft lullaby causing the dogs to focus on her and stop barking. They soon laid down and with a tongue lolling yawn fell asleep.
"Nice job Luna." Harry whispered.
"Thank you Harry. They should be asleep for a while." She said.
Hermione had examined the fence and noticed the points along the top of it had been sharpened into spiked points. "I don't think just leaping over the fence would be a good idea."
"There is a gate just a little bit that way." Millicent pointed.
"Okay."
Reaching the gate Hermione and Luna worked on breaking through the wards without activating any of them. It was difficult but they managed to do it. Millicent had not been allowed by her father to know the method to open it.
Carefully moving up the path they soon reached the front doors. Millicent did know how to open them and soon had the doors unlocked and open. She said she could go out into the yard with her sister as much as she wanted when she was home. Leaving team two outside to guard the place team one went on.
Entering the house carefully they saw that it was decorated in late Victorian creepy as Seamus described it. Large paintings hung on the walls unmoving as far as Hermione could tell but the eyes seemed to move following them.
"Okay spread out, find anything useful to help take down the other Death Eaters. Set the bombs with a thirty minute timer." Hermione ordered as everyone scattered. Neville and Millicent headed for her father's office, Luna and Lavender went upstairs while Harry and Hermione moved towards the cellar. Millicent warned that was where her father conducted his experiments and the examinations of them
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Hermione managed to bypass the wards, alarms and locks on the door, slowly pushing it open they saw solid steps leading down into a dark room that smelled of antiseptics.
Turning the lights on they carefully made their way down the stairs into a white sterile chamber. Hermione recognized the one piece of furniture as a female pelvic exam chair with the stirrups, the shackles though were not the usual sort of accessory.
There was a cabinet with all sorts of tools and such for examinations, operations, any kind of medical procedure that would be required, in the Victorian era. Hermione recognized some of them as classical antiques like a Liston Knife, Harry seemed to not know what most of the things were used for but did not like the way they looked.
Harry and Hermione moved through the examination area into a back corridor which led to four rooms, two on either side and another door at the end of the corridor.
"So which door first?" Harry asked quietly.
"End of the corridor first then we work our way back. Look for a good place to put the bombs."
Harry nodded.
Carefully opening the last room the smell of burnt ashes and some kind of cooked meat permeated the air. Entering the room carefully they saw a large set of cranked grinding wheels, a furnace of some kind and a stack of boxes to the right.
Hermione suddenly gasped as she realized what the room was and took two of the bombs from her pouch placing one on either side of the furnace.
"Is this what I think it is?"
"Well they sure don't make meat pies here." Hermione growled.
"I hope." Harry replied darkly looking around.
"Let's see what those other four rooms are. Then get out of here. I've got the timers set for 30 minutes." placing the bombs by either side of the furnace she called out over the comm-net, "2 eggs set 30 on the clock." Everyone else signaled their confirmation.
Checking the other four rooms showed that they were actually cells that had held beings at some point. They were empty at the moment fortunately, Hermione found some names carved into the wood, one of the cells had part of the bed gnawed upon, the others just felt like a dark and sad energy had been in them.
"He must have kept prisoners for his experiments that he did in the lab." Harry said.
Hermione nodded grimly as they took a second look in the lab end of the exam room. They found a potions setup, and the usual sort of wizarding equipment but they also found some obstetrical tools and syringes. Hermione frowned as she found some reference books on eugenics and muggle genetics. Some of the books had titles in German with swastikas on the spine, others had the symbol of Grindelwald and a rare few had both. She usually did not approve of destroying books but felt that she would be forgiven for allowing these to be removed from the world. Then she thought and placed them carefully in the bag. They might have evidence or lead to a way to reverse the darkness. Understanding your enemy does not mean you have to think or act like them.
They had been in the house for almost 45 minutes by this point and there was only 15 minutes left on the bomb timers when Katie's voice from outside called out over the communicator, "We have company coming. You might want to work on getting out."
"Understood." Hermione replied followed by Luna. When Neville did not reply Hermione turned and jogged up the stairs with Harry right behind her.
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Luna and Lavender reached the top floor, they had found Margaret's small room which was right next to what was obviously Millicent's. Luna opened a messenger bag she had been carrying and began to clean the rooms out. Pictures, books and clothes all went into the bag. There were a few dolls and toys in Margaret's room.
Millicent's room held few items in it. The clothes were basic and not at all the sort one would expect the daughter of a pure-blood family it seemed like. Luna and Lavender shrugged and cleaned the room out of the personal items as it was not their place to judge.
The found a room that had a locked door, Luna frowned as she listened for a moment before unlocking and opening the door.
Lavender gasped as she looked into the room to see a female laying on the bed. She had a hugely distended abdomen that looked like she had a small weather balloon inside her.
Rushing to the bedside Lavender began to cast diagnostic spells on the woman. A hand pushed itself against the woman's skin making her groan.
"She has an. I don't know what is going on. We need to get her to a full healer. I've got no idea what to do." Lavender worriedly shook her head at Luna.
Luna examined the woman, "Calm down Lavender. If we move her what do you think will happen?"
Lavender didn't know for certain what would happen. The woman looked like she was in her twenties and was obviously under spell or potion effects keeping her alive and unconscious. Her abdomen though was stretched tightly, blue veins visible against the pale skin.
Hermione's voice came over their comm-sets "2 eggs set 30 on the clock."
Luna acknowledged it but did not tell them what they found, "We will need to move her."
"Yeah. Help me get her covered and out of here."
The two girls began to transfigure the blankets into a shift to cover the girl and levitating her ahead of them moved out of the room. Katie's voice from outside called out over the communicator, "We have company coming. You might want to work on getting out."
Luna heard Hermione's confirmation and replied, "We are on our way." When she didn't hear Neville's reply Lavender looked grim but concentrated on getting the victim they had found out. Before she left Luna took the two bombs Hermione had given her and after setting their timers for a number that felt appropriate tossed them into the room.
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Neville followed Millicent as she led the way to her father's office. He managed to unlock the office door and defeat the wards. "A bit paranoid isn't he?"
"You have no idea." Millicent whispered nervously.
"Are you okay?" Neville asked in concern.
"I've never been in here and his orders to me. I feel funny. Like I shouldn't be doing this."
"Okay. You just do what you can. If you need to stay out here and watch that's okay." Neville said.
She leaned against the doorway watching down the hall as Neville entered the office to examine the various books and drawers for information that would help them in their battles. He had been placing books in the messenger bag Hermione had expanded. She had said that anything that looked interesting should be grabbed. He had been emptying the bookshelves when Hermione called out over their communicators: "2 eggs set 30 on the clock."
"Acknowledged." He said. Pulling the bombs out of his pouch he placed one under the desk and one in a filing cabinet. Activating their timers he went to the filing cabinet in the corner.
He had his back to the door, so when he felt a spell hit him causing his legs to collapse he was surprised. The male voice that spoke though was harsh and unfortunately cheerful.
"Ahh finding what you were looking for little invader? One of those friends of Potter that have become rather annoying eh?"
Neville felt himself being levitated and rolled over. He saw Millicent standing beside a medium height heavyset man. She was shivering slightly as her eyes looked at Neville in fearful worry. Neville felt like a rag doll in the spell.
"Ahh I think you'll make a very effective breeding partner. Maybe Millicent will serve a useful purpose after all."
Neville choked out through strangled vocal chords, "Millie. Help me."
The man laughed as he reached over to Millicent and put his arm around her. "Oh Millicent can't help. She's a dutiful obedient little girl. Aren't you Millicent?" He asked.
"Yes father." She said in a flat monotone.
"Now where are you friends. I'm sure you were not stupid enough to come here alone." He asked.
"Fuck. You." Neville choked out trying to spit on the man.
"Well let's go for a walk shall we?" He cheerfully said levitating Neville ahead of him down the corridor.
Neville was trying to activate his communicator when he heard Katie's voice from outside calling out over the communicator, "We have company coming. You might want to work on getting out."
He wanted to say something but knew they would come if he did not. He wanted to warn them but couldn't.
He saw Hermione and Harry come out of the cellar and freeze staring at his floating form.
"Ahh there they are. Now behave. Drop your wands or your friend dies." The man ordered.
"Gavin Bulstrode I presume." Harry said politely, "You hurt our friend you will not enjoy the results."
Gavin chuckled, "Millicent put your wand to the back of Longbottom's skull."
Millicent jerkily drew her wand and moved slowly forward raising her arm slowly, hesitantly like she was resisting as hard as she could, she placed her wand tip against the back of Neville's skull.
"Now drop your wands or I will have Millicent kill him." He ordered.
Hermione nodded to Harry and carefully placed her wand on the floor in front of her. Harry reluctantly did the same but with a scowl at Gavin. "Fine, I don't know what this proves."
"That you are helpless. You have no wands and no matter how talented you think you are without your wands you're helpless children trying to play an adult's game." he sneered.
Hermione slid her right arm behind her back at her waist, "You're wrong Bulstrode. We are not as helpless as you might think."
"Oh the old spare wand tucked into your belt trick eh? So what. Using a wand that isn't attuned to you doesn't do as well and you can only be attuned to one wand at a time." he sneered.
Hermione drew the Webley revolver and pulled the trigger. A loud explosion rocked the corridor as the pistol launched its round at Bulstrode with a flare of flame and light exiting the barrel. He waved his wand shouting Protego! Only for a sudden expression of shock to cross his face. She pulled the trigger again and once more causing two more blooms of red to exit his back as the high velocity pieces of lead penetrated his body then left it.
He crumpled to the floor in a stinking mess as Millicent slumped. The spell that had been holding Neville vertical failed causing him to fall to the floor. His legs limp rubber bands.
"Millicent?" Harry shouted as the big girl knelt beside Neville breathing hard.
"What?" She shouted as she had not been wearing their communicators.
Harry gave her a thumbs up which she returned with a confused expression. Harry checked Neville quickly and he seemed to be merely passed out so he grabbed the boy and started to fireman carry him out of the house.
They ran into Luna, Lavender and their rescue at the front doors. They heard a small firefight going on outside which gave them a brief concern but knowing that six bombs were quietly ticking away inside the house motivated them to get outside.
Hermione fired until she clicked on an empty chamber. A pair of Death Eaters had gone down but had not gotten back up.
Dropping into a crouch next to Katie she called out, "What's going on?"
"Well seems like he brought a few friends home with him. The two you took down and three more over there." Katie gestured towards a small copse of trees that had one burning.
"Great. We must have missed a ward or something." Hermione spat reloading the revolver.
"We are on the wrong side of an anti-apparate one by the way." Harry pointed out needlessly.
"What's with the blimp?" Seamus called out over the comms.
"The victim of his experimentation was in an upstairs bedroom." Lavender growled, "We were not going to leave her behind to die."
"Okay we have like two minutes before the bombs go off. So let's figure out how we are all going to get out of here and not die." Harry reminded everyone.
Luna thought for a moment then jumped up and cast a spell that started digging a very deep hole, dirt flew over the wall in the direction of the Death Eaters. Soon the hole had begun to turn outwards and a large cavity was reaching out from under the wall. She declared over the comms, "Into the hole everyone." And slid in, with the two dogs leaping in to follow her when she lowered the mike and whistled. When she reached the bottom she cast the same spell making the dirt vanish in a tunnel that moved further away from the house.
Harry and Hermione provided cover as everyone moved into the tunnel. Millicent taking Neville and carrying him while lavender and Katie levitated the grossly pregnant female down. The other boys followed quickly.
Harry was firing a spell over the wall and almost got his arm caught by a gout of green fire, "You know sure would be nice to have some grenades right now."
"Well sorry. I'll put some on my shopping list next time I get a chance." She replied strongly. "Time to get down the hole." She said diving down while pulling Harry with her.
The Death Eaters who had been fighting them came towards the wall, now that the fountain of dirt had stopped, only for a brief multiple kawthump noise to occur that merged suddenly into a rushing roar as the expanding shards, particles and vaporous plasma that was the Bulstrode Manor accelerated at them violently.
Two of the Death Eaters froze but the more experienced one leapt into an apparate abandoning his two companions to be reduce to their component atoms.
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Landing in Grimmould the teams got Neville and the unknown female to the triage room quickly. Lavender and Katie began to check them while the rest of the team stood by trying to calm down from the combat jitters. Millicent hovered near Neville.
Remus served some tea and helped the teams get their gear sorted out. "So how did it go?"
"Well we got a bunch of information and items. Destroyed his house and killed him. Maybe took out a few more. I wonder how those bombs worked."
"Yeah what were those things?" Harry demanded, "Just before we apparated out it looked like the sun had come up."
"Well they were a magically enhanced version of something called a Thermobaric device. The military uses them for, uh well massive damage infliction." Hermione explained. "They basically vaporize the target through the application of sudden over pressurization due to vaporized fuel being detonated."
Harry looked at her worried, "You mean we were running around carrying six of those things that could have vaporized us?"
She shrugged, batting her eyes cutely, "They had an adequate safety margin."
Harry nodded, not sure about his girlfriend but not wanting to argue with her.
Dobby cleared his throat, "Mister Harry Potter sir. Mister Dumbledore wants to speak with Harry Potter in the floo."
"Alright. Tell him I'll be right there." Turning to Hermione he said, "Let me know when you find out about Neville and that girl."
"Okay."
Harry went down to the floo, "Yes sir?"
Albus looked at him with a smile, "Ahh Harry I was wondering if you could come through and speak with me a moment."
"I suppose so. We haven't had a chance to get back I'm sorry."
"Oh I understand there is only myself and Severus in the office. So no need to bother changing out yet." Albus said with a smile.
"Understood." Harry said, he briefly dropped the mike on his communicator. "Hermione I'm going to Hogwarts monitor me."
"Okay. Is everything alright?" she asked in a tone of readiness.
"Yeah. Dumbledore and Snape want to talk to me."
"Oh good. He must have heard about the attack." She sounded happy, "Ask him how the bombs worked."
"Certainly." Harry said tepidly. Raising his mike he looked at Dumbledore's patient visage, "I'll come through now."
"Oh good."
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Harry stepped out of the floo in the headmaster's office brushing himself off. He saw Severus Snape sitting stoically staring at him.
"Hello sir. What did you need to discus?"
"I understand you made a raid on the Bulstrode Manor." Dumbledore stated without preamble.
"Maybe." Harry dissembled as he sat down.
Snape sneered, "Either you did or you did not. We are supposed to be working on the same side here."
"Yes we are." Harry replied before turning to the headmaster, "Yes. We wanted to get Millicent and Margaret's things as well as hurt her father for things we have found out about what he does to Millicent. Things he was planning on doing to her younger sister." Harry's voice had dropped into a low growl.
Snape's visage softened as he nodded, "Yes. Gavin had bragged about that on occasion. He had even offered her for sport but Selwyn's daughter was thought far more desirable."
Both Albus and Harry glared at Snape. The potions master leaned back in his chair and casually plucked some invisible lint off of his robes.
"You were expecting someone who professes that muggles are little more than animals to be used in his insane experiments to not engage in other immoral practices?" He asked sarcastically.
Harry calmed himself so he wouldn't lash out, "What kind of experiments?"
"Breeding programs. Trying to find out how magicals could produce a squib or how two muggles could produce a magical. As well as introducing the essences of creatures into beings to produce a new sort of foot soldier for the Death Eaters. I also believe he just enjoyed tinkering with life and playing God." Snape observed.
"So blowing up his house with him in it was not a bad thing." Harry smirked leaning back.
Snape seemed to become far more interested at that point, "Yes. I was there when it exploded. His lordship had noticed Gavin slinking away from the meeting so dispatched myself and several others to follow him."
"Oh good. So you can tell Hermione how her bombs worked."
Snape's eyebrows shot to the top of their movement, "She developed them?" He asked flatly.
"Well she based them on a muggle weapon, something called a thermobaric bomb." he carefully sounded out.
Snape seemed to have heard of that as his expression turned to one of sheer horror briefly then nodded, "Impressive, most impressive." he whispered.
Harry shrugged, "So they were effective?"
"If you call an expanding ball of debris filled plasma that literally atomized the men I was standing near before I could apparate out effective then yes. Yes they were quite effective." Snape hissed in aggravation.
Harry smiled and dropped his mike, "Snape was there. He said it pretty much vaporized everything. Including two of his buddies."
The brief squee of glee made Harry wince but then he laughed as Hermione gave a happy giggle, "Oh good. I was worried they would fizzle or even worse be duds. Sweet. Sweet. Oh you are sooo getting laid tonight mister. I need to celebrate."
"Good. I look forward to the celebrations." Harry said then flipped the mike back up clearing his throat. "Hermione appreciated the feedback. She was worried they would be a bit of a fizzle."
"You may assure her that they did not fizzle in the slightest."
"Hey Harry this is Lavender. Could you ask Snape about Bulstrode's experiments."
Harry lowed his mike, "What do you need?"
"This woman is pregnant and the spells holding whatever is within her back are breaking down. We need to get it out of her or she's going to die only we need to know what it is inside her."
"Okay hold on." Harry said, "Sir we rescued a very pregnant woman from the manor before we blew it up. The spells that had been keeping her pregnancy in check are failing. What could be inside her?"
Snape looked very concerned, "I do not know. With his mad scientist tendencies it could be anything."
Albus looked concerned, "We should go look into this."
Harry frowned, "I'll have to alter the ward book, then come through in 10 minutes."
Snape frowned but nodded.
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By the time Albus and Snape had arrived with madam Pomfrey the woman was screaming as her abdomen was stretched and translucent. Everyone could see a humanoid shape writhing within her.
"We don't know what it is. When we cast the Paternas it comes back with someone named Thomas Riddle, AND someone named Tom Marvolo Riddle AND Gavin Bulstrode."
Albus sucked on his teeth for a moment, "That is the name of Tom Riddle's father. The being you know as Voldemort aka Tom Marvolo Riddle."
The woman screamed once more as a small tearing sound came from her lower abdomen. She passed out. Katie applied a healing spell to her before looking at Lavender and shaking her head.
"Look she's going to explode if we don't get it out of her. The stretching charms are breaking down and she can't take the strain much longer." Lavender declared.
Harry looked at the headmaster who looked at Snape. "I believe this may have been an attempt to create a new body for his lordship. Potter's positive energy infusions are causing his current magically created body to break down." The potions master explained.
"Get it out of her. We'll deal with it after that." Harry ordered before stepping back.
Everyone other than the medical witches stepped back behind a yellow line. Neville was unconscious on a nearby bed.
"So how's Neville?" Harry asked Millicent while watching Lavender and the others work.
"Gavin banished the bones in his legs and held him in a suffocation field. So he's going to have to recover overnight but he'll be okay." She said holding his hand.
"You've fallen in love with him haven't you?" Harry observed softly.
Millicent frowned at him briefly, until she saw Harry was looking at her with a supportive smile. "Yeah. I guess I have."
Harry patted the big girl on her shoulder, "Well I think he has feelings for you too. So we're happy to welcome you into the family."
"Even if you wind up finding out I was one of his experiments." She said. She had almost said freak but she remembered how Harry did not allow people to use that word to describe themselves.
"Even if. Because you're Millicent. A person we've gotten to know." Harry said.
Meanwhile across the room Snape was standing beside Hermione, "Congratulations on the explosive devices. They were quite effective."
"Muggles do have some bright ideas on occasion." Hermione smirked briefly.
"Yes they do. Their capacity to develop ever new and inventive ways to kill, maim and destroy is quite impressive." Snape declared with an admiring tone.
"Yeah. I shot Bulstrode and he tried to Protego it. Confirming something I had wanted to try but couldn't get a safe way to test it developed." Hermione conversationally said.
"Yes. The Protego does not have the capacity to handle fast moving projectiles. It was much more effective against the Arrows and bolts used in the middle ages when it was developed and retained some effectiveness against the black powder weapons. By the time Muggles had developed modern firearms though Protego Maxima was developed which does work against a single shooter. Massed shooters or the rapid fire machine guns though can overwhelm even that spell." Snape explained patiently.
Hermione looked at him then nodded, "Thank you for the information. What do you want in return?"
"Nothing at this juncture. However those explosives are very interesting and could prove quite beneficial at the appropriate time." Snape calmly said.
Hermione considered, "Well I'll need to make a few more. I don't like having too many on hand at any one time."
"Understandable. I shall inform you should I find the appropriate placement for one." Snape stated.
There was a loud squelching noise as the healers had managed to release the being from within her and place it on a bed next to the woman. They were working very quickly trying to stop her bleeding and heal her injuries.
Snape frowned immediately as did Dumbledore. "What's the problem?"
"That body appears to be a young Dark Lord." Snape said narrowing his eyes. "Bulstrode must have performed some incredibly dark and manipulative magic to create this clone of him."
"Does this mean that the Big V doesn't trust you anymore?" Harry asked noticing what happened.
"He does not trust anyone. The act that he has called upon Bulstrode to provide him with a body that is less susceptible to breaking down does not prove anything. However you should probably remove your friend Weasley from the hospital before his forces take his body to be possessed." Snape stated.
"Oh that is one of the things I wanted to inform Harry. Ronald will be arriving back at school tomorrow. He has been declared sufficiently sane to be released." Dumbledore said then turned to Madam Pomfrey when she stepped over to them.
"The woman will live. She's going to need to stay here to recover for an extended time as her internal organs were injured quite severely. With treatment though she'll have a full recovery." The matron said with relief.
"What of the other individual?" Albus asked looking at the brown haired body.
"It would appear to be a healthy male somewhere around age 25. There is no mental activity beyond the basic needed to keep the body alive. There is no indications of a soul or other higher brain functions." the matron reported as they walked to look at the body.
"Great googlymoogly" Dumbledore declared, "He looks so much like Tom did at that age."
Snape nodded, "Yes before he created any of his anchors."
"So this is a blank slate?" Luna asked. "One that looks exactly like the visage of the dark lord."
Snape and Dumbledore both looked at her strangely, the ones most familiar with her just waited for her to develop her thoughts.
"What if someone else other than him were to inhabit the body? Would that cause chaos in their ranks?" Luna asked.
Snape thought for a moment, "Briefly. They are well aware of what the dark lord looks like right now."
"So if you blew him up and let the person wearing this body take over it could cause chaos until he manages to possess or create another body. However if the body already has a soul then it would be more difficult for him to take it over completely."
Snape nodded, "Yes, he would have to perform a ritual to remove the previous soul without injuring or killing the body. That is one reason Quirrel had him manifesting on the back of his head." Snape suddenly looked at her warily, "Whhy?" he slowly drawled.
Luna smiled, "Thank you. That is what I thought. We could do some serious damage to the Death Eaters with our own cuckoo in the nest."
Snape frowned, "Yes, however it would require a disembodied spirit to take over the body and I doubt any of you would volunteer to become such a creature."
"No, but I do know one that would love to spread some chaos and havoc among the Death Eaters." Luna grinned ferally, her eyes glinting in the lights of the medical room.
Albus raised his eyebrow, "And would this being happen to be a certain poltergeist inhabitant of the castle?"
Luna nodded eagerly, "Yes, he would."
Harry and Hermione looked at each other with a grin, "That's brilliant Luna."
"That is incredibly dangerous." Snape declared. "And I sincerely doubt the Dark Lord is going to appreciate the joke."
"Well it would be quite the killer joke, don't you think?" Harry said, "Sirius and dad would approve of this so much."
"I am glad you agree Harry." Luna said with a wide smile.
Remus chuckled, "It is a very Marauder worthy plan."
"Filled with risk and so many points for things to go horribly wrong. First how would the Dark Lord be destroyed? Second there is the matter of allowing Peeves to have a physical body. Thirdly getting said body to the headquarters of the Death Eaters and fourth getting them to accept that this is their Dark Lord. If it all worked it would be quite the miracle."
"Ok, there is a lot of if involved but we need to be proactive and keep them off guard. Keep them unstable." Harry declared.
"Having Peeves involved will definitely fulfill that criteria." Dumbledore said.
"I refuse to be involved in this plan. It is far too dangerous for the fool who will be delivering the instrument of the dark lord's destruction."
Hermione grinned, "Professor Snape, you said that the dark Lord's body cannot handle the positive energy when we express our love for Harry? What if we overloaded his body with enough love and positive energy? What if we shoved him so full of love his magical body just explodes."
Snape blinked several times, "I suppose that would work. The potion he has been taking was not as effective as we had hoped. Probably from the love contaminating one of the ingredients." He looked at Hermione squarely.
"Well that's good to know." Hermione said proudly thrusting her chest forward. "So if we blow up his current body and we have someone in the meat suit already. He's going to be out of the picture for a time which will make it better for us to get the Horcruxes destroyed easier."
"Your logic is imminently correct" Albus nodded, "So Poppy if you would wrap our Riddle 'meat suit' for transport we will bring him to the castle and I shall speak with Peeves. Severus if you could ask the Bloody Baron to assist myself in this task."
Severus frowned but gave a small nod, "I do not like the possibilities for this outcome."
"We'll be back in the castle by morning sir. We're going to make sure we shove as much love through Harry as possible." Hermione declared.
Albus laughed, "Well good luck to you Harry, and Godspeed."
Snape rolled his eyes, "Perhaps we should have some general restorative droughts on hand for afterwards?"
"We'll take care of him sir." Hermione said.
"Please do so. Breaking Harry would be rather unfortunate." Albus said with a chuckle.
"We won't break him. We prefer him to be be very unbroken." Luna declared.
Poppy and the medics had prepared the body to take back to the school, the professors left. Seamus, Dean and the other boys had left. Leaving Lavender, Susan, Luna, Hermione and Katie and Cho behind.
Cho sighed, "No offense but I am still not over Cedric so I'd rather not like to be involved in any sexual escapades. I like you Harry but not that way."
Harry nodded, "No offense taken."
She nodded then left as well. Harry looked at the remaining girls with a raised eyebrow.
Lavender shook herself, "let me go take a bath to get cleaned up before we do this ritual. Also is everyone up to date with their prophylactic potions?"
All of the girls announced they were.
Remus cleared his throat, "Well if you don't mind I will stay here to watch our guests."
Harry chuckled, "Thanks."
Remus smiled awkwardly, "You and your ladies might wish to use the master suite bath to clean up. Sirius told me he had made a special enlargement mode he planned to put to good use if he had been cleared."
Hermione grinned, "That's what that rune structure was I found. I was wondering what that was. Shall we ladies?"
Susan paused, "I think I'll stay here and keep Neville and Millicent Company." She said noticing Millicent did not seem too interested in moving.
Harry hugged her briefly, "Okay. No problem."
Susan reached up and kissed Harry quickly, "I do love you Harry. Just I think you'll have more than enough hands to take care of the situation."
Harry sighed deeply, "Yeah. Wish me luck."
She patted his rump as he turned to leave, "I think you'll do fine."
Once Harry and the four girls who were gong to be involved left Susan sat down beside Millicent.
Millicent looked at her, "You love him too?"
Susan nodded, "Yeah. Neville is a very easy guy to love."
Millicent looked at the floor, "You got here first."
"It doesn't work that way with us Millie." Susan said taking the girls other hand. "I love Neville so much but I'm willing to share him because I'm scared if I pressure him to choose he might not choose me."
"Why not? You're prettier than me." Millicent frowned.
"And Lavender is prettier than I am. That doesn't mean much to Neville though because I think he sees something other than just how we look. I think he can see our heart." Susan said. "I sometimes feel like my heart beats with his."
"Now you're sounding like Lovegood." Millicent scoffed with a small smile.
Susan smiled, "Thanks. That's not an insult."
Millicent shrugged. "So you will share him with me?"
"If he wants to. If he chooses you I'll see how it goes then." She admitted with a sly grin.
Millicent looked at Susan then smiled, "I've never had people want me just for me. Always been what I could do for them, what use I had. I let Goyle fuck me because it made me feel like I was part of them. You know Neville hasn't even asked to have sex or anything? But he still talks to me and lets me be with him. Plus all of this tonight."
"Love is about more than sex. Neville understands that." Susan sighed contentedly. "He sometimes just lays there holding me, letting me rest my head on his chest."
"So what about Potter?" Millicent asked.
"I love him too but more like a favorite cousin or, or someone that is important to me. I guess. Its kind of complicated because I don't mind being undressed in front of him. It feels comfortable though not sexual. Like he's not judging me on my belly or thighs or anything. I'm just Susan and he's just Harry." Susan replied after thinking for a moment.
Millicent thought with her jaw jutting out for a moment before nodding, "I think I see."
"You'll get used to it. We're a big happy family and now you're part of it too." Susan said brightly squeezing Millicent's hand.
"I don't do girls. I think."
Susan laughed gently, "You don't have to, but the option is there if you wanna try, just on your own time."
Remus sat in a chair across the room watching the two girls sit and chat, holding hands and smiling next to Neville. He had a feeling that the three of them were getting to be a solid connection forming. He smiled in happiness for them. Looking up at the ceiling he chuckled though at the thought of Harry and how Sirius would definitely approve of the way he has been growing up.
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kimberleeknapptibbetts8790 Yes there will be more here we are back at it again.
Fvdv123: Thank you
Rexcaldoran: Thank you. Yes I know entering the game this late it is hard to not find a trope that has not already been done. I am at least trying to find a new way to approach them. I hope it works out. And yes it is rather tame I guess as I do not entirely feel comfortable writing smuttyness and want there to be a story around the sex. The next chapter is going to have a bit pushing the boundaries though. Anyhow thank you again and hope you continue to enjoy.
Wiebenor: Next chapter. That should be quite an interesting one. I may push some of my comfort boundaries with it.
Dennisud: I have some ideas on how they will be dealt with. Especially the big V. Which will involve the big O.
Jadesabrexiv: The path things are going someone will feel the wrath of Millicent as they make the foolish mistake of threatening people she loves. She was unable to resist the magic her father put on her but now that he's gone those restraints are gone so she will become more her own person.
Timekeeper: Glad you enjoyed.
OffierDonNZ: Yes Snape is such a lovely fellow. We continue to examine his depths in this return to the story.
Qhaq: Thank you. We are going to try.
