Ok, so I make America out to be one of the greatest in my story. I can't help it, it's my national pride. Besides, who cares if we are the fattest country and most of us are ignorant idiots. Who has the strongest military force in the world? America, that's who. (France is second and Russia is third, in case you were wondering) America like other countries has a lot of problems. Ours are just more well known then others because people are obsessed with America.
Chapter 23 Vampires and Inferi
SATURDAY, October 11
Harry allowed Ron to open the door before him. He also allowed Ron to move in first and secure the room. He had to give the red head credit, he was a good bodyguard.
"Who are you two?" he heard Ron ask.
"We've arranged a meeting with Mr. Potter, through Dumbledore." a male voice with a light accent spoke up.
"I don't believe you" Ron stated.
"Oi, I don't have all day Rook" Harry stated as he walked into the room.
"The place isn't secure yet!" Ron complained.
"If I die, I'll take full responsibility" Harry promised him.
"Knock it off you two" Hermione said as she walked into the room, closing the door behind her.
"Aye, ma'am!" Ron slapped her a salute as Harry turned to look at the two people in front of him. The male had messy black hair, dark tanned skin, hazel eyes and a lean build. The other person, a female, who looked to be several years older then the male, also had dark tanned skin and hazel eyes. Her hair however, instead of being messy was in fact curly.
"Feleti Poteri" the male said, extending his hand. "Nice to meet you distant cuz"
"So you're my distant relatives huh?" Harry asked as he shook the offered hand.
"Isabella Poteri" the female said, also offering her hand. Harry shook her hand as well.
"When our family had heard that Voldemort rose again we agreed we would send help down here to the head of our family. However before we could do anything Dumbledore had approached us with an offer to head the Italian faction of the Order of the Phoenix. Seeing that we needed all of our resources to do this we had nothing to send you. That is until Isabella offered to go herself to Britain, and I decided to join her" Feleti explained.
"So Dumbledore is starting an Order in Italy as well?" Harry asked. "I know he is starting one in America and Australia as well. Hmm" Harry thought for a second. "I'll need to expand as well then. Can't be confined to the UK"
"I could be the head in Italy!" Feleti said enthusiastically.
"You couldn't be the head you dolt!" Isabella admonished. "No one in their right mind would follow you!"
"Not like your any better" Feleti challenged.
"Actually, how are your skills at dueling?" Harry inquired.
"One of the best in Italy" Bragged the Italian male, a smug look on his face.
"Show me" Harry replied simply, drawing his wand. Feleti drew his wand as well and they each took ten paces away from each other. Hermione waved her wand around, muttering something and all the furniture zoomed to the side of the room. "Nothing lethal"
"Agreed"
They stared at each other for a little bit. No count was giving, no bow was exchanged before both jumped into action. Harry dived to the side yelling "Stupefy!" as many times as he could before he hit the ground, as three jets of light flew by where he just stood.
Ron looked at the profiles Hermione had created of the new Golden Knight members. The twins, it appeared had created a magical hologram that they copied off of all the sci-fi movies they watched when they visited Alicia Spinnet. Hermione had then used the magical holograms to store images of the people Harry had met earlier today.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Luna, Terry and Susan were all gathered around a circular table in the Room of Requirement. Out of all the people in the Golden Knights, these were the ones Harry had the most respect for. Ron placed a disc on the table and tapped it with his wand.
A magical hologram twelve inches tall of Feleti and Isabella appeared. "So, we have Feleti and Isabelle Poteri, Harry's distant relatives from Italy. Feleti is a High Sorcerers and good at defense, Isabelle is a Moderate Sorcerer and good at Transfiguration. Both graduated top of their year."
Ron opened up another folder and placed a disc on the table, tapping it with his wand. A lean man of average height with crew cut black hair appeared. "Kyle Clarkson is an American muggle-born. Joined the Watchers, straight out of school. Trained in vampire slayings. Quit after ten years of working for the Watchers. He is a High Wizard and is excellent at physical fighting."
Again Ron opened another folder and placed a disc on the table. A tall, thin female teenager with pale skin and black hair with red stripes appeared. "Hazel Dillon is a half-blood Canadian witch. Went under a curse-breaker apprenticeship after school. Her teacher died two years into it. Is a High Witch, a ferret animagus and good at counter-curses."
Hermione took the folders out of Ron's hands and opened up a fourth one. She too placed a disc on the table and tapped it. A dark skinned female with silverish hair stood in front of the group "Paige Edalene is an American pureblood witch. She is one-eighth veela and went under Elemental training for Earth straight out of school. Very good with animals, might have low Beast Speaking abilities and is a Low Sorcerer."
The process was repeated and a dark brown haired female with lightly tanned skin showed. "Salma Ladonna is a muggle-born Brazilian witch. Quit healer training after two years. Moderate Witch who is good at healing. She is nineteen years of age"
Harry reached out for the remaining two folders in Hermione's hand. He picked one of the two and took out the disc. A teenage male, around their age stood in front of them. He has black hair and tanned skin. "Yaholo Nocona is the son of my Elemental teacher. He is a Water Elemental and is gifted in nature magic. Home-schooled by his parents, he is a High Sorcerer and 17 years old"
"The last folder is on" Harry pulled out the disc for the last folder and tapped it. A small blonde hair male teenager appeared from the disc. "Xander Yestin is a home-schooled Welsh wizard. He is a High Wizard and our age. He is also a sparrow animagus."
Harry waved his hand at the eight holographic figures standing on the table. "These are new members of the Golden Knights. Since most of them are older, they'll hopefully add more talent and power to the group, at least until the rest of us finish with are magical maturation. Training is going to slowly, by this rate we won't be ready to battle until the end of the school year."
"That long, but I thought we were doing pretty damn good!" Ron said.
"I'm not going to send you guys into battle half-trained. You'll be slaughtered. There is a potion I took that will help you with your studying and increase your strength by a little bit. I'll ask Terry and any one else he thinks is brilliant at potions to brew it, since it is horribly complex. It will take the utmost concentration, and a hell of a lot of potions ingredients. There is also a potion that cuts in half the amount of sleep you need each night, which though is considered illegal, will be very helpful
"I also want to say that in a week I have a meeting with the goblins about the war. And things aren't exactly going great in that respect. Finances seem to be fair, with a combined total of 3,383,932,142 galleons.(24,804,222,600.86 American dollar, 16,919,660,710.00 British pound and 24,228,954,136.72 euro). Supplies aren't needed right now but soon we'll be needing them, so it will be best if we secure a good amount now. Soldiers is by far the worst. Sixty Golden Knights, hopefully to be on par with Voldemort's top Death Eaters, though still in training. Don't know how many the goblins will pledge to battle. The centaurs and merpeople at Potter Manor, only pledge there support if the island comes under attack. So we're gonna have to step things up a bit.
"I want to establish a loose alliance, at worst, with the centaur tribes of the United Kingdom. Hopefully then, I'll be able to get centaur tribes from around the world. Werewolves are still up for grabs for either side. However, they seem to be leaning more towards our side. I'm happy to say that all vacancies in the Werewolves Den has been taken up. Almost all werewolves in the United Kingdom live there. We already know which side the dementors are going to and it seems the vampires are going to join the Dark Lord as well."
"Does this mean we're going to be giving up our free time?" Ron asked, slightly annoyed at the fact.
"I'm going to be putting forth a whole new training schedule, instead of this sporadic thing we have going now. I'll be introducing it tomorrow night, when I get back from my trip to Potter Manor"
Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, Most Ancient and Noble House of Black, Headquarters to the Order of the Phoenix.
"Next order of business. Young Harry has met with several people from foreign countries, ones that I approved of. I had members place listening spells all over the room, but they seemed to have been negated before Mr. Potter even reached the room. Miss Tonks can you tell us what happened?"
"When Harry arrived, he was accompanied by nine persons dressed in gold armor. Two of them went with him up into the room and the other seven stayed downstairs, sitting at the table right by the stairs. When ever a member, or anyone else for that matter, tried to go up the stairs they were accosted by one of the seven and threatened severely." Tonks finished her statement and sat back down.
"So in other words you people failed at your mission" Snape sneered.
"Finding out what Mr. Potter was talking about was secondary objective Severus, his safety was our main concern" Dumbledore placated.
"Besides, it wasn't like we didn't try getting past them. When Sturgis was threatened, he went to draw his wand. The minute his wand left its holster it was knocked out of his grasp and he was shoved against the wall. When I went to go assist him I was disarmed by one of the others." Tonks stated.
"Could you find out anything on who they might be? Maybe from their conversation or the way they acted?" The old man prodded.
"Well judging from the lewd conversation coming from two of them my guess is that at least two were males. The one that disarmed me was in an American Enforcer dueling stance and so was one other. Four of them were in British Auror dueling stances and the last one was just leaning back in their chair, their wand lightly grasped in their hand"
"How were they able to identify those who were meeting Harry from the rest?"
"It appeared they asked a series of questions and from the looks on the people's faces they must have been quite odd"
"Judy, I want you and Jacob to find as much as you can on these people that accompanied Harry" The two people in question nodded their heads in agreement.
"Is there anything else?"
Remus stood up. "The werewolves of Europe have picked a side last night"
"And?" The whole Order had leaned forward in its seat.
"They are not siding with us"
"So it seems Voldemort has one more ally" Dumbledore said, sighing wearily.
"They haven't joined Voldemort either" Remus stated. "It seems Harry Potter is doing much more for werewolves and offering them much more then either us and Voldemort could"
"Potter!" Snape snarled. "Dumbledore you should be keeping that brat on a tighter leash"
"Although I do not like what Harry is doing, the results seem to be benefitting us as much as they benefit Harry. Therefor we shall let him do his own thing. I want all guards on Harry to be lifted. Judy and Jacob, forget the assignment I just gave you."
SUNDAY, October 12
"Alright students. This is your starting point. Remember this, the house is muggle style. Lets see how quickly you can complete this!" The retired Auror handed them estimated blue prints of the building. "Good luck" Professor Curris disappeared with s quiet 'crack', leaving the students by themselves in front of a huge mansion.
Harry folded the map in front of them and on the ground. The whole group gathered around it and examined the thing carefully.
"I say we send in a team from the third floor" Ron pointed to a small circular window on the western side of the attic wall.
"That is a good idea, but I also think we should send in two teams on opposite sides on the first floor. Each team will sweep through the house until we find the room." Harry stated. "Everyone agree?"
Basically all of Harry's team stared at him. Many of them were just content with letting Harry, Hermione and Ron leading everything. Those who did have opinions, knew that others would not pick their ideas over the Dream Team.
"They'll most likely have wards over the house and even forming a perimeter" Hermione exclaimed. "Does anyone here know the Ward-Reveal Charm?" A dozen or so hands went in the air. "Good, well cast that before you even get a foot from the house, just to make sure"
"Teams?"
Harry licked his lips nervously. It was shown that a minor proximity ward was encompassing the house and then it was promptly taken care of. The problem was him and the team that was picked to go with him were now suppose to get up to the third floor and the proceed to climb through a shit small window.
Now the shit small window could be solved with a simple 'Engorgio'. The way up there however could not be solved by magic so easily. The Levitation Charm could not lift any living thing bigger then a fox. Conjuration was a tricky business. Harry had broached the subject during the summer, but stopped when school started, and was only able to conjure plain items no bigger then a chair. Conjuration wasn't taught until the second half of seventh year because it was so hard.
Transfiguring one inanimate object into another would be worth a try for a ladder. Harry was the only one who had enough power at that age to make it last long enough for even one person to get up there. However he didn't know if he could change a cotton robe, the only inanimate object they could find, into a thirty foot wooden later, sturdy enough to support at least one-hundred and eighty pounds. He also didn't know how long the ladder would last in its form, because he didn't want anyone to be almost at the window and next thing they know the ladder turns back into a robe.
There was a skinny drain running the height of the house, about six feet from the window in the attic. But knowing the state of the wizarding world, he'd be the only one able to climb it. Looking at the nine teenagers Harry gave a heavy sigh.
"We'll have to transfigure a ladder, but I don't know how long it will last, so we have to go quickly." Waving his wand in a simple patter and jabbing it at his discarded robe, Harry watched as a sturdy-enough looking thirty-foot ladder appeared. With the help of Logan, he was able to lean the ladder against the wide of the house, right next to the attic window.
Seeing that no one was making a move towards the newly transfigured structure, Harry took the initiative and tentatively started to climb it. Reaching the top he leaned to the side and peered inside the window. Noone occupied the room so he tapped the window while muttering "Engorgio" The frame grew to a three foot diameter, enough for Harry to get through. He climbed in hastily, shouting down to the others below to come up.
Glancing around the room, all te green eyed youth saw was piles of dusty covered boxes and a paint chipped door. He heard someone climb into the room after him, but ignored them as he walked silently to the door. Turning the knob and pulling on the door, he winced as a loud squeaking sound was emitted.
Peering into the other room, which appeared to be a huge master bedroom, Harry noticed two figures sitting down at the opposite end, in front of a green fire. The fire was the only thing giving off light, bathing half of the room in an eerie green glow.
Looking at the half of the room closest to him, Harry squinted his eyes but for the life of him couldn't make anything out. He muttered a quick Silencing Charm on the door and shut it, before turning around.
Most of the team was there with him but it looked like one was still climbing up the ladder. A muffled shriek sounded from outside. Only Harry and those closest to the window heard it. Being a dingo animagus did have its advantages.
Rushing to the window he saw that the once sturdy wooden ladder was slowly turning back to its original form of a cotton robe. Lavender Brown was only half way up there. Doing something incredibly rash, stupid and Gryffindorish, he placed two sticking charms on his calves and basically fell backwards out the window. His calves caught on the sill and his body swung into the side of the building. Hanging upside down, he stretched his hands out to Lavender. The blonde Gryffindor grasped his hands tightly as the ladder fully changed back into a robe. The light fabric fell to the ground and Harry's arms gave a painful tug as Lavender's full weight jerked on them, stopping her from falling fifteen feet to the ground.
With every muscle in his arms and shoulders protesting profusely, Harry slowly hauled her so her hands were even with his shoulders. "Help" Immediately two of the Gryffindor boys leaned out the window and helped pull the frightened girl into the room. Another hand reached out the window, and Harry took it gratefully.
Sitting up properly he unstuck his legs with a wave of his wand. He stretched his arms some and give a quick flex of his arms. Massaging his aching muscles he said "I saw two people talking to someone on the floo in the next room. Half the room is completely dark so I can't see anything. Anyone know a spell to fix that?"
Quiet negative replies went up around the room and Harry sighed wearily. "That's just peachy." Thinking for a second and muttering to himself, Harry quickly developed a plan. "When the fire chat is over with two of us will sneak up and stun the two on the couch. The rest of us will make sure no one who might be hiding in the shadows tries attacking you. After that we'll light up the room and take out anyone who might be hiding." The others nodded as the still silenced door was opened and two people tip toed to the two sitting figures. The fire chat had ended, the flames returning to the normal orange color.
Two red flashes of light briefly lit up the dark room and the two people sitting on the couch slumped in their seats.
Giving the word, lights flared from the tips of everyone's wands, illuminating the room in a plain white glow. Noone appeared to be present in the room, but not taking any chances at all, Harry sprayed white powder around the room. No one else was hiding in the room, though now everyone was covered in powder.
"Sorry about that" he grinned lightly as muttered Cleaning Charms got rid of all the mess. "But it is better to do that, just to make sure" Nods were giving before they approached the only other doorway in the room, besides the one they came in from. Harry placed a Silencing Charm on the door, learning from his previous mistake. He opened the door and peaked inside. All he was able to notice inside, before he closed the door to avoid a spell, was that it was a well lit livingroom with fifteen people in it.
Which he calmly stated tp the rest of the team. "They are obviously aware of our presence. We have two options, try to enter from somewhere else, meaning going back out the window, or we can try to take them out"
"I'm not going back out that window" Lavender exclaimed. Several nods of agreements accompanied Lavender's statement.
"Well then, I guess we'll have to take them out. The problem is, they know we are coming from the door, since that it the only way we can go. Any ideas?" he asked, looking at the nine teens in front of him.
"Blow a hole through the wall!" Logan suggested.
"What is it with boys and explosions?" Blair Wood muttered.
"It will bring more attention to us" Harry stated.
"Doesn't matter. They already know we are hear" pointed out Lavender.
"Alright then, might as well arrange the furniture to act as cover. We're not just making a small hole in the wall, that whole damn wall is coming down" The few pieces of furniture in the room were moved around and many boxes in the first room were also brought in. Seeing that everyone was in a good spot, they let loose a hail of 'Reducto's at the wall, which crumbled to the ground.
A cloud of dust enveloped them and Harry couldn't see a foot in front of him. A flash of gold was seen to his left, as he felt the air tingle with the magic of a spell.
"Stupefy!" His jet of red light flew into the dust cloud, its red glow disappearing in seconds. "Evanesco" The dust vanished from view, reappearing who knows where.
A quick look around the room and Harry could tell they didn't have an advantage at all. Besides the fact that one of the team members had been taken out of the fight, his body laying on crushed boxes. He could see a fallen enemy as well, looked like they were trying to run to cover but got hit with a stray spell. That left nine of them, and the enemy had gotten reinforcements in the form of seven more fighters, making twenty-one of them.
"Volare Indietro!" the pink light hit a armchair and pushed it backward, causing a startled yelp to escape from the person using it for cover. Using his will, Harry pushed the armchair faster until the armchair was pinning the person against the wall. A well aimed Stunning Spell later and the enemy was one person down.
A Reductor Curse collided with the big box he was hiding behind, causing the box to explode apart, throwing its contents everywhere. Harry tried running to another group of boxes as fast as he could. A stunner caught him in the foot, causing his leg to go numb. So he actually tumbled into the cover.
"Ennervate!" The spell seemed to have no affect on his leg, as it was still numb. He tried to stand up, but he fell right back down.
So he crawled so he was able to look around the boxes. Another one of his teammates had been taking out but three more, besides the one he had taken out, of the enemy had been knocked out of the fight as well.
Peaking out from behind the boxes, the not-at-full-potential-high-mage aimed his wand at a group of three opponents, hiding behind a long couch. "Volare Indietro!" The pink of jet of light was reflected this time into the ceiling.
Several jets of light were thrown at his cover. They probably thought the stunner had taken him out. At least, that was the only thing he could think of, as to why they didn't attack his position earlier.
"Protego!" The jets of light hit the shield, causing ripples to splash across the dome surface of the shield. More beams of light were thrown at him, but his shield held strong. The dome of light surrounding him took quite a punishment before finally a powerful Reductor Curse shattered it.
Harry pointed his wand out from behind the box and sent a barrage of spells flying at the enemy. Soon however the box was banished out of the way and he was a sitting duck.
"Recutio" the square shield of light came into place, rebounding a hail of stunners and disarmers back at their casters. Harry noticed too late, out of the corner of his eye, that a red jet of light was flying at him from an angle good enough to just miss the shield and hit him.
He was awoken an hour and seven minutes later by a "Ennervate" Looking around Harry noticed that he was not the only one being awoken. Eight others had been down as well. "You were stunned Potter" Professor Curris said. "If this was real life you would of been killed."
"Did they get the object?" Harry asked.
"Yes. Your team's little battle upstairs drew the attention of most of the guards. After the other two team met up on the second floor and your's didn't show your friend Hermione took four others with her and went after the object while Ron took the fourteen left to go help out your team." The ex-Auror explained.
"That's good"
Harry walked silently down the steps to the basement. The room was dimly lit and most of it was covered in dust. In a corner of the room one saw metal bars reaching from floor to ceiling, creating a simple, yet effective jail cell. Inside the cell was a soft looking cot, a small stall for the bathroom, a banged up night stand and a wooden stool.
Bellatrix Lestrange currently sat on the bed, her feet propped up on top of the stool. Hearing Harry's soft footsteps she looked up. Noticing who her company was, a maniacal grin appeared on her face.
"Potter, I'm surprised. You haven't been here to see me in almost two months! Instead I've seen Sirius and that damn werewolf twice a day! You knock me up and this is the thanks I get?" Bellatrix's voice was mocking.
"Hello Trixie" he said evenly. The woman in front of him scowled at the nickname Sirius had given her as children.
"Aren't you wondering how your child is doing?" she simpered. "How little itty Potter is doing inside of bid bad Bellatrix?"
"Why?" Harry asked looking at her. "Why did you do this to me? Why didn't you just bring me to Voldemort?"
"Voldemort was so angry at you he would of killed you the minute he saw you. Don't think it is because I like you Potter." she spat. "I needed an heir. Plain and simple"
"What about Rudolphus?"
"Rudolphus is a bloody queer. He spends all his time "breaking in" new Death Eaters and has no time for his poor wife" Bellatrix simpered again. Something Harry was coming to hate with a passion.
"What about other Death Eaters? Malfoy, Avery, fuck maybe in Goyle! Or better yet what about your master?" Harry inquired forcefully.
"The other Death Eaters are all greedy and incompetent fools! Besides I needed someone who has power. After all you are prophesied with my lord, power you must surely have. As for the Dark Lord, I want my child to be a pureblood." Bellatrix sneered. "Don't looked so shocked. We Blacks are part of the Ancient Families you know. Besides, rumors are that my master is lacking in size and that you were very well endowed." She started to giggle uncontrollably. "It was quite the impressive broomstick Potter! Mind if I have another ride!" Her giggle turned into a cackle, a maniacal look upon her face.
Harry backed away from her slowly. She was every ounce the crazy bitch Sirius made her out to be. He turned around and almost ran from the room.
He reached the top of the sitars and emerged in the hallway where an excited crup sat waiting for him. "Come on Godric. I'll go get you some dinner"
The teen and the excited little crup walked slowly to the kitchen. Upon entering it Harry saw that Sirius, Remus and Tonks were all there. He said his hellos before proceeding to take out the crup food and pour a generous amount into the crup bowl. "Don't get use to the large amount of food" Harry told the fork-tailed dog. "I don't want you getting to be so fat your legs don't even hit the ground"
The dog ignored him, more interested in the pile of food in front of him that the odd looking creature who takes care of him once and a while. The odd looking creature in question walked over to the long table and sat down at one of the ends.
"That thing is an odd crup, pup" Sirius said. "Loves muggles and only eats human and some dog food"
"Nothing about me could ever be normal" Harry sighed warily.
"You do have a flare for abnormality" Sirius said, agreeing. "Glad I'm not like that"
"If I remember correctly someone here took a real liking to long muggle skirts during our third and fourth year" Remus pointed out. Harry and Tonks both burst out laughing at that.
"Moooony!" Sirius wailed as he tackled his friend to the ground. "You promised! Now I'll have to tell them about the time you we were in muggle Florida and you mistook ecstasy for aspirin. He started to give random people on the street hugs and..." What else Remus did, Harry and Tonks never got to find out because Remus had firmly clamped his hand over Sirius's mouth.
"Sirius, I have more embarrassing stories on you, then you have on me. Remember, I was the quiet one" Remus, said menacingly.
"Mmmph, mmm" was Sirius's muffled reply. Remus took his hand away. "Aye, captain"
"That is what I figured." Turning to Harry, Remus sighed heavily. "We haven't been able to find Michelle yet, but we do have a clue. One of the Death Eaters caught in the attack on Privet Drive, participated in the attack on your family in the first war. He admitted to having chasing Michelle into the woods by the house. Upon catching up to her, he was unable to kill her and instead erased her mind of all but the basic thoughts and memories. He said he then brought her to a tanker on its way to New York in America and threw her in the cargo hold."
"So" Sirius said taking over. "Me and Moony are going to America. Hopefully we'll be back in a month or two, with Michelle. So try to get in as much trouble as possible and don't get hurt"
"You got it Sirius." Harry said, giving his godfather a one armed hug.
"Make sure you get Snape for me"
"I'll even take pictures" Harry promised.
"Be back soon cub, and don't worry I'll look after the mutt" Remus also gave Harry a one armed hug.
"You better Moony, you know how he can't look after himself" Harry grinned at Sirius's indignant "Hey!"
The two men walked out of the kitchen, leaving Harry and Tonks alone. "I'd love to stay and chat Nymph but I've got people to meet" Harry quickly ran to the fireplace where he picked up a pinch of floo and tossed it into the fire, yelling "Potter Manor!" he disappeared to a scream of "DON"T CALL ME NYMPH!"
Harry looked over his shoulder again to make sure the magical contractors were still following him. He needed them to build him a prison. Of course, they had no idea what they were building. He realized after thinking about it for a while, that maybe he shouldn't have it built on the western cliff on Potter Manor, it being basically a ten minute walk from what was soon to be the Anti-Evil League(1) headquarters.
However, it was too late to be thinking about that. He was just going to have them build a large building, half over the cliff, with four hundred, fifteen by fifteen feet rooms, six foot wide hallways and one foot thick walls.
It was a simple building, especially one going to be used for a prison. The trick was it was all in the magic. He was going to put a anti-wizarding magic ward around it. This way the house-elves could pop in and out and even defend themselves against the captured Death Eaters who tried to attack them physically. Without their wands, most Death Eaters were weaker them regular unarmed muggles.
"It's a rather simple building Mr Potter" the elderly foreman stated. "Won't take much time to construct. The hardest part will be building half of it hanging over the cliff."
"I asked for the best and I was directed to you. I have no doubt that you guys will finish this quickly."
"Those are kind words Mr. Potter, we'll finish this as quick as we can" the foreman shook his offered hand.
Leaving the foreman and his team of thirteen wizards and three house-elves, Harry walked back through the forest. As soon as he left the woods Dobby appeared before him.
"Watch them Dobby and make sure they do nothing that would bring harm here" he ordered.
"Yes sirs, Harry Potter sirs" Dobby slapped him a salute before disappearing with a 'crack'.
Contempt with leaving Dobby to handle the construction workers, Harry walked quickly to the safety room in the house. He looked at all of the heads of the Potter family. None of them were moving, for none of them could move. The portraits would stay muggle until the alarm was raised in the house. Then using an ability rarely given to magical portraits, they would be able to pass through mirrors, tapestries and the windows, forming a sort of spy network in the house. The Potter's were involved in every magical war affecting Europe in the last millennium. Many assassination attempts had been made upon members of the families and many armies thrown at the house. Therefore the Potter family was very paranoid, and decided to take no necessary risk. He did no however that moveable portraits of all the heads were at other family houses. Ones he planned on visiting, especially so he could talk to his father.
Sighing he walked down to the floo room on the first floor and flooed to Hogwarts. He had important business to do.
"Firenze, I'm glad you have decided to help me. I did not expect you to accept such a dangerous mission" Harry said.
"Mars may be bright tonight but Venus is brighter" Firenze answered.
"Er...right. So, uh, we'll just get going then" Harry let Firenze lead the way into the Forbidden Forest. They walked in silence for a good thirty minutes before Firenze came to a sudden halt. Harry opened his mouth to ask what was going on but he didn't need to.
Bane, Ronan and Magorian all came trotting out of the tree line.
"You were banned from here Firenze" Bane snarled.
"You know what the punishment is" Magorian said in a reluctant tone.
"That isn't all" Ronan said circling Firenze and noticing for the first time Harry. "He has brought a human foal with him"
"Fool!" Bane roared. "Too lead a human so close to our territory!"
"Harry Potter wishes to speak with the elders" Firenze stated calmly.
"Your foolishness has not only brought death to you but to another as well" Bane spat, advancing upon the two. For the first time Harry noticed the spears each of the beast were carrying.
"Do not take another step Bane" Firenze warned. "If the elders were to hear of you killing Harry Potter then you will be treated worst then I"
Bane ignored him however, stalking forward, as if hoping they'd try to run.
"Bane, for your own safety I think you should back down" Harry stated, stepping forward so he was next to Firenze.
Bane looked at him before bursting out laughing. "Stupid foal. Thinking you could threaten me"
Knowing that without using magic he wouldn't be taking seriously and that with the use of a spell he would be attacked by every centaur in the forest, he did something Dumbledore and Voldemort both did to show their power.
He flared his magical auror. Magic seemed to roll off of him in waves, not as powerful as Voldemort or Dumbledore but he was only a teenager and it was higher then your average adults, a lot higher. A dim glow of light in the colors of his magical core radiated off of his body.
Harry looked to Magorian who seemed to be the leader and the most reasonable out of the three. "If you please Magorian, I would like to speak with your chief"
"The chief has seemed eager to speak with you" Magorian said. "And Venus us quite bright"
"Magorian, you can't be thinking about..."
"We will take you to our chief Harry Potter, there your consequences shall be decided" Ignoring the sputtering protest of Bane and Ronan, Magorian led Firenze and Harry through the tree line. Harry was one of the rare humans to ever see a centaur dwelling. Small hovels were built between trees with sticks and leaves. The opening of a cave was off to one side. The carcasses of several dead animals were strung from tree branches. It was a simple place, nothing fancy like humans liked but it had its own natural and savage beauty to it.
"It is good to see you again" Harry looked up at the voice and saw the centaur chief he had rescued from Nott Manor.
"I see you have made your way safely here. Hopefully the same has happened with your tribe" Harry said respectfully.
"It has" was the reply.
"Magorian says you wish to speak with me Harry Potter" the centaur chief of the Forbidden Forest was a lot younger then the one he rescued and the one at Potter Manor. His hair was still its original color, a dark red color and his skin was still smooth. Firenze had told him his name was Amphion and he had taken over the task as chief eight years ago.
Harry bowed his head in a sign of respect. "I come to you to ask a favor of sorts. Voldemort is on the rise" Shouts and mutters started to come from the crowd of assembled centaurs. Ignoring them, Harry continued. "I was wondering if I could call upon the support of the centaurs to help aid our side in battle"
Jeers were thrown at him from every direction, except from the two chiefs.
"Silence" Amphion said is quietly but it was heard by all. Quickly the jeers had stopped. "Twice a year, the chiefs of every centaur tribe in the Human Realm travel to Grimoire Realm to speak with Chiro, great-grandson of Chiron and leader of all centaurs. Chiro is a powerful seer, more powerful then a normal centaur could ever hope to be. And he has had a small vision on the outcome of this war if Voldemort is victorious. The centaurs, no matter which side they join will be slaughtered by the vampires and lamias who have joined or will join Voldemort. Therefor it has been agreed that all centaur tribes are to pledge their allegiance to the light side, at least to preserve our existence"
Amphion's cousin, the other Centaur chief spoke. "The Ministry is prejudice against all non-human races. And while Dumbledore does respect us, he is too concerned with future uprisings to try to change wizarding society." The old centaur looked at Harry. "You'll be getting this a lot in your life Harry Potter so you should get use to it. You can change the Magical world for the better or for the worst if you so choose. Many races depend on you and the choices you will make."
"Daughter" Amphion looked expectantly at the cave where a young female centaur came trotting out from. Harry had to stop his hormones from taking control as the teenage centaur walked next to her father, her breast bare. "Blow this" the chief gave him a curled horn "and centaurs will come"
"Thank you" Harry bowed to the two chiefs before looking at Firenze.
"I'm sorry Mr. Potter but Firenze won't be able to accompany you back. He has to take this time to get to know his tribe again" Firenze smiled, overly please at being accepted back.
The Golden knights were all sitting on the cushions that littered the floor. The handful of new members were introduced to the old ones. Harry stood in front of them on a raised platform so he could be seen and heard by all. Most of them hit it off quite well.
"Terry and others will be brewing potions that will increase your training. The first one will not only make you stronger but increase your reading rate and your memory storage. The second one will decrease the hours you need at night. Most of us need a good nine hours of sleep, in order to stay healthy. For a year after drinking this potion we'll only need three. That gives us an extra six hours of training. So I figured bed at twelve and you wake up at three.
"There is a long secret passageway leading to the side of Hogsmeade station behind the mirror on the fourth floor. I was told it caved in, in my second year and that was true. However I have been able to move away most of the rocks to create an amount of space big enough for even Crabbe and Goyle to fit through. On weekdays by four o'clock I want you all gathered at the Shrieking Shack. There we will portkey to a training area. By 4:30 we'll start training and finish at 7:30. I'll portkey us back to the Shrieking Shack and those of us with school will go back to Hogwarts. At night I'll have the students working on Occlumency and magical power meditation.
"On Saturdays by five o'clock I want everyone gathered at the Shrieking Shack. We'll be back at the Shrieking Shack in time for Strategy and Simulation for those of us who take it. For those that don't you can use that as free time. After that those at Hogwarts will be going over some fencing and muggle hand-to-hand combat and the like so I suggest those of you who have graduated and the like to practice it as well. On Sundays we'll take a portkey at five in the morning from the shrieking shack and won't come back until six at night." When Harry finished he looked at some of the shocked faces in front of him.
"That's a lot of time mate." Ron said, his eyes still open in shock.
"Unfortunately I fear this war will be in full swing in a couple of months and I want you guys to be prepared to handle it."
Saturday,October 18
"Bloody hell! Where'd ya bring us mate?" Ron asked as he looked around at his surroundings.
"My friends today we will spend six hours playing paintball" Harry stated looking at the fifty-nine people in front of him. "Paintball is something played by muggles that involves shooting small balls of paint at each other"
"Told yah muggles were crazy" Fred whispered to George. Harry ignored the whisper though had to wonder how paintball came to be.
"Now for the first hour you are to put on your gear and learn how to use your gun. Then we'll play five games of paintball, each one set in a different scenario. I've paid sixty professional paintballers to play against us" Harry explained.
"What?" Justin Finch-Fletchley yelped. "You expect us to go against professionals? Besides the fact that it hurts getting shot with those things!"
"It hurts?" Lavender moaned.
"Usually it only hurts the first time you get hit really though sometimes they do leave nasty bruises. However I've increased the hardness of the shell of the paintballs that they are using, while it still breaks just as easily " Harry stated. "Look just get used to the idea because it is going to happen. They'll be wearing black outfits with a white mask to symbolize Death Eaters and we'll be wearing all yellow outfits to signify ourselves. Get ready you guys because the next six hours will be tough and painful"
"And the whole point of this is to?" Seamus trailed off.
"To help work on your teamwork. Trust me. After one game of getting shot with these things you guy will do anything to not get shot again"
Harry ran as fast as he could to a particularly wide tree. He looked at his surroundings, his eyes searching for black. He had been traveling in a group of four earlier but they had scattered after being fired upon.
The bruises on his back were still stinging from the fist game they had played. They had played in a warehouse and while he was running down the stairs he had been shot up. It had hurt like you wouldn't believe and he had to stop himself from screaming out in surprise as well as pain.
Now they were in a wooded area, both starting at opposite directions. In the thickness of the trees, foliage and underbrush the group of sixty Knights had become separated into smaller groups. Harry had ended up with Independence Miller, Andrew Kirke and Tabitha Bradley. They had traveled slowly through the woods for a good five minutes together before they took fire and split up.
He was being chased by two of the opposing team members but he wasn't sure if he lost them or not. He started to walk around the tree when a series of paintballs splattered in front of him. He turned around as fast as he could and jumped behind the other side of the tree.
The dark haired teen peaked out from where he was hiding, trying to find his chasers. He couldn't see them at all so he stuck his foot out, hoping to draw there fire. Paintballs came at him from directly in front of the tree and at an angle. Looking to where the shots were coming from he was able to make one black figure creeping around to his left and another one directly in front of his position.
He took fire at the one trying to flank him, sending them scrambling for cover. More shots were fired at him, forcing him to duck back behind the tree. Peaking out again he took a few shots at the one in front of him, just to keep the person suppressed. He traded fire with the two for a little bit longer.
Finally he saw an approaching yellow-clad figure crouch-walking towards him. He held up his hand, motioning them to stop. He held up a finger and pointed to his left and then pointed behind him. He saw the figure nod their head as they started to make a wide sweeping motion to the right.
Again he started to trade fire with the two opponents, refilling his hopper when the paintballs were depleted. 'Don't tell me the bugger abandoned me' he thought. It turned out the bugger didn't abandon him because two minutes later he heard the yelling as someone was shot at and the hit.
The person to his left, realizing that he had lost his teammate and that it was now a two-on-one against him, tried to run. Harry let loose a hail of paintballs and grinned in satisfaction as the person was shot.
His rescuer came over to him. Harry found himself looking into the grey-blue eyes of Blaise Zabini. "You're suppose to be the knight in shining armor Potter, not the damsel in distress" the Slytherin mocked.
"Well good thing I know you're always around to save me then huh?"
SUNDAY, October 19
"Nice to see you Vitriol" Harry said smiling as the goblin entered the study on the first floor of Potter Manor. The two goblins that flanked Vitriol looked over the room carefully, hand on the hilts of their swords. Vitriol took one of the three empty chairs, his guards rather to stand then sit. Across from Vitriol was Harry, Ron and Hermione on either side of him. To the left of Harry was a shabby looking man with greying hair and two worn out looking woman. To Harry's right were three centaur males.
"I see you have gotten some allies since we last spoke Mr. Potter" Vitriol stated, looking curiously at the centaurs. "I always thought Centaurs liked to stay out of the wars of man"
"That is usually true, but Chiro has seen the destruction of our race if Voldemort were to win." One of the centaurs answered.
"And the werewolves. Is that just the few unfortunate werewolves in the United Kingdom or did you manage to also get the werewolf packs of Europe?" the goblin asked glancing at the three werewolves sitting to his right.
"The werewolf packs of Europe and North America have all pledged their support to Harry Potter. Not only is he close friends with a werewolf, but he has also shown generosity to our kind, something rarely shown to us, especially from an English wizard." the male werewolf explained.
"And what about witches and wizards Mr Potter?" the other six looked at him curiously as well.
"Not as good as I had hoped. I do have a small group of sixty who are quite competent and powerful. I plan to go on heavy recruiting among the humans in the next two months." Vitriol frowned at that. He was taking a very active roll in this meeting, unlike the other two groups sitting there. "And are these two part of that competent group?" the sarcasm in the goblins voice was thick.
"Listen you..." Ron was silenced effectively by a glare from Harry.
"Although they may not look like much but these two did help me hold of a group of twelve inner circle Death Eater, with three others at the beginning of the summer. With barely any training we gave twelve inner circle members a run for their money. And since most of us are going through our magical puberty our power should gain a significant boost by next year."
"And what about Grimoire Realm? We have heard you have had run ins with some verins" Finally one of the centaurs spoke up.
"When the Winter Solstice comes Dumbledore said he would show me a portal to Grimoire Realm and then from there I would go throughout the country and talk to the races there" Harry explained.
"Why wait that long?" the centaur asked. "If you do not know where the year round portal is, you could always ask us. We will lead you there"
"Could you really? That would be great. When will be able to go?" Harry was bouncing up and down in his seat.
"Whenever you would like" the centaur replied.
"Then on November 1st we'll go." Some small conversations were exchanged with the nine allies there before the werewolves, centaurs and goblins all left.
"Are you sure leaving so soon will be a good idea Harry?" Hermione asked nervously.
"I hope so. The only problem is that I hoped on bringing my battalion with me when I went. But I don't know if they'd be willing to miss school, I was planning on laying this down upon them a whole month before we left but now? With a little over a two weeks to decide?"
"I'd go with you mate but my mom would skin me alive, not to mention I'm quidditch captain and prefect. Oh...that means you'll miss the first quidditch match" Ron looked very disappointed at that. Understandable since he was crazy about Quidditch and the very first game he'll be captaining his star player won't be there.
"Sorry Ron, but we didn't get that reserve seeker for nothing." Harry was indeed sorry. Quidditch was such a thrill and compared to what he was going through in life, a very relaxing thing. They both looked at Hermione.
"I'd really like to go to learn about the new creatures but..." she trailed off nervously.
"School is important and you don't want to miss anything important" they both finished for her, grinning.
"Don't worry" Harry said, continuing on his own. "I'm sure we'll be going again, so you can thoroughly study the wonder that is Grimoire Realm"
"Hey Harry?" Ron asked looking at him.
"Yeah Ron" he answered.
"You never made the battalions" the red head stated.
"So what have you two been working on?" Harry asked, walking over to the twins and going behind the counter.
"Glad you asked!" Fred exclaimed as he and his twin grabbed Harry by the arm. "Lee watch the store and make sure the new guy doesn't mess up!"
They led him into a backroom with 'lab' written above it. It was filled with smoking cauldrons and many ingredients laying around everywhere. Scorch marks littered the walls, floor and ceiling.
"Follow us to our other lab" They both let go of his arms and walked to a blank wall, where tapping a brick, a doorway appeared. Stone steps led downwards with torches being the only light one had. It reminded Harry of old scary movies, where the hero of the story would stumble upon the evil scientist secret lab.
Not even realizing they reached the bottom, Harry was surprised when George shoved a metal ball with strange runes carved on it, in his face. Fred was rummaging through the junk upon a desk in the corner.
"This is a magical grenade. We got this from the muggles though the design is totally different, therefor still allowed according to the contract. Inside is a gem with a small fissure in it. We have developed a way so that when you cast a spell in here" he pointed to a small hole, big enough for the tip of a wand. "The gem will absorb the spell. Since gems are magical foci, the spell will grow in power. When you press this" Again something on the metal ball was pointed out. This time however, it was a circle that was a couple of shades lighter then the rest of the metal. "You have several seconds to throw it before the germ is split in half. Since splitting it in half will upset the balance of the magic, a small magical explosion will occur. Whatever spell is cast on it, it will be released. If we are able to get the remnants of it, we can use the two halves to create a weaker version of it."
"I'm impressed" Harry stated. "What is the strongest spell it can hold"
"We're pretty sure the Patronus spell is the strongest, but since neither of us can cast it we don't know for sure" George stated.
"I'll cast it for you guys later. What else?"
Fred was dragging something covered with a sheet to him, as George went to rummage through the pile.
"Well, we saw this old muggle movie with a gatling gun in it" Fred pulled of the sheet and Harry saw it. It was looked similar to the first gatling gun ever created. "It has eight barrels, where at the back you open up and place a wand in. Wands are used to fire spells. It can fire 450 spells per minute for six minutes, before the wands are depleted of magical energy. We use eight gems in order to pick which spells are to be fired from each one. You can use the gems continuously, you just have to make sure that all magic is gone from the gem, before casting a different spell then the one before or else a magical backlash can happen. The back of the wands are pressed up against the gem and they draw the energy from there. Which is why after a while, the power of the spells gets less and less. We built it all from scratch, based on a gatling gun we were able to purchase off of some eighty year old American civil war nut"
"You guys are brilliant!" Harry was beyond impressed at the twins inventions. They were perfect for the war and he didn't think Voldemort would ever think of using such items. At least, not until he saw how useful in action they could be.
"We still have a one more to show you!" George said. He pulled out an thin glove. "This glove will negate all portkey magic. If you pick up a portkey with this glove on, it won't take you anywhere. It will seem like any old item. However it doesn't cancel out the portkey, so if you touch it with any other part of your body besides the hand with the glove, you'll be transported"
"How did you two come up with all of these? How many do you have made?" The darj haired teen was anxious to start using the items.
"We only have five of each"
"There all prototypes that work really well" the twins answered.
"Is it possible for you guys to do the same thing to modern guns that you did to the gatling gun?" he inquired, staring at them curiously.
"Obviously you haven't looked at the contract carefully. It clearly states in paragraph three, section two that and I quote" Fred started.
"Any magical weapon designed after a muggle weapon, the definition and types which has been stated earlier in the contract, can not be used by a magical persons or else they face the penalty of losing their magic." George finished.
"And the types stated, clearly, are every muggle firearm and explosives after 1895" Fred added.
"How come after 1895?" Harry asked.
"Well swords, bows and arrows and crossbows were invented by muggles and many wizards and witches used those weapons back then. Plus they didn't really see muskets, the most popular guns, as a threat. So instead of banning all magical weapons based off of muggles, they just picked the year the contract was created in."
"It is the same thing with just using plan old muggle weapons, well almost. You can't use any firearms or anything created after 1895. Magical people aren't exactly that smart when it comes down to things " the twins stated.
"And the grenades?" he asked, remembering that they were created sometime in the twentieth century.
"Aw, that is the genius of the whole thing. See the grenade was first invented in the 1500's. However it was such an unpredictable thing, sometimes blowing up spontaneously, that research into it was disbanded until the late 1800's. Therefor it was created before 1895, but it was perfected after 1895"
"Can you guys mass produce these things?"
"The only problem is it is hard getting so many gems"
"Plus they are very expensive!"
"Diamonds work right?" Both of them nodded their heads. "I can get you a bloody big load of diamonds. If Russia released the diamonds it has stored into the economy, the price of diamonds would decrease significantly. If I can find out where one of their storehouses are for them, we could just...borrow them" Harry explained. "By the way, how big do the gems have to be?" "Well for the gatling guns the gems need to be the size of a golf ball. As for the grenades, a marble size gem will give you a radius of a foot. We estimate that a ping-pong sized gem will give you an eight foot radius"
"Hopefully I'll have your gems before I go to Grimoire Realm"
THURSDAY, October 30
Things had been steadily improving for Harry and the Golden Knights. After several attacks on family members of the old D.A. Harry offered housing to all of them and most of them accepted. New and improved wards were cast on the island and Hermione and Harry performed the Fidelius Charm on the whole island as well.
Since many families linked to him seemed to be going into hiding, he had been approached by more families and people. After testing them all for trustworthiness he had let them to Potter Manor. Soon all the rooms in Potter Manor had been taken up. Showing their support to Harry most of the new, of age, residents, especially the young adults, were eager to fight in the war for Harry. Since Angelina Johnson's dad was an Auror, and Kingsley's brother-in-law who was just as good as the bald Auror, he agreed to teach the residents how to fight properly.
Mr. Johnson also got Harry a copy of the Ministry forces sheet. It was basically a self-updating piece of parchment that listed all Ministry Aurors, Hit Wizards and Unspeakables as well as their current fighting status. Not only that but Fred and George insisted on still staying members in the Order of Phoenix and had been giving Harry reports on Dumbledore's forces. Plus Blaise Zabini had been giving him weekly updates from his Death Eater spy.
Now, not only did he have the aid of goblins, centaurs and werewolves and a group of sixty fighters, he also had the aid of about thirty nine more magical people and information on the other three factions in the war.
Currently he was sitting in the third floor study of Potter Manor, browsing through a strategy book on World War II.
"What's this?" Harry asked, looking up as Kyle Clarkson slid several pieces of parchment in front of his face.
"Sixty-two cases of rogue vampires causing trouble in Muggle neighborhoods in the United Kingdom" Kyle said. "The Watchers have sent three slayers here to help out but it isn't enough"
"Only three?" Harry asked.
"Things are getting grim man. Dark creatures are getting more daring and viscous in their attacks across Europe. The Ministry can't spare any Aurors from their guarding duties. Hit Wizards are already waist deep in missions. Come August, Britain will have a batch of five hundred new Aurors. The only problem is that most of them are complete imbeciles" Kyle had a small frown on his face as Ron walked into the room.
"Do we have a total number of forces on our side so far?" he asked, moving to sit in the seat next to Harry.
Harry opened up one of the drawers and rummaged around. He finally pulled out a long roll of parchment. "The Ministry right now has six-hundred and thirteen Aurors capable of battle not including injuries. Injuries stand as follows. Seventy-two will be able to return to service in the next week and nine will be able to return in a month. Forty-seven are questionable or not on wether they'll be able to battle again. They have one hundred and three Hit Wizards, not including injuries. Injuries are six will return in the next week and fourteen in a month. Eight are questionable on their returns. Unspeakables are only sixty-five ready for battle, not including injuries. Injuries are as follow, two will return in a week, three in a month and eleven are questionable on their return." He looked up at them. "With this new batch of three hundred Aurors in ten months they'll have about 1400 wizards capable of battle. That is if they don't lose anymore" He held up the piece of parchment. "This is tied to the records in the Ministry so we'll know when the numbers change"
"And the order?" Ron questioned, his eyebrows furrowed.
"We get updates from Fred and George every week. Dumbledore has only two hundred strong witches and wizards. Hagrid has managed to convince a handful of giants to join our side, about eight or nine, not including Grawp."
"What of Voldemort and his army?" Ron's voice was oddly quiet.
Harry sighed. "Three thousand strong Death Eaters as of now. A hundred and six of them are in Azkaban. A couple hundred vampires, who knows how many Dementors, every wild troll in the UK, around twenty giants. I'll remind you this is only in Britain. Who knows about Dumbledore's and Voldemort's expansions into other countries. Or other Ministries getting involved for that matter"
"I heard Voldemort sent propositions to several Ministries. Rumor is that Russia and Bulgaria have already sided with him." Ron's voice was barely a whisper.
"America has already pledged its support to us. Their Enforcers are one of the best in their field, plus their Magical Marines are suppose to be bloody brilliant" Harry stated. "Now, since Kyle gave me these reports we might as well use them to our advantage.Tomorrow we'll get some practice. We'll send each of the platoons out to help with the vampire problems"
FRIDAY, October 31
"I'll right you guys, lets start getting ready." The fifty-nine people in front of him nodded theirs heads. We all know garlic will work on vampires, but it won't kill them, not unless you shove the thing down its throat. Ways of killing a vampire are stabbing it in the heart, stabbing it a lot of times with silver, injecting a large dosage of silver in its bloodstream, chopping its head off, keeping it in sunlight for a extremely long period of time, the Killing Curse and a Reductor Curse in the mouth. None of them are particularly easy to do, so we'll be going in platoons today. I've picked the reports with the least amount of vampires. Four pairs, a threesome and the last report with four. Since we'll be going in platoon, I figured now would be a good day to actually make them. As well as the battalions so here they are;
"The platoons are:
Alpha Platoon:
Leader-Harry Potter
Second in Command-Neville Longbottom
Blaise Zabini, Katie Bell, Ginny Weasley, Independence Miller, Logan Octavius, Jason Summers, Abbie Feste, Su Li, Marco Chambers, Isaac Vecceti, Xander Yestin, Padma Patil, Parvarti Patil, Kevin Entwhistle, Wayne Hopkins, Angelina Johnson, Sally Fawcett, Justin Finch-Fletchley.
Beta Platoon:
Leader-Ron Weasley
Second in Command-Terry Boot
Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Lisa Turpin, Alison Rosse, Jack Sloper, Ernie Macmillan, Salma Ladonna, Yaholo Nocona, Megan Jones, Terrence Higgs, Victoria Frobisher, Seamus Finnegan, Dean Thomas, Tracey Davis, Hannah Abbott, Lavender Brown, Feleti Poteri, Luna Lovegood.
Delta Platoon:
Leader-Susan Bones
Second in Command-Hermione Granger
Tabitha Bradley, Oliver Wood, Blair Wood, Pierre Tayte, Alicia Spinnet, Melissa Royale, Isabella Poteri, Andrew Kirke, Lee Jordan, Geoffrey Hooper, Anthony Goldstein, Michael Corner, Lancelot Feste, Paige Edalene, Hazel Dillon, Kyle Clarkson, Kurt Bundy, Colin Creevey.
"And the squads will be as follows:
"Snake Squad:
Leader-Harry Potter
Second in Command-Blaise Zabini
Other members- Katie Bell, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Marco Chambers, Padma Patil, Logan Octavius, Independence Miller, Abbie Feste, Kevin Entwhistle.
"Lion Squad:
Leader-Neville Longbottom
Second in Command-Kyle Clarkson
Other members- Parvarti Patil, Wayne Hopkins, Su Li, Isaac Vecceti, Xander Yestin, Sally Fawcett, Ginny Weasley, Jason Summers.
"Eagle Squad:
Leader-Ron Weasley
Second in Command-Feleti Poteri
Other members- Fred Weasley, Lisa Turpin, Dean Thomas, Lavender Brown, Yaholo Nocona, Tracey Davis, Jack Sloper, Megan Jones.
"Badger Squad:
Leader-Terry Boot
Second in Command-Luna Lovegood
Other members- George Weasley, Alison Rosse, Ernie Macmillan, Salma Ladonna, Terrence Higgs, Victoria Frobisher, Seamus Finnegan, Hannah Abbott.
"Phoenix Squad:
Leader-Susan Bones
Second in Command-Isabella Poteri
Other members- Kurt Bundy, Colin Creevey, Hazel Dillon, Blair Wood, Michael Corner, Alicia Spinnet, Lee Jordan, Andrew Kirke
"Dragon Squad:
Leader-Hermione Granger
Second in Command-Angelina Johnson
Other members- Paige Edalene, Geoffrey Hooper, Anthony Goldstein, Melissa Royale, Oliver Wood, Pierre Tayte, Tabitha Bradley, Lancelot Feste.
"I'm going to give you guys weapons from the Potter vault made out of silver. Kyle taught you the basics of fencing, so this shouldn't be too difficult for us. Any questions?"
"Do we have to do this?" Neville asked, a slight waver in his voice he tried to hide.
"Come on Neville. Buck up. Remember you're a platoon leader and you platoon will look up to you" Harry exclaimed, slapping the chubby boy on the back.
Neville mumbled something as Harry handed out the portkeys. "I expect everyone back here before four." With that the portkeys activated.
Harry and his platoon were taken to a small village several miles away from Dublin. The population only consisted of three hundred or so residents. Average size Victorian style houses, one school for all grades, a sheriffs office, a one truck fire house, a pub, a church and an all-you-need market were the only buildings in the town. A large cemetery was just outside of the village.
They appeared in the middle of the main road, but luckily no one was around to see them. The only light Harry could see was coming from the pub, a little farther down the road. The door opened and Harry saw a womanly figure silhouetted in the doorway, before the door was closed. The woman turned away from them and started to walk off down the street, swaying slightly as she walked.
Immediately, three figures could be seen running on the market roof top. "Lets go" the ten golden figures took off running after the figures, Harry in the lead. By the time the woman turned onto a side street, the vampires were seconds away from her. The platoon of Golden Knights were over a minute away from the vampires, struggling to keep up with their superior speed.
Soon the vampires stuck, the woman's screams echoing down the deserted street. Harry's magic, reacting to his desperation, increased his speed.
Finally he went barreling into the group, sending all four flying to the ground. The woman tried to get up but was unable too, most likely from blood lost. The vampires rose with the deadly grace they're known for. By then the other Knights had caught up to them. Padma ushered the woman off to the side, looking at the bite marks on her neck.
"Fools" one of the vampires hissed. The Golden Knight members cast a series of curses and spells at the vampires, who shrugged most of them off. Harry pulled the sword from the sheath at his belt.
The lead vampire also pulled a sword out, holding it high in the air as he charged the ten wizards. The dark haired teen met the vampire head on, blocking the downward swing. He jabbed at the being but the vampire just turned out of the way, slashing at him with its sword. Blocking the swing, Harry tried sweeping the feet out from under the vampire. The vamp jumped over his leg and left hooked the teen in the face.
The green-eyed youth fell backwards, most likely bruising his ass as he did so. The pale creature jumped at him. Harry was able to slash at the vampire with his sword, catching it in its side. The vampire hissed as the silver burned his wound. Looking around, Harry saw that using their advantage in numbers, the other members of his platoon had killed the other two vampires. Seeing this, the lead vampire ran off down the street.
"Its running to the cemetery. Padma, finish fixing her up. Logan, stay with her. Meet us at the cemetery when your done. The rest of you follow me"
Running into the cemetery, Harry was disturbed by how foggy it seemed to have gotten. In the few movies he had seen, that never boded well. They moved a head carefully, wands and swords at the ready. The glow of an oil lamp could be seen up ahead, coming from an opened catacomb.
"What do you mean? They're on their way?" the voice was nervous and panicky. The vampire was talking to robed figure, a Death Eater by the looks of it. They both turned to the entrance of the tomb, noticing the eight approaching figures.
The wizard let out a yelp of surprise before pulling out his wand. He tapped the ground, muttering something in Latin. The Golden Knights started shooting spells at the wizard but the vampire had stepped in the way, easily shaking off the stunners and minor hexes. Finally the wizard was done as both he and the vampire, ran out of there.
Odd noises started to sound from all around them. They all glanced around nervously, wondering what was happening. And then they saw it, white skinned figures, moving towards them. The Death Eater had turned many of the corpses in the cemetery into Inferi. "Let's get the hell out of here" They turned around and started to run towards the entrance. They didn't get very far before they crashed into Padma and Logan. "Shrieking Shack" The portkey in his pocket didn't activate. Harry cast a ward-reveal at the sky and cursed for the second time that night as anti-portkey and anti-apparition wards appeared. Murphy's Law was a bitch.
"Go back the other way" Harry shouted at them. They started to run to the entrance but saw that it was blocked by hordes of Inferi. "Incendio!" the jet of fire hit an inferius, which stumbled backwards, trying to put the fire upon it out. Jets of fire flew from all their wands but the creatures were moving in on them quickly.
"Reducto!" The spell hit the ground in between a group of Inferi, sending them flying. The ten golden figures ran through the opening and started to dodge around tombstones and Inferi, as they tried to find a way out.
"I dropped my wand!" someone behind him shouted.
"Keep going, we can get it later" Harry shouted. Running over a grave, he was surprised when the ground in front of him burst open and an Inferius rose out of the grave. He wasn't able to stop himself as he crashed into the corpse. His wand and sword left his hand while he skidded to the ground. Rising he was unable to see where his weapons had fallen.
The other members stopped to check too see if he was ok. "Keep moving!" he shouted. They nodded, as they continued running. He cursed himself for leaving his extra wand at Hogwarts.
"Harry!" Turning around, Harry saw that Katie Bell had been snatched by a particularly big Inferius. The giant corpse's hand was around her throat, her feet dangling from the ground. Harry speared the thing, sending them toppling to the ground and Katie crashing to her feet. Harry scrambled to his feet and the Inferius grabbed his foot. He kick the thing in the head with his other one, sending the head rolling off the neck.
The others were farther ahead of the two disarmed teens, as they struggled to catch up. He saw one of them trip, a white hand grasping their foot from the ground. The person was able to get their foot free but had lost their weapons as well.
Snake Platoon was soon exhausted. They had been chased around for five minutes, trying to find a way through the Inferi, but unable to do so. All of them had lost their weapons throughout the chase and they were now cornered in the back of the cemetery, pushed back against a catacomb as over a thousand Inferi came closer and closer to them.
Harry was pleading for anything to come help them, he was beyond desperate. A burst of flames appeared inches from his face as a red and gold feather fell to the ground in front of him.
Looking at the phoenix feather in wonder, Harry had to stifle a shout of surprise as a figure jumped down from the catacomb and landed in front of them. The figure raised their hand and released a fireball of black flames. A black glow illuminated the figure and Harry recognized his godfather instantaneously.
Moving his hands in a semi-circle Sirius created a half-ring of black flames in front of the group. The Inferi stumbled away from the intense heat of the fire.
Satisfied with the work of his flame, Sirius turned to look at his godson and the others with him.
"What the hell are you doing here?" he asked at the same time as Harry.
"I was in New York, with Remus when Fawkes came out of nowhere, grabbed me and brought me to the top of that catacomb" Sirius stated.
"Well I, I mean we, came here to take care of some vampires. However it turns out a Death Eater was here as well and he created all these Inferi and quickly left with one of the vampires" Harry stated.
"That isn't good. If he left that quickly it means he didn't put the Inferi under his will. Which means they'll probably be making their way to the closest town right now" Sirius had a look of extreme worry upon his face. "I'll have to call Dumbledore over here to take care of the situation." Seeing the look on Harry's face when he mentioned Dumbledore, Sirius added "You should get out of here before he comes" Harry nodded. The fog had cleared up now, the half-moon giving enough moonlight for them to see the ground and their weapons. Gathering them quickly, they ran out of the cemetery for a little bit before activating their portkeys, finally out of the anti-portkey wards.
(1) Alright, I definitely need a new name. Preferably something with League and that is not cliche. Examples are Order(League) of Light, Order(League) of the Griffin and Order(League) of the Dragon.
Sorry for the super long update but I just haven't had time to write. What with school, hours of homework, clubs and going out with my friends, it is really hard to find time to sit down for a good amount of time and write. I usually have ten minutes to write every day. Sometimes on Sunday, I'll have a good hour to write, which is where I get most of it done, but it just isn't enough time.
However in order to get this chapter out on Christmas I decided to cut something out. Homework. I mean, who needs it? That and I kind of sped through the writing. So if you find any mistakes point them out to me in reviews and I'll fix them.
GOLDEN KNIGHT MEMBERS. (I don't think I introduced all of them, so here are all of them, along with a small description.)
Hannah Abbot-Rosy cheeked, blond who usually wears her hair in a ponytail. Good at healing.
Katie Bell- Dirty blonde hair, nice looking, tan skinned. Fast reflexes, good offensive magic.
Susan Bones- Pretty girl with a squared jaw, wears red hair in plait. Good offensive, one of the better duelers
Terry Boot- Handsome aristocratic boy with sleek black hair. Knows a wide range of spells
Tabitha Bradley- Black haired average looking witch with a powerful stunner.
Lavender Brown- Good-looking blond haired girl. Weak at offensive spells, good at healing
Kurt Bundy- Silent blond haired boy with a moody attitude. Good with shield charms
Marco Chambers- Short brown haired teen with a quick draw. Fast at spell casting
Kyle Clarkson- Crew-cut black haired, muscular ex-vampire hunter from America. Knows martial arts.
Michael Corner- Dark haired boy with moderate looks. Good on his feet.
Colin Creevey- Mousy brown haired youth. Fast, quick and small.
Tracey Davis- Pretty black haired witch with a wide range of painful hexes and curses.
Hazel Dillon-Pale skin, black hair with red streaks. Good at counter-curses. Canadian. Ferret animagus
Paige Edalene-Dark tan, silver hair, pretty witch. Good with animals, Earth elemental. American
Kevin Entwhistle-More into researching then dueling. Long brown hair and hazel eyes.
Abbie Feste- Average looking with big nose, brown hair. Good at potions.
Lancelot Feste- Average looking with big nose ,black hair. Good at dueling.
Sally Fawcett- Short-reddish brown hair, with a small figure and yellow eyes. Good at spells that manipulate the mind
Justin Finch-Fletchley- Curly blond hair, stuffy good looks, athletic, good with a sword.
Seamus Finnegan- Sandy haired, handsome Irish lad with a hell of a right hook.
Victoria Frobisher- Curly blond hair, pretty witch. Excellent at charms.
Anthony Goldstein- Flipped brown hair and a plain complexion. Has a powerful Bludgeoning Hex.
Hermione Granger- Bushy brown hair. Good at healing, research and knows a huge range of spells
Terrence Higgs- Small, lean frame. Blonde hair and aggressive. Fast with a wand.
Geoffrey Hooper- Had a whining problem. Average in everything, including spell work but agile and swift.
Wayne Hopkins- Huge brown haired teen with muscles. Really good at boxing and really strong.
Angelina Johnson- Tall pretty black girl. Fairly impressive reflexes and a arsenal of powerful offensive spells
Megan Jones- Alright looking girl with glasses and brown hair. Great at Rune Magic.
Lee Jordan- Black boy with dreadlocks. Competent dueler, creative.
Andrew Kirke- Light brown hair and boyish good looks. Likes to use the beaters bat, even off the pitch.
Salma Ladonna-Dark brown hair, tanned skin and brown eyes. Good at healing.
Su Li- Fast, agile, a dark haired Asian beauty. One of the better duelers in the Golden Knights.
Neville Longbottom-Slightly chubby boy with light brown hair. Pretty powerful but needs confidence.
Luna Lovegood- waist length dirty blond hair, silverish eyes. Pretty in own way. Competent and powerful
Ernie Macmillan- A stout and dark haired teen. Has a powerful Disarming Charm.
Independence Miller- Light blond haired American born witch has big mouth and dueling skills to back it up
Yaholo Nocona-Son to Nirvelli, water elemental. Skilled at nature magic. Tanned skin, black hair.
Logan Octavius- Bald, with angular facial features. Strong Shielding Charms as well as good dodging skills
Padma Patil- Exotic black haired, dark skin Indian beauty. Good at defensive magic and researching.
Parvarti Patil- Exotic black haired, dark skin Indian beauty. Good at offensive magic and dueling
Feleti Poteri- Italian distant relatives of Harry, messy black hair, hazel eyes. Powerful, good at defense
Isabella Poteri- Italian distant relative of Harry, curly black hair hazel eyes. Powerful pro at Transfiguration
Harry Potter- Handsome messy black hair. Powerful at most magic and an expert dueler. Royal eagle ,dingo and hippocampus animagi.
Alison Rosse- Tall with light brown hair. Good on feet, powerful with Charms.
Melissa Royale- Dark red hair, slightly over weight. Pretty face, good with animals.
Jack Sloper- Blond hair with a thick build. Good at transfiguration.
Alicia Spinnet-Good looking brown haired. Talented at healing and offensive magic.
Jason Summers- Reflexes that could rival a vampire. Average looking wizard with short blonde hair.
Pierre Tayte- Pale blond hair and angular features. Good with the Dark Arts.
Dean Thomas- Tall black boy with a thirst to figure out his fathers history. Competent dueler, fast runner.
Lisa Turpin- Dark brown hair, good at Disguise and Stealth.
Isaac Vecceti- Burly teen with dark red hair. Clumsy but good at shields.
Ginny Weasley- Pretty, red-haired. Fairly good duelist. Good Bat-Bogey Hex.
Ron Weasley- Red hair, tall lean frame. Powerful, good axeman. Great duelist.
Fred Weasley- Red hair roguish good looks, burly with good upper body strength. good duelist very creative
George Weasley- Red hair roguish good looks, burly with good upper body strength. good duelist very creative
Blair Wood- Oliver's cousin. Pretty, curly brown hair. Good at charms.
Oliver Wood-manly good looks. Burly with brown hair, good at dodging.
Xander Yestin- Home taught welsh teenager. Small with thin blond hair. Sparrow animagus, good scout.
Blaise Zabini-Strawberry-blonde hair, pouty lips, blue-grey eyes. Good at offensive magic. Disowned daughter of Death Eater family.