Everything was burnt in a green air, the remaining ash and dust vibrant around the now abandoned festival ground with only the moonlight illuminating the floating particles of remains.

Hermione woke up in a heavy daze and sore creek in her neck. She looked up slightly, her eyes fuzzing in and out of two figures cloaked in white. Once her vision was in the right place. She screamed in a staccato beat and scrambled back. She pulled out her wand and stood to her feet, her hands shaking from the figures standing in front of her.

The white figures were taken aback by her sudden demeanor, stepping forward with hands kindly gesturing towards her. "Hermione-"

"DON'T COME ANY CLOSER!" Hermione screamed, making the boys stop in their path. "I know who you are… I figured it out when I saw you fight… How… how could you betray us?! How could you keep this from us?! How did you change your forms?! How can you fight like that?! Answer me! NATSU!"

Both of the cloaked beings stayed silent, looking at each other then back at Hermione who wasn't backing down. One of them sighed, both of them reaching for their hoods. "Alright, you got us…"

Hermione's mouth went a gape, wand slipping out of her hand and landing onto the soft earth with a muffled thud. The fully grown men shrunk down into slightly scrawnier boys, faces back to the familiar ones she passed in the halls.

"No way… Gray…? You… too…?"

"Hermione, I'm really sorry that you had to find out this way. You were right. Actually, I'm surprised you didn't figure it out sooner! I thought you would have figured out Erza by now! With all that talk of trying to figure out who we were!" Natsu laughed.

"P-Professor Erza…?"

"Natsu you idiot! Don't go out blurting things like that!" Gray scolded, slapping him in the back of the head. "Hey what was that about Gray?!"

"Didn't you listen to a single thing I said?!"

"Doesn't matter anyway, she found out. Oh, unless we decide to erase her memory."

"Oh guess that's an option…"

The boys looked at Hermione, who was now looking a bit confused and scared at this point. She darted her eyes between the bickering boys, her soul shaking of what they would do next.

"But I don't think that would be wise right now…" Natsu sighed, placing a hand on his cloak, making it vanish in a golden light. "Professor Dumbledore said it was up to us when we should reveal the truth to them. This attack is proof that we're dealing with something way more powerful than previous years. Something's coming. We all know it. Besides, I think Erza and Master Makarov and Master Mavis would want to chime into this."

Gray stood silent, as he listened to Natsu. He smirked, giving his partner a light knock on the head. "Oi since when were you so smart?" He snarked, his cloak disappearing

"Hey!"

"Wait what do you-"

"Morsmordre!"

Hermione gasped, distracted from her question, the trio looking into the sky

An explosion of green clouds morphing into a sinister skull. A snake emerged from the skull's jaw, slithering and hissing softly through the heavy air. Natsu sniffed the air, his face turning into a growl. "Someone's here. He smells like one of them who attacked us…"

"Hermione…"

Hermione inhaled sharply at Gray's sudden call on her. "Y-Yes?" Gray took her by her shoulders, shaking her lightly. "Don't tell anyone about this. Professor Dumbledore told us specifically not to tell anyone until the time was right. We need to make sure it is."

Hermione, now in complete shock at what was going on, didn't know what to think. All she could do was nod her head in a blank state.

"We'll explain everything when we get back to Hogwarts and if the others approve." Gray promised, finally letting her go. "Natsu, any other scents you're picking up?"

Natsu sniffed the air, his head snapping to the side. "Harry's still here! So is Ron and Arthur! Also some scents I haven't smelled before!"

"Which way?"

Natsu pointed to the direction Harry was, and all three of them took off. "Harry's running, the guy working with the bad guys is close to him too!"

It wasn't long until they saw Harry hiding from something. Natsu looked at his direction, someone was marching towards him.

"Harry!" Gray called out. "Harry!" Hermione yelled out after him. "Harry we're coming!" Natsu yelled, all of them running towards his direction.

"Harry!" Ron's faint voice echoed out.

Natsu's eyes darted to the right, seeing the odd man dip away into the rubble. "Harry are you okay?! We've been looking for you from ages!" Ron panted, Hermione, Natsu, and Gray catching up.

Harry was too dazed to respond to his friends, only snapped out of his trance when Ron tapped him on the shoulder and pointing up. "What the hell is that?!" He exclaimed.

Natsu's eyes darted around them, a black cloak peeking out of a crate, a face watching them from behind a wagon, another from a ripped tent. "About six of them…" Natsu continued watching them. His eyes snapped in horror as all of them reached for their wands, preparing to strike.

"Gray…" Natsu gritted, his partner nodding. "Argh!" Harry screamed, his forehead stinging from the mark. Natsu's eyes shifted to the people hiding, catching them about to sharply spring out. "Everyone get down!"

Natsu and Gray pushed everyone down to the ground, as people leapt out of their hiding spot. "Stupify!"

Hermione screamed, their attackers about to fire a second charm at the teenagers.

"Stop! That's my son!"

Arthur emerged from the ash and dust, pushing one of them out of the way to defend his son and his friends. "Ron, Harry, Hermione, Gray, Natsu, are you alright?" Ron nodded, the others nodding along.

"Which one of you conjured it?!" One of the men demanded, waving his wand at the children. "Crouch you can't be serious?!" Arthur gasped. "They've been discovered at the scene of the crime!" Crouch exclaimed with a shake of his voice. "Crime?!" Natsu and Harry exclaimed.

"Barty… They're just kids…" Arthur panted, desperate to clear their names. "What crime?" Harry asked. "Harry, that's the Dark Mark. It's his mark." Hermione whispered, jolting to her head to the sky. "What? Voldemort?!" Harry gasped, everyone nodding. "The people in those masks… they're his followers aren't they… What about the people in the white hoods?"

"We're not sure about them yet." Arthur explained, his eyes flashing towards Natsu and Gray. Natsu and Gray looked at each other, Hermione looking down sheepishly. "But the people in the masks were definitely Death Eaters."

Crouch nodded slightly, turning away. "Everyone follow me!" He ordered, everyone following him. "Um, there was a man!" Harry called out, Crouch stopping in his tracks. "Before. Over there!" Harry pointed to the direction the man ran, Crouch nodding in appreciation. "All of you! This way!" He called, his men following.

Once they were out of sight, Harry began to calm down from the events. "A man Harry….? Who...?" Arthur asked. "I-I don't know… I didn't see his face…" Harry stammered.

"Don't worry Harry. Everything will be ok." Natsu reassured, Harry nodding in hopes that Natsu would be right. Everyone looked up to the sky, the skull illuminating in death. Hopefully an empty foreshadowed promise from the Dark Wizard.