AN: Hey! Here is the new chapter! I hope you all enjoy, it's unbelievable how much support I've gotten from you guys. Not many people read the profiles, so I have a request. Could someone maybe do some fanart for this? I would love to have it as the cover photo! I am even offering a one-shot (if I know the fandom, sorry). I don't think there's anything else. Oh! I go to Washington DC in a little over a week! I won't be writing during the trip, but I do have a one-shot planned to come out a day or two before I leave.

Like always, I own nothing (except for this tube of cookie dough that I'm eating... nom...)

Giada Draven, out!

Potionem smiled viciously, reappearing at the Mansion a second before Toby. Toby had decided to challenge him to a contest, so as to help 'train' for the coming war. The two would leave at the same time, and see who could kill one hundred of their prefered targets first. Potionem had won, of course; sadly, there was no shortage of child abusers or pedophiles. His reward was some of Toby's favorite waffles. If he had lost, he would have had to have given the arsonist a potion that would act as fuel, making his fires spread much quicker than normal.

Laughing, the two boys began to trek inside, but stopped when they heard the sound of wings. Holding out his arm, Potionem instinctually waited for the owl to land before gently taking the letter that was addressed to him. As he read the looping scrawl, he let Harry take over as they began to walk again, Toby talking and laughing about this and that and Harry responding when needed.

As soon as they were inside, he made his way to the kitchen, sitting at the table to reread the letter.

Harry,

I believe you should come back now, my boy. Since the fight at the ministry, Death Eater attacks have increased, each having casualties that never dip below twenty. I know that you are prepared for the battle, and since it is still summer we can pretend that Hogwarts is empty so that Tom would attack. I do believe that you can hold your own, but I would still like to fight with you, just in case.

Answer soon, my boy. I do not know how long we can hold out without you.

Harry sighed, putting his head in his hands before standing and going to the office, where Slender was more often than not. "Slender?" he called, knocking lightly on the door.

Static crackled as he heard a faint, "Come on in." He walked in, sitting at the plush armchair in front if the desk that Slender was sitting at. "What is bothering you, Potionem?" he said, walking around the desk to sit next to Harry.

"I got a letter from the headmaster that it would be a good idea for me to go to the school right now to fight Voldie. I was wondering if I could bring some of the other creeps with me, to make sure that the ones fighting would not truly be in danger of dying."

Slender nodded. "Who were you thinking of? I know that Jeff will wish to come, and with Jeff comes BEN. I believe Sally and LJ would be the best choices." He nodded to himself then looked at Harry, who nodded as well.

"I will go ask them right now, so that we can get this done with." He stood, nodding politely at Slender, before going to find the others. He easily found Sirius and BEN in the game room, where he had first met them. He smiled, before coming to settle behind the couch the couple had settled on. He coughed, snickering when Sirius jumped and grabbed a spare knife while BEN just laughed softly. "I got a letter today," Harry said conversationally once Siri had put away his knife, sitting down.

"Oh?"

"From Dumbledore."

Sirius looked back at him, setting down his controller. "What's going on?"

Harry pulled out the letter, handing it over as he began to explain. "I thought of bringing some of us to fight so that there would be any casualties at all. He wants to fight with me to destroy Voldemort, but the Wizarding World will need him to rebuild. Would you two want to join me?"

Sirius grinned, his scars making the maniacal light in his eyes stand out. "Well of course!"

Harry smiled, looking at BEN. "I guess you're gonna go with?"

BEN nodded, putting his arm around Sirius. "Why not? I'm already dead, so it's not like I'm gonna die again."

Nodding, Harry stood. "I'm going to go ask a few others. I'll come back in a bit."

As he walked out, he faintly heard the sounds of the two's game and Siri calling out, "See you in a bit, pup!"

Harry smiled as he went to Sally's room. After he knocked, he was pulled in by the over-excited ghost. "Harry! Harry! Do you want to have a tea party with me?" She pouted up at him, forcing him to sit down and placing a cookie in his hand.

"I'm sorry Sally, but I have a question for you." Her head tilted to the side, as she munched on a cookie. "There's a big war going on at the school that I go to, and I wanted to know if you would help me."

Sally jumped onto his shoulders. "Of course! When do we go? Is anyone else going? Is LJ going? Can I play with the other side? Who are we fighting anyway? Are they really bad people?" She kept babbling away, not giving Harry a chance to answer as he carried her to LJ's room.

When he knocked, the monochrome clown opened the door only a sliver. "Yes?"

"Hey, I have a question. At my school a big battle is gonna happen, and I need some people to help me fight that can't die. You in?" He could always drop the slightly formal act he always kept around the others. Even with Sirius, he kept up the act so that it seemed he wasn't stuck at the mindset of a five year old.

LJ grinned, his sharp teeth glinting in the faint light from his room. "Of course. I take it that little Sally-doll is coming too?" At Harry's nod, he continued, "Of course, BEN and Jeff are gonna go too, since you're so close to them. Is this the battle that Potionem mentioned that'll make you a full creep?"

He smiled at the only person who truly realized that Potionem was a different person. "Yeah, I finally get to kill the guy who killed my parents. I plan to jump into a fatal shot that he'll send out. To make him kill the piece of soul he left in me. 'Least, that's what Potionem is planning." The two grinned at each other, while Sally started to play with Harry's hair.

A few minutes, the three walked (well, Sally was still on Harry's shoulders) into the room where Sirius and BEN were waiting. Harry pulled off the bottle on his belt, spraying it to open the now familiar portal that led to Hogwarts. They all stepped through at once, meeting an unexpected sight.