The Dark Witch and the Necromancer ENGLISH

by Heiko2003

Well... Harry is pissed, his relatives tipped his inner balance, so he snapped and turned dark. Yes, this is a very dark!Harry story. This is also going to be HarryBellatrix. So if you don't like it, don't read it. Contains also some graphic violence.

18. boiling point

AN: Hi folks, I'm back. I was at vacation for three weeks. Lucky me, I know ;-) Well, here is your well deserved update. Enjoy it!

Chapter 18 – Boiling Point

At this moment Remus burst in, "Albus! The Ministry! There is an full fledged attack!"

Dumbledore shot up, as did Harry, "Take me with you! There is no time for more secrecy and games. You know, that I can help you, as can Bella."
Dumbledore nodded, "Your magical reserves?"

"As fresh as ever." Harry said curtly and with a wave of his wand, he changed his clothes in his eerie Dark Avenger outfit.

Dumbledore sighed but his twinkle came back, "At least, you will scare the Deatheaters now. May I ask, where your mysterious messenger of doom is?"

Bella laughed, "That would be me... his scout and aide."

Dumbledore nodded and stroked his beard, "An animagus then? Well, lets gather in my office then."

Harry pulled his hood up and his face was once again covered in shadows. Bella changed while Harry called his staff. She took a place on Harry's shoulder.

"Care for a ride?" Harry said with clear mirth in his now again reverberating voice. Some little charm, like the shadow charm and the voice altering charm were very useful.

Remus gulped, "As far as I recall, the Grangers didn't enjoy this trip."

"Who would like a trip through the underworld?" Harry asked and you could nearly hear the grin which was on his face, "Alas, the way is short and it is the fastest way."

Dumbledore took his hand as did Remus hesitantly and they disappeared in a black mist.

Remus and Dumbledore where white and swayed lightly as they appeared in the office. Minerva even shrieked as she saw the well known black cloud appearing in midst of the very heart of Hogwarts itself, Moody, Tonks and Flitwick gasped, the Weasleys and Hermione stared at the stranger and Dumbledore while Snape only had an eerie grin on his face, "So you showed your true colours then?" he asked.

The Dark Avenger nodded slightly.

Remus growled, "Now I understand why it is called Black Art! Honestly, who could even think of travelling through the underworld?"

Again half of the members gasped.

"Albus! What is that thing doing here?" Molly asked.

"That thing? I think you may have hurt him, Molly." Dumbledore said unusually serious, "He is a wizard like you and me, not a 'Thing'!"

Molly gulped and said to Harry, "I am sorry, if I offended you."

"Well, to forego further questions, he isn't a member, maybe not even an ally but he knows much more of the Order as we would have guessed. But he is fighting against the same threat as we are and offered his help in this battle at the ministry. I am fairly sure, he is no threat to us as long as we treat him with the due respect so I took him on his offer. Now, we have a battle to fight."

"A moment!" Molly said, "Albus, how is Harry?"

"He is as fine as the circumstances allow. Now come and be ready..." and with a look to Harry, "And be ready to see the darkest of magics be used on our side as well!"

The more sensitive order members gulped but nodded determined.

Seconds later they were whirled away with a portkey, courtesy of Dumbledore and they landed in chaos.

Even before the members of the Order had gathered their wits, some events took place simultaneously. The black owl from the shoulder of the Dark Avenger took flight and let out her now heavily feared screech to scare the Deatheaters. As the owl started her flight, the first powerful death and blasting curses left already in a continuous stream the dark staff of the Dark Avenger and caused mayhem and death within the attacking Deatheaters. Only after he had begun to curse his enemies, Harry allowed himself to register, where they had landed. They had arrived in the entrance hall of the ministry. The battle was in full pace as they arrived. On the far side of the hall, the last aurors were trying to hold their position but they were seriously outnumbered and there were already numerous lifeless corpses in the known auror-robes lying on the floor. In the middle of the hall were Deatheaters and most of them had taken cover for instance behind the statue of the magical brethren which had been repaired after the battle in the last summer. Dumbledore became active and once again animated the statues in a most impressive transfiguration. Again they started to attack Voldemort himself who swore as he saw Dumbledore fighting side by side with the mysterious wizard who had caused such a mass of losses under his men.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Voldemort yelled and a powerful beam of green light shot towards the tall wizard in the dark red cloak.

Harry waved his staff and summoned a Deatheater into the path of the green light. The Deatheater started flying with a shriek and died after a last terrified yell, as he saw the green light racing towards him.

Harry countered with the blackest of magics. He shot a flesh eating curse, a pain curse and a skull crashing curse towards the dark lord. A sickly brown light was followed by red light and that was followed by a beam of black light. Voldemort barely managed to avoid the curses but they hit Deatheaters behind him, who died in a most terrible way. The first who was hit, squirmed on the ground as his skin was eaten away until it reached the inner organs and he died. The second died of shock as the overpowered pain curse hit him and the third from the injuries of the skull crushing curse.

As he saw, that the aurors and the members of the Order were still outnumbered, he rammed his staff into the ground. The floor began to shake violently and a wave in the form of a half circle was forming and growing from the ground, as the wave of stone was racing towards the Deatheaters.

As it reached the Deatheaters, it was already nearly six feet high and whirled the dark wizards heavily through the air. Shortly afterwards it subsided before it could reach the Aurors and disturb them as well. Snape and Moony took advantage of the disarranged group and killed mercilessly the dark wizards.

The black owl swept down beside the Dark Avenger and changed back to Bellatrix. Bill Weasley who had seen that yelled: "LeStrange!"

Dumbledore thundered, "She is on our side now! Concentrate on our enemies!"

Bills head shot around and he stunned the next Deatheater.

As Bellatrix joined the onslaught of Remus, Snape and Harry and they were killing Deatheater after Deatheater, the black robed wizards started to become seriously afraid. They tried to look for cover, but now it were them who were outflanked as they were in the middle between the Aurors and the Order members.

Curses were flying in all directions and many stray curses hit the walls of the once magnificent entrance hall. Pieces of stone were raining down on the wizards. More then once the whole building was shaking under the impact of some blasting curses.

Harry and Dumbledore were concentrating on Voldemort and kept spells raining down on him while they protected themselves with conjured walls, shields or in Harry's case, brutally summoned Deatheaters who had to take the curses which were destined to hit him.

That again caused even more fear and chaos within the Deatheaters.

Voldemort was hard pressed to avoid the attacks of the animated figures, who kept incoming on him. He swirled his robe and disappeared only to reappear some feet away.

He also had to block the charms of Dumbledore. Therefore he conjured a silver shield, which blocked the spells. The impact of the spells caused a metallic gong which sounded eerily throughout the hall. But it shattered as Harry yelled: "esare"

A dark blue beam of sparkling light flew towards the shield and shattered it forcefully. The power of the spell was so great, that Voldemort who was hiding behind it was flung down hard to the floor.

"You will pay for that!" Voldemort screamed furiously and hurled again the killing curse towards Harry but he had done the same at the very moment. Two bright green beams collided in the middle between them and caused a large explosion. Some Deatheaters who had been in the radius of the explosion were killed instantly in a painful way.

Green sparks ran over their bodies as they screamed one last time before they died.

Suddenly a second group of Deatheaters came through a sideway. They had the minister of magic himself between them and one of the persons holding him was no other than Umbridge.

"We have our target! Say goodbye!" Voldemort yelled in glee: "AVADA KEDAVRA!"

The green light of the killing curse erased the life of the minister.

Instantly after that, Voldemort disapparated.

Harry growled in deep rage as he saw the fat woman who had caused him such much pain and yelled: "UMBRIDGE YOU BITCH! NOW YOU GET YOUR PAYMENT FOR YOUR TORTURE OF THE STUDENTS... SANGUIS FEVARE!"

A sickly yellow beam raced towards the witch and hit her dead on. She began to scream and twitch violently. All fighting stopped, as they all watched, as the skin was bulging and shudders ran visibly throughout the whole body. Her eyeballs became blood red and blood began to ran out of her nose, her mouth, her ears and her eyes before her skin was torn apart in a mess of blood. She fell down to the ground, twitched a last time and died.

"RETREAT!" one of the Deatheaters yelled and they disapparated with loud cracks.

The Aurors and Ordermembers looked stunned between the dead witch, the Dark Avenger and their dead minister. Slowly they began to move and help their injured comrades. Poppy, Molly and some other people apparated in to help them. Molly hurried firstly to her kids and hugged them and that included Hermione of course. Harry looked to his friends and saw satisfied, that they were only lightly hurt with small cuts but otherwise alright.

"Friends and comrades!" Dumbledore said loudly in a grave voice.

"It seems to me, that Voldemort only attacked, to deprive us of our leader and to cause chaos in the wizarding world. We have to take measures to avoid that! So I vote for a temporary minister, I vote for Arthur Weasley!"

Some of the Aurors nodded and most of the Order members applauded loudly.

"Anyone against it?" Dumbledore asked with twinkling eyes.

No one spoke against it.

"So it is decided. Arthur, you are the Minister for now. The Wizardgamot will gather soon to make it permanent." Dumbledore said and congratulated the stunned red head.

Then he turned again to the gathered crowd, "I also want to thank our hooded Wizard here, who we use to call the Dark Avenger. I am afraid, we would wave lost much more wizards today if it hadn't been for him and his ally Bellatrix Black. I want to point out, that they are on our side, even if they are dark wizards or witches. Thank you for your help."

The wizard in the dark red cloak nodded.

"Reveal yourself!" one of the Aurors demanded.

Harry snorted, "Make me!" and raised his staff.

"STOP THAT!" Dumbledore bellowed to the Auror, "He made it very clear, that his target is Voldemort and that alone. But he also made it clear, that he would see anyone as enemy who stands in his way, so DON'T give him that impression!"

The Auror shrank away under the piercing glare of the old wizard and under the aura of powerful dark magic that was radiating from the stranger.

Harry chuckled and went over to Arthur, "Minister! I know, that I don't have to, but I want to ask for permission, to strike back at Voldemort..."

Arthur looked questioningly at him, "How do you want to achieve that?"

"I will hit him as he hit us!" Harry spat and it sounded dangerous with his voice altering charm, "I will summon some shadow sprites which will find his headquarters even if he had hid it with a Fidelius and then I will summon a greater demon which will tear it apart and all what is living inside!"

The hall was absolutely silent after that statement, even Bellatrix gaped at him.

"But... but... that is black magic!" Arthur stammered.

"What am I? A saint or what? I AM A NECROMANCER!" Harry snapped, "Decide quickly! Now he is licking his wounds and vulnerable."

Arthur looked asking to Dumbledore but he said quietly, "You have to make the decision for yourself, Arthur, if you want to show confidence and the ability to rule your folk."

Arthur blanched as the responsibility of his new position sank in.

He gulped, "Well, the Wizardgamot had decided, that any means are possible to fight Vo...Vo...Voldemort."
Harry smiled under his hood, as Arthur forced himself to call Voldemort by his name.

"So I will allow it, if you can assure us, that it proves no danger to the wizarding world."

"It won't if we are careful. Of course, for the summoning of a greater demon, I need some acolytes, four to be precise. I would ask my acquaintance Bellatrix of course and further Remus Lupin, Severus Snape and Blaise Zabini."

Remus gulped but went over to Harry to stand by his side. Snape did the same and nodded, "I am sure, Miss Zabini will help us too as we have already worked together."

Arthur nodded, "Alright, where you will do it?"

"In the dark forest is an ancient stone circle which would be perfect. It is also far away from any civilians. That minimizes the danger."

Arthur nodded, "Albus, could you do me a favour and oversee that?"

Dumbledore nodded gravely, "I am afraid, the black magic is going to affect me very hard, but I will do my best. Ha... the Dark Avenger has chosen his aides with a reason. Only a dark or at least partially dark wizard can stand that kind of magic."

Arthur's head shot around to Remus, "Remus! How..."
"Arthur, I have learned some dark magic to help Harry. If you had have enough time during the battle, you would have seen, that I have nearly only used the killing curse."

Arthur gulped and muttered, "By all means necessary... what have we done?"

"The necessary to win the war, Minister." Harry said forcefully, "You excuse us? We have to prepare. Bella, Severus, Remus?"

Bella changed back and took once more her place on his shoulder. Remus and Snape flanked him left and right and grabbed his shoulders. Harry waved his staff and disappeared in a black cloud which was again radiating darkness and evilness that sent shudders down the spines of the other wizards.

"See, what I mean? That is nothing against what is going to happen during the summoning." Dumbledore said and shuddered.

"I wish you luck, Albus. I have to take care of the business here." Arthur said.

Dumbledore nodded and gathered his teachers, before he was torn away by a portkey.

Harry and his comrades arrived in a dark clearing within the centre of the forbidden forest.

"Harry, how do you know about this place?" Remus asked.

"It was mentioned in one of the books." he answered absently.

Harry took a small stick from the ground and muttered "PORTUS!"

It glowed blue for a moment. He handed it to Snape, "Go and fetch Blaise and Dumbledore!"

Snape nodded and for once, didn't even make a comment, as Harry took command.

Bella landed and changed back.

Harry went to the circle of ancient stone pillars. All of them were covered with ancient runes but most of the five pillars were covered by plants.

Harry muttered a charm and flames burned them away.

He went from stone to stone and read the ancient runes, some of them he traced with his hands.

He nodded and pointed his staff at the pillars.

He began to chant in a strange old sounding language and the pillars began to glow. A line of light started form the pillar next to Harry and wandered over the ground until all oft the pillars were connected through a pentagram. As it was completed, a circle of light appeared in a flash.

After that, Harry took his staff away.

"The magical circle will stay there as long as it is held up by my magic, that means, as long as we need it. I will now summon the sprites. I can do that alone." he explained. At the same time, Dumbledore, Snape and Blaise arrived and gaped at the display.

Bella held her hand up and muttered, "Don't disturb him!"
Harry had already closed his eyes and again pointed his staff towards the circle.

He began to chant in a unnatural deep voice again. He had pulled his hood down, so that he wouldn't disturb his magic with any silly charms.

Five deep blue flashes lit up inside the circle and five small flying black creatures appeared. They looked similar to cornish pixies but much more malicious. They also glowed in a blue shadowy light and their eyes were blood red but they were glowing as well. They tried to break out of the circle but every time they tried to go beyond the boundaries which were formed by the pillars, a wall of white light lit up and forced them back.

"I have summoned you! YOU.WILL.OBEY.ME!" Harry thundered.

The sprites stopped their tries to escape and looked annoyed at him.

"Speak human!" one said in a high voice.

"You will swarm out and search the headquarters of Tom Marvolo Riddle who calls himself Voldemort. You will not show yourselves to anyone but us, you will not do anything other besides looking for him and you will come back instantly if you have found him. You will not bring anything with you and do nothing to harm, hurt or kill anyone."

The sprites growled which sounded ridiculous in their high pitched voices.

"We do as you wish, Master!"

Harry thought, if he had done anything wrong, but he knew, that he had taken care of any threats. Demons tried to kill their summoners because they despised humans generally but even more the ones, who dared to force them under their will. Which demon wanted to serve a mere human? So they tried to interpret the commands of their master in such a way, that allowed them to hurt or even kill their caster. If the summoner wasn't careful enough, that would happen very quickly. The demons had to do whatever the summoner demanded, but if he didn't word his demand carefully, the demon would take revenge later. For instance, one of the inexperienced Necromancers in the past had summoned a Demon. He had worded his demand carefully but hat forgotten to forbid the demon to bring anything with him. So he brought two things, a burning torch and a barrel full of black powder. He didn't hurt or kill his summoner directly, but as he swept down back to hell, he let both fall down to the ground and the Necromancer was... well... history.

As Harry couldn't find any faults, he commanded: "Go!" and they disappeared. Not even twenty minutes later they were back, "He is in the Riddle House which is placed at the west end of the graveyard of Little Hangleton. He is currently in the second floor in a kind of throne hall."
"You have done as I commanded you! Go back to hell!"

They disappeared in blue flashes.

"Well, the Fidelius is broken." Harry said and chuckled, "Now to the fun part."

The others turned a bit nervously towards the black haired teen, "How are we going to help you?"

Harry stroked his chin, "Well, we haven't enough time to teach you. I mean, your part is relatively easy and your main task is to support my magic and to keep reigns on the demon and the protections."

The teachers and Blaise blanched, while Bella nodded determined. She had at least an impression of what they were going to do.

"Well, there is only one possibility. I could use a relative to the imperius charm. You all would keep your will, but my instructions would flow into all of your minds. Your instincts would tell you to trust me and do as I ask. Be assured, you will still have your own will but you should be able to deal easily with the magics." Harry explained.

"But if you divert your attention to four other peoples, can you concentrate enough to summon the demon?" Dumbledore asked concerned.

Harry nodded, "It isn't that much of a distraction and Bella knows already what to do. I have trained that procedure already with her."

"Mr. Potter, are you really sure about that? We are all aware how dangerous a demon is and even more so a greater demon."

Harry's green eyes flashed in determination, "I am sure. Let's begin and kick Riddle's pale snake-ass."

Harry pointed out the positions where everyone had to stand.

"All ready?"

They nodded.

Harry concentrated and spoke the words which would connect his mind to the other casters. Despite what he had said, he connected also to Bella, that would make any commands unnecessary.

The other three gasped as knowledge and instructions flooded in their minds.

Harry didn't need to say any order loud. As one, two wizards and two witches raised their wands while Harry raised his staff.

He plunged it down to the ground and a wave of blackest magic rushed through the forest.

On the inside of the gleaming circle, ancient red glowing runes appeared and began to pulse.

Harry waved his staff at the same time as the others waved their wands and as one they spoke a strange incantation. Five beams of pure blackness shot out of their wands and connected with the pillars and the runes on them and within the circle began to glow even more powerful.

Dumbledore began to became sick. He had to sat down as his legs gave away beneath him.

"Dear Merlin." he muttered. An even more powerful wave of blackness rushed over him, as Harry began to chant powerfully.

The other four wizards chanted as well but more silently, it was like a background chorus and sounded absolutely wrong to Dumbledore, as it wouldn't belong to this world.

"I pray you know what you are doing, Harry." he muttered.

Harry's voice became deeper and even more powerful and the hairs on Dumbledore's skin began to raise as he heard these sounds.

The old wizard jumped, as the ground within the circle was torn apart with a loud bang and blood red light shone from deep beneath the earth.

A huge shadow shot out of the light and as the rip closed, the shadow began to become corporeal.

Dumbledore was shocked to see a at least twelve feet tall creature standing within the circle. It had strong looking red skin covered with thick black hair. It had three menacing looking horns on his head and his eyes glowed in a deep green. It had large pointed teeth. And it looked enraged.

It spread his large black leathery wings and roared dangerously.

"Who dared to call me to this low planet?" it spat and punched with his large claws at the protection circle. Again it flashed in white light, but it looked near to break down. Instantly the five wizards began to chant more powerfully and the demon within the circle roared up in distress.

"Speak!" the demon roared.

"I summoned you to serve me Epolyth!"

"So you know my name!" The demon growled disappointed.

"I know, that I can't command you without knowing your name and that my life would have been forfeit if I had summoned you without knowing it." Harry said calmly.

"A human with sense for a change!" the demon said viciously, "I am surprised. What do you want from a demon like myself?"

"I believe you know that already." Harry said with a smirk.

"The Riddle home?"

"Sure. Now let me speak my text. I command you Greater Demon Epolyth from the seventh circle of hell, obey me! You are to go directly to the Riddle House which is placed on the west end of the graveyard of Little Hangleton. You will destroy the house completely and erase it out of existence and all within, living or not! You will not damage anything else! You will not hurt, harm or kill anything outside the house! You will come back instantly afterwards and report to me! You will bring nothing with you and you will not harm, hurt or kill us! Ah, I nearly forgot. I feel something radiating from you, which I recognize from the battle in the ministry. Do check if there is anything demonic in Tom Marvolo Riddle if he is inside his house. And if you meet him, kill him as long he is inside the house. Remember, you are to do nothing outside this house!"

"I will do as you wish, mortal!" the demon roared, the task seemed to appease him.

"GO!"

The demon disappeared in a red flame.

"Don't stop chanting!" Harry said quietly, "He is still connected to this place. If we stop, he will break free!"

The chanting became more intense and Harry joined in the chorus again.

It took an hour before the demon reappeared. Pieces of flesh and skin were hanging from his claws, his body was soaked in blood and dust. He had looked dangerously before, but now it was a pure menace.

"You were told not do bring anything with you!" Harry bellowed and pointed towards the flesh.

"Oops! I forgot." the demon said with a grin and the flesh and blood disappeared in a hot flame.

"I fulfilled my duty. The house is no more. I killed thirty nine mortals and a large snake inside the house. Forty wizards got away to the safety of the outer grounds. There were twenty giants outside the house. Too bad, that I did get a chance to 'play' with them. I recognised the one who calls himself Lord Voldemort. I hurt him severely before he got away with a portkey. He will be out of order for at least two months. You were right, he is now partially demonic. He has more endurance, slightly more power and will be harder to kill as a mere mortal. He will live much longer now."

"How is his magical power compared to me?" Harry asked.

The demon laughed, "He is nothing against you, Harry James Potter. It will be a pleasure to watch you from the Underworld. We have several bets going and I for one will make a new bet on you now. As much as I hate to admit it, working for you was even fun. But don't think for a second, that we are on a friendly term. You are still low beneath us immortals."

Harry smirked, "I will heed your warning, but you would do good to remember, that you won't die a natural death, but you are still far from invincible."

"Well spoken, mortal!" the demon said with a laugh that send shudders through the gathered wizards except Harry.

"Well, thank you for your help Epolyth! You have served me well and I command you to go back to the Underworld now!" Harry demanded in a powerful voice.

The demon changed again to a mere shadow of his corporeal body and the earth was ripped open again before he flew down back to the Hell. The rip was closed with a new powerful chanting from Harry and shortly afterwards, all magic flowing through the circle disappeared.

As soon as it was over, Harry fell down to his knees exhausted.

Bella was at his side instantly and hugged him. She was heavily breathing herself. Snape supported a swaying Blaise and Remus went over to Dumbledore who had passed out along the ritual.

He enervated him and sat down heavily beside him.

"Are you alright?" Remus asked.

Dumbledore groaned, "I have never felt so bad, Remus, never. I was so sick..." he shuddered. Remus conjured a thick block of chocolate and gave a half of it to the headmaster. He took it with twinkling eyes and took a large bite.

"Ah, much better."

Dumbledore tried to get up and Remus helped him.

"How did it go?" Dumbledore asked, "I was out cold seconds after he was back, his laugh sent me over the edge."

"Very well, but better to ask Harry. My memory is a bit clouded from Harry's mind connection spell. This teenager is truly unbelievable." Remus said with a grin.

Dumbledore chuckled, "You are right about that."

They went over to the others. Dumbledore conjured some chocolate for Snape and Blaise, "Here, that will help you."

Then he went over to Harry.

"Are you both alright?" Dumbledore asked.

"I should ask you that!" Harry said with a devious grin, "You were the one who passed out and missed the best part. But let me help my peers first a little bit more as you have already done with your sweets." Harry said and got up.

He brandished his staff and waved it, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!"

The magnificent stag burst out of the staff and Harry smiled, "Go, help them!"

The stag shook his antlers once and cantered towards Snape and Blaise and ran directly through the stunned wizards. He ran a circle and ran through Dumbledore, Remus and finally Bella before it bowed apologizing in front of Harry and dissolved into white mist.

All wizards except Harry looked restored.

"Wow, that was great!" Dumbledore said astounded, "How did you came up with this?"
"Well, a Professor in my third year taught me, that a Patronus consist mostly of positive emotions, so the idea was nearby." he said and winked to Remus who chuckled merrily.

"But why didn't it help you?" Blaise asked.

"Because it consisted already of my own emotions. I can help only others with my own positive feelings... and if I am right in my assumption, Bella here was the most positively affected?" he asked with a questioning look but a faint smile on his lips.

She was positively beaming and nodded, "I feel... great."

"But why?" Remus asked.

"Think about it, Moony! Which would be my most positive emotion?" Harry asked in a studious kind of voice.

His yes widened, "You love her!"

"Exactly. Now, to ease your minds, I am a black wizard now. The aura of these dark creatures doesn't affect me nearly as much as it does with you. I am merely exhausted. If you would be so kind, Dumbledore, I think it would be best, if you gather the core of the Order and the minister of course. I think my report is going to lift their spirits a bit."

Dumbledore nodded and produced a portkey which took them into his office.

"You can relax until they will be here. Uhm... will you be disguised?"

"Sure. If this mess is over, I don't want the public to know, that this evil wizard and their saviour were one and the same. The craziness of that folk is already too much to bear."

Dumbledore nodded while Harry took his hood up. To keep up the image, Bella changed back and flew up to his shoulder.

Half an hour later the office was filled with witches and wizards.

"I gathered you all hear to give a report on the achievements of the Dark Avenger." Dumbledore began.

"Doesn't he have a name?" Moody growled.

"Sure he does, but nearly nobody knows it." Dumbledore said with twinkling eyes.

"Do you?" Molly interrogated the old wizard.

"He revealed himself to me this very... oh now, it was yesterday." he corrected himself as he took a look at his watch and saw, that it was already past midnight.

"Alas, it is his secret to tell. Now, would you be so kind to give us a report?"

Harry cleared his throat, once more happy, that even Moody couldn't look past his charms, "Well, we successfully summoned some sprites and they found the headquarters of the dark idiot for us. As we would have guessed wouldn't it have been protected by the fidelius, it was the Riddle House. After that, we formed a necromantic power circle and I summoned a Greater Demon."

"May... may I ask a question?" Hermione stammered, curiosity was shining through her eyes.

"I am sure, you want to know, what Demon I summoned exactly, Miss Granger?" Harry chuckled.

"Well, I have read up some of the few facts we have. I learned, that there are seven circles in Hell and the higher the number of the circle you call the demon of, the more powerful the demon is."

"Studious as we all know you." Harry said, "Well, I called a greater Demon from the seventh circle of Hell. I won't reveal his name here, because the names give you power over them and I don't want to tempt anyone here."

"Se...seventh circle?" Hermione gasped.

"Now onto the business, it is late." Harry said, "I ordered him to destroy the House. To make the order as safe as possible, I had to limit the destruction to the house itself and all within it. You all have to realise, that you have to word you order very carefully, as every demon is going to try to interpret your order in such a way, that he can cause much more chaos than you intended and of course he will try to kill the summoner. They can't stand it to be submitted to the will of a mere mortal like me. As the demon reported, the whole house was destroyed."

"I can second that. Shortly before Albus called, I got a report from Aurors in Little Hangleton. The House was destroyed in such a manner, that not even dust remained. Also there were screams of pure terror heard throughout the whole mess." Moody explained.

"Well, nice to hear." the cloaked wizard said coldly, "He reported, that he had killed somewhat over thirty wizards and a snake. He also reported, that he had injured Voldemort himself severely but he could escape before he killed him."

"Why didn't you order the demon to kill You-know-who?" Ron asked.

Harry sighed, "Didn't you follow my explanation about the order?"

Harry turned his head meaningfully to Hermione. She struggled, but then her eyes widened, "He would had have to kill him and he would have done so. But he would have followed him outside of the boundaries of the house and surely caused as much mayhem, chaos and destruction on the way to him as possible."

"Right. That is exactly what I meant. And I can't really order the way he is going to kill him. For instance he could turn the whole body of Voldemort into a magical bomb or a disease or such thing and blast him apart in the middle of a well populated street like Diagon Alley."

The gathered wizards blanched, as they finally comprehended what dealing with demons really meant.

"I..." Arthur began, "I would ask you, to refrain from calling the help of such creatures in the future."
"Arthur! It may very well be necessary to do that again." Albus reminded him, "And I can assure you, the Dark Avenger would do nothing foolishly."

Snape snorted at this and got promptly a hit with the elbow from Remus.

"He knows very well what he is doing. I could see this tonight."

Arthur sighed, "We know very well, that it is war now. Well, you know probably the best, that Necromancy is still allowed, even if it is only because the fools in the past were sure, nobody could do it anymore. We will keep it that way during the war. But I want to ask you, to tell us whenever you are going to do that again, before you do it of course."

"I will do that for greater demons. I won't promise anything for smaller... things... because it may happen in a battle." Harry said seriously.

"But now on with the report. There were about twenty giants outside the house as far as the demon reported and the demon reported, that Voldemort will be out for at least two months. We can take this as a fact, because they may be creatures from hell, but they still can't lie. He also lost his headquarters and a good deal of his men. They will be terrified now. I think, we will have a quiet Christmas this year."

Molly and the teenagers beamed at that.

"I second that." Dumbledore said with twinkling eyes, "We will give an edited report to the press and the students. Your achievements are going to give the people hope indeed." he said to the Dark Avenger.

"Albus... can... can we visit Harry?" Molly asked.

"It is past midnight!" Dumbledore reminded her and she looked sheepishly down, "But you can visit him tomorrow morning. You can sleep in the guest quarters."

"Well, if that was all, I would excuse myself." Harry said and got up.

"Again, thank you for your help." Dumbledore said and winked at him.

Harry growled at this overly friendly display, "I may have helped you, but don't forget the deal! We are no friends, not even allies. And don't cross my ways!"

Dumbledore sighed and became serious, "Sure. I didn't want to offend you. Have a pleasant night."

The wizard in the dark cloak stroked his owl absently, "I am sure, I will."

With that he disappeared in a black cloud and once again, most of the wizards were becoming sick. Snape couldn't help himself and laughed about that.

AN: Thank you for all your reviews. I know, since I lost the support of my beta the story lost some of it's quality. I reread the story again and again but that doesn't change the fact that I'm no natural English speaker and my English is nor perfect. I hope you enjoy the story despite that fact. And I promise, I try to update faster next time. Bye!