Hey everyone we are nearing the one year anniversary of this story and I can not wait. Thank you for being patient with me as I wanted to wait till I got hit with inspiration before diving back in otherwise it's not enjoyable for me, you, and everyone else along the way. Now...as the drive in movie theatre always said between movies ON WITH THE SHOW!

It didn't take long for Tonks out find out that their staves had a pretty nifty way to hide themselves as they shrunk down to that of a cane with her patronus as the top of it still just with ears curled so it wouldn't be awkward to hold. It also was pretty great considering how much it still drained them to use the staves. They had been practicing with them for a while but due to how much it still drained them it was proof that this kind of magic was something they'd either have to train it like cardio exercise or leave them as last chance possibilities. Harry though found he preferred holding his in the staff form. He had to blame Moody. Although his time with he actual man was short he had grew to trust the man through their time. He hadn't tried to treat him like a child like Molly Weasley did and had been blunt with him. He only wished he had been able to actually been teach by the man in his fourth year and not the imposter in the form of Barty Crouch Junior. Though a small thought in him believed that the lessons would have probably been very similar. Either way he had asserted Moody with strength with his staff in his hand and the heavy thud the hoove of it echoed usually when he made sure he was making an entrance to well anywhere. In fact it had been Harry's suggestion that Moody had came to teach them how to fight with the staves for the week before Harry had to go.

Harry could still hear the lessons in his head of "MOVE" and "CONSTANT VIGILANCE" and to be honest...it was the best training he'd ever had, besides his time with Grindelwald and Dumbledore. However, that was not the best thing that happened. What was, was when they had gone to Gringotts and had informed the Goblins of the possible case of a Horcrux in the vault. They also found out unfortunately or possibly fortunately that since at the time Bellatrix had been under the Lestrange name when the vault was named and created it would have no repercussions on herself as she was once again Bellatrix Black, and the Lestrange family would be audited and fines would be placed on them for the breaking of contract with them. They found it. The cup. Helga Hufflepuff's cup. They had let Bellatrix be the one to stab it with the sword of Gryffindor. Another one down...The Book, The Ring, The Cup, and Harry. Four shards were finally gone.

If Harry was connected with the shard in him still he would have felt the pain and suffering that Voldemort was going through.

Voldemort, himself, growled gripped the table beside him he had used to keep him standing.

"They MUST have been found..." Voldemort admitted to himself as he closed his eyes and focused on his magical core to try and connect to his horcruxes...the issue with that was the fact that due to how split his soul was and the fact that now several of them were gone his core was unstable and he couldn't fully connect to them. "Lucius!" He roared loudly.

The blond mane of Lucius Malfoy entered the chamber and approached his master. "My Lord?" He bowed to him and stayed on his knees. He had been able to flee before the aurors had grabbed him at the Ministry using the distraction of Voldemort being seen as his advantage.

"Before I left for the Potter house... I asked you to keep a Diary safe. That when time came it would be used to open the Chamber of Secrets and bring forth a new era if anything happened to me...where is it." He asked gently though a storm was clearly behind the words and he looked down at Lucius who paled. It caused Voldemort's eye to twitch as he already assumed what the answer was going to be."

"M...My lord...I had used the book in my son's second year...The boy, Potter he ...he destroyed it with some kind of jagged dagger it se-" He was cut off as he was then on the floor screaming in pain out of no where.

"You've failed me Lucius..." Voldemort said with a fury behind his eyes but a calm voice. "You will suffer like none other...I promise you that." Voldemort kept the curse up until he heard a gasp and looked up. "Ah Draco...…Narcissa...…forgive this untimely meeting. Your father has failed me too often...and now he will suffer the ultimate lost." Voldemort said softly and slowly he rose his wand from Lucius to Narcissa and Draco. Narcissa pushed Draco behind her and Voldemort couldn't help but notice a similarity from an event now 16 years ago. With Lily and little baby Harry.

"Mother don't!" Draco spoke in fear as he looked at his mother in front of him as she had even pulled her wand out. It was shocking and for a moment he saw one of the Famous Black Sisters.

"Not my son you...you...bastard!" Narcissa hissed at him. Lucius had gotten to a spot where he was leaning against a chair bent over as he looked at the scene and looked between Narcissa, Draco, and the Dark Lord...his master...who lost...to a child...several...times. He then looked back at Draco and the thought that came to mind. 'Was this how James Potter was when the Dark Lord came to them?'

"Oh you thought I just meant him...Avada-" Voldemort started before Lucius pulled his cane's tip so hard it broke the clasp that kept it shut when he walked and the wand was pointing at Voldemort.

"Depulso!" He roared as he was blinded with rage. Voldemort hadn't expected it and went through the wall of the manor. Lucius had to look down at his wand for a moment before finally his wife's cries got to him.

"Lucius!" She screamed getting his attention and rushed to him taking his hand. Lucius nodded and grabbed her arm and took his son in his arms holding him close. "Toujours Pur!" She screamed as she grabbed a chain around her neck which attached to a ring with the Black family sigil on it and in a twist on the spot all three disappeared from the spot.

Voldemort slowly stood from his spot on the ground and growled as he yelled. "WORMTAIL!" The small rat faced fool approached him. "Your arm." He grabbed it and twisted it, breaking it in the motion though he ignored the scream of pain from Wormtail, over lifting his wand and began to lower it to the Dark Mark.

Harry woke with a jump the second to last day before term and looked out the window. He had come to find out what he felt was the Wards. Since Bellatrix came and he had experienced people entering and exiting his wards he became to realize what it was. He kissed the head of Tonks who was still asleep and wrapped himself in a robe, as well as grabbing his staff, as he headed down and opened the door to his home and out toward the spot he had felt the wards entered. He smiled as a flying object got closer and stopped beside him to walk with him. In the last week he had found out that a pack of Thestrals were present on his property and had found one of them whom he had come to name Shade due to how he seemed to stick to him like a shadow. He pet the side of the Thestral and walked with him to the spot and found the Malfoys.

"What brings my rival, his death eater father, and his mother to my home?" He glared as he came upon them.

"Potter? How the he-"

"I, Narcissa Violetta Malfoy nee Black, request sanctuary under the Black Family Code from Lord Harry James Potter-Black." She bowed to the head of her family's house. "For my family and myself please I beg you." She looked at Harry.

"I need to know what happened before I can offer it." And with a slam of his staff chairs formed. "Caesar." He said and the elf appeared. "Tea please...and if Tonks comes asking tell her I'm out here please." He smiled down to the elf who nodded and disappeared again. "Hmmm cold tonight ain't it?" He asked gently before he tapped the bottom of a table that appeared between them all and a fire appeared under. "So...Go on." He said as Caesar appeared with the tea.

Over the next hour or two Harry listened to the events that had been happening at Malfoy Manor. It hadn't been the first time that Lucius had been tortured apparentally but yet it seemed that Lucius had a bit of respect from Harry. He was willing to stand up for his family when pushed came to shove and he nodded at the man.

"Very well...Your family is granted Sanctuary and shall be safe while here with me." He rose and tapped the ground the chairs, table, and fire vanished. "To the Manor please...you woke me from my girlfriend..." He muttered annoyed.

Draco looked at Harry in surprise before coughing. "Pot-...Harry." He said and stopped when his parents and Harry turned to him. "Thank you." Lucius was apprehensive but knew that it was true they would be indebt to this child. Meanwhile Narcissa smiled as she saw the side of her child she had tried to push for him to be more. Less pompous More Humble. Yes she was prideful in her family but if you did not temper it you would be well like the worst times of Lucius." He admitted to this.

Harry looked back and nodded. "Your Welcome...Draco." His smile small but present. "Now come. Caesar will prepare you rooms for the night before you, me, and Tonks take off for Hogwarts in two days." He yawned before looking up seeing a light in his room. "Well I'm in trouble." He admitted as he knew that light was coming from Tonks. When morning finally came through he smiled and he sat down listening to the yelling in the other room as He looked at Draco, Lucius, and Tonks as they drank tea in the sitting room.

"Should we-" Lucius started

"No." Tonks denied. "I've seen my mother like this...I wouldn't go near her in this state."

"Same with Mum." Draco muttered matter of factly.

"The Pregnancy Hormones from Bellatrix ain't a picnic either." Harry nodded and they all at once lifted their teas to their lips and sipped together.

"But perhaps if we start hearing spells-"

"If we start hearing spells it's probably between Narcissa and Andromeda. Bella's magic is not as strong right now as she's having her power focus on her child. Trust me, I've been tending to her while Tonks is out at times to take care of small details and for her position at Hogwarts this coming year." He rubbed his arm remembering when she tried using a bludgeoning hex on him but it had hit him only as powerful as a depulso from first year and made him crash into a wall.

They began to hear a lot of thuds as Bellatrix entered the room and Harry helped her sit down.

"My sisters are talking it out." She spoke before looking at the weird face from Lucius. "Oh Lucius you always saw us as the Black Sisters but trust me no one knew our fury more than each other...I'm just glad I'm pregnant and not part of that." She laughed as she grabbed a cup of tea and sipped it. "mmmm" She hummed as the others looked at the wall hearing the thuds of spells.