Chapter 8 – A battle is fought

Hogwarts battlements

September 12th 1995

"That's allot of death eaters." Paul said looking down on the enemy

"It is the quality of ones convictions that determines success, not the number of followers." Remus said smiling.

"Who said that?" Kingsley asked coming up behind them with the rest of the order and a few professors (minus Molly who was in the great hall)

"Me, just then." Remus said smiling

"You want me to quote you on that if you don't make it?" Sirius asked grinning

"Damn straight." Remus said making Harry smile

"You all with me?" Harry asked

"Till the end." Sirius said as Astoria slid her hand into Harrys.

"We're outnumbered what twenty to one?" Tonk's asked looking out across the battle field.

"Twenty six" Harry replied

"Well let's even the odds a bit then. Piertotum Locomotor" McGonagall shouted waving her wand towards the castle.

They all jumped half a mile when the gargoyles jumped off the roofs and landed next to them before marching around the school to the main bridge. They all watched in silence as the suits of armor started to move towards the stairs.

"I've always wanted to use that spell." McGonagall said ginning madly and twitching her wand while everyone looked at her as if what had grown another head.

"What?" she asked them looking confused

"Woman!" Sirius said

Harry just shook his head as Astoria giggled as Professor Sinistra hit him hard.

"Ouch. What was that for?"

"Being a chauvinistic pig." She replied making Remus cackle with laughter.

"Go snog Tonk's you depressive old wolf." Sirius said effectively shutting Remus up and making Tonk's hair turn red the same color as her blush.

"This. This is what we fight for." Harry whispered to Astoria who just nodded and smiled as she leaned into Harry.

They all stopped laughing when they heard Voldemort shout from below

"KILL THEM. KILL THEM ALL." He shouted as the death eaters ran at the castle jeering.

Harry looked across the field towards the little wooden bridge that led towards the quidditch pitch before raising his wand to the sky and dragging it down towards the bridge in one fast motion.

The group watched in silence as six pillars of lightning blasted down from the cloudless sky blasting the bridge and the death eaters on it to pieces.

"Oops." He said as more lightning curved from the sky in great arks slamming into the floor and sending death eaters flying.

"It's a lightning storm and there's no clouds." Moody said. Everyone just gave him a look that said. 'No shit'.

They watched as the giants got taken down by devils snare or gargoyles.

"Their coming on brooms now." Arthur said pointing to the horizon.

"The gargoyles can't stop them up there." bill said.

Harry shook his head. "No they can't. But I can." He said letting go of Astoria and jumping off the edge.

He let his wings unfold as he glided down. He flew over the tops of the death eaters firing blasting charms and other nasty curses towards them as he flew towards the death eaters on brooms.

The order and professors watched as he flew towards the brooms on his own.

"He is not taking them on without help is he?" Flitwick asked.

"Of course not? At least I don't think he would." Sirius said

"Of course he will. He's arrogant just like his father." Snape sneered.

Everyone started to shout at Snape before he was blasted into the wall behind him leaving him bleeding on the floor either unconscious or dead no one knew. They all turned to look at Astoria who was seething with anger her wand still pointed at Snape.

"Damn just like his father. Maybe not all Potters like read head maybe it's just feisty girls instead." Sirius said making a few people chuckle appreciatively.

They all turned back to the battle as lightning strikes rained down from the sky and angels appeared all over the castle and a few with Harry in the sky's a head.

Harry was flying full speed towards the death eaters on brooms he could see a group of the angels following him out the corner of his eye and smiled.

'One hundred meters'

'Eighty meters'

'Sixty meters'

'Forty meters'

'Twenty meters'

Harry aimed at the lead death eater and unleashed a bolt of purple lightning from his wand that hit the death eater straight in the chest effectively turning him into a tesla beacon of sorts as the lightning flew back out of him and struck the two following him taking all three of them off the broom and to their death. Harry dodged a killing curse and allowed two to hit his wing as he glided through the death eaters firing bludgeoning curses at the as he passed. Once he had got through them all he turned in midair and followed them firing more lighting at the groups taking them down in groups of two or three and even a group of five. He watched as an angel slammed into one at full speed ripping the man in two as they fell down to earth. Harry refocused himself onto the battle below and he saw that the giants and trolls had beaten their way through the gargoyles on the bridge and were in the main courtyard fighting the order and professors.

He flew down to join the battle below and landed just in time to block a killing curse aimed at Fred.

"Thanks mate." Fred said when he saw Harry block the curse and blast the death eater of the edge of the valley edge.

"Anytime. Have you seen Tori?" he asked

"She was in the entrance hall with Sirius and her father when we saw her last." Fred replied charging off towards the Carrows to help George and Charlie.

Harry ran towards the entrance hall hitting a troll with a bout of lighting stunning it before banishing a large piece of wall at it knocking it over the edge. He then continued running towards the entrance hall to find Tori where he found Bellatrix, Lucius and six other death eaters goading Sirius and Paul who were trying to hide Astoria behind them.

Harry walked into the room wings folded behind him out of sight.

"Bellatrix, Lucius, other boot lickers." He said

"Potter." Lucius spat

"Oh look little potty has come to save his girlfriend." Bella sang before Harry wandlessly banished a rock at her catching her off guard as it slammed into her side sending her sprawling across the room.

"Oops. Now run along to your half-blood master and tell him I am waiting for him in the court yard." Harry said

"How dare you call the heir of slytherin a half blood!" Yaxley shouted casting a killing curse at Harry who used his wings to bat it out of the way with little to no effort. Before blasting him down a flight of stairs into the dungeons.

"Next." Harry said calmly

Malfoy and the other five death eaters drew their wands and started firing curses at him as he started to dodge. Harry conjured a marble wall to block a killing curse which exploded when the curse impacted it so Harry banished the ruble at the death eater.

"One down five to go." He said

Sirius and Paul both hit one with stunners using the element of surprise.

"Three down, three to go." Harry said

Malfoy and the two remaining death eaters all ran from the entrance hall back towards their master.

Harry was almost bowled over by Astoria as she crushed him in a hug.

"It's almost over now." Harry said quietly

"Then we can live our lives in peace?" she asked

"Damn straight"

"Start a family?" she said coyly

"Little young for that but yes at some point." He replied not missing a beat

She kissed him on the cheek.

"Now go kill that ass hole." She said

Harry just laughed as he walked out to join the battle.


A/N: well that is it for this week hope to get a new one out next week end which will be the last chapter and i am hoping to have a new chapter of AKA mr bolt or secret life of harry potter out tomorrow or Sunday.