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Let's get back to the last part of the last chapter.
It was right at that point Zanita popped up next to them with the leader of the vampire coven that lived in England. "I had to bring her" and Zanita pointed to the one next to her. "Because I knew she had to be here".
Nolwenn looked at the woman that was next to Zanita. When she smiled she could see two long fangs sticking out in the corners of her mouth. The vampire looked to the side and saw Daphne standing there with Hermione at her side. She never really dealt with Harry but almost always with the girls. slowly she walked to their sides and looked through the telescope. "Are they in that building over there?" she asked. Both Daphne and Hermione nodded at her. "Alright, you have to move fast. No, talking, just go in there aim to kill, attack to kill. They will not be holding back when they attack you and they will kill you only for your blood. So you kill them first. I have been in contact with other leaders from other covens of other countries across Europe. They all say the same thing. They are not from England but from Germany. This has been one of the covens that have been fighting on the side of Grindelwald. They are also the same ones that stood by Voldemort when he took over. Now they will be standing with them again and they will fight for their blood. So take them out fast".
Nolwenn nodded and knew that they didn't have to be afraid for the rest of the vampires. She did wonder why they weren't going it right now. "What are you waiting for".
"Fleur" they all called out at the same time. Nolwenn frowned and then jumped when she heard the voice of Fleur behind her.
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It was right after it that Daphne stopped the memory. She didn't want to do it but she knew she had to. The rest of the chapter would be about the fight. Nolwenn would be behind them under the Invisibility cloak of Harry with a notice me not charm on it. It was her Memory they were looking at, so it would be in her memory they would see how they had fought. Slowly she walked up to the table with bottles and took a full glass. She placed it onto her lips and took a big sip. A second later she got the feeling her insides were burning and she threw the glass against the wall. "How the hell can you all drink that stuff" she screamed.
Some of the adults chuckled but didn't say a thing. They only watched as Daphne grabbed the Butterbeer from Bella and gulped it down. As she got her breath back she turned around and stood eye-to-eye with her mother.
Isabella had felt all the feelings she got from her daughter. Daphne was slowly getting into a panic. As Daphne turned to her she wrapped both her arms around her and held her close against her body. "Don't be afraid, we will not think any less of you. You are all fighting for us, for now, and for our future. Am I correct in thinking you all had to kill to get this done". Daphne nodded her neck as she pulled her mother a little closer. Isabella gave a deep sigh and looked over at Bella and Harry. Well, she looked at Bella but Harry wasn't there. As her gaze went around the room she could see him standing next to the door. Minerva was standing next to him and looking on. "Are you all thinking this could end badly?"
Daphne nodded again and shifted her head to the left. She could see what her mother was seeing and made herself ready for what was to come. In a whisper, she told her. "They did not react when Harry was bitten by Greyback because they have not yet dealt with it all. But they will when they see the rest, so Harry is standing there so he can get out if he needs to".
After a couple of more seconds, Daphne let go of her mother and walked back to the pensive. She tapped the runes and it went on playing.
Memory continues.
Fleur had stepped up next to Nolwenn and looked at the friends. She held out her own Goblin Armor that had been made to adjust to her when she changed. "It is finished and I'm ready to fight Goblins bird style".
The friends laughed and Harry started to walk to the ridge of the mountain they were all sitting on. "This is what we are going to do. We start while Nolwenn will be behind us. Hermione and Daphne will start by throwing flash bombs into the hole. When they are surprised, we will go in and fight. Do not reason with them but go for the kill every time you can. They will not die easily so we have to make sure we stab them in the heart every time, just to make sure we kill them. If we are not we will stab them again and again just to make sure". They all gave a nod as they looked at their own weapons. It was then that Harry turned back to the others. "We will go in and we will fight. In that fight, I will task everyone with a house-elf of their own. When we say out we want them to take us out of there. They will take us right here to all of you. You have to keep us alive long enough for Poppy to get us to the Veela's. If I'm right everyone is on high alert and we will be safe".
"Yes," Minerva started. "I have told Amelia to get things ready. We are in war mode, so everyone is waiting for your order or that of any one of you. If I give it, it will mean we will go out and fight without a plan".
Harry turned back and called for his house elves. Snot popped up and looked at him worryingly. "Can you get to Bella?" Harry asked and Snot nodded. "Alright, when you have an opening you popped them out, both of them and". Harry stopped as Snot shook his little head. "What is wrong?"
"Snot can only pop mistress Bella out. Miss Susan is in another room".
"Does Susan have a house-elf for the Bones family" Snot nodded? "You go there and ask her to help you with that. That elf has to do the same thing as you do and when you got them out you popped them to Poppy. After it grandmother can tell me you we have them".
"Harry" Minerva started. Why do I have to tell you we have them, and why do I have the feeling you all aren't planning to get out of there when we have them".
"Time to go," Harry said as he stepped out of the stinging hex Minerva threw at him. She knew she would miss him because she had told him she would do it in her mind. As she stepped closer to the edge she saw them going down the mountain together. As they got twenty feet down they disappeared from view.
Augusta and Grandmere stepped next to her and hooked their arms into each other. They were just in time to see them before they vanished. Neville was walking next to Harry and Fleur was right behind them. Nolwenn was now making her own way down and mountain as she had stood behind to look at the grandmas as they looked down. When she got to the same spot the friends were she disappeared under the Invisibility cloak from Harry.
The memory went on by showing nothing but a person making her way down. Here and there you could see a ripple in the air from the spots the others were in but nothing more. When they got to the entrance Harry and Neville opened the door as both Daphne and Hermione send a solar flair down the hole. A second later there was 'I got them' in the mind of Harry and Daphne.
Memory stopped.
Minerva had gotten to her feet and stopped the memory from playing on. She looked at the others and spoke to them all. "The moment Daphne and Hermione had fired their spells down the hole Bella and Susan popped next to us only ten seconds later. I was looking on as Bella and Susan popped in next to us. Poppy was right next to them and waved her wand over them both. They had hurt them and it was clearly seen by the state there were in".
Everyone turned to look at them both. All of them knew they had been at Longbottom Manor for the last day. It was a day of healing but that was all it was. Just a simple day. If you looked at them now it was clear it wasn't enough because they clearly needed a week or more.
"Now when they got to us I had a good look and turned around. The others down there weren't going to come back before the battle had been done. It was at that point I shook my head and looked at the ground. The worst thing I saw was a little bit of blood on the ground in front of me. A step further a couple of drops and so on. My Harry was still bleeding, but I could still see him going down the hole as the first in line".
Minerva turned back to the pensive and tabbed it with her wand. She didn't look for any one, who wanted to say a thing about it. She just warned them for what they were about to see.
Memory goes on.
Harry went down and Nolwenn was right behind him. She was still under the cloak but wanted to be in the first line to see everything that went down. Harry had his sword already in his hands and swung it to the left as he rounded the corner. She heard a scream and as she went after him she got plastered with blood. The blood was stopped by the cloak and she could see it dripping down the side. Harry had aimed high and struck a vampire in the head. The sword sliced through it and was stopped by the wall.
Right from behind him came, a hand that was bent into a claw with long sharp fingernails sticking out. It hit Harry right in the back right underneath his neck. The long nails from the vampire bored into his spine and Harry went down to his knees with a scream that was heard on top of the mountain.
Nolwenn looked on in Horror as she saw the hand of the vampire close a little and literally yanked Harry up in the air and she saw him being thrown across the room. The collision with the wall was so hard the memory went black because Nolwenn had closed her eyes for a second. You could hear the connection with the wall but you did not see it.
Nolwenn had heard the tales of vampires being ten times as strong as humans and four times stronger than Goblins. They were faster than dragons and she could see it all, right in front of her. The vampire who had thrown Harry across the room went right after him and she just opened her eyes a second later and saw him going down on Harry.
Just before he got his claw-like hands into Harry again Neville was next to him and threw him off Harry with his pole. Nolwenn looked on and could see the weapons were like extensions of their bodies. The vampire sailed to the other side but he did not hit the wall as Harry had done. He landed on his feet against the wall and kicked off right back at Neville.
Harry had hit his head and was still down. He was shaking it to get back but it was clear to her that he was shaking up. Neville was ready to stop him but came short when he too was hit. Daphne rushed from the side and held him off Neville while another Vampire jumped on her.
Harry got back to his feet and had seen what the others hadn't seen. Don't fight your own. Fight the one who is attacking another. They can only focus on you so they don't focus on the other one of us. While Harry screamed Daphne was grabbed from the side and was the next sailing across the room. The vampire went after her and Daphne turned to the side at the last moment. She wasn't fast enough because the vampire grabbed her head and was ready to slam it against the wall. Hermione ducked under the vampires that attacked her and slammed her ball with spikes against the one who had a hold of the head of Daphne.
Hermione turned on the spot and when she came around the vampire who attacked her slid his nails across her face. Five nails went from left to right from up to down. Blood dripped down as Hermione went to the floor.
Nolwenn looked on and knew they had heard every word Harry had screamed. The moment he said it they all turned away from the one that was attacking them and turned to the one that attacked the other. As Neville worked his pole around He hit a couple of vampires but none went down. They took the hits like it was a tickling charm that came at them. Neville just went on and was now hitting them to keep them from away himself.
Harry jumped between them all and stood back to back with Daphne. The same happened with Hermione and Neville. It was clear they protected their backs from an attack as they focused on the one in front and next to them. Harry took his sword and aimed it over his left shoulder. He did not attack the one in front of him but pushed his sword into the shoulder of the one that attacked Daphne behind him. Daphne looked ahead but threw one of her knives to the left into the back of the vampire that attacked Hermione.
That knife went almost through the middle of its back and right through the heart as the first Vampire went down. while it went down it still clawed at Hermione and cut her again over her arm. Neville heard her scream and turned to her forgetting the one that was attacking Harry. Harry was grabbed again and went flying for a second time. Hermione dropped to the floor from the pain but whilst she did it she turned on the spot and swung her ball around and slammed it against the legs of the vampire that attacked Neville.
Nolwenn had jumped behind a corner and hid from everything that was happening. As she saw Harry flying again she knew it would be another slam against the wall. But this time Harry pushed his sword to the wall and yelled a blasting hex at it. The wall crumbled but the blast from the spell slowed him down and he dropped to the floor just before he hid the wall.
From the left, she saw about nine other Vampires rushing into the room. They were not on the attack but running/flying from their lives. Behind them was Fleur in her avian form with metal claws as fire danced around her. Nolwenn had to jump away from a burst of fire that came at her. The one thing she had not seen was the vampires that came rushing at Fleur from right behind her. They had not seen her and neither did Fleur. She was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. So as she jumped away she could see the fire burn up the first and second Vampire that rushed passed her. Others went on as Fleur sliced down. The vampires were fast and jumped out of the way.
Nolwenn looked on and almost cursed as she saw that Fleur would miss her attack. From the left was a blur and how he did it she didn't know or see. But Harry had rushed at the vampire and pushed him with his shoulder right into the path of the claw from Fleur. The claw from Fleur sliced down and cut the vampire right down the middle through its heart. As half of the Vampire went down the other half slammed into the other vampire that had rushed at Fleur from the other side. Fleur turned and brought her other hand down cutting that one in have as well.
Harry got up behind a third one that was aiming for Fleur and threw his sword from under up. It sliced the third one in half and another slammed its claw-like hands into the back of Harry right through the Goblin armor. The Vampire pulled back and pulled Harry with it. He threw him over his shoulder. Harry screamed in pain but kept his eyes open. In his flight, he stuck his sword out ahead of him and cut a Vampire that was attacking Neville.
"Get your head back in the game" Nolwenn heard Harry scream just before he hid the wall a third time. He landed just next to her and hid her foot with his hand. "You know this hurts right," He told her as he pulled his hand away. Nolwenn looked on as she saw how he got back to his feet with a face full of pain.
Hermione was fighting again as she and Daphne were turning around each other and hitting cutting and slicing Every vampire they saw coming at them. Too bad the same could be said for the vampires that were hitting clawing and slicing right into them. Blood was everywhere and slowly it looked like it would be the bloodiest mess Nolwenn had ever seen. Neville had got himself together after Hermione was hit and Harry had screamed at him and was now hitting every vampire inside. Still, not all of his blows landed and some of theirs did.
Nolwenn was looking on in horror as the friends and Fleur, who was one of them was hit more and more, just like all the others. Nolwenn didn't know where to look and it was clearly seen in the memory. While the memories showed more than the person thought they self had seen. It was starting to get shaky. Then there was the one blow that hit Daphne in the back of her head. A vampire jumped on top of her and was ready to put his fangs into her neck. Just as he was about to slam his jaw down on her neck Fleur sliced her metal claw through the neck of the vampire. She saved Daphne but Daphne was still out of it. "Harry she is out" Fleur screamed.
"Put your hand on her and call for Snot, Mini Maxi or Dobby, and say save" Harry screamed back as he wrestled another vampire off Hermione and himself.
Fleur threw the hand away from her and slammed it into the chest of another vampire that had rushed at them. She did it all while she placed her other hand on Daphne and called for Dobby. Dobby just popped in and popped away with Daphne.
Nolwenn had seen it and knew Harry had done it again. He had looked ahead and knew everyone was at risk. She saw that he had found a way to get them all out when they needed to. He just went up even higher on her respect ladder than he already was. She didn't know how he did it because he had already been on top of it. As she looked at the spot Daphne had been a moment ago she heard another scream. This time it was Fleur who was going down.
She was taken away and Nolwenn was slowly making her way to the exit. Things were slowing down. She could see the friends, the ones who were left start to slow down just like the vampires were doing. There were three of them and only two Vampires left. They were slowing down but were still a lot faster than Harry, Hermione and Neville. One of the vampires jumped on Hermione and brought her down. Neville Slammed him off Hermione as Harry called for Snot. The vampire stumbled to the left as Harry drove his sword right through the heart. It was only Harry and Neville left to fight the last one. Harry was fighting but Nolwenn could not call it that at all. Harry was waving his sword but there was no real fight in it. He was protecting himself and Neville while Neville was fighting. There wasn't much more he could do. Neville slammed his pole against the vampire as Harry tried to stab it with his sword. The vampire slammed it away and drove both his hands into Harry and Neville at the same time. While both of the boys screamed in pain Nolwenn had to do what she wanted to do. From her pocket, she pulled the Goblin knife she and Narcissa were using in their own training. She walked up to the back of the vampire. He did not see her because the boys had seen her coming. They grabbed his hands and held them while his claws were still holding tightly into their flesh. While the vampire tried to pull them away from them they did not let it. She lifted the cloak from herself and drove the knife right into its heart from the back.
As the vampire dropped dead right in front of her the boys lost it too and dropped next to the vampire that was down in front of them. Harry placed his hand on Neville and called for Mini to take him away. He turned his eyes to her when Neville was gone and told her to get out. He was still trying to get everybody to safety while he took it all. She grabbed him and hugged him to herself as his blood covered her clothing. As she slumped down with him a small smile covered her face. "Snot, take us out of here". Snot popped up next to them and took them both out.
The memory stopped as both of them dropped next to Poppy.
Minerva looked around and could see that everyone wanted to hit the bottles again. David was already standing by the table filling the glasses. What did surprise her the most was Bogrod standing next to him with his own Goblet that was big enough to contain a whole bottle. "Not yet David" Minerva said.
David kept the bottle in the air as he looked at her unbelievingly. He wanted a glass, they all wanted one. Why did she not let him have it, he needed it. "But Minerva".
"No, David. We have to watch it all before we hit the bottle again. I want a full glass of it and I have been there. I had not seen the memory from Nolwenn and now I wished I hadn't. To me, those kids looked suicidal. I know why they did it. I was not happy about it but they are right. The only thing I am hoping now is that everything they did before the battle will work and that these things they have done are not for nothing. So fill up my glass and lets go on".
Minerva restarted her Memory.
She had been looking at the house and the spot they had all disappeared. The waiting felt very long even if it only took a couple of minutes. As time went by they all got afraid just like the Vampire that had said they had to kill them all. It was only about three seconds after the light blast that Susan and Bella were dropped next to them. Minerva looked at them and it was clear they had been manhandled by the Vampires'. They had scratches everywhere you could see. Most of them weren't deep and she looked at the Vampires that was among them to explain it.
The vampire nodded as she saw the look. "In the old days, my ancestors and before them grabbed Muggles from the street. We would tie them up and make them tremble with fear. We had found out that when we did that the Blood would taste sweeter. So we did it to get that kind of blood. We can still taste the fear in the blood we get from the blood bank. The fear is from the people who have to have their blood cleaned and most of the time they are afraid of it. So when they do that the take a pint of blood from testing and after it, it gets' destroyed by our cleaning crew. Meaning we drink it to get rid of it. The vampires' that are in there want it as pure as they can have it, meaning they want it from the human body the fast way".
"We weren't afraid Susan said. We only got a little troubled when they separated us from each other. For a little while we didn't know what was happening but Bella had told me they were on their way. So I knew it would be fine".
Minerva had heard it and looked back to the house. She wanted to know wat was happening down there but she could do nothing else then wait. The next that showed up had been Daphne. She looked terrible and it told them the others would be looking the same way. Poppy had rushed at her and healed her enough for travel. When she had done it she called for a house-elf and ordered it to take them to the Longbottom Manor where Veela Healers were waiting for them to treat them further.
Slowly the nerves got the better of Minerva and she was starting to get afraid. It was another couple of minutes before Fleur popped up next to them and was closely followed by Hermione. Poppy did what she had to do and the others did the same to Hermione. Fleur was send away and Poppy took a look at Hermione. The others had done good so Hermione was send after Fleur and Daphne. When Neville showed up Minerva knew one of two things. Either the battle had been lost and she would not see her lion again. Or he won and he would be out in a moment. It was after Neville that Nolwenn showed up with Harry in her arms. Neville was healed just like the others. Poppy knew he could wait so she went over to Harry. Nolwenn was okay because she only had the blood from Harry over her clothes. Poppy did what she had to do and after about twenty minutes. She had to close up the wounds again he had received by Greyback. They had all opened again so she had a lot of work to do. "You are ready to get to Longbottom manor now" she told him.
"No," Harry screamed.
Minerva stopped the memory and looked at her grandson. She walked over to him and hugged him closely. In his ear she whispered softly. "I hate it when you do this to yourself".
"Like grandson, like grandma" he whispered back.
"Cheeky bugger" she said as she pulled back and smiled at him.
Minerva turned back to the pensive but before she did she threw a look over her shoulder at Alice and Lily. Even if they had gotten better at seeing what their sons in these kind of things did. The one line of we can't be mothers of that, was still hurting her a lot. She looked back and started the memory back up.
Harry screamed no, and Poppy stepped back a little. "Why not" she snapped.
Harry was struggling to get back to his feet. "We are not ready yet. we still have something to do" Harry told her as he used his sword to hold himself standing.
"Harry, your wounds will open again and it will leave scars I can't heal".
Harry got a sad look as he looked back up at his favored aunt. "I have enough of them, so a couple more of them will not make that much of a difference. But this has to be done or we will ruin everything else we had done today".
Poppy shook her head but she knew there was no way she could stop him when he got something in his mind. As she looked at the other side she saw Neville standing too. He was in as much pain as Harry was and it took all his effort to stand next to his brother. "This is the last one right" she asked with a hopeful sound in her voice
Harry gazed up at her as he winced in pain. "Yes, this is the last thing we have to do". They will only have Malfoy manor to hide in. So if we hide this from them we have the things we can keep them busy with, before they attack. It will take almost everything we have but we have to do it or we will not win the war".
Neville looked down at the manor and gave a soft sigh. "I know. I only hope it will do what we have talked about. I'm getting tired and I just want to sleep for the next two weeks or so".
Harry gave him a small smile and laid his hand on his arm. "Snot" and they both disappeared.
The moment they left poppy rounded on Minerva. "What the hell are they up to. They need to be back here and at Longbottom manor. They have done enough and Harry is worse. He is running on magical fumes as it is. One more attack and we can bury him".
Minerva looked at her old friend. She knew she cared a lot for the kids but she was kept out of the know, so to say. "I know Poppy but they have to do it. I know the plan and I agree with it. It is risky but they are right".
"But, what are they doing".
Minerva knew she could not lie to her old friend and the memory stopped.
The memory was taken out of the pensive and everybody started to look at the friends. It was now that all of them saw the pain and suffering they had gone through in the last days. Yesterday was a day of rest and healing for all of them but it was clear they needed a lot more. For the first time they saw not only the fatigue but also the wounds they all had. Before anyone could ask something David started to hand out the glasses. It was now that he walked to the pensive. He didn't think it was right but he knew it was the one thing everybody here needed to see.
The last memory.
It was a couple of hours later that the family was asked to all come to Longbottom manor. It was there they all saw the state the friends were in. As always Harry was the worse. Bella and Daphne were lying close to him as Gabriele was on the bedpost in her phenix form crying on all of the. Fleur was sitting up but like all of them most of her body was wrapped up in bandages. Appoline was next to her as Isabella was next to Daphne. Emma and Arabella were sitting next to their daughters Arabella had been sitting by Bella but was now making some potions. As Minerva walked in there was one other thing she saw. Alice was sitting next to Neville with Lily by her side.
David was in the corner looking on. He saw the eyes of Minerva go from Lily to Neville to Harry on the other side of the room. Her lips had become lines as she walked to her grandson. She sat down next to hem and grabbed his hand that was around Bella. Bella turned her back to Harry and pushed herself against him. She opened her eyes and placed her hand on top of the hands of Harry and Minerva. From the other side of Harry, Daphne slid more against him and placed her hand on top of Bella's as she reached over Harry.
Lily had gotten to her feet and walked beside her mother. Slowly she reached out and wanted to touch the hands but Minerva kept her from it with her other hand. "Why now" she asked.
"It's hard mom. I want to but it's hard. To me he still has to turn four and not sixteen. Now I want to love him and I do. But look at me. I was twenty years older when I went to sleep. Now I'm only a couple of years older when I look at him and in the mirror. I have missed so much and I know so little".
Minerva took her hand and placed it between hers and Harry's. Bella and Daphne placed their hands around them and all looked at Lily. "You only have to love him, that is all he wants. A hug, a kiss on his cheek. just things like that" Bella told her as Lily smiled back at them.
David stopped the memory and looked at Harry who was looking on. He had been out of it when he was at Longbottom manor. So when he woke up everyone had gone. The only people that were there were his grandmother and mum. Up until that time he had not wanted his mum close to him. He was afraid to push her away or that she would die on him for a second time. He could not handle that. Now seeing her as the one who had been looking over him was heartwarming. Bella and Daphne would have been their but they had to be in Hogwarts to prepare for the memory day. Or for the attack if it happened. His grandmother was a sure thing but his mum was something he always wanted. Slowly he got up and walked over to Lily. "Hi mum, I love you so much".
Lily had been looking at the memories and cried for most of it. "When Harry walked up to her and told her that one line, she could do nothing but jump to her feet and hug the stuffing out of him". When she did, he opened his mouth in a silent scream of pain. He did everything not to scream out as hard as he could because this was the first time she hugged him out of love.
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