DISCLAIMER: I own nothing in the Harry Potter Universe, however cool it would be to do so. I am simply using the characters and stuff for my own whims.
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Harry landed hard on the ground as he and the stranger arrived at their destination. He was instantly on his feet and grabbed the stranger roughly by the front of his cloak.
"TAKE ME BACK, NOW!" Harry screamed. "I HAVE TO GO BACK!"
"And do what?" The stranger said calmly, "Go fight Voldemort? Yeah, right."
"But they're my family!"
"And what? You want to go back there so you can die with them? Oh that's great Mr. Saviour of the Wizarding World. Go die trying to save an already dead family that was nothing but horrible to you your entire life. Great plan. Even if they weren't dead, you aren't strong enough to confront him. Sure, judging by the power I feel coming from you now, you could probably take a handful of Death Eaters, but not old snake face." the stranger said with finality.
Harry deflated at this, realizing that the stranger was telling the truth, however much it hurt him to think so.
"And even if you were strong enough, there's still the fact that you've been acting like a little baby the whole time since your godfather died. Man up kid, it wasn't your fault, get over it."
Harry shot up and drew his wand to the stranger's throat.
"Whoa little guy, settle down. What's got you riled up?"
"How do you know about Sirius, and how do you know about me?" Harry said glaring at the man.
The man just stood there staring at Harry, examining him for what seemed like an eternity, until finally,
"Well, how about this, you take your wand away from my throat, and I won't kick your ass and make you look like a mentally handicapped child trying to eat his nose; and then maybe I can tell you some things."
Grudgingly, Harry accepted this and lowered his wand, allowing the stranger room to breathe.
"Back at my Aunt and Uncles house," Harry said, grimacing as he thought of how he had deserted them. "You used an Unforgivable..."
"Hold it right there." The stranger interrupted. "You have some issues kid, and unless we get some things straight, I'm going to end up slapping you at some point. First lesson; people die. Unless you are the direct cause, you are not at fault. Now I can't think of any more at the moment but…"
Harry interrupted him here. "Be that as it may, the unforgivable?"
"Well I like to think of it as, better them than me. Also, I could have killed him several ways, Avada Kedavra is simply the quickest."
Harry was shocked at the man's seemingly careless use of the Unforgivable.
The man sighed as he saw the shock on Harry's face. "Listen, I could've done dozens of things; a reducto to the chest, or a slicing hex to his face, both would've had the same effect. Death. As for how I know about you, well, anybody giving a half-ass effort could notice that you don't live in the wizarding world during the summer. A little bit of logic here, a little blackmail there, and tadaa!. Sad actually how easy it was. And I wish I could explain more Harry, but time is the enemy, well, one of the enemies at least. Well, I guess it isn't really an enemy, but it is working against us." The stranger looked up in thought. "Shit, almost lost myself there, we both have other places to be. I have to go this way, you know, meetings and such, and I strongly suggest that you head that way." As he pointed over Harry's shoulder. "Your friends need you."
"What?" Harry asked when he finally realized where he was. He was standing in a field near Ottery St. Catchpole, near the Weasley's house, and in the distance Harry thought that he saw a sheet of darkness spreading across the area.
"Finally realized where we are eh? You'd better get going; as it looks like they started the party without you."
The stranger started walking away, and as he was about to apparate, he heard Harry's voice behind him.
"Why are you helping me?"
The man sighed as he started thinking of his destination.
"Because I'm bored." He said flatly, "And Harry, you really should be going."
With that, he disappeared, and after a few seconds, Harry realized what the stranger had said, and he took off full-tilt towards the Burrow, with thoughts of Ron, and… Ginny at the front of his mind.
Ron stood in the doorway of the Burrow, casting shield charm after shield charm in order to block the volley of curses being sent at him. The Death Eater he was duelling with however got hit with a bludgeoning hex in the head from Charlie.
"Ok Ron? Good, I've got to go help the twins, you go help Ginny!" Charlie said racing past him.
Ron scanned the yard, and he saw several duels taking place. Arthur had immediately called some Order members just as the attack began, and he saw Lupin and Tonks each duelling a Death Eater, Fred, George and now Charlie duelling five Death Eaters rather fiercely. His father was working with Kingsley and were duelling several more Death Eaters. Bill however, was making his way to each of his family members, helping where he could. Hermione and his mother had stayed inside to watch the house and take care of the Grangers. Ron finally found Ginny near their shed battling with three Death eaters. He recognized two of them as Antonin Dolohov and Bellatrix Lestrange.
Fury grew in Ron, and he screamed, "Oi, bitch! Get away from my sister!" as he sent multiple stunners hitting the unknown death eater.
"Ron, watch out!" Ginny screamed as she threw a shield between Ron and a curse that Dolohov had sent at him.
"Thanks Ginny."
The two duelled Dolohov and Bellatrix for what seemed like an eternity, the only distraction in their duel was hearing a crash and turning around to see two death eaters being thrown from his attic. As Ron turned back to the duel he realized that casting shields and dodging the killing curse was wearing them out.
Ron hit Dolohov in the chest with a stunner, and started helping Ginny against Bellatrix when he thought aloud, "I wish Harry was here."
Ginny froze and Ron immediately regretted saying that as she was hit in the chest with a purple curse from Bellatrix.
Ron felt the anger well inside of him, and was preparing another spell for Bellatrix, when he felt a sudden and familiar cold and sadness wash over him. He looked beyond the Burrow and saw a sheet of blackness heading towards them.
"Oh bloody hell."
Hermione stood beside the window in the Burrow's attic watching the fight below, and trying to calm her parents as Mrs. Weasley checked them over.
She watched as Charlie ran towards the door sending a bludgeoning hex, and Ron run from the doorway into the yard.
She turned suddenly when she heard yelling coming from the stairs. The heads of two death eaters popped up from the stairwell, and were thrown through the wall with a reductor from Hermione.
"Hermione dear, by all means defend us, but the Burrow isn't strong enough to withstand too many curses" Molly said as she glanced at Hermione.
Molly had just finished patching up the Grangers as two more death eaters appeared just behind Hermione.
Hermione heard them apparate and cringed expecting to be hit any second.
"CONFRINGO!" Molly screamed as her curse hit the two death eaters, sending them flying out the window into the yard. "Please be more careful dear."
Hermione turned and continued to watch the fight, sending spells at death eaters whenever she could. She found herself watching Ron and Ginny's fight between a man, and a woman who Hermione assumed was Bellatrix. She saw Dolohov fall, then watched as Ron said something to Ginny that made her stop, and saw her get hit with a purple curse in the chest. Hermione was about to jump out and help her friend when she felt a sudden cold wash over her.
"Molly!" Hermione screamed. "Dementors!"
Ginny hadn't been this scared since her first year in the Chamber. She had run into the yard to help her family, but had been cornered near the shed by Bellatrix, Dolohov, and someone that she had thought she had heard been called Alecto. She raised her shield in time to block several incoming curses, but feared what would happen if she couldn't get away in time.
"Oi, bitch! Get away from my sister!" She heard Ron yell as he took out Alecto and continued sending hexes at the remaining two.
"Ron, watch out!" Ginny screamed as she threw a shield between Ron and a curse that Dolohov had sent at him.
"Thanks Ginny."
They continued on, with Ron against Dolohov, and Ginny duelling Bellatrix, when she saw Dolohov fall and Ron start attacking Bellatrix.
She was about to cast another hex as she heard Ron mutter,
"I wish Harry was here."
'Oh Merlin' Ginny thought to herself. In the Death Eaters had gotten through their wards and were attacking them, surely they could do the same to Harry.
She suddenly felt cold washing over her as she collapsed to the ground, with images of Harry dying in the Chamber raging through her mind.
Fred and George Weasley were never ones to look down on situations, and even as they found themselves battling for their lives in their yard, they couldn't help but make jokes as they duelled.
"Hey Gred, I'm winning."
"Bollocks, you've only taken out two of them!"
"No, there was that one I hit with a tripping jinx…"
"But I had to stun him!"
"And? He was on the ground, practically out of the running!"
"Yeah, but you lost the point when you said, and I quote, 'Did you have a nice trip?' awful, I thought you were better than puns Forge!"
"How is it that you two can make jokes about this?" Charlie asked as he joined them in their fight against several Death Eaters. "You're barmy."
"This coming from the brother who plays with dragons all day long in Romania." The twins said in unison.
"Touché." Charlie grinned as they continued fighting. He looked around to see where he could go help, and saw Ginny go down. He started to run to her, but felt cold suddenly as he saw an army of dementors approaching them.
"Fuck."
He released his patronus of a large Welsh dragon, but felt the energy draining from, him quickly. He saw Ron's terrier, and the twins' foxes, but they soon faded as the boys were overcome by the effects of the dementors.
Just as Charlie was about to pass out, he saw a golden light moving quickly towards the dementors from the trees nearby. The dementors seemed to glide as quickly as they could away, but some were caught by the light, which shape Charlie couldn't quite make out as he felt unconsciousness coming closer. Even though he didn't know what the light was, or what caused it, as he fell into unconsciousness he knew that everything would be okay.