INTERLUDE: A YEARS EVENT'S and REVOLT BEGINS
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Hey guys after a long wait I am back from being sick and struggling with the direction I want to take this story, I know Harry will defeat Voldemort, but I read a really great novel and wanted to mix some of the Technomagic into this fanfiction. I then lost about 15000 words for the chapter when my computer again decided it wanted to be stupid. I decided instead to go back and keep with my initial theme. However I do suggest you read "Marque Black's DARK WARS" series, it is much better than my fiction, though this does not excuse you from reading mine :D I will admit that I had intended to directly borrow, and had gained permission, to borrow his "Airships" design, however after much consideration I decided to change this to what you see come out. Also forgive my non-knowledge of UK Military procedure and practices, alongside ship names, I did some research into the military styling's ETC that I remember and some into ship names but lose the ship names research in my recent computer crash, if it comes across with a more US feel, this is due to my limited training in US Military, not UK. As you will see throughout this story that Harry will continue to grow more powerful and soon will be "gray" due to the fact that he is becoming very politically and military powerful. In essence by the end of this story he will control of all magical britian, though he does currently he does in title, he does not enforce it as much as he will. As he continues to win battles, you will see these effects more and more.
So now on with the story!
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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
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A year had passed since Harry had been appointed his commission. While Death Eaters and their allies had been busy, most of the strikes were relatively harmless. The exception to this rule was the first battle and the Dark Lord's breaking his followers out of Azkaban. About a month after Harry had met with the Queen and the new unit had come into being, Death Eater's had attacked Diagon Alley. During this battle over a hundred death eaters apparated into Diagon Alley and began killing indiscriminately, looting from stores, and causing intense amounts of damage to the buildings and streets of the Alley.
Through the use of massive amounts of portkeys, Harry and his men had deployed to the Alley, but it took them over 30 minutes to arrive. During this time it over 30 aurors, 35 civilians, and 5 order members had died, including Dedalus Diggle. They set up in the Leaky Cauldron and were able to do battle with the Death Eater's. From the time Harry and his men arrived to help the Aurors and Order members, it took only 10 minutes to completely route the enemy into Knockturn and into apparating from Diagon Alley.
Due to this battle, Harry had approached the Queen and ministry and four things came of this meeting. The first and most important short term solution had been that Harry had been licensed to create portkeys. This allowed Harry and his men to store liberal amounts of portkeys to most major deployment areas around the United Kingdom. The second thing that came of this meeting was a large influx of men into Harry's unit. Many of these men where squibs who had retired from the main military, some were wizards who wanted to join under Harry's unit, and others where family members of muggleborn witches and wizard. The queen also requisitioned more tanks, armor, and men from the Armed Forces to aid in Harry;s unit and had provided him with a promotion to Lt. Colonel.
The third major thing that had occurred was that Harry and the Queen had agreed to go to operate a general research and design project on combining muggle means, namely transportation methods and muggle firearms, and magical methods. Harry had hired Fred and George, and the goblins to work on these projects. The first major breakthrough was that Fred and George figured out the major reason Muggle electronics did not work in Magic rich environments is that magic contained major electromagnetic pulses. These pulses, while not long lasting enough to be felt, where very powerful for the duration of a spell. To combat this Fred and George had helped create a wire insulation and clear film that blocked Magical EMP's. The second major project after magically resistant armor (created from ballistic armor, coated in the new "Agent AKR" that Fred and George had designed) this group, that now included Lee Jordan, many muggle scientists, designers, and other creatures, including many werewolves who worked without fear of losing their jobs for the government, had undertaken was adapting muggle transportation means, into magical hybrids. The first major project was hardening all of their humvee's and tanks to be magically resistant, and able to operate with and in magical rich environments. The improvements included making all of Harry's unit's armor (Tanks etc) warded against magic, but capable of a form of mechanical apparition, whereby the driver would imput coordinates and the vehicle would apparated to the given location.
After this first step had been completed, Harry, with authorization from the Queen, had been put in place of a navel operation, which goal was to take Azkahban Island, and create a new navel and army base that would house Harry's unit.
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*FLASHBACK*
Lieutenant Colonel Harry James Potter was standing on the bridge of the HMS Duke, one of the Battleships in the Queen's Armed Forces. Accompanying the battleship into battle was the HMS Victoria, a submarine, and the Cruiser HRS Defense. The Mission today was to destroy the wards and buildings on the large island of Azkaban. Harry had been able to close off the island and move the civilians and others who permently resided on the Island village, more famously known for it's prison, off the island, alongside placing tracking devices warded against magic on the major ward stones of the island.
Harry spoke up, "Captain, order the Duke's and Defense's main guns to fire on the tracking signals, once these are destroyed the new technology the former inhabitants had developed to hide the major targets will fall." Harry ordered.
The captain gave Harry a weird look before hesitantly relaying the order. After a few minutes the island and its village alongside the fortress prison materialized.
Harry again spoke up, "Captain, order all guns, missiles, and batteries on the Duke, the Victoria, and the Defense to open fire on every building on that island, I want them pulverized and the island leveled."
"Aye, Leftenent Colonel." The Captain responded before again relaying the orders. He contemplated on how such a young man could have gained his high ranking commission, and yet at the same time pondering that the young Lt. Colonel had a presence and command ability few officers these days had. In addition the captain was perplexed by the scarcity of information that he could find on the young Lt. Colonel. The Colonel's record was almost 600 pages long, but most of this was blacked out. Officially the file boiled down to a less than a two-page document that the Captain was currently pondering that accompanied his orders. In his opinion, the man was a enigma.
Name: Harry James Potter
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
First Commission Date: 23 August 1996
Age: CLASSIFIED
DOB: CLASSIFIED
Service Number: 238-4765-1249
Unit: The Queen's Royal Regiment of Hogwarts
Unit Type: Combined Unit – Further information Classified for HRM's Eyes Only.
Unit Status (If Any): Commanding Officer
Other Titles: Service Member has eight peerages, four of which are classified, Non-Classified includes High Lord Potter, High Lord Black, High Lord Draven, and High Lord Simmons, these peerages are from the 1600's and before and carry the same weight and/or more than a Dukedom. Furthermore the Service member is only to be commanded by specific order of the Queen and has the right to temporarily overrule any military or civilian action he sees fit until Queen's Approval for disapproved operation exists.
Previous Action: Largely classified. Member has commanded actions against rebel forces throughout the United Kingdom and leads a unit designed to combat a specific group of said Rebel Forces.
Declassification of any or part of this record or Service Member's full service record can only be authorized by HRM.
Attached Notes
CARTE BLANCHE
"ELIZABETH THE SECOND by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, To Our right trusty and right well beloved the Subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories, The Armed Forces under our command, all Foreign Dignitaries, Our Ministry for Magic for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, it's Wizengamot and other employees, and all others this note may reach GREETING:
FORASMUCH as rebellion cannot be tolerated and a great rebellion begins to hide and sulk in the shadows, and this rebellion causes Our concern for ALL Our subjects, be they magical or non-magical. We have therefore caused these Our Letters Patent to be made and have signed them and by them do give Our Royal Assent to the below measures WILLING that the said Measures shall be of the same strength force and effect as if We had been personally present in the the Higher House and the Wizengamot and had publicly and in the presence of you all assented to the same COMMANDING that the Chancellor of Great Britain to seal these Our Letters with the Great Seal of Our Realm AND ALSO COMMANDING Our most dear and entirely beloved Son and most faithful Counsellor Charles Arthur George Prince of Wales The Most Reverend Father in God and Our faithful Counsellor George Leonard Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of All England and Metropolitan or any three or more of them to declare this Our Royal Assent in the said Higher House in the presence of Our Lords and Commons and the Clerk of Our Parliaments to endorse the said Measures in Our name as is requisite and to record these Our Letters Patent and the said Measures in manner accustomed AND WE do declare that after this Our Royal Assent given and declared as is aforesaid then and immediately the said Measures shall be taken and accepted as good and perfect Law of the Kingdom and be put in due execution accordingly.
WE THEREFORE ordain that the one known as Lord Harry James Potter-Black-Draven-Simmons-Hufflepuff-Gryffindor-Ravenclaw-Merlin shall have full authority over Our Magical Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island to work in our name. Furthermore We ordain that the Lord Harry James Potter-Black-Draven-Simmons-Hufflepuff-Gryffindor-Ravenclaw-Merlin shall command Our Royal Regiment of Hogwarts, upon which only Our person shall have further command and that the aforementioned Regiment and Lord shall have full authority on Our behalf for any measures they deem necessary. Any orders that interacts with other elements of Our Armed Forces shall have further orders issued by the proper military authorities to validate Lord Potter-Black etc. place to command said elements. In all other cases until these Our Letters shall be abolished Lord Potter-Black-Draven-Simmons-Hufflepuff-Gryffindor-Ravenclaw-Merlin and Our Royal Regiment of Hogwarts whilst under his command shall have full authority to act on our behalf in the civilian, military, and magical worlds including but not limited to keeping the law by any means that he deems neccasary to protect the sanctity of Our Kingdom and Our laws, signing treaties, and furthermore acting in our interests in the civilian, military, and magical worlds.
These letters shall be invalidated unless renewed by Our hand on the 26th Day of September in the year of Our Lord 1998.
In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent
WITNESS Ourself at Westminster the day of August 26th in the year of Our Lord 1996 By The Queen Herself Signed with Her Own Hand"
ORIGINAL COMMISSION
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, Lord High Admiral.
To our Trusty and Well Beloved Harry James Potter-Black-Draven-Simmons-Hufflepuff-Ravenclaw-Gryffindor-Merlin Greeting:
We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and good Conduct, do by these Presents Constitute and Appoint you to be an Officer in Our Royal Armed Forces from the 26th day of August 1996. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge your Duty as such in the Rank of Major or in such other Rank as We may from time to time hereafter be pleased to promote you to, of which a notification will be made in the London Gazette, and you are in such manner on such occasions as may be prescribed by Us to exercise and well discipline in their duties such officers, men and women as may be placed under your orders from time to time and use your best endeavours to keep them in good order and discipline.
And We do hereby Command them to Obey you as their superior Officer and you to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as from time to time you shall receive from Us, or any superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in pursuance of the Trust hereby reposed in you.
Given at Our Court, at Saint James's the 26th day of August in the 1996th Year of Our Lord
After reading this document the Captain turned to see the Island and it's building being pulverized into dust by the various missiles and shells that were impacting and blowing themselves apart on the island. The Captain turned to the young Lt. Colonel as the guns and missile batteries ceased as the entire island had been leveled. "Colonel, any further orders?" The captain asked.
"Captain, contact the Elizebeth I, and order them to launch their fighters to drop the Napalm bombs on the island, I want no chance that any munitions is intact on that island." Harry spoke up.
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After this the Goblins had moved Castellum Uranicus and it's various buildings to the island, barracks had been build, storage areas had been built for equipment and the island was surrounded by various docks for ships to come to port. In addition the island now housed an airport that serviced many C-130M Class Transport Aircraft. Aircraft designed from the C-130 but using AKR magically resistant parts to power it and armor the vehicle with the inside expanded enough to hold 4 tanks at a time. These would be used to takeoff, apparated over a target, and the tanks or men inside the plane would use one of the "Telaportation" devices as the muggle soldiers had referred to a device similar to a portkey but able to be keyed into coordinates. The other advantage was that George and Fred had used to runestones to disillusion the planes when a switch was turned in the cockpit.
Since that battle Harry and the Queen had also created the HMS Dominant, a Magical-Class Aircraft Carrier that was magically expanded inside and armored against magic outside. This carrier could carrier a standard complement of planes but could also store over 50% of the men, armor, and equipment the Royal Regiment of Hogwarts used. This was mainly to be used as a quick escape/deployment area using the same technologies that the C-130M's used.
Throughout the last year Hermoine, Ron, Luna, and Ginny had helped Harry's plans along by forming the DA into the Army of Hogwarts, training them. In addition Harry had recruited some of his best men to teach them Army etiquette. Many of the Senechals had continued to protect Harry at the new base and continue their own endeavors from the safety of the base of Azkahban, now being called the labeled Castellum Base.
As Harry sat back in his study in Castellum Uranicus, now located on Azkahban, one of his aides rushed in, this one happened to be one of the few muggleborn magical men that had left Hogwarts and joined the Army due to the prejudices of the Purebloods.
"Colonel! The Ministry For Magic is under attack! Albus Dumbledore and his order are already arriving but it is rumored Voldemort is personally leading the attacking forces!"
Harry quickly sat up. "Tell all of the men aboard the Dominant to get their equipment, including the apparition timers set for the automatic keying to the Dominant as a retreat option, and the others keyed to the Ministry of Magic entrance at Diagon Alley. Have them fully armed and armored in the special armor I had designed for them, have two tank crews ready to use the apparition function to the same location, though this will be infantry operation. Furthermore, have the Dominant apparate within 50 miles of the nearest coast of England. MAKE sure they know to activate the cloaking features." Harry ordered as he placed his own armor on, grabbed his wand, his pistol, his ammo belt and placed them on over his uniform, as he sling his M-16 rifle over his soldier. Tell them I will be there shortly and they are only to apparated out on my signal and upon my orders for formations.
Soon after Harry apparated onto the Dominant and the captain saw him. "Colonel, any further orders?"
Harry turned to his Captain, a Naval officer and former squib that had served for 25 years in the Royal Navy, Theodore James. "Captain James, order all men to key their apparition timers to formation bravo-charlie-2-3-5. After this is done, apparated the ship into the area that was designated, and I will give further orders. Make sure we are 'cloaked'." Harry ordered, looking out from the bridge
Soon the ship gave a giant lurch as the captain relayed the orders over the intercom.
As the ship stoped it's lurching and settled into the waters, Harry got onto the intercom. "Ladies and Gents, you have your apparition timers and armor. All of those who have been assigned to aid this mission prepare for battle. We have prepared and trained for this day, for too long terrorists and madmen have threatened our world and the magical world and many of you had no idea that world exists, know now that you are some of the few who are privileged to know about and complete this world through out tears and sweat. We will conquer all who do not bow to Her Majesty. All armed forces are to note the following rules of engagement. Any member wearing white masks that are and black robes of the Death Eater terrorist organization, are known Death Eaters, or meet the qualifications of Lord Voldemort's appearance are to be shot on sight. Any others who attempt to interfere are to be subdued without loss of life unless that is impossible. All others who attack our forces are to be killed once they have attempted to attack our forces. Attempt to drop prison wing portkeys on these persons, whether dead or alive. All injured noncombatants or armed forces members are to be transported through the use of Hospital Wing portkeys to the Hospital wing. Prison and hospital wings, standby on alert for prisoners and injured. Use your timers on my count of 10… 10… 9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1…GO!"
At that the loud pops could be heard from all over the ships and Harry soon followed.
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MINISTRY FOR MAGIC ENTRANCE- DIAGON ALLEY
Harry stood in the front row of his men, backed by 75 percent of his magical members of his units, the squibs and muggles where in the back portions of the assembled formation, though the remaining magical portion of his men largely carried the rear with the two Challenger although shielders where intermingled in the remaining populace.. Among them Neville Longbottom who had risen through the ranks and now commanded Harry's personal guard as a British Army Captain.
Harry applied a sonorous charm to his throat and began speaking, "Death Eaters, you are attacking soverign United Kingdom territory, surrender and your life may be saved. Anyone who does not surrender or attacks members of Her Majesty's Armed Forces, or who attempts to escape will be shot on sight. You have two minutes to exit the Her Majesty's Ministry For Magic or we will be forced to attack your forces and subdue your forces."
Harry waited and while no one in unit moved, he could feel the anticipation in the air. With less than a minute left, he called out again, "Death Eaters, I repeat this is your last warning, come out and surrender peacefully and no one will get hurt, Anyone, Death Eater or not who attacks Auror or Her Majesty's forces will be subdued with lethal force."
As the time limit ended, Harry pulled his microphone up and set it onto the tactical channel. "All elements helmets on and shielders in positions. All elements save the elements assigned to guard the armored forces follow me and your commanders into battle, remember the rules of engagement. Armored elements and wardbreaker elements, take down those doors. Warders erect anti-apparition and portkey wards, make sure they are keyed to let our forces or portkeys out."
At that command the tanks guns began a mighty roar as their cannons and machine guns let loose on the doors and wards keep Harry and his men out. Within minutes the wards and doors were demolished, as the new wards where erected over the ministry and Harry again got on his tactical microphone. "All forces not assigned to protect the armored devisions follow me, armored forces, standby for further orders, you have permission to attack any enemy forces fleeing the battlefield."
At this Harry led a charge into the atrium of the ministry of magic and ordered various units into other areas as he spread to the top floor and the Minister and Department Head's offices. Various battle broke out throughout the building. New of casualties and fatalities soon reached Harry as he rushed to protect the Minister. As soon as he and his men got to the floor a large group of Death Eaters approached Harry.
"Death Eaters, surrender now and no harm will come." Harry spoke up, hoping once more to eliminate one conflict.
"Is little ickle Pottie to scared to fight to us? Desgusting Pottie allowing muggle scum into the Ministry of Magic?" Bellatrix Lestrange shouted out from the back as curses and gunfire began to exchange as a few of Harry's men where downed with lethal curses that ended up not being as lethal as they though due to the armor. Soon Harry was entrenched with a battle of spellfire as he wielded his pistol in one hand, and his Wand in the other. As this battle dredged on, Lord Voldemort marched into view and began to battle, Harry ducked behind cover and lined up a shot on Voldemort that managed to hit the Dark Lord in his soldier as the Dark Lord gave a deep hiss at the pain and attempted to apparated out, when he figured out he could not, he raced away from Harry's forces and managed to flee the current floor, with Bella following the Dark Lord.
Harry again spoke up, "Your Lord has fled, surrender and you will be given medical aid!" He shouted to the remaining Death Eaters, including Lucius Malfoy, Avery, Nott Sr, and many other he did not recognize. As Harry and his men continued to battle the death eaters, killing many low level members and even hitting Lucius with more than a few bullets, Lucius and the other High Ranking members began to see they were losing, as far as they could see they had failed to kill any of Harry's men, while losing many.
Lucius spoke up, "Potter, we'll surrender." A few of the members, though Avery was the only inner circle member who attempted, attempted to kill Malfoy before these were struck down. The others including Nott Sr and Malfoy dropped their wands and surrenders. Harry and his men secured them with magic inhibiting cuffs and portkeyed them back to the Dominant Prison Ward with orders to treat their injuries.
Harry had received word that all death eaters had fled, been killed, or been captured and the ministry was clear about an hour later as he and his men continued to guard the Minister. Harry and his men quickly cleared out of the ministry and disbanded their wards before using their apparition timers to arrive back aboard the Dominant which then apparated back to its docking at Castulum Island. Prisoners where secured as patients where moved to the hospital wards on the island, both magical and muggle.
Harry reviewed the records and found that 3 of his men had fallen during the battle with over 200 injuries both minor and major, whilst they had captured over 40 death eaters and over 50 were reported dead. In addition the ministry and his forces estimated that a majority of those who escaped were injured in some way or another.
===LATER THAT DAY==
Harry had his formal Lord Regent of Magical England robes on as he took the middle seat in the large prison meeting room on the Island and sat with the records of Death Eaters his men had captured before them. Among these were Nott Sr and Jr., Malfoy, and Belatrix's husband, Rodolphus Lestrange. His biggest issue at this time was an operation that the Queen wanted to carry out. Gringotts London carried the mass of the Dark Lord's wealth, and yet the head of the Goblin nation refused to allow them to hand over wealth. His contacts in the Goblin bank assured him that they would support the Queen should she be able to gain Gringotts London, the largest Goblin bank, from the Goblin nation. While many goblins detested the Queen, Harry had a deep camaderie with those who knew him, and many of them felt that he would be a better leader than the Goblins who ruled them from far off lands as long as he continued to allow them to do business. Due to this the Queen wanted him to capture Gringotts or cause them to surrender, but this would require a show of force that would convince those Goblins that did not support the insurgency to view him as a battle effective leader. This could very well mean the death of many goblins and his men. However he believed they could capture some of it now and again he could force the issue of Draco's guardianship. Narsicca seemed to have fled the Wizarding World and since she could not be found, ultimetly Lucius now had control in some degree.
As the trials progressed, many were sentenced to life imprisonment or execution if they failed to be repentant of their crimes, while some where offered deals. Rodulphus had agreed to serve 10 years in prison mandatory and then to enter a house arrest rehabilitation program while forfeiting all of his and his wife's wealth, along with any contents in those vaults and others he had access to after testifying under veristarium. If any other crime was committed while in prison or during his lifetime he would be sentenced to death immediattly.
While Nott Jr and Sr. where far from rich by pureblood standards, they did carry a decent amount of wealth and the Nott family seat on the Wizengamot. They where forced to a 20 year sentence with similar terms to Lestrange's deal, along with the fact they needed to name a heir from amongst Harry's seneschals, and they chose Severus Snape to be the Heir of the Nott line and he gained full control of their estate at that moment.
Finally the time came for Malfoy's trial. As Malfoy was led in he was administered veristarium and sat in the defendants chair.
Harry spoke up as the main judge and final arbiter of punishments, "Mr. Malfoy, you have been charged with multiple counts of murder and being a Death Eater. I will warn you that you are being charged as a enemy combatant and therefore are to be judged by military tribunal. Your maximum punishment shall be execution by firing squad. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Lord Regent." Malfoy said in a deadpan but respectful voice.
"How do you plead?"
"Not Guilty." Malfoy responded. At this the judges were shocked, as Malfoy was under veristarium it would require a true heartfelt belief he was innocent of some reason for this to work and not a trickery of the imperius curse.
"Can you explain your feelings ?" Harry spoke up.
"When I was younger I was forced to join the Death Eaters by my father, and I stayed involved only to protect my wife, and then son. Once the Dark Lord died, I only attempted to get rid of the diary, which I had no idea what it would actually do. Once the Dark Lord returned I again only served to protect my son. I was forced into many of my actions to protect my family." Malfoy responded under the veristarium.
Harry pondered this, "And now what do you wish to occur?"
"Lock me away in a prison Voldemort can't find and protect Draco and I will be happy." Malfoy responded.
Harry thought for a moment, this actually laid well into his plans.
"Mr. Malfoy, I would like for you to name me regent of the Malfoy Lordship and caretaker of the Gold in your vaults, under the condition it will not pass to your son until he is rehabilitated of any desire to join the Dark Lord or rascist views, in addition to retrieving any monies from other vaults you have access to that the Dark Lord may draw funding from. In addition I would like you to agree to support Andromeda Tonks-Black's guardianship of your son. Should you do so, I would order your sentence to be a lifetime house arrest on a house furnished on this island. Any unapproved leaving of that house would cause you to serve the remainder of your life in prison. Furthermore any outings would need to be approved by me and/or the prison warden and you would be guarded by members of the Armed Forces stationed on this base that guard the prison. Furthermore you will have a monthly stipend for doing work on the island like any other prisoner. You will not be allowed to access a wand outside your home unless you take up healing at the base hospital but will be allowed to brew potions and perform magic inside this home, though if you are caught casting harmful magic unless under threat in any of these conditions you will lose access to these privileges. Furthermore you will be required to attend mandatory rehabilitation and counseling sessions with base therapists and group therapy settings. Do you agree to these terms?" Harry spoke up.
"Yes, I will Lord Potter." Malfoy spoke up.
At this Harry noted the punishment and dismissed him and continued on with the trial.
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===ONE MONTH LATER===
All of the goblins at Gringotts that where in league with Harry's plans, about 80 percent of all of the goblins, among them most of the High Ranking goblins save the bank leaders including over ninety percent of the warrior Goblins, were prepared for the battle to come. They knew they would not attack Haryr or their own unless provoked, but could not help but be fearful that some of their own who did not side with Harry, including some of the warriors, would trun on them. However Harry had assured them that he would not attack them but allow them to stay out of the fighting as long as they agreed to turn over control of the bank to him personally, they would be allowed to continue to run day-to-day operations and even be allowed to research and improve some of their potions and services that the Goblin nation refused to put money into claiming the current ones where satisfactory. This plan had the approval of the Queen and Harry and his men where prepared for the coming battle.
Harry stood aboard the dominant with the Army of Hogwarts, his Senechals, and the "Guardians" surrounding him on the deck of the aircraft carrier as his men prepared below decks. All of the aircraft where either lined up alongside the deck of the ship, or stored in the below hangar. Almost every one of the thousand infantry and the multiple units of armor where prepared to go into this battle. Diagon Alley had been cleared already of almost all wizards and witches when the aurors showed up and forced every shop to close down for the day due to the orders the Queen had issued.
Harry was outfitted in a combination of his army uniform and lordship cloak over himself. He was assured by the queen that if he could make this work, he would again be rewarded with not only the controlling Gringotts as a "Family business" but he would also be promoted to a full colonel. Harry had a lot riding on this, and the Queen seemed to trust him. Now all he had to do was defeat about 200 bloodthirsty goblins, storm a stronghold, capture the lead goblins. Such was life.
As Harry looked across the sea towards the shores of Britain, he could feel how much he loved this land. Harry tuned his tactical mike to the bridge. "Captain I want you to play 'Britannica' to the crew and men on the ship, when it is done patch me into the loudspeaker system." Harry spoke up. Over the last year he and Tonks had become close and he valued her input in his life. Other relationships abounded, Hermoine and Ron had got together while Severus and Remus had also paired together. Ginny was dating Neville while Luna kept telling him that she wasn't ready to settle into a relationship. Many of his men had been dragged into her bed and loved to tell the stories. Harry was happy and while Tonks and he had not fully consummated their relationship, everyone could tell they were close.
As the last notes of the song cleared out, Harry adujusted his mike and began speaking. "Ladies and Gents, today is a day that the magical world will mark in history. Today the Queen personally urges us into battle to control the economy of the Wizarding world. Today we make our mark. Our units are feared by every death eater in existence, they do not understand our technology or our discipline. They do not understand we fight for more than the honor of ourselves. Today all who stand by my side will be brought into battle. The Goblins who oppose us today feel that no human can stand up to their might. That no human can best one of their warriors. Many of them feel different, but unfortunetly the leaders of these goblins and others feel that they do not serve us, we serve them. Today we march into battle not only to prove them wrong, but to show that humans and other magical races not only can be better than others, but we are equal, we can stand side by side. We march today for the glory of Britain. We march today for the glory of the Queen, and we march today for the hope that all people can become equal once again. The rules of engagement are thus, any goblin wearing white paint is to be left alone unless they attack you first. Once we have subdued the warriors, I and those of the Army of Hogwarts, my Senechals, and my personal guard, alongside myself, will capture the leaders of this bank that oppose us. Once this is done, All of you are to portkey back. I and those closest to my Lordship will stay and sort out the aftermath. Prepare to launch in formation Gulf-Oscar-Bravo-Lima-1. You will launch on my signal. Make sure all of your armor is on under your uniform and you carry the standard loadout. This may be a long siege and if this is the case at the end of the day we will begin shifts sending you back to the ship."
Harry waited a few minutes to make sure that his orders had been carried out, he looked at Tonks, squeezed her hand gently as he hefted his helmet on and watched as the others did the same. "Ready guys?" Harry asked as they shook their heads affirmative at him. He again turned on his mike, "All units use your apparition timers now." At this pops could be heard throughout the ship as Harry and those that stood beside him apparated to the front lines.
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AN: Sorry again for the long wait guys, the next chapter should come a bit faster due to the fact I am excited to writing it.