CHAPTER Twenty-Four

Harry and the girls finished on the fourth day. Harry did not get a mastery in potions but did get one in everything else. Hermione got one for transfiguration, runes, charms, and arithamancy. Gabby received her Mastery in arithamancy and warding/ enchanting. Fleur did not get one for DADA or Potion but did get them for the rest. Daphne was the surprise because she got one for every subject.

They left the building and headed for the hotel to pack up. Harry sensed danger ahead and stopped. He sent across the bond "Gabby shield us and Hermione assist with maintaining it. We have incoming." Harry smiled and then added "No holding back if they come they die, leave no one alive."

All of them pulled their wands and looked forward. With a building to their back and the shields in their front they readied themselves. Within seconds fifteen people apparated to their front. All wearing death eater masks "Hello Puppets!" Harry said out loud.

The front man stated with disdain and a sneer "Give up Potter you have no chance of defeating us as we outnumber you. Make it easy on yourself and give up now."

Harry smirked back at him and replied "Marcus Flint while I still breath there is always a chance. So do your worse death nibbler."

Marcus sneered at him "You're the one that is going to feel the pain Potter but not for long because you will be dead soon enough."

Daphne jumped up "I get to finish this line!" Her voice deepened "And then Potter we will give your whores our special attention and then show your carcass to those that try to defy us." Daphne snorted "Did you all read the same book with the bad dialogue because Hermione can loan you books to read to get better material? Gabby has some with only pictures if you have problems with reading."

Marcus Flint became angry and then cast "Avadra Kedavra" the spell flew at Potter but hit a shield that dissipated it quickly. Suddenly Flint grabbed his wand looking like he was fighting with it when he fell to his knees and his hair had turned white. His eyes became blank and lifeless as he fell over dead to everyone's amazement.

One of the other death eaters stated loud enough for them to hear "Oh, shit he just shielded against an unforgivable… and killed Flint with that same shield."

Harry smiled and looked at Hermione "Is that one of your new specials?

Hermione smiled coyly "Maybe, you know I have a mastery in charms, right?" She then continued "Wonderful thing that family grimore from Gryffindor, very lovely magical theory on combat magic."

Harry popped out from behind the shield and took an Uzi and sprayed bullets killing seven more before they ducked for cover. Daphne and Fleur came from the other side and killed four more with two spells apiece.

Harry turned to her "Combat magic huh? I don't remember seeing any magic like that.

Hermione batted her eyes at him "Well sir that is because that was one of my new creations." Hermione then whispered "The shield is designed to divert magic and then drains the magic user."

Harry smiled "That is absolutely brilliant." He looked at Flint "Very effective as well."

Two tried to Port key away but Harry cast an anti-apparition spell so they ended up staying. Harry came back out and cut one down with a cutting curse, while Daphne followed up with a bludgeoner to the head.

The last one stood there frozen in fear as Harry swiftly disarmed him before removing their clothes with a flick of his finger. Harry punched him in the gut making him fall to his knees. Harry took his Sword out and cut the person's head off. He levitated the head on top of the body's chest and then said "Activate!" everybody on the street disappeared. The Swiss police arrived seconds later.

Harry and his girls stood there as they were surrounded, Harry sent over the bond "Apparate to the room in 3, 2, and 1, now!" The policemen gasped as they watched the five disappear.

They each went through the room and gathered their things and fifteen minutes later they heard a knock on the door as they port keyed back to Delacour manor.

Daphne snarked out "You would think they would be happy we brought some excitement to their day instead of trying to arrest us."

Harry penned a note and then attached a memory of the two events for the daily prophet so they could write an article for tomorrow's headline.

HARRY POTTER TEST OUT OF NEWTS AND GAINS MASTERY DURING A DEATH EATER ATTACK!

The next day the headline reads:

HARRY POTTER ATTACKED TWICE IN THREE DAYS: SCORE IS POTTER 18 and LORD MOLDYSHORTS – 0.

GREENGRASS ESTATE –

Voldemort read the headlines and threw the paper away in disgust. He was being laughed at and treated as a common criminal. He had to do something. Two days ago fifteen bodies showed up after the attack, fifteen dead bodies and then the Prophet published his failure.

Voldemort suddenly saw a flash and then a Phoenix appeared with a note. The Phoenix dropped it on the table and then flashed away again. Voldemort went to it and tested it for hexes or charms before he picked it up "LOOK UP!"

Voldemort then heard a crash on his right before he apparated away. He was a hundred meters away from the manor and he saw about sixty boulders crashing down on Greengrass manor. Within seconds it was complete destroyed and un-useable.

The note vibrated and he looked at it with anger

"Have a nice day asshole and leave me alone. I can get to you anytime I want so stop the personal attacks. You have Britain the rest of the world is mine."

Lord Potter.

HOGWARTS 1 October –

Harry and the girls appeared in Headmistress McGonagall's office and surprised her "Mr. Potter would you stop scaring me like that."

Harry smirked at her and gave her his lopsided grin "Well you turned down my offer to make your heartbeat faster in my quarters, so I thought you preferred your excitement another way."

Daphne, Hermione, Fleur, and Gabby hid behind Harry to hold their laughter in. Minerva blushed heavily "You cheeky man! If you were still a student I would dock you a thousand points and detention for life." Harry did notice that she did have a small smile on her lips.

Harry sat down on her desk next to her and was smiling as she replied "So other than trying to make me pant like a young girl in heat… what else can I do for you?"

Harry smiled "I need a base of operations to go after the Dark Wanker and if he decides that Hogwarts is ripe for the picking I want to be here to protect the castle."

Minerva stood up and went to the window "If they found out you were attacking from here it could make us a bigger target than we already are."

Harry nodded in agreement "That is true but Tom has always had a thing for Hogwarts and I believe he will try to overrun this place to get to the children. They and their families represent about 15% of the magical population. Control their kids you control them and their votes."

Minerva turned on him "Yes, I know that. Filius and I have been strengthening the wards for the last month."

Hermione cast several spells and then smiled "They are very well done but I can see many ways to improve them and from what I can tell you have no outer defenses around the castle itself. We can help you there. Any delay can get children away from an attack and out of the way of errant spell fire."

Minerva placed her hands on her hips "Mrs. Potter while you are and were a very good student I hardly think you are qualified to pass judgment on a master's work."

Hermione pulled a credential from her inside robe pocket and handed it to her "I have a Master's qualification in warding and enchanting as well and I am qualified."

Minerva's jaw dropped "How could you have done that over one summer?"

Hermione smirked "It was actually 3.5 years, to me and we passed NEWTS two weeks ago as well as received the masteries over the next two days. I know my craft."

Minerva looked at her sharply "You trained in a time dilation field?" Hermione smiled and then nodded her head that this was correct.

Harry then added "We just finished our NEWTS and Mastery exams. We need a place to hang our hats and take the war to the purebloods."

Daphne moved to the front of the desk "We admit that having Harry here brings with it certain risks but you can't deny that it brings a certain amount of safety to go along with it. Harry is just like that."

Hermione then added "There were only two people that Voldeshorts was afraid of...Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter."

Minerva added "Then wouldn't it be better to announce it?"

Harry stood up "No, because I am not going to tell people I am back. British magicals need to learn to fight for themselves. I have an idea that they can be shown the way but they have to learn to do for themselves and not rely on one man to save them that is how Albus gained so much power and looked what he did with it."

Sirius came with me and he is helping with the political and economy battles while the five of us will fight the Death Nibblers directly. Right now Voldemort is on his heels because he lost a majority of his funding and political backing. Amelia has almost completely cleaned out the ministry of their taint.

Sirius will get some more or negate their political point of view, while we will whittle away at his fighter base. Every attack he mounts will be met with lethal force just like Geneva.

Minerva "I don't like the killing."

Harry looked irritated "No, the problem is that nobody wants to hear about it. If you are a muggle or muggleborn the killings continue but magicals don't have to hear about it because they would never print it in the paper. The killings continue even if you are ignorant of it."

Minerva looked at him "That does not give anyone the right to play god."

Harry shook his head "If not me, or other magical's Minerva then who?" Harry sighed "At some point in every war someone has to take a stand, it is terrible thing to kill another." Harry leaned across and looked at her in the eye "The worst feeling in the world is to watch someone die that you love and know that had you done something, you could have prevented it."

Minerva watched him and he didn't flinch. She sat down and looked thoughtfully at her desk "Harry I don't like it and I never said I didn't understand it or the need for it. My biggest desire is to keep it out of Hogwarts."

Hermione answered "The best chance of that is us and going after those that would come here. If we keep enough of them out of play, then Lord Ugly won't have enough people to attack with."

Minerva nodded and called Tipsy, the head house elf to show Harry the Lord's wing. As Harry was walking out "May I close off the seventh floor and use the room of Requirement?

Minerva thought for a moment "I see no issue because we have no classes in that wing on the seventh floor."

Harry smiled "Thank you for the help Minerva."

The next day the Potter's went to the room of requirement for their daily work out and dueling practice. When Harry walked in he felt a suppressive wave of Dark magic very close by. He immediately dropped and rolled as Daphne stood next to him "You must have felt that dark taint in here as did I." She stated with worry.

Harry looked around and could see nothing threatening "Yea, it hit me very hard but it doesn't feel like a spell being thrown at me."

Hermione had been listening and thought 'Bring the object that has dark magic on it."

Harry felt the dark magic intensify as a bust with a wig and a tiara on top of it became visible. "That has to be it but I have never felt anything like this before." Gabby went to touch it but Harry grabbed her hand "It is dangerous, vile, and it is heavily warded do not touch it until we figure out what it is." He told her with concern.

Everyone looked around it and Fleur said with concern "I feel a compulsion to place it on my head."

Harry suddenly stood up "I have felt this before." He looked in thought "In second year while I was in the chamber of secrets. Gabby change to Effraine and place some venom on this."

Gabby changed and then hung her head over the Tiara "Someone squeeze the bulges behind my head and make the venom come out." she told them over the bond.

Daphne took one side and Harry the other and soon a stream of deadly venom was sprayed on the tiara. It began to smoke immediately and then a green gaseous substance came out. Within seconds it began to form into the head of someone and screamed for many seconds in obvious pain. After the screaming stopped the mist dissipated quickly.

Harry sat down heavily "Thank god that my scar is no longer effected by those abominations."

Hermione was pacing back and forth in front of the bust. The tiara was still dripping liquid metal from it from the venom's acid. She looked upset but then stopped and looked at Harry "Did your scare hurt as much as when Voldemort was around?"

Harry was still rubbing his scar "Yes, well almost as much and as soon as that gas left I started feeling better."

Hermione "Shite, this is not good."

Fleur held her still "Tells us what you are thinking. Maybe we can deal with it together?"

Hermione looked worried but gave her a small nod and a brief smile "Ok, Sirius had a book in his library that was about Blood magic. A chapter was devoted completely to soul magic. It talked about Horcruxes which is a container for a piece of a person's soul."

Hermione shivered "It is probably the most vile form of dark magic known because a person has to violate or rip a part of their soul to make it. They have to do it by the killing of another human being."

Hermione bit her lip "I think Voldemort made more than one." Hermione let a tear roll from her eye as she turned to Harry "I think you have one in your scar."

Everyone gasped in the room. Harry sat stunned for many minutes "I think somehow I knew this. My scar has always affected me around Voldemort. How do I get rid of it?"

Hermione was really crying now as she stuttered out "The thing that carries it usually has to be destroyed."

Harry snorted "I was afraid that would be the only way."

Daphne stood up and stomped across the room "That cannot be the only way. We can find another way somehow."

Harry looked at Gabby still transformed and then at the Tiara before a small grin formed "What if Gabby were to poison it with her basilisk venom and then cry into the wound with her Phoenix tears. It might be enough to believe that I am dying and then leave on its own."

Hermione was about to go off on him when Fleur moved to her and smiled "I think we are ok. When Harry was in the champions chamber and he removed his block, a mist formed above his head. It looked similar to the black mist we saw come out of tiara. I think it is already gone."

Daphne was smirking "You have no excuse to die on me Potter so I won't have to hate you…for like forever."

Harry almost chuckled "You know I think we should have a discussion about how you express your feeling of love and adoration." Harry rubbed his scar and thought about it. "I think you are right because normally my scar would ache." Harry then smiled "I was kind of looking forward to special attention from Gabby and then Daphne could do her love and adoration thing."

Daphne almost smiled "I don't do adoration but love we can work on that." The others just giggled.

Gabby began to laugh "Harry you are so warped. Does anything bother you?"

Harry chuckled "Well, I don't like Brussels sprouts, people who try to control me, and Daphne's whole attitude this week."

Daphne stood before him "Oh, you can try Potter but it won't change the way I feel about you."

Hermione was rolling her eyes and laughing "God what is it with her. I think she enjoys it more than Harry." Daphne turned to her and winked.