LEP HQ Ops booth

Foaly was nearly hitting his head against the computer out of frustration. Why couldn't he contact anyone in the other dimension?! Foaly growled under his breath. The frustration was killing him.

He looked out his one-sided window to see goblins and Death Eaters running rampage and the field operatives were desperately trying to contain them, but at the sight of the burning buildings, panicking civilians, and the general chaos and destruction it was obvious they weren't doing so well. How did the goblins break out of Howler's Peak, Foaly mentally mused, it was just like the goblin uprising…

Something clicked in Foaly's head. All color drained from his face. He hurriedly typed in a few things on his computer and did a search. After the search was complete Foaly's face went even paler.

That was the answer. It was the answer to how the goblins broke out and why they were helping the Death Eaters. Goblins weren't the only ones who had broken out of Howler's Peak.

"Opal Koboi…" Foaly growled.

Outside of Voldemort's stronghold

No1's head spun after the second apparation. Qwan helped No1 steady himself and everyone looked at the fortress before them. It was made of stone black as night and towers reached up to the stormy clouds above like spears into the belly of a ram.

"How morbid." Dumbledore mused.

"We'd better hurry up and save Fowl and Short." Moody growled.

"We can't." Root said flatly. Hermione looked up at him.

"Why not?" she asked.

"It is a dwelling and we," Root gestured to the fairies of the group, "weren't invited in."

"Why does that matter?" Ron asked incredulously. Root glared at him.

"Because, mud boy, if any of us, except the convicts, go into a dwelling uninvited we lose our magic."

"That is easy to fix." Harry said, a smile spreading across his face.

"How?" No1 asked.

"If you could get one of us," Harry gestured at the wizards of the group, " in we could use the imperious curse to force someone to invite you all in." Everyone nodded approvingly.

"I could sneak in easily and impersonate one of the Death Eaters." Tonks offered.

"How?" Qwan asked. Tonks closed her eyes and her hair suddenly went dark and her very facial features changed. She opened her eyes to display cold, metallic gray eyes.

"Can you all do that?" No1 asked.

"No, only Tonks." Lupin said. Tonks grinned and disappeared into the stronghold. She quickly came back with someone in tow. It was a man with an oddly blank expression on his face.

"Now invite them in like a good host." Tonks ordered the man cheerfully. The man robotically complied.

"Come in," he said.

"Once we are inside tell him to order us to not listen to any mud people we don't want to listen to while we are here." Root said impatiently. Tonks just glanced at him quizzically and shrugged. They all walked inside cautiously and after she made the guard give the freeing order to the fairies, the Order members knocked him out. Qwan cast his eyes around the hallway. It was all too easy. Black onyx inlayed the columns to look like strangely sinister sparkling light shows.

No1 watched his mentor. It was easy to see Qwan was uneasy. It was also quite easy to understand and to share his feelings. Trouble shielded and scouted ahead. He came back and said it was clear. Everyone just got more troubled then. They walked through the hall and Qwan kept on feeling something wasn't right with the whole thing. It was like the Death Eaters were waiting…

That was when it hit him. He opened his mouth to warn the others, but a beam of magic wrapped around them all and everything went black.

A/N

I know it is short but I finally got a real cliffie in! Yay! Now what did I want to say? Oh yeah, I own nothing and REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW!