(A/N) thekecmaster: I don't own the Harry Potter Series. I am hoping to finish this story in a similar vein as Flametongue, but let's see how that goes. I turned on AutoCorrect for the ampersand symbols – there should be no more &'s appearing in the story.
Chapter 06 – Enter Voldemort and the Death Eaters
Envy was having a tough go of it so far; it seemed like everything he wanted to do, say, or act was done by someone else in the last several hours. He wanted to eat the fresh treacle tart produced in the kitchens a few hours ago. However, Gluttony managed to finish all of the pieces, and the house-elves were too busy with other food to cater to his wishes. He wanted to ask out Luna Lovegood, but Pride bragged that Lust beat him to the task. Not only that, but Lust was playing physically with as many of the attractive women in Hogwarts that he could find and leaving them too physically spent to do anything. Envy definitely was jealous of Wrath for beating up his nemeses as well as Greed for robbing from the rich. Pride was taking all of his admirers away, so he had no one to talk to, not even the Creevey brothers. When he saw Sloth leave a line of vision with a hand held by a feminine hand, he ran off. Envy prepared to yell at Sloth and demand to know how Sloth got a female to hold his hand when he's not even trying to get a female. However, as soon as he saw the owner of the feminine hand as Luna Lovegood, the original tirade at Sloth died before leaving his mouth, as he attempted to balance his expressions in the presence of the eccentric Ravenclaw.
Luna noticed Envy's changing looks on his face, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Luna, the other guys all have special powers that I don't have, and they're doing things that I want to do before I can do them."
"Well, I'm working on a special project. Would you like to be the first one to help me?"
"Am I really going to be the first one to help you Luna?"
"Sure. I would like you to go to Professor McGonagall's classroom at 4PM. I'll explain it all when I get there."
"I'll be there Luna!" With that, Envy walked off, giddy in achieving something before the other Sins did.
Luna immediately turned to the fish faces of Neville, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione, as well as the blank face of Sloth, before commenting, "One down, six to go."
With that, Luna led Sloth and the other 4 friends to find the other Sins one by one.
Envy ran down to the kitchen and found that the house-elves finally acquired enough ingredients to make some more treacle tart. The house-elves took a few minutes, and Envy was about to eat a treacle tart when all hell broke loose.
An explosion was heard in degrees varying by distance to the explosion. It seems like Voldemort and several of his death eaters had entered the castle, using the secret entrance through the basement of Honeydukes as suggested by Wormtail, but one stupid lackey blew up the statue of the one-eyed witch, permanently revealing the secret entrance to Hogwarts.
"Goyle! You were not supposed to blow up statue!"
"You couldn't open yourself, Crabbe!"
"Quiet you morons!" yelled the irate Lucius Malfoy. "Do you want the entire school to know that The Dark Lord is here?"
Unfortunately for Voldemort, a Hufflepuff near the area recognized "Dark Lord" as Voldemort. Then, he took off shouting to his classmates, "YOU-KNOW-WHO IS IN HOGWARTS! RUUUUUNNNN!"
Of course, screaming Voldemort's alias was akin to screaming fire in a movie theater; most people, ghosts, and portrait dwellers ran one way or the other in trying to find exits or hiding places.
Voldemort caught up to the rest of his lackeys and saw the fleeing chaos.
"Damnit, Crucio!" cursed Voldemort at Lucius Malfoy, Crabbe Sr., and Goyle Sr. "I want to eliminate Harry Potter – all seven of him. This was supposed to be a silent operation, you loud nincompoops!"
Dolohov thought Voldemort was being at least as loud as Lucius, if not louder. However, he did not enjoy receiving pain, so he stayed silent.
One person who definitely heard Voldemort's exchange was Pride Potter. He immediately found Lust in the nearby classroom finishing quality time with Katie Bell. Pride and Lust ran over to a spot near the location that used to hold the one-eyed witch in order to ascertain what was going on.
Voldemort was barking orders now, not caring at this point if he was loud – for the bungling lead trio of Lucius Malfoy, Crabbe Sr., and Goyle Sr. put some members of the castle on high alert – and the last thing he needed was Dumbledore knowing about the quick invasion.
"All right, it's time to look for Potter…"
At this point, Pride jumped out of his hiding spot, shouting, "Looking for me, Voldemort? Or should I call you Riddle?"
Voldemort turned, a bit in shock, and then suppressed the shock as he addressed the guest. "Harry Potter."
"Call me Pride." As soon as Pride said this, Lust jumped out and said, "Call me Lust."
Bellatrix Lestrange's eyes began to glaze over – she clearly experienced no good physical activities in at least ten years, when a loud shout from ahead broke things up quickly.
"Get them!"
Curses were aimed at the two altered Potters, but they were not at their original surprise spots at the beginning of this confrontation. Lust and Pride had turned tail to run, with Pride shouting back, "You can't hit a hot dog bun!"
Lust commented, "It's time to split, fellow deadly sin."
Pride replied, "Only I can hear you over all this din."
Lust ran off in the direction of the astronomy tower, chased by the Lestranges, while Pride taunted MacNair and Dolohov as he raced to the Slytherin hallways.
Back at the corner where Lust and Pride split, Voldemort was shouting instructions, occasionally with flying spit.
"I'll be on the 7th floor. Snape, distract Dumbledore. Crabbe, Goyle, go to the kitchen. Malfoy, go to the Great Hall. Bring me back each Potter you can find, or expect a kick to each behind."
Once word had spread that You-Know-Who was in the castle, the Great Hall descended into chaos, as nearly every person stormed out to hide or escape. The only exceptions were Greed and Gluttony. Gluttony saw the massive exodus as an opportunity to eat the rest of the food there unscathed, while Greed was busy looking for dropped money and other valuable items. Gluttony sat down at the Gryffindor table, and summoned all the food to him. It took him about half an hour, but he finally finished off the remaining food, which was enough to fill at least a hundred people.
Gluttony then said, "See you later Greed, I'm off to the kitchens."
Greed replied, "Again? You just ate enough food to feed a small army!"
"Yeah, but, I'm still hungry." With that, Gluttony bounded for the kitchens and Greed rolled his eyes.
Five minutes later, Malfoy reached the Great hall. He expected to find hordes of students to scare, but instead, a potential target was the only person in the room.
"Harry Potter. You will not escape this time."
"Lucius Malfoy. You have a lot of money. I am going to take all of your money."
"I don't think so, Potter." Lucius spoke as he sent a mild rope curse at Greed.
"Call me Greed, Lucius," who promptly dodged and returned fire.
Lucius and Greed fought in the Great Hall. Unbeknownst to both combatants, Wrath entered the Great Hall from one of the side doors. As soon as he spied Lucius, he shouted, "Lucius Malfoy! You're next!"
Just as Lucius was about to end the one-on-one fight with Greed, Wrath sent a Reducto curse right at Lucius, who could only get his hand up in time. As a result, only his hand broke, but Lucius was in terrible agony as he fell from the intense pain from Wrath's destructive spell. He made a motion to grab his wand with his left hand, but Greed had recovered and stupefied him to end the spellfight.
"Thanks Wrath. I'll rob Lucius first, then you can beat him up," said Greed.
Wrath countered, "All right, but hurry up!"
Greed proceeds to raid the Lucius Malfoy pockets, searching for money and expensive items.
Meanwhile, in another dimension within Hogwarts…
Crabbe Senior and Goyle Senior ran down into the kitchen, hoping to capture a Potter, grab some free food, or do both. Once in the kitchen, Envy confronts them.
"What the hell are you guys doing here?"
Crabbe Sr. and Goyle Sr. looked at each other. Goyle lost the staring contest and spoke out, "We're here to capture Harry Potter. And that looks like you."
"Ah, but I'm not Harry Potter."
Goyle Sr. was really confused; wasn't he supposed to catch Harry Potter? Crabbe Sr. thought the same thing, and asked, "But you look like him – scar, glasses, hair…"
Envy replied, "Oh, Harry Potter is unavailable at the moment. Now go away, don't bother me."
Goyle Sr. and Crabbe Sr. saw the treacle tart near Envy, and both opted to make a dash for it. Fortunately for Envy, Gluttony just arrived and also made a dash for the tart, which resulted in a three-way fight to see who could challenge for the tart. Envy looked at the three, ate the tart, and then left the kitchen.
Lust ran all the way, never breaking stride on his way to the Astronomy Tower. As he made the turn, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Luna, and Sloth all saw Lust running and were about to ponder why when Bellatrix turned the corner and ran up after Lust. Luna, Sloth, and Neville led a charge, though for different reasons: Sloth because Luna was still holding him, Neville because he wanted to capture Bellatrix, and Luna because he wanted to talk to Lust.
Rodolphus, who is a bit slower than his wife, was a bit further behind and crashed into Luna, Sloth, and Neville as he tried to turn the corner. Luna and Neville were knocked down, but Sloth managed to stay on his feet, blocking the stairway. Rodolphus did not recognize the other two characters, but he did recognize a Potter when he saw one, and immediately sent a pain curse at him. The curse connected, but nothing happened as all Sloth did was yawn for the entire minute. Rodolphus tried another pain curse, and Sloth just stood there, motionless, apparently unaffected by the second curse. Rodolphus, after a second minute of unsuccessful pain distribution, sent a third curse at Sloth, but he just shrugged as the curse touched him without doing anything for another minute. Neville took the opportunity to stun Rodolphus and send all sort of binding curses to make sure he didn't get away.
Ron then said, "I think we should go rescue Lust from Bellatrix Lestrange now."
At this point, Lust came out of the Astronomy Tower with a slight grin, and said, "There's no need to do so," as he gently moved Sloth out of the way at the bottom of the stairs.
Neville asked, "Why not? What happened to Bellatrix?"
Lust replied, "She's all tied up at the moment." Neville didn't believe him, so he ran up the tower to check on Bellatrix. When he came back down, he brought the bound Bellatrix Lestrange, apparently smiling and sleeping.
Ron's eyes jumped out of his head as he asked, "How'd you tie her up?"
Lust just grinned, replying, "There are some things that you're not meant to know."
The facial expressions that appeared after this comment varied from disgust on Ron and Hermione, to puzzlement on Ginny, and Neville, to boredom on Sloth, to dreaminess on Luna.
Lust spotted Luna's dreamy look, and asked her what she was doing.
Luna replied, "I'm working on a special project in preparation for our date Friday. Would you like to help me?"
Lust grinned, "Why wait for Friday? We can go out today."
Luna replied, "I would love to, but I have to look for some Nargles and Wrackspurts first today. Could you meet me in Professor McGonagall's classroom at 4:06PM today.
Lust grinned, "Sure thing, Luna."
At this point, Hannah Abbott happened to be conversing with Susan about her activities with Lust. Hannah saw Lust, and called out to join her. Lust took off, and caught up with Hannah. They started talking and disappeared around that corner.
Luna looked sad again, as Lust didn't seem to be paying special attention to her as he did to the other females he ran across today. It was Hermione's turn to comfort Luna this time.
"Don't worry Luna, he's not himself."
"I know he's not himself, but it's hard to watch him run off and charm other girls."
"Well, he's not treating you like a one-time fling. He actually still remembers Friday's date, and when we restore him, he won't be such a womanizer."
Ron turned on Hermione sharply, "And just what do you know about womanizing?"
Hermione saw that Luna was sufficiently back to her special self, so she rounded on Ron entirely, "I read a lot Ron, unlike you. I only know what I read from books – or that used to be my only knowledge until Lust started his hunts."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!"
Ginny stepped in, "That's enough – stop bickering like a married couple."
With that, they went off to find Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, and Greed.
(A/N): thekecmaster: Please review, I'd really appreciate it.