The Ministry
"Let's go there!" James said the next day, as Harry had finished telling her dream.
"But He has deceived before Harry in his dreams ..." Hermione said, worried "Are you sure it was true, Harry?"
"Yes!" Harry assured the girl anxiously. Hermione looked skeptical.
"Harry, and if you lie ..."
"I will not lose James and Lene's parents!"
"Last time you lost Sirius, Harry!" Ginny argued, and Sirius's eyes widened.
"This is how I died?"
"It does not matter now." James replied, looking up from the lunch table and out "True or not, I will not risk the lives of my parents about it. Who's going with me to London?"
"Someone must be here to call the Order." Dorcas said.
"Call the Prewetts and Bones, Dorcas." Remus gave a peck on the girlfriend. "You four and Emme to call Dumbledore and others, as we go."
"Regulus does not know." Frank said, pulling Alice with him."I'll call him."
"No time!" James shouted, and some curious passers-by stared.
"Okay, so we stay back." Frank rolled his eyes.
He and Alice entered the castle while James and the others ran through the gardens. When they reached the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Remus looked at the sky, which quickly darkened.
"How are we going to London? From Hogsmeade again?"
"No, we cannot." Harry looked at Luna. - Can you find thestrals?"
"Sure!" Luna smiled sympathetically. "Wait."
"Thestrals?" Lily stuttered fearfully. "But they ..."
"They're just ugly, not dangerous." Hermione said quickly, and Lily raised an eyebrow.
"Well, I'm not saying that they are dangerous, but I'm afraid of falling from an unseen beast."
Luna arrived, dragging belts that seemed empty. "Let's go?"
Harry climbed into an animal, with Ginny behind. Ron and Hermione were in another, being imitated by James and Lily, Sirius and Marlene and Luna and Neville. Before sitting on the back of Remus, Peter raised his arms.
"Look, I'm not that fond of going behind Remus, honestly."
"Peter, let the freshness!" James complained, and Harry pulled the belt, making the Thestral soar.
"This is not a broom!" James cried in despair as they passed over the fields. Harry accidentally laughed when Lily, who was afraid of heights, smiled.
"Looks like a horse! Now that's cool!"
"Are you crazy?" James yelled back, grabbing the neck of the animal invisible as if his life depended on it. "I trust more in a broken broom than that!"
Harry smiled, and began to see the city in the distance, the lights almost fully lit. Behind him, Ginny said:
"It is getting dark ..."
And it really was. When they reached the entrance of visitors, the evening had come, and the only light source on the street came from a few electric poles.
As they were many, Harry and Ginny were the first, squeezing together in the cabin with James, Lily, Sirius and Marlene. Trembling, James entered the numbers.
"Welcome to the Ministry of Magic." spoke to the ministry's disembodied receptionist's voice "Please, tell your names and occupations."
"Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, James Potter, Sirius Black, Lily Evans and Marlene Mckinnon." Sirius spluttered to the air, and regurgitated several phone buttons.
When they reached the lobby, he saw that Harry was right. Behind him came others, and the words of Ron epitomized everything they were feeling.
"We are screwed."
In the middle of the hall were the parents of James and Marlene, tied together by strings. Guarding, several Death Eaters had pulled the wand, ready to attack.
"Welcome, boys." said the cold voice of Voldemort, and Harry could hear the background hiss of Nagini, who began to twist around Mark's ankles.
"Let them go, you ..." James began, but Voldemort made a gesture with his hand and the boy flew away. Lily ran after him and Voldemort laughed.
" Ah, young love. Pathetic, makes people so ... Susceptible."
Harry pulled his wand, his hatred of the wizard throbbing inside his veins.
"I hate you."
But Voldemort was not enough time to hear anything else. With a snap, gone, and the Death Eaters began to walk toward them.
"Let's fight!" James yelled, getting up and running to close to Harry. From the floor, Martha yelled:
"Jimmy, leave!"
"No, mother." James said, narrowing his eyes for the Death Eaters who circled him and his friends. "This time I'll do things for myself."
Two Death Eaters advanced towards them, but Sirius and James have come together to duel against both. Lily and Ginny broke the windows when the other two attacked the others, and Harry felt a hand on his arm and was slow to realize that Ron was asking for his help to duel Bellatrix.
"You have no chance, don't you see?" Bellatrix laughed, throwing a green jet toward the two. Ron blocked the attack, and Harry replied:
"Who have no chance are you, Bella. Wait until the order arrives."
"The Order?" she spat. "What Order?"
"The Order of the Phoenix." Ron said, smiling victorious.
"Avada Kedavra!" shouted a Death Eater, immeadiately disarmed by Neville. Luna, who practically danced while dueling, dodged another curse from Rodolphus.
Remus and Peter, on the other hand, did not withdraw their wands. Greyback walked toward Remus, his red eyes bulging.
"Look! Lupin! Your father owes me a favor, you know, boy."
Remus grinned, and Peter pulled out his wand for the first time.
"I heard that elephants are afraid of mice." Peter laughed. "Do wolves too?' And turned into a mouse. Greyback looked at their feet, and Remus took the opportunity to move toward him.
"Want to fight without magic, Lupin?" Greyback growled when Remus punched his face. "Great, let's do it, then."
James and Sirius stunned two Death Eaters with their wands and pointed to Remus, speaking spells that Harry recognized from the chapter on human transformations of Advanced Transfiguration. Remus' nails began to grow, and Harry noticed that the Marauders attempted to transform him into a werewolf without the moon.
As Remus was no ordinary human, the transformation came in half, and the boy turned into something like a wolf boy. His claws and fangs were now attacking Greyback quickly, along with the muscle acquired in the transformation.
"Come on, Moony!" Ron twisted before diverting to another curse. Sirius ran to Bellatrix and Harry feared the worst.
"Night, Bella." He said sarcastically to the press. "I wonder how Lestrange must have reacted when you betrayed them."
"Regulus was one of us!" she cried angrily. "And if you wanted to could have been Sirius. Avada Kedavra."
Harry closed his eyes, trying not to see the godfather lying on the ground, but a loud noise of glass shattering on the floor did the eyelids slowly lift.
Bellatrix was cast away by James before his curse to reach Sirius, and now the two marauders cast spells on her, yet fallen.
Suddenly, a loud was heard, and Fawkes entered the hall, carrying on their feet the sword of Gryffindor.
"Who won the sword?" Ginny gasped, and Harry smiled proudly when the sword fell to James.
"He came in front of the curse to save a friend." Hermione said happily.
James neutralized Bellatrix and stopped to grab the sword, reading the name of Godric Gryffindor on the back.
"What the hell is ..."
"THIS IS MADE BY GOBLINS!" Ron shouted desperately. James's eyes widened, realizing the value of the sword.
Death Eaters tried to go behind James, but the others did a barrier. In the corner, Remus continued to struggle with Greyback, as if nothing was happening around. Harry noticed that the floor was filled with blood stains, and prayed not to be Remus'.
James walked up to his parents, and using the sword, cut the cords that bound them. When Mrs. Potter was almost hugging her son, Nagini attacked him, digging his fangs in the James' neck.
"JAMES!" Martha and Lily shouted at the same time, while James fell to his knees on the floor, bleeding to death. Sirius ran to his friend and took the sword from his hand.
"RELEASE IT, YOUR STUPID THING!" he shouted, cutting off Nagini's head with the sharp blade. The snake gave up James, and Fawkes flew toward him, and Harry was reassured to see the bird pearly tears fall on him.
"He'll be fine, Padfoot!" Ron yelled, pulling his friend by the hand. Sirius hesitated, but went back to the heart of the duel, being attacked by Bellatrix shortly.
Suddenly, several cracks filled the place, and Regulus, Dorcas, Emmeline, EdgarFabian and Gideon arrived, accompanied by several witches and wizards, among them Oreon.
"Release my son, Bellatrix." he said, angry.