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Previously:
"Nooo!" Hermione and Sirius screamed. Their agonized duet sparked laughter among the circle of Death Eaters. Sirius immediately apparated him and Hermione away, their last sight was Voldemort gloating over Harry's body.
"Sirius! Let me go! Why didn't you bring back Harry's body?" Hermione pounded Sirius' chest with her fists, doing little damage to the man towering over her. He wrapped his arms around her to hold her still and eventually she stopped struggling.
"Hermione…Hermione…do you think they'd have really leave us alive if we had stayed any longer? There's nothing we can do for Harry now. It's us we have to worry about, Voldemort's won."
"Come on, we have to get inside. We're not safe on the step." Sirius opened the door and whisked them in. As soon as the door closed, footsteps sounded toward them. They whipped out their wands and saw Molly Weasley approaching, wand at the high.
"Hermione, Sirius! Where's -" She was quick to notice their tense bodies and red faces, but Sirius interrupted her.
"Molly! What did I say to your mother that made her not speak to me?" Sirius shouted. Molly screwed up her eyebrows as she remembered.
"You said "I'm invited and I'll park my damn motorcycle where ever I please. Shouldn't you be attending to the bride rather than interrogating starving guests?" she quoted. Sirius nodded grimly and lowered his wand. "Oh! Come in, we're in the middle of a meeting...I, ah...you have news?" She asked, wringing her hands. They made their way into the kitchen, where the Order was seated around one end of the dining table. All heads turned their way, taking in the conspicuous lack of the two youngest members. Molly sat down in the empty seat next to Arthur and glanced nervously back at Hermione and Sirius.
Hermione looked at Sirius. She knew it had to be said, but she couldn't force the words out. Sirius took a deep breath.
"Voldemort, he...it's over. He's won. He's killed Harry and he's won. He's won. It's all over now." Professor McGonagall gasped, as did the others. Moody stood up and walked to the fireplace.
"Someone needs to inform Scrimgeour." He said gruffly, stepping into the grate. "Ministry of Magic!"
"And Ron?" Hermione blanched. "What about him? Where's my sooonnnn-" Molly began to weep onto her husband's shoulder. Fred and George stood up and left the room. Kingsley and Lupin exchanged defeated "Now what?" glances and Tonks's hair turned black.
The fire turned green again and Percy Weasley appeared.
"The ministry's fallen! – They've – k-killed killed the minister!" He was panting and heaving. "Barely managed to escape – had to run."
"What about Alastor?" McGonagall asked. "He just left." Percy walked to Moody's vacated seat at the table.
"Yeah, he told me to – leave. Told me – to "get to my family"." Mrs. Weasley stiffened and there was a pause.
"O-ohh Alastor..." She sobbed.
"What's going on! Did something happen? What happened?" cried Percy.
"Harry and Ron have been murdered at Voldemort's hand." Dumbledore explained. "Now, we must begin sending owls. We have no idea how long until the news gets out. We have to find out what they're going to do." He stood up when suddenly there was a blast in the hallway. Dust and wood flew by the doorway...someone had just blown up the door. Everyone exchanged nervous, wary glances as they stood, wands aloft.
"I've always wanted to do that." Sirius muttered.
"Oh Siriussss...guess who's come to pla-ay..." His eyes widened.
"Bellatrix." He spat.
"WHAT? But I thought we're untraceable! I thought we're hidden!" Hermione's voice went higher and near hysterical. "How do they KNOW WHERE WE ARE!" Sirius ran into the hallway, Lupin right behind him. The others rushed around the table towards the hallway.
"Stupify!" cried Sirius. Bellatrix sidestepped the red light, giggling.
"Do you think it's that easy? Huh Siri? Do you think I'm the only one?" Her voice lowered. "They're all coming. here. now." Then she laughed loudly and twitched her wand. The wall between the hallway and the kitchen blew up. The explosion of dust and debris distracted everyone as they tried to dodge chucks of wall and pipe. The noise crescendoed when Death Eaters began to apparate on the steps and rush in, curses on their lips...Crabbe...Goyle..Malfoy and Dolohov...Wormtail...Macnair and Fenrir Greyback... The cracks echoed as dark-cloaked man after man appeared. The Order retreated into the kitchen and living room, whle retaliating at the Death Eaters.
Antonin Dolohov and Fenrir Greyback teamed up against Lupin. Greyback was swiping and clawing at him as Dolohov put Tarantallegra on his feet and cast curses wherever he tried to step. Lupin danced and stumbled, barely maintaining his balance while he tried to block Greybacks advances. He'd summon cushions and books and paintings - anything he saw around him in the living room - to fly between him and the other werewolf's ragged nails. Every so often, he'd alternate with poorly-aimed stupfies at Dolohov or Greyback, but his cursed feet continually cause him to miss.
On the other side of the room, Tonks and McGonagall were battling Alecto and Amycus Carrow.
"Ah, pr'fess'r...I hope t'Dark Lord lets us control t'school...I know exactly what I'm gunna do..." Amycus leered at McGonagall as he advanced. "Sectumsempra!" McGonagall dodged, but not fast enough. Her left arm was sliced and she gasped in pain.
"Stupify!"
"Hah, scared t'use anythin meaner?" He taunted. He bumped into Alecto, who managed to glare at him while sending a volley of curses and hexes at Tonks.
"Protego! Protego, protego, protego!" Tonks cried. "Did it ever occur to you that dueling a young auror in the top standings was a bad idea? Gelatodigitous! Confundous! Incarcerous!" Alecto dropped her wand and grew a confused look on her face before cords flew out of Tonks' wand and wrapped around her body, pulling her arms tight against against her abdomen. Tonks grabbed her wand before turning to help McGonagall with Amycus, who had continued describing his deplorable visions for the school.
"...and as soon as I can get int' the headmaster's office, I'm gunna to burn tha' stupid hat! And all students will be Slytherins!" He laughed evilly. "Defodio!" The purple curse gouged a hole in McGonagall's stomach and she fell to the floor in pain. Blood gushed out, almost black, and soaked through her blue robes.
"You BASTARD!" Tonks cried. "Deprimo! That's for McGonagall! Duro!" She blasted the ground under him and as he fell, the second curse turned him into stone. "And that's for all the students! Confringo!" The stone Death Eater exploded.
"BITCH! Stinkin' spawn of a blood-traitor! I'm going to kill you!" Alecto screamed from where she was laying bound. She struggled against her bonds, but could do little more than squirm.
"Silencio!" Alecto's mouth moved some more and the hate in her eyes was no less evident. Tonks grabbed a piece of the wall that had exploded and chucked it at Alecto's head, knocking her unconscious. Sometime since the Death Eaters arrived, the wall between the hallway and the living room had been blown apart, resulting in a huge indoor battlefield , strewn with pieces of the wall and destroyed furniture. The long oak dining table was laying on it's side in the kitchen; Hermione and Percy were crouched behind it, casting hexes towards the overturned couch in the living room. Behind it, Draco Malfory, Gregory Goyle, and Vincent Crabbe were kneeling and hurling curses back at them. The fireplace turned green and Snape's face appeared in the grate.
"Albus -OH!" Just as suddenly, his face vanished. Snape flooed to the Burrow. Bill, Charlie, and Ginny looked up at him in surprise.
"There's a battle at Headquarters! Go help the Order!" The Weasley's ran for the fireplace.
"Number 12 Grimmauld Place!" Bill arrived in what used to be the kitchen and beheld the chaos. He saw his father dueling Lucious Malfoy on the far side of the living room. Half-bent over, he ran across the room. Charlie arrived seconds later and followed Bill, trying to avoid the crossfire: the junior Death Eaters vs. Hermione from the living room to the kitchen; Sirius and Bellatrix, who were still at it in what used to be the hallway; the Carrows vs. Tonks and McGonagall, who were dueling between the fireplace and their father. When the fireplace flashed green again, Draco shot a stunner at it. Ginny barely managed to avoid it by dive rolling behind the table.
"Ptero-mucu-magna-impetus!" Ginny cried. Goyle felt the wrath of his own winged bogies, and the battles went on. Molly was casting curses at Wormtail in a corner of the kitchen beside Kingsley, who was battling Macnair.
Suddenly a loud noise like a caterwauling alarm sounded. Two figures appeared at the door: Voldemort and Gellert Grindlewald. The room was silent.
"Avada Kedavra!" Grindlewald cried. Kingsley dropped. Voldemort took in the scene around him and laughed.
"So...the great secret headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix...is no longer great...and no longer secret. Now why is that, I wonder?" He laughed. It was obvious that he knew exactly why. Dumbledore stiffened and everyone else's skin prickled...everyone except the Death Eaters, who laughed loudly with their Lord.
"Maybe, my Lord, there is a traitor in the midst." Bellatrix drawled, striding up to stand next to Voldemort. "Maybe someone...let slip."
"That's not possible." Dumbledore said, standing up from behind the pile of bookshelves and remnants of a desk, where he had been crouching. "I am the Secret Keeper. Only I could reveal the location." The Death Eaters laughed again.
"Are you so sure you did not?" Voldemort asked, condescendingly. "How else would we be here?" Members of the Order exchanged glances. No one could tell anyone else the location. Only Dumbledore. "Let me tell you a story," Voldemort began. "Once upon a time there were two very powerful young wizards, who happened to live in the same town one summer."
"Tom. Don't do this." Dumbledore pleaded. Grindlewald and Voldemort only smirked.
"And these wizards struck up a friendship. In the end, though, it didn't go over very well. One wizard left and became famous for his so-called "evil"" Voldemort made quotation-mark motions with his hands as he spoke. "deeds. The other also became famous and later on he set out to stop the wizard who used to be his friend. And he won. This wizard was Dumbledore."
"What does this have to do with anything?" a distraught Molly shouted.
"Shut up!" Macnair growled. At the same time, he stepped over and slapped her to make his point.
"The other wizard, as you should all be aware, was Grindlewald. Grindlewald ended up imprisoned in Nurmengard for a very long time. But as you can see, he got out. He escaped...and who did he go to afterwards? To Dumbledore. He sent Dumbledore an anonymous message, saying to meet him somewhere." Dumbledore frowned. But no one showed... "Then they met. Grindlewald was able to convince Dumbledore to believe that he had changed. Dumbledore agreed to give him a second chance. Dumbledore told him all about the Order."
"No!" cried Lupin. "He didn't!"
"I didn't." said Dumbledore. "No one showed up. I waited for hours."
"Of course you don't remember." Voldemort purred. "What do you think Grindlewald did next?"
Uncommon/Unfamiliar Spells:
Gelatodigitus - Jelly Finger Hex (canon incantation unknown)
Defodio - gouging spell (canon)
Deprimo - blasts a hole through target (canon)
Duro - turns target object into stone (canon)
Confringo - Blasting Curse (canon)
Pteromuco Magnaimpetus - Bat Bogey Hex (canon incantation unkown)