Harry was perhaps more surprised then the others in the room, he was here, for he was uncertain why. He had spent five years among the mages and then other creatures, trying to shut off his human side. He had believed he no longer had such hindrances, concern for the human realm, but it seemed he did. He had come back many times, he had saved Moody but three months ago, but no one ever saw. He was a guardian and protector, he was not a warrior, he never wanted to be. If he had a choice he would have played quidditch, married the man he loved, and had kids. Now his husband was dead, and with him, all dreams of children.

He looked at these people, grown men and women, who he once believed were the mighty Order. There were others like Filius, who remained at school, and did all they could, to protect the kids there. He looked at the twins, and wondered if they ever thought of their shop in the US, now run by Lee, one of many, tired of wars. Many chose to leave, Angie in France, Oliver and Katie in Canada, but Alicia was here. He looked to his dad and Draco, they were why he came, they were his reason.

Fred smiled at him "I knew you would come back and lead us. I knew you would not abandon us."

For a moment Harry felt like embracing a man he once called brother. "I have not come back to lead anything. I have come back to finish this once and for all."

Cloaked, and his voice sounding so hollow, as if the life had been drained from him, they barely recognized Harry. They should have been prepared for this, they knew what he had suffered, but none had known where he had been, or what he had become.

Severus spoke. "Not even you Potter are foolish enough to believe you can do this on your own."

Harry turned to him. "Do not presume to think because you reminded me of an oath my husband owed you, I will become anyone's pawn again, Severus."

There was such ice to the voice, even Severus felt a shiver up his back, and wondered if Lucius had been wrong to send Harry to Romania. Oh he knew Harry had become a mage, but he was reminded Lucius had loved deeper, and become more idealistic when he was a mage. He had been simply able to touch both sides, to know for magic to be in balance there needed to be light and dark, life and death, black and white. It was loss, and not training, which made Harry this. More, it was them, who took the wide eyed boy wonder, and turned him into the man before them.

Severus was not backing down."You can't do it all alone, even Lucius knew that. The order is behind you."

Harry slipped back his hood. "If I do this, every last one of you must swear to follow my orders, without question. No matter how reckless they may seem."

There was a time when they would have protested, when they would have demanded to know what his plan was, before they ever would agree. That time was gone, they all knew they would die anyways sooner or later if they did not flee, and Harry was their one chance. They had all given up too much, to simply flee now.

Harry turned to Fred when the oaths were taken. "Prepare the underground for new arrivals. The first need to go the Black tower, the others may be spread."

Fred was shocked for Black tower was a code name for Grimmauld which had not been used since Voldemort."The wards?"

Harry waved him off, assuring him the group he was sending there, would be safe enough, but he had seen to new wards before they came here. They were in what had once been Malfoy manor, Albus would have seized it, but like all of Harry and Draco's homes, it was under strong charms Albus could not even detect.

Harry turned to his dad. "I need you to go, the second group will include Alexander and some of his men. I assume you can find the bet place for them."

Remus was not surprised at all."I know the perfect one."

Orders were given left and right, until only Severus and Draco were left, and Moody, who had been living at the manor since Harry last rescued him. Harry had respected the man more then anyone knew, he had given more then his body for the war, and Harry went to his side. He could see the shock in the other two as he helped the old man from the room, the first real human emotion he had shown.

Moody stopped him before he left, when he was in bed. "You may fool them boy, but you don't fool me. I know who the Raven was a few months ago."

Harry managed something which could almost pass as a laugh. "Constant vigilance has not left you I see. We both have our need for secrets don't we?"

The man agreed, he not as off his rocker as others believed, but like Harry before, he knew there would be people who'd seek to kill him, for his powers. He had barely escaped death as it was, but survived five years for Albus thought him loony. He worried if other members were captured and tortured, Albus may learn, so he held his tongue, and even to their order, acted mad. He understood why Harry had need for people to believe him cold and inhuman, for those who he loved had been targets to get to him, last time. Unlike Moody, for Harry it was not self preservation, but protecting those he loved from being targets.

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Severus knew he needed to return to school, before he was missed, but he wished to speak with Harry. Harry was Lily's son, Lucius' widower, and Draco's friend, not to mention Remus' honorary son. They had never been close, but Harry meant a lot to all he ever cared for, and he was worried.

Harry's voice came from behind. "I should have known you would stay. You had nerve calling on that pact."

Severus turned to see him, pendant he sent, around Harry's neck. "We needed you, and Draco seemed so sure of himself. I needed to help."

Lucius and Severus were tortured into the mark, and forced to spy, together. Even then they never trusted Albus, and before Lucius was sent off by his father to study under the mages, they made a pact in blood, that even in death, they would have each other's backs. The pendant was half of a whole, Lucius' half of the pact.

Severus came to him "I know your father returned for Draco, as well as the war, I see the looks between them. Why do you return?"

For a moment there was a flash of life in Harry's eyes. "I don't return, I visit. My husband died dreaming of peace for this land, and I will not let that die."

Putting a hand on the young man, he never thought Harry and Lucius were a match but they were. Few knew the true Lucius, besides him and Draco, only Harry really, knew he had such hopes for the world, for his son and those he hoped to come. Severus often wondered what the world would have looked like, if Harry and Lucius had been given a chance to make lasting peace as they hoped. But that Harry was gone, and had no intention to remain when Albus was gone.

Severus drew Harry in closer. "Lucius' spirit lives in you. When Albus is gone, honour my brother by living and creating the world you both dreamed of once."

Harry tried to draw away from him "Dreams are for children and idealists like my beloved. I am not sure I ever was a child, but an idealist, that is long gone."

Looking into those green eyes, Severus could see a bit of the young man who drove him nuts in class, and who his brother loved so much. The Harry who Lucius called Caru and sacrificed it all for, was not gone, he was simply hiding behind a powerful mask, one Harry erected to protect himself.

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