Summary of last Chapter:

- Arcturus and Atticus Sayre have a meeting about Arcturus' decision to vote for the Copperfields

- Severus formally asks Sirius and the Blacks in extension to help him with his Dark Arts addiction, Sirius accepts, in exchange Severus owes Sirius now a favour

- Voldemort plans to get the Burkes and the Bones under his wing, Lucius recommends Hogsmeade to be the target for the next raid which Voldemort readily accepts

- Lily's friends Marlene McKinnon, Greta Catchlove and Jennifer Pyrites observe her having a date with James in Hogsmeade when death eaters attack the village

Chapter 20:

28th September 1976, Scotland, Hogsmeade:

Trigger Warning: This chapter will contain murder, torture and kidnapping which will include graphical scenes

earlier:

Pia Flint nee Thicknesse was ecstatic. The mother of 3 month old Marcus was still in her 7th year but had recently gotten married to Aries Flint at the urging of her father who really needed the money he got by selling her off. Not that she was outraged, she knew her place as heiress of a noble family. Especially since she was quite satisfied with his choice of her husband. She wasn't marked (yet) while Aries had joined the death eaters 4 years ago. Pius Thicknesse, her father, however agreed with Uncle Pontius that they were too noble to bow to Voldemort.

'And instead of joining the Dark Lord they bow to the Sayres' she thought with a grimace. Not that she could blame them too much, the Sayre family were extremely wealthy and quite influential in Britain and very effective when it came to producing powerful children.

Pia looked at 4th year Barty Crouch Jr. and 6th year Evan Rosier who were besides her. Once the chaos truly started they would capture a few first and second year mudbloods for their Lord who needed them for some sort of experiment as Aries had told her.

Aries seemed quite excited about those experiments but wouldn't tell her more. Eh it wasn't too important. The three weren't the only ones helping the death eaters of course. There were 4 more trios consisting of all four houses. Yes there were even 2 Gryffindors and a Hufflepuff amongst their number.

„You two got the plan?" she asked the boys behind her turning around to face them. Barty and Evan nodded.

„You don't have to ask us this every few minutes you know?" Evan asked sarcastically but cowed when she glared at him.

Casting a quick Tempus she saw that it was half past 2pm. The three nodded at eachother, it was soon time for the show to begin.

Now:

The residents of Hogsmeade looked on in shock and horror as the screams began at the outskirts of the village before 2 trolls appeared. Absolute chaos broke out. Residents tried to get back into their homes and/or shops while the students began running back to the castle except for a number of brave 5th to 7th years who began to organise the escape of the younger students.

James and Lily had just appeared at the scene when they saw a number of masked figures appear in front of them.

„Death Eaters. Shit" cursed James and Lily didn't have the heart to reprimand him. A fight between the two and the death eaters in front of them broke out almost immediately.

Marlene, Greta and Jennifer were fighting against two death eaters in another part of the town and had just managed to overwhelm and stun the two when they heard a gurgling scream somewhere to the side of them. What they saw would haunt them for the rest of their lifes. The head of Samuel Thompson, 3rd year Gryffindor was ripped from his body by a hooded man while another one was dragging 1st year Ravenclaw Kelly Lawrence away who was desperately trying to escape his clutches.

„Werewolves" Greta shouted fearfully next to Marlene. The atmosphere became even more desperate after that. Then men and women in robes appeared all over the city shouting at the death eaters to surrender.

Marlene sighed in relief, the aurors had come to help Hogsmeade.

Head Auror Kevin McKinley was supposed to have one of the best days of his life. The party for his 43rd birthday was supposed to start in the evening but no, You-Know-Who of course had to ruin his day again. And the day had started out so nicely, his son Heinrich was allowed to come home in the evening after attending to his duties as 6th year Hufflepuff Prefect, his daughter Alexandra 7th year Gryffindor and Head Girl would also be there and his brother Norton had told him that he and his wife were expecting their second child. All in all today should have been a fantastic day. But then just moments ago he had been notified that Hogsmeade was under attack.

And now he was here wishing he wasn't. As he apparated into Hogsmeade he could feel Anti-Portkey wards envelope him. They were luckily not going to do a lot of harm today but sometimes they were a real pain in the ass. Kevin looked around. It wasn't a pretty sight but he had little time to think as he directed a couple of his colleagues towards one of the trolls while he rushed to help residents that were attacked by death eaters.

Firing off an Expelliarmus he managed to get one of them who was then quickly stunned by one of the few residents that were fighting back. Kevin sighed internally, there were so many people capable of atleast defending themselves and yet they always chose to run away. Sure it was human instinct and the death eaters weren't just your normal everyday wizard and witch but it still irked Kevin how cowardly a large part of Magical Britain was.

A few minutes later saw 4 death eaters stunned and bound. After receiving a couple of thanks from the residents he helped defend, Kevin turned his attention to one of the trolls who was roaring in pain and falling down burying an entire house with it's body. He was turning around again when he heard a noise behind him and he had just enough time to widen his eyes before he was tackled from what he assumed was a werewolf. The woman looked too feral to be a normal woman.

'Come to think of it, the full moon is tonight, isn't it? Ugh that's probably why they attack today...' he thought in his head.

Kevin wasn't Head Auror for nothing however. He was in his prime and had 18 years of regular Auror experience aswell as 7 years of Head Auror experience under his belt. He swiftly dodged and punched the woman in the face making her howl in pain as he broke her nose before sending her into a nearby wall with a silent Depulso. It took him another minute and 4 Stupefys before she eventually slumped down unconscious. Years of battle experience had honed his instincts who made him throw himself to the side as a killing curse flew past him. He wasn't ready however when another killing curse approached him a mere second after he turned around. He saw himself dead when a big rock was conjured in front of him.
„Looks like I have to save you again McKinley" his colleague Senior Auror Alastor Moody said as he approached Kevin making him sigh. He was thankful that Alastor had saved him but also exasperated that Alastor still refused to call Kevin by his first name. The two men who had almost become in laws exchanged a nod of mutual respect and turned around.

Looking back they saw a cackling woman they really didn't want to see today.

„Bellatrix Lestrange" Kevin snarled hatefully. The bitch had killed his eldest child 3 years ago when he had just barely graduated from Hogwarts.

„Careful McKinley. I know you hate her, heck you know she killed your son's fiance, my niece,aswell but we must stay vigilant against the two" Alastor muttered and he was right for Lestrange had not come alone. Besides her were two more death eaters, these two were masked however. They dodged a salve of killing curses which signaled the beginning of the fight between the five combatants.

Remus cursed as he stood guard with Sirius. They were protecting a wounded Peter who had managed to defend a little firstie long enough for them to intervene to help their friend against the death eater. Said death eater was now missing his wand arm after Sirius had managed to hit him with a spell Remus recognised as a Diffindo. He glanced at his friend who recognised the glance as the question it was and sighed

„Look Moony we can't just use stunners and disarming charms anymore.. They're trying to kill us so we should atleast try to take them out permanently without killing them" Sirius said and Remus nodded in understanding. He didn't agree but he could understand Sirius' opinion.

„Moony, Padfoot we need to get the boy to either the infirmary or to St. Mungos as soon as we can, he is losing blood quickly" Peter said hastily behind them trying his best to stop the blood loss of the young boy who had lost consciousness.

„How are you doing yourself Wormtail?" Sirius asked his friend.
„It could be better, I guess but it could also be worse, I just really want to get away from all... watch out Moony!" Peter replied shouting at the end. Remus who stood a little to the side managed to just conjure an object in front of him which was promptly hit by a killing curse making it explode and throwing him into a wall with the shockwave it created. Sirius cursed when Remus didn't get up again.

„Ohoh who do we have here? The heir Black?" a noise with a posh accent said making him stiffen. Turning around he saw a middle aged man with brown/red eyes standing in front of him. The man had wavy black hair and a face that screamed aristocracy which made him look quite handsome.

„Seems like it's time to put some political pressure on the Blacks, no? Unless... you want to come with me voluntarily heir Black? Simply think of how much your house can blossom under me, Lord Voldemort" the now identified Voldemort continued and Sirius stiffened. If the man was who he claimed to be then Sirius and his friends were in some deep Hippogryph dung.

„You shouldn't have come here today Tom" a wise voice behind Sirius said and he whirled around to see Professor Dumbledore along with Professor Flitwick.

„Professor" Sirius shouted in relief.

„Good afternoon to you too Mr. Black, may I suggest you help Messers Pettigrew and Sayre to safety? Additionally you may want to get Mr. Sayre to the infirmary" Dumbledore replied. Wait the young boy was a Sayre? Oh boy if he died... the possible political ramifications of that were endless so Sirius didn't hesitate to help Peter take the young boy back to the castle.

Dumbledore turned to his friend and fellow professor „Filius do leave this to me my friend I will handle Tom myself today"

„Alright Albus, I will help contain the werewolves then" Filius answered and left the scene.

Voldemort looked on in amusement while Dumbledore directed his lapdogs to their destinations. He frowned for a moment, he really hoped the Sayre boy survived. Voldemort didn't want to have to deal with the Sayres just yet. He preferred to deal with his enemies in one blow and he just didn't have enough capable followers yet with whom he could storm Sayre Manor.
'Now that I think of it, perhaps I should go on a little tour. The pureblood cause surely has a lot of supporters over the world. It would be smart to bolster my ranks with international aid hehe' Voldemort thought.

He also didn't prevent the halfbreed from leaving. He believed himself superior to both the halfblood Dumbledore and the halfbreed Flitwick but he wasn't stupid. He'd have little chance of defeating the two if they combined their strengths against him.
„Well Dumbledore shall we?" he asked his eternal enemy.

„You can still leave Tom. There is no need to fight" Dumbledore said. Was he daft? Was Dumbledore seriously believing he'd retreat just like that?

„You seriously believe I will leave just like that? No Dumbledore the time to show Britain you won't be enough against me has come" he drawled and the fight began.

Augustus Rockwood snarled in frustration, the fight had been going on for minute and was pretty much a stalemate... that was until his friend Antonin managed to get through Moody's shield with a bludgeoning curse. Moody managed to intercept the curse with a conjured chair just in time but the chair exploded and splinters got into one of Moody's eyes who grunted in time and wasn't able to defend against the incoming dark cutting curse which ended up cutting through one of his legs. His death was only prevented by a number of more Aurors arriving and by a conjured rock provided by the Head Auror.

The Head Auror smirked at them clearly believing to have won with the added support despite losing his best ally. That smirk didn't last long however as Kevin McKinley was struck in the back with a Bombarda that came from further away.

Somewhere else Alexandra McKinley looked on in horror as her dad went down to the ground while screaming in pain. Looking to the place where the spell that managed to take down her dad had come from she was even more horrified to see that her brother Heinrich was standing there laughing maniacally.

„Henry why? How can you help them when they killed our brother?" Alexandra screamed desperately at her brother who just smirked at her.

„Brother? Pah the fool wasn't worthy of being called my brother and neither are you worthy of being called my 'dear' sister. Besides, they helped me with my goal of becoming Lord McKinley, our house needs a proper pureblood that's not a blood traitor as it's head after all haha" her brother laughed at her making her ball her hands into fists in frustration. He sent a spell at her but she shielded against it and sent a Bombarda back at him. The following minute saw her absolutely trashing her brother. He was good but not nearly as good as her. She was older and would have been Head Girl had she not rejected the position because she wanted to focus on her studies. The fight didn't go on further though at that point as a stunning spell hit Heinrich from behind. Making sure her brother was unable to hurt anyone else she bound him with an Incarcerous and saw Aurors approach her.

'What a day' she told herself sighing audibly...

Rockwood and his allies were now facing half a dozen Aurors though they were thankfully regular ones this time when they felt their Lord calling for a retreat through their mark.

„Let's go boys we have had enough fun for now" Lestrange cackled, he and Dolohov nodded and they apparated away.

Silence and Calmness was quickly returning to Hogsmeade.

29th September 1976, Scotland, Hogwarts, Headmaster's Office:

Special Edition

Our children under attack, Death Eaters rampage through Hogsmeade!

13 Hogsmeade residents and 7 Hogwarts students dead with another 4 students missing!

Incredible duel between Albus Dumbledore and You-Know-Who! As glamorous as Dumbledore vs Grindelwald?

Werewolves kill, rape or turn several students! Kill on sight order necessary?

'What a mess' Albus thought to himself as he read through the Daily Prophet once again.

The ministry was also once again in complete chaos at the moment and an emergency Wizengamot session was called for tomorrow. Any action they took would come too late however. The loss of 13 Hogsmeade residents aswell as 16 students could not be reserved. Young Elderik Sayre had made it in the end fortunately and was already awake again. Not to mention the 5 students (1 Hufflepuff, 2 Ravenclaws and 2 Slytherin) that had been caught helping the deatheaters and had gotten various sentences ranging from a fine to a temporary stay at Azkaban. Speaking of...

Young Heinrich McKinley, another very promising student, was part of those 5 students and had been sent to Azkaban for 8 years for his part in the attack and for severely injuring his father.

Kevin McKinley had fallen into a magical coma but thankfully survived though barely.

The news that Head Auror McKinley had almost been killed by his own son impacted the nation severely and people were beginning to question if Magical Britain was even somewhat safe anymore. It was to be expected then that several half blood and many muggleborn families chose to emigrate to countries such as Ireland, Macusa (America), Australia and New Zealand. It might also had been the fact that Tom had stepped over a line yesterday. He had done something no previous British Dark Lord had ever done... Tom had attacked Hogsmeade.

Multiple werewolves were arrested and executed while the turned students were unfortunatly cast out by their families and then sent to the werewolf pack currently in Wales by the Ministry.

Dumbledore's friend Alastor Moody who had lost an eye and a leg in the battle had become the new Head Auror and was quickly gaining the nickname „One-Eye Moody"

No further death eaters had been caught unfortunately which would made this day bad but manageable... unfortunately it remained being a catastrophic one.

**End of Chapter**

Characters in this chapter and the amount of chapters they have appeared in so far:

- Pia Flint (1)

- Barty Crouch Jr. (1)

- Evan Rosier (1)

- James Potter (8)

- Lily Evans (7)

- Marlene McKinnon (3)

- Jennifer Pyrites (2)

- Greta Catchlove (2)

- Kevin McKinley (1)

- Alastor Moody (3)

- Bellatrix Lestrange (3)

- Sirius Black (10)

- Remus Lupin (7)

- Peter Pettigrew (7)

- Voldemort (6)

- Albus Dumbledore (6)

- Filius Flitwick (1)

- Augustus Rockwood (1)

- Alexandra McKinley (1)

- Heinrich McKinley (1)

- Antonin Dolohov (1)