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xXx Brave Wizard xXx
xXx Ch. 01: Heaven, We Have a Problem xXx

As soon as the old man breathed his last, a wand flew into Harry's hand from wherever it had been resting on Dumbledore's person. "What the?"

Gabriel turned to look at him from where she was comforting the now masterless Huma Bird, and asked "What is it?"

Harry turned around and said, "Do wands normally fly into people's hands for no apparent reason?"

"Uh…" Gabriel muttered as she walked over and peered at the wand he was holding between his fingers. As soon as she saw it, she winced. She then shot Harry her patented Puppy Dog eyes, and begged like she had never begged before, "Harry, please let me take this wand up to Zebel so that you won't be tempted to actually use it while angry."

Harry frowned, "What aren't you telling me?"

"This thing was what destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah."

"Here!" Harry all but shoved the wand into her hands. A Longinus would do that in response to anger was not worth it. And that is assuming it was a Longinus at all.

As soon as she had it, she vanished from the room in a flurry of feathers. The portraits of the Headmasters had been incapacitated simply by the high concentration of Light Element that had entered the room, when they had, so there was little reason to assume that anyone knew what was going on. "Dobby?"

A quiet pop was heard as the Elf in question materialized. He stared at Harry in confusion for several seconds before dashing forward and wrapping his legs around Harry's "Great Master Harry!"

Harry simply let his friend rejoice in his return from the dead for several seconds before saying, "I know I'm asking for an awful lot here, my friend… but could you please locate Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and anyone they think to ask you to evacuate, and take those individuals to the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. It's the seat of the the Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Newark, New Jersey."

Dobby performed a corny solute and vanished off to do just that.

Gabriel returned just in time to make their next move. Harry offered her his arm, which she gladly accepted, and the two, Lord Potter and his Lady Presumptive, made their way down to the Great Hall where the students and faculty had just sat down to their evening meal.

Severus Snape had a huge smirk on his face, he knew it was only a matter of time before the old fossil succumbed to the poison that Voldemort had ordered him to begin feeding the man. Now that Potter was dead, there was simply nothing to keep him loyal to Dumbledore, and the fact that the senile old bastard failed to realize that was his own problem. Snape's loyalty had died when the boy had died, because with the boy's death he was no longer under the effects of a life debt to the House of Potter.

His smirk began turning into a frown when something he had never encountered in all his years at Hogwarts began happening. Music… muggle music at that… began playing from everywhere and nowhere.

"B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back"

The lyrics were repetitive and meaningless to anyone who had no sense of irony, and Snape had one of the finest senses of irony imaginable.

"Cold and black inside this coffin
Cause you all try to keep me down
How it feels to be forgotten
But you'll never forget me now"

Every student in the hall was now looking at the doors leading to the Entrance Hall. The faces of these students displayed such a myriad of emotions that it would be hard to pick one singular emotion to describe what the students of Hogwarts were thinking right this very moment. The overwhelming emotion however, amounted to a sense of disbelief.

"Enemies clawing at my eyes
I scratch and bleed, just to stay alive, yeah
The zombies come out at night
They'll never catch me
They'll never catch me
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back
B-b-b-b-b-back-back-back."

With that line a flash of silvery mist erupted that soon resolved itself into a truly magnificent corporeal Patronus in the form of a male Cervus Elaphus, otherwise known as a Red Deer. This was the same species whose rare few albino members were commonly referred to as "White Stags" and "White Hind." That alone nearly made the denizens of Hogwarts completely overlook the seeming impossibility of what was being displayed for them. A White Stag is after all, considered a messenger of the Celtic Otherworld.

"Light it up, light it up, now I'm burning
Feel the rush, feel the rush of adrenaline
We are young, we are strong, we will rise
Cause I'm back, back, back from the dead tonight
To the floor, to the floor, hit the red line
Flying high, flying high at the speed of light
Full of love, full of light, full of fight
Cause I'm back, back, back from the dead tonight"

Upon the completion of that verse, Harry Potter stepped into their collective field of vision, and just as quickly Severus Snape surged to his feet and exclaimed "AVADA KEDAVRA!"

From just outside the doors where they couldn't see the caster, thousands of sewing needle sized rays of brilliant light intercepted the green energy of the Killing Curse before overwhelming it and continuing on to impale Snape in an utterly horrifying manner. The timing on that was horrible too, since the song continued with the next verse…

"Break the skin, spread like poison
Dying slow when we all attack
How it feels to be the broken
You took a piece now I'm biting back"

Harry looked back over his shoulder and remarked, "Overkill much?"

The most jaw droppingly beautiful girl any of the students at Hogwarts, male or female, had ever seen entered the room, struck a victory pose and loudly declared, "There is no kill like overkill!"

A young blonde Ravenclaw watched that byplay occur, before realizing that this girl was the local counterpart to Arcueid Brunestud, and resolving to ignore her. Especially since that likely meant there was a counterpart to Altrouge Brunestud.

Others were still in shock over the fact that Harry Potter was both alive, and being accompanied by a homicidal girl. Draco Malfoy, a boy who was just as stupid as Harry remembered, "I'll see you in Azkaban, if not kissed for this outrage!"

"Oh!" Gabriel muttered as she pulled out a cell phone and dialed a number. "Hey Dulio, it's Gabi. Can I ask you for a huge favor?"

Harry's expression became somewhat worried, as he vaguely recalled Griselda warning him never to pick a fight with Dulio Gesualdo. His worry was reinforced when Gabriel continued speaking, "Please locate Azkaban Prison and Exorcise the demons that have been allowed to inhabit that location for far too long." She paused as the person on the other side said something, "Yes Dulio, I did just tell you to commit genocide…" she paused again, before replying, "No one will try and stop you, Dulio… well, no one from the Wizarding Faction at any rate, and I doubt the other two care. Though Khaos might take notice. You can ask Gris to act as backup if you want."

The laugh from the other end was heard by Harry, even if no one else heard it. Once she disconnected Harry remarked, "Yeah I wouldn't hold out any hope of the Dementors surviving for much longer."

"When my fa-" Draco began to exclaim, only for Harry to conjure a spear made of light.

"Let it be known that the House of Potter has declared Blood Feud on the Dark Lord Voldemort, as well as against any who have been so stupid as to allow themselves to become his branded chattel." Harry exclaimed while looking over each of the House Tables. His eyes then locked on Draco and said, "I do not want to be forced into battle against my classmates regardless of which houses you belonged to. So I urge you to remain in the Castle. A barrier will be erected by Gabriel here, that will prevent any from succeeding in laying siege to the castle, so this is where you will the safest, regardless of where you fall politically. Now with that, we must set to work."

"OI!" someone yelled, "Who died and made you our boss?"

Harry turned and found the speaker, predictably it was Ron Weasley. Harry decided enough was enough and caused his pure white angel wings and halo to materialize. "What part of 'back from the dead' was too complicated for you to understand, Ronald?"

Where Harry had but a single pair of wings due to how recently he had become an Angel, Gabriel revealed herself to have six sets of wings in an act of solidarity that informed anyone who had any knowledge of the angelic hierarchy that she was not just any 'Gabriel' but the most important 'Gabriel' they could think of.

Draco broke out laughing, "She's not even human, she's a filthy b…"

That was as far as he got before Daphne Greengrass of all people with a silencing hex. She then glared daggers at the Prefects, before turning to Harry and saying, "I would like to ask you and your… um… sister?"

"I think not," Harry retorted with amusement. "She's the Lady Presumptive to the House of Potter."

Gabriel nodded. "Right, well could you and your girlfriend, please forgive Draco for the insult he very nearly performed. In exchange, I'll go ahead and declare Slytherin House as neutral in your feud."

"You can do that?" Harry wondered.

Daphne raised her hand, and seemingly conjured something without her wand. The fact that said conjuration took flight and fluttered over to Gabriel wasn't unusual, what was unusual was Gabriel emoting "Mini Lavi!"

"My similarity to Demise Girl ends at the fact that we both have ice aspected Elemental Sacred Gear. I'm antisocial while she is kind and affectionate." Daphne explained. "However, the simple fact that I have an active Sacred Gear gives me far more power than just about every other student in the school. Do you agree to my terms?"

Harry looked over at Gabriel, before shrugging and saying, "Gabi likely wouldn't have noticed, so of course."

Harry then looked over at the Gryffindor Table, hoping that he wouldn't see what he wound up seeing. Hermione was trying to figure out how to become an angel just by looking at the two she could see in front of her. "You won't ever become an angel, Hermione."

"You were able to, so why shouldn't I be capable of it?"

Gabriel's attention turned to the girl and said, "You don't have enough faith."

Hermione flinched as though she had been slapped across the face with a Troll's club. Harry continued the quote, though he did so using the version of the words that the largest swath of Hogwarts students would recognize due to the age of the printing, "For verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing will be impossible to you."

Rowling her eyes the aforementioned Ravenclaw began clapping her hands while loudly proclaiming, "I believe, Peter, I believe in fairies!"

Gabriel looked at the girl and said, "Right idea, but you don't actually want to be an Angel, do you?"

The girl's response was to chant out words that Gabriel would need to scrub out of her mind with steel wool just for hearing pronounced properly, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."

Harry had only needed to hear the first word before he was already dragging Gabriel from the room lest she be too traumatized to erect the barrier they should have erected FIRST and then introduced themselves to the students.

Gabriel hissed the words, "Harry, that girl… is evil!" as soon as they had exited the castle proper.

Sighing he pulled to a halt and asked, "First words you said right after you turned Snape into a human pin cushion. What were they?"

Gabriel blinked in surprise at the question, "Huh?"

"What did you say immediately after performing what had to be 10,000 Needles, on a man who tried to hit me with an instantly lethal curse."

"No kill like overkill?"

Harry nodded, "Yes, well I recognized that quote, and the awakening of being it refers would be a Godzilla Threshold event compared to your eldest brother."

"Huh?" Gabriel repeated.

"Unless I missed my guess, she just told us she has connections with the Khaos Brigade, though which faction in that group she aligns with I couldn't tell you. Anyways, Barrier please."

Gabriel frowned but nodded her head as she raised a hands and began forming a Barrier from Holy Light. The barrier was intended to stop purely human attempts to bypass it, though Devils would have to attack it to bypass it. The Fallen would be completely unaffected by the existence of this Barrier, but they had agreed to mind their own business. The only worry now was the aforementioned Khaos Brigade.

The problem with the Khaos Brigade is no one knew what they wanted or who they ultimately answered to. "Right, let's just hope they ignore the bright wall of light."

"Like my luck has ever been that good?" Harry snickered.

Not long after they erected the barrier, the two used the Angelic equivalent to a teleportation circle in order to travel to a cliff overlooking the sea. "Right, so this is where one of his trinkets was left. It was removed and relocated almost as soon as it was safely hidden, but there is one thing we need to deal with that still exists in this location."

Not long after, the two angels made it into the chamber that housed a lake full of Inferius. Harry frowned and remarked, "So he not only fears death, he has no respect for it either. How do we deal with these things?"

"We shower them with our father's love," Gabriel remarked as she walked into the water, attracting the attention of the zombies. She then began radiating pure heavenly Light. Even as he watched, the Inferius began turning to ash as they tried to close in on her.

Deciding to join in, he waded into the water and murmured a prayer to help focus his intent. His time spent at Hogwarts was a hindrance to him in learning how to use Angelic magic, because it caused him to become reliant upon wands and incantations, something Angels rarely bothered with.

It took them about an hour before they were confident that there were no more Inferius in the cave. That was one potential disaster averted, so they directed their attention to the next issue, which was properly dealing with the Horcruxes.

Half an hour later and in the heart of London, Gabriel was again on the phone, "Michael I seem to be suffering from a case of selective amnesia at the worst possible time."

Five seconds after that, she snapped the phone shut and said, "He just told me that about two days before he died, Dumbledore cast a Fidelius Charm over the location we are trying to locate."

A woman sitting on a nearby bench snapped the book she had been reading shut so violently as to cause a resounding crack due to how heavy the volume was. That was the first indication Harry or Gabriel had to reveal the fact that their conversation had been overheard. The woman then drawled out the words, "that just figures."

The fact that they were in a small abandoned park and should have noticed the only other person to have been in the same location as them, was setting off all sorts of alarm bells for Harry, even if Gabriel was completely unconcerned. The woman stood up, her features shifting and rearranging themselves, which explained why Harry had failed to notice the woman. "Wha-?"

"NEAT!" Gabriel exclaimed in joy as she jumped forward and hugged the woman that was now staring at her in a bemused manner. "It's not often I meet a descendant of Morgan Le Fay that inherited her signature ability! In fact, I rarely ever get to interact with this branch of her family tree."

"Gabriel!" Harry exclaimed sharply and crisply. That one word caused the Seraph to release the woman, and return to Harry's side. "My apologies, Lady Malfoy. Now what can we do for you?"

The woman simply stood there for several seconds trying to regain her composure. She had rarely encountered someone with as much lack of restraint as to hug someone they had never met simply because they saw them do something they thought was 'neat.' Once she had managed to do so, she explained, "If what you two were just discussing is true, then there are only three ways to locate my aunt's home. The first is to do for Dumbledore whatever it is you did to allow Harry to return to life."

"Not possible for a whole lot of reasons, the largest of which is that he never managed to forgive himself for the death of his sister," Gabriel replied. She wasn't going to bring up the other major reason since it wasn't something she felt it necessary to inform Harry about.

"Did he actually tell anyone the secret before dying?"

"Oddly, he did." Gabriel replied with a huge grin, "But I turned said person into a pin cushion before he could tell anyone else."

"The last option only remaining, is completely useless since it requires finding something that no one has ever found. The Resurrection Stone."

xXx Chapter Concluded xXx

Author's Note: Yes, you and I know that there is a fourth option for finding the secret, but they aren't necessarily going to know that calling for Kreacher and having him transport them inside will give them the secret. They aren't all knowing, and despite sitting on the Throne, neither is Michael.

Credits for the song go to the band known as Skillet.