All I see is shattered pieces
I can't keep it hidden like a secret
I can't look away!
From all this pain in a world we made!
Challenge by DZ2 The Golden Rebellion...
Everyday you need a bulletproof vest
To save yourself from what you could never guess!
Am I safe today?
When I step outside in the wars we wage!
Continuation of As One in Chapter 22 of The Lost Files by Undercover Operative (Permission has been granted for the continuation)...
Our future's here and now,
Here comes the countdown!
Sound it off, this is the call!
Rise in revolution!
It's our time to change it all,
Rise in revolution!
Unite and fight, to make a better life!
Everybody one for all,
Sound off, this is the call, tonight we rise!
World and Characters by J.K. Rowling...
Rise.
Tonight we rise
Rise.
Tonight we rise!
Staring Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger aka The Golden Trio...
Like a hand grenade thrown in a hurricane,
Spinning in chaos, trying to escape the flame,
Yesterday is gone!
Faster than the blast of a car bomb!
This song is called Rise by Skillet...
And when the scars heal, the pain passes,
As hope burns, we rise from the ashes!
Darkness fades away!
And the light shines on a brave new day!
Our future's here and now,
Here comes the countdown!
The only pairings will be that from the books (Harry/Ginny, Lupin/Tonks, etc.)...
Sound it off, this is the call!
Rise in revolution!
It's our time to change it all,
Rise in revolution!
Unite and fight to make a better life!
Everybody one for all,
Sound off, this is the call, tonight we rise!
I accept all the rules and guidlines in The Golden Rebellion Challenge (See more at end of page)...
Rise.
Tonight we rise
Rise.
Tonight we rise!
In a world gone mad,
In a place so sad!
Sometimes it's crazy
To fight for what you believe!
But you can't give up,
If you wanna keep what you love!
(Keep what you love)
Keep what you love
(Keep what you love)
Keep what you love
Never give up, no!
No animals/wizards/witches/muggles were harmed in the making of this story...
Rise.
Rise in revolution
Rise.
Rise in revolution
Everybody one for all,
Sound off, this is the call!
Rise
Like we're alive
Tonight we rise
Rise
Make a better life
Tonight we rise!
And so TheTurquoiseBookworm is proud to present...
Rise, rise, rise in revolution
Rise, rise, rise in revolution
Rise.
[phone rings]
[Operator:] 911?
[Woman:] There's a guy here with a gun!
[Operator:] Ma'am? Ma'am?
[Woman:] Kids, get under the table! Kids get under the table!
[News reporter:] We are getting new reports from all around the globe, showing the highest unemployment rates since the end of World War II. Many are losing their jobs, their homes, and in many cases, their hope.
[Dispatch:] [static police call] Domestic Disturbance in progress [more static]
[Upset parent:] You are such a failure! What is wrong with you? You're worthless! You can't do anything right! I wish you had never been born!
Rise...
Harry Potter and the Hybrids:
Rise of the Rebellion
Book One:
Rise of the Rebellion
Chapter One:
We Fight As One
Harry Potter yawned as he absently scratched the back of his head.
Flipping the bacon frying in the pan slowly, Harry scooped it out and onto the plate heating in the oven. As a thump sounded upstairs he faltered, turning his head to the side to listen carefully to what was obviously his fat Uncle finally getting up, most likely woken by the smell of the bacon Aunt Petunia was making Harry cook for them. Quickly returning his attention to the stove, Harry put more bacon in as he heard his Aunt moving around in the living room.
"Hurry up, boy." Petunia snapped as she entered the kitchen, "Aren't you done yet?"
"Almost, Aunt Petunia." Harry assured her politely, not wanting to piss his Aunt off when he had the promise of two weeks alone while his relatives went on holiday to Majorca. "Would you like me to set the table as well?"
"Don't bother." Aunt Petunia scoffed "I don't want you to ruin everything."
Harry resisted the urge to roll his eyes at his Aunt's inability to come up with new insults, instead focusing his attention on not burning anything. He was just finishing up when Uncle Vernon and his cousin Dudley power-waddled into the kitchen with greedy looks on their faces, the two obese males not hesitating to sit down on the creaky chairs.
"Boy! Go to your room!" Vernon barked, Harry not stopping himself from rolling his eyes this time, "You can come down once we're gone."
"Yes, Uncle Vernon." Harry agreed instantly, handing the cooking over to his Aunt and quickly leaving the room.
Entering his room, Harry allowed a smirk to form on his face as he reached up his shirt and pulled out the sealed plastic bag containing the sandwich he had made himself before Aunt Petunia had even woke up that morning.
Taking a bite, Harry glanced at the clock on the wall before opening the window in anticipation for the Daily Prophet, settling himself behind his desk with a sigh as he pulled his half-done Transfiguration homework towards him. Picking up a quill with his other hand and dipping it in ink, Harry started reading over what he had done so far, quickly finishing his breakfast. Catching himself up and continuing where he had left off, Harry lost himself in his work, barely pausing when he heard his relatives stomping past his room to finish packing.
He had just finished his essay and set the quill down, when an owl, it's feathers a silky black, swooped through the open window, causing him to reach out absently to grab the knut he had left on the corner of the desk and paid the owl. Opening the newspaper as he pushed his essay away, Harry scowled at the first words that he saw 'The Boy-Who-Lied!' Trying to ignor his growing desire to just throw in the towel and leave the Wizards to sort themselves out, Harry instead focused on skimming through the newspaper for any hint of Voldemort's actions.
As a growl rumbled from his chest, Harry twisted on his feet and threw the newspaper across the room, breathing rapidly as he tried to stop himself from losing his temper. According to both Sirius and Remus, he had his mothers temper, and according to Professors McGonagall and Flitwick, when his mother got angry no one stood in her way, even Voldemort himself fled from her when she lost her temper...
Faltering as he heard the doorbell ring, Harry started pacing his small room, his mind drifting to it's topic of the month. Would the Supreme American Society of Sorcerers accept his pleas for sanctuary if he gathered up everything he owned and all his gold and fled Britain? And would they accept Sirius and Remus if he dragged them along with him?
"BOY!" Uncle Vernon's voice screamed up the stairs, making Harry sigh sadly, "GET DOWN HERE NOW!"
Groaning as he realized he now had to sit through a lecture on how his Uncle expected to find the house in pristine condition when they returned, Harry left his room and started down the hallway, making it half way down the stairs before he froze at the sight in front of him.
"Hello, Harry." Hermione said, as she glared at Vernon, her wand aimed directly between the sweating man's eyes, Ron standing behind her with his wand aimed at Petunia, who was watching, shaking with fright, from the kitchen door.
"Should we take this to your bedroom?" Hermione asked slowly, "It's more private in there."
"What are you two doing here?" Harry blurted out, trying to stop himself from sounding as bitter as he felt.
"We should go to your room, mate." Ron explained slowly, "Don't want these Muggles listening in."
Finding his jaw clenching again, Harry's hand slipped behind his back to his wand, which was sticking out of his back pocket. "Who did I think I saw in my third year chasing away the Dementors?" Harry asked, as he whipped out his wand and aimed it at his 'friends.'
"Your father." Hermione replied instantly, "But it turned out you had really seen yourself. What did I call Malfoy that morning?"
"A foul loathsome evil little cockroach." Harry answered, before turning to Ron. "What was my first Chocolate Frog card?"
"Dumbledore. I had around six of him." Ron answered obediently, "Any chance of getting some food? I'm starving." he added sheepishly.
Lowering his wand, Harry eyed both of them, before nodding, turning and heading back up the stairs, as he heard them following him up. Entering his room, Harry quickly pulled up the floorboard and brought out a cooler with the preservation charm on it, opening it and lifting it onto his bed, as Ron and Hermione stepped into his room.
"Help yourself." Harry offered, waving his hand at the cooler, and making Ron grin as he bounced over to said cooler and began ruffling through it. "What are you two doing here? You haven't answered any of my letters and now your here in person?"
Hermione and Ron exchanged a nervous look, before Hermione cleared her throat. "We haven't been getting your letters, Harry." she explained hesitantly, "Mrs. Weasley confiscates them and gives them to Dumbledore. We've been ordered to keep no contact with you until your brought to the Zoo."
"Brought where?" Harry echoed in confusion, his hands clenching into fists as he mentally declared Dumbledore as an enemy of his.
"The Zoo is under the fidelius, Harry." Hermione confessed awkwardly, "I can't tell you about it."
"The Zoo is just a code name." Ron added through a mouthful of one of the muffins Mrs. Weasley had sent him home with at King's Cross Station. "Cool, eh?"
Harry stared at both of them for a moment, before letting his breath out in a sharp rush, "I can't really be angry at you for that, can I?" he asked softly, "I mean, if you had waited till I was brought to the, uh... Zoo... then I would have been, but at least you found a way."
"Oh, Harry." Hermione said, before lunging at him, his arms coming straight up to respond to the back-breaking hug she was giving him. "I'm so sorry, we argued Dumbledore's orders, we really did, but he threatened to leave you in this dump if we kept pressing him." she babbled out.
"I believe you." Harry assured her quickly, as he caught sight of tears welling up in her eyes, "I believe you." he repeated, glancing past Hermione to Ron. "But why... why are you here? And how did you get here?" he asked curiously.
"Oh, Dobby?" Ron called out with a grin, Harry watching in shock as the House Elf appeared with a tower of woolen hats on his head and a grin wider than Ron's.
"HARRY POTTER SIR!" Dobby exclaimed, as he literally pushed Hermione out of the way and jumped into Harry's arms for a hug of his own, a shocked Harry just going with it, as Hermione giggled. "Dobby be helping Harry Potter in anyway he can!" Dobby declared with a firm nod, as Harry set him down on the bed. As Harry opened his mouth to reply, Dobby glanced around his room with a scandalised expression. "Harry Potter can not stay here! Dobby will clean!"
"Don't argue." Hermione said, as Harry watched the happy little House Elf bounce around his room with a feather duster. "He won't listen to you."
"What about S.P.E.W.?" Harry deadpanned, making his brunette friend blush.
"Dobby explained some thing to her, mate." Ron whispered. "She's more about treating them well and stopping their abuse than freeing them now."
"I had my eyes opened." Hermione sniffed, "And I've apologized to the House Elves at Hogwarts through Dobby. Anyway, back to your first question. We're here because of this." she clarified, holding up the copy of the Daily Prophet Harry had thrown away earlier. "And because Dumbledore and his Order believe that as children, we're not apart of the war and that we should be left ignorant and stupid."
"And if there's one thing Hermione Granger isn't, it's stupid." Harry said, making said girl smirk at him.
"Exactly." Hermione agreed simply, "Anyway, Ron and I were talking, and Ron actually came up with an idea."
"It happens." Ron said with a casual shrug when Harry glanced at him. "I said that with the Ministry and the Order were reacting to the threat of Voldemort, that the only way the war would end is if you, Harry, formed your own army to take him down." the redhead explained.
"And your here to help me form my own army?" Harry snorted, looking between the two in amusement. "Oh, Merlin, your actually serious?"
"No, that's your Godfather." Hermione corrected instantly, before slapping her hand over her mouth, as Ron barked out a laugh. "Ever mention that again and I'll castrate both of you." she threatened bluntly, making both the smirking Harry and the chuckling Ron freeze and cover their groins.
"Seriously, Hermione? I'm fifteen, I can't fight Voldemort, let alone-" he cut himself off as Dobby tugged at his sleeve.
"Harry Potter sir has no lemon pledge." Dobby whispered, making Harry blink at him in confusion.
"Can't you just use normal stuff?" Harry asked dumbly.
"No, no." Dobby exhaled slowly, shaking his head and making his ears flap around his face.
"Check downstairs, I think there's some in the cupboard beneath the stairs." Harry suggested, making Dobby nod and vanish. Shaking his head, he returned his attention back to the amused looking Ron and the almost catatonic Hermione, who had tears of silent laughter streaming down her face, "Is something wrong?" he asked nervously.
"No, no." Hermione gasped out, "No lemon pledge on Star Destroyer!"
"Right." Harry muttered, "Like I was saying, I can't fight Voldemort, let alone form an army."
"That!" Hermione blurted out, before clearing her throat and whiping her face. "That," she repeated normally "Is why we're going to start training ourselves to fight. I, uh, borrowed some books from the Zoo's libray about offensive and defensive magics and we're going to study them together." she explained.
"Voldemort has decades of experience." Harry said bluntly.
"And you killed a Baskilisk, chased off over a hundred Dementors with one spell and fought him to a draw and defeated him three other times before that." Ron countered. "If anyone can defeat him, you can. Once we get some training, of course. Stunning spells aren't going to do much."
"Wait, we?" Harry echoed, "No. If I do this then I do this alone. I'm not letting you two get hurt because of me."
"I don't think he gets it, yet." Ron stage-whispered to Hermione, making Harry blink slowly.
"He is rather daft." Hermione agreed.
"I'm right here, you know." Harry pointed out.
"Harry. Your farther had the Marauders." Hermione said.
"Yeah, and?" Harry asked expectantly, crossing his arms across his chest.
"And he, Sirius and Pettigrew all learnd to be Animagi just to be with Professor Lupin on the full moons." Hermione explained. "They may only be three of us, but when one of us needs help, the other two stand with them. We're not called the 'Golden Trio' for nothing, after all."
"That's at Hogwarts though." Harry argued "This is war."
"Then I guess we better start training if we want to catch up." Ron confirmed, making Harry frown.
"No, we better not." Harry denied. "I'm not some werewolf you can learn Animagus training for. Voldemort is going to come after me, and he's going to go for you two to make me suffer."
"I'm a Mudblood." Hermione snapped, making both Harry and Ron flinch. "And Ron's a Blood Traitor. He's after us anyway, and since we're your friends, it just means he'll be doing it sooner or later. If you want us safe, you've got to help train us so that we can defend ourselves."
Harry stared at her for a moment, before glancing at Ron, who merely nodded at him. "Hermione's right. I turned my back on you last year and I regret it. I'm not going to do the same ever again. We're all in this together."
"Once we know what we are, we're all stars." Hermione finished, making Harry and Ron to exchange confused looks.
"Never mind." Hermione dismissed. "To the Golden Trio." she declared, striding forward to stick her hand out, "We fight for what's Right, as One."
Harry watched as Ron stood and moved over to join Hermione, sticking his large hand over hers. "To the Golden Tio." he declared, "We fight for each other, as One."
Eyeing the two of them, Harry licked his lips nervously, before joining them and placing his hand on top of Ron's.
"To the Golden Trio." he finished hesitantly, "We fight as One."
The Golden Rebellion Challenge Rules:
Grey or Dark Golden Trio YES, this does include Ron Grey Accepted
Either Ron and Hermione must convince Harry that doing it alone is for their good Accepted (Done)
Ron MUST shed his jealousy and spite of Harry and become loyal and true like a real Gryffindore Accepted
Hermione MUST help their red-headed friend bring out the real wizard he is Accepted
Harry MUST keep his Parseltongue gift and use it as he wishes Accepted
None of the Golden Trio trust Dumbledore, the Ministry or any of the allies of the Order with exceptions e.g. Sirius, Remus, Tonks Accepted (Done)
Other Gryffindors and other students offer assistance to the Trio Accepted (Done)
Harry MUST learn to keep Voldemort out of his head so he doesn't go after the Prophecy Accepted
If starting in 5th year, both Ron and Hermione help Harry sort the Toad out Accepted
If 2nd year, Ron must put his biased beliefs behind him as the Trio follow the path of neither good nor evil, but power Accepted
If 4th year, the Trio band together to try and help Harry survive/win the Tournament Accepted
Sirius MUST have his name cleared at some point in the story AND he still lives Accepted
Each member of the Trio finds a strength with a certain area of magic Accepted
Powerful Trio Accepted
To really rock the boat, Ron suggests talking to certain members of other Houses including Slythering Accepted
Hermione helps Harry find out why Snape hates him and helps change that Accepted
Animagus Trio Accepted (Done)
Harry, Ron and Hermione co-lead a stronger, more-careful Dumbledore's Army, but name it differently Accepted
The Trio help others find their true selves e.g. Neville, Luna, Draco, etc. Accepted
Ron has the Twins become asides to Harry with their inventive skills Accepted
Hermione helps Ron adapt to the Muggle world to see there's other way of doing things Accepted (Done)
All pairing's are welcome EXCEPT Harry/Hermione, Harry/Ron, Ron/Hermione the trio are equals Accepted
In addition to the above not, Harry/Hermione/Ron is an option
Forbidden:
Jealousy or spite dividing the Trio Accepted
The Trio joining Voldemort or Dumbledore's causes Accepted
Sirius remaining on the run Accepted
Harry/Hermione Accepted
Harry/Ron Accepted
Ron/Hermione Accepted