A week after the ritual, Harry was being looked over by Elijah and Lily for the hundredth time after dinner and sighed. "I'm fine," he muttered.

"Better safe than sorry," said Lily.

"You've looked at my body and mind for the last week. You've found nothing wrong. I'm fine."

"We don't know that," said Elijah. "This fragment has tricked us in the past. We can never be too safe, especially if Riddle gets his hands on Soul Magic through the Horcruxes."

"Right," said Lily. "Just consider this a healthy bit of paranoia."

"Like Moody," said Harry. "Got it." Harry sighed as they finally finished, and he shook his head. "Still think we're worrying for nothing. We saw Blaise get rid of the fragment."

"That's another thing," said Elijah. "The spell Blaise used. It was Chinese in origin. I don't know what it meant though."

"Do you at least know what it did," asked Lily.

"It looked like it was an extraction spell, but it's not one I know."

"He said he learned it from that grimoire," said Harry. "I tried looking at it, but I couldn't read it."

"Which means the grimoire is most likely in Chinese as well. I'll talk with him about it."

"He may be evasive," said Lily. "Especially if it's something he's not supposed to learn."

"Blaise isn't like me," said Harry. "He'll tell you everything."

"I doubt that." Harry looked out a window and spotted a bat fly towards the glass.

"Bat incoming."

"A bat," asked Lily. She turned to the window and opened it. The bat screeched, louder than it should have before it turned into black flames and landed on the ground in the infirmary. "Put it out!"

"Aguamenti," shouted Elijah, aiming his wand at the flames. Instead of putting the flames out, the flames seemed to grow larger. "What the hell?!" Harry turned to Lily.

"Bucket," he shouted. Lily conjured a metal bucket and Harry placed it over the flame. He jumped back as the flames immediately engulfed it. "Whoa!"

"What the hell is this?!" Harry stared at the flames for a bit before holding out his hand and forming a silver blade and dropping it onto the flame. The flame grew hotter and larger. "Whoa!"

"It's eating magic," shouted Lily.

"Evacuate the school! Harry, go warn the others!"

"Already moving them," shouted Luna from the hall.

"Thank God for Seers," said Harry before going to warn others. Lily stared at the flames in fear as they kept growing.

"Poppy," she called. "We should go!"

"Help me collect some of the potions in case someone gets hurt in the panic," called the school's Medi-witch. Elijah looked around for something to try and contain the flames but came up short as everything in the infirmary was laced with magical energy.

"Dammit, he muttered as Alistair ran into the room.

"Crowe," shouted the DADA teacher. "What the bloody hell is going on?! Lovegood's shouting up a storm to get people to evacuate!"

"That's the problem." Alistair stared at the flames before turning to him.

"Alright, what did you do?"

"Why do you assume it's my fault?!"

"Since I arrived here, your Soul Magic has been the cause of the crazy shite going on!"

"This isn't any of us, I swear! Avoid touching that stuff! It eats magic! Help evacuate!"

"Eats mag… alright, let's get moving." He let them leave the room first to get people out before turning to the flames. "Let's see…" His eyes turned red as he approached the flames and tossed a wand into it, watching as they expanded. He watched in fascination before stooping low and holding a couple of vials to the flames. They managed to absorb some of them, and Alistair saw, rather than felt, the flames lick his hand before receding. "That's right. Nothing for you to feast on…" He stood up before pulling out another wand and absorbing some of the flames into it, leaving the rest to continue to grow before he exited the room to move students out.

Cain ran past the infirmary and spotted the flames. "What the…" Within the flames, Cain made out a face staring right at him. "Ah hell… No, no, no…" Cain looked around before raising his hand and his skin turned ashen grey before a sickly green magic circle formed and blocked the flames from spreading to the entrance to the room and blocking off the hallway.

"Hey," shouted a seventh year Prefect from Slytherin. "The school's evacuating! Get out of here now…" Cain cursed as the Prefect spotted his hand. "What the hell…?"

"Stunner." The Prefect was knocked to the ground and Cain looked around before dragging him to the infirmary and to the farthest wall where the flames were spreading. "Sorry, bud. But your timing sucks. Shouldn't have seen what you did." Cain's hand returned to normal and the circle turned black and blended into the flames before he made his way to the exit, knowing the portraits had all run to avoid the magic eating flames.

"Professor Dumbledore," shouted Harry as he and Daphne ran into the headmaster's office. "Professor!" Dumbledore, Minerva and Snape looked up at the two students.

"Harry, my boy,' said Dumbledore. "What's wrong?"

"There's a magic eating fire in the infirmary," said Daphne. "We're evacuating the school we came to get you out!"

"Magic eating flames," asked Minerva.

"We need to move," said Harry. "I don't know what's going on, but some bat flew into the infirmary and turned into those flames! We tried putting it out but it's just eating anything with magical energy!"

"We need to save the school," said Minerva.

"The school may be lost," said Dumbledore. "Severus, Minerva, go with them to help with evacuations."

"What are you going to do?!"

"I need to call the Ministry. We may need some help to save the school."

"Hurry and get out," said Harry. Harry pulled out a mirror from his pocket as he and Daphne lagged behind the two professors. "Izzy!" Harry waited a few moments before the dhampir answered, hair damp and a towel barely covering her breasts.

"Hey kid," said Isabel. "Was just about to get to bed. What's up?" Daphne stared slightly as Harry shook his head to focus.

"How quickly can you get dressed and get your car to Hogwarts?!"

"I can get there in 10 minutes, why?"

"Magic eating fire is starting to consume the school! We may need to get everyone out of range quickly!"

"What?! Ok, hold on! Me and some of the teachers from Ilvermorny will get there as soon as possible for evacuation!"

"Hurry," shouted Daphne, trying to control her blush right as Isabel cut the connection. Harry turned to her. "Say nothing."

"At least I'm not the only one with that reaction around her," he quipped.

"I said say nothing." They made their way outside and saw Dumbledore Apparate nearby.

"Isabel is getting some people from Ilvermorny to get here to help evacuate! Ten minutes, tops!"

"The school doesn't have ten minutes," said Elijah as he pointed to the building Harry and Daphne turned around and spotted the flames had spread to a quarter of the school including the Entrance Hall and Great Hall.

"Holy shit…" Harry spotted Tracey by the lake and the giant squid move to the surface before it splashed water onto the building. "Tracey's trying to put out the flames with the giant squid!"

"Why can I only picture calamari when you say it like that," asked Cain.

"Now's not the time for jokes," signed Lillian.

"Is it working," asked Hermione.

"Barely," said Elijah. "Whatever those flames are, they're burning more with the magic their consuming. Normal water is barely putting a dent and the Aguamenti spell just feeds it!"

"What about one of our shields," said Blaise.

"What?"

"It's partially Anti-Magic. Would that be able to counter the flames?"

"I don't know. But it's worth a shot." Elijah, Blaise and Harry rushed to the building.

"Harry," shouted Lily. A cry that went ignored as the three soul mages tried creating their magic circle shields against the flames. Elijah nodded as the shields start to push back the flames.

"Anima Mea," he shouted. "The shields work! Lily come with me to cover the inside! The rest of you, take care of the flames out here!"

"I'm going to," said Blaise.

"No, Blaise stay out here. All of you stay out here where the flames are limited."

"We can help," said Harry. "There's bound to be more flames in there than out here!"

"We can handle it!"

"It's too much!"

"Dammit, stay out here and listen!" Elijah went down to the ground and let Harry and the others deal with the flames. Dumbledore looked at the students.

"Harry," he said. "Would we be able to learn that spell?"

"In theory, yes. But without Soul Magic it's extremely difficult to learn and more difficult to maintain without proper wandless magic training."

"Then we use wands," said Minerva. "Just tell us how to focus a shield like that so we can help." Harry cursed before swapping out with Cedric to explain the concept of the shield. Cain crossed his arms as Luna stared directly at him after getting rid of his flames. Remembering what she is, Cain cursed under his breath before noticing her glance towards the infirmary. Cain shook his head as she met his eye and glared at her before his pointer finger turned ashen grey and a small magic circle appeared at the end of it, aimed directly at Ginny Weasley's head as he stood behind her. Luna gasped to herself before glaring and going back to stopping the flames. Cain lowered his finger and glanced around, spotting another bat flying around.

"Hey, Potter," he shouted. "10 o'clock high!" Harry turned to Cain and looked up. Harry reacted to seeing the bat and fired off a Stupefy at the flying mammal, dropping it to the ground, much to Tracey's annoyance. After the teachers learned somewhat to make their shields, they went to assist Lily and Elijah inside as a few cars finally started to fly over the tree line and land near the students.

"Students," shouted one of the teachers. "20 to a vehicle! We're from Ilvermorny and we're going to move you away from the school to the village nearby."

"How did they get here in ten minutes," asked Hermione.

"Ilvermorny has an overseas college campus in Paris," said Isabel as she rushed over to the students putting out the flames outside the school. Harry and Daphne blushed darkly as she pulled them both into a hug, pressing their faces to her chest. "I was helping with classes when Harry gave me the call. Thank god he knew I was on this side of the Atlantic." She looked at students helping. "Are you guys ok?! Where's Eli?!"

"He and Mum are putting out the flames inside the school," said Harry.

"I should find some way to help."

"We're better off out here, Lass," said Alistair. "Right now we need to focus on getting the students out of here because…" He pointed to the ground as black flames started sprouting from the ground at the base of the castle. "It's feeding on the magical energy of the Ley Line Junction now."

"Get off the castle!" Anima Mea looked down and hurried off the stones as Harry rushed for the entrance of the school. "Kid! Harry!" Harry ignored the calls as he rushed in, avoiding the flames in his frantic attempt to get to his mother out of Hogwarts. Harry put out flames where he could and bumped into Dumbledore, sending them both to the ground.

"Sorry, Professor," he said.

"What are you doing inside," asked Dumbledore. "Elijah told you all to stay out."

"The flames are eating at the Ley Line! We need a better way to section off the flames!" Dumbledore thought for a moment and cursed himself inwardly for even thinking this.

"Harry, take my wand. Run outside and try and make as large of a shield as you can with it. See if you can't stop the flames."

"What is your wand…"

"It's the Elder Wand, Harry! I know you're aware of it! Now go!" Harry frowned slightly before taking the Elder Wand and feeling an instant connection to it before running outside again as Dumbledore pulled out his normal wand and made lesser shields to try and beat back the flames as much as possible. Harry aimed his wand at the flames eating away at the grass and shook his head.

"Better work…" Harry created a shield, larger than he's made before and pushed it forward against the flames. Harry walked forward with a magical shield twice his size and started countering the flames, cutting them off from the students that had yet to evacuate and the rest of the school. Away from the others, Blaise consulted his instructor.

"What are these flames," he asked.

"Demon flames. A dark magic meant to burn all traces of magic completely, leaving no traces of anything having been there," said the crystal. "Assassins and hunters have used these flames normally as a means of burning away any guards they've killed so as not to alert others of their presence. But I suspect these were used not as a means of hiding, but like a blood hound."

"Drawing out the target… But who?"

"Focus. These flames will eat at you faster than it does the stone. The shield was inspired, but it's minimal at best, even your friend using a relic like the Elder Wand is not enough."

"What can I do?"

"These flames are a curse. You will need a powerful counter-curse to be rid of the flames immediately. But the embers left behind are equally as dangerous as they can easily restart the flames if a living magical being comes in contact with them. I don't know a counter-curse you can handle, but I know an Aeromancy spell that could work."

"What spell?"

"Aim at the sky, channel your magic into the air around you and say this word. Zhenkong." Blaise did as his instructor said, and a blue bolt shot into the air. "Get out of there, now!"

"Guys, move!" Blaise picked up Padma and flew out of the area of the spell. The rest of Anima Mea were hesitant but followed his lead as Harry moved flames away to let the teachers out as they ran out.

"There's too many flames," said Elijah as he coughed. "And I'm not going to even think about my normal method for dealing with flames on these."

"Blaise just shot some spell into the air," said Harry. "Told us all to move."

"What spell?"

"Zhenkong," shouted Isabel as she tackled Harry and Lily away from the building as they were trying to keep the flames at bay while the other teachers were coughing by the students and Ilvermorny volunteers. "It's a vacuum spell!" The air around the flames appeared to harden before a flag seemed to stop moving in the wind. Within moments, the flames sputtered out and Blaise passed out from the level of the spell.

"Blaise," shouted Padma as she checked on him. Lily got her coughing under control and got up off the ground as she went to go examine Blaise with Poppy. Elijah and Alistair took a step towards the castle and Isabel shouted at them.

"Stop," she said, making both men freeze. "We don't know if the flames can come back! We've never encountered this magic before, and we don't know if the embers share the same property as the actual flames!"

"Shite," muttered Alistair. "What the hell did the caster want?" The bat Harry shot down earlier screeched and Elijah and Lily aimed their wands at it as Tracey covered her ears, hearing the bat screaming in pain in her mind. The bat turned into smoke and it turned into a face before the teachers and students.

"Bring us the boy," said the face as the smoke moved to accommodate. "And these attacks will cease. Bring us the boy, and you shall suffer us no longer. Ignore this warning, and you shall all face the consequences." Elijah and Alistair both looked around as they felt the air start to chill. Winds picked up and the top of the lake started freezing over. All around the group of people still on Hogwarts grounds, hooded figures and Dementors encircled them all. One of them dragged a bound and blinded man forward and stopped twenty yards from where Elijah stood. Elijah stood on guard, ready to conjure a Patronus to scare off the Dementors and fight whoever these mages were. Another figure walked beside their comrade, a bundle in their arms. Isabel blinked as eyes seemed to float all around them. "This message is passed to those present and all of those watching this in the Ministry! Continue to protect the boy, and we will strike! And to those who do not fear us! Watch!" The figure carrying the bundle unfurled it unceremoniously and let what looked like a deformed baby drop to the ground. A shout of anger and a rasping voice Harry had hoped never to hear again.

"I will make you suffer, you fool," shouted Voldemort.

"This is the Dark Lord you so feared ten years ago. Voldemort. A half blood by the name of Tom Marvolo Riddle. Watch as he is restored to his original form. Bring the Horcruxes!" The Soul Mages watched as a silver chalice, a locket with what looked like a House Elf's hand still clinging to it and a snake emblem on it, a ring, and a crystal that Elijah and Lily were only too familiar with. Harry blinked as he eyed the ring, a strange pull on his magic coming from it.

"How," asked Lily.

"I don't know," said Elijah.

"Thomas Marvolo Riddle," said the smoke face. "I command you, Coward of Death! Become whole!" Voldemort glared at the face before his possessed body was lifted off of the ground. Riddle shouted in pain as black smoke lifted from the objects and enveloped his body. Everyone present, and those watching from mirrors that had mysteriously appeared in the Ministry offices, watched as Lord Voldemort returned to full form. Several Death Eaters glared at the declaration of their lord being a Half-Blood and retrieved their long-hidden masks before going to assist their master, sans one family in general, the Malfoys.

"You dare," shouted Voldemort, now up to full height and only slightly reptilian in appearance as he glared at the robed figures, eyes an odd mix between brown and red with tufts of brown hair on his head. "I am your superior!"

"Then prove it," shouted the one who dropped him and tossed a wand at the Dark Lord's feet. Riddle picked it up and smiled viciously before aiming at the other figure.

"Avada Kedavra!" A green barrier caught the spell and Voldemort grasped at his hand as he couldn't drop the spell.

"Mum," whispered Harry. "Can you summon that ring?"

"I think we have more important things to worry about than some jewelry," whispered Lily.

"Accio ring," whispered Isabel who discretely caught it before pocketing it and winking at Harry.

"See your feared 'Dark Lord' kneel in the face of true power," said the face in the smoke. Several Death Eaters Apparated behind the figures and attempted to take them by surprise, only for similar barriers to catch their spells, leaving them vulnerable for the Dementors to feast on. The figure in front of Voldemort held out his hand and Harry spotted a dark brown stub coming from the palm. "This is the look of true fear!" The barrier dropped and the figure chuckled.

"Your Soul is mine to command, Thomas Marvolo Riddle!" Elijah watched as a golden light attached itself to Voldemort's head, heart, and back. All present watched as Voldemort rose to his feet, eyes lifeless and lacking all sense of self.

"No," said Elijah as he stepped forward.

"This is the might of True Animamancy! Pretenders!" He pointed to the mages of Anima Mea. "If you choose to stand against us, this shall be your fate!" The person dragged in by the self-proclaimed Animamancers was unhooded and Elijah stepped forward even more.

"Uncle Eobard," he shouted.

"Elijah," shouted the man, now identified as Eobard Crowe. "Stay back!"

"Let him go!" Lily and Isabel held Elijah back and the figure laughed.

"Elijah Crowe," they shouted as they pointed at him. "Last of your line! Watch as we destroy the last of your family. If we meet again, maybe you can put up more of a fight than he or the rest of your family did!" Elijah growled as Isabel kept holding him back. "Die, Crowe!"

"Uncle!" The figure created a barrier right on Eobard and the man dropped forward, dead.

"Bring us the boy. Michael Sokolov. And we shall leave you all alone," said the face. "Fail to comply…" The second figure snapped and the Dementors rushed to the students.

"Get the students out of here," shouted Minerva as he conjured her Patronus. The Anima Mea Soul Mages formed Constructs and hit back the rushing Dementors as several Patroni scared away the rest. Elijah picked up Blaise as he climbed into the backseat of Isabel's Impala while Harry bat away a Dementor attempting to grab said Dhampir and Daphne managed to conjure her own Patronus, an eagle, scaring away the Dementors and making a path for the cars, letting the students get into the cars.

"Thanks," said Isabel before she conjured her Patronus, a lioness, and had it clamp its jaws around a Dementor and throw it away. She let Daphne and Harry climb into the front seat and Dumbledore followed Minerva into the car of one of the other cars. With all of the students in the cars, they started taking off.

"Cowards," said the figure that killed Eobard before the eyes all shut, and the figures started retrieving the dead Death Eaters before leaving. Eobard's killer fired a massive blasting curse at the school and the Entrance Hall was completely destroyed. They left Eobard and the empty Horcrux vessels on the ground where they lay and the Animamancers disappeared. Dumbledore watched from the window as his beloved school was ruined by the Animamancers and frowned in sadness as they flew off.

"Jesus Christ," said Harry. "What the hell?"

"I think we just encountered the Tenth," said Elijah.