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Battle of Hogwarts and the Ministry

THUMP…THUMP…THUMP…THUMP…

The three of them looked at each other in alarm as with every thump the castle would shake, the thumping seemed to becoming from outside and seemed to be getting closer. Just as they where about to go to the window the headmaster seemed to stiffen in his seat.

"The gates are under attack." Said a grave Dumbledore as he went to the window followed by Harry and Lisa, what they saw shocked them to their core and seemed to freeze them where they stood.

THUMP…THUMP…THUMP…THUMP…

There down at the gates of Hogwarts were five giants and what seemed to be fifty Death Eaters and a swarm of Dementors. As they looked on they watched as two of the giants battered the iron gates that where strengthened by magic but what shocked them even more was they giants smashing through the gates after only a minute and the Dark Army storming the grounds and heading towards the castle with battles cries.

"Shit." Harry cursed before he went into leader mode as his tutors liked to call it. "Dumbledore lock down the castle that should slow them down for about ten minutes" said Harry quickly taking over before the headmaster could even blink. "Lisa get on the floo and have the Weasley twins get a hold of any of the graduated DA and Order and have them come up behind them blasting" Both Dumbledore and Lisa quickly ran to do their given tasks both surprised that Harry was the one giving the orders instead of the headmaster; when the castle was in lockdown only the headmaster's fireplace could be used to floo-call anybody.

Harry, meanwhile put his wand to his throat and muttered "Sonorus maximus". "ATTENTION TEACHERS ANS STUDENTS! HOGWARTS IS UNDER ATTACK BY DARK FORCES; PREFECTS LEAD YOU'RE HOUSES TOO YOU'RE COMMON ROOMS WHILE ANY AND ALL TEACHERS ABLE TO FIGHT PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY TO THE GREAT HALL. All over the school Harry's voice boomed and teachers and students alike were quick to obey his orders never giving it a second thought that a sixth year was giving them orders. "ALL STUDENTS OF AGE THAT IS TO SAY SEVENTEEN AND WILLING TO DEFEND THE SCHOOL MAY DO SO AND ARE ASKED TO JOIN THE TEACHERS IN THE GREAT HALL; here Harry paused really hating what he was about to do but he had no choice if they wanted to win this battle. "ANY MEMBERS OF THE DA ABLE TO PRODUCE A CORPOREAL PATRONUS CHARM MAY ALSO MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE GREAT HALL! THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPARATION" Harry muttered the counter charm returning his voice to normal and turned to see the headmaster and Lisa waiting for his next instructions, Harry absently noticed that Dumbledore's eyes seemed to be twinkling even more and he had a small smile on his face.

"Lisa I need you to go to the hospital wing and explain to Pomfrey of your training and to inform her that your there to help her with the injured" Harry said to Lisa who nodded her understanding and began making her way to the door before she quickly ran back to Harry and gave him a quick kiss and a whispered "Good Luck" before she quickly left the office and Harry turned to Dumbledore who now winced every so often as a result of the giants pounding on the entrance doors and therefore the wards which he was tied too.

"We should get to the great hall and organize our troops as best we can in the short time we have" said Harry before grabbing Dumbledore's arm and using house-elf magic to "pop" them to the great hall startling quite a few of the assembled fighters there; Harry looked around and was surprised to see half of the DA along with ten seventh year Hufflepuffs, nine Ravenclaw's and all the off age Gryffindors but what surprised him the most was the five seventh year Slytherin's standing to one side looking unsure if they would be accepted by the rest of the fighters or not.

Just then the great hall doors opened and Draco Black walked in leading Pansy Parkinson, Daphne Greengrass, Tracy Davis and Blaise Zabini. All the members of the DA pointed theirs wands at the new comers but Draco and his lot ignored them and made their way over to Harry.

"These are all able and willing to defend Hogwarts if you'll allow them Harry" said Draco causing the members of the DA to gape at the use of Harry's first name and the politeness of his voice.

"Don't trust them Harry they'll stab us in the back the second they get the chance" Warned Ron with a scowl on his face but Harry ignored him as he grinned at Draco.

"I wondered if you would help us" commented Harry more to the rest of Draco's gang than Draco himself.

"You know me I'm with you till the end my Brother" said Draco with a grin of his own as the rest of his group stepped up to Harry and held out the wands and bowed their heads to him in a show of respect.

"Our wands are yours to command" the Slytherin's said in perfect unison causing all the DA's eyes to widen while the teachers looked on proudly.

"Thank you" said Harry simply but sincerely before he turned to look at everyone. "This battle will be bloody and fierce as they wish to not only take over the school but to kill any and all resistance and that is why I'm asking you all to use Reducto curses the most; I'm not asking you to kill if you do not wish too, but use them against their legs as much as you can" explained Harry as a huge bang was heard on the entrance doors along with a creaking sound signaling that the doors would not hold up much longer.

Harry and Dumbledore led the fighters of Hogwarts out into the entrance hall knowing they were grossly out numbered with only forty five on their side and they both prayed that the Weasley twins would pull through for them and soon.

BOOM!

And with that the great doors shattered inwards as a giant rammed its tree-trunk club through the doors showering them all with splinters of wood, before the Death Eater's poured into the entrance hall and the battle was on. Soon the hall was filled with multicolored flashes of light and shouts as the Death Eater's and Hogwarts defenders engaged in a battle that was quickly becoming bloody.

Harry ducked a jet of deep red light knowing that it was the Cruciatus curse; Harry straightened up and looked at the Death Eater that had fired the curse at him but instead of firing at the Death Eater Harry just gave him a cold unblinking Stare that after a few seconds was starting to unnerve the rookie.

"Avada Kedavra" The rookie's killing curse was spot on target and with only five feet apart the sickly green curse struck Harry in the chest, but to the complete and utter shock of the rookie Harry stayed standing as though a tickling charm had just hit him.

"Allow me" said Harry as he raised his wand at the Death Eater who was trembling from head to toe and had already soiled himself. "Avada Kedavra" Harry's silent killing curse erupted out of his wand and struck the Death Eater before he even knew what was happening.

Harry turned to the Giant who had smashed in the doors, who was only now entering the hall; Harry was just raising his wand when an icy cold feeling filled the hall and he slammed up his Occlumency shields to full power.

"Expecto Patronum" Harry's silver-white stag burst from his wand and charged at the Dementors just beyond the doors and was followed by at least ten others keeping the soul sucking creatures at bay for the time being. Harry turned his attention back to the giant and raised his wand at it once more.

"Avada Kedavra" Harry's killing curse struck the giant in the stomach eliciting a bellow of pain from the giant but it did not drop down dead.

"Avada Kedavra" shouted a female voice from his left and turning his head Harry saw Blaise Zabini stood next to him with a hard look on her pretty face that would have looked out of place on any other female except a Slytherin. Blaise's killing curse struck the giant and just like Harry's only caused the giant to bellow in pain and rage.

Blaise looked at Harry hoping he had some bright idea as he fired a Reducto curse at a nearby Death Eater that was battling against Pansy Parkinson; his curse struck the Death Eater in the back of the knee and dropped him like a sack of spuds before Pansy finished him off with a stunning spell.

"Any idea's on how to drop this oaf?" Blaise asked as Harry turned his attention back to the giant.

"Yeh I got one." Answered Harry before he closed his eyes in concentration and began to levitate himself off of the floor much to the shock of Blaise and everyone else who spotted him rising above the battle; Harry got level with the giants face who was looking at him stupidly as he rubbed his belly.

Harry smiled a humorless smile at the giant before raising his wand and aiming at the giant's eyes. "Avada Kedavra" this time when the curse struck the giant in his left eye it fell backwards taking out one side of the wall next to the entrance doors but it was without a doubt dead; Harry looked down and seeing everyone still looking at him in shock in stead of battling he quickly lowered himself to the ground before firing a Sectumsempra at a group of four Death Eater's before quickly jumping into a four on one duel which started the battle back up as everyone was shook out of their shock though Harry would later swear up and down that he heard Draco shout "show off" as the battle restarted.

Ministry of Magic, visitor's entrance

The Dark Lord Voldemort, Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange walked up to the beat up old telephone box that was the visitor's entrance to the Ministry of Magic and upon entering Lucius dialed the number before a voice filled the telephone box.

"Please state your names and reasons for visiting the Ministry of Magic" said a female voice. Voldemort smirked at the other two.

"Lord Voldemort, here to kill the Minister for Magic" replied Voldemort actually announcing who he was and what he was there to do.

"Lucius Malfoy, here to kill any who get in our way" stated Lucius grinning all the while, it had been his idea to use this entrance as he'd had fun coming this way and stating more and more daft things just to see what would happen.

"Bellatrix Lestrange, here to aid my master" said Bellatrix as she waited to see what would happen.

"Thank you and have a pleasant day" said the same voice as three badges slid down the change slot; Voldemort picked up his and saw written upon the badge was the words. Lord Voldemort, Homicide. Looking at Malfoy's he saw that his badge said the same as his but with his name on it. Both men turned to Bellatrix as she growled in anger and looking at her badge Voldemort could see why even if it did make him grin some what evilly. Bellatrix Lestrange, boot licking. Voldemort even attached the badge to his robes as the lift began to descend into the ground causing Lucius to snort in a very un-pureblooded way.

Voldemort sneered at the Ministry workers as he led Malfoy and Bellatrix over to the security desk. Here he was, the Dark Lord strolling though the Ministry leading two of his inner circle and not one bloody person had spotted him or even glanced his way.

"Wand please" said the security wizard holding out his hand and not even looking up from his newspaper; Voldemort sneered before he actually handed the security wizard his wand who then placed it on what looked to be a weighing scale and after a few seconds a strip of paper came out of a slot.

"13½", yew wood, with a phoenix feather core, been in use sixty four years" said the security wizard as he handed Voldemort his wand back and finally looked up.

"Have a pleas…" the security wizards mouth dropped open in shock and his eyes widened as he realized that the Dark Lord was stood in front of his desk with two wanted Death Eater's.

"A pleasant day? I will, thank you" hissed Voldemort before he whipped his wand up at the wizard. "Avada Kedavra" at the same time that the security wizard dropped to the floor dead alarms began going off in the building indicating that an unforgivable had just been used and finally people started to realize that the Dark Lord was standing among them.

After only mere seconds (Thirty if one wants to be precise) the witches and wizards began to scream as more and more Death Eater's appeared in the lobby of the Ministry through either Apparition or by Floo; some where even hidden in the crowds of screaming people and just placed their white masks on their faces before joining their lord, all in all by the time the Auror's arrived the Dark Lord was standing in front of fifty six Death Eater's and twenty or so Ministry workers lay dead and even more dieing as the Death Eater's began what was to become known as the Ministry's biggest blunder and slaughter.

When the Auror's finally arrived on the scene they where grossly out numbered and out matched as the Dark Lord had the best of the best of his army mainly the German Werewolves and the Lestrange's and Malfoy. The battle that ensued was bloody and pretty much one sided as the Death Eater's and the Dark Lord tore apart the Auror's and any other Ministry employee and any of the public that was unluckily in escaping or foolish enough to try and help.

"Avada Kedavra" lazily intoned as an Auror was passing by him, as it stood he was mainly just killing the Auror's as they passed or after taking a pot-shot as so far none of the Auror's where brave enough to actually duel him. Voldemort grinned evilly as he looked around the Atrium, the large entrance hall looked as though a Muggle bomb had gone off; walls all around had huge gapping holes from missed spells, fires had erupted here and there and the most pleasant sight (in the his opinion) was all the bodies, body parts and blood that littered the floor. It really was a slaughter on the Ministry as he had only lost one or two Death Eater's while the Auror's only had half of the original thirty still fighting; so caught up in his observation, Voldemort failed to see the witch and wizard sneaking up behind him until said wizard hit him in the right shoulder blade with a cutting charm.

With a roar of pain and rage the Dark Lord spun around to find himself face to face with Amelia Bones and Rufus Scrimgeour, both off whom looked ready to fight him to the Death.

"Finally the exclusive Minister shows up" hissed Voldemort in cold voice that caused the hair on the back of his foes neck to stand on end and a chill to run up and down their spines.

"How the hell did you get in here?" asked the Minister in hard voice after getting his wits about him once more.

"I simply came in the visitors entrance and walked up to the security desk." Answered Voldemort to the shock of both the Minister and bones. "Even got a badge and handed over my wand to be checked before anyone even realized I was among them, pathetic security really." The evil laugh, no cackle scared the shit out off his opponents as he dropped into a dueling stance.

The two-on-one duel was fast, vicious, and bloody and to those watching awe inspiring; as the darkest, most skilled Dark Lord in history battled two of the best dueler's in the last twenty five years. Both Amelia and Scrimgeour showed why they had risen to the top as they kept pace with the evil wizard. After five minutes all three were bloodied and had more than a few broken bones.

Amelia fell to a shattered knee-cap as a spell managed to sneak past her defenses; with her eyes watering from the pain of her knee and the rest of her body, she watched as the Dark Lord turned his full attention on the Minister. After another five minutes and with a broken wrist, shattered left collar bone and too many to count cuts along with his robes covered in huge amounts of blood Lord Voldemort managed to hit the Minister with the killing curse dropping him to the floor, dead.

Voldemort, wincing in pain turned his attention to Amelia, idly noticing that the off duty Auror's seemed to have shown up as there where now about twice as many as he'd last seen. Raising his wand at the still downed DMLE head.

"You have my full respect for your dueling skills and bravery as an opponent," said Voldemort through the pain in his body. With a small bow of his head and a quick Avada Kedavra, Amelia Bones joined the now Ex Minister in the next great adventure.

Turning to battle still on going, Voldemort placed his wand to his throat and muttered the Sonorus charm. "IT'S DONE; RETREAT" and even though he could have taken over the Ministry, this battle had been to kill the Minister and crush more of the Wizarding worlds hope and seconds later the battle was over as the Dark Lord and his army vanished leaving twenty Auror's and around ten other employees who had stayed to fight. Out of his army the Dark Lord had only lost nine of his Death Eater's whilst the only Auror's left where currently standing in the Ministry, not including the ten in Diagon alley and how ever many managed to survive the battle still going at Hogwarts, all in all the Auror corps and Ministry where crippled almost beyond repair.

Diagon Ally Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes

Ten minutes after Lisa Turpin had passed on the order from their silent business partner and their unofficial dark haired brother. The Weasley twins had managed to get into contact with more than half of the Order of the Phoenix members and most of the graduated DA members, who were more than happy and ready to help their leader in battle. Looking at the people gathered in their shop the Weasley twins gave the same orders as they'd been given.

"Ok people; Harry wants us to come up behind the Death Eater's blasting." Began Fred with a serious expression on his face and none of the normal mischievous smile that was normally found on a Weasley twins face.

"Now that means instead of stunning spells he wants blasting curses." Said George taking over from his brother with a similar expression on his face.

"What kind of blasting curse?" asked Oliver wood who had not been in the DA, but had tagged along with Lee Jordan who he'd been having a catch up drink with.

"Well there's the Reducto, Confringo, Expulso and Bombarda Maxima." Answered Fred as he looked around at the people gathered and seeing everyone nod their understanding.

"Well I don't know about anyone else but I will be using the Sectumsempra curse." Growled Moody from the back of the gathering with a hard look upon his scared face that made his scars even more visible if that was even possible.

"What's that… began Fred

"And how do you perform it?" finished George

"It's a dark cutting curse and you say the incantation Sectumsempra along with a slashing motion of the wand." Answered Moody and to demonstrate, he pulled his wand from his arm holster and pointing his wand at the wall to his left made a slashing motion with his wand while murmuring the incantation. There was a blue flash of light before a long deep gash appeared on the wall causing quite a few people to pale at the thought of what that would do against a human body instead of the wall.

"Right now that that's settled what say we go kick some ass." Suggested Remus Lupin gaining nods from everyone gathered in the shop.

Moody and surprisingly Katie Bell led the way out of the shop and into Diagon Alley to the nearest Apparition Point that was just two shops down from the Twins shop; and before any of the two rookies Auror's manning the departure and arrival point the group of thirty nine disappeared with tiny pops only to reappear outside the smashed in gates of Hogwarts.

"Let's go" said Moody as he began limping as fast as his wooden leg would allow him to go, which was surprisingly fast as he kept pace with most of the fighters.

Halfway across the grounds of Hogwarts, the reinforcement fighters noticed two things. One was that the battle had spilled out onto the grounds and two a Death Eater just outside the forbidden forest was leading what seemed to be thirty or forty Inferi, or reanimated corpses. Ignoring the small army of dead bodies as they where not moving at a great speed, Moody and the rest of the fighters raced to engage the Death Eater's.

There was only two giants left as three had already been killed, and as Harry looked up at one of the remaining Giants he began gathering some of his vast magical power wanting to finish the Giant with one powerful spell.

"AVADA KEDAVRA" roared Harry in high Parseltongue and instead of the usual sickly green of the killing curse; it was a dark almost black green that erupted from his wand. The dark, thick curse rocketed across the fifteen feet separating him and the giant and slammed into the giants belly and to Harry's shock actually lifted the giant five feet off of its feet and blew it halfway across the ground where it crushed half the greenhouses and just as he'd wanted it was dead in one shot.

As he was looking around Ron Weasley spotted a short, fat Death Eater with a silver glove like hand. Knowing from Harry's description of the hand that Lord Voldemort had gifted his Death Eater, Ron knew that this was Peter Pettigrew, the traitor.

"How dare you come here." Spat Ron with venom in his voice as he reached Pettigrew, who flinched at Ron's tone of voice before spinning round to face the red haired wizard who was extremely angry at seeing his old "rat" and the Potter's betrayer.

"R-Ron." stammered Pettigrew in fear at the sight of the enraged wizard before him. And before Peter could do or say anything else Ron began firing hexes and jinxes at him as fast as he could.

"Confringo" "Expulso" "Reducto" "Bombarda Maxima" the four blasting Curses all hit their targets and left Peter with a shattered wand and left forearm from the Confringo hex, while the Expulso curse had blasted him off of his feet and left him sprawled on his back and the Reducto curse shattered most of his ribs and the Bombarda curse tore his right leg off from the knee down leaving nothing more than a stump and a spray of blood and gore on the ground and covering his left leg. After all the blasting curses Peter was left howling and crying in absolute agony.

Ron looked around the on going battle and spotted Harry not far away from him, Ron stood in shock and awe as he watched his former best mate blast one of the remaining giants across the ground with one shot.

"Harry." Shouted Ron to get the teens attention and upon seeing Harry look his way waived him over. Harry came jogging over punching a Death Eater in the face dropping him to the ground as he did so.

"What's up Ron?" asked Harry as he stood beside the redhead who was only a few inches taller than him at 6"3 while Harry now stood at 6"1.

"Caught myself a rat." Answered Ron as he pointed down at Pettigrew who was still whimpering on the ground.

"Wormtail" hissed Harry in hard cold voice as he looked down at his parent's betrayer.

"H-Harry" gasped Pettigrew as he looked up into Harry's eyes that turned from brilliant emerald green to a velvety black. "P-please, y-your f-f-father w-would h-have s-shown m-me m-mercy." Peter stammered hoping that Harry would spare him like he did in his third year.

"How dare you ask for mercy after all you've down" Spat Harry still in his cold hard voice causing both Ron and Wormtail to flinch.

Ron watched in awe as Harry's aura sprang into existence in a multitude of greens, reds, gold, blues and whites. The Gold and whites were a sign of a very powerful wizard and as Harry's aura was mainly gold and white with reds, blues and greens surrounding the gold and white; Ron could tell that Harry was one, if not the most powerful wizard on the planet and at the moment he was highly pissed off, not a good combination.

Suddenly the words of the sorting hat at the beginning of the year floated into his mind.

But the light has a chosen child too lead us into battle against the darkness

In the fiercest battle of all time; the child of Prophecy, most powerful since Godric Gryffindor will battle the dark with his most loyal at his side."

Right then and there, Ronald Weasley decided that the safest place on earth in a battle was standing behind Harry Potter. Ron was pulled out of his thoughts as Harry leveled his wand at Pettigrew.

"Goodbye Peter." Hissed Harry as he aimed his wand right at the heart of Wormtail and without waiting a second longer. "Avada Kedavra" the normal sickly green of the killing curse jumped out of his wand and struck Peter Pettigrew in the chest right where his heart is located ripping all life from his Parent's betrayer and Sirius' framer.

Before either Harry or Ron could do much else two things happened. One the airs become bitingly cold and frigid announcing that the Dementors had returned to the battle and a shout echoed across the grounds.

"ATTACK" shouted the Death Eater who had been leading the small army of Inferi, finally managed to reach the battle field.

Harry slammed up his Occlumency shields while pulling up the happiest memories he possessed, including the first time Lisa had told him she loved him and the first time the two off them had made love and Lisa agreeing to marry him when he'd asked her.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM" Harry's stag Patronus erupted from his wand and charged the incoming Dementors. Before Harry could turn to deal with the army of corpses he heard a groan from beside him and turned to see Ron drop to his knees clutching his head as a result from the effect the Dementors had on him.

"Legilimens" said Harry pointing his wand at the redhead and using a little known trick that a master Occlumens could perform, Harry slammed up temporary mind shields blocking out the Dementors effect on Ron.

Harry helped Ron to his feet as Draco and the Headmaster joined his side while firing Incendio curses at the incoming corpses along with a lot of the fighters of the light.

"Think you could take out the Death Eater leading the Inferi?" Harry asked as he let lose another Patronus.

"Yeh we should have no problem with the dolt." Answered Draco as he and the Headmaster began firing at the Death Eater leading the Inferi and Ron kept the Death Eater's at bay.

Harry closed his eyes and began pulling up his fire element to the surface as he put his wand away and held his hands up to his chest palms facing out. All three wizards could feel the power building in Harry and glancing at the teen could see the fire gathering in the palms of his hands before his eyes snapped open.

"MOVE" bellowed Harry in a tone of voice that left no room for argument; and weather they were a Death Eater or a fighter for the light, every witch and wizard still standing dropped to the floor as Harry let out a roar and thrust his hands towards the Inferi and the fire that had been building in his palms leaped out of his hands and raced across the ground in a stream on white hot fire.

As the fire reached the corpses they began trying to escape the burning heat but the stream of fire encircled them until they where all bunched together with no way of escaping. Once Harry was sure that all the Inferi was trapped in his ring off fire he clapped his hands together once and upon doing so the ring of fire came together as it tore right through the corpses cutting them in half and dropping them all to the ground. As the last corpse hit the ground, Harry began lowering his hands whilst holding them from his body as in doing so the now huge ball of fire began lowering on the Inferi and before long the bodies where totally engulfed in flames before they where reduced to nothing but ash.

For another half an hour the Death Eater's and fighters of the light did battle, but finally after over an hour of fighting the fighters of the light managed to defeat the Death Eater's, drive off the Dementors and kill the remaining giant.

Harry stood looking around the grounds of Hogwarts completely out of breath, bleeding from numerous cuts and wincing from a broken arm and magically drained to a point that if he preformed a simple Lumos he would most likely pass out for a week, then again that seemed like the best idea he'd had all night.

He looked up as the students who he had ordered back to their common rooms came out of the smashed in front doors and began helping the wounded defenders of Hogwarts.

"Harry, my boy." Said a voice from beside him as the headmaster came up to him, and turning his head Harry saw that the headmaster was likewise sporting cuts but not nearly as many as he was.

"Yes sir?" asked Harry with tiredness in his voice as he winced as a sharp pain shot up his back.

"After tonight I believe you have earned the right to address me by my first name." said Dumbledore with proud smile on his face and the twinkle coming back to his eyes as he looked upon his favorite student.

"Thank you sir." Said Harry with a tired smile on his worn out face.

"Go to the hospital wing and get yourself looked at and have some rest." Even though it was an order Dumbledore made it sound more like a request or suggestion.

"Are you sure?" asked Harry as he looked around the grounds at all the injured or dead defenders of Hogwarts.

"Quite sure my boy." Answered Dumbledore as he gently patted Harry on the shoulder. "We can handle things from here" Harry nodded his head in understanding.

"Thank you sir." Said Harry as he turned towards the castle. "See you later sir." As Harry began to walk across the grounds he was met with thunderous applause as everyone on the grounds knew that it was him, Harry Potter who had lead them in battle and in doing so had led them to a victory.

End of nine.

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