A/N: Here is the next chapter of the story.
Chapter Thirty-Two: Christmas Slaughter
Lord Ragnarok stood there and thought about what he was about to do. Harry Potter would no doubt agree to join forces with the High Elves since he didn't view what he did as evil, since he was trying to rid the world of evil. Lord Ragnarok however knew that he was evil because he did enjoy making his enemy suffer, sure he didn't torture his followers like Voldemort, but his followers still feared him. He wasn't sure if the High Elves would see through the outer shell which was Harry Potter to see the inner core of Lord Ragnarok. If they did then they would view him as evil and then he would have another enemy to deal with.
"I will get right on that milord" Snape said as he was given permission to leave.
Lord Ragnarok headed off as Snape took his leave to go and try to get a meeting with Princess Alberic. Lord Ragnarok went to the library and left Harry take control once more, and that was where Harry was found later in the day.
The rest of the inhabitants of the castle returned some time later from their shopping trips. Hermione found Harry asleep in the library in his favorite reading chair. She didn't care to wake him, so she took her position in her favorite reading chair and read for a while.
A short while later Tonks came into the library "wotcher all".
"Shhh" Hermione said to the over excited witch "Harry is sleeping."
"How can someone sleep with all the talking" Harry said with a grin as he peered at the two witches.
"Harry your awake" Hermione said joyfully.
"Sorry to wake you" Tonks said in a tone that didn't really express much remorse.
"Sure ya are" Harry said with a devilish grin "have a nice trip?"
"It was great" Hermione said almost bouncing with excitement.
"Yeah she spent most her time in the book store" Tonks said with a grin.
"That Hermione for ya" Harry said then laughed "what time is it?"
"Almost dinner time" Tonks said as she looked at her watch "we should head down to the dinning chamber."
"Go on I will meet you down there" Harry said as he walked out of the library and towards his own bed chamber.
A short while later Harry arrived in the dinning chamber and he looked refreshed in clean clothes. They sat down at the table as the house elves started to serve the meal to them. It was a pretty uneventful meal as most talked about their trips and how much they were looking forward to Christmas the next day.
In fact Christmas Eve night was pretty well uneventful as most just prepared for the festive day to come. If only things would have remained uneventful the next day, but alas they didn't.
Christmas day had arrived and for the most part it was a nice morning. The sun was shining off of some fresh snow that had fallen through the night. The castle was decorated for the festive day and looked brilliant in the early morning light.
"Come on Harry time to get up" Tonks said as she shook him out of his sleep.
"What" Harry said confused as to why Tonks dressed in her red silk pajamas would be shaking him awake.
"Its Christmas you nutter now get up" Tonks said full of excitement.
"Go wake someone else" Harry said as he tried to go back to sleep.
"They are all awake you're the last sleepy head, and no one else wanted to wake you, so I said I would."
"Fine, I'll get up, but you do know you will pay for this."
"I fully expect to" Tonks said with a wink as she ripped the cover off of Harry.
Harry went from partially awake to full awake with the change in temperature "what you do that for?"
"You get to see me in my PJs, so it is fitting I see you in your sleeping wear" Tonks said with a grin "nice boxers."
"You are so going to pay for this" Harry said with a devilish grin.
"I know" Tonks said as she stuck out her tongue at Harry "but at least you're up now."
After Harry got changed and ready to meet the day he headed down to breakfast with Tonks. The rest of his 'family' was waiting there when he arrived and so he sat down and waited for the meal to be served.
Dumbledore Estate
"Today is the day I have been waiting for" Dumbledore said as he walked into a room full of his skeletal warriors. "Today is the day that all of you will serve your purpose, today you will make the world wake up and take notice for today is the day that you shall kill those that oppose me."
Dumbledore paced in from of his army of skeletons and then looked at the elite guardians that would command his minor minions. "As much as I would love to send you in looking like Death Eaters I can't, since you won't be able to cast spells. So I suppose you will just have to terrorize the masses as you are."
"Why doesn't Dumbledore sir use the spell of morphing" said a timid little house elf from behind him.
"Good idea" Dumbledore said as he peered at the elf "now leave me."
"Yes sir" the elf said then disappeared with a pop.
"A morphing spell could work" Dumbledore mused as he paced in front of his army "though it would only last a short while. It would be long enough though for them to attack and run just like normal Death Eaters would do."
Dumbledore grinned as he walked off to find his book with the morphing spell, so he could change his army into Death Eaters for his plan to work out right.
Potter Castle
After breakfast Harry and the rest of the inhabitants went off to the sitting room where they were able to exchange gifts. The gifts Harry got were much like what he expected as Lilly got him a new set of muggle clothes. Hermione got him a new book, which surprisingly wasn't in his vast library. Remus got him a box of Honey Dukes chocolates, while Sirius decided to get him some pranking supplies from the joke shop. The rest were the normal assortment of gifts until he got down to Tonks. Tonks handed him a small box, which he didn't expect. When he opened it he found that there was a small piece of paper in the box. He pulled it out and found a time written on it and that was all.
"Tonks" Harry said in confusion.
"Meet me in my room at that time" Tonks said with a grin "your gift will be there by then."
No one said a word as they went back to their own presents, but Harry wasn't fully sure what Tonks meant though he knew he would find out later that night.
It was nearing lunch time when Snape appeared at the castle, which shocked most of those in attendance.
"Severus what's wrong" Lilly asked as she looked at Snape.
"Death Eaters" Snape said out of breath "attacking."
"Calm down Severus and start from the beginning" Lilly said as she motioned for the others to be quiet.
"I was in Diagon Alley to grab a few things when a group of people dressed like Death Eaters started to attack. I ran for the Apparation point and came right here…"
"So the attack is still happening" Harry said in a heated tone.
"I suppose, but that isn't the only attack" Snape said as he looked on in fear "I heard someone say that Hogsmeade was under attack as well."
"No" Harry said full of rage "there shouldn't be any attacks yet!"
"Well there are" Snape said as he gain composure "are we going to help the townspeople?"
"Of course we are" Harry said as he changed into Lord Ragnarok "get your robes and split into two groups."
Everyone did as commanded and when everyone was ready they Apparated as closely to the towns as possible. However when they arrived the slaughter was over and there were dead bodies in the streets. The dark mark loomed over head as they arrived and then they saw that Aurors were there as well.
"This was a diversion" one of the Aurors said to his commanding officer.
"What do you mean" his CO asked as he looked at him.
"When I left there were reports of attacks all over London on muggles."
"No, this can't be" his CO said out of rage "are units responding to the attacks?"
"Yes sir, but we are stretched pretty thin as it is" the Auror said as he looked at his CO.
"So that's the plan" Lord Ragnarok said as he turned to his group "we must regroup there is nothing we can do for them now."
Lord Ragnarok contacted the other group via the mind link and told them to return as well. Both groups meet back at the castle and neither group looked happy about their inability to do anything.
"This was a plain and simple slaughtering of muggles" Lilly said as she sat down "how could this happen?"
"This was to well planned out to be a Death Eater attack" Harry said as he reverted back to his own persona.
"I don't know" Remus said as he looked at Harry "we went through a few well planned attacks by them."
"Yes once Voldemort returned" Harry said coldly "but not in my first year, Voldy would barely keep control of Quirrell enough to focus on getting the stone."
"That's true" Remus said glumly "though things have changed now."
"Yeah for the worst" Harry said full of anger "I wish I would never had come back in time then none of this would be happening."
"Calm down" Tonks said as she pulled Harry into a comforting hug "this was a massive attack and people did die that shouldn't have, but think about all those that lived when they should have died."
Harry knew she was right after all he did prevent a lot of deaths that would have happened at the hands of Tom, but that didn't mean he had to like what happened.
"How could they plan out this attack if Quirrell/Voldemort is still at Hogwarts planning the steal the stone" Snape asked as he looked at Harry.
"I don't know, but I wish I did" Harry said full of anger "Lucius Malfoy would have been the next one in charge, but since he is missing I doubt he would pull off something like this."
"there is nothing we can do for them now" Sirius said calmly "I really don't see the point in pining over it."
"Sirius is right" Tonks said "this is to be a festive day, so we should try to make the best of it."
"I'm not in the mood" Harry said as he walked toward the door "I am going to lay down for a bit wake me for dinner."
No one said anything as he left because they knew it wouldn't do any good. The rest of the group sat at the table and pondered what could have brought about the attack. Snape excused himself as he said he had errands to attend to, and then Apparated away without any further explanation.
"One of should check on Harry" Hermione said as she looked at the group.
"Let him be for now" Lilly said in a motherly way "he just needs time to himself."
"I am going to head to the ministry and see what I can find out" Remus said as he stood up "I will try to be back by dinner time."
One by one each of the group members went off to do their own thing to pass the time until they were to reunite at dinner.