CHAPTER 19 - THE BATTLE

Harry on waking up had flooed from his trunk and retrieved the portrait of Merlin from his castle. He had had a long conversation with him as Merlin remembered about his training as promised. Harry told him everything about Dumbledore, Voldemort and the ministry. Merlin was glad what Harry had achieved in the short span of time but was dejected on hearing the sick present of England. After that he had his breakfast and went to library to research on a particular subject for his charms essay. He had to still keep pretences that he was studying and getting all the knowledge from the Hogwarts library. All the time he kept having a feeling that something bad was going to happen. So he put aside his work and got up to meet Dumbledore to know if any attack had was carried out by Voldemort.

"Good morning Harry what may I do for you?" asked Dumbledore in his usual grandfatherly demeanor.

"Good morning professor. I have been having this feeling this morning that something bad is going to happen. So have you got any news about Voldemort or his deatheaters attacking any place?" asked Harry.

"No Harry I have not got any news of any deatheater or Voldemort activity recently. Also I have not got any news of any possible future attack. Voldemort has been lying low after he freed his servants from Askaban. He has also got dementors still he has not attacked." said Dumbledore.

But suddenly they were interrupted by the floo call of Alicia Snippet from the Weasley's wizarding wheezes.

"Professor Dumbledore about ten to fifteen deatheaters have apparated and attacked the diagon alley. They are killing or torturing anybody that comes in their way." said Alicia in an anxious tone.

"Ms. Snippet I will alert the order immediately, and also try to call the aurors. You see to it that all the nearby witches and wizards move to a protected area." said Dumbledore.

"Ok." said Alicia and then disappeared from the fireplace.

"Professor you alert the order, I will try to stop as many deatheaters as possible till the help arrives." said Harry.

"Alright Harry go ahead." said Dumbledore.

So Harry flooed from Dumbledore's office to the diagon alley. Harry got sick on seeing the scene at the alley. Around fifteen deatheaters were torturing and killing people. Dead and injured bodies were littered all around the alley. So Harry whipped out his wand and got ready to attack. With a speed and agility that defied the human logic, Harry reached out to the group of five deatheaters that were torturing a woman in front of her child with the crucio.

"creo tempestas" said Harry as all the five deatheaters were surprised as they were blasted by a powerful gush of air knocking them against the wall unconscious.

Then Harry went up to the nearest deatheater who was trying to burn a wizard alive. Harry cast the augmenti charm and doused the wizard of the fire.

The deatheater turned towards Harry to see who had disrupted her little enjoyment.

"Well well, it's the little Harry Potter that has arrived to fight with us. Still you have got your hero complex." said the deatheater.

Harry could never forget this voice as it caused the downfall of his godfather. The voice was of Bellatrix Lestrange which he could recognize even in his sleep.

"So you have come to attack innocent people on the order of your psychotic master, Voldemort. I will today take my revenge you slimy bitch. I will take revenge on behalf of Sirius." spat Harry.

"Why you little blood traitor. You are still mourning over your bastard godfather." said Bellatrix.

"Reducto" said Harry which Bella easily side stepped.

"exuro tergum" Bella threw the skin boiling curse towards Harry which he stopped with a shield

Then Harry conjured ice spikes and threw it towards Bella's face which caught her unawares as some of them hit her in the hand. Blood was gushing out from her hand.

Bella getting angry fired the crucio towards Harry, which he ducked.

Then with a great speed Harry animated a nearby statue and ordered it to attack Bella and also in quick succession threw an anti-apparation jinx on Bella so she could not escape. Bella had meanwhile healed her hand from the cuts she had received due to the ice spikes and was getting ready to attack Harry.

When she saw statue coming to attack her she blasted it off, but was not lucky enough as she was struck by the anti-apparation jinx.

"Stupefy, petrificius totalus, reducto" Harry then apparated to her backside and fired the three curses in rapid pace. But Bella escaped all the three by rolling around to her left.

Getting irritated Bella shot a quick killing curse at Harry which he intercepted by summoning a nearby stone in its path astonishing Bella.

"erigo terra" said Harry then using his elemental powers to raise a portion of the earth which Bellatrix was standing which threw her off balance and she passed out due to her head hitting a stone.

In the whole mess Dumbledore had arrived with the order and had started to defeat and subdue the deatheaters. They had captured most of them and some of them had escaped. Lucius Malfoy seeing the fellow deatheaters defeated silently went up to Harry and fired a curse "incohare lamia". A sudden pain erupted throughout the body of Harry. It seemed as if his blood was boiling at 1000 degree temperature.

Lucius then went up to Bellatrix and undid the anti-apparation jinx and then healed her injury apparated away with her, after enervating her.

Harry was lying on the ground in terrible pain. Dumbledore noticed this so he took him away to Hogwarts immediately using a portkey. After arriving at Hogwarts, Dumbledore took Harry immediately to the infirmary.

"Madam Pomfrey, Harry has been hit by an unknown curse, please try to heal him. I don't have time as I need to round of the last remaining deatheaters, if you need help then call Severus. I will try to come as soon as possible." said Dumbledore and then went away.

Pomfrey was unable to identify what had happened to Harry. His blood was boiling. She could not come up with any solution so she called Severus Snape.

"Severus I am not able to understand what is happening to Harry. His blood is boiling. Please come immediately to the infirmary." said Pomfrey.

Snape rushed out of his dungeons and went to the infirmary. Snape eyed Harry and was shocked.

"What happened to him?" asked Snape.

"Albus brought him and told that he was hit by an unknown spell." said Pomfrey.

"Then this is the work of Malfoy. Harry has been hit by a spell that is converting him slowly into a vampire." said Snape in a grave voice.

"What, you can't be serious. There isn't any spell that converts a wizard into a vampire." said Pomfrey.

"I am serious. It is a spell of Malfoy family magic. I don't know what to do about it. There is nothing that can stop the conversion into a vampire." said Snape.

As if in cue suddenly Harry spoke up from his suffering."Professor Snape please bring me the blue colored potion that we brewed just two days before."

Snape got up and rushed to his dungeon and brought the potion Harry had mentioned. Harry took the potion immediately, slowly the pain in his body started to subside. Finally he was able to sit up.

"Madam Pomfrey, please inform professor Dumbledore that I am fine." said Harry so he could talk privately with Snape. So Pomfrey left to find Dumbledore.

Then Harry put privacy wards around his bed so nobody could hear them.

"I think you have some questions professor." said Harry.

"Yes. I know that you were turning slowly into a vampire. Then how did this potion help you?" asked Harry.

"Professor as I did not tell you what this potion does, let me inform you of it. I have developed this potion. This potion stops a wizard turning into a vampire if taken at correct time after the vampire bite." said Harry.

Snape was astonished hearing this.

"So have not affected you." said Snape.

"I have not converted into a vampire. But it seems that I have got some of their abilities. I think that my skin has thickened so I will be immune to some spells and curses like the vampires. I think my senses and my movements have enhanced. I don't know of anything else." said Harry.

"Then it has turned into an advantage for you." said Snape.

"Yes it seems so. But professor who shot a spell at me that started to turn me into a vampire?" asked Harry.

"Do you know how the vampires came into existence?" asked Snape.

"No." replied Harry.

"Then listen as may not find this in many books. Around five thousand years ago a group of wizards were trying to invent something that could prolong their life period. In short make them immortals. So after some experimenting they came up with a potion that had ingredients in form of blood from many creatures like unicorn, dragon, griffins, etc. When they took this potion they obviously got their benefits like prolonged life, heightened senses etc. But their blood started to boil, the composition of their blood started changing. Whenever they went in sunlight their blood would begin boiling, killing them. So in order to keep the boiling in control they had to drink bloods from different creatures or they would die. This potion was banned, but the earth received its first batch of vampires. Whenever they bit a wizard, the bitten wizard would turn into a vampire. Now two thousand years after the banning of the potion, a Malfoy received the recipe of this potion from a book of his ancestors. He then turned this potion into a spell. After that the spell was imbibed in the Malfoy family magic. So today Lucius shot that curse at you, and you started turning into a vampire." explained Snape.

"But how do you know so much about the Malfoy history?" asked Harry.

"I have been a good friend of Lucius from beginning and also I am the godfather of Draco. They have told me these things." said Snape.

Then Harry saw Dumbledore arrive with Hermione, Ron and Nicole. So Harry dropped the wards and allowed Dumbledore and his friends to arrive.

"What happened to Harry?" asked Nicole.

"Potter was hit by a curse of Malfoy family magic that was turning him into a vampire. But he was saved as he took the potion which stopped it. He has invented that potion himself. There is nothing to worry as he has not turned into a vampire, and has only got some of their abilities like heightened senses and great agility. So don't worry." said Snape and then left with Dumbledore out of infirmary.

Then Harry told his friends of the diagon alley attack and how he was attacked by Malfoy senior with the curse. Everybody was worried about him, but he calmed them down. Then madam Pomfrey came and gave him a pepper up potion and a sleeping draught and shooed his friends away from the infirmary so Harry could rest.

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