The Potter Alliance

Chapter 24

Chapter 24

"Ernie get down!"

Harry was at the boy's side in an instant blasting his godfather back with the reinforcements of Susan and Neville who had stuck to him like glue since the battle had started. "Remus on our left, Reducto!" Susan cried out.

Harry turned and saw the man had his shield up and threw a shield breaker as Neville threw stunner after stunner. This caught the werewolf by surprise, but instead of doing advanced magic, he apparated away to safety, while sounds of loud spell fire rang out.

To the untrained ear they would have missed it, but Harry was not untrained as he whirled around to catch a stunner that Albus Dumbledore had fired at him, and his two friends besides him, along with three others who were running together all fired spells at Dumbledore who threw his wand in a sideways slashing motion creating a massive shield that went almost all the way around his body from head to toe, everyone gasped and stared, and this cost Ernie his part in the duel as he was stunned by Dumbledore in the blink of an eye. Harry growled, talking to Neville, "Go fill Ernie's spot and protect Hannah as if your life depended on it, Susan and I can handle Sirius."

The boy nodded and went to fill in where the fallen Hufflepuff had been, and the group of Hannah, Neville, and Ron were now trading rapid spell fire with Remus who was clearly getting tired for all the apparating he had been doing.

Sirius on the other hand had begun his attempt to snipe his Godson from faraway with advanced stunners, but Susan had his back covered well, and even returned a few spells of her own, and this time when Sirius apparated Harry barked out, "NOW!"

As planned the five closest duelists all turned towards the direction that Harry shouted and blasted Sirius off his feet hard, when over a dozen spells overwhelmed him and left no time for him to escape. This meant it was now 7 vs 2 with Colin and Ernie already out of the duel.

Harry grabbed Susan's arm tightly, and said, "Back to back we can do this. We have to at least take out Remus, and if all 7 of us fight Dumbledore he can't win."

Harry began trotting with Susan right on his tail towards what was left of the two other groups, and suddenly two pops were heard, and Remus managed to appear, and stun Hannah to the ground hard, and then apparate away only to reappear and stun Luna as well. This however cost the man as when he reappeared to stun Neville he was taken down by three separate stunners with no time to block at all.

Harry didn't like these odds as well, five against one to beat Dumbledore. Ron, Hermione, Neville, Susan and himself against the greatest light wizard since Merlin himself. Even with sheer numbers this couldn't go as well as he hoped it would.

They all quickly fell into a formation where every direction was covered, and Neville roared out, "I've never felt so alive! We can take him Harry, even if four of us go down I think we can take him. If four of us had to die for you to kill Voldemort I would be happy with that."

Harry shook his head, "I wouldn't. I think we need to treat this like it is Voldemort, let me go forward and attack him, and try and throw him off kilter, and then you four can sweep in and help me when he least expects it. Follow my plan, and maybe this will work out."

They all looked at him wildly, and he just grinned as he imagined himself with destination, deliberation, and determination. With the image in his head he willed himself to appear in the closest known location where Dumbledore might be hiding and when he landed he shouted, "Come on Dumbledore. One on one! This is what you wanted right."

Dumbledore appeared behind the young man and said softly, "In fact Harry there is nothing less in the world I want. I hoped we would never have to cross wands, and I still pray we never do, but I believe I can help you, and if I can do anything in your fight against Voldemort then I will. You don't have the Horcrux anymore, which means there will be no need for your sacrifice. I now pull for you to walk out of this and live a long happy life. Allow me to demonstrate just what I can teach you."