Chapter 16 - Challenges Part 2

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Friday Afternoon By the Lake

Ginny had been shocked to learn what Bill had been up to. She had been amazed at what her brother Bill had to say. She was even more shocked to learn that Charlie was also with Harry. Apparently, Bill had been in France when the Scorpion Sorcerer struck. In her mind, the fact that Bill and Charlie were sticking up for Harry and their explanation for it finally lifted the weight that she had been feeling this last week. Talking some more with Bill, she got the impression that he was not telling her everything so she said.

"Bill, I get the feeling that you are not telling me everything, am I right?"

Bill looked at her straight in the eye and said, "Yes Ginny, I can't tell you everything until you are willing to take a witch's oath that you will never betray or reveal the information that I give you Also, before I fully reveal everything to you, you will have to become fully proficient in Occlumency."

Bill added, "This week to get everyone started on their Occlumency, everyone joining Harry will be thought how to hide their minds before going any further. The information is so sensitive that Harry doesn't want to take a chance, I hope you understand."

Ginny looked at her brother and decided that she wanted in and wanted to know what was going on. She was going to throw her lot with Harry. Ginny looked at her brother and recited her witch's oath. Bill gave her a big hug and a portkey. Bill told her that portkey would activate Saturday night at 8:00 pm. He told her to make it look like she was going to sleep. Bill asked her to cast a sound proof, and a notice me not charm around her canopy. Bill stated that he would meet her at the appointed portkey destination. Bill gave her one last hug and used his portkey.

Ginny looked at the time and for the first time in a month she smiled and made her way back to the great hall to get some supper.

Friday Evening 6:00 pm at Wizard Wizarding Wheezes

Fred and George were busy stocking the shelves and Lee Jordan was at the cash register when they heard a voice say, " Wow, this is quite the set up you guys have."

Fred, George and Lee whipped their wands towards the stranger who was wearing what looked to be a charcoal grey basilisk robe with a deep hood and they both said, "Who are you?"

Fred and George heard the stranger chuckle and replied, "Let me put my hood down, and you can see who I am."

George replied, "All right, but no funny business or you'll wish you had never woken up today!"

Harry carefully pulled his hood down and smiled at the twin's reaction. Fred was the first to recover and said, "Bloody hell Harry, you scared the wits out of us." Both twins looked at each other with big grins and ran to pat him on the back. Lee Jordan came over and shook hands with Harry

Harry laughed and said, "It's good to see you boys. Sorry I never got in touch until now, but I was a tad preoccupied."

George said, "That's alright Harry, we were pretty busy ourselves. Hey listen, we saw Remus not to long ago and he gave us a more detailed explanation of what has been happening. We want you to know that we are with you one hundred percent mate. We think the powers to be are all playing us for suckers, it's time to turn the tables I say."

Lee replied, "Yeah Harry, I feel like I don't have a choice anymore. It's like if you are not part of one of the big three you are a nobody and have no say. Frankly I am sick of it. It's time for our generation to step up and take control."

Fred replied, "I could not have said it better. Just tell us where to sign Harry."

Harry said, "You don't know how much it means to me to have you guys siding with me. I only wish that my ex best friends had seen the light like you guys have."

Both Fred and George could see the pain on his face at the mention of Ron and Hermione. George said, "Listen mate, even I have noticed how Ron has been changing over the years. He has been following Percy's footstep since he became a prefect. Ron has always had a nasty streak of jealousy, and he now has to pay the price for his decision. As for Hermione, you know as well as we do that she can't say no to any real authority. Don't beat yourself up over these two they aren't worth it mate."

Harry responded, "You guys understand that in the future you might come up against your own brother in a battle you know that? I will never lie to you guys. If you join me, I will be teaching you dark arts to properly fight Voldemort's forces. The stuff they are teaching at Hogwarts is complete garbage. The fight at DOM thought me that. Are you guys willing to learn the dark arts?"

Fred, George and Lee looked at each other and exclaimed, "Yes."

Fred then said, "As for Ron, what will come will come. He made his bed, now he has to lie in it."

Harry looked at all of them one by one. He used his Legillimens abilities to see if there were any subconscious manipulations or betrayals in the making. He found that they meant what they said. After a minute scrutinizing them, Harry said, "I ask everyone who joins me to swear an oath to never betray me or divulge any information about our operation. Do you wish to take the oath?"

The twins and Lee looked at each other nodded and swore a wizard's oath to never betray Harry or divulge any information. Harry then smiled and threw a 1000 galleon pouch at them and a portkey ring. He told them that the money was for lost revenues since they needed to close down the shop for the weekend due to training. Harry told them that the portkey would activate for 8:00 pm Saturday evening. He told them to bring some spare clothes, everything else would be provided.

Harry shook their hands and apparated out to Potter castle.

September 8 Friday evening 8:00 pm Potter castle

Harry apparated close to the gazebo on the North terrace of Potter castle. Remus was the first one to spot Harry. Remus always found it disconcerting to see his cub apparate without a sound. In duels it gave him a tremendous advantage.

Remus said, "How did it go Harry?"

Harry replied, "It went better than I had hoped. The twins and Lee Jordan will be joining us. I made sure to scan their deepest feelings and found that they truly wanted to be with me." He said the last with a huge grin on his face.

Remus smiled back and said, "Way to go cub. I was fairly certain that the twins would be with you; however Lee Jordan is a definite bonus. He is very creative and a fast thinker."

Everyone had gathered to hear how Harry made out. Harry smiled back at everyone and said. "I want to thank each and every one of you for coming tonight. I have lots to show you. Bill, Neville and Luna, I gave you my lesson plans for Occlumency and basic dark arts training. I will be there for the first month in flux time, after that I will let you take over the recruits training." Harry paused to let the information sink in.

Harry continued, "Now we need to make sure that all of our recruits are accomplished occlumens. The integrity of everything we are doing depends on it. Don't be afraid to challenge their abilities. Outside of normal school hours, I will be teaching everyone the dark arts and body magic. During weekends, all recruits will go into flux time and learn dark arts with Neville, Luna and Bill. "

Blaise said, "Harry where are we going to learn dark arts at Hogwarts. The headmaster has access to and monitors every room in that school?"

Harry looked at Blaise and with a smile on his face said, "Correction Blaise, the headmaster does not have access nor can he monitor a very special room. I will now show you your new training center."

Harry pulled out two rings encrusted with black diamonds. He enlarged them and said "These portkeys will take us there. Please grab a hold of the ring."

Remus, Xiana, Bill, Fleur, Charlie and Harry held on to one of the rings, while Blaise, Brianna, Neville and Luna took hold of the other. Harry and Neville took their wands and tapped the ring while Harry said, "Scorpion lair."

Everyone felt a tug at their navel and within seconds they were standing in a gigantic room. Everyone looked at the ceiling and could make out the stars in the heavens. The roof of the lair had been charmed just like the one in the great hall. The stars shining overhead gave the place a surreal atmosphere. The only difference was that it was starry here, but everyone knew that it was raining at Hogwarts. Harry explained that he imported the images from the Eastern Algeria. The sky was from the deserts. Everyone could make out the scorpion statues and the command chair. The floors were a highly polished emerald marble and the walls were made of granite polished to a very fine sheen. On the floor at the centre of the chamber were two scorpions facing a phoenix with Canis Major and the Orion nebula all inlaid in the marble floor.

Brianna couldn't believe the beauty of the place. She could easily call this place home. It was certainly a lot nicer than the Slytherin common room. The thought and work that went into creating this place was unreal. Gods she thought, that boy did nothing in half. Brianna was now looking at the weapons rack and the duelling platforms. The training she was about to undertake suddenly became very real all of a sudden. She had the feeling that before this was over she was going to go through the ringer.

South of the chamber, there were five duelling stands set up. To the North East corner of the chamber there was a potions lab with ten benches with cabinets filled with potion ingredients. To the South West Corner there were six shower stalls. Three were for males and the others for females. To the North West corner, there was a full infirmary. Harry told them what his plans were for the scorpion lair. He showed them the hidden chamber where Salazar used to keep his pet Basilisk.

Harry explained his plans for gathering information from Hogwarts and other well know places in the wizarding world. Once again, Blaise was amazed at the amount of thinking and planning that went into creating their intelligence gathering network.

Harry went around the chamber showing them the potions laboratory, the duelling platforms, the hot mineral bath for relaxation. He also showed them the projection screen that would be used for lessons in duelling and battle strategy as well as entertainment. He also showed them the muggle area which would contain the high definition stereo system along with pool tables, dart boards and other muggle entertainment. Harry felt that he needed his troops to see what muggles could offer. He wanted them to understand that even though muggles didn't have magic they had other ways to compensate which could be just as good. He showed them his electricity generators like the one he made for the trunk manor.

Harry told them that by next week, he was hoping to have all of the electronic equipment hooked up. He explained to them all of the goodies that was coming to them. It was Neville who said

"Harry, how are you going to make all of this muggle technology work? I heard that muggle electricity doesn't work at Hogwarts due to the many protection charms on the school?"

Harry smile and gave them a thorough explanation as to why regular muggle electronic doesn't work, and gave them a crash course on muggle physics. He told them about EMP and induced voltage and current spikes brought on by magical energy. He then explained about filtering and using iron casing. When Harry was done, they were all looking at him as if he had grown a second head. Bill was the first to say

"Well if you say so Harry. However I'll believe it when I see it."

Harry smiled and replied, "I'll bet you a case of butter beer."

Bill raised his eyebrows and said, "You got your self a bet."

Luna decided to speak up at that moment and ask a question which had been bugging her and said, "Harry, how are we going to get down here from the school?"

Harry looked at his fellow student and replied, "I will be making specialized portkey rings which use my unique apparition signature. Each ring will use the person's magical energy to recharge, but the portkey will simulate my specialized apparition signature during transit. I will be making your rings and you will help make your new wands on the next full moon which is slated to be September 12." He let that bit of information sink in.

Harry continued by saying, "The idea is for me to set the training schedule via your new cell phone when you get them. I will bring you all over here to instruct all of you on how to use the muggle device. You will find them a lot better than owls. You will head for your bed and put several jinxes and charms around your bed so that nobody bothers you. You will then portkey from your bed to the chamber and back to your bed when finished. I will instruct you on how to make your ring portkey work. Are there other questions?"

Harry saw that no one had anymore questions and decided to call it quits for the rest of the night. Tomorrow was going to be busy enough as it is. He needed to install the Fidelius charm on his new newspaper agency, and he needed to go into flux time tomorrow evening. He made sure to remind the ones that were not Occlumens yet to avoid the headmaster or professor Snape at all cost. He told them to never look directly into their eyes. They all portkeyed back to the trunk manor by Hogwarts lake. From there Harry made sure to portkey Blaise and Brianna back to their dorm beds.

September 24 Potter Castle

Harry was sitting at his favourite chair looking into the soft blue flames emanating from his fireplace. He was presently going over the final details of his attack plan. A lot of things had happened over the last two weeks. It all started on September 12 when Harry apparated back to the castle and Xiana told him that his computer was acting funny. Xiana told him that it kept beeping.

Harry had logged into his computer that day to find that his hacker contact had found something for him. At the same time he also had an e-mail from the storage company saying that there was a big shipment in his storage compartment. Harry had been pleasantly surprised at finding out that the American military manufacturer he was dealing with had finished his order three weeks in advance due to a Korean contract that had been cancelled over two weeks ago. Apparently the company had switched its manpower towards fulfilling his order. Harry unscripted his message found that it was from TechnoMage. This second message was even more interesting.

Scorpio

We did as you asked and carried out a World Wide Web search for some information on the names you gave us. We hacked into several government and underground sites. We found quite a bit of dirt. Apparently, there is a company by the name of Salazar shipping company which operates from the port of Pasni in Pakistan. The company is registered as a shipping company for wholesale cargo. They ship cargo from the Arabian Sea to the French port of Brest. From there the shipping company is re-registered as Marvolo Shipping Ltd. In total there are six ships which fall under Marvolo shipping. They are medium size freighter ships capable of hauling 1600 T.T.E.

These freighters leave the port of Brest to land at three American ports. One freighter goes to the port of Miami, one goes to New York, and the other one goes to Welmington port in Los Angeles California via the Panama Canal. They ship twice a year, but never the same ship at the same port. What they are really shipping we have no idea? This shipping company has been registered since 1978.

The other reference we found was a company by the name of R.Q.G. We found that company label in many places, mainly in the African Sudan and various arms manufacturers in Europe and America. We hacked into the U.S Federal registry under GSA Fed market. R.Q.G is officially registered as Riddle's Quality Gems. The original company was founded in the U.K and moved their business offshore twenty years ago. They have relocated from London to New York. They are quite close to the port of New York. They are located at 15 Jersey Lane. Look into your attachments, there is a data packet which includes detailed topographical maps, and pictures of all the areas including the ships. Hope this helps out. Thanks for the tip :)

Later

TechnoMage

September 12, had been very fruitful indeed. Early that evening, Harry had given instruction to Dobby and Winky to retrieve his order from his muggle storage area. While his elves were busy getting his order, his troops had showed up at the appointed time along with Ollivander whom Harry had given a timed portkey the previous week. That night Harry had made them his special portkey rings, while they were busy making their new wands. Harry supplied all of the material and carefully explained all of the steps to Ollivander. Harry had created all of the rings five days earlier in anticipation of the full moon. The blood runes had to be cast on a full moon. All that was needed to finish them now was to bleed and cast a series of specialized charms.

That night, Harry couldn't recall ever seeing a man as giddy as Ollivander was. You would think that he had just won the bloody lottery. Well he thought as giddy as Ollivander had been; his own troops were just as surprised and happy to be receiving their battle gear. Their most prized possession was by far their new Naquadah wands. They all couldn't believe how compatible they were with their new wands, and how powerful they were. Everyone that night had been casting spells left and right.

There was so much magical energy in the air that it was giving off an eerie glow over the castle grounds. Harry had taken the time to explain to them about their portkey ring. He told them how many times they could use it before it needed recharging. Harry also explained how to activate the disillusion charm built into the ring and how to program a destination. The ring could have up to four destinations. Every portkey ring was the same. It was an amethyst with a black diamond scorpion inlaid at its center. Another four black diamonds were placed at each cardinal point of the ring. The band was made of Naquadah. The one thing he would never tell them was the blood rune that was concealed in every ring just in case someone changed their mind he thought. Dumbledore's betrayal had been a bitter learning experience he would never forget.

Later that night Harry had also given each one of them a brand new cell phone, which was properly shielded against EMP pulses which should technically also shield against ambient magic. Harry already knew everything about their features since he requested it. He told them how it worked, and about text messaging and about setting an e-mail account with their phone, so that if they were somewhere where they couldn't talk they would still be able to type a massage to alert the others. This is where magic came in real handy. Harry knew that each phone would need to be recharged due to the fact that its battery would deplete. Harry had managed to emulate his electrical generator in his trunk manor and created a nine volt continuous source.

It essentially consisted of a storage crystal that could be recharged with raw magical energy, a Naquadria amplifier, and a converter crystal. Harry had recorded the DC energy signature and imprinted the converted crystal with it. Although the storage crystal was small, the fact that it had a Naquadria amplifier, Harry speculated that the cell phone could go for at least three weeks before it went dead. When that happened, the storage crystal would need to be recharged. Harry was the first to try his new cell phone by calling Xiana in the castle. The phone rang and Harry could hear his wife's voice loud and clear.

Now all Harry needed to do was to hollow out and rig the statues with electronic equipment and wiring. He would start with the Mer Chieftain statue outside of Myrtle's bathroom. He also needed to convert the trident and the sword into an antenna. Harry took the RCA dish apart from the base amplifier. He would hide the amplifier inside the statue and connect the trident to it. The trident would be made of white Iron with a core of Naquadah. The surface would be charmed to look like the rest of the statue.

That week following September 12, Harry had spent every spare moment installing, concealing and testing all of his muggle electronics. Harry made sure that all cabling leading down to the scorpion lair had been buried inside the rock strata. The other satellite dish he concealed in one of the trees on the other side of the lake. Harry used only high parseltongue for his concealment charms. This way they would be next to impossible to detect or break.

Later that Saturday, Harry had tested the whole package. He tested the cell phones outside and inside Hogwarts. The voice worked perfectly outside of Hogwarts but was a little choppy inside. It was more than adequate however. Harry had also developed independent power supplies for his camera just as he had done with the cell phones. The cameras themselves were all emitting at a different broadband frequency. This ensured that each camera could be tracked individually and it would make it easier to fix or dispose of a broken camera.

Harry made the energy storage device big enough so that it would last at least a year. All of the multiplexing units, receiver and modulation equipment were installed inside the inner chamber where all three Naquadria electrical generators were. These electrical generators provided all of the electricity to the projectors, camera monitoring board, the AC plenum, the lights for the green house, and the heat for the mineral bath. Some of the items like the mineral baths were also overlaid with magical charms.

By the time Sunday September 17 rolled around, Harry had managed to install 25 cameras and listening device through out the castle and on the grounds. He even had some strategic cameras placed deep in the forbidden forest. The only real obstacle left was to plant a bug inside the headmaster's office. Harry had managed to duplicate one of his trinkets but needed an excuse to plant the bug. Next time he met with Tonks, he would he would give her a cell phone, portkey ring and the trinket. Harry was now only taking DADA, Charms and Transfiguration for NEWT courses. He needed all of his time fighting Voldemort. It seemed like a waste of time studying the other courses.

Although he never took his OWLs in Runes and Arithmancy he would still be able to write the NEWT as long as he could prove he was competent to write those exams. The competency exam was the same thing as an OWL and was given two weeks prior to the NEWT final exam. Truth be told, Harry was learning next to nothing in his regular classes which was fine by him since he was not really paying attention anyway. This only seemed to piss off the carrot head and the beaver to no end. He always managed to show them up during every exercise. The beaver was starting to get really frustrated with him.

Most of his time however had been spent planning and avoiding trouble. All of his spare time had been used up setting the scorpion lair, teaching and maintaining his training. Harry had spent so much time in flux time training that it had become second nature now. Everyday he religiously practiced his Occlumency, his magical aura reading, his martial arts, his body magic and dark arts spells. On top of it all this he spent as much time as he could with Xiana.

Xiana herself had decided to help out with the magical training and also sit at command centre. She wanted to help monitor the cameras and conversations throughout the castle to see if there was any worthy news flying about. Xiana had also been working on their new broom design. Harry knew that Xiana was an excellent flyer and it had been his intention to develop his own broom during the summer but he never got around to it. Now that things were settling down a bit, it was a perfect time to start designing their new brooms. Harry knew that his wife wished that he could spend more time with her, but until he got rid of his NEWT's he would still be on a tight schedule. These days, he managed to get home between 10 and 11 pm at night. They would stay up a lot of times until 1 am talking and catching up on family issues and the day's events.

Harry also managed to get a big brake against Voldemort on September 17. After being given the information from his contacts, Harry wanted to scout these places to gather as much intelligence as possible. Harry's gut told him that Voldemort was into some illegal businesses but he needed to find out what it was. His first priority was to start crippling him in the pocket book and shut down his operations. Harry's first precedence that Sunday morning had been to purchase ten invisibility cloaks.

Harry knew from personal experience that they were indispensable for snooping duties. He got the cloaks in a little shop in Knockturn Alley. He also managed to buy ten dragon hide battle robes, ten pairs of dragon hide boots and wand holsters with all of the defence charms put on them. They were quite pricey, but if his hunch paid out, he would get all of that money back in spades. He took his purchase and went back to Potter castle.

Following his purchase, Harry went about finalizing his plans. He used his cell phone and told Charlie, Bill, Fleur, Luna, Neville, and Remus to portkey to the scorpion lair. Harry met Xiana in the living room and told her that they were going on a fact finding mission. Harry laughed when he saw his wife smiling in anticipation. He knew that his wife loved the action. She was definitely an adrenaline junky. They both used the floo to get to the scorpion lair just in time to see everyone else gathering.

Harry had conjured comfortable chairs and made his way to the computer station just below the small theatre style screen. He activated the projector which was connected to the computer and uploaded the images and maps that TechnoMage gave him. He uploaded a topographical map of the Pasni port and then proceeded to give a rough explanation of who his contact was, and gave them a detailed explanation of how he found out about Voldemort's operations.

Harry had explained to them how Voldemort was most likely funding his army. Harry then explained that they were going on a fact finding mission. They needed to find out who the players were and what contacts they were dealing with. Harry reminded them to check for any concealment and repelling charms.

They all came back that night, and Harry collected all of the significant data and decided to go into flux time to give him time to properly prepare their attack mission. After finding out what they were up against, Harry had no illusion that he needed to completely destroy Voldemort's finances. Later that day, his group all came back and they pooled all of their information together. They found out that Voldemort had set up a fake imports business as a front for exporting heroine and hashish from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Voldemort and his lieutenants had established a direct connection with the mountain farmers to grow these crops. Under the disguise of his export business he was able to hide the drugs using magic and get them into France. The drugs were then loaded with legitimate cargo from France in the form of wine and food exports. These medium size freighters would then make a drug run to America to all three ports. Once the ships were in ports, death eaters would seek their muggle contacts and carry out their transactions to transfer money and transport the drugs to predetermined distribution points.

The money would then be transferred via satellite hook-up to a Swiss bank account. There were two large shipments made to every port. One shipment was made in the fall and the other in early spring. These businesses had apparently been operating like this even while Voldemort had been a vapour. Harry estimated that by now there must be billions of dollars sitting in that Swiss account. God, with that amount of cash, he could sustain a bloody huge army indefinitely.

Harry had also found out that the R.Q.G business was nothing but a front to get his hands on cheap diamonds for arms sales. The company set up a network of contacts with various defence contractors. They would get ten percent of any arms sales to the third world countries. To make things even worse, they also had a large list of government contacts in third world countries which provided them with a cheap supply of diamonds which they used as collateral to buy their weapons. R.Q.G had a flat ten percent keep on all diamonds used in the purchase of weapons. The bastard was playing both sides and making out like bandits while muggles were killing each other. The diamonds were then sold with a huge mark-up to the large chain stores like Burkes and such. Harry had been lucky that day that a large majority of Voldemort's players had been busy planning for their next big shipments.

Harry and his troops had been able to capture, interrogate with Veritaserum and obliviate a number of people in charge. One particular gentleman by the name of Abbas Abdul Quadir had been a wealth of information on Voldemort's drug export business. The invisibility cloaks had come in very handy that day. Surprisingly most of the top lieutenants were either wizards or witches. There had been a hairy moment for Bill and Fleur but they had managed in the end. One low level death eater had been terminated and disposed of in order to avoid being discovered.

Harry had gone in flux time with Bill, Charlie, Fleur, the twins Fred and George, Ginny, Blaise and Brianna. Armed with all that new information Harry had needed time to prepare for their attack mission. Harry needed to get a hold of Voldemort's Swiss bank account number, and to also find out which of Voldemort's lieutenants was handling the accounts at Gringotts. For this to happen, he needed to dispose and impersonate Voldemort's top dogs when dealing with the muggles. One thing that Sun-Tzu always stressed was patience when planning for your objectives.

In order to have as many capable bodies as possible for this mission to take place. Harry had been forced to move his training time table for his troops. He had decided to allow flux time from September 16 to September 23. This way his troops would have a solid eight months of hard core training in the dark arts and duelling. Harry made sure to start every flux time at 10 pm at night, this way his troops could portkey to the trunk manor and would portkey back at the same time. This allowed them to get to their day classes until the required 24 hour period was done.

Harry himself had only gone in flux time the last two moths to take over Remus, Neville and Luna. By the time they had finished their last month of training, his most recent troops were over 75 percent caught up to his veteran troops. One thing was for certain, they were easily equal to most death eaters in lethality. Harry had been very pleased with Blaise and Brianna's progress. They took to the dark arts much quicker then the twins. That was not a big surprise to Harry, as he expected no less from Xiana's siblings. His wife had taken to the dark arts very easily herself. The same thing that happened to Bill and Charlie had happened to the twins. They had all been brought up to think of the dark arts as bad and should be avoided at all cost. It simply took time for them to realize that it was not the magic that was bad but how you intended to use it. Once they got over their childhood conditioning, their progress in the dark arts had increased exponentially.

Harry was brought back from his memories by Blaise and Ginny talking about a curse they were having difficulty with. Every spare moment had been devoted to training and planning for the mission. His troops were training up to the hour before they were scheduled to portkey to their destination.

Everyone understood that this was a seek-and-destroy mission. Most of his troops had not killed yet, and Harry knew that training to kill but actually doing it was entirely different. Harry turned from the projector and looked at Ginny who smirked at him. Harry was glad that Ginny had moved on and let go of him. Over the course of her first flux time, Ginny had finally learned many of Harry's secrets and now knew that he was married and madly in love with his wife. She had been very upset at first, but she came to understand that it was never meant to be between them.

Once she let go of her childhood fantasy their relationship turned to that of close friends. Over the course of the last seven months to Harry's surprise, Blaise and Ginny became very close. Harry noticed how very protective Blaise was to Ginny. They were now an official couple, and Harry was very happy for them. Blaise had been very smart about it. He had officially asked permission from all of Ginny's brothers to date her. On their first few dates they had been chaperoned, but soon they were left on their own. Ginny's brothers were happy with Blaise's decorum and intentions towards their sister.

Harry got up from his chair and noticed that everyone was waiting for the final brief to start. Harry went to the projector and brought up on the attack plan. He wanted to hit every site. The trick was to surprise them. The plan was to allow the three drug ships to proceed to destination and allow the transaction of money to be completed with the muggle contacts. When that was done they were to kill all of all contacts, destroy the drugs and destroy the ship beyond repair. Harry and Xiana would be at the last transaction point which would occur at Bridgeport New York. When the time came, Harry would try to transfer all of Voldemort's money to his Swiss account.

Those members who would participate in the transaction were to remember the Swiss bank account numbers in case something went wrong in New York. Each group leader was responsible for finding his or her transaction contact, eliminate them and impersonate them using polyjuice potion. When they were done in America they would all portkey to Marvolo shipping in France. When they were done eliminating that site they were to proceed to Pasni Pakistan and take care of all the contacts there.

Earlier that week Harry had made sure to open up a Swiss bank account himself with all of the security bells and whistles that the muggles offered. He didn't really care because if he was successful in moving Riddle's money to his Swiss account, he would then split the pot into much smaller holding and have them scattered around the planet. Harry decided to address the troops.

Harry looked at the screen projector and said, "All right everyone, it's time to go through our check list. Everyone should have their dragon hide cloaks, boots, a potion belt containing two vials of polyjuice, two vials of blood replenishing potion, two vials of nutrient potions, and two vials of pepper up potion. You should all have two wands. Your new wand should be in your new wand holster strapped to your arm, and you old wand should be safely tucked in your dragon hide boot. You should also have your katana strapped to your backs with concealment charms and notice me not charms on them. "Harry gave them time to go through the check list one by one. Harry made sure that his wife and he both had their full basilisk battle wardrobes on.

Harry waited until they were done and said, "Each of you should also have a portkey necklace with your pre-programmed co-ordinates. Activate your portkey rings if you get into a sticky situation and you can't make the next rendezvous point. Each pair will carry an invisibility cloak with them. Make sure that you have your cell phones with you. You can send quick messages and apparition coordinate if you need to. The name of the game is stealth never forget that. Are there any questions?"

Charlie raised his hand and said, " Harry, if one group needs help and we are finished with our group do you want us to go and help them out or should they just portkey out of there?"

Harry replied, "If your group is finished with their targets and another group calls for help than by all means if you are not injured use apparition to get there and lend a hand. If the situation gets too sticky, use a fuel air curse and use the confusion created by it to portkey out of there. Any other questions?"

Harry looked around and saw that there was no other question and said, "All right, here are the groups. Members of group Wolf will be Remus, Fred, George and Lee. You will be taking on the freighter Mal Foi in Miami. Members of group X-Ray will be Bill, Charlie, Blaise, Fleur, and Ginny. You will be taking on the freighter Le Maudit in Los Angeles. Members of Group Zulu will be Xiana, Neville, Luna, Brianna and myself. We will be taking on the freighter Le Diable and R.Q.G head office."

Harry looked around to see if anyone had any questions. No one had raised their hands and continued with his speech. "Remember to stay focused and when the time is right attack. Use group duelling techniques and always watch each others' back. You have all practiced very hard to become proficient in both light and dark magic. Finally remember that your enemy's are utterly remorseless, and evil. They will kill you at a moments notice. Do NOT give them that chance. I want to see each and every one of you back here safe and sound when this is done. Lastly contact leaders for each group will be Remus, Bill and me. Remember, do not under estimate muggle weapons. Make use of the Loki shield to protect yourselves against bullets. Good luck"

Harry got to the center of the chamber and said, "Group Zulu form around me." Harry heard Bill and Remus do the same thing with their groups. Once they were all in formation, Harry said, "Invisibility cloaks on."

Harry looked around one more time and bellowed, "Activate portkeys!" Everyone felt the tugs around their navels and they were off.

Miami Florida

Remus and his group landed behind one of the crane shacks at the industrial port of Miami. Remus took stock of their situation and noticed that no one was visible within their location.

Remus said, "All right boys, we need to find the port master's office to see where the ship is located." Remus took out his map to pinpoint their location. He noticed that they weren't too far from the port master's office. Remus told the twins to bring up the rear and start casting all the magical detection charms that they new. Remus knew for a fact that Voldemort's forces liked to operate in the shadows. That meant that they must have a secret base of operation somewhere in the port where they can meet their muggle contacts without fear of being jumped by muggle security service. They got to the port master's building and not knowing where they were going, they walked around the lobby until Lee whispered, "Remus, look at this, it looks like a map of the building."

Remus and the twins came to have a look and sure enough it was a map of the building which showed the port master's office on the third floor. Remus looked around and spotted a fire escape. He told his group to follow him. They carefully made their way to the third floor and found the office. No one seemed to be there at the moment. Through the large window Remus could see a large muggle screen with the entire layout of the port. It was hard to tell from the hallway but the docks seemed to be labelled on the screen. Remus tested the door and found that it was not locked. They all stepped in under their invisibility cloak and made their way to the large wall screen.

George was the first one to spot it and whispered, "Look guys, the Mal Foi is docked at a place labelled ML-51?"

Remus took a closer look at the map and located the port master's building in relation to the pier. He took out his wand and cast the memorie spell at the map. Now his wand would be able to point him to any destination he wanted on the map. They all got out of the building and Remus carefully led them to their destination.

After about a thirty minute walk, they found the ship. Remus and his group started casting all the detection spells that they knew. When they were done, they found that the ship had six different perimeter alarms and concealment charms. Before boarding the ship they needed to get rid of all these defences. Remus and Lee took care of the perimeter alarms and the twins broke the concealment charms. With that done Remus told his group to sit tight and wait for someone to come out of the ship. They waited for about an hour when they saw a large person wearing what appeared to be a black cloak.

They followed him from a distance. After about ten minutes they saw that he was standing in front of what appeared to be a muggle portable toilet. They saw the cloaked man looking around, probably making sure that no muggle was around and he entered the portable toilet.

Fred finally said, "Why would anyone take their wand in the Loo?"

Remus replied, "I have a feeling that the muggle toilet is not what it appears to be. We are going to wait until he comes out and then we will investigate the place." While waiting, Remus called Bill and Harry to give them a progress report and find out how they were doing. Apparently Harry had already programmed his wand at headquarters to help him find the ship quickly. Harry and his group found an underground distribution centre. Harry thinks this is where the muggles prepare the drugs for street distribution. Remus now believed that they would find something similar. After the transactions were complete Harry wanted them to completely destroy the facility. Bill was in the same boat as him. His group had also found their ship and were now looking at a muggle portable toilet also. These cell phones were incredible, Remus thought. They could have up to six people on a conference call.

Just as Remus cut his connection, he saw the same man coming out of the portable toilet. He waited until the man was well out of sight and he took his group towards the toilet. He cast a couple of revealing charms to see if there were any alarms on the door. He did not find an alarm but he found a muggle repelling charm. He left the charm in place and opened the door. Remus found what appeared to be a regular toilet. He took his wand and cast Revelo. A door magically appeared and they opened the door and proceeded down a flight of stairs.

As they approached the bottom of the stairs, Remus could make out voices. They were now at the bottom of the stairs and followed a poorly lit corridor which opened up onto a work area. The work area was fairly large and had no windows. Remus had his group crouched down and followed the southern wall until they came to a set of shelves. Remus led them behind the shelves until they were close enough to hear voices.

A guy by the name of Carlos said, "Man I tell you, I sure hate dealing with these Limy bastards. Fucking guy looks at us as if we are worms. Hey Sam pass me the scale, will you?"

The guy named Sam passed him the scale and replied, "I know what you mean, I would love nothing better than to ice the fucker. What kind of a fucking name is Crab? They must have an awful lot of retarded people in England. "

Carlos answered back, "Yah I hear you man. You got to admit though, their shit is good stuff and they have the best wholesale price on the market. That fellow Goyle is going to be handling the transaction tonight. Just don't piss these guys off. Just take their shit and say nothing. Speaking of that, I got the O.K from the cartel to wire the money into their account. He will be there to type the account number."

George's ears were tomato red after that last comment about Limys. He thought to himself, we will see who is retarded tonight you piss ant. George looked at his brother and could tell he was thinking the same thing. Remus for his part was very intrigued that Crabbe and Goyle were over here. So that meant that Voldemort was using some of his veteran troops to handle the transactions. They needed to eliminate Crabbe and get Goyle to spill the account number to him. Piece of cake he thought, yah right. Although fairly slow on the take they were quite dangerous and needed to be dealt with quickly.

Remus took one last look at the place to come up with the best battle plan and whispered to his group to follow him. Remus carefully made his way back out of the work area and back towards the freighter. They proceeded unto the ship. Remus told the twins to make their way to the back of the ship and take out any opposition, sabotage the engine room and work their way towards the bridge of the ship. Lee and he made their way towards the front of the ship.

They made their way towards the forward hatch and went below decks. They found a bunch of crates and removed the invisibility cloaks and cast a disillusion and a noise suppression charm on themselves. Remus took out two dark crystals the size of oranges and activated them. These were another creation from Harry. The way Harry explained it the crystals had a diamond core with a quartz outer layer.

The surface of the sphere had some runes etched on it and a small black rod which connected the rune to the inner core. He called black rod Naquadria. There were three runes on the sphere. One was a summoning charm, the other was an anti-apparition ward and the third was an activation rune. The other sphere was the same except that it had a rune that would create an anti portkey ward. The sphere's wards would extend over a three hundred feet radius. These would be very useful because casting these wards on the spot was very draining and you didn't want to be weak when going into battle.

They took out their katanas and began looking for the deck hands. There was no sense alerting the death eaters until it was time. Like Harry said, stealth was the order of the day. Remus found his first victim and quickly dispatched him by severing the jugular below the left ear. Remus made sure to cast silencio before taking action. Lee dispatched two more muggles and they levitated the bodies behind the crates and put a tarp on them. They made their way unto the bridge and they could hear Crabbe and Goyle discussing their meeting tonight. Lee was standing right behind Remus and took a step backward when he accidentally bumped into a small bell.

Crabbe and Goyle immediately took out their wands and stunning charm towards their direction, on instinct Remus ducked out of the way but Lee was forced to use a protego charm to avoid getting stunned. By this time he had revealed his position and Crabbe cast the crucio spell at him. Lee didn't have time to dodge and was immediately under the most intense pain he had ever known. Remus had to think fast, Goyle was the one who had the account number so he cast Ater-Cuspis which sent a slew of highly poisoned arrows towards Crabbe. Crabbe was the first to see the small arrows head towards him. He released his curse on the boy and tried to move out of the way. He missed most of them but two arrows managed to get him. One hit him in his wand arm and the other arrow lodged itself in his left thigh. Crab immediately dropped to the floor and screamed his head off. The poison from the arrow caused the blood to become highly acidic. You would literally start burning from the inside.

Meanwhile Goyle couldn't see his attackers and figured out that they were under a concealment charm. He cast a Revelo and sure enough he saw his two attackers. To his surprise he recognized one as the wolf Lupin. Not wasting any time, Goyle send an Avada Kadavra towards the wolf. Remus felt a cold wave spread through him and realized that they were no longer disillusioned.

Remus looked to his right and noticed that sickly neon green light coming towards him at tremendous speed. Remus knew that he couldn't move out of the way quickly enough. Suddenly a table sailed in front of Remus and shattered into kindle. Lee had sent an accio spell followed by ablegatio the banishing charm. Goyle was thrown against the wall but managed to land on his feet and Remus followed up with some layered spells Stupefy-Petrificus Totallus-Immobilus. Goyle cast a protego but by the last spell and the extreme power these spells seemed to have, his shield failed and Lee had sent a stupefy his way. Goyle couldn't dodge the last one and was knocked out.

Lee made his way to Remus who was panting and looked almost grey in colour, probably because of his wolf sense on full alert plus the adrenaline. Remus looked at Lee and said, "Thanks for saving my life with that table, there is no way I could have moved out of the way in time."

Lee replied, "No problem mate. God damn I hate that curse." Remus squeezed his shoulder and turned around and cast Incarcerous-Metallum at Goyle. Steel like ropes came out of Remus wand and wound their way around Goyle's body. While Remus was busy preparing Goyle for interrogation, Lee looked at the bastard who cast the Crucio spell at him. Lee narrowed his eyes at Crabbe and remembered what Harry told them. Show no mercy to the enemy. Lee could hear Crabbe simpering on the ground, and Lee wondered how many people that fucker had killed, maimed and raped in his lifetime as a death eater.

With that thought, Lee took out his katana sword and with a quick downward swipe he loped off Crabbe's head. Lee then pointed his wand and cast Incendio-Maximus. Crabbe's body combusted with extreme heat and after about five minutes there was nothing but a pile of ash. By then Goyle had been enervated and watched the whole seen with the boy and his long time friend Crabbe. To say that Goyle was shocked was an understatement.

The wolf and the boy had used dark magic and had killed without a moment's thought. What the hell was going on here, Goyle thought. Finally he looked at Remus and could feel the hatred coming from the wolf.

Goyle said, "How is it that one of Dumbledore's stooge is killing without remorse. Won't you get into trouble with your precious leader of the light?"

Remus replied with a sneer on his face, "Sorry to disappoint you, but my previous manager was far too stupid and slow to adapt. My new manager is much more efficient you see. He doesn't like to recycle old stock, you understand? Perhaps you have heard of my manager, he goes by the name of the Scorpion Sorcerer." Remus finished the last with a wolfish smile on his face. Remus could see that Goyle was very aware of the Scorpion Sorcerer and smelled the fear emanating from Goyle.

Goyle stuttered, "What do you want. I have nothing for you."

Remus replied back, "We need some information from you." Remus heard the hatch open and whipped his wand out, but saw that the twins had arrived.

Remus said, "How did it go boys?"

Fred answered back, "Eliminated six hostiles, and the ship is rigged for destruction at your discretion oh great one." The twins looked at each other with an evil smile.

Remus smiled and said, "Good work boys. Well done indeed. We had a little confrontation but you are just in time for the interrogation. "

With that Remus pulled a vial of Veritaserum and roughly grabbed the back of Goyle's head and tipped it back. Lee squeezed his mouth open and Remus put three drops of truth potion into Goyle's mouth. Remus waited until he saw Goyle's eyes turn slightly milky and began his interrogation.

Remus said, "Name!"

Goyle replied, "Gregory Goyle Senior."

Remus asked "How long have you been a death eater?"

Goyle replied in a flat monotonous tone, "22 years I have been in the service of the Dark Lord."

Satisfied that the truth serum was working, Remus decided to get down to business and asked, "What is the Swiss account number that you are going to transfer the money to from your drug sales?"

Remus could see perspiration forming on Goyle's brows, and knew he was fighting with all his might to resist answering the question. Remus bellowed, "Answer me now!"

Goyle replied, "The account number is "H666-O31416-9696R-7C13-99R9-246U-X777" Remus wrote each number sequence and verified that he had copied the right numbers correctly. When he was done copying the account number he decided to ask who the other death eaters were on the other ships.

Remus then said, "Who are the other death eaters on the other freighters to L.A and New York?"

Goyle replied, "On Le Maudit McNair, Montague and Parkinson. On Le Diable there is Rabastan, Bella's husband Rudolphus Lestrange, Markus Pemberton, Tiberius Flint, and six vampires."

Remus was now thinking furiously and finally said, "Why do you have so many of your people on Le Diable?"

Goyle replied, "There is a crate under a concealment charm where the drugs are hidden that has a very large quantity of diamonds, rubies, sapphires and amethysts."

Remus finally asked, "What is your master up to these days?"

Goyle replied, "He is going to meet a large contingent of mercenaries. I don't know where or when but it will be soon."

Remus looked at Goyle and decided that this was all the information he needed. He took out a pair of scissors and cut several locks of hair from Goyle's head. Remus then took out his katana and slashed at Goyle neck just below the left ear. Blood spurted everywhere, Remus took an empty vial and filled it with Goyle' blood and cast a stasis charm on it. The twins incinerated the body while Remus decided to phone the other two group leaders and inform them of who they were facing just in case they didn't know.

Remus took out his cell phone and dialled Harry first. Harry answered and Remus began filling him on his discoveries. Thank God, he managed to get the Swiss account info because Harry only managed to get the log in and a password code before the contact was terminated by a vampire.

Harry managed to secure the computer. Remus also told him who he was facing on their freighter. When he was done he called Bill and gave him the same information. When he was done he hung up and looked at his watch. With all of the excitement they had an hour before meeting the cartel. Remus decided to make another sweep of the ship to make sure that they did not miss anybody. He told Lee to go collect their anti-portkey and apparition ward generators.

When they were done, Remus rigged the explosives to go off early the following day. With that done they made their way to the distribution lab to transfer the money and destroy all hostiles. Two hours later they had completed their mission, and waited for Harry's signal.

Port of Los Angeles.

It was late in the evening and a full blown conflict was raging. Bill and his troops were currently taking care of the muggles, but with some difficulty, not to mention the death eaters that were on the ground. Remus had informed him of who was on the ship; however there was no mention of the death eaters already on the ground. Earlier they had been dealing with seven death eaters. That number had been cut down to two. Currently Charlie and he were at point, and the last death eaters were hauled up behind a thick wall barricade. Bill began moving his troops into a circular advance.

The concealment charms were long gone, and it seemed that these death eaters could see through invisibility blankets. The enemy had been very generous launching Avada Kedavra and Crucio at them. Bill was very careful and made sure that his troops were never out in the open and always had solid protection as they made their advance.

Bill looked at Blaise and Ginny and said, "Take the left flank. He then told Charlie and Brianna to take the right flank. "On my mark, move. Bill let his hand down and his troops began their assault. Just as they were nearing the barricade when a muggle pulled out of the barricade and took out his muggle weapon and fired at Ginny.

Ginny was the first to see movement and saw the muggle come up behind the barricade, he took out his gun and Ginny cast Stannum-Ancile. A silver shield surrounded her and bullets were being sent back to the attacker. At that moment Blaise got within view of the muggle and cast Ater-Cuspis which sent a slew of poisoned arrows at the muggle. One arrow hit him in the eye and he was dead before he hit the ground. At that moment a death eater ran from the barricade trying to escape but Blaise sent a Reducto in front of the man. The spell stuck the ground pulverizing the concrete and sent the death eater falling. The death eater was a lot more agile then they thought when he twisted mid air just as he was falling and cast an Avada Kadavra at Blaise. Ginny reacted within instant and cast Accio Blaise. She put full power to her wand and Blaise was summoned like a bullet to Ginny.

The death eater had enough time to get to his feet and cast Crucio at Blaise just as he was nearing Ginny's arms. Blaise went down writhing in pain. Ginny's eyes burned with a hellish fire and cast Semivir-Testis. With a grim smile, Ginny watched as the death eater gave an unholy scream. His face was twisted in pure agony. He was in so much pain that he vomited on himself. Where the man's genitals were, there was a dark reddish stain rapidly growing. Ginny had just castrated the man. Blaise had just enough time to stand up and saw the man's testicles come out of the bottom of his pants. All the men in Bill's group suddenly became very green in the face.

Charlie was the first one to speak and said, "Bill, I swear on my magic to do every thing in my power not to piss off Ginny. She is just down right scary."

Bill just looked at Charlie and nodded his head in agreement. Blaise looked at what Ginny had done, and made a mental note right there to avoid pissing off his girlfriend at all cost. Fleur had seen Ginny's handy work and they looked at each other. Fleur did the only thing she could and gave her a thumbs-up. Bill got everyone's attention and told them to form up on him.

Bill said, "Alright everyone, listen up. These guys are holed up way too tight. I wanted to reserve this as a last measure but we have no choice now. With this bit of magic the protection wards will be breached and the muggle police will be alerted to our position. When we are done here, we go straight to the ship, blow it up and portkey to France to wait for the others. We are going to use Harry's new weapon which he calls a fuel air detonation. Lets retreat behind those containers we saw by that ship."

They made a tactical retreat to the containers which was about 200 ft from their current position all the while avoiding curses which were flying their way. They finally reached the containers and took position.

Bill said, "On my mark every one conjures up a fog of propane gas thirty feet above the barricade."

Bill gave the signal and everyone made the wand movement to conjure a propane cloud. McNair who was hauled up behind the barricade looked at the other two junior death eaters and asked them if they smelled something weird. Just as he finished asking them he saw a small purple ball the size of a marble go over their head. The last thing that they saw was a huge ball of fire heading their way, and a loud sound rushing in all directions. The remaining forces were completely destroyed where they stood. Muggle forensic expert would later recall the horrifying scene. The bodies had been burned to a crisp, and were lying on the ground. Nearly all of their organs had been ruptured. One of the bodies was lying on his back with his body torn open length wise. His liver was crushed.

After the blast, Bill finally understood the power of that spell. Holy shit, he thought, he had never seen destruction of that scale being done with a wand before. The barricade had been turned to rubble. They had been a fair ways when they had conjured the propane cloud, but still the resulting concussion wave had made their bones rattle where they stood. Bill was fairly certain that nothing had lived underneath the cloud. With that he told his group to get to the ship. Thirty minutes later, a freighter was burning in Los Angeles industrial port. Muggle authorities would spend weeks on the case, but come up with no clues as to the perpetrators of the destruction. When the ship was ablaze, Bill portkeyed his group to France.

Later that Evening in New York Harbour

Harry was on the ship Le Diable and was currently taking stock of their situation. As his luck would have it, he had run into the largest contingent of death eaters amongst the groups. Thanks to Remus' recon he now knew why. Harry wanted that crate of gems. His group was systematically cleansing each ship compartment one at a time.

The ship was under lock down and his anti apparition and portkey ward generators were carefully concealed and operating. They had eliminated three of the bloody Vampires already. One of the Vampires had been caught by surprise, when Harry had been quick enough to parry his axes and caught the vampire in the heart with his katana. The blood sucker had disintegrated on site. The other two had been caught with dark arrows. In many ways Vampires were more formidable then magical beings. They were incredibly strong, fast and ruthless.

They were all hauled up where the drugs were and Harry had just about enough dealing with those fucking blood suckers. Time to put an end to them.

Harry whispered, "All right, here is what we are going to do. We are going to replicate sun light. Recall book three page 65 from Necron's series." Everyone confirmed the spell he was talking about.

Harry said, "Stay along the bulkheads at roughly ten feet apart. When we are in position I will give off a red spark and I want you to cast the spell and work your way towards the centre crates."

Everyone got into position and then Harry fired off the signal and they all cast Solaris- Optimus- Lanthinus. The room was bathed in pure sunlight. They suddenly heard screams coming off from the crates in front of them. They all saw three vampires lit up like torches. They were setting fire to the tarps on the crates. After what seemed like a minute the Vampires were nothing but a pile of ash. Harry cast a quick Aquanimus and put out the fires.

Harry said, "Alright, everyone cast revealing charms, we are looking for a crate which has some markings on it, probably R.Q.G. If you find it, let me know." They all got to work casting a series of revealing charms.

Neville said, "Harry, I can feel a ward over here but I can't break it?" Harry came over and cast a dark revealing charm at the ward. Harry replied, "No wonder, its cast in parseltongue. Voldy himself must have been in here." Harry concentrated and everyone heard him hissing and then a soft green shield appeared and flickered out. At that moment a box appeared. Harry opened it and found that it was full of small teak boxes which were full of gems. Harry smiled and put the lid back on and cast a sticking charm to it. He reduced the box and safely stowed it in one of his charmed pockets. When he was done, he told Brianna, Neville and Luna to make their way towards the back of the ship, while Xiana and he would go forward.

Harry and Xiana were approaching the anchor ports of the ship. The place was poorly lit but they slowly and carefully made their way towards the paint lockers. Suddenly a shadow popped out from behind the locker and cast a bludgeoning spell point blank at Xiana which caught her right in her left shoulder. She screamed and was blasted back against some bails, which happened to be filled with packed cotton. Had she hit the bulkhead she would have busted her head.

Harry watched it all happen as if it were in slow motion and suddenly he was filled with a rage so hot, that his veins felt as if they were on fire. Anyone looking at him could see his eyes glowing like neon orbs. The attacker was about to cast another spell towards Xiana when Harry unconsciously cast Retroago-Figere-Scipio. The attacker had just started uttering Avada when Harry's spell hit the attacker. Harry heard Kadavra and the attacker's wand exploded. Harry heard a scream as if a banshee was dying. Harry didn't waste any time and cast Nebula-Exustio. This dark curse causes a cloud of hydrofluoric acid to surround the attacker. The screams suddenly became unholy. Harry quickly cast a silencing charm and ran to his wife.

Xiana said, "Sorry love, I wasn't quick enough. Fuck this smarts."

Harry replied, "Don't move, love. It's going to be all right. I'm going to open up your robe and scan you."

Even in pain, Xiana gave him a mischievous smile and said, "Really love I don't thing this is the time for that sort of thing."

Harry looked at her, smiled and just shook his head and said, "Hey keep your mind out of the gutter Missis Potter."

Xiana smiled as Harry kneeled down, and opened up her battle robe. He noticed a dark purple bruise on her left shoulder. Thank God Harry had learned some medical magic. He used his wand and uttered Conviso- Corporeus. Harry read the readings and felt instant relief wash over him. Xiana had been badly bruised but no dislocated shoulder. Thank the lord for the basilisk robes. They took the brunt of the curse that's for damn sure. Harry waved his wand over her abdomen and saw that the baby was fine. Damn the thought of something happening to his wife and child had twisted his gut into tatters. He took out a healing and a pepper up potion, making sure that they were both safe to take for a pregnant woman. He then cast a healing charm on her head and shoulder.

Harry helped her to her feet and made sure she was o.k. He then went to the attacker who was now kneeling on the ground pouring a bucket of water on herself. Harry could see the skin peeling off her hands, but what really surprised him was the face that was looking back at him. This attacker Harry remembered very well from his 5th year as he still had some faint scarring on the back of his hands. Harry still had his hood on and a concealment charm on his face.

As he approached the figure Harry said, "Well, well, well! If this isn't a genetic cross between a toad and a human being. Well this would make her a half-breed. Hello Umbridge, seems you have fallen into some bad company lately. Tsk, Tsk,Tsk" Harry's voice came out cold and harsh.

The pathetic lump of shit kneeling before him looked up at him and screeched, "Who are you, and what do you want to do with me. You aren't going to rape me are you?" She said the last bit with her usual sickly sweet voice.

Harry replied, "I would rather fuck a dead tree rather then touch you." He spat. Without waiting for another response he waved his wand and pinned her up against the forward bulkhead. He then waved his wand again and the top half of her robe was stripped off to reveal a sagging set of breast.

Umbridge who was now in extreme pain and was by now in a complete panic as she recognized the scorpion emblem on his robes and said, "Who are you?" She realized that her only chance now was to activate her portkey. She slowly reached down to her robes with her left hand and felt the familiar object and quickly pulled it out and screeched "Activate!"

Harry knew what she was doing, but he let her knowing that her realizing that there was no escape would mentally crush her. When nothing happened she threw the portkey on the ground and kept asking who he was. Finally he pulled he hood off and laughed.

Umbridge had been ready for anybody but this boy, who was looking back at her. With a sneer she said, "Ah now I know who you are little Potty!" Now a very bright move on her part she realized too late.

Harry sneered and said, "I have been dreaming of catching up to you later for some well deserved vengeance on my part. It seems fate had a much shorter time line than me. Now you fucking sycophant whore, you are going to beg for death, I swear. Lets start with some retribution in kind shall we."

Xiana knew what that woman had done to him and she was not going to stop him no matter what he did. Well, some things she would, but it had to be really bad. Harry decided to conjure his plasma sphere. He cast anther silencing charm and started launching sphere after sphere at her. Harry was burning 'I will not' and 'tell lies' across her breasts. The screams coming from the hag was music to his ears. After about twenty minutes he had the sentence spelled out across her breasts. The flesh was burned black, and knew that the burns had to be excruciating.

She managed to utter her last defiance and said, "Don't worry you little shit, you aren't going to get out of here, Rudolphus will take care of you little Potty."

Harry gave her a feral grin and replied, "Oh, do you mean the Rudolphus Lestrange, husband to that psycho bitch Bellatrix. Well I'm afraid that he left our plane of existence about forty five minutes ago. He is currently just a pile of protoplasm draining into the ship's bilge."

When he was done berating her he said, "Well as much fun as this was, I have business to attend to." He cast the following ancient spell, Ki-Ud-diþ . A swarm of carnivorous desert scarabs descended on her and began eating her alive. The screams, gore and the stench coming off her was enough to make Xiana lose her lunch. When the scarabs were done there was nothing but a skeleton with little bits of flesh left on her bones sticking to the bulkhead. Harry banished the scarabs when he heard Luna, Neville and Brianna say, "Holy shit Harry?"

Harry whipped around and noticed who it was, and said "Sorry I'm a little late, but Umbridge kept me occupied for a little while. As you can see she has gone through my special weight loss program."

Neville frowned and said, "Remind me not to piss you off ok?" Harry just grinned and said. "Status report"

Briana replied, "We took care of eight muggle mercenaries and two wizards. We don't know where Rabastan is though."

Harry replied, "All right, I have the computer and the login details and Remus was able to get me the Swiss account number. It's time for the transaction to occur. We are supposed to meet them at eight p.m."

They all rigged the ship for destruction and made their way to the muggle underground lab. Under the invisibility blanket Harry took some polyjuice potion and became one Rudolphus Lestrange. He carefully removed himself from the blanket and took out the death eater's computer and made his way to the table. He noticed Rabastan in the corner and just nodded to him. Rabastan looked up at him and nodded back. Harry had dispersed his troops not too far from the entrance to the work area in case they needed to make a quick escape. Harry noticed that there must have been over a hundred muggles working in the lab. God damn, he thought, this is going to get bloody.

Harry made his way to the table and took out the computer. He booted the laptop and waited for the access menu to come up. He hoped to hell that the login and password that he got from Lestrange worked. He carefully typed in the login and password and crossed his fingers. The computer waited a second and came back access denied. 'Fuck,' he thought, 'what is going on?' Harry took some deep breath and looked at the keyboard. He noticed that the stupid caps lock was on. God damn infernal stupid ass machine, he thought.

He retyped the login name and password. The computer blinked and the desktop came to life. Thank God he thought, one hurdle out of the way. He connected to the muggle Internet system and connected to the Swiss bank transaction home page. He had memorized the account number that Remus had provided him. He selected account transaction and typed in the thirty one bit account number. The man sitting in front of him was wearing dark sunglasses and had a long jagged scar running from his left eyebrow down to his chin. He was a rather foreboding fellow but truth be told, Harry found him kind of amusing. No doubt this guy was intimidating to muggles, but after having dealt with Voldemort, this guy might as well pass himself off as a circus clown. The man sitting across from him was named Ethan.

Ethan said, "Are we ready for the transaction?"

Harry replied coldly, "Let's get this done, muggle." The man sitting in front of him lifted his eyebrow but said nothing. This was not the first time he was dealing with these strange people. His people kept going to them because they had some real good shit, and had low prices. His cartel leader had made it clear that he was to shut his mouth and get the transaction finalized. Ethan turned the computer towards him and typed in his account number.

Harry turned the computer back to him and pushed the enable screen button. Now came the tricky part. The first transaction went through and then the web page asked Harry if he wanted to carry out another transaction. He typed in his own Swiss account number and Voldemort's account and asked to have all of the money transferred from Voldemort's to his account. The page asked him if he wanted to really do this and Harry pressed the yes button. A little time bar showed up. It was showing him the transaction in progress.

Ethan looked at him and said, "Is there any problems man?"

Harry replied, "No, connection just seems a bit slow today." Ethan looked at him and nodded. After about five minutes, the screen blinked and said transaction complete. Harry looked at Ethan and said, "O.K we are done. See you next spring. We are going to unload the rest of the heroin. "

Ethan said, "I'll have some of my guys help you." He said this as if daring him to contradict him.

Harry replied, "No problems. Pick them out and I'll meet them at the exit." Ethan went and picked four of his guys. Harry stood up and nodded to Rabastan. Rabastan decided to stay in the lab, which suited Harry immensely. This would make it much easier to deal with the muggle until they could destroy the lab. Harry still didn't know how much money he had transferred but that could wait. He needed to take care of business here first. As Harry was walking toward the exit where his troops were hiding, he gave them the hand signal to follow him.

His group under invisibility cloak followed Harry and the four muggles. Once outside, Harry gave the signal for his group to ambush the muggles. The fight was over before the muggles could even retaliate. After banishing the bodies into the sea, they all retreated behind a container and they all pulled off their invisibility cloaks.

Neville said, "Were we successful?"

Harry smiled and said, "Thanks to your hard work and dedication we have just cleaned out Voldemort of his funds. Don't ask me how much, because I didn't have time to check. I'll do this later tomorrow. For now we need to destroy that lab and destroy the ship. Here is what we are going to do..."

The all made their way back to the entrance to the lab. Harry whispered Ki-Ud-Gir-Zakal. Suddenly a desert storm came into full force inside the building. Then Harry cast Zi-Pà-úrgu-Mìna, which brought forth thirty Jackal warriors. Harry told them to kill everything they find inside. His desert fury confused everyone even Rabastan and soon Harry heard screams upon screams coming from the lab. Harry had no remorse about this. The muggles were responsible for destroying the lives of thousands of their kind with these drugs. In his books they were evil and if there were a hundred less of them in the world, then so be it.

Harry told his group to remove their invisibility blankets and to mow down anyone coming towards the exit. It didn't take long for Harry to hear a slew of Ater-Cuspis being fired. After about thirty minutes. Harry lifted the desert fury and banished his jackal warriors. The sight that greeted them was a horror show from hell. Body pieces were all over the place. Blood was accumulating in pools in the floor's depression area. No one was alive, not even the wizards. Harry made sure of that. No bloody portkey or apparition was going to work tonight, he thought.

With that grim task out of the way, Harry told his troops to conjure a large propane cloud inside the building. They all took out their wands and conjured the propane cloud. He told them to get out and wait for him on the docks. Harry waited until they were safely out of the way and then cast a plasma sphere at the cloud and immediately apparated out to the docks. Within seconds they all felt as if a small earthquake had gone off. They could see smoke and fire billowing out the muggle portable toilet.

Over the next ten hours they had destroyed all of the labs, ships and R.Q.G headquarters. Harry took all of the documents he could find before levelling the place. They had killed all of Voldemort's hired help in the drug trade. The coup de grace had been the complete transfer of Voldemort's war chest from his Swiss bank account to Harry's. This would be officially known as the start of Voldemort's downfall. Harry would face many more challenges in the coming year, but this act had been a truly spectacular feat. The famous Chinese general Sun-Tzu would have been very proud indeed.

It was around 5:00 am the following morning that everyone portkeyed back to the scorpion lair. After fighting in America, France and lastly in Pakistan, the scorpion army was utterly wasted. They all had cuts and bruises. Several members were limping. Harry had made sure to let Dobby and Winky know to prepare beds and food for when the troops got back. Everyone made it back, showered, ate and hit the sack completely exhausted. Most of the regular students used their portkey rings to get back to their dorms. Harry and the rest of the troops stayed at the scorpion lair. Well Harry thought this had truly been a month of challenges. He went to the conjured bed where Xiana was already sleeping. He lay beside her and in less than a minute, he was fast asleep.

Harry felt as if he was falling off a precipice and found himself drifting through a swirling black fog mixed with fiery red burst of light. His drifting seemed to last forever until he found his feet hitting ground. The sky above his head was filled with intermittent lightning strikes. Harry found himself being pulled through a pathway leading to a large set of doors. Harry had no clue where he was, and wondered if this was a Voldemort induced vision.

Harry didn't know how, but he was sure that it was not. This felt far too ethereal to one of Voldemort's crude visions. Not knowing what else to do and feeling the pull towards the great doors, Harry kept walking down the path. As he was walking, Harry noticed a variety of statues lining the path. The statues gave off an eerie look and they all seemed to be looking at him. There were scorpions, Hydras, Nephelims, Extinct Dragons, and Jackal warriors to name a few.

After a while he finally reached the doors and found that the doors had all forms of Runes engraved on them. Harry noticed a set of scorpions facing each other. On instinct he pulled out his wand and traced the engraving. The moment he was done the doors started opening. The sight before him was unlike anything he had ever seen.

There were huge obsidian columns rising so far up that you could not make out the roof of the place. What was even more interesting was the fact that flames of deep blue, purple and blood red seemed to wind into a spiral around the columns. On the ground there were all manners of creatures both small and large. Harry could see large scorpions with human torso and head looking at him. For some reason, Harry felt no fear, in fact the scorpion man bowed their heads as he walked passed them.

Harry finally came to a large dome that gave off an eerie blue glow. Harry noticed an archway, and knew that he had to go through there. Harry crossed the archway and found himself walking towards the centre of the dome. As he approached the centre of the dome he could make out a huge throne with scorpions etched all over the surface of the throne. Floating above the throne Harry saw a swirling mass of blue and green fog with a pair of black eyes with deep purple flames for iris looking back at him. Harry on instinct kneeled and bowed his head in respect and waited.