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{POV Jessica}

After Harry left us near the orphanage, I waited with Penny and auror as we kept ourselves hidden and combat ready.

My heart was pounding as it would be my first real life and death battle. I knew that Penny and others were also feeling the same but all of us were ready... to do what was needed. We all valued Harry's trust on our capabilities too much and even though we knew that he wouldn't blame us even if we somehow mess it all up, but we were not willing to disappoint him. All the efforts he had put on our development and wellbeing and the trust he had been willing to put on us, we would be disappointed in ourselves even if he didn't..

The vibrating of our watches brought me out of my thoughts. We saw the message that Bree had sent us - "The enemies will be coming from both the front and back side of the orphanage. They are not very vigilant but plan to leave immediately after firing fiendfyre from sides.."

I looked up at others and motioned for one of the aurors to follow me towards the backdoor while gesturing Penny and remaining auror to handle the front.

As Harry had instructed, none of us uttered a single word. After getting a nod from Penny, I went to find the most suitable ambush point just as the auror did.

Even though it was the first time we would be entering in a real battle, Harry had prepared us for these kind of scenarios in our dream training. In the dream training, all our senses felt that the situation was completely real and it let us feel the nervousness, uncertainty, pain, adrenaline rush, tension and the heaviness of the situation. The only thing we had refrained from was actually killing or being killed as Harry wanted us to learn to defend and flee first before going for deadly offence and it's effects but I knew that all the further training would be with the kid gloves off.

Suddenly my watch vibrated and a message appread informing me the direction the attacker was coming from. My ears too picked up the sound of footsteps from my right just some 70 meters away.. I looked for the source but didn't see anything, immediately letting me know that the attackers were in disillusioned state just like us. I was not worried that the aurror or Penny's group wouldn't be able to find it as I knew that Bree would inform them too.

I pointed my gun towards the attacker, just waiting for him to come out of the disillusioned state. I had already pinpointed his location and position accurately with my enhanced senses hearing, vision and smell. Just then, My senses picked up the muffled sound of a gunshot from Penny's direction and I knew that the sound must have also been heard by the attacker in front of me. Understanding the urgency of the situation, I fired three shots back to back to make him come out of disillusioned state and also to not let him use apparition or portkey. My shots were immediately followed by the headshot to the now visible attacker, killing him directly.

Without wasting any time, the auror immediately fired two more shots just to make sure that the attacker was really dead. I then hurriedly went ahead to use the corpse dissolving Potions while the auror continued looking around vigilantly for any hidden observer.

As soon as we finished our work, we immediately ran away and met with Penny's group at the agreed location. From there we again hid ourselves and started changing locations for a few more times before finally going back to Amelia's home where Andy and Ted were already waiting for us together with Dora's team.

I explained to them how our operation went in detail. " How did it go with your team?" I asked Dora.

" It was very easy. I used my metamorph powers to imitate Emily's voice and even her face slightly. Since they wanted to capture Emily and thought of her as just some weak and defenseless muggle, they were not at all cautious.

They first employed silencing ward and muggle-repelent ward before entering the home directly breaking door. I shouted for help from the back room to make them let their guard down and the aurors were just 20 meters behind them.

Just as they entered into the home, they gave two headshot, killing both of them. I used the Potion to dissolve their bodies and came here with my team." Dora explained.

" It really was much easy for your team then.. " Penny commented.

" Bree, how's it going with Hermione and Daphne's team? " I asked.

" They are returning soon. It was much more difficult for them and one of the attackers would have even run away if not for Harry's timely arrival who killed him with a throw of his Dagger, stabbing him directly in the skull." Bree's answer made me and others worried but before any of us could ask anything, Harry, Hermione and others came out through a portal. Everyone seemed fine except for Harry whose face and clothes had some splashes of blood.

{ POV end}

As soon as Harry and others came out of the portal, Andy immediately started checking them for any injury.

" It's alright Andy. We are all unharmed.." Harry replied before turning to look at everyone who participated into the battle.

" You all performed excellently. And we will only improve with the new spells, tools and artifects, and the training we will be doing.

First of all you 6." Harry said turning to the six of Amelia's aurors.

" I want you to take it a little lightly for a few days. Relax yourself and calm your mind. I also want all of you to meet me here tomorrow night for a post-battle counseling.

Now as a show of appreciation from me, and for the help all of you have provided Amelia and us today, I urge you to please accept these little gifts from our side." Alex said and distributed 1000 Galleons to each of them. At first they were hesitating but Harry and Dora convinced them politely making them all feel warm and cared.

They were already loyal to Amelia and were infact very happy that they signed the contract so Harry or Amelia didn't need to do anything else for them but this gesture from them just showed that their efforts were valued and even if something happened to them, their families will be looked after atleast.