�Neville, hello and what�s gotten into you today?� Harry chuckled softly glad to forget, if only for a moment, the enormity of the situation.

�Oh? Yes, well my Gran told me today that she is proud of me almost as much as she was of my father. She even gave me this,� he pulled a silvery cloak out of a box on the table nearby, �it�s an invisibility cloak! It was my da�s!� he held it up.

Harry�s smile vanished, �that�s wonderful about your Grandmother, Neville but I have to go I will be right back!� he turned and dashed up the stairs, berating himself silently for failing to remember his own cloak. �I�m sure it will be helpful! Why the devil didn�t I think of it?!� he ran into the room that he usually stayed in and opened the wardrobe, sure enough the cloak was still in its box at the bottom. He breathed a sigh of relief and pulled it out.

He arrived back downstairs just as dumbledore was beginning to get everything organized. Harry would be in a group with Kingsley Shackelbolt, Tonks, two witches he didn�t know, other than the fact that one was a healer and the other was an auror, and there was some debate as to whom the sixth member of �team west�, as they were being called, would be. Moody was arguing with Snape, it appeared that moody didn�t entirely trust the line to be towed if it was, indeed Snape who was on the team with Harry. It was Harry who decided it for them both.

�Stop this fighting! LISTEN! This is more important than any, ANY, past argument or grievance. I can hold my feelings in check for the greater good. Besides, I have seen him dual and we need him on the team. Moody, they need a good leader on team south so, go there. Everything will work out, I feel it.�

Snape gaped at him, a shocked expression on his face at the compliment. It didn�t last long though, he frowned for a moment but conceded. �The boy is right. I, I will put my past grievances aside also.� they shook hands.

�Oh, professor dumbledore? I have an invisibility cloak, Im offering it up for use, as im sure there are more dangerous positions than the one I will be in, surrounded by three aurors, a healer, and Snape.� Harry paused as dumbledore was shaking his head.

�No, Harry, I believe that you are the one who should wear the cloak, you are our secret weapon as it were. You have faced Voldemort more times than almost anyone here, and survived practically unscathed each time. Besides, we have cloaks for anyone who is going into more dangerous waters.� he pointed to a group of people who were, now, just floating heads. Harry nodded and put his own cloak on. �Mr, Longbottom, you should also wear yours, the Lestranges� may not know of your newfound skill with a wand, but that doesn�t mean they aren�t a bit afraid of you, for your grievance with them is much deeper than anyone else in this room�s that will make your spells that much more powerful but we don�t want you struck from behind as Bellatrix is like to do, given the opportunity.� Neville also nodded and put his cloak on.

Dumbledore glanced to the window and then took a deep breath. �It is fully dark now. Lets move out. Teams west and south, you go first and take out any perimeter guards. Then team north and east will move in. We will do a communications check first though.�

The room went silent as everyone was testing their earpiece. Harry spoke first to Neville, wishing him luck and Neville wished him the same. It was somewhat awkward, you thought the persons name and then what you wanted to say to them. But Harry got the hang of it as he spoke to each of his teammates in turn and then Dumbledore. The two witches names turned out to be Leslie Stewart, the healer, with a Scottish brogue though her speaking voice was not as thick; and Annabelle Ekipse, the auror, with a soft lilt that indicated much intelligence and education. When he got to Snape, he said only two words: testing, over and was replied with: check, over, out. Which suited him just fine.

The were set to leave now and Harry became nervous as he pulled out his wand and raised his hood. He heard Dumbledore�s voice in his ear, �Harry Potter: do not be nervous, you have much power, more so than either of us even know. Everything will be okay, trust in that, over.� he replied, �Professor Dumbledore: thank you, its interesting though, I said a similar thing to Ron and Hermione just before we gathered here tonight. I do trust in my abilities as well as everyone else�s and I will be seeing you here when this is finished, over and out.� he followed his teammates out the back door and dissaparated with a loud CRACK.

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