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Synopsis: A renegade Jedi has a force vision of a pair of powerful force sensitive's and sets in motion events that will see the rise of a new order. Her actions will have a profound effect on the future of many worlds.



Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Star Wars and I make no profit from this work of fan fiction. I am in the debt of its true owners as they have been the creators of worlds of fiction that millions have enjoyed. All Hail to JKR and GL!



A/N: For a time line see the notes in Chapter 1





Last time:



He considered trying to follow the Jedi's ship but dismissed it as it was more than likely to have already jumped in to hyperspace. No, he thought with aspark of anger the Holocron was gone along with Talia and her padawan's. Taking a deep breath he realised that this was just a setback he had found it once and he would find it again.

For now he had a mission to complete and this one was for his master rather than himself.

As he boarded his shuttle he turned to the droid pilot, "Set a course for Geonosis."



Chapter 3





Harry was piloting the newly christened Talia as Luna was looking through the data from the navigational computer. After Losing Talia and escaping from the Sith on Trallax3 they had decided that their best course of action would be to disappear. So Luna plotted several seemingly random hyperspace jumps before bringing them to the planet Teth.





Teth was Harry had to admit a good choice as it was remote enough to be considered a relatively risk free destination. That and the small time gangsters that ran a lot of these outer worlds were unlikely to be allied with either the Jedi or the Sith. Gangsters they could deal with but right now they needed supplies rather than running battles. Aquick look through the ship showed a reasonable amount of trade goods and both Harry and Luna had a good supply of republic credits.





Three hours later and a considerably poorer Harry and Luna were back on board and storing their purchases in the cargo hold. They now had enough supplies for a significant cruise and as MK was satisfied with sickbay they simply paid the docking fee and made for open space.





Their ship, a modified HWK-290 light freighter was a good, solid, economical ship with an excellent maximum range which offered them a large number of options as far as destinations went so what that needed to do was decide on their course of action.





Harry shut down the engines and made his way to the ships mess where Luna had laid out food and drinks. As he sat down Luna walked in with their meals and sat opposite him, "Eat up and then we'll work out where to next."





The rest of the meal was eaten in companionable silence as they both considered their options. As Luna finished she collected the plates and then sat down again, "We don't know what Talia had planned except in general terms and we certainly are nowhere near fully trained, I think we need to find somewhere remote and continue our studies."





Harry shook his head, "I agree we need more training but we need to trust in the Force to guide us."





"I'm worried about the Sith he may well come after us next and you know as well as I that there are ways to find people."





Harry was about to reply when he felt a familiar presence, spinning around he was confronted by a ghost, a Force ghost of their Master, "Talia!"





Talia smiled and gestured toward them, "My beloved apprentices I am glad to see that you escaped Dooku."





Luna had tears streaming down her face as she knelt before Talia, "Master I'm sorry we failed to save you but..."





Talia shook her head and smiled gently, "Put aside your grief Luna my death was less than nothing compared to your survival. You are not yet ready to face Dooku or his hidden Master but one day you will be," she then turned to Harry, as beautiful and graceful as she had been in life, "Harry don't be angry at fate my apprentice, meditate and seek once more to connect to the Force and peace."





Talia stepped back fading slightly, looking somehow less distinct, "Your training in Force based combat is almost complete for now, later you will find another master but till then it would be safest if you seek out your past, it is time for you to embrace your heritage and master the Force manipulations of your ancestors."





oOoOoOo



Aboard the Talia - Outer Rim





"I can't believe it we're going home," Luna was almost bouncing up and down in her seat in excitement.





Harry smiled as he checked the ships computer, "We should be dropping out of hyperspace shortly." The journey had taken nearly a month of long hyperspace jumps using Talia's original co-ordinates. It would have taken longer if they had used the same circuitous route she had but the Force was telling him that time was not acommodity they could afford to waste.





A loud beep indicated the imminent drop back to relativistic space and within moments they were looking at the dark side of the moon. Luna immediately activated their shields which according to Talia's electronic log served to confuse Earth based detection technology.





Harry checked the navicomp and smiled, "Right where we wanted to be, Okay Luna do you want to do the honours?"





Luna laughed and inclined her torso in an exaggerated half curtsey, "No Mister Pilot you do the honours just don't crash the ship."





Harry replied with a half hearted scowl, "I should make you fly after that comment. So where shall we land? We'll need somewhere isolated enough to hide the ship while we work out just what the hell is going on in the wizarding world."





Luna smiled, "How about my dad's house?"





At Harry's nod Luna began programming co-ordinates.





oOoOoOo





Hogwarts - Headmasters Office



Albus Dumbledore cursed as he sat back in his chair. It had been a long exhausting day re-enforcing the wards around the school, exhausting but necessary.





For three years after the death of Harry Potter Voldemort had disappeared, oh the depredations of his Death Eaters had continued but Tom had been...absent. Then last year in what was now known as the Knightsbridge massacre he had returned from his self imposed exile in a truly horrifying fashion. In one hour, Tom had laid waste to awizarding primary school killing over thirty pre-Hogwarts students and twelve teachers then he simply walked the streets and killed Muggles in the end over two hundred innocent lives lost.





It was the end of Fudge and with him gone the Ministry had begun to fight back. Slowly a stalemate was reached, the Ministry and the greatly expanded Order of the Phoenix on one side and Voldemort on the other.





"And a bloody stalemate it is," whispered Dumbledore as he poured himself an Irish whisky.





As he sipped his drink, lost in his memories he almost didn't hear the whistling noise coming from his bookshelf. When he did hear the noise he froze and turned almost afraid to look.....there on the shelf the blood based monitor that measured the health of Harry James Potter began to spin once more. The first time it had done so in three years.





"Dear Merlin.....Harry."





oOoOoOo







Lovegood House - outside the village of Ottery St Catchpole







As soon as they left the ship they both projected Force bubbles masking them from any wards as well as the naked eye.





"Do I look okay?" asked Luna as they slowly approached the house.





Harry laid a hand on his companions shoulder, "You look fine, beautiful and all grown up. It's your father Luna he'll be overjoyed to see you alive and well if you were dressed in rags and covered in dirt."





When they reached the door Luna took a deep, centering breath and knocked.





Nothing happened.





Extending his Force perception Harry studied the house. Besides a lot of Force emanations, probably wards, there was no human life in the house.





Feeling slightly saddened for his friend Harry turned to Luna, "Luna nobody is home," when she didn't reply he gave her shoulder a squeeze, "We could have a look around the house, make sure everything is okay."





Luna sighed and looked around the dark yard, "No, we have to find out what's happening first, daddy could be at the office or overseas, I can't sense him nearby. My instincts tell me that we should go to the Weasley house next; they should be able to tell us what's happening."





"And they can be trusted to keep a secret," added Harry.





Luna smiled, "Remember Harry trust in the Force and we shall go where we need to be."





With Luna leading the way through the local lanes and hedgerows they made their way toward the Burrow.





"Are you nervous Harry?" asked Luna in a quiet voice.





Harry considered his friends question before answering, "Nervous? No not really, I'm more worried that we'll get caught up in the plots and machinations of others and be dragged in to their petty disputes."





Luna smiled at his answer, "Not so petty to those that live here."





Harry shrugged, "True enough, I believe that Talia wanted us to explore our heritage and perhaps get a better understanding of the way magic uses the Force. Well and good that we can do and then be on our way, but do you believe that the Wizarding world would willingly let us go?"





Luna took Harry's hand and gave it a squeeze, "Could they stop us if we wanted to go?"





"No, well probably not," Harry answered, "To be honest I'm more worried about that than Voldemort."





"Don't underestimate him, he's a dangerous man even if he's no Sith or Dark Jedi," cautioned Luna.





Harry gave Luna's hand a squeeze back before releasing it, "I won't but neither do I fear him. No I believe that we can deal with Voldemort the trick will be finding him."





They walked in silence for a few minutes before Harry almost ran in to Luna's back as she suddenly halted, "Harry something's not right."





Before he could reply a wave of dark energy seemed to pass overhead, its very presence sent a cold shiver down Harry's spine, leaving him breathless.





"What the fuck was that?" gasped a suddenly nauseous Harry.





Luna looked ill as well even as she expanded her Force perceptions, "I think.....Harry I think that was Voldemort."





Harry cursed and then looked down the hill toward the Burrow where flashes of light could be seen lighting up the night sky.





oOoOoOo





The Burrow





"But how Albus?" demanded Molly Weasley, "You said he was dead."





Dumbledore made a placating gesture, "I don't know Molly but there is no possible way the device could be wrong, it is tied to Harry's magical signature and that cannot be faked. As to why after nearly four years it has begun working again, the answer is I simply don't know."





Hermione sat beside her boyfriend Ronald in shocked silence, how could Harry be alive? Where had he been? "Are you able to locate H-Harry?"





Dumbledore looked over to the recently graduated witch, "Sadly Miss Granger that has proven difficult. I can only surmise that something was and likely still is masking his location."





Bill Weasley looked up from where he was leaning against the kitchen wall,"So how do we find him? It won't be long before the Dark Lord finds out Harry is back."





Ron looked around the room at the shocked faces and almost laughed, "You're kidding right? There are only a few places he'd go, here, Hogwarts or Sirius's house."





Hermione smiled, "I think Ron may be right, where else would he go?"





Dumbledore smiled, "Which is why I have Sirius keeping watch at his house and Minerva and Severus at Hogwarts."





Arthur Weasley cleared his throat, "Um Professor how should we handle this?Harry could be injured or desperate after his escape from where ever he's been kept."





Dumbledore nodded in approval, "If he comes here contact me in my office immediately, I'll make sure to bring Poppy along just in case."

Molly was wringing her hands in distress, "The poor boy, dear Merlin after four years I hope he's not ..."





A loud clanging alarm sounded interrupting Molly and causing most of those present to immediately draw their wands, someone was attacking the house wards.





As the entire room watched him Dumbledore cast a complicated detection spell. The entire room shuddered as they watched his shoulders slump.





A moment later they straightened and Dumbledore was back, "Molly, Arthur guard the door, Bill try the floo."





Bill cast a handful of floo powder in the grate to no effect, "It's down, shit," next he turned on the spot only, "shit, and Anti-Apparition wards are up."





"Who is it Albus?" asked Molly.





Dumbledore seemed to age ten years as he replied, "Voldemort and his Death Eaters, I'm sorry Molly."





Molly paled and whispered, "Oh Merlin," even as she drew her wand.





Dumbledore laid a hand on her shoulder, "When the fight begins I'll hold him off, the rest of you make a break for the woods," he knew there was little chance Tom would allow anyone to survive but there was always hope.





Bill growled as another gong like alarm sounded, "They've almost brought down the wards and.....what in Merlin's name is that?"





oOoOoOo





From the protection of their Force bubble Luna and Harry watched the Death Eaters attacking the wards protecting the Burrow.





"Ready Harry?" asked Luna.





"That's what I get for questioning the Force," muttered Harry before replying to Luna "Yes and remember hard and fast Luna, Voldemort is the most dangerous but anyone can cast a killing curse."





Luna smiled serenely as she drew her lightsaber, "I'll be fine you be careful as well."





"Go," ordered Harry as he gathered the Force and leapt high over the mobbed Death Eaters to land behind two of the masked figures a flash of green light behind them startled the two masked Death Eaters but they didn't have time to react before they were beheaded.





oOoOoOo





Albus watched in shock as two hooded figures attacked the mass of Death Eaters outside the house. Both were wielding swords of light, one green and one blue as they seemingly danced through the massed Death Eaters. That's it he realised, they 'danced' just like the witch in the Ministry, the witch who had disappeared with Harry. Moving with a speed that belied his great age he raced to the door ignoring the cries of the Weasley family. He needed to save these people for they were his link to Harry.





Even as the sword wielder cast some sort of mass stunner felling the Death Eaters Voldemort raised his wand.





Dumbledore watched it unfold desperate to intervene but he was too late; acoldly smiling Voldemort cast a Killing curse at the back of the defenseless sword wielder. Before he could even raise his wand to intervene the figure turned, sword in hand and simply, almost carelessly batted the spell away. Dumbledore froze in shock and before he could recover he was issued with another.





"Harry Potter we meet again," Voldemort's tone was deadly as he circled the hooded figure.





No it couldn't be, thought Dumbledore, please he's not ready, don't let it end like this. He began to move when a blue blade of light appeared blocking his path.





"Harry will be fine Professor so please don't distract him," Dumbledore hesitated at the familiar voice.





"Miss Lovegood?" asked Dumbledore in a near whisper.





"Good deduction Professor, now shush I want to watch this," replied Luna as she pushed her hood back.





oOoOoOo





Hermione watched from inside the Burrow, recognised Luna as she blocked Dumbledore from joining the fight and removed her hood, but how? Luna was dead, killed when she was caught with....wait if Luna was one of their saviours did that mean the other was...."Harry," she whispered, it was almost a prayer.





oOoOoOo





Harry watched Voldemort circling him making sure to keep his lightsaber between them. He was interested to note that one hand was now apparently made of silver.





"Nothing to say Harry?" enquired Voldemort.





Harry didn't let his concentration lapse as he replied, "I won't even bother asking you to surrender Voldemort you are far to sunk in to the dark side to consider it but I warn you if you don't then I will end your contamination of this world."





Voldemort laughed, "I'm immortal fool; I can't die."





Harry, immersed in the Force just as Talia had taught him was analyzing his foe even as he replied with a pitying smile, "I can see what you have done Voldemort, I can see how you have chained yourself to this world but you made amistake, a mistake any trained Force user would have known to avoid."





Voldemort was shocked, was Potter referring to his Horcruxes?





Harry felt Voldemort's sudden fear, "You should never have anchored your soul that way for all you have done is lessen yourself and your capacity to truly understand the living Force. Let me demonstrate, say if I was to do this," Harry reached out with the Force and severed one of the links anchoring Voldemort to this plane of existence.





Voldemort screamed and grasped his head, "What have you done?"





Harry severed another link, sending Voldemort to his knees, "How?" hissed Voldemort before he screamed again, and again as Harry methodically severed the Force links. As the last link faded Harry allowed a twitching Voldemort to climb painfully to his feet.





"I warned you Voldemort," said Harry as he raised his lightsaber.





oOoOoOo





Auror Nymphadora Tonkswatched in horrified disbelief as Voldemort was seemingly tortured by the dark cloaked wizard. When she had arrived at the Burrow she had expected a fight with Death Eaters or perhaps another burnt out house and another good wizarding family torn apart. She had not expected to find the battle over and the Dark Lord being tortured. Well whatever the situation she had her duty to perform and this was the perfect opportunity to capture Voldemort and bring an end to his reign of terror. Seeing her experienced team already in position she gave the capture signal, she wasn't taking any risks tonight and as her old mentor mad-eye Moody always said best to stun'em all and then sort the bastards out.





oOoOoOo





Sensing the spells rushing toward him Harry spun and deflected two stunners even as he stepped around a third. Unfortunately while this saved him from being stunned it also shielded Voldemort and in that instant the Dark Lord acted, reaching in to his shirt to grasp a simple brass ring, his emergency portkey and broke the thin silver chain activating it.





oOoOoOo





Harry felt Voldemort disappear and cursed as he maintained his watch on the partially concealed figures whose interference had allowed Voldemort to escape.





Near the house Luna cloaked herself in a Force bubble, lightsaber in hand and began circling left toward Harry and away from Dumbledore and the Burrow.





Dumbledore cursed as he saw Luna disappear and immediately called out,"Hold, everyone hold your spells. We are all on the same side here."





Harry relaxed his stance and de-activated his lightsaber but remained where he was as he watched events unfold.





Tonks immediately signaled for her Auror team to stand down and lowered her wand, "What the hell is going on Professor? Was that V-Voldemort?"





Dumbledore didn't take his eyes off Harry as he answered, "Yes it was AurorTonks but before we discuss events I would suggest you see to the wounded," without waiting for her response Dumbledore began walking toward the young man standing alone in the front yard of the Burrow.





oOoOoOo





Harry watched as Dumbledore walked toward him and took several deep breaths as he centered himself, allowing the Force to flow through him. In his heightened state of Force awareness he could almost see the Force presence of his old Headmaster, it was humbling to see both how strong Dumbledore was and how little the wizard interacted with the Force.





Dumbledore's voice almost broke as he spoke, "Harry my boy is that truly you?"





oOoOoOo





Harry and Luna were surrounded by familiar faces as they sat at the Weasleys battered kitchen table. They were both still recovering from crushing hugs from Molly, Ron and Hermione and struggling to answer the storm of questions coming from around the room. Eventually Dumbledore brought the room to order.





"Quiet please, I am sure you all have questions for Luna and Harry but for now I would ask you to restrain yourselves. Tonksplease contact Sirius and prepare him for some new arrivals at Headquarters. Molly, Arthur I'm sorry to say that you will need, at least for now to relocate your family to Headquarters until your family wards can be re-established and most likely significantly strengthened. Harry, may I have a word with you in private?"





Harry simply nodded and followed the older man outside.





"My boy as much as I wish to hear what I don't doubt to be anything less than an intriguing tale it is vital that I immediately remove you to a safe location. I plan..."





Harry sighed he had half expected this, "Professor I don't wish to be rude but I will not accept being locked up, even for my protection."





Dumbledore paused for a moment as he processed Harry's answer, "Harry please, be reasonable Voldemort is a powerful wizard and will surely come after you to revenge this night. My allies and I can protect you until you are ready to face your destiny."





Harry smiled politely, "With all due respect Headmaster, I do not need your protection. If I had not been interrupted earlier I would have dispatched Voldemort."





Dumbledore frowned at that, "Surely you can't believe that Harry."





Harry sighed, "I had already destroyed the Force.....sorry magic that allowed him to preserve his essence. He was vulnerable to my attack but before I could finish him your Aurors attacked me."





Dumbledore paled at Harry's references to Voldemort's Horcruxes. Shocked he reached out with a subtle Legilimencyprobe only to be rebuffed by some sort of mental shield.





Harry smiled again, "My thoughts are my own Professor I'd thank you to remember that in the future."





Dumbledore felt sick as he realised that Harry was not going to be persuaded. He had not wanted things to be this way but Harry must be kept safe at all costs, he hoped the young man would be able to forgive him. With a swift movement he drew his wand only to find a blue lightsaber at his throat.





"Kidnapping Professor?" asked Luna in an amused tone, "Please lower your wand."





Harry was no longer smiling, "I had been willing to forget your former meddling in my childhood and work with you to defeat Voldemort. I see now that this was unrealistic. So here is my new offer, give us the intelligence we need to kill Voldemort and we will do so. In return we ask for some tutoring to fill the gaps in our training. I'll be in contact Professor."





As Harry finished speaking Dumbledore felt the strange sword removed from his neck even as Harry and Luna disappeared.





"What have I done?" whispered Dumbledore as he looked forlornly around the empty yard.





oOoOoOo







In a cellar deep beneath an abandoned castle Tom MarvoloRiddle screamed in anger and fear. Lying dead at his feet was his familiar Nagini and worst of all he could sense nothing, no link and no Horcrux.





"Potter, curse you what have you done?" he hissed.





oOoOoOo





Number 12, Grimmauld Place





Sirius Black sat in a high backed leather chair sipping his fire whisky and waiting for the Headmaster to begin. Downstairs he could hear the Weasleys getting settled in; no doubt Molly was making tea or preparing food.





Dumbledore cleared his throat, again before meeting Sirius's eyes, "It was Harry."





Sirius shot up from his chair, "Where is he?"





Dumbledore almost flinched, "He and his companion managed to defeat Riddle and his followers but I wasn't able to convince him to accompany me to safety, I'm afraid my boy that he has once more has disappeared."





Sirius resisted the urge to hurl his glass at the old man, "Let me guess you tried to force him and he declined, you chased him off you old fool!"





Dumbledore tried to reach the angry man before matters got out of hand,"Sirius please we must gather our forces and find Harry, he is not ready to face Riddle..."





"Get out" demanded Sirius in a cold whisper.





Dumbledore tried again, "My boy you must..."





This time Sirius had his wand in hand as he stood almost nose to nose with Dumbledore, "I said GET OUT."





Dumbledore nodded sadly and left the room; no doubt the great chess master was already planning his next three moves. Once the door was shut Sirius sealed it, opened the window and whistled. After a few long moments a snowy white owl flew in to perch on the back of a chair.





"Hedwig I have a task for you," he quickly wrote a short note and folder it in to an envelope before turning back to the owl. "Your master has returned Hedwig take this to him and don't stop for anyone."





With a soft hoot the owl clutched the letter and flew out the open window.





oOoOoOo





Lower City -Coruscant





"Report my apprentice," ordered Darth Sidious.





The dark Lord of the Sith watched as the hologram of Darth Tyranus flickered amoment before regaining full clarity, "Master I have concluded our negotiations successfully."





Sidious smiled coldly as he acknowledged the report, "Good, good and how soon can I expect your return my apprentice?"





The answer would tell him much about his current apprentices ah...extracurricular activities.





"I will return immediately my master," was the immediate response.





So perhaps he had failed to find the holocron that Dooku still thought he was ignorant of, "Good, you have done well Tyranus, soon you shall be ready for the deeper teachings."





As he closed the channel his cold smile changed to a bitter snarl. Dooku was an arrogant fool but he served his purpose until he could gain a better apprentice, after all his plans were growing ever more convoluted. Still if the fool managed to find the lost holocron it would be a significant enough feat but sadly not significant enough to spare him his fate.





After all the way of the Sith was treachery.