Summary: In order to defeat Voldemort Harry must first uncover the truth about the white knights and somehow figure out what the power of love means and still manage to find the horcruxes as soon as possible.

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Harry came running down the stairs as the door to number four Pivet Drive was slammed open with a resounding bang. Harry came to a halt at the foot of the steps, Ron and Hermione right behind him, as his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, with son Dudley came running out of the kitchen with Uncle Vernon in the lead.

Harry focused on the front door expecting to see Voldemort or one of the other death eaters. He heard Ron and Hermione suck in a deep breath. 'Well I guess this ends the search for the horcruxes before I even start.' Harry thought letting his mind wander. No sooner had he finished that train of thought than it registered that no one was trying to kill him at that moment.

"Who the roody hell are you?" Uncle Vernon shouted, but Harry barely heard him. He was to busy trying to figure out why his mother's protection had failed. 'I don't turn seventeen for another couple of weeks, and why aren't they killing me?' Harry again focused on the door.

Instead of a death eater Harry saw what appeared to be a muggle woman standing there. She was about as tall as Sirius had been. Her hair was a golden brown color and hung to the base of her shoulders. 'Well she doesn't look evil,' Harry thought.

"Who I am does not concern you," in an angry commanding voice she answered Vernon.

"I wonder who she really is," Hermione whispered in Harry's ear.

"Vernon don't anger her, she's one of them," Petunia whispered loudly, pushing her way in front of him. "Hello again Kate," she addressed the woman, who judging by Petunia's words was a witch, with a resigned voice.

"What?" Ron whispered confused, not wanting to draw the woman's attention.

"She's a witch," Harry answered his eyes not leaving the woman.

"What on earth has possessed you? For the first ten years he was left with you he was living in a cupboard under the stairs. You have allowed your son, who is roughly the size of a baby whale, to torment him. He was entrusted into your care because your blood, Lily's blood, would protect him. You tried for ten years to squash the magic out of him by making him as miserable as possible. Well have I got news for you Petunia you failed. In fact you helped to make him even stronger. No one will ever be able to get rid of the magic inside him. He is the heir of his parents, two of the five strongest, most powerful wizards in the world. He stands before you, one of the top ten strongest wizards of all time and he's not even seventeen yet. He is the only one who can defeat Voldemort. By the end of his life Harry will either have killed Voldemort or have been murdered by him. Is this how you respect the memory of your sister? Sirius and I are, were his guardians. And still the night Lily and James died Harry was brought to you, when Harry's presence might have saved Sirius' life Harry still came to you so that his blood protection would be renewed. Voldemort is now fully restored to all of his old powers. He will not rest until he has killed Harry. Did it not occur to you in all this time that I would find out what you had been doing?" Finally this long diatribe came to an end. The woman, Kate, seemed to have changed. Instead of standing with her hands in her pockets, thumbs in belt loops, she was standing with her body straight and she radiated power. It seemed to Harry that there was a white glow surrounding her. She even looked angrier than when she had started this rant and yet she wasn't even breathing hard.

"I reckon they're talking about you mate," Ron said.

"Yeah," Harry said trying to remember what Kate had said.

"I don't want to hear any of your excuses," Kate said as Petunia started to say something.

"Excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt but who are you?" Harry asked.

"My name is Kate," She answered quite simply.

"But…" Harry started to say but was cut off as she continued.

"Everything else you want to know will be told to you when the time comes."

"Do you know if the order is out looking for me?" Harry asked completely disregarding what Kate had just said.

"They'll be here in a minute," she answered absently.

"You mean …" Hermione started to question but again she was interrupted.

"Not now," Kate said.

Another loud bang, this one not from the door, and five wizards apparated in the Dursley's living room.

"Hello everybody," Harry said with a nervous laugh and heard Ron and Hermione do the same. Harry looked around and saw Fred and George Weasley, Moody, Tonks, and Lupin.

"Kate did you control your temper like you promised you would?" Lupin asked, addressing Kate as if she were a sibling or an old friend. He completely ignored the trio still standing on the stairs.

"Of course I kept my temper. I never get angry," She said indignantly.

"Wait, you knew she would get here before us?" Tonks asked Lupin as Kate answered him.

"Kate doesn't apparate," Lupin answered vaguely as Kate punctuated her sentence by sticking her chin in the air and crossing her arms over her chest.

"Of course you never get angry," Lupin said trying not to laugh.

"Absolutely not," Moody said failing miserably to hide his smile. "Well we had better get a move on, we haven't got all day you know."

"Since you're so anxious to return to that God-forsaken place I won't hold you up any longer!" Kate replied with a shudder.

"We're not going to Grimwauld, we're going to the Burrow," Lupin said.

"The what?" Kate asked confused.

"The Burrow, it's a house," Fred explained slowly.

"Oh it's a nickname, I get it," Kate replied just as slowly. Lupin rolled his eyes.

"Anyway Harry let's go pack your trunk," Tonks said heading towards the stairs.

"Okay," Harry said confused by what had been going on.

"Nothing Tonks, do you hear me, nothing," Kate said with a commanding voice.

"Rightio," Tonks said from the top of the stairs.

"How am I supposed to do anything if I don't take anything with me?" Harry asked as he walked into his bedroom behind her.

"You're taking your stuff with you Harry. Kate was talking about something else."

"Wait, why does she think Grimwauld is a God-forsaken place? It isn't that bad since we cleaned it up."

"You'll have to ask her, I'm under some pretty strict orders."

"Oh all right then, I'll just die of curiosity."

"That isn't possible Harry. Tonks I thought you were supposed to be helping Harry pack his things," Kate said as she came to stand in the doorway, arms crossed leaning against the door frame.

"I am."

"Then why is it taking so long?"

"Because I am nota so good at magic," Tonks replied with a fake Italian accent.

"Oh really," Kate said and with a wave of her hand all of Harry's possessions flew into his trunk, Hedwig's cage cleaned and flew to the top of his trunk, his bed made itself and his room was immaculate. All traces that Harry had lived in this house for sixteen years were gone.

"How did you do that with out your wand?" Hermione asked

"Do you not listen to a thing you are told?" Kate addressed Ron and Hermione, who had just followed her up the stairs, without turning around.

"I don't know, maybe," Tonks answered instead.

"I was talking to Ron and Hermione, Tonks," Kate told Tonks as if she were a little child.

"Oh, I see," Tonks nodded grinning.

"Okay people, let's go," Lupin yelled up the stairs

"Hold your pants on, Werewolf, we're coming," Kate yelled back and in the next instant everyone was back in the living room.

"Goodbye boy," Uncle Vernon said looking at everyone with disgust.

"I didn't give you permission to so much as talk to Harry, much less like that," Kate said with a glare at Uncle Vernon.

"I don't get it who is this lady?" Dudley finally found his voice as Kate turned to leave.

"You all do realize that unless Harry chooses to come back here, which I seriously doubt, this is the last time you'll ever see him?" Kate asked

"Thank God," Dudley said.

"I'm sorry you feel that way," Kate said as she walked out the door. "Let's go."

"Aren't you going to do that non-apparation-like thing?" Hermione asked snottily.

"No I can't yet."

"What you need to power-up first or something?" Ron asked

"I have to know exactly what this Burrow looks like or I won't be able to get there. I'll end up in a void or something."

"Oh," Hermione and Ron said together

"So are we apparating or riding brooms?" Harry asked Lupin.

"We're apparating."

"You're with me Harry," Moody said.

"Ron you're with me," Tonks said

"And I get to baby-sit Kate, oh joy," Lupin said with a bland face.

"Really and I thought werewolves were gruesome creatures," Kate said mockingly.

"Hey!" Lupin pouted.

"Enough," Moody called loudly. Kate and Lupin just cocked an eyebrow at him. Moody rolled his eyes at them.

"Now when you get to the Burrow, don't do anything to anger Molly. Not that this wasn't enough but Kate's pretty much already going to kill her if she starts ranting again. Ron you had better come up with an excuse for being here. Because whatever it is your really doing here it has more to do with Voldemort than comforting Harry. Actually you know that's a pretty good one, you should use that one," Lupin said.

"Okay. Wait Kate wants to kill my mum?!" Ron asked looking worried.

"Not literally," Moody said.

Kate snorted in response.

"Okay then let's go," Harry said eager to finally be able to leave the Dursley's forever.

"On the count of three," Moody said, "one, two…"

"Three," Kate said and just before Harry felt the familiar feeling of being sucked down a tube, he turned to look back and wave goodbye to number four Pivet Drive.

AN: Please review if you would be so kind.

Kaida