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Harry Potter sulkily walked to Dumbledore's office accompanied by Professor Mcgonnagal feeling very confused. She had walked into the common room and told him to say goodbye to all his friends, and then came back 10 minutes later. He did what she said, and said goodbye to everyone he held dear although he wasn't quite sure why or where he was going. His heart was racing with anticipation, what if he was supposed to go into battle and that's why he had to say goodbye? Would the order be in Dumbledore's office? He heard Professor Mcgonnagal say the password and they walked up the spiral stairs, and standing outside the door to his office. Professor Mcgonnagal, bent down a little and gave Harry a motherly hug, Harry gingerly hugged her back, feeling a little weirded out but a little relieved to have some sort of support.
"Goodbye, Mr. Potter, I'll see you again sometime soon I hope." Harry rose one eyebrow, as his heart skipped a beat.
"Goodbye Professor" He took a deep breath, and opened the door to Dumbledore's office, the order wasn't in the office like Harry had suspected they would be. He gulped and looked Dumbledore right in the eye
"I'm ready to battle him, sir. But isn't the order going to be there?" Dumbledore chuckled, and Anger bubbled up in Harry's stomach at that, how could Dumbledore laugh at a time like this. Harry had had nightmares ever since he heard of the prophecy about this day.
"I'm glad you're ready, Harry, but it's not that time yet. The reason you are here is because we are going to put you under the fidelius" Harry let out a sigh of relief, and then visibly paled as the information really sunk in. That was why he had to say goodbye to everyone that was why Mcgonnagal acted so weird. He could be gone for years before he would be able to see anyone he loved again.
"Please sit Harry, I need to go over some things with you" Harry welcomed the invitation knowing that his legs weren't going to hold him much longer and collapsed into the chair behind him.
"Sir.." he started, but Dumbledore held up a hand silencing him.
"I'm going to explain everything." Harry's head was spinning, usually conversations like this with Dumbledore never turned out to be in his favor. He didn't know how much more he could take, but he listened anyway, letting his curiosity get in the way of emotional distress.
"For the past few months, 2 students, one of whom you know very well, have been double agents. Spy's for the light side." Harry immediately knew who it must be, and groaned, mentally slapping himself for ever thinking Hermione would betray him.
"Hermione…" he whispered. Tears were welling up in his eyes.
"Yes, that's right, and the other is Draco Malfoy, they've gone through many horrible ordeals for you Harry. As I'm sure you are aware Hermione has many special powers, she recently had to use one of them, to stop Draco from being killed during a questioning about you. Their mission from Voldemort was to spy on you, and they carefully planned out fake schedules for you. But they were given a new form of truth potion that they hadn't trained with and Lucius Malfoy found out about their position, and killed Draco, Hermione went back in time right away, and the first thing she did when she came here was come to me and tell me to put you under fidelius charm, and I think she is absolutely right on her judgment to put you into hiding." Harry listened on not finding anything to say. "They're working on getting you out of hiding as soon as possible. They're developing a potion that will weaken Voldemort's powers, so that when the time comes you'll be able to kill him more easily. Now the choice is yours to whether or not you want to go into hiding, although I strongly recommend it." Dumbledore's eyes bore into Harry, as he fought back tears from hearing about all that.
"I'll go into hiding Professor just tell Hermione that I'm sorry, tell her…" He trailed off fearing that if he spoke any more words he'd break down right there.
"I'm sure she already knows, Now if you're ready I'll call for Professor Flitwick so we can start the charm. Harry thought about his parents while waiting for Flitwick to arrive, he wondered how they felt when they were about to go into hiding. Not even dreaming that any of the stuff that had happened would.
"Dumbledore" he asked slowly "Who's my secret keeper"
"Colin Creevy accepted right away, he's very fond of you. I'm sure he would die for you without question" Harry prayed to god that that wouldn't have to happen.

Professor Flitwick arrived and they performed the charm after a long drawn out goodbye from Dumbledore with instructions to improve his magic skills for the final battle, and a basket of butterbeer and other magical candies, because he would be living in a muggle town. Harry crashed down onto the middle of the floor of his new residence, he walked around his house and found it to be quite nice, it was on a beautiful beach, and the house was perfect with big rooms for practice, and high enough ceilings for him to fly around for awhile on his broom. But soon he decided to retire, seeing as how he was dreadfully retired, when he collapsed on the bed, his dam broke. He desperately wanted to talk to Hermione, he couldn't imagine how much she went through just to keep him safe. He wondered what it would be like if she couldn't have gone back in time to get Draco back. He felt so selfish, for everyone risking their lives for him, even Colin Creevey who's so innocent might die because of him. Often times when he felt he couldn't go on much longer he would think about the people that die for him to keep him alive, and he would go on painfully day by day, struggling with each fake smile. But he knew that someday it might not be enough. He cried himself into a fretful night of dreams, but right before he fell asleep he vowed to himself he would work extra hard so he could kill the bastard that started all of this.




Meanwhile thousands of miles away, Draco and Hermione were pouring over her fathers notes.
"Draco!" yelled Hermione joyfully. "I think I found it, oh my gosh come look" Draco ran over from the other side of the room where he was retrieving a book. He scanned the notes quickly, and a grin appeared on his face, as he grabbed her face and kissed her hard on the lips.
"This is wonderful; we have to get started on the potion right away. Lets go to Snape's office, he can help us." They ran down to Snape's office, and they started right away, Snape read over the notes, and he too smiled after reading them.
"This potion will take one week to make, and you can only administer it to Voldemort in little amounts at a time, if you slip it into his drink every night it should take about a month for his powers to get weak enough so Harry can kill him quickly." They made a schedule for when to add ingredients, and all of them went to bed happy that night.
"Hermione" said Draco while getting in bed besides her "You are so smart, and beautiful, and… have I told you how much I loved you today?"
"Yes, but you can tell me again" she cupped his face, and planted kisses all along his face, until finally their lips connected.
"Goodnight Draco, I love you"
"I love you too"


When the potion was finished, Hermione would go invisible every night and slip the potion into Voldemorts drinks. The whole month they waited in anticipation, the order was coming up with battle plans, as well as Voldemort and his deatheaters. He could feel his power fading, and wanted the battle to be soon, he even suggested one meeting that they should have the battle the next day, but Hermione and Draco made some excuse to hold off the battle. Harry worked as hard as ever on his skills, waiting everyday for the battle. He got updates from the wizarding world weekly from Colin who was always more than eager to talk, and Harry was grateful for the social contact. Finally it had been a month since they had started administering the potion and it was really takings its toll on Voldemort. One meeting, he announced that the battle would start the next day, and deatheaters went over attack plans. Draco and Hermione listened intently remembering every detail. As soon as the meeting was over, they marched right up to Dumbledores office where he called the order together and they went over battle plans. Harry was surprised to see Dumbledore's head pop up in the fire telling him of all the plans. Harry left his home immediately and spent the night in Dumbledore's office. Everyone on both sides was ready for the battle to begin. Everyone was saying last minute things that needed to come out, although Harry never saw Hermione that night. She and Draco had snuck off to prepare for the battle. Tomorrow they were to report to the front of the school at 9 where the deatheater's were going to barge in and take over the school. Hermione's and Draco's job was to help Harry get to Voldemort untouched. As soon as the battle was going to start, Hermione would go invisible, and Draco would be covered by invisibility cloak so they could go unnoticed. Snape gave the whole order dreamless sleep potions so they would be well rested. The next day would hold the fate of the wizarding world.


Hermione and Draco woke the next morning full of nerves, sharing one last kiss before they walked down to the great hall, outside all of the deatheaters were gathered, and Voldemort was in the middle. Breakfast would be starting in 10 minutes, when the battle would rage. Although the deatheaters would have quite a shock when there were no students in the great hall. Dumbledore sent out a message to the house elves to deliver breakfast to the common rooms, and as soon as they leave the heads of house were to put powerful protection charms on the portrait. Members of the order were already moving into strategic places around the castle, and Harry was concealed under his invisibility cloak, in one of the halls by the dungeons, where Draco and Hermione were to meet him. Minutes ticked by, with everyone holding their breaths. The minute hand landed on the 2, and the deatheaters in the front line, pushed open the door.
"Wizards and Witches, bow down to your new dark lord" shouted Lucius Malfoy, however they heard no screams. Several floors above them students were huddled together in their common rooms shaking, silent with fear. When they all walked into the great hall and saw no one there, Voldemort growled angrily.
"Spread out and look for the students and Professors, I'll find Potter." Draco and Hermione took this moment to turn invisible holding hands and ran down to meet Harry. On their way down they heard spells being thrown, meaning the members of the order had started the battle. When they approached Harry they became visible again to show that they had come and all three of them made a chain and made their way back to the great hall. Throwing curses at deatheaters on their way. They injured several unsuspecting deatheaters, helping the order. They saw Dumbledore fighting off some deatheaters, and they threw more spells knocking them out so Dumbledore could tie them up. They saw members of the ministry march in with dementors at that moment, with orders to give any deatheaters that were captured the kiss immediately. Hermione yelled Dumbledore's name, before they entered the hall so he knew they were okay. When they walked in they found Voldemort sitting in the middle of the room with 10 or so deatheaters around them. Draco and Hermione started shouting curses immediately; dementors filed into the room and started administering the kiss, while Harry threw off his cloak and marched up to Voldemort holding his wand out in front of him. They started dueling with an unspoken agreement, shouting every curse they knew at each other. All the death eaters that had been in the room had been given the kiss, and were being lead out by the dementors. Dumbledore Hermione and Draco were holding off the door making sure no other deatheaters that were still alive could come in.


Both Voldemort and Harry had equal amounts of injuries, and Harry decided it was time to end it once and for all, he mustered all of the hate he'd ever had, but Voldemort sensed this and they both ended up yelling the killing curse at the same time. The jets of green light connected in the middle, like what had happened to Harry in his 4th year. Both of them felt the power draining from them quickly. Now it was a matter of who could hold out longer. Dumbledore, Hermione, and Draco watched with awe wanting so bad to go help but knowing they couldn't. Voldemort and Harry started floating in air still connected by the jets of green light.
"Die you Bastard, I HATE YOU!" yelled Harry with as much energy as he had, that last bit of rage triggered the green jets of light redirecting them both at Voldemort speeding towards him and hitting him in the chest. Both of them collapsed, and Hermione ran over to Harry.
"Harry, you did it you killed him! I'm so proud of you, you're a hero. Are you okay?"
"Hermione" he whispered "I'm sorry for being mad at you, I love you…"
"Shhh" she cut him off "I know" and Harry slipped out of consciousness.



All the members of the order waited anxiously in the hospital wing waiting to hear about Harry. Hermione Draco and Dumbledore stood by his bed watching Poppy run tests on him. She looked at them with a flicker of sadness in her eyes. The noise around Harry made him stir, and he slowly slipped into consciousness, he opened one eye slowly and saw everyone around him, but then closed his eyes again.
"All of the magic has slipped out of Harry, the battle wore him out, and it seems that the connection he had with voldemort also had an affect on him. With Voldemort gone, he'd lose some of his power anyway, but the effect of the curses coming together drained him. I'm afraid he'll never be able to do magic again." Harry felt Hermione grab his hand, and let out a sob. Dumbledore's triumphant look vanished and a saddened look replaced it, and Draco, looked away sadly. Harry's world collapsed in on him; suddenly nothing seemed to matter anymore. Every reason he'd had for staying seemed to go away. His friends could live with out him, he'd served his purpose to the wizarding world, and he'd lost himself his own happiness while he was at it. It seemed so easy at that moment to just let go, he could Sirius again and meet his parents. Harry let tears streak his cheeks as he said goodbye to the world, thinking that maybe he wasn't so brave after all. But he didn't care, he couldn't live on the face of the earth knowing that he could be doing magic, it was too painful, and he was ready to be done with pain. He knew he was being selfish because of how much people had sacrificed to keep him alive, but he couldn't take it. Besides how could he live without magic. He wanted people to remember him before the battle powerful and brave, not weak and powerless. He waited till the voices faded from beside him, and reached over to pull the cord to the machine that was keeping him stable. It wasn't a quick death, but it eventually happened. One of the last things he did was write a note to the world, but he never finished it...

The next morning the first thing Hermione did was run down to the hospital wing to check on Harry. When she got there she saw Madam Pomphrey checking on some members from the order.

"Have you seen Harry yet?" asked Hermione

"No dear haven't gotten there yet, but you can go check on him for me" Hermione walked towards his bed, she sat down and took his hand, it was unusually cold. She checked his pulse, and screamed.

"Harry" she cried. Through tear stained eyes she saw a piece of parchment on the table next to his bed. Madam Pomphrey came running over, turned pale, and immediately went to tell Dumbledore. Hermione picked up the letter, and read it letting tears drop on the paper.

I'm not quite sure the hat picked the right house for me, being in Gryffindor I'm supposed to be all brave, but I just didn't think that I could live without magic. Can you imagine living with out it? It was my escape, my rebirth, it's like oxygen. So no I decided not to be brave, hell I don't think I was ever brave, I chose the easy way out. Now I'll be with my parents and Sirius, I served my purpose, Voldemort is dead. No one quite knows what its like to be in so much pain all the time. So many people suffered because of me, and I know I'm making it worse by making all that for nothing, because I, yes I killed myself. I really love you all, well most of you but you can live with out me. Hermione I never got to fully apologize, I should have trusted you, I love you so much, make me proud, I know you will. Ron, I'm leaving you everything that was mine, don't consider it charity you're the only one I'd dream of giving all my stuff too. You were the best friend I could ever ask for, I love you man. Lupin I'll say hi to Sirius for you, thanx for everything. Dumbledore, I never would have made it without you, I think you were a guardian angel, I don't think I ever got to tell you th

The letter stopped there, and when Dumbledore walked in Hermione was clutching her knees rocking back and forth, the letter had dropped from her hands. What was supposed to be a day of victory turned into a day of mourning for the boy-who-lived. Almost the whole wizarding world showed up for his funeral 2 days later. People who knew him well spoke, but the one that will always make people remember was Hermiones.

"Harry, you son of a bitch! I don't know how you thought we could live without you, not one day goes by when I don't think about you. It makes sense why you'd kill yourself, I probably would too if I lost the ability to do magic but you didn't have to. I love you so much, I would have given you my magic if I could have. You were always so generous, always doing things for other people, I never got to pay you back for any of the stuff that you've done for me. I'm happy you're with your parents now, I just wish I could have told you how much I loved you. You freed the wiazarding world from Voldemort Harry, you were the only one that could, and I don't think any of us could ever pay you back for that. So even though I'm really mad at you for leaving me behind, I'm happy because I know that where ever you are right now is the place that your supposed to be, and you've gotten your parents back, which is more of a gift that I could have given you. And you were wrong; you've always been brave, so brave as to even face the wrath of all of us down here for you killing yourself. You sure made a lot of people mad. I love you Harry, I'll always love you"

Eventually everything in the wizarding world got back to normal, although no one was the same person as they were before the battle and his death. Dumbledore would announce his retirement at the end of the year feast feeling that his job was over. Many of the top students graduating that year would form a special group of aurors named after Harry to trace down any person that even spoke of becoming the next dark lord or other things like that. There was a shrine to him placed at Hogwarts, and it seemed that there was always one person at it. And as for Draco and Hermione…

It was the last day of school and they had just gotten done with the graduation ceremony.

"Come on Hermione lets go down to the lake one last time"

"Okay" they walked down to the lake hand and hand reflecting on their years at Hogwarts. They sat down on a rock in each others arms, they both looked at each other.

"I have to tell you something" they both said at the same time. Hermione giggled.

"You go first Draco" Draco just looked her in the eyes, and never leaving her eyes he knelt down on one knee and pulled a box out of his pocket. Opening the box he took out a ring. Hermione gasped.

"Will you Marry me Hermione Granger. I want to spend every day with you, I want to have children with you, I love you so much, you make everyday worth living for, I get out of bed in the morning so I can see your smile and kiss your beautiful face, and I want to go to sleep each night right next to you so you'll be the first thing when I wake up. I won't be complete until you wear this ring, and become my wife" Hermione was breathing so fast she thought she pass out from lack of oxygen.

"Yes Draco, yes of course I'll marry you. I love you" she closed her eyes and as they brought their lips together, he slid the ring on her finger. Hermione pulled away.

"Draco, I think its your lucky day, because your going to be a daddy just like you wanted"

"What?" he asked flabbergasted "When did you find out?"

"This morning"

"YES!" He cheered "I'm gonna be a daddy, and your husband"

"You're too cute Draco"

The end. Please don't hate me for the harry thing *hides* I'm not going to be having a sequel to this story, but I do have a new story cooking in my head, its going to be called "forever" I think, this too will be a D/H but there will be a different spin on it. Please review and tell me if you liked the story. I love you all.