The Battle
Voldemort let out a small laugh which echoed through the graveyard,
"Welcome Harry, I see you got my message," he said,
"That I did," said Harry,
"Now, would you like to ask me the question again?" Asked Voldemort,
"What question?" Harry asked, as Voldemort began to circle him.
"Why the graveyard?" Said Voldemort, "I shall tell you why, you see that Potter?" he pointed to Harry's mother and father's grave in turn, not waiting for an answer he continued, "I thought it would be appropriate to die in front of your parents," he said, raising the sleeve of his robe, his face serious, it was in that split second that Harry realised that this was a trap. Voldemort placed a single finger on a green vain and shut his eyes. Harry stared surprised at how the air turned cold, and slowly, like shadows, the Death Eaters came.
"You coward!" Said Harry, it burst out of his mouth before he could stop it, all the anger and frustration he had felt to Voldemort had swelled in his chest, "can't kill me alone!" he shouted, Voldemort stared at him with stern eyes, the Death Eaters now standing behind him, their faces covered. They all raised their wands, Voldemort slowly raised his hand, his eyes boring into Harry's, and they lowered them.
Voldemort took out his wand,
"Bow Potter," said Voldemort, bowing himself, Harry hesitated but then bowed, remembering their duel in forth year,
"Now," he said, stretching his neck on one side. "Crucio," said Voldemort, Harry dodged it, it hit the gravestone behind him and shattered it.
"Expelliarmus!" He yelled, Voldemort defected it easily.
"All these years Potter, all this built up hate, yet all you throw at me is a disarming charm!" Voldemort threw back his head and gave a single laugh,
"This is just the beginning… Tom," said Harry with a vicious smile, Voldemort's face turned from a laugh to a scowl, filled with utter most hatred; his slit-eyes narrowed. Harry had no idea why he was acting as he was, but he refused to let the fear win, he would die fighting if he was to die at all.
He heard noises behind him, not daring to advert his gaze from Voldemort, he did not turn. He heard incantations being yelled from behind him, and a few Death Eaters dropped to the ground, having been stunned. Voldemort's eyes darted above Harry's head for a split second,
"Headoculous!" Yelled Harry, taking the opportunity that had arose before him. Voldemort deflected it, as Death Eaters ran all around them, their cloaks flying behind them, like ravens. Harry circled Voldemort, hoping he would do the same so he could see what was happening. Luckily, Voldemort walked also, their wands raised; Harry didn't even dare to blink. Harry moved his eyes quickly to the left and saw an army. Everyone he ever thought could fight; was fighting. His eyes turned back to Voldemort, and he grinned cheekily.
"Avada Kedavra!" Yelled Voldemort, aiming for Harry's chest, Harry slid on the ground, pointing his wand at Voldemort,
"Dishevio," once again Voldemort deflected it.
"Crucio!" Yelled Voldemort, this time the spell hit him, he coiled on the ground, feeling like white hot knives were piercing his skin. He yelled a yell which echoed through the graveyard. The pain subsided, and Voldemort smiled at the withered heap on the ground. Harry stood slowly, Voldemort, knowing to hit him when he was down, make a cross action with his wand. Harry stepped back, so the spell only had a minor effect. A slash appeared on Harry's chest, it was not deep, but it was deep enough to bleed; the blood coming down from the cut and onto the grass. A spell rushed to his head, almost without conscious thought,
"SECTUMSEMPRA!" Yelled Harry, a gash now appeared on Voldemort's robes, from his face down to his hip. Surprised, he looked down and touched the blood. Voldemort was now filled with rage, rage that boiled inside him. He let it take its tole. On lookers wouldn't have known what was going on as they fiercely duelled. The spells were being fired every few seconds, suddenly Voldemort smirked,
"You thought I wouldn't come prepared Potter?" Waving his arm, Harry saw the army coming towards him, the giants that had joined their side, Dementors, Werewolf's who, or though there was not a full moon, they were walking on all fours. Nagini was at the front, Harry could have easily said "Horcruxio Destra," right there and then, but the Voldemort would have known that Harry knew about the Horcruxes, and may have fled. The earth shuddered with the force of the Giant's footprints from both sides.
Voldemort laughed again, his eyes gleaming the red he knew all too well.
He heard a beautiful song being sung above, the giants looked up stupidly, as did Harry, and he saw Fawkes, his tail feathers gleaming, like fire was actually dispersing off it. Death Eaters fired spells at the Pheonix, but Fawkes swooped low over the heads of the Giants, they tried to swat it away with their large hands like Fawkes was a fly. Harry quickly turned his attention back to Voldemort, realising his own attention was elsewhere. Voldemort waved his wand and a jet of flame shot out burning Harry's left arm and hitting him with such force that it knocked him to the ground.
Harry was down, oh god, Harry was down. Ginny watched, glancing whenever she could at him. The battle raged, she was wounded but not badly and found herself battling Wormtail. To her right Neville was fighting another Death Eater she did not know the name of, he was doing a rather good job, his face full of determination to win. McGonagall had responded to the call, and everyone of the Order was fighting. The Giant's that Hagrid had summoned were stepping on everything; Grawp used a tree he had pulled out of the ground as a large club to hit the Death Eaters and it was working well.
"Rat!" Yelled Ginny when Wormtail gashed her right arm,
"Well that's not an insult that's fact," said Wormtail with a grin,
"Was that humour?" She asked, "Expelliramus!" She yelled, when Wormtail was distracted by her comment. His wand flew out of his hand, she smiled,
"Head-," she said, before feeling a hand touch her shoulder, she looked around, Sirius was there.
"Let me," he said a triumphant smile on his lips. Ginny ran back as Sirius lunged at Wormtail knocking him to the ground before throwing some well aimed punches that broke his nose. Ginny heard Sirius mutter something and next moment she looked, Wormtail was dead. She turned when a spell hit her and sent her to the ground, her wand inches from her fingertips. She grabbed it again, looking at the attacker, Snape.
Harry had jumped up again,
"Come Potter, you know you can not beat me," Said Voldemort, "Crucio," Harry fell to the floor again, pain seising through him. He shut his eyes. The spell once again ended. "You aren't even a challenge anymore," he said with a laugh.
"Anymore?" Asked Harry, standing up, smiling despite the situation he was in. "Pertrificus Totalus!"
"Avada Kedavra," Yelled Voldemort, Harry dodged it,
"Impedimenta!" It hit Voldemort, he looked down at his chest, then snapped his head up at Harry, he could almost feel the fury from where he was standing. Such anger. Voldemort looked around, pointing his wand somewhere in the crowd.
Everything went still, as if the entire world was going silent. Then Harry heard him scream,
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" He turned to see where the spell was fired, he saw Ginny slowly look at her chest where the spell was hit and her eyes closed as she collapsed on the floor,
"NO!" Harry screamed, feeling worse than he ever had in his life, he ran over to Ginny, not caring about the Death Eaters running after him. He bent down to her shaking her shoulders,
"Ginny! Wake up!" He said his tears flowing violently onto the floor "don't be dead! Please don't be dead!" He said checking her pulse, there was nothing, it was obvious, or though he did not dare admit it to himself; that Ginny was dead. He kissed her forehead; it was clear now he had to bring her back.
He turned to Voldemort, feeling the same rage that he was showing before. He walked over, feeling power go through his body. He looked down at his wand, it was shaking he was gripping it so tight. It glowed crimson for a second. He felt like he wasn't Harry anymore, like he had turned into a monster, a monster with power. He walked back to Voldemort, who was now grinning again.
"Expelliramus!" He yelled, Voldemort tried to dodge it, but it hit him with such force that it knocked him twelve feet in the air before crashing back down. Electric sparks came off Harry's wand. He had to wait for the perfect moment for when Voldemort was to fire a spell.
"Avada Kedavra!" Yelled Voldemort, Harry raised his wand, saying nothing, yet a red spark came out of his wand and hit Voldemort's mid-air. He smiled to himself. They were connected yet again; Harry held on with both hands the connection turning deep gold, the bead appearing in the centre,
"Not this again," said Voldemort, "trying to flee?" Asked Voldemort, Harry didn't answer, as the bead slowly moved to Voldemort's wand. Voldemort tried to push it back, but was un-able to; the hate for Voldemort and love for Ginny was too powerful for anyone to fight against. Harry's eyes remained on Voldemort's; unfaltering.
Slowly they were raised into the air, their wands still connected by the thread of gold light. The light splintered, throwing back people who were in the range of the dome. Voldemort tried to break the connection, he did not succeed.
The bead touched the end of Voldemort's wand, and immediately a white figure came out of it,
"Ginny," he said,
"Harry," she said, looking around, "what are you doing?" Harry did not answer her. A voice played in his head,
"Yes I do Harry, I believe in it very strongly. It is choosing what is right to what is easy, to bring back your mother and father would be the easy way out."
"So what if it's easy? At least they would be there!"
"But it isn't right Harry; it isn't the way it has been arranged. Life happens in a sequence, born, live, die. It is a harsh and continuous circle, but there is no cycle that is born, live, die, live! Sure you may be reincarnated I do not know, but you are not meant to be awakened again from the dead."
Harry, with as much strength as he could muster, broke the connection.
"Humanio Raparrti," he said, a white spark came out of his wand, they all fell to the ground. Harry looked up, desperate to see if Ginny was alive. She wasn't there, he looked over to where her body was, it was not moving.
Sadness filled his heart, he dropped his wand, it hadn't worked. He looked sadly down at his hands and noticed they were glowing red. Voldemort laughed, it echoed,
"Thought you could bring her back did you Potter?" He said with a leer, Harry's hands grew redder at every word he spoke.
Harry looked up slowly, Voldemort raised his wand,
"But you can be with her," he said, "Avada-," Harry picked up his wand again. Pointing it at Voldemort. A giant red spark emitted from the end of it, hitting Voldemort dead in the chest, he flew backwards onto the floor. Then stood up again, not moving his feet, like he was being pushed by an invisible force.
"Quite a good spell that is," said Voldemort with a smile, but his eyes, you could see in them a twinge of fear. Harry pointed his wand again,
"Headoculous," again the red came from the tip of his wand, like a wave, there was no way for Voldemort could escape it. When the spell hit him, it did not do what it was suppose to. Like in first year, he came blistered all over, like Harry's touch used to do when he had the protection of his mother.
Voldemort became still.
Realising what he had done, he snapped out of his daze of love, sadness and hatred, and stared at Voldemort's body, a still body that had caused so much pain in everyone. Who killed people, the ones that meant the world to Harry. He walked over to the body and looked down on it. How could one man cause so much damage? Voldemort's eyes were open, in surprise, the red had left them and he looked more like a human. Harry gave him a hard kick in his side, just to check he was dead.
He had not noticed, but the battle had stopped, every eye was on Harry, standing over Voldemort's limp body. Most of the Death Eater's fled, as did the Werewolves and the Dementors.
He suddenly remembered the Horcrux,
"Nagini," he said in Pastlemouth, waiting, he heard a slither behind him and he turned. The snake raised its head, looking at its dead master. It did not say anything,
"Horncruxio Destra!" Said Harry, power was drawn from their surroundings and the Nagini was no more. He stared at the ash then he turned around to see the damage the battle had done.
Giant's lay on the grass, taking up most of the space. Wormtail's body along with Snape's, Crabbe's father's, Goyle's father's, Lavender, The Creevy Brothers, Mundungus, (Harry gulped,) Ginny, Grawp (with a howling Hagrid beside him,) Lupin stood over Greyblack, a satisfied smile on his lips, a few faces were unrecognisable, their faces down on the grass, or just too messed up. Harry walked over to Ginny's body; the Weasley's standing around her. When they saw him coming they made a path for him to walk down. He knelt down on the grass, brushing her hair behind her ear. Her eyes flickered.
'You are imagining it Harry,' said a voice in Harry's head,
'The Spell didn't work,' her eyes flickered again and she coughed, turning to her side and opening her eyes. Mrs. Weasley screamed in shock, then knocked her down with a hug,
"Mum," said Ginny, trying to push her off, "Mum…. I'm fine… please!" Mrs. Weasley slowly let go, tears running down her eyes, a gash across her cheek. Fred and George (George was wounded, his arm cradled by his side, Fred was bleeding down his face and his side,) were the next to jump on her,
"If I wasn't dead I think I would be now," said Ginny,
"Never doubted you," said Fred,
"Never," said George wiping a tear away,
"Are you crying?" Said Ginny,
"No," they said in unison,
Ginny slowly stood, looking at Harry. Harry walked over to where she was, wrapping his arms around her. It was a while before they broke apart. He kissed her, not worrying that everyone was watching. When he broke apart Fred and George began clapping (George smacked his hand against his leg.)
All the survivors came to the centre, looking around at the bodies. Death was everywhere they looked, but it was only when the sky began to brighten, the dust settled and they realised the full impact of the war.
Hope you all liked the last chapter, if you didn't really get it… Ginny's death was basically raising the protective shield on Harry again, but mixed with the hate he was feeling and the grief, he became powerful. So basically, it was the whole 'love,' thing that was going through the Series, how Dumbledore was always telling Harry to love. So… I took that and put it into here. Hope you all like it, I can't believe I have finished it! It's like… wow! I was thinking on a sequel but I am not sure.
Thankyou all the Reviewers, all the Readers; You guys rule. Oh, and be glad that I didn't decide to be extremely evil and make Ginny's death then end of the chapter, then add in another chapter. Oh… that would've been worse than the Sirius bit.
Me and Jordan are thinking of writing a rather silly Harry Potter. Its going to be like a musical, you know, but not written in play form. It should be really amusing, and its just for laughs (it is like a skit.) I'd like to know what you think about this idea, would anyone like to read it?
Just wanted to say-
Scotty26- Or should I say- thy servant, seeming you keep calling me master lol. You are going to make me fat if you continue to give me food lmao. Really I am one of your top 2! Oh that's cool! Haha, thanks for all your reviews
Jordan- Hey Email whore, lmao. I give special thanks to you for the idea of the graveyard, I loved it when you freaked out when I told you Ginny was going to die. Laughs at memory Later Dude. Oh! And sorry about Voldemort not confessing his un-dieing love for Harry :)
Demon of the Western Lands- Geez no pressure or anything! Haha, thanks so much for the review.
Now I would love to name you all, and reply to all your reviews but, I do not have the time and I want to get the chapter posted. Oh and I forgot to say last chapter how funny it was with all the reviews about the Horcruxes! I think I had about twelve or something about them.
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P.S that was not a cliffhanger, it couldn't have been :)