CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE FINAL BATTLE

It did not take long for Voldemort to assemble all of his Death Eaters. One touch of the Dark Mark on Lucius' arm and they practically came running. It took about an hour for all of the Death Eaters to assemble. As they were assembling, Voldemort tried to undo the damage Dumbledore had done to Damian's memories, to no prevail. If possible, the memories would have to return on their own.

With the Death Eaters all assembled, Voldemort spent the next two hours debriefing them on their attack on Hogwarts. He managed to keep everyone's attention when he spoke; allowing interruptions only if someone needed something clarified or saw a flaw in the plan. When he finished his debrief, he ordered his Death Eater's to assemble just before the borders of Hogwarts. He then turned to his sons.

'I want you two to behave while I'm gone,' he said sternly.

'What's that supposed to mean?' Damian demanded.

'Father, you can't protect us forever,' Sanaro stated impatiently. 'We're not kids anymore.'

'We are going into war, Sanaro! I will not risk –'

'That is for us to decide.'

'And you'll need our help,' Damian added. 'You may have the numbers, but not all of your Death Eaters are great wizards. Some can easily be overthrown by teenagers.'

'If anything happens to either of you –'

'We won't leave you, Father,' Sanaro said gently. 'You won't lose us like you did Mother. This time it will be Dumbledore leaving this world.'

Voldemort looked between his boys and sighed.

'Why did you have to be as stubborn as me?' he groaned. 'Fine. I just hope I won't regret this. Just don't do anything stupid!'

Minutes later, Voldemort and his army stood a short distance away from Hogwarts' borders and saw that a blue barrier had been placed over the castle. Voldemort, Sanaro and Damian stood at the front of the army. All of them were dressed in black.

'They must have known we were coming,' Sanaro remarked.

'Father did threaten Dumbledore,' Damian commented. 'He obviously took it seriously. That or he has a spy in our mists.'

'Why doesn't the latter of the two surprise me?' Voldemort muttered. 'And I don't know why he bothered with something so trivial? I swear he just does these things to annoy me.'

'Knowing Dumbledore, he probably does,' Sanaro agreed.

Voldemort motioned for his Death Eaters to destroy the protective barrier.

'This seems almost too easy,' Lily commented as she joined the trio.

'Indeed,' Voldemort agreed. 'Dumbledore's probably trying to lead us into a false sense of invincibility and make us overconfident, but he'll find it won't work.'

Ten minutes later, the barrier was down and the Death Eaters ran down to the castle and began to fight the now animate Hogwarts statues, staff members, seventh year students, the DA, and Order of the Phoenix. At least those who weren't hindered by the booby traps, like Devil's Snare, fought.

At first the Riddles, Lily and Sirius merely waited for the Death Eaters to take care of a good amount of enemies, before they too joined in the fight, searching for Dumbledore. Sanaro and Damian had had new wands made for them.

They all ended up going separate ways with Damian heading for Dumbledore's office.

As he ran through the corridors, attacking anyone who dared attack him, Damian got the feeling he was being followed. He turned just in time to avoid an attack from behind. Standing before him was Ginny, Ron, Finnigan, Thomas, Parvati Patil, and Brown.

'I thought I warned you to stay away from me!' Damian growled.

'You're not in the position to make threats,' Ron informed him. 'You're outnumbered and now we're going to make sure you're looked away forever.'

'Not if we have anything to say about it!' Daphne yelled as she, Tracey, Hermione, Luna, Neville, Draco and Blaise appeared around Damian.

'If you want Damian, you'll have to go through us first,' Draco informed them.

'Don't make us laugh!' Ginny spat, before attacking Daphne.

Meanwhile, Draco took on Ron, Neville fought Finnigan, Blaise against Thomas, Tracey took on Patil, and Hermione duelled Brown.

'Luna, take Damian and get him out of here!' Draco ordered. 'We'll be fine.'

'Be careful,' Luna said as she took off with Damian in search of Dumbledore.

They eventually ended up finding him in the Great Hall fighting Voldemort. No one in the Hall was fighting for they were too busy watching the amazing, yet terrifying, duel that was taking place. It was not often wizards got to witness a duel between the two most powerful wizards of the century. It also was due to their need to avoid stray spells.

However, Voldemort's and Dumbledore's duel didn't hold Damian's attention for long. His attention was drawn to Sanaro, who was unconscious with his head in Lily's lap. He had blood pouring down his face. Around them were Lucius, Narcissa, Bellatrix and Sirius. They had been protecting the couple.

For an hour Voldemort and Dumbledore duelled and by the end Voldemort began to tire. Ever since his tiring journey to Paris, Voldemort had gotten next to no sleep as he worried over his sons' well-beings. This made him weaker than Dumbledore, who had no trouble sleeping. As a result, Dumbledore was able to get the exhausted Voldemort to his knees as his wand flew into Dumbledore's hand.

'Father!' Damian cried as panic coursed through him. He immediately went and protectively stood in front of Voldemort.

'Stand aside, Damian, or else!' Dumbledore said warningly.

'Do as he says, Damian,' Voldemort said urgently. 'Do not sacrifice yourself for me.'

Damian ignored him.

'I will not let you kill my father!' Damian informed Dumbledore.

'I wasn't going to,' replied Dumbledore. 'I was merely going to arrest him –'

'Then kill him when you no longer have an audience,' Damian interrupted. 'Wouldn't want to ruin that grandfatherly act you've taken years to prefect, would we? Wouldn't want everyone here to see you for who you truly are; ugly, cold and bitter.'

'Damian –'

'I'm not finished. I want everyone to see your true colours so they are no longer fooled, blinded, used and manipulated like I was. I want them to see the man who murdered my mother and kidnapped me, convincing my father and brother that I was dead. I want them to see the sicko who created a fake prophecy… yes, I know the prophecy is fake. Neither Neville or I are enemies with my father and we're the only two people who fit the criteria –'

Damian abruptly cut off and tackled Voldemort out of the way as Dumbledore sent the Killing Curse at them. Damian had finally tested his patience. The Slytherin heir also got his wish of those present seeing Dumbledore's true colours.

'I though you said you weren't going to kill anyone?' Damian said mockingly. 'Grandfathers don't kill.'

'For an annoying, meddling brat like you, I can make an exception!' Dumbledore snapped. 'But will you make the same exception for me? I know you want me dead, but you don't have the heart to do it yourself. You are weak.'

'Sparing someone's life isn't weakness,' McGonagall commented, looking sickened by Dumbledore's behaviour. 'It's a sign of strength.'

'A simple minded view,' Dumbledore snared, preparing to kill Damian, but the incantation froze on his lips as he was hit from behind by the Killing Curse. Sanaro had managed to regain consciousness and managed to rise to his feet.

'No one attacks my brother,' he said weakly, leaning on Lily for support.

That was how the main battle ended. Most people who had supported Dumbledore surrendered, not wanting to follow the views of a crazy old man. However, those who were truly loyal to Dumbledore continued to fight. They would not give in so easily.

As they fought and word spread to the rest of the school of Dumbledore's demise, Damian helped his father over to Sanaro.

'Don't you ever scare me like that again!' Voldemort scolded Sanaro, holding him tightly. He then turned to Damian. 'The same goes for you, young man! Do you understand?'

'I do,' replied Damian.

With the battle over, Damian left his family and went in search for his friends. He found them all sitting quietly together in the remainders of the destroyed library. All of them were sporting some sort of minor injury and were filthy, not to mention tired, yet happy.

'May I join you?' asked Damian.

'Of course you can,' said Tracey. 'I'm so happy to see that you're alright.'

'We all are,' said Blaise, grinning up at him.

'Before anything else is said –'

'Here it comes,' said Neville, with a knowing smile.

'As was expected,' Hermione added.

'Huh?'

'Neville told us all about the results of the memory viewing,' Draco explained. 'There is no need to apologise.'

Damian smiled at his friends, even if he couldn't remember being friends with most of them.

For an hour they sat there talking, before they decided to get some sleep. As Daphne went to follow the other Slytherins to their dormitories, Damian stopped her.

'I know that me not remembering what we had is hard on you, but I was wondering if you'd give me the chance and honour of falling in love with you all over again?' he asked her hopefully.

Daphne's eyes filled with tears of joy as she nodded her head.

'Yes… yes, I will!' she cried, leaping into Damian's arms and holding him tightly.

Damian smiled. It was now that Damian knew that everything would be alright and he was right.

Nineteen years later, after taking care of numerous rebellions, with the help of his sons', Voldemort achieved his goal of controlling the wizarding world, which wasn't as bad as everyone thought it would be. True there were stricter laws, but they were liveable.

Voldemort eventually was talked into letting Muggle-borns be, but that might have only been to get his boys, Hermione and Lily off his case. He never confirmed if his views on Muggle-borns had changed. Sanaro, however, knew that they hadn't. He was merely tolerating them because he knew that the moment he eventually died, his boys would undo all of his hard work. He ended up putting Lily and Hermione in charge of all Muggle-born issues, stating he didn't want to know.

As for Muggles, he wasn't as tolerant, but he grudgingly was talked into letting them be too. He did, however, make it possible that abusive guardians of children with magic were charged and severely punished. He even paid a visit to the Dursleys with Lily. The Dursleys were beyond petrified, not that Lily hurt Petunia and Dudley as they were family. Voldemort was a different story all together and he made them pay for what they did to Damian.

Lily and Sanaro ended up marrying in the winter after the battle at Hogwarts. It was a small wedding of close friends and family. Seeing as Lily's father had passed away, Remus walked Lily down the aisle as he was like a brother to her. Sirius was one of Sanaro's groomsmen while Damian was the Best Man. They eventually ended up having two children, a boy and a girl, whom they named Aden and Flora.

Hermione and Blaise also ended up settling down together and they too had two children. They ended up having two girls they named Rose and Maddie. However, despite being twins, they were complete opposites. They weren't like the Weasley twins.

Draco and Astoria married too, which enabled Daphne to say to Draco, "I told you it would work." She ended up being Astoria's Maid of Honour, while Damian was Draco's Best Man. Unlike their friends, the couple decided they would be happy with only one child, a boy named Scorpius. They were right too. Their son bought them much joy and love.

Then there was Damian and Daphne. Sadly, Damian never regained his missing memories, but that didn't end up mattering for he was able to fall in love with her again. They ended up having three children, even though they only wanted two. Their first born was a boy, Caleb, before they tried two years later for another child only to receive twin girls, Charmaine and Trista. Just like with Flora, Voldemort secretly had a soft for his granddaughters.

The End

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Written: 10 May 2014
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