It had taken Elara a while to force herself to get up but when she saw Ron and Hermione sitting alone without Harry, she knew where he was.
She just hoped it wasn't true.
She approached the two slowly. They looked up at her and she could already tell she was not going to like the answer to her question.
"Where's Harry?" Elara asked. Ron looked at her and shook his head. Hermione just cried.
"Ronald. Please, where's Harry?"
"You know where he is El." He replied.
"I was hoping I was wrong." Elara told them. It took a moment for what Ron told Elara to sink in.
"Oh my god." Elara muttered, falling backwards onto the stair below her. Ronald looked at her empathetically.
"Elara I'm sorry. I know how much he means to you." Hermione told her. Elara sniffed and wiped away a tear.
"He meant as much to me as he did to you." Elara smiled sadly.
"No. He meant more. He was your best friend, no. He was more than that. You spent more time with him then we ever have, you lived with him. Yeah, we were his best friends but you were his sister."
Elara had tried to keep it together, she had promised Harry she would be strong but she couldn't help the tears streaming down her face. She wanted to scream. She wanted to see Harry again.
She didn't really know what to do.
She looked around the great hall, everyone mourning, and then she broke. Sirius looked up from where he had been sitting, looking at Fred's body, with Molly and George. He stood up immediately and made his way over to her.
"Elara." He murmured sympathetically. He sat on the stair and pulled Elara into his chest. Sirius kissed her forehead and allowed her to sob.
"He's left us." Elara whispered.
"What?"
"He's gone. Harry went to the forest, the bastard." Elara sobbed. Sirius looked forward and then he hugged Elara tighter, his sadness overwhelmed by the sound of Elara's sobs.
She continued until they heard the footsteps.
A lot of them.
She followed everyone out of the great hall and onto the courtyard and then squeezed her way to the front of her crowd to see the deatheaters marching towards them.
She saw Hagrid, carrying Harry.
"Damn it!" She cried. She stared at Harry.
"Elara?" Draco called. Elara saw Draco emerge from the great hall and make his way to beside her. He looked forward at Harry's body. He grabbed her hand.
Draco's heart was breaking, Elara could see it. In fact she could hear it. Draco had tears streaming down his face as he stepped closer and closer to the approaching crowd. Elara's hand hurt from how hard Draco was squeezing it but she didn't dare let go.
"Tell me it's not him." He said quietly
"You know I can't do that." Elara responded.
"He can't be dead. He just can't." Draco was still crying, standing at the front of the crowd.
Voldemort stepped forward.
"HARRY POTTER IS DEAD!"
"NO!" Ginny began to run forward. Elara let go of Draco's hand and caught Ginny. Ginny stared into Elara's eyes.
"Elara, I already lost Fred. I can't loose another brother. I just can't." Ginny collapsed into Elara's arms.
"I'm sorry love. I'm so sorry."
"No." Ginny begged. Elara kissed her forehead and held her as she began to fall. Ginny screamed in response.
"If you two are done." Bellatrix called. Elara snapped her head towards her. She felt someone grab Ginny and she looked to see George holding her.
'I'm sorry.' She mouthed at him. He smiled sadly in response.
'Me too.' George mouthed in response, then he turned his attention to his sister. He held her close
"That bastard" Draco whispered. Elara looked back towards her brother. She couldn't tell if he was talking about Voldemort or Harry. She stared at him for a moment. He looked frozen.
"Draco?" He turned his head to look at her. His face was dirty and the only clean spots were where the tears streamed down.
"He's dead." He said.
Elara nodded her head.
"Harry is dead." He repeated. He sounded as if he was saying to himself, trying to make sense of his world, crumbling around him. Elara felt his pain, physically. She felt everything he was and it was killing her slowly.
"Yes. He is." Elara confirmed, tears streaming down her face. Draco looked forward for a moment with a look of disparity before running off to the side and throwing up. Elara went to run to her brother side but she was stopped.
"ELARA MALFOY!" Elara closed her eyes tight for a moment in an attempt to control her anger and then she opened them and turned her head. She saw Bellatrix looking at her.
"What?" She said rudely.
"Listen to your lord." Bellatrix replied. Elara leagues lightly and then turned to face Bella.
"No offense aunt but my brother is more important to me than your dark lord." She said. Bella gasped
"How dare you?!" She shrieked.
"It's alright Bella, our little friend here is just confused. She will follow her path." Voldemort almost smiled. He looked at her forearm and the back at her. She looked down at her arm with disgust. Draco walked back up next her.
"You're right. I will follow my path, all the way to helping Harry kill you." She said angrily. Then something unexpected happened.
Voldemort laughed
Elara was steaming with anger.
"How dare you laugh!" Draco screamed. "You've murdered thousands of people including the man I love and you have the audacity to stand up there and laugh! If that doesn't show you that you will loose, that fact that you're a heartless monster, then I don't know what will."
Pause. Elara looked right into Voldemort's eyes.
"Harry Potter will stop you." Elara finished
"Harry Potter is dead." Someone spat, ripping Elara's heart in half. She looked over to see Theodore's father staring straight at her, laughing. He was saying it directly to her because he knew how much it hurt. Elara looked back at Theo and saw the look of pure hatred on his face. She smiled sadly at him and he nodded his head in apology.
"Yes. Harry Potter is dead. From now on you will put your faith in me. Anyone who chooses not to join me right now will die. This is your only chance."
Elara stood still at the front of the crowd.
"Draco. Elara. Come." Lucius called to them. Both stood still.
"Come, now" He commanded after a moment of staring at them. They both continued to stand.
"Now. "
Elara looked over a Draco, and he seemed to understand exactly what she was asking without her even saying it. He nodded his head.
"You know what father?" She asked, her head still facing Draco. Draco smiled at her and Elara smiled back.
She paused and looked back towards Lucius.
"Bite me." Elara spat simply. Draco grabbed her hand in support. She smiled sadly at him then looked back at the death eaters. They we're all shocked. Neither of the Malfoy children ever disobeyed their father and they certainly were never rude to him. It just didn't make sense.
Voldemort pulled out his wand.
"You can do whatever you want but I will never follow you. Harry James Potter was my brother and I love him with all my heart. I'm willing to give up my life for him and I know I'm not alone. Harry has been stopping you since before he was born and him being dead won't stop him. You do whatever you want to you son of a bitch because I will never fight for you."
Pause.
She looked at Draco then back at Voldemort.
"Never."
He began to say the curse.
"Stop!" A voice called. Everyone turned to the source to see Neville Longbottom holding a sword.
"She's right. We're all behind her and we will continue to be until you kill every last one of us. Harry was and still is our chosen one and he will stop you. So, you wanna hurt someone? Hurt me." He told him. Voldemort smiled .
"Or me."
Pause. The whole world stopped and Elara felt her tears fall.
"Harry." Draco said breathlessly. Elara smiled
"Atta boy." Elara whispered to herself. Voldemort became enraged and Harry ran, Elara following with Draco.
"Harry!" Draco called. Harry turned and Draco ran full speed at him. They kissed and Harry held Draco. Elara approached slower. Draco and Harry let go, foreheads still touching.
"You son of a bitch." Elara said. Harry looked at her and smiled. Draco and Harry let go. Elara ran forward and Harry caught her, lifting her.
"If you ever do that again I swear to god I'll kill you myself." She claimed. Harry smiled.
"I will never do that again." He told her. Elara smiled at him.
"Okay. What do I do? Continue trying to find the next horcrucx?" Elara asked, letting go of him.
"Its Nagini. We have to kill the snake but you need to go to the Great hall. Voldemort won't be happy. We have to protect the people, heal them, do what you're good at. You see Neville, tell him he has to kill the snake with the sword. It's the only way." He told her. Elara nodded. She hugged Harry and then Draco. She kissed his forehead.
"Be safe." She told them both. They nodded their heads.
"We'll try." Harry told her. She ran off, the last thing she saw of the two boys she loved most was them kissing. She smiled and then she turned the corner.
Elara was shooting curses left and right. She was fighting not only for her future brother in law but for the person she loved most in the world. She sprinted into the great hall and looked around for everyone she was worried about. The Weasley's were together and fighting but Ron and Hermione were nowhere to be seen. Elara cursed under her breath and then shot a curse at a death eater she didn't even recognize.
"Elara!" She heard. She turned.
"Theo!" She replied. She ran to him.
"You seen my father?" He asked. She shook her head. "If you do, make sure he pays for what he did to my mother and my sister? I have to go find Daphne and make sure she lives" He requested.
"Absolutely." She told him. He nodded his head at her.
"Thank you." He muttered. Elara smiled at him and then he ran off.
She continued on. She saw Luna fighting Amycus and Elara smirked as Luna sent him spiraling backwards.
"Luna!" She shouted. Luna looked her way. "You seen Neville?!"
"No." Luna responded.
"If you see him, send him my way?" Elara requested. Luna nodded her head. "Thank you, and brilliant stunning charm." Elara complimented.
"Thank you. Not as brilliant as yours."
And before Elara had a chance to respond, Luna was back to defending the school.
She ran and looked for Neville but she didn't find him, not before she found someone else.
"Mr. Nott!" She screamed. He turned his head and smirked.
"Let me guess, my son asked you to kill me?"
"No. He asked me to make you pay." She replied smirking. She threw a curse and he dodged it. He backed her into a corner. He began to laugh.
"Expelliumus" he said. Her wand flew.
"You stupid little girl." He laughed. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and then smirked. He looked confused. Elara opened her eyes and then his wand flew.
"I can't believe you thought you would win this when I can preform wandless magic. Why the hell do you think Voldemort made me a deatheater in my fifth year?" Elara asked. She smiled and then she threw him backwards. He flew to another wall and everyone watched, either impressed or afraid. She then lifted him and he felt his lungs begin to contract. He was all the way at the top of the building when she began to talk again.
"This is for your wife and daughter, you know the ones you tortured to death? The ones that were 42 and 8?" She told him. He took his last breath and then she threw him to the ground.
Elara took a few deep breaths, almost afraid of what she had just done but then she remembered how he had tortured his wife and daughter for 3 weeks before he killed them. Then she didn't feel bad. She threw her hand out and her wand flew into it. She took two more deep breaths and then went back to fighting.
And then the curse.
"You chose the wrong side." Lucius said blankly. Elara knew what was happening.
"Daddy, please. Don't do this. Fight." Elara begged.
"You shouldn't have disappointed us!" He replied. He shot her with a curse, then another.
"I just saw you choke Theodore's father to death. I've done worse to you than he ever would have. Why aren't you fighting back?!"
"You're my family. I'm not going hurt you to save myself"
She looked down at the ground and then she dropped her wand. She looked back up into Lucius' eyes
"I'm not going to fight you."
Lucius looked at her.
"I'm sorry." He said. He was fighting but it was useless. Elara nodded her head and then she quickly looked around the room and saw the red hair she loves so much.
"WEASLEY!" She screamed. The owner of the red hair turned.
"I love you so much." Elara said. Elara saw her love running across the Great Hall but she knew that she was doomed. Elara turned and closed her eyes. Lucius took a deep breath and looked at his daughter for the last time. He tried to fight but he couldn't.
"Sectumsempra!"
And Elara was on the ground.