Potter Characters (as much as I
wish I did).
By Amanda Hunt
Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny and
Lavender sat in a The Leaky Caldron in Hogsmede. They sipped their butterbeer slowly, savouring the flavour on the
warm spring day. It was early April and
this was the first warm day they had had in a while.
Ron held Lavender's hand under
the table and she brushed her feet gently against his. He blushed bright red and took a large gulp
of his drink.
Ginny sat
smiling, staring off into space. She
contentedly brushed a strand of flaming hair out of her face. Harry and Hermione sat beside each other,
across from Ginny. Hermione absently
twirled a strand of hair around her finger.
Harry watched with caring eyes.
Ron
whispered something in Lavender's ear and she smiled and kissed him on the
cheek.
Listen children to our story
that was written long ago,
About a kingdom on a mountain
and a valley far below.
Suddenly there was a blinding
flash of light out on the street. The five rose and went to the window to look. A large group of Death Eaters had apperated
into the middle of the town. They all
wore long, black robes and masks.
On the mountain was a
treasure, buried deep underneath the stone,
And the valley people swore
they'd have it for their very own.
Suddenly, in front of them all
Voldemort appeared. The slits of his
eyes glowed yellow even in the daylight.
People screamed apperated away.
Most of the adults had vanished with their families. Hermione could see the Hogwarts students
clustered in store windows around the street.
"I have come for Harry
Potter! Show your self!" Voldemort hissed. His voice carried across the town.
Go ahead and hate your
neighbour,
Go ahead and cheat a friend,
Harry began
to step forward, to face Voldemort, but Hermione grabbed his hand.
"Harry! Don't go!
Please!" She begged him. "He'll kill you!" He squeezed her hand and then pushed it off.
"I know,
but if it's only me then it's worth it."
He smiled weakly and stepped out into the middle of the street. A tear rolled down Hermione's cheek.
"Please." She whispered to quietly for anyone to hear
her.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end,
"Ah, a wise
choice Potter." Voldemort hissed. "But I'm afraid you will die for it." He lifted his wand, but his vision was
directed to the large congregation of students gathering behind Harry. Hermione stood directly behind him and
reached her hand forward to squeeze his.
Ron and Lavender stood beside her and Ginny beside them. Seamus, Dean, and most of the other Hogwarts
students stood behind them.
As they gathered some smaller
Death Eaters joined the crowd. They
wore the traditional masks and robes, but they were clearly students. Hermione gasped in surprise.
"Excellent." He hissed.
"Kill them all." He cackled to
his Death Eaters.
There won't be any trumpets
blowing come the judgment day
All the
students raised their wands. Curses
flew everywhere. Hermione blocked
curses aimed at her and threw many more at the Death Eaters. Students were falling all around her, dead
from Avada Kedevara, but none of the Death Eaters were dead. If a curse hit them another would simply
perform the counter curse and they would continue.
She knew in
her mind what she had to do.
"AVADA
KEDEVARA!!!!!!!!" She screamed.
On the bloody morning after,
A blinding green light shot from
her wand and an advancing Death Eater fell.
Ron turned to look at her, shocked.
She nodded. He sighed resolutely
and nodded. He also began firing the
killing curse.
One tin soldier rides away.
"Potter! You will die here, victim to me, just like
your parents!" Voldemort called to
Harry over the din. Hermione glanced
over at him, continuing to fire curses.
Their wands were locked in Priori Incantatem. Rage gleamed in Harry's eyes.
He did not answer.
"Nothing to
say Potter? Just say you surrender and
all the killing will stop."
So the people of the valley
sent a message up the hill
Asking for the buried
treasure, tons of gold for which they'd kill.
"You would
not stop killing on your own." Harry
answered through gritted teeth. "But
the killing will stop, one way or another."
Came an answer from the
kingdom, "with our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our
mountain, all the riches buried there."
"You will
die before anyone ever sees that day Potter.
You die here today, by my hand."
He jeered
"Not by you
Riddle!" He screamed back.
"Voldemort!" He called back. The anger in his voice was audible. A curse streaked by Hermione's shoulder and she turned back to
shoot.
Now the valley cried with
anger,
Mount Jahousis draw your
sword,
"Tom
Marvolo Riddle!" Harry answered. "You don't deserve our respect!"
"I AM LORD VOLDEMORT!!!!" He screamed in frustrated anger. "KILL THEM!
KILL!!!!!" He screamed to the
Death Eaters. Their doubled curses
flashed by.
And they killed the mountain
people,
So they won their just reward.
Hermione
turned quickly back to the battle, flinging curses in every direction. Harry and Riddle were still locked in Priori
Incantatem. Both concentrated as hard
as they could to force the golden beads to the other. Hermione wiped the blood and sweat away from her eyes.
Now they stood beside the
treasure,
On the mountain dark and red,
"Potter! I grow tired of this game!" Riddle screamed. Harry remained focused on the golden cord. With one great pull Riddle wrenched his wand
away and the cord shattered. Harry
looked up and met his eyes.
"This is
the end." He stated.
"No, it is
never the end." Harry returned, their
wands still pointed at each other.
"Your
friends are dead." He said. Harry refused to be distracted. He stayed, eyes locked with Voldemort.
"That
Mudblood witch is dead to." He
sneered.
"Hermione?" Harry whispered. She heard him.
"No
Harry! I'm here!" She called over the noise.
"You will
not destroy us by killing me." He said
calmly. Riddle smirked.
"Goodbye
Potter!" He hissed. "AVADA KEDAVRA!!!!!!" A bolt of green light shot from his
wand. Before Harry could react it hit
him. Hermione screamed.
As she watched the curse hit him,
his scar glowed golden. The green light
combined with the golden essence from his scar and rebounded back towards
Voldemort. He sent out a curse to stop
it, but it cut through like thin air.
The light hit him and he screamed in pain. A fire, starting on the inside, consumed him. He burned in a column of fire until he was
nothing but ashes. A gust of wind swept
across the ground and blew his remains away.
All of the curses ceased as the Death Eaters watched their leader burn
into nothing but ashes.
Turned the stone and looked
beneath it,
'Peace on Earth" was all it
said.
Hermione's eyes remained on
Harry.
"HARRY!" She screamed as he fell backwards onto the
ground. As she leapt across the blood
stained grass to reach him the curses began again. She flung herself over his limp body and felt his neck of a
pulse. There was nothing. He was dead.
Go ahead and hate your
neighbour,
Go ahead and cheat a friend,
As she
lifted her head a Death Eater ran passed her.
She lifted her wand to kill him, but before she could he pulled off his
mask. It was Draco Malfoy.
He ran over
and knelt beside a body. A glistening
tear fell from his eye. He stood back
up, trembling, in front of her.
Hermione could now see that it was Ginny's limp body he was
protecting. He turned and began wildly
flinging curses at the Death Eaters, his mask discarded on the ground and his
damp hair clinging to his face.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end,
She buried
her head in Harry's robes again.
Agonized screams filled her ears.
There won't be any trumpets
blowing come the judgment day.
A fresh
spattering of blood fell on the back of her head and neck. She lifted a hand and wiped some away. Now her hand was covered in the blood of the
innocent.
On the bloody morning after,
Suddenly, a bolt of pain ran through her body and her world
went black.
One tin soldier rides away.
Hermione
opened her eyes, lifting her head from Harry's robes. She closed her eyes remembering the passed events. When she opened them again, she found
herself kneeling beside Harry's body in the middle of a bloody battlefield. The orange morning sunlight glistened in her
eyes.
Go ahead and hate your neighbour,
No one
around her moved. She scanned the field
for any other sign of life, but nothing moved, not even a blade of grass.
"HELLO?" She screamed. It echoed through the town.
No one answered.
To her right she saw
Neville. He lay sprawled on the
grass. His hair was matted with dried
blood; sweat still dripped off his cold face.
He fought until the end.
Go ahead and cheat a friend,
She turned her gaze to where Draco and Ginny
had been. His lifeless body now flung
backwards over hers. Love lost before
it began.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end,
A strand of
flaming red hair caught her eye. She
turned to see Ron's lifeless body lying on the ground. Beside him was Lavender, their hands
clasped, holding each other tightly.
Even in death they would not be separated.
There won't be any trumpets
blowing come the judgment day
She looked
back at Harry. His body was cold and
rigid. Dried blood covered his face and
robes. His glasses were smashed beside
him. Tears slipped from her eyes and
wet his pale face.
"I love you
Harry." She whispered
On the bloody morning after,
She bent over him and kissed his frigid lips. Then, slowly, she stood up and scanned the
field once more. Then, hot tears
stinging her eyes, she turned to leave.
One tin soldier rides away.
