Everything Has Changed
Prologue
The war was lost, everyone was gone and, yet Hermione still had not given up. Even as she stood around looking at all the death and destruction that was Hogwarts her home for six years. Voldemort had come back from the forest shouting that Harry Potter was finally dead. Nobody believed it until they saw a sobbing Hagrid carrying the body of the Boy-Who-Lived. Hermione turned to look at Hagrid and gasped. 'Please, please, please be alive, Harry. For me please be alive,' she thought hoping beyond hope that he was just faking it.
"HARRY!" She yelled hoping that he would respond when he didn't she felt her heart break. Her best friend was dead. Voldemort had won. Hermione heard a scream behind her and turned to see Ginny thrashing against her father sobbing, trying to get to Harry. Voldemort laughed at her struggled and turned towards the crowd that had gathered.
"Harry Potter is dead!" He said still laughing. Behind him his Death Eaters laughed with him. "From this day forth you'll put your faith in me. It is now time to declare yourself, come forward and join us or die!" Voldemort looked around expecting someone to want to join.
Behind Voldemort Draco Malfoy's parents were calling him, begging him to come to them. Hermione looked behind her to see Draco slowly walking towards Voldemort with a terrified look on his face. Hermione couldn't let him do it, no matter how horrible he was to her when they were younger. This was him choosing to no longer have free will.
"Draco, don't do it, please. Its not over yet. Its not over until we have done everything to stop him." Hermione looked at him begging him with her eyes. Draco looked at her with sad eyes and mouthed 'I'm sorry' before walking to Voldemort. Voldemort grabbed Draco by the shoulders and hugged him before letting him walk over to his parents, who promptly dragged him towards the exit of the school. Looking at every face, Hermione could see defeat in their eyes, and then she heard a gasp behind her and saw that Neville was limping forward with the Sorting Hat in hand. Voldemort and his cronies started laughing.
"Well I must say I had hoped for better. What's your name, boy?" Voldemort asked still laughing as Neville stood ten feet in front of him.
"Neville Longbottom." He said looking into those blood red snake eyes.
"Well, Neville, I'm sure we can find a place for you in our rank." He said looking at him with disdain written clearly on his face.
"I'd like to say something." He said looking at the face of this horrible man before him. If you could even call him a man.
"Well, Neville, I'm sure we would all be fascinated to hear what you have to say." He said barely concealing his building rage.
Neville looked around at all the faces covered in blood, dirt, and sweat before looking back at Voldemort. "It doesn't matter that Harry is gone." Before he could go on Seamus interrupted him. "Stand down, Neville!" Neville shook his head no before turning back to Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
"People die every day! Friends, family. Yeah… We lost Harry tonight, but he's still with us. In here," he said holding his hand over his heart, "So is Fred, Remus… Tonks… All of them. They didn't die in vain. But you will. Because you're wrong! Harry's heart did beat for us. For all of us! It's not over!" and with that Neville pulled the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting hat and charged at Voldemort, before being stunned and flying into a piling of rubble.
A 'confringo' was heard and people turned to the voice to see Harry Potter, alive and well. Everybody on the good side started cheering as the Death Eaters started firing off spells to the unsuspecting Hogwarts students and the Order members. At once there was light after light as people started dueling again. Hermione saw Voldemort dueling Harry and ran to help but there wasn't much to be done until Nagini was dead.
"Stupefy!" Hermione shouted when she saw Fenrir Greyback leaning over Lavender Brown. Fenrir was thrown back into the wall behind him and knocked out cold. After running to Lavender's side and checking for a pulse Hermione sighed in disappointment. Lavender was dead. Getting up again and going after Harry, Hermione saw Ron being chased by the snake. Shouting confringo at the snake it turned on Hermione and began chasing her down the stairs into the Entrance Hall. As it reared its head back for the killing blow, there was a swish sound and the snake vanished. Neville was standing next to Hermione breathing heavily and holding the sword.
"Neville, you did it! We can kill Voldemort now!" Hermione exclaimed hugging him, before turning to go find Harry. She took a handful of steps when she was hit with a bright orange light. She felt herself falling, and then darkness consuming her. Hermione Granger was no more.
Hey guys. My name is Cierra and this is my first fanfiction ever so I am open to constructive criticism. I want you guys to know that I will update as much as possible but I'm in school and won't be able to update everyday. Please favorite and review and if you want to be a beta reader for this story let me know.
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Cierra