Those Green Eyes

Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.K. Rowling (who is totally awesome) and this was written purely for our amusement.

"Protego!" roared Harry, and the Shield Charm expanded in the middle of the Hall, and Voldemort stared around for the source as Harry pulled off the Invisibility Cloak at last.

Harry looked around him, at all the shocked spectators who stood in a perfectly formed circle around him and Voldemort. He pointed his shaking wand at Voldemort, and as the wand shook, the whole Great Hall vibrated with it. Where Harry was standing instead stood a magnificent lion, with a tawny mane. Its massive head turned and sought one of the weary faces in the crowd. Those green eyes met Ginny Weasley's, and understanding seemed to form in that one glance.

Voldemort's face contorted with astonishment and fury. His face seemed to grow paler, and his knuckles shown purest white on the Elder Wand. The wand snapped neatly in two, save for a single strand of thestral hair. They all stared, for a terrible moment in which nobody knew what would happen, and then all the people in the room, including the enormous lion, burst into shrieks of laughter.

"What's wrong with you, you wretched psychopathological freaks?" Voldemort roared. "God, this day has honestly sucked! I swear it sucked! First I have to kill that stupid greasy old mongrel named Snape, then Nagini got herself decapitated by a dimwitted fat idiot with long hair, and then my bloody wand broke, and now bloody Potter's standing as a bloody lion in front of my bloody body and I'm sitting here with the bloody pieces!"

Voldemort's face had grown paler and paler due to the effort of telling the bloody world his bloody problems. His eyes opened wider and wider and then, he was a snake.

"Ah ha!" he exclaimed. "Take that you filthy, bloody, ssssson of a banssheee! Try to defeat me now…and I will watch you fail…missserably!"

For one moment, Harry and Voldemort stood perfectly still. Then, started circling one another…the lion prowling cautiously, the snake slithering, its red eyes narrowed. The lion (bloody Harry) roars, "Chaaaarge!"

The snake reared confidently in answer to the challenge. The lion vibrated towards the snake, hesitantly, and where they met, in the dead center of the circle they had both been treading, a shimmering golden line of fire. Then, all at once, a majestic phoenix erupted from the flames…and following that phoenix, was Dumbledore, naked- rising like a perverted, unstable angel toward the magically simulated ceiling of the Great Hall. "May the force be with you young Harry…" and with that he faded into the starry sky.

Lord Voldemort gazed up in awe at the fact Dumbledore came back from the dead for a few seconds. During those few seconds the lion (Harry) pounced upon Voldemort, extinguishing the last flame of malice that lay within his last eighth of a soul.

"Dobby's sock!" Kreacher yelled within the audience. Cheer erupted from all sides.

"My hero!" cried Ginny, beaming. Then the lion prowled towards his love, and purred seductively. Thrilled, Ginny purred seductively back.

The Great Hall, or what was left of it, vibrated once more, signaling the transformation of lion to manly man. The green eyes met the brown, and the man, Harry, knelt down on one knee.

"Will you give me your hand, Ginevra?" Harry bowed his head, and whispered, "I didn't mean for Fred to die." Raising his head slowly, he said, "I'm sorry, Ginny." Tears flowed freely from those green eyes.

Tears were already formed in Ginny's eyes, threatening to spill. She stroked his hair tenderly. "I love you, Harry, and remember…May the force be with you, always."

Epilogue:

And then suddenly the sun poured between the clouds and dappled across the ceiling…and all was well.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed this as much as we had writing it!