A/N: I hope you enjoy this story. I am in college so I won't be able to post more than once or twice a week but I will constantly post at least once a week. Please review and tell me what you think!

It was the moment that he was thrown from the pensive that he knew he had to die in order to win this war. Nothing made sense to him and he didn't know how to take the news. Who would be able to take the news that, you have to die, in order to win? Putting his face in his hands the words 'The boy must die' rang inside his head over and over again. Voldemort will get his way by killing me and laughing in my defeat, but he won't win, my friends won't let him. All Ron and Hermione have to do is kill the snake and then he's vulnerable, he thought.

So that's how easy his decision was. He had to meet Voldemort in the forest and die to be able to protect his friends and that's what he was going to do. He started to walk slowly out of the old headmaster's office making his way down the stairs. There were bricks scattered all over the floor, the walls were in pieces, and he could hear crying coming from the great hall as he made his way through the rubble. Stopping at the entrance he looked inside at the people huddled together.

Ron was with his whole family surrounding Fred with tears in their eyes. Hermione was crying into her hands and looking to my right he saw what made his stomach clench. Lupin and Tonks laid peacefully hand in hand. Harry couldn't take it anymore he needed this whole war to end. Before he was able to turn completely around McGonagall caught his arm.

"I can see the look in your eyes Mr. Potter and this is not your fault. Why don't you come with me to see the Weasley family, they have been looking for you." She had a sad smile on her face that told him she was trying to delay what she knew he was trying to do.

He just shook his head a tear falling down his cheek. "I have somewhere I need to be. I'm sorry professor." And with that he started to walk but stopped to take one last look. He noticed she didn't move from her spot and wanted to try to stop him, but even she knew this was something he needed to do.

He got down one set of the stairs a pain beginning in his chest. The feelings he's been experiencing in the past few years of trying to defeat Voldemort never felt like this one. The feelings have always been nerves, strength, and a need to defeat Voldemort. But as he was getting close to death before he never felt anything like this. The feeling he was having now was sorrow and peacefulness. He was at peace with needing to die to protect his friends. It's not like he wants to die but he needed to in order to save his friends and the whole wizarding world. He felt sorrow because he knew he'd miss all of the friends he'd had made in the years he came to Hogwarts.

He put his hands on his chest to soak in the last feelings he'd be feeling in this life time. He knew it'd be ending soon and the love he had for his friends would protect them but he just wanted to be able to feel one last time.

His name was being called from across the room, more like yelling, and footsteps made him turn around slowly. Hermione slammed into him pulling him into a hug tears still streaming down her face.

"Hermione.." Harry hugged her back softly.

"We looked all over for you; we thought you went to the forest to turn yourself in. I'm so glad you're okay." She took a step back and smiled sadly at him.

Ron changed his footing. "Yeah, mate you never showed after what happened with Snape." He hesitated "Did you find out what the memory Snape gave you was about?"

Harry looked down at the floor not knowing how to explain. His heart started to race and he bit back tears. "Snape showed me everything from year one to now. He was working for Dumbledore not Voldemort. He was Dumbledore's spy all along and he's the one that told Snape to be the one to kill him. It never occurred to me once that Snape was in love with my mother, but he was and always has been. It was his patronus that we saw in the woods, the same patronus my mother used to have. And in order for Voldemort to finally once and for all be defeated I have to…" He closed his eyes not knowing how to tell them fully.

Hermione was sobbing once again and Ron's eyes were wet. When Hermione spoke you could hear them tremor in her voice "That you have to what Harry?"

He opened his eyes to look at them a tear escaping his right eye. "In the end I have to sacrifice myself for him to be defeated. I am the horcrux he never meant to make and I think you knew it to."

Tears now streamed down Hermione's face "I'll come with you."

"No, kill the snake then it's just him. Kill the snake then you can kill him once and for all." He would surely miss them both and he would watch over them from a far.

It didn't matter to him anymore that he would die in the end, it didn't matter that Voldemort would rub it in everyone's faces that he was killed by his hand, and it didn't matter that he would never be able to live a different more pleasant life than he has since he was born. Always fighting to stay alive, always in the line of danger everywhere he went. It only mattered that he's going to die to protect his friends. It's what needs to be done and he needed people to stop standing in front of him and taking the hit for him.

"Mate, please there has to be another way around all of this." Ron looked like he wanted to cry also but he knew he was holding it back.

Harry just shook his head "Just remember to kill the snake and surprise Voldemort, don't give him any time to strike. The elder wand doesn't work for him properly since it's bonded to me now ever since I won Draco's wand over, but once he kills me the wand will work properly for him. Which means you have to kill the snake and him fast. Don't hesitate and don't stall."

Both Ron and Hermione didn't know what to say they both wanted to pull Harry into their arms and never let go. But both of them also knew that they couldn't do that.

Harry nodded at them both and started to walk away before being pulled into a hug by Ron. "Goodbye mate." He managed to stutter before letting go and wiping his eyes.

Hermione was the next to bring him into an embrace and shook hard in his arms from trembling. "Goodbye H-Harry"

Harry looked at both Ron and Hermione "This isn't goodbye, I won't say goodbye to the two of you. We will be seeing each other again just not any time soon. Ron tell your family I'll see them in the near future and that this is not goodbye." Before walking away he took one last glance up to the great hall and back at his two very best friends. A pain shot right through his heart as he turned around and started down the stairs. Knowing that was the last time they'd be speaking to him and likewise, he didn't know how else to chance another look back. So he just kept walking staring at the floor.

He barely made it out of the castle before running into Luna Lovegood and Draco Malfoy. Who would have guessed those two sitting together talking. At that site he really thought he was already dead and he was stuck into a heaven with Draco Malfoy.

At this moment he wished he had brought his invisibility cloak with him. Chancing a look at Luna then at Draco he raised his eyebrow and wiped his eyes from the former crying less than five minutes ago.

"Harry, what a pleasure to see you out here." Luna perked up at the site of Harry.

"Pleasure it surely is, Potter." Draco looked quizzically at him.

"Yeah, I just…needed some fresh air." He faked a smile trying to step around them but Draco blocked his path. "Malfoy get out of the way."

Draco raised an eyebrow at him. "You're not headed where I think you're headed are you?"

"What do you care if I am?"

"Oh I don't care, but everything everyone went through in the past years just to save your ass would have been a waste of time if you turn yourself in to Voldemort."

Luna looked from Draco to Harry. "Harry I've always thought of you as a smart friend of mine. So if you're headed into the forest to he-who-must-not-be-named then you must have a logical explanation." She smiled sweetly at him.

He looked to the ground trying to come up with this logical explanation Luna wanted to hear but nothing came. All that came out of his mouth was a stutter of nonsense and Draco was losing patience.

"Potter you need to think more clearly before you act on what your mind is trying to tell you to do." Draco looked at Harry not dropping his gaze at all.

"I don't think you have any room to tell me what to do Malfoy. And anyway why aren't you with your death eater buddies cheering Voldemort on?"

Draco's face turned red from fuming with anger but he seemed to be able to calm his anger down and talk casually "I may have the mark and I may have been an ass to you earlier Potter. But when you saved me from the room of requirement I realized something. I realized that every time I've tried to kill you and all the time that I was mean to you, you put that behind and actually let me live. So I took myself out of the Death eater war and I'm fighting against them." He closed his eyes. "I should have a long time ago before I was marked but my father was so persistent. I had no choice; if I didn't go a long with everything they told me to do they would have killed me. I did everything to save my own ass but I've changed my mind during this war. I will fight alongside you Potter. That is if you'll let me." He opened his eyes looking straight back at Harry's emerald stare.

Harry took a deep breathe "Indicating that you mean every word you said since you are out here with Luna and haven't tried to kill her or myself I believe you. But there's no need to fight alongside me. The war's over and it has to end with me." He stepped to the other side of Draco and Luna walking down two steps before feeling a hand on his arm.

"You're kidding me right? You're just going to give up and let him kill you after everything everyone's been through?" Draco looked astonished and felt anxious all at the same time.

Harry tugged his arm out of Draco's grasped. "It's more complicated than you think. You wouldn't understand; now I have to go the hours almost up."

As Harry was starting to walk away Draco lunged himself at Harry and they both fell to the ground. Harry was as shocked as Luna was at this. Draco on the other hand didn't move, he wasn't going to let Harry die in the hands of Voldemort let alone anyone else.