dear readers, this is my first time writing in a very long time and I'm just throwing words to page, so there will most likely be errors here and there. If you are willing to put up with that I welcome you to either read from the beginning or jump to chapter 3 where the time skip will be.
I for one read a lot of fan-fiction so I know that sometimes we just want to get right into it. so this is just incase you don't want to spend the time to read through my version of events.
I hope you enjoy!
Hermione would never forget that day. The day of the final battle, good versus evil, her friends and family versus the worst humans she had known….. And they had lost. It was a thought that she almost never let cross her mind until it happened. The idea of them losing was unfathomable to her. But they had.
There were parts of that day that she thought she could see the end in sight their goal, so clear in front of them. Even when harry being carried in hagrids arm on the verge of death she still hoped through the pain that they would win. Longbottom stepped up. They would rally behind him. But it did not take long for the killing curse to reach him moments after he pulled the sword from the hat. Then Harry got back up and through the shouts of despair, the fight began. But the Death eaters seemed quicker to the punch with deadly curses flying towards us all in a wave of death.
The scattering those who remained from the initial wave of death on both sides dueling each other in a battle for their lives. The dust around her and pain of every step she took was inconsequential compared to the amount of hatred that filled her veins. She got to a vantage point behind a column and just began shooting off every spell she could think of to stop the death eaters. Stupify after stupify expelliarmus after expelliarmus she felt so useless like for every death eater she stunned another took its place.
Then she heard the first of her friends to fall in this new wave of death, the scream, she remembered the chill down her spine. Both twins were now dead. Mrs. Weasley went mad. She could barely form any words much less a spell, then Belatricks moved in laughing as she usually was. Enjoying the carnage. Set her eyes on another red head, Ginny. I remember thinking no, not ginny, she hasn't even lived yet she was just coming into herself she hadnt even had time to start a family with harry. So Hermione did all she could think of continuously firing protego and stupify she moved across the field. Ginny was tiered, her responses were slow and i could see the shield growing weaker with each passing second. She was so close she was so sure she would get to ginny, she was so sure.
But why, why was she so sure, there was no reason to be looking back she was already to far away and other than physically being next to her and throwing a protego around both of them while throwing spells at other death eaters and Bellatrix. There was no reason to be so sure.
She didnt hear the spell that broke through ginny's shield, but she froze for what felt like minutes when the splash of warmth hit half her face and torso. She quickly wiped the blood from her face as she looked down at what used to be such a young and innocent girl. There was no scream. There was no great explosion. It was no turning point. She was just gone.
You bitch was all she could hear mis weasley say finally aware enuf she sent the killing curse towards Bellatrix. She missed, clearly fatigued and breaking down with each step just repeating you bitch you bitch covered in her son's blood. They were her last words as Bellatrix sent the same killing curse back mrs weasley took her last breath..
And all she had done in those precious seconds was stand there. Slowly coming to the realization that no healing charm in the world could save either of them. She lifted her wand and for the first time said the words Avada Kedavra. Bellatrix wasn't even looking at her it was not honorable or fair but it felt so right so powerful.
That burst of power the tingling warmth now throughout her body missed a curse sent her way. Because it never got to her. Ron had taken it for her also on his way after the cries of his mother he fell into Hermione's arms. He laid there dead, cold, and gray. She barely had enough time to move before another killing curse was sent her way. Dolohov.
"I see the red head was willing to give his life for a mudblood, how utterly disgusting." He laughed out maniacally.
Their battle was a blur of rage and spells she wasn't aware of time passing. Any she could think of forgivable or not. He had killed ron oh god ron ron ron. A cutting spell meant for her neck was narrowly missed but cut deeply into her non wand arm. She could feel the burn and the pain and the blood rushing from it, but she wouldn't let it stop her. When finale of all the things that could have hit it was a stupify. He froze…. And then not waiting a even two seconds brief relief only to be flooded by hate. she sent a killing curse. And then Dolohov fell dead to the ground.
But she noticed the battle was coming to a close, the order was not winning, harry was not winning, but harry has to win, she looked at ron cold and dead he didn't look real to her like he wasn't really dead and this was all a trick. She defected all the spells that came her way and she ran towards harry. I will not let him do this on his own we have always helped and Merlin be damned if i couldn't save harry. Save harry just get to him and save harry her vision blurred she hadnt stopped to heal her arm she looked down briefly to asses the damage, bad move it was to the bone he arm practically bathed in blood and the only thing that came to her mind was a burning charm she cauterized the wound and held in the scream, but moved as fast as she could to harry. I have to get to harry. She didn't lift her foot up high enough and she fell. The great Hermione granger fell and everything went hazy time slowed... And Harry died.
Her body hurt, her head hurt, and she felt the wound she had burned continue to bleed. All she could muster with the first tears hitting her cheeks was im so sory im so imm
