CHAPTER 4 - PRIORI INCANTATEM

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A/N 3 : Inspired by story by Bobmin356 - Parallels.

Both teens headed back towards the common room and then to the shrieking shack. They have to get to The Ministry Of Magic and they have only 1 and half hour. The clock is ticking.

Harry and Hermione were at the Phone booth outside the Ministry of Magic 20 minutes later. Harry and Hermione got into the Telephone booth quickly.

"Welcome to the Ministry Of Magic. Please state your name and purpose for visit to the Ministry today." Came a monotone voice. "Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, here to rescue someone." Harry replied. Two badges slid out of a metal chute. "Thank you. Visitors please pin your badges to the front of your robes."

Harry and Hermione did just as it asked. "Visitors to the Ministry, you are required to submit to a search and present your wands for

registration at the security desk, which is located at the far end of the Atrium." came further instructions. "Fine", Harry yelled, "Now can we move the damn thing?"

The floor of the telephone box shuddered and it began descending into the ground. Harry turned towards Hermione, "You have to put on the invisibility cloak and stay absolutely quiet. Do not do anything stupid, okay?" Harry demanded. Hermione just nodded her head, before whipping the Invisibility cloak around her. Her whole body was covered except for her head.

Harry leaned forward and gave her kiss, before resting his forehead against hers and whispering, "Good luck to both of us. Stay safe." Hermione nodded her head once again and before covering her head too with the Invisibility cloak.

Harry turned back his head towards the front, when the telephone box came to a stop. He quickly put on a notice - me - not charm, and pulled the hood of his robe over his head, obscuring his face.

Harry stepped out of the box, and began walking towards the lifts that would take him to the Department Of Mysteries. There were a few ministry employees still milling about, but no one seemed to be paying attention to Harry. He slipped past the wand registration desk, where the clerk was dozing off, and headed to the lifts. He opened the iron gates pf the lift and paused a few seconds to make sure that Hermione got in. He closed the doors once he felt a tap on his shoulder, and the lift began its descent towards the Department Of Mysteries.

Harry took his wand out, cancelled the notice - me - not charm. He was tense. He had been preparing for a confrontation with Voldemort for a long time, but he was still no where near ready. He could beat Alastor Moody and Tonks at a time, barely, but he never even came close to putting a scratch on Dumbledore yet.

And Voldemort was nearly as powerful, if not equal to Dumbledore. He hoped his stupid luck, would aid him today like it did during the many confrontations he had with Voldemort previously. 5 Confrontations to be exact.

But he reached the point of no return now. As the lift announced the level for the Department Of Mysteries, Harry began walking resolutely ahead, not waiting to see if Hermione was following or not. He had been here once before, and he knew his way around.

Harry knew that Voldemort wanted him to be at the Hall of Prophecies. So Harry made his way over there. Once he was in the Hall of Prophecies he could see the death eaters and Sirius. He rushed over there.

Hermione was following Harry as fast as she could without making any noise, to tip off the death eaters about her presence. The Hall of Prophecies was lined with rows and rows of prophecies. Hermione ducked into a parallel row to try and get behind the group of death eaters who were all now facing Harry, Sirius lying between Harry and the Death Eaters, twitching occasionally.

Once she tiptoed her way to the back of the death eaters, she assessed the situation. Harry was talking with Malfoy, who seemed to be the leader of the group of 8 death eaters currently present there. She was greatly thankful that Voldemort himself wasn't there. Maybe they can make it out of here.

Harry faced off with Malfoy. He could see that there were 8 Death Eaters in all present. Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, Rudolphous and Rabastan Lestrange, Yaxley, Amycus and Alecto Carrow, and one other he didn't know. Severus provided Harry and Hermione with the knowledge of as many death eaters as he knew.

"I am here now, Malfoy. Let Sirius go." Harry said, though he knew there was no chance it would be that easy. Sirius was in a bad shape. He kept twitching, silent tears streaming down his face. He was in a bad shape. He needs to get treatment as soon as possible.

"Now, Now Potter. Don't be too hasty. First you need to retrieve the Prophecy for us?" Malfoy demanded. "What Prophecy?" Harry asked, looking confused, though he exactly knew what prophecy Malfoy was talking about. Dumbledore told him after Harry became proficient in Occlumecny.

"Didn't Dumbledore tell you? Did you not wonder why the Dark Lord targeted you, even when you were a child?" Malfoy sounded incredulously delighted.

"I have wondered about it often. So this Prophecy is why he attacked me? I didn't think that snake face was stupid enough to believe in divination" Harry said with a snort.

All the death eaters looked outraged at Harry's audacity. Malfoy shouted, "YOU DARE …", Bellatrix shot a reductor curse at Harry's head.

'Excellent' Harry thought as he sidestepped the curse, watching as it went sailing thru and hit a shelf behind him. Immediately dozens of voices filled the space, as prophecies got destroyed. "ENOUGH" shouted Malfoy, throwing a warning glare at Bellatrix. She seemed cowed for the moment.

Hermione slowly crept up towards the unknown death eater who was standing at the back of the group. Her heart was pounding in her chest rapidly. She drew her wand to the neck level of the Death eater and waited for her signal. She could see that Harry was goading the Death Eaters. Just as Bellatrix cast the Reductor curse towards Harry, Hermione whispered "Stupefy" causing the Death Eater to slump backwards. She caught him and gently lowered him to the ground.

When the reductor curse hit the prophecies and dozens of voices made a raucous, she immediately cast two silent stunners towards the Carrow siblings, watching as they fell down like puppets whose strings were cut off.

Hermione froze when she heard Lucius shout "ENOUGH", swivelling her head towards him. Thankfully they didn't seem to notice their 3 fallen comrades yet. She quickly disillusioned the three of them, and levitated them away from the others, so that there won't be a chance that they get revived by others. Once she was sufficient distance away, she bound them with ropes and stunned them again. She then took their wands and broke them cleanly in half.

She returned back to the other death eaters, to see Harry handing over the prophecy to Lucius Malfoy. She hurried as fast as she can without making any noise.

"ENOUGH" shouted Malfoy, throwing a warning glare at Bellatrix. She seemed cowed for the moment.

Malfoy tunred back towards Harry Potter. "Am done playing games with you Potter. Either you remove the Prophecy from the shelf and hand it over to me now, or I will kill this mutt right now, and take you to the Dark Lord myself to do as he pleases. Your choice." When Harry didn't make a move, Malfoy nodded his head towards Bellatrix, who happily cast the Cruciatus curse on Sirius.

Harry looked pained, his face showing indecision about what to do. There are still 5 death eaters. But he couldn't take Sirius suffering any longer, he was already very fragile. "STOP. Fine. I will do it" Harry conceded.

Bellatrix immediately stopped the curse. Harry walked over to the shelf and retrieved the Prophecy before handing it over to Malfoy. Lucius looked smug for a second, before he nodded his head.

Bellatrix whipped her wand towards Sirius, while Lucius levelled his wand at Harry. Lucius shot a stunner at Harry, who ducked under the curse, drawing out his wand. At the same time, Bella started the most feared of the three unforgivables, "AVADA KE…" When a Reductor curse hit her in the chest, leaving a gaping hole. She looked down for a second, before falling forward, clearly dead.

Hermione saw that Bellatrix was going to kill Sirius and cast the first curse that came to her mind. But seeing the bloody spectacle it caused, she stood there stunned for a moment. The momentary lapse in concentration however was enough for Lucius Malfoy to summon the Invisibilty Cloak.

And then the fight began in earnest, Rudolphous Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy against Hermione, while Rabastan Lestrange and Yaxley against Harry.

Harry summoned Sirius as soon as he could before launching an offensive against Rabastan and Yaxley.

Hermione was on the defensive, since the beginning and was quickly tiring out holding Protego against a constant barrage of spells coming her way and ducking and diving the unforgivables.

Harry was quickly gaining an upper hand, having hit Yaxley with a Reducto, which turned his wand holding hand into mist. Yaxley fell down clutching his hand and howling in pain. Harry could see that Hermione was tiring and desperation rose through Harry. He sidestepped an Avada Kedavra, from Rabastan Lestrange, and shot a Stunner with all his power, which broke through Lestrange's shield and he fell down. Harry turned around towards Sirius, to see if he was okay, only to find him, laying spread eagled, his eyes glassed over. "Sirius. NO!" Harry shouted.

Behind him he heard Hermione's scream and whipped around to see Hermione's wand arm hanging limply by her side , tears streaming down her face with pain. Harry began running towards her, firing curse after curse towards the two remaining death eaters.

Harry's Sectumsepra spell hit Rabastan in the neck, severing his carotid. Lucius fired three Avada Kedavra's at Harry who had to quickly dive to the side. Harry got back to his feet, and began running towards Hermione, still launching offensive spells at Lucius to keep him on defensive and drive him away from Hermione.

Lucius Malfoy dropped his shield and launched a Reductor, straight at Hermione's sitting form, just as Harry's own Reductor hit his left hand shattering all the bones in his forearm and below.

The Reductor hit Hermione, squarely in the chest. She looked up at Harry, blood gurgling in her throat. Harry quickly got down beside her, holding her head to him, "Hermione. please don't die. Please. I love you. I can't live without you. Please. HERMIONE" Harry cried as Hermione's body went limp in his arms. Harry cried out in anguish, before rage took him. He stood up, and began chasing after Lucius.

Malfoy was in the room with time turners when Harry found him. He was panting, severely out of breath, loosing blood, from his open wound.

"CRUCIO" Harry cast, wanting to make this pathetic excuse of life suffer as much as he was suffering. Harry had multiple injuries from all the fighting. His rage was the only thing keeping him going on. Lucius was thrashing around on the floor, from the cruciatus curse.

"Make him suffer Harry. Make him suffer for all the pain he caused you." came a serpentine voice floating through the room. Harry immediately stopped the cruciatus and whirled around with his wand raised to find Lord Voldemort standing there.

"My, My Harry. I didn't think you had it in you to cast an unforgivable but you clearly proved me wrong." Voldemort spoke in soft hissing voice. "Lucius where is the Prophecy?" He commanded.

"My Lord, there was a fight and the pr… prophecy got destroyed." Lucius answered clearly afraid of the punishment he would be suffering from the Dark Lord.

"I see" Voldemort said, in an apparently calm tone, though he was raging inside. He raised his wand to Lucius, "AVADA KEDAVRA". Lucius was dead.

Voldemort turned around to Harry, who was looking at him warily, his injuries starting to take their toll.

"So, I see that you have thwarted me once again. No matter. No matter. I heard that your Mudblood bitch died?" Voldemort was talking as if he was conversing with an old friend.

Harry's blood boiled over with rage, at how Voldemort was talking about his Hermione, but he didn't do anything. Voldemort was trying to goad him.

"No matter young Harry, you will be joining her soon and I will be sure to send the Mudblood's parents along shortly", Voldemort whipped his wand with lightening speed and cast the Killing curse straight at Harry. But Harry was ready. Harry cast the Reductor at exactly the same time as Voldemort, and both their wands got connected in priori incantatem just like last time.

This time Harry pushed the bead of magic back to Voldemort's wand quicker. Voldemort was relatively weakened today, and harry was burning with rage, to see this monster dead who was responsible for the deaths of the two persons left on this world that he loved.

Just like last time echoes of his parents, cedric, a muggle and bertha jorkins emerged from the wand along with a couple of new people.

His parents walked over to Harry, while the others went over to Voldemort to keep him sufficiently distracted.

Lily started speaking with Harry. "Harry listen to me, we don't have much time, but do not break the connection between you and Voldemort. I need you to think of Hermione, Us, and Sirius and the love you have for us. Let it fill you and let your magic loose, just let it loose. Listen to us Harry, Everything will be alright."

"I can't live without her mum. I love her too much, to be able to live without her." Harry said silent tears running down his face.

"We know son,"James, "But you have to do this. For us. And for Sirius. And most importantly for Hermione." Harry simply nodded.

Harry's heart filled with all the love he held for his parents, Sirius and Hermione. His heart filled with anguish at all that he lost. His love filled with anguish caused his magic to boil over and it felt like it was threatening to get out of him.

Voldemort's eyes slightly widened in concern, as Harry's magic pulsed in rhythm with his heart beat. He tried with all his might to break the Priori but it wouldn't budge at all.

As Harry's magic began pouring off in waves and hit Voldemort, he began squirming in discomfort at first, quickly turning to being painful, and then it felt as if he was put under the Cruciatus. Voldemort tried with all his might not to scream at the amount of pain he was experiencing, and with final tug with all his might, he wrenched free of the Priori Incantatem.

Bad thing to do, as Harry's magic pulsed mighty strongly and the next wave that hit Voldemort pulverised every bone and organ in his body and causing his body to explode like a bomb. Harry lost consciousness and was thrown back from the resulting backlash, into a shelf full of Time - Turners.

Present time - The Hospital wing.

"The last thing I remember is Voldemort's body getting disintegrated, before I lost consciousness. How long was I out Professor?" Harry asked Dumbledore, having finished telling the tale as he remembered it.

Dumbledore looked at Harry with mild interest, while the remaining four professors were looking at him with their jaws hanging open.

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