Chapter 10

Let the battle begin

A/N: Hey everyone. I just want to write write write all day long lol :D So here's Chapter 10. I hope you all like it. And thank you sooooooooooooooo much for all of your reviews. I look forward to reading more )

I keep forgetting to write this but I do not own any of these characters they all belong to the lovely Ms. Rowling who I thank for this brilliant new world :D Ok people here's chapter 10 enjoooy

Last Chapter: "I really like you Hermione," Anthony said and pulled her closer and started kissing her before she could say anything.

Draco turned tail and walked away. Fast. Maybe this was a sign.

What he didn't see however was Hermione push Anthony away furiously and say;

"No Anthony. I think I like someone else," and with that she walked out of the Room of Requirement and decided to walk to the Astronomy Tower. She needed to think.

The month was up and the day of the battle had come. Hogwarts was decidedly less crowded. All of the young students had been sent home to their families and the Order of the Phoenix members had moved in.

Everyone was continuously making up fighting strategies. Draco, Hermione, Harry, Ron, Luna, Ginny, Neville and Anthony were among these strategists. Over the weeks that had followed since the first training session, they had all grown close together and had become powerful. While Ginny, Luna and Neville were good at offensive spells, Hermione, Anthony and Ron were good at defensive spells which left Harry and Draco to get rid of as many Deatheaters as possible and finally find Voldermort. Initially Harry was the one to destroy Voldermort but there was nothing in the rules that said he had to find him on his own.

Draco had been called by the Dark Lord only once after the last time. He told him about bringing down the wards in the Great Hall therefore allowing access to him and his "helpers." Voldermort was impressed and left Draco go unharmed.

There were mere hours left now until the wards would be brought down. Hermione and the others were all sitting under a beech tree in the grounds. They were all nervous about the impending doom but were determined to see the end of Voldermort. No-one more so then Harry and Draco.

"So we'll start from the Dark Forest and make our way up into the grounds taking down as many of those bastards as we can. Then I'll take down Voldermort," Harry said repeating their plan for the fifteenth time that day.

"Harry, we all know the plan. I think we should spend these last few hours working out who ways to get rid of the Deatheaters that we take down. I can teach you all how to make a portkey. Whatever is around you at the time you can just make into a portkey and send them into Azkaban that way," Hermione said. Everyone thought about her idea for a moment and were all impressed with the way that her mind worked. They spent the next hour learning how to use the portkey spell, portus. Not surprisingly Draco was the first person to be able to create a properly working portkey.

This had been the case in the last three weeks. Whatever knew spell they tried to learn, after Hermione, Draco would be the first person to nail it. Followed closely by Harry. Whilst Harry taught them all the spells he knew, Hermione researched and reasearched for new spells that they could learn. Draco also knew a fair amount of new spells and he taught them everything he knew.

Suddenly a loud bell rang out across the grounds. This was the signal for everyone to gather in the entrance hall. It was time.

Dumbledore was waiting along with all the teachers and Order members. Other then them there were many students who wanted to stay and fight. They had only been given permission if they were 17 or over. Still there was over 200 students staying behind.

Everyone had the same determined look on their faces. It was now or never. Dumbledore stood on the marble staircase and opened his arms wide. He opened his mouth to say something but closed it again. Instead he turned to look around at all the determined faces staring up at him.

"Good luck everyone!" he said eventually and walked into the Great Hall. He would go in there alone, bring down the wards. Then everyone would join him in there and prepare to fight. Then Dumbledore would bring the wards straight back up.

The people waiting in the entrance hall were all silent. They listened quietly while Dumbledore said the spells. The air around them changed. Everyone felt a tingling at the end of each spell, almost as if the magic around them was leaving them.

When Dumbledore said the final spell, everyone made to move into the Great Hall but all of a sudden a loud bang sounded from the room. The doors flew open and everyone saw at least a hundred Deatheaters around Dumbledore.

There wasn't time to think or run. They all ran in and promptly began to fight. As they had planned, the wards came straight back up thus trapping the Deatheaters. However what they hadn't accounted upon was the Deatheaters apparating onto the grounds as well. The people fighting on the light side were surrounded. Many of the people ran into the Great Hall and the rest ran out into the grounds.

Harry and the others weren't able to do their plan however as they hadn't had time to go into the Forest. All eight of them ran out into the grounds and began to fight the way they had practiced. Ginny, Luna and Neville firing of offensive spells, Hermione, Anthony and Ron protecting them with defensive spells and Harry and Draco taking down as many of them as possible.

But not long later, Harry noticed that this strategy was not working. The Deatheaters were too erratic with their wands which made it difficult to predict what they were going to do. When they had a small break from the attacks Harry quickly told them to split up. Hermione, Ginny, Luna and Draco would be going off in one direction and Neville, Ron, Harry and Anthony would be fighting in another. They would just have to attack on different angles.

Hermione quickly started running towards the vegetable patches where some people from the Order looked to be in trouble. She was quickly followed by the others. As soon as they got within the Deatheaters' vision, two of them who Draco recognised as Fenrir Greyback, the werewolf and Antonin Dolohov. Draco who was familiar with the way Dolohov attacked, quickly pulled Hermione back. He knew that Dolohov would instantly start to fire as many spells as he knew.

He was right. The air was bright with the spells he kept throwing. Draco also knew that he would run out soon and hesitate for just a few seconds and that would be the time to attack.

Hermione and Ginny were trying to hold back an aggressive and hungry Greyback.

"Oh I love young little girls for dinner," he said licking his disgusting lips. Then without warning he lunged. Hermione managed to move out of the way just in time and a quickly cast stupefy from Ginny caused the werewolf to fall hard onto the ground unmoving.

Meanwhile, just as Draco had predicted, Dolohov ran out of steam and hesitated. The 2 second hesitation was all Draco needed. He yelled petrificus totalus which combined with Luna's shout of stupefy. Dolohov keeled over also unmoving. The fight between the other Deatheaters in the vegetable patch seemed to have moved ended however. Two more Deatheaters who were laying on the ground looking worse for wear.

Hermione quickly picked up a pumpkin and muttered portus. She then, with the help of the others, pulled the Deatheaters so they were all touching it. With a swish of her wand they all disappeared into their own designated cells in Azkaban where they would rot for ever.

Suddenly out of nowhere a loud bang echoed in the grounds. Looking up they saw the Astronomy Tower falling to the ground. The fight seemed to be spreading all around the castle.

"Let's go," Hermione said and they all started running towards the castle, Hermione in the lead. Then without warning, She suddenly flew into the air and landed with a dull thud in the grass not moving. Draco sprinted towards her while Ginny and Luna ran to where the spell had come from. Before they reached it however, Bellatrix Lestrange came strolling out laughing her cruel laugh.

"Well, well, well. Looks like a got myself a mudblood. Oh and what's this. A blood traitor and an idiot," she said laughing a laugh that worked into their very bones like blades. She hadn't noticed Draco yet. He quickly inspected Hermione and seeing that she was still breathing he performed the shield charm protego around her to keep her safe for the time being and began to skirt around the others staying still unnoticed by Bellatrix.

Ginny and Luna had their wands raised ready to attack and before they had time to think, Bellatrix yelled "crucio!"

Unbearable pain pushed Luna to the ground. She writhed and screamed and it was just the amount of distraction that Draco needed. He was right behind Bellatrix and he raised his wand. He hated her. It was time for her to be punished. He quietly muttered incarcerous. Ropes sprang from his wand and bound Bellatrix tightly. She toppled to the ground face down and struggling to get free.

Draco walked towards her and kicked her face up. When she saw his face she started laughing.

"Are you going to kill me young Draco?" she said laughing. "You don't have the guts."

Draco joined in and laughed.

"No aunty Bellatrix. Death is too good for you," he said instantly changing the expression on Bellatrix's face. For a brief moment she looked scared. Because of the disgust and anger that was shown on Draco's face, he looked almost deranged. He raised his wand and with a swish caused the ropes to tighten even more. Bellatrix screamed a high pitched scream which caused all the hairs on the backs of their necks to stand. Meanwhile, Ginny picked up a large stone and turned it into a portkey. She handed the stone to Draco who placed it on Bellatrix's stomach. Instantly the portkey activated and she screamed even louder. Not from pain but from anger this time. And in a moment and blue light she was gone. Only leaving behind a small echo of her scream.

Draco went straight to Hermione while Ginny checked if Luna was ok. Draco pointed his wand at Hermione's chest and muttered renevate. She instantly came too looking only slightly puzzled. Luna seemed to be ok. She was just a bit shaken and had a few scratches on her neck from where she scratched herself.

"We have to get to the Great Hall and find the others," Draco said. "The Order looks like they have everything under control. Come on." And this time Draco in the lead they ran to the castle. They didn't meet anyone on the way which was strange. But the reason was because everyone was in the castle except for the few fights going on around Hagrid's Hut. Hagrid himself among the people fighting.

They entered the Great Hall and saw Voldermort himself firing off spells and giving instructions to his Deatheaters around him each fighting at least two people at once. Draco saw his father and Snape both fighting against Deatheaters as well. They both seemed to be unharmed which Draco was happy to see. But there wasn't much time to think. He was suddenly pushed to the side by a large Deatheater called Alceto Carrow. Her brother Amycus was fighting with Tonks and Lupin. He seemed to be losing however and his sister was running to help. Before she reached her target however, Ron, coming out of nowhere, hit her on the back with a spell that made her fly straight into the wall. She was knocked out. Neville quickly portkeyed a broken table leg and sent her to Azkaban.

Soon there was hardly any of the Deatheaters left. Voldermort was still giving up a good fight though. He was looking around and guessing with grave accuracy where the next spell would come from

Draco quickly jumped to the right side of the hall, fighting. He fired off curses left and right with all the others. Then suddenly he saw a green spell flying in Hermione's direction. He watched it in slow motion flying towards her. Without thinking, he ran in front of the spell and gathered Hermione in his arms turning her away from the spell. But instead of him or Hermione getting hit a sudden golden shield erupted around them. The shield was so thick that they couldn't see the people around them and the others couldn't see them.

Hermione turned in his arms to look at her savior. And in that second that their eyes met Hermione was pulled into Draco's mind. In fast forward she saw everything that they had done together. She saw them lying next to each other in the Astronomy Tower, she saw them smiling at each other waving off their friends, she saw his face smiling, descending towards her own, She felt his lips on her own, she saw him standing over her in the middle of the night. Everything that Draco had erased from her mind she watched happen.

End of Chapter 10