Chapter 11: The Hero rises
Hagrid was crying as he carried Harry's body back to the Hogwarts grounds. Luna's tears were trickling down her face, too. The death eaters, however, had smiles on their faces.
"Who's that?" Ginny asked, "Who's Hagrid carrying?"
Students and teachers were at the grounds, afraid, but hoping against hope that Harry was fine.
Voldemort laughed as he stood in front of everyone, "Harry Potter," he said, "is dead."
Everyone didn't know what to say or do. Hermione burrowed her face on Ron's shoulders and he hugged her. They were crying.
"Now is the time to switch sides," Voldemort said, "No, actually, there would be no more sides, there would only be our side, and those who beg to differ shall be punished."
"No!" Luna cried,
"You dare speak to me, Lovegood?" Voldemort said and drew out his wand,.
"Stop," Neville said and pulled Luna away.
"Longbottom," Bellatrix shrieked, "You look like your father."
"Who was stupid enough not to be on our side," Voldemort said, "You, however, can make the choice they didn't make."
"I'll join you when hell freezes over!" Neville shouted.
Voldemort grew angrier, "Nyaaah!"
Harry jumped out of Hagrid's arms.
"He's alive!" Fred said.
"Blimey, Fred, I saw that!" George said, beaming.
Harry pushed Neville away and faced Voldemort.
"You would no longer hurt anyone!" Harry said.
"I killed you! You're dead!"
"NO Riddle—"
"Don't you dare!"
"That's your name and I'm gonna call you by your name!" Harry said, "You know what, Riddle? You're not as smart as you think you are. When you tried to kill me, my mom—"
"Oh don't you dare talk about love again! Love, love, it's not even real!"
"Yeah? Well it's not for you but it is for us. And that's your problem, Riddle, you don't understand love, and because you don't understand love, you made me into a horcrux!"
"No!"
Harry saw fear and anger in Voldemort's eyes.
"Yes," Harry said, "And because you wanted to kill me, you killed the part of yourself that lived within me!"
"But I can kill you now. I'll kill you now!"
"Do it!"
Voldemort drew out his wand and Harry drew out his, and a flash of green and red light were trying to rule each other out. Some death eaters fled. The Malfoys fled. Bellatrix kept fighting until Molly Weasley finished her off. Soon, it was just Volsemort and Harry alone. Voldemort dropped his wand, The Elder Wand, and Harry took it. And as Harry got hold of the wand, Neville saw the sword of Gryffindor coming out of the Sorting hat which was at his feet. Nagini was coming near, so Neville took the sword, chopped the Snake's head off, and at last, Lord Voldemort's last horcrux was finished. The dark Lord shattered into pieces and he was finally over.
Everyone cheered, Peeves included, but didn't forget the people who died valiantly while fighting against the dark Lord. Soon, Harry found himself sitting beside Luna at the great hall.
"I think we all need some peace and quiet," Luna said, "Especially you."
"We still have lots of time," She smiled, "Come on. I know you need to see Ron and Hermione. Use your cloak, I'll distract everyone."
"Thanks, Luna,"
"Don't mention it."
And as soon as he got on his feet, he heard Luna say, "Oh look! It's a blibbering humdinger!"
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Harry was holding his old wand which he repaired with the Elder wand. He, ron and Hermione were at the Astronomy tower.
"So what are your plans?" Ron asked, pertaining to the Elder Wand, "That's a powerful wand."
"I'm bringing it back to whom it truly belongs,"
"You sure, mate? I mean you can keep it."
"Nah," Harry said, "Too much trouble. Besides, I've had enough trouble worth a lifetime, don't you think?"
The three of them laughed.
Note: this is the last chapter before the epilogue, so I just wanna say THANK YOU SO MUCH to all of you who loved this story, or didn't love it, lol, thank you for supporting it and for the comments, I appreciate 'em all. So yes, wait for the epilogue, it's gonna be good…or I hope you'll think it's good :D
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