Harry and Ron were awoken with Hermione shaking them softly and when they wouldn't get up she started poking them with her wand.
"Get up lazy!" she whispered to Ron.
"No..." Ron groaned.
"Yes, get dressed or I'll leave without you!' Hermione threatened.
"No..." Ron groaned again and sat up. "I'm up."
"Good, now don't fall back asleep!" Hermione said. She left the tent to give the lazy boys some privacy. She had packed up all her stuff and erased all evidence outside of the tent that they were there.
Harry and Ron came out a while later still looking half asleep.
Hermione waved her wand at the tent and it folded itself and fit neatly into the front pocket of Hermione's bag. "Let's go." She grabbed Harry and Ron and disapparated from the spot.
They all reappeared in the middle of Hogsmeade. Hermione made her way to Fred and George's shop and unlocked the door and snuck in. She case a silent spell to stop any trap from going off on them while they were there. They went through the back door behind the counter as Ron grabbed some Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans off the counter. The three went back in the door that they came out of days ago.
Harry went first. Finding the "W" engraved on the wall and he pushed it in and turned the doorknob. The door opened and they were back in Hogwarts.
"Close the door Ron," Harry whispered. He pulled what looked like parchment out of his bag. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
Hogwarts appeared on the map. He saw his dot, Hermione's dot and Ron's dot. He also saw Malfoy's dot coming their way from around the corner.
"Malfoy's coming," Hermione whispered.
"So go!" Ron nearly shouted.
"Who's there?" they heard Malfoy call.
"Go!" Ron repeated and pushed his two friends and they ran for the stairs to take them to the girls' bathroom. They could hear Malfoy's feet running behind them and they nearly flew up the stairs and then turned into the bathroom and they all ran into the stall farthest from the door. They jumped up so their feet did not touch the ground. They heard Malfoy's footsteps slow to a walk and then casually enter the bathroom.
"Damn it, he followed us," Harry whispered.
Hermione shushed him and she slowly pointed her wand through the door at Malfoy. She saw him as he kicked open stalls and peered inside. It was only a matter of time before he kicked open their stall. So she pointed her wand at him. She wanted him to hear her so she said very clearly, "Petrificus Totalus" and Malfoy snapped together and fell backwards as if frozen. Hermione jumped down and exited the stall with Harry and Ron following in her wake.
"Harry, open the chamber," Hermione ordered.
"Open," he hissed in Parseltongue.
"Cool," Hermione whispered. She had never been down in the chamber before. She had been petrified when Harry and Ron went down there and Ginny wasn't exactly willing to go down there. She watched as the sink sunk into the ground, the other sinks split and the top rose in the air and a large hole had opened in the floor. "Now that's just a little bit creepy."
"Yeah, that's why we pushed Lockhart down it first," Ron recalled with a laugh.
"Alright, let's go," Harry said. He jumped down into the hole followed by Hermione and Ron last.
They landed on the same bones that had been there in their second year. Harry almost managed to land on his feet until Hermione came flying down behind him and tackled him and Ron never lands on his feet so obviously he just fell right on top of the pile of his friends.
"Sorry," he said and pulled himself up. He pulled Hermione up and Harry just got up on his own. "Um, I never really got past here, being with the rock slide and all so lead on Harry Potter."
"Thanks Ron," Harry sarcastically remarked. He went past the snake skin and where Lockhart "fainted" and then lost his memory. Past the site of the rock slide. Through two doors he opened by speaking Parseltongue and then down the ladder into the chamber itself where the skeleton of a great snake lay.
"Bloody hell that thing was huge!" Ron exclaimed looking at the skeleton. "How did you kill it?"
"It almost killed me and Ginny, Ron," Harry stated. "I stabbed it with the Sword of Gryffindor and it's fang went into me and the poisonous venom rushed through my body draining the life from me. According to Tom, I had a few moments to live so I stabbed the diary with the fang and it was a horcrux so Tom like exploded I guess and then Ginny woke up and Fawkes healed me."
"Bloody hell Harry. You did all that?" Ron asked.
"Yeah," Harry replied. He took his wand and carefully removed a fang from the basilisk's mouth. He was actually afraid that it might wake up and kill him so he did it quickly and then they backed away from it.
He laid out the horcruxes on the ground in front of them. The locket of Slytherin and the diadem of Ravenclaw, the only two left besides Harry, himself.
"Just do it!" Ron shouted after Harry had been pausing with the fang in his hand in midair for about five minutes.
"Alright!" Harry said. "I've never deliberately destroyed one on purpose. Mainly accident and Dumbledore destroyed a handful, Malfoy destroyed one and you too Ron."
"Me?" Ron asked.
"The snake, you killed the snake. Not sure you knew that but yeah, you did," Harry explained.
"That's like the equal of partially destroying You-Know-Who!" Ron cried.
"Sure," Harry said although he wasn't too sure. Ron was still thinking about how he destroyed part of Voldemort and Harry stabbed the center of the open Slytherin Locket with the fang.
An ear-piercing scream echoed throughout the chamber and the ghostly white figure of Voldemort came out and then disappeared in the air. Harry dropped the fang and clutched his ears it was so loud. His scar was exploding with pain too but only for a moment and then it was gone and the screaming stopped. He picked up the fang again.
"Well that was an experience to remember," Hermione commented.
"Last one... well, second to last one," Harry said and he raised his hand to smash the diadem with the basilisk fang.
"Wait!" Hermione cried and grabbed his arm. "It's likely he knows what you are doing. I'm sure he can feel his soul being ripped apart so don't destroy the diadem yet. I'll keep it in my bag and a fang and we can destroy it after Voldemort 'kills' you."
"Bloody hell," someone said.
"Honestly, Ronald get a grip," Hermione said.
"I didn't say anything," Ron answered.
"I did." someone said.
Harry, Ron and Hermione turned around to see a tall, blonde, silver-eyed Slytherin staring at them from across the chamber.
"Bloody hell," Ron said. He leaned over to Hermione, "That time it was me."
"Malfoy," Hermione said calmly as she strode toward him with her friends following with their wands out but at their sides. Hermione's wand wasn't out but she did notice that Malfoy's was. "What are you doing down here?"
"Dunno, thought I heard some first-years out of bed and turns out to be the Dream Team sneaking about," Malfoy answered.
"We're on a mission," Hermione said.
"Yeah, to look for h—. Ha— H—," Malfoy was answering. "Why can't I say this?"
Ron grinned a little bit then looked down but Malfoy saw him grin. "You did this!" he exclaimed but wasn't looking at Ron but Hermione.
"It's called a Fidelius Charm, Malfoy. It's just so you didn't go blab our whereabouts and what we were out doing to the world and word could have passed to Voldemort," Hermione explained.
"Believe me, he already knows most likely. He can feel the pain and so can Potter," Malfoy replied. "He's looking for Potter to kill him before he finds the last of his horcruxes which is the diadem, am I correct?"
Hermione was going to object but then she realized that Malfoy didn't know Harry was a horcrux so then neither did Voldemort. He must think he split his soul into six pieces, not seven. "Yes, that is correct." She shot a look at Harry and Ron that said to go along with the story. "Well," she said stepping to Malfoy's side, "we kind of have to go. Don't make me hex you."
"Your wand isn't even out. I could say about ten curses before you even pulled your wand from your pocket."
"Oh please." Hermione waved her hand and Malfoy shot backwards.
Harry and Ron's jaws dropped open... as did the jaw of Malfoy.
"Bloody hell Hermione!" Ron shouted. "Where did you learn that and can you teach me?"
"No, Ron, I can't teach you," Hermione replied. He looked disappointed. "It's kind of like a gift."
"Who the hell gave you that gift?" Malfoy asked.
"My parents," Hermione stated.
"But your parents are..."
Hermione finished his sentence. "Muggles? True. Telekinesis isn't a magical thing, well maybe it is but they could do it, just differently. If my parents chose to, they could read the minds of other people and this is just a different form of that. Any other questions?"
Hermione didn't even care if he had any questions. She grabbed Harry and Ron's arms and dragged them past Malfoy from the chamber. They were climbing out of the chamber into the girl's bathroom when they heard loud noises coming from outside.
"What is that?" Ron asked.
Harry, Ron and Hermione ran from the girl's bathroom and looked out one of the windows in the corridor. There was a huge battle going on outside. There were students, professors and... death eaters. Harry looked out the window to see all of the Order Members and other Aurors, students, professors all dueling against death eaters. There were so many that the only thing Harry thought was that most weren't death eaters but innocent people under the Imperius.
"A battle?" Ron said aloud.
Malfoy came running out of the bathroom. He ran past them and down the stairs.
Seconds later, they saw his exit the school and take part in the battle.
Harry looked back out the window. Someone burst down the gates and was entering the grounds of Hogwarts wearing black. Harry gasped in horror.
Voldemort.
A/N: Hehe, quick update + a cliffie! — BONUS POINTS!! Please review and I'll thank you here on my page for all to see. I hope everyone likes the story. It may be ending soon and I'm not sure about a sequel or another fanfic. Just review and lemme know what you think.