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NOTE: I have never been yelled at by so many people as I was after last chapter haha (No regrets :D)

"Avada Kedavra!" The man casts, Draco blocks it just in time. Thank Merlin his Father is interested in the dark arts and taught him to block such things, right? Everyone stands around in shock, none sure what happened. Then Draco pulls off the robe.

"What are you doing here?" Cedric asks him, Draco sighs.

"You know what, I've been asking myself that bloody question all day," He replies. Harry chuckles slightly, then hisses in pain again.

"Didn't stop you though, did it?"

"Guess you're rubbing off on me."

"Foolish boy, you'd have died to protect this one, who cares for you not at all?" Voldemort hisses at Draco, "I recognise you, do you think your father will not hear about this?" Draco scoffs.

"Is that how annoying it is to hear that?"

"Yes," Harry and Cedric both say.

"Wormtail, kill them," Voldemort demands, Draco's eyes widen, now knowing who this is. Cedric and Draco both raise their wands against the other two, Harry pulling himself upright to do the same. But Peter doesn't raise his wand again, "Wormtail?" Peter looks at Harry.

"You look so much like him," He says quietly, Harry doesn't feel the anger he did the last time Wormtail mentioned his Dad to him. He's not sure why. Then Peter turns his wand on Voldemort, "Stupefy!" The three boys stare at Wormtail in shock, he seems just as off-kilter.

"Thank you," Harry says, unthinkingly but genuinely, Peter nods.

"I'm sorry," He tells him. It shouldn't have been enough, not after everything. Harry is an orphan because of him. But Harry knows nothing will change that, knows there is nothing that Wormtail could do to make it right. This is all he has to give, and he's giving it. Harry nods back. Then Wormtail apparates away.

"So um…what exactly do we tell people happened?" Cedric asks as they walk over to the cup, "And also. What did just happen?"

"The man who betrayed my parents and helped Voldemort try to kill me just stopped Voldemort from killing me. And you both. Though he did try to kill you first. I think it was Draco risking his own life to save yours that made him waver. Then I look just like his best mate who he betrayed and…well I also assume Sirius has been cursing him for a while about it all," Harry explains.

"So what, he switched sides again? What's he going to do now? You-know-who will kill him when he wakes up," Draco tells him, Harry nods.

"Possibly. I don't know. I have a good feeling about this."

"That brings us back to my first question," Cedric points out.

"We go back, we act like we grabbed the cup from the maze and leave it there. I'll tell Dumbledore about what happened later. There's no point in panicking everyone else if Uncle Wormy really has turned again," Harry says, they both nod.

"Also, what is he doing here?" Cedric asks, pointing at Malfoy.

"Keeping him alive, and also, apparently, you," Draco replies shortly, Cedric nods.

"Fair enough. Back under the invisibility cloak th-…you know what, I'm not even going to question the invisibility cloak." Harry smirks, nodding.

"Good call."

"Have to say though, it's sort of unfortunate no one else will know," Draco admits, "How many people can say they survived standing against him?"

"The deformed and weakened being that was once you-kn…" Cedric trails off momentarily, "That was once Voldemort?" He clarifies after a moment. Draco and Harry look at him in surprise, he shrugs, "If that's all he's left as then I see no reason to fear his name."

"How very Gryffindor-y," Harry says, Draco rolls his eyes, much to the confusion of Cedric, "Inside joke," Harry explains.

"Since when are you two friends anyway?" Cedric asks as Draco pulls the cloak over his head.

"I find it's best not to question things too closely and just go with it," Harry says, Draco hits him, "Ow!" Cedric snickers. Not because Draco hit Harry, but because it looks like Harry flinched away and complained to thin air.

"Right, let's get back before they all think we've actually been murdered."

They grab the cup and are transported back.

Meanwhile, Ginny and Sirius sit in the cellar-turned-cell, waiting for news, any news, on Harry. Then Peter appears with a sharp crack.

"Harry?" Sirius asks, not bothering to care about who he is asking. Peter drops his bundle, Voldemort tumbles down, unconscious. Ginny and Sirius slowly look up from the mutated form to look at Wormtail in shock. Peter grabs his wand and hands it to Ginny.

"Kill him, or me. Or both. If anyone deserves to, it's you." She stares at him with wide eyes, "I looked into what a horcrux is. So I know it won't kill him, not when there are probably more. But it'll make it harder, give someone time to find them." Ginny looks between he and the wand, then points it at Voldemort.

"Avada Kedavra!" She casts without any further hesitation, Sirius thinks perhaps he needs to have a carefully worded conversation with Minerva about Ginny. She heaves a breath once it's done, seeing his body just disintegrate, some disembodied being racing around the room, "AVADA KEDAVRA!" She casts at it again, it screams and disappears out the room. Ginny looks to Peter, then to Sirius, then back to Peter. She hands the wand to Sirius, "It's your choice now." Peter kneels before him, awaiting his execution.

"Is Harry safe?" Sirius asks Peter who nods.

"He is." Sirius points the wand at Peter who closes his eyes, tensing slightly but otherwise doing nothing.

"It's a shame, isn't it? Destroying a creature like that can have such disastrous consequences," Sirius says, pointing the wand at the wall, "Bombarda!" The wall explodes, Peter looks up in shock, "After all, it destroyed the Potters home," Sirius points out, Peter flinches at the memory of them. Then Sirius destroys another wall, "The backlash of it has been known to kill people." Sirius holds a hand out to Peter who warily takes it and allows himself to be pulled to his feet, "Such a shame you died in the explosion, isn't it?" He asks, handing Peter his wand.

"Wha-?"

"Ginny and I need to get back to Hogwarts. I would suggest you aren't here when the Aurors arrive. It would be hard to explain how you survived this time after I mention the fire that was enveloping the house as we left."

"Fire?" Peter asks, Sirius nods at his wand, his eyes widen, then he nods.

"Come on Ginny." Ginny and Sirius walk out, grabbing Sirius' wand from the living room mantel and apparating back to just outside of Hogwarts.

They go straight to Moody's office.

"This is where you were kept, for months?" Sirius asks, opening the trunk, Ginny nods.

"Moody?" Ginny calls down, Moody looks up.

"Back so soon?" He asks, she grins.

"Actually, it's been a while. But I've brought help," She says, Sirius peers over.

"Question is, how do we get you out of there?"

In the end, they levitate him out.

"Right then, let's go catch ourselves a Death Eater."

Moody uses the floo to contact the Auror office before the three of them and an Auror head down to the stadium. Of course, Moody is missing both a leg and an eye, so they end up leaving him grumbling in the hospital wing. The others arrive in time to see the Harry and Cedric arrive, seemingly alone.

"We need a distraction, one that will panic him and make him run," the Auror that Moody had contacted says, Ginny grins. She breaks away from them, coming round the other side before sprinting full force.

"HARRY!" She throws himself at the boy who instinctively catches her.

"Ginny?!" Harry asks incredulously. Suddenly there's a thud, the two look over to see one Moody on the ground, being handcuffed by Tonks. Remus is standing away a bit, his foot sticking out as he leans against a wall, looking smugly at the angered imposter.

"You have earned yourself a one way ticket to Azkaban, my friend," the Auror states.

"King?" Remus asks, Kingsley Shacklebolt smiles.

"Remus! How are you?"

"He's busy, you know, dealing with the situation," Tonks replies tetchily as she struggles to hold down the Death Eater below her.

"Right, come on then, let's get him back to the Ministry."

"Headmaster, you aren't seriously going to let them take Professor Moody, are you?" Seamus calls out of the crowd.

"I think you'll find he Siriusly is." Harry looks over in the direction the voice came from and immediately breaks away from Ginny, sprinting over.

"Uncle Padfoot!" Harry calls, Sirius grins, opening his arms and wrapping them around Harry as the boy barrels into him.

"Hi Harry. Did you get that quiet year you were hoping for?" Harry chuckles.

"I'll have plenty of quiet when I'm dead."

"Which one of you got the cup?" Fudge asks, looking between Harry and Cedric.

"We both did, Minister, simultaneously," Harry tells him, he seems shocked, Cedric merely nods, trying not to laugh. He's not sure why really, today was bad and terrifying after all but, suddenly he can't hold it in anymore. He laughs, then Harry is laughing too.

"Finally cracked, have you?" Ginny asks Harry, Harry just grins.

He's missed her.