A/N Hi guys please enjoy! xx
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all the characters are property of J.K Rowling, I only own the unfamiliar storyline.
Hermione Granger was running, ducking and weaving through deadly bolts of light.
"HARRY! RON!" She cried dodging spells. She spots four familiar redheads and that messy black hair one of them, Fred is laughing, but then... CRACK. No, no"FRED! NO" She heard Percy screaming for Fred, she wants to go and help but she hears manacle laugher behind her. "AHAHA THAT FILTHY BLOOD TRAITOR IS GONE! YOUR NEXT MUDBLOOD!" Hemione whips around, "PROTEGO" she shouts and Bellatrix throws the killing curse at her, she dives knowing protego won't save her from an unforgivable. As she rolls away Molly Weasley takes her place, "Avada Kedavra" Mrs Weasley falls to the ground. Hermione could feel the guilt building up inside of her, not Mrs Weasley who always invited her around for tea, not the woman that would knit her a Weasley jumper every year for Christmas. Hermione in her despair ran as she ran she saw the dead around her, Lavender Brown, Colin Creevey, Seamus, Ron, Cho, Luna, Dean, Remus and Tonks, she ran right in Neville.
"Neville," she said in between tears "they're all dead, there's no hope". Neville looks at her, "it's okay we have each other just hold on, a little bit longer". Hermione nods, she must soldier on and have faith in Harry and Ron. She turns and began duelling Death Eaters with Neville. She started duelling Antonin Dolohov, he manages to snatch her wand with an Expelliarmus and she decides to try the wandless magic that she had been practising on the Horcrux hunt. Dolohov tries to stupify her but she holds out her hand's palms facing him and says very clearly in her mind Protego, her Protego was so strong he was knocked off feet she quickly wandlessly summons her wand and continues duelling Dolohov until she hears a cold, clear voice ring out.
"You have fought valiantly. Lord Voldemort knows how to value bravery. Yet you have all sustained heavy losses. If you continue to resist me, you will all die, one by one. I do not wish this to happen. Every drop of magical blood spilled is a loss and a waste. Lord Voldemort is merciful. I command my forces to retreat." With these words, every Death Eater simultaneously disappears in black smoke and flew away, presumably back to their precious dark Lord. "You have one hour. Dispose of your dead with dignity. Treat your injured. I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait for one hour in the Forbidden Forest. If at the end of that hour, you have not come to me, have not given yourself up then the battle recommences. This time, I shall enter the fray myself, Harry Potter, and I shall find you, and I shall punish every last man, woman and child who as tried to conceal you from me. One hour."
'Oh no, he's going to go and give himself up' Hermione thought. She immediately sped as fast as she could (which wasn't very fast as Macnair shot sectumsempra at her leg), she looked for twenty-five minutes before crumbling outside of the Great Hall. She didn't want to enter and see all the blank faces of the dead, she looked at her leg and figured she had better go into Madam Pomfrey and get her leg fixed up. But as soon as she entered she saw the Weasleys crowded around Fred, Mrs Weasley and a third Weasley body that she couldn't quite see. She limped over there passing her comrades and classmates in mourning when she saw the third Weasley figure. Ginny.
Hermione just stood and stared at Ginny's lifeless body, one of her best friends, always full of energy was gone. Hermione didn't know what to do with herself so she just stood there staring at Ginny's corpse, for what felt like hours but really it was only ten minutes until Madam Pomfrey came bustling over to her asking her why she hadn't gone over to her sooner with her leg and her, in general, the way that she was until she followed Hermione's line of sight to where Ginny, Fred and Mrs Weasley lay.
"Aw pumpkin, it's okay". Hermione nodded and grit her teeth, dragging her vision away from the Weasleys to look at the matron and said, "No, no it's not but it will be." The matron looked at Hermione with sad eyes, nodded and then conjured up a stretcher for Hermione and set about working on her. About ten minutes later Hermione's leg was temporarily healed, enough for her to put weight on it, for the time being until Madam Pomfrey could continue healing it after the battle. Hermione then began helping the matron with other patients with more minor injuries through spells she had learnt before the Horcrux hunt. After fifteen minutes of helping other patients and comforting various witches and wizards, Hermione heard noises coming from the courtyard outside. Nearly everyone from the Great Hall quickly had they're wands out and filed out into the courtyard where Voldemort and his army was standing. "Harry Potter is dead!"
"NO NOO!" I screamed running to the front of the group when a pair of arms grabbed me and held me back, "SILENCE... foolish girl" Voldemort cast a silencing spell as more shouts like mine filled the courtyard. "Harry Potter is dead. From this day forth you put your faith in me. Set him down at my feet where he belongs." Hagrid trudged forward with great sniffles that echoed around the courtyard. "Stop snivelling you, coward. CRUCIO" Voldemort sent the torture curse at Hagrid whose screams could be heard by even the deafest wizard. "Bellatrix," Voldemort called "dispose of this disgusting half-breed". Bellatrix quickly ran over and shot a beam of green light at Hagrid, "Hee, hee the wee giant is dead" Bellatrix called while doing a little dance before levitating him over the side of the bridge. Hermione winced as she heard the thump of his body hit the cavern below, she felt hopeless, full of despair, what was the point of surviving when everyone she loved was dead. She felt someone grasp her hand as a silent sob escaped from her mouth, she looked up into the kind but broken eyes of Neville he gave her hand a squeeze to show her he was still there and there was a whole world to keep fighting for.
"You see?" Voldemort said with a kick at Harry's body. "Harry Potter is dead! Do you understand now, deluded ones? He was nothing, ever, but a boy who relied on others to sacrifice themselves for him!" I heard an angry voice next to me yell out, "He beat you!" I as well as the rest of the defenders of Hogwarts did and we started hurling abuse at Voldemort. I heard myself yelling, "You are one of the most disgusting beings to walk this earth, holding yourself all high and mighty when you really are just a HALF-BLOOD! Yeah, that's right, your blood isn't pure like you want them to think, you are just a fake, you disgusting animal!" Everyone else had gone quiet about halfway through my rant.
"And who is this?" Voldemort asked in a cool tone, "Who has volunteered to demonstrate what happens to those who continue to fight when the battle is lost?" Antonin Dolohov stepped forward, "this is the filthy Mudblood, my Lord, Hermione Granger friend of Harry Potter, the one who helped him escape Malfoy Manor."
"Ah, yes," Voldemort said with an evil glint in his eye "Well then Miss Granger if you are so eager to be by Harry's side then you may join him but first, Petrificus Totalus". Hermione felt her body freeze up, oh no this can't be good. Voldemort turns to the crowd, "Now Miss Granger here is going to demonstrate what happens to anyone foolish enough to continue to oppose me". He turned back to Hermione and cast the strongest crucio she had ever felt. Every cell in her body was on fire, her skin was melting, her bones were breaking, her muscles were clambering to climb out of her skin as her blood vessels were replaced with lava. Then after an eternity it stopped but she lay there twitching as the ghost of the spell continued to torture her, she distantly saw someone with white hair, Draco?. Throw a wand to Harry shouting "Potter catch", but as soon as those words left the blond's mouth he was shot with about a dozen killing curses and he fell to the ground in an instant. The rest of the battle flew by she distantly remembered some rough hands grabbing her and dragging her down to an unused part of the dungeons where there were actual cells, she was flung into a crowded cell where soft hands gently lifted her up and onto a bench, then everything went black.
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As she awoke she could see a grey, concrete roof and walls she could see an iron door in one corner but no bathroom, great. She heard whispers "She's awake" "She's awake".
"Hermione, Hermione" She turned her head to see the kind eyes of McGonagall, Kingelsy and Narcissa Malfoy, the Death Eaters had taken their wands. "How are you doing Miss Granger?" The kind voice of Professor McGonagall asked. "Everything hurts." Hermione half whimpered. "What happened?" McGonagall told the story of how Harry was alive and of Draco's sacrifice all the way until the duel between Harry and Voldemort. "Harry was winning, we could all see it and the Death Eater did too because Mr Nott fired the killing curse at Harry and it hit him, square in the back." McGonagall choked out those last words while holding back sobs as Hermione let out one of her own. McGonagall regained her composure and continued "After Harry's final, death, the war went downhill very fast for us, whole families obliterated, the Weasleys, Longbottoms, McKinnons, Abbots as well as Dedalus Diggle, Elphias Doge, Blaise Zabini, Stu-" Hermione held her hand up. Narcissa interrupted "Sorry dear we know this is a bit much for you but you need to know the Death Eaters are executing us one by one and I'm afraid, your next as the last Muggleborn."
"It's ok, it was always going to end this way I just hope its quick." The adults grimaced at such a young child having to accept death like that, it was infuriating. They heard footsteps outside and heard a voice, "Mudblood, your time is coming to an end." Kingsly quickly came over to Hermione and whispered quickly. "Don't let them take you to the Quidditch Pitch, as soon as you can break free and sprint to the Forbidden Forest, Aberforth and a small group from the order are in there they'll keep you safe." Hermione nodded she would rather run to Aberforths group and recover before attempting a rescue mission than be executed and of no help.
Crabbe Sr flung open the door and grabbed Hermione by the arm and dragged her out to where Goyle Sr was waiting. Crabbe waited for Goyle to lock the door before Goyle grabbed her other arm. Their grips were so tight that Hermione knew for sure she would bruise, as she moved through the castle she could see ex-classmates and Death Eaters alike taunting her for her dirty blood. The closer to the Quidditch Pitch they got Hermione could see her window of opportunity slowly dwindling so she just dropped to the ground like a bag of potatoes and just lay there for a second while Crabbe and Goyle fumbled over what to do she quick as she could, she jumped up, shoved them over as hard as she could and ran for it just as she was about to reach safety she heard the growl of Greyback yell "Tempus Stamine" and a blue beam of light hit her and her world went black...
A/N Finally finished this chapter! I am enjoying this so much I hope you guys do too. This is my first story so please review your opinions mean a lot to me xx
A couple of points;
- Draco throws a wand to Harry when he 'survives' in a blooper scene and I really liked that so that's what I made Draco do in this book
- Tempus Stamine - is Latin for time warp and yes it is my own spell