Harry heard Voldemort say the killing curse, but he couldn't move his body. He felt like he had been stunned. The only thing that was on his mind was Ginny being crushed to death by Nagini. But somehow, without realizing what he was doing, he felt his body roll to the side away from the curse, missing him by mere centimeters. But in that small fraction of a second he felt like a whole lifetime had gone by. In that small amount of time he saw everything from his past: his time at Hogwarts, his classes, his friends, quidditch, the Burrow, the Weasleys, Sirius, Ron and Hermione, Dumbledore, Bellio, and Ginny. Every moment he had spent with all of them had just gone through his mind in that small fraction of a second. Harry suddenly realized that it was true when they say your life flashed before your eyes when you're about to die. But then he realized that he had somehow moved away from the curse and it had missed him.
"Wow, it's amazing how that much can go through your mind in only a second," he said more to himself as he looked back at Voldemort.
Quickly coming back to reality he remembered that Voldemort had told Nagini to kill Ginny.
"Ginny," Harry called as he made to run to her, but Voldemort had sent another killing spell in his direction, again missing him by centimeters as Harry dodged trying to get to Ginny, but was being forced in the opposite direction.
"It's over Harry, now DIE, AVADA KEDAVARA," Voldemort cried over and over sending more jets of green light at Harry, though thanks to those months of dodging the bean bags that Bellio threw at him seemed to be paying off as he was able to avoid each one. But one slip and his life would be over.
"You lying bastard, I should have known that you would do this," said Harry in anger. "You really are the lowest piece of scum on this Earth," said Harry as he felt his power raising again.
Meanwhile Ginny was being crushed to death by Nagini and was powerless to fight him off. She could feel every bone in her body being crushed and if someone didn't do something soon she would die.
"Harry, help me," she pleaded starting to cry from the pain.
"I'm coming Ginny," Harry said fiercely once again feeling his body become sore as he powered up, at the same time dodging killing curses. "aaaaaahhhhhhhh, argh, aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," he screamed again and as he did a big gust of wind blew up and knocked Voldemort off his feet.
But before he could get back up and send more curses at him Harry had once again transformed his body into a the insanely built form he had moments ago. He was done playing around, it was time to end this once and for all. But he was worried about something, he may have been able to smack stunning spells away, but could he also do that for a killing curse when there was no counter curse for that spell.
"It matters not if you got your power back Harry, she still will die and so will you, AVADA KEDAVARA," screamed Voldemort again conjuring another jet of green light.
But what happened caused both Voldemort and Harry himself to gasp, both of them started stuttering to each other. Harry had raised both his hands and caught the curse in midair just by opening his fists and focusing all his mind power. The spell had stopped in between them but was clearly still trying to come at Harry. Voldemort tried to push harder but Harry pushed back with his mind just as hard.
They both struggled to gain the upper hand, both were fighting for their own reasons, Voldemort to kill the only one who could possibly stop him, and Harry to save the wizarding world and the ones he loved.
"You can't win Harry, you can NEVER defeat me," said Voldemort pushing harder still, and as he did the spell seemed to move a little closer to Harry. As it did Harry could feel himself being a little overwhelmed but he stayed strong on his feet and refused to give in. Summoning all the strength he could from for the ones he cared about, he pushed back.
"No Riddle, I can beat you, and I WILL," said Harry with determination pushing it back, and it was actually moving closer to Voldemort now.
"You dare call me by that name, I am not Tom Riddle, that is the name of my filthy muggle father," said Voldemort in disgust pushing back again to stop the green light from moving any closer to him.
"I don't care what you call yourself, you're still a murdering bastard," said Harry accusingly.
"You call it murder, I call it clean up," said Voldemort. "All those people I killed or my Death Eaters killed, they were weak. The muggles, the wizards, the witches, you parents, your godfather, that boy from the graveyard, Dumbledore, that Bellio boy, they were all weak, so they DESERVED TO DIE, JUST LIKE YOUR LITTLE GIRLFRIEND AND YOU WILL DIE," Voldemort screamed as he pushed again, hating that he was actually being challenged by a mere seventen year old.
Harry felt his anger rise even further as Voldemort spoke his nonsense. But he had to get out of this soon, he could see Ginny behind Voldemort dying and she wasn't going to last any longer than another minute at most. Nagini's bind was far too tight and was draining her of her strength quickly. She probably would have been dead already if she hadn't gotten so much stronger over the months.
"THEY WERE NOT WEAK AND YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO TAKE THEIR LIVES YOU FUCKING MURDERER," screamed Harry pushing back again, keeping the green light steady. "YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THE LIVES YOU TOOK, YOU WILL RECEIVE NO MERCY."
Voldemort smirked and decided to tell Harry what he had in store for him.
"I think not Harry, I will kill you just like all those others. And Nagini will enjoy crushing the Weasley girl to death. But I haven't even told you what I plan on doing with you two after you are dead."
Harry was sure he did not want to hear this but as he couldn't move without being killed he readied his mind for what he thought would be really disturbing.
"You yourself will be fed to Nagini, I promised him years ago that after you have been killed he would be allowed to feast on your flesh. But as for your little girlfriend, she won't be treated like the rest of your friends and loved ones.
Harry suddenly became very scared for what he was about to hear but also felt his whole body fill with more rage then ever as he thought about it.
"Her body will be torn apart, her torso will be fed to the rats," smirked Voldemort. Harry started to feel himself shake with anger as he unwillingly saw that picture in his head. "Her arms and legs will be simply burned in my fireplace as wood, I believe I'll enjoy watching the inner liquids ooze out of her." More rage filled Harry as he began to lose control of himself, fearing what he was going to say would happen to her head, for it was the only part he hadn't mentioned yet. "And as for her head, I shall keep that myself as my most favorite trophy. I shall put it in a glass case and keep it on my mantle so I will always remember that I not only defeated you, but also what I kept you from having in your life." With that Harry lost it, seeing that sight in his head made him want to puke as he became completely overwhelm by rage and hatred.
"YOU, BASTARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD," screamed Harry louder than ever. No longer caring about what happened to him, he pushed the killing curse back harder than ever, screaming his lungs out at the same time.
This time though, Voldemort couldn't hold it back, he had been overpowered and his own jet of green light was coming right back at him. Unable to control it anymore he dived to the side and himself saw his life flash before his eyes. Getting back to his feet though he wasn't quick enough to stop the now rage filled Harry Potter.
Harry swung his fist at Voldemort with so much force that he was knocked into the air behind the table, knocking the wind out of him. But before he could do anything about it Harry flipped over the table and landed right beside him. Grabbing him by the robes he threw him to his feet and punched him again, this time in the gut. Gasping for air Voldemort fell over onto his knees, clutching his stomach.
"Harry," came a very weak cry.
Harry's head snapped behind him, he had almost completely forgotten that Ginny was being crushed to death. He had become so overwhelmed with rage that all he could think about was causing as much pain as humanly possible to Voldemort. And now she was barely alive, any second she would be dead. Panicking Harry quickly looked for something he could use to help her. He then saw all the potion bottles that Bellio had brought. Reaching out to them he wandlessly summoned one into his extended hand and threw it with all his might at Nagini, aiming straight for his head.
The snake didn't see it coming and the bottle smashed against him, shattering upon contact and loosening it's grip a little bit. Just that little looser feeling gave Ginny more air as she coughed, though still unable to move.
Harry didn't waste another second he leapt back over the table and launched himself at Nagini, grabbing his head with both his hands and trying to pull him away. With his increased strength he was able to pull Nagini's head off Ginny a little bit, but the majority of his body was still wrapped around Ginny's trying to squeeze once again. But as Harry pulled more Nagini started to shift his focus from Ginny to Harry, his grip loosening further on Ginny and starting to try to wrap around Harry instead.
Finally Ginny was free and she backed away gasping for breath, falling onto her back holding her sides. Harry meanwhile was holding Nagini's head away as the snake tried to sink it's venomous fangs into his face, and also wrap his long body around Harry now. But as Harry was holding back the snake's head, he was able to kick at it's body with his feet to keep it away.
Voldemort in the meantime had managed to get back on his feet but was still holding his sore stomach and was still a little short of breath. Though he did have enough to call out to his pet.
"Kill him my pet, kill him now and feast on him," Voldemort called.
Harry meanwhile had no intention of letting this snake's mouth anywhere near his body. Suddenly Harry remembered that Nagini was the last horcrux and he was right here in his hands. Once Harry killed this snake Voldemort would be mortal again. Kicking away it's body again Harry noticed the pieces of glass on the floor from the bottle he just threw at it.
"Sorry to spoil your plans Nagini, but dinner has officially been canceled," said Harry fiercely. "This ends now Riddle, first your pet then you."
And with that Harry threw himself to the ground making sure that Nagini landed under him, pinning him down. Holding his head down onto the ground by the neck he picked up the biggest piece of glass beside him.
"DIE NOW," screamed Harry as he thrust the sharp piece of glass right into the snakes head. And with that final blow, Nagini stopped fighting back as the glass stabbed his head, blood erupting out of it as if it had exploded. His tongue stopped goinging in and out of his mouth and his eyes slammed shut. Nagini, the last horcrux, was dead. Lord Voldemort was once again mortal.
Voldemort looked on in horror for two reasons. One because his precious pet had been killed, two because a piece of his own soul had been killed with it. Little did he know though that it was the last piece of his soul that remained. He felt like he had lost his ability to speak. Harry would pay dearly for what he had just done.
Getting back to his feet Harry turned back to Voldemort.
"That's it Riddle, it's just you and me now, they're all gone," said Harry.
"What do you mean they're all gone," said Voldemort confused.
Harry suddenly realized that Voldemort had no idea he was once again mortal. This brought a smirk to his face.
"You don't know do you," said Harry realizing that he actually had the advantage over Voldemort for the first time in his life. "You don't even know that I knew about your horcruxes do you."
Voldemort felt a large chill go through his body. How the hell had they discovered his secret. It couldn't be possible, there had been seven of them, there's no way they could have destroyed them all.
"You're lying, there's no way you could have destroyed them all," said Voldemort sounding horrified.
"You better believe it's true, and it matters not whether you do or not. All that matters is that you are once again mortal, meaning that it's finally time for me to finish this," said Harry stepping forward.
Voldemort then noticed Ginny out of the corner of his eye and smiled.
"I don't think so Harry, this is far from over," said Voldemort raising his wand slowly towards Ginny.
Harry once again looked terrified as he saw what Voldemort was about to do. He tried to think quick and saw his wand lying on the ground behind Voldemort next to the staff table.
Ginny meanwhile was still lying on the ground, weakened by Nagini's crushing grip. But she could still see Voldemort raising his wand towards her.
"Harry, I love you," said Ginny crying fearing she was about to be killed. But if she was she wanted the last thing she did to be her reminding Harry that she would always be his.
"NO, GINNY," called Harry as he reached out for his wand. It jumped into the air and flew into his open hand.
"AVADA KEDAVARA," screamed Voldemort.
Harry quickly swung his wand towards Ginny, gently blasting her away from that spot so that the curse missed her and in the same motion pointed his wand above him.
"BURRIANO," screamed Harry, and once again the clear light shot out of his wand and formed a transparent dome all around them, filling the whole Great Hall.
Realizing what was about to happen Voldemort took his final chance to send one more killing curse towards Ginny.
"Avada kedavara," he said and the green light came out of his wand going strait for Ginny.
Harry looked towards the barrier and saw it close into the ground, and as it did the green light vanished right on the spot just a few feet away from Ginny. He had done it, he had trapped Voldemort inside the magic barrier and he was mortal.
"It's all over Riddle, you've lost," said Harry walking to his side to stand between Ginny and Voldemort. Even though they were in the barrier he didn't want to take any chances of something else happening.
Voldemort was too scared to say anything. His red eyes were showing his fear as he looked around for some kind of plan, but finding none. His wand was completely useless now and he was mortal again. A mere seventeen year old boy had actually discovered his secret and trapped him.
"It's time to finish this," said Harry throwing his wand to the side, deciding he wanted to do this with his fists instead of his bow staff.
And with that Harry ran right at Voldemort, his mind filled with rage once again and wanting to make him pay for all the lives he had taken.
Voldemort however was too scared to move, he couldn't believe this was actually happening, he was actually outmatched, and it was being done in a way that didn't involve magic.
Harry swung his fists right at Voldemort's face, hitting him with both his right and his left once each. Blood was coming out of his now cut lip and landed on the floor. It had been so long since he had actually felt physical pain. Harry didn't even stop to breathe, he grabbed Voldemort's head while he was stumblind and slammed it down into his knee, breaking his nose as more blood poured out of his nostrils. Still not stopping he grabbed one of his arms and twisted it sideways, giving it a hard chop on the elbow, as the connecting blow broke his whole arm.
"AAAAHHHHHH," screamed Voldemort in so much pain.
"THAT'S RIGHT, IT HURTS DOESN'T IT. BUT WHY SHOULD I CARE IF YOU'RE HURT, YOU NEVER CARED ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE YOU HURT, DID YOU, YOU FUCKING ASS HOLE," said Harry accusingly.
Charging again Harry kicked him with all the strength he could muster once again in the gut. Still sore from when Harry punched him there moments ago he fell onto his knees again holding his stomach with his non broken arm, wishing it would all just end and the pain would go away. But Harry still wasn't done, he kicked at Voldemort's left knee, connecting with it's side and tearing his ACL, causing him to collapse onto his side in an awkward position to avoid putting any kind of pressure on his broken body parts.
"DOESN'T FEEL TOO GOOD DOES IT," yelled Harry pulling him back onto his other knee. "WELL WHILE YOU'RE FEELING ALL THIS WHY DON'T YOU THINK ABOUT HOW ALL THE PEOPLE YOU KILLED MUST FEEL ALONG WITH THEIR FAMILIES. YOU SAY IT WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE WEAK, WELL SINCE YOU WERE UNABLE TO DEFEAT ME I GUESS THAT MAKES YOU WEAK TOO. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT IT IS AT ALL, SADLY YOU JUST CAN'T SEE IT. THE REAL TRUTH IS THAT YOU WERE JUST A HEARTLESS BASTARD."
Voldemort just sat there on his knee, in far too much pain to think about anything else.
"WELL IT'S FINALLY OVER," said Harry grabbing his face to force him to look into his eyes. "NOW DIE," and with that Harry swung a huge upper cut right under Voldemort's chin, the hardest he'd ever swung in his entire life, feeling the connecting blow snap every bone in Voldemort's neck. And with that final blow Lord Voldemort fell onto his side, blood still flowing from his mouth, nose, and a few other places, and he stopped breathing. Finally, after decades of terror, countless innocent people dead, both magic and muggle, living in constant fear, never knowing what the next terrible thing would be, it was finally over. The Dark Lord was dead.
Harry, realizing that it was finally over, fell onto his knees and felt his body power down to it's original form. Looking behind him he saw Ginny standing up and walking towards him, her face with a few bruises but at least she was alive. They smiled at each other as he stood up and they hugged each other passionately. They could finally be together in a world where they no longer had to worry about saving the world. They finally had the chance to be a normal couple, though there would probably still be a lot of reporters asking questions over the years. But for now they weren't going to worry about anything but being together as Harry lowered the magic barrier and they began binding the unconscious Death Eaters magically until the ministry arrived.
"It's finally over," Harry said to himself taking Ginny's hand.