Anne, Makoto, Haru, Yusuke, and Morgana crossed their paths as soon as it was apparent that the Death Eaters were attacking, they discussed a plan of action before going their separate ways.

"Makarakarn!"

All five of them raised layers of reflective shields on top of the shield charms that Hogwarts's staff erected around the school to buy everyone enough time to do what they needed to do.

For the lower years and those who don't want to battle to evacuate the school's premises.

For the combatants to finish laying down the traps for the would-be invaders.

Voldemort's faction was momentarily sent to panic as a number of their spells were reflected towards them, some of them were even hit by their own spells while others were quick enough to block all of them.

Voldemort himself shrugged off the spells that returned to him by simply recasting the same spell a few more times.

Eventually, the shields went down and Voldemort's forces invaded Hogwarts grounds and battled against the school's teachers, students, and staff.

Makoto pointed her wand towards the number of Death Eaters coming her way and cast a single spell that blew her enemies to the school's walls.

"Mafreila!"

The Ravenclaw continued to cast the same spell and put all of the Death Eaters she was facing to the walls unconscious.

Haru was surrounded by several Snatchers, all of them were grinning thinking that she was the meekest and weakest witch they were faced so far.

"Myriad Arrows."

Haru calmly uttered her spell as a myriad of arrows appeared behind her floating.

"Oppugno"

Haru smiled as the arrows she transfigured to appear behind her started to fly towards the snatchers that surrounded her, even to those who were behind her. Sooner all of the snatchers she was facing were now stuck to walls courtesy of the arrows, some were dripping with blood as some of the arrows grazed parts of their body.

"Maragidyne!"

Pillars of fire appeared in front of Anne as a combination of dark creatures tried to approach her. Most of the creatures that went through the fire pillars were burned to cinders while others swerved and evaded the pillars that appeared before them.

"Maragion!"

The werewolves and other dark creatures that managed to escape a fiery death from the fire pillars were greeted by smaller explosions to their faces that badly burned their faces, leaving them screaming in pain.

"Mediarahan!"

Futaba was at the Great Hall, being the first of her group to arrive as soon as everyone was informed of Voldemort's plans, casting multiple target healing spells left and right to keep every Hogwarts' combatants from gaining a critical injury that would lead to their deaths. She kept it up until a few werewolves made their way towards her.

"Flippendo! Depulso! Bombarda!"

Futaba cast three spells in succession, successfully throwing the werewolves coming towards her outside the Great Hall where they were knocked unconscious by the snatchers that fell on them.

"Mediarahan!"

Futaba continued to cast the healing spells to help everyone fighting the side she was on.

"Mabufula"

Yusuke uttered the spell calmly as he froze the limbs of the Death Eaters coming his way. He also managed to freeze the Death Eaters' wands and were effectively disarmed of their weapons permanently.

"Mabufu"

Yusuke cast another spell as the small ice he summoned towards his frozen opponents lulled them to unconsciousness.

"God's Hand!"

Ryuji exclaimed as he swatted several of Voldemort's army out of his way easily with the golden hand he conjured in front of him.

"What are you waiting for? Go!" Ryuji ushered the children that were stopped by Voldemort's army earlier.

The students, who were as old as fourteen years old nodded and ran towards the direction of Hogsmeade.

Ryuji soon noticed that a few Death Eaters managed to escape his God's Hand spell and chased after the children anyway.

"Mazionga!"

An electrical arc was shot out of Ryuji's wand that diverged into different directions, hitting and paralyzing every Death Eater who decided to chase after the young children.

"Magarula!"

Morgana was busy summoning the wind to blow away any would-be invaders that would dare approach the infirmary, where a lot of the wounded were stashed.

He knew that the casualties and injured were reduced significantly as soon as Futaba provided support and cast healing spells towards every combatant in the area.

His duty was now to keep the wounded safe, so that all of Futaba's efforts weren't in vain.

"Magarula!"

Another few snatchers were blown towards the broken window.

"Avada Kedavra!"

Akechi seemed to point his wand at a downed student but the light of the killing curse hit the Death Eater that was a few paces ahead of him.

Akechi was part of a force designated to infiltrate the school through the Quidditch field. This worked in his favor as he can cast the killing curse on his supposed fellow Death Eaters and eliminate many of their numbers while he can pretend to cast the same curse that would have hit the school's combatants.

The Death Eaters who witnessed everything did not bat an eye when a fellow Death Eater died under the killing curse as they mostly continued with their mission.

"Hamaon"

Another Death Eater fell as soon as he stepped onto a paper that momentarily glowed yellow.

"Maeiga!"

Ren pointed his wand at the Death Eaters approaching the castle as red-colored skulls shot out of his wand and hit blew the approaching Death Eaters back towards where they came from.

The battle raged on between Hogwarts's combatants and the army under Voldemort's command. It raged on until the Dark Lord began speaking in their minds for the surrender of one Harry Potter.

Ren, Ryuji, and Anne were frantically trying to find the boy in question but to no avail, even the boy's closest friends were unaware of his whereabouts after they were separated.

As the Hogwarts's combatants licked each other's wounds, with the former Phantom Thieves casting healing and revival spells on anyone that needs them, Voldemort strut towards the castle with a captured Hagrid carrying the lifeless body of one Harry Potter.

"Look alive," Ren whispered to his teammates. "It's not over yet." He glared at the Dark Lord as they mocked Neville for standing up against them.

"Never underestimate a mother's protection." Ryuji nodded as one Molly Weasley killed Voldemort's right-hand person.

"You know, if she were here, I don't think the Death Eaters would stand a chance," Futaba commented.

"No!" Voldemort exclaimed as he witnessed Bellatrix's death.

A shockwave of magic blew everyone near the Dark Lord away from him.

"Protego Totalum!"

Both Ryuji and Futaba cast the protective charms, defending everyone behind them but they were still forced to back away while keeping the protective charm in place due to sheer strength behind the shockwave.

As soon as a good radius around Voldemort was cleared, Nagini's slay at the hands of one Neville Longbottom happened right in front of the Dark Lord. In fury, he immediately pointed his wand at the Longbottom and cast the killing curse.

"Oppugno"

A table intercepted the killing curse that was meant for Neville as Ren revealed himself to the enemy.

"A boy managed to intercept the killing curse, impressive." Voldemort praised.

"Before you start, you don't want me," Ren cut the Dark Lord off. "I'm a muggleborn and you'd soon kill me as soon as you knew."

"Tell me boy, from whom did you steal such powerful magic?"

"Avada Kedavra!"

Everyone was stunned that the killing curse was cast and it was going straight towards the Dark Lord, who just sidestepped the curse and let the audience that surrounded him, take a hit.

"Oppugno"

Makoto was quick to react and sent a slab of concrete that used to be a part of the castle to intercept the killing curse that Akechi cast.

"Oh please stop with that drivel about muggleborns stealing magic." Akechi removed his mask.

"You really didn't have to infiltrate his ranks."

"Unlike you, I am willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish the job," Akechi rolled his eyes. "If it weren't for Potter's good acting and someone else betraying the Dark Lord, we would've failed.

If I wasn't there I wouldn't have the chance to save the boy had everyone there were loyal to this sad excuse of a human being."

"Good try, Akechi was it?" Voldemort grinned.

"Ren, let's leave this to Potter," Futaba voiced out. "I don't know how to explain it, but Voldemort's wand is giving me weird vibes."

"That's the Elder Wand!" Anne gasped. "I thought that was buried alongside Headmaster Dumbledore?!"

"The most powerful wand in existence."

Before anyone else could even respond, Harry stepped forward and faced Voldemort once more.

"Nagini's dead, there are no more Horcruxes. It's just you and me now, Riddle. Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good."

"One of us? You think it will be you, do you, the boy who has survived by accident, and because Dumbledore was pulling the strings?" Voldemort scoffed.

With the discussion out of the way, both wizards cast their respective spells that met at the center. Voldemort cast the killing curse while Harry cast the disarming charm.

It took both Voldemort's and Harry's concentration to keep their spells intact as they dueled for dominance.

A few more moments passed with just Voldemort and Harry batting it out for dominance. The Potter's red beam of disarming clashing with the Dark Lord's green beam of death.

Soon after, the red beam began to overwhelm the green light before Voldemort was promptly disarmed with his wand.

The light of the killing curse briefly wrapped around the Dark Lord's form before Voldemort was on his knees.

Unbeknownst to everyone, Ren and his friends quietly surrounded the pair as they dueled.

As soon as the Dark Lord was on his knees, Akechi immediately pointed his wand at the fallen Dark Lord and uttered one spell, in such an insidious manner.

"Die for me!"

"Akechi!" Ren and his friends exclaimed.

Seeing as there was no stopping the spell, the former Phantom Thieves turned their backs on the fallen Dark Lord and pointed their wands at the crowd in front of them.

"Protego Totalum!"

A dome of layered protective shields was erected and protected everyone else from the spell Akechi cast.

As soon as the dome was erected, animated stuffed bears and giant playing cards with limbs fell from the sky and exploded as soon as they made contact with the dead Dark Lord.

That was when Ryuji realized that Harry was still in the line of fire from the ultimate curse spell, he immediately made a beeline towards Potter and pointed his wand in front of him.

"Protego Horribilis"

Ryuji cast a protective charm for both himself and Harry, protecting them both from the ultimate curse spell's destructive effects.

"Akechi! That was overkill!" Ren growled.

"Naïve as always Amamiya," Akechi scoffed. "What insurance do we have that he'd stay dead this time?"

"Still dude that was overkill," Ryuji handed Harry towards his best friends. "A simple mudoon would have done the job."

Unfortunately for everyone, the people who perished during the Battle of Hogwarts remained dead, even with the help of their recarm spells, too much time had passed since they were killed for the spell to take effect.

Not to mention that most of the fallen were hit by the killing curse, making their revival spells moot.

Ryuji punched a wall so hard that his knuckles bled, once he saw the corpses of the Creevey brothers. Haru rubbed the Hufflepuff's back, in an attempt to comfort her grief-stricken former phantom thief.

"Why did they have to join the fight?!" Ryuji growled.

"We both know the reason Ryuji," Haru comforted. "It's the same for the both of us, for the Phantom Thieves, because it was the right thing to do."

"They didn't have to die."

"I know Ryuji, I know."

"First Cedric, who never cared that I was friends with Ren and everyone else now the boys who I viewed as little brothers."

"You bonded with them while you were on the run, didn't you?"

"If you want, I'll tell their parents." Ren offered.

"No dude, I need to man up and do this," Ryuji shook his head. "I promised to protect them and I failed, I should face them."

"We're with you all the way Ryuji." Morgana squeezed Ryuji's shoulders.

"Thanks, Mona."