Ava. P.O.V

I run all the way back up to the school and push past people so I can get to Dumbledore. I freeze when I see him lying on the floor. He just looks like he's asleep. I see Harry sitting next to him crying.

"Harry" he looks at me but before I could say anything, he stands up and knocks me to the floor. He gets on top of me and sits on my stomach, trapping my arms down by my side with his knees. People gasp when he roughly shoves his wand into my neck, which hurt.

"He dead because of you father!" he growls. "Did you know about this? Did you know what he was going to do?"

"I didn't know" I whisper.

"I heard you" he growled angrily. "You said you had to go and help him."

"I-I didn't mean it like that. I though dad was helping him. I had no idea that this was going to happen. I promise I didn't."

"Are you even on our side?"

"Of course I am."

"Harry" Hermione says, as she walks over to us. "You know that Ava had nothing to do with this."

Harry glares at me. "How can we be so sure? Her father was good at playing that part, maybe she is too."

"I'm not. I'm on your side, I promise you I am. I wouldn't do that to you."

"You lair" Harry hissed, shoving his wand into my neck so hard that it makes me whimper in pain.

"Harry" Ron says, also walking over to us. "Come on mate, think about what you're saying."

"Y-you're hurting me, Harry" I breath out. Harry looks at me, sighs, then gets off me.

I sit up and hold my neck. I look at Dumbledore and move his hair out of his face. My dad did this. My dad killed him. My dad killed his friend. I can't get my head around it. My dad is a murderer. I have a murderer for a dad. I never thought in a million of years that I would be saying those words.

"Ava" I hear someone say which snaps me out of my thought. I wipe away my tears and see Harry walking over to me. I quickly stand up and push him away from me. He would have fell on the floor if Ron hadn't of caught him.

"How dare you even question me. After everything we have been through together. After everything I've done for you and now you have the cheek to stand there and accuse me of being on his side. I didn't know what was going to happen tonight. Do you really think I would have let it happen if I did? You saw how I reacted after it happened. I was in complete shock, I still am. So don't you dare stand there and try and make out like I'm on his side when I've proved that I'm fighting with you."

I pull up my sleeves and show Harry both of my arms. "Oh would you look at that! No Dark Mark! I would never become a Death Eater! I would never work for the man that killed my mom!"

I hear people start whispering since only close friends and family knew how my mom died.

"Ava, I -"

"Just leave me alone, Harry!"

I turn around and rush off before he could say anything else. I turn the corner and rest my head on the cold wall. My chest feel so tight at the minute. It feels like I'm struggling to breath, even though I'm breathing fine.

"It's just a dream" I say to myself. "When I open my eyes I'm going to be in bed" I open my eyes and see that I'm still outside. "I wish this was a dream" I whisper.

"Ava!" someone shouts. "Ava, are you ok?" I turn around and see Sirius and Lupin running over to me.

"Did you hear?" I ask, wiping away my tears.

"Yes, we heard" Lupin sighs.

"He's left me. I begged him to turn around but he carried on walking. What am I meant to do now? Mom's gone, and now dad."

Sirius pulls me into a hug. "You're not on your own if that's what you're thinking. You have got us, and we aren't going anywhere."

"Yeah, you're stuck with us" Lupin agrees. I pull away from Sirius and nod whilst tucking my hair behind my ear.

"Where did that bruise come from?" Sirius asks, pointing to my neck.

"Nowhere" I say, covering it up with my hair.

"What's that around your neck?" Lupin asks.

I look down and see that I'm still wearing the locket. "I forgot I had this on" I say, taking it off. "Me, Harry and Dumbledore got it tonight. It's a Horcrux."

Sirius and Lupin glance nervously at each other. I click the little catch on the locket and it opens and a little piece of paper falls out. I pick it up and read it out loud.

'To the Dark Lord,

I know I will be dead long before you read this, but I want you to know that it was I who discovers your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal one more.

R.A.B'

I look at Sirius and Lupin and see that Sirius has gone pale. "Do you know who R.A.B is?"

He nods. "My brother. Regulus Arcturus Black."

"Do you know if he manged to destroy the real Horcrux?"

"No, he never mention any of this to me."

I sigh and look at the locket. "Harry is going to be disappointed. We went through a lot to get this, and it turns out to be a fake."

"Regulus bedroom is at my house. It's been untouched for years. You're more than welcome to come and check it out. There might be nothing in there but you never know."

"That would be great, thanks" I say, before looking at them. "I'm not coming back to school next year."

"But you have to" Lupin says. "It's your last year."

I shake my head. "This is more important. I have to finish what Dumbledore started."

"We" I hear from behind me. I look over my shoulder and see Harry, Ron and Hermione stood there. "We have to finish what Dumbledore started" Harry says.

"The locket is a fake" I say, handing it to Hermione. "This was inside" she takes the paper off me and reads it to herself whilst Harry and Ron read it over her shoulder.

"Who's R.A.B?" Ron asks and Sirius tells them what he told me.

"Ava" Harry says, but I don't look at him, which makes him sigh. "Look, I'm sorry about what I did and what I said to you. I was just angry and took it out on the wrong person."

"You gave her that bruise, didn't you?" Sirius growled.

"What bruise?" Harry frowns. Sirius moves my hair before I could stop him. Harry looks at my neck and just stares at it. I move my hair back and he looks at me. "I didn't mean to do that, Ava."

"Yeah, I've heard that before."

"I really am sorry though."

"Yeah, I've heard that before too" I say, before finally looking at him. "And sorry doesn't mean anything if you keep doing the same thing you're meant to be sorry for."

"I know" he sighs. I look at them one by one, then just walks off. They must have known I wanted to be on my own because none of them called me back.

I walk into the school and make my way to the Slytherin common room. I walk in and make my way to the boys room. I just need to feel close to Draco even though he's not here. I lie down on his bed and stare at the ceiling. I hope he doesn't think I hate him because he's a Death Eater. Maybe I should have said something to him. Maybe I should have told him that I knew along and that I don't care that he's one because I know he didn't willingly become one.

I roll on to my side and something falls on the floor. I look and see that it's a piece of paper. I pick it up and read it to myself.

'Dear Ava,

If you are reading this then I've left the school and you have found out that I'm a Death Eater. I knew that you would come to my room, either to destroy it or just to sit on my bed, either way I knew you would come.

Whatever you hear about me please remember that I'm on your side and what I did this year I did because I didn't have a choice. The Dark Lord was threating to kill you and my mother, and I couldn't let that happen, so I did whatever I needed to do to keep both of you safe, even if that meant doing some horrible things.

Please don't think badly of me, A. I'm not a bad person. I've just done bad things but I did them all for the right reasons. I love you, Ava. I love you so much and when this is all over, I promise I'm going to do whatever it takes to make this up to you. I treated you badly this year and I'm so sorry about that. Everything was just getting too much and you were always at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Whatever happens from now on, just remember that I love you and that I'm on your side.

Love Draco.

P.S, there's a jumper in my wardrobe, I left it for you. You can either burn it or wear it, I don't mind which. Just do whatever makes you feel better.'

I re-read the letter about 4 times before I put it down. I could never think badly of him and I really hope he knows that. I don't want him thinking that I hate him. And he really doesn't need to make anything up to me. He was under stress and I was an easy target, I get that. People take their shit out on people they love because they know that they will forgive them.

I walk over to his wardrobe and open it. All of his clothes have gone, apart from one jumper. I take it out and put it on. It smells like him. I get back into his bed and just cried until I fell asleep.

We have broken up for the holidays and I'm staying with the Weasleys, I did want to go home but Mrs Weasley said no because it's way to dangerous. I mean, I know that it is, but I just wanted to feel close to my dad. Even though he's done the worst thing possible, he's still my dad and I miss him.

Fred and George have really helped me take my mind of things. They have mainly been pranking me but I've been getting them back. Sirius has secretly been giving me his wand whenever I've wanted to prank them. They still don't know who's wand it is.

Tonight the Order will be moving Harry from the Dursley's house to the Weasley but because Harry is only 16, he's still got the trace on him, which means if Harry uses magic then the Ministry will know about it and they will be able to track him down, so the Order have come up with a plan to have a few people over 17 drank Polyjuice Potion and turn into Harry so if there is anyone waiting for them, then they won't know which Harry is real.

I've got to stay at the Weasley because I've still got the trace on me. My birthday is the day after Harry's so if I use magic then the Ministry can track me. I can't wait for my birthday so that I can do magic without them knowing.

Me, Ginny and Mrs Weasley are in the kitchen at the minute. We are cleaning, it's the only thing that's helping us take our mind of things.

Just then we hear a bang from outside. We look at each other before rushing outside. I see Bill and Harry, no wait, Hermione, who's turning back into herself walking through the protection charm that's been put up around the house. We rush over to them and hug them tight.

"Where are the other's?" Ginny asks, as we pull apart.

"What you mean?" Hermione frowns. "Is no one else back yet?"

"No, you're the first two" I say. "What happened?"

"They were on to us from the first" Bill says. "There were Death Eater waiting for us. Someone must have told them about the plan. We didn't have a choice but to split up."

We hear another bang and Lupin and Fleur walk through the charm. Bill goes to run over to Fleur but stops when Lupin points his wand at him.

"What are you doing?" Mrs Weasley panics. Lupin doesn't answer her and asks Bill and Hermione a question only they would know. He lowers his wand when they get it right.

"I'm sorry" he says, sighing a little. "I just had to make sure that you were who you say you were. We have been betrayed. They knew we were moving Harry tonight."

The next two people to walk through the charm are Tonks and Ron. Lupin quickly asks them question, which they get right, then Hermione rushes over to Ron and hugs him tight.

"He deserves that, amazing he was" Tonks says, giving Lupin a hug. "I wouldn't be here without him."

Hermione pulls away from Ron and just kisses him like she's never going to kiss him again.

"Did you see any of the other?" I ask. "What about Harry?"

"No" Tonks says, shaking her head. "Harry and Hagrid disappeared out of sight not long after we flew in the air."

Ginny goes to say something, but gasps loudly when Mr Weasley and George walk through the charm. I look at them and gasp when I see that George is missing an ear and he's bleeding pretty bad. Lupin rushes over to them and quickly asks them a questions, which they got right, so he helps Mr Weasley carry him into the house.

I follow them into the house whilst Hermione, Ron and Ginny wait for the others in the garden. They lie him down on a chair and Mrs Weasley starts checking on him. She uses a spell that stops the bleeding and uses a wet towel to clean up the blood.

I'm just standing there when someone roughly grabs my arm and pulls me back. I look and see Fred glaring at me. "George is like this because of you father."

I frown at him. "What do you mean?"

"He used this weird spell on him. Did you tip him off about the plan?" Fred asks, as Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Sirius walk into the house. Hagrid strayed outside since he's too big to get into the house.

"No, I didn't. I wouldn't."

"I don't know what to believe anymore."

"I promise I didn't. I haven't seen or talked to him since that night in the tower."

"Just move out the way, Ava" Fred says, before pushing me to the side so that he could walk past me, but I ended up hitting my head off the corner of the wall. I hiss in pain and and rub the spot that I hit. It seems to be helping with the pain.

"Ava, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that" Fred says. He tries to touch my head, but I knock his hand away.

"I didn't tip my dad off about the plan! I wouldn't do that and it feels like shit that you think I would! If you don't trust me then what am I even doing here?"

"What you trying to say?" Hermione asks.

"I'm saying that I'm not staying somewhere where people don't trust me! I'm not staying somewhere so I can be someone's emotional punching bag when something goes wrong."

"No Ava!" Fred says, grabbing my arm to stop me from walking off. "Please don't go! I'm sorry, ok? I was just angry and I didn't mean for that to happen."

"That's all I'm hearing lately" I say, pulling my arm out of his grip. "'I'm sorry, Ava' 'I didn't mean to do that, Ava' 'I was just angry, Ava' 'I'll never hurt you again, Ava' And you know what? All of it is bullshit because people keep doing the same shit to hurt me! Have any of you stopped to actually think about what I'm feeling at the minute? I've lost my dad, and I know you lot don't like him, but he's still my dad and he's gone! He left me! He walked away from me after I begged him to stay. Do you have any idea what that feels like? Well, I will tell you, it feel like fucking shit and it hurts every time I think about it. So you can stand there and blame me for when things go wrong but I'm not staying around to listen to it."

Everyone just stares at me.

"You're right, Ava" Harry says. "We didn't stop to think how you're feeling at the minute. We didn't stop to think about how this is effecting you. We blame you because you're an easy target and I'm sorry about that. We shouldn't be blaming you for your fathers actions."

I look at them one by one, then the tears just start pouring out of my eyes like a waterfall. Harry pulls me into a hug and I break down crying in his arms. I've been holding it back for so long that I just couldn't hold it back any longer, so I let it all out, but I wasn't crying for, because next thing I know, everything just goes black.

Harry P.O.V

I start to panic when Ava suddenly goes limp in my arms. "Ava?" I ask, but got no answer back. I look down and see that her eyes her closed.

"Mrs Weasley, there's something wrong with Ava" I say, making everyone look at me. Mrs Weasley comes rushes over to puts her hand on Ava's forehead.

"She's burning up. Harry, lie her down on the other chair."

I nod and pick her up and lie her down on the chair that's not that far from George, who's fast asleep at the minute. I look at Ava and see that she's got tears running down her cheeks. I wipe them away as Mrs Weasley walks back over to us.

"What's wrong with her?" Ron asks.

"Nothing, dear" Mrs Weasley says, putting a wet tea towel on her forehead. "She's just unconscious. She must have hit her head harder than we thought."

"This is my fault" Fred mutters, as I hold Ava's hand. "I shouldn't have pushed her."

"No! You shouldn't have!" I growl. "You shouldn't have put your hands on her!"

"That's rich coming from you!" Ron snaps.

"Yeah!" Hermione nods. "Look at everything you've done to her! Look at how many times you've hurt her when you're angry!"

"Alright" I mumble. "Fair enough" I look at everyone. "But we do need to make this up to her. Make her feel wanted and that we do trust her, and that she's not just some emotional punching bag for everyone to take their anger out on."

"We will, Harry" Sirius says, putting his hand on my shoulder. "We will" he adds in a whisper, whilst glancing at Ava, who grips my hand in her sleep.

"Don't leave me, dad" she mumbles, as tears leak from her eyes. "Come back, please" I look around and see that it was only me and Sirius heard what Ava said, everyone else is busy talking. I wipe away her tears and Sirius pats my shoulder.

"She'll be alright, Harry, but let's let her sleep for now. It looks like she needs it."

I nod and put a blanket over her then kiss her forehead.

Ava P.O.V

It's the next day and everything is fine between me and everyone else. They all reassured me that they do trust me and that they know that I'm not in touch with my dad and that I'm not telling him anything about what's going on.

Fred couldn't stop saying sorry for what he did and gave me one free shot of pranking him. The only thing I could come up with though, was turning his hair pink for 12 hours. Bill is hoping that his hair turns back to normal before tonight. It's his wedding later and he doesn't want Fred to have pink hair on the family photos. I did say that I would turn it back to normal if it's not though.

I'm just in the kitchen at the minute, drinking my tea when Harry walks into the kitchen, I was about to say hello to him but stop when Ginny comes out of nowhere and asks him to zip up her dress. I don't know where to look when they start kissing. I was about to sneak out of the kitchen but stop when George comes sneaking in.

He's got a bandage around his head and over his missing ear. He picks up a spoon and puts it through the gap of the bandage where his ear should be, which made me snort into my cup. At least he can joke about not having a ear. Although, I do feel really bad that it's because of my dad.

George looks at me and goes to say something but I shake my head and point to Harry and Ginny, who are still kissing. I beckon him to follow me out of the kitchen but he clears his throat instead. Harry and Ginny jump apart and look at us.

"Morning" George smirks, winking at them. Ginny gives him an annoyed look before walking off. Harry looks at George, who gives him a warning look. Harry nods and quickly rushes out of the room. We look at each other and burst out laughing.

"Do my ears deceive me, or can I hear little Snape laughing?" Fred says, walking into the kitchen. I look at him and see that his hair is still pink.

"Loving the hair" I say, smirking into my cup.

"I know right" he smirks back. "I'm thinking about making it permanent. What do you reckon?"

"Yes" me and George say together.

Just then Bill walks into the kitchen, looking stressed. "I swear to god, if I hear mother talk about table flowers one more time, then I'm going to explode."

"She's just excited, that's all" Fred says, before ruffling his hair. "It's not everyday her oldest boy gets married."

Bill tutted and knocked his hand away. "Not the hair, little bro. I've just got it prefect."

"Bloody hell" Fred says, looking out of the window. "What is the Minster of Magic doing here?"

Me, George and Bill all look out of the window and see him walking up to the house with a briefcase in his hand.

"What does he want?" Bill muttered, but before we could answer him, Mrs Weasley walked into the kitchen.

"Ava dear, the Minister would like a word with you in the living room."

I look at Fred, George and Bill, but they all just shrug. I put my cup into the sink and walk into the living room where I see Harry, Ron and Hermione sitting on the chair. They look as confused as me. I walk over to them and sit next to Harry.

"To what do we owe the pleasure, Minister?" Harry asks.

"I think you know the answer already, Mr Potter" he says, before pulling out a piece of parchment that floats in the air next to his head. He turns to it and starts reading. "Here is set forth the last will and testament of Albus Percival Wulfric Brain Dumbledore."

Me, Harry, Ron and Hermione all glance at each other.

"First to Ronald Bilius Wesley, I leave my Deluminator, in the hope that in times of dark, it will show him the light" the Minister hands Ron a small silver object that looks like a cigarette lighter. Ron opens it and all the lights in the room gets sucked into it. He clicks a button and the light shot back out. Cool.

"To Miss Hermione Jean Granger, I leave my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in the hope that she finds it entertaining and instructive" he says, handing Hermione a little book. She looks through it and smiles.

"To Miss Ava Snape, I leave a photo of her and her father to remind her that family is the most important thing there is, and that it shouldn't be thrown away without knowing the full story" he hands me the photo of me and dad at the Yule Ball. I look at it and smile at the memory of us dancing together.

"And lastly to Mr Harry James Potter, I leave the Snitch he caught in his first ever match at Hogwarts, as a reminder of perseverance and skill" the Minister hands Harry a little golden Snitch. Harry takes it off him and I see the Minister frown. It's like he was expecting something to happen when Harry touched it.

"Is that it?" Harry asks, putting the Snitch in his pocket.

"No, Dumbledore also left you the sword of Gryffindor, however, the sword was not Dumbledore's to give away as it belongs to -"

"Harry" Hermione says, cutting off the Minister. "It belong to Harry. It came to him in the Chamber of Secrets when he needed it the most."

"The sword may present itself to any worthy Gryffindor, Miss Granger, but that does not mean that it belongs to that person, and anyway, the whereabout of the sword is currently unknown."

"What you mean?" me and Ron ask.

"It's missing" He says, before looking at us one by one. "I don't know what you are all up to, but you can't fight this war on your own. He's too strong" he stands up and just leaves without another word.

It's later in the day and we have just watched Bill and Fleur get married. It was a nice little ceremony and I'm pretty sure that Mrs Weasley went through about 3 packs of tissues because she was crying so much. They were happy tears, of course.

After the wedding everyone went to the tent that the Weasley boys had put up in the back garden. That's where we are at the minute. There's music playing and people laughing and dancing around. I smile to myself when I see Ron and Hermione dancing together.

I jump when I hear someone say my name from behind me. I turn around and see Viktor Krum stood there smiling. He's changed a lot over the years. He's got more handsome if I'm being honest.

"Well" he says, holding out his arms, "do I get a hug or what?"

I smile and hug him tight. I didn't realise how much I've missed hugging him until now. "What are you doing here?" I ask.

"Fleur invited me" he says, pulling away from me. "How have you been?"

"I've been …" I trail off, not really knowing what to say "... I've been better."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Nothing, I don't want to talk about it. How have you been?"

Krum looks at me and tucks my hair behind my ear which makes me look at him. "You can talk to me, Ava, we have got all night after all."

"My dad has left me" I mumble.

Krum grabs my hand and drags me outside. "What do you mean he's left you?"

I stand there and explain what happened that night in the tower. I explain how shit I feel at the minute, and how worried I am that I'm never going to see my dad again, not while Voldemort is alive anyway. Once he's dead then maybe, just maybe, we could rekindle our relationship that we once had, but while he's on his side, that's not going to happen.

"Ava" Krum breathed out, pulling me into a hug. "I'm sorry you're going through all of this at the minute, but things will be better, you know."

"I know, but things always get worst before things get better" I say, sighing. "I've missed you, Viktor."

"I've missed you too, Ava."

"Viktor, sweetheart, who's this?" I pull away from him and see a beautiful girl stood there looking at me, then at Krum with a questioning look.

Krum clears his throat. "Sweetheart, this is Ava Snape, she was a very good friend of mine when I was at Hogwarts for the Triwizard Tournament. Ava, this is my girlfriend, Lola Delacour."

Good for him. I'm glad that he's found himself a girlfriend. Wait, Delacour? I look at her. "You're related to Fleur?"

"Yes, she's my cousin. She actually introduced me to Viktor."

"That was nice of her, and you two do look very cute together" I look at them. "Anyway, I'm going back inside so you two can spend some time together. It was good seeing you again, Viktor and it was nice meeting you, Lola."

I go to walk off but stop in my tracks when a blue light comes out of nowhere. Everyone stares at it.

"The Ministry has fallen. The Minister of Magic is dead. They are coming, they are coming!" it said. But who's they? My question was soon answered when Death Eater started flying into the tent left, right and centre.

I look at Krum and Lola. "Go quickly."

"What about you?" Krum asks.

"I will be fine, just go before they come out here."

Krum nods and grabs Loa's hand and disappears into thin air. I pull out my wand and I run into the tent. Some people are disappearing. Some people are fighting, but I can't see Harry, Ron and Hermione anywhere.

"Harry, Ron, Hermione" I shout, running around. "Where are you?"

"It's her!" a Death Eater, looking at me. "It's the one the Dark Lord wants!"

ME?! Why the hell does he want me for. Oh wait, he knows I'm Sophie, so of course he wants me. I go to stun him but Sirius beats me to it.

"Go, Ava, run!"

I didn't need telling twice. I ran off and started looking for Harry, Ron and Hermione again. Just then I see Harry running over to me but before I could run off, A Death Eater roughly grabs my arm. Harry needs to get out of there before they grab him too.

"Harry go!"

"Not without you!" he shouts, as he stuns the Death Eater, but another one grabs me before I could move. "Let her go!"

"Just go without me! - Hermione!" she looks at me as she rushes over to us with Ron following her. "Hermione, take him and go. Trust me - GO!"

She nods and grabs Harry and Ron and I watch them disappear.

"The Dark Lord can't wait to meet you" the Death Eater growled into my ear before we disappear.

I'm dead. I'm going to die and there's nothing I can do about it.