Battles
The Malfoy Defection
May 23, 2007
In the Mountains of England, nestled in a large valley, stood Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Surrounded by Forests and Wildlife of its kind. Hogwarts is believed to be one of the Safest places on earth, mastered by the Greatest Wizard known to man... not that night though. That night... lives will change... Lives will be lost... the line will become but a blur between good and evil. Follow our favorite Witches and Wizards as they Battle for their lives. Trust will be tested; friendships will end and begin. Love will be found in most unlikely places. This is war, truths will be revealed as people show what they are willing to do for a loved one. This is the moment when Good and evil collide, this is that fateful night of The Second Wizarding War.
Hermione stood in the shadow of the massive school looking up as she witnessed the Fiery dome crumble around her in ash. An explosion was heard in the distance as she got ready for the battle that had begun.
Turning her back, Hermione ran towards the depths of the school she knew so well and began her attack.
Three stunners in quick succession, Hermione waited long enough to see they met their mark. Death eaters were filling the school at an alarming rate but the inhabitants in the school were holding their own.
Looking to her left, Hermione saw Ginny battling two Death Eaters of her own. Rushing to Ginny's side as she was blown back Hermione made quick work of the two Death Eaters and Turned to her friend.
"Ginny wake up! Come on Ginny!" Hermione slapped her friend a couple of times until Ginny opened her eyes.
"There is so many, we need to get farther into the school! I have all available brooms ready, when we need to make an escape, we won't be trapped!" Ginny yelled as she got to her feet and started running farther into the school grabbing people as she went.
"We have to find Harry and Ron. Do you know where they are?" Hermione said following her friend down a deserted corridor.
"They are up on the seventh floor." Came the dreamy voice of Luna.
"Then that's where we will go. Stay in twos, no one should go off alone. Stay alive.' Hermione said as she hugged her friend and took off in the direction of the seventh floor.
"We should stay off the main staircase. It will be safer that way." Ginny said as they hurried down the hall with their eyes scanning their surroundings. Hermione was at her back looking in the opposite direction to make sure they weren't being followed.
"Were do you think they are." Ginny said quietly as they reached the fifth floor.
"I believe they went to the Room of Requirement to find another Horcrux." Hermione said as she peeked around a corner. "Shit." she said under her breath.
"What." Ginny said
"There's people down there." Hermione whispered.
"Did they-." Ginny was cut off by the shake of Hermione's head as she turned towards the wall and slowly inched her way out.
Ginny heard Hermione's exhale of relief upon seeing the two figures. "It's Harry and Ron."
Walking around the corner a large group of Death Eaters appeared through black smoke. "Harry!" Hermione cried as they started attacking her and Ginny. Doing the only thing she could do she threw up a shield charm so they could get to cover.
"Over here Hermione!" Ginny said behind a statue, as Harry and Ron got some of the Death Eaters attention. Ginny was able to knock down a Death Eater in front of them.
"Stupefy!" Hermione cried as she finally got a vantage point. Immediately locking in her next target. Hermione shot a nasty curse that will most definitely leave the masked man dead.
"Behind you Hermione!" Dean yelled, running up another corridor followed by Harrys ex Cho.
From her right a red light shot at the last Death Eater as she was grabbed around the waist with such force, she was taken off her feet. The stray Killing Curse his wand hit the corner above Hermione and her Rescuer.
"Hermione!" Harry screamed, as the wall came down around the two people. Hermione heard Harry shouting orders as the two covered their heads, as they got pebbled with rocks.
"Grab him!" Ron growled menacingly.
"Ronald stop, do you really think that will be necessary?" Hermione said as she got up from the floor.
She looked to her Rescuers Chocolate brown to swirling grey eyes and she asked " Why?"
"Guys let's do this later. We can't stay here, there will be more coming." Harry reasoned.
The group of students looked at one another weighing the fate in their heads before they all made their way in different directions.
"Uh-uh your coming with us mister." Hermione said as she grabbed the arm of Draco Malfoy and marched after her friends.
Death Eaters came out of nowhere and started firing at the four students. Diving out of the line of fire the four ended up splitting in two. Hermione sent a curse at the attackers hitting one in the chest sending his curse astray. The curse connected with the ceiling, raining stone on them once again.
"BACK UP!" Hermione heard Harry yell to Ron.
"GRANGER LET'S GO." Malfoy yelled as he grabbed Hermione by the waist, and pulled her flush against his stomach as he was backing up. Breaking free from Malfoy Hermione took off running down the hall away from the collapsing area as Malfoy was shielding them both from behind.
Tuning down several corridors and descending several flights of stairs, the duo found themselves near the Hufflepuff Common rooms. At the other end of the hallway, was the only person Malfoy had hoped to avoid.
"Draco, you found a mudblood. Shall we keep it as our new pet?" came the cold drawl of none other than Lucius Malfoy.
"I am no one's pet. You despicable excuse for a human being." Hermione growled as she raised her wand on the older Malfoy.
"Draco are you going to let that thing talk to me like that? DO SOMETHING!" Lucius glared his son down as he waited for his answer.
"No father I am not. I no longer want any part in your side of the war." Malfoy said as he made no move to raise his wand at either person. "She is not a piece of property; she is a human being just like us, and I started to see that, the night she was brought to my house and tortured in front me, and I did nothing then too."
"That thing is not a human, it is a mudblood, surly you know where it stands!" Lucius screamed in rage.
"Yes, battling next to me on the right side of the war." Malfoy said dangerously.
"Well if you can't see the difference then I have no choice but to kill it." Lucius said while raising his wand at the Gryffindor.
"Now you see I can't let you do that." Draco said raising his wand against his father as he pushed Hermione behind him.
"You dare raise your wand on me? You're a disgraceful blood traitor?" Luscious roared in fury. Without uttering a single word, a bright, white light erupted from Malfoys wand, connecting with the middle of Lucius Malfoys chest. Blasting him back down the hall into the wall at the end, with a sickening thud, he fell to the floor in a heap unmoving.
"Malfoy that's your father." Hermione cried staring into his grey eyes.
"Not anymore. Let's go, we can get to the main staircase this way." was all Malfoy said as he grabbed Hermione's hand and started running.
Taking the last few steps the duo found themselves on the second floor. Sounds of battle in the immediate distance, three students come barreling around the corner to get to some semblance of cover as red and green spells were flying behind them. Without thinking twice, Hermione and Malfoy ran to the younger student's aid, pushing them to cover. Hermione and Malfoy also started throwing hexes and cures at the rather large group of Death Eaters. Malfoy covered Hermione and another student as they ran across the hall to get a different vantage point.
One of the younger students got blasted back and was laying in the middle of the floor unprotected and unconscious. "Hey you, get him out of the middle of the floor so he's being shielded by us." Malfoy said as he crouched down and started firing spell after spell at the Death Eaters.
Several more students came to their aid as the group got larger trying to over throw the students.
"It's the Malfoy brat. I knew you didn't have what it takes to do what's right." The masked Death Eater said manically as he threw the Killing Curse in quick succession.
"Actually, I didn't have the balls to kill in cold blood, but you, I have no qualms with killing you people. I refuse to spend my days living in fear any longer." Malfoy said harshly as he threw spell after spell at the Death Eaters.
"Everyone, take them down!" Hermione screamed as she ran to Malfoys side as she started her assault on the masked group as well. All at once the group of teenagers were throwing every defensive spell, they could think of at the Death Eaters.
As the group began to get the upper hand the Masked fighters started disappearing in clouds of black smoke leaving the students bewildered.
Harry Potter come to me, turn yourself in. Harry Potter stop hiding and meet your fate. I give you one hour. Take care of your dead with dignity, tend to your wounded. One hour, or I shall kill every last man, woman, and child that stands in my way." Voldemort's disembodied voice whispered through the silent castle. Hermione immediately thought of Harry and started to take off in the direction of the Grand Staircase that lead to the entrance hall and Great Hall were everyone was converging.
"Granger where are you going. Your friends will kill me if you end up dead you know." Malfoy called taking off after her.
"Yes, I know." Hermione called as she looked over her shoulder towards him.
As they reached the great hall two Aururs pulled their wands and pointed them in the direction of Malfoy stopping both of them in their tracks.
"He's with me. Let us pass." Hermione ordered immediately.
"I'm sorry miss but I cannot allow that to happen." said one of the unrecognizable Aururs. "I cannot allow either of you to enter. Mainly because you are with him miss."
"Do you know who I am! you cannot keep me or him from entering this room. You will let us enter." Hermione began heatedly, but to no avail, it was apparent the two guards are not going to let them enter. Spotting Harry in the middle of the room surrounded by friends and family. "Harry they won't let us pass." she called loudly getting her best friends' attention.
Harry walking over with a sad look on his face he grabbed Hermione and gave her a fierce hug. Grabbing both of them, Harry lead Hermione and Malfoy to where he was standing. Upon coming closer Hermione saw why he looked so sad as she spotted Fred Weasley, Nymphadora Tonks, and Remus Lupin lying on cots unmoving.
" Oh my god." Hermione cried as she ran to her surrogate family. Hugging everyone in turn before crouching down and hugging and kissing three decedents in turn as she cried. "What happened?" she demanded of Harry who was no longer next to her. Hermione spied him a bit farther down the hall talking to Malfoy.
"You know I don't like you, like, at all. I hate your guts." Harry said with such conviction it left no room for doubt.
Malfoy looked at Harry curiously wondering what he wanted, Malfoy asked "Why do I feel like there is a "but" coming?"
"There is." Harry said simply. " There is something will need you to do. Hermione will not like it. She will try to follow me you can't let her. You have to keep her safe. Keep her Alive if I don't come back.
"What makes you think you can trust me? Why not Have Weasley do it?" Malfoy asked smartly.
Harry smirked "I'm fairly certain you proved it to me, and Ron won't be doing anything for a little bit. He's pretty upset. He lost his brother Fred."
"All right Potter I'll do my best." Malfoy said solemnly.
"In this case, your best won't be good enough. She survives, no matter what." Harry said looking Malfoy in the eyes with a hard glare.
"Where is he going... Malfoy... Where is he going?" Hermione said panicked, hoping it wasn't to the place she feared.
"I think you know where, Granger." Malfoy replied looking at Harry's retreating back.
Hermione's face drained of what little color it had, as one of her worst fears was well on its way to coming true. "no, no, no, I have to stop him, he can't go out here alone. He will die." came her panicked voice as she started to follow Harry out of the great hall. The only thing that stopped her was the gentle hand on her shoulder holding her in place with a whispered " He needs to do this alone, Granger. You know that."
Hermione sat in the great hall, amidst all the Witches and Wizards fighting for the light side, awaiting the outcome of Harry going to the forbidden forest. Withdrawn and, upset, Hermione sat alone, wallowing in her own worries, she didn't see Ron walked up to her with a scowl on his face.
"So, I see you are cozy with that death eater." Ron said rather rudely.
"Ron, now is still not the time." Hermione said exasperatedly.
"Hermione, you ran off with the enemy, for god knows how long, in the middle of the battle, he can't be trusted, and you know it." Ron said getting louder the longer he talked
"Ronald, if he wanted to kill me, he would have, when we took off, away from the actual death eaters. He is not a bad guy; he is just a kid trying to protect his family. You would have done the same thing." Hermione said with attitude.
"How can you be defending him, he killed Fred, or did you forget that Hermione? He must have put you under some kind of spell or something. I just know it." Ron said allowing the thought to permeate his brain until he believed his own words.
Hermione scoffed in irritation at the words Ron was saying to her, Hermione looked him in the eye and spoke slowly " Ronald, I am not under any spell, or charm, or anything for that matter. We are in a war, about blood prejudices, and you keep spouting things about him being a death eater, and he is this big monster that doesn't deserve to live. You sound just like them. This is what we are trying to stop and he just so happens to be helping our side. Trust me Ron he's not a threat, you know me, and I don't trust easily."
"That's just the thing Hermione, I don't trust you anymore, the Hermione I know, won't defend a murdering death eater. You were tortured in his house for merlin's sake." Ron said rather loudly, gathering the attention of several people around them.
"Yes, Ronald, I was tortured in his house... for days... even after you and Harry got out. I was still tortured, and for you to stand there and say that you don't trust me, nor do you know me anymore hurts. You have the nerve. Walk away now Ronald, before you say anything else that you are going to regret." Hermione said with tears in her eyes as she glared at her long-time best friend.
"I don't regret anything Hermione. Something is wrong with you, don't talk to me until you figure out what it is." Ron said venomously before walking away.
"HERMIONE! Their coming back all of them." Came Neville's panicked cry as he and everyone else raced to the doors.
"Who is that... dad... who is it?" Ginny cried pointing at the bundle in Hagrid's arms.
"HARRY POTTER IS DEAD." Voldemort yelled in glee as all the surrounding death eaters laughed evilly.
"NOOOO!" came Ginny's pained cry as her father held her back.
"Bow to me now, or die." Voldemort said as he walked into the middle of the courtyard.
"That's not going to happen." someone from the back of the group yelled. A chorus of shouts and cheers rang out around the group of students.
"SILENCE!" Voldemort screamed in a rage as he walked closer to the group of students. Nagini following close behind.
Hermione saw Harry tumble from Hagrid's arms and land on his feet. "Now Neville." she Herd Harry yell as he raised his wand to the dark lord.
Neville took his chance while the dark lord had his back turned. He grabbed the Sword of Gryffindor out of the hat he was carrying, and took three large steps, he swung the sword severing the head next to the dark lord.
"Malfoy, we have to help Harry!" Hermione exclaimed as she saw Harry take of around the outer most edge of the courtyard with more than a dozen death eaters right behind him.
"DRACO!" came a cry Draco had hoped she wouldn't here. Turning towards the voice he saw his mother running towards him looking frantic.
"Mother, go to McGonagall, she will protect you. This is something I have to do." Malfoy said before he took off with Hermione and Terry boot, Angelina and George right behind them.
"Let's meet them on the other side, we'll cut them off." Terry said as they started in the opposite direction from Harry. Meeting in the middle the group surround Harry as they fired spells into the throng of death eaters.
Harry continued on as he grabs Hermione and Malfoy by the arm. As he runs up the stairs to the clock tower hearing footsteps thundering behind them.
Once they reached the top, the three splits up in different directions as spells of all different colors were flying around. Hermione was shooting off spells in quick succession as she battled three death eaters, Draco doing the same thing on the other side. Harry was in the middle battling the dark lord.
"Your weak!" the dark lord said as he levitated Harry into the wall behind him. "You care for too many people. They will all die because of you, and I'm going to make you watch. Then, I'm going to kill you, and I'll take your mudblood hostage. That's all she is good for anyway."
"No, don't bring anyone else into this. Let's end this once and for all, the same way we started it... together." Harry said right before he ran at the dark lord and jumped off the edge of the tower.
"HARRY!" Hermione yelled making her way to the edge where he jumped. Looking over the edge for a quick second she saw nothing, aiming her wand into the throng of people and started firing. "Their gone."
"Granger jump!" Malfoy yelled hoping she would listen to him.
Hermione jumped and landed in front of him on a broom. Clutching to Malfoy as they sped off towards the battle in the court yard, a trail of black smoke and rainbows of spells trailing behind them. Looking around, Hermione saw other students and teachers jumping form various points in the castle, all with brooms of their own. Nearing the courtyard, a spell hit the broom sending both crashing into the stone below. Scrambling for her wand and stumbling into a run Hermione fired spells at the death eaters advancing on Malfoy.
Spells flying everywhere Hermione narrowly missed a green ball flying past her. As she starts firing spells gain, she spots Harry crash into the stone in a cloud of black smoke, the dark lord right behind him. Climbing to his feet with his wand raised, green met red in and explosion of sparks blasting stone and people in all directions.