Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this, I have been wanting to write a Harry Potter fanfic for some time and while I have spoken to many writers that have encouraged/helped me I still have some doubt when it comes to my writing style. I decided I would post this and see what people think before I decide if writing this is worth it or not (I have done my best with grammar) this will not be the full fight and it will cut off at a cliffhanger, please let me know your opinion and if I should write this or not.
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Harry saw Sirius came through for him and brought all the members of the order that can fight, with the damage they've already done the odds were now in their favor. Harry didn't notice that near the exit Lucius Malfoy was looking around partly angry but mostly worried knowing what would happen if they failed their lord, however when he saw Sirius approach Harry and Hermione he saw their guard dropped and knew this was his chance. Putting more magic into the spell Malfoy said "Accio prophecy!"
Harry felt a sudden pull and the prophecy flew out of his hand before he could get a proper hold of it, "NO!" Harry yelled as he saw Malfoy catch the prophecy, with a smile across his face Malfoy ran for it, Harry ran after him and Hermione followed. Sirius tried to follow but then jumped back as a blasting curse nearly hit him, he turned and saw Avery and quickly had to cast a shield to block the cutting curse, gritting his teeth Sirius knew he couldn't join Harry and Hermione until he put down Avery.
Harry and Hermione were running at full speed into the atrium only to see Malfoy was close to the fire place, they knew if he escaped Voldemort would learn the full prophecy. Malfoy glanced back and saw Potter and Granger and quickly cast a protego around himself to stop any spell they fired as he ran. Harry couldn't let Voldemort get the prophecy, they would never reach him in time so instead Harry took aim, as he did Hermione knew what Harry was about to do and prepared to fire her own spell.
Harry needed to shatter that shield and destroy the prophecy in one hit but he was having trouble following Malfoy's hand, Harry needed to focus as he ran otherwise he'd miss, taking a deep breath Harry thought back to all the time he spent in the dueling room then later the room of requirement using snitches as target practice. Harry pictured the prophecy as a snitch and followed the movement before predicting when it would move, the moment Malfoy started to swing his arm upwards Harry saw it and fired a piercing curse.
Hermione waited for the moment Harry fired the curse, she believed in her boyfriend having seen his skill firsthand and trained with him countless times, the moment the curse was fired Hermione aimed for Malfoy's back and fired a stupefy. Both spells traveled across the room with one ahead while the other was slightly behind, at the right moment Malfoy swung his arm down in the path of Harry's curse.
Malfoy was about to reach the fire place, he felt a smile across his face as he felt joy knowing he was about to complete his master's orders. Just as Malfoy was believing he would make it he felt his shield shatter with a single spell, before he had the chance to look back or cast another spell the speeding curse followed its path and the next moment Malfoy felt intense pain as the prophecy shattered and a curse went through his hand.
Malfoy was screaming in pain as he looked at his now bloody hand, he saw the smoke from the prophecy come out and saw a figure begin to form. Malfoy tried his best to listen thinking he could report the prophecy to his master. "Th-" was as far as he got before he was struck by Hermione's spell and he collapsed to the ground.
Harry and Hermione saw their spells hit and they saw the smoke form but they could not hear a single word, after seconds they saw the smoke disperse into nothingness and the only thing left of the prophecy was the shattered glass around Malfoy. Harry and Hermione both smiled as they cheered knowing they kept the prophecy out of Voldemort's hands. Harry hugged Hermione and was about to suggest they tie up Malfoy when suddenly he felt an intense pain coming from his scar causing him to collapse to his knees.
"Harry! What's wrong!?" Harry barely heard Hermione's words as the pain continued, Harry knew what this meant as he struggled to respond "He's… angry… and… close!" Harry struggled to force it back before putting up his occlumency shields before the pain finally stopped, before he could breathe a sigh of relief they both heard a terrifying yet calm voice "Harry Potter." Harry and Hermione looked as they saw black smoke form near Malfoy before taking the form of Voldemort.
Hermione helped Harry up as they saw the angry red eyes of the dark lord glare angrily at them, what made it worse though was the raw magical power coming from the dark lord. Harry now understood when he met Voldemort in the graveyard he was weakened but now that he's had the chance to recover he fully understood why so many were afraid to speak his name other than the taboo. Voldemort glanced down at the unconscious form of Malfoy, as angry as he was Malfoy was still his best contributor and needed him alive, with a wave of his wand Malfoy's hand healed enough to stop the blood loss but it was still disfigured.
With a flick of his wand Malfoy was sent flying into a wall, Harry could have sworn the impact sounded painful, now Voldemort focused on them. Nothing was said for a few seconds, Harry somehow felt Voldemort got some pleasure knowing he terrified them this much, suddenly Voldemort spoke "I will admit you have impressed me Harry, despite the trap that was set up you managed to turn it around on my followers, turning a situation to your advantage, how very Slytherin of you. I am afraid however that your luck has run out, with your blood running through me your mudblood mother's protection will not save you this time, my followers may have failed in bringing me the prophecy but I can still kill you here."
Harry and Hermione felt a chill go through them at the calmness of his voice, Harry wasn't sure what to do but then he noticed how much Hermione's hand was shaking. Glancing over he saw Hermione was more terrified than he was but she still had her wand raised ready to fight. Harry thought back to the training they've done together, how much they pushed each other, how when he was ready to throw himself into his training and push away his friends to prepare to fight Voldemort Hermione was the one who knocked some sense into him. She had every reason to be terrified and flee but she promised to stand by his side and fight alongside him and she kept that promise.
Harry reached over and placed his hand over hers, Hermione looked at Harry and saw his emerald eyes staring into her brown eyes. Harry spoke "Hermione, you made me a better wizard." Hearing those words made Hermione remember all the times he told her that, she responded back "And you make me a better witch." They drew comfort from each other knowing they've trained together and always covered each other's back so why would this time be any different.
Taking deep breaths Harry and Hermione stopped shaking as they let their magic loose, Voldemort felt their magic and saw they were well above any children their age. Harry spoke "I won't die here, I've survived you before and I will now, I have so much to live for and I won't let you put an end to that, Tom." Voldemort glared at the mention of his name but before he could speak Hermione spoke first "Don't forget Tom it was a muggleborn that brought you down last time, I won't be afraid of a false lord like you."
Voldemort's eyes narrowed at the two, for a few seconds all was quiet and still, suddenly Harry and Hermione moved first, Harry fired a cutting charm while Hermione fired an incendio, Voldemort scoffed at this and raised a shield deflecting the two first year spells, however he then saw Harry and Hermione move. Harry and Hermione separated in order to force Voldemort to have to defend from two sides, they knew this wasn't a duel it was a fight to survive so they needed every advantage they could get.
When Harry stopped he raised his wand conjured several arrows before sending them flying, at the same time Hermione cast the piercing curse. Voldemort felt the piercing curse hit first and shatter his shield so he quickly fired a flame and incinerated the arrows, the flames continued towards Harry who then cast aguamenti. This created steam but before Voldemort could see what happened he had to deflect a reducto before focusing on the spells that followed.
Hermione didn't let up and cast reductos and confringos right away forcing Voldemort to either shield or deflect the spells, when Voldemort put up another shield she fired another piercing curse to shatter it. Voldemort felt his shield shatter but before he could cast suddenly three blocks of stone were launched at him from Harry through the steam. With a quick swipe of his wand Voldemort shattered the three but then had to move back as Hermione fired an expulso only to notice out of the corner of his eye a blue spell was heading to where he moved, he felt a heavy impact on his side.
Hermione saw her spell hit Voldemort and smiled but then the smile vanished from her face and turned to fear when she saw Voldemort was still standing with only slight damage done to his body, she saw more damage was done to his robes than him. Hermione realized her hypothesis was true, when Harry told her about the ritual Voldemort used to bring himself back she decided to research it. Sirius had let her read through the Black family library, even the books he wanted to destroy, and through her research she found there were other easier ways Voldemort could have come back so she wondered why he chose this certain ritual.
When Hermione finally found the ritual she understood it wasn't just so Voldemort could use Harry's blood it was because the ritual allows you to alter your body in different ways. Hermione theorized at the time but hoped she was wrong that Voldemort not only recreated a body but made his new body more magically resistant and now she saw she was right. Hermione thought about the prophecy Trelawney gave at the end of their third year and one line came up "Greater and more terrible than ever he was."
Voldemort felt the slight pain in his side and turned his anger towards the mudblood that dared raise her wand against him, in a quick move Voldemort aimed and yelled "Avada Kadavra!" The killing curse sped towards Hermione but then an orange spell wrapped around her and pulled her out of the way, turning Voldemort saw the spell come from Harry's wand but to his surprised Harry raised his left hand towards Voldemort and yelled "Bombarda maxima!"
Voldemort was shocked but then quickly cast a shield to defend himself "How did Potter cast that spell wandlessly!?" Hermione landed next to Harry as he asked "Are you ok?" Hermione nodded and said "Yeah, but my spell-" "I know." Harry cut her off "We need to hit him with everything we've got, he's resistant not immune." They looked at each other and understood the look in their eyes and nodded, Hermione and Harry quickly moved away from each other.
Voldemort watched this and decided he needed to kill the mudblood first then it'll just be him and Potter. Dropping the shield Voldemort glanced around at the rubble from the three blocks of stone and smiled, with a wave of his wand Voldemort said "Draconifors!" The rubble began to turn into small dragons "Oppugno!" Voldemort commanded and the dragons began to move towards Harry. Harry saw this and quickly conjured a block of stone before shattering it himself and pointing his wand at the rubble.
Voldemort noticed Hermione stopped and was about to focus on her but then he heard Harry speak in parseltongue, turning back Voldemort saw the rubble around Harry begin to transform into winged serpents. Harry saw the dragons coming towards him and ordered the serpents in parseltongue, quickly the serpents took off and attacked the small dragons but instead of attacking randomly they worked together to quickly strangle and kill the dragons. Voldemort cast a shield to deflect Hermione's spell as he shouted at the serpents in parseltongue "Attack the wizard behind you!"
To his shock the serpents ignored this order and rushed towards Voldemort, not wasting any time Harry conjured and fired multiple arrows just as Hermione's piercing curse shattered the shield allowing Voldemort to be attacked. Voldemort quickly cast a flame spell incinerating the arrows but saw the serpents avoided the spell and attacked him, as Voldemort tried to attack the serpents Harry cast aguamenti and aqua eructo before using glacius to freeze the water into spears before launching them at Voldemort. Hermione overpowered her cutting charm and fired hoping it'll do more damage.
Voldemort was surrounded by the serpents as they kept trying to bite him, quickly Voldemort conjured a flame whip to try and kill multiple serpents but as he killed a few he didn't notice the spells coming towards him, suddenly Voldemort let out a yell in pain as one spear pierced him while another grazed him then he felt the cutting charm hit his arm. Thanks to his magic resistance the charm didn't cut through but still gave him a long cut across his arm, enraged Voldemort overpowered the whip and swung around killing all the serpents but again Harry conjured and banished stone blocks towards him as Hermione fired more curses.
Voldemort realized why they were fighting like this, transfiguration was a type of magic that prevented his wand from locking with Harry's and since he didn't share a core with Hermione she was focusing on curses, begrudgingly Voldemort admitted to himself it was a good idea for fighting him. Harry and Hermione glanced at each other and from one look they knew it was time to use a spell they spent months working on.
Harry thought ever since the room where the unspeakables study love opened up for them he felt a connection with Hermione form and it made communicating between them easier to the point that all they needed was a look and they understood what the other was thinking, although he felt the connection wasn't complete yet he felt it was slowly getting stronger.
Harry reached into his left pocket and grabbed everything he felt in there, Hermione stopped firing spells knowing she would need to be ready. Voldemort finally got a chance to breath only to then see Harry throw a bunch of small balls at him, when the runes on the balls got out of range from the runes Harry had in his right pocket they grew to the size of tennis balls. Hermione saw this and fired red sparks from her wand and left hand, normally this spell would do very little in a duel but the sparks felt a pull and moved towards the runes on the balls.
With an explosion several fireworks had gone off at once temporarily blinding Voldemort, when he got his vision back he saw several colorful lights spinning and zipping around, some of the fireworks formed into animals while others formed into dancing figures, he even saw the faces of two redheads form and blow raspberries at him. Angered Voldemort tried to vanish the fireworks only for the spell to multiply them, Voldemort was blinded from anything happening on the other side.
Harry smiled when he saw this and thought he needed to thank the twins for this, not wasting anymore time Harry raised his wand and left hand and started to perform a complicated wand movement to cast an atmospheric charm. Clouds began to form as Hermione moved closer to Harry, soon a storm started to form and grow bigger as it lightly started to rain before increasing. Hermione watched from the corner of her eye as Harry formed the storm but she mostly paid attention to the fireworks in case Voldemort started firing spells. Harry was trying to speed up the spell since he knew the fireworks wouldn't last long, soon a smile spread across his face as he saw lightning appear in the cloud and knew the spell was ready.
The fireworks were starting to die down as Voldemort suddenly felt rain begin to hit him, surprised, he glanced up and saw a large storm was forming in the atrium. Finally the fireworks died out and Voldemort could see Harry and Hermione only to see Harry finish forming the storm, not wasting any time Hermione raised her wand and the lightning in the storm began to increase and become more intense. Voldemort, realizing what Hermione was going to do, quickly aimed at her and yelled "Avada Kadavra!" The green spell sped towards her only for Harry to move in front and cast "Expelliarmus!" The two spells locked together but before anything could happen Harry broke the connection since he wasn't trying to recreate what happened last time he just needed to buy Hermione the time she needed.
The lightning was going wild as Hermione finished the spell, Harry could feel her magic in the air around them and moved out of the way, Hermione felt the spell was ready and pulled her magic in the air around them into where she needed it to go, with a swing lightning shot out from the cloud and struck her wand and followed the direction she was pointing it. Voldemort seeing this quickly aimed and fired his own spell just as lightning shot out from Hermione's wand towards Voldemort. The two spells collided and Voldemort felt his feet slide back before stopping, he was having to focus more magic into his spell to stop the lightning, however soon Voldemort heard Harry.
Harry raised his left hand and wand up as he overpowered his next spell, finally Harry yelled "BOMBARDA MAXIMA!" Voldemort saw the spell coming towards him and his eyes widened as a thought ran through his head "I can't block that!" An explosion went off around Voldemort destroying much of the floor. The order and the death eaters still fighting heard the explosion making many wonder what happened. Hermione felt her lightning continue and hit something but then she felt Harry cover her and quickly turn their backs to it and shield her from the explosion.
Harry and Hermione felt some rubble hit them thankfully the most it'll cause is a few light bruises, as the dust started to settle they looked back to see the damage they did, both were breathing heavily and Hermione felt like she was about to collapse but thankfully Harry was holding her up. They saw a dust cloud was blocking their view but Hermione asked "Did that do it?" Harry was about to cast homenum revelio to see but before he could suddenly the statue behind them exploded in a fiery blast, shrapnel and chunks of statue were thrown everywhere, Harry quickly protected Hermione from most of it before she was able to cast a shield, the shield was weaker than normal but it helped.
There was a sudden powerful wind before the dust cloud was vanished and they could see again, what they saw terrified them. Floating just a few feet above the ground before landing was Voldemort, he had a glare that could freeze even fire, his magic felt as though it was crushing anyone nearby but they saw he wasn't unscathed. Voldemort had cuts and bruises around his body, severe burns and a large scorch mark on the right side of his chest where most likely the lightning had hit him.
With a quick move Voldemort slashed his wand upwards as a dark spell was sent out towards them, Hermione acting quickly shoved herself and Harry to the side out of the spells path before it could hit. Despite the protest from their bodies they forced themselves up and saw the spell eradicated anything it hit as where it hit the ground was now gone. Hermione quickly cast Avis and Oppugno to try and distract Voldemort, Harry spoke parseltongue and quickly conjured snakes but with his left hand he blasted out flames before speaking in parseltongue again and from the flames formed fire snakes.
All of these moved fast towards Voldemort but then Voldemort swung his wand and shouted "ENOUGH!" A shockwave of magic was sent out quickly destroying the conjured creatures, thankfully Harry and Hermione weren't hurt but they saw all the glass around them shatter. Soon rubble and glass started to move towards Voldemort as he waved his wand around him, realizing what he was about to do Harry quickly poured his remaining magic into his spell and cast protego. Voldemort pointed his wand and all the glass and rubble went flying towards Harry and Hermione, thankfully the protego held up but soon felt worry overtake them when much of the rubble and glass came back again.
Voldemort watched this and smiled knowing Potter couldn't protect them forever, he winced in pain at many of his injuries and looked over himself. His robes may have reformed but he was still hurt under it, Voldemort may be one of the most powerful wizards to live but there were a few times he had been hurt. Thinking back Voldemort remembered the few times he had been hurt, one of the few times Voldemort entered the battle himself he killed a few aurors only to then face James and Lily Potter. Lily's skill with charms was one he had to admit was impressive while James' skill with transfiguration was on the same level. Normally against anyone else Voldemort would have killed them easily but when those two worked together they were able to buy time for their allies to escape, reinforcements to show up, or escape themselves.
The other time was when he fought Frank and Alice Longbottom, Frank's speed and accuracy were impressive while Alice's flashy and powerful spells made him keep his guard up. Voldemort had killed many himself but when he fought those two couples he struggled to kill them, he had to admit Harry and Hermione fought similar to them. Voldemort thought of this and a line from what he knew of the prophecy came to mind "Born to those that have thrice defied him." Once again it was another couple that worked well as a team that has managed to harm him but this time they wouldn't escape him.
Harry felt his magic slowly growing weaker and soon his shield would fall, Hermione was able to regain some strength before standing next to Harry. "We need to use a disintegration shield, any glass and rubble that comes in contact with it will disintegrate almost instantly!" Hermione explained "We never mastered that spell!" Harry said but Hermione responded back "It's the only thing I can think of, just try to avoid anything that breaks through!" Harry knew it was their only chance so he focused and the moment he dropped the spell both he and Hermione created a smaller shield surrounding them and soon any glass and rubble that came towards them was destroyed.
A few shards of glass came through and cut them but thankfully they weren't serious injuries, when all the debris was gone they dropped the shield breathing heavily but soon they heard Voldemort speak "You have managed to impress me Harry, you are clearly far more skilled than I had first imagined, you and your mudblood are among the rare few that have ever injured me, however you are the only ones on that list that still live." Raising his wand Harry and Hermione quickly raised theirs for whatever might come next however they saw flames come out of Voldemort's mouth and soon the flames began to grow at a rapid rate and take form.
Hermione gasped when she recognized that spell and said "Fiendfyre." Harry grew worried as the flames continued to grow, he knew that spell was a difficult spell to control and yet Voldemort looked like he was having no trouble at all. The flames wrapped around Voldemort yet they did not burn him and soon a giant flame serpent formed and was facing them. Voldemort spoke "You can be proud of yourselves knowing it took me using this spell to finally kill the two of you, farewell Harry Potter and Hermione Granger." The fire serpent moved forward to attack, quickly Harry spoke in parseltongue and pushed all his magic into this spell.
The fire serpent was about to reach them when it collided with a shield that mimicked the magical resistance of a basilisk but soon the serpent reformed and struck again. Harry could feel the heavy impact of each strike weaken his magic and knew he couldn't hold this forever, Hermione placed her hands on Harry and tried to pass on as much of her magic as she could to help him but soon they saw something that worried them. The serpent coiled itself around the shield before now striking from above, reforming, and striking again but the worst part was even with the shield up Harry and Hermione could feel the intense heat around them.
Harry and Hermione felt like they were slowly being cooked alive while the serpent tried to break through. They were running low on magic and couldn't keep this up forever and even if they could keep the shield up the intense heat would kill them soon. Hermione was trying to think of any way they could escape but sadly her mind was coming up blank, Harry could feel his hands shake and he knew the shield would fall any second now. Harry couldn't think of anything, even with all their training Voldemort was going to win, they couldn't stop him, suddenly Harry felt a familiar presence enter the atrium.
To Be Continued…
Thank you for reading, there are some changes I have debated about this story like if it should bash some characters or treat them all fairly, if it should be a pure harmony story or a harem, I hope to read your opinion.