(A/N: I"m so sorry that I haven't updated this fic. I seriously thought I had put the last two chapters up, but I guess I didn't! Well, here they are!!!)
Chapter Ten : The Enemy
A light rain started to descend from the sky, making the grass under Ginny's and Draco's feet mooshy. The castle loomed ahead, no longer looking welcoming, but sinister. It was almost as if the evil inside stretched it's arms towards all who would dare enter.
"How do you propose we get in there?" Draco questioned.
Ginny bit the bottom of her lip. "I don't know...we can't go through the doors."
Draco grabbed Ginny by the arm, stopping her. Ginny was so close to him, his hand was still grasping at Ginny's arm. "Do you really want to do this?" He asked, trying to read her eyes.
"Yes, I do." Ginny said.
"Ok." Draco looked up into the sky, then cursed softly. "We'll have to put this on." Draco pulled something out of his robes and threw it over them.
"An invisiblity cloak? But how did you sneak it past MacGonagall?" Ginny asked, surprised.
"I have my ways."
They began towards the castle once more, coming up at the rear entrance. Standing guard were three Death Eaters. They were all hooded, so trying to identify them was impossible. Draco held Ginny close to himself as they slowly and noislessly made their way past the guards. The doors were open, making it much easier to enter the castle.
"Whew." Ginny let out a sigh of relief once they were far from the doors.
"It's not over yet, Ginny." Draco said, stopping.
"What are you doing? We have to go to the Great Hall."
"Do you have a plan?" Upon seeing Ginny's blank stair, he continued. "I didn't think so. We need to find a way inside the castle so we can let the others in. Then we can tackle Voldermort."
Ginny flinched at the name, but nodded her head in agreement. "I remember Fred and George saying something about there being a door in the kitchens that led to the grounds."
"But it most likely will be blocked. I know a way, but its a tight squeeze." Draco grabbed Ginny's arm and led her down the corridor and down some flights of stairs.
"But this is were the potions lab is." Ginny said.
"I know. Snape had a hidden door made from his office out to the green houses. He found it bothersome to have to go up many flights of stairs and down corridors. No one knows."
"How do you know?" Ginny asked.
Draco took the cloak off of them, quite sure they were safe down in the dungeons. "Because I help fill up his supplies."
They continued their way into Snape's office and Draco went up to a shelf that held many different sorts of ingredients. He kicked the bottom shelf three times and it slid forward. A small opening in the wall was revealed.
"We'll have to go one at a time." Draco moved sideways into the small opening, and Ginny followed.
The stones were cold and wet, and it smelt like mold. They inched forward for what seemed forever, in the complete darkness. Soon Ginny heard movement up ahead and the sound of stone on stone. A cool wet breeze met her face, and she looked up into the starry sky, allowing the rain to fall onto her face.
"Oh no." Draco moaned.
Ginny looked in the direction Draco was looking and saw at the edge of the forest were half a dozen torches. A crowd of people were being herded towards the castle, encircled about by the torches.
"They've been caught!" Ginny nearly shouted.
"Shut up unless you want to be caught too!" Draco whispered.
"Where do you think they're going to take them?" Ginny asked.
"I don't know, but we have to get back inside. Hurry." Draco pushed Ginny back into the small opening, and they found themselves once again in Snape's office.
"What are we going to do?" Ginny started shaking. "We have to tell the Ministry! We can't take them by ourselves."
"Ginny, I have an idea. But you have to do exactly what I say." Draco's words caused Ginny to stop shaking. The seriousness in his face made her realize that Draco wanted Voldemort finished off as much as she did. She nodded her head, and Draco began to tell her of his plan.
~*~*~
The Great Hall was packed with frightened students. Those who tried to rush upon Voldemort laid dead in a heap at his feet. No one made any quick movements after that. The students I the hall were now relying upon the Advanced students in the Forbideen Forest, but their hopes were soon dashed to pieces.
The doors opened and the Advanced students came stumbling in.
"Ah, now that we have everyone, I'll begin." Voldemort's smile caused most of the first years to cry. "First bring up the boy!"
No one had to be told who the "boy" was. Harry Potter was ushered to the front quite reluctantly. He clinched his eyes shut as if he was in agony just being in Voldemort's presence.
"Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived." Voldemort laughed. "I'm afraid you're going to dissapoint your public. You see, because you escaped death once, everyone thinks you will defeat me. I'm afraid their sorely wrong, for tonight, Harry, you will die." Voldemort raised his wand then yelled, "Crucius!"
Harry began squirming, and fell to the floor. He clutched his hands to his head and ran his finger nails down his face. He then began to shake and twitch, everyone thought he would surely die. Suddenly it stopped.
"You see!" Voldemort yelled to his audience. "Harry Potter, your savior, is defenseless! And now--" Voldemort was cut off. One of the Death Eaters came up to him and whispered something in his ear. "What?" He bellowed. He looked into the crowd of students, as if in search of someone. "Draco Malfoy, step forward!" No one moved, not even to look for Draco themselves.
Voldemort screamed out of rage, then pushed the Death Eater out of his way. He walked to the antechamber of the Great Hall where he was greeted by another Death Eater.
"Master." The Death Eater greeted him.
"What's this I hear about your boy?" Voldemort demanded.
"I searched the students that returned from the Forbidden Forest. My son was apart of that class, but he is not with them now." Lucius bowed.
"Well...FIND HIM!!!"
"No need, Father, I'm right here." Draco's voice was calm and cool. "And I've brought a little treat with me." Draco roughly pulled Ginny into view.
"Who is that?" Voldemort asked.
"This isVIrginia Weasley, the girl who opened the Chamber of Secrets." Draco said.
Voldemort looked at the cowering form of the girl. So this was the girl who was controlled by a shadow of himself. Voldemort thought.
"The daugher of Arthur Weasley, the man who's been raiding my house!" Lucius added.
"Well, I'll have to do something special with her then. Lock her up with the others I put on the list." Voldemort left Lucius' side, and stopped at Draco. "I'm glad to see you've made a choice." He then left.
"Right, come with me!" Lucius grabbed Ginny by the wrist, and drug her after him.
"Where are you taking her?" Draco asked, hoping he sounded indifferent.
"Master has asked for certain students to be locked up." Lucius said.
Draco followed Lucius out into the Great Hall and call forth a dozen or so students, and they were escorted by an equal amount of Death Eaters. Harry Potter was one of them, and Draco noticed the chosen students were all children of high officials at the Ministry. Draco had a sinking suspicion of what was going to happen to these students.
"Father, I'd like to come." Draco said before they left the Hall.
"Just don't get in my way!" Lucius barked.
He led them down into the dungeons. Draco's thoughts only once turned to the remaining students in the Hall, but quickly dismissed it. They came to a room that hadn't been used in years. There were no windows and arm chains were hanging from the walls. The students were escorted into the room, and the door locked behind them.
~*~*~
"Ginny!" Harry yelled, rushing towards her. "How did you get out of the forest? That Draco is such a slimy gin, I could just--"
"Shh." Ginny said, she strained to hear any sounds coming from the door. As soon as the last footfall was heard, Ginny gathered the students around her.
"What is it?" They all asked.
"It's our plan." Ginny started. "Draco said the only way we could get Voldemort was to trick him. Here, take these." Ginny began handing out hats to the students who looked very confused. "They're yeck hats. I took them from some yecks that decided to wreek havoc on our camp." Ginny found herself smiling.
She only had four hats, and three people could fit under the invisiblity cloak Draco had given her. Nearly half the students were invisible, and that's when Ginny explained the rest of her plan. Soon the guards would check back on the dungeon, and upon seeing that half the students were missing, they'd open the doors with their guards completely down. The invisible students will be waiting by the doors, and once the guards entered, they were going to ambush them, giving the other students a chance to escape. Then they'd shut the door on the guards, and go from there.
Twenty minutes passed and sure enough the door creaked open. A large gasp was heard from the opening, and two guards came in, ready to pounce on the nearest student. That's when the others took of their clothing of invisibility and the guards were soon overtaken. To make sure they'd be kept in the dungeon, silencing charms were placed on their mouths, and their wands were taken from them.
"That was brilliant!" Harry said, hugging Ginny.
"Thank Draco, it was his plan." Ginny now turned towards the others. "Alright, here's the next step." Ginny explained that now a couple of them were to take yeck hats and head to the owelry and send as many owls as they could to Ministry officials, briefly explaing their situation. The remaining ten would stand at strategic parts of the Hall and wait for Draco's signal. Harry would then walk into the Hall and demand a wizards duel.
"What if he doesn't accept?" Harry asked.
"Draco said your proposal would send all misgivings of where the other students are out of his head. His pride is so big, he wouldn't think of denying you a fair chance. Especially in front of such a huge crowd." Ginny smiled, then patted Harry on the back. "Don't worry, Harry, we have it all planned out."
Harry couldn't help remeber the last encounter he had with Voldemort. It was then that he was asked to a duel. He shuddered to think what Voldemort would do to him this time.
Ginny gave him a reassuring look before she led the group of remaining stuents towards the Great Hall. They stopped at the end of the corridor, hidden by the shadows. Two Death Eaters were standing guard at the entrance. Ginny whispered something to a few of the students, and they all pulled out their wands and whispered Stupifying Charms at the guards, who fell to the ground. They inched towards the doors, and peered in through a crack. Ginny nudged Harry, who entered the Great Hall.
"...and yes, there will be many more murders tonight." Voldemort stopped as he eyed Harry entering the Great Hall. Death Eaters from the outer walls began to rush towards him, but with a simple lifting of his hand, Voldemort had commanded them to stop.
"Harry Potter, escaped have you? I knew you would." Voldemort smiled.
"I want to challenge you to a Wizards Duel." Harry said, calmly.
A large gasp echoed in the great hall, and the students, for the first time, began to murmur.
"Remember the last time we dueled?" Voldemort laughed. "You ran away, like a coward."
"Just like the coward that dueled a fourth year?" Harry raised an eyebrow, seeing Voldemort flinch for the first time.
"Enough!" Voldemort shouted, and the whisperes in the Hall ceased. "We'll duel, then. But this time there's no way out, Potter. I'll be surprised if your corpse is laying at my feet within the half hour."
Voldemort walked down from the teacher's stand and headed into the crowd, which parted. He came within a few yards of Harry, and they both slightly bowed, and drew their wands.
Curses and Hexes shot out from both their wands, and the students marveled at how many Harry knew. After a few minutes Harry was decidedly on the defense, and Voldemort was edging closer.
"Oh, Harry, don't worry about our little mishap last time. No ghosts from your past will visit you, I've made sure of that."
Harry faltered, shocked at how Voldemort had guessed at what he was thinking. He was half expecting at any moment for their wands to connect, but Voldemort's words seemed valid. Their wands made no intention of connecting, and Harry was drawing back.
"I'll finish you off, now. I tire of this game." Voldemort raised his wand and pointed it at Harry and opened his mouth to speak but he fell over. "What!"
The Death Eaters surrounding the two started toward Voldemort, but a cry from nearby stopped them.
"Attack them!" Someone shouted, and the students had suddenly rushed towards the Death Eaters, pulling at their cloaks,and knocking them to the ground. They didn't even have time to reach for their wands!
"Get off me!" Voldemort yelled.
His Death Eaters were piled on top of him, and Voldemort's frail body couldn't take much pressure. The Death Eaters scrambled off their Master, but that didn't stop the attacks of the hundreds of students. Voldemort was crawling on the ground, dodging feet, searching for his wand.
"Looking for this?" A voice said, causing Voldemort to look up.
Harry had Voldemort's wand in his hand, and smiled down at him. Voldemort stood, towering over Harry, and made a grab for his wand, but Harry dashed away. He ran between the students, closely followed by Voldemort. Harry suddenly turned around, causing Voldemort to stop just feet away.
"Voldemort, you piece of filth. Look at your followers." Voldemort turned to see the Death Eaters, one by one, being bound by the students. "Did you really think you could win?"
"So what are you going to do? Kill me?" Voldemort said, eyes not turning from Harry's gaze.
"I should. I have every right to avenge my parents death...but I'm not like you. I don't hide behind my wand, and curse people. You're nothing but a coward."
The second time that night, Voldemort flinched. Harry's eyes widened.
"You know it." Harry's voice was soft. "You know you're a coward!"
"Stop saying that!" Voldemort shouted, and clapped his hands to his ears. Suddenly, Voldemort lunged at Harry, and they both fell to the ground. Voldemort struggled to pry Harry's fingers off his wand, but all of Harry's strength was concentrated in keeping the wand out of Voldemort's hands.
Harry shouted in pain. It felt like his head was in a vice, and someone was slowly turning it, tightening it, until he thought he'd cease to exist. Just as his vision was getting blurry he thought of his parents. They had died to save him, and here he was, unable to avenge their death. And just as suddenly it stopped.
"Harry, are you ok?" Someone asked, helping Harry up.
Draco had Harry's hand in his, and he sincerely looked worried.
Harry looked around and saw that everyone in the room was staring at him, half scared, half impressed.
"What happened?" He asked, rubbing his head.
"That's what we'd like to know." Draco smiled. "You and Voldemort were wrestling on the floor and then suddenly a blue light covered the both of you. Everyone stopped fighing and when it faded, Voldemort was gone."
Harry couldn't explain this blue light, any better than Draco could. That's when the Great Hall doors burst open and Professors and Ministry Officials walked in. Everyone began screaming at once, trying to explain what happened, but they were soon quieted.
"You!" The head Auror grabbed a prefect. "Tell us what happened."
The prefect had been in the Hall the whole time and had not known about the secret ambush. The explanation gave Harry full credit of the victory over Voldemort. Ginny looked at Draco, but his features showed no sign of jealousy, or anger.
"Well, Harry, it looks as if you've saved us all again." The Hall burst forth with cheers.
"But sir!" Harry tried to yell over the crowd. "It was Draco and Ginny!" No matter how Harry attempted to get the Aurors attention, it was useless.
"Yeah, thanks Harry. Great job." Draco shook Harry's hand, and Harry half expected Draco to pop him one for taking all the glory, but Draco only smiled.
The cheers continued for another few minutes, but the distressful task of identifying the dead bodies was now in order. The students were ushered to their houses, and their parents would arrive the next day. They exited, less enthusiastic as before. Draco gave Harry a small wink, which seemed to say, "Keep the story the way it is." Then left the Great Hall.
Chapter Ten : The Enemy
A light rain started to descend from the sky, making the grass under Ginny's and Draco's feet mooshy. The castle loomed ahead, no longer looking welcoming, but sinister. It was almost as if the evil inside stretched it's arms towards all who would dare enter.
"How do you propose we get in there?" Draco questioned.
Ginny bit the bottom of her lip. "I don't know...we can't go through the doors."
Draco grabbed Ginny by the arm, stopping her. Ginny was so close to him, his hand was still grasping at Ginny's arm. "Do you really want to do this?" He asked, trying to read her eyes.
"Yes, I do." Ginny said.
"Ok." Draco looked up into the sky, then cursed softly. "We'll have to put this on." Draco pulled something out of his robes and threw it over them.
"An invisiblity cloak? But how did you sneak it past MacGonagall?" Ginny asked, surprised.
"I have my ways."
They began towards the castle once more, coming up at the rear entrance. Standing guard were three Death Eaters. They were all hooded, so trying to identify them was impossible. Draco held Ginny close to himself as they slowly and noislessly made their way past the guards. The doors were open, making it much easier to enter the castle.
"Whew." Ginny let out a sigh of relief once they were far from the doors.
"It's not over yet, Ginny." Draco said, stopping.
"What are you doing? We have to go to the Great Hall."
"Do you have a plan?" Upon seeing Ginny's blank stair, he continued. "I didn't think so. We need to find a way inside the castle so we can let the others in. Then we can tackle Voldermort."
Ginny flinched at the name, but nodded her head in agreement. "I remember Fred and George saying something about there being a door in the kitchens that led to the grounds."
"But it most likely will be blocked. I know a way, but its a tight squeeze." Draco grabbed Ginny's arm and led her down the corridor and down some flights of stairs.
"But this is were the potions lab is." Ginny said.
"I know. Snape had a hidden door made from his office out to the green houses. He found it bothersome to have to go up many flights of stairs and down corridors. No one knows."
"How do you know?" Ginny asked.
Draco took the cloak off of them, quite sure they were safe down in the dungeons. "Because I help fill up his supplies."
They continued their way into Snape's office and Draco went up to a shelf that held many different sorts of ingredients. He kicked the bottom shelf three times and it slid forward. A small opening in the wall was revealed.
"We'll have to go one at a time." Draco moved sideways into the small opening, and Ginny followed.
The stones were cold and wet, and it smelt like mold. They inched forward for what seemed forever, in the complete darkness. Soon Ginny heard movement up ahead and the sound of stone on stone. A cool wet breeze met her face, and she looked up into the starry sky, allowing the rain to fall onto her face.
"Oh no." Draco moaned.
Ginny looked in the direction Draco was looking and saw at the edge of the forest were half a dozen torches. A crowd of people were being herded towards the castle, encircled about by the torches.
"They've been caught!" Ginny nearly shouted.
"Shut up unless you want to be caught too!" Draco whispered.
"Where do you think they're going to take them?" Ginny asked.
"I don't know, but we have to get back inside. Hurry." Draco pushed Ginny back into the small opening, and they found themselves once again in Snape's office.
"What are we going to do?" Ginny started shaking. "We have to tell the Ministry! We can't take them by ourselves."
"Ginny, I have an idea. But you have to do exactly what I say." Draco's words caused Ginny to stop shaking. The seriousness in his face made her realize that Draco wanted Voldemort finished off as much as she did. She nodded her head, and Draco began to tell her of his plan.
~*~*~
The Great Hall was packed with frightened students. Those who tried to rush upon Voldemort laid dead in a heap at his feet. No one made any quick movements after that. The students I the hall were now relying upon the Advanced students in the Forbideen Forest, but their hopes were soon dashed to pieces.
The doors opened and the Advanced students came stumbling in.
"Ah, now that we have everyone, I'll begin." Voldemort's smile caused most of the first years to cry. "First bring up the boy!"
No one had to be told who the "boy" was. Harry Potter was ushered to the front quite reluctantly. He clinched his eyes shut as if he was in agony just being in Voldemort's presence.
"Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived." Voldemort laughed. "I'm afraid you're going to dissapoint your public. You see, because you escaped death once, everyone thinks you will defeat me. I'm afraid their sorely wrong, for tonight, Harry, you will die." Voldemort raised his wand then yelled, "Crucius!"
Harry began squirming, and fell to the floor. He clutched his hands to his head and ran his finger nails down his face. He then began to shake and twitch, everyone thought he would surely die. Suddenly it stopped.
"You see!" Voldemort yelled to his audience. "Harry Potter, your savior, is defenseless! And now--" Voldemort was cut off. One of the Death Eaters came up to him and whispered something in his ear. "What?" He bellowed. He looked into the crowd of students, as if in search of someone. "Draco Malfoy, step forward!" No one moved, not even to look for Draco themselves.
Voldemort screamed out of rage, then pushed the Death Eater out of his way. He walked to the antechamber of the Great Hall where he was greeted by another Death Eater.
"Master." The Death Eater greeted him.
"What's this I hear about your boy?" Voldemort demanded.
"I searched the students that returned from the Forbidden Forest. My son was apart of that class, but he is not with them now." Lucius bowed.
"Well...FIND HIM!!!"
"No need, Father, I'm right here." Draco's voice was calm and cool. "And I've brought a little treat with me." Draco roughly pulled Ginny into view.
"Who is that?" Voldemort asked.
"This isVIrginia Weasley, the girl who opened the Chamber of Secrets." Draco said.
Voldemort looked at the cowering form of the girl. So this was the girl who was controlled by a shadow of himself. Voldemort thought.
"The daugher of Arthur Weasley, the man who's been raiding my house!" Lucius added.
"Well, I'll have to do something special with her then. Lock her up with the others I put on the list." Voldemort left Lucius' side, and stopped at Draco. "I'm glad to see you've made a choice." He then left.
"Right, come with me!" Lucius grabbed Ginny by the wrist, and drug her after him.
"Where are you taking her?" Draco asked, hoping he sounded indifferent.
"Master has asked for certain students to be locked up." Lucius said.
Draco followed Lucius out into the Great Hall and call forth a dozen or so students, and they were escorted by an equal amount of Death Eaters. Harry Potter was one of them, and Draco noticed the chosen students were all children of high officials at the Ministry. Draco had a sinking suspicion of what was going to happen to these students.
"Father, I'd like to come." Draco said before they left the Hall.
"Just don't get in my way!" Lucius barked.
He led them down into the dungeons. Draco's thoughts only once turned to the remaining students in the Hall, but quickly dismissed it. They came to a room that hadn't been used in years. There were no windows and arm chains were hanging from the walls. The students were escorted into the room, and the door locked behind them.
~*~*~
"Ginny!" Harry yelled, rushing towards her. "How did you get out of the forest? That Draco is such a slimy gin, I could just--"
"Shh." Ginny said, she strained to hear any sounds coming from the door. As soon as the last footfall was heard, Ginny gathered the students around her.
"What is it?" They all asked.
"It's our plan." Ginny started. "Draco said the only way we could get Voldemort was to trick him. Here, take these." Ginny began handing out hats to the students who looked very confused. "They're yeck hats. I took them from some yecks that decided to wreek havoc on our camp." Ginny found herself smiling.
She only had four hats, and three people could fit under the invisiblity cloak Draco had given her. Nearly half the students were invisible, and that's when Ginny explained the rest of her plan. Soon the guards would check back on the dungeon, and upon seeing that half the students were missing, they'd open the doors with their guards completely down. The invisible students will be waiting by the doors, and once the guards entered, they were going to ambush them, giving the other students a chance to escape. Then they'd shut the door on the guards, and go from there.
Twenty minutes passed and sure enough the door creaked open. A large gasp was heard from the opening, and two guards came in, ready to pounce on the nearest student. That's when the others took of their clothing of invisibility and the guards were soon overtaken. To make sure they'd be kept in the dungeon, silencing charms were placed on their mouths, and their wands were taken from them.
"That was brilliant!" Harry said, hugging Ginny.
"Thank Draco, it was his plan." Ginny now turned towards the others. "Alright, here's the next step." Ginny explained that now a couple of them were to take yeck hats and head to the owelry and send as many owls as they could to Ministry officials, briefly explaing their situation. The remaining ten would stand at strategic parts of the Hall and wait for Draco's signal. Harry would then walk into the Hall and demand a wizards duel.
"What if he doesn't accept?" Harry asked.
"Draco said your proposal would send all misgivings of where the other students are out of his head. His pride is so big, he wouldn't think of denying you a fair chance. Especially in front of such a huge crowd." Ginny smiled, then patted Harry on the back. "Don't worry, Harry, we have it all planned out."
Harry couldn't help remeber the last encounter he had with Voldemort. It was then that he was asked to a duel. He shuddered to think what Voldemort would do to him this time.
Ginny gave him a reassuring look before she led the group of remaining stuents towards the Great Hall. They stopped at the end of the corridor, hidden by the shadows. Two Death Eaters were standing guard at the entrance. Ginny whispered something to a few of the students, and they all pulled out their wands and whispered Stupifying Charms at the guards, who fell to the ground. They inched towards the doors, and peered in through a crack. Ginny nudged Harry, who entered the Great Hall.
"...and yes, there will be many more murders tonight." Voldemort stopped as he eyed Harry entering the Great Hall. Death Eaters from the outer walls began to rush towards him, but with a simple lifting of his hand, Voldemort had commanded them to stop.
"Harry Potter, escaped have you? I knew you would." Voldemort smiled.
"I want to challenge you to a Wizards Duel." Harry said, calmly.
A large gasp echoed in the great hall, and the students, for the first time, began to murmur.
"Remember the last time we dueled?" Voldemort laughed. "You ran away, like a coward."
"Just like the coward that dueled a fourth year?" Harry raised an eyebrow, seeing Voldemort flinch for the first time.
"Enough!" Voldemort shouted, and the whisperes in the Hall ceased. "We'll duel, then. But this time there's no way out, Potter. I'll be surprised if your corpse is laying at my feet within the half hour."
Voldemort walked down from the teacher's stand and headed into the crowd, which parted. He came within a few yards of Harry, and they both slightly bowed, and drew their wands.
Curses and Hexes shot out from both their wands, and the students marveled at how many Harry knew. After a few minutes Harry was decidedly on the defense, and Voldemort was edging closer.
"Oh, Harry, don't worry about our little mishap last time. No ghosts from your past will visit you, I've made sure of that."
Harry faltered, shocked at how Voldemort had guessed at what he was thinking. He was half expecting at any moment for their wands to connect, but Voldemort's words seemed valid. Their wands made no intention of connecting, and Harry was drawing back.
"I'll finish you off, now. I tire of this game." Voldemort raised his wand and pointed it at Harry and opened his mouth to speak but he fell over. "What!"
The Death Eaters surrounding the two started toward Voldemort, but a cry from nearby stopped them.
"Attack them!" Someone shouted, and the students had suddenly rushed towards the Death Eaters, pulling at their cloaks,and knocking them to the ground. They didn't even have time to reach for their wands!
"Get off me!" Voldemort yelled.
His Death Eaters were piled on top of him, and Voldemort's frail body couldn't take much pressure. The Death Eaters scrambled off their Master, but that didn't stop the attacks of the hundreds of students. Voldemort was crawling on the ground, dodging feet, searching for his wand.
"Looking for this?" A voice said, causing Voldemort to look up.
Harry had Voldemort's wand in his hand, and smiled down at him. Voldemort stood, towering over Harry, and made a grab for his wand, but Harry dashed away. He ran between the students, closely followed by Voldemort. Harry suddenly turned around, causing Voldemort to stop just feet away.
"Voldemort, you piece of filth. Look at your followers." Voldemort turned to see the Death Eaters, one by one, being bound by the students. "Did you really think you could win?"
"So what are you going to do? Kill me?" Voldemort said, eyes not turning from Harry's gaze.
"I should. I have every right to avenge my parents death...but I'm not like you. I don't hide behind my wand, and curse people. You're nothing but a coward."
The second time that night, Voldemort flinched. Harry's eyes widened.
"You know it." Harry's voice was soft. "You know you're a coward!"
"Stop saying that!" Voldemort shouted, and clapped his hands to his ears. Suddenly, Voldemort lunged at Harry, and they both fell to the ground. Voldemort struggled to pry Harry's fingers off his wand, but all of Harry's strength was concentrated in keeping the wand out of Voldemort's hands.
Harry shouted in pain. It felt like his head was in a vice, and someone was slowly turning it, tightening it, until he thought he'd cease to exist. Just as his vision was getting blurry he thought of his parents. They had died to save him, and here he was, unable to avenge their death. And just as suddenly it stopped.
"Harry, are you ok?" Someone asked, helping Harry up.
Draco had Harry's hand in his, and he sincerely looked worried.
Harry looked around and saw that everyone in the room was staring at him, half scared, half impressed.
"What happened?" He asked, rubbing his head.
"That's what we'd like to know." Draco smiled. "You and Voldemort were wrestling on the floor and then suddenly a blue light covered the both of you. Everyone stopped fighing and when it faded, Voldemort was gone."
Harry couldn't explain this blue light, any better than Draco could. That's when the Great Hall doors burst open and Professors and Ministry Officials walked in. Everyone began screaming at once, trying to explain what happened, but they were soon quieted.
"You!" The head Auror grabbed a prefect. "Tell us what happened."
The prefect had been in the Hall the whole time and had not known about the secret ambush. The explanation gave Harry full credit of the victory over Voldemort. Ginny looked at Draco, but his features showed no sign of jealousy, or anger.
"Well, Harry, it looks as if you've saved us all again." The Hall burst forth with cheers.
"But sir!" Harry tried to yell over the crowd. "It was Draco and Ginny!" No matter how Harry attempted to get the Aurors attention, it was useless.
"Yeah, thanks Harry. Great job." Draco shook Harry's hand, and Harry half expected Draco to pop him one for taking all the glory, but Draco only smiled.
The cheers continued for another few minutes, but the distressful task of identifying the dead bodies was now in order. The students were ushered to their houses, and their parents would arrive the next day. They exited, less enthusiastic as before. Draco gave Harry a small wink, which seemed to say, "Keep the story the way it is." Then left the Great Hall.