Part Eighteen:
The End

Harry stepped into a dark hall. Pinching himself to be sure this wasn't a dream, he put his invisibility cloak over himself, and his bag, and began to walk. He had no idea where he was going. All he knew was that this was where Alex was, and that was where he wanted to be. The hall kept winding, and he felt like he was getting nowhere. This place was very cold. He could see his beath coming out in front of him like puffs of smoke. He appeared to be underground, because the walls were made out of dirt. There were doors alongside the walls, and Harry didn't really feel like looking in them.He had turned a corner when he saw a light up ahead. He turned another corner, and when he did he saw a fairly large room. Staying close to the wall ( even though he was wearing the cloak he was afraid someone would see him ) he began to listen.His scar was beggining to hurt.

" My dear, would you bring me some more wine." came a cold voice which Harry recognized immediately. Harry heard the small clink of a glass and some liquid being poured. At this point he looked into the room. There he was, Voldemort, sitting in a high backed chair, Wormtail standing beside him. The only light in the room came from the huge crackling fireplace. Harry noticed that there were two girls in the room with them, both wearing rags.He looked at the girl closest to them. A delicate looking girl with blonde hair was holding a tray with a bottle of wine on it along with two glasses. She had a black eye, and looked to be in a trance. Harry looked at the other girl, who was standing in the background. She had brown hair, blue eyes, and was relatively tall.

"Alex!" he muttered under his breath.She appeared to be in a trance to, but was fighting it. Every now and then she seemed to come back to her senses and realize where she was, and then go back to staring into space. She had a purple bruise on her forehead, and small cuts an her hands. Harry wanted to go in there and just grab her up, but knew that he had to be clever.

"Look Wormtail. I have two personal slaves now. One of them is a muggle, the other a valuable witch. Both of them contain a high level of beauty. Now that I control them, what do you think I should do with them?" Volemort asked Wormtail.

" Whatever you wish, Sir." said Wormtail, with a quivering voice.

"Hmm...Come, young fairy, for you are the oldest and are more mature. Show me what you can do. " said Voldemort, but Alex was fighting her trance harder than ever, and with her face screwed up in determination said-

"No."

"What?" said Voldemort.

"I- said - NO!" Alex said, completely coming out of her trance. She began to run toward the door, but with his silver hand, Wormtail caught her. She screamed.

"Take her to her cell. We do not have time to perform another spell, we'll do it later."said Voldemort. Harry followed Wormtail as he pulled Alex by the arm down the hall. He took out his wand and opened one of the many doors,and shoved Alex in. Harry waited until he was sure he had gotten back to the lit room before lighting his own wand.

"Alex!" he whispered.Nobody answered. With his hands he performed a spell, and the door opened. He cautiously stepped inside. With the light from his wand he could see that this was a large cell housing many people. It was even colder in here. He took off his cloak.

"It's another one of those wizards!"

"Come here, stay close to me."

"What are you doing in here?"

"Why are you doing this?"

"Wait! It's Harry Potter!"

Harry heard frightened whispers when he stepped into the room. Some coming from muggles, and some from fellow wizards.

" Is it Harry Potter? The boy you have been telling us about?"said one muggle to a wizard.

" It is me, Harry Potter." he said.

" Harry?"

He looked over toward a corner. Alex was getting off her shabby bed, and walking near him.

"Alex." he said, holding his breath. Tears began to stream down her face as he ran over to her and wrapped his arms around her. He held her tighter than he ever had before. He smiled for the first time in days. She raised up and put her hands on either side of his face.

"What are you doing here? Are you crazy?! You shouldn't be here!" she said.

"You didn't think that I was going to sit around the whole time you were gone and not do anything?" he said. He kissed her forehead, and hugged her again.

" What is this place?" he asked.

"Sit and I'll tell you." they sat down on her bed, everyone staring at Harry.

" Harry, this is where Voldemort keepes his prisoners.There are muggles and wizards here."she said.

"Yeah, he makes us do things for him while in trances." said a man who looked to be about 25.

"You can't remember what you did, unless you fight the trance. Then you can remember a little." said a woman.

"Many of us have died already." said a little girl.

"I am what you people call a muggle, and the wizards and witches in this cell have been telling us muggles about the boy who defeated this Voldemort person at one time. Are you him, and have you come to kill him?" said an old man.

"Yes."said Harry.

"You know you're probably going to end up killing yourself."said Alex.

"I have a feeling I won't." he said. He told her about the prophecy.

"We have to find that torch!" she said.

"I know, but do you have any idea where we are?" he asked.

"No clue." she said.

They sat there for a moment.

" How did you get those cuts on your hands?"he asked.

" I reckon he had me doing something for him that I don't remember."she said, looking sadly at her hands."It hurts."

He looked at her hands for a moment. She noticed and slid them under her blanket.

"They're not very pretty anymore."she said.

"They're fine. As soon as I can I'll heal them for you." he said
They sat in silence again.

"Have you seen your dad?"

"No." she said.

"How come you are not able to do magic?" he asked.

" Voledmort puts a powerful dark spell on everyone when he gets them. You can still do magic, because he has not performed the spell on you." she said. They sat in silence again.

"I have to find Reese now." he said.

" I don't think you'll be able to." she said.

"I have to try." he said, opening the door and walking out.
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He eventually found Reese. After giving him a message to give to Alex, Harry went to think about what he was going to do. When he figured it out, he went to say goodbye to Alex. She was happy to know her father was alive.

"Where're you goin'?" she asked.

"I'm going to find out where we are. I know so far that we must be underground. But I have to figure out where." he said.

"Okay, well, good luck I guess." she said. He could tell she didn't want him to leave. He didn't want to leave her either.

"Don't worry, I'll be back before you know it." he said. He gathered his things, and stood up.

"Bye." she said.

" Bye." he said. He turned around to leave, but stopped. What if he never got to see her again? He turned back around to her. He kissed her. He kissed her like he had kissed her the night of the Yule Ball. He raised up.

"Take me with you." she said.

"No, I can't-" but he thought for a moment. Suely she would be safer with him.

"All right, lets go."


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They put the cloak around them, and headed to the end of the tunnel. On the way Harry noticed that Voldemort had started putting Death Eaters by the doors to stand watch. None of them saw Harry and Alex-just because they were death eaters didn't mean they could see through invisability cloaks.When they got to the end of the tunnel, there was no door, but a small hole, big enough for one person. Harry and Alex took the cloak off and climed in, one behind the other.He wrapped the invisability cloak around his bag. After going around winding turns,he figured they must be under the school right now, they reached another hole. He saw a pair of feet pacing in front of him. He motioned for Alex to be quiet. With his hands he stunned whoever it was as they walked by. After climbing out of the hole, he helped Alex out.There were torches lit in this room. It had huge white marble walls. In the middle of the wall in the back stood four lifesize statues. He and Alex went toward them.

"Harry, look!" she said.But he had noticed it already. Under each of the statues was a small stone block. The first one said Slyherin, the second Hufflepuff, the third Gryffindor, and the fourth Ravenclaw. The first statue was holding a snake, the second a badger(A/N: or a beaver, whichever it is...)the third had a lion resting ot its feet, and the fourth had a raven sitting on its shoulder.

"I think these are their graves." said Alex.

"I know...." said Harry. But he was interested in what Gryffindor was holding.

"Alex, do you see that box in Gryffindor's hand?"

"No." she said, looking confused. Then her eyes got very big." Only you can see the torch!"

Harry grabbed the box and tugged on it. It didn't budge.

"Fine then." he said, getting the sword out of his bag. He had shrunk it to fit. He made it bigger, and with it pried the box out. He opened it.

" I got it!"

But he was hit and knocked onto the floor. They had forgotten about the Death Eater.

"WHERE IS IT?" the D.E. yelled.

Harry dove for it, but was knocked out of the way again.

"Alex! It's near your foot!" he yelled.

"I can't see it!"she said.

The D.E dove for her feet, but grabbed her ankles, and she fell, and began to kick him. The D.E reached for his wand, but before he could do anything Harry had the torch and caught his robes on fire. Within seconds the D.E's robes were completely covered in fire, and he all of a sudden burst into ashes.

"Come on." he said. He and Alex made their way back through the tunnel.Harry was setting D.E's on fire left and right when Voldemort came out to see what was going on.

"NOOOOO!" he yelled in fury.And wasting no time, Harry threw the torch at him, catching his robes on fire. Wormtail tried to put it out, but ended up catching himself on fire. They both burst into ashes.

It was over.


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Later, after setting everyone free, they held a massive funeral for all the people whose lives were lost. They wizard and muggle world was now united.Things would still be the same, but the magic world didn't have to live in hiding from the muggles anymore. The muggles seemed to accept it, though there were people like Petunia and Vernon who hated it. But there wasn't much they could do about it. The magic and muggle world pretty much went their seperate ways, though. Harry was honored by all of the magic world for three months before they began to let him go on with his life. He helped in clearing Sirius's name, and he was now living with him. Reese bought a house near Sirius's, which is in Hogsmeade.The torch went into a vault in Gringotts.Harry was happier than he had been his whole life. But for right now, he was standing on a hill overlooking the massive graveyard with Alex.

"Are you happy now?" she asked.

" I am happier than I have been my entire life." he said.

"Do you realize what you have done for the world?" she asked.

"Yeah-yeah I do." he said." Wre're free."

"You're right, Harry. We're all free now." and as the sunset, they paid their respects to those thousands of people who died in the fight against Voldemort. And Harry couldn't help but think that they had two years of school, and the rest of their lives left, that would be Voldemort free.


A/N: That's it! I'm done! If you want me to write more, tell me and give me some ideas.C-YA!