Severus Snape got himself wearily to his feet, his robes tatty and showing signs of the days battle. He surveyed the grounds of Hogwarts. His eyes seeing fallen comrades and once friends that were now enemies. The grass that was only green in small patches few and far between. The rest of the grass was different shades of red, brown and black.

He looked around searching for Harry Potter and spotted him dueling with Voldermort near the edge of the forbidden forest. He took in the slump of the Gryffindors shoulder, and watched as the two combatants shot hexes at each other. He started making his way towards Harry blasting hexes and curses at the Dark lord's followers that were foolish enough to go up against him.

He noticed Sirius Black and Remus Lupin battling with Death eaters close to where Harry and Voldermort was battling. They were back to back covering each other as he watched he saw Black finish with his opponent do a quick sweep too see if there were and more death eaters to fight with. notice there wasn't and turn to help Lupin. He reached them just as the finished with the last of the Dark lord's followers.

The three men looked at each other taking in each others injuries and weariness, after taking a quick silent inventory of each other they all turned towards the seventeen year old man battling with this century's darkest wizard. Remus straightened up took a deep breath and calmly started walking towards Harry. "Let's go help Harry."

As they reached Harry they noticed he was looking tired, He had been battling with Voldermort for about an hour. The battle had taken its toll on him. Harry's robes were in a similar state as Severus's. His left arm was being held close to his body and he had blood running down his chest from a wound in his shoulder. He looked towards Voldermort; he was looking as tired as Harry, and also looked even more injured.

"Well Potter. It looks like we are both going to lose today." Voldermort pointed his wand at Harry and whispered an incantation and a grey swirly mist sprang from his wand.

He then heard Harry's voice shouting a complicated curse that Harry had been working on, and a purple beam erupted out of Harry's wand and sped towards Voldermort. Harry fell to his knees too tired to think about dodging the curse. As the swirly grey beam came towards Harry from Voldermort, The three older men never having seen that coloured curse before he started running towards Harry to push him out of the way.

They reached Harry at the same time as the curse and all three men, as well as Harry ended up being caught in the effects of the curse.

"Grab hold of each other doesn't let go." Shouted Snape as he hauled Harry to his feet and clutched at Harry's arm. Sirius grabbed hold of Harry and Remus and held tightly to their hands.

It felt like they were caught in a thick cloud of icy fog. Breathing became hard as if they could not get enough oxygen into their lungs. Severus's Head whipped around looking at the fog and noticed it was thinner in a place to his right. He started moving towards the place dragging Harry with him. Harry looked up and noticed the thin spot and walked a bit faster. Sirius and Remus followed trusting Snape's instincts even if they didn't like the man.

The four men moved slowly through the cloud, they felt like they were walking in slow motion. Black spots started appearing in front of their eyes, as their breathing got ragged. They all carried on walking and noticed the cloud had started thinning out even more, this spurred them on and they were able to walk faster.

Once they were out of the cloud they collapsed to the ground heaving, desperately trying to get air into their starving lungs. "W wh what the hell was that?" Gasped out Sirius as soon as he was able to.

"I have never seen any curse jinx or hex like that before." Severus replied "What about you Lupin?"

"Me either." Remus looked towards Harry who was swaying with tiredness "Harry how are you feeling?"

"I'm fine. I would really like to sleep for a week or two though." Harry's mouth quirked up in a small smile towards his second godfather.

Severus slowly got to his feet and held out a hand to Harry. He helped Harry up while Sirius and Remus helped each other up.

The group started to walk slowly towards the school. Their bodies aching with tiredness and injuries, the heads bowed looking at the ground. Harry was leaning heavily on Severus, an injured leg just making it known now that he was not fighting anymore.

All of a sudden Harry stopped walking "Uhm guys there is something wrong."

The older three stopped and looked around and slowly took in the grounds of Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. They all could see what Harry meant. There was something very wrong with the picture in front of them. There were no bodies of dead comrades and death eaters. The grounds looked exactly how they did yesterday, before Voldermort attacked the castle.
"I'll ask again. What the hell happened here?" Asked Sirius and he gazed at the green grass that had no scorch marks from curses that had been dodged or aimed badly. They all noticed Hagrid's Hut was still standing.

"I saw Hagrid's Hut collapsing this morning at the beginning of the battle." Said Remus as he stared in wonder at the hut.

"Come on," Said Snape ignoring Remus's observation "I think we had better go see the Headmaster." And not looking back at the others he started moving away, taking Harry with him.

Sirius noticed this "You can let go Harry now. Don't you think?"

Instead of answering Snape held Harry closer and quickened his pace a bit

Harry shot his godfather a glare and willingly went with Severus, leaning in closer and closer to him.
Remus grabbed hold of Sirius's hand and pulled him after the two. "Sirius you are an idiot." He remarked and followed Harry and Snape up to the castle.

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