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Chapter 3
The End

Voldemort's voice was heard though out the castle walls, "HOW DID THEY ESCAPE?" "M-M-M-Master, there. there. is n-n-no need to. to shout. Is there?" "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! ACKNOPLONT!" Voldemort yelled. Then a red light flashed from the end of his wand. "Nooo, Master!" Petegrew screeched as he became smaller, and smaller, and smaller, soon enough he was, as they thought, gone. "Now, go out there and FIND THEM!" all the Trolls looked confused, for they saw nothing there, but to there surprise Voldemort had turned Petegrew into a flea. "Anyone else want to mess up my plans?" Voldemort said as he turned fiercely around, they then all dropped their clubs and ran.

"Oh, now Master, you know that ball I gave you to look at that Potter boy?" Voldemort shook his head, as he looked deep into the eyes of his witch, Veronica. "Well, why don't you look for his friends in there?" "That sounds like a good idea, My Witch. Now, go to your bed chambers and stay there 'til I need you!" "Yes, Master," she said as she bowed low and walked away.

Voldemort rubbed his head as he sat in his throne with skulls and rats crawling around it. He slowly peered over the side of his gruesome throne to look into a black ball with red stains on it. "Show me the boy!" he commanded. The dark crystal started to rise up, with spiders falling off of it as it went. The ruby stains that were upon it began to cause a shield so no one could see the black object, only the red blood encircling it. After its 'performance' was through it laid down on it's stand and showed, again, nothing but black. But in the middle of this gloom was a boy struggling to walk, with tears streaming down his face, and robes slashed through and through. "Tell me what he is thinking." All of a sudden a whisper was heard through the dim lit room. Then a deep breathing was also heard, that made all the clan in that room duck in fear that it was their Master about to strike them.

"The boy," was the silent whisper. At that instant there was a cry echoing getting louder and louder. Everyone jumped when they heard the howling. "Where am I?" was heard after the sniffles had faded. "Oh, please! Help me!" Voldemort held his hand over the orb, "Now, show me where his friends are!" the same shuddering whispers came into the room. The ball abruptly turned green and white at the same time, in the center of the globe was a girl with thick, brown hair and a tall red haired boy wandering around in a slimy opening. Voldemort took a closer look at the ball, "Where are they?" he asked. "SHHHH!" he shouted as he heard murmur through the crowd. "They are near!" the orb shouted out. "Erklings, go out and find them! NOW!"

"Keep up!" Hermione hollered behind her as she realized that Ron was nowhere to be found. "Hermione, wait. Listen," Ron sighed. Hermione stopped in her tracks at Ron's request. "What is it?" she murmured. "Someone's coming," he looked at Hermione with terrified eyes. Hermione glanced in every direction hastily, "In here," she said as she grabbed his sleeve and pulled him in a tree trunk. They sat waiting; while they waited they heard footsteps. Then it began to sound like a whole herd of people. It became closer, and closer, until they saw them. Just then Hermione was about to scream because she had seen a centipede crawling on Ron. He, recognizing this, brought his hand to her mouth and held it tight. "You and him go over there, you come with me. FIND THEM!" the cackling voice drowned out Hermione's attempts to scream.

As Ron peeped out of a crack in the tree he saw a horrid figure. It was an Erkling; it's features were that of an elf. The reason Voldemort chose them to find Ron and Hermione was because their high cackling voices lured children when heard twice. A couple moments later Ron and Hermione got out of the tree and as they did they heard a loud noise in the woods. Hermione's eyes began to get bigger and she started to walk away from Ron. "Hermione what's wrong?" When he looked into her eyes he just saw white. There was no color, no pupil, just pure white. "HERMIONE!" Weirdly she paid no attention to his screams and kept walking. Ron shook her and even slapped her but she gave no response. But when he pushed her to the ground she went after him. "HIISSSS!" "Are you hissing at me?" after he saw that Hermione was still in a trance-like stage he began to hear the Erkling's calls too. They both followed until they came to a sudden Holt.

"I've got them, Master!" "Where are we?" Hermione had comeback to her senses and when she did she saw what she had been captured by. "Holy shit!" she screamed as she saw the repugnant face of the creature. "AHHH!" when she turned she saw Ron had just woken up and saw the horrid little beast also. "What are these things?" he questioned. "These are Erklings!" "EWW! I've read about them. Let me guess 'they were created here'." "Actually, they were created in the 'Black Forest'," Hermione informed him. "Shut up!" came the wheezing voice of the Erkling. He shook both Hermione and Ron with a force that almost knocked them off their feet. "Kelduke, what do you want," asked Voldemort as he came out of a meditative position. "I just wanted to tell you I have the boy and girl that you wanted. Also, I wanted to have your permission to devour them," he said with a grin of excitement. "NO! I want to kill them! Now go, you are not needed," he said as he raised his hand. Magically, Kelduke flew out of the room and the door was shut and locked behind him.

Hermione looked with fright in Voldemort's evil eyes. "Where's Harry?" Ron shouted, reluctantly not afraid. "Oh, he's fine, no need to worry about him." "Show us to him," Hermione demanded. "You really want to see him? Ok," he then placed his hands over that same orb. Now, Hermione and Ron were witnesses to it's routine. They fell to their knees as they looked into the globe that held Harry. "What have you done to him?" Hermione cried. She ran up to his throne and grabbed for the ball, but was thrown to the ground with a force unmistakably Voldemort's powers. "Hermione!" Ron called. "No, we mustn't touch. GOven way! GOven way!" he muttered. All of a sudden a band of Erklings and Trolls burst into the room with their clubs and swords waiting for their Master's command. "Have fun," he said with the grimmest face.

Ron started to run to Hermione, but was tripped as he pounced over a Trolls club. When Ron eventually got up he watched as an Erkling took Hermione by the hair and threw her across the room into a Trolls hands. He started to chase after the flying Hermione and with full force he punched an Erkling out of his way. This was a BAD idea. The Erkling swiftly thumped him in the stomach. Ron flung right into the crystal ball and made it fall to the ground with a loud clanking noise. It shattered to a thousand pieces, "HAHA!" Voldemort laughed. "Now you can never find your friend!" With that Ron took out his wand and placed it in Voldemort's face, "Fix it!" he demanded. Voldemort whispered something under his breath and without moving a muscle Ron's wand disappeared and he hit the wall. When he had fallen to the ground he screamed, "Hermione, GET TO THE CRYSTAL AND FIX IT!" "AND HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE I DO THAT!" she bellowed back as she just missed an Erkling's sword coming down on her head.

Finally, after running between a Troll's legs, she ran to the shattered pieces of glass, "I can't remember the spell," she mumbled. "EKNOSH!" with that sound every Erkling and Troll disappeared, only to reveal an, obviously, mad Voldemort. He started to stride toward Hermione, who was trying to remember the spell to fix things, when Ron came up behind him and jumped on his back. "Listen you. AHHH!" he yelled as he was torn off of his back and placed, not too gently, in front of Voldemort. Voldemort started to holler some words, as did Ron, and they were now in a vicious duel.

"Um. Fixadaisy! No, ooh for crying out loud FIX THE BLASTED THING!" Hermione was on the verge of getting annoyed with her shabby effort to repair the only source to finding Harry. "Ron, help me," she said as she turned around. When she did she saw Voldemort holding him by the hair tossing him to and fro. "Hermione, I'm kinda busy!" he spitted out. "Oh! Ok. OH! Wait I remember!" "Well, then hurry up!" Ron was now being threatened with Voldemort's wand in his face. "Ackulos Reiparo!" she shouted. The ball lifted into the air and magically fixed itself. While Ron was still "playing tag" with Voldemort Hermione was questioning the ball, "Show me Harry!" The ball rose up and the stains encircled it again. When it fell back on the ground it showed Harry in a dark place with nothing. "Where is he?" she said not expecting to get an answer. But the mystical ball whispered, "The Nothing." "Now, where is that?" "Farther than Heaven, deeper than Hell, colder than ice, hotter than fire." When it had finished it started to rise again and showed a burgundy curtain with holes and visible dust surrounding it. Then it showed Hermione going behind the curtain and vanishing, with Ron following behind her. She gasped and was looking for the curtain, but didn't know how to get Ron away from Voldemort, who was now being hit with Ron's flares spells. Hermione came up behind Voldemort, with her wand in hand, "Lief Inoce!" Voldemort turned around and started to fall to the ground. While on his knees a part of his body started to disintegrate. Ron grabbed his wand and followed Hermione in saying the spell, "Go back to where thy once came, Be gone to never be seen again, Back into the fires of Hell, Back to the place that thou fell, Leave us Be for eternity, Lief Inoce, Lief Inoce!" "You have not won yet!" and with that he evaporated in a cloud of gray smoke.

"Come on, Ron!" "Couldn't you let me recover first?" "We have no time!" Hermione protested. Hermione then found the curtain in which she saw in the orb, "I'll go first," and with that she walked slowly behind the curtain and vanished from sight. Ron, though bewildered, followed. He then popped into a dark place where there was nothing, his heart began to pump, his lips began to go numb, and his mind began to race with ideas of what to do. He tried to yell but something was caught in his throat and he made no noise. He turned around and saw someone in the distance. *Hermione* he thought. He started to run toward, but stopped as he saw another person under her. As he got closer he saw that it was *HARRY! * He raced toward them, without even stopping to take a breath. Hermione signaled to Ron to pick up Harry, Ron, not knowing what else he could do, obeyed. He followed Hermione out of the dark facility, until he saw light. Placing Harry on the ground he said, "What was that place, why was Harry there, and what is wrong with him?" "No time to answer we have to help Harry!" she panicked. She gave Harry a little mouth-to-mouth resesitation. Harry opened his eyes and then hugged Ron and Hermione, quite tightly. "What happened?" "We'll explain on the way to Hogwarts."

Back at Hogwarts they realized that everyone had got there safely and were worried sick on where the three of them were. After a long line of explanations they finally got to sit down and talk with Harry. "Well, why did he put me in the nothing?" asked Harry when they were all alone. "Because that's the only place that could disable your powers, slower your thoughts, and weaken you to know end." "Well, then how come that stuff didn't happed to us?" Ron intoned. "I thought you would of figured that by your self, it was because of the way we went in, the orb showed me where to go and in doing that I was able to have protection," Hermione said quite proud of herself. "So is that the end?" Harry questioned. "No, Harry, I don't think it is."

In the meantime in Lire Pool swamp there is a flea hopelessly trying to get away from a horrid animal that was created there in that very place, a tree frog.