Chapter 21
"Good vs. Evil. The Power of One."
"Expectro Patranum" Harry shouted again, his voice was now horse from the shouting, and his spell no longer held the same amount of power. "Harry, we can no longer hold off the assault from inside the great Hall. The northern tower has fallen, and it won't be much longer before the entire school comes down on top of us." Dumbledore shouted. They had been fighting for twenty minutes now, and the only relief they had received was when Hermione had activated the status within Hogwarts to help destroy the Accromantula.
"I know, but that means an all out assault, and more lives will be lost that way." Harry answered, the weight of everything happening was on him heavily now. "We are out of options Harry, let us face our destiny." Dumbledore replied, and Harry was afraid that he saw a bit of defeat in the wizard's eyes.
Taking in a deep breath to gather his strength, Harry turned to the wall, which would lead them onto the main lawn. "Get them ready, once we hit the lawn, we must all make for the forest, It is our best chance of making it out alive, and we must stick together." Harry shouted, as in his mind he had began a small incantation that would focus his power.
Sitting this way for a few minutes, everyone could feel the change around them. As if the power was being sucked in from all around the school, the lights that had been restored by Dumbledore went out, and a gust of wind begun to circle the hall. With the words "Magnia Depreso," the large fireplace in the hall was blown clean away, and with a bolt of energy; the remaining wards of Hogwarts came down, along with every structure other than the great Hall itself.
"Stay in groups, and make your way toward Hogsmeade." Dumbledore announced, the students were now desperately making for the gaping hole, and into the battle that awaited them.
Once outside, the destruction around them was evident. The great castle of Hogwarts that had always stood, as a beacon against all that was wrong in the world, now lay in ruins. Voldermort had succeeded in bringing it down.
"On my life Voldermort will pay for what he has done." Harry hissed as he, along with Hermione, Ron, Sirius, Remus, and Albus separated from the rest of the faculty. "It ends today." He shouted, turning his now glowing silver, and gold eyes on his mentor.
"We must attack the heart of the creature in order to kill it. I go now to face my enemy, if you wish to come along." Harry paused as he took in the looks from his friends, and family.
"Although I am terrified to the very core Harry, I wouldn't miss this for anything. We have been through hell together mate, I am not about to back out now." Ron shouted, and everyone around him simply nodded in agreement. "We do it on three then , three, two, one."
"Stupefy." Harry shouted the second he appeared. Voldemort dove to the ground not expecting a surprise attack, and the curse barely missed him. "Kill them." Were the words that rang from Voldemort's throat, the cruel cackle that followed was enough to bring chills to the spins of all those who heard it, but for Harry and his friends they did not have time to contemplate this, for they were now under attack by twenty of Voldemort's most faithful
"Stupefy, Avada Kedavara, Reducto." The spells continued to be thrown. Rolling, diving, shouting, and fighting, Harry meet each attack deadly, and when things were beginning to look as if they were about to turn his way, his eyes fell upon a battle between Tom Riddle, and Dumbledore.
"You have been a thorn in my side since the first day I meet you Dumbledore, today you die." Voldemort hissed, and Harry watched frozen to the spot as the Headmaster took a violent spell to the stomach, that sent him twenty feet.
"Cractus Beractus" Voldemort hissed seconds later, and Harry suddenly felt the world collapsing. "Noooo" He yelled realizing what was about to happen, but seeing that Voldemort was taking pride in the suffering it caused.
"Know this Voldemort, where I fail, Harry will prevail, I will be smiling down upon him when he is standing above your lifeless form." Albus spoke. As Riddle begun the incantation that would end the Headmasters life, Harry tried desperately to fight past the three men that stood in his way, but before he could reach his mentor and friend, Voldermort had succeeded in stripping the powerful wizard from his life.
"Nooooo.." Harry shouted, again, a pure blast of energy and magic shoot from his body, knocking out anyone within a mile from him. Rushing to the side of his Headmaster, Harry fell to his knees a wept; the man he had always thought was invincible lay before him dead.
"Ah, finally, I have been waiting a long time to do that." Voldemort hissed, the smile that crossed his face was unearthly. "Don't cry to long Potter, for you will be joining him shortly. It is time we finish what we started fifteen years ago." He shouted, and Harry could tell a wand was pointed at his back.
"Avada Kedavara" Harry shouted, as he spun to face his enemy, and fired the only spell he wanted to use. "Not so fast now, you don't think I would be stupid enough to allow that spell to kill me do you." Voldemort laughed, the spell had struck him square, but he stood to live through it.
"If I cannot kill you by wand, I will kill you by sword." Harry hissed, he had now stood from the side of his headmaster, and his eyes were on fire. "Well, give it your best shot POTTER." Voldermort again hissed, and with a clang of metal, thunder, and venom collided.
"The battle between Voldemort, and Harry continued late into the day. "Reducto" Harry shouted, he had pocketed his wand, and was now casting the spells through the use of his sword.
"Ahhhhh, Voldemort hissed as the ripping charm crashed through his chest and arm, after a few hours of battle, the two had shared blow for blow, but Harry had finally managed to ride Voldemort of his sword.
"Let us finish this where it begun." Riddle hissed, and as Harry advanced for the killing strike, the Dark Lord Vanished. "Bloody Hell." Harry shouted, he was now limping badly, and clutching a deep gash from a burn on his shoulder.
"Albus, Harry whispered, he had walked to where the Headmaster had fallen, and kneeled down. "This can't be, it was not meant to happen like this." Harry whispered, he had been to late; he had not been able to save him. Turning the thought over and over in his mind, Harry was beginning to feel as if he was going to be driven mad.
"Harry," the word was soft at first, but rapidly built within his mind. "Harry this is it, Voldemort has found us, he is hear." These were the words his mother spoke to him the day they died, the charm she had placed over him.
"I will always love you, my son, when all is lost, and you feel you have been defeated, know that me and your father will be with you, you are destined for great things." The words died off with that, but others had filled the void.
"Where everyone else has failed, you will succeed, it is time Harry that you put an end to this, it is time. "The words of his mentor and friend penetrated Harry to the very soul, "it is time."
"This ends now." Harry spoke to himself, standing up, and looking over at the unconscious forms of his friends. "I do this now for you Mom, Dad, Professor." Harry shouted, and with a pop, he apparated to his parents grave.
"It took you long enough Potter, I was afraid I would have to go back to Hogwarts to finish you off." Voldermort spoke; He was now standing on top of the grave of James Harold Potter, while his queen Muirnin stood on that of his Mother.
"I am not now, nor have I every been afraid of you. I told you before that we would meet again Riddle." Harry seethed, his body now glowing with raw aura.
"Ah, I see you are still a fool then, very well, let us begin." Voldermort hissed pulling out his wand, and firing the first of many killing curses at Harry. Sidestepping it easily, and summoning his own wand, Harry began his attack.
Realizing that it was two on one, and that he owed Cho's death to Muirnin, Harry sent a blot of lightning at the smug looking witch, and being as it came from above, not from his wand, Harry struck first, and before she could even move.
"You will pay for that." Voldemort shouted, the killing curse again headed toward Harry. "I will always love you Cho." Harry said to himself, he knew his shield would block the curse, and hadn't bothered to turn back to the Dark Lord. "Magnia Depreso " Voldemort shouted, he knew if anything would break Harry's shield, it would be that.
"In fear people flee from you." Harry begun to chant, the spell from Voldemort had no effect "Avada Kedavara" "In hate you destroy." His shield staying as strong as his ancestors "Avada Kedavara" "In spite you attack without mercy." Harry shouted, the incantation now coming to his mind without thought. "Shut up." Voldermort shouted, a small ringing was beginning to build within his mind. "With cruelty you strive to gain power." Harry continued, he could feel an energy building within him "Avada Kedavara" "Through fear you have destroyed" By now the ringing in Voldermorts ears had become a full-fledged nightmare. "Why won't you die" Voldemort shouted, again his killing curse was simply absorbed by Harry's shield "In love a life was wrongly taken," Harry continued, he was now glowing a brilliant white. "In death that wrong will be made right." Harry had pulled Gryffindors sword, and was now advancing on the Dark Lord. "In love my life was given anew," At this Harry looked down, he was now standing over the form of a tortured man "Through love your death will bring life anew." Harry had raised the sword above him. "Through love your reign will end." Harry finished, and with a swift movement with his hand, Harry had driven "Thunder, the sword of Godric Gryffindor", through his enemy's heart, and into the earth below.
"The scream that followed the slash of his blade would travel for miles away. The first part of the incantation to suck the living magic from Voldemort had begun, and as the sky begun to darken, and the earth begun to shack, Harry continued the needed spell, but with the aid of Voldemort's wand.
"You will die here and now Tom Riddle, at the hand of the boy you failed to kill fifteen years ago." Harry shouted, he was now standing over his enemy, whose eyes were wide with terror. "Those you have wronged will bear witness, for this is the day that you, Tom Marvolo Riddle will right at least one of those wrongs." Harry shouted, he had touched the tip of his wand to that of Voldemort's, and almost instantly, the souls of everyone that Voldemort had ever killed begun to emerge.
"I knew you could do it Harry. Albus spoke, as he was the last of whom Voldemort had killed. "It was a pleasure teaching you Harry, you were like a son to me." Was what Remus had said, and to this Harry fell to his knees, for he had not known. "Raise, and stand proud Harry, my life was that of a cursed one, and you have freed me from It." Remus continued as hundreds of muggle, and magical people continued to escape Voldermorts wand, and Voldemort begun to weaken from the magic lost.
"I always knew I would see you again Harry," Was the next voice he heard, and turning quickly, Harry came face to face with his mother. "Were very proud of you son." Was James, as the four now completely in circled Harry. "Mom, Dad. Harry stuttered.
"It is time." Lily spoke, for after ten additional minutes, the souls of those Voldemort had killed came to a close, and in the middle of his families grave yard, was a pillar of light, that reached high into the darkened sky.
"How am I to choose?" Harry asked, he had known from the second he landed at his parents grave that through Voldemort's death he would be able to bring one person back, but as he looked at the magnitude of lives taken, he was suddenly afraid to make a decision.
Suddenly however the sound of Voldemort's own incantation could be heard, and wasting no longer than a second, Harry closed the gap between the two. "No use wasting your breath, this is the end." Harry stated, and realization set in as his mind seemed to go into autopilot, and suddenly the two were emerged in flames as Harry had transformed into his phoenix, and begun to attack the beast below him.
Seconds later, Harry begun to sing, his song was both beautiful yet sorrowful, but was working nonetheless, for both he, and Voldemort were submerged in a soft red glow. As Harry continued to sing, the light that had once surrounded the dark lord begun to grow dim. When it was done, and the light had vanished completely, Harry transformed back into his human self, and stood.
"It is finished." he announced, and the crowd of spirits cheered loudly as Harry held up a small glowing ball in his left hand. Watching them disappear, Harry called to his parents, Remus, and Albus, and when they circled him, they were all smiling down on him with pride.
"It is over Harry, you have freed us from our eternal prison, and given us the opportunity to rest in peace. Go now, knowing we are proud of you. Lily spoke, as she floated down, and kissed her son on the cheek.
"Wait, one last thing. Harry said reaching up and grabbing Remus's spirit. To the amazement of all, Harry again begun to chant, but they all watched on with anticipation as the ball Harry was holding in his hand begun to glow, and rise to where it was chest level with Remus's spirit.
"Mom, Dad. Harry begun. I can only bring one person back, Albus.." Harry begun, but stopped as Dumbledore raised a hand. "We understand who you have chosen, and why Harry, we would have it no other way."
"You and Sirius are both fathers to me Remus." And with that the light came to a rest in Remus's chest. "We must go Harry." Albus spoke, as the others nodded there agreement, "but Remus, I do have one last gift for you," and with that Albus reached into the leg of Remus's spirit, and withdrew the essence of the wolf.
"If you are to live again, you should live as a free man, no longer afraid of a full moon." James said smiling at the look of his friend. "Come, we must go, and Harry we love you." Lily spoke again, as the three vanished.
When Harry, and the spirit of Remus arrived back at Hogwarts, the scene was much the same as when Harry left. Although most everyone was still unconscious from what Harry had done earlier, there were a select group that remained unharmed, and from the looks of it, the five were still battling fiercely.
"Remus, your body, now." Harry commanded as he let go of Remus, and allowed him to return to his body. "I have a few Slytherins to sort out." Harry seethed as he suddenly apparated to the side of his godfather, and to the astonishment of the others his arrival had given Sirius just the needed time to stun Lucius Malfoy.
"Give up Draco, if you can not tell by the appearance of Harry, it is over." "Shut up Weasley, I have killed two of you know, I can easily kill a third." Draco hissed firing the killing curse at Ron, who dove out of the way just in time to avoid it.
That was enough to send Harry into action. Not bothering to pull his wand, but by the simple wave of a hand, Draco was disarmed, and bound with unbreakable cords instantly. "You would have been wise to listen to Ron earlier." Harry shouted, his voice was booming, for he was once again enraged. When I came across Percy in Diagon Alley I though I smelt your stench, but I never knew you were the cause of Ginny's death as well.
Bye now Ron had pulled himself from the ground, and was standing in front of Malfoy, his wand poised for the kill. "Y-y-you were the one the k-k-killed Ginny." He stuttered, Harry could tell that something bad was about to happen. "And P-Percy, Avada. Keda.." Ron was not able to finish, for Harry had stopped him by ripping his wand from his hand.
"No Ron, that is much to easy, I have a better way to deal with this." Harry spoke, his voice was once again cold to the sound, and full of venom. Without a second hesitation, Harry reached down, and grabbed Malfoy's wand.
"Don't worry Malfoy, I'm not going to kill you, but this will hurt." He seethed, and again touching the tip of Malfoy's wand to his own, he bean to pull from it, the spirits of those that Draco had killed. To his surprise the number ranged in the mid twenty's
"Thank goodness, I thought I would be trapped in there forever, ohh look you have those sticks too." Came the voice of a young women, and by her cloths, Harry could tell she had been killed in a muggle raid.
"Don't worry, it is all over now." Harry spoke, as the last spirit left Malfoy's wand, and Ginny appeared in front of them all. "Harry, she shouted. Ohh thank goodness your still alright." She began to cry. "I have been so frightened." She sobbed, and the spirit of Percy put a reassuring arm around here. Something deep down let Harry know that he was happy to see her as well, and for a moment, he was lost in her eyes.
"Harry, what's going on here, what are you doing?" Hermione asked, she had been silent since his arrival. "We," Harry spoke turning back to Malfoy, "Are leaving." He hissed, and with a flash of red flames, Harry transported everyone back to the gravesite where Harry had just been.
"Ron, I will need her body, get it for me." Harry spoke glaring into Malfoy's eyes, and hearing everyone gasp. Two questions were being asked, for Harry had apparated them only feet from where Voldemort lay dead. "Ron, do as Harry asks, trust him." Remus spoke, and everyone other than Harry turned to stare at him.
"Remus," Sirius shouted, this was the first time he noticed him. "I-I thought you were dead, I mean I saw." "It's alright Padfoot, I will explain what I can later. "Ron, I will be needing that body." Harry spoke again, and this time Hermione spoke up.
"I'll get it Ron, you stay here." She said, as she vanished, and the spirits of those Malfoy had killed begun to arrive. "Now Malfoy," Harry begun to speak, he had kneeled down next to Draco. "This is really going to hurt." He whispered into his ear, to quiet for anyone other than Draco to hear.
"Now, this will only take me a minute, I warn you all that I have only done this once before, and so far so good." Harry smiled, as he turned back to Draco, and begun the incantation.
After a minute of chanting both Harry, and Draco begun to glow. Like Voldemort, Harry was concentrating on pulling the living Magic out of Draco, and Like Voldemort, after only a few minutes the glow that presided around Draco begun to diminish.
"What is he doing, and what happened here earlier?" Sirius asked, as he looked from the lifeless form of Voldemort, to the glowing aura around his godson. "I don't know if I can explain it mate, just watch." Was Remus's answer as Harry stood from where he was once kneeling, Draco looking on terrified.
"Ginny, come here would you please." Harry asked, and although he was no longer glowing, he was holding a strange glowing ball in his hand. "Now, this will hurt, and it will hurt a lot due to how long you have been gone, but in the end it will be worth it, for we will have you back." Harry spoke softly, and Ginny looked very nervous. "I will have you back." Harry stuttered to himself, as like Remus, he placed the glowing ball inside of the spirit of Ginny.
With a piercing scream Ginny's spirit begun to convulse. "What are you doing to her?" Ron shouted, as he was attempting to reach for her, only to be held back by Remus.
After what seemed like an eternity however the convulsions stopped, and without warning, Ginny vanished. "What happened, where did she go?" Ron shouted. He was absolutely frantic. Searching the air all around him.
"Ron, calm down its alright" Remus shouted, he was pointing to where Harry kneeled, holding a weeping, yet very alive Weasley daughter.
"Ginny," Ron shouted once he realized what had happened. Jumping to the ground, and pulling her into his embrace, Harry allowed the two to reunite, and turned back to Draco.
"Finite Incantatium" Harry spoke; he had released Draco of his cords, and gag. "What have you done to me," Draco asked immediately, he had jumped to his feet, and pulled a spare wand. "That will do you no good Draco." Harry laughed, and the blonde boy simply looked on. "Enervate," He shouted pointing his wand at his father, only to lower it as nothing happened. "What have you done to me?" He asked again, suddenly he was terrified. "I have stripped you of all of your power, I have taken away the very living magic from within you, and I have given it to someone you wronged."
"W-what does that mean." He asked he now looked petrified. "It means Draco that you will live out the rest of your life knowing you are no more powerful than a muggle, in fact, it means you are a muggle." Ginny responded, and Harry smiled down at her.
"Stupefy" Sirius spoke, and Draco fell to the ground stunned. Turning his attention back to the body of Voldemort, and creating a stretcher, Harry decided it was time for it all to end, and addressed everyone.
"I will take those that cannot apparate to the ministry. Ron, Hermione, Sirius, Remus. Please go to Hogwarts and bind up any, and all death eaters that have not fled.
"What are you going to do Harry." Sirius asked, as he prepared to apparate. "Announce to the wizarding world that Voldemort is no longer, and send my remaining Aurors to Azkaban to prepare it for the onslaught of visitors it will be receiving." Harry answered, and with that he, along with Draco, Lucius, Voldemort, and Ginny vanished with a burst of flames.
"Expectro Patranum" Harry shouted again, his voice was now horse from the shouting, and his spell no longer held the same amount of power. "Harry, we can no longer hold off the assault from inside the great Hall. The northern tower has fallen, and it won't be much longer before the entire school comes down on top of us." Dumbledore shouted. They had been fighting for twenty minutes now, and the only relief they had received was when Hermione had activated the status within Hogwarts to help destroy the Accromantula.
"I know, but that means an all out assault, and more lives will be lost that way." Harry answered, the weight of everything happening was on him heavily now. "We are out of options Harry, let us face our destiny." Dumbledore replied, and Harry was afraid that he saw a bit of defeat in the wizard's eyes.
Taking in a deep breath to gather his strength, Harry turned to the wall, which would lead them onto the main lawn. "Get them ready, once we hit the lawn, we must all make for the forest, It is our best chance of making it out alive, and we must stick together." Harry shouted, as in his mind he had began a small incantation that would focus his power.
Sitting this way for a few minutes, everyone could feel the change around them. As if the power was being sucked in from all around the school, the lights that had been restored by Dumbledore went out, and a gust of wind begun to circle the hall. With the words "Magnia Depreso," the large fireplace in the hall was blown clean away, and with a bolt of energy; the remaining wards of Hogwarts came down, along with every structure other than the great Hall itself.
"Stay in groups, and make your way toward Hogsmeade." Dumbledore announced, the students were now desperately making for the gaping hole, and into the battle that awaited them.
Once outside, the destruction around them was evident. The great castle of Hogwarts that had always stood, as a beacon against all that was wrong in the world, now lay in ruins. Voldermort had succeeded in bringing it down.
"On my life Voldermort will pay for what he has done." Harry hissed as he, along with Hermione, Ron, Sirius, Remus, and Albus separated from the rest of the faculty. "It ends today." He shouted, turning his now glowing silver, and gold eyes on his mentor.
"We must attack the heart of the creature in order to kill it. I go now to face my enemy, if you wish to come along." Harry paused as he took in the looks from his friends, and family.
"Although I am terrified to the very core Harry, I wouldn't miss this for anything. We have been through hell together mate, I am not about to back out now." Ron shouted, and everyone around him simply nodded in agreement. "We do it on three then , three, two, one."
"Stupefy." Harry shouted the second he appeared. Voldemort dove to the ground not expecting a surprise attack, and the curse barely missed him. "Kill them." Were the words that rang from Voldemort's throat, the cruel cackle that followed was enough to bring chills to the spins of all those who heard it, but for Harry and his friends they did not have time to contemplate this, for they were now under attack by twenty of Voldemort's most faithful
"Stupefy, Avada Kedavara, Reducto." The spells continued to be thrown. Rolling, diving, shouting, and fighting, Harry meet each attack deadly, and when things were beginning to look as if they were about to turn his way, his eyes fell upon a battle between Tom Riddle, and Dumbledore.
"You have been a thorn in my side since the first day I meet you Dumbledore, today you die." Voldemort hissed, and Harry watched frozen to the spot as the Headmaster took a violent spell to the stomach, that sent him twenty feet.
"Cractus Beractus" Voldemort hissed seconds later, and Harry suddenly felt the world collapsing. "Noooo" He yelled realizing what was about to happen, but seeing that Voldemort was taking pride in the suffering it caused.
"Know this Voldemort, where I fail, Harry will prevail, I will be smiling down upon him when he is standing above your lifeless form." Albus spoke. As Riddle begun the incantation that would end the Headmasters life, Harry tried desperately to fight past the three men that stood in his way, but before he could reach his mentor and friend, Voldermort had succeeded in stripping the powerful wizard from his life.
"Nooooo.." Harry shouted, again, a pure blast of energy and magic shoot from his body, knocking out anyone within a mile from him. Rushing to the side of his Headmaster, Harry fell to his knees a wept; the man he had always thought was invincible lay before him dead.
"Ah, finally, I have been waiting a long time to do that." Voldemort hissed, the smile that crossed his face was unearthly. "Don't cry to long Potter, for you will be joining him shortly. It is time we finish what we started fifteen years ago." He shouted, and Harry could tell a wand was pointed at his back.
"Avada Kedavara" Harry shouted, as he spun to face his enemy, and fired the only spell he wanted to use. "Not so fast now, you don't think I would be stupid enough to allow that spell to kill me do you." Voldemort laughed, the spell had struck him square, but he stood to live through it.
"If I cannot kill you by wand, I will kill you by sword." Harry hissed, he had now stood from the side of his headmaster, and his eyes were on fire. "Well, give it your best shot POTTER." Voldermort again hissed, and with a clang of metal, thunder, and venom collided.
"The battle between Voldemort, and Harry continued late into the day. "Reducto" Harry shouted, he had pocketed his wand, and was now casting the spells through the use of his sword.
"Ahhhhh, Voldemort hissed as the ripping charm crashed through his chest and arm, after a few hours of battle, the two had shared blow for blow, but Harry had finally managed to ride Voldemort of his sword.
"Let us finish this where it begun." Riddle hissed, and as Harry advanced for the killing strike, the Dark Lord Vanished. "Bloody Hell." Harry shouted, he was now limping badly, and clutching a deep gash from a burn on his shoulder.
"Albus, Harry whispered, he had walked to where the Headmaster had fallen, and kneeled down. "This can't be, it was not meant to happen like this." Harry whispered, he had been to late; he had not been able to save him. Turning the thought over and over in his mind, Harry was beginning to feel as if he was going to be driven mad.
"Harry," the word was soft at first, but rapidly built within his mind. "Harry this is it, Voldemort has found us, he is hear." These were the words his mother spoke to him the day they died, the charm she had placed over him.
"I will always love you, my son, when all is lost, and you feel you have been defeated, know that me and your father will be with you, you are destined for great things." The words died off with that, but others had filled the void.
"Where everyone else has failed, you will succeed, it is time Harry that you put an end to this, it is time. "The words of his mentor and friend penetrated Harry to the very soul, "it is time."
"This ends now." Harry spoke to himself, standing up, and looking over at the unconscious forms of his friends. "I do this now for you Mom, Dad, Professor." Harry shouted, and with a pop, he apparated to his parents grave.
"It took you long enough Potter, I was afraid I would have to go back to Hogwarts to finish you off." Voldermort spoke; He was now standing on top of the grave of James Harold Potter, while his queen Muirnin stood on that of his Mother.
"I am not now, nor have I every been afraid of you. I told you before that we would meet again Riddle." Harry seethed, his body now glowing with raw aura.
"Ah, I see you are still a fool then, very well, let us begin." Voldermort hissed pulling out his wand, and firing the first of many killing curses at Harry. Sidestepping it easily, and summoning his own wand, Harry began his attack.
Realizing that it was two on one, and that he owed Cho's death to Muirnin, Harry sent a blot of lightning at the smug looking witch, and being as it came from above, not from his wand, Harry struck first, and before she could even move.
"You will pay for that." Voldemort shouted, the killing curse again headed toward Harry. "I will always love you Cho." Harry said to himself, he knew his shield would block the curse, and hadn't bothered to turn back to the Dark Lord. "Magnia Depreso " Voldemort shouted, he knew if anything would break Harry's shield, it would be that.
"In fear people flee from you." Harry begun to chant, the spell from Voldemort had no effect "Avada Kedavara" "In hate you destroy." His shield staying as strong as his ancestors "Avada Kedavara" "In spite you attack without mercy." Harry shouted, the incantation now coming to his mind without thought. "Shut up." Voldermort shouted, a small ringing was beginning to build within his mind. "With cruelty you strive to gain power." Harry continued, he could feel an energy building within him "Avada Kedavara" "Through fear you have destroyed" By now the ringing in Voldermorts ears had become a full-fledged nightmare. "Why won't you die" Voldemort shouted, again his killing curse was simply absorbed by Harry's shield "In love a life was wrongly taken," Harry continued, he was now glowing a brilliant white. "In death that wrong will be made right." Harry had pulled Gryffindors sword, and was now advancing on the Dark Lord. "In love my life was given anew," At this Harry looked down, he was now standing over the form of a tortured man "Through love your death will bring life anew." Harry had raised the sword above him. "Through love your reign will end." Harry finished, and with a swift movement with his hand, Harry had driven "Thunder, the sword of Godric Gryffindor", through his enemy's heart, and into the earth below.
"The scream that followed the slash of his blade would travel for miles away. The first part of the incantation to suck the living magic from Voldemort had begun, and as the sky begun to darken, and the earth begun to shack, Harry continued the needed spell, but with the aid of Voldemort's wand.
"You will die here and now Tom Riddle, at the hand of the boy you failed to kill fifteen years ago." Harry shouted, he was now standing over his enemy, whose eyes were wide with terror. "Those you have wronged will bear witness, for this is the day that you, Tom Marvolo Riddle will right at least one of those wrongs." Harry shouted, he had touched the tip of his wand to that of Voldemort's, and almost instantly, the souls of everyone that Voldemort had ever killed begun to emerge.
"I knew you could do it Harry. Albus spoke, as he was the last of whom Voldemort had killed. "It was a pleasure teaching you Harry, you were like a son to me." Was what Remus had said, and to this Harry fell to his knees, for he had not known. "Raise, and stand proud Harry, my life was that of a cursed one, and you have freed me from It." Remus continued as hundreds of muggle, and magical people continued to escape Voldermorts wand, and Voldemort begun to weaken from the magic lost.
"I always knew I would see you again Harry," Was the next voice he heard, and turning quickly, Harry came face to face with his mother. "Were very proud of you son." Was James, as the four now completely in circled Harry. "Mom, Dad. Harry stuttered.
"It is time." Lily spoke, for after ten additional minutes, the souls of those Voldemort had killed came to a close, and in the middle of his families grave yard, was a pillar of light, that reached high into the darkened sky.
"How am I to choose?" Harry asked, he had known from the second he landed at his parents grave that through Voldemort's death he would be able to bring one person back, but as he looked at the magnitude of lives taken, he was suddenly afraid to make a decision.
Suddenly however the sound of Voldemort's own incantation could be heard, and wasting no longer than a second, Harry closed the gap between the two. "No use wasting your breath, this is the end." Harry stated, and realization set in as his mind seemed to go into autopilot, and suddenly the two were emerged in flames as Harry had transformed into his phoenix, and begun to attack the beast below him.
Seconds later, Harry begun to sing, his song was both beautiful yet sorrowful, but was working nonetheless, for both he, and Voldemort were submerged in a soft red glow. As Harry continued to sing, the light that had once surrounded the dark lord begun to grow dim. When it was done, and the light had vanished completely, Harry transformed back into his human self, and stood.
"It is finished." he announced, and the crowd of spirits cheered loudly as Harry held up a small glowing ball in his left hand. Watching them disappear, Harry called to his parents, Remus, and Albus, and when they circled him, they were all smiling down on him with pride.
"It is over Harry, you have freed us from our eternal prison, and given us the opportunity to rest in peace. Go now, knowing we are proud of you. Lily spoke, as she floated down, and kissed her son on the cheek.
"Wait, one last thing. Harry said reaching up and grabbing Remus's spirit. To the amazement of all, Harry again begun to chant, but they all watched on with anticipation as the ball Harry was holding in his hand begun to glow, and rise to where it was chest level with Remus's spirit.
"Mom, Dad. Harry begun. I can only bring one person back, Albus.." Harry begun, but stopped as Dumbledore raised a hand. "We understand who you have chosen, and why Harry, we would have it no other way."
"You and Sirius are both fathers to me Remus." And with that the light came to a rest in Remus's chest. "We must go Harry." Albus spoke, as the others nodded there agreement, "but Remus, I do have one last gift for you," and with that Albus reached into the leg of Remus's spirit, and withdrew the essence of the wolf.
"If you are to live again, you should live as a free man, no longer afraid of a full moon." James said smiling at the look of his friend. "Come, we must go, and Harry we love you." Lily spoke again, as the three vanished.
When Harry, and the spirit of Remus arrived back at Hogwarts, the scene was much the same as when Harry left. Although most everyone was still unconscious from what Harry had done earlier, there were a select group that remained unharmed, and from the looks of it, the five were still battling fiercely.
"Remus, your body, now." Harry commanded as he let go of Remus, and allowed him to return to his body. "I have a few Slytherins to sort out." Harry seethed as he suddenly apparated to the side of his godfather, and to the astonishment of the others his arrival had given Sirius just the needed time to stun Lucius Malfoy.
"Give up Draco, if you can not tell by the appearance of Harry, it is over." "Shut up Weasley, I have killed two of you know, I can easily kill a third." Draco hissed firing the killing curse at Ron, who dove out of the way just in time to avoid it.
That was enough to send Harry into action. Not bothering to pull his wand, but by the simple wave of a hand, Draco was disarmed, and bound with unbreakable cords instantly. "You would have been wise to listen to Ron earlier." Harry shouted, his voice was booming, for he was once again enraged. When I came across Percy in Diagon Alley I though I smelt your stench, but I never knew you were the cause of Ginny's death as well.
Bye now Ron had pulled himself from the ground, and was standing in front of Malfoy, his wand poised for the kill. "Y-y-you were the one the k-k-killed Ginny." He stuttered, Harry could tell that something bad was about to happen. "And P-Percy, Avada. Keda.." Ron was not able to finish, for Harry had stopped him by ripping his wand from his hand.
"No Ron, that is much to easy, I have a better way to deal with this." Harry spoke, his voice was once again cold to the sound, and full of venom. Without a second hesitation, Harry reached down, and grabbed Malfoy's wand.
"Don't worry Malfoy, I'm not going to kill you, but this will hurt." He seethed, and again touching the tip of Malfoy's wand to his own, he bean to pull from it, the spirits of those that Draco had killed. To his surprise the number ranged in the mid twenty's
"Thank goodness, I thought I would be trapped in there forever, ohh look you have those sticks too." Came the voice of a young women, and by her cloths, Harry could tell she had been killed in a muggle raid.
"Don't worry, it is all over now." Harry spoke, as the last spirit left Malfoy's wand, and Ginny appeared in front of them all. "Harry, she shouted. Ohh thank goodness your still alright." She began to cry. "I have been so frightened." She sobbed, and the spirit of Percy put a reassuring arm around here. Something deep down let Harry know that he was happy to see her as well, and for a moment, he was lost in her eyes.
"Harry, what's going on here, what are you doing?" Hermione asked, she had been silent since his arrival. "We," Harry spoke turning back to Malfoy, "Are leaving." He hissed, and with a flash of red flames, Harry transported everyone back to the gravesite where Harry had just been.
"Ron, I will need her body, get it for me." Harry spoke glaring into Malfoy's eyes, and hearing everyone gasp. Two questions were being asked, for Harry had apparated them only feet from where Voldemort lay dead. "Ron, do as Harry asks, trust him." Remus spoke, and everyone other than Harry turned to stare at him.
"Remus," Sirius shouted, this was the first time he noticed him. "I-I thought you were dead, I mean I saw." "It's alright Padfoot, I will explain what I can later. "Ron, I will be needing that body." Harry spoke again, and this time Hermione spoke up.
"I'll get it Ron, you stay here." She said, as she vanished, and the spirits of those Malfoy had killed begun to arrive. "Now Malfoy," Harry begun to speak, he had kneeled down next to Draco. "This is really going to hurt." He whispered into his ear, to quiet for anyone other than Draco to hear.
"Now, this will only take me a minute, I warn you all that I have only done this once before, and so far so good." Harry smiled, as he turned back to Draco, and begun the incantation.
After a minute of chanting both Harry, and Draco begun to glow. Like Voldemort, Harry was concentrating on pulling the living Magic out of Draco, and Like Voldemort, after only a few minutes the glow that presided around Draco begun to diminish.
"What is he doing, and what happened here earlier?" Sirius asked, as he looked from the lifeless form of Voldemort, to the glowing aura around his godson. "I don't know if I can explain it mate, just watch." Was Remus's answer as Harry stood from where he was once kneeling, Draco looking on terrified.
"Ginny, come here would you please." Harry asked, and although he was no longer glowing, he was holding a strange glowing ball in his hand. "Now, this will hurt, and it will hurt a lot due to how long you have been gone, but in the end it will be worth it, for we will have you back." Harry spoke softly, and Ginny looked very nervous. "I will have you back." Harry stuttered to himself, as like Remus, he placed the glowing ball inside of the spirit of Ginny.
With a piercing scream Ginny's spirit begun to convulse. "What are you doing to her?" Ron shouted, as he was attempting to reach for her, only to be held back by Remus.
After what seemed like an eternity however the convulsions stopped, and without warning, Ginny vanished. "What happened, where did she go?" Ron shouted. He was absolutely frantic. Searching the air all around him.
"Ron, calm down its alright" Remus shouted, he was pointing to where Harry kneeled, holding a weeping, yet very alive Weasley daughter.
"Ginny," Ron shouted once he realized what had happened. Jumping to the ground, and pulling her into his embrace, Harry allowed the two to reunite, and turned back to Draco.
"Finite Incantatium" Harry spoke; he had released Draco of his cords, and gag. "What have you done to me," Draco asked immediately, he had jumped to his feet, and pulled a spare wand. "That will do you no good Draco." Harry laughed, and the blonde boy simply looked on. "Enervate," He shouted pointing his wand at his father, only to lower it as nothing happened. "What have you done to me?" He asked again, suddenly he was terrified. "I have stripped you of all of your power, I have taken away the very living magic from within you, and I have given it to someone you wronged."
"W-what does that mean." He asked he now looked petrified. "It means Draco that you will live out the rest of your life knowing you are no more powerful than a muggle, in fact, it means you are a muggle." Ginny responded, and Harry smiled down at her.
"Stupefy" Sirius spoke, and Draco fell to the ground stunned. Turning his attention back to the body of Voldemort, and creating a stretcher, Harry decided it was time for it all to end, and addressed everyone.
"I will take those that cannot apparate to the ministry. Ron, Hermione, Sirius, Remus. Please go to Hogwarts and bind up any, and all death eaters that have not fled.
"What are you going to do Harry." Sirius asked, as he prepared to apparate. "Announce to the wizarding world that Voldemort is no longer, and send my remaining Aurors to Azkaban to prepare it for the onslaught of visitors it will be receiving." Harry answered, and with that he, along with Draco, Lucius, Voldemort, and Ginny vanished with a burst of flames.