Disclaimer: I don't own the characters; they are property of JK Rowling.

Rating: R

Summary: Harry is the heir of Grindelwald; he is blamed by the Order for Sirius's death; he is accused by the Ministry to be a Death Eater; Hermione is the heir of Voldemort...and she is the only who trusts him...

Dark Harry-Hermione

Chapter Fifteen

"Final Battle"

Harry and the others landed in the forest, and immediately the Ringwraith's voice was heard:

"Welcome, our Lord! We are ready to start the battle...the Voldemort's Headquarters are just out the forest...near the sea..."

Harry and the Order members looked toward the sea, and they saw a black tower, the Voldemort's whereabouts...

"Ok, guys...let's go!" Harry said, and all the members followed him, and the Ringwraith and the Dark Army did the same...they crossed the Forest, and when they reached the border of it, Harry stopped, to explain his battle plan, which he had thought during the travel in train and the crossing of the Forest:

"Well...I think that the maximum surprise will be good for us, so I think that you, Ringwraith, should go to control if outside there are guards, and if they are, then, kill them...we will wait here one sign from you..."

The Ringwraith disappeared, and some minutes later they returned, their swords covered with blood..."We found three guards, but they didn't see us, obviously, so we killed them without a shout from their mouths...we have free way to the tower..."

"Good job!" Draco and Neville exclaimed, but Harry interrupted them: "Yes, good job, but this is only the start...guys, are you ready to risk your life trying to save the Wizarding World? I can see the fear in your eyes, and in your hearts...and I won't say I'm not scared...but this is our destiny...to kill, or to be killed, soon or later..."

Immediately, all the members, who actually were very frightened, raised their wands, with a new determination in their eyes...so, Harry moved toward the castle, followed by them, the Dark Army and the Ringwraith...

They reached the massive main entrance of the tower, and Hermione cried: "Alohomora!"; suddenly, the door unlocked, and pushing it, two werewolves opened it, using their extraordinary strength...the Order entered the castle, with the werewolves and the dementors...the giants had remained in the Forest, waiting for a signal, to join the battle...

They inspected all the rooms on the ground floor, but they found nothing...so, they used the stairs to reach the first floor...Harry opened many rooms, but nothing was there...in the last one, however, they found ten Death Eaters...

"Avada Kedavra!" three of them cried, but Harry and the others were quick to throw themselves on the floor, while Draco, Neville and Ginny counter- attacked:

"Expecto Gladiator!" they cried, and three Gladiators appeared, attacking the Death Eaters, who was now in pain...they were now easy targets for the Order, so ten "Avada Kedavra!" leaved their wands, killing the Death Eaters...

They went on to the second floor, and here they found some dementors, but they defeated them easily, crying: "Expecto Patronus!"; in the meanwhile, however, twelve Death Eaters entered the corridor, and they were ready to attack the Order from behind, when they were stopped...the werewolves took care of them, broking their necks, seizing them with their hands...their strength was too much for a human to resist, and so they lied, dead, on the floor...

The Dark Army's dementors, then, were useful when, entering the third floor, they found a room full of Death Eaters...in few minutes, all of them received the Dementor's Kiss, while Harry and the others were going on, unconscious of that...they had missed that room, but fortunately the dementors were ready to attack the opponents, who were exiting it to attack the Order...

They examined all the third floor, but they found nothing else, so they went to the fourth one...here, they encountered some orcs, patrolling the corridors, but that was an easy work for them; Harry and Hermione, who were in the first line, cast quickly many "Avada Kedavra", while the others started to do the same, destroying rapidly the orcs squads...in a room, however, Harry found some maps and parchments, in which was planned an attack to Hogwarts, for the next week...Harry was trembling with rage, and destroyed them:

"Incendio!" he cried, and the sheets were burning...in few minutes, only ash remained on the floor...they went on in their "tour", reaching the fifth floor, when they heard some Chinese speaking...Harry looked attentively from behind his corner, and saw a group of Chinese Death Eaters...he turned and whispered to the Ringwraith to kill them, because they were very able with some Dark Arts unknown in Great Britain, so he didn't wanted to risk the members' life, not knowing what was waiting them...

The Ringwraith disappeared, and then suddenly the Death Eaters voices turned in a suffocate lament...the Ringwraith had cut their heads, with their poisoned swords...so, the Order could continue the exploration of the tower...

They controlled every room in the floor, and then reached the sixth one, were they had to face twenty Death Eaters, with their wands already raised...somehow, they were waited...an huge battle started, and Harry and the Order were in troubles, defending themselves with the strong Shield Charms they had learned but not able to counter-attack...they seemed finished, when the dementors and the werewolves, which were hidden behind a wall, appeared, saving them; the Death Eaters were distracted by the Dark Army's creatures, and so Harry and the others could kill them; nine "Avada Kedavra" were cast, but Harry wanted to try a different curse:

"Explosion!" he cried, and his opponent's body exploded as he had a bomb in himself...then, they examined the floor...and finally, they reached the stairs for the last one...the floor in which surely Voldemort would be...the floor of the final battle...the floor, which would have signed the destiny of all of them...

They entered an huge room, in which at least fifty Death Eaters were, and in the centre, the Dark Lord was...finally, they had found him...

"Welcome, Potter...I knew you would have arrived, first or later...I see you have company with you...well, we can enjoy us a little more, cannot we, my faithful Death Eaters?"

All of them laughed, then they raised their wands, and started the battle...every member was surrounded by many opponents, so they could only defend themselves, without counter-attacking...after some minutes, the Ringwraith entered the scene, with the werewolves, and helped them, killing quickly the Death Eaters...however, Bellatrix Lestrange cried: "Avada Kedavra!" and Justin fell on the floor dead...the first death for the Order...then, Ernie, who was duelling with Dolohov, was near to suffer the same destiny...but a werewolf moved the Death Eater's wand, so the spell hit one of his companions...

After almost an hour, the Death Eaters were mostly dead...however, twelve of them were able to imprison the Order members...at this point, Harry and Voldemort ordered to their respective followers to stop, leaving them the space to duel...the moment of closing the bills was arrived...

"Are you still sure you want to do it, Potter? You can still join me, and save your friends lives..."

"Sod off, Voldemort...start the duel...Crucio!" Harry cried, but Voldemort defended himself with a quick movement of the wand, which created a grey wall around him...the wall adsorbed the curse, then Voldemort counter- attacked:

"Crucio!" he said, but Harry cried:

"Protego!" and he defended himself...then he cried: "Expecto Gladiator!" and the Gladiator appeared...for some moments, Voldemort was in pain on the ground, but then he managed to break the curse, and continued the duel...

The battle continued in this way for a long time, without a winner; suddenly, however, Krum, who was one of the remained Death Eaters, cried, from Harry's behind: "Expelliarmus!" so Harry's wand flew away from his hand...

Voldemort and all the Death Eaters laughed, and then the Dark Lord said: "Ok, Potter...you are dead, now...but before, let's enjoy a little with your companions' sufferings..." then he said to Krum: "Viktor, if I don't remember bad, you have a bill to close with the Mudblood...let's start from her..."; Krum smirked, then he cried: "Crucio!" and Hermione fell on the floor, crying in pain..."Ah Ah Ah... finally you, little bitch, are paying for having broken up with me...you should have known that it wasn't a good choice..."

Harry was trembling in rage...and suddenly, from his handbreadths, a blinding white light started to glow...all in the room were astonished, then the light became a ray reaching the ceiling, and Harry spoke, but not in his normal voice...it sounded more deep than usual...

"Voldemort...this is the moment of your end...be ready to die..." then Harry united his handbreadths, and directed them toward Voldemort...the ray of white light reached the Dark Lord, who created another time the grey wall...but it was perforated by the ray, which then touched his body...and Voldemort screamed very loud...then, some moments later, his body was perforated, and suddenly disappeared...only his soul remained, but the ray hit also that, and so also that was destroyed...the Dark Lord was dead...

The Death Eaters started to run away, while Hermione was standing up, not in pain, now...Krum was escaping, but Harry led the ray on him, so he burned alive...then, an acute whistle sounded, and when the Death Eaters reached the main entrance to escape, they found the giants waiting them...so, also the last Death Eaters were killed...the Order exited the tower, then Harry ordered to the giants to destroy it...then they started their travel to the "Fortress of the Shadows" for the Dark Army, and to Hogwarts for the Order members...

Before leaving, however, Harry maintained his promise and said: "My faithful Ringwraith, you are free now...you had helped me to accomplish my task and now I free you..."; immediately, the shadows dissolved, leaving some ash in their place...

The Order Apparated to London, then they passed some time in the town, before reaching King's Cross to return at Hogwarts...on the train, Draco asked: "Harry, however, I still don't know which spell you had used to defeat Voldemort..."

"Draco, that was the Ancient power that I have, but Voldemort no...that was the strength of my love for Hermione...he didn't understand love, so he couldn't stop it with his shield..." then he kissed Hermione deeply...

When they arrived at Hogwarts, they found all the Professors waiting for them, and Dumbledore ahead the others...all of them had huge grins on their faces, and Dumbledore hugged Harry, tears flowing on his cheeks:

"Sorry, Harry, if I doubted of you...I should have known you could never join the Dark side..."

"No problem, Professor...now, it is all finished...the Dark Lord had been destroyed..."