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Chapter 6
Hagrid opened the door to see three people looking up at him expectantly.
"Hey Hagrid! Howz it going?" Harry made his way I as Hagrid moved away from the door. "You look tired Hagrid! What have you been doing?" Hermoine was genuinely concerned and it sounded in her voice.
"Nothin...I mean nothin' bad! I jus' had t' look after a lot of animals!" He drew out three more of his mugs and sat down to pour out tea.
"So why are you's here?" Hagrid learned long ago that even though their concern was genuine, they always left his cabin knowing more than they should.
"Common Hagrid, Cant we even pop in for a visit?" Ron's try to look innocent convinced Hagrid of what he suspected.
"OK... What do ya want to know?"
Harry smiled. He knew Ron was a terrible liar. "It's like this Hagrid. I haven't spoken to Dumbledore for days and I have learned to tell when he's keeping something from me. And just yesterday he rushed into Snape's office wanting to speak to him, I suppose if I hadn't been there he wouldn't have bothered telling Snape to meet in his office. I want to know what's oing on!"
Hagrid scratched his head, he seemed to be thinking whether to tell or not.
"Ah well I suppos' there be no harm in it, you'll find out sooner or later. Well ya see 'Arry, it was 'bout Yesterday afternoon that we 'eard that Malfoy escaped from Azkaban see n well since he knows that Snape's been spying on ehm see, Dumbledore figures that he'll go on and tell You Know Who straight away n well ye know that Snape's in danger now n that means You Know Who can stay ahead of us now that we have no on to spy on ehm." Hagrid seemed to stop to regain his breath.
Harry looked at his friends; Ron seemed to have trouble stopping his eyes from popping out of his head while Hermoine seemed to be so shocked that she was ready to cry. Harry knew she was worried about more than him in the situation.
"Why wouldn't Dumbledore tell us something so important. I thought that he was through with treating me like a kid?" Harry wasn't really angry just disappointed that Dumbledore hadn't told him.
"I'm sure 'e 'ad 'is reasons 'Arry!" Hagrid seemed so tired that for a few seconds he appeared smaller.
"I guess you're right. Come on you two, we better get up to Gryffindor." Harry was standing up when Hermoine seemed to snap back to reality.
"Wait Harry! We can't just do nothing about this!" for a minute he thought she was joking.
"Moine are you out of your head? What do you want US to do?
"I don't know yet, but we can't just sit around while Voldemort kills Snape and kills muggles!" Hagrid and Ron cringed at the name.
"Are you listening to yourself talk? Moine Snape can look after himself and as for Voldemort..." again the cringe "...killing muggles, he's been doing it for years. Dumbledore hasn't been able to stop him and you want the three of us to try. Listen to yourself for gods sake, you've lost every bit of sense you had!"
Hagrid and Ron just stared as Hermoine and Harry argued at full volume.
"Harry we must be able to do something, we just can't let it happen...we can't" Hermoine had her head I her arms and was crying openly. Harry knew exactly what she meant (she was worried bout Snape.) He went over and hugged her. The other two seemed to be transfixed.
"Get a hold of yourself!" He meant it for everyone in the room, including himself.
Snape was in his living room when his arm begun to hurt, the pain ran up and through him to every part of his body. As he gained control, he got up and moved as quickly as possible to Dumbledore's office. It was beginning.
Snape never got to Dumbledore's office, instead he sent his hawk. Dumbledore would know what it meant if the hawk arrived without a message. Snape made his way to the Hogwarts gate where he apparated.
Voldemort was standing by an old house, he remembered killing his muggle father here, a smile crossed his face at the pure pleasure of the memory. There was a buzzing sound behind him and Severus Snape appeared a few feet away from his master. The smile of pleasure on Voldemort's face was quickly replaced by one of malice and hate. 'How dare he return to face me.'
"So you have returned." His voice lacked anything humane.
Snape stepped forward and knelt at Voldemort's feet. "I am always faithful to you my master." Snape resisted the urge to spit at Voldemort's feet, he hated groveling for anyone.
Voldemort's face was expressionless, but inside he burned with a passion for blood, he wanted to kill Snape. 'Never mind, I have a surprise for the traitor.'
"Stand!" Snape stood at the order without hesitation, but the look on his face was not one of respect or gratitude to Voldemort.
Voldemort strode into the house at a quick pace with Snape at his heel.
The inside of the house smelt of rotted wood and Snape immediately noticed the figure lurking in the shadows. He was only a second too late in removing his wand, ten men released hexes at him and within seconds he was on the floor immobile.
"So you dared to come back and face me did you! Well no matter, I shall take great pleasure in seeing your death. Malfoy!" A tall man with blonde hair came forward, his wand was held ready in his hand. "I believe that you have an old score to settle, I suggest you be quick about it, I have no time to waste."
As Malfoy raised his wand there was suddenly a buzzing noise behind the death eaters, Dumbledore appeared with Minerva at his side both had their wands out and attacked immediately.
"DUMBLEDORE!" The hollow echo was Voldemort, he stood ready and faced Dumbledore who had finished with another Death Eater. "Why don't we finish this where we stopped last time!"
"Don't be Foolish Tom, it's not worth it..."
"Don't try to reason with me you old fool...I have no time for your meddling."
Just as he was about to raise his wand there was another buzzing sound and with that three people appeared with wands upheld aiming directly at Voldemort.
Snape was suddenly at Dumbledore's side and both also had their wands ready and with no hesitation both aimed "Avada....." Harry had also aimed and had had the same thing in mind... "Avada..." Ron hexed a death eater who had tried to hit Harry while Hermoine was nowhere to be seen.
Hermoine almost stumbled at the bright flash of green light that had appeared, she was running down steps and it seemed to be getting darker. She remembered appearing behind Voldemort, she had seen Severus on the floor and had run to his aid, then she had seen Malfoy running away and ran after him. The sound of footsteps ahead of her seemed to be growing fainter 'Damn the fool for running so fast, gutless coward.'
"Face me Malfoy! Or do I have to chase you all the way around the world waiting for you to get the guts to face a mudblood." The sound of footsteps stopped and Hermoine cursed under her breath. 'Oh great going Granger, now he's just standing and waiting for you to get to him.' Hermoine cursed again, the green flash had maid her lose the night vision she had gained and know she could barely see the stairs.
The steps ended and Hermoine slowly stepped forward trying to see past the shadows, suddenly something hit her on the back of the head and she dropped to the ground like dead.
Five people stood in the living room of an old house surrounded by bodies. Harry dared not look at Dumbledore or McGonagal, he knew already what they would say. He, Ron and Hermoine had apparated after being told severely not to leave Hogwarts, but Harry had been worried about Dumbledore and Hermoine had all but cried with worry about Snape. 'Wait, Hermoine, where is she?' "Hermoine?" The sudden sound in the house startled Ron out of his reverie. Harry slowly stepped over the body of a man with snake like features and a deathly white skin colour that now suited his condition, Voldemort was dead.
"HERMOINE?" Harry was extremely worried, e remembered arriving with her but she wasn't there when Voldemort died.
"Where is she?" Ron was also wearing a worried look on his face. Harry turned to Dumbledore for help, but he only shrugged and turned to Snape who nodded and left the room.
"Don't worry Harry. Professor Snape will find her!" He seemed too confident in Snape for Harry's liking but he remained silent.
Chapter 6
Hagrid opened the door to see three people looking up at him expectantly.
"Hey Hagrid! Howz it going?" Harry made his way I as Hagrid moved away from the door. "You look tired Hagrid! What have you been doing?" Hermoine was genuinely concerned and it sounded in her voice.
"Nothin...I mean nothin' bad! I jus' had t' look after a lot of animals!" He drew out three more of his mugs and sat down to pour out tea.
"So why are you's here?" Hagrid learned long ago that even though their concern was genuine, they always left his cabin knowing more than they should.
"Common Hagrid, Cant we even pop in for a visit?" Ron's try to look innocent convinced Hagrid of what he suspected.
"OK... What do ya want to know?"
Harry smiled. He knew Ron was a terrible liar. "It's like this Hagrid. I haven't spoken to Dumbledore for days and I have learned to tell when he's keeping something from me. And just yesterday he rushed into Snape's office wanting to speak to him, I suppose if I hadn't been there he wouldn't have bothered telling Snape to meet in his office. I want to know what's oing on!"
Hagrid scratched his head, he seemed to be thinking whether to tell or not.
"Ah well I suppos' there be no harm in it, you'll find out sooner or later. Well ya see 'Arry, it was 'bout Yesterday afternoon that we 'eard that Malfoy escaped from Azkaban see n well since he knows that Snape's been spying on ehm see, Dumbledore figures that he'll go on and tell You Know Who straight away n well ye know that Snape's in danger now n that means You Know Who can stay ahead of us now that we have no on to spy on ehm." Hagrid seemed to stop to regain his breath.
Harry looked at his friends; Ron seemed to have trouble stopping his eyes from popping out of his head while Hermoine seemed to be so shocked that she was ready to cry. Harry knew she was worried about more than him in the situation.
"Why wouldn't Dumbledore tell us something so important. I thought that he was through with treating me like a kid?" Harry wasn't really angry just disappointed that Dumbledore hadn't told him.
"I'm sure 'e 'ad 'is reasons 'Arry!" Hagrid seemed so tired that for a few seconds he appeared smaller.
"I guess you're right. Come on you two, we better get up to Gryffindor." Harry was standing up when Hermoine seemed to snap back to reality.
"Wait Harry! We can't just do nothing about this!" for a minute he thought she was joking.
"Moine are you out of your head? What do you want US to do?
"I don't know yet, but we can't just sit around while Voldemort kills Snape and kills muggles!" Hagrid and Ron cringed at the name.
"Are you listening to yourself talk? Moine Snape can look after himself and as for Voldemort..." again the cringe "...killing muggles, he's been doing it for years. Dumbledore hasn't been able to stop him and you want the three of us to try. Listen to yourself for gods sake, you've lost every bit of sense you had!"
Hagrid and Ron just stared as Hermoine and Harry argued at full volume.
"Harry we must be able to do something, we just can't let it happen...we can't" Hermoine had her head I her arms and was crying openly. Harry knew exactly what she meant (she was worried bout Snape.) He went over and hugged her. The other two seemed to be transfixed.
"Get a hold of yourself!" He meant it for everyone in the room, including himself.
Snape was in his living room when his arm begun to hurt, the pain ran up and through him to every part of his body. As he gained control, he got up and moved as quickly as possible to Dumbledore's office. It was beginning.
Snape never got to Dumbledore's office, instead he sent his hawk. Dumbledore would know what it meant if the hawk arrived without a message. Snape made his way to the Hogwarts gate where he apparated.
Voldemort was standing by an old house, he remembered killing his muggle father here, a smile crossed his face at the pure pleasure of the memory. There was a buzzing sound behind him and Severus Snape appeared a few feet away from his master. The smile of pleasure on Voldemort's face was quickly replaced by one of malice and hate. 'How dare he return to face me.'
"So you have returned." His voice lacked anything humane.
Snape stepped forward and knelt at Voldemort's feet. "I am always faithful to you my master." Snape resisted the urge to spit at Voldemort's feet, he hated groveling for anyone.
Voldemort's face was expressionless, but inside he burned with a passion for blood, he wanted to kill Snape. 'Never mind, I have a surprise for the traitor.'
"Stand!" Snape stood at the order without hesitation, but the look on his face was not one of respect or gratitude to Voldemort.
Voldemort strode into the house at a quick pace with Snape at his heel.
The inside of the house smelt of rotted wood and Snape immediately noticed the figure lurking in the shadows. He was only a second too late in removing his wand, ten men released hexes at him and within seconds he was on the floor immobile.
"So you dared to come back and face me did you! Well no matter, I shall take great pleasure in seeing your death. Malfoy!" A tall man with blonde hair came forward, his wand was held ready in his hand. "I believe that you have an old score to settle, I suggest you be quick about it, I have no time to waste."
As Malfoy raised his wand there was suddenly a buzzing noise behind the death eaters, Dumbledore appeared with Minerva at his side both had their wands out and attacked immediately.
"DUMBLEDORE!" The hollow echo was Voldemort, he stood ready and faced Dumbledore who had finished with another Death Eater. "Why don't we finish this where we stopped last time!"
"Don't be Foolish Tom, it's not worth it..."
"Don't try to reason with me you old fool...I have no time for your meddling."
Just as he was about to raise his wand there was another buzzing sound and with that three people appeared with wands upheld aiming directly at Voldemort.
Snape was suddenly at Dumbledore's side and both also had their wands ready and with no hesitation both aimed "Avada....." Harry had also aimed and had had the same thing in mind... "Avada..." Ron hexed a death eater who had tried to hit Harry while Hermoine was nowhere to be seen.
Hermoine almost stumbled at the bright flash of green light that had appeared, she was running down steps and it seemed to be getting darker. She remembered appearing behind Voldemort, she had seen Severus on the floor and had run to his aid, then she had seen Malfoy running away and ran after him. The sound of footsteps ahead of her seemed to be growing fainter 'Damn the fool for running so fast, gutless coward.'
"Face me Malfoy! Or do I have to chase you all the way around the world waiting for you to get the guts to face a mudblood." The sound of footsteps stopped and Hermoine cursed under her breath. 'Oh great going Granger, now he's just standing and waiting for you to get to him.' Hermoine cursed again, the green flash had maid her lose the night vision she had gained and know she could barely see the stairs.
The steps ended and Hermoine slowly stepped forward trying to see past the shadows, suddenly something hit her on the back of the head and she dropped to the ground like dead.
Five people stood in the living room of an old house surrounded by bodies. Harry dared not look at Dumbledore or McGonagal, he knew already what they would say. He, Ron and Hermoine had apparated after being told severely not to leave Hogwarts, but Harry had been worried about Dumbledore and Hermoine had all but cried with worry about Snape. 'Wait, Hermoine, where is she?' "Hermoine?" The sudden sound in the house startled Ron out of his reverie. Harry slowly stepped over the body of a man with snake like features and a deathly white skin colour that now suited his condition, Voldemort was dead.
"HERMOINE?" Harry was extremely worried, e remembered arriving with her but she wasn't there when Voldemort died.
"Where is she?" Ron was also wearing a worried look on his face. Harry turned to Dumbledore for help, but he only shrugged and turned to Snape who nodded and left the room.
"Don't worry Harry. Professor Snape will find her!" He seemed too confident in Snape for Harry's liking but he remained silent.