Back and updated due to popular demand. What am I saying? I've only had two reviewers! Thankyou Amandah Leigh and Stocktonwood for reviewing- I wish other people would do so too sob Anyway, here's the final battle though not the final chapter. REVIEW GOD DAMN YOU! Very sorry... Got carried away...

Chapter 10: The Final Battle

"When the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won"

William Shakespeare

Ella knew what she had to do; the fact that it was a necessity did not make her like it any more. She looked at Dumbledore out of the corner of her eye, he nodded his encouragement; there was no twinkle in his eye now. Harry Potter's body pointed Ella Snape's wand at the Potions Master. She knew she had to mean for the spell to work so she imagined that her father was someone else as she bellowed the incantation.

"CRUCIO!" She registered dully that there was a startled yell from somewhere behind her. Dumbledore was keeping the throng of her friends and her Transfiguration professor from surging forward to stop her. Severus Snape writhed on the floor and could not help the scream from breaking through his lips. This was Ella's breaking point; she severed the curse and ran towards her father. It took all of her will power to stop herself from sobbing and cradling her father's twitching figure. Instead, she stood above him and with her remaining determination spat out the words "get up" with all of the dispassionate iciness she could muster. The shattered man was quick to comply as he heaved his aching body upwards and stood facing his daughter. He yet again hid his feelings behind a blank façade.

Dumbledore walked behind the man whose sheer strength of mind was the only thing that prevented him from collapsing. The older man placed an arm around him to give him some much needed support. Dumbledore nodded at the young witch in a wizard's body for the second time.

"You did not like that did you Father." The frosty words came from Harry Potter's mouth. "And neither did I." She said the latter in barely more than a whisper and walked towards her father with her shoulders slumped dejectedly.

"What in Merlin's name is going on here" spat McGonagall who could feel her rage bubbling over after witnessing Snape's treatment.

Dumbledore spoke. "I'm afraid that I taught your daughter that particular curse. 'It's those who love you most that hurt you most'. I heard you say that once and I wanted that to be the case tonight. You have heard the affirmation from Ella's friends that they love you; Ella, I believe that you have something you'd like to say now?"

"Yes. Father, Dad, I'm so sorry! I had to do that, I had to. Professor Dumbledore told me that you would willingly sacrifice your life at the hands of Voldemort, I won't let that happen!" No one but Dumbledore and Ella herself understood what she was saying. "You see Dad; I have now committed one of the atrocities that you yourself feel so guilty about having done. Not only did I use one of the unforgivable curses but I used it on my own father; that would have hurt no one any less than it hurt you and no one would have been less scared. You are just as brave and true as everyone else and so much more; the only way I can get rid of my own feelings of guilt now is to make it up to you in some way." Severus Snape understood and he found himself grinning, despite himself and the pain he was in, at his daughter's inherited cunning. The other's had yet to understand.

"Dad, if you do not make it through the night and I do then I will never be able to repay you and my feelings of remorse will eat away at me as they have you. You once told me that I would be fine because the same blood that runs in your veins runs in mine; if this is the case and you think so little of yourself does that mean that you think little of me as well?" She looked at her father with Harry's tearful eyes.

The other's finally understood; Ella had just lost her innocence to give her father a further reason to live.

Severus Snape walked forward to his daughter all pain forgotten. He kissed the cheek of what looked like James Potter's son and then held onto his, or her, hand as he answered the call of the Dark Lord.

"Good luck my boy!" Dumbledore whispered after him as he disappeared.

They were appeared in what looked very much like a graveyard. "Well, my Master does seem to have a fascination with death doesn't he?" thought Snape morbidly. Snape daughter gave his hand a squeeze and gave him a quick smile before making Harry Potter's face frown, all part of the act; a kidnapped Harry Potter would hardly be smiling now would he.

Before long they heard an unholy, hissing, excuse for a voice that made their blood run cold.

"Bellum Gerere" Severus thought. War had been waged.

"Ssseverusss, ssso glad you could make it!" The man, or the monster who had once been a man, made his way towards him with movements as eerie as his voice. A long, scaly finger reached up to caress Severus' cheek and the Potions Master could not help but flinch.

"What'sss the matter ssseverusss? Why do you recoil at the touch of your massster?" Voldemort drew his hand away and brought it back quickly making the former Death Eater's cheek sting in a way that had become all too familiar in the past few hours.

"No matter, you have the boy."

Red, slit like eyes focused on the teenager next to Snape. Ella flexed Harry's muscles thinking about how much she'd like to beat this beast to death right there and then.

"Harry Potter, finally I can finisssh thisss!" He drew his wand as the Death Eaters moved in and formed a circle around them, wands raised. Severus Snape shifted back into the circle. He had his wand held in one hand; his other hand grasped the Muggle tracking device in his pocket desperately. This had to work!

Ella had pulled out her wand from Harry Potter's pocket and she pointed her wand at the man who had killed both of their mothers. He let out a shrill cackle of a laugh. "You will not be asss lucky asss you were lassst time Potter! Your wand will no longer work againssst mine in that way."

She remembered what Harry had said about his and Voldemort's duel. She could barely stop a smile from spreading across her face. But this was not Harry Potter's wand.

"Ssstill, we will duel!"

He bowed to her and she remained still.

"Come now Potter, I thought I taught you thisss! Ssshow the proper ressspect for your fellow dueller!"

"I am showing you far more respect than you deserve" came Harry Potter's voice "and you are not even one of my fellow human beings let alone a fellow dueller."

"Bow" the cold voice hissed.

"No" Ella made Harry's body remain upright.

"BOW!" he spat.

"NO!" she fought his spell. She noticed a gasp from the Death Eater's circle and looking ahead of her she realised the reason for their surprise. Voldemort's back was bending into a clearly forced and painful bow. "Interesting, I didn't know that something so heartless could feel pain!" thought Ella.

He fought against his own deflected spell and stood up again with obvious effort. He pointed his wand at Ella; fury lined his Snake like features.

"Avada Kedavra!" green light shot out of his wand, Ella was ready. She was just about to duck out of the way when she realised who was standing behind her. She moved to the side slightly and Voldemort moved his wand with her. In that split second Ella dived out of the curses way. Getting up she saw that Crabbe Sr. was dead and her father looked like he was in two minds as to whether he should send a curse Voldemort's way for trying to kill his daughter or faint with relief that he hadn't yet. Ella's eyes told him that he should do neither.

Voldemort was even more fuming. "Avada..."

"...Kedavra" Ella countered.

Green light burst from both of the wands. Ella felt the power of the two curses vibrate through her arms but she kept her wand steady. She registered the fact that her own tracking device was vibrating in her pocket. Reinforcements had arrived.

Severus Snape felt it. He dragged his eyes away from his daughter's peril to see Dumbledore and the other Order members. "We have been found" he heard himself shout and the Death Eaters turned around.

"Bellum" Severus thought. This was war.

"You have no idea how sssatissifying I will find killing you Potter!" Voldemort uttered not breaking the curse.

"You will not find it half as satisfying as I will find killing you" Ella replied.

Curses were flying everywhere. Tonks had been one of the Order's early casualties but she had not gone down without a fight. She had killed Goyle and Evan Blake before becoming a victim herself.

Snape had 'fled' with Lucius Malfoy only to kill his friend when they were out of sight. Snape couldn't say he was surprised at how easy it had been to kill Voldemort's right hand man. Lucius' supposed strength had just been bravado after all. That was for Draco Snape thought coldly as he returned to the fighting.

The real Harry Potter along with Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger all stood cramped beneath Harry's invisibility cloak. It was far too small for them all to fit under and they had to move sideway like crabs to prevent it from revealing them. They had been told not to follow when the Order had tracked Snape and Ella but when had they ever listened to commands?

At the edge of the grave yard-come- battlefield they threw the cloak to the ground and took out their wands.

Remus Lupin found Bellatrix Lestrange easily as did Harry and Neville. The sadist was currently holding Mad Eyed Moody under the Imperius curse, making him do a series of back-flips; her cackle easy to hear. When Lupin saw the two boys he was not surprised. He knew that there was no way they would leave the fighting to others and do nothing themselves. It also came as no surprise that this was the woman they sought. She had done almost as much to them as Voldemort had, more in Neville's case, as she was the reason his parents could not recognise him.

Bellatrix turned around, looked at their wands pointing at her and continued to laugh. "This is for Sirius" Harry and Lupin said together.

"This is for my parents" said Neville.

"THIS IS FOR THE ORDER!" they all said at once as they sent the green light towards her.

Dumbledore saw Snape approaching and knew by his expression that he had just killed.

"Lucius" Snape replied to Dumbledore's questioning glance.

The old wizard nodded sadly.

Draco Malfoy found his father's body along with Hermione and Ron. He looked at the man for whom he was heir and said nothing.

"Look, mate, I'm sorry" said Ron awkwardly. Hermione placed a hand on Draco's shoulder. He pushed it away.

"Don't be sorry, I'm certainly not." The blonde boy looked up at them and beamed. "Now I'm free!"

"You cannot kill me Harry Potter!" Voldemort's shaft of light moved closer to Harry Potter's body.

"I am not Harry Potter!" replied Ella.

Voldemort looked at the ray in front of him fearfully as his wand began to pulsate violently.

There was a phenomenal explosion that knocked everyone within ten miles of the epicentre unconscious. The war was finally over.

Next chapter: Prison it may be a while before I update with this chapter because I have work to do. I may, however, be persuaded to update a little faster it I get more reviews hint, hint