Disclaimer; I don't own the HP character or settings
AN: warning there is a major fight in this also so male/male slash and Severus is very out of character- more so then usual sorry!
Chapter 47
It was around noon when the majority of the residence of 12 Grimmauled place began to return unwillingly to the land of the living. The only two up before this were Harry, having been awakened at 9 by a rather unpleasant dream and Outkast who never slept later then 8 even if she only went to bed at 7:55 she appeared downstairs at the same time as Harry having had a long shower, and spent some quality time Sev-watching. The only indication that she felt anything from the night before was that she drank 12 glasses of water before saying anything. Harry greeted her with a tired smile.
"Morning mister" she said as she flopped into a chair next to him.
"Morning" he muttered. She looked at him and noted the dark bags under his eyes
"What's up?"
"Nothing" he mumbled trying to rest his head on his arms
"Try again I know you better then that" she said gently, he sighed
"I had a nightmare and couldn't get back to sleep" he admitted she gave him a
sympathetic look
"Yeah I know how that is" Harry nodded and said something she couldn't make out through the muffling of his arm.
"Come on" she said and picked him up, he didn't complain, he was already feeling tired again, having someone near him made it easier to sleep and Outkast always had a soothing effect on him. She carried him into the library and by the time they were there he was already asleep. She selected a book off the shelf and got comfy in one of the big arm chairs, allowing Harry to curl further onto her lap, seeking refuge from the terrors in his sleep. He had woken an hour later and decided he was more hungry then tired. They had begun to make breakfast to feed the army that at the moment was slumbering. Outkast was particularly noisy about cooking that morning, she even encouraged Harry to help and tutted when he did things right, in the end she sat him down for a very stern talk
"Harry, how old are you?" Harry grinned
"16" Outkast hit her head on the desk
"Stupid question, lets try again, how old is you body at the moment?" she looked at Harry, who was desperately trying to figure out where she was going with this.
"Four" he muttered, she nodded
"Correct, now do most four years olds know how to cook?" he shook his head and she continued "but do some of them try?" Harry thought back and found he remembered the one time Dudley had tried to cook breakfast for his parents, the whole thing was a disaster and he had managed to wake them both up in the process. Harry came back to the present and nodded at Outkast who beamed at him
"Now do they normally manage it or do they make a lot of noise and wake up the neighbourhood without much success?" Harry was about to speak but then the penny dropped and he got what was going on, he grinned at her and simply nodded. He went over to the work surface and knocked a frying pan on the floor
"Oopse" he said totally unremorseful. Outkast looked like he'd just solved world hunger
"That's my boy" she praised. So for the next hour they made breakfast and as much noise as possible, which did have the side effect of waking up everyone else in the house. The twins were the first to come down
"Would you kindly shut up" George said, before trying to bury his head in his arms, Fred nodded in agreement but didn't move from the table,
"Awww, are we feeling bad?" Outkast asked in a sickly sweet voice, the twins nodded in unison
"Well I have just the thing, the world's best fry up curtsey of Harry and myself" she stuffed a plate in front of each of them. The smell alone resulted in both of them turning green and dashing for the bathroom. Outkast took out a little book, Harry could see a list of names in
"Twins… check" she put a tick by their names and turned back to Harry
"I wonder who our next victim err customer will be?" Harry was bouncing with excitement.
Severus appeared a few moments later and surveyed the kitchen
"Well you two will be cleaning that up" he said pointing at the mess, Outkast shrugged
"Never mind, have some breakfast. She put a plate in front of Sev who looked at it and smirked
"Don't mind if I do thank you. Harry have you had something?" the little boy shook his head, in actual fact he forgotten that he could have something to eat, as the Dursley's had always made him cook but never let him have anything. Sev beckoned him over and sat him on his lap.
"You can share mine then" Harry Outkast looked at him curiously, and then smacked her head
"Oh yeah potions, master – hangover curers I forgot" Sev inclined his head in acknowledgment and fed Harry some sausage. The twins returned, followed by the rest of the red heads, a sleepy Hermione and two Marauder's who were on auto-pilot. As most went to sit down, Sirius and Remus headed for the kitchen, they started pouring what looked like random ingredients into a jug. After five minutes they pour the slightly red concoction into a couple of glasses and swallowed it grimacing at the taste. They then immediately perked up and looked round the room they grabbed a plate of food and sat at the table that was inhabited by creatures of the half dead and Harry and Sev. Sirius finished his breakfast and took pity on the others: he went back to the kitchen, noticing the mess for the first time, he shrugged and looked over at Outkast and a sheepish Harry
"Had fun did we?" Harry nodded, causing Sirius and Remus to chuckle as he buried himself in his father's robes. Sirius pulled out what looked to be a very large cauldron and started filling it with the same stuff he and Remus had used. After he'd finished he enlisted the help of the functioning adults to carry glasses of the liquid back in.
"Now this looks bad and tastes worse but it will cure your hang over I guarantee it" he said happily, the twins gave him a dubious look but then decided it was worth the risk and knocked back the vile fluid gagging on the taste. Sure enough they perked up and started worshipping Sirius and Remus with praise of 'we are not worthy'. The twin's antics convinced the rest of them to try it and sure enough 15 minutes later everyone was eating and chatting normally, much to Outkast's distaste
"There goes my day's entertainment" she sighed. Harry grinned at her while the others glared, she shrugged
"I can't help it it's in my nature" she sauntered out the garden before anyone could comment.
The day past smoothly, everybody was too tired to really bicker or try and hold up petty differences, that is until around 7 that evening when the adults tried to persuade Harry it was bed time.
"NO!" Harry shouted after being told to go to bed by the seventh person, he stormed off in the direction of Ron's bedroom
"Ah, temper tantrums, they bring back memories" Molly said wistfully watching amusedly at Sev trying to convince his son it was bed time, he just glared at them
"At least he'll grow out of them" his gaze ticked to Sirius who caught the not so subtle suggestion
"I resent that I don't have temper tantrums" he pouted, Remus patted him on the head
"Of course you don't" he agreed in a patronising tone that sent Sirius into a sulk.
"Why can't they leave me alone" Harry sighed as he sat on his bed. Hermione and Ron looked at him sympathetically
"Because they care, and quite frankly Harry, four year olds need more sleep then 16 year olds so you should listen" Hermione tried to be tactful, but received a glare anyway. There was a knock on the door, but they weren't given time to respond before Draco entered. He sat down next to Harry and slung his arms around the boys shoulders
"Hey, I know you don't want to sleep but you've got to be more cunning, make it look like you're giving in so change brush your teeth, then wait for the obligatory one hour check and you're home free, you can always sneak into my room if you don't want to stay in here" Harry's face brightened and he nodded before going off to get ready. Draco smirked and then looked on the disapproving faces of Hermione and Ron
"You know he's going to be out like alight, after all he's had hardly any sleep in the last twenty four hours" Draco rolled his eyes
"Yes I know that and you know that, but the thing is he doesn't so as long as he thinks he's being sly and getting one over on Sev he'll play along and are you going to wake once he's asleep?" Realisation dawned on them, Draco shook his head
"Stupid Gryffindor's" he muttered as he left.
Sure enough within five minutes of his head hitting the pillow, Harry was dead to the world, Outkast checked on him an hour later to find he was sleeping with a small fist pressed to his mouth, clinging onto the toy puppy that he had stubbornly insisted he didn't like. She silently cooed before dashing off to get the others, in the end there was quite an audience at the door. Molly Weasley dashed off and returned with a camera
"I thought we might need one of these" she stated and then snapped off a couple of shots of the sleeping Harry before they left him in piece.
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It was early morning when Harry woke with a gasp; the sun had yet to rise. He rubbed his face and willed the tears from his eyes, his scar hadn't flared since he learnt occlumency but now it was burning. He lost the battle and tears streamed down his face. Then he hit upon an idea that made sense in his child's mind. If he physically removed he scar it couldn't hurt, he silently stumbled out the room and down to the kitchen where he retrieved the sharpest knife he could find. He snuck back into the bathroom and stared at himself in the mirror, pathetic he thought as he looked at his reflection. He raised the knife to his head and pressed down.
Sev woke with a start, the ring he wore burnt him, he didn't know what had caused it but Harry hurting. His sudden move awoke the other occupant of his bed; she looked at him, already fully awake
"Where is he?" she said already getting up, Sev didn't say anything but darted from the room, Outkast hot on his heels. The sight that greeted him as he opened the bathroom door made him want to throw up, Harry stared at him, blood cascading down his face causing him to frequently wipe it from his eyes, the knife still in his hand. Sev was speechless, luckily Outkast managed to talk.
"Harry, honey put the knife down"
"Make it stop" he whimpered, punching his forehead with his fist
"What's wrong" she whispered, slowly edging towards him,
"It hurts I can't make it stop it hurts so much I thought if I could remove it then the pain would stop, but I can't it won't go" Harry dropped the knife and was sobbing hysterically, Outkast picked him up looking around for something to staunch the bleeding. Somewhere along the her conversation with the distraught boy Sev had come to his senses, he pressed a rolled up towel to the wound and pulled Harry away from Outkast, she reluctantly let go.
"What the hell?" Sirius was standing in the doorway, trying to take in the scene, Sev sat on the edge of the bath pressing a rapidly reddening towel to Harry's head, and all around the floor was covered with blood. Sev ignored the question
"In my room there's a potions bag, I need it" he stated, Sirius was too stunned to do anything but follow the request, he left quickly only to retune moments later with the satchel. Sev routed through it and recovered a couple of vials. The coaxed Harry into drinking the first and then removed the towel and poured the second over his head. Harry whimpered as the wound closed leaving no trace. Outkast cleaned the room with a quick spell, Harry was still crying softly in Sev's arms
"He can't be alone tonight Sev" she said quietly, Severus nodded and stood up, he went to leave and realised that Sirius still blocked his path, when it became clear that the animagus wasn't going to move with out looking at the boy himself Sev allowed Harry to be lifted from his arms. He glared the whole time Sirius held Harry and after five minutes threatened him with a massive injury if he didn't return his son. Sirius was only convinced by Outkast's words and assurances that he could see him later.
Sev took the now sleeping Harry back to his room and settled him into the middle of the bed, with Outkast one side and Sev on the other. While Harry slept peacefully three adults didn't managed to return to sleep that night.
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The rest of the week passed fairly smoothly, the twins had turned it into a mission to out prank Sirius and Remus, only they always seemed to be two steps behind. Finally on the last day when they had not only failed to catch the Marauder's out with the all blue sweets that had originally intended for Harry but had ended up somehow eating them themselves they caved.
"Ok, you are still the best prankers of the century how do you do that? How did you know what we were planning when all of the time" Sirius slung his arm around George's electric blue shoulders and had a amazingly smug look
"Ah my young grasshopper you are still learning. Pranking is a very serious business, and like all business it is half what you know and half who you know" Fred looked pleadingly at Remus
"Ok we're in need of a Sirius-to-earth translation" Remus grinned over the top of his coffee
"He means he's been bribing Harry with chocolate to let us know exactly what you two have been up to" Fred's jaw hit the floor
"Where is the little pipsqueak, I'll have him for that" Sirius rolled his eyes
"Do you really think threatening the Godson of the self proclaimed and now endorsed pranker of the century in front of said pranker is really a good idea?" George groaned
"We're not going to be a normal colour for a month" he moaned.
"Ain't that the truth" a voice from the doorway said, the all looked to see the 16-year-old Harry lounging against the doorframe dressed in new jean that actually fitted and a black long sleeve t-shirt with what looked to be a cartoon squirrel on the front with the words 'Do not anger the master" in big letters.
"Harry you're back… well not back in the sense that you went anywhere but back in the sense that you're taller then 3ft and what in the name of Merlin is that on your shirt" Harry looked down and shrugged at his babbling Godfather
"Haven't a clue Outkast got it for me" he said, the others nodded that phrase had been
used a lot of the last month, Outkast seemed to have given out an extra set of gifts that either did something that no one had worked out or were items of clothing with motto's no one had heard of. In the end the group had shrugged and written it off to her being a few potions short of a full kit.
"Ok kiddies, everyone set for the new year at school we leave in t-minus one hour an counting, you need to packed, wrapped and full of motivation and enthusiasm. Noticing the disgruntled looks on the faces of all those who were school aged she shrugged
"I'll settle for just packed and down here in an hour" Sev wrapped his arms around her waste and smirked
"I told you they wouldn't like going back as much as you do" he then looked at Harry and snarled
"Must you wear that shirt?" Harry opened his mouth but was beaten by Outkast
"He must, he must," she said emphatically
"Why?"
"Because it annoys you" she stated, tapping him on the nose for emphasis. Sev rolled his eyes, admitting defeat.
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The school term passed relatively smoothly, more so then the previous one as Draco and Harry no longer had to be so careful about their relationship. It was the one plus side to what had happened to the Malfoy's over the break. For his own protection Draco had been moved out of Slytherin, given that the loyalties of the other students was not assured. He had been given his own room near Sev's apartment it had been set with its own password that only Draco knew. Harry had heard it on several occasions but didn't comprehend how Draco could remember ' dues cicero meus iudicare' and he had even less idea what it meant. He's asked once and Draco had smirked and told him it was pig-Latin.
It was February 14th before anything of note really happened. The upper years had been given some time to go into Hogsmead that day and the dining hall had Valentine decorations up everywhere. Harry had been trying to convince Sev that he had nothing to be nervous of but he hadn't been able to convince his father even with Draco's help. So now the two sat at the Gryffindor table during the feast, looking up at the head table anxiously. Finally Hermione had enough
"Oh honestly what is up with you two? You've been jumpy since you got in here"
"No thanks"! they both replied absently, obviously not paying attention, Ron started to laugh but turned it to a cough when he got a look from Hermione that said he'd be spending the evening alone if he didn't stop. At the end of the feast Outkast noticed an interesting battle of wills going on between Sev and Harry. Harry was nodding at Sev and becoming more insistent with Sev's refusal. At last Harry rolled his eyes and looked pointedly at Albus, it was closed threat, but it made Severus squirm a little and go a little pink. Outkast was amazed, Sev was blushing, what ever it was Harry wanted it seemed to be a complete embarrassment to Sev. Harry threw his arms into the in exasperation and then grinned evilly, Sev's eyes went wide and he went to beat a hasty retreat. Unfortunately for Sev the headmaster chose that moment to give an impromptu speech, so Sev sunk back into his seat and tried to disappear under the table.
"Good evening boys and girls, I trust you are all enjoying the amazing feast that has been served for us" there was a round of cheers and the headmaster waited before continuing
"As many of you are aware today is Valentine's day – a celebration normally spent with loved ones. It is a truly romantic day of the year, one of which I am quite parcel to myself…" As Albus droned on, Severus knew what this was building too, 'Oh don't do this, please I'll even promise not to snarl for a whole month' unaware of his silent plea Albus continued 'a year an entire year and I won't take points…. Well except from Gryffindor' Albus was relentless 'Ok I won't take points from Gryffindor, even if they deserve it just don't….' it was too late the headmaster was rounding off
"Now in the spirit of love, our very own potion master has an announcement to make" Albus winked at Sev, who straightened in his chair and stood stiffly he glared at Albus
"Thank you Headmaster but I feel that this is neither the place nor the time for such a…"
"Proposal?" Albus offered
"Suggestion, so the students can go back to their meal"
"But I must insist Professor, after all I made a promise to a couple of students you wouldn't want to make me brake it would you" Sev paused a moment to glare at the two in question, who were both trying to look innocent. Harry was nowhere near as talented as Draco at that, Sev snorted
"I rather think that they would let you off this time headmaster"
"I don't think so Severus so off you go" he made little go-on gestures with his hands
"Yes Sev, please continue" Outkast said looking enormously amused leaning her face on her palm and her elbow on the table. Sev growled
"Very well" he pulled a rather surprised Outkast up and led her round to the front of the table. Reaching into his pocket and retrieved a small black box. Outkast went from surprised to stunned boarding on startled shock as Sev got down on one knee.
"I've known you on and off for more years then I care to remember, you are my best friend, and my better half. I am not normally one to show my emotions but I will make this exception" he opened the box to reveal a platinum ring, it had an emerald in the middle of a cluster of diamonds that fired in the light of the hall, he looked up deeply into her eyes
"Will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?" The hall was quiet enough that breathing seemed too loud. Outkast looked between the ring and Sev in complete astonishment.
"You're serious aren't you?" she whispered but everyone heard, Sev swallowed hard and nodded. A grin broke out on her face; she took hold of his hand and pulled him up
"Yes dumbass of course I will!" she dragged him forward and kissed him, Harry and Draco were the first to start clapping and cheering, but soon the rest of the students got the idea and joined in even a few wolf whistles rung out. The cheering died down as the couple broke apart and Sev placed the ring on her finger. She looked down at it and then to Harry
"Hey Harry that mean I get to be your mummy" she shouted in her best sing-song voice. Harry froze before looking at her in horror
"Yay" he said deadpanned before slamming his head on the desk. Draco and Ron sniggered Hermione rolled her eyes.
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"You know I'm actually surprise, I thought that Sev would have wriggled more before caving tonight" Draco mused as he lay on his bad, his head in Harry's lap. Harry was stroking his hair absently
"I think he's finally learnt that is doesn't matter how much you argue with the headmaster, you are never gong to win." Draco nodded and sat up, he looked at Harry and smiled
"It was kinda cool in a there-isn't-enough-vomit-in-the-world sort of way" Harry nodded, and leant forward to kiss Draco. The kiss became more heated, as the two boys started to explore each other's bodies through their clothing. After several minutes Harry felt the urge to more things on a step, he slid his hands under Draco's top, Draco gasped and pulled away from Harry.
"Are you sure about this?" he whispered, Harry smiled and nodded. Draco swallowed hard
"I won't hurt you" he stated, his eyes locked with Harry's
"I know" Harry replied before allowing Draco to push him down to the bed.
True to his word Draco took his time preparing the Gryffindor, he started by kissing and caressing all the bare he found and he undressed him. Harry moaned and gasped as Draco tweaked his nipples and then kissed the abused flesh. Harry helped relieve Draco of his clothing before doing his own exploration, as he reached Draco's erection he hesitated; something that didn't go unnoticed.
"Harry it's ok, remember it's me I'm not going to hurt you and if you say stop it does, there and then no questions ok?" Harry nodded and gave the blonde a weak nod. Draco smiled and continued to kiss Harry and relax him…
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"I can't believe you did that" Outkast said and she lay on Sev's bed studying the ring he'd given her. He smiled
"There are lengths I'm prepared to go to"
"Even if you need a kick up the ass to get there"
"Even if I need a kick up the ass to get there" Sev conceded before rolling over to capture her lips with his. He moved his hands to stroke her hair when something caught his attention. She gave him a quizzical look and he showed her his right hand, now sporting a crimson red ring. Outkast shrugged
"Leave him to it, you can't stop him forever" he sighed beginning to get the feeling that when ever his wife and son ganged up on him, he would always lose. His wife… he liked the sound of that. He looked back at her and smiled before returning to his previous task of ravishing the woman of his dreams.
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It was the early hours of the morning, the dawn beginning to show through the window of Draco's room, he looked down at the head of black hair that was on his chest before running his hand through it. He kissed the top of Harry's head
"Thank you" he whispered, Harry sighed contentedly in his sleep and snuggled closer to Draco.
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All too soon June and the exam loomed at Hogwarts, the weather was nice and warm and many of the students had taken to spending the weekends out in the grounds. Unfortunately this particularly Saturday the heavens had opened and there had been nothing but rain. After the last Quidditch match of the year between Gryffindor and Slytherin (Gryffindor winning the game and the cup by a mere ten points) the entire school had retire into the castle. Harry was exhausted and had immediately gone back to sleep. It was the general consensus of his friends and family to let him sleep through lunch.
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Outkast was in her office trying to catch up on some paperwork. She had been spending so much time with Sev that she had been neglecting the administration side of her job. She called Dobby for a sandwich which she ate as she marked her essays.
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The wards started shrieking the moment the rest of school had gathered to eat but the teachers were not given the chance to react before the place was over run with Death Eaters, their first target was Albus, whose movements were sluggish as he fought the sedative that had bee slipped into his drink, he was stunned before he could respond. Severus and Minerva got off a couple of curses each but they were vastly outnumbered and were disadvantaged by the students caught between them and the enemy. There wasn't anything they could but surrender. The Death eaters grinned cruelly, the student on their side joining the attack.
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The door slammed open and the curse uttered before she could react, a black band shot from Voldemort's wand and sealed itself around her upper arm. Outkast felt her magic freeze and cursed the binding spell. The room filled with around 20 Death Eater's she glared at her one time brother
"STOP" She commanded the advancing army, none of them responded to her control, the Dark Lord laughed
"What good is your voice dear ssssssssssisssssssster if your audience issssssss deaf?" the first of the minions reached her and she kicked his wand away before he could utter a spell. She dodged the spells that had far more power then deaf wizards could normally wield leading her to the sickening conclusion that they had been robbed of their hearing for this exact purpose. The fight was long and fierce, she killed four of them before she was stabbed in the stomach, the wound disabling her long enough them to beat her down, the fists and kicks kept coming until she surrendered to the darkness.
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Harry woke with the wards and felt the pain in his forehead. A cold lump formed in his stomach when he realised how close Voldemort would have to for the pain to break through Outkast's defences. Going on gut instinct he transformed into Uriel. As he did he heard the sound of a door breaking as the Death Eaters broke into his fathers chamber's below. Harry fled out of his door, he kept to the shadows and froze completely when he heard the noise of footsteps. Quickly he darted behind a suit of armour and watched as Voldemort lead the entire school, flagged by hundreds of his followers to the end of the second floor, Harry didn't have to be close enough to hear the Parseltongue to know where Voldemort was taking them.
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The teachers kept looking around trying to work out a plan only a few of then had an idea where they where heading, and they weren't sharing it, it would do more harm then good. Soon enough the reached the girls bathroom.
"Go awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" Myrtle shrieked when she saw Voldemort and disappeared into a toilet. He grinned cruelly and addressed the sink unit.
Open he hissed and the basin slid aside, without a second thought he disappeared down the hole, along with some of the Death Eaters, each forcing the unarmed teachers and students with them.
They reached the main chamber and Voldemort paused he stalked up to Severus
"Ah, my beloved traitor I bet you are wondering why you have been let off ssssso eassssssily" he laughed "I thought firsssst you could watch your beloved die and then asssssss you hold the remainssssss of your ssssson I will let you beg for death" he forced Severus into the main chamber first. The sight that welcomed him made his heart stop. Outkast was bound both magically and with ropes on the floor she was next to the carcass of the Basilisk and was lying in a pool of blood and seemed to be unconscious.
"NO!" he screamed and ran to her, nothing else ever registering to him. The whimpered slightly as her picked her up. Her eyes opened but she could do little else as he brushed the hair from her face. He didn't even register as the door slid shut again and that the entire school was fixed on him in a stunned silence. He couldn't stop the tears from falling. Hermione was the first to snap out of it, she ran to couple and pulled her robe off. She located the wound and pushed the makeshift bandage on it. Outkast groaned from the pressure. Severus was about to snap at the young witch but she spoke first
"We need to stop the bleeding, she's lost a lot of blood" she stated without emotion. Severus nodded, Remus appear next to him, he had retrieved a Basilisk fang and used it to cut her ropes, they managed to free her arms and legs, but the magical bind on her magic and the gag which was also magic could not be removed. She reached up and wiped a tear from he fiancés face.
"You're going to be fine remember we're getting married in two months so you have to be ok by then" Sev whispered, she nodded her head agreeing. 'If he believes that who am I to shatter his dreams?' she thought to herself.
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"I know you're here boy, you might asssssssss well come out and let me kill you. It'ssssssssss just you left Potter, all your friends are out the way and you little Dia won't live much longer" the sonorous charm echoed through the hallways of the castle. Harry shivered inadvertently, he kept going though, and he slithered into the main hall and saw Voldemort sitting lazily in what looked to be a thrown. He was frustrated every 30 seconds he was sending more Death Eaters out to hunt for the boy. Harry watched and waited; the Dark Lord was arrogant and didn't seem to think he needed his servants to protect him from one boy. Harry knew that soon there would be only 3 or 4 left and then he could make his move. After all the others may be captive but they were safe and he could get them after.
Sooner then he thought Harry found that the crowd had clear, only 4 Death eaters remained. He took a deep breath the first ones would be coming back soon, it was now or never, he took a few deep breaths and silently transformed…….
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Severus paused; he had been murmuring words of comfort to Outkast since he found her. Madame Pomfrey had agreed that there was no more they could for her in here. Albus had come too and was nearby. Severus looked at his rind, it was jet black
"He's terrified" Albus squeezed his shoulder
"It is a good sign; it means he's still alive"
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Harry locked the doors, threw a stunning spell at one Death eater and blasted another through a wall before they had even been alerted to his presence. Using his wand for offensive spells and shielding as he'd been taught. He caught a third with a binding spell. The fourth deflected his first try but as he went to launch a second one he felt the Crucio hit. He collapsed to the floor writhing in agony for several seconds before it was released.
"Sssssshe trained you, but not well enough, never turn you back on your opponent" the voice was right behind him and Harry could hear the smirk. Using his intuition he kicked out with his legs, ignoring the pain it caused. His left foot connected with something solid an h heard the Dark Lord curse and fall. Harry quickly picked himself up and wasted no time in destroying the last wizard, he used a knife spell, no longer feeling charitable. Who ever was behind the mask was dead before they hit the floor. Harry turned his attention back to the dark wizard. He barely got the shield up in time to block the blasting curse. Voldemort snarled and sent spell after spell. Harry returned as many as he could, but was paranoid of their wands seizing like they had in the graveyard. He was panicking Harry knew he was losing, his right arm had a gash all along it from one attack, he had a burn and a few broken ribs from another. A final curse threw him into the wall. He was breathing heavily as he raised his head Voldemort stood over him. Harry then noticed that his wand was lying on the ground ten feet from him. Voldemort raised his wand and snarled
"Avada Kedavra" he shouted. Harry closed his eyes and waited for death…..
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Outkast groaned again, she looked up at Sev and motioned for pen and paper, one of the students offer her some they had. She wrote three words and hands it to Sev. The simple message made his heart bleed; I love you her eyes drifted shut
"No, Outkast NOOOOO!" he screamed and cried as he felt her breathing stop completely.