A/N: Only one or two chapters after this, and then it is over.
Chapter 22
"Hey Tom," Harry said mockingly, "You seem extremely bitchy today."
"You will address me as Lord Voldemort!" he said, very annoyed.
"Whatever, Tom. It's time for you to die."
"Ha! I see you brought that damn sword. No matter, I will not make a difference. Crucio!"
Harry dodged the curse and yelled, "Expelliarmous," just as Voldemort fired another curse.
"Potter, you cannot possible hope to - damn!"
The curses had hit and the golden dome was quickly forming again. The thread of golden light that had connected the wands before reformed, along with the beads of light. Harry easily forced them into Voldemort's wand.
"Damn you Potter!" he dropped the wand and cracked it in half, just it was beginning to produce the echoes of his past victims. He pulled a similar wand from his robes. Harry lunged with the sword, and noticed that the others were already engaged in battle around him with Death Eaters.
His friends did not stand a chance.
Voldemort dodged the sword attack. Harry fell and rolled twenty feet to within ten feet of the wall. As he got up, he saw that Voldemort had levitated a six foot square piece of stone into the air, and then hurtled it towards him. Harry raised his wand to deflect it, but someone collided with him, and he was knocked out of the way. He spun around in the air, and dropped his wand and sword, in time to see the stone slam into Severus Snape. The inertia shot Snape up and back into the wall. Blood sprayed out in a circle from his body. He head snapped back into the wall with a sickening crunch. He slid down the wall, barely alive.
"Ah, Severus!" Voldemort said, "I found out that you were a spy for Dumbledore, your dark mark is gone now, though I doubt you ever see your arm again. But I think there still is time for a little more pain before you die. Cruci...urgh!"
Harry, with no other options, had dizzily run up and planted his foot squarely in Lord Voldemort's crotch.
"You. Son. Of. A. Bitch." Harry said, starting to punch him. Voldemort's face started bleeding in several places.
"Enough!" he screamed, forcing Harry off him with a spell. Just as Harry was about to hit the wall in a similar location to where Snape had, he was caught by Dumbledore's spell. Voldemort began to attack Dumbledore, and Harry crawled over to Snape.
"Professor…th-thank you…" he stuttered.
"Just, making, up, for the, last, few years," Snape said slowly and painfully. "I am, sorry, for, mistreating, you. You, are not, your father. I have made, that mistake, too, many times. Good, luck."
His breath stopped, and Harry slowly reached forward and closed his eyes. He stood up enraged. He faced a group of Death Eaters, in which Dumbledore and Voldemort were fighting.
"Crucio! Crucio! Crucio! Crucio! Crucio!" Harry fired into the group. One missed, three hit Death Eaters who fell to the ground screaming, and the last hit Voldemort, who flew backwards, screaming loudly. Dumbledore looked up to Harry, as did everyone else in room. The only noise was made by Voldemort's last drawn out scream. He stood up.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Voldemort bellowed.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Harry screamed with a renewed fire. He had hurt Tom.
The two spells collided in mid air, produced a green shock wave, and then disappeared.
Voldemort fired a killing curse at Melinda. Neville, who had seen what Harry did, gritted his teeth.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Neville's curse hit Voldemort's and produced an even larger shock wave. Harry tried to disarm Voldemort when he was distracted, but he saw just in time to dodge the spell. Hermione, Ron, Luna, Ginny, and Draco had been forced into a small circle, completely surrounded by Death Eaters. They were about to be overwhelmed, but just as Ron was hit with a stunner, Lupin and McGonagall attacked from behind. Luna revived Ron.
"How is Harry doing?" Ron asked Hermione after they had taken care of the nearby Death Eaters.
Hermione pointed to Harry and Voldemort, who were locked in a duel. Ron and Hermione ran up behind Voldemort.
"You cant kill him!" Hermione yelled to Ron.
"No," Ron said, drawing his sword, "But that doesn't mean we cant help."
He stabbed Voldemort in the back. Voldemort screamed and spun around, backhanding Ron, who flew into Hermione. His jaw bone had shattered. Hermione quickly tried three or four spells to heal it. They both looked up to see Neville, facing Bellatrix Lestrange, wand ready to attack. A couple of Death Eaters stepped forward behind him, but Bellatrix waved them off.
"I will take care of the whelp. Just like his parents," she added with a cruel smile.