Author's notes: Sorry it took so long but I have been extremely busy and I have bad writer's block. I know what I want done but can't seem to get it beyond "harry fights, people die, others live happily ever after". So bear with me with this chapter. So sorry for length of time it took to update. I would have put the lyrics of the song this is based on but then it would have been deleted and then I would have been sad and wouldn't finish.

Disclaimer: Holy flying toilet seats batman, you don't own this!

Chapter 5: Even the Best Fall Down Sometimes

When we last saw Ron and Hermione, Hermione was yelling at Ron for leaving her behind and Ron, was well being Ron, and thinking 'hey maybe she likes me after all' and proceeded to kiss our bushy haired heroine.

'Ron is kissing me! RON IS KISSING ME! Wait, we shouldn't be doing this now…Harry…war. Oh bugger,' thinks Hermione dejectedly.

"RON!" screams Hermione pulling abruptly away from Ron's embrace.

"We need to go help Harry," she says quietly while walking towards the Order's camp.

"Hermione, we nee-" begins Ron.

"Not now. I can't handle this now. Let's just go help Harry and finish this," whispers Hermione with her back to Ron hiding her tears.

"Fine. Let's just go," grunts Ron in a defeated voice.

They walk quickly back to the where the Order is waiting, both suffering in silence. Ron briefly mentions the plan he and Harry came up with, but for the most part simmers in his own stew of self-doubt and unworthiness. Hermione is too busy trying to analyze her feelings for Ron to see that he was upset and not speaking. As soon as they got back to the camp, Ron immediately went to find Harry and Hermione just sat on the ground still thinking and trying to decide what she was going to do about Ron.

"Alright, everyone get ready to disillusion themselves. Once you are disillusioned head to your assigned spots and wait for the signal. Once you see Fawkes fly overhead, start stunning the Death-eaters as quickly as possible. DO NOT TRY TO TAKE VOLDEMORT! Remain in your groups and if you get injured try to move to the side and someone will get to you. Stay safe," said Harry to the Order as they went out to the final battle.

"You guys ready?" asks Harry to the remaining four people.

"Yeah let's just finish this," says Ron quietly, still confused and upset at Hermione reaction to him.

"Hermione, do you know what is going on?" asks Ginny.

"Yeah, I'm ready. Let's go," Hermione replies half-heartedly.

"We need to wait until the majority of the fighting is over. Once that happens you four will head out and Harry will have to draw Voldemort into a battle with wands. If you still share a wand core, and I believe you will, you have to make his wand do what it did before. That is where you three will come in. With your added magic to Harry's already strong powers, he will be able to make that happen with little effort. Then once the protection spell takes affect, your love for him will cause the magic to be even more powerful," explains Dumbledore. "You will all be aware of what is going on, but probably not able to respond, which is why I am going to cast a protection spell over you three to make sure nothing will break Harry's concentration. I am going to send the signal now for the fight to begin, watch for your opening into the battle. Remember that love will be what saves us."

The battle starts and almost immediately death-eaters are going down. Neville immediately zoned in on Bellatrix and with a fantastically placed jinx took her out before she even knew what was going on. Remus zoomed right in on Pettigrew and engaged him in a duel like no other. With an anger and passion that he didn't know he had, Remus got his revenge on the traitor of the Marauders and put the souls of James, Lily, and Sirius to rest once and for all. However, it wasn't just death-eaters being stunned and injured; the Order also had many losses. Tonks was knocked out by Lucius Malfoy, who took a great deal of pleasure in injuring the Auror. Prof. McGonagall was hit with a killing curse right after stunning Dolohov. Bodies were piling up on both sides by the time Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione and Dumbledore entered the fight.

Immediately after entering the battle zone, Dumbledore put a protective bubble around the four teenagers to be sure nothing would happen to them. Voldemort honed right onto Harry and started taunting him. Harry, however, has had enough of living with the constant pressure and presence of Voldemort and refused to take the bait. Ron, Hermione, and Ginny stood to the side waiting for Voldemort to throw a spell at Harry since Harry wasn't going to throw the first one.

"Why don't you give up, Potter? You won't be able to beat me. Look around you; people are all dying for a lost cause," hisses Voldemort.

"No matter what happens tonight, people will always fight evil. You will never win," replies Harry with more confidence then he felt.

"Will they fight even with the death of the Hero, The-Boy-Who-Lives because others keep dying for him? I think we should find out. AVEDA KEDARVA!" shouts Voldemort.

At the same time Ron, Hermione, and Ginny threw a protection spell over Harry and transferred their magical powers to him. Harry, meanwhile, threw a stunning spell at Voldemort so the wands would meet and was struggling to make the white light hit Voldemort's wand when the combined magic of Ron, Hermione, and Ginny hit Harry causing him to glow a bright yellow. The white light hit Voldemort and all of his previous victims came out of his wand, glided over to Harry, and formed a circle around him.

Dumbledore was watching all of this occurring, keeping the protection spell over the incapacitated teenagers, knowing Harry was going to win the day, when Lucius Malfoy sauntered behind him and uttered the killing curse. Dumbledore fell immediately and a hush went over the battlefield. Harry broke the connection with Voldemort and ran over to where Dumbledore lay, stunning Malfoy as he ran. Voldemort, though weakened, saw that this was his chance and once again yelled the killing curse.

"AVEDA KEDARVA!"

"NOOOOOO!" shouted Ron as he ran to intercept the curse.

Harry turned around, and in what he would later say was slow motion, watch as Ron pushed him down and took the Killing curse for him.

"RON!" yelled Harry, staring down at bodies of the two of people that he knew he could always count on. "NO MORE VOLDEMORT! I'M DONE!"

With Hermione and Ginny watching in stunned and shocked silence, Harry began to glow white and said the words that he and Ron found that both knew would end the evil forever.

"AMOR ACTUM!"

With that ancient spell a bright blue light shot from Harry's wand and wrapped itself around Voldemort like a snake. With a flash of bright blue light Voldemort disappeared and in his place was the broken shriveled body of Tom Riddle, crying and screaming on the ground. Harry walked up to the body as Ginny and Hermione ran, crying, over to where Ron was lying. Harry watched as the life of Tom Riddle slowly left the world taking with himthe fear that was Voldemort and the scar that once rested on Harry's forehead.

AN2: WOAH! I killed off a lot of people. Holy flying broomsticks batman, am I mean. Nothing was resolved between Ron and Hermione. But hey I killed off Wormtail and left it to your imagination and let Neville get his revenge! Can I get points for that? And I was so thinking about leaving it at the point where Ron took the killing curse for Harry, which I know has totally been done before but honestly I can so see Ron doing that, but I didn't want that massive of a cliffhanger. Don't worry there is a final twist to all this jazz that I write.