Super Beta looks around at all the confusion in the Great Hall, (Sighs in pleasure to note that there are no billboards) then sneaks up behind a hungy Snape, casts the IMMOBULUS charm and levitates him out of the Great Hall and down into the depths of the dungeons... Minerva turns to Albus and says, "Was that that Rayne twit dragging Severus off again? My but that girl is an inspiration." Albus meeps and blinks his eyes as an efficient Minerva efficiently casts some spells and hauls off the Headmaster to commit acts of lecherous debauchery on....

Andi;( Watches from her spot from Slytherin table) " Shes abousoultly BRILLENT"

(Looks at fred and george and laughs evily!!)

Chapter 7: Kill it before you eat it.

"You won't be fine for long, Mr. Potter." A harsh voice said behind them.

Draco and Harry both jumped as the voice literally ran through their bodies. They turned around to see the scaly, brittle, old green man towering over them from his superior height of six feet ten. The boys grabbed onto each other and began laughing.

"What happened to you? Were you hit by the Whomping Willow too many times?" Harry laughed breathlessly.

"No. No. I think his mum dropped him on his head once too often. Look at his nose!" Draco could not hold back the giggle when Voldemort raised a hand to touch his 'nose'. He then added, "You're right, Harry. He sure did get a good going over with the ugly stick: Probably got beaten by Professor Snape."

"How dare you!" the voice shrilled like a third year girl who just got hit in the breasts while walking along to Hogsmeade.

Harry and Draco both burst into fresh peals of laughter. "He sounds like Pansy when I turn her hair green." Draco gasped out.

Harry couldn't help himself. "Let's see if I can remember the spell." He waved his wand and the snake guy's sparse hair turned a brilliant shade of green. That set both boys off again even harder.

"I am Lord Voldemort! You will cower in fear in my presence!" He screamed. The Death Eaters cowered in fear while the two children stopped laughing and cocked their heads to look at him again. 'There! That put them in their place.' Voldie thought.

Harry and Draco burst out laughing once more. "I think you would scare all the customers away." Draco said between giggles.

Harry was laughing so hard at this point that he was completely balanced on Draco. "Lord," He had to take a deep breath, "they're (gasp) magically delicious. Haha haha…(snort)."

The two boy's laughter mingled together. Even there in the pit of doom, many of the people stopped and thought that their laughter sounded like bells.

"Enough!" Voldemort screamed.

"Oh, don't get your knickers in a twist, Voldie." Harry chirped. He could swear that he heard someone snort behind him. He was sure of the snort when he added, "Why do snakes wear knickers anyway?"

"That's it! CRUCIO!" The light formed around Harry's body, tickled him, then bounced back to hit a Death Eater standing close to Voldie.

"I didn't know you could do that, Harry!" Draco said. He was totally in awe of his little friend's shield spell.

"Neither did I." Harry answered back. There was a fair amount of confusion in his voice.

"The time is nigh! The prophecy will be fulfilled here and now, boy who lived!"

Harry literally perked up. "OH, The Boy who Lived! Where is he? I want to meet him. I heard that he survived the death curse. I want to …" He was all big green eyes and excitement as he bounced up and down and kept looking from Draco to Voldie and back.

Draco snorted, "Why? Do you idolize him or something?"

"Nope! Just wanted to tell him what a lucky git he is! Personally I think the name he got is so …!" Harry rolled his wrist to show his frustration of not being able to put his words together.

"Snobbish?" Draco asked.

"Stupid!" A Death Eater interjected…sounding suspiciously like Professor Snape.

"How about completely boring?" Someone in the crowd called out rudely.

Harry laughed. "All of those together.' He looked around at the assembled mass of Death Eaters then back to Voldemort who seemed to have regained control of his temper. "Are we going to have a tea party or something? Because, I am seriously cold right now and I could do with a hot cuppa'. " He watched Voldemort glare at him for a few seconds then added, " And you seriously need to grow up or something because all this glaring and screaming is so immature."

He looked to Draco for reaffirmation after announcing this and received an affirmative nod. "That is what Mother always tells me." Draco added solemnly. Then he looked at Voldemort and pointed out the obvious. "Lord Voldie'O, you are blushing red and it so clashes with your green complexion!" He tut tutted when Voldie hissed in anger when more Death Eaters snickered.

"Enough! I will not be made a fool of in front of my servants! You are the boy who lived, Potter and today is the day you will die."

Harry's eyes opened wider in innocent wonder. "What? That is impossible. If you haven't noticed, I am only nine years old and the Boy Who Lived should be about sixteen or so. Anyway, I can't die today. I have a really hard essay that I have got to finish or Professor Snape told me he would kill me himself."

Voldemort continued to glower at the boys.

"Anyway like I said Professor Snape gets first dibs on killing me so I will just go now." He grabbed Draco by the hand and started to back away from Voldemort and his crowd.

"Yep! Big essay due." Draco said hurriedly. "Bye, Mr. Crabbe. Bye, Mr. Goyle. We will go now, Professor…" He was jerked away by Harry and could be heard lecturing the younger boy on social etiquette according to Mother.

Voldemort snapped out of his shock before they could escape. "OH, No you don't! RESTRAINTIS" He bellowed.

Both boys ducked out of the way. Harry behind a grave stone and Draco behind a retainer wall, with all the grace he could manage. Harry was just getting ready to move when the vision hit him:

Harry crouched behind a headstone and knew the end has come. No help to be had. And as he heard Voldemort draw nearer still he knew only one thing. It was beyond fear or reason. He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide and seek. HE was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort's feet! He was going to die upright like his father and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible (Rawlings, Goblet of Fire).

As Harry thought this, feelings bubbled in his stomach. "No! No! NO! I am not going to die here. I'm not going to let Draco die beside me like I let Cedric." He whispered to himself even though he did not know who Cedric was. "I am going to die honorably. No! I am not going to die at all. I'm going to win this and win it now. I'm tired and I want to rest this certain part of my brain forever. It craves for this and I have to give in and let my instincts rise to full potential." Harry's thoughts screamed in his head.

He looked over to where Draco was and could tell his heart was pounding just as wildly as his own. The unison of their fear brought him a sense of peace. Draco and he caught each others eyes for a second.

That split second he let his mind wander and he felt like he was touching Draco's mind. They both smiled. Harry jumped out from behind the gravestone and put one powerful blast of heart magic straight toward Voldemort. Draco sent him a burst of healing magic at the same time. The boys' magics were the same color as their eyes, everyone watched in awe as the magics met and mingled in the air before crashing into Voldemort and his Death Eaters who were trying to aid him. Only one Death Eater was left standing on the sidelines.

It did not take long before several aurors and Dumbledore apparated to the scene. They all looked around ready to attack. "Put your wands away." The remaining Death Eater said. "There is nothing left for you to do."

He knelt next to his once master. "He is gone." Snape said as he pulled off his hood and mask. He pulled a vial out of his robe pocket and after opening it, he held it close to the snake man's mouth. Everyone watched him avidly as he chanted a soul binding curse, holding their breath as he gathered the life force up that had gathered, and directed it into the bottle he held.

"That is it! He is gone?" Tonks asked in disbelief.

"What has happened here, Severus?" Dumbledore asked as he looked around at all the bodies. His voice was strained as he gazed at all the bodies.

Snape looked up and smiled. It shocked everyone to see the light in his face making the greasy haired man look radiant and almost attractive. "Don't ask me. It was them." He jerked his head to where the two small children were.

The silver haired boy was leaning against the black haired one, trying to heal a scrape on his knee. Once the wound was gone the smaller boy wrapped the other one in a bear hug.

"Hey, not so tight: Get off me you twerp! We are boys; we don't hug like little girls." Draco said. He was just slightly embarrassed knowing that there were people there watching them.

"I don't care, damn it! I was scared that you were going to die and all you care about is your reputation." Harry was doing his best not to cry but he sure felt like it. If they got to Draco then he wouldn't have known what to do. Draco was his best friend and the only person he loved.

"I know, kiddo. I know. I am sorry." Draco whispered into his friend's ear as he returned Harry's hug.

"That is just too frigging cute. Damn!" Tonks said as she watched the two boys. Sirius would have developed a hernia if he saw a Malfoy hugging a Potter. It was wrong on so many levels, but those two little boys were just so perfect together.

"All right then. I guess the war to end all wars is over." This from Remus who finally got over his shock of A: Voldemort was dead. B: Harry was now a child. C: He was hugging Draco Malfoy, also a child, but who was normally Harry's biggest enemy. Remus was at a total loss of what to do. He wanted to jump up and down…

He walked over to the two little boys and spoke, "I don't know how you managed it Harry but you finally did what you have always wanted to do."

Remus watched the two boys as he said that. Neither boy seemed thrilled that they were there but neither one really knew what to do. "OK, boys. Come on. Let's get you two back to Hogwarts. Take hold of this portkey and we can go straight to Madame Pomphrey."

Harry looked around. "All those people aren't dead are they?"

Remus threw a look over his shoulder at Severus. His eyes widened when he saw Severus smile warmly back at him. Obviously the man had heard Harry's question and it seemed to be a positive… "Not everyone is dead, Harry. There are more dead people here than what we expecting but whatever magic you and Draco generated seems to have known what to do with them because Severus has already told the aurors that you did not cast any killing curses. The magic decided what to do with them, OK?"

At this news, Draco's eyes flew open wide and his lips began to tremble. Just as the port key activated everyone heard his childish voice raised in anguish, "Where is my daddy? He wears a funny mask too."

If it were not for all the people around him, Snape would probably have been singing at the top of his lungs and dancing on Voldemort's dead carcass. He kicked it a few times instead then put an extra high protection non-opening spell to the bottle that held Voldemort's soul. He did not know if he had been lucky that he was standing behind everyone else when the blast hit or if Remus had been telling the truth when he told the boys that the magic had decided who would live or die.

By the time the aurors had everyone sorted out and the bodies disposed of there were only five Death Eaters still in the world. Snape carried the mark but wasn't really a Death Eater; Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix LeStrange who probably would have died had they been at the attack instead of being back in Azkaban; and, Crabbe and Goyle who were probably just too stupid to really be evil.

"Stupid bastards!" He mumbled out loud as he watched the aurors enervate the two of them. He finally went over and added his two knuts worth. "You all are wasting your time trying to get Crabbe and Goyle to talk. They don't know anything. All they ever did is guard the door or provide extra muscle for the inner circle."

"Ah!" Dumbledore said to this comment. The old man was practically sparkling. In the dark place he always managed to find some sunshine. Today, you practially needed sunglasses to look at him or you might be blinded.

Snape glared at him. "No, Albus! Tell the aurors to collect the bodies. I'm going to go home and go to bed. Call me if anything is wrong with the boys." Snape paused for a second. He called them 'the boys' as if he were on affectionate terms with both of them. He thought about it for a second then decided that he really was! Somewhere along the line he had begun thinking of the two as his own children.

He apparated back to Hogsmeade and began walking up to the castle. As he walked through town he caught the smells of dinner and began obsessing over food. Lots of food; candied apples, mincemeat pies, roast beef, pies, chocolate bonbons, maybe a lovely fish in butter and lemon sauce, egg noodles, creamed asparagus…pumpkin juice. He looked up at the sky and noticed that it was getting quite dark. He checked his watch and realized that it was not really late, only now going five, it just always gets dark early when you are close to the artic circle.

Anyway, back to the food. Five o'clock meant dinner time in the Great Hall and that meant lots of food. He was still mulling over what all he considered delicious when his bouncy step brought him to the castle doors.

SSS

"Draco?" Harry asked questioningly once the nurse had left them to put their clothes back on. Madame Pomphrey had just done complete checkups on both of them to see if they were suffering any damage from the magic they did.

"Yeah?" Draco's voice was a little strained.

"Do you realize that we are not really who we are?" Harry asked in a small sad voice.

"Yeah. I am Draco Malfoy aged 17 and you are Harry Potter aged 16. We were turned into children and lost all of our older memories." Draco said as he felt tears prickle in the back of his eyes. He felt the huge lump in the back of his throat and tried to swallow it down.

"We aren't real, Draco! Our whole lives have been a lie." Harry could not hold back the tears. "I was actually destined to do this. Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

Draco looked over at the sad boy. Their eyes connected and Draco decided to do something right then and there. "Damn it, Harry, when I first met you I promised myself that I would protect you. So, I'm going to do just that."

He walked over to Harry and enclosed him in a hug. Draco's eyes looked as if they belonged to someone much older and wiser as did the boy's whom he was hugging. "We don't need to care that this isn't technically our lives. This is what we have now! We are going to live and this is our second chance. I don't care what anyone else says. Don't let them bring us down." Draco said sternly.

"They are going to eventually want to come back." Harry said softly, his face buried in the crook of Draco's neck.

"Yes, well when that day comes it comes. Now enough thinking about this. Let's start thinking about that horrible charms essay we have to do." Draco said and gripped Harry's hand to spin him. "Chin up! We have the school to face. Let's go."

Harry was still skeptical that he was not who he thought he was. He was already someone else. Someone he believed, by his dreams, which hated his best mate. Harry sighed. 'Draco is right. Chin up Harry. We will burn that bridge once we cross it.'

SSS

When they entered the Great Hall they were both enveloped by Pansy. "Ms. Parkinson, you are choking me." Harry tried to say.

"Love, please, you need to let me breathe." Draco managed to gasp out.

"Oh yes. I'm sorry, kiddos. I was just so worried about you." Harry and Draco both sighed in relief that she did not appear to be ready to start yelling. At which point she shrieked, "AND DON'T YOU EVER FUCKING DO THAT TO ME EVER AGAIN!" Her face as red as Weasley's hair.

"So much for her not yelling." Draco and Harry both looked at each other and said.

The hall went silent when Pansy burst into her lecture. Harry figured that the whole hall was also afraid of Pansy's wrath. "Thank you, Ms. Parkinson, for getting everyone's attention." Professor Dumbledore said while smiling like the maniac everyone knew he was.

The boys and Pansy sat down in their respective seats then turned their full attention to Dumbledore. If anyone looked closely around the hall they would have seen empty seats in all the houses where one or two students were no longer there.

"First of all, I have some grave news. Some students will no longer be with us. Mr. Boot, Mr. Nott, Mr. Revives, Mr. Creevey ( I have always assumed he is a bad guy. If you disagree, I apologize. However, I need someone in Gryffindor to die.) Mr. Harnieser, Ms. Greene. All of these students had taken the dark mark and died today when Lord Voldemort tried to kill Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy and their combined magic overpowered him and his followers."

You could hear gasps from everyone then the talking became a bit of a roar as people began talking loudly about what had happened. They all pointed and stared at the two boys who were looking quite fearful of the mob becoming violent.

Dumbledore could be heard above the din. "May we have a moment of silence?"

Everyone slowly put their heads down and thought about their classmates. They did not understand quite how they died but it was sad never-the-less.

"All right! Now, on a lighter note: We have a special announcement to make. Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy would you both please stand up?"

Harry and Draco stood up. "Where is he going with this?" Draco whispered to Harry nervously.

They both stood up on the bench so that everyone could see them. "These two boys have done what we thought was the impossible. Together they defeated the Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort."

When he said 'defeated Lord Voldemort' everyone started screaming and clapping loudly at the excitement of it all. Dumbledore had to cast a 'Sonorous' on his voice to be heard above the cheering.

Pansy literally scooped the two boys up in her arms and swung them around. When she finally put them down, Harry turned to Draco and said, "So, I'm taking a wild guess here, but we did a good thing?"

Draco just shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. I mean Lord Voldie was pretty damn weak. I think just about anyone could have taken him out with a good sneeze." He yawned and stretched a bit, waving his arms in the air.

Harry looked longingly at the dinner table but knew they would not get to eat. Everyone else was too excited. "Alright, do you want to play wizard's chess?

"Yeah, since we aren't going to get any food we might as well do something else." Draco said as he grabbed Harry's hand and they left the hall, not caring whether everyone was still cheering or not.

He looked at the small group with him. There was Pansy, Blaise, Greg, Vince, and Harry. "How about we do strategy chess? That way all six of us can play."

Blaise grinned at the others. "I call Harry and Draco."

Pansy glared at him. "That means I get stuck with Crabbe and Goyle."

Greg and Vince grinned at each other, "Or that means we get stuck with her…"

Draco laughed to see his best friends laughing and having fun teasing each other. "I think we are going to be OK, Harry." He whispered to the smaller boy who was once again clinging to his side like a magnet to a refrigerator.

SSS

Somewhere in Azkaban a blond haired man sat talking to his wife. "Stupid Potter!" Lucius said to Narcissa.

"Draco was there too, Dear. I'm glad they got rid of the old fool."

Lucius looked like someone had just smacked him. "I cannot believe what I just heard, Narcissa. You have to be joking! The man was a brilliant mind."

Narcissa snorted. "Oh, yes. Absolutely brilliant! He was bent upon killing a child who had no means of self-defense! Lovely! Absolutely Lovely! This conversation is over. Do not contact our son or me until you get your head on straight. Good bye!" Narcissa walked away, her skirts swirling around her. "I think it is time for me to go visit my son at school and see how he and Harry are doing."

"Aaaaaahhh!" was heard to echo down the corridors as she smilingly walked out the front doors, smiling pleasantly at the cringing dementors

Reviews Please!! o yeah i dont own Harry potter but i should of

put that in the top....whoops to late!!!