I need a mother

Author: Leta McGotor

Disclaimer: I owe nothing but Cassy. The other belongs to JKR.

Okay, yes there was a longer gap than normal but you must understand. I have holidays and was in the last ten days in a holiday camp. Here is the next chapter. It is shorter than the other but I hope you enjoy it.

And for those who read my other story 'Three Years': I hope I can update it until the end of the week. I have half of the next chapter finished yet. I would be pleased when you have read it that you review. Thanks.

Chapter 9

The sound of the Death Eaters coming nearer was unbearable as well as the threatening silence in the room. Nobody seemed able to move, all stared at their enemies. Only Minerva looked uninterested out of the window. Nothing could destroy the strange peace inside of her, nothing of the incidents around touched her. She only stood there and avoided to look in the faces of her former friends and enemies now only a group of strangers for her. She didn't know who all these people were. There was for example the strange man with the black clothes, the white face and the red eyes. Contrary to him was an old man with a long sivery white beard. And all the others she didn't even want to look at.

Suddenly it was completely silent around them. There was no sound of Death Eaters coming nearer because they had arrived yet. In the next few seconds the two parties threatened each other with there wands but nobody dared to move, to make the first step. The circeled Order Members looked to Dumbledore and the Death Eaters to his master but none of them gave the sign for the start of the attack.

Suddenly Tonks shrieked and fell half unconscious to the ground. A young Death Eater barely graduaded had atacked her the moment she had looked to the other end of the room. This incident seemed to be the beginning of the battle because nobody stood still now. Everyone dueled with everyone. While Mr Weasly dueled with MacNair his wife fought with the help of her son Bill against Lucius Malfoy. Nobody could hear a single spell or curse. All screamed, was it an incantation or out of pain. They held their wands like swords, which were nearly invisible because of the speed they were moved with. Looking in one corner you'll find another fighting pair than one minute ago because they all moved back and forth in the room, in the corridor and in the whole house it seemed. You couldn't be sure how many people tried to defend themselves and to attack their enemies.

All fought with all the strenght they had but therefore they didn't notice that there were also a few ones wo didn't fought. One of them was Minerva McGonagall. She stood at the window and looked outside. Now and then a dueling pair went past her but she simly wasn't interested in the battle taking place behind her. Suddenly someone seized her arm and pulled her with him. Lord Voldemort dragged her out of the room, unnoticed by everyone else fighting, screaming, defending. Minerva didn't say a word or made only one movement as a sign that she didn't want to come with him. In fact, she didn't do anything but follow him without resistance.

Lord Voldemoirt enjoyed this. If the battle ended bad for him half the Order would be dead. Should it end good for him there wouldn't be anyone who would dare to fight against him and his aims. No matter which would be the case all would improve his situation. He smirked to himself. It was all so easy, unbelievingly easy. Who had thought that Minerva McGonagall could be so useful. He only needed to find a way how to use her power and then…

He turned around the next corner and nearly collided with two people running in the direction he was coming from. With his wand at the ready he looked at the two men standing in front of him. When he recognized that one of them was one of his Death Eaters he bellowed:

'Snape, why do you stand there so stupidly? Kill him and then come with me!'

But Severus Snape didn't move. He only stared right behind the Dark Lord at the woman looking directly at him but seeming not able to recognize who he was. Remus Lupin next to him had pulled his wand out. Maybe he couldn't defeat Voldemort but he would fight until the end. Surely Minerva and Severus would do the same. He thought. Remus didn't notice the change in Minerva McGonagall.

But Severus did. He could feel that there was something strange, something that didn't belong there was aound her but he couldn't say exactly what it was. Maybe the way she looked as if only her body was there and not her mind. The way she stood there as if she wasn't able to make one single movement without a hand that would lead her.

But he had no time to think further about this because Lord Voldemort had his wand at the ready, too. There was no time to think, only to fight. Therefore he pulled his wand out and did the first curse in the direction of his former master. But the Dark Lord wasn't that slowly. Fast he did a counterjinx and another two curses in a row before he seized Minerva again and pulled her with him. I knew Snape has betrayed me in all cases.

Minerva had done nothing in the meantime but had stared the whole time at Severus although she looked like she wouldn't recognize him. But deep inside her there was a feeling, something that told her that this man was something special, meant something special for her.

Before they could get further away Remus Lupin and Severus Snape, who had handled with the othere curses, tried to attack the Dark Lord without hitting Minerva, what was all but easy. The two men couldn't think of a reason why Minerna would follow the Dark Lord without any resistance.

Severus and Remus never had a real chance against Lord Voldemort. Therefore you don't have to wonder that soon they were either nearly disarmed or lying heavily panting on the floor. Voldemort himself was panting, too, but not as heavy as others and every movement he made seemed to be the easiest thing in the world. When Voldemort started to make the movement for the last curse, the killing curse, Avada Kedavra for the poor Remus Lupin they could hear hurried footsteps coming from the direction of Voldemort's rooms. Half a second later Albus Dumbledore follwed by Harry Potter turned around the corner both with the wands at the ready. What now followed was a silence full of shock before Lord Voldemort aimed at Albus Dumbledore and spoke the dreaded words:

'Avada Kedavra'

A green light shot out of the tip of his wand in the direction of Albus Dumbledore and hit…

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