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A/n: I finally updated! Sorry it took so long. I have school so it's harder for me to update.

Chapter Ten: The Final Battle

Hermione walked slowly to the ministry of magic. After Harry told her about the battle she knew he was hiding something from her. She saw Harry and hollered to him. He came running over.

"Mione, I need to ask you something. Do you still want to marry me? Its fine if you don't."

"Harry, I do, but I don't think I can. I mean with Draco gone, it's just too hard to do anything."

"You know maybe we shouldn't get married. I mean, I love you so much but I don't think you want to and something might happen during and after the battle."

"Harry, are you feeling alright? Your confusing me." Hermione asked thoroughly confused.

"There is something I need to tell you but cant." Harry said and started walking away then added "don't go into Ginny's room!"

"Why?" Hermione asked

"If you do anything stupid, and you find yourself in a weird, scary place, follow your heart." Harry yelled

"That was weird" Hermione muttered to herself.

She walked into Ginny's room only to find a very strange sight. Ginny's hair was turning black. Suddenly Hermione realized that she should have listened to Harry. Maybe this was the stupid thing Harry was talking about. Then when the person finally transformed she saw the face of Pansy Parkinson.

"Oh dear me Mudblood, you should have listened to precious Potter. This could be the stupidest thing you've ever done." Pansy said

"What happened to Ginny?"

"You stupid girl it was me the whole time! I pretended to be Ginny for the past 5 years! Why don't you use your head? Sweet little blood traitor Ginny would NEVER harm you! It wasn't Ginny who wrote the threatening letter to you back in Hogwarts! It was that one girl who came back from the past!"

"Where's Ginny?"

"Ginny, is with the dark lord! Waiting for you to come and join us!" Pansy said then took Hermione's hand and apparated to Voldemort.

"Bring her here." Said a cold voice.

"Come on Mudblood!" Pansy hissed

"Mudblood, join our side. And you will live when I rule the wizarding world."

"NEVER!" Hermione yelled and saw a deatheater move out of site.

"Fine then will you join for your friends life?" he said pointing to a group of deatheaters who moved out of site showing Cho, Ron, and Ginny. 'If you do anything stupid, and you find yourself in a weird, scary place, follow your heart' Hermione thought of what Harry said to her. 'If I join the dark side then my friends will live. But then I will let them down and ruin the chance for the light side's survival. What do I do.? Follow your heart. Follow your heart.' Hermione kept repeating in her brain. Then she spoke.

"NO! I WILL NEVER JOIN YOU!" Hermione looked at Voldemort's face to her friends' face and mouthed 'I'm sorry.' And they nodded showing Hermione that they knew what she had to do.

"Fine its over for you and your friends!" he yelled

"Actually I think its over for you." Harry said and Hermione smiled. Then the deatheater that walked away (she wasn't sure if it was but it had to be. All of them look the same.) Removed his mask. Hermione felt like she was going to faint. Draco was standing there, very serious but very much alive. She smiled at him for a second until Voldemort took her and took a muggle weapon out of his cloak-a knife- and held it at her throat.

"You wouldn't want to see your precious mudblood die now would you Draco?"

"No." he said Hermione noticed that Draco was distracting Voldemort away from Harry.

"Good. Now kill her friends. Draco walked slowly over there. Hermione was crying and she could feel the icy cold feel of the blade against her neck. Harry transfigured the knife into a rubber wand with out Voldemort noticing. Then Harry put his own wand against Voldemort's head. Voldemort dropped Hermione. Voldemort and Harry started dueling and Hermione ran to Draco.

"Oh Draco! I missed you so much!" Hermione said as he hugged him.

"I know I missed you too." Then with out warning Hermione kissed him.

"I'm not marrying Harry. He told me that it was best we don't get married."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be. I love you more than anyone in my whole entire life."

"Lets talk later. Now we have to fight." Draco said and freed their friends.

"Mione I cant believe you were gonna let him kill us!" Ron said and received a punch from Ginny -Ginny was back-"Ow! What was that for?"

"Your stupid you know that right? She was completely right to turn it down!" Ginny said then smacked her brother once more.

"Do you have wands?" Hermione and Draco asked at the same time

"Well they do but I don't." Ginny said

"You go hide while the people with a wand fight." Said Draco

The battle seemed to go on forever, until finally everything seemed to stop because every one was watching Voldemort and Harry. Harry just dodged the killing curse sent from Voldemort. Harry sent one at Voldemort and missed. It hit a tree causing it to blow up. Pieces of tree flew all around and one hit Hermione in the leg and stuck (a/n UG gross I know!) Hermione didn't dare to pull it out. She just sat there clutching her leg while Draco was trying to get her to come with him but she wouldn't budge. He looked at where she was staring at. Harry who had also gotten a piece of tree stuck in him also in the leg making him slow enough for Voldemort to hit him. And that's just what Voldemort did. Harry Potter the boy who lived was dead. While Voldemort was dancing around (a/n I know he wouldn't really do that I just thought it would lighten the mood to picture Voldemort dancing a funky little jig) Ginny ran up to Harry and took his wand and shouted

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" And like that the two men where dead. After Ginny killed Voldemort she ran over to Harry's dead body and fell limp at his side crying. Every one was stunned. All of the death eaters were now backing away while the order came.

"Draco, did that really just happen?" Hermione asked receiving a nod from Draco. He gave her a hug and she just collapsed in his arms. Knowing she would never see Harry again.

A/n: I'm so sorry I had to kill him off! (Harry I mean.) And it wont be like the Draco thing where he was living all along. There will be one or two chapters left. Then I will start on the last part of the story. The story will probably be called The New Times.