Disclaimer: Yet agen I don't own ne part of the Harry Potter characters,all I own is this storyline.
As they lay there in each others arms there was something about Hermione's eyes that had changed but Harry couldn't see the change, her eyes looked darker n had a slight red tint in them, maybe it was the light reflecting differently or maybe not. They fell asleep in the early morning and were woken up by a raven nearby, it was early afternoon but the trees made it look more like night time, Percy's body had been burnt so much that no-one would recognise him, but they left him to burn more just to make sure.
The next horcrux on the list was a guess, something from either of Hogwarts other founders as they had already found and destroyed something from Hufflepuff and knew someone had the horcrux made from Slytherins' locket, this left one of the remaining horcruxes as either something from Ravenclaw or Gryffindor. They decided to go back to Hogwarts as this was the best place to look, it was the only thing that linked the two possible horcruxes together and hopefully someone there might be able to help.
It was late afternoon by the time they apparated into Hogsmeade, they were set back by the need to eat plus they found it hard to peel their lips from each others. Hogwarts didn't seem the same as they walked through the big oak doors, it seemed colder and deserted, Harry wondered if many students had actually returned this year. They hardly met anyone as they walked the corridors, whoever they did meet ran away screaming, both Hermione and Harry looked like Deatheaters as they had the hoods up on their cloaks so no-one would pester them, plus it was fun scaring everyone.
They reached the Headmistresses office and as they didn't have the password and Harry couldn't be bothered to wait he just blew the statue up that blocked the entrance and walked up the moving spiral staircase. He knocked on the door and heard someone say "enter" so they walked in and took their hoods down so that Headmistress McGonagall wasn't shocked, for the first time they saw her actually smile at seeing them.
"Harry, Hermione it is so good to see you again, but what has bought you here, I thought you were on a journey together of some sort, they Order didn't know where you'd gone and everyone's been worried sick!"
Harry laughed at the thought of people worrying about them, why were they worrying about him when he'd be the one in the end who would save them from Voldemort.
"Professor, or Headmistress whichever you like being called now, there isn't anything to worry about but will you please tell Lupin and the other in the Order to be ready soon for the battle where it will all end, they will be needed. As for the reason we are here, we come to ask for help, I need to see Godric's sword that was kept in this office as it is important to destroying Voldemort, oh and I'm sorry about the statue hiding your office, I kind of blew it up as I have not got the time or patience to wait around too long"
Professor McGonagall was shocked at Harry's tone but let him take a look at the sword anyway, he looked all over the sword, the inscription on the blade changed as he moved it, Hermione pulled the sword from Harry's hand and it sliced into him, the blood flowed from his hand into the indented inscription and it flowed down to the hilt of the sword, the blood rose up and formed a miniature figure, the figure spoke.
"The shield is one of the keys to defeating the darkness Harry, the shield is somewhere you call home, I had to enchant this sword to counter-act the enchantments on the shield by Voldemort, if I hadn't done this you would never be able to find the shield, I found this after you retrieved the memory, but Voldemort made it so once I found out about the horcrux I could not tell you"
Harry recognised the voice coming from the figure, it was Dumbledore, Harry was shocked at hearing of this about the horcrux and was amazed at how Dumbledore had managed to get round Voldemorts enchantments, Harry had already figured out the place the shield would be – Gryffindor tower was the place he used to class as his home, he took the sword with him as it felt natural in his hands, it felt like his own sword. Professor McGonagall never said another word as Harry and Hermione walked from the office and towards Gryffindor tower. They walked along familiar corridors meeting a few people who stared in amazement at seeing them. As they made it up to the tower the portrait painting was open which was strange, they climbed through the entrance and spotted the shield hanging above the fireplace and they spotted also that there were two Deatheaters standing below the shield, Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape bowed as Harry and Hermione entered the common room.
Two of the people Harry hated most were standing in his way, he smiled as this was one of the things he'd waited ages for, a chance to finish things off with these people by killing them.
"Potter I see you have found out about the Dark Lords horcruxes when not many other people have found out his secret, well done. I also found out about them and I stole the Slytherin locket from the person who originally found it in that cave you visited before with Albus Dumbledore, I have bought it here with me and you may have it to destroy on the condition that you kill me, I deserve to die for what I have done but I refuse to die without a fight"
Snape pull out the locket and hung it round his neck, Harry, Hermione and Draco looked shocked at Snape, he was betraying his master which seemed out of character.
All four of them pulled out their wands, Harry started the battle by sending a stunning spell at Snape which was easily deflected, and Hermione started battling with Draco they were both using dark spells, it seemed that both of them were committing fully to this battle. Harry couldn't do anything to harm Snape then he spotted Hermione in trouble as Draco fired a curse at her which Harry deflected back at its owner and it hit Draco squarely in the chest, it knocked him flying into a table, Snape suddenly fell to his knees as though he'd just been injured but no-one had touched him. Then it clicked in Harry's mind about the unbreakable vow Snape had performed, which means that he had 2 protect Draco or Snape himself would be harmed, and if Draco was killed then he would also meet the same fate for not protecting him, so to beat Snape they could just beat Draco as he was weaker.
Both Hermione and Harry aimed curses at Draco but Snape managed to deflect them again, they needed a plan of how to win the battle, Harry fired curse after curse at Snape which were either being deflected or missing its target. Snape was teasing them by sneering at them as though he could easily kill them if he wanted. One of Harry's curses hit the wall behind Snape and blew a hole in it sending bricks everywhere, this gave Harry an idea, he aimed a curse at Snape to distract him then quickly fired a curse at the ceiling above Snape which made it collapse on top of him as he deflected the first curse. Snape was now unable 2 help Draco who was battling fiercely with Hermione, Harry watched the battle then had an idea as he realised he was holding the sword still, this idea of his could end this battle quickly if it worked. Draco was distracted so he didn't notice Harry hurl a stunning spell at him until it was too late, the spell hit him and he rose high in the air and as he rose to the same level as the shield Harry threw the sword at him, it was a accurate throw as it stuck right through Draco and the force of the throw made him fly back and the sword stabbed into the shield, shattering it and destroying the soul contained within it.
Harry was happy that his plan had worked as Draco hung there dangling from the sword taking his last few breaths as death creped closer, Snape crawled out from the rubble of the ceiling and knelt in front of Harry, he turned his wand on himself and performed a curse that destroyed the locket, another piece of Voldemorts' soul was destroyed now.
"Harry I am sorry for all these things I have done and I am truly sorry for causing your parents' death, I did not mean for it to happen the way it did, please defeat the Dark Lord, do whatever it takes, I will die soon because of the unbreakable vow I made, but this is how I will show how sorry I am, please someday believe these words of apology and find it in yourself to forgive me. Goodbye….. Avada Kedavra"
Snape still had his wand pointed at himself, right at his heart as he said his last ever words, his last ever curse. His body fell forwards as the killing curse struck, Harry couldn't see his face but could still picture the blank look in Snapes' eyes, what he'd just witnessed was the most horrifying thing he had seen, he felt sick as his mind processed the fact that Snape had taken his own life in front of him to prove he was sorry!
U like so far? it's a bit dark n morbid but o well