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Disclaimer: I had a dream last night that Harry Potter and his friends belonged to me. Sadly I woke up this morning with nothing but a purple, pink and silver bedroom, a pink mobile phone, loads of clothes, all of the Friends episodes on VHS and the Harry Potter books and DVD's so I took that as a there is no way on this earth that I own them!
Summary: Harry has defeated Voldemort and he leaves the wizarding world after graduating because all is not well there. He returns after a year and discovers that his life has changed dramatically. Theres a new enemy but who is it? We follow Harry's life as he learns that One night REALLY can change everything in a persons life.
Thanks for all the reviews. They mean a lot to me. Even the ones saying POST POST POST! lol. And I know that a lot of you hated the cliffy but it had to happen coz otherwise that chappie would have been one long thing and I would get bored reading it. Anyways I just finished reading The Da Vinci Code and it is an amazing book. I highly recommend it!
Anyways now onto our feature presentation. Here's Chapter 50. Enjoy! And it's getting near the end now. Probably about another chapter and then the Epilogue. But there is going to be a prequel to this about Harry's last year at school which I have just started writing.
Chapter 50 - Harry's Battle and Ellie Meets the Granger's
"Who's there!" Bellatrix shrieked.
Harry muttered a spell and the end of his wand lit up.
He held the beam of light out and stepped into it.
"You!" she shrieked again.
"Yes me" Harry said calmly.
"How did you find me?"
"Two years of looking all over the country. It hasn't been easy but unfortunately being the 'Chosen One' is never easy" Harry explained still calm.
"I made sure that I couldn't be found. That's why I'm in this godforsaken place!"
"And what a good job you did of that Bella. You hid yourself for nearly seventeen years but your luck has run out now. This godforsaken place is a bit shabby isn't it - even for the likes of you Bella!"
"Well I didn't exactly expect someone to find me did I Potter? That's why I picked this shabby place."
"This ends here and it ends now" Harry replied.
Bellatrix laughed.
"Oh of course it ends here and now. It ends with your death Potter."
This time Harry laughed.
"Oh I don't think so. It will end with your death not mine. After all do you really think that you could kill me when your pathetic 'Lord' couldn't. He tried for seventeen years and not once did he defeat me."
"My, my aren't we cocky? Well I hope you aren't too cocky for this" Bellatrix said as her accomplice shot some ropes out of his wand which tied Harry up.
The accomplice then strided to where Harry was standing and pushed him into a chair that was behind Harry.
"I will kill you Harry. It will send your family into a pit of depression. It will slowly kill dear little wifey and your kids too. The the Dark Arts will rise again! I shall forfill my master's plans!"
"In case you haven't noticed Bella, over half of the Death Eaters are dead. You will never raise the Dark Arts again. They are gone and they will never come back!" Harry scoffed.
Bellatrix laughed again although this time it made her look like a maniac.
"You just keep thinking that Harry. They will come back."
Harry glared at Bellatrix and fell silent at the thought of the Dark Arts rising again.
Over the next few days Harry was tortured by Bellatrix and her accomplice.
They would use the Cruciatus Curse until he would be too tired to try and throw it off.
Once they even caught a boggart and released it in front of Harry so that he would be forced to see all of his fears one after another.
These fears were each of his children dying, Ginny not forgiving him, Ginny dying and finally a dementor.
Harry was tied up for what felt like weeks to him.
After him being there for four weeks, Bellatrix finally untied him.
"What is this? Are you making me weaker before dueling with me? You must be desperate" Harry said as he stood up.
"Give him his wand" Bellatrix snapped at her accomplice.
The accomplice gave Harry his wand and as soon as he laid his fingers on it he shouted an incantation.
"EXPELLARMUS!"
Harry chuckled as Bellatrix's wand flew out of her hand and settled on the floor between them.
"Accio wand" Harry said lazily as Bellatrix shrieked at the accomplice to get the wand.
The wand flew to Harry and he caught it.
"Ha! Now what are you going to do Bella? I have your wand and you seem to be without a spare wand."
Bellatrix glared at Harry.
"Do you really think that the Dark Lord didn't make us learn the art of wandless magic? Of course it was only a select few of us."
"Well are we going to duel then?" Harry asked while twirling his wand.
"Come on Potter. Let's get this over with."
Harry nodded and stopped twirling his wand.
"Let's forget all the formalities Bella. STUPEFY!" Harry shouted.
A beam of red light shot out of Harry's wand and went flying across the room towards Bellatrix.
Bellatrix dodged the spell and laughed coldly at Harry.
"Ha, do you really think you could start a duel off with that dumb spell?" Bellatrix sneered.
"Well why don't you show me how to start a duel off then. It's been a long time since I last duelled. I'm just a tad rusty."
"Gladly. CRUCIO!"
The spell zoomed across the room and hit Harry.
Harry stmbled backwards and fell onto the floor.
He was jerking and moving around on the floor as though he was having a fit.
Harry had forgotten long ago how much this curse felt as though there were knives piercing every inch of his body.
Just this one curse made Harry feel as though he was ready to give up and let Bellatrix kill him.
Harry could hear Bellatrix laughing and after what seemed like hours, she took the curse off him.
"That Potter. Is how you start a duel off" she laughed.
"Oh really?" Harry replied mockingly.
Bellatrix nodded.
Harry concentrated on all the hatred that he felt for this woman and he could feel his wand vibrating in his hand.
He fixed his gaze on Bellatrix and held his wand a bit higher.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" he shouted.
Suddenly a flash of green light was speeding towards Bellatrix.
She could feel the rush of death that the curse was emitting and knew that there was no point in trying to dodge it because she knew that her time on Earth was up.
The green light continued to speed towards Bellatrix.
Finally it hit her and she crumpled to the ground.
The accomplice looked at his former mistress and scarpered.
Harry slowly walked towards the body holding the wand that Bellatrix had been using in his left hand.
He looked at her very pale, ghostly face and laughed.
"And that. Is how you end a duel Bella" Harry said cockily.
Harry laughed as he snapped the wand that he had been holding ever since he had summoned it to himself.
He then threw the pieces next to the body and apparated out of the room.
"Mummy! Mummy! Mummy! Jamie hitted Millie!" a little girl with brown hair and brown eyes that seemed to be around two years of age shouted as she ran towards her mother.
Ellie looked up at the little girl.
"Well you must have done something to Jamie to make him hit you. Why don't you go and get him then we can find out why he hit you" Ellie told her daughter.
Millie nodded and ran off to find the boy named Jamie.
A few minutes later she returned holding the hand of a little boy that had messy black hair and hazel eyes.
The boy seemed to be around the same age as Millie.
Ginny, who was sat next to Ellie looked at the boy and Millie.
"Jamie, why did you hit Millie?" Ginny asked.
"Millie tooked my bwoom Mummy. She wanted to fly and Jamie said no but she pushed me off and tooked it!" the little boy said.
It was obvious that he had inherited the love of flying from his mother and father.
"James Arthur Potter! That's no excuse for hitting Millie! You should have come to me!" Ginny said sternly to Jamie.
"No Gin it's fine. Millie shouldn't have pushed him off the broom. Millie you know that when a person says no it means no. If Jamie didn't want you to play on his broom then you shouldn't have pushed him off it. Hurting another person is wrong!" Ellie told her daughter sternly.
Millie looked at Ellie with tears in her eyes.
"Mummy, does that mean that Millie can't see Daddy?" she asked tearfully.
"You can still see Daddy but you're not allowed to go to Uncle Fred's and Uncle George's shop, the sweet shop or to go flying with Daddy today."
Millie nodded and ran off to play.
Ginny hugged Jamie and he too ran off to play with Millie.
Ellie looked at Ginny and laughed.
"Those two are so cute" Ginny said.
Ellie nodded and was about to respond when she heard a scream.
She automatically looked towards the children but saw that nothing was wrong with them.
Suddenly Peyton came running into the garden.
She had grown so much over the last two years and was now more of a woman than a child.
"Mum! I got it! I got Head Girl!" she shouted.
"Oh that's great darling" Ginny said as she hugged her now seventeen year old daughter.
Ellie stood up.
"Congratulations Peyt! I can't believe you're Head Girl as well as Quidditch Captain" Ellie said.
"Thanks. I can't believe it myself. I wish Dad were here. He'd be so proud" Peyton replied.
"He would be proud of you. He'd probably shout it from the rooftops. I'm so very proud of you Peyt" Ginny said whilst trying to hide the tears that were threatening to leak out of her eyes.
She still had very strong feelings for Harry even though she denied it when anyone asked her.
"Mummy!" Jamie shouted.
Ginny looked to where Jamie and Millie were playing and saw Millie holding a wand.
"I'll sort it" Ginny said when she saw the look on Ellie's face.
Peyton waited until Ginny was out of earshot then spoke to Ellie.
"When are you going to visit the Granger's?" Peyton asked.
"This afternoon. Nick's got Millie and I have nothing to do."
"Well you be careful. What time are you planning on going?"
"As soon as Millie's gone. I'm going to apparate to a few streets away from the house."
Peyton nodded and both girls heard Millie squeal.
"Daddy!"
Ellie looked up and saw Millie running towards a tall, dark, brown haired man who was stood at the garden door.
The man bent down and picked Millie up.
"I'll be right back. I just need to talk to Nick for a moment" Ellie said to Peyton.
Ellie got up and walked towards Nick.
"Hey" she said.
"Hey" Nick replied.
"She's all yours. She pushed Jamie off his broom so her punishment is that she's not allowed to go to Fred and George's shop, Honeydukes or to go flying with you."
"We were going to do all of those today. Why do you have to be such a spoilsport El?"
"I'm not being a spoilsport. She needs to learn that she can't push people over when she doesn't get her own way. I could've owled you and told you that she wasn't going to see you today but that was too harsh."
"And I need to train her up. She'll be a star Quidditch player" Nick whined.
"Nick don't force her to play Quidditch. And she can go on her toy broom that you insisted on buying for her. She's not going flying with you today" Ellie replied.
"Okay then. And I'm not forcing her to like it. Am I honey?"
"No, Millie likes kidditch Mummy" Millie replied while smiling angelically.
"Okay sweetie. Be good for Daddy. Does Mummy get a kiss?" Ellie asked.
"Mummy can get a kiss from me anytime" Nick muttered.
Ellie shook her head and giggled as Millie kissed her.
Ellie went to walk away when Nick grabbed her arm.
"Hey what about me? Don't I get a kiss?" Nick said pouting.
Ellie giggled again and nodded.
They leant in and at the last minute Ellie turned her head so that Nick kissed her on the cheek.
"Hey! That's not the kind of kiss that I wanted!" Nick said while pretending to look hurt.
"I'll pick Millie up from yours and we'll talk about that subject later" Ellie told Nick.
"Okay. See you at about sixish then?"
"Yeah about six. Have fu -"
Ellie was interuppted by Millie shouting at someone.
"UNCIE FWETCH! AUNTIE HARMODEDY! Let me down Daddy!"
"Millie you'll see them later. Have fun with Daddy" Ellie told her.
Nick said goodbye then walked into the kitchen to use the fireplace.
Ellie looked longingly at the spot that Nick was standing in previously.
"Hey El" Fletch said.
"Hey."
"You need to get back with him."
Ellie nodded then noticed that Harmony was crying.
"Harm! What's wrong?"
"Her parents just disowned her. Threw her out and everything. Said she was a disgrace to the family name" Fletch explained.
"That's evil!" Ellie exclaimed as she hugged Harmony.
"Fletch. I gotta be somewhere but can you tell her I'll be back later and I'll talk to her then?"
Fletch nodded as Ellie stepped away from Harmony and watched as she disapparated out of the garden.
A few moments later, Ellie reappeared in a picturesque street that looked as though it had come straight out of a storybook.
The front gardens were all the same size and all looked very neat with their snowy white picket fences or forest green hedges.
The only thing that made the gardens look different were either the different flowers planted or the few that had children's toys in them.
Ellie looked at a slip of parchment that had an address written on it that she had put in her pocket at The Burrow.
She put the parchment back into her pocket and looked around for a sign that said the name of the road that Ellie was currently in.
Ellie spotted it and nodded when she saw that it was the right road.
She began to walk slowly down the road looking at the house numbers.
Finally she spotted the number that she had been looking for and walked slowly through the white gate that was stood in between two forest green hedges.
When she was halfway up the gravel path, Ellie stopped walking and looked at the garden with it's many different types of flowers.
The flowers were in an array of colours that made this house in particular look like a perfect place to bring a child up in.
She could now understand why her mother had been a studious child when she was younger.
She then looked up at the house that wasn't small but wasn't overly large either, it seemed to be just the right size for a family like Hermione had told Ellie all about.
The front of the house was pure white and all of the paintwork around the windows was a dark green colour.
Even the front door was the exact same shade of green that the paintwork was.
Ellie smiled and continued to walk towards the front door feeling even more nervous with every step that she took.
Once she was stood in front of the front door, Ellie took a few deep breaths before the knocking the front door.
After waiting for a few moments the door was opened and Ellie saw a grey haired old woman that looked rather like Hermione and seemed to be the same age as Mrs Weasley stood on the threshold.
"Um. Hi. Did a Hermione Granger live here once?" Ellie asked the woman.
"Yes she did once. What business do you have with my daughter?" the woman replied.
"I'm her daughter. My name's Elle-Louise Weasley. I came here today to speak to you about my mother" Ellie said.
"So she palmed you off on another poor unsuspecting man did she?"
"No. My stepfather raised me wih my Mum. He knew what he was getting into when he got with my mother."
"Why are you here?"
"She told me about you and I wanted to see what you were like. She always speaks highly of you. She get's upset whenever someone mentions you even though she tries to hide it. Please just listen to me."
The woman nodded and stepped aside.
"I suppose you'd better come on in then Elle-Louise."
"Please call me Ellie. Thank you."
Ellie followed the woman inside and looked around as she walked through the house.
It seemed immaculate and the only sign that a child lived here once was the fact that there were lots of pictures of Hermione under the age of eleven.
The woman walked into the front room and Ellie saw an old man sat in an armchair reading a newspaper.
"John. We have a visitor."
The man looked up at Ellie.
"Hello sir. I'm Ellie -"
"I know who you are. Does she really think that sending the illigitemate child will make us talk to her again. We haven't spoken to her since she turned up on our doorstep eighteen years ago and I don't intend on talking to her anytime soon. She made her bed at the age of eighteen and now she must lie in it" the man said.
"She didn't send me. I came here of my own accord. I wanted to meet my grandparents."
"Why don't you come upstairs and see your mother's old bedroom with me Ellie" the woman said sensing that this could become nasty.
Ellie nodded and followed the woman upstairs.
She showed Ellie into a bedroom and they both sat down on the bed that was in the centre of the room.
Ellie looked around the baby pink room and sighed.
"I wish my bedroom at home were like this" Ellie said quietly.
"What's the bedroom like where you live?"
"It's not much. We're currently in between homes at the moment. We used to live with my Dad in his house but we don't anymore. I live with my Nana at The Burrow and I share a bedroom with my sisters when they're not at school."
"How many siblings do you have?"
"I have three younger sisters and two younger brothers."
"My that's a lot of siblings" the old woman laughed.
"They're not all Mum's. Only Fletcher who's eighteen and Natasha who's seventeen are Mum's and Ron's. Then there's Peyton and Madison who are seventeen and identical twins and James who's two. They're Dad's children with his wife Ginny."
"Oh. So your father got married did he?"
"Yeah. To Ron's sister Ginny."
"Ron's the one with red hair isn't he?"
"Yes."
"Do you like your brothers and sisters?"
"They're my world. If I didn't have them then I wouldn't be me."
"Tell me about them please."
"Well Fletch can be a bit annoying sometimes and he's going out with my best friend Harmony, Tasha's not really that academic like me and Mum were, Peyt's a lot like me. She's very popular and intelligent, Maddy's the complete opposite of Peyton. She hates school and she's the rebel out of the two. And Jamie is just adorable. He loves wreaking havoc and flying. If he's in trouble then he'll get out of just by smiling cheekily at you" Ellie explained.
"You care about them a lot don't you? You can tell by the way you talk about them" Ellie's grandmother said.
"I do. Tell me about my Mum. What was she like?"
"She was a lot like you. I called her my brown eyed angel. Her eyes were probably her best feature. They were so big, bright and beautiful. Your mother was a very good baby, she almost never cried. She was a quiet little girl as well, never a popular child. She much preferred to keep herself to herself while she was in primary school. Her head was always in a book and when she got her Hogwarts letter, she was over the moon. It was a whole new world for her to explore and new books to read. When she came home for Christmas in her first year all she could talk about was your father and Ron. It was 'Harry this and Ron that.' I was pleased that she had found some friends because I thought that she would want to come home once she was there. Your grandfather however felt as though his little girl was being stolen away from him. He didn't take to her being pregnant to well and when he found out who your father was he hit the roof. That was when he turned his back on her. I have always wondered how she is and you are. Even if she had ever gotten married and had more children. You look a lot like her except -"
"Except for my eyes and hair. They belong to Dad. I'm the only girl out of Dad's children that has his black hair. Jamie has black hair too but he has hazel eyes. Peyton and Maddy have auburn hair and the trademark Potter eyes. I don't like it because my cousins Zoe, Megan, Matthew, Connor and Georgia all have the red Weasley hair. But then I don't feel too left out because my cousins Aimee, Marisa, Keeley, Melody and Brooke don't have red hair. They have either blonde, brown or black hair. I don't feel too much of an outsider when I see them."
"You have a lot of cousins."
"Yeah. Oh is that the time?" Ellie exclaimed as she looked at a clock.
Ellie's grandmother nodded.
"I have to get my erm... my owl from the vet! Sorry to leave like this but I'd love it if you could come and see Mum. It would mean a lot to me and I know Mum would like it too."
"I'll try. And I'll try to bring your grandfather too. Maybe next week sometime. Or you could bring Hermione here. It was nice meeting you Ellie. My daughter brought you up well. You are a wonderful young woman" the lady said as she hugged Ellie.
Ellie nodded.
"It was nice to meet you too. I hope we see each other soon."
Ellie waved goodbye and disapparated out of Hermione's childhood bedroom.
A few moments later, Ellie apparated outside the front door of Nick's flat.
Ellie knocked on Nick's door and could hear footsteps coming towards it.
Nick opened the door and smiled as he saw Ellie on the doorstep.
"Hey El!" he said.
"Hi. I'm a bit early but you wanted to talk didn't you?"
"Yeah. Come in. Millie's asleep at the moment. We can talk now" Nick told her.
"Okay."
Ellie followed Nick into the flat and he showed her into the living room.
"Do you want anything to drink? Tea? Coffee? Butterbeer?" he asked.
"A butterbeer please" Ellie replied.
Nick nodded and disappeared through a door that must have led to the kitchen.
While he was gone, Ellie looked around the living room.
It was an off white colour and all of the furniture was black - it was immaculate, too immaculate for a guy to live in.
She got up and went to look at the photos on the mantlepiece.
She saw photos of a baby Millie when she was a few hours old, Millie on her first and second birthdays and Millie cuddling Ellie - to an outsider it would be obvious that he doted on his daughter.
Ellie was looking at a photo that was in the middle of the mantlepiece when Nick came in holding two butterbeers.
"Do you remember when this was taken?" Ellie remarked pointing to a photo of her and Nick cuddling each other.
Nick smiled.
"Sixth year. It was the first time that I told you that I loved you and Georgie, Keeley and Brooke took that photo. Do you remember when this was taken?" Nick said as he showed Ellie a photo of herself, Nick, Peyton, Fletch and Harmony all standing together.
"Seventh year. But there's just one thing missing from it."
They both looked at each other.
"Dan!" they excalaimed.
"We have to get them back together" Ellie said.
"Yeah. I've seen Dan and he's miserable without her. But he always said that he can't forgive her for doing what she did. How's Peyton?"
"She's the same minus the not forgiving part. She hasn't had a boyfriend since they broke up. Oh yeah she's Quidditch Captain and Head Girl this year."
"Cool! She'll be a good captain. Who was left on the team in June?"
"Peyt, Melly, Connor, Tasha and Nat. She needs to find a Chaser and a Keeper."
"Well that's not too bad."
"No. So how do you keep this place so clean?" Ellie asked.
"My Mum comes round while I'm at work" Nick said laughing.
Ellie laughed as they sat down on the sofa and Ellie looked at Nick.
"Did you mean what you said earlier?" Ellie asked quietly.
"Of course. I love you so much that it hurts."
"Aw that's so cute. I never stopped loving you."
Nick scooted closer to Ellie who looked at him and smiled.
"Oh screw the formalities. I want you now" Nick said.
He then tilted Ellie's head up so that she was looking at him and kissed her.
"Mummy! Wake up Mummy!"
"What Millie?" Ellie asked groggily without opening her eyes.
"You're not awake!"
"I am. I'm talking and that means that I am awake. Why did you wake me up?"
"Your eyes aren't open! That means that you're not awake! Open your eyes Mummy!" Millie shouted.
Ellie opened her eyes and had to blink a couple of times to make sure that everything was in focus.
"Mummy? Why are you in Daddy's bed?" Millie asked curiously.
"Because Mummy was tired sweetpea. Why don't you go and play with your toys in your bedroom" Nick said as he walked into the room smiling and holding a tray that was laden with breakfast things.
Millie turned round and smiled at her father before getting off the bed and trying to skip out of the room.
Ellie looked at Millie trying to skip and laughed.
She then looked at Nick.
"Hey" she breathed.
"Hey" Nick replied as he sat down on the bed.
He put the tray onto Ellie's lap and watched her eat.
"Are you hungry?" Nick said as he Ellie wolfed down the food.
"Yeah. Last night tired me out."
"I should think so too. I missed it you know."
"Missed what? Having sex?" Ellie joked.
"No. Us being like that with one another" Nick replied.
"I knew that. I missed it too. It felt good being with you like that again last night."
"Are you done with that?" Nick asked whilst indicating to the tray that was now half as full as it had been.
"Yeah. Why did you ask that?" Ellie asked holding the tray out to Nick.
Nick took the tray and put it on the floor.
He then laid down next to Ellie and pulled her down so that she was laying next to him.
"So I could do this" he whispered as he kissed her.
"I have to go. I wouldn't be at all surprised if my Mum's going off her nut because I stayed out all night and didn't contact her."
"Nooo! I don't want you to go!" Nick whined.
"I have to. Don't be such a baby."
"I'm not being a baby!"
"You are Nick. Our two year old daughter is less of a baby than you!"
"Okay okay. Just answer one question before you go."
"Okay."
"What are we now?" Nick asked.
"Let's just take it slow. It's going to take a lot of getting to used to on Millie's part once she knows that Mummy and Daddy are back together. Now let me get dressed!"
Nick nodded and watched as Ellie walked seductively into the bathroom.
An hour and a half later, Ellie and Millie were walking up the dirt track that led to The Burrow not really caring about what Hermione would say to her when she got in.
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