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Chapter 16
Not Harry Potter
Larissa stared at the glaring man, discreetly hiding her wand under her robes, but firmly holding it. She could attack him, but for some reason at the moment she couldn't bring herself to attack her lover's father. "I sent him to safety, Mr. Malfoy. Why?"
"He is a traitor. I came to kill him myself. I will kill him myself!" Lucius lifted his wand as if about to attack and noted the small bump the girl had. Even though she had school robes it was still noticeable that there was a bun in the oven. At 4 months the belly had started to protrude all of a sudden. "Who are you?"
"I'm Larissa McGonagall."
"You say you sent my son to safety? How did you get here?"
Sa stayed silent at those questions, but Malfoy grabbed her by the arm and started to escort her out of there. They went through several aisles and Sa was brought to the hall that had been empty when she had arrived at that place. It wasn't full of Death Eaters, but there were at least ten of them including Lucius and Voldemort himself. "Instead of my son I found this pregnant girl, my lord."
Sa controlled herself not to gasp at hearing about her state, but she looked at her abdomen and for the first time noticed that it was obvious already. It was almost like it had swollen overnight.
Voldemort looked at the girl curiously. "How did you get here, child?" He asked sounding almost concerned.
Sa didn't reply. She felt her wand inside her robes again and made sure to hide it well. At that same moment Malfoy felt her robes and wasn't able to locate the wand. He shook his head as if indicating that she wasn't armed.
"Even if you won't answer me I know how you got here, but I still wonder how you got this?" Voldemort showed her the emerald. She had probably dropped it right after she got there.
Sa remained silent. Many things were storming inside her head at the moment. She could reveal herself as Harry Potter or could even attempt to kill Voldemort, but then the other Death Eaters would kill her for sure. For the moment she had to go safe and see what would happen. Maybe she could use the pregnancy to her advantage.
"Who is the father?" Sa blinked, but still remained silent. So far she didn't feel like answering any of Voldemort's questions. "Did you know I can figure who the father of that child is? I am all powerful after all. You are carrying Harry Potter's child. I can feel it." Sa swallowed. Maybe the pregnancy was not an advantage after all. She was very dead now. "I wonder if that would draw him to me by using you as bait?"
"He is in North America right now," Sa replied a little too quickly.
"Oh! She can speak!" The Death Eaters that were present started to laugh mockingly. "And lie too," added Voldemort with a sneer. "If that boy were indeed in North America you wouldn't be expecting his child."
"That's because it's not his child," Sa decided to see what the reaction would be.
Voldemort looked quite interested by that point and signalled for Malfoy to bring the girl closer. Voldemort moved his wand over the girl and there was a strange fluorescent glow. He looked amused. "There is Malfoy blood in the creature, but Potter's powerful blood too. That is not possible."
Lucius' eyes had gone wide and he stared at the girl. "It's Draco's?" Sa lowered her eyes with a frown. Lucius looked almost hopeful at that moment. He gazed at the dark lord and kneeled. "Please lord, keep her alive until my grandchild is born. You can kill her then and I will be able to get a new heir to raise with Narcissa for the one that has betrayed us."
Voldemort looked almost amused. "It is not in me to be merciful. I've killed plenty of pregnant women before... I could rip her belly open right now and not only kill the child, but also scatter her entrails throughout this room." He was sneering again.
Sa felt her wand again trying to remain as calm as possible. If they indeed decided to kill her she wouldn't go down without a fight.
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Draco woke up as soon as Pomfrey started to heal him. Snape had also been called because he had earlier reported what was happening. The Potions master was definitely surprised about the way in which Draco had suddenly appeared in the hospital wing. He had no idea Potter could easily create portkeys.
Draco had been confused at first when he saw he was being healed and dressed in hospital wing pajamas. "How did I get here? What has happened?" He looked around and looked terribly scared. "Where's Sa? Oh by Merlin, where's Larissa? Where's Harry Potter?"
"Calm down, Mr. Malfoy. You've been terribly injured and I'm taking care of that. Everything is fine." Pomfrey was trying to distract the student to keep him calm.
"Of course everything is NOT fine! Larissa is supposed to be here and I am here all of a sudden? Last thing I can remember were my father and other Death Eaters beating the shit out of me! I don't have to be a genius to know they didn't simply send me back to Hogwarts! How did I get here?"
Draco had always been a smart student. No one could easily fool him and he noticed the strange piece of clothing wrapped on his wrist. Trembling all over, he brought his wrist to his face and smelled the clothing. His eyes got clouded with tears. "She is not there isn't she? How could she get there?"
"I gave her a Portkey. Now you will rest for your own good. You will drink this." Snape tried to bring a vial to Draco's lips, but with blazing eyes, the blonde boy hit the vial violently sending it flying against a wall where it broke.
"I will drink nothing! You hate Potter so much you sent him there to be butchered! I'm going to bring him back!"
"Don't be ridiculous, Mr. Malfoy. You won't be able to do anything. The headmaster is already on his way with members of the Order of the Phoenix and Aurors from the Ministry of Magic. You have to rest!"
"I WON'T DARE SHUT AN EYE UNTIL SHE IS HERE WITH ME SAFE AND SOUND!" Draco's anger filled the room, his magic sending powerful waves bouncing off of the walls.
"You don't even have your wand. This is foolish behaviour," Snape stated trying not to get temperamental.
Draco calmed a little at that. His wand hadn't been snapped, but his father had it. He covered his eyes. "I just want her back..."
Pomfrey came with a new vial and Snape prepared to hold Draco so that the nurse could pour the liquid down the student's throat, but things didn't come out as they had planned. Draco moved swiftly surprising them both and grabbed Snape's wand from the inside of the Potions master's robes. He transfigured his pajamas into black robes seconds after and ran out of there leaving both Snape and Pomfrey in shock.
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Sa wondered where the Order of the Phoenix was as she stood there in front of Voldemort and surrounded by Death Eaters. It almost seemed that they didn't know what to do with her. Voldemort kept analyzing her, but couldn't understand why the baby seemed to be Potter and Malfoy at the same time. That was utterly impossible. "What is your name?"
"Larissa McGonagall."
"You are a very powerful witch, child. Your magic confused me for a while as it is so similar to Harry Potter's, but now I've started to see the differences. Are you related to Harry Potter in any way?"
"Not that I'm aware of," said Sa in a voice that was almost hollow. She was starting to think that she should have left with Draco when she had the chance. Her impulsiveness kept paying its toll in her decisions, but at the same time, she had to destroy Voldemort once and for all. If she didn't destroy the dark lord, she wouldn't be able to live in tranquility or raise a child in peace.
A Death Eater came running to the meeting hall and announced out of breath. "The Ministry has found us! They're here, my lord!"
"That's ridiculous. They can't be here! Unless..." Voldemort looked at Larissa. Could she have possibly revealed the location? "Are you sure she is unarmed, Lucius?"
Lucius moved to check the girl again, but Sa had her wand in seconds and blinded the man with a sudden light wave. In seconds, she disillusioned herself just as Aurors entered.
Voldemort seemed to dash out of the hall, but Sa went in pursuit. After a couple of minutes the dark lord stopped running and turned towards Sa. He quickly removed the Disillusionment charm from her, but when he tried to bind her, she moved with ease. "You will meet your end, Voldemort."
The dark wizard laughed. "You know that the only person that can challenge me is supposed to be that mediocre boy called Harry Potter!"
Larissa hardened her features as she raised her wand. "I have bad news for you then! I AM HARRY POTTER!"
Voldemort reacted amazed and spoke in Parsletongue: "You lie!"
"No I don't!" Larissa glared, replying also in Parsletongue.
Voldemort was taken aback at hearing the girl speaking the snake language too, but quickly regained colour on his serpent like face. "You will die then!"
Both used spells against each other at the same time, but the magic intertwined. Both tried to separate the wands in vain and Sa was getting nervous, but she wasn't the only one. Voldemort was also nervous and furious. He had recognized the intertwining of the wands from before confirming that the pregnant girl was indeed Harry Potter. "How did you become a girl?"
"You will never know," another voice spoke.
Sa searched the voice's source to see Draco, but at that moment of looking back Voldemort broke the binding of the wands and attacked her with a curse that would have destroyed all of her organs from the inside if Draco hadn't shielded her. Draco used then a dismembering spell on Voldemort, but the dark lord repelled it and bound Draco easily. He was about to kill Draco when Sa suddenly exclaimed desperately: "Factus Pulvis!"
Voldemort had never expected the spell and in no time, there was nothing but dust where he had just stood.
Draco's binds disappeared and he stared at Sa incredulously. The girl herself was shocked looking at what Voldemort had become and she smiled at Draco before becoming extremely pale and fainting. Draco quickly caught her in his arms and whispered: "We've won Sa. We'll be okay now... and I killed my father." He started to weep silently with Larissa cradled in his arms.
XxXxX
Tonks arrived behind Draco as fast as she could. She had seen the young man murder his own father by blowing the older wizard to smithereens after an incredibly short duel and then run from the fight as if looking for someone. She had tried to pursue the students immediately, but wasn't able to because Death Eaters kept crossing her path. In the end, she had been able to go the same way Draco Malfoy had gone to find him cradling Harry in girl form in his arms. Tonks paled and trembled because her first thought was that Harry was dead.
"By Merlin! Is he..." Draco lifted Snape's wand surprised, but relaxed when he saw his cousin. He had never even known his cousin Nymphadora much, but at least he could recognize her.
"She just fainted."
Tonks sighed and noticed the mountain of dust next to the students. "What's that?"
"Oh... That..." Draco looked at the dust pile as if he were daydreaming. "That's Voldemort," he said with no problem whatsoever in pronouncing the forbidden name.
Tonks rapidly approached the students, and checked and scanned them with a spell. "You both need the hospital wing..."
At that moment, Lupin, Dumbledore, Moody, and Shacklebolt got there too. Dumbledore chuckled as he saw the dust pile. "Oh my! Look at what Tom has become!"
Shacklebolt raised an eyebrow as if considering Dumbledore's sanity, but asked: "Who destroyed Voldemort?"
Tonks knew the truth about Harry and Lupin too, but Moody and Shacklebolt didn't. She stared at Dumbledore and then said: "This girl destroyed the bastard."
"It wasn't Harry Potter?" Moody asked very surprised.
Dumbledore on the other hand chuckled again and said: "Power that the Dark Lord didn't know of. Very interesting. Never thought it would turn out this way."
Lupin and Tonks smiled while Draco simply moved cradling the girl, but Moody and Shacklebolt had no idea about what Dumbledore was talking about.
"So what's the name of our heroine?" Shacklebolt asked curiously.
"That is Miss Larissa McGonagall," replied Lupin with a faint smile.
Draco suddenly lost all colour on his features. "She has stopped breathing! SHE HAS STOPPED BREATHING!"
The adult wizards quickly approached the two students to check what was wrong with the girl.
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