CHAPTER 5

Thanks for reviewing, ok its finally here, the final hp TR face off. Buckle up.

Harry opened the doors of the church, still under the invisibility cloak and crept to the altar where Demetra sat in the shadows. Slowly he crawled behind her and placed his invisible hand over her mouth. Her eyes widened and she squirmed. Harry whispered into her ear" it's me, don't say anything." She relaxed but said nothing. He removed his hand and set to untying her bonds." Demetra,"he whispered again "take the invisibility cloak and apparate away from here!" She turned her head and shook it ever so slightly, no. Her previous vulnerability had evaporated and the stubbornness Harry both loved and hated was back again. But this was not the time." I'm serious!" he hissed, squeezing her hand. In answer she grabbed Harry's wand out of his hand and yelled"accio wand." As her wand zoomed into her hands the Death eaters turned to face them. Harry threw off his invisibility cloak and ran to her side. Voldemort looked over and smiled. "Ah, Potter, nice of you to come by. I see occlumency is still one of your weakest subjects. Here you are, but this time Potter you will not come out. Avada!"

"Protego!" Harry shouted dodging the killing curse, which instead hit a marble statue in the face and reduced it to rubble.

"Come now, Potter you are completely outnumbered," drawled Lucius Malfoy "All you have for protection is your fat little girlfriend here." He motioned to the spot where Demetra had been standing moments before."Sectra brando!"screamed a voice from nowhere. Deep gouge marks spelling the initials DR appeared bloodily on Malfoy's cheeks. He squealed in pain and clutched his face. Demetra flung the invisibility cloak off" The fat little girlfriend sends her love, Malfoy," she said tauntingly. Completely forgetting the danger surrounding them Harry turned to her in complete admiration" I love you."

"How touching. Baby potter wuvs her." simpered Bellatrix Lestrange in her trademark baby voice"Crucio!" This time the spell hit its mark Harry hit the ground in pain and an all out duel ensued, Demetra cursing any death eater that approached Harry until he regained consciousness. Back to back they thwarted some death eaters. When it seemed as if all was lost popping sounds throughout the church hailed the order members apparating in their midst. But Voldemort was not to be deterred. "I have waited too long for your blood Potter,"
he hissed shooting a curse over the top of a pew." Well you'll just have to wait a tad longer then, "taunted Harry, ducking the violet curse, though it grazed his cheek making it bleed.

"Face it, Potter, you will die tonight!" Said Voldemort, lazily charming a statue of a saint to beat upon Harry again and again." This time you have done everything wrong! You cared to much for that stupid girl so you were lured here and you are getting weaker by the minute," he cackled and hit Harry Square in the chest with a freezing jinx, Harry's body froze in every place but his mouth." The better to hear you scream,"Voldemort sneered" At last, Harry Potter, I have you completely at my mercy. And I do not intend to make this, quick and painless, Crucio maximus!"

Harry's entire body was riddled with pain, from his scalp to his toe nails, and he screamed in agony."Nagini, you don't know how sweet that sound is to me,"Voldemort said stroking the head of his enormous snake. Something in Harry's brain clicked. The snake. The last horcrux. Demetra ran over after hearing Harry scream, and at the same moment as he did, registered the importance of the snake. She was behind voldemort who continued to taunt and curse Harry. Muttering "Saberesque" below her breath her wand transfigured into a short dagger. Demetra plunged the dagger into the back of the snake's head and body over and over until it fell down dead. Voldemort seemed not to notice but even as Demetra and Harry watched he changed. From immortal into mortal before their eyes. His eyes resumed their original shape and color, and his skin was no longer as serpentine. Voldemort was gone and Tom Riddle stood before them completely unaware. But still as powerful and deadly. He pointed his wand at Harry" and now the moment that was denied me so many times before." Demetra pointed her own wand at Harry and used the only nonverbal incantation she had mastered. Riddle raised his wand"Avada.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Harry screamed at Riddle pointing his wand at him. The flash of green light collided with Riddle and he fell. It was Harry's first and most important unforgivable curse. The passionate malice he had worked up over 17 years gave the spell the power to succeed. With a bewildered look in his eyes Tom Riddle fell to the ground, never to rise again. A silence fell over the entire church. The death eaters turned just in time to see their master die. Suddenly there was the popping sound of many death eaters disapperated on the spot. Lupin raced toward Harry, as did the other members of the order of the Phoenix. They stood there in astonishment, looking at the body. "I never thought I would see the day," growled Moody, both his magical and real eye clouding with moisture. Professor Maconigal stepped forward and pointed her wand at the body,"verificus,"she said shakily. Black steam emitted from the body." He, he really is dead," she said her voice cracking. The watching crowd was still for a moment and then erupted in loud cheers embracing one another and laughing loudly. Harry was pulled into so many hugs and kissed so many times that he felt limp from affection and relief. Soon they all dissaparated to spread the news and to celebrate. Two members took the body with them. Harry looked around. Only Demetra remained. Her face was scratched and one of the straps of her dress was ripped, but she was smiling. They hugged." Are you alright?"Harry asked when they broke apart.

"I've never been better!" She said,"Oh Harry you knew this would happen sooner or later, I'm so sorry. The portkey I used to get home was a trap it took me here. You could have been killed, and it would have been my fault, I'm so sorry."

Smiling weakly at her he said, using her own words against her" I'd rather face a thousand deaths than loose you."

She chuckled softly. "Is the baby alright?" he asked placing a hand on her stomach. He felt a reassuring kick and sighed." I can't wait to tell him that his mother spit on the dark lord, branded Lucius Malfoy, killed the horcrux, and saved my life, all when 9 months pregnant." She grinned and they moved closer, so close they were but a breath shy of a kiss. A drawling voice said" It's a pity you won't live tot tell him, Potter."Draco Malfoy stepped out behind a statue, his wand at the ready."Expelliarmus!" he shouted and both Harry and Demetra's wands flew into his hands