Chapter 66 – The Final Battle

The time had come. Anna and Harry sat at their kitchen table, Ginny sat with Josh in her arms. The tension in the room was almost unbearable. No one said a word. Anna was shaking slightly. Everyone jumped as a single phoenix feather appeared in front of them.

Harry nodded at Anna. She looked back and nodded slightly. With a last look at Ginny and Josh, Anna and Harry Apparated.

They landed in a small town, the sun was just setting and Harry led her up the road to a house that was away from every other house. It had ivy growing all over it. They met up with other members of the Order.

"Right everyone knows what to do?" Harry asked and everyone nodded then went their separate ways. "Ron, Neville you go with Anna. Hermione you come with me." Harry directed them. Anna, Ron and Neville stood in the graveyard behind a tree. Dumbledore stood in the middle of the graveyard and said in a voice Anna had never heard him use before.

"Tom, come out and meet your fate. I have come to rid this world of you once and for all."

There were a few minutes when nothing happened and then suddenly the air was filled with cracks as about 100 Deatheaters circled around Dumbledore. The crowd parted and Voldemort walked toward Dumbledore.

"Where's the rest of your little Order Dumbledore. Where is Potter and his brat of a daughter?"

"They are not here I came alone."

"Liar."

Suddenly Voldemort shot a spell at Dumbledore who deflected it. At this the rest of the Order came out from their hiding places and started attacking. Anna, Ron and Neville stayed where they were.

Anna watched as the Death Eaters fought with the Order. Suddenly Anna saw two faces she never wanted to see here. Lupin and Chris. She had no idea what they were playing at. She watched as Lupin took on two of his own Death Eater's. Chris took on one. They were fighting back to back watching each other's back. Suddenly she saw Remus and Sirius. She knew they had to be there as well. She sighed to herself, they would have come anyway, and there was nothing she could have done.

The light side was over coming the Death Eaters. Anna felt hope spread through her. Then suddenly her stomach gave a painful throb and she looked up in time to see a jet of green light head directly to Lupin's turned back.

Suddenly Anna felt an arm around her neck and a wand pointing in her back. She acted instinctively. She elbowed her attacker in the stomach and bent down and flipped him on to his back. Ron and Neville pointed their wands at the Death Eater and stunned him.

They turned to look for more but suddenly there was a golden light that filled the air and Anna knew this was her sign. Hoping against hope Lupin was alive she took out her bottle of the potion and drank it, with a burning sensation, it went down her throat. Ron and Neville ran out guarding Anna who was holding the other bottle of potion in her hand and taking off the lid. Ron and Neville shot spells at everyone who tried to get in their way. They reached Voldemort who was dueling with Dumbledore and Harry.

"Master look out behind you," one of the Deatheaters screamed. Anna was counting on this. Voldemort turned in time to see Anna kick his arm and his wand went flying. She then kicked his legs out from underneath him. He fell on the floor Anna quickly put a foot on his chest before he could move. She took the potion and poured it down his throat. He choked trying to cough it back up.

"To rid this world,
Of what has stained it,
I give myself to the fight.
So that the rest can be free,
I sacrifice myself to the fight
I sacrifice myself.

To help my father,
In what he has been told,
Will make the world right.
He has fought his part now,
I sacrifice myself to the fight,
I sacrifice myself."

Anna threw herself off him and grabbed her wand.

"Do it now dad." She yelled at her father whose eyes were wide in shock. "DAD!" Harry came to his senses and yelled the killing curse at Voldemort.

Harry couldn't believe this was actually happening. It was actually coming true.

When the curse hit Voldemort he screamed in pain. No one was fighting anymore they were all staring at what was happening to Voldemort. His body was contorting in pain and suddenly his body started too disintegrated and a dark black smoke was rising. Anna stood up her wand at the ready. The black smoke floated around for a few seconds suddenly it headed toward Anna. She felt it enter her and darkness over took her.

Harry saw his daughter fall to the floor suddenly the black smoke that had entered her before, left along with a pure blinding white light. The black smoke and pure white light were bound together it was as though the two substances were trying to over power each other. The black smoke was getting more prominent. Harry felt as though his life was being slowly drawn out of him, and he fell to the ground, his breath was shallow but he could still see the events around him.

The fighting had stopped and both Death Eater and Order member was watching the black and white lights. Anna and Voldemort's bodies lay lifeless on the ground. Someone went up to them and looked at the bodies. No one touched them. The cloud of black and white was swirling fast now. Harry felt sick looking at it.