Harry Potter and the Scars of Time
By: Krystal Lily Potter
Chapter 26: The Scars of Time
Rating: AA (which means, around here, 14 and up)
Couples: HP/HG, KB/RW/LL, NL/GW/DM, GW/DM/EM
Summary: Harry's last year at Hogwarts has finally come but that doesn't mean things will be any easier for him. After last year's horrifying events the school things that nothing worse could happen. They were all wrong. The prophecy resurfaces and is dangling in front of Harry, held up by the pain from the past, quite literally. As the world is slowly being morphed outside of the safety of Hogwarts the people inside it are finding out that they cannot hide for much longer and that time is as much their best friend now as it is their worst enemy. What is a person supposed to do when they know they have to face the most evil wizard in history and if they're killed then the rest of the world, magic and muggle is doomed?
Warning: More violence then last time. There are mentions of suicide, murder, and that type of stuff). There will also be fighting, cursing (and I don't mean spells) and gory stuff. For now the rating stays AA/PG-13 but later, towards the end, it might go up to R.
Heed this warning if you don't like death: there will be A LOT more deaths of characters you recognise from JKRs books and some original ones. If you thought I was cruel and brutal in the prequel to this then I don't know what you're going to think of me after reading this story.
Sequel to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
This chapter is going to be MUCH shorter then the others! It just gives details of what's happening to everyone else! The title might seem irrelevant to it but…well read between the lines! You can more or less skip this chapter and not miss anything that happens in the end.
"So this is how liberty dies – with thunderous applause."
-Padme Amidala, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
"GO!"
"NO!"
Ron and Kaylee glared at each other for a moment before ducking at a runaway curse that flew in their direction. The young girl's eyes were still red from tears and her normally good aim was off. Ron knew she couldn't stay on the battlefield any longer and was trying to get her to go into the castle with Hermione, where it was less dangerous.
"Please Kaylee, you can't do this anymore. I can see the way that your mother's death is affecting you. It'll be safer in the castle where you know the secret passages to get out of the way but you're still fighting. I know I can't ask you to go and hide, both your parents have too much of a stubborn streak in them that you inherited," Ron said to her while holding onto her arm.
She stared at him for a moment then said, "You don't understand!"
"Last year my whole family was captured by Voldemort! We may not be going out anymore but you still are my friend and I don't want you to die! Now go and help Hermione!"
They glared at each other for a moment before, for the first time in her life, she backed down from a fight. A look of respect appeared in her features and she nodded before saying, "Good luck Ron." With a fleeting smile Kaylee turned around and ran towards the castle, without a second glance back at her red haired friend or at the corpse of her mother as she passed it.
If someone would have told Neville when he was in first year, or even second, third or fourth he would have never believed that he would be on the front lines of the final battle between Voldemort and Hogwarts he probably would have laughed and then fainted at the prospect. Now he stood proudly, fighting in a way he had never dreamed he would be able to.
His grandmother always told him that he looked like his mother used to in her youth, and frowned saying that there was never much of his father in him, but at that moment Neville Longbottom felt as if he were fighting alongside the great Auror Frank Longbottom. His curses were much more powerful and accurate with his own wand, but he still kept the pieces of his father's locked away in his trunk.
Every day he silently thanked Harry for teaching him so many useful curses and counter-curses. Now thanks to his friend he had taken down many Death Eaters already, but he too had received his fair share of battle scars too.
Pain flared in his side as a particularly nasty cutting hex nicked him but he didn't fall. He continued to stand strong.
At the same time Professor Nickleson ended up stumbling into his view, fighting with Bellatrix Lestrange, Kaylee ended up bumping into him. They watched as Bellatrix quickly knocked Nickleson to the ground and attempted to kill her in the same way that she had killed Alyssa Black but Ann Nickleson proved to be a much quicker opponent and moved out of the way in time.
Bellatrix was about to chase after her when she spotted Neville and Kaylee glaring at her with their wands pointed, not wavering as she grinned evilly in their direction.
"Well what do we have here? The son of my favourite Auror's and the daughter of my mutt of a cousin! This should be fun," Lestrange said with an over-confident smirk.
"You're right Trixie," Kaylee sad sarcastically.
"This should be fun," Neville agreed with her as they advanced forwards.
Hermione felt panic wracking her body as she rushed back out into the grounds for more backup. There were so many Death Eaters inside the castle. The only common room that hadn't been attacked was the Gryffindor one because none of the Death Eaters knew where it was. The only person who could have told them was Peter Pettigrew but no one had heard of him since the summer.
She looked around then gasped as she actually felt the area around her shake and watched the apparition wards vanish around them. It was only a few moments later that more wizards and witches started apparating in. As she watched them appear she felt sick, thinking they were Death Eaters until she saw who they really were: Auror's and more Order members.
She jumped as a fury cry was head from across the grounds and found herself on the ground with a bigger body over hers protectively. She screamed as a brilliant green curse flew over head then the person yanked her back up.
Letting out a breath of relief she asked, "Harry! What's going on?"
"She's a little angry," Harry said back as Narcissa Malfoy appeared in front of them, looking livid.
"He's dead! Because of you he's dead!" she screamed in a fit of rage and shot curse after curse at the two.
"Harry don't," Hermione said suddenly when she saw him pull out his wand. He looked at her with confusion and she said, "Save your strength for Voldemort…in fact go and find him. I'll take care of his wretch."
They dodged around the curses but Harry still had a look of doubt on his face. Oh he knew very well that she could handle herself, but he still was very protective over her.
Suddenly he had a feeling of Déjà vu as he saw Narcissa move her wand in a slashing motion. He tried to hell but someone else attack him from behind and his attention loosely turned to that person as he yelled, "HERMIONE!"
She pushed herself off the ground just in time to see the curse heading towards her when someone pushed her down and someone else cursed Narcissa.
Harry looked back and gasped at what he saw. The person who had hit Narcissa wore a Durmstrang uniform while the girl who pushed her to the ground had a Maple Merlin's. He looked around and much to his shock he saw a mix of colors as people from many different schools started appearing around them.
"How?" was the only word he got out when the Canadian representative of the ULD, Beth, appeared beside him and said, "Everyone heard about it! You all helped us when we were in need, so now it's our turn to help you."
"Harry," Hermione said suddenly, "get to Voldemort! We'll all be fine now that we have more help!"
He stared at her for a moment before a small smile appeared on his face and he said, "I love you."
"I love you too," she replied quietly, "now go."
He nodded and took off in the other direction, not daring to look back. That was probably the wisest choice he had made that night for if he had turned around he would not have been able to concentrate on Voldemort. All he would have saw for the rest of his life was Hermione and Narcissa throwing curses at each other and both falling to the ground …Hermione in a growing pool of her own blood.
Narcissa slowly stood up again and pointed her wand at Hermione when a great golden lion with wings appeared out of no where and attacked the blond woman.
"Griffy!" Hermione yelled at the now fully grown fire griffen. She saw Narcissa about to curse but beat her to the bunch. She hit Narcissa with the Torture-Killing Curse...the one that she herself had been hit with in fifth year.
As Mrs. Malfoy fell to the ground, obviously dead, Hermione fell into her own blood and slowly lost consciousness.
Remus looked around desperately while trying to stop the Death Eaters from harming the students that they had rounded up and put in the Great Hall. The rest were either fighting, hiding somewhere else or already dead, but he refused to let these ones lose their lives to such monsters.
"Where are you Hermione?" he thought bitterly as he and Tonks tried to ward them off. Suddenly the wall behind the Death Eaters smashed in and about fifty students from different schools came running into the building. The Death Eaters turned to fight them and Remus felt hope restoring in him as he stood back to back with Tonks. They were getting more help by the minute, meaning that they had a very good chance of putting an end to this war once and for all.
From outside he heard an angry yell from Hagrid followed by a roar of, "YOU NO HURT HAGGER!"
Hagrid and Grawp had arrived on the scene outside.
With the appearance of a frightful looking Hagrid and Grawp the giants had their interests peaked. They turned to the two only to be hit with several arrows. Soon, much to the surprise of Sarah, the centaurs armed with their bow and arrows appeared, followed by the Mermaids, who rose from the lake and threw tridents and spears and the most shocking part was the goblins, who had arrived to help as well.
With the creatures fighting the creatures the wizards and witches were able to back off and help fight the Death Eaters around them but one thing made Sarah worried.
No one had yet to see Voldemort.
Suddenly a bright purple light was seen behind her. She whipped around just in time to get hit in the chest with a curse and fall down to the ground.
Kaylee winced painfully and she fell to the ground and managed to twist herself sideways so she wouldn't smash her face on the ground. Bellatrix proved to me more of a challenge then she or Neville had thought she would be.
Pushing herself off the ground again she lunged at her "second cousin" and tried to hit her with the body-binding spell but her aim was really off for some reason. It wasn't just from the death of her mother, she just felt really off balance.
Neville seemed to notice this from the beginning and kept distracting Bellatrix away from her. Kaylee was thankful for that but it annoyed her to no end to not be able to help in any other way.
"Please," Kaylee thought desperately, "please we need help."
Suddenly she felt warmth spread out over her body and it almost felt as if someone was steadying her and holding her arm to keep her aim steady.
"Daddy?" she whispered softly and she knew, at that moment, that Sirius Black was at her side.
Tears streamed down her cheeks as the dreams that plagued Harry for the summer after his fifth year filled her mind: Bellatrix hitting him with a red curse and him gracefully arching into the veil in slow motion.
Anger broke through her as she saw the Longbottoms being torture and she pulled every ounce of raw magic she had flowing in her and forced it into her wand. Neville saw what she was doing and quickly started shooting curses to distract the vial woman from Kaylee's magic.
Bellatrix lost her balance and spun around to catch it again and found herself staring at the end of Kaylee's brightly glowing wand. The young girl used ounce of her strength to force the magic out of her wand without even thinking a spell. It hit Bellatrix and the woman's body jerked and she yelled in pain before she literally rotted away in front of their eyes.
Kaylee stared at the spot where her father's murderer had stood only moments before. She could still feel Sirius's worried presence around her and she fainted. Neville shot towards her quickly and caught her then quickly started weaving in and out of the fighting to try and get her into the castle.
Ron wiped away the blood that trailed from the corner of his mouth and looked around with panic. He had met many of his family members on the battlefield, all who were now sticking together as a tight Weasley Wall, bur he couldn't find Ginny anywhere. Fred and George had made a rather large distraction of throwing their fancy fireworks at Death Eaters while Ron left to try and find his younger sister, but he had yet to find her.
"GINNY!" he yelled loudly. The fighting was slowly beginning to diminish but it didn't ease his nerves any.
"RON!" her voice yelled back.
His heart started thumping loudly when he heard her frustration and started running in the direction her voice came from. She and Luna stood side by side fighting off Lucius Malfoy.
The blond haired man seemed particularly frustrated that he couldn't beat the two young witches, even with all his skills in the dark arts. Ginny quick fighting and Luna's talent to observe everything around her made them a team to be tried with.
"Flamaro!" Ron yelled as he got on the scene. Flames erupted in front of Ginny and Luna, safely separating them from Lucius.
"What are you doing Ron?" Ginny cried out to her older brother.
"Stay back there!" he yelled at them as Lucius turned to face him.
"Well if it isn't another Weasley! Come to try and stop me boy?" he laughed in a cruel way.
"Damn right," Ron said and they started shooting hexes at each other.
"RON!" Ginny screamed at him, trying to get him to move out of the way.
"LISTEN TO ME GINERVA MOLLY WEASLEY! STAY BACK THERE!"
Ginny froze in her spot at her brother's serious voice, tears streaked down her face and she desperately wanted to help…even if her brother didn't want her to.
"Flipendo!" Luna's airy voice called out and Lucius ended up on the ground. It was a first year spell but when put to the right task it could be fairly dangerous.
Lucius pushed himself off the ground and pointed his wand at Luna, "Avada Kedavra!"
What happened next went so fast that none of them really saw what happened, they just knew. Ron moved at inhumanly speeds and ended up between Luna and the curse. It struck him in the chest and he ended up falling to the ground.
Luna and Ginny both screamed, and without thinking they both raised their wands and yelled, "AVADA KEDAVRA!" Lucius didn't have time to move before it hit him and he too fell to the ground, dead.
Author's Note
Just a little short chapter! Didn't I say that all of you were going to kill me? Yes Ron is dead but this isn't like other stories, I didn't kill him to give Harry the glory and the girl. But who else has died? Hermione? Kaylee? Remus? Harry? HAHA I'm not telling! You just have to read the rest of the chapters to find out!
And you know what the next chapter is right? Nickleson! I'm not joking either!
Ummm…I suppose I could get on to the reviews…since I have nothing left to say. Yes I think I'll do that!
Holimontski – me, I've been hanging out with my friends and struggling through grade 11 physics and getting completely owned in Writing 110 (ITS NOT MY FAULT I DID LIKE THAT MOVIE SO I WROTE A CRAPPY REVIEW MR.B! I SWEAR IT!)…yeah…lol! I wish I was enjoying time in a warm climate! I live in Canada where the snow's deep in winter and the sun's too hot in summer. Of course I had it in me to kill old Dumbles and Snape…originally I had Dumbledore live but I figured this way was better!
FreedomStar – Don't feel bad, I can't remember what happened in the rest of the story either…lol I just randomly wrote the chapter and hoped that some details were right! Besides Half Blood Prince and every other part of Scars of Time was all over the place and messed up sooooo…
MageRonin – wow chapter one…you've got along way to go! LOL!
Aqua Mage – lol that was the idea! The final chapter ain't that great…I like chapter 27 the best personally.
NikkyB – LOL well thank you and with Nickleson…well…you'll see!
OeO I look just like Buddy Holly – you find out who Nickleson is in the NEXT chapter! And yes there were a lot of deaths…wasn't there?
Diana – lol yeah there was a lot of death…I suppose this chapter wasn't any better though.
Anyways thanks to you all! Hope you liked this chapter and please review!
Krystal Lily Potter