Title: Harry Potter and the Great Adventure

Author: Magiquill9

Chapter 19: Just One More?

Ships: Harry and Ginny, Hermione and Ron, Bill and Fleur, and Lupin and Tonks.

Chapter Synopsis: Harry and the remnants of the light forces attack Hogwarts, in an attempt to rescue Ginny. Harry himself heads down to the chamber, and with the diary, ring, locket, wand, and cup destroyed, he still needs to get Nagini before Voldemort can be stopped. He goes after Ginny, still leaving one horcrux to destroy, besides Voldemort himself. But things aren't as they seem.

Story Summary: HBP raised as many questions as it answered. How can Harry find a horcrux? How can he destroy the horcruxes? Everything was laid out, and we were about to jump off the cliff. Here's where the cliffhanger ends and the adventure begins. Join Harry and friends as they struggle to lead the wizarding world out of despair, fight the good fight, and put an end to the evil that is Tom Riddle.

Disclaimer: First off, borrowed Quintaped and Isle of Drear straight from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Ok, I hope that quick update made you all happy, sorry this one took longer. This is like the prequel to the final battle. I think 5 more chapters to go. Maybe 6. I'm not sure. I'm too lazy and tired to count so oh well. Just finished a soccer game. We lost 2-1, so I'm writing to cheer myself up. Hopefully this battle will be written out ok. We'll see. Let me know what you all think. For now, here's chapter 19, Just One More?

"Yes, he knows we're after the horcruxes, and there's still one left," said Hermione.

"Bloody hell, that makes things complicated doesn't it?" replied Ron.

"Well, at least I know where we need to go: The Isle of Drear," concluded Harry.


Feet pounding, Harry ran through the front doors of Hogwarts, Hermione and Ron at his heels, intent on getting to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. Twice they had to slow down before getting into a fight with a death eater, and the death eaters missed seeing him because of something Peeves did the first time, and because Sir Nicholas saw the Gryffindors and caused a distraction so the trio could keep going. The three morons from the auror department ended up getting in a fight with a couple death eaters, but the trio moved on to the bathroom.

When Harry finally made it to the bathroom, he checked to make sure no one was nearby. He approached the faucet cautiously. The entrance was already opened. Harry felt for the sword of Gryffindor at his side and grasped his wand in his hand. He had twenty minutes. That was all he remembered.

"Ready guys?" Harry asked. A rough jerk of his head from Ron and a silent nod from Hermione confirmed all he needed to know.

"Just watch out on the way down," Harry warned. Then, he jumped. Ron and Hermione followed behind him and the three of them slid down the pipe to get down to the Chamber of Secrets. They had been down here before, when Harry had found the notebook Riddle had left, when they had looked for the horcrux that wasn't there. And of course, Harry had been to the chamber in his second year, strangely enough to save Ginny, which is what he would be doing again.

"Watch out for the snakeskin," Harry called.

"And there's where Lockhart lost his mind," yelled Ron happily. His voice echoed eerily in the silence of the chamber.

"His mind was already lost Ron, remember?"

"Yeah, of course some people didn't notice right away; can you believe some people actually fancied the git?" Ron asked. Harry chanced a glanced at Hermione. 'Yup, she looked murderous,' Harry thought. Harry intervened before the Granger-Weasley duel would take place.

"Ginny, don't forget Ginny." Hermione's expression quickly softened, but not before she gave Ron a glare that seemed to scream, 'ohhh you're in for it now.'

They made their way through the chamber, passing through the spot where it had collapsed 5 years ago, and pressed on, until they reached the entrance. Harry, speaking parseltongue, spoke to the snake guarding the inner chamber.

"Open," Harry hissed. And it did, no questions asked. Afraid of what Harry would see, he walked into the chamber hesitantly.

"Ah. Harry, I was wondering how long it would take you to show up. As good a job at kidnapping your girlfriend as Lucius did, I knew you would find out, and come seek me. It's quite fortunate really. Honestly, I don't have anything against the mudblood lover; I just wanted our final confrontation to be on my terms. That's all. You know, she looks remarkably like your mother," commented Lord Voldemort, a man who was number one on Harry's hit list. Harry looked around the chamber. Snape was present, as was Bellatrix. And Ginny. His Ginny. She was safe. For now. Harry would have to continue Riddle's word games. Fight fire with fire.

"Don't even pretend you were worthy to look at the face of my mother," Harry retaliated.

"Me, Lord Voldemort, unworthy of gazing at the face of a mudblood?" scoffed Voldemort. "Manners Harry. I thought I had made progress with you before. Apparently not."

Ron and Hermione gazed at Harry, the unspoken question hanging in the air. They flanked him, each ready to fight, to save Ginny.

"What did you do to her?" Harry demanded.

"Me?" Voldemort asked innocently. "I didn't do a thing to her. You caused this Harry. All because of your love for her. And look at how you repaid her. Death. Such a poor way to repay love don't you think? Not that I would know, as I have never loved, nor died."

"You've never lived either. And she isn't dead," Harry said fiercely.

"Temper Harry. You must be more respectful to your superiors. Dumbledore wouldn't want you to be disrespectful would he?"

"I wouldn't know, since he isn't here anymore. And funnily enough, even you, the great Dark Lord that everyone's been talking about," Harry said sarcastically, "couldn't kill him. Oh no, it was the infamous potions master, not you. You still couldn't defeat Dumbledore." Voldemort looked pissed. And that made Harry happy. His clock was letting him know he had about ten minutes left. His wand was set to burn him with one minute left and he just had to make sure Ginny was holding onto the wand when the portkey activated.

"You dare mock me? I will kill you Harry Potter."

"You know, that threat gets less dangerous every time I hear it."

"I've had enough of your insolence. Bow down to your master Potter!"

"You aren't my master!"

"Oh, is that so? Then what is that on your arm?"

Voldemort cast a cutting spell at Harry. Too surprised to block it, it cut the sleeve on his arm and it fell away, revealing-

"Nothing. There isn't anything there." Harry heard Ron and Hermione collectively sigh, relieved that the dark mark wasn't adorned on his arm.

"My mistake. It was the other one wasn't it?" Voldemort cast the spell again, but Harry, ready this time, dodged, and the battle began in earnest. Bellatrix jumped into the fray, sending a cruciatus at Hermione, who dove to the side to miss it, and fired a stunner in return. Snape began fighting Ron, but it didn't seem like he was even trying. Harry maneuvered himself to get closer to Ginny. He blocked Voldemort's lung-crushing hex and fired off a conjunctivitis curse in return. He heard a scream from Voldemort and a satisfied grin came across Harry's face. Voldemort was partially blind.

"You'll pay for that! Crucio!" Harry deftly summoned a boulder from the chamber that blocked the spell and fired back a sectumsempra. Voldemort laughed, spinning around to evade the curse, and shot a ball of fire at Harry. Harry cast the first spell that came to him.

"Aguamenti!"

The jet of water headed toward the ball but it suddenly ducked and came back at Harry. He redirected the jet of water and finally doused it. The ball kept coming though and hit him right in the chest. Harry fell onto the floor, momentarily dazed. That's when he noticed Nagini. She was hissing at him menacingly.

"Sssssoooo hungry. You ssshhhoould be good to eat. Mmmm yessss. Sssshhhhhow me!"

Startled, Harry looked up into the eyes of the snake. The snake that contained a piece of Voldemort's soul. Voldemort watched on, intrigued, wondering how long Harry would last against the snake. How Harry knew that, he didn't know, but he knew one thing. His sword had killed a basilisk, it could handle a snake.

Harry lifted his hand and the sword of Gryffindor flew into it. Nagini faltered, and Harry struck. The sword connected with the snake, but it just bounced off. Harry tried again, this time higher up, but nothing happened. Its body was sword-proof. Harry swore, as Voldemort chuckled. Nagini opened her mouth to bite Harry. Struck with a sudden idea, Harry thrust the sword inside Nagini's mouth. The smile on Voldemort's face was instantly wiped off. Nagini screamed in pain, writhed on the ground, then died, but not before she was able to sink her venom into Harry. But that wasn't all she put in him. Harry felt the presence of Voldemort's soul inside the snake, and felt it as it tried to unite with him. Harry pushed it away, but he wasn't able to last long. The soul fragment of Voldemort entered Harry, and he felt his scar burning with a mixture of anger and- regret?

"You just killed my snake. You're dead Potter," Voldemort stated in a monotone voice, as if talking about the weather.

"I'm still breathing aren't I?" Harry asked, smirking. He looked Voldemort in the eye, daring him to do something. Suddenly, Harry's wand arm burned. One minute left!

Harry looked around, he noticed Snape was stunned, and saw Ron running to Ginny. Hermione was still going at it with Bellatrix, but it didn't matter. They would be portkeyed out soon enough.

"I thought I had this discussion with you about destroying my horcruxes?" Everyone in the chamber froze. "You can't kill me Harry."

"Oh I will. Watch me. The diary, check, the ring, check, the locket, check, the cup, check, the wand, check, the snake, check. All that leaves is you Tom." Harry watched Voldemort flinch involuntarily as each horcrux was named.

"And for your ignorance, you will die. I made one more horcrux Potter. When I found out Lucius destroyed my diary, I killed Amelia Bones, and created one. It now resides safely on the Isle of Drear. You will die here, in this chamber, and your body will rot for eternity." Voldemort let out a laugh triumphantly. "Now you will die, and no one will be alive to here you scream. I'll start with your blood traitor girlfriend. Avada Kedavra!"

Time seemed to freeze, as everyone watched the green light head towards Ginny. Ron had just enervated her, and she looked up, staring at the killing curse as it made it's way towards her. Ron had just slipped her hand over half of his wand, and they both looked up in time to see the jet of light inching towards them. Ginny opened her mouth to scream. Harry yelled. Hermione gave a cry as Bellatrix had just hit her with a spell. And Voldemort laughed. Then, Harry felt the wand tug on him and they all disappeared. The last thing he heard was Voldemort's infuriated scream.

They reappeared again on Avalon. The rest of the order members that had gone with them also showed up, except only two of the morons from the ministry had made it. One of them had perished in the battle, as had a couple other aurors that Harry didn't know. A medic immediately set to work on Harry as Ron explained what happened. Ginny walked off to a grove of trees, and once the medic got started on Harry, Ron and Hermione followed. Harry sat patiently waiting for the medic to finish, and then once he was healed from the venomous part of the snake's attack, Harry headed off after his friends

What met his eyes in the grove of trees was not what he expected at all. He saw Ron hanging on a tree branch, as limp as a rag doll, and Hermione whimpering.

"Why Ginny? Why would you do that?" Hermione asked, but it was in a...different tone. As if, almost as if she had wanted to do it.

"I have wanted to do that to Ron forever. Only now I could actually do it."

Harry looked between his three friends, wondering what he had missed. Ginny's eyes turned, and they met Harry's gaze. Her eyes looked, different. Angrier, redder almost-

"Stun her!" Ginny fired a bat-bogey hex at Harry, but all Hermione could do was shake her head. Ginny had Hermione's wand. Harry dodged the bats flying around him and tried to cast a spell at Ginny. He couldn't pull himself to do it. He fired a stunner, but his heart wasn't in it. Ginny deflected it easily.

"Crucio!" Shocked, Harry watched as the beam of light hit him in the chest.Harry was on the ground, writhing in pain. His wand had dropped, and Harry just let out a blood-curdling scream. He twitched violently. He looked at Ginny's eyes, and they held a new, maniacal gleam in them he had never seen before. Hermione inched slowly towards Harry's wand. Harry continued to scream, hopefully to distract Ginny long enough so they could stun her. When Hermione finally reached it, she picked it up and pointed it at Ginny. Her hand shaking, she looked at Ginny and a frown appeared on her face. She began to speak a spell, and Harry wondered why everything had turned upside down. For Hermione was directing the spell at him.

"Avada Keda-" But then, Ron's limp body fell from the tree and landed on Hermione, stopping her from casting the killing curse. Ginny had pulled her wand off of Harry when she heard Hermione and stared, wide-eyed at what was going on. Then, she looked at her wand, herself, and fainted. Harry looked into her eyes again, and realized what had happened.

"The Imperius curse," he said to himself. It must have happened to both of them. He picked his wand from Hermione's hand and cast an enervate on Ron. His eyes fluttered open.

"Bloody hell," he said, rubbing his head gingerly.

"It's good to have you back Ron. Help me get these two to the medics will you. They were under the imperius curse." Ron muttered some choice words Harry knew he wouldn't have dared say in front of Mrs. Weasley, and the two of them got the girls back to the medics. Harry explained what happened and they began to work on them.

While they waited, Harry and Ron headed back to one of the houses that were nearby. They just sat there in silence; everything that needed to be said was understood. The door eventually swung open, admitting a teary-eyed Ginny and a frightened Hermione.

"I'm glad you're safe Gin," Harry said sincerely, placing his arm around her. She responded by whimpering softly and wrapping her whole body around Harry.

"I almost k-k-killed you, a-and Ron," she said through tears.

"Shhh, its ok Ginny. You're safe now," Harry said, while rubbing her back sympathetically.

"Well, I heard some things I didn't really want to hear down there Harry," ventured Ron.

"Like what? About the horcruxes?" asked Harry, praying it wasn't about the other thing he was thinking about.

"Yes, he knows we're after the horcruxes, and there's still one left," said Hermione.

"Bloody hell, that makes things complicated doesn't it?" replied Ron.

"Well, at least I know where we need to go: The Isle of Drear," concluded Harry.

"Where's that?" Ron asked.

"It's off the northernmost tip of Scotland. According to legend, two wizard families used to live there, the MacBoons and the McCliverts. The heads of the clans got into a duel and one of them ended up dying. The McClivert head. So to pay them back, the McCliverts transfigured all the MacBoons into Quintapeds, a five legged animal that has thick reddish brown hair and each leg ends in a clubfoot. The transfigured MacBoons then killed every human left on the island, but since there weren't anyone left who could use a wand, they couldn't return to normal. They like eating humans, supposedly. The island is unplottable," finished Hermione.

"Bloody Hell, how does she know all this stuff?" Ron asked.

"It was in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. If you would have taken your face off of Lavender for a moment and read your textbook, you would have known that too," retorted Hermione angrily.

"Sooo Ginny, you feeling thirsty right now?" Harry asked quickly.

"Yeah I think I am actually." Harry and Ginny started to go outside, leaving the noises of Ron and Hermione's bickering behind them, before Hermione closed the door in their face with her wand.

"Before you leave Harry, there's something I was wondering. Down in the chamber, when Voldemort cut your sleeve, what was that about?"

Harry groaned mentally.

"About that, I guess there's something you all need to know. Something I probably should have told you earlier but couldn't." Harry looked at the three of them, and then gave a defeated sigh.

Sorry again for another short chapter, there just wasn't a lot I had to get through on this one, except a quick twenty minute battle. They didn't really get into it too much, but now Harry has a large task in front of him huh? I hope you all have forgiven me now, and here is the preview for chapter 20. Keep an eye out for it; it will be a long one. And please review. 

Chapter 20: The Isle of Drear

Chapter Synopsis: Barely alive, Harry flees the battle with the truth in hand: Amelia Bones was killed to recreate the diary horcrux. Searching for answers, Harry heads to the Isle of Drear. The only problem is, no one has ever left the island alive.