Chapter Eighteen: Getting Harry Back

Silently the Order members and Aurors search the way over to the Death Eaters. The students apply silencing charms so they won't be heard. But they find it very difficult once they come upon the large circle of Death Eaters who are surrounding Harry in the middle.

Of course, Harry is already ill, and hasn't exactly had the chance to take his painkillers, so when they started torturing him it hurt even more. All in all he wasn't a very happy wizard right now, and most students can see his magical powers trying to do something, but finding no way out.

The students and adults surrounded the Death Eaters, who are too involved in their entertainment to notice them. Even Voldemort doesn't notice them. They are too busy throwing spells at Harry. Apparently, torturing Harry wasn't much fun, for they had gotten two muggle children, at most five years old. Harry being Harry, is keeping them shielded from most curses, but can hardly move by now.

Several of the students cry silently while watching this, but become even more determined to help Harry. At a signal from Dumbledore they all stun the Death Eaters, and raise their wands towards Voldemort.

Voldemort is surprised to find himself surrounded, but dares to laugh at all the students. Aurors quietly portkey most of the Death Eaters out, and into holding cells.

Voldemort stands up and threatens to kill Harry, but before he manages to say more, Harry grabs his wand, which Ron threw at him, and they all see this as a signal to start the spell. Harry apparently got the idea, for he is half lying directly in front of Voldemort saying the spell. Voldemort can't move when under the spell, and so with in total 346 students, all the teachers and Order members, Voldemort is getting cleansed of Dark Magic. His form is writhing and screaming out in pain and anger, but everyone holds steady. Some younger students start swaying lightly from the power it takes out of them, but older students steady them and the Aurors return and add their power as well.

But none of them have as much power to give as Harry. His magic was looking for a way to protect him, and now seemed to have found a way to do so. He was practically flaring with the bright light of his power, even though he was feeling too weak to stand up. The muggle children were crying and clinging to him, but he hardly noticed. And slowly, oh so slowly, Voldemort became surrounded by a very big black cloud, which couldn't be anything else than the Dark Magic. The cloud grows and towers over all of them, while they still chant the spell, even though some younger students had to stop, as tired as they were.

Finally the clouds splits and breaks apart in such tiny little particles that they can't even been seen anymore. A breeze sets up and the cloud is gone within seconds. They stop the spell, exhausted, but overwhelmed at having helped Harry and managing to help Voldemort as well.

Broken out of their stupor, Remus and Harry's friends rush towards him, as he has toppled to the ground when he ended the spell. The two children cling to him, still crying, and they can't get them to let go. Finally they levitate both Harry and the children onto a stretcher, and prepare to Portkey back, since the spells preventing Portkeying from this place, have now fallen.

Dumbledore has walked over to the bundle that lay in the place of where Voldemort stood. The others stay clear of it. Dumbledore is only slightly surprised to find a little toddler, who looks at him shyly, and then yawns widely. Chuckling he greets little Tom, and takes him back to Hogwarts as well.

All students gather around the Portkeys again, and the Aurors go back to the ministry to help deal with the Death Eaters.

Back into the Great Hall, Remus rushes to the hospital wing with the stretcher, and all the other students sit down at the tables, to tired and worried to do anything else. Severus quickly walks down to his potions room, and gathers as much energizing potions as he can find. Then he gives them to all the younger students, who decide to only take a sip or two and share the rest with the other students, who also look tired. They would need to give their magic a rest for at least a week, but they didn't care. Right now they just wanted to eat something, sleep some more, and find out how Harry was.

Remus puts the stretcher down onto a bed, which he needs to enlarge since the two children still keep a hold of Harry. Little Tom seemed to have decided he wished to stay with Harry as well, and gets into a fuss until he gets his way, and is settled on the other side of Harry. Even in his now potion induced sleep; Harry wraps his arms around them protectively, which has his friends laugh in release.

Poppy uses several spells to close up some wounds on Harry and the two children, and declares Tom a very healthy one year old. Relieved his friends return to the Great Hall, were the house elves manage to put together a nice feast to celebrate. Severus told Dumbledore that all the Death Eaters had to have been present, and thus would all be captured today.

And so when the Minister came storming in, asking why his Aurors had been called away and why there were suddenly so many Death Eaters in his holding cells, he was told exactly what happened. Surprised and overwhelmed he decided to put an article in the Daily Prophet and to reward most people who were involved. Still everyone was glad when he left, and nobody really thought about the five students until the next morning, when they would be taken out of the manacles (with Filch moaning in the back ground) while being very pale and completely convinced that no, Voldemort wouldn't be having their support (not knowing he was defeated now).

Harry doesn't wake up until the next day, when he finds Petunia next to his bed, and three small children curled up around him. Remus is also there, and he thanks his uncle for being there, even though the full moon would be the very next day. All in all, he was very glad and wanted to hear everything that had happened, after he had woken up to find Wormtail in their dorm.


A/N: Only three more chapters to go! And I won't be updating until either tomorrow, or else on saturday(most likely saturday) I know this chapter was rather short, but well, it contained everything I wanted to put in on the ending of Voldemort. For those readers who are wondering: yes, the intent of the students, Aurors and teachers was pure. They wanted to help save Harry, how can that not be pure? (alright,I know, in the real books most of them would have felt good in harming Voldemort, can't say I blame them, but this works for my story, so bare with me)