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Chapter 36: Book Seven: the 2nd Battle of Hogwarts.

(Young Luna's thoughts)

Old Luna's thoughts

Selena, Luna's mom's thoughts

The sword's thoughts

Parseltongue

Even inside the castle, the giants could be heard pounding on the gates of Hogwarts. The Prefects took advantage of the time they had to get the students from their houses to their common rooms. When the battle began, members of the D.A. would cast spells out the windows of the castle. Harry needed to be outside to lead his troops. The rest of Squad A went out to stand and fight at his side. Each of them had their wands and swords in hand. The teachers had gone to the top of the Ravenclaw Tower so that they could rain down curses on Voldemort's forces.

When the wards finally came down, there was a shimmering as Harry's Army appeared. There were 300 troops armed with Arquebuses, organized in ten units. Each unit consisted of 30 troops lined up in three rows of ten. Between the Arquebuser units were terticos of Pike men. Each tertico consisted of eight rows of eight men and each man was armed with a thirty-foot pike that was enchanted so that it weighed and balanced as though it were only eighteen feet long. In the upper room of Gryffindor Tower, appeared the Gatling gun and its crew. Their window gave them a clear field of fire over the battlefield. In the upper room of the North Tower, appeared the machine gun and its crew, much to Trelawney's consternation. Their window also gave them a clear field of fire over the battlefield. The bazooka and its crew appeared on top of the Astronomy Tower.

Voldemort's forces were more numerous than Luna remembered. Clearly, the Dark Lord had come better prepared this time. But it still wasn't the overwhelmingly apocalyptic force that she repressed the memory of from the 3rd Battle of Hogwarts. There were about 50 Death Eaters, each armed with a wand. There were another 30 werewolves. The full moon was just peaking over the horizon and they were starting to transform. There were about 70 Dementors in the rear. There were also 17 giants towering over the rest. And there, in the middle was Voldemort himself, with Nagini draped around his shoulders.

As soon as they had transformed, the werewolves went berserk and charged the army in front of them. The first rank of Arquebusers fired. Each of them was armed with a primitive, matchlock rifle. Instead of a hammer, the "S" shaped trigger pulled a lit fuse onto the pan and ignited the powder to fire the gun. Their bullet bags were enchanted so that they held an infinite supply of marble sized bullets and the powder horns were enchanted so that they could produce an infinite supply of gunpowder. When the guns were fired they imbued the bullets with a Killing Curse. Even a minor wound would be fatal. The Arquebuses produced billowing clouds of smoke as they struck down 20 of the werewolves. As soon as they had fired, the first rank moved back to reload and the second rank moved up to take their place.

The Gatling and machine guns opened up on the Death Eaters and started mowing them down like wheat. Each was enchanted so that it had an infinite supply of bullets and each imbued their bullets with a Killing Curse. In one sweep, they had killed 30 Death Eaters.

The bazooka fired at one of the giants. Its ammo box was enchanted so that it produced an infinite supply of rockets and the launcher imbued them with the Killing Curse. If a Rocket struck a giant full in the chest, the explosive Death Curse was able to penetrate the hide of the giant and kill him.

"Vaporo Conus!" hissed Harry as a jet of super heated steam erupted from the end of his wand and expanded into a cone shaped area that scalded three of the werewolves badly enough that they were out of action, temporarily.

"Avada Kedavra!" The Death Eaters responded by casting Death Curses. Four of them hit the crews of the Gatling and machine guns, putting them out of commission. Five of them were aimed at Squad A and were absorbed by Luna's sword. Eleven of them killed Arquebusers.

The seven werewolves who were left, charged the army and impaled themselves on the pikes. Although the pikes were incapable of killing the werewolves, it was impossible for a werewolf to do anything when it was immobilized by 10 pikes sticking into him.

The Arquebusers opened fire again and felled the remaining Death Eaters. Several of them struck Voldemort and Nagini. The Dark Lord laughed it off until he noticed that his snake was dead. He then shrieked in rage and apparated away; an act that was possible, now that Hogwarts wards were down.

The bazooka killed another Giant and rest of the giants, after hearing what had happened last time, feared to approach the Pike men. So they turned away and left, scattering and stepping on Dementors as they passed.

A mass conjuration of Patroni chased the Dementors away. All that remained was to examine the bodies so they could determine which Death Eaters had died and which were still free.

Just then, a portkey activated bringing with it 60 Aurors.

"What's going on here?" demanded Kingsley Shacklebolt.

"Voldemort attacked. It's all taken care of now. But you could take these werewolves off our hands," said Harry, indicating the seven thrashing werewolves on the ends of pikes.

As he looked through the bodies, taking off their masks to determine who they were, Harry heard a groan. There was Lucius Malfoy, pinned beneath the bodies of his fallen comrades. Harry pulled off the mask to confirm his identity.

"Oh Luuuciuuusss," called Luna. "I made you a promise, remember?"

With that, she pulled some of the bodies off his lower half, cut open his robe and castrated him. She then transfigured his testes into a pair of golden snitches, which flew away when she released them.

"That's not enough," said Harry.

"Delibro!" shouted Harry as he cast the Onion Peel Curse on Malfoy. Instantly, his skin started peeling off. After that, his muscles peeled away like an onion. This made his internal organs plop. They then peeled away. Next, his bones disintegrated. By now, all that was left was a brain and nervous system. The nerves started peeling away, starting at the periphery and working their way inwards until all that was left was a brain. The layers of the brain peeled away from outside in. The last part of the brain to go was the pain center. In total, this process took thirty seconds to complete. Malfoy screamed for as long as he still had the requisite organs to do so.

"Praedia Bellica!" shouted Harry as Malfoy's Lordship ring appeared on his hand. It had an emerald, flanked by a serpent and a dragon.