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Disclaimer - Sadly I don't Harry or any of his friends or places in the Wizarding World. I don't even own the character Brionna Culver seeing as she's based on one of my best mates! I do however own the plot and any other original characters.

Summary - Follow Harry through his seventh and final year at Hogwarts where he has to deal with girl problems, being a teenager and Voldemort and his Horcruxes. HBP spoilers, prequel to One Night Can Change Everything.

This is it. The penultimate chapter! The next one is the last of this fic! But the summary of the last part of the trilogy is now on my profile so if you want you could read it! I thought I'd put this up now instead of next week as planned because knowing me I'll be way too excited to remember because my ghost hunt is a week on saturday!

Also I had 72 hits on the last chapter but only 4 reviews? What happened to the rest of you? Please remember to review because it only takes a minute or two!

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DarkAndHaunted - Thanks for reading and reviewing. It was a cliffie! I am good at cliffies! I'm glad you're enjoying this!

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Chapter 16 - The Battle

Harry, Hermione and Ron gasped as they found themselves face to face with Voldemort himself. Voldemort lunged for Harry and grasped him by his hair before pulling him inside the house.

"HARRY!" both Hermione and Ron screamed as they watched him being pulled inside.

"DON'T WORRY! GET YOURSELVES TO SAFETY!" Harry yelled back before they heard Voldemort laughing.

"Say goodbye to your little friend! He'll never come out alive and I will rule the Wizarding world once again!" Voldemort said to them as though he was a maniac before he shut the front door on Hermione and Ron's faces.

Both Hermione and Ron looked at each other before they spoke at the same time.

"What are we going to do?"

Hermione looked at Ron and shrugged before speaking.

"He wants us to get to safety but I don't want him in there alone. Mrs Weasley would kill us if she found out."

"Yeah so would Ginny if she ever found out that we'd left him here alone. Contrary to what she may say she still likes him and she won't stop liking him," Ron replied.

"So are we going in after him?" Hermione asked not feeling sure if she really wanted to go back inside as she was thinking of what Voldemort could be doing to Harry as that present moment.

Ron nodded then grabbed Hermione's hand and held it tightly as he opened the front door and led her back inside.

"How do we know what room they're in?" Hermione whispered.

"Sh. Listen out for voices or any curses being said," Ron, whispered back quieter than Hermione.

Slowly they climbed the stairs together as Ron was still holding Hermione's hand and secretly enjoying it as he still harboured feelings for her. They both listened out for any voices and soon enough they heard Harry's voice coming from a room above them. It sounded like he was trying to compromise with Voldemort.

"Why would you want to kill me now? Why not have me duel you instead?" Harry was saying.

Ron put his finger to his lips to shush Hermione and pointed to the ceiling. Hermione nodded as they heard Voldemort talk and then pushed Ron to make him carry on climbing the stairs. A few moments later they were stood outside the room that Harry and Voldemort were occupying and listened to their conversation for a while.

"Well that is true Potter but my Death Eaters are all carrying out attacks tonight. I have no back up so killing you now is the easier option for me," Voldemort said while appearing to be deep in thought.

"You knew this battle was coming so why did you make sure your followers were all busy? I thought you would have needed them here seeing as you can't really do anything by yourself. I mean people like you appear to be quite vicious when people are around you but once you're on your own you don't know what to do. You're not as scary on your own," Harry replied.

Voldemort glared at Harry then shot a curse at him. Harry felt the curse hit him and he was soon rolling around on the floor in a large amount of pain, which felt like knives were being pushed into his body slowly to cause more pain than it would if they were pushed in fast. As quickly as the curse had hit him Voldemort had lifted it and Harry was able to get back to his feet.

"That, Potter is what you get for being sarcastic. You will learn that being sarcastic to me will only result in a curse being thrown at you. And just because you were sarcastic I have now decided that we are going to duel. Are you ready Potter?"

Outside the door Hermione looked at Ron slightly alarmed.

"Ron! Apparate to Headquarters and tell them where we are and that Harry needs help now!" she said feeling quite scared that Harry wouldn't get out of this alive.

Ron nodded then went to go back down the stairs to disapparate to the Order's Headquarters outside. Hermione looked at him then shook her head.

"Ronald no! You're going to have to do it here. There won't be time for you to go downstairs and disapparate! Do it now!" she demanded.

Ron nodded to show that he understood even though Hermione couldn't see him very well as a result of the darkness that engulfed the gloomy house.

Inside the room, Voldemort heard a tiny pop and looked towards the door.

"Well, well I think your little friends are outside. Shall we invite them to join the party Harry?" he said whilst grinning like an insane Cheshire cat.

Harry looked towards the door and saw Voldemort stood there ready to open it. In his mind he was wishing that Ron and Hermione had taken his advice and taken themselves back to the safety of Grimmauld Place. Voldemort opened it and stood in the doorway obstructing Harry's view of who was behind the door but it wouldn't be long before he knew because Voldemort had grabbed hold of them by the scruff of the neck and dragged them into the room as well. Harry gasped as he saw that it was Hermione who was outside the door. Voldemort pushed her roughly towards where Harry was stood then retreated back to the spot where he was standing before he discovered Hermione.

"What are you doing? Are you trying to prolong your life or something? What are you going to gain from taking her hostage?" Harry asked ignorantly.

"No my dear boy. It would be far greater to kill the stupid little Mudblood as well as the Wizarding world's greatest hero. It would cause a bigger amount of grief to wash over the Weasley's if it were both of you dead rather than just one of you," Voldemort replied as though someone had just told him that he had the power to turn anything into gold.

Hermione looked at Voldemort then shouted, "IT WILL NEVER WORK YOU MURDERING SCUMBAG! HARRY WILL KILL YOU FIRST BEFORE YOU KILL EITHER OF US!"

"Oh we'll just see about that will we?" Voldemort replied sarcastically.

Voldemort stalked where Harry was sitting and pulled him up by the scruff of his neck. He then stalked back to where he had previously been standing and retrieved his wand from the chair that he had been sat on when Nagini was stolen.

"Come on then you silly boy. Where's your wand?" he demanded.

Harry pulled his wand out of his jean pocket and stood facing the Dark Lord.

"Remember to bow Harry. You must bow to each other before you start a duel."

"I know that. Are you trying to be insolent? Because it's really not working. You don't scare me one bit."

Voldemort glared at him once again then got ready to fire a curse at Harry but Harry got in there first.

"EXPELLIARMUS!"

Voldemort's wand flew across the room and before Voldemort knew what was happening Hermione had gotten hold of the wand and was twirling it in her hands.

"Well, well look what I have. Can you do magic without your wand?" she asked before she laughed at him.

"I'll have you know little girl that I can do wandless magic. Do you really think that I would be that stupid?"

This seemed to make Hermione angry so she too joined the battle.

"FURNUNCULOUS!" she shouted as she aimed her wand at Voldemort.

Hermione watched as the spell took its effect on Voldemort. She could see boils sprouting everywhere on his face and she was willing to bet her entire book collection that he had boils covering every inch of his body. Harry looked at her confused before saying something.

"Why did you do that?"

"Boils hurt Harry. He's not going to be as responsive if his body is hurting is he?"

Harry shook his head as watched as Voldemort turned around in circles on the spot wailing in agony while clutching his face. They both found this scene highly hilarious and started to laugh at the sight of the "all powerful Dark Lord" wailing in agony. Just as Voldemort had turned around to look at them both and to shoot a spell at them the door flew open and the rest of the Order came flying in. Voldemort glared at everyone then pressed his finger to the Dark Mark that was on his forearm and laughed manically as Death Eaters started to apparate into the room.

"Did you really think that your little friend's would arrive Harry and I would do nothing? If you have your friends here then I will have mine here too!"

"Mine are real friends. Your "friends" are just followers," Harry replied.

All around them members of the Order were fighting the Death Eaters; some were even resorting to Muggle fighting to keep the Death Eaters away from Harry and Voldemort. Malfoy's father was fighting Lupin and turned around to come face to face with his son.

"Draco, what are doing here? You're on the Dark Lords side aren't you?" Lucius Malfoy asked.

"There's no time for idle chit chat father. I'm not on his side and I never will be. This is for all of the misguidance that you've given me during my life. Goodbye father," Malfoy replied.

Lucius looked at his son confused as his son glared at him. He raised his wand then shouted.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!"

A beam of green light shot towards Lucius and he fell down to the ground dead. Hermione and Ron stopped what they were doing and looked dumbfounded at their enemy as he moved on to fight with one of his father's accomplices. Harry looked at the scene quickly then back at Voldemort.

"You have no idea how long I have waited for this moment to come. I will cause you the same amount of pain that you caused me when you killed my parents and Sirius. Thanks to you I have spent my life growing up with people who abused me," Harry said to him viciously. Harry raised his wand and shouted.

"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!"

Voldemort's whole body seemed to lock and he fell onto his back. The only thing that he could move were his eyes and he watched as Harry knelt beside him and shouted to Hermione.

"HERMIONE! THE WAND! THROW ME HIS WAND!"

Hermione picked the wand up from where she had left it on the ground and threw it to Harry. Harry caught it and looked at it.

"So this is the famous brother wand to my wand is it? This is the wand that gave me my scar. This is the wand that killed my parents and tried to kill me. Well now Tom this wand will kill you. You really didn't think that I would use my own wand to kill you did you?"

Voldemort moved his eyes around and heard Hermione shout to Harry.

"DO IT! END IT HARRY!"

Harry looked from Hermione to Voldemort then held the wand in both of his hands high above his head.

"This is for everything that you've done to me! Now I can have a normal life without you plaguing it!"

Harry then plunged both of his hands holding the wand down into Voldemort's body and straight through his heart. As it went through he thought of Ginny and how much he loved her and he also thought of his time that he didn't spend with his parents and how much he loved them even though he hadn't even met them.

Harry realised that Voldemort wasn't dead yet because he could hear little squeaks coming from within his body. He also realised that the room had gone quiet and everyone was looking at Harry and Voldemort. A few order members had realised that the Death Eaters were looking at their "Lord's" demise and too wrapped up in that rather on the Order of the Phoenix so they took this as an opportunity to stun them, as they knew how to do non-verbal spells. One by one the Death Eaters were stunned and then tied up to prevent any escapes.

Soon enough Voldemort stopped making noises and even though he was under the full body bind Harry felt him go floppy and knew that he was dead. He looked down at his hands and saw that they were covered in Voldemort's blood so he walked to Hermione with his arms held out and looked at her.

"Clean it for me. Get rid of it. He isn't ruling my life anymore."

Hermione nodded and cast a cleaning charm to get rid of the blood before hugging Harry fiercely. Harry hugged her back as he realised that she was just happy that he was still alive. When Hermione had let go of him, Ron slapped Harry on the back and grinned at him.

"Your life is yours now mate. Maybe now you can stop denying the feelings that you have for my little sister and get back with her," Ron said to Harry.

Harry nodded in response and watched as the Order members tied up the remaining Death Eaters ready to take them straight to Azkaban. Once they were finished Lupin smiled at Harry.

"Are you ready to go back to everyone who loves you Harry?" Lupin asked.

"No. I have to do something first. I promised my parents that I'd tell them when he was dead," Harry replied sadly.

"Are you sure? Do you promise to go there then straight back to Hogwarts?" Lupin asked Harry feeling rather concerned.

Harry nodded and said his goodbyes before making his way down the stairs and outside to apparate to Godric's Hollow.

A few moments later Harry came face to face with his parents' graves once more and knelt down next to them.

"Hi," he breathed.

Harry looked around to check that no one was watching him and that he was completely alone before continuing.

"I told you I'd come back. A lot has happened since I was last here. Ginny and me broke up again but I'm hoping that it will change soon. You'd really love her. She's got brown eyes and red hair. It used to be a really bright red just like the colour of a fire engine. She's also got a really nice personality, she's funny, pretty and well she's pretty much amazing. I suppose the real reason as to why I am here is because a couple of hours ago I killed him. I finally gave Voldemort what he deserved and I made sure that it was as painful as possible. I decided that killing him with a spell gave him a pain free death so with Hermione's help I drove his wand right through his heart. It's pretty ironic isn't it? I killed Voldemort with the instrument that he used to kill you and everyone else with. A lot of Death Eaters are now on their way to Azkaban. But the thing that really helped me kill him was you. You, Sirius and Ginny, I kept picturing all of you and I wondered what my life would be like if you were still here instead of being dead. I used the love that I felt for all of you to help me push it into his heart. Yes you heard me right I used the love that I felt for you, Sirius and Ginny to help me kill him. I suppose that I've been denying my feelings up until now. I really didn't realise before that I was in love with Ginny. I'm going to tell her when I get back to Hogwarts and maybe she'll see that us breaking up was me being a noble git as usual. I guess Dumbledore was right when he said that this wouldn't be easy and even Lupin was right when he told me that this would be a fight to love. I'd never been shown any affection or love before I came to Hogwarts so I didn't know how to love. But it's all changed now, I know how to love now and now that Voldemort's gone I can get on with my life and have it as my own again."

When he was finished Harry lay down on the grass in between the two graves and sobbed his heart out.

Wow how ironic was that death? Please review it only takes a minute