Chapter 31

The Battle of Hogwarts

When we entered the Hall, the enchanted ceiling was pitch black and splattered with stars, which shone underneath dishevelled students, some in travelling cloaks, others in dressing gowns, a vast majority looked absolutely petrified. Every so often you could see a pearly white figure of a castle ghost.

Every eye, living and dead was focused on Professor McGonagall, who was talking on a raised platform with the remaining teachers behind her.

"Evacuation will be overseen by Mr. Filch and Madam Pomfrey. Prefects, when I give word, you are to organize your house and take them to the evacuation point in an orderly fashion."

Suddenly, Ernie MacMillan shot up. "And if we want to stay and fight?" he asked.

There was a thunderous round of applause from the group, my coven especially.

"If you're of age, you may stay." McGonagall said.

"What about our things?" a girl from the Ravenclaw table called. "Our trunks…our owls?"

"There's no time to collect possessions. The important thing is to get you out of here safely."

"Where's Professor Snape?" Rose shouted from behind me.

"He has, to use the common phrase, gone a bunk." I said, earning cheers and applause from the other houses until a third year girl shot up from the Hufflepuff table, a girl with dark hair and eyes.

"I KNEW IT!" Desiree Burke shouted. "The Slytherins are in allegiance with Harley Quinn! After all she's done to your house, you're working with her!"

"HEY!" I shouted, making Desiree shut up as I walked around the room. "Alecto and Amycus Carrow have lied to you. I did not kill Hannah Potter. I am one of you. Besides, why would I kill Death Eaters after I killed the one who wants to destroy Voldemort?" I asked.

Everyone murmured to themselves and a girl from the Gryffindor table shot up. Hiyori Kuran. "Then where the hell's Hannah!?" she asked me.

I smirked. "Trust me, Hiyori." I said. "She's closer than you think. Who wants to see who I really am?" I asked.

Everyone nodded. "Take it off, Quinn!"

I smiled. "Cato, could you be a love and untie my mask for me?" I asked.

Draco nodded from behind his mask, untying my mask and handing it to me as everyone gasped, the Order that showed up wide eyed.

"What do you know?!" Slughorn said. "Harley Quinn is Hannah Potter."

I smiled. "Hello, all. I'll take it from the looks on your faces that you're shocked to see me?" I asked.

"YES!" the room shouted at large, cheering suddenly at the sight of me.

"You all fared better than Dumbledore's Army. They all tried to slaughter me before I removed the mask." I said, earning laughs from everyone before McGonagall called order again to continue her orders. "We've already placed protection around the castle." McGonagall said when silence fell. "But they will not hold long unless we reinforce it. I must ask you, then, to move quickly and calmly and obey your prefects'-"

Her final words were drowned out by a different voice echoing through the Hall. High, cold, evil and clear, with no visible source.

"I know you are preparing to fight." Voldemort hissed, making me whimper with fear. Now I was scared as fuck. It took everything I had not to scream with the majority of the room, many of whom were clutching each other as I was clutching Draco for dear life.

Harry had me from behind, making for an awkward embrace between my family and my boyfriend.

"Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have a great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood."

There was a painful silence as little kids shook with fear and Draco held me tighter to ease my own shaking.

"Give me the Potter twins and Harley Quinn," Voldemort started "and none shall be harmed. Give me the Potter twins and Harley Quinn and the school shall be left untouched. Give me the Potter Twins and Harley Quinn and you will be rewarded.

You have until midnight."

Every eye in the Hall turned to Harry and I, all silent.

Pansy stepped forward, drawing her wand. "We're gonna fight!" she shouted, earning cheers from the Slytherins and the rest of the school.

"Miss Parkinson!" McGonagall said.

"Hey, if the Dark Lord's going after our Fire Princess, he's gonna have to go through me!" she said.

"And me!" Rose said, stepping forward.

"And me!" Amelia said, following suit.

"And me!" Lexi said.

"Obviously me." Draco said, holding me tighter. "I'm her Ice Prince."

Soon enough the small army of Slytherins were standing in front of Draco and I, wands out.

McGonagall beamed.

"And if we were old enough to fight, we'd fight!" the younger Slytherins said.

McGonagall beamed, tears in her eyes. "I never thought I'd see a class of Slytherins want to defy their parents and the Dark Lord!" she said. "Mr. Filch, take Slytherin house to the evacuation point!"

Filch stood and lead the younger Slytherins out, the small army of Slytherins staying protectively around Draco and I.

Professor Flitwick lead the Ravenclaws out, a few of age staying behind, even more Hufflepuffs stayed when they evacuated, and half of Gryffindor stuck around.

"Holy army!" I shouted from in Draco's arms. "We're gonna kick some Dark Lord ass!"

Everyone laughed at my joke as the coven (bar Alvaro) sat down to prepare for the battle as McGonagall weeded out the underage.

"Creevey, no! Absolutely not! And you, Peakes!"

I took a deep breath. "I'm scared. Not gonna lie." I said.

"Ah, Harley, cool it." Ivy said. "We've survived this far, didn't we?"

I nodded. "Yeah. Oh, hey, if anything happens, Ivy, I want you to have my Batman comics."

"Even the one with Harley Quinn!?" Ivy asked.

"Duh, I'm Harley, you're Ivy. Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Joker." I said, kissing Draco's cheek as he put me on his lap.

Kingsley got up on the platform and started discussing strategy.

"We only have an hour to midnight, so we must act fast! A battle plan has been agreed upon by the teachers of Hogwarts and the Order of the Phoenix. Professors Flitwick, Sprout and McGonagall will lead groups of fighters to the three highest towers - Ravenclaw, Astronomy, and Gryffindor - where they'll have a good overview, excellent positions to perform spells."

"AND DROP A FEW DUNG BOMBS ON THE HEADS OF A FEW SNAKE FACED LITTLE SHITS!" I screamed from my place. "Someone call me when they see Lucius Malfoy!"

"All right, Hannah, calm down." Kingsley said. "We'll get right to it. Meanwhile Remus, Arthur and I will take groups into the grounds. We'll need someone to organize defence of the entranceways and passages of the school."

"Looks like a job for George and me." Fred said.

"HEY, KINGSLEY!" I shouted, putting my hand up. "I HAVE A QUESTION!"

"Yes, Harley." Kingsley said.

"Can I be in charge of kicking Lucius Malfoy's ass?" I asked.

"NO!" Draco said. "I'd like that pleasure, thank you!"

"Go fuck yourself, Draco, he tried to rape me, he's mine!" I snapped.

"She has Father issues!" Draco told Kingsley, moping.

"All right, Harley, no one may know who's who. So you may not get your chance at payback." Kingsley sighed. "Now, leaders come up and receive further instruction!"

People crowded the platform.

"Potters," McGonagall said as this was going on. "Aren't you lot supposed to be looking for something!?"

I gasped. "The diadem!" I said. "Draco, we gotta go!" I said, grabbing Draco, Harry and Ivy and running to the Room of Requirement.

The final people were evacuating to the Room as we got there, students in tears, others calling, screaming for friends or siblings.

Suddenly, there was a loud crash and a body flew through a busted window.

"Harry! Hannah! Yer here! Yer here!"

"HAGRID!" I screamed, running up to hug him. "Hagrid!"

Hagrid crushed Harry, Ivy and I in a rib cracking hug, dropping me as he went to the window. "That's it, Grawpy, there's a good lad! I'll see yer in a moment!"

Suddenly, beyond Hagrid there was a flash of light and a loud, odd, keening scream. I looked at the watch Draco gave me for my seventeenth birthday.

"Midnight!" I said, eyes wide. "The battle's begun!"

"Blimey," Draco said, panting. "This is it, eh, love? Time to fight?"

"Fight, win and kick some ass, my Dragon." I said with a smile.

"Ok, ok, Hannah, Ivy, Malfoy, you three head off and look for the You-Know-What. I'm going to find Ron and Hermione." Draco, Ivy and I nodded and started sprinting as I tied my mask back on.

We ran past Neville and Professor Sprout, who were holding potted plants and wearing earmuffs.

"Mandrakes!" I said, nodding. "Going to throw them over the wall?" I asked.

Neville nodded, running off.

"They're not gonna like that." I said, jerking a thumb behind me as we continued to run. "Thank Skinner for track team!" I said as we went, finding the old portrait of Sir Cadogan and his fat grey pony running through other frames with sword brandished.

"Braggarts and dogs, rouges and scoundrels, drive them out, Harley Quinn, see them off!"

I nodded to him, continuing to run until I ran into someone, feeling myself being showered with something.

I looked up and saw Hermione.

"Where the hell have you been!?" I screamed as Draco picked me up.

"Chamber of Secrets." Ron said.

"WHAT!?" I said.

"Chamber of Secrets." Ron said again.

"It was Ron's idea!" Hermione said, beaming. "It was brilliant! It was just after you lot left and I said that if we found the diadem we wouldn't be able to destroy it, we haven't even destroyed the Cup! Then he thought of it…the Basilisk!"

"The Basilisk? How is my-"

"DRACO!" I said, smacking him. "You're an idiot, and save it for the bedroom."

"Thank you. I was gonna do it myself." Ivy said, glaring at Draco.

"Genius!" I said, clapping Ron over the back.

"What are you talking about, love?" Draco asked.

"Draco!" I sighed. "Basilisk venom can destroy Horcruxes!" I said grinning. "Gryffindor's sword was infused with it! So did you-"

Ron held up the mangled remains of Hufflepuff's cup. "Hermione got it. Hadn't had the pleasure."

I smirked, telling Harry via Twin Telepathy that I found Ron and Hermione and within minutes, Harry was on the scene, coming from the Room of Requirement.

"Alright, the coven decided to fight, Alvaro's AWOL, we'll go get the diadem and destroy it. This time, I say Draco and I destroy one." I said.

"Ok, ok, fine." Harry said as we went. "I evacuated the Room already."

"Hang on!" Ron said. "We've forgotten someone!"

"What?" I asked.

"The house elves!" Ron said. "They'd be down in the kitchens still?"

"You mean you wanna get them fighting?" Harry asked.

"No! I mean get them out of the school! We don't want anymore Dobbys out there, do we?" Ron asked.

Hermione screamed, throwing herself into Ron's arms and kissing him hard on the mouth, making Ron toss his fangs off to grab her, hoisting her to her feet.

I was going to say something, but decided against it.

"Ah, fuck it! When in Rome…" Draco said, grabbing me and kissing me, too.

"Seriously?" Ivy said. "Is now really the proper moment for that?" she asked.

I ignored her, breaking the kiss for a moment. "Go away, Ivy!" I said before Draco kissed me again.

There was a blissful moment when time slipped away…at least until Harry screamed.

"OI! There's a war going on, here, people!"

I heard a set of lips come apart, but Draco and I stayed firmly attached.

"HANNAH! THERE'S TIME TO FUCK HIM WHEN WE'RE FREE, LET'S GO!" Ivy said, grabbing me.

"Go away, Duff!" Draco said, kissing me again.

"I will tell her about the thing you did at twelve, Malfoy, so help me, I will!" Ivy said.

Draco huffed, letting me go. "Alright, let's go!" Draco groaned.

"Alright." I said, somewhat dizzy from the kisses. "Draco, Ivy and I will go on ahead." I said. "You three catch up when you can."

We all nodded and I hugged my brother before Ivy, Draco and I ran off.

Harry, Ron and Watson met up with us as I paced around.

I need the place where everything is hidden. I thought repeatedly as I paced where the door should be.

Quickly, the door appeared and I forced it open.

"Come on!" I said, running in, five sets of feet following me as I closed the door.

"Ok, here's what we're gonna do." I said. "Ivy, you and Harry go left." I said, pointing to my left. "Ron, Hermione, you take the right." I pointed to the right. "Draco and I will go down center. Send up sparks when you find it."

Everyone nodded and we split up, Draco and I going into the middle, past a stuffed troll and the Vanishing Cabinet that Draco had repaired.

"Somewhere here…somewhere." I whispered, finding a closet. "Ok, Draco, look in closets, remember, its an ugly warlock wearing a powdered wig!" I said as I dug.

Draco POV

Hannah was digging around frantically as I opened the closet in front of me, something shooting out.

How a creature survived in that closet, I'd never know. But all I knew was that it looked pissed, evil and wanted to attack Hannah. It charged for her as she dug, unknowing that something wanted her flesh.

I dove, tackling it and pounding into it, grunting as it hissed, clawing it me and making to bite me.

"No, you don't!" I hissed as I rolled on top of it, making a fight of it. "You. Put. Up. A. Bloody. Good. Fight!" I grunted, stabbing the thing with my wand.

The thing gave one scream and turned into a hockey puck as I collapsed against the closet, panting.

Hannah turned around and took one look at me, then at the hockey puck and shook her head.

"Draco, stop fooling around!" she said, grabbing the hockey puck and tucking it in her pocket. "We have a diadem to find!"

I face palmed myself as she walked off. After all I did, she thought I was fooling around.

After a minute, I heard her scream and saw her fly up by the ankle.

"Harley!" I said, running out to under her.

"Why do I always find the booby traps?" Hannah asked as she dangled there.

I started looking around for something to cut her lose with when I found it.

A pock-marked stone warlock wearing a dusty powdered wig and an ancient, discoloured tiara.

"Han, we found it!" I said, looking up at her.

"Great!" Hannah said before groaning. "Now can you please get me down now?"

"Ok, ok, calm down, where's that dagger of yours?" I asked.

"In my boot." Hannah said, sighing as she held her dangling leg still and took her boot off, the dagger of Salazar Slytherin falling out and sticking into the hockey puck beast.

I grabbed it and climbed up to the rope, starting to saw through it, keeping hold of Hannah's arm as we got to the last thread.

I snapped it and dropped her dagger, grabbing her by the arm to keep her from falling as I hoisted her up, handing her boot to her.

"Thanks." Hannah said, slipping it on as I jumped down with her.

"Anytime, love. Nice stockings, by the way." I said, setting her down.

"Thank you." Hannah said. "Where's the diadem?" she asked.

I pointed it out, on top of a cabinet.

Hannah looked at the diadem, then to me with the smile on her face that I fell in love with. "This is great!" she said. "Now that we have this, all we need is the snake!"

I picked her up and kissed her, lifting her to the diadem.

I watched her hand reach for the diadem and she was almost touching it when we heard someone hiss. "Hold it right there, Quinn!"

Hannah POV

Draco set me down and I whipped around to find Theodore Nott standing there, wand pointed at me.

"Hello." Nott said. "Do you know who I am?"

I rolled my eyes.

"You should!" he snapped, an insane gleam of anger in his brown eyes as he stepped forward. "You orphaned me! You killed my father!" he shouted.

"He tried to kill me." I said coldly.

"AND YOU KILLED HIM!" Nott screamed, grabbing my arm and putting a dagger out, holding it to my heart. "You must have known that my mother is dead, so you decided to twist the dagger and kill my father, my only family?" Nott laughed insanely, terrifying me. "Let's see how you like having a dagger twisted inside you!"

Draco yanked me back. "What are you doing here, Nott?" he demanded.

"Malfoy." Nott said. Somehow he knew that it was Draco. "I should have known you were a dirty rat!"

"This coming from you?" Draco asked. "You've stolen one girl from me and then you tried to take Hannah from me!"

"Oh, yeah." Nott said, grabbing my mask and forcing it off. "I should have known you were a murderer from the minute I laid eye on you! Those looks were wasted on evil, Potter!"

Nott grabbed my arm and ripped the sleeve off.

"Put her down, Nott!" Draco snarled, taking a step forward.

"Hold it right there, Malfoy!" Nott screamed, putting the blade to my wrist. "Make one more move, and I slit the artery!"

I gasped at the feeling of cold metal against my warm skin, my blood pounding through my veins as I stood completely rigid, the arm being held by Nott the only limp limb I had at the time.

I panted, watching the blade dangerously close to cutting me, already feeling the sting of the cut. I swallowed, almost trembling. I had to scream for my brother.

I opened my mouth to scream, but I felt the dagger pierce my skin.

"I wouldn't scream if I were you." Nott said.

I paled, looking to the diadem. "Grab it when I say." I mouthed to Draco as I heard Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ivy start yelling for me.

Nott's voice was buzzing in my head as I thought about how I was going to get out of this. We had to get the diadem and destroy it without Nott knowing what we were doing. We had to kill the snake as well. If we didn't get that diadem soon, Draco would have to watch me die by the hand of the insane son of Jeffery Nott. Wait…now was the time!

"DRACO, GET THE DIADEM!" I screamed.

"CRABBE, GOYLE!" Nott shouted as Draco jumped for it, yanking me out.

Crabbe and Goyle came running, Goyle grabbing me.

Goyle's eyes weren't normal…they were hazy and blank.

"YOU IMPERIOUSED THEM!" I said as Draco grabbed the diadem, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ivy running over and starting a duel with Nott.

"Guys!" I said to Crabbe and Goyle. "It's me!" I said. "Guys, you're in there, somewhere!" I told them.

"Hannah, allow me." Draco said, grabbing Crabbe and slapping him in the face. "SNAP OUT OF IT!"

Crabbe blinked and looked to me, yanking me away from Goyle. "Sorry, Han, Nott snuck up on us and Imperioused us." Crabbe said, shaking Goyle out of the Imperious Curse.

Goyle shook his head. "Yeah, sorry, Harley." he added as Nott ran off, wand out.

"Like it hot, Quinn!?" Nott shouted before he disappeared.

"WE GOT IT!" I shouted happily, throwing my arms around Draco as he lifted me up and spun me around.

"HARLEY!" Crabbe screamed.

Seeing the back of Nott also saw flames coming from the end of his wand, lighting things ablaze as he rounded the corner and out of sight.

Harry drew his wand as I screamed.

"Aguamenti!" Harry bawled, but the jet of water evaporated in the air.

We all gasped. "This has to be a cursed fire!" I said as the flames became creatures, chimeras, dragons, serpents.

"Harley, what do we do!?" Hermione asked.

I paled. "I-I don't know, split up and find the door!"

"We'll go with Potter, Weasley, Duff and Granger." Crabbe and Goyle said together.

We nodded. "You six split up, Draco and I will go look for the exit." I said, taking Draco and running where there were no flames, completely terrified.

I had tied my mask back on to shield myself from the smoke, but it didn't stop me from coughing as the creatures started chasing Draco and I.

I screamed, starting to run, the creatures chasing us as if they were alive, hell-bent on killing us both.

My brother, Ron, Watson, Ivy, Crabbe and Goyle were gone, and Nott was far from in view as the creatures gave up the chase.

"What do we do!?" I asked, terrified. "What do we do!?"

"Start climbing!" Draco shouted over the roar of the fire, running to a mound of desks that weren't consumed yet.

"ARE YOU CRAZY!?" I screamed, watching Draco climb. "Those things are ancient!"

"Hannah, you have to trust me!" Draco said, locking eyes with me.

"I can't!" I said, memories of Dudley's gang pushing me off stacks of desks flashing to the front of my mind.

"Hannah, you have to trust me!" Draco said again, holding his hand out for mine. "I swear to God I'm not going to let you fall!"

I locked eyes with him, the roar of the flames deadening. He hadn't let anything happen to me before.

"Hannah, put your trust in me!" Draco shouted.

I looked at him again, paling.

"Oh, Skinner it!" I said before grabbing his hand.

A raptor tried to grab me, but Draco had hoisted me up as I screamed.

Draco held me against his chest as I caught my breath.

"You need to climb." Draco said, looking to me.

I grabbed the desk above me, hoisting myself up. "Well, come on!" I said as I started climbing.

There was a downside to being small, you couldn't climb as fast. Draco was up before I knew what was happening, and I was only three quarters of the way up!

I was coughing, my lungs and arms on fire as I fought to keep from tumbling into the inferno below. One misstep and I was a goner!

And that's exactly what happened. My feet slipped from the desk below me just as I was one desk from the top.

I screamed, dangling there as I felt my hands slipping.

"DRACO! I'M SLIPPING!" I screamed.

Draco whipped around, grabbing my wrist. "Hannah, let go!" he shouted.

"What are you, crazy!?" I asked.

"I have you! Let go!" Draco shouted.

I whimpered.

"Hannah, you need to trust me!" Draco said for the third time since we got in the Room. "I will not let you fall, and if I do, I'll jump after you!"

I took a deep breath, squeezing my eyes closed as I released my hold on the desk, giving a scream until I felt as if I was being suspended in midair as I was pulled higher, higher and into Draco's lap as I shook with fear.

"I'm scared." I whispered, almost in tears.

"I know, I know." Draco said, holding my head to his chest so I could hear his heartbeat.

I sighed, finding some comforting aspect to it as I coughed from a deep breath of smoke.

It seemed to be everywhere, just like when I was trapped in Hagrid's cabin almost a year previously.

My mind started to blank, my eyes starting to shut. The heat from the flames was diminishing, leaving me comfortably cool and sleepy.

Just as they were about to shut completely, my face became soaked and my eyes shot open to find Draco holding his wand.

"What was that for?" I asked, starting to close my eyes again.

"Hannah, don't you fucking dare!" Draco said.

I groaned sleepily, ignoring Draco and closing my eyes.

"Harley, don't fall asleep!" Draco said, smacking my face lightly. "Come on, Harley, no!"

I groaned again, opening my eyes again. "Damn smoke's knocking me out." I said.

Suddenly I heard my brother scream. "DOWN THERE!"

I looked up, squinting to find Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ivy, Crabbe and Goyle on brooms over us. Harry and Ivy on one, Ron and Hermione on another and Crabbe and Goyle (who was holding another broom) on another.

Draco looked to my brother, then to me before calling to Harry, hoisting me up as Harry grabbed my from under my arms and pulling me out.

"GET HER OUT OF HERE!" Draco shouted as Harry handed me to Goyle.

"NO!" I said as Goyle put me in between him and Crabbe.

Draco had sacrificed himself for me? My worst fear was realized!

Harry ordered us all out to the door.

"NO!" I sobbed. "WE HAVE TO GO BACK! WE HAVE TO!" I said.

But my pleas were heard to late. Before long we were hitting the wall on the other side of the door, the fire still burning.

Harry looked me in the eyes before looking into the fire, grabbing the broom he was on. "Hermione, see to Hannah. I'll be back." he said, mounting his broom and flying back into the Room.

Watson wrapped her arm around my shoulders, Ron, Ivy, Crabbe and Goyle with their wands out in case we were attacked.

"Sherlock…Sherlock…" Hermione said, gripping my shoulders and looking me in the eye. Warm brown met metallic blue as she brushed hair from my face in a motherly way "Listen to me. I don't know if they're coming out, but you need to suck it up! We're in a war, there's going to be casualties!"

My eyes welled with tears. "That's easy for you to say!" I said. "Your boyfriend didn't just kill himself for you!" I said, starting to cry again.

"Sherlock." Hermione said, wiping my tears and holding my shoulders. "I know that, I know. But you need to fight. If they don't come out…" I started sobbing harder. "If, Sherlock, if. If they don't come out, you need to honour both of them and finish off Voldemort. You have to."

I nodded, taking a deep shaky breath and composing myself briefly before hearing my brother shouting. "FUCK!" at the top of his lungs before slamming into the wall.

"HARRY!" I shouted, throwing myself into his arms, relieved.

"MALFOY! I'M GONNA FUCKING SLAUGHTER YOU IN A MINUTE!" Harry screamed as the door shut and someone collapsed.

"Malfoy, you almost gave us a heart attack! What the fuck were you thinking!?" Goyle said.

"I…was…sorry, thinking of…saving my girlfriend's…sorry again, life!" Draco said in between coughs and retches, making me look up from Harry.

Albeit singed, there laid Draco, chucking the broom aside and coughing.

I shot up, blinded with tears and running to him, getting to my knees next to him.

"Draco…" I whispered, holding his face. "Are you ok?" I asked.

"Don't worry about me." Draco said breathlessly. "Are you ok?"

I nodded as Draco struggled to regain breath and to say something without retching.

"N-Nott…" Draco rasped. "N-Nott…"

"He's dead." I said.

There was silence, apart from coughing and rasping until we heard bangs and shouts from the battle. Suddenly, a cavalcade of transparent figures on horses galloped past, roaring battle cries as Draco held me back.

"The Headless Hunt." Harry told me as they passed. "Where's Ginny? She should have gone back into the Room of Requirement."

"You think it'll work after that?" I asked before paling, sitting up carefully.

"What is it?" Draco whispered, holding my shoulder.

"The diadem!" I said. "Where's the diadem!?"

Harry smirked, taking something from its pocket. "You mean this diadem?" he asked, tossing it to me.

A bloodlike substance was pouring from the tiara, the wording faded from the charring. Suddenly, it started vibrating, making me tense as it fell apart.

From the distance, there was a scream of pain as it dropped.

"It was Fiendfyre!" Hermione, Ivy, Draco and I said together.

"Sorry?" Harry asked.

"Cursed fire." I said. "Used to destroy Horcruxes. How'd Nott know it, I'll never know."

"Learned it from the Carrows." Crabbe, Goyle and Draco said together.

"First week of term, Amycus taught that shit to us." Draco told me.

I nodded, starting to tie my hair up and screaming. "MY HAIR!" I shouted.

Harry smacked himself in the face. "Yeah, we almost died in there and the first thing you're worried about is Malfoy, and then your hair!? Seriously!?" he asked.

"Well, sorry!" I said. "My hair's ruined!"

Draco sighed, taking my singed hair in his hands, wiping my eyes. "It's nothing a cut won't fix. Besides, you look beautiful with it."

I blushed as Ivy gagged, the coven running past.

"Death Eaters are in the school!" Emily said. "What the fuck happened here?"

"Nott tried to kill me!" I said. "And now he's dead!"

The coven let out a great "HURRAY! THE DICKHEAD'S DEAD!"

"Oh, and, and, and…" I added. "THE DIADEM'S DESTROYED!"

"HURRAY!" everyone screamed.

"Ok!" I said. "LET'S GO KICK SOME DEATH EATER TUSHIE!" I said, drawing my wand and running off.

The coven was right, Death Eaters were in the school and duelling Hogwarts fighters, and the Order of the Phoenix.

Fred and Percy Weasley were fighting the current Minister for Magic, Pius Thicknesse.

"Hello, Minister!" Percy said, hitting Thicknesse in the chest with a with a jinx, making Thickness claw at his robes in discomfort, dropping Pius's wand. "Did I mention I'm resigning?"

At that, I had a vision:

"You're joking, Perce!" Fred shouted as the Death Eater he was duelling collapsed under the weight of three separate Stunning spells. Thickness was shrivelling, spikes popping out from him making him look like some sort of sea urchin. Fred looked at Percy with unbridled glee.

"You are joking, Perce…I didn't think I've heard you joke since you were-"

The air exploded and Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ivy, Blaise, Ron, Percy, Draco and I were thrown into an opposite wall.

Draco had grabbed me as I held to my wand for dear life, protecting my head as we smacked into an opposite wall. I could hear the screams and yells of our company without even knowing what happened to them.

I was half buried in rubble, Draco was dragging me out as I felt something running down my temple. Cold air brushing it told me that there was a part of the castle that was blown apart.

Draco started fussing over me, but it stopped when I heard Percy screamed.

"NO! NO, FRED, NO!"

And all I saw was the face of Fred Weasley, staring without seeing, with the ghost of his last laugh on his face.

I gasped, starting to run towards Percy. "FRED!" I screamed, grabbing him just as the wall blasted apart.

I took Fred with me when I went flying, the wall blowing apart behind me as I collapsed on top of a still very alive Fred.

"Hannah…" Fred said, gasping at me. "You…you just saved my life!"

I smirked. "It was nothing, really." I said as I heard Draco shouting.

"Hannah! HANNAH!"

I was half buried under rubble I couldn't fight my way out…it was heavy as fuck on top of me and as I had seen in my vision, blood was running down my face.

"Under here!" I said as Fred struggled to his feet.

Draco dug me out of the rubble and helped me out, holding a cloth to my head. "Hannah, why are you always a trouble magnet?" he asked.

"Hey, now the Weasleys owe me a favour." I said. "I saved Fred's life! HEY, GUYS, I SAVED A LIFE TODAY!" I said loudly as Draco helped me up, rolling his eyes. "See!? I don't just end lives, I can save some, too!"

Harry rolled his eyes as Fred ruffled my hair, taking hold of my hand. "Harley Quinn, I owe you my life. I will never rest until I have fulfilled a debt of such honour that it does this deed justice, fair maid." Fred brought my hand to his lips and kissed it with a grin.

"Hey!" Draco said, yanking me back. "That's my job to call her fair maiden, Weasley!"

I blushed. "Boys fighting over me!" I said.

"Oh, yeah, that reminds me, I better go get fighting, see you Han!" Fred said, bolting off with Percy on his heels. "AND THANKS AGAIN!"

I smirked as everyone dispersed. "Close…we're so close." I said when Draco and I were alone.

"Yeah." Draco said. "We just need the snake and we're done. Then you or Potter can kill him."

"And then life will return to normal." I said with a grin before it faltered. "What if we don't make it?"

"If we don't," Draco said, looking me in the eyes and taking my hands. "there's something I have to do." he whispered.

"What is it, Draco?" I asked as our eyes met. The same blue grey that I had fallen in love with were filled with devotion.

No, I can't do this now. I read in Draco's mind.

"You can't do what?" I asked.

"Nothing, don't worry about it." Draco whispered, barely audible amongst the screaming, bangs and shouts of the battle. "If we don't…I want you to know how much I love you." he whispered, releasing one of my hands to cup my face like he had when we were twelve years old.

It seemed so long ago, that we were second years, standing in that exact same spot when I got a valentine from him.

I was twelve years old, on my way up to Charms when one of Lockhart's stupid Valentine's Day trolls (they were supposed to be cupid.) approached me in front of my friends.

"OI! You!" the troll shouted. "'Annah Potter!"

"Oh, Lord." I said, flushed. "Which first year sent me one of those crappy ass store bought cards?" I asked, rolling my eyes. Colin Creevey had sent me one at breakfast.

"Actually, this one's from a second year by the name of…Draco Malfoy." the troll said.

Rose (Who I was walking to classes with since Ivy and I weren't speaking.) squealed and everyone stopped.

The troll ignored him. "Right, here's your Valentine." he said, handing the card to me.

"Thank you." I said, taking it and gasping.

It was hand made, light glitter scattering around the card with three packs of Drooble's Best Blowing Gum taped to it.

"Oh, candy!" Rose said, squealing as she looked over my shoulder. "What does it say?"

I flipped the card over and almost swooned. It was hand written!

"Oh my Toby!" Rose gasped. "He wrote it by hand! Read it! Read it aloud!"

"Uh…ok." I said, clearing my throat and starting to read it:

"Per essere il tuo amico è tutto quello che ho sempre voluto, per essere il tuo amante ora è tutto Io sogno. Qualsiasi cosa il vostro innamorato vuole, io ci sarò.

Buon San Valentino,

Draco

"Oh, my gosh! He wrote it in Italian!" Rose squealed.

"How do you know?" I asked.

"I speak it a little."

"Then what does it say!?" I asked.

"That I don't know." Rose said.

Draco wrapped his arms around me as I melted into him. "I'm scared." I whispered.

"I know." Draco whispered, wand in hand in case we needed protecting. "We'll be fine though."

"Yes, I'm positive you will." a familiar voice said sarcastically behind me.

Draco released me, pulling me behind him to reveal Alvaro standing there with a smirk on his face.

"Diamond." he growled.

"Congratulations, Malfoy." Alvaro said. "You've won the girl." he smirked wider, drawing his wand and grabbing me, drawing me against his chest and holding his wand to my throat. "Too bad she isn't going to be leaving this castle alive."

A/N: Review up if you want to know what happens next!