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Chapter Twenty
It was simple really. Get everyone's attention. No more bloodshed. Exchange in battle, a quick alternate of spells. Voldemort was weak after his horcruxes being destroyed. If Harry's curse rebounded off of Voldemort's, like it did to give him the scar, which Draco and Hermione predicted they would. Especially as their wands were sisters.
Should the killing curse be cast at Harry, while Harry countered it, Voldemort's curse would rebound. It would break Harry's wand, and while the curse would kill the horcrux in Harry, it would rebound onto Voldemort, but as you cannot kill yourself by such means, it would bring Voldemort back to his dormant stage, as before he was brought back during the Triwizard Tournament.
The alternative, was a quick succession of spells, fired fast paced, and repetitive. They wanted Voldemort to catch him out. On catching him out, Harry would let down his guard. This way, there would be no curse to rebound. Voldemort remains in-tact, but the curse would hit Harry, killing the horcrux. But not breaking the wand. That means, that Harry would have to borrow a wand, and use it then to rebound a curse onto Voldemort, effectively killing him, and every last trace of him.
As if clockwork, the entirety of the prisoners, professors who had come to fight, and Death Eaters watched, in shock horror as Harr lay dead on the floor. Voldemort started cackling in glee, shouting about how he killed Harry Potter, when Dumbledore appeared. Across the courtyard.
"HARRY! TAKE MY WAND!" He called. Voldemort turned around to see Harry standing up behind him. Unable to reach Dumbledore in time, Harry cast an expelliarmus curse to grab the wand. Voldemort turned, and cast his killing curse at Harry, The curse, as predicted rebounded and Voldemort fell to the floor. Dead.
Between Draco and Dumbledore, before the onlookers recovered from shock, all the Death Eaters had been rounded up, and were themselves locked in the prisons, even those upstairs in the room, gassed.
That night, Dumbledore had sent out a message to the Wizarding World that Voldemort had been defeated and that the War was over. The ten sat in Dumbledore's office, drinking Mead and discussing the war.
"One thing doesn't make sense" Hermione said they all looked to her "Why was Dumbledore so insistant on you having his wand?" Hermione asked "Our plan was for you to have Ron's. The positioning was so Ron's wand was within throwing distance" She added
"Miss Granger, I cannot commend or congratulate your calculations and predictions highly enough. I am truly amazed that you managed to accomplish everything you did with no powers, and I have no doubt that without my presence, you would have won this war just fine. However, think of this as a contingency plan. A back up" Dumbledore said
"What?' Fred and George asked. Confused
"The Deathly Hallows" Hemione repeated.
"Yes. Harry, you own the cloak. And what did you have in your pocket?" He asked
Harry felt his pocket and pulled out the ring, which was formally a horcrux
"Notice anything strange?" Dumbledore asked. Harry examined the ring but came up with nothing. Hermione then had a glance over.
"The stone. It's been removed. This new one. It is the resurrection stone, is it not?" Hermione asked. Dumbledore nodded.
"And the wand" Harry said pulling it out.
"The elder wand!" Hermione said
"Indeed. Miss Granger, had Harry not have had these items, with your plan I have no doubt that the outcome would have been the same. However, he had the stone and the cloak. He took the wand off me, won it in battle so it was his. He had all three of the Deathly Hallows. He is the master of death" Dumbledore replied.
"Very clever" Harry said
"But I needed magic to do all I did. You managed all of yours by yourselves" Dumbledore replied.
They finished their drinks and exchanged in further small talk before heading off to the Gryffindor common room. The only common rooms that were untouched by the Death Eaters during their time. The ten split off into separate rooms, except the two couples which shared a room, to each couple.
Hermione lay next to Draco in bed.
"Mia I was thinking, now this whole war is over, and we can be together. How about we move in together" Draco said
"You mean after we finish this year of school?" Hermione asked. Draco laughed. Trust her to want to go back to school
"Of course," He said, Hermione rolled over to face him.
"I would love to" She said, kissing him softly. "Anywhere in particular?" She asked,
"Actually, I would love to buy the house Ness lives in. She can't live there forever, and I was thinking, we buy it, and give her a room, as a thank you for letting us stay with her
"You are aware that it is a muggle house, right?" Hermione asked
"What can I say? You won me over" He replied.
They fell into a gentle slumber in each other's arms, knowing that once more, peace was in the world. They were no longer at war. They were in love, they were safe All was well.
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