Title: The Point Of All Emotions
Author: ThePhantomsRedRose
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or the Phantom of the Opera.
Summary: AU, 7thYear. The war looms in everyone's thoughts. To take their mind away they begin work on a Musical. Strong partnerships are established, but are they strong enough to win the war?
Authors Note: Thank you for all of the generous reviews for the last two chapters as well as to the new readers who have dropped reviews for each chapter! Now on to the chapter that I have been working on for a month!

The Point of No Return

Directly after curtain call she was offered glasses of champagne and was showered in roses. She rushed to her dressing room all the same. She pulled off her wedding gown and quickly pulled on her armor. She pushed a helmet over her curls. She heard a knock at the door and opened it, expecting Severus; instead, Leo met her. She quickly ushered him inside.

"Hermione why are you wearing that?" He asked.

"Look Leo I don't have time to explain," Hermione said trying to get past him.

"Voldemort's coming tonight, isn't he?" He said. Hermione nodded. "Where do I get a suit of armor?" He asked

"You're not trained, you'd be killed!" Hermione said. He would not let her past. "Fine come with me," She said bringing him into her suite and through the door to the undercastle. She ran to Severus to give him a pre-battle kiss. She summoned Ronan the centaur to get armor for Leo. Hunger set in. Everyone had eaten at three and it was now eight. Hermione grabbed a piece of bread from the basket in her room. She grabbed her light saber, secured her wand, and grabbed her quiver of arrows. Flung her bow over her shoulder and headed to the Stable with Leo following.

She put him up on Napoleon the Hippogriff. She ran to Caesar's stall to prepare him. She would not be riding him for formation A, but she would need him tacked and upstairs, ready when she needed him. She threw freshly polished armor over him. She put a sword in the saddle sheath and sent him to the woods the other Pegasuses and riders following. She watched as they ascended the dark ramp up to the forest for cover

Hermione went to the newly created Dragon Valley in the mountain, which had been made when the dragons outgrew their nest. She changed her form quickly. "Okay kids, let's go!" She hollered as they rose up from the valley to the ramp. She had just seen Ron leave with the Unicorns and Harry rode behind him, Dumbledore closely following him. Severus was just behind her and the dragons with most of the order on horseback. Ginny and the Hippogriffs were directly behind. The Centaurs and lions followed. Once Hermione was outside, she flew the dragons to the spires of the castle to watch without being seen.

She saw the flocks of animals poring out of the camp into the outdoors for the first time in months. For the lions, the first time in their lives.

A sudden coolness penetrated the night air. The dementors were upon the Hogwarts grounds. Masked, hooded figures were approaching. First, the centaurs began to fire flaming arrows as they ran, line one, brandished swords and lances. Giants were seen in the faint light of the sunset coming at the centaurs. Hermione took this as her cue. She took wing followed by her ten dragons. They stretched the sky and scorched the earth. The giants were gone in a wave of flames. Severus then came with the heard of horses, he twirled his wand, Avada-ing the figures that had once been his friends. He did not look back.

Harry led the unicorns forward with the help of Dumbledore and Ron. His unicorn reared and Harry pulled his red light saber from his belt. He began to run at the Deatheaters. Light saber in one hand, wand in the other. He had less use for the wand because the Deatheaters were dumbfounded. Of course, they had not expected the fast moving targets, and their weapons. Griffins overtook the sky pelting the not suspecting Deatheaters with boulders. Now that the sun was set, Hermione knew it would be impossible to find the Deatheaters from the Order members. She ordered the dragons to fly above and cast flames in the air to light the battlefield.

She went to the Astronomy tower to perch shrinking down to human form. and sang a high E flat. Caesar flew up to the tower the flock following at a distance. Hermione mounted took out her light saber, and in her other hand took her wand and the reins. She swooped down for the war. She began to be shot at by the Deatheaters with stunners, which flew farther than the killing curse. Her Pegasuses were dropping out of the air like flies.

She swung her light saber to block the spells flying at her. Caesar began to run on the ground past Harry who was now dueling with Lucius. Hermione jumped from Caesar to protect Harry from Narcissa. She took her light saber and finished off Narcissa quickly. Ron was seen dueling with Draco in the flame light. Hermione turned to find Neville slicing through Bellatrix with his unicorn's horn. It was ironic that someone so evil would be slain by something so pure.

Voldemort had not yet made an appearance. Ginny rode the Hippogriffs down to kill the dementors, but it was to no avail. Harry picked up on this and rode directly into the mass of Dementors with his wand drawn. Hermione and Ron quickly mounted and went to follow him. Their patronuses fought them back in waves. Harry raised his wand again and to his surprise, a silver dog was coming out of it without him asking for it. Sirius was now fighting their war! Another patronus came rushing forward, obviously coming from Severus, as it was his form. The dementors were still coming so Harry took his phoenix form chasing them all away with the help of the many patronuses.

Werewolves were next they all swung their silver swords at them, but there were too many. The white unicorns rushed them purging them with their silver horns causing the wolves to fall in their pain to the ground. The unicorns proceeded to tear up their bodies.

Harry flew to the center of the battle saving Dumbledore from a killing curse. He scanned the ground and saw an unmasked Percy Weasley lying dead on the ground. The flock of Pegasus was now being lead by Ginny's Abraxan form.

Hermione joined him in dragon form and Ron was very near to the center. All of a sudden a chariot, drawn by Minotaurs was approaching. The leader of this chariot was McNair. Each Minotaur had a spear. . The Centaurs ran towards to combat them. There were more Centaurs than there were Minotaurs so they were taken care of in no time. Harry swooped down in his phoenix form to swallow Nagini. He saw a giant serpents head rise from the back of the chariot.

Ron whinnied alerting the battle to the situation. Harry quickly went for the Basilisk's eyes as the great serpent looked about causing many of the lions to fall to the ground petrified. Fawkes quickly appeared to regain the lion's pulses with his tears. Ginny and Ron pinned the snakes tail to the ground. Hermione had no idea what to do. Then it hit her: all four were needed. Ron flew to the head of the Basilisk figuring out the same thing. He plunged his horn into the roof of the basilisk's mouth killing the creature. Hermione then set flame to the beast that was Voldemort. A big shadow loomed and a grand fire erupted in the ground where a bottomless pit lay. Voldemort's shadow flew into the pit and was consumed by the earth.

The sun began to rise on the battlefield. No death eater was left unpunished. Severus ran to Hermione and kissed her, embraced her, he knew he would never let her go.

The smoke began to clear and Queen Lucy was running about the field, administering her cordial to the wounded order members. Hermione gathered the dragons and lead them back down to the undercastle. She left them in the mountain valley and changed into her wizarding robes. She felt dirty. She had killed people last night. She put her witch's hat upon her head and began to cry in a corner of the tent. Severus walked in, shed his robes for his normal frock coat. He kneeled by Hermione and cradled her in his arms

"Shh… It's over now, It's over…look!" he said as he held out his arm for her. The mark was gone, only a pure piece of skin remained where the abomination had once lain.

A horn sounded from a distance and the couple came out of the tent.

"We are about to be received upstairs in the Great Hall by the minister. I just felt that before we do this we should read off the Death Toll," Dumbledore said grimly. "All of the Death Eaters have been killed. As for the Order members: Alastor Moody, Leah Churchill, Silvia Main, Egus Lambert, Allen White, Ben Richardson, Lester Seth, Leo Adler, Ken Hill, Page Brown, Brian Regan, and Remus Lupin," Dumbledore concluded somberly

The beasts were listed next but Hermione was paying attention to a shaking Harry. The chambers of the undercastle began shaking with the vibrato of his voice. The trough began to ripple. Centaurs brought Harry back to his tent to be alone to mourn the loss of the last marauder.

Hermione on the other hand could not believe that Leo had died, She silently cried for her mistake in allowing him to fight with them as she walked to meet the order. All of the order members went back to the battlefield. Each member was allowed to keep his or her mounts. Hermione decided to keep Caesar but let him in the woods until graduation. Many of the other DA members chose the same. The Narnian creatures went back into their world and the Centaurs, Pegasus, Hippogriffs, and even the dragons were released to the forest. The Gryffindor lions were given the option of where they wanted to go, and they chose under the castle. Each order member put on their suit of armor again and went up to the great hall.

There were no more house hourglasses in the entrance hall. The doors of the great hall opened and the Order of the Phoenix was pictured above in banners. The upper left hand held a phoenix. The lower left held the dragon, the upper right housed the unicorn and the lower right housed an abraxan. The banners were purple and red. The full order sat at the Head table, which now stretched the side of the building rather than the front of the room. Dumbledore sat center, Hermione to his left, Harry to his right. Severus to Hermione's left. Ginny to Harry's right then Ron. Order members spanned the rest of the table.

Fudge presented orders of Merlin to each member. "I am hereby resigning my title of Minister of Magic to whom ever Dumbledore sees fit," He said waiting for response.

"I choose Severus Snape," Dumbledore said.

"Do you agree to this Snape?" Fudge asked.

"No I don't, I have not the people skills. However, my soon to be wife would be a perfect candidate," He said beaming at her.

"Oh Severus! Dumbledore, do you think I can do it?" She asked.

"Of course my child, you planed this entire war!" Dumbledore said.

Hermione was inducted without delay as Mistress of Magic. She felt the eyes of her peers on her and raised her hand, making an oath to protect them. The second most important oath that she would take in her lifetime. The most important one would happen in a few weeks at her wedding.

AN: Phew! That was hard! Anywho, Read and Review (you know you want to just because tat rhymed? Actually, that wasn't really on purpose.)