"Hermione, are you sure that you and Lily will be ok being here alone for a few hours? I can always reschedule practice for another day, we have plenty of time before the first match, "Harry said as he gathered his Quidditch supplies.
Summer had come and went and school was back in session which meant Quidditch practice for Harry and Ron. Summer had been uneventful and now that school was back in session Ron and Harry, who have never left Hermione's and Lily's side during the whole summer, were having second thoughts about leaving Hermione's side now.
"Harry, we'll be fine. Besides it is not like we are leaving the common room…Voldemort hasn't been seen since Lily was born, he had all summer to come after me, why would he come now with everyone around? Go to practice you two…and if anything happens, you'll know…" Hermione said trying to reassure a worried Harry.
Harry kissed Lily, who was asleep in her mother's arms, on the head and gazed into Hermione's eyes, "you're right…" he turned and grabbed his broom, "come on Ron lets go."
Ron walked up to Hermione with his broom over his shoulder and kissed her passionately, "I love you …." He said as he broke the kiss and walked towards the portrait hole.
"I love you too Ron, don't worry about a thing, we'll be just fine..." she called after them as the portrait hole closed behind them.
Hermione walked to the special made nursery and laid Lily down in her crib. She took a seat in the armchair by the crib and read her Airthmacy book. Hours passed and the sun was setting and Harry and Ron were still not back from Quidditch practice when a soft knock came to the door.
"Come in," Hermione said placing her book down on the night stand.
Clara, the house elf, entered into the room and curtsied in front of Hermione.
"A package arrived for you miss…it is said to be from your parents," she said as she handed a small, book shaped, packet tied with a black ribbon to Hermione.
"Thank you Clara…go now and prepare Lily's supper…mashed peas and potatoes for today, please?"
Clara curtsied again and with a soft pop she was gone. Hermione took her wand and waved it over the packet to make sure no jinxes or dark curses were on it. Finding none she took it and slowly opened it. "Mighty early for me to be getting birthday presents," she thought as she untied the black ribbon.
There was a loud bang that caused Hermione to scream and drop the box. Smoke emitted from the box and a tall, dark, hooded figure rose from the smoke. Hermione, who immediately grabbed her child from the crib and was covering her face to protect Lily from the smoke, gazed at the figure that emerged from the smoke. The smoke cleared and the figure pulled off its black hood to reveal…
"VOLDEMORT!!" Hermione gasped.
Hermione made her way to the nursery door and turned the knob, but it was locked. Panic rose inside her chest, she was trapped. Voldemort raised his wand and shouted, "Teleportus Trius!!" and him, Hermione and Lily disappeared out of the room.
Meanwhile on the Quidditch field Harry had stopped flying and was clutching his chest. Ron noticing Harry's gesture flew over to him…
"Harry, are you all right mate?" Ron asked in concern.
"He has them Ron…Voldemort has taken Hermione and Lily, "Harry gasped.
Harry and Ron sped to the castle and ran to the common room.
"Ron, remember the plan…you are to go to the Order and alert them of the news then roam the area to make sure no one distracts the process…leave Voldemort to me," Harry instructed as he quickly got out of his Quidditch robes and into some pants and a loose t-S.
Ron turned to Harry, "Harry, be careful, okay? And bring them back," Ron said with a look of concern all over his face.
"I will, now go!!"
Ron ran out of the common room as Harry ran to his trunk and grabbed an old map. Harry sat on the floor with the map and his wand and waving his wand over the map murmured a simple location spell. His wand glowed red then green, red then green really fast until it stopped and stayed on green at a section of the map that Harry had a hunch was the exact location of Voldemort and Hermione.
"There," he said and he disappeared on the spot.
Harry opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly lit room. He ignited his wand and looked around following his heart with each and every step he took until he found Hermione in a brightly lit room laying on a huge bed. Lily was playing with blocks on the floor. Harry ran towards Hermione but was thrown back by an invisible force. Harry got off of the floor rubbing his head. He slowly walked over to the barrier…
"Hermione…Hermione!" He called out to her.
Hermione's eyes fluttered opened and seeing Harry standing there she rolled out of the bed and started towards the barrier.
"Hermione, WAIT!! There is a barrier here," he stated as Hermione got closer to the barrier.
Hermione stopped as she came closer to the barrier.
"Are you and Lily ok? Where is Voldemort?" Harry asked.
"We are fine and as for Voldemort…" but she was cut off by a faint hissing voice.
"Harry…Potter…ssss…" the voice said.
Harry turned around to face the voice and found Voldemort grinning at him from the doorway. Voldemort walked into the room sealing the door behind him. With another wave of his wand he released the force field that held Hermione and Lily.
"Release us, Voldemort…" Harry snared.
"Now where is the fun in that?" Voldemort hissed.
"Well just let Hermione and Lily go…this fight is between you and me, not them…" Harry pleaded.
"You know good and well that you can't defeat me on your own, Mr. Potter…you need Hermione to die and the child's special gift to defeat me..." Voldemort replied slyly.
Harry was horrorstruck… "You know about the prophecy?"
Voldemort laughed… "Yes, Potter, I know about the second prophecy. I took the liberty this summer to read up on the prophecy, put together some missing pieces and facts…wouldn't want to make the same mistake twice now would we?" Voldemort laughed his hissy laugh again.
"Now to ensure Ms. Granger's and MY child's safety, they are to stay behind this force field," he waved his wand again and the force field reappeared, "and watch while I kill you…then Ms. Granger, my child, who I will change her name to my liking, and I will live together and rule the world!!"
"You are a monster!! I will never be with you… NEVER!" Hermione yelled from behind the force field.
Voldemort cackled then turned to face Harry, wand at the ready… "Time to die Potter…just wait Hermione, in time you will follow me and be my dark queen…"
Harry pulled out his wand and took the dueling stance.
"Harry, please, be careful!" Hermione shouted, concern showing in every syllable.
"Yes, Harry, do be careful…" Voldemort mimicked with a grin.
Harry had practiced nonverbal spells but he knew that none would be effective since Voldemort was a legalimen, but he had to try. He shot a spell at Voldemort… blocked… he tried again…blocked. He disapperarted and tried to hit him from behind…blocked. Voldemort laughed with amusement.
"This is my so called equal? You are, pathetic!!"
Voldemort blocked a few more of Harry's attempts before he, with a lazily wave of his wand, disarmed Harry and placed him in a full body bind. Voldemort hit Harry squarely in the chest with some spell until blood started to spurt out of Harry's mouth…
"And now, Potter, it is time to die!" Voldemort said in a triumphant voice.
Voldemort released the body binding curse and pulled Harry up to were he was on his knees.
"Any last words, Potter?"
Harry turned his head towards Hermione who was cradling Lily in her lap. He struggled to speak because of the blood from his mouth, but managed to gasp out…
"I love you…Lily."
And with one simple wand movement Voldemort conjured the Avada Kedavera curse and Harry fell to the floor dead.
"Harry….NO!!" Hermione cried out, tears streaming down her face.
Voldemort released the force field and Hermione ran to Harry's side.
"It was too easy and for the best…the boy was an obvious hindrance to my plan…I guess the prophecy was not meant to be," Voldemort chuckled.
"That would be true, Voldemort, if you had really killed Harry Potter," Hermione said in a whisper.
"What are you talking about girl? Of course that is Harry Potter," Voldemort said confidently.
"Are you sure about that?" Hermione replied.
Hermione stood up and looked at her watch which had just struck 10 o clock. She looked up and Voldemort gasped for it was not Hermione's face that was looking at him, but Harry's face!!
"YOU TRICKED ME!!" Voldemort growled.
"Yes, Voldemort, I tricked you…you see, while you spent all summer researching on the second prophecy, I've spent all my summer planning and learning how to be Hermione and she learned how to be me and with the help of polyjuice potion our planned worked…the weapon is activated, " Harry remarked triumphantly.
Voldemort glared at Lily was sat beside her mother's body, staring back at him. Voldemort raised his wand and shot a spell at her but it bounced off of her like she was a brick wall.
"Can't you see Voldemort? She has her mother's soul inside of her and it is protecting her…nothing can harm her now…" Harry remarked.
"So it seems, but I can still kill you, Potter…AVADA KA…gasp" Voldemort started the spell but never finished for a strong force was causing him to choke and gasp.
Voldemort looked down at Lily who was staring, none blinking, back at him. The force on Voldemort's neck intensified until Voldemort collapsed to the floor and the grasp was released. Voldemort laid on the floor trying to catch his breath…he looked over to Lily who twitched her eyes.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Voldemort screamed.
Harry stared, horrorstricken, as Voldemort began to smoke then catch on fire. Harry ran to block the view from Lily and after a few moments the smoke cleared and all that remained of Lord Voldemort was a skeleton surrounded by ash. Harry, coughing and fanning away the remainder smoke, picked up Lily and moved closer to the smoking body. He couldn't quite believe that it was all over, just like that, Voldemort was gone. Harry looked at the child in his arms and smiled…
"You did it Lily…he is gone…now lets bring back mommy so that we can find Ron and go home."
Lily let out a giggle and clapping her hands and wrinkling her nose a white substance emitted from her body and floated into the air and to Hermione's lifeless body, where it disappeared. Harry ran over to Hermione as she took a breath.
"Harry?" she turned and looked at him, "Lily…you guys did it…" she sighed.
"We did it, Hermione…we did it," Harry corrected her as he helped her up and handed her Lily.
At that moment the doors banged opened and Ron and a few Aurors entered into the room. Ron saw the smoldering body of Voldemort then seeing Hermione he ran and took her and Lily into his arms.
"You guys actually did it…" he cried out.
"Yeah, we did…lets get out of here…someone clean up the mess please and lets get out here," Hermione stated.
Lily wrinkled her nose and Voldemort's body disappeared leaving a golden vase in its place and then the four of them disapperated out of the area.
