A/N- Hola my faithful Amigos y Amigas! Well, I hope you are all living a safe and healthy life that you are enjoying!
I am currently suffering yet another injury. Bad me. Yet again, it is related to swimming. We were doing our dry land training and it was raining, so we were doing it inside. The inside has a diving well and a 25 yard pool with hardly any room to spare with all the extra equipment in there. The only place we could do it was under the bleachers. So we started with squat thrusts. Don't ask what they are because they are hard to describe. Well, for the end, we have to jump up, streamlined. Well, me being 6 feet with a 4 foot wingspan, jumped up too high with too much power, so I jumped into the ceiling. I didn't punch a hole in it, but I did put a dent into the ceiling. Stupid me, I hit it with the finger I fractured this past July. So now, I sit at home, typing this, with a broken finger. When I had my x-rays, you could see the crack nice and big, so it will take a long time for it to heal. And the first meet is coming up in less than a month! And the 8th grade band is playing with the high school marching band this Friday! So, I have to probably fake-play my flute. I am such an idiot.
I think that's enough of me telling you how I broke my finger. Well, on to the final battle and what awaits Hermione, Ron, and everyone else.
Everytime We Touch
Hermione POV
Well, this is it. I could be going to my death. But, I don't care about that. I care about Harry.
"Time to go Miss Granger." Dumbledore said, breaking me out of my reverie "Harry is waiting for you."
"Alright Professor. I'm ready." I sighed and touched a part of the kettle that Dumbledore held out to me. Ron and Ginny were already holding on.
Dumbledore looked at his watch. "Three, two one…."
I felt a jerk around my naval as I was rushed into a whirlwind of color. Then as suddenly as it had started, we were standing in an over-grown field of grass. Across from the field was an old house that was 3 floors, painted an old tannish color with some broken windows, sagging shutters, and the front door was hanging on its hinges.
"Sad how much it has fallen in disrepair these last 15 years." Said Dumbledore sadly, shaking his head.
"This is Godric's Hollow?" I said, looking around.
"Yes Hermione. It is." said a sad voice behind us. I turned around quickly to see Harry standing behind us, looking at the house with a sad and happy-to-be-home look on his face. I ran to him and hugged him as tightly as I could.
"I've missed you so much." I said, through tears.
"I've missed you too Mione." He said softly, stroking my hair. He leaned down to kiss me, but we were interrupted.
"Yes Potter. Do that all you like now, because it will be your last." said a drawling, deep voice from a cloaked figure. He was one of the 2 dozen or so hooded figured forming a circle around the two. Dumbledore, Ron, and Ginny were nowhere to be seen. Harry tilted my chin up. I looked into his eyes and I found comfort and hope looking at me. He leaned down, and took me up in a passionate kiss. It has only lasted a couple of seconds when Harry drew away from me as a flash of light hit him square in the chest and knocked him off his feet.
"God Potter. I didn't mean it literally. I didn't know you took everything so literally. My son was right. You are sooooo thick you don't even know how to torture a single person." said the figure and Lucius Malfoy took off his hood. He looked at me and said "My Granger. For a mudblood you have gotten quite pretty in the past 5 years. Pity you chose to hang around with the wrong people. The dark lord would have been more than happy to spare you if you hadn't gone over with Saint Potter. He can't perform the Cruciatus Curse properly. You know that, right?"
"I wouldn't be so sure of that Lucius." I said coolly as Harry drew his wand and with swish, Malfoy was writhing on the ground. The other Death Eaters just stood there, I'm guessing with their mouths open, watching the seen being played before their very eyes.
"Very good Harry! Bravo. I see you have learned much since last year." said a smooth and cool voice behind us. I knew it could only be one person. Harry and I turned around as the Death Eaters surrounding us fell to their feet to bow before the darkest wizard of all time. Lord Voldemort walked into the circle as Harry and I turned around to face him.
"And who is this pretty young lady?" Voldemort said, staring at me with his cool and emotionless eyes.
"I thought you would know who I am." I said coolly "I thought you could perform legilimency."
"Oh I can miss. Harry here knows that I have been blocking him because he was intruding on my thoughts." Voldemort said "Now, what is your name?"
I looked at Harry and he nodded. I said to him "I'm Hermione Granger."
"Oh, so you're Miss Granger? Lucius told me you were a bushy haired now-it-all, but I guess you have changed a lot these past 5 years. Such a pretty girl for a muggle-born."
I knew that Voldemort was trying to seduce me, so I played along.
"You think so?" I said with my cutest little girl face and voice.
"Why, of course. Come here, I have to tell you something." Voldemort said to me like he was talking to a 4-year old. I walked up to him and he started to whisper in my ear. When he finished, I looked stunned. Then I promptly fainted.
Harry POV
"Hermione!" I yelled. I grabbed her just before she hit the ground. I picked her up like I was holding a baby and looked into her face. It was pale white and she was barely breathing. I laid her on the ground carefully away from where we were and turned around to face the man that has brought me so much pain, if you could call him a man.
"What did you say to her?" I said dangerously.
"Nothing that would have made her faint like that, I assure you." Voldemort said worriedly.
"Oh whoopee! I have Tom Riddle's word! I'll just go take that to the bank!" I said humorously. Obviously Voldemort and the Death Eater's didn't take it that way.
"The Dark Lord does not find that very amusing." Wormtail's voice said from one of the cloaked figures "He doesn't like to be reminded of what his past was like."
"Wormtail is right for a change." said Voldemort in his dangerous voice "The blithering idiotic rat is right for a change. But I came here for 1 reason and I intend to do it tonight. For 16 long years I have waited for this night. I am going to kill you Harry Potter. Nobody will ever know that this happened. Everyone will look for you and they will never find you. This is the end of the famous Harry Potter."
"I don't think so Tom." Said an old, yet strong voice behind us "This is the end of you and all you stand for."
We both whirled around and there stood Dumbledore. Hermione was standing next to him and Ron was flanking Hermione's left side and Ginny was flanking Dumbledore's right side. Behind them stood about 150 people in loose formation. Most from the order, a little more than a handful from the D.A, and just a few were ministry aurors.
I turned back around to see the Death Eaters gathering behind Voldemort in battle rows. The Lights were roaring with anger, their wands at the ready. I looked at Voldemort and said "You were saying?"
And that's when it all started. Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and I yelled "Attack!" and everyone charged forward around me. I charged right into the heat of the battle and started off with battling a huge blonde Death Eater. I incapitated him within seconds and stepped all over his face. "That'll teach you to mess with Harry Potter." I said with a cackle of laughter as blood spurted out of his now broken nose. I ran to go battle some more Death Eaters. Before I could reach Voldemort, who was watching the battle, Bellatrix Lestrange stepped in front of me.
"You're over Potter." She said in her cackley, baby-talk voice.
"No, you are." I said, and yelled "Aveda Kedavra!" She was dead before she hit the ground. I could see the shock in her eyes as she hit the ground. I feel no remorse because of what she did to Sirius.
As she hit to the ground, I looked at Voldemort. He was just staring at Bellatrix in shock. His most loyal Death Eater was gone. Gone in mere seconds by a boy who was 16. Last year, he couldn't perform the Cruciatus Curse properly and she had mocked him. And now, he had just killed her. Voldemort had only one weapon left. I knew he didn't want to use it. But as much as he didn't, he used it anyways. Hermione was battling the lumpy Death Eater, Amicus nearby, so he grabbed her by the throat and held her a few inches off the ground. Pointing his wand at her heart, he started to talk.
"You've taken a valuable thing from me Potter." He said as Hermione struggled, her face quickly turning red "Now you have no choice. Either you both die at my mercy, or you die alone or she lives."
"No Harry!" Hermione screamed, her face turning purple "Let me die!"
I looked from Voldemort, to the people battling around us, to Hermione. She looked so fearful. I took a slow, deep breath and said "I choose to die alone."
Voldemort dropped Hermione and started to cry. Voldemort started to advance on me, but then I heard a voice. The voice of an angel singing.
I still hear your voice, when you sleep next to me.
I still feel your touch in my dreams.
Forgive me my weakness, but I don't know why
Without you it's hard to survive.
I looked around and saw Hermione singing "Everytime We Touch" by Cascada. The music was playing in the background somehow. She started to walk towards me slowly. Her hair was blowing back like in the movies when a guy really likes a girl and all he sees is her and her hair is blowing back in an enchanting way.
'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.
'Cause everytime we touch, I feel this static.
And everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky.
Can't you hear my heart beat so...
I can't let you go.
Want you in my life.
She had walked right in front of me and was looking into my eyes. They were all glassy and tears were slowly falling down her face. I stroked her face lovingly as she continued to sing. Voldemort was just watching us, frozen by shock.
Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky.
They wipe away tears that I cry.
The good and the bad times, we've been through them all.
You make me rise when I fall.
I couldn't take it anymore, so I roughly (in my opinion) took her in a firey and passionate kiss. Light started to eminate around us, but I didn't care. I need her and she needs me. As the song continued to play and everyone was singing along, we rose into the air, the light growing brighter and brighter. Then a solid wall of light blasted from us and it blew away from us in a ring of solid firey light. All the Death Eaters were blasted into the air and disipated with the light as it faded. Voldemort was still there, he was bent double in pain. He was greatly weakened by the light. And the love, the love was too much for him to handle.
'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.
'Cause everytime we touch, I feel this static.
And everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky.
Can't you hear my heart beat so...
I can't let you go.
Want you in my life.
'Cause everytime we touch, I get this feeling.
And everytime we kiss I swear I could fly.
Can't you feel my heart beat fast, I want this to last.
Need you by my side.
I broke away from Hermione. I could see from the reflection in her eyes that mine were on fire. I felt like the most powerful person in the world. I dropped to the ground quickly. I landed with one leg crouched, the other spread far out, to balance me. My left hand was on the ground in front of my left leg. My head was bent in a quick silent prayer to deliver everyone safely. I looked up, my eyes blazing. I'm ready for the end of the only life I have known. A life full of terror, fear, and death. Ready to start fresh. I stood up slowly and looked at the man that has brought me so much pain and suffering.
"Thomas Marvolo Riddle. You changed your name to Lord Voldemort. You were born of a witch mother and a muggle father. You were blinded by an obsession of your past. You wanted to know who your father was. You found him. Then you killed him and started your quest for immortality. You have killed countless people that were innocent right from the start. You didn't learn from your past. You never realized just how powerful love really is. Look around. Your Death Eaters are gone because you failed to stop and think. You're mother loved your father with all her heart, mind, and soul. She died giving birth to you because she loved you and your father. Love. She died to save you, just like my mother died to save me. Love. Hermione and I have killed your Death Eaters because we love each other. Heart, mind, and soul. Love. This is the end Tom."
"Stop rambling. I want a quick death, so get to the bloody point already." Voldemort rasped between dry lips.
"My point is that love is the most powerful thing in this world. Even the darkest of magic can be overcome by love." I said.
I could see him weaken every time I said "Love". He was on his knees now, on the brink of death for certain. But I wasn't finished. He needed to see true love before he passed on where so many spirits were ready to welcome him. Not with open arms. Hell would welcome him with wide open arms and the evil smile.
Hermione was standing behind me, breathing heavily. I brought her to my side and turned to her. I dropped to one knee and looked her in the eyes while I fumbled for a little box in my pocket. I found it.
"Hermione. There is nobody in this world I will ever love more than I love you." I said quickly, looking at her hopefully. She looked curious. Good. I grabbed her left hand and said "Hermione. I want to send the rest of my days with you and only you. I would like to finish school before we make any plans. But I have this for you." I opened the box's lid and inside was a ring. There was a ruby set in the middle and little sapphires encircled the ruby. The tiniest diamonds I would ever see were circling the sapphires. The gems were in a circle in the middle of the band. "I want you to promise me that you will marry me when we are ready to make that comittment to each other. That you will love me always and that nothing will ever come between us."
"I promise with everything I am. Heart, mind, and soul." Hermione said, choking back tears and smiling in the warmest way I had seen in so long. I placed the ring on her finger and got up. I took her in a slow and lite kiss. Then there was a blast of light and screams of terror. The sky was filled with reddish clouds and coming from them was a two-horse team and a chariot of fire. There was a man in there, no a man and a woman. Everyone backed away from Voldemort who was panting on the ground. When the chariot landed, I looked at the people in there.
"Mum! Dad!" I yelled and I ran towards the chariot. My parents were standing in the chariot. They smiled at me and solidified slightly as I ran into their arms. So warm, but I didn't burn. I looked up at them and they smiled at me.
"Harry dear. We can't stay long." Mum said "We have to take someone up to the judge. His time for judgement has come."
"Harry. Look at you!" Dad said so warmly with a laugh "You have grown up so much! And you're in love with a beautiful, smart, and talented girl. Good for you son. Good for you."
"Yes Harry dear. I think she is the perfect person for you to spend your life with." Lily said kindly, smiling at Hermione warmly. I walked over to her and taking her by the hand, lead her to the chariot.
"Mum. Dad. This is Hermione Granger. She is the one woman I love." I said, slightly embarressed. I never thought I would have to do this.
"Pleasure to meet you Mr and Mrs Potter." Hermione said awkwardly. Then she burst out and said "My mother misses you too Mrs Potter."
"And who is your mother?" Mum asked, interested.
"Well, she's Emily Granger now. But she says you knew her as Emily Britenbach. She says you gave her the nickname "Brie"." Hermione said, a little more relaxed.
"A yes. I miss Emily too." Mum said longingly "We used to play at each other's homes all the time before I went to Hogwarts. I never told her about me being a witch. Could you tell her for me?"
"Most certainly Mrs Potter." Hermione said politely.
"Well Soon-To-Be-Mrs.-Potter." Dad said with a hearty laugh "Good luck becoming a member of the family! Harry was a little devil when he was young, so if you have kids, don't be surprised if they are devils!"
"Of course they won't be bad children Mr Potter." Hermione said respectfully, with a grin playing at the corners of her lips.
"Please. Call me James." Dad said with a laugh. Hermione blushed bright red next to me.
"Dad. Stop teasing her." I said crossly "So much has happened in such a short period of time."
"Of course son." he said with a wink "But don't let that spoil your fun."
"Ooookkk. We best collect what we came for James." Lily said, intervening before I could say a word.
"Righty-O." Dad said "Well son. We'll be watching over you always. But make sure never to forget us."
"I won't ever dad." I said, my voice cracking a little.
"Harry. Don't cry. It's not like we'll never see you ever again. And we will be watching over you. So even if you don't see us, we'll see you. But now, we must go. James, he must come now."
So mum and dad took Voldemort onto the chariot and they flew away into the clouds and beyond.
"Hermione. I need to rest right now." I said, overcome with a feeling of conciousness slipping away. I lay down on the grass, and slipped out into nothing.
A/N- Well, that took me a whole week to write, so I hope you like it!
I used every free moment to write it soo, you really better.
Just kidding. But, I do hope you like it.
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Gotta go. My sister is bugging me to get off the computer.
Adios!
-Katie