Chapter 12
Time seemed to slow down. Harry saw the deadly green light heading towards Hermione he saw molly standing there with her wand still pointed at Hermione. Most importantly he saw Hermione with her back turned completely oblivious to the sell headed towards her. He did the only thing that he could be sure would work. He thought of Fawkes protecting Hermione. As he thought of that he was thankful to see the phoenix swoop down latch onto Hermione and flame her out and back to Grimmauld place. All of this within the 4 seconds that it took for the spell to connect with the space that did original has his love in.
Harry was beyond angry he was beyond reasonable thought without a second though Excalibur was in his hand and with more speed than he thought possible he soon found himself with the sword pointed at Molly's neck
"DROP YOUR WAND!" He roared
Molly knowing she had to play her cards right did as she was told. By this time the auror's had her surrounded but Harry told them to back off and let him deal with this.
"Tell me Molly what made you think that you would actually be able to accomplish killing my wife? What did you actual hope to achieve?" he asked still shaking with anger
"It's obvious that she has you under some kind of love spell Harry deal with her out of the way you would finally realise that it's Ginny who you love and not that mudblood"
Harry lowered Excalibur and pointed his wand at her instead
"Molly let me explain something to you, your daughter had just admitted that she tried to use compulsion charms on me to get me to notice her instead of Hermione but they didn't work. Do you know why? Because compulsion charms no matter how powerful cant compel true love! I've loved Hermione ever since second year and what you seem completely oblivious to is the fact that she is my soul mate and the person I want to spend the rest of my life with! Your daughter is nothing but a common criminal and shall be treated as one"
Harry began to walk away and let the auror's take over
"Harry please I'm only doing what's best as your mother!" Molly yelled. This stopped Harry dead in his tracks. He turned around not raising his voice wand not raised and walked back to Molly
"You are not my mother. My mother was Lily Potter."
With that Harry said no more and walked over to Kingsley
"Acting Minister, actually no I don't like that from now on consider yourself full minister of magic as appointed by the heir of King Arthur I ask you to sentence Molly Weasley to become a squib knowing that her actions have led her to losing her magic and losing two of her children. Incapacitate her so that she will be unable to find them. Be imaginative or something sends her to a muggle prison and make sure she stays there indefinitely"
Kingsley bowed and set to do what Harry had requested. Harry knew he wouldn't be able to apparated inside the ministry so thinking of Fawkes, the majestic phoenix arrived to take him back home
Hermione saw the flames of the phoenix appearing and as soon as Harry was whole locked him in a death grip hug giving all recent hugs a run for their money. Harry reciprocated the hug still knowing that had he not been fast enough Hermione would be dead.
"Are you all right did the curse hit you at all?" Harry asked
Hermione smiled "No I'm ok thankfully the minute you touch Fawkes you become just as indestructible as he is. Thank you Harry you saved my life today and I will never forget it" she said as she gave him a kiss showing just how thankful she really was.
A gently cough from a certain portrait brought them back to reality
"Sweetheart Hermione filled us in on what happened, what happened when you had Fawkes save Hermione?"
"Well I made Kingsley full minster for magic I told him to make Molly a squib and to place her in a muggle prison to be held indefinitely. And I let her know some well known truths particularly who my mum is" Harry said smiling at his portrait mother.
"Harry nothing could describe how much I would love to be able to give you a hug right now. I guess I have no choice but leave this to my daughter in law" she said smiling at them both.
"Your mothers right son you did all of us proud today words cannot describe how proud you have made us all with the way you have lived your life you are a true hero and don't ever let yourself believe otherwise" James said as he hugged lily.
Harry had tears in his eyes but managed to hold them back. "Thank you. All of you words cannot describe my happiness at the moment and mum don't worry as much as I would love to be able to hug you I'm sure Hermione won't let me fall below a million hugs a week" he said laughing as Hermione playfully swatted his arm.
"You better believe it" She said winking at him
"What is your next move Harry, the ministry knows of your status in society know which means by tomorrow the entire magical world will know" Remus said keeping a ever cool head
"Well we've come this far and as far as I can see the biggest threat that we had to deal with has just been eliminated in the hidden vault at Gringotts, there is everything that we will need to be able to move things along. Thrones tapestry's everything. As much as I love Grimmauld place I don't think that we can use this as a place for the magical community to see us from. I think we should use one of the founder's properties. Maybe its bias or not but I would like to use the estate that Godric Gryffindor left to us"
"It's not bias at all sweethearts after all you are the descendant of him so it makes sense to stay there" Lily smiled
"Ok then it's settled over the next few days we will begin the move to Gryffindor Manor. Now first things first" He said turning to Hermione taking her hand "We'll be back soon"
He took Hermione into another room so it was just the two of them, closing the door he threw himself at Hermione kissing her passionately
"I nearly lost you today" He managed between kisses
"You can't get rid of me that easy Potter "she said. A few minutes later they pulled apart and Harry revealed the true reason for him bringing Hermione into the separate room
"Hermione I know that on power levels we are matched but I want you to carry something with you that will hopefully give you more protection" he said as the sword of Gryffindor appeared in his hands
"Harry I can't take this sword, it's yours" she said whispering
"The sword belongs to anyone deemed worthy enough to wield it, sorry Hermione but I can't think of anyone else that is more worthy than yourself you are the spirit of Gryffindor Hermione this sword is not mine it is yours" Harry said as he placed the sword in her hands
"Harry thank you for such a wonderful present I have something for you as well I was going to surprise you later but I think you deserve it now. Do me a favour put your wand and the elder wand on the table for me" she asked summoning the staff of Merlin
Harry complied at placed them on the table. She focused the staff at the two wands and muttered "Unum duo" Harry watched as the two wands fused into one wand. Hermione motioned for him to pick the wand up as he did he saw sparks flashing white red and gold come out of the wand. "Hermione what did you do?" he asked
"The elder wand channelled the magic of Merlin and so I did some research and it turns out that Olivander was right the wand does choose the wizard because the wand has to channel the respected witch or wizard's power. So I've combined the two wands together as you can channel both the power of Merlin and your own power. Let's face it Harry even without the elder wand you're a very powerful wizard, all I've done is allowed for your magic to fuse with another making you even more powerful than before"
Harry smiled as he placed the wand into his holster on his wrist
"Has anyone ever told you how brilliant you are Hermione?"
Authors Note: So guys and gals what did you think? I'm quite happy with his chapter and I'm really looking forward to writing more for this story. Oh and for all those interested Unum Duo is Latin for "let two become one" All I can say is Google translate is the greatest piece of tech ever lol
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