"So do you want to retell that day, or should I?" asked Ginny
"Go ahead I always love listening to it better than telling it," replied Hermione
"Tell me once more why we are doing this?"
"Well we already made the list about what happened to the people so now we are taking a picture and making it into a film about that day," answered Hermione
"Okay I got it now," replied Ginny
Hermione clicked on the camera and placed it on it's stand by the door and she went and sat down beside Ginny on her bed.
"I won't start at the very beginning because everyone knows the story of Harry Potter. So our story starts at the end of my fifth year and Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley's sixth year. By the way I am Ginny Weasley. So basically a prophecy was made about Harry it said, 'The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches…born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies…and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will power the Dark Lord knows not…and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives…the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…' basically it meant Harry had to kill Voldemort or Voldemort had to kill him because they both could not live. One would have to be killed by the other.
So Harry and Dumbledore went looking for the Horcruxs that Voldemort has. There are seven in all but some have already been destroyed. All of the Horcruxs have to be found and destroyed before you can kill Voldemort. So Harry and Dumbledore had been searching for them and Harry had been doing some research. So on the train on the way home from Hogwarts at the end of the year Harry told Hermione and Ron that he was not coming back to Hogwarts next year even if Hogwarts was still open with Dumbledore gone and all the terror around. So Hermione and Ron said they wouldn't let him go alone. Harry would not let me come along though. We had dated through the past year and Harry had broken up with me at the end of the year saying that he still cared for me, but it was for my own safety. He said Voldemort was out to kill anyone that was close to him. First his parents and then Sirius and finally Dumbledore. He said he did not want me to be the next one. I was upset with Harry for not asking me for my help to find the Horcruxs Finally he gave in and said I could come and help them.
We spent the first week of the holidays researching and practicing spells and hexes that we might need. Finally we set off in search of the Horcruxs. After 3 weeks we had finally found all but one. It hadn't taken Harry long. Dumbledore had told him most of what he needed before he died and we just looked further into it and wola we found them. So we had them all but one. We finally thought to look in Albania because that was where Voldemort had been hiding for all those years. We found the last horcrux. We all thought it would take us longer but we accomplished it in a mere 3 weeks and 2 days of searching.
We headed of back to Grimmauld Place and stayed put for a couple of days. Finally we were ready. We had talked to the Order and they knew what was happening. They were only there if we needed them, and they were not allowed to go anywhere near Voldemort. Harry had to do that. They wouldn't be able to kill him though. Only Harry. If we called for them they would come. Same with the ministry. We headed of in search of Voldemort. We finally found him, with 5 Death Eaters. Lucius, Bellatrix, Avery, Rabastan Lestrange and Rodolphus Lestrang . Voldemort stood back and watched his Death Eaters battle us. We found them early in the morning. It was just past dawn. I think it was 6:24 when we came across them. We battled them. Voldemort had no idea what was to happen. He just wanted Harry dead. He had no idea that he had to do that. If he had known I don't think he would have sat back and watched his Death Eaters duel Harry.
So we battled the Death Eaters. Finally the Order and the Ministry came to help after a dozen or so more Death Eaters showed up. Finally all the Death Eaters were either dead or captured. Voldemort was leaning against a large boulder in the clearing, twirling his wand around and around and just watching us. The Order and the Ministry new what was to happen now. They stood back and Harry stepped forward. Voldemort didn't know that we had found all of his Horcruxs'. He still thought for the time he was immortal. But boy was he wrong. If he had known he probably would have fought more and the end results might not have been the same as they are now.
So Harry walked up to Voldemort and Voldemort stopped twirling his wand and stood up straighter. 'Welcome Harry. Have you come to finish me off now? We both know that that will never happen now will it. You are of age now. Your mother's sacrifice does nothing now. You are dead Harry Potter. Would you like to say your last goodbyes. Maybe to that werewolf of a friend of yours, or maybe your red head girlfriend. My my she sure does look like your mother Harry. Or what about the mudblood that you befriended. Top of her year and killed all of my best Death Eaters. You know, maybe you should say goodbye.'
'Don't ever call Hermione a mudblood. Your no better now are you. You are what? A half blood. As much as you will never admit it to anyone we know. We know that you are," said Harry
Voldemort raised his wand and said, "Avada Ked-," but Harry was quicker he yelled "Stupefy," Voldemort flew backwards and Harry walked over to him and muttered the counter curse.
"Why did you do that?" asked Voldemort
"Because I want to see your face when I kill you," answered Harry
"So now you are going to kill me. Boy that will make headlines 'The Boy Who Lived kills Lord Voldemort.'"
Voldemort was on the ground and Harry muttered a spell and invisible ropes tied themselves around Voldemort.
"You'll have to do better than that to kill me," said Voldemort
"Just you wait," replied Harry
Voldemort tried to apparate but thank goodness Tonks had put up and anti apparition spell. Suddenly with an explosion the invisible ropes broke and Voldemort stood up. Harry and him dueled. It seemed like forever but it was only twenty minutes. Finally Harry had him pinned against the boulder. Voldemort just grinned and Harry shouted 'Avada Kedavra.' A blast of green light and then Voldemort was gone. His lifeless body laying on the cold stone. Harry went over to him and grabbed his wand. He picked it up and snapped it in half. Everyone was watching from the edge of the trees. Finally I ran out and jumped into Harry's arms. 'He's gone. He's finally gone,' I cried. Everyone else took this as their cue to run out and congratulate Harry. Harry, Hermione, Ron and I walked over to Voldemort's body and stood there looking at the lifeless form. We stood there for awhile and finally Lupin and Tonks walked up behind us. Lupin put his hand on Harry's shoulder and said, 'Your parents would be proud Harry. You know. When Dumbledore first told them the prophecy your mother said 'How is a child supposed to defeat Voldemort? How? Nobody, no Auror, not even Dumbledore himself could kill him, and you expect a child, a mere child to kill him.' And look Harry, you did it. You saved the Wizarding World from the first war and now the second. Your parents would be so proud, and I am proud of you. I'm so proud of you.'
'Good job Harry,' said Tonks
'Thanks Tonks,' replied Harry
So now that Voldemort was gone the ministry took the Death Eaters that had survived off to Azkaban.
After ever member of the Order and the ministry congratulated Harry at least ten times each we were off, Harry had one more person to see.
We arrived with Lupin in tow at the Shrieking Shack.
'Thanks Lupin,' said Harry, 'For arranging this.'
'No problem,' replied Lupin
See Lupin had sent a letter to Peter Pettigrew to meet him at the Shrieking Shack. He said in the letter that he wanted to talk to him and forgive him.
We walked up into the Shrieking Shack and Lupin flicked his wand and put up and Anti Apparartion Spell. We all headed in. Lupin first. Peter was sitting on the bed waiting.
'Remus thank you, thank you it means so much that you have forgiven me,' groveled Peter
Just then Harry, Hermione, Ron and I walked in. Peter went pale and said, 'No not my old friend. Please no, you don't want to kill me. I'm Peter your old friend. You don't want to kill your friend,' cried Peter
'You know what?' said Lupin, 'I'm not actually going to kill my friend. You see Peter Pettigrew died that night that Voldemort killed Lily and James. Peter has been gone. You see I'm not going to kill the Peter I knew in school. I wouldn't be able to even if I wanted to. You see he's gone, and never coming back even if I try to get him back it's no use. No the person I am going to kill is the person that betrayed Lily and James Potter to Voldemort. I'm going to kill the person that sold them for a bit of power. Most people would die for their friends I know Peter would have but not you, you are not Peter.'
Wormtail ran over to Harry, 'Please don't kill me. Please.'
Harry walked up and stood next to Lupin and Lupin said, 'You know, I miss Peter Pettigrew.'
'Please don't kill me Moony, please remember all we did together, all the good times you don't want to kill me and have to live with killing one of your friends. We are both Marauders Moony. The only ones left. Don't kill me, please.'
'Didn't you listen to anything I just said? I'm not killing my friend. My friend died October 31, 1981. I'm not killing the second to last Marauder, because he is already dead. You are not a Marauder. Goodbye Peter.'
With that Harry and Lupin both lifted their wands and they both said, 'Avada Kedavra.'
Peter crumpled and landed in a heap on the floor.
Harry and turned around and we all walked out of the Shrieking Shack, all except Lupin. Just as we were going down the stairs Harry turned around and went back and stood beside Lupin. Lupin levitated Peter and we walked out of the Shrieking Shack. Lupin and Harry buried Peter in the Forbidden Forest. August 1, 1997 was the day that the Boy Who Lived killed Lord Voldemort and Remus Lupin and Harry Potter killed Wormtail, the spy who sold out Lily and James Potter.
Well you know the rest. We arrived back to find the whole Wizarding World in celebration. The parties never ended. For the rest of the summer The Boy Who Lived and The Man Who Killed You Know Who couldn't go anywhere without being stopped and congratulated. It was harder to get around now for Harry than it was his first time back in the Wizarding World when he was eleven because now Voldemort was gone for good, and nobody could question that. For now the Wizarding World was in peace, but out there somewhere were 18 Death Eaters in Azkaban plotting their revenge on Harry Potter.
"So how was that?" asked Ginny
"That was amazing," said Hermione
"Thanks," replied Ginny
Hermione and Ginny finally went to sleep.
In the next room Malfoy was laying in bed thinking.
The next morning Hermione woke up and her and Ginny walked down to the Great Hall. They didn't see Malfoy at all. They headed back to the Head's Tower and they still hadn't seen him. They lounged around in the Common Room and then finally Ginny left to go find Harry and Ron to bring them back to see the Head's Tower.
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a/n Hope you liked it, and I hope it explained a bit more to you about how Voldemort died. Sorry if it's still not clear but the story that I wanted to have was more about Draco liking Hermione and them being together. I see now that it's going to take a lot longer to get to that point in the story I thought I could just jump right in. So hope you like it. It will probably be my last update for a week or maybe even a week and a half because I'm going away on Friday. So please review so when I open my email when I get back I have a bunch of new reviews. Thanks to those that have reviewed.