Here comes the first half of the battle of Hogwarts. It will be switched around a bit, change a few parts and a big surprise in store for the twins. Gets a bit gruesome, but it's just the first half.
I had thought about making Luna date Ivan, but maybe Hermione should be a better choice according to a certain viewer of mine. Actually makes more sense too, might just pair Luna up with Neville as some like it.
I don't own Harry Potter, I only own the twins, Gabriel, and their adopted parents.
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Great Hall:
Pan and Ivan were outside with the members of the Order, waiting to be let in as Harry hid among the students called into the Great Hall by Headmaster Snape. They had been waiting for a few minutes, and the battle was soon to begin.
"You alright Pan?" Ivan asked. She didn't even look at him, just kept staring at the doors.
"I don't know, I feel angry, as if I want to hurt someone, but I also feel joy, because I know we'll win this tonight. You?"
"About the same, but not enough. This will be a bloody battle, all we can do is help as best we can."
"And finish this." Pan stated with a glare. A stare like that was so fierce it made her scary like Bellatrix.
"You two…" They turned to Kingsley. "Both of you do everything you can to help Harry, and be safe if you can." They nodded at him, and then Pan caught the nasty glare from the Weasleys except Bill and Fleur.
"Bitch." She heard one of them whisper.
'What's wrong with them?' soon the doors opened and they walked through. The minute everyone spotted the twins they realized they were indeed well known amongst the others. 'Awkward moment.' Pan toned out everything else going on until a loud bang took out her thoughts and there was a huge hole in the large window on the other end of the hall. "The hell just happened?"
"Harry and Professor McGonagall fought Snape but he fled out the window." Ivan said for her and then Pan felt a chill run through her whole body.
"I do not wish to kill more than is necessary. Harry Potter is the one I want, and he is the one I want to destroy. Any magical blood spilt is a waste, but if you give me Harry Potter you will be greatly rewarded. I will wait for now, and I have realized my daughter is in league with my enemy, therefore I want her found and brought to me alive and my son." Her father's voice echoed in her head and clearly everyone else's judging by the expressions on their faces. Harry went over to Pan and Ivan and stood with them.
"If you two want to go to him, no one's stopping you." He said. Pan's eyes widened and before she realized what she was doing her hand went across Harry's jaw. People gasped and then someone burst through the crowd, a brunet girl wearing a Slytherin uniform.
"That's Potter and the Dark Lord's children! Get them!" she pointed but no one moved, no one except the redhead girl Ginny Weasley, behind Harry grabbing his arm.
"Are you ok Harry?" she asked glaring at Pan.
"F-Fine Ginny…thanks." He was holding back a slight laugh, Pan felt extremely apologetic.
"Harry I'm sorry I hit you I just…do you really think we'd go to him after all we've been taught and witnessed?" she looked at him ignoring Ginny.
"As if you should even bother apologizing to him you filth." Ginny snarled and Pan's eyes narrowed.
"Ginny it's ok she's one of us." Ron. Harry held up a hand and looked at Pan.
"Sorry Pan, don't know what I was thinking."
"Ya dern right Harry!" Ivan said going next to Pan. "Seriously Potter you should think before you act ya know."
"Now that this is all settled, Mr. Filch please escort the Slytherins to the dungeons until this is over. Mr. Potter you and Mr. and Ms. Lestrange need to get somewhere safe."
"And miss out on all of this, no thank you Professor McGonagall." Ivan.
"Mr. Potter if you'll carefully explain to Mr. Lestrange the situation here.."
"Oh we understand the situation Professor." Pan spoke up. "We understand there's a war going on, and that a man who's supposed to be MY and MY BROTHER'S father is after Harry here. I've seen several things in my lifetime, and I haven't seen much magic since I was fifteen, but I'm sure I can bear on my own as can Ivan and Harry. I am Pandora Noelle Broacher Lestrange, and I'm not going to sit back and watch more people die at the hands of my psychotic father!" all went silent after she finished.
"That…was quite a speech Ms. Lestrange." Everyone was stunned, especially Ivan.
"Thank you professor." Soon the eyes of every student in the room turned to the window as red flares blew up in the sky outside the school gates. The Slytherins were taken out in seconds, while the others scattered to other parts of the castle.
"Pan we have to move!" Ivan grabbed her arm and yanked her out of the Great Hall.
"Ivan where are we going?"
"Outside where else?" they were soon in the front main courtyard, as were some teachers and students, seventh years no doubt. Pan pulled out her wand, and then McGonagall came out with Molly Weasley and the charms professor Flitwick.
"We need to protect the school, ready your wands!" McGonagall raised her wand turning back to the castle's entrance. "Piertotum Locomotor!" stone statues lining the walls came to life and bowed before standing and marching towards the gates.
"Castle soldiers, just like Albus described." Ivan spoke. Pan raised her wand above her and looked deeply in concentration at the sky.
"Protego maximus." The tip of her wand lit up and a thin misty shield started covering part of the area above the castle. A few more shots came out and then the rest began to join in, including Ivan. She turned back to her brother and he seemed to get what she was thinking.
"You planning on going after him?" she nodded. "You be careful, I'll help the rest as best as I can." They hugged for a brief moment and Pan ran off into the castle. She ran through the towering students, up some stairs until she came across Luna.
"Luna, where's Harry?"
"Pan, been looking for you…where's.."
"Never mind me where's Harry?"
"In Ravenclaw Tower, why?"
"I need to get to him…it's important." Luna pointed up the stairs.
"Ok…it's just up the stairs to the right." Pan looked up and smiled.
"Thanks, and Luna…thanks for your support."
"You're welcome, hopefully we'll be good friends after this." Pan smiled and ran up the flight of spiral stairs almost smashing into most students trying to leave elsewhere. Just as she reached the top she spotted Harry running off in another direction.
"HARRY!" she called but he didn't turn to her. "Damn." She ran up and followed seeing him running down a corridor. "Harry!" she called again but he didn't seem to hear her. Pan ran after him but stopped seeing a door appear on the wall; Harry opened it and walked inside. Pan noticed it to be the Room of Requirement, a room that only appears to those in search of something, like a place to hide or hide something secret. Carefully approaching the door she made herself think to find Harry and find whatever he was looking for, it had to be a horcrux. Why else would he enter the room?
'Ok I'm getting ahead of myself, but I have to help.' She walked through the door, and saw the room had piles and piles of items and junk everywhere. It was amazing there was even room to walk around. "Harry…Harry?" she called but got nothing, was he toning her out or something? Just as she was about to turn around a stack of book something made her stop.
A strange pull, and a loud hissing, the same as back at Gringotts with the cup; she turned back around, and followed the pull.
"Lumos." Her wand lit up. The pull was getting stronger and stronger, but the hissing was getting worse. Pan continued following until someone grabbed her arm and yanked her backwards. "YYEEEK!" she squeaked.
"Whoa Pan it's me." That voice.
"Harry?" it was Harry. "Dammit don't do that!"
"Sorry but I was looking all over and I found you wondering around here. How'd you know I'd be here?"
"I saw you running out of Ravenclaw Tower, I called you but you obviously didn't hear me."
"Sorry, I had to come here. One of his pieces was in here and this is it." He held up a crown, the Ravenclaw Diadem. They talked about it in the Great Hall, by Godric it was beautiful, but the gem in the middle was blackish looking.
"That's it? Are you sure?"
"Definitely, can't you tell?" Pan nodded. Harry could hear the objects like her, and it was a sort of connection they shared.
"Not trying to get off the subject or anything, but has anyone ever told you your eyes are…?" Harry nodded.
"Yeah." They stared at each other for a bit, and then for a split second it looked as if Harry was moving closer to Pan's lips, until…
"Well well." They pulled away from each other and saw Draco and his two friends a few feet away from them, wands drawn and all. "Look what we have here boys, a couple of lovebirds." The two beside him began to snicker a bit. "Fancy seeing you here Pan, congratulations on your son."
"Thanks." Pan snarled a bit.
"She's a looker Malfoy, lucky bugger you are marrying your own cousin." The fatter one said.
"Can it fatty!" Pan shouted and drew her wand. "Take this!" she fired a red spell at him and he was blasted down.
"Pan!" Harry shouted and soon two more spells came their way.
"Harry! Pan!" Hermione and Ron came their way. A small duel began and the fat kid Pan had shot down came forward joining in.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" he shouted pointing his wand at Hermione.
"BASTARDS!" Pan shouted and shot a stunner at the fat kid. She spotted Draco dueling Harry and Ron taking care of the other boy. "Sorry Draco! Expelliarmus!" she disarmed Draco and his wand flew into her hands. The two other boys were stunned, but then the fat one was freed from the stunner and fire spurted out from his wand.
"Fiend Fyre! RUN!" Ron shouted pulling Hermione with him. Pan ran with them as Harry followed, they ran quickly but the fire was faster. A quick turn into an alley off chairs and tables and Pan barely missed being hit with the fire.
"PAN!" she heard Draco call but turned to see him disappear. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were gone too, she didn't go that fast did she?
"Aguamenti!" a jet of water streamed from her wand and covered her head from the fire blazing around her. 'Oh no, where is everyone?' "HARRY! HERMIONE! RON! DRACO!" she shouted but could only hear the crackling sound of the burning objects around the area. She ran for it, kept running to get away from the fire all the while calling for Harry and the others, until she stopped a large wall of fire. She screamed, and then it began to topple over; she closed her eyes, trying to picture Gabriel's sweet little face.
"PAN!" she thought she heard someone call her and then an arm gripped around her waist. She was hoisted upwards, and ended up sitting on a long, thin, wooden stick. She opened her eyes, and she was…flying?"
"Harry?"
"Gotcha just in time! Hang on!" she held onto Harry's back as they flew through the burning room. She looked and saw Ron and Hermione carrying Draco and his masculine friend. They raced through the room and the fire began to speed up behind them; only a matter of minutes or seconds before they were completely consumed by the flames.
"Almost there!" Hermione shouted. The fire was at their heels, and then out the door they went. They crashed on the floor, and slid down a bit before Draco got up racing towards Pan.
"Stay away from her!" Harry cried out jumping in front of Pan. Draco looked at Pan and she pushed Harry aside but gently.
"Go Draco! Get going you and that friend of yours!" she said firmly tossing his wand to him.
"But Pan…" he caught it looking at her and Harry.
"No buts! Go before someone gets the wrong idea here." Draco nodded and his friend followed him down the corridor. "What happened to the other one? The fat one?"
"He's dead, he wasn't fast enough to outrun the fire." Ron helped Hermione up to her feet.
"What about the diadem?"
"Also gone, I dropped it saving you." Pan felt a blush coming on.
"Thanks, now how in the name of Albus Dumbledore did that fat kid know how to use Fiend Fyre?"
"Must've learned it from the Carrows, just didn't know how to control it." Hermione. "And his name was Vincent Crabbe, one of Draco's cronies since first year." She figured that.
"We need to hurry, let's go help the others." They ran back towards where the battle was starting. Spells flying all over the place, giants and all kinds of creatures going everywhere against the students. Pan started firing spells everywhere, attacking any death eater she could see coming at her and the rest.
"It's the girl! Grab her!" she heard a man say. They continued running more and more until they stopped at a death eater looming over the body of a girl, a Gryffindor.
"NO!" Hermione shouted and fired a spell knocking the man out the window. Pan looked around and saw some first years being attacked by Rowle and Travers.
"Get away from them!" Pan shot a spell but missed. The two turned to her and glared.
"Well look who it is, the little princess with the Boy-Who-Lived, a bloodtraitor, and a mudblood." Travers sneered and Pan marched over to him leaving Harry and the others behind her.
"Say those names again I dare you." She hissed. They just laughed and walked over to her.
"Sorry missy but you're coming with us." Travers tried to grab Pan's arm and she swung her fist at his face. Rowle tried to grab her but ended up getting her hair.
"OW! Let go!"
"Not a chance princess."
"Get your hands off her!" someone came up and knocked Rowle away from Pan, she fell to the floor and saw Ivan attack Travers.
"Ivan what're you…?"
"Not now sis!" he said and Harry came over helping Pan to her feet.
"You ok?"
"Yeah, Harry you, Hermione, and Ron get somewhere fast! I'm going to help my brother."
"Pan I don't think…"
"Just do it! Go!" Harry nodded and left with Ron and Hermione. 'Be careful.' She turned back and helped Ivan fight off Rowle and Travers ran off.
"Stupefy!" Ivan shouted and Rowle's body went limp against the wall. "Let's go I heard someone's in trouble just up that staircase." She followed him and spotted another death eater Dolohov fighting Lupin.
"Avada…!" Dolohov raised his wand to cast the killing curse.
"No you don't!" Ivan shouted and joined in. Pan looked around and spotted her cousin Tonks running over to them.
"Pandora? Why're you…"
"Not now! Help us out here! Incarcerus!" ropes flew out and bound Dolohov's wrists and ankles. His wand fell and Ivan picked it up throwing it to the side.
"Not so tough now are you?" he taunted making Pan laugh. "You alright cousins?" he asked Remus and Tonks. Remus looked aghast at him, Tonks put a hand on his arm and smiled.
"Thank you for that." The twins bowed and smiled.
"You're welcome." The moment ended when a familiar cackling laughter caught their ears; their mother was coming. "Get out of here!" Pan said and the Lupins left in the opposite direction.
"We'd better hide before…"
"Pan! Ivan! Thank Salazar!" they were embraced heavily by their mother.
"M-Mother…" Pan stuttered trying to breathe.
"Oh my dears I'm so glad I found you, now we just have to get you to your father and then we'll…"
"No." Bellatrix looked at them.
"What?"
"No. We're not going to him; I'm sorry mother but we're choosing our own path in this war." Ivan.
"It's true." Pan said and Bellatrix looked almost ready to scream. Pan expected a loud lecture on their family's legacy, about the true side winning the battle so far, the tales of how they came to and what they were destined for but….Bellatrix stayed quiet. She turned away from them, and ran back down the hall back towards the fighting. The twins looked at each other in confusion.
"What just happened?" Pan asked.
"No idea…would've expected worse from her. Ah! Let's go!" Ivan and Pan ran down the hall after their mother and spotted Minister Pius Thicknesse fighting three of the Weasleys, Ron, one of the twins, and Percy. Pan knew all the Weasleys from Harry, just was hard to know which twin was which.
"Reducto!" Pan fired but missed his head by an inch. The Weasleys spotted her and Ivan, and then Percy aimed his wand at her. "Expelliarmus!" his wand flew from his hand. Pan watched as Ivan stunned Pius throwing him across the hall. "Next time open your eyes Percy, we're on your side." She tossed him back his wand and Ron ran to them.
"C'mon we've gotta find Harry and Hermione!" they were about to turn when Ivan turned back aiming at the wall.
"Levicorpus!" he shot a masked Death Eater about to kill the twin Weasley into a wall. "Saved yer life, be grateful!" all three ran and found Harry and Hermione coming to them.
"We have to head to the Shrieking Shack, Snape's gone to Voldemort!"
"What…Snape…?" Ron. And then everyone stopped in their tracks as they felt another chill come across them.
"You have fought well, but I don't wish for anymore death tonight. Every ounce of magical blood spilt is enough to make me command my forces to retreat. Harry Potter, Pandora, Ivan, you each have one hour to come to the Forbidden forest to surrender. If you continue to resist me you will all die, including anyone who dares to hide you from me. One hour…" and then the voice vanished. Harry looked at his friends and back to Pan and Ivan.
"Let's go not much time!" they followed him out of the castle through the chaos of the war. Pan could see many students, mainly young children being attacked by her father's ruthless minions. Oh the horror of several other bodies sprawled across the school floors, if she hadn't already had a baby she'd puke all over.
"Pan hurry!" Ivan said. She picked up the pace and the minute they set foot near a gigantic tree Harry reached under a hole and squeezed a root before going through. As they settled inside Harry pulled the cloak over them all and put a finger to his lips.
"Keep quiet, I can hear him." They crept up some stairs, and into a hall where they could hear a couple of clear voices speaking to each other. Pan looked through a crack in the wall and saw Snape and her father, along with a floating Nagini standing in the shack's bedroom.
"It has been…an awful year so far hasn't it Severus?" his voice in a deadly hiss.
"My lord?"
"After sixteen years of waiting, and wondering about my children…and they've deserted me; tell me Severus, have I been a terrible father?"
"I don't understand what you mean my lord."
"Don't you? I have given them a reputation like mine, I've cared for them, even provided for them in such a short time, why do they disappoint me?" Pan gave a small scoff. Provided for them? He was really delusional.
"With all due respect milord, they were raised by muggles so it's likely their idea of this war is the opposite of your own. Not to mention you did say you would kill Pandora's child…and she had already bonded with it."
"I was only doing what I thought was best for her. She could've had more children with Draco Malfoy, and Ivan, oh my son, my heir, how could I have not known he would soon follow his sister?"
"They still have a chance milord. Should they come to you…you did say you wanted them back."
"Only if they swear their loyalty to me and me alone. Now to why I called you here tonight Severus, this…" he held out a wand, and Pan could see it wasn't his own…it was Dumbledore's. "Why doesn't it work for me Severus?"
"My lord you've done great things with it."
"No, only my normal magic. Do you know why Severus?" Snape didn't answer. "The wand chooses the wizard Severus, but this wand doesn't act on my behalf. It can only be used by the one who defeated its last master…and that was you Severus."
"My lord?" Snape pulled out his wand in defense.
"You've been a loyal servant Severus; sadly all good things must come to an end."
"My lord!" Voldemort looked up at the floating Nagini and pointed the wand at her floating barrier.
"Kill." Pan heard him hiss, and then Nagini was on top of Snape's back biting into his neck. Snape let out a scream of agony and Pan flinched seeing the poor man sink to his knees. Nagini's venom was toxic; too much was deadly to a normal human.
'No, why him?' Voldemort looked at the dying man, and then disapparated from the shack. Pan tossed the cloak off her and ran to Snape's body placing his head in her lap.
"Professor…" she whispered. Snape looked up at her, and then Harry came to their sides. "Hermione can't you…?" Hermione shook her head.
"I can't Pan, there's nothing we can do." Pan shook her head in disbelief. She hadn't known Snape well, but she knew more about him than anyone else in the room. Soon something thin and silvery began to pour from Snape's eyes, and it wasn't tears.
"Take them…take them…" he moaned heavily. Harry soon had a flask in his hand and held it to Snape's face taking in the silvery liquids.
"What is that?" Ivan asked looking at the silver strands inside.
"My memories…" Snape moaned again clutching Pan's hand. He was growing cold, he only had seconds before his death. Now he was looking at Harry, and Harry looked at him. "You have…her eyes…" his last words, and then his heart stopped beating. Pan held his cold hand in hers and let the tears fall quietly onto his face.
"Let him go Pan, he's gone." Ivan said pulling her up. Pan let him embrace her, both of them had known why Snape did all those terrible things this year, now all that was left was to finish the war. After a few moments of silence from everyone Pan cleaned her eyes and looked at Harry.
"Now what?" he looked at Hermione and Ron, and held the flask up for them to see.
"We're going to the Headmaster's office."
Changed around I said didn't I? Can't get caught for plagiarism here. I have decided to put Ivan with Hermione, but what should I do about Ron? Make him understand, or make him crazy? Please keep the reviews coming because the next chapter goes to the end of the battle and a little afterwards with a surprise close to the end.
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