The Elder Wand

Lord Voldemort was about to interrogate some family about the Elder Wand when he felt Severus Snape contacting him. "You'd better have important news to dare to interrupt me, Severus."

"It's about the Elder Wand, My Lord."

"Continue."

"Albus Dumbledore became its master when he defeated Gellert Grindewald, My Lord." Snape explained. "It's now buried with him inside his tomb."

"Those fools! How could they let such a powerful artifact go to waste?"

"Dumbledore never trusted anyone with the knowledge." Snape replied. "If not for the fact he suspected you'd be looking for it he'd never tell anyone."

"I must take over the Ministry so I can lower the wards they put at Hogwarts." Voldemort said. "Then we'll take over Hogwarts and I'll get the wand. Don't comment this conversation with anybody."

"Yes, My Lord."

Voldemort then returned to England and rallied the Death Eaters (minus Snape, who had to keep his role as a spy) to attack the Ministry. After they take over the department in charge of the Ministry wards at Hogwarts, Voldemort takes the Malfoys and the Lestranges to Dumbledore's graveyard. Voldemort finds it fitting that his own wand's final great act will be opening the coffin where his new wand is waiting for him. Voldemort then picked the Elder Wand. "Young Malfoy, I'm glad for how well you served me but, unfortunately I must kill you to become the true master of my new wand." Voldemort said without any true sign of remorse. Nagini the snake was approaching Draco and was ready to bite the young Death Eater when she's suddenly hit and killed by a hex coming from Lucius Malfoy. "You won't harm my son," Lucius said until he was hit by Bellatrix's Cruciatus Curse. "Narcissa should have married Rabastan!" She said. "Well, there's still some remedy for this."

"Business first, Bellatrix." Voldemort replied. "I still must kill your nephew to become the new master of my new wand."

"Aunt Bella, please do something." Draco meekly pleaded.

"You should be glad your death will make the Dark Lord more powerful!" She shouted back. "I'd give my own life if it made him more powerful."

Before Voldemort had a chance to kill Draco Malfoy with his old wand, Draco is hit by a stinging hex from… Harry Potter, who suddenly appeared. The Lestranges were about to attack the Chosen One but Voldemort stopped them. "He's mine."

"Your Killing Curse couldn't kill me before and it won't kill me now, Voldemort." Harry replied.

"We'll see. Avada Kedavra!" Harry was hit in the chest by another Killing Curse. Not only it seemed to fall dead this time, but Voldemort also fell unconscious. While the Lestranges were distracted out of concern for their Dark Lord, the Malfoys took advantage of this to take Harry away.

"We must take him to safety, son." Lucius said. "It's the only way to escape the Dark Lord's rule."

"We saw the Dark Lord kill Potter, Father." Draco replied. "There's no more hope."

"We must hope he found another way to survive." They then took him to the castle.

"What have you don' to him, Malfoys?" An enraged Rubeus Hagrid asked.

"Not us, oaf." Draco replied. "The Dark Lord hit him with the Killing Curse again."

"An' you came here to parade him?" Hagrid asked, still angry.

"No." Lucius answered. "We took him away while the Dark Lord and the Lestranges were distracted."

"Let them come, Hagrid." Snape said as he suddenly appeared. "Headmaster Dumbledore's portrait already expected the Malfoys to defect from the Dark Lord's side."

Despite not trusting the Malfoys, Hagrid agreed to lead them to Dumbledore's former office. "Welcome, Lucius. I presume Voldemort hit Harry with another Killing Curse." Duumbledore calmly said. Lucius nodded in agreement.

"Did Harry hit Draco with any spell?" Dumbledore asked.

"Yes."

"Has anyone other than Voldemort hit Harry?"

"No."

"Good. Now all we have to wait for Harry to wake up and then find a way to kill Nagini." Dumbledore said.

"My Father had already killed Nagini, Sir." Draco replied. "Why was it so important?"

"Because Nagini was one of Voldemort's Horcruxes." They heard someone say and noticed Harry woke up.

All non-Slytherins and Horace Slughorn took the moment to celebrate while the others talked among themselves.

"Father, what's a Horcrux?" Draco asked.

"They're the darkest art ever." Lucius explains. "I don't know all details but, by committing murder, the ultimate act of evil, one can rip one's soul apart and place a piece within a container. As long as the container isn't destroyed beyond any conventional magic repair, the soul will never die. Usually inanimate objects are chosen to be containers because a living container will eventually die and there's no conventional magic to bring anybody back from death."

"But the Dark Lord was destroyed and had to be restored." Draco replied.

"Horcruxes protect the soul, not the body." Lucius explained. "His soul survived but he needed somebody to give him a new body. What really surprised me was the notion of someone creating more than one Horcrux."

"How many are left?" Draco asked.

"None." Dumbledore answered. "Now it's time for Harry to fulfill the prophecy and defeat Voldemort."

"Yeah, right." Draco scoffed. "Like the last time."

"That was just so he'd destroy the soul fragment he accidentally and unknowingly left inside me when I was a baby." Harry explained, shocking most people around him. "Because of the ritual that gave him his new body, he could kill it without killing me. Anybody else who tried would have killed me."

"Does that mean the Dark Lord can never kill you?" Draco asked with some hope.

"Unfortunately that protection only works once." Dumbledore replied.

"Attention, people!" They heard a loud announcement from Voldemort. "I killed Harry Potter! You have no more hope. You have one hour to surrender or else I'll kill you all. Lucius Malfoy and his son Draco betrayed me! They must be brought alive to me so I can personally show them what happens to traitors."

"Don't worry, Lucius." Dumbledore says. "You're safe in this office."

Half an hour later, a disillusioned Harry potter went to the Shrieking Shack, where Voldemort was waiting for the Wizarding World's response. He then revealed himself. "Potter! How?"

"This is for me to know and for you to find out." Harry replied. "Provided you survive our next duel, of course."

"You can't defeat me, Potter." Voldemort said. "I have the Elder Wand."

"And I am its master." Harry replied.

"Did you kill Malfoy?" Voldemort asked, shocked and impressed at the idea.

"It wasn't necessary." Harry replied. "Hitting him with that stinging hex counted as defeating him. And you no longer have Horcruxes."

"I admit some of them should have been placed at better hiding spots but I still have others left." Voldemort said with triumph.

"Do you mean Hufflepuff's cup and Ravenclaw's diadem?" Harry calmly asked to Voldemort's horror. "The goblins didn't like that the Lestranges hid a Horcrux within their vaults and the Room of Requirement is a place lots of people can get in. did you really think nobody would find the diadem there?"

Voldemort briefly showed horror on his face but he soon recovered. "No matter. I'm sure you're just making it up about the wand. Avada Kedavra!"

"Expell…" Harry started saying but then his wand seemed to act on its own. As the spells from the two wands met, the Elder Wand left Voldemort's hand for Harry's and the Killing Curse hit Voldemort. Because he no longer had any Horcruxes left, he finally died. Soon after this, Aurors and other heroes start rounding up the remaining Death Eaters. No longer needed as a spy, Snape joined the Death Eater captors.

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