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AN: …yo.

Chapter 20: Over and Done

"Any last words, Potter?" Bellatrix sneered, laughing maniacally as she drew closer.

Harry shivered as she neared before opening his mouth. "I'm sorry," he told her, with all the sincerity he had. He could see Edward and Emmett, who had just appeared with a portkey in hand, in the corner of his eye. His lids fell shut and he turned his head away as he tried to block out the sound of his two brothers destroying his attacker. Bellatrix's pained screams echoed around the room. A feeling of sickness overcame him and if it weren't for the restraints, he would be doubling over, vomiting at that moment.

Silence overcame the room.

Harry looked up and his eyes widened at scene before him. "Get me out of this," he demanded. "I need to get out of here, take these off me!"

Emmett rushed towards him and broke his bonding. Harry gripped his mouth and ran out. Once in the other room, he fell to his knees and began gagging. Edward walked in and picked him up. "There's no time to be sensitive about her, Harry," he said sternly, gripping the portkey and walking over to Emmett. "She doesn't deserve your pity."

"That is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen," the boy spat. "Was it necessary to rip her apart like that? She's not like you guys, you know? The blood is still pumping through her and what not!"

"You'd think seeing us after hunting trips would make you less squeamish," Emmett muttered with a frown as his hand shot out and he grabbed the portkey.

Harry flinched as he felt himself spin before immediately stilling once more. "I never saw you rip your prey apart," he answered with a glare.

"We saved your life, now cut it out," the large vampire whined.

"This fight isn't over yet, Harry, so don't start falling asleep on us," Edward told him.

"Because I'd fall right into a peaceful sleep after that show you made for me," he told them sarcastically.

"Would you lower your voice?!" he hissed. "Dolhov and Nott are still missing, along with a few other death eaters and Voldemort's decrepit body, if you could call it that."

"And you took my back on the grounds?!" Harry asked, his eyes widening in horror. "Let me go! Let me go right now!"

"Harry, we have to use something as bait."

"Are you joking? I thought all of you had some spectacular master plan!"

"Yea well, it didn't work out so well," Emmett told him. "Some rebellious death eaters saw the others getting the students out of the Great Hall."

"The others? Where were you two?"

"How do you think we found you?" Edward drawled. "Alice got a vision of you being kidnapped. We arrived at the carriage a second after you were apparated out. The death eaters with Bellatrix weren't very brave."

Emmett smirked. "With one growl we got them to give up your location and a urine sample!"

~*~

Narcissa wrung her hands nervously, staring at the fireplace. She shook her head and felt a wave of nervousness overcome her. Carlisle had been sent to tell her that the plan didn't work and they had to take the children up to Dumbledore's office to use the fireplace to reach safety. Draco should have come through the floo already. "Where is he?" she whispered to herself. "That's it! I'm going!"

She grabbed her wand off the coffee table and reached up to get floo powder from the beautiful vase sitting atop of the fireplace. She stepped in and shouted her destination before tumbling out and finding the children staring at her in shock. Draco's eyes lit up in fury. "Mother! What were you thinking?!"

"Draco Malfoy, I have never been more insulted-"

"Narcissa!" She whipped around to see Lucius glaring at her. Her eyes widened when she saw blood trickling down his face. "I was just informed by Nott that not only was I exposed as a spy, but he also had a much larger army of death eaters take over the ministry. We've been hiding in this room, with nowhere to go, because those death eaters have been watching the fireplaces of Hogwarts!"

She paled. "How was I supposed to know that?! Carlisle didn't tell me!"

"Carlisle only found out minutes after flooing. Rosalie and Esme are with him at the Ministry of Magic right now, along with all of the Order." he groaned as he took his wand out.

"Well who's here?!"

"We are," Draco told her sarcastically. "And so are Alice, Jasper, Emmett and Edward."

"And hopefully Harry," Ron whispered.

Hermione smacked his chest. "Don't talk like that! Of course they got him!"

"Wands at the ready," Lucius whispered when he heard banging on the door. Hermione stood quickly, pointing her wand at the fireplace with Narcissa while the others focused on the entrance.

"Draco, open the bloody door!" They heard Harry shout. "We heard you screaming at your mother from downstairs! You know for people hiding, you'd think you'd put up a silencing charm!"

Lucius nearly blushed before he opened the door, still holding his wand high. His shoulders sagged in relief when he saw the vampires with the boy. "Hurry, get in. Narcissa flooed here and we don't know if your coven and the order have taken down the Death Eaters at the Ministry."

"Has there been any word on Severus?" Harry asked worriedly.

"Because I had time to stroll by the Hospital Wing in the heat of battle," he answered sardonically.

Before Harry could bite back, Tanya sauntered out of the fireplace with a grin on her face. Harry's eyes lit up and he hugged her tightly. "You came?"

"Of course I did! And look who I brought along?"

Aro was the next to stumble out and he looked around. "How fascinating! What a marvelous way to travel!"

"You actually helped us?" he asked in disbelief.

"Silly boy!" Aro laughed merrily. "Those fools found our humble abode and asked us to join on their side. When we refused, they decided to throw a number of mean-spirited insults at us and actually tried to kill us! Can you believe the nerve?"

"Err…no?"

"Indeed, so naturally we came to kill them as revenge. One of my men fell because of them," he said, his eyes narrowing slightly.

"Which one?" Edward questioned.

"Felix."

"I'm sorry."

"No matter, Edward. Felix died taking three of them with him. Let us not dwell on such sad matters. We are dealing with something very important right now, after all. So tell me, what is the plan of action?"

~*~

Sirius and Remus stumbled into a room, breathing heavily and looking around wildly to make sure no enemy was inside. "How… does… he stay… so strong?" Sirius panted. Remus shook his head and looked out to see Dumbledore take down a few more Death Eaters. "Look at us! We're about to drop dead, and he's still fighting the lot of 'em! What does that say about us?!"

"That we have not even an ounce of stamina, but a man probably more than two times older than us does?"

Sirius stared at his best friend, his face quickly twisting into disgust. "Do you think he has a girlfriend?"

"I don't want to think about our school headmaster's love life, Sirius," the werewolf growled. "Don't you think we should get back out there?"

"But I'm so tired," Sirius whined, before pushing him out of the way and running back out. Remus rolled his eyes and followed him. He watched Sirius send a stunning curse towards someone rounding the corner.

"You idiot!" They heard someone hiss. Remus couldn't help but snort when he Narcissa standing above Lucius' frozen body. "What kind of stupid ex-auror are you?!"

"Oh shut up," Sirius muttered as he ended the spell. Lucius shot up and pointed his wand at the man. "Narcissa, tug on that leash you've got him on, will you?" he drawled. "He's being a bad dog."

"Why you-"

"Lucius Malfoy," Narcissa snapped. "This isn't the time!"

"Where is everyone?" Remus asked.

"Edward, Emmett and the girls are laying the trap down right now," Hermione said, her hand shaking slightly in Ron's. The redhead frowned at her and held her close, Draco coming to her other side.

"Where's all that courage you just had?" he whispered to her. She smiled at him hesitantly before straightening her back.

"Sorry," she apologized. "It's just…this is it. Harry's last stand against him."

"He'll be fine," Draco assured her. "Don't worry about-"

The wall behind them exploded. Bricks and debris burst outward. All of them ducked down and watched Aro, Edward, Alice and Emmett skid across the ground. Rosalie flew out afterwards, her clothes burning. Emmett jumped up in a panic and began trying to put the fire out. With a quick motion, Sirius waved his wand and a jet of water ended the flame. "What happened?!" Narcissa screeched.

Aro looked up, an embarrassed look on his face. "We may have underestimated the guardsmen under his employment." Edward was already running back into the hole, Emmett at his tail. Both of them were screaming Harry's name. Rosalie picked Alice off of the floor and followed them. "Well what are you all standing there for?" the head of the Volturi snapped. "Aren't you going to follow them?"

Lucius snapped out of his shock and pushed the others ahead, running into the new passageway. Alice was on her knees, the rest of them nowhere to be scene. "He's gone!"

~*~

Harry really wished he could hate his family at this moment for being stupid enough to let him get captured, but he was much too frightened to be thinking that way. Besides, they were really his last hope… again. He stared at his masked enemies, wondering where he was and what they were going to do with him. "So…" he started really quietly, shaking the shackles that were holding his arms above his head. "We gonna have some dindin?" They ignored him. "No? Some snackies maybe? I'm dying for some chocolate frogs. I mean you guys have got me working up an appetite… what with me running away from you this whole day… kind of hungry….burned up some carbs and all."

He stopped speaking when one of them came up and brought a wand to his throat.

"It would be in your best interest if you would shut up."

"Oh that's not very polite," he said with a frown. "You should respect me a bit more. I am the Boy Who Lived after all."

And that got them.

The shackles were the only thing holding him up when a punch to the gut had him doubling over.

"We'll be back, Potter," he heard a voice sneer at him. He heard the door close.

And now he was standing in the room alone.

"Mom is going to kill them," he whispered to himself.

~*~

Emmett and Edward looked away in shame as Rosalie and Alice comforted a hysterical Esme. "Wha-what do you mean they took him?" she sobbed. Jasper, who was staring at his feet, pulled at his hair in frustration. Carlisle was staring at his sons, waiting for a response.

"They blasted us off our feet and when we got there they'd apparated away already," Emmett answered. "And I don't know WHY you're only blaming us! Alice and Rose were- " He stopped and they all winced when Esme's cries grew louder.

"W-well what are we going to do?! We have no idea where they are! They could be g-gutting him by now!"

"Don't think like that, darling," Carlisle said soothingly. "The aurors are out right now and we-"

She glared at him, pushing Alice and Rosalie away. "You're taking too long. Get out of my way." Everyone, not wanting to cross an angry mother vampire, stepped back a pace. Esme wiped her tears away and marched into the hall they last saw him. "What's this?" she asked.

Edward jogged in and looked at what she was holding.

"A… mask?"

"Oh I ripped that off on of their faces," Emmett answered. "They apparated before I could see the guy's face."

Esme gripped the mask in her hand and closed her eyes in exasperation. "And you didn't think 'Oh I know! Demetri!'"

"Demetri?"

Edward smacked his forehead with the palm of his hand. "Demetri!"

Harry opened his eyes and squinted when light hit his face. Two death eaters walked in, seemingly staring at him. He grinned widely at them. "Hey fellas! You gonna unchain me?" To further annoy them, he frowned when they growled at him. "Is that a no? I'm not really sure I understand what you're saying. I speak Parseltongue, not mutt."

"Listen here, you little-"

"Now, now," he heard a voice hiss. His scar stung and his hands shook, making the sound of the shackles echo the room. "Let's not disrespect our valued guest."

"Okay," Harry whispered to himself. "Now I'm scared."

"Harry Potter," the disfigured bundle chuckled. "What an honor it is to see you again."

"Oh I assure you, it's well reciprocated," Harry laughed nervously, "but it's actually WAY passed my bed time and I think my mother might be worried about-"

"Oh my dear boy, don't be frightened. You'll only feel pain for a little while."

"Oh, uh huh," he nodded. "Well, that's good news, but I still think I should be on my way home so if you would just unlock these shackles I'll be out of your hair in a jiffy."

Voldemort's decrepit figure chuckled once more. "I see that you use humor as an evasion method when you're in trouble."

"Yea, old Tommy boy wasn't pleased with that, was he?" he bit out, finally glaring and pulling himself off the wall.

"Bite your tongue, boy!" Voldemort hissed. "You dare call me by that disgusting, filthy name."

"Yea because Voldemort isn't weird enough, right?"

"Nagini!"

Harry's eyes widened when he watched a large snake slither in, making it's way towards him.

"Bite him, Nagini, and use enough venom to have him withering in pain."

He closed his eyes, listening to the gleeful hisses coming from Voldemort's familiar. Biting his lip, he tried to prepare for the pain he would feel, but it never came. He heard a panicked hissing noise. Two of them.

"Nagini! Fight her off!"

Harry's eyes flew open and he looked at the ground. "Malinda!"

Malinda was wrapping herself around her foe. Nagini, only slightly bigger than Malinda, was struggling desperately, wriggling and throwing her head backwards to try and bite her, but nothing seemed to be working. Malinda's grip only tightened. "Faolan!" Harry summoned.

The wolf appeared with a growl and pounced on Nagini's head.

"NO!" Voldemort shouted, looking at his followers in disbelief. "WHAT ARE YOU FOOLS DOING! STOP THOSE CREATURES! THEY'RE KILLING MY FAMILIAR!"

But it was too late.

Faolan and Malinda disappeared, leaving a motionless Nagini on the ground. Harry couldn't keep the grin off of his face. He should've known those two would come for him. Now that they knew his location, they'd probably be off to get his family.

"You've done it now, berks," Harry chuckled. "Those were my familiars and they'll do anything to insure my safety."

"So they left you here by yourself?" The Dark Lord spat, staring at Nagini in horror. "All of you! Prepare this room. We shall wait no longer. The ritual will be done NOW!" The death eater carrying the bundle brought him closer to Harry. The boy hissed at the stinging in his scar. "You'll regret killing Nagini, Potter."

"Awww. Were you in love?"

For a second time that night, Harry was silenced by a quick blow to his stomach.

~*~

Demetri raised his head and his red eyes looked around wildly. Finally, they settled westward. He nodded, and walked forwards. "This way," he told them. Edward was quick to follow, pushing the others out of his way so he'd be in front with the tracker.

"Wait!" Alice commanded. They all stopped in their place, Edward skidding to a halt. "Do you hear that?"

Off in the distance was the sound of a howling wolf.

"Faolan!" Emmett called excitedly. The wolf appeared quickly, Malinda wrapped around his leg.

Carlisle got to his knees and allowed the wolf to jump on him. "Faolan! Have you seen Harry? Has he called to you?"

The snake hissed in response.

"No, he was talking to Faolan," Emmett cut in. Rosalie rolled her eyes and smacked Emmett's chest.

"It doesn't matter who he was talking to! They've probably seen him! They can lead us to Harry!"

"Well what was I doing a few moments ago?" Demetri asked sarcastically. Rosalie had the decency to look embarrassed.

"This is different, Demetri," Esme answered. "He isn't tracking. He knows exactly where Harry is." The wolf let out a sorrowful whimper, laying his head on the ground as Malinda slithered up Alice's leg. "What's wrong, Faolan?" He let out a loud bark, followed by a howl towards the moon.

"Harry might be hurt," Jasper said worriedly. "Faolan only ever acts like that when Harry is feeling pain."

"Quick, darling," Esme said to the wolf hurriedly. "Get us to him! Race the fastest you can. We'll be right behind you.

Faolan nudged Malinda off of Alice's leg, urging her to wrap herself around him again. When the snake was secure, he took off, faster than vampire speed.

"Come on!" Edward shouted.

All of them ran, their feet beating roughly on the ground.

~*~

Harry couldn't help it.

He was screaming and shouting, squirming in their arms, as if his life depended on it. "Let go of me, you bastards! Let me go!" He went completely unnoticed and his pleas did nothing to stop them. "What are you going to do, eat me?!" He accused when he realized that they were dragging him to a large cauldron.

"Shut up, Potter!"

A swift strike to his temple had Harry seeing stars.

"I've had enough of your mouth," the person on his right growled, but he was barely listening. Hardly able to keep himself up, the two hold him were now easily pulling him to the cauldron, his feet dragging behind as if unconscious.

"What are you doing?" he slurred dizzily. "Le'go. This din' happen in my dream."

"You've made him delusional," someone called out. Everyone laughed as they circled around them.

"Enough! All of you!" Nott commanded.

Harry threw his head back so he could look up at the man holding Voldemort. His eyes squinted and he shook his head. "I can't be in the presence of ugly. Dray said it might be contagious."

Nott's lips tightened into a thin line as he tried to ignore the boy.

Harry's head lolled over the cauldron. "Soup's on!" he called out as loudly as he could. He was met with silence again. "Alright fine," he shouted out, he pushed the two death eaters away from him with the strongest wandless magic he could use. Already weak, his efforts brought him to his knees in front of the dark lord. "What are you going to do to me?" He spat. He wasn't going to be weak and he sure as hell wasn't going to scream and cry in front of his foe.

"How does it feel, Potter?"

"What?"

"To know that you will be the one to revive me."

Harry shrugged. "I don't know what that means, but it sounds disgusting."

Voldemort hissed and Harry couldn't help but bring his hand up to his scar in pain. "You shall be the one to restore me to my true form."

"Uhm… no, I don't think I will. Thanks for asking th-"

But before he could finish his sentence, he was seized again and pulled up roughly. Too panicked to actually listen to anything, he watched them throw a bone into a cauldron before Nott stepped up and, to Harry's disgust and shock, cut his own hand off over the cauldron. Nott fell to his knees in pain as Harry gasped and fought against them, much harder than before.

"You're bloody out of your mind! The whole lot of you! That was your hand you sick freak! Do you see what this maniac has you doing?! It's unthinkable!"

"Chain him back to the wall!" Nott ordered. "We'll never get his blood if he keeps this up."

Harry's eyes widened as he struggled, his head turning to see how far he was from the shackles. "Let me go! Let me go! What are you going to do to me?!" He heard the shackles click around his wrists and ankles. Nott came forward, the same dagger in his hand.

Harry nearly squealed in pain as the hooded man tugged on his arm and took the dagger he was holding to make a large cut in the boy's arm. "What-"he breathed as tears streamed down his face. The humility and embarrassment of crying in front of his enemies was enough to kill him right there. "What are you doing? My family will-"

"Your family will do nothing," the voice laughed mockingly. "Do you think they really want you? You were abandoned by your parents and thrown away by your relatives-"

"My parents died fighting the dirty likes of you!" Oh god. Here it was. Just like in his dreams.

The covered hand reached out and struck him across the face. Harry's jaw fell open. He wasn't shocked, no. He knew that was coming. But the pain from being struck in the same spot so many times was making him see more than stars. He was seeing full blown planets now. "What makes this family is any different from the people who just don't give a damn about you?" the man hissed into his ear.

Harry glared at him and tried to lunge forward but was held back by the binds that were chaining him to the wall. "They'll find you… and you may kill me today but once they find you, you sick bastard, they'll rip you to shreds."

The man shrugged nonchalantly before picking up the dagger and tapping it against the cauldron in the middle of the room. "They can try, Harry Potter… unfortunately, someone is out taking care of them right now."

He heard that before. Those words chilled him to the bone. He let out an enraged roar as he fought as hard as he could against his chains.

Tears streamed down his face as he watched them ready themselves to put Voldemort into whatever botched up mixture they made. This was it. He wouldn't see his family again. Faolan and Malinda were going to die with him, so no one would be left to protect his family. He closed his eyes and shook his head.

How had he failed?

"Goodbye," he whispered to no one.

"That's not nice. We just arrived."

Harry's eyes opened wide and he looked up with a grin so large his face was nearly splitting. Emmett had Nott pinned down to the ground while Rosalie, Alice, Carlisle and Jasper were throwing the Death Eaters towards Demetri. "I must admit," the Volturi guard said with a smirk. "All this hunting and searching for you has gotten my hungry, Harry." Harry watched as Demetri's teeth sunk into one of their throats. He couldn't help feeling sorry for whoever was behind that mask.

"Harry," Esme whispered, running over to him once she came in. She ripped the shackles off of him and held him close.

Edward walked in and took the dagger from Nott's hands. "Say goodbye to your master," he whispered sadistically. Grabbing Voldemort's figure from his arms, he raised the dagger high in the air.

"NO!" Harry shouted.

Everyone stopped to turn and look at him. He got up onto his feet and walked calmly towards his brother. "What are you doing?" Nott growled. Harry glared at all in the room. He took the blade from Edward's hands, raised it parallel to the ground, and swiftly brought it down on the tiny figure's neck. He looked away when his work was done.

"It's tradition that I conquer him, don't you think?" he asked them. Everyone fell into outrage as they tried to get to him. Edward took Emmett's position as the much larger vampire fell into a threatening stance in front of Harry. Edward used his free leg to kick the remains of Voldemort's body into the fire beneath the cauldron while Emmett and Esme stood in front of the weak wizard.

"Were we not invited?" Aro asked as he walked into the room with many of the guard behind him. Caius and Marcus entered with smirks on their faces.

"Master Aro," Demetri said with a bow of his head. "You've made it in time for the banquet. I must say, however, the dark magic within them is making them taste slightly… bitter."

"We'll make do, faithful Demetri," Marcus said with a dark laugh as he walked up to a man quaking in Rosalie's grip. "May I?"

"Have at it," Rose sneered.

"Come on, darling," Esme whispered. She picked Harry up into her arms and carried him out of the room. "You don't have to see this."

"I want to," he whispered back but couldn't fight his falling eyelids.

Harry woke up to find himself in the Hospital Wing.

Again.

For like the seventh time.

He groaned and rolled over onto his side. He was alone, but the table beside his bed was covered in sweets, flowers, and balloons. He looked to the foot of his bed and found the same kind of decorations. He let out a yawn and stretched his arms up. What had happened?

Oh. That's right.

Voldemort had almost been resurrected.

And then the Volturi came in and had an all-you-can-eat party time.

"Harry?" he heard. His green eyes looked up towards the door to see Hermione, Draco and Ron standing their hesitantly. He smiled and raised his head to assure them that he was awake. "Oh!" Hermione cried out as she rushed forward and threw her arms around him. "We were so worried! You've been out for a few days already! We thought you were never going to wake up."

"Your face was covered in blood and you had a concussion," Draco informed him.

"My face had blood on it?" Harry said in shock. "I never felt it."

"Yea well your family and the Volturi did when they came to save you," Ron said with a snort. "You may as well have bathed with blood, mate."

Harry rolled his eyes and fell back onto his pillow once Hermione let him go. "What's been going on?"

"Well Dumbledore put your family into a magically influenced sleep," Draco started. "Even vampires could become tired after events like that, after all. He didn't want them all worrying and tearing themselves apart because you were completely out of it… so he knocked them out instead."

Harry laughed. "That sounds like something he would do. Anything else?"

Ron looked at him hesitantly. "Severus still hasn't woken from his coma."

"He will, though," Harry told them, his hands tightening into fists. "Where is he anyway?"

"In a private room, so no one can disturb his healing," Hermione answered. "Remus and Sirius are alright, although Remy's got to walk with crutches for a while. Sirius has bandages wrapped around his forehead but he thinks he looks like some tragic hero, so he doesn't mind them…most… most of the order are alright."

"Who didn't?" He asked quietly.

"Tonks is in a coma as well. Shacklebolt is recovering at St. Mungo's and Moody…"

"What happened?"

They all looked down at the bed spread, unable to meet Harry's eyes. "Moody was killed by a new order member who turned out to be a death eater."

"Moody?" Harry said in horror. Alastor Moody was found after Crouch Jr. was caught. Mad-Eye was quite eccentric, but when Harry met him, he knew he had to strive to be like this man. Nothing got passed him. "But… but Grandpa Albus said he always had his guard up! There's no way Moody was killed by some spy death eater."

"He knew all along, Harry," Hermione said sadly. "The man's mission was to get close enough to Dumbledore to kill him. Moody had followed him to a meeting and heard everything. On the night of the battle, he took a polyjuice potion and made Albus promise not to come out of the Headmaster's room for an hour."

Harry closed his eyes and shook his head. "Grandpa Albus isn't upset, is he? I know they were good friends."

"He's as fine as he can be, Harry," Draco told him sadly.

Harry nodded. "Anything… happy happen?"

Hermione grinned. "Dumbledore was given information that the reason why Voldemort has been surviving for so long were these things called horcruxes. It's when you split your soul and put it into an object. Voldemort made many. Six of them. But Dumbledore has suspicions of what they are, so aurors are out searching for them already," she said happily. "If they're found they can be destroyed, but Dumbledore won't tell us how." Her happy smile turned into a frown.

"That's great though!" Harry said with a smile. "Any other good news?"

Draco, Hermione and Ron all grinned at each other.

Draco pulled him up and slapped his back. "Come on, mate. Let's get you changed and we can bring you to the Great Hall for breakfast."

~*~

Harry's eyes widened when a large uproar of cheers and applause began to echo the Great Hall. "Everyone's been celebrating their hero's safety. Your family are Wizarding World Heroes now too, Harry! For saving you that is!" Draco laughed. Seamus, Dean and Neville all came running at him. He laughed when they enveloped him in a huge hug.

"Unbelievable, Harry!" Dean said. "Of course you'd survive it again!"

"Don't get to excited, mate. There's still a lot of unfinished business," he answered over the loud cheering.

"Harry!" they heard. The boys let go so that Ginny and Luna could pull him towards them. Both of them had tears streaming down their cheeks. "We thought you were dead," Ginny sobbed into his shoulder.

He rolled his eyes and watched Ron pull his sister off of him. Hermione tugged Luna off with a laugh.

"Arry!" Harry's eyes widened when Hagrid hoisted him up in a tight, bear hug. "Always defying the impossible!"

Harry laughed as he looked up and saw Dumbledore smiling kindly at him.

He couldn't help it.

He had been tortured and almost died.

Damn it all to hell, he was going to enjoy this fanfare while it lasted.

~*~

Severus Snape had a killer headache.

And it didn't help that Harry Potter Cullen was sitting on top of him, incessantly rambling on about waking up and whatever the hell else he was saying.

"You will kindly remove yourself from my body, Cullen," he groaned.

"Sevie Poo!" he heard Draco squeal.

"Of course I would wake up only to fall into immediate torture," he muttered.

"Now, Severus," Ron frowned. The man opened his eyes and stared at the ginger boy sitting next to him. "We've been waiting for weeks for you to wake up. You can at least be nice."

"Weeks?" Severus asked in concealed shock. "What has happened so far?"

"Well I chopped Voldemort's head off and Edward threw his body into the fire," Harry said with a grin.

"That's before Voldemort was restored to proper form, so don't think he's oh so strong," Hermione said with a roll of her eyes.

"Oh I'm sooo sorry for taking it the easy way out!"

"If there's a next time, I'll be sure to have him all nice and proper before I kill him."

Ron snorted in laughter before turning back to Severus. "The Cullens are anxiously waiting for your return, as well as Sirius."

"The mutt survived?" Severus groaned as he rolled onto his side.

"And Dumbledore is out looking for horcruxes with a bunch of aurors and order members."

"Horcruxes," Severus said in horror. "What? Why?"

"Voldemort's horcruxes that is. Can you believe the nerve of that man? Splitting his soul ever which way and what not."

Harry's eyes suddenly widened. "Hey guys, if tiny bits of Voldemort's soul… went into me when he tried to kill me when I was a baby…"

Hermione's eyes widened and Severus nearly fainted into unconsciousness.

"Is nothing ever going to be simple for me?!" Harry groaned.

"We're not going to kill you, obviously," Draco snapped. "There has to be SOME way to just kill the horcrux part of you."

"Let's hurl a killing curse at him and find out."

"That is enough out of all of you," Severus shouted. "We're obviously not going to be taking this easily."

"WAIT!" Harry shouted. "Does that mean once we destroy the horcrux inside of me, all my cool powers that I got from Voldemort leave me too?! How will I talk to Malinda?!"

Severus pinched the bridge of his nose and counted to ten. "This is a VERY serious matter at hand and you are worried about-"

"Parseltongue has become a part of me, Severus. I can't just let it go!"

"Well if we don't figure out how to fix this issue, you won't be worrying about losing your 'cool powers' but your life!"

They all stopped and stared at him. "That's rough," Ron said.

Severus fell into another daze of irritation as Harry began rambling on about Malinda and his 'cool, awesome' powers.

'At least he was trying to stay strong in the situation,' Severus thought to himself.

"In all seriousness," Harry said suddenly. "How are we going to fix this?"

Severus placed his hand on Harry's shoulder. "We'll find something, Harry. I promise."

"… and you'll protect my powers?"

He groaned and put a pillow over his face. "Leave now! All of you!"

Harry smiled and hugged the man again. "Thank you, Severus. I should probably go tell my family about this."

"We'll go with him," Draco said.

"No, wait," Severus said with a sigh. He sat up. "Let me come with you. This will be hard to explain."

Harry nodded slowly. "Can we do this soon? I… don't think I can let this stay in my mind for so long," he laughed quietly.

Severus patted Harry's cheek. "Cheer up. We'll figure it out."

Harry nodded.

"Come on, mate," Ron said. "The hard stuff is almost over."

"Yea I- hey wait! Malinda's my familiar! I don't have to worry about us understanding each other! Of course, I'll still understand her!"

"Ugh!" Hermione groaned, stomping out of the room. "Absolutely ridiculous! I'm going to the library to research."

"Barmy, that one," Ron said, stuffing his hands into his pockets as they walked out to leave Severus to change. "Absolutely barmy."

Severus shook his head as he got up and made his way to the bathroom to wash up.

All of them were much to ridiculous.

~*~

"Venom!" Dumbledore said cheerfully. "Of course! Vampire venom is nearly as strong as Basilisk venom and that's exactly what Harry used to destroy the Riddle's diary."

"You can't be serious," Esme said in a panic. "What if we turn him?!"

"Well that's the risk," Albus told them.

"There has to be something else," Edward pleaded.

"We can run him through with the sword of Gryffindor," Severus answered flatly.

"Something else," Rosalie spat.

"I think this is the only thing we can try," Carlisle told them. "If he becomes a vampire, then fine. At least the horcrux is destroyed as well."

"He is not going to become a vampire," Rosalie said angrily. "I won't allow it!"

"Can we remember that this is my life on the line?" Harry frowned. "We have to do it!"

A vote," Edward said firmly. "A family vote."

"I vote yes," Remus said quickly. "It's the most plausible thing to do. There is no way the horcrux will survive vampire venom. Basilisk venom can kill, but vampire venom gives new life. They're both equally powerful."

"I have to agree with him," Sirius said slowly. "I'm sorry, Edward, but I won't lose another person to Voldemort."

"No," Rosalie said firmly. "We can find something else, I know we can!"

"Sorry, baby," Emmett told her. "But I'm gonna have to agree with Sirius and Remus on this."

"So do I," Carlisle said. Esme looked down at her lap before nodding and taking Carlisle's hand.

"And me, oh and Jasper," Alice said, taking Jasper's arm and pulling him towards her.

"Well we're already completely outnumbered," Edward said with a groan.

"Great!" Harry said with a smile. "Bite me, brothaaaaa."

AN: Heylooo! Sorry it took me so long again. After this, just the epilogue.

SO Is the horcrux going to be destroyed? Will Harry become a vampire? IS THE SUSPENSE KILLING YOU?!