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CHAPTER 16 – Love Always Overpowers Over Hatred
"Draco!" Harry called. He ran over to the body and checked for a pulse. He sighed a breath of relief when he found one.
"Draco" Harry called, trying to wake Draco, but it was no use. He pulled out his wand and levitated Draco's body behind him, and made his way up to the infirmary.
"Madame Pomfrey! Help!" Harry called, and the mediwitch came out of her office, wand in hand.
"Oh my! What happened?" she asked when she saw Draco's body levitated behind Harry.
"I don't know. I found him lying unconscious in an unused classroom in the dungeons" Harry said.
"Well set him down here" she said, pointing to a bed. She checked him over for various curses and injuries, while Harry sat beside him.
For the next two hours, the mediwitch was bustling around the infirmary, trying her best to heal Draco. Finally, she left to her office, telling Harry that Draco just needed his rest now, and that he would be fine.
"He was hit by a cutting curse, but not a very strong one. Whoever here attacked young Mr. Malfoy, wanted him to a die a slow and painful death."
The next morning, Harry saw that Draco was still asleep. He called for Dobby and got himself some breakfast. When it was time to go to class, Harry didn't want to leave, but when Madame Pomfrey told him that he could visit again during lunch, he reluctantly left for his morning classes.
When lunch came around, Harry went straight to the infirmary, and when he got there he was happy to see that Draco was awake.
"Draco" Harry called over.
"Harry" Draco weakly replied.
"How are you? What happened?" Harry asked.
"I'm fine…" Draco said.
"But what happened. I hadn't seen you and then when I did, you very lying unconscious in an unused classroom," Harry said.
"I didn't get marked" Draco replied.
"Really? That's good"
"Yeah…well when I told my father I wasn't going to get marked, he just went crazy. He cursed me a bunch of times, and then I finally used my Portkey to get out. But then, I guess he had given orders to some Death Eater children to beat me up…which they obviously did. I was on my way down to see Snape when they attacked me. There were three, but I don't know who they are…I think one of them was at least Nott, but I don't know about the other two" Draco said.
"That's horrible!" Harry said and Draco nodded.
"But at least I didn't get marked" Draco said, looking down at his left arm.
"Yeah" Harry quietly replied, and then Madame Pomfrey came and made Harry leave.
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Draco recovered, and then everything went back to normal, although Draco had to continually watch his back to make sure that no one would try to hurt him again. For the next two months, Harry kept up with his training. He worked hard every night, which left him tired beyond belief. He still kept up with his classes, although his marks weren't as good as they could have been. Harry would also train every weekend, and even started to train on Sundays. He would miss every Hogsmeade weekend, but when the last one of the year came up, Harry decided that he wanted to go. So that Saturday morning, Harry, Ron, and Hermione made their way to Hogsmeade. They found Draco at Honeydukes and then all four went to the Shrieking Shack. They were almost there when they heard screams coming from the town. They could all feel the temperature drop.
"Dementors" Harry said, and all four took out their wands.
"We have to split up!" Harry commanded, and they did. When they finally got rid of the Dementors, they regrouped.
"What was that?" Ron asked.
"I don't know. But I hope that was all" Harry said, but was soon disappointed when he saw figures in black robes appearing.
"Oh no! Death Eaters!" Hermione exclaimed.
"What are they doing here?" Draco called.
"We have to stay together…Ron you cover Hermione, I'll cover Draco" Harry said, and they moved towards the Death Eaters who were starting to destroy the shops in Hogsmeade.
"Stupefy!" Harry yelled, causing one of the Death Eaters to fall to the ground. They kept battling, but Harry realized that if help wouldn't arrive soon, they were done for; they couldn't fight anymore. Ron and Draco were both injured, and Hermione was slowly losing her energy. Harry was just about to curse one of the Death Eaters, when he saw Aurors and Order members arriving. They were soon gaining the advantage, but that was soon forgotten, when another figure joined the Death Eaters.
"Voldemort" Harry whispered. This caused many of the Aurors to stop, but when hexes were sent their way, they went back to the battle.
Harry slowly approached the figure, ignoring the shouts of complaint.
"Harry Potter!" Voldemort said.
"Tom" Harry replied.
"You dare call me by that filthy name"
"I guess I do" Harry said.
"Crucio!" Voldemort yelled, but Harry dodged the curse.
"You're going to have to try harder than that," Harry taunted.
"Crucio!" Voldemort yelled again, and this time, the curse hit Harry.
"Ha! Now look at you! You're no savior! I'm going to finish you off and then everyone will fear me! And we'll finally be able to rid the wizarding world of these filthy mudbloods and blood traitors" Voldemort said, stopping the curse.
"You think you can beat me! I won't let you! You've already taken enough from me! You've already destroyed enough lives! I won't let you kill more innocent people!" Harry said, and pointed his wand at Voldemort.
"And what will you do? Stun me?" Voldemort taunted.
"No I won't" Harry calmly replied.
"You will see death today. You will never defeat me. I already killed your filthy mudblood of a mother and that blood traitor of a father. Not to mention your blood traitorous godfather. What about those muggle friends of yours? Your just a filthy blood traitor…Avada Krevada."
"Avada Krevada!" A green light shot out of Voldemorts wand, but out of Harry's, a bright light was shot out. Both cores connected, almost the same as in the graveyard.
"Ha! You think you can kill me! Never!" Voldemort said.
"I will….and I will tonight!" Harry said.
"You will die just like your filthy family and friends"
"You've taken enough from me, you won't take more! I will have my life back and you won't be part of it anymore" Harry yelled, and then there was a loud bang, and Harry was overcome by darkness.
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Harry slowly woke up.
"Harry!" a voice sounded to his left. Harry slowly opened his eyes, and saw that it was Ron.
"Oh… we were so worried" Hermione said, tears rolling down her cheeks.
"You did it!" Draco said from his right, "You've finally got rid of that bastard, once and for all."
"I did it?" Harry asked.
"Yeah!" Ron said.
"B-but how?"
"We don't really know. One moment, both of your wands are connected, the next there's a big bang and both of you are on the ground. Only, the Dark Lo- Voldemort was dead and you were just passed out" Draco explained.
"How long have I been out?" Harry asked, noticing that everyone around him was looking fine.
"About a month" Hermione said.
"A month!" Harry shouted.
"Yeah…well you used a lot of your magical energy" Hermione said.
"Wow…so he's really gone?" Harry asked again, not able to fully believe that it was finally over.
"Yeah he is" Ron said, grinning.
"So what did you do?" Hermione curiously asked.
"All I remember was saying the killing curse, but instead of thinking of hate, I thought of love. The love of all of the people that have died in this war; that have died for me. He just made me so mad about what he had said about them, that I couldn't help but think of all of their love. To have died protecting me or protecting their loved ones…and well…that's all" Harry said, looking down at his hands.
"Love does always overpower over hatred," a new voice said.
"Severus!" Harry shouted, glad to see the man alive and well.
"Harry…I see you're awake" Severus said.
"Yes sir" Harry replied.
"I just wanted to check and see before I went to work on more potions for Madame Pomfrey…someone has been using up all of her supply" Severus said, making his way to the door.
"Yeah" Harry mumbled, blushing a deep red.
"I guess you finally are free…free of that monster" Draco said.
"Yeah I guess I am" Harry said, and couldn't agree more.
I finally have my life back!
The End
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