Chapter 21: Voldemort Gets Smacked
As Harry and Dumbledore took their places, there was a huge popping noise as 75 Death Eaters apparated into the square, behind them was the tall cloaked figure of Lord Voldemort. Harry felt the stronger wards snap into place, no one noticed because of all the screaming. The Death Eaters were standing their ground, waiting for their master to order them to strike.
Harry looked over at Ginny who smiled, then over to Albus. He used his bond with Apollo, which he had been ignoring over the last few days since Albus pissed him off, to talk to Albus.
'I hope you remembered to call in your order because they are not going to want to miss this.' Harry then walked around the podium and stared at Voldemort.
"Ah yes, I see our first question is from the wanna-be pure blood, Tom Marvolo Riddle, better known as Lord Voldemort, or to all of you as 'You-Know-Who' or 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named'. For those of you who do not know, Old Tommy Boy here opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago and framed Rubeus Hagrid, and is not the Heir of Slytherin, like he claims to be. So Tom, what question can I answer for you? Wait, no Tom I am not going to join you, surrender, or do anything else like that, so just do us all a favor and go to hell."
To say Voldemort was pissed off was an understatement. His pale skin was beet red and he literally had steam blowing out of his ears. "I ONLY HAVE ONE THING TO SAY TO YOU…BOY…ATTACK!!"
A furious cry escaped the Death Eaters lips as they charged the group of seemingly defenseless people stuck to their seats. Right before they reached the first of the innocents, they disappeared via portkey; in their places were Portable Swamps and other items from Weasleys Wizarding Wheezes.
In a flash the battle began. Order members and Aurors were engaged with Death Eaters. Harry and Ginny made a B-line for Voldemort who was dueling some young man, too foolish to run. Ron and Neville joined Harry and Ginny as they pushed their way to Voldemort. Along the way, they used both their wands and swords on the Death Eaters. They no longer cared if they killed or injured the Death Eaters, this was war and that was all there was to it.
As they reached Voldemort, Bellatrix and Draco Malfoy stepped into their path. Ron and Neville looked at each other then at Harry and Ginny. With a quick nod, Neville and Ginny engaged Bellatrix while Ron and Harry took on Draco. Harry suddenly thought back to his vision he had of Draco and the other baby death eaters; they weren't dead, just in pain. "So Draco, did you sell out your other baby death eaters?"
Draco sneered, "Of course I sold them out! What did you expect me to do, offer myself to take the killing curse for them? I am not you, you damn Gryffindor!"
Minerva was battling there Death Eaters when Hermione jumped into the fray to help her mentor. Minerva, like the others, carried a sword with her on this day. As Hermione and her took down the three Death Eaters, Hermione saw Ron run his sword thru Draco's chest and shoot an exploding hex point blank range towards the Death Eater. He landed in the storefront of Quality Quidditch Supplies, dead, impaled on a Firebolt which stuck out through the gaping hole in his chest.
As Ron was soaking in this victory, Hermione heard a very familiar voice cry out "CRCUIO!" Ron fell to the ground as Harry battled another Death Eater, still trying to get to Voldemort. Hermione saw Viktor Krum standing over her Ron, with a manic gleam in his eyes. Hermione's vision suddenly became a tunnel, the only things she saw was red and Viktor Krum torturing her fiancée.
Minerva spotted Krum and then saw the look on her protégé's face, 'Hermione is going to rip him apart. I do hope that she doesn't kill him before Ron or Harry gets to him; they have very…creative ways to make him suffer. Oh forget about them, I want to kill him.' With that thought, Minerva ploughed thru the crowd to help Hermione.
After Harry disposed of the Death Eater in front of him, he saw Voldemort dueling Dumbledore. Voldemort wasn't winning the duel per say, but he wasn't losing it either. Dumbledore was tired from having to fight his way to him, while Voldemort was trying to conserve his magic. Harry then sent a message thru his phoenix bond, 'Albus, he's mine!'
"Riddle, you're mine!" and with that Harry pushed Albus out of the way and took over the duel with Voldemort. Harry threw curse after curse and used his sword every chance her could get. His plan was to make Voldemort use his magic. After twenty minutes of fighting, Harry saw an opportunity and took it. He spun around and let the natural momentum of the spin throw his sword towards Voldemort's chest like a boomerang. The spinning sword caused Voldemort to twist away, but it still nicked his right arm badly. Harry used a summoning charm to bring the sword back, nicking Voldemort's other arm.
As soon as he had back in his hands, he crunched low and sprung over the shocked Voldemort, chopping his left arm off at the shoulder. As Voldemort screamed in pain, Harry swiped at his legs and chopped off his right leg just above the knee. This caused Voldemort to fall to the ground in agony. He reached for a talisman that was around his neck, but it wasn't there. He then tried to apparate, but could not.
Harry moved closer to him cut half of his wand hand off. Harry summoned Voldemort's wand placed it in special compartment of his battle robes which was resist to all forms of summoning charms. Voldemort then let out a blood curtailing scream and appeared to turn to a black mass of smoke for a moment before there was a large bong sound and Voldemort disappeared.
After another ten minutes of fighting, only Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange, and three others had Death Eaters had escaped. None of them got away unscathed. Neville and Ginny had removed her wand arm and left leg at the hip. The other three were also severely injured.
Remus was over the remains of Peter Pettigrew. Remus killed him when Peter attempted to poison Remus with his silver hand. Since Remus was no longer a werewolf, it just pissed him off even more. He changed into his wolf form and removed Peter's entrails while he was still alive. Tonks was standing over the dead form of Narcissa Malfoy. Narcissa threw herself in the path of a blood boiling curse meant for Tonks. Before she died, Narcissa handed Tonks four envelopes, one for her, one for her mum, one for her dad, and one for Gringotts.
Harry and Ginny found Hermione and Ron standing over what was left of Viktor Krum. He had attempted to use another imperious cure on Hermione, only this time it didn't work. Hermione had to curse Ron off of Viktor after he died. Ron literally beat him to death using his fists. Harry deciding he needed answers asked "Hermione, did we do it? Did you get the information we need?"
Hermione ran over to Luna who was holding an inured Neville. With a few nods, Hermione turned back to Harry and nodded. With a sigh of relief, Harry made his way over to Bill and Charlie who had taken charge of the scene, "Guys any injuries on our side?"
Charlie, who was wearing a very nice black-eye smirked, "No deaths on our side. We do have ten people who were sent to St. Mungo's in critical; they were extra people who didn't sit down. There are a number of moderate and light wounds, but overall I think we did very well." Harry nodded and headed towards Gringotts where Albus stopped the group.
"Harry, I assume this was all some sort of plan today, I would like to know what was so important that you risked countless lives—"
"What I did, Headmaster, was make a plan, calculated the risks, and then my team and I executed our plan with pin point precision. If you want to know why, then why don't you call your order together for a meeting tonight, 8 o'clock, headquarters, now good day."
With out a second glance, Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville, Remus, Tonks, Charlie, Bill and Fleur walked past the headmaster, into Gringotts, straight thru the portal, back to Hogwarts and the hospital wing.