She turned into the Great Hall. Minerva walked up to the staff table while the Gryffindors sat at their usual table. She saw Pomona, Filius, and Horace and walked towards them. "Ok, now we have to evacuate all the younger students." She said as soon as she got up there.

They nodded. Minerva turned to the Great Hall and noticed that Potter and his friends weren't there yet.

She cleared her throat. All the students that were talking anxiously with each other turned and faced her listening.

"All right, so, as you may know already, You-Know-Who is coming." A few people gasped , but the heads of houses had obviously told their house what was happening. "Our Job is to get all of you out safely. The evacuation will be overseen by Mr Filch and Madam Pomfrey." She saw Potter arrive but continued to speak. "Prefects, when I give the word, you will organize your house and take your charges, in an orderly fashion, to the evacuation point."

Minerva saw Potter skirting the walls looking at Gryffindor table as though looking for someone. Then she realized that Weasley and Granger weren't with him. Then a Hufflepuff that Minerva Recognized as Ernie Macmillan stood up. "And what if we want to stay and fight?"

Spoken like a Gryffindor, wonder why he wasn't one. Thought Minerva before replying " If you are of age, you may stay."

A girl from Ravenclaw stood up. "What about our things? Our trunks out owls?"

Really? The most dangerous wizard in the world is coming to the school and your worried about your possessions? "We have no time to collect Possessions. The important thing is to get you out of here safely."

"Where's Professor Snape?" Shouted a Slytherin girl. Minerva had expected this one to come up.

"He has, to use the common phrase, done bunk." Said Minerva with a slight sneer grinning at the applause from the other three houses.

"We have already placed protection around the castle but it is unlikely to hold for very long unless we reinforce it. I must ask you, therefore to move quickly and calmly, and do as your prefects -"

Minerva stopped talking because a high, cold, clear voice drowned hers.

"I know that you are preparing to fight.. Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts." Minerva scoffed. As if. "I do not want to spill Magical blood." Yeah, right. How about the Prewetts, Bones, and countless others? Voldemort continued. " Give me Harry Potter, and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded. You have until Midnight."

What an Idiot, Thought Minerva. Yeah, we're just going to go over to Voldemort, 'Here's Harry Potter Voldemort' and walk off.

She watched as a Slytherin rose and shrieked "But he's there! Potter's there! Someone grab him!"

Minerva opened her mouth angrily but before she could even make a sound there was a massive movement. The Gryffindors had stood up, then the Hufflepuffs and then the Ravenclaws all facing not Potter, but Parkinson.

"Thank you miss Parkinson, You will leave the Hall fist with Mr Filch. If the rest of your house could follow." She watched them troop out. "Ravenclaws follow on!"

She saw a few Ravenclaws stayed and even more Hufflepuffs which made her smile then she looked over at the Gryffindor table. Most of them were sitting there.

She sighed, though proud at her students for wanting to fight she had to get them out for their own safety. She hurried down from the teachers platform. "Absolutely not, Creevey, go! And you Peakes!

She looked into their crestfallen faces and gave them a hard stare so that they would leave. They got up and shuffled off. Minerva turned. "Under age go!" She gave a few her piercing stare and they got up and left.

Minerva looked around to see Potter just standing there. She hurried up to him. "Potter, aren't you supposed to be looking for something?"

"What?" He just stared at her then comprehension dawned on him. "Oh, oh yeah!"

"Then go, Potter, go!" She rolled her eyes as he ran out of the Hall. She turned back to Remus.

"I'm going with Pomona and Filius to lead our groups of fighter up to the three towers." She said to him.

He nodded.

"Pomona! Filius!" They came over to her. "Grab some fighters and take them to your towers. I'll go on the astronomy tower, you," She indicated to Pomona," Can go in the Gryffindor Tower and Filius, you go in Ravenclaw."

"Sounds good!"Squeaked Filius and hurried off.

Pomona nodded and took some of her Hufflepuffs to follow her.

Minerva walked up to the Gryffindor table. She looked into all of their faces. They all looked eager and excited. "Who's up to coming to the astronomy tower to fight?"

All of them waved their hands in the air. "I only need a few."

Some dropped their hands but it was enough. "You lot, come on follow me." She said to the ones with their hands still in the air.

They jumped up and followed her.

She climbed up to the astronomy tower.

Minerva was slightly out of breath when she was at the top.

"You ok Professor?"

"I'm fine Finnigan." She snapped.

She went to the open space and looked out.

The black sky was sprinkled with stars, a few wisps of clouds were in sight.

And then she waited.

It took quite a long time but then Minerva saw bursts of light.

"What time is it?" She asked.

"Midnight Ma'am."

She nodded. "Ok, everyone get your wands out." She drew her wand and pointed it out of the astronomy tower a long with her students.

There was a great bang and the castle shook. Minerva stumbled. So did her students. A few fell over.

She saw Finnigan help Thomas up.

Minerva steadied herself when she saw something moving on the grounds. Like a swarm.

"Finnigan," She whispered. "Do you see that?"

He nodded. "It's... it's death eaters."

Minerva's blood ran cold. There were thousands of them. But she had to stay calm.

"Stunning spells everyone. On the count of three."

She drew her wand and carefully pointed it at the swarm. "One... two... Three!" Stupefy!

A shower of red sparks rained down on the Death Eaters. Some were knocked out cold and when they hit the ground their friends tripped over the bodies.

"Again!" Minerva cried. Stupefy!

The same thing happened. But this time some death eaters pointed their wand at the tower.

Minerva realized what they were going to do.

"Get back!" She shouted. She grabbed Finnigan and pulled him away.

The spells hit the side of the tower and blew apart the rocks.

Bits of rocks flew everywhere.

She yanked down the two nearest students which were Finnigan and Thomas.

After the death eaters had stopped blowing apart the walls Minerva let go of Thomas and Finnigan and ran to the Window. She peered out of it. Death Eaters were still there but weren't looking up at the tower.

Minerva beckoned her students forward. "On the count of three," She whispered. "One.. two... three!" Stupefy! She ran back right after she sent the spell. Her students followed her.

Death eaters sent more spells up at the tower. They blew apart the whole side of the wall. A bit of the roof caved in and blocked their way from injuring death eaters.

Finnigan swore.

"Language Finnigan!" Minerva snapped.

She turned to face all of the other students. A few had some scrapes but none were life threatening.

"Ok, we're going to the Gryffindor tower and help Pomona and her group." They nodded and Minerva lead her group down and out of the astronomy tower.

She walked through the corridors and ran into Pomona.

"Pomona!"

"Minerva." She replied grimly.

"What's wrong? " Asked Minerva a little worried.

"Death eater blasted apart most of the frigging tower. No one's hurt." She added seeing the look on Minerva's face. "What about you?"

"Same thing. Everyone's Ok. We should go see how Filius is doing." Minerva spun on her heel and marched towards the Ravenclaw tower.

Once at the eagle door knocker she turned to face Pomona. "Well, it doesn't make sense for three groups to be up there fighting. You take your group down and fight down there, Ok?"

Pomona nodded and turned and lead her group away.

She raised her hand to knock but before she could the door swung open. There stood Filius.

"Hello, Minerva." he squeaked.

"Filius. Why aren't you fighting?" She asked.

"We were! But the death eaters are out of our range now." He replied.

"Right. Then... we should help Kingsley, Remus and Arthur out on the grounds." Minerva turned and jogged off towards the grounds. When she got to the stairs she jumped three steps at a time.

She spun around a corner and skidded to a halt. Death Eaters were everywhere.

She sent a curse to the nearest one and he crumpled. His friends pointed their wands at her but she heard Finnigan shout, "Confringo!" And the wall beside the death eaters were blasted apart hitting them and knocking them out.

She turned to him. "Thanks."

"N-no problem." He stammered.

But it wasn't over.

There were more Death Eaters.

Minerva spun around and shot a neat stunning spell at a Death eater.

They were slowly being pushed back.

Minerva pointed her wand at the ceiling. "Confingo!"

The whole ceiling caved in on the death eaters.

"Ok! Let's go!" Minerva shouted.

She didn't know where she was going, turning corners at random, sending stunning spells at Death Eaters.

Then what she saw next made her feel sick.

It was Fenrir Greyback bending over a body. Lavender Brown.

Minerva raised her wand but she heard a shriek.

"No!" She saw Greyback blasted away from Brown and saw Hermione, Ron, and Harry all looking, for some reason, like they'd been through a fire.

Greyback had hit the wall and struggled to return to his feet before a glass ball hit him, he slumped against the wall and moved no more.

"I have more! More for anyone who wants! Here-" Minerva saw Sybil Trewalaney hurl another glass ball at another Death Eater.

Despite her and Sybil's differences she felt a rush of affection for her colleague now.

Minerva jumped as the wooden doors shook and burst open.

Gigantic hairy spiders were pouring in.

Minerva swore as the hairy beasts were coming on.

"Language Professor," Whispered Finnigan, to Minerva's amazement had a small smile on his face before turning back to the spiders.

Then someone came thundering in.

It was Hagrid brandishing his flowery pink umbrella yelling "Don't hurt 'em, don't hurt 'em!"

"HAGRID NO!"

Minerva heard Potter shout but she was retreating from the oncoming beasts.

She turned and ran, closely followed by Finnigan.

She turned again and saw a group of death eaters there.

Minerva sent stunning spells at the death eaters but spun around when she heard Finnigan yelling in pain on the ground.

He had been hit by the Cruciatus Curse. She looked at the Death Eater who was doing it and saw that it was Bellatrix Lestrange.

"Expelliarmus!" She shouted. Bellatrixs' wand flew out of her hand.

Minerva grabbed Finnigan and hauled him to his feet before running through the corridor dragging Finnigan behind her.

She stopped and turned to him. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah... yeah I'm fine." He replied.

"You want to continue fighting?" She asked. She guessed the answer but she just wanted to make sure.

"Of course!" He answered.

"Alright, let's go." And they set off.

Authors Note

Woah! I actually like this one! :D

I like Minerva and Seamus fighting together!

It's cool.

ANYWAY...

MAYBE... If you could just review I'll get a new chapter up soon.

PLEASE! :-)