Chapter 2
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Italics for when viewing someone's memories
Harry turned to see Voldemort standing behind him with a cruel smile on his face. Behind him, Harry heard Hermione shouting at Ron, "You sick bastard you killed him!"
Then he heard Ron shout, "Avada Kedavra" Harry spun around ignoring Voldemort who was still smiling and conjured a stone block in the path of the curse, which exploded in a cloud of dust. "Traitors deserve to die and so will you." Ron said in a calm voice.
"Neville wasn't the traitor and you know it." Harry shouted at him as he turned back to Voldemort.
"Don't worry about me just yet Harry, because it seems you have to settle your problems with Ron.
"We're not the traitors Ron it's you," Hermione shouted at him.
"Shut up!" He roared in a not so calm voice, "It's all your fault that this happened!"
"Oh yeah Ron, tell us how is it our fault." Harry yelled back turning away from Voldemort but never letting his guard down. He was still aware that there were about 11 other Death Eaters surrounding them watching and waiting for the command to attack, "Because from what I remember you're the one that let the Dearth Eaters into the school and killed Dumbledore!"
Ron began to visibly shake from his anger "Ha Ha Ha Ha" Harry turned back to Voldemort who was laughing. "Weasley don't let him rile you up, we've waited too long for this, finish it now." Voldemort hissed all traces of amusement vanishing from his face.
Ron immediately regained his composure "You see Harry, Hermione you chose the losing side in this war." Ron stated in a matter of fact voice.
"Oh yeah weasel and how's that?" Hermione asked him in a cutting tone.
A sadistic grin appeared on his face, "Because mudblood, I'll still be alive at the end of this battle, Crucio" The curse hit Hermione in the chest and she fell to the floor screaming in agony.
"Redcuto!" Ron broke the connection of the curse to side step Harry's spell and sent a cutting curse back at Harry who was forced to jump out of its way.
Hermione shakily got to her feet and sent a blasting curse at Ron, but missed hitting a Death Eater behind him effectively blowing him up. Harry snuck up behind Ron and fired a Conjunctivitus Curse at his head, but Ron shielded against it and sent another cruciatus curse right back, causing Harry to dodge yet again.
Hermione conjured ice shards and sent them flying at Ron who melted them with a burst of fire from his wand. "Come now surely you can do better than that." Ron said in a mocking tone.
Harry tackled him from behind but was blasted off Ron by another Death Eater. Voldemort was watching all of this with a calm but amused expression and the rest of the Death Eaters had yet to do anything. Ron blasted Harry backward and tuned to face Hermione.
He smiled at the fear in her eyes and cast the killing curse at her. She sighed in relief as she evaded the killing curse but erupted in pained screams as she was hit by Ron's second curse. "Take care of Potter, the mudblood is mine." He said to the Death Eaters. Harry jumped up at this and ran at Ron again but the Death Eaters had started moving. Harry stumbled and fell as a cutting curse hit the back of his leg.
Harry turned around and started shooting curses at the Death Eaters. He waved his wand around himself and created a wall of fire. Three Death Eaters were immediately incinerated. A well placed Diffindo cut open the throat of another. One Death Eater sent an Expulso which sent Harry flying into a near by tree.
Ron stopped the cruciatus and let Hermione fall to the ground gasping for air. Harry tried to get back up but the Death Eaters would not have it. All of them simultaneously shouted Diffindo and Harry felt his back, arms, neck and legs being cut open. Ron grinned and pointed his wand at Hermione once again. Harry raised his hand that still had his wand clenched tightly and aimed for Ron.
One of the Death Eaters walked up to him and broke his wrist before he could utter a spell and then snapped his wand in two.
Harry felt his body become constricted as ropes wrapped them selves around him and blinding pain as the Death Eater who broke his wand punched him in the side of his head.
As he fell to the floor, he saw Hermione get hit with another cruciatus and Voldemort walking toward him. Harry struggled to get out of the ropes to help Hermione not caring what happed to him as long as Hermione survived, but he could do nothing except watch the woman that he loved be tortured to death.
Being hit for the third time by the torture curse left Hermione tired and in pain. Her nerves felt like they were being stabbed at with hot needles but only two thoughts came to her at that moment. One Harry had just lost his wand and two Voldemort was moving in for the kill. She regretted not being able to do more and help Harry.
All she could do was scream in pain and watch the man that she loved be killed and hope that they would go to a better place in death.
Voldemort flicked his wand and Harry was sent into a kneeling position. Harry was getting dizzy from loss of blood and his whole body was hurting form the numerous cuts in it. He was still aware of Hermione screaming and was still trying to get free but he was held firmly in place by Voldemorts magic and the ropes. The remaining Death Eaters formed a circle around them once again.
"Well Harry it seems that you are about to die." Voldemort was walking around him in circles. "How does it feel to know that you failed in your mission to kill me Hmm?"
"er-my-nee" Harry choked out not paying attention to Voldemort. Voldemort waved his wand and her screams were silenced.
Voldemort leaned in and whispered in his ear, "We shall deal with her later Harry, but for now, focus only one me for I will be the one to deliver you to deaths doorstep."
Voldemort leaned back and Harry spat in his face. Voldemort wiped off the blood and clicked his tongue at Harry. "Come now Harry surely someone taught you manners and respect?" He waited a moment before he continued, "No? Well then, I guess it's up to me. Crucio!"
Harry screamed in agony when the curse hit him and he trashed around on the ground opening up his cuts even more. Voldemort lifted the curse after a minute and levitated Harry back into a kneeling position. "You know Harry I don't think that I got through to you, I might need to do something more drastic like maybe oh I don't know kill your wife." He said in a sinister tone.
Harry looked over to were she lay on the floor. Ron had not let go of the cruciatus yet but Hermione was no longer responsive she just lay there on the ground a dead look in her eyes. Voldemort began laughing, "Looks like Weasley broke your wife Potter!" he laughed loudly, and the other Death Eaters joined in. Anger and sadness built up inside of him as he gazed upon his wife's broken body. She was unmoving and unresponsive and Harry couldn't help but think that she had died.
Harry tried to tackle Voldemort to the ground but one of the Death Eaters behind of him shot a cutting curse at Harry that hit him in the heel of his right foot severing all the muscles and destroying all the bones.
Harry collapsed as he lost the feeling in his foot and glared at Voldemort and the Death Eaters especially Ron who seemed to enjoy the fact that Harry was about to die. "I have a better idea. I'll save killing your filthy wife for last, I want to torture you some more and I have the perfect idea," Voldemort said gleefully.
He pointed his wand at Harry and hissed out Legiliments. Harry let out a roar of pain as Voldemort entered his mind and crushed his poorly built mental shields. He floated around Harry's mind, "Let's go back to the day Dumbledore died shall we." Voldemort sent a sharp probe into his mind and Harry yelled in pain.
The probe shifted through his memories until it came to one in particular, the memory was sent to Voldemort who dove into it.
"Ron, Hermione Dumbledore found a Horcrux and we're going to look for it!" Their faces lit up with excitement. Voldemort was standing in the corner of the Gryffindor common room looking at Harry's memory.
"Dumbledore actually found a piece of Voldemorts soul?" Ron asked him in a worried voice. Harry nodded vigorously.
"Wait your going with him?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah he said he will need my help to retrieve it and I need to do this Hermione." Harry walked past her and up to his room and rummaged through his trunk. Finding what he needed he rushed back down and pushed the marauders map and his bottle of Felix Felicis into Ron's hand. "Gather the DA and keep an eye on Malfoy and Snape for me."
Harry pulled Ron to the side to talk privately while Hermione called the DA though the fake galleon. "Ron?" Harry waited until Ron looked him in the eye. "I know that we've had some difficulties this past year but I'm asking you as a friend. Please protect Hermione. Please Ron."
Ron's face was unreadable but he nodded that he would . Harry thought that Ron seemed different since he mentioned that Dumbledore found a Horcrux, but brushed it off as nothing."
Ron I'm sorry ok mate, I never meant for you to find out about Hermione and I the way you did, and I know we have not really been there for you but that's going to change.I promise."
Ron gave him a small smile, "No problem Harry, go say goodbye to her." Harry grinned at him and walked over to Hermione.
He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her. "Come back to me in one piece" she told him and he grinned.
"Anything for you Hermione" He kissed her again.She hugged him tightly and kissed him harder not wanting to let go.Harry broke the kiss; "I've got to go now" he told her and left.
Voldemort left the memory laughing at the display of affection. Love was such a weak emotion he thought as he sent out another mind probe and Harry screamed again as his head was ripped open. Another memory was sent back and Voldemort dove into it once again. This time he was standing in the middle of a small island watching Harry feed a potion to a screaming Dumbledore.
He watched as they battled the army of inferi and their flight back to Hogwarts. Dumbledore told Harry to get under his invisibility cloak and he watched as the old man petrified Potter.Seconds later Voldemort heard the door to the tower bang open and saw Ron rush up the stairs followed by Draco Malfoy.
Voldemort laughed as Weasley disarmed Dumbledore and thought that under that cloak Potter must be having a fit. By now, the other Death Eaters arrived and were shouting obscenities at Dumbledore.
Dumbledore paid them no mind and spoke only to Ron. "Do not do this Ronald you will regret it." He told the boy.
Weasley just smirked at him. "I've already chosen my side old man." he looked Dumbledore in the eye and raised his wand. "Goodbye" he whispered and sent the killing curse at him.
They ran from the tower and Voldemort waited for Harry to move. He followed the boy and watched his battle with the Weasley and Malfoy. Voldemort laughed at the look on Harry's face when he saw Voldemort him self emerge from the forbidden forest with his army and began killing those around him. The memory faded to black but there was still sound. All that could be heard was the screaming of dying children.
The memory ended there and Voldemort left Harry's mind.
The boy was laying on his side covered in dirt and blood. "Do you remember that night Harry? I do. Thousands died that night and you could not save them." Tears were running down his face but he was not looking at Voldemort. He was looking at Hermione.
"Do not worry Harry I am going to kill you now and then your wife so do not fret she will join you soon enough." Voldemort said. He vanished the ropes binding the boy and put him in a standing position. He gathered the other two and put them next to him.
Hermione was resting against his leg and he had one hand tangled in her hair. She did not respond to his touch and the fact saddened him. Harry could no longer go one. He had no wand and without one, there was no way he would win.
Voldemort stepped back and raised his wand. "Let it be known that today is the day that Harry Potter died" The Death Eaters cheered and Harry closed his eyes.
Voldemort spoke the fatal words. "Avada Kedevra." The killing curse was closing in and the Death Eaters were laughing. No one heard the sharp cry that came from above them, as they were all too busy laughing or expecting death.
Through closed eyes, Harry saw a flare of red and gold. He waited for when the cruse would strike him but nothing came. He opened his eyes and saw the shocked faces of Voldemort and the Death Eaters. There was another cry from above them and they all looked up to see three Phoenix's flying towards them.
The first one was a red and gold phoenix, the second was a pure silver phoenix and the last one was a black phoenix. The first landed on Harry's shoulder while the silver landed on Hermione's and the black on the chest of Neville's lifeless body.
"Is that you Fawkes?" The phoenix looked at Harry with intelligent eyes and gave a shake of its head. This was not Fawkes, this was a different phoenix, and it was much more powerful. In fact, all three of the phoenixes were very powerful, because Harry could feel the magic pouring out of their bodies.
"What kind of game are you playing Potter?" Ron shouted at him.
Harry did not answer and Voldemort had a thoughtful look on his face. Ron was becoming angry. He fired a killing curse at the Phoenix on Harry's shoulder but before it could even get close, a wall of red and gold flames came to life out of nowhere and it consumed the curse. "This is no game Weasley they have come to save Potter and his friends" Voldemort spoke after witnessing the killing curse being blocked.
Harry looked at the Phoenix with amazement. Never before in his life had he seen such magic. The magnificent bird turned its head away from Harry, opened its beak, and began singing its song. The other two joined in moments later.
A sense of relief shot through Harry and all the pain that he felt was washed away because of that song. It began to intensify and the birds began to glow. Voldemort clutched his head and dropped to the ground screaming in pain as the Phoenix song reached his ears.
The Death Eaters look around in confusion and began firing spells at the birds but once again, the red and gold barrier came to life stopping the curses.
Then the song stopped and there was a blinding white light. The three Phoenixes rose into the air and began to shimmer. Voldemort got up when the song stopped and a feeling of doom settled upon him. "Kill Potter NOW!" He shouted at his followers and a volley of AK's were launched at Harry.
This time there was no barrier and Voldemort smirked, it soon vanished when the curses stopped just inches away from Potter. "What is happening my lord," Ron asked him in a scared voice.
"I do not know Weasley." The frozen spells vanished and the Phoenixes began to glow bright white. Voldemort shielded his eyes and looked at the sight before him.
The most incredible magic he ever felt was pouring off the birds in waves and it made Voldemort sick and amazed at the same time. Suddenly the light vanished and where the three Phoenix's used to be there was now one giant pure white Phoenix.
A male voice resonated from within it and everyone looked at it in awe. "Lord Voldemort" the voice boomed, "Your time has come. You have dabbled in the dark arts for too long. Something as impure as you cannot be allowed to exist in this world. It has been decided by the fates that you shall die here today." The voice went silent and the Phoenix song began again this time much louder.
There was a buzzing noise and the Phoenix exploded. Pure white magic surrounded the area and destroyed everything in its path. Harry saw Voldemort and the Death Eaters running away panicked and scared looks on their faces but none got very far as the magic over took them and turned their bodies into ash.
Harry smiled, as he was Voldemort die and closed his eyes. The magic seeped into his skin and tore his body apart. His hand never left Hermione's head, and the last thing that he heard before dying was a woman's voice and it spoke to him. "You have been given a second chance Harry Potter make the most of it." Then Harry was sure that he was dead until….
"Harry? Wake up love. Wake up." Harry's eyes fluttered open and leaning over him was someone he didn't think he would see alive again.
A/N: Well this is the end of the second chapter. Was it what you thought it would be? Did you like it? Was it good? I added more details and made it longer. Please Please Please Review and tell me if I can improve what you liked or disliked about it and anything else that comes to mind.
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