It was the beginning of march, Lynx was sitting on top of the castle on the Astronomy tower was. No one knew she was up here,
"Have you ever considered that you asked to much that you take to much for granted?" Snape asks as he was in Dumbledore's office. "Has it ever crossed your brilliant mind that I don't want to do this anymore?"
"Whether is has or hasn't is irrelevant." Dumbledore answers. "I will not negotiate with you, Severus. You agreed. Nothing more to discuss."
Alexis and Harry were hidden in the corner waiting for the time to go with Dumbledore
Snape swept out, stopping only once to glare at Harry and Alexis.
"Oh, Harry, Alexis." Dumbledore greets. "You need a shave, my friend"
Alexis looks over at Harry, and smirks at his five o'clock shadow,
"You know, at times, I forget how much you've grown. At times, I still see the small boy from the cupboard or the small girl who vanquishes demons without losing her spirit, Forgive my mawkishness, Harry, Alexis. I'm an old man."
"You still look the same to me, sir." Harry replies
"Same as well." Alexis agrees.
"Just like your mothers, you're unfailingly kind." Dumbledore states. "A trait people never fail to undervalue, I'm afraid. The place to which we journey tonight is extremely dangerous. I promised you could accompany me, and I stand by that promise. But there is one condition: You two must obey every command I give you, without question."
"Yes, sir." Alexis and Harry agree.
"You do understand what I'm saying?" Dumbledore asks "Should I tell you to hide, you hide. Should I tell you to run, you run. Should I tell you to abandon me and save yourselves, you must do so."
Harry and Alexis didn't say anything.
"Your word, Harry, Alexis." Dumbledore states.
"My word." Alexis and Harry agree.
"Take my arm." Dumbledore orders,
"Sir, I thought you couldn't Apparate within Hogwarts." Harry states,
"Well, being me has it's privileges." Dumbledore replies,
Alexis and Harry did so and they disappeared.
Lynx frowned "It's only a matter of time now," she left the tower.
The three appeared on a rock facing a large cavern. Alexis took both their arms, and flamed inside the cavern.
"This is the place," Dumbledore states. "Oh yes. This place has known magic." he pulled out a small dagger and pierced his palm.
"Sir!" Harry exclaimed.
"It order to gain passage payment must be made. Payment intended to weaken any intruder." Dumbledore explained.
"You should've let one of us, sir." Alexis states,
"No, Alexis. Your and Harry's blood's much more precious then mine." Dumbledore disagrees.
They walked down a tunnel,
"Voldemort will not have made it easy to discover his hiding place. He will have put certain defenses in position. Careful"
Dumbledore flicked his wand out and sent a light orb out, revealing a lake. "There it is."
"the only question is, how do we get there?" Alexis asks
Dumbledore step up and a chain was summoned into his hand, "If you would, Harry, Alexis."
Together the two teens pulled the chain and a boat appeared from the water.
Riding in the boat wasn't like first year.
When they got to the island,
"Do you think the Horcrux is there, sir?" Harry asks as he looked down at a crystal basin filled with purple liquid.
"It has to be drunk." Dumbledore states. "All of it has to be drunk. You remember the conditions on which I brought you with me? This potion might paralyze me. Might make me forget why I'm here. Might cause me so much pain that I beg for relief. You are not to indulge these requests. It's your job to make sure I keep drinking this potion. Even if you have to force it down my throat. Understood?"
"Why can't we drink it, sir?" Harry asks
"Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable." Dumbledore answers, he took a shell that was there and started to drink.
Dumbledore started to groan and backed away from the potion to sit on the ground,
Alexis turned her head, "Harry, you must force him to drink it."
Harry did so until the basin was empty
"Harry." Dumbledore states. "Water."
Alexis picked up the necklace. As Harry turned around and tried to summon water in the basin it didn't work. Instead he went down to the lake,
"Harry, No!" Alexis shouted. She knew that something had to be in the lake. The potion was one of many defenses. Something reached out of the water and grabbed Harry.
Then many more creatures were coming out, Alexis threw fireballs at them and Harry used the Stunning charm.
There were to many and the grab the teens and dragged them into the water.
Alexis felt something grip her around the neck, 'I don't think so' she summoned her shield. But she couldn't see that is when it all got bright,
fire was everywhere,
Alexis and Harry swam to the top to find Dumbledore casting a fire spell.
Alexis grabbed both her Headmaster and Harry and flamed out of the place.
Alexander lay away in his bed, he went walked into the corridor and around the corner.
Professor McGonagall was telling everyone to go to their Houses.
Alexander uncovered the vanishing cabinet and backed away as it began to open then left.
In the astronomy tower, Alexis, Harry and Dumbledore flamed in.
"We need to get you to the Hospital wing, sir. To Madam Pomfrey" Harry states. As he and Alexis lead the way over to the steps
"No," Dumbledore replies, "Severus. Severus is who I need. Wake him. Tell him what's happened. Speak to no one else."
Alexis and Harry begin to leave when the door opens and closes.
"Hide yourselves below," Dumbledore ordered getting to his feet. "Don't speak or be seen by anybody without my permission. Whatever happens it's imperative you stay below. Alexis, Harry, do as I say."
Another door opens and closes.
"Trust me." Dumbledore states.
Alexis gripped Harry's hand, and tugged him to the stairs and they hide below.
They could see Alexander's wand pointed at Dumbledore.
"Good evening, Alexander." Dumbledore greets. "What brings you here on this fine spring evening?"
"Who else is here? I heard talking" Alexander demanded.
"I often talk aloud to myself. I find it extraordinarily useful." Dumbledore answered. "Have you been whispering to yourself, Alexander?"
Alexander stopped from advancing.
"Alexander, you are no assassin." Dumbledore states.
"How do you know what I am?" Alexander asks "I've done things that would shock you."
"Like cursing Katie Bella and hoping that in return she'd bear a cursed necklace to me?" Dumbledore asks "Replacing a bottle of mead with one laced with poison? Forgive me, Alexander. I cannot help feeling these actions are so weak your heart can't really have been in them."
"He trusts me. I was chosen." Alexander states pulling up his sleeve to reveal the Dark mark.
"Then I shall make it easy for you." Dumbledore states. He held up his hands.
"Expelliarmus!" Alexander exclaims
Dumbledore's wand flew out of his hand.
"Very good. Very good." Dumbledore praised.
The door opens and closes. Alexis and Harry turned toward it.
"You're not alone. There are others. How?" Dumbledore asks
"The vanishing cabinet in the Room of Requirement." Alexander answers "I've been mending it."
"Let me guess. It has a sister. A twin." Dumbledore guessed.
"In Borgin and Burkes. They form a passage." Alexander replies,
"Ingenious. Alex. Years ago, I knew a boy who made all the wrong choices. Please let me help you."
"I don't want your help!" Alexander exclaims breaking down, "Don't you understand? I have to do this. I have to kill you or he's gonna kill me and her."
"Well, look what we have here." Bellatrix states. "Well done, Alex," kissing his cheek.
"Good evening, Bellatrix." Dumbledore greets. "I think introductions are in order, don't you?"
"Love to, Albus, but I'm afraid we're all on a bit of a tight schedule." Bellatrix replies. "Do it."
"He doesn't have the stomach," Greyback states. "Let me finish him in my own way."
Harry had his wand raised while Alexis had her hand raised.
"No! The Dark Lord was clear, the boy is to do it." Bellatrix replies
Alexis and Harry glanced and saw Snape there pointing his wand at them. Before lowing it and motioning them to stay quiet.
"Go on, Alex." Bellatrix states. "Now!"
"No." Snape states coming around the corner.
"Severus. Please." Dumbledore states.
"Avada Kedavra." Snape stated.
Alexis and Harry watched as Dumbledore's body fell from the tower.
Bellatrix yells and casts the Dark Mark into the sky around the castle.
Harry chased after Snape.
Alexis tried to stop him but she couldn't because Lynx step in the way.
"You knew!" Alexis shouted. Tears coursing down her cheeks.
"Yes." Lynx answered
"Why didn't you tell him or me!" Alexis exclaimed
"Because I couldn't stop it from happening, Dumbledore would have died anyway." Lynx answered then braced herself for her mother's emotional storm.
"What do you mean couldn't stop it!" Alexis exclaimed
"He was dying already!" Lynx shouted back, "the Ring was cursed."
Harry followed the Death Eaters. "Snape! He trusted you!"
Bellatrix set Hagrid's hut on fire.
"Go on." Snape orders.
"Incarcerous." Harry casts.
But Snape deflected the spell.
"Fight back! You coward, fight back!" Harry exclaims. He was stunned by Bellatrix,
"No! He belongs to the Dark Lord." Snape states.
Harry struggles to his feet. "Sectumsempra!"
Snape deflects that as well.
Harry was flung on his back, Snape walks up to him
"You dare to use my own spells against me, Potter?" Snape asks
Harry looks up at him
"Yes. I'm the Half-Blood Prince." Snape states, he kicks Harry's wand away from him and walks off.
Alexis and Lynx ran up to Harry and gets him to his feet. And they go back to the courtyard where Dumbledore's body is.
Alexis and Harry pushes pass the crowd of students and teachers and knelt down beside Dumbledore's body.
Harry closes Dumbledore's eyes
Alexis picks up the necklace she given to Dumbledore after they were safe.
Ginny and Lynx walks forward and hugs Harry and Alexis respectfully
McGonagall raises her wand and lights it up. Followed by the rest as they lit the night sky to chase away the Dark Mark.
The next morning the Halls of Hogwarts were silent.
Harry and Alexis walked into Dumbledore's old office.
Harry picked up Dumbledore's wand that was laid on a book.
"Potter, Halliwell..." McGonagall called gently as she saw that the door was open. "in light of what has happened if you should have the need to talk to someone."
Harry and Alexis just walked passed McGonagall
"You should know Professor Dumbledore you two meant a great deal to him." McGonagall states.
The teens look up at Dumbledore's painting where the Headmaster is sleeping.
"Do you think we would have done it?" Hermione asks as the three stood on the Astronomy tower's balcony. "Alexander?"
"No." Alexis answers. "No, he was lowering his wand."
"In the end, it was Snape." Harry states. "In was always Snape. And we did nothing."
Alexis handed the necklace to Hermione. "It's fake. Open it."
Hermione opened the locket, and inside there was a folded bit of parchment.
"To the Dark Lord. I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in hopes that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B." Hermione read out loud, "R.A.B."
"Don't know." Harry replies. "But whoever they are, they have the real Horcrux."
"Which means it was all a waste." Alexis states. "All of it."
Ron was sitting away from everyone. With Lynx standing beside him.
"Ron's okay with it, you know." Hermione states changing the subject. "you and Ginny. But if I were you, when he's around I'd keep the snogging to a minimum."
"We're not coming back, Hermione." Harry states.
Alexis nods in agreement.
"We've got to finish whatever Dumbledore started. And I don't know where that'll lead us...but I'll let you and Ron know where we are when we can."
"I've aways admired your courage, Harry, Lexi." Hermione replies, "But sometimes, you two can be really thick. You don't really think you're going to be able to find all those Horcruxes by yourself, do you? You need us."
"I never realized how beautiful this place was." Harry states.
A bird cries in the air and it's Fawkes.
The five of them each looked as Fawkes flies all into the sunset.