As Harry swung as fast as he could towards the top, he saw his present self flying out of a window and back in again. Time was running out. He wouldn't make it to the top. And all because he had been slacking off – again.

He was about to fail a second time. He couldn't bear the thought of watching her die a second time. He had to get in there a faster way. He could break in through the wall, it would be painful at this speed but much faster.

He let go of his webline, threw another one and pulled himself right towards the brick wall feet first. Combining speed and strength, he busted through the wall and fell tumbling down on the floor of the Astronomy Tower.

"That's one entrance…", he groaned as he stood up.

It was in that moment, the entire inner structure of the Astronomy Tower collapsed. Narrowly dodging the falling debris, Harry swung himself through it. He saw both him and Hermione falling towards him.

Yet again everything slowed down. He moved almost twice as fast; jumping, webbing and running along falling debris.

And in the next moment, he threw himself towards Hermione with open arms. His heart stopped.

Right as he caught her, the present Harry was simply gone.

Landing outside the Astronomy Tower with her in his arms, his entire body was shaking. He sat her down in the snow, feeling a strong sense of relief. What he'd just done had changed the entire course of history.

It felt unreal seeing her standing there, fully alive. He felt almost exhausted after everything he'd done to save her.

She didn't say anything, she just looked utterly shocked.

"I'm not…", he took a deep breath. "I'm not gonna lose you again."

"What?" Hermione uttered with a tiny voice.

In the background, students and teachers came rushing towards them.

"I went through hell to get here, Hermione. But I'm stopping this – now."

He swung back up to the top of the tower. Ron hovered in front of him.

"This ends now", Harry said, still shaking. "You ruined everything once – both for yourself and others."

"What are you talking about?" Ron growled between his teeth.

"It's time you realize that things maybe aren't what you thought, Ron. I went back in time to stop you from doing something you will regret! I saw your dad, Ron!"

Ron slowly hovered down more to his level.

"He's alive?"

"Somewhere, yes! The formula only works with your father's genes! The same genes you have. That's why they captured you. And trust me, Ron – everyone were trying their hardest to find you."

Ron blinked a couple of times, like he didn't really believe what he was hearing.

"Ron, please. There's no need to fight. I finally learned what great responsibility means because of you. It was a harsh lesson, but I managed to come back and save the both of you."

Ron looked him in the eye – with what resembled the Ron he knew.

"I'm… I'm so sorry, Harry", Ron whispered. "I would never kill any of you. I would never…"

Ron couldn't finish his sentence before the remainder of the roof was swept away by a giant explosion of fire. They both were sent flying through the air. Harry barely stopped his fall, tumbling down on a bridge.

He got up with a groan. The green burning monster stood right ahead of them.

"What is that?" Ron yelled.

"Potter!" the monster roared.

"You again?" Harry sighed with dismay.

"I've had enough of your antics, boy", down hovered Wilfred Jade, in a similar suit to Ron but seemed much more advanced. "This is where you'll die. Me and Draco are going to make sure of that."

Harry stared at the green monster; that was Draco Malfoy?

"What have you…"

Before he could even question what was going on, Draco jumped towards him; in the same moment Jade went to attack against Ron.

Harry jumped out of the way, but got knocked down from the explosion of flames the impact created. He rolled out of the way from Draco's punch, latched onto his back and started beating the back on his head.

Draco caught on fire again, forcing him to jump off. Explosions went off above them as the two fought, almost like fiery fireworks.

"C'mon Malfoy! You don't want to do this!" Harry yelled to overpower the noise as he rapidly dodged Malfoy's attacks.

"Trust me…", the monster growled. "I do."

Ron and Jade flew straight pass them.

"I could use some help!" Harry yelled.

"I'm a little busy right now, Harry!" Ron growled.

In the next moment, Ron got thrown through a window – with Jade flying right after.

In an attempt to reach Ron, Harry attached a web to a wall but Malfoy grabbed him with his giant burning hand.

Fighting for his life, Harry tried to escape in panic.

"Stop – being – stupid!" he yelled, one word for each punch.

The fiery monster smiled, and threw him towards a wall with such force that he broke right through it. Landing on the ground, he saw Ron and Jade battling in the same room.

It was the boys' bathroom. Everywhere pipes and walls were broken and water flooded the floor.

An idea sparked in his mind; fire versus water.

"Hey! Green and gruesome!" Harry yelled while getting up on his feet. "I'm not done with you yet."

As expected, Malfoy crashed right in and landed in the water. The flames that engulfed the beast were finally put out.

Harry blinded the monster with webbing and kept punching it senseless. Blind, the giant monster swung its arms wildly without knowing what to hit.

A sudden explosion threw Harry off his feet and down on to the flooded floor. With broken bones and bleeding wounds, Harry tried to web his way to safety but a foot hit his face and knocked him down into the water again. His suit slowly repaired itself.

He spotted Ron lying in the water, not far away from him. Exhausted, Harry crawled his way towards him.

"I'm going to make it very clear, Potter. I did not want to do this", said Jade and kicked him again, turning him over on his back. "But you forced my hand."

He grabbed Harry's throat and pushed him under the water. Unable to breathe, Harry struggled but to no avail.

As his heart slowed down, his strength faded. He couldn't struggle anymore. Something lit up, and all he could see underneath the water was Jade getting knocked down.

A set of hands pulled him up from the water; it was Hermione. Gasping for air, Harry grabbed her and pushed her towards the exit. "What are you doing here? Are you looking to get yourself killed?"

"Is that how you thank someone who just saved your life?" she said with a raised voice.

"Hermione, you need to get out of here now. You can't be here!"

"And why is that? Do you think I'm incapable of defending myself?"

"I'm not losing you again! Do you hear me? I am not going to let that happen!"

He pushed her out the door and webbed it shut. Next he limped over to Ron.

"Hey, Ron!" he yelled, shaking him violently. "Ron! Wake up! Wake up now…"

A giant hand hit him, sending him into a wall and down in the water with a splash. Slowly, Harry got through the pain and stood up on his feet, and started limping towards Draco. "You are starting to piss me off, Malfoy."

Draco just stood and looked at him, smiling – as if he'd already won.

"Like father, like son they say", Harry picked up speed. "And guess what? They are right –you're just as much of a scum as your father, Malfoy. And I'm going to get rid of you. Because with great power comes great responsibility, and right now my responsibility is to do what I have to!"

He ran right towards Draco, who only laughed at him.

With all of his strength he hit Draco square in the face with all of the strength he had left, then again and again and yet again until he landed the final blow, knocking him out of the hole in the wall and down to his doom.

Out of breath, Harry turned around just to see Jade throwing himself over him, knocking them both down to their deaths.

"You've lost it!" Harry yelled as they fell.

"I'm not about to let some punk ruin everything!" Jade screamed at him.

Several times, Harry shot out a line of web to save himself, but missing everytime.

"This is how you'll die, Potter! You'll…"

Out of nowhere, a hand grabbed Harry and threw him him upwards – Ron.

Harry could finally latch onto the side of the wall and crawl his way back up again. Seconds later, Jade came flying up again with Ron in a tight grip and threw him back into the flooded bathroom, impaling him on a pipe.

Harry yelled at the top of his lungs.

Jade landed in front of Ron.

"You idiot. You could've joined us, but now you'll join your father instead", Jade roared. "I had such hope for you."

In a fit of rage, Harry jumped ontop of Jade, holding him under water while beating him bloody. Tears sprayed behind the mask as he kept punching.

"Harry…", a voice mumbled.

He stood up, looking at Ron.

"Get me down", Ron said.

He broke the pipe Ron was impaled on and leaned him against the wall.

"I don't think I can feel my body anymore", Ron whispered. "I can't feel much of anything."

"You're going to be okay, Ron."

"I don't think so, Harry", Ron look at him with tears running down his face. "Listen. I could never have asked for a better friend – ever. I shouldn't have attack you. I couldn't control it until you made me understand that with great power comes great responsibility. It sounds bloody stupid, but it's true. Every word of it."

His eyes closed shut.

"Ron!"

An explosion was heard and several footsteps were heard, splashing around in the water. A group of people stormed in, with a group of aurors and professor Dumbledore at the front.

Voices started yelling over each other; Hermione came running and fell on her knees beside Harry and Ron; the aurors seized Jade; professor McGonagall and Snape came rushing towards them and asked them to step aside.

Everything happened so fast.

"What happened? Ron? Ron?" Hermione yelled as Harry held her back. "Is he dead?"

"Stay back!" Harry said between his teeth.

"He was my friend too! Let me go!"

"Hermione. Listen to me!" Harry shook her. "He's not coming back."

AUTHORS END NOTES

Did someone say "fun fact"? Alrighty then. Here's your fun fact: This story was originally going to

have just 2 Goblins, but I ended up with 3. "That's too many", I hear you say.

Yes, but I'd rather have 3 Goblins than having 3 different villains.

Draco Malfoy was going to be a sort of Spider-Man, kinda like Venom but without the parasitic symbiote. But I

felt that would make the story too long so I could explore Draco as sort of a corrupted Spider-Man

(Superior Spider-Man, anyone?).