Battle of Hogwarts Part 2 - the Dark Lords downfall
"Hermione duck" Bellatrix shouted as she flung an unknown spell toward Hermione, reacting instinctively Hermione followed her mothers command, ducking and twisting around when she heard the shout of agony. She turned just in time to see a death eater go flying backwards from where he stood, metres from where the brunette had previously been standing.
"Thanks mama" Hermione said as she ran to join her mother, her mates following her as they fought side by side against a particularly nasty looking group of dark witches and wizards.
"You're more than welcome but you need to stay alert baby, always watch your back" Bellatrix replied as she dived out if the way of a nasty looking hex that flew past her shield in her moment of distraction.
As Hermiome suspected the battle had began raging again as soon as Harry had leapt out of Hagrids arms and dashed for the stone arches.
Moldyshorts let out a scream of outrage, his loyal goons cursing and shouting about defying the Dark Lord and the side of the light cheering wildly as Hermione, Fleur and Nymphadora directed everyone back into the great hall as quickly as possible knowing that they would have the advantage by being able to control the flow of death eaters into the castle if they were already inside it.
As the dark Lord collected himself and stopped throwing his tantrum because Hermione really did not have any other way to describe the fit he threw, he ordered his followers to attack and Hermione felt miles better knowing that her family were either safely away from the fight or fighting by her side finally along with the multiple innocents who had been forced by their families to follow the dark Lord having been carted to safety thanks to Fleurs mothers portkeys.
But regardless of the small victories Hermione Still found herself pouting as she stood facing the oncoming death eaters. She never even got a chance to hug her parents properly before the self proclaimed Dark Lord ordered his followers to attack so she'd have to yet again fight like hell for her life before she could safely allow herself to cling to the parents she had been parted from her entire life.
"Stop ze pouting Mia eet iz distracting" Fleur called loudly over the thrum of noise that surrounded them. Causing Hermione to grin automatically in response.
"My apologies" she laughed back playfully before flinging a stupify past her blondes shoulder, connecting with Fenrir Greyback who had been attempting to sneak up behind her Veela.
Fleur spun around, hearing the grunt as the spell made contact with the disgusting man and she smiled gratefully at Hermione. "Zank you baby" she said as she began assessing the approaching death eaters like her mates where.
"They're trying to circle us and separate us from my mum" Hermione murmured, loud enough for her mates and Bellatrix to hear above the din.
"It sure looks like it. O formation?" Dora asked as she continued to look around her vigilantes, wearily watching to ensure no death eater got too close while they made a decision.
"Sounds good Dora" Hermione agreed and Fleur nodded her head in agreement.
"Let's do zis" the blonde declared as she moved in closer to her mates. The three girls turned their backs to one another in what could resemble a triangular formation before they each took a hold of anotgers blouse. Hermione gripping Fleurs blouse at the back with her non dominant hand. Fleur doing the same to Dora and finally Dora doing the same to Hermione. Knowing that the physical connection would help provide grounding and a focus point in which their magics could interact with one another controllably.
"You girls going to be alright with these, Molly Weasley looks like she's losing and I think it may be wise if I go help her" Bellatrix murmured quietly, locking eyes with her girl.
"Yeah mama, go" Hermione replied confidently as she tightened her grip on her mate. Bellatrix nodded, seeing the look of determination on her daughters face and figuring that her girl wouldn't lie about something so serious she decided to believe that her girl could handle the goons trying to circle them. She smirked at her daughter before launching herself into her fog form to propel herself to Molly Weasleys side quicker than if she were to run.
"Okay together" Hermione shouted as she drew her wand up, ready.
"Always" her mates replied mimicking her move.
'Mia are you alright?' Her mothers voice came through her mind and she glanced around to see Bellatrix looking at her worriedly from across the hall as she duelled an unknown male, Hermione's father and Molly, fighting at her mothers side.
'I'm alright, we've got these handled' Hermione replied before refocusing on her immediate surroundings.
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The death eaters had infact circled them. Twelve in total. Fenrir Greyback finding his feet again and joining the circle, bringing the number of attackers to thirteen. How unlucky Hermione thought. Rolling her eyes sarcastically.
"The Dark Lord wants her captured alive" Greyback snarled as they all took aim, pointing at Hermione.
"I'm honoured" Hermione snarked as she wordlessly cast one of the strongest shields she had achieved to date around her and her two girls.
'Yes Mia!' Dora chimed in her mind, weariness and pride lacing her tone.
'Focus, we hit hard and fast, disarm amd take out the weaker ones before we focus our efforts more selectively.' Hermione replied, opening her mind to ensure Fleur was listening in.
'Oui zat is agreed' she replied.
On Hermione's silent command the trinity began firing spell after spell at the surrounding death eaters. Powerful incarcerous', bombardas, stupifys and impedimentias were cast with a flurry and they easily picked of two death eaters each, Hermione taking down four, catching them off gaurd with the sheer speed of her spells. Either knocking them unconscious with the force of the spells or binding them and taking them out of the fight. She was smugly grinning when she noticed that one of the death eaters she had just knocked unconscious was none other than Fenrir Greyback. Good, served him right for attacking Ginnys brother Bill and infecting him with the werewolf gene against his will last summer, she thought to herself as she grinned at the remaining five death eaters.
The girls were so focused on dueling their opponents that neither they nor the death eaters they were fighting realised the entire hall had stopped to watch, it being only light members left or members of the dark lords ranks who had tossed their wands and surrendered when they realised they were losing. They had all turned their attention on the impressive display of power from the three teen girls. Their skin glowing softly as their magics mixed and wielded to their every command willingly and instantly. It was hard not to notice the way the girls moved together. Their bodies seaming so in sink with one another, for every step one took the other two matched it, never breaking rank or letting go of one another. All three silent as they focused on the fight, casting non verbal spells around as if it was simple first year spell work.
'Mia call zeir wands' Fleur whispered through her mind as she nodded subtly at her. Hermione smiled and nodded back before closing her eyes. Completely trusting her mates to keep her safe while she centred herself.
'Accio, death eaters wands' she commanded in her head as she opened up her palm, pressing her leg against Fleur instead to maintain the physical connection.
The death eaters infront of her hissed angrily as their wands flew from their hands towards the brunette, their eyes alight in anger as they seemingly put together that she was the one that had did this exact thing at the battle of the Seven Potters all those months ago.
"You!!" An unknown woman growled in outrage.
"Me what?" Hermione asked her voice sweet and playfully innocent las she pouted in mock confusion at the death eaters.
"It was you that night that took our wands!" The woman accused, her face twisting in anger as she glared at the young brunette witch, hoping to intimidate her.
Hermione snorted in an uncharacteristic display as she laughed at the womans attempt.
"I'm afraid you'll have to do more than glare at me to get me to back down I am a Black. One only needs to look at my mother and aunts to know I certainly won't cow down to a mad man's lacky because she simply wants me too. Yes I took your wands then. Just as I took your wand now" the brunette sang, humour lacing her voice as she taunted the death eaters infront of her.
As her taunt came to an end she felt a subtle press against her back and automatically bumped her hip gently against Fluers hip to indicate that she had got the message as they communicated with her through touch. She was secretly pleased that her mates and she had had the foresight to come up with subtle ways like this to communicate with one another. It meant they could organise an attack without giving anything away to their enemies.
"INCARCEROUS!!" All three witches shouted together and the onlookers watched in awe as all five death eaters suddenly became bound in thick tight ropes as they were propelled and magically pinned against a wall.
The brunette vanished the won wands without a word before turning to face the silent crowd, before blushing adorably as she realised they were all staring at her and her mates.
"Well thats that" she shrugged as she cast a glance around to search out her family.
"What was that?" Molly Weasley asked curiously as she limped forward. "I've never seen magic that strong before"
"Its complicated and they do not have time for an explanation right now. Harry Potter and Voldemort are still somewhere in this castle and we must do our best to help the boy bring voldemort down. You will all get a thorough explanation when this is all over" Bellatrix cut in, saving her daughter from having to explain her prophecy or her personal relationship with her mates in such a setting.
"Well said mama, now you lot please ensure all these people are secured and transported appropriately, Grandmama please stay and help see to the wounded. Mama, Papa, Fleur, Dora and Aunties come with me. I have a feeling we are going to need the strength to successfully bring that man down" Hermione commanded, with all the grace of a girl who had to lead her friends in many life or death situations for years as she stalked forward towards the hall doors. Her family following silently. Knowing that their girl was probably right.
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For all of her training and for all the hardships she had faced in her young life, Hermione was not prepared for the sight she found infront of her as she entered the courtyard.
Her best friend was lying on his back, face twisted in silent agony as blood dripped from various wounds across his body. Voldemort stood over him, wand pointed at the young man as he spoke condescendingly to Harry.
"and this is the boy that the world rested their hopes on? The boy who lived only to give such a pitiful attempt at destroying me to then die at my hand. Such a shame isn't it. I find it oddly poetic don't you think. Saved by your mothers love once only to be hindered by that love now. A boy too moral to be able to finish me off when he had the chance" the dark man spat, his voice dripping with loathing as he sneered down at the green eyed boy still writhing under his cruciatus curse.
Hermione thought quickly, realising that with the horcruxes gone Harry didn't need to deliver the final blow for them to bring down the dark Lord permanently. She opened her mind to her aunts, her mother and her father and spoke two words directly into their minds.
'Surround him'
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Once her family had gotten themselves into position, the dark man apparently not even realising that they had surrounded him on all sides, she decided it was time to intervene.
"Oh moldyshorts" Hermione sang, effectively distracting the man causing him to let up the curse on Harry.
"Why don't you pick on someone more evenly matched hmmm? Or are you scared you're going to lose to some teenage girls" she taunted sarcastically. Goading the man into stepping towards her and away from her bestfriend.
"You think you and your harlots have any chance against me" Voldemort scoffed. Drawing himself up to full height menacingly.
"Oh but that's exactly what we have. A chance. A chance to end you once and for all mr Riddle" Dora chimed in as she smiled knowingly at him, deliberately ignoring the insult.
'Mama, cast an anti aspiration ward around this area discreetly' The young brunette sent to her mother in her mind to ensure that voldemort didn't get the chance to escape.
'Consider it done babygirl' Bellatrix replied.
"You 'ave no Hurcruxes left, zey all vent poof" Fleur said, dramatically re-enacting the destruction of the hurcruxes.
"The cup, the ring, the diary, the locket, the snake, the diadem and the hurcrux you accidently implanted into Harry are all no more...." Dora continued as the three girls subtly spread out infront of the man.
"Which leaves you rather... mortal doesn't it Tom?" Hermione finished emphasising the word 'mortal', watching with some satisfaction as the reality if his predicament finally began to dawn on the dark lords face. His arrogance faltering slightly.
"HOW?" He hissed in outrage as he glanced around, eyes wide as he finally saw that he had been surrounded.
"Quite easy really. Once we knew of them and had found them we realised that the only way you could be defeated was if they were gone. We knew basilisk venom destroyed them after the diary incident in second year. The sword of Gryffindor also could as it obsorbed Basilisk venom when Harry stabbed the basilisk. Combine the two and it was pretty much done and over before you had a chance to ever really stop us. Not that you could have. After all you were left searching for us for nine months and never caught us except once by sheer luck and even then we still got away didnt we" Hermione knew that explaining this all was pointless but being one that valued knowledge she decided to humour the man. After all it wouldn't do for him to die without knowing just how much he had underestimated them.
As if he could read her thoughts Voldemort decided to cut in. "But you are just children" his indignation was visible in his tone and it pleased all around him to see the usually cold man lose his composure.
"Yes children. Children that YOU dragged into a war. Children that YOU gave little option but to fight and die for a cause that we should never have been involved in. Children that YOU caused pain and suffering too. Children that YOU underestimated. Did you really think we would lie down and let an arrogant dictator take away our freedom, our rights? What did you expect? Us to roll over and beg for a place in your twisted dilutions?" Dora ranted, her magic sparking with her anger.
"You zeem to underestimate everyone around you and eet iz your undoing Tom. Nozing and I mean NOZING vill ever be more important to us all zan ze safety and 'appiness of our families and you, YOU 'ave severely wronged mine. Severely wronged us all" Fleur spat, her magic sparking also as it jumped out and intertwined with Dora's.
"I did no such thing. This world has done nothing but wrong me." He spat back his anger outweighing his rational thinking.
"You did no such thing hmm?" Hermione said quietly. Her voice earily calm and her mates and aunts cringed but grinned in anticipation. Even Harry who had now regained his ability to control his own body now that the dark lords attention was elsewhere, held himself still in anticipation because they all knew what was to come next when Hermione spoke in such away.
Bellatrix and Rudulphus were slightly confused at their families reaction to their daughter and it must have been evident on their faces because suddenly they both had Andromeda's voice in their heads.
'Just watch, it will all be crystal clear in a moment' the brunette laughed in their minds. Humour coating her voice.
"You did no such thing?" Hermione repeated. Her voice rising slightly louder than it was a moment ago.
"I grew up not knowing my own parents because of YOU. my best friend lost his parents because of you and grew up surrounded by abuse. I was placed in an abusive home also because of you. People died because of you. My aunts lived in fear. My other aunt was raped repeatedly under your watch. My cousins grew up apart. My family could not even speak to one anotherbecause of YOU AND YOU REALLY THINK YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG TOM RIDDLE. LOOK AROUND YOU. THE DEATH, THE DISTRUCTION WAS ALL BECAUSE OF YOU. A NEGLECTED LJTTLE BOY WHO GREW JEALOUS OF ALL AROUND HIM AMD DECIDED TO CLAIM POWER THAT DID NOT BELONG TO YOU. YOU DESTROYED OTHERS AND BROUGHT JOTHING BUT DISTRUCTUON TO OUR WORLD AND IT. ENDS. HERE" Hermione spoke her voice growing steadily until it was nothing but an angry shout. She spat the final three words through clenched teeth as she allowed her magic to react to her fury, reaching out and entwined with her two mates until all three girls could feel the power that thrummed between them, so much stronger than it had ever been.
'Reach out to Harry's magic' she told her mates in her mind as she used their connection to make the first contact with her bestfriends magic. She saw the moment he felt them, his sharp breath in and wide eyes locking on them, alerting them to his understanding of what they were doing.
He couldn't truly believe that they could do this, that they were doing this for him. He knew it would be physically taxing for them, that it could potentially kill them to expend so much of their magical energy and he knew instantly they were doing it to give him the power he needed to cast the final blow, he knew he would only get once chance and he couldn't and wouldn't fail.
Everyone around the courtyard could feel the trios power surge and their eyes grew wider in shock. Each having no clue that the three witches could be as powerful as they were. They knew them to be powerful but this was a whole new level. One they had never before experienced and it concerned but amazed them equally.
Voldemort felt no such amazement or concern. All he could feel was fear. Real true fear for the first time in his life as he felt the weight of the girls magics flood the courtyard. He closed his eyes and attempted to appirate away, knowing it was futile for him to fight now, he knew he wasn't strong enough to overpower these three girls. He hissed angrily when something blocked his aspiration attempt, trying again he got the same result. He kept trying, desperate for escape but each time another magical force held him in place on the ground, stopping his escape attempts every time.
Sensing the man's distraction amd feeling the power his best friend amd her mates were channeling reaching a new high Harry stood up and raised his wand, knowing it was now or never as his friends wouldn't be able to maintain the level of magical output they were for much longer.
He drew in a deep breath, locking his eyes with Hermione and allowing the fire, the trust, the love and conviction he saw in her eyes bolster his courage as he took his aim, flicking his wrist quickly as he gave his actions no further thought he spoke two words out loud.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!!"
Everyone watched with baited breath as a blinding green light shot out of the boy who liveds wand and shot towards the unsuspecting man, the power of the spell forcing the young man back, falling into the arms of Bellatrix Black who caught him with little difficulty as she helped him stand upright and turned him to face the dark Lord and Hermione.
The young brunette took a breath and drew back her magic as they all watched the moment the spell connected with the evil man, his eyes filling with fear as his whole body froze, muscles going rigid in response to the killing curse that had hit its mark and she could only feel relief when she saw the light leave his red snake like orbs as his body crumpled, turning to dust as he fell and scattering in the wind that they all hadn't noticed until this moment.
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They all stood in shock for a moment as the reality of the situation finally dawned on them. The dark lord was now gone. Forever and they could once again focus on rebuilding a better world.
The cheer, loud and victorious broke them from their silent shock as they spun to face the large crowd that none of them had noticed appear outside, all too focused on dealing with the dark Lord once and for all to notice that McGonagall had led the survivors outside to witness the moment that the Trinity of light and Harry Potter vanquished the dark Lord once and for all.
The group smiled in genuine happiness when they saw the crowd, Bellatrix and Rudulphus making a beline for their little girl who still stood in what appeared to be shock, their relief amd happiness quickly being replaced by fear as they saw their little girls wide panicked eyes before her eyes rolled back and her body began to fall.
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Hermione could hear the cheering around her but was somehow unable to force her body to move. She felt trapped as her mind raced, trying to work out what was wrong. She knew they had succeeded. That voldemort was gone and she could see her parents making their way towards her but the world around her seemed distorted and she couldn't get her eyes to focus nor speak to alert her mates that something was seriously wrong and as the world continued to blur, the noise around her continuing to become more and more distorted the brunette realised that whatever was wrong she would not be alert much longer to fix it.
Her wide panicked eyes met her mothers concerned gaze briefly before her whole world went blank. Her unconscious body falling as she lost the battle to fight whatever had come over her.