She was so tired. This was a school, a place of learning, a home. They were supposed to be safe.
This wasn't supposed to be their final resting place.
Laughter instead of screams, healing instead of blood.
She had seen every student pass through her halls since the founders had built her brick by brick.
Old magic inlayed every single step.
Health, protection, safety, love, healing.
She was old magic and these were her children dying for what? Two old men who thought they had the right to rule the wizarding world. Two old men who couldn't bend so they broke generations of magicals.
They turned family against family. Brother and Sisters' drew wands against each other. Friends fought friends. Parents against children.
She saw a mother defend her daughter. A brother tell a joke, Green robes defending red, red robes reaching out a hand to help up. Yellow robes shielding and blue robes using every spell they had every learned.
As the first drops of blood fell onto her floors, as a child faced down an adult, shaking but brave, as the first body hit the ground, her voice was heard throughout the whole school,
"Enough".
The suits of armour jumped infront of spells. The tapestrys tangled up wand arms. Secret passages opened to hide defenders. The ghosts caused disturbances, peeves was set loose with everything he had. The house elves used magic, they used kitchen utensils as weapons. They apperated children to safety The wards engaged, trapping everyone with the death eaters symbol in place.
"Enough"
He had thought to use the symbols of the founders for his death magic. But they were hers. They were the family that built her and he perverted them. So she pulled that magic from them.
She gave the son of Gryffindor the sword and watched as he destroyed the snake.
She saw the green curse hit her child and screamed, "No."
She pushed her magic to defend him, to save him, to protect him. The backlash destroyed the one who cast that spell at a child.
No more dead children.
The battle ended as quick as it started. Hogwarts would always protect her children.