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Chapter 34: HBP 17: the 1st Battle of Hogwarts
(Young Luna's thoughts)
{Old Luna's thoughts}
[Selena, Luna's mom's thoughts]
~Parseltongue~
One minute, Harry was in a session of the D.A. with Karkaroff, the next instant he was sitting at a table writing an essay that he didn't remember starting. He looked up. Hermione and Ron were sitting across from him doing their own homework.
"What's going on? How did we get here?" asked Harry.
His friends looked at him in alarm.
"Harry, what's the last date you remember?" asked Hermione.
"September 17th," said Harry. "Isn't that today day's date?"
"Bloody hell!" said Ron.
"It's May 24th," replied Hermione. "Your memories of the past few months have been erased by your soul's arrival. Hang on! I've got to go get something!"
Hermione ran up to her room and retrieved a book that she brought down to the common room.
"When we realized what had happened to you and Luna, I started keeping a diary for you so that you could catch up on what you'd missed," said Hermione as she handed the book to Harry.
At that moment, the door to Gryffindor Tower was knocked off its' hinges! Through the door came five shirtless men wearing grease paint on their faces so that they resembled skulls!
"Delibro!" shouted Harry as he cast the Onion Peel curse at the lead Death Eater. The Death Eater's skin began peeling off and the man began screaming. When the muscles started to peel away, the trend reversed as he began healing and his skin grew back.
"Werewolves!" shouted Hermione. Knowing that their opponents would be able to heal any injury not caused by silver, made them change their tactics.
Wordlessly, Neville summoned his cloak.
Ginny cast a Reductor Curse at one of the Death Eaters that blew a large hole in his chest. She could see it healing before her eyes.
"Stupefy!" shouted several students as their stunners failed to subdue the werewolves.
Four of the werewolves had wands, which they used to stun some of the students that had tried to stun them.
"~Vaporo Conus!~" hissed Harry as a jet of super heated steam erupted from the end of his wand and expanded into a cone shaped area that scalded two of the werewolves badly enough that they were out of action, temporarily.
"Bifidus Caedes!" shouted Hermione as a werewolf's blood appeared next to him in the shape of his heart and circulatory system. It stayed there suspended in the air for an instant before it fell to the ground in a puddle. The werewolf gave a piercing scream before he fell to the ground, convulsing. His muscles, when suddenly deprived of blood, all cramped up at once in a searing sensation that felt like when a marathoner hits "the wall". His heart was having a massive attack as it was completely deprived of blood. His brain, without blood to hold it up collapsed in a stabbing headache that turned into a stroke.
Neville's cloak had arrived by now and he reached into its' depths and pulled out his sword and a silver dagger.
Ginny cast another Reductor Curse at the werewolf's head, keeping him incapacitated.
Ron waved his wand and some snake-like tendrils
shot out of the tip of his wand binding the lead werewolf. The werewolf flexed his muscles and broke free of his bonds.
Harry waved his wand and pushed a werewolf towards Neville.
Neville, in a figure "8" stroke, cut the limbs off the werewolf and stabbed it in the heart with the silver dagger.
"Bifidus Caedes!" shouted Hermione as she removed the little bit of blood that had regenerated from the werewolf she'd downed.
Ginny cast another Reductor Curse to keep her opponent down.
Ron re-bound his opponent, who then had to break free again.
With a wave of his wand, Harry pushed another werewolf at Neville, who dispatched it the same way he had the first.
Hermione, Ginny and Ron continued to keep their opponents subdued until each of them could get a chance to push their werewolf at Neville, who killed them all with his silver dagger.
"It looks like the 1st Battle of Hogwarts has begun, just as Luna foretold," said Harry. "Ron, Ginny, Hermione, gather up your squads and help defend the castle. Neville, get Susan and meet me on top of the Astronomy Tower. I'll go get the Slytherins. Unless Luna's wrong, we need to prevent the Headmaster's assassination."
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Several of the Slytherins were studying in their common room when the door swung open. In walked a group of Death Eaters clad in their skull masks and black robes. The walked with a swagger that said they owned the place.
"Emily, raise the alarm," said Luna. "Amanda, Stan and I will deal with these Barf Greeters."
"Time for a re-match, blood traitor!" screamed Draco Malfoy as he pointed a finger at Luna. "Avada Kedavra!"
Luna summoned her sword from within her and harmlessly absorbed the Death Curse. She then flicked her wand and snake-like tendrils shot forth and bound Draco.
"Conseco!" yelled Amanda as she cast a dismembering curse at Draco. Instead of removing Draco's arm, as the spell had last time she faced him, all that was cut off was his sleeve, revealing that Draco's lost arm had been replaced by an artificial one that appeared to be made of living diamond.
Stan, silently cast a shielding charm to protect himself, Amanda and Luna.
"Serpensortia!" shouted Theodore Nott as he launched a snake at Luna.
"Stupefy!" shouted Blaise Zabini as his stunner bounced off the shield that Stan had cast.
"Stupefy!" shouted Millicent Bulstrode as her stunner felled Blaise.
Draco's fingers ended in pointed claws, which sliced through his bonds like paper. He then pointed his finger at Luna and shouted: "Avada Kedavra!"
Luna absorbed the death curse with her sword, then channeled it back at him in the form of an energy beam, while she turned to the snake and said: "~Don't worry, I'll protect you.~"
"Delibro!" shouted Amanda as she cast the Onion Peel Curse at Theodore.
Stan cast another shielding charm on his friends.
"Protego!" Theodore was able to get a shielding Charm up in the nick of time to save him from Amanda's curse. However, the shield only protected his front.
Millicent cast a Reductor curse at the ceiling of the dungeon above Theodore and collapsed it onto him.
Draco absorbed Luna's energy beam with his arm and lunged at her, trying to cut her with his razor-sharp diamond claws.
Luna blocked his claws with her sword and tried to neutralize his magical arm by cutting it off. But she discovered that he sword couldn't cut through it.
Amanda, Stan and Millicent, all cast stunners at Draco. He was able to absorb two of them with his arm, but the third one got him.
As soon as he fell, Luna cut off Draco's head.
"Thanks Millicent," said Luna as she paused to catch her breath.
Millicent reached up to take off her Death Eater mask when-
"Delibro!" shouted Harry, who had just arrived.
Amanda dove and rolled in front of Millicent casting a shielding charm as she did so.
"She's on our side!" shouted Luna as she went to join Amanda in protecting their defector. "This is Millicent Bulstrode. She defected to our side months ago, remember?"
"Sorry," apologized Harry. "Look we need to get to the Astronomy Tower-"
"-to rescue Dumbledore," finished Luna.
Just then, Emily La Strange returned leading a group of students. As soon as they saw Millicent, they went on the attack. But between them, Luna, Amanda and Stan were easily able to block their attacks.
"SHE'S ON OUR SIDE!" shouted Luna.
"It looks like we'll have to take her with us," observed Harry.
Scene Break
After they had run into the magical barrier on the stairs, Neville Longbottom and Susan Bones shifted into the shadow realm and Shadow walked the rest of the way up the tower. They were supposed to meet the rest of Squad A at the top. Neville and Susan didn't know what would be waiting for them at the top of the Astronomy Tower. Would their friends be fighting for their lives? Was Dumbledore fighting for his life? Was it already too late?
When they stepped out of a shadow in the stairwell, they only had an instant to take in the scene before them. Professor Karkaroff was laying unconscious, a gaping and messy wound in his abdomen. A Death Eater was casting shields and counter-jinxes with blinding speed as Professor Dumbledore kept up a constant barrage against him.
With sword in one hand and wand in the other, Neville lunged forward and cut off the Death Eater's wand hand, just as Susan and Dumbledore had each cast a disarming charm. The Death Eater flew off the top of the tower and landed on his head with a sickening CRACK!
"Well done, my boy!" praised Dumbledore. He patted Neville on the back as they all went to the edge to look over at the body of the Death Eater who had fallen to his death from the top of the tower. "It looks like your Defense Association had prepared you well!"
What happened to Karkaroff?" asked Harry who had just arrived with the others.
"I'm afraid he caught an Entrail Exploding Curse," replied Dumbledore. I'm afraid he's lost a lot of blood and won't survive long enough to reach the infirmary."
"Leave that to me!" exclaimed Stan as he pulled a Blood Replenishing Potion from his bandolier and poured it down Karkaroff's throat. "He'll need another with when he gets to Poppy!"
"Hang on!" said Harry. "There's still a battle going on and Millicent here is likely to be mistaken for the enemy. Why don't you and she see to Karkaroff, while my Squad takes care of the mopping up?"
"An excellent idea, Harry," said Dumbledore as he flicked his wand and levitated Karkaroff.
Harry, Luna and their friends had already dealt with the most dangerous of the Death Eaters. They easily captured the remaining ones. Except for Wormtail, who, in his animagus form, was small enough to slip away unnoticed.
On interrogation, it was found that Wormtail had led the attack through the passageway from the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade to the Whomping Willow.
And on examination, it was found that the Death Eater who had fallen to his death from the top of the Astronomy Tower was none other than Severus Snape.
Authors Note
You are probably wondering about what happened to chapters 25-33. The answer is that I had writer's block on what to put in place of the HBP but I already had the ending of this fic planned. So, rather than subject you to ten chapters about Quiddich and tutors, I skipped ahead. If I receive a huge number of responses from people who want to know what happened, I may be inspired to write those chapters. But for now, I'm just going to write the climax and ending of this fic.
Harry Potter is owned by JK Rowling
Chapter 34: HBP 17: the 1st Battle of Hogwarts
(Young Luna's thoughts)
{Old Luna's thoughts}
[Selena, Luna's mom's thoughts]
~Parseltongue~
One minute, Harry was in a session of the D.A. with Karkaroff, the next instant he was sitting at a table writing an essay that he didn't remember starting. He looked up. Hermione and Ron were sitting across from him doing their own homework.
"What's going on? How did we get here?" asked Harry.
His friends looked at him in alarm.
"Harry, what's the last date you remember?" asked Hermione.
"September 17th," said Harry. "Isn't that today day's date?"
"Bloody hell!" said Ron.
"It's May 24th," replied Hermione. "Your memories of the past few months have been erased by your soul's arrival. Hang on! I've got to go get something!"
Hermione ran up to her room and retrieved a book that she brought down to the common room.
"When we realized what had happened to you and Luna, I started keeping a diary for you so that you could catch up on what you'd missed," said Hermione as she handed the book to Harry.
At that moment, the door to Gryffindor Tower was knocked off its' hinges! Through the door came five shirtless men wearing grease paint on their faces so that they resembled skulls!
"Delibro!" shouted Harry as he cast the Onion Peel curse at the lead Death Eater. The Death Eater's skin began peeling off and the man began screaming. When the muscles started to peel away, the trend reversed as he began healing and his skin grew back.
"Werewolves!" shouted Hermione. Knowing that their opponents would be able to heal any injury not caused by silver, made them change their tactics.
Wordlessly, Neville summoned his cloak.
Ginny cast a Reductor Curse at one of the Death Eaters that blew a large hole in his chest. She could see it healing before her eyes.
"Stupefy!" shouted several students as their stunners failed to subdue the werewolves.
Four of the werewolves had wands, which they used to stun some of the students that had tried to stun them.
"~Vaporo Conus!~" hissed Harry as a jet of super heated steam erupted from the end of his wand and expanded into a cone shaped area that scalded two of the werewolves badly enough that they were out of action, temporarily.
"Bifidus Caedes!" shouted Hermione as a werewolf's blood appeared next to him in the shape of his heart and circulatory system. It stayed there suspended in the air for an instant before it fell to the ground in a puddle. The werewolf gave a piercing scream before he fell to the ground, convulsing. His muscles, when suddenly deprived of blood, all cramped up at once in a searing sensation that felt like when a marathoner hits "the wall". His heart was having a massive attack as it was completely deprived of blood. His brain, without blood to hold it up collapsed in a stabbing headache that turned into a stroke.
Neville's cloak had arrived by now and he reached into its' depths and pulled out his sword and a silver dagger.
Ginny cast another Reductor Curse at the werewolf's head, keeping him incapacitated.
Ron waved his wand and some snake-like tendrils shot out of the tip of his wand binding the lead werewolf. The werewolf flexed his muscles and broke free of his bonds.
Harry waved his wand and pushed a werewolf towards Neville.
Neville, in a figure "8" stroke, cut the limbs off the werewolf and stabbed it in the heart with the silver dagger.
"Bifidus Caedes!" shouted Hermione as she removed the little bit of blood that had regenerated from the werewolf she'd downed.
Ginny cast another Reductor Curse to keep her opponent down.
Ron re-bound his opponent, who then had to break free again.
With a wave of his wand, Harry pushed another werewolf at Neville, who dispatched it the same way he had the first.
Hermione, Ginny and Ron continued to keep their opponents subdued until each of them could get a chance to push their werewolf at Neville, who killed them all with his silver dagger.
"It looks like the 1st Battle of Hogwarts has begun, just as Luna foretold," said Harry. "Ron, Ginny, Hermione, gather up your squads and help defend the castle. Neville, get Susan and meet me on top of the Astronomy Tower. I'll go get the Slytherins. Unless Luna's wrong, we need to prevent the Headmaster's assassination."
_____________________Scene Break________________________
Several of the Slytherins were studying in their common room when the door swung open. In walked a group of Death Eaters clad in their skull masks and black robes. The walked with a swagger that said they owned the place.
"Emily, raise the alarm," said Luna. "Amanda, Stan and I will deal with these Barf Greeters."
"Time for a re-match, blood traitor!" screamed Draco Malfoy as he pointed a finger at Luna. "Avada Kedavra!"
Luna summoned her sword from within her and harmlessly absorbed the Death Curse. She then flicked her wand and snake-like tendrils shot forth and bound Draco.
"Conseco!" yelled Amanda as she cast a dismembering curse at Draco. Instead of removing Draco's arm, as the spell had last time she faced him, all that was cut off was his sleeve, revealing that Draco's lost arm had been replaced by an artificial one that appeared to be made of living diamond.
Stan, silently cast a shielding charm to protect himself, Amanda and Luna.
"Serpensortia!" shouted Theodore Nott as he launched a snake at Luna.
"Stupefy!" shouted Blaise Zabini as his stunner bounced off the shield that Stan had cast.
"Stupefy!" shouted Millicent Bulstrode as her stunner felled Blaise.
Draco's fingers ended in pointed claws, which sliced through his bonds like paper. He then pointed his finger at Luna and shouted: "Avada Kedavra!"
Luna absorbed the death curse with her sword, then channeled it back at him in the form of an energy beam, while she turned to the snake and said: "~Don't worry, I'll protect you.~"
"Delibro!" shouted Amanda as she cast the Onion Peel Curse at Theodore.
Stan cast another shielding charm on his friends.
"Protego!" Theodore was able to get a shielding Charm up in the nick of time to save him from Amanda's curse. However, the shield only protected his front.
Millicent cast a Reductor curse at the ceiling of the dungeon above Theodore and collapsed it onto him.
Draco absorbed Luna's energy beam with his arm and lunged at her, trying to cut her with his razor-sharp diamond claws.
Luna blocked his claws with her sword and tried to neutralize his magical arm by cutting it off. But she discovered that he sword couldn't cut through it.
Amanda, Stan and Millicent, all cast stunners at Draco. He was able to absorb two of them with his arm, but the third one got him.
As soon as he fell, Luna cut off Draco's head.
"Thanks Millicent," said Luna as she paused to catch her breath.
Millicent reached up to take off her Death Eater mask when-
"Delibro!" shouted Harry, who had just arrived.
Amanda dove and rolled in front of Millicent casting a shielding charm as she did so.
"She's on our side!" shouted Luna as she went to join Amanda in protecting their defector. "This is Millicent Bulstrode. She defected to our side months ago, remember?"
"Sorry," apologized Harry. "Look we need to get to the Astronomy Tower-"
"-to rescue Dumbledore," finished Luna.
Just then, Emily La Strange returned leading a group of students. As soon as they saw Millicent, they went on the attack. But between them, Luna, Amanda and Stan were easily able to block their attacks.
"SHE'S ON OUR SIDE!" shouted Luna.
"It looks like we'll have to take her with us," observed Harry.
Scene Break
After they had run into the magical barrier on the stairs, Neville Longbottom and Susan Bones shifted into the shadow realm and Shadow walked the rest of the way up the tower. They were supposed to meet the rest of Squad A at the top. Neville and Susan didn't know what would be waiting for them at the top of the Astronomy Tower. Would their friends be fighting for their lives? Was Dumbledore fighting for his life? Was it already too late?
When they stepped out of a shadow in the stairwell, they only had an instant to take in the scene before them. Professor Karkaroff was laying unconscious, a gaping and messy wound in his abdomen. A Death Eater was casting shields and counter-jinxes with blinding speed as Professor Dumbledore kept up a constant barrage against him.
With sword in one hand and wand in the other, Neville lunged forward and cut off the Death Eater's wand hand, just as Susan and Dumbledore had each cast a disarming charm. The Death Eater flew off the top of the tower and landed on his head with a sickening CRACK!
"Well done, my boy!" praised Dumbledore. He patted Neville on the back as they all went to the edge to look over at the body of the Death Eater who had fallen to his death from the top of the tower. "It looks like your Defense Association had prepared you well!"
What happened to Karkaroff?" asked Harry who had just arrived with the others.
"I'm afraid he caught an Entrail Exploding Curse," replied Dumbledore. I'm afraid he's lost a lot of blood and won't survive long enough to reach the infirmary."
"Leave that to me!" exclaimed Stan as he pulled a Blood Replenishing Potion from his bandolier and poured it down Karkaroff's throat. "He'll need another with when he gets to Poppy!"
"Hang on!" said Harry. "There's still a battle going on and Millicent here is likely to be mistaken for the enemy. Why don't you and she see to Karkaroff, while my Squad takes care of the mopping up?"
"An excellent idea, Harry," said Dumbledore as he flicked his wand and levitated Karkaroff.
Harry, Luna and their friends had already dealt with the most dangerous of the Death Eaters. They easily captured the remaining ones. Except for Wormtail, who, in his animagus form, was small enough to slip away unnoticed.
On interrogation, it was found that Wormtail had led the attack through the passageway from the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade to the Whomping Willow.
And on examination, it was found that the Death Eater who had fallen to his death from the top of the Astronomy Tower was none other than Severus Snape.
Authors Note
You are probably wondering about what happened to chapters 25-33. The answer is that I had writer's block on what to put in place of the HBP but I already had the ending of this fic planned. So, rather than subject you to ten chapters about Quiddich and tutors, I skipped ahead. If I receive a huge number of responses from people who want to know what happened, I may be inspired to write those chapters. But for now, I'm just going to write the climax and ending of this fic.
Chapter 36: Book Seven: the 2nd Battle of Hogwarts.
(Young Luna's thoughts)
{Old Luna's thoughts}
[Selena, Luna's mom's thoughts]
~Parseltongue~
Even inside the castle, the giants could be heard pounding on the gates of Hogwarts. The Prefects took advantage of the time they had to get the students from their houses to their common rooms. When the battle began, members of the D.A. would cast spells out the windows of the castle. Harry needed to be outside to lead his troops. The rest of Squad A went out to stand and fight at his side. Each of them had their wands and swords in hand. The teachers had gone to the top of the Ravenclaw Tower so that they could rain down curses on Voldemort's forces.
When the wards finally came down, there was a shimmering as Harry's Army appeared. There were 300 troops armed with Arquebuses, organized in ten units. Each unit consisted of 30 troops lined up in three rows of ten. Between the Arquebuser units were terticos of Pike men. Each tertico consisted of eight rows of eight men and each man was armed with a thirty-foot pike that was enchanted so that it weighed and balanced as though it were only eighteen feet long. In the upper room of Gryffindor Tower, appeared the Gatling gun and its crew. Their window gave them a clear field of fire over the battlefield. In the upper room of the North Tower, appeared the machine gun and its crew, much to Trelawney's consternation. Their window also gave them a clear field of fire over the battlefield. The bazooka and its crew appeared on top of the Astronomy Tower.
Voldemort's forces were more numerous than Luna remembered. Clearly, the Dark Lord had come better prepared this time. But it still wasn't the overwhelmingly apocalyptic force that she repressed the memory of from the 3rd Battle of Hogwarts. There were about 50 Death Eaters, each armed with a wand. There were another 30 werewolves. The full moon was just peaking over the horizon and they were starting to transform. There were about 70 Dementors in the rear. There were also 17 giants towering over the rest. And there, in the middle was Voldemort himself, with Nagini draped around his shoulders.
As soon as they had transformed, the werewolves went berserk and charged the army in front of them. The first rank of Arquebusers fired. Each of them was armed with a primitive, matchlock rifle. Instead of a hammer, the "S" shaped trigger pulled a lit fuse onto the pan and ignited the powder to fire the gun. Their bullet bags were enchanted so that they held an infinite supply of marble sized bullets and the powder horns were enchanted so that they could produce an infinite supply of gunpowder. When the guns were fired they imbued the bullets with a Killing Curse. Even a minor wound would be fatal. The Arquebuses produced billowing clouds of smoke as they struck down 20 of the werewolves. As soon as they had fired, the first rank moved back to reload and the second rank moved up to take their place.
The Gatling and machine guns opened up on the Death Eaters and started mowing them down like wheat. Each was enchanted so that it had an infinite supply of bullets and each imbued their bullets with a Killing Curse. In one sweep, they had killed 30 Death Eaters.
The bazooka fired at one of the giants. Its ammo box was enchanted so that it produced an infinite supply of rockets and the launcher imbued them with the Killing Curse. If a Rocket struck a giant full in the chest, the explosive Death Curse was able to penetrate the hide of the giant and kill him.
"~Vaporo Conus!~" hissed Harry as a jet of super heated steam erupted from the end of his wand and expanded into a cone shaped area that scalded three of the werewolves badly enough that they were out of action, temporarily.
"Avada Kedavra!" The Death Eaters responded by casting Death Curses. Four of them hit the crews of the Gatling and machine guns, putting them out of commission. Five of them were aimed at Squad A and were absorbed by Luna's sword. Eleven of them killed Arquebusers.
The seven werewolves who were left, charged the army and impaled themselves on the pikes. Although the pikes were incapable of killing the werewolves, it was impossible for a werewolf to do anything when it was immobilized by 10 pikes sticking into him.
The Arquebusers opened fire again and felled the remaining Death Eaters. Several of them struck Voldemort and Nagini. The Dark Lord laughed it off until he noticed that his snake was dead. He then shrieked in rage and apparated away; an act that was possible, now that Hogwarts wards were down.
The bazooka killed another Giant and rest of the giants, after hearing what had happened last time, feared to approach the Pike men. So they turned away and left, scattering and stepping on Dementors as they passed.
A mass conjuration of Patroni chased the Dementors away. All that remained was to examine the bodies so they could determine which Death Eaters had died and which were still free.
Just then, a portkey activated bringing with it 60 Aurors.
"What's going on here?" demanded Kingsley Shacklebolt.
"Voldemort attacked. It's all taken care of now. But you could take these werewolves off our hands," said Harry, indicating the seven thrashing werewolves on the ends of pikes.
As he looked through the bodies, taking off their masks to determine who they were, Harry heard a groan. There was Lucius Malfoy, pinned beneath the bodies of his fallen comrades. Harry pulled off the mask to confirm his identity.
"Oh Luuuciuuusss," called Luna. "I made you a promise, remember?"
With that, she pulled some of the bodies off his lower half, cut open his robe and castrated him. She then transfigured his testes into a pair of golden snitches, which flew away when she released them.
"That's not enough," said Harry.
"Delibro!" shouted Harry as he cast the Onion Peel Curse on Malfoy. Instantly, his skin started peeling off. After that, his muscles peeled away like an onion. This made his internal organs plop. They then peeled away. Next, his bones disintegrated. By now, all that was left was a brain and nervous system. The nerves started peeling away, starting at the periphery and working their way inwards until all that was left was a brain. The layers of the brain peeled away from outside in. The last part of the brain to go was the pain center. In total, this process took thirty seconds to complete. Malfoy screamed for as long as he still had the requisite organs to do so.
"Praedia Bellica!" shouted Harry as Malfoy's Lordship ring appeared on his hand. It had an emerald, flanked by a serpent and a dragon.
Chapter 37: Book Seven: The Treaty of Hogwarts.
(Young Luna's thoughts)
{Old Luna's thoughts}
[Selena, Luna's mom's thoughts]
~Parseltongue~
To Lord Voldemort,
By now, you may be aware that we have tracked down all of your Horcruxes and destroyed them. All but one, that is. I am aware of the location of the final Horcrux and can tell you that Harry would gladly give his life to destroy it. So, you have a choice. You can die in a final battle with Harry, or you can make peace.
You may not be aware of this, but recently a dispute ended between the Muggle government and an organization known as the Irish Republican Army. After fighting each other for longer than you have been fighting the ministry, the two sides just sat down together and made peace.
I am proposing that you do the same thing. Stop your insane war and become a productive member of Wizarding society. Enclosed, is a proposed Peace Treaty. Please consider it carefully and let me know your answer.
Sincerely,
Lady Luna Potter
When Luna received Voldemort's counterproposal, she looked through it. It seemed pretty reasonable. Most of what he wanted, she expected - Lord Slytherin's seat on the Wizengamot, amnesty for the remaining Death Eaters, disbandment of the Order of the Phoenix and the Defense Association-
-expected demands
But then she got down to the deal breaker.
{Oh Shit!} Thought old Luna. {Harry is going to freak!}
Scene Break
Luna portkeyed back to her house and walked over to the Burrow. As she and Ginny walked in the garden, Luna led her to a bench and sat down.
"Ginny, I want you to look into my mind," began Luna. "I'm going to let my shields down completely and show you something that I hide, even from myself."
As Ginny began looking through her mind, Luna showed her the 3rd Battle of Hogwarts. When the scenes of horror became too much for Ginny she began screaming. This became Luna's cue to shut her friend out of her mind. She held Ginny in a hug until she stopped crying.
"Now that you've seen what I'm trying to prevent, is there anything you wouldn't do to help?" asked Luna.
"All those deaths! I'll do anything to help you prevent that!" sobbed Ginny.
"I've been in secret negotiations with Voldemort to bring his war with the wizarding world to an end," said Luna. "It was starting to look like I might succeed until he put up a deal breaker. He wants to marry the eldest daughter of Gryffindor. He wants to marry you."
"ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT!" yelled Ginny.
"Just think about it for a minute, Ginny," pleaded Luna. "If you are willing to make this sacrifice, you can save Harry, you can save Neville, you can save your family, you can save yourself from being eaten alive by werewolves. Isn't preventing all that worth making the ultimate sacrifice for?"
"Well when you put it that way -" said Ginny.
"Don't have any illusions about this though," said Luna. "Voldemort wants an heir. In order to bring peace to the Wizarding world, you are going to have to spread your legs and fuck him on a regular basis. And you must really believe that this is the right thing to do in order to get Harry and your family to go along with it."
Ginny and Luna talked for hours as they rehearsed all the objections that were likely to be raised and how to counter them.
Persuading Harry and the Weasleys to go along with this was not easy. But in the end, Luna and Ginny were able to persuade them.
And so, the Dark Lord was no more. In his place was Lord Slytherin, a respected member of the Wizengamot. The Death Eaters, Order of the Phoenix and Defense Association were all disbanded. The former Death Eaters were all granted a conditional amnesty provided that they confessed to all their crimes and apologized to all their victims.
Harry found himself unable to continue his education. Instead, he got involved in politics, wielding his ten votes on the Wizangamot. His still took his N.E.W.T.'s though, and aced them.
Ginny Weasley became Lady Genevra Slytherin. Her husband found she made a very non-submissive wife.
Author's Note
Although this is the end of this fic, it is not the end of this story. I have, in mind, a sequel in which they face a threat so great that Harry, Dumbledore and Voldemort must team up to combat it. Taking grookill's advice, I am going to name the sequel Re-Union.
Chapter 34: HBP 17: the 1st Battle of Hogwarts
(Young Luna's thoughts)
{Old Luna's thoughts}
[Selena, Luna's mom's thoughts]
~Parseltongue~
One minute, Harry was in a session of the D.A. with Karkaroff, the next instant he was sitting at a table writing an essay that he didn't remember starting. He looked up. Hermione and Ron were sitting across from him doing their own homework.
"What's going on? How did we get here?" asked Harry.
His friends looked at him in alarm.
"Harry, what's the last date you remember?" asked Hermione.
"September 17th," said Harry. "Isn't that today day's date?"
"Bloody hell!" said Ron.
"It's May 24th," replied Hermione. "Your memories of the past few months have been erased by your soul's arrival. Hang on! I've got to go get something!"
Hermione ran up to her room and retrieved a book that she brought down to the common room.
"When we realized what had happened to you and Luna, I started keeping a diary for you so that you could catch up on what you'd missed," said Hermione as she handed the book to Harry.
At that moment, the door to Gryffindor Tower was knocked off its' hinges! Through the door came five shirtless men wearing grease paint on their faces so that they resembled skulls!
"Delibro!" shouted Harry as he cast the Onion Peel curse at the lead Death Eater. The Death Eater's skin began peeling off and the man began screaming. When the muscles started to peel away, the trend reversed as he began healing and his skin grew back.
"Werewolves!" shouted Hermione. Knowing that their opponents would be able to heal any injury not caused by silver, made them change their tactics.
Wordlessly, Neville summoned his cloak.
Ginny cast a Reductor Curse at one of the Death Eaters that blew a large hole in his chest. She could see it healing before her eyes.
"Stupefy!" shouted several students as their stunners failed to subdue the werewolves.
Four of the werewolves had wands, which they used to stun some of the students that had tried to stun them.
"~Vaporo Conus!~" hissed Harry as a jet of super heated steam erupted from the end of his wand and expanded into a cone shaped area that scalded two of the werewolves badly enough that they were out of action, temporarily.
"Bifidus Caedes!" shouted Hermione as a werewolf's blood appeared next to him in the shape of his heart and circulatory system. It stayed there suspended in the air for an instant before it fell to the ground in a puddle. The werewolf gave a piercing scream before he fell to the ground, convulsing. His muscles, when suddenly deprived of blood, all cramped up at once in a searing sensation that felt like when a marathoner hits "the wall". His heart was having a massive attack as it was completely deprived of blood. His brain, without blood to hold it up collapsed in a stabbing headache that turned into a stroke.
Neville's cloak had arrived by now and he reached into its' depths and pulled out his sword and a silver dagger.
Ginny cast another Reductor Curse at the werewolf's head, keeping him incapacitated.
Ron waved his wand and some snake-like tendrils
shot out of the tip of his wand binding the lead werewolf. The werewolf flexed his muscles and broke free of his bonds.
Harry waved his wand and pushed a werewolf towards Neville.
Neville, in a figure "8" stroke, cut the limbs off the werewolf and stabbed it in the heart with the silver dagger.
"Bifidus Caedes!" shouted Hermione as she removed the little bit of blood that had regenerated from the werewolf she'd downed.
Ginny cast another Reductor Curse to keep her opponent down.
Ron re-bound his opponent, who then had to break free again.
With a wave of his wand, Harry pushed another werewolf at Neville, who dispatched it the same way he had the first.
Hermione, Ginny and Ron continued to keep their opponents subdued until each of them could get a chance to push their werewolf at Neville, who killed them all with his silver dagger.
"It looks like the 1st Battle of Hogwarts has begun, just as Luna foretold," said Harry. "Ron, Ginny, Hermione, gather up your squads and help defend the castle. Neville, get Susan and meet me on top of the Astronomy Tower. I'll go get the Slytherins. Unless Luna's wrong, we need to prevent the Headmaster's assassination."
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Several of the Slytherins were studying in their common room when the door swung open. In walked a group of Death Eaters clad in their skull masks and black robes. The walked with a swagger that said they owned the place.
"Emily, raise the alarm," said Luna. "Amanda, Stan and I will deal with these Barf Greeters."
"Time for a re-match, blood traitor!" screamed Draco Malfoy as he pointed a finger at Luna. "Avada Kedavra!"
Luna summoned her sword from within her and harmlessly absorbed the Death Curse. She then flicked her wand and snake-like tendrils shot forth and bound Draco.
"Conseco!" yelled Amanda as she cast a dismembering curse at Draco. Instead of removing Draco's arm, as the spell had last time she faced him, all that was cut off was his sleeve, revealing that Draco's lost arm had been replaced by an artificial one that appeared to be made of living diamond.
Stan, silently cast a shielding charm to protect himself, Amanda and Luna.
"Serpensortia!" shouted Theodore Nott as he launched a snake at Luna.
"Stupefy!" shouted Blaise Zabini as his stunner bounced off the shield that Stan had cast.
"Stupefy!" shouted Millicent Bulstrode as her stunner felled Blaise.
Draco's fingers ended in pointed claws, which sliced through his bonds like paper. He then pointed his finger at Luna and shouted: "Avada Kedavra!"
Luna absorbed the death curse with her sword, then channeled it back at him in the form of an energy beam, while she turned to the snake and said: "~Don't worry, I'll protect you.~"
"Delibro!" shouted Amanda as she cast the Onion Peel Curse at Theodore.
Stan cast another shielding charm on his friends.
"Protego!" Theodore was able to get a shielding Charm up in the nick of time to save him from Amanda's curse. However, the shield only protected his front.
Millicent cast a Reductor curse at the ceiling of the dungeon above Theodore and collapsed it onto him.
Draco absorbed Luna's energy beam with his arm and lunged at her, trying to cut her with his razor-sharp diamond claws.
Luna blocked his claws with her sword and tried to neutralize his magical arm by cutting it off. But she discovered that he sword couldn't cut through it.
Amanda, Stan and Millicent, all cast stunners at Draco. He was able to absorb two of them with his arm, but the third one got him.
As soon as he fell, Luna cut off Draco's head.
"Thanks Millicent," said Luna as she paused to catch her breath.
Millicent reached up to take off her Death Eater mask when-
"Delibro!" shouted Harry, who had just arrived.
Amanda dove and rolled in front of Millicent casting a shielding charm as she did so.
"She's on our side!" shouted Luna as she went to join Amanda in protecting their defector. "This is Millicent Bulstrode. She defected to our side months ago, remember?"
"Sorry," apologized Harry. "Look we need to get to the Astronomy Tower-"
"-to rescue Dumbledore," finished Luna.
Just then, Emily La Strange returned leading a group of students. As soon as they saw Millicent, they went on the attack. But between them, Luna, Amanda and Stan were easily able to block their attacks.
"SHE'S ON OUR SIDE!" shouted Luna.
"It looks like we'll have to take her with us," observed Harry.
Scene Break
After they had run into the magical barrier on the stairs, Neville Longbottom and Susan Bones shifted into the shadow realm and Shadow walked the rest of the way up the tower. They were supposed to meet the rest of Squad A at the top. Neville and Susan didn't know what would be waiting for them at the top of the Astronomy Tower. Would their friends be fighting for their lives? Was Dumbledore fighting for his life? Was it already too late?
When they stepped out of a shadow in the stairwell, they only had an instant to take in the scene before them. Professor Karkaroff was laying unconscious, a gaping and messy wound in his abdomen. A Death Eater was casting shields and counter-jinxes with blinding speed as Professor Dumbledore kept up a constant barrage against him.
With sword in one hand and wand in the other, Neville lunged forward and cut off the Death Eater's wand hand, just as Susan and Dumbledore had each cast a disarming charm. The Death Eater flew off the top of the tower and landed on his head with a sickening CRACK!
"Well done, my boy!" praised Dumbledore. He patted Neville on the back as they all went to the edge to look over at the body of the Death Eater who had fallen to his death from the top of the tower. "It looks like your Defense Association had prepared you well!"
What happened to Karkaroff?" asked Harry who had just arrived with the others.
"I'm afraid he caught an Entrail Exploding Curse," replied Dumbledore. I'm afraid he's lost a lot of blood and won't survive long enough to reach the infirmary."
"Leave that to me!" exclaimed Stan as he pulled a Blood Replenishing Potion from his bandolier and poured it down Karkaroff's throat. "He'll need another with when he gets to Poppy!"
"Hang on!" said Harry. "There's still a battle going on and Millicent here is likely to be mistaken for the enemy. Why don't you and she see to Karkaroff, while my Squad takes care of the mopping up?"
"An excellent idea, Harry," said Dumbledore as he flicked his wand and levitated Karkaroff.
Harry, Luna and their friends had already dealt with the most dangerous of the Death Eaters. They easily captured the remaining ones. Except for Wormtail, who, in his animagus form, was small enough to slip away unnoticed.
On interrogation, it was found that Wormtail had led the attack through the passageway from the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade to the Whomping Willow.
And on examination, it was found that the Death Eater who had fallen to his death from the top of the Astronomy Tower was none other than Severus Snape.
Authors Note
You are probably wondering about what happened to chapters 25-33. The answer is that I had writer's block on what to put in place of the HBP but I already had the ending of this fic planned. So, rather than subject you to ten chapters about Quiddich and tutors, I skipped ahead. If I receive a huge number of responses from people who want to know what happened, I may be inspired to write those chapters. But for now, I'm just going to write the climax and ending of this fic.
Harry Potter is owned by JK Rowling
Chapter 34: HBP 17: the 1st Battle of Hogwarts
(Young Luna's thoughts)
{Old Luna's thoughts}
[Selena, Luna's mom's thoughts]
~Parseltongue~
One minute, Harry was in a session of the D.A. with Karkaroff, the next instant he was sitting at a table writing an essay that he didn't remember starting. He looked up. Hermione and Ron were sitting across from him doing their own homework.
"What's going on? How did we get here?" asked Harry.
His friends looked at him in alarm.
"Harry, what's the last date you remember?" asked Hermione.
"September 17th," said Harry. "Isn't that today day's date?"
"Bloody hell!" said Ron.
"It's May 24th," replied Hermione. "Your memories of the past few months have been erased by your soul's arrival. Hang on! I've got to go get something!"
Hermione ran up to her room and retrieved a book that she brought down to the common room.
"When we realized what had happened to you and Luna, I started keeping a diary for you so that you could catch up on what you'd missed," said Hermione as she handed the book to Harry.
At that moment, the door to Gryffindor Tower was knocked off its' hinges! Through the door came five shirtless men wearing grease paint on their faces so that they resembled skulls!
"Delibro!" shouted Harry as he cast the Onion Peel curse at the lead Death Eater. The Death Eater's skin began peeling off and the man began screaming. When the muscles started to peel away, the trend reversed as he began healing and his skin grew back.
"Werewolves!" shouted Hermione. Knowing that their opponents would be able to heal any injury not caused by silver, made them change their tactics.
Wordlessly, Neville summoned his cloak.
Ginny cast a Reductor Curse at one of the Death Eaters that blew a large hole in his chest. She could see it healing before her eyes.
"Stupefy!" shouted several students as their stunners failed to subdue the werewolves.
Four of the werewolves had wands, which they used to stun some of the students that had tried to stun them.
"~Vaporo Conus!~" hissed Harry as a jet of super heated steam erupted from the end of his wand and expanded into a cone shaped area that scalded two of the werewolves badly enough that they were out of action, temporarily.
"Bifidus Caedes!" shouted Hermione as a werewolf's blood appeared next to him in the shape of his heart and circulatory system. It stayed there suspended in the air for an instant before it fell to the ground in a puddle. The werewolf gave a piercing scream before he fell to the ground, convulsing. His muscles, when suddenly deprived of blood, all cramped up at once in a searing sensation that felt like when a marathoner hits "the wall". His heart was having a massive attack as it was completely deprived of blood. His brain, without blood to hold it up collapsed in a stabbing headache that turned into a stroke.
Neville's cloak had arrived by now and he reached into its' depths and pulled out his sword and a silver dagger.
Ginny cast another Reductor Curse at the werewolf's head, keeping him incapacitated.
Ron waved his wand and some snake-like tendrils shot out of the tip of his wand binding the lead werewolf. The werewolf flexed his muscles and broke free of his bonds.
Harry waved his wand and pushed a werewolf towards Neville.
Neville, in a figure "8" stroke, cut the limbs off the werewolf and stabbed it in the heart with the silver dagger.
"Bifidus Caedes!" shouted Hermione as she removed the little bit of blood that had regenerated from the werewolf she'd downed.
Ginny cast another Reductor Curse to keep her opponent down.
Ron re-bound his opponent, who then had to break free again.
With a wave of his wand, Harry pushed another werewolf at Neville, who dispatched it the same way he had the first.
Hermione, Ginny and Ron continued to keep their opponents subdued until each of them could get a chance to push their werewolf at Neville, who killed them all with his silver dagger.
"It looks like the 1st Battle of Hogwarts has begun, just as Luna foretold," said Harry. "Ron, Ginny, Hermione, gather up your squads and help defend the castle. Neville, get Susan and meet me on top of the Astronomy Tower. I'll go get the Slytherins. Unless Luna's wrong, we need to prevent the Headmaster's assassination."
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Several of the Slytherins were studying in their common room when the door swung open. In walked a group of Death Eaters clad in their skull masks and black robes. The walked with a swagger that said they owned the place.
"Emily, raise the alarm," said Luna. "Amanda, Stan and I will deal with these Barf Greeters."
"Time for a re-match, blood traitor!" screamed Draco Malfoy as he pointed a finger at Luna. "Avada Kedavra!"
Luna summoned her sword from within her and harmlessly absorbed the Death Curse. She then flicked her wand and snake-like tendrils shot forth and bound Draco.
"Conseco!" yelled Amanda as she cast a dismembering curse at Draco. Instead of removing Draco's arm, as the spell had last time she faced him, all that was cut off was his sleeve, revealing that Draco's lost arm had been replaced by an artificial one that appeared to be made of living diamond.
Stan, silently cast a shielding charm to protect himself, Amanda and Luna.
"Serpensortia!" shouted Theodore Nott as he launched a snake at Luna.
"Stupefy!" shouted Blaise Zabini as his stunner bounced off the shield that Stan had cast.
"Stupefy!" shouted Millicent Bulstrode as her stunner felled Blaise.
Draco's fingers ended in pointed claws, which sliced through his bonds like paper. He then pointed his finger at Luna and shouted: "Avada Kedavra!"
Luna absorbed the death curse with her sword, then channeled it back at him in the form of an energy beam, while she turned to the snake and said: "~Don't worry, I'll protect you.~"
"Delibro!" shouted Amanda as she cast the Onion Peel Curse at Theodore.
Stan cast another shielding charm on his friends.
"Protego!" Theodore was able to get a shielding Charm up in the nick of time to save him from Amanda's curse. However, the shield only protected his front.
Millicent cast a Reductor curse at the ceiling of the dungeon above Theodore and collapsed it onto him.
Draco absorbed Luna's energy beam with his arm and lunged at her, trying to cut her with his razor-sharp diamond claws.
Luna blocked his claws with her sword and tried to neutralize his magical arm by cutting it off. But she discovered that he sword couldn't cut through it.
Amanda, Stan and Millicent, all cast stunners at Draco. He was able to absorb two of them with his arm, but the third one got him.
As soon as he fell, Luna cut off Draco's head.
"Thanks Millicent," said Luna as she paused to catch her breath.
Millicent reached up to take off her Death Eater mask when-
"Delibro!" shouted Harry, who had just arrived.
Amanda dove and rolled in front of Millicent casting a shielding charm as she did so.
"She's on our side!" shouted Luna as she went to join Amanda in protecting their defector. "This is Millicent Bulstrode. She defected to our side months ago, remember?"
"Sorry," apologized Harry. "Look we need to get to the Astronomy Tower-"
"-to rescue Dumbledore," finished Luna.
Just then, Emily La Strange returned leading a group of students. As soon as they saw Millicent, they went on the attack. But between them, Luna, Amanda and Stan were easily able to block their attacks.
"SHE'S ON OUR SIDE!" shouted Luna.
"It looks like we'll have to take her with us," observed Harry.
Scene Break
After they had run into the magical barrier on the stairs, Neville Longbottom and Susan Bones shifted into the shadow realm and Shadow walked the rest of the way up the tower. They were supposed to meet the rest of Squad A at the top. Neville and Susan didn't know what would be waiting for them at the top of the Astronomy Tower. Would their friends be fighting for their lives? Was Dumbledore fighting for his life? Was it already too late?
When they stepped out of a shadow in the stairwell, they only had an instant to take in the scene before them. Professor Karkaroff was laying unconscious, a gaping and messy wound in his abdomen. A Death Eater was casting shields and counter-jinxes with blinding speed as Professor Dumbledore kept up a constant barrage against him.
With sword in one hand and wand in the other, Neville lunged forward and cut off the Death Eater's wand hand, just as Susan and Dumbledore had each cast a disarming charm. The Death Eater flew off the top of the tower and landed on his head with a sickening CRACK!
"Well done, my boy!" praised Dumbledore. He patted Neville on the back as they all went to the edge to look over at the body of the Death Eater who had fallen to his death from the top of the tower. "It looks like your Defense Association had prepared you well!"
What happened to Karkaroff?" asked Harry who had just arrived with the others.
"I'm afraid he caught an Entrail Exploding Curse," replied Dumbledore. I'm afraid he's lost a lot of blood and won't survive long enough to reach the infirmary."
"Leave that to me!" exclaimed Stan as he pulled a Blood Replenishing Potion from his bandolier and poured it down Karkaroff's throat. "He'll need another with when he gets to Poppy!"
"Hang on!" said Harry. "There's still a battle going on and Millicent here is likely to be mistaken for the enemy. Why don't you and she see to Karkaroff, while my Squad takes care of the mopping up?"
"An excellent idea, Harry," said Dumbledore as he flicked his wand and levitated Karkaroff.
Harry, Luna and their friends had already dealt with the most dangerous of the Death Eaters. They easily captured the remaining ones. Except for Wormtail, who, in his animagus form, was small enough to slip away unnoticed.
On interrogation, it was found that Wormtail had led the attack through the passageway from the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade to the Whomping Willow.
And on examination, it was found that the Death Eater who had fallen to his death from the top of the Astronomy Tower was none other than Severus Snape.
Authors Note
You are probably wondering about what happened to chapters 25-33. The answer is that I had writer's block on what to put in place of the HBP but I already had the ending of this fic planned. So, rather than subject you to ten chapters about Quiddich and tutors, I skipped ahead. If I receive a huge number of responses from people who want to know what happened, I may be inspired to write those chapters. But for now, I'm just going to write the climax and ending of this fic.
Chapter 36: Book Seven: the 2nd Battle of Hogwarts.
(Young Luna's thoughts)
{Old Luna's thoughts}
[Selena, Luna's mom's thoughts]
~Parseltongue~
Even inside the castle, the giants could be heard pounding on the gates of Hogwarts. The Prefects took advantage of the time they had to get the students from their houses to their common rooms. When the battle began, members of the D.A. would cast spells out the windows of the castle. Harry needed to be outside to lead his troops. The rest of Squad A went out to stand and fight at his side. Each of them had their wands and swords in hand. The teachers had gone to the top of the Ravenclaw Tower so that they could rain down curses on Voldemort's forces.
When the wards finally came down, there was a shimmering as Harry's Army appeared. There were 300 troops armed with Arquebuses, organized in ten units. Each unit consisted of 30 troops lined up in three rows of ten. Between the Arquebuser units were terticos of Pike men. Each tertico consisted of eight rows of eight men and each man was armed with a thirty-foot pike that was enchanted so that it weighed and balanced as though it were only eighteen feet long. In the upper room of Gryffindor Tower, appeared the Gatling gun and its crew. Their window gave them a clear field of fire over the battlefield. In the upper room of the North Tower, appeared the machine gun and its crew, much to Trelawney's consternation. Their window also gave them a clear field of fire over the battlefield. The bazooka and its crew appeared on top of the Astronomy Tower.
Voldemort's forces were more numerous than Luna remembered. Clearly, the Dark Lord had come better prepared this time. But it still wasn't the overwhelmingly apocalyptic force that she repressed the memory of from the 3rd Battle of Hogwarts. There were about 50 Death Eaters, each armed with a wand. There were another 30 werewolves. The full moon was just peaking over the horizon and they were starting to transform. There were about 70 Dementors in the rear. There were also 17 giants towering over the rest. And there, in the middle was Voldemort himself, with Nagini draped around his shoulders.
As soon as they had transformed, the werewolves went berserk and charged the army in front of them. The first rank of Arquebusers fired. Each of them was armed with a primitive, matchlock rifle. Instead of a hammer, the "S" shaped trigger pulled a lit fuse onto the pan and ignited the powder to fire the gun. Their bullet bags were enchanted so that they held an infinite supply of marble sized bullets and the powder horns were enchanted so that they could produce an infinite supply of gunpowder. When the guns were fired they imbued the bullets with a Killing Curse. Even a minor wound would be fatal. The Arquebuses produced billowing clouds of smoke as they struck down 20 of the werewolves. As soon as they had fired, the first rank moved back to reload and the second rank moved up to take their place.
The Gatling and machine guns opened up on the Death Eaters and started mowing them down like wheat. Each was enchanted so that it had an infinite supply of bullets and each imbued their bullets with a Killing Curse. In one sweep, they had killed 30 Death Eaters.
The bazooka fired at one of the giants. Its ammo box was enchanted so that it produced an infinite supply of rockets and the launcher imbued them with the Killing Curse. If a Rocket struck a giant full in the chest, the explosive Death Curse was able to penetrate the hide of the giant and kill him.
"~Vaporo Conus!~" hissed Harry as a jet of super heated steam erupted from the end of his wand and expanded into a cone shaped area that scalded three of the werewolves badly enough that they were out of action, temporarily.
"Avada Kedavra!" The Death Eaters responded by casting Death Curses. Four of them hit the crews of the Gatling and machine guns, putting them out of commission. Five of them were aimed at Squad A and were absorbed by Luna's sword. Eleven of them killed Arquebusers.
The seven werewolves who were left, charged the army and impaled themselves on the pikes. Although the pikes were incapable of killing the werewolves, it was impossible for a werewolf to do anything when it was immobilized by 10 pikes sticking into him.
The Arquebusers opened fire again and felled the remaining Death Eaters. Several of them struck Voldemort and Nagini. The Dark Lord laughed it off until he noticed that his snake was dead. He then shrieked in rage and apparated away; an act that was possible, now that Hogwarts wards were down.
The bazooka killed another Giant and rest of the giants, after hearing what had happened last time, feared to approach the Pike men. So they turned away and left, scattering and stepping on Dementors as they passed.
A mass conjuration of Patroni chased the Dementors away. All that remained was to examine the bodies so they could determine which Death Eaters had died and which were still free.
Just then, a portkey activated bringing with it 60 Aurors.
"What's going on here?" demanded Kingsley Shacklebolt.
"Voldemort attacked. It's all taken care of now. But you could take these werewolves off our hands," said Harry, indicating the seven thrashing werewolves on the ends of pikes.
As he looked through the bodies, taking off their masks to determine who they were, Harry heard a groan. There was Lucius Malfoy, pinned beneath the bodies of his fallen comrades. Harry pulled off the mask to confirm his identity.
"Oh Luuuciuuusss," called Luna. "I made you a promise, remember?"
With that, she pulled some of the bodies off his lower half, cut open his robe and castrated him. She then transfigured his testes into a pair of golden snitches, which flew away when she released them.
"That's not enough," said Harry.
"Delibro!" shouted Harry as he cast the Onion Peel Curse on Malfoy. Instantly, his skin started peeling off. After that, his muscles peeled away like an onion. This made his internal organs plop. They then peeled away. Next, his bones disintegrated. By now, all that was left was a brain and nervous system. The nerves started peeling away, starting at the periphery and working their way inwards until all that was left was a brain. The layers of the brain peeled away from outside in. The last part of the brain to go was the pain center. In total, this process took thirty seconds to complete. Malfoy screamed for as long as he still had the requisite organs to do so.
"Praedia Bellica!" shouted Harry as Malfoy's Lordship ring appeared on his hand. It had an emerald, flanked by a serpent and a dragon.
Chapter 37: Book Seven: The Treaty of Hogwarts.
(Young Luna's thoughts)
{Old Luna's thoughts}
[Selena, Luna's mom's thoughts]
~Parseltongue~
To Lord Voldemort,
By now, you may be aware that we have tracked down all of your Horcruxes and destroyed them. All but one, that is. I am aware of the location of the final Horcrux and can tell you that Harry would gladly give his life to destroy it. So, you have a choice. You can die in a final battle with Harry, or you can make peace.
You may not be aware of this, but recently a dispute ended between the Muggle government and an organization known as the Irish Republican Army. After fighting each other for longer than you have been fighting the ministry, the two sides just sat down together and made peace.
I am proposing that you do the same thing. Stop your insane war and become a productive member of Wizarding society. Enclosed, is a proposed Peace Treaty. Please consider it carefully and let me know your answer.
Sincerely,
Lady Luna Potter
When Luna received Voldemort's counterproposal, she looked through it. It seemed pretty reasonable. Most of what he wanted, she expected - Lord Slytherin's seat on the Wizengamot, amnesty for the remaining Death Eaters, disbandment of the Order of the Phoenix and the Defense Association-
-expected demands
But then she got down to the deal breaker.
{Oh Shit!} Thought old Luna. {Harry is going to freak!}
Scene Break
Luna portkeyed back to her house and walked over to the Burrow. As she and Ginny walked in the garden, Luna led her to a bench and sat down.
"Ginny, I want you to look into my mind," began Luna. "I'm going to let my shields down completely and show you something that I hide, even from myself."
As Ginny began looking through her mind, Luna showed her the 3rd Battle of Hogwarts. When the scenes of horror became too much for Ginny she began screaming. This became Luna's cue to shut her friend out of her mind. She held Ginny in a hug until she stopped crying.
"Now that you've seen what I'm trying to prevent, is there anything you wouldn't do to help?" asked Luna.
"All those deaths! I'll do anything to help you prevent that!" sobbed Ginny.
"I've been in secret negotiations with Voldemort to bring his war with the wizarding world to an end," said Luna. "It was starting to look like I might succeed until he put up a deal breaker. He wants to marry the eldest daughter of Gryffindor. He wants to marry you."
"ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT!" yelled Ginny.
"Just think about it for a minute, Ginny," pleaded Luna. "If you are willing to make this sacrifice, you can save Harry, you can save Neville, you can save your family, you can save yourself from being eaten alive by werewolves. Isn't preventing all that worth making the ultimate sacrifice for?"
"Well when you put it that way -" said Ginny.
"Don't have any illusions about this though," said Luna. "Voldemort wants an heir. In order to bring peace to the Wizarding world, you are going to have to spread your legs and fuck him on a regular basis. And you must really believe that this is the right thing to do in order to get Harry and your family to go along with it."
Ginny and Luna talked for hours as they rehearsed all the objections that were likely to be raised and how to counter them.
Persuading Harry and the Weasleys to go along with this was not easy. But in the end, Luna and Ginny were able to persuade them.
And so, the Dark Lord was no more. In his place was Lord Slytherin, a respected member of the Wizengamot. The Death Eaters, Order of the Phoenix and Defense Association were all disbanded. The former Death Eaters were all granted a conditional amnesty provided that they confessed to all their crimes and apologized to all their victims.
Harry found himself unable to continue his education. Instead, he got involved in politics, wielding his ten votes on the Wizangamot. His still took his N.E.W.T.'s though, and aced them.
Ginny Weasley became Lady Genevra Slytherin. Her husband found she made a very non-submissive wife.
Author's Note
Although this is the end of this fic, it is not the end of this story. I have, in mind, a sequel in which they face a threat so great that Harry, Dumbledore and Voldemort must team up to combat it. Taking grookill's advice, I am going to name the sequel Re-Union.
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