Harry Potter And The Unexpected Friend

Harry wasn't sure what do. Despite all of his training and his relatively easy victory over Barty Crouch Junior he was still clearly not in Voldemort's league. Gathering his courage, Harry went back on attack. He decided that he would have to use his deadliest spells and so cast "Cruormorsus", the same spell he had used against the acromantual in the maze. Voldemort was finally forced to raise a shield to defend himself, but when he did something very strange happened. Beams of pure magic stretched from each of their wands, connecting them. As they did Harry felt a strong drain on his magical reserves and knew he could not keep this, whatever it was, up for very long. Voldemort was distracted by this unexpected phenomenon, and Harry saw his chance to strike.

Harry ended the spell just as it started to form a dome above him and quickly fired off a cutting curse towards Voldemort's head. The Dark Lord had been distracted by what had happened and tried to side step the spell but was only partially successful. A long cut opened up on Voldemort's cheek and blood began to trickle down to his chin. Voldemort roared in anger and then finally began attacking Harry. Harry used his speed to avoid the first wave of spells, but as he tried to jump behind a headstone was struck with the Cruciatus curse.

Harry screamed as Voldemort held the torture curse on him. He had felt the curse before during his fight with Barty Crouch Junior, but the Death Eater's version of the spell felt lick a tickling charm when compared to Voldemort's Cruciatus. The pain coursed through every part of his body and Harry felt as if he were on verge of going insane. A moment later Voldemort lifted the spell and Harry could hear the evil man laughing at his suffering.

"So this is all the great Harry Potter can manage? Pathetic." Voldemort laughed. "I think I shall send your head back to Dumbledore. What do you think of that, Harry?"

"No good." Harry gasped. "He likes socks." The Dark Lord chuckled at Harry's response and slightly lowered his wand. Harry's trembling fingers closed tightly around his wand which he had almost dropped during his torture at the hands of Lord Voldemort. The Dark Lord took a step back and motioned for Harry to stand up.

"Get up, Harry. You do want to meet death on your feet, don't you?" Voldemort said. Harry had been slowly making his way to a standing position anyway and a moment later was finally able to stand and face the Dark Lord. Harry looked around for some last minute way to save himself, but could find nothing. He was still completely surrounded and no help was coming.

'I'm going to die here.' Harry thought with sad laugh. His little chuckle soon turned into an audible laugh which had the Death Eaters thinking that perhaps Lord Voldemort's Cruciatus had driven the Boy-Who-Lived insane after all.

"You think death is funny, do you?" Voldemort asked as he raised his wand towards Harry. Finally Harry stopped laughing and raised his wand to face the Dark Lord. "Any last words?"

"Screw you, Tom." Harry said with another laugh. Voldemort, furious with Harry's use of his true name, yelled out "Avada Kedavra" and sent the killing curse flying towards Harry who was able to leap out of the way. Around them the Death Eaters, fearing that a stray killing curse could catch them unprepared, began to search for cover. Harry returned fire with a "Reducto", but Voldemort was easily able to avoid it. The Dark Lord then cast another killing curse, but Harry was able to conjure a rock wall to shield him from the spell. The shield exploded when the curse hit it, but Harry didn't wait for the dust to clear before banishing a conjured spear back towards Voldemort. When the dust settled it was clear he had missed, but he had no time to think about it because Voldemort sent yet another killing curse his way.

Harry leapt to the side to avoid the curse, but unfortunately Voldemort had been expecting that and had summoned a headstone which slammed into Harry's side and knocked him off balance. Before Harry could recover Voldemort had cast the killing curse again. Harry's eyes widened as he saw the green spell speeding towards him. In that moment he knew he couldn't avoid it, and that he had been beaten.

The impact of the spell knocked Harry off of his feet and sent him spinning to the ground. When he landed Voldemort stood victorious over Harry and looked down at his unmoving body. Below him, Harry's lifeless eyes lay open and staring off into the distance.

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Back at Hogwarts, Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge had arrived and taken the stage in an attempt to calm the audience and look for a way in which he could take advantage of the situation for his own political benefit. With his hearing on the Sirius Black case only a day away Fudge was getting desperate to find a way to remain in office. He knew the last thing the public wanted to hear was that You-Know-Who was still alive and so he spent his time on stage promising that the Dark Lord was dead and that there was no way he could ever come back. Some people seemed eager to believe him, but others weren't convinced.

Ludo Bagman had been transferred to the Ministry of Magic for further questioning. It seemed clear that he would not face charges for his actions due to the evidence pointing towards the Imperius curse. He was however immediately fired from his position with the Ministry and rumors were beginning to circulate that the goblins had demanded he be turned over to them after his release to face punishment for crimes against them.

Harry's friends did not give up searching for more information, but unfortunately they continued to find nothing new.

Meanwhile Dumbledore sat alone in his office wondering what he could have done differently, and what it would mean if Harry died. One thing was clear: dark days lay ahead.

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