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"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
Matthew 11:28
Chapter 10: The Battle of Hogwarts
"I need a break," moaned Margaret as she dragged herself toward the Great Hall. She had just finished her most recent round of training and was extremely exhausted.
Ron chuckled as he walked next to her. "Oh come now, Maggie. You can't be that exhausted." He made a devilish grin and said, "Besides, you may need some stamina for what I've got planned later."
Margaret pretended to look horrified. "Why, Ron Weasley. What ever gave you that idea?" she asked, the laughter in her voice evident.
"Oh gee, let me try to remember," said Ron. He gently pulled her into a long passionate kiss. After a while, they reluctantly broke up for the need of oxygen.
"Did that jog your memory?" asked Margaret.
Ron put on a thoughtful look. "Hmm. No! I'm going to need another reminder." They both grinned and dove into an even deeper kiss.
"Ahem." Ron and Margaret sprang apart looking very red and faced a not so happy Severus Snape. "If you were students here, I would've taken off twenty points from each of your houses and given you both a month's detention, separately."
"Oh but Professor Snape," said Margaret. "We are both full grown adults and I believe we have every right to make out where we please." She made a slight smirk while Ron chuckled behind her. Snape steered and walked away.
"Now, where were we," said Ron as he tried to pull Margaret closer to him. Margaret was about to respond when an explosion suddenly rocked the foundations of the castle. Ron and Margaret shared an alarmed glance at each other before they dashed to the Main gates and threw them open.
The Castle was under attack by Dark Forces of an incredible number! There were dragons, trolls, dementors, and all matters of dark creatures led by a elite looking troop of Death Eaters.
The other members of the Resistance streamed out of the castle. "Good Lord, it's the Killer Elite," said Remus.
"Is that bad?" asked Ron.
"Its bad," muttered Sirius. "There the worst of Voldemort's minions."
"Enough chitter chatter," said Snape. "Just split up and defend yourselves!" With that, all of the resistance fighters split up and charged into the foray of the enemy!
Ron and Margaret tried to stick with each other. Unfortunately, they were separated when the Death Eater Flame attacked them. Ron was blasted into a brigade of trolls by a reductor curse fired by Flame.
"Ron!" Margaret tried to make her way to her boyfriend but Flame stepped in front of her.
"You should worry more about yourself, mudblood," hissed Flame. She fired the Cruciatus Curse at Margaret who just managed to dodge it.
Margaret shot a disarmer at Flame but Flame simply blocked it with a shield charm. "Why, you're a beginner, aren't you?" said Flame with a malicious grin.
Margaret shuddered a little and thought, 'I'm in trouble.' She dodged another one Flame's curses. She tried firing a number of curses but Flame simply deflected all of them. 'I guess it sucks really being a beginner,' though Margaret.
"Expelliarmus!" Margaret's eyes widened as the wand went sailing out of her hand. Flame closed in on her with a malicious sneer. "It ends here, mudblood," hissed Flame. She raised her wand to perform the killing curse.
Suddenly, Margaret leapt forward and rammed a heavy punch onto Flame's nose! Flame reeled back, shocked as Margaret landed a chop on her wrist, causing her to drop her wand. "I may be a beginner at magic," hissed Margaret, "but I've been taking karate since I was seven!" With a swift combination of punches and a roundhouse kick, Margaret knocked Flame out!
It was around that time that Ron finally came to. He quickly scrambled to his feet so as to make it to Margaret when three trolls ambushed him. "Uh-oh," he muttered as the trolls closed in on him. He was just barely dodged one of the clubs swinging downward as he leapt out of the way. In the process, he ended up running into another red head.
"Watch where you're leaping, Ronald!" yelled Ginny. She fired a powerful stunner at one of the trolls and knocked it out.
"Why don't you step out of the way, Virginia?" yelled Ron. He decided to use a trick that he used back in his first year. Ron shouted, "Wingardium Leviosa!" One of trolls' clubs levitated into the air and came crashing back down onto the troll's head, knocking it out. The last troll swung their club down at them and Ron and Ginny split up to avoid the club.
Ron yelled, "Furnunculus!" just as Ginny fired the jelly-legs curse. The troll collapsed at the combination of the two curses. Ron and Ginny gave each other a high-five.
Meanwhile, Sirius, Remus, and Snape were firing curses at their enemies and staying in control. Suddenly, Sirius made a malicious grin and pointed his wand behind him and fired a minor curse. The curse hit Snape in the back of the head! Snape whirled around in anger but Sirius was looking oblivious, firing curses at his enemies again.
"Black!" hissed Snape. "Watch where you're firing your curses!"
"Oh, sorry Snape," said Sirius with a devilish grin. "There're just so many enemies here that one of my stray curses must've hit you by accident."
Snape sneered and turned back to firing curses at the dark forces. But, he then also sneeked in a minor curse onto the back of Sirius's head. Sirius whirled around in anger but Remus grabbed his wrist and glared at him.
"Just drop it, Sirius!" he snapped. Sirius grumbled and turned back to firing curses at the dark forces.
At the moment, a dragon, a Chinese Fireball to be specific came whizzing over their heads, shooting flames at the resistance fighters. Remus ducked to avoid the flames and Sirius bounded out of the way by changing into a black dog.
At that moment, a dementor came swooping down on Remus. Remus hurriedly thought up a happy thought, fighting down the memories provoked by the dementor of being bitten by a werewolf, and said, "Expecto Patronum." Though the patronus he created lacked a clear form, it was still enough to drive the dementor away. He breathed a sigh of relief as Sirius came barking up to him, still in his dog form.
The Fireball was still flying around shooting flames at the resistance fighters. That didn't last however, when Hagrid grabbed the dragon's tail and hoisted himself on to the dragon's back!
"Well now," said Hagrid looking very happy, "aren't yeh a cu'e dragon?" The dragon roared and tried to fling Hagrid off its back. The half-giant simply clung onto the dragon's horns and started patting the dragon's head! "Oh, so yeh wanna play?" said Hagrid. "Well, Lets play toge'er." Hagrid through a rope around the Fireball's neck and made it into a make shift reign. He pulled on the reign and the dragon complied. Soon, Hagrid had full control over the Fireball and was having it shoot flames at the dark forces rather than the resistance fighters. The members of the resistance started cheering when they so the dragon on their side.
"Way to go, Hagrid!" shouted Ron while waving his hands frantically.
"You're the best!" shouted Magaret.
Seeing the fireball attacking the dark forces, all of the other dragons concluded that the dark forces were the real enemy and turned on their masters! Within minutes, the dragons had rounded all of the dark forces up. The resistance fighters cheered at seemingly winning their victory.
However, all such thoughts of victory were lost when the ground trembled a little. The resistance fighters all held their breath as the tremors continued. They started to get stronger, and there was a thudding sound coming with every tremor.
Suddenly, the originator of the tremors burst out of the forbidden forest! It was a giant. A giant about 25 feet tall, extremely muscular, had long whitish hair, gray eyes, was bare chest, and was wearing a pair of large trousers and boots. He was also carrying a club about the size of a bus.
Hagrid gasped and said, "That's me cousin, Fanir!"
Suddenly, a Death Eater popped up on the giant's shoulder. He was a short, skinny man who had the image of once being chubby, and had a gleaming silver right hand.
"Wormtail!" spat out Sirius. Remus also looked extremely angry.
Wormtail laughed a squeaky laugh that resembled a rat's squeak. "Thought you had won?" he gloated. "Thought you had defeated the Killer Elite? Well too bad, because Fanir here is going to finish all of here now!"
"What's the matter, Peter?" growled Remus, sounding like a wolf, "too cowardly to fight yourself? Still relying on people bigger and stronger than yourself to fight your battles?"
Wormtail made a very ugly look at Remus. "Kiil them," he ordered the giant. The giant gave out a mighty roar and swung his club down at the resistance fighters, leaving a crater about the size of a parking lot! The resistance fighters barely leapt out of the way.
The dragons all flew toward the giant, but Fanir simply swung his club around and batted all the dragons away.
"He's me cousin," shouted Hagrid. "Let me speak wi' him!"
"Won't do any good," growled "Mad-Eye" Moody. "Look at his eyes." Sure enough, Fanir's eyes were glassy and seemed to have no life in them. "Pettigrew's got him under the Imperious Curse!"
The resistance members started firing curses at the giant, but Fanir simply glanced them off as if they were nothing. Wormtail started to laugh again.
"That won't be enough to defeat a giant!" he gloated.
"No," said Sirius. "But I know what will. And that's to get the guy controlling the giant!" Wormtail suddenly looked frightened. Sirius fired a powerful hex at Pettigrew, but Fanir put a hand around him and blocked the curse. Wormtail laughed again.
"You can not win!" He shouted with a laugh. "Now, prepare to meet your dooms!" The resistance members were starting to give up, losing hope.
"Don't give up yet!" yelled Ron. "Remember, there was a time when we were all despaired, by the way I saw it, that all changed when Harry returned! The Return of the Lion signals the defeat of the serpent! We can't give up hope when Harry hasn't even been defeated yet!"
"But where are your precious Potters now?" mocked Wormtail. "Not here. Fanir, kill him first."
Fanir roared and charged at Ron who was glaring at Pettigrew defiantly. All of the Weasleys turned completely pale as the giant gave a mighty heave and swung his club down at Ron!
Margaret and Ginny screamed. "Ron! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Both of them burst into tears as the club came crashing down on Ron.
However, Ron was not crushed by the club to everyone's surprise, including Ron himself. For at the last minute, someone had leapt in front of Ron and cast an extremely powerful shield charm that deflected the monster club! It was the armored rider on the stag.
"Good job," said the rider in a clear feminine voice. "I'm sure that Harry is very proud to have a best friend like you."
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A/N Although I love Yokohama, Japan, there are times when I just plain miss life in Portland, Oregon. All well, I'll be back there next September anyway. So, please R/R this chapter. I'm starting to fall behind schedule a little on my writing but if you review, I'll continue the daily updates.