Chapter 10: If I Don't Make It Back From Where I've Gone

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I looked around and saw that the Gryffindor table was really full with seventeen or older students, and a big part of the Order. In Hufflepuff was almost the same number of students, and in Ravenclaw were also a lot staying. Only Slytherin was completely empty.
"Where are Hermione and Ron?" I asked.
"Haven't you found them?" mrs Weasley asked worried, but then Kingsley adressed all of us to tell us the battle plan. It was half an hour to midnight. Some were going to the high towers, others to the grounds, and Fred and George would be organising the defence of the entrances into the school.
Neville squeezed my hand, and I took a deep breath. This was it. No turning back now.

We got up to divide into groups, and I quickly got to Cedric, in case we had to go somewhere different. He hugged me for quite a while, and I saw Neville stand with Hannah. Guess we both had something for Hufflepuffs.

"If I don't make it back feom where I've gone just know I loved you all along"

Then I went to one of the towers with Neville, while Cedric went into the grounds, for duels, mostly, and Harry went to find Hermione and Ron, but would later join us. From the Astronomy Tower, we could shoot our best spells at the Death Eaters.
What made me most mad, was seeing Bellatrix, just shooting spells around, while laughing madly.
Suddenly, Neville frowned at me.
"What?" I yelled above the noise.
"Where are the-" then he mouthed "-Horcruxes?"
"Don't know," I said. "Thought Ron had them."
"Yeah, but where is he?"
I frowned to myself. Where were the Horcruxes? A spell shot right past my ear, and I forgot about the Horcruxes, and focussed on the enemies below. A nervous feeling in my stomach told me that even if they were destroyed, the Horcruxes, Harry would still be the last one. If I was right.

We saw that there were too many, and Professor Sprout had an idea to distract them, so Neville, Hannah and I, and a few others went with her. We went all the way to the greenhouse, put on the earmuffs, and took each a bunch of Mandrakes. If we let them fall on the Death Eaters, they would be very deaf soon.
On our way, I passed two women that looked very familiar.
"Sally-Anne? Sofia! What are you doing here?" I asked in delight.
"It's a long story," Sally-Anne answered. "But Sofia here helped me escape from Death Eaters, and then we got the call that you're fighting, so here we are. Good to see you!"
"Yeah," I said, still a bit in shock.
"But I think your brother is waiting for you," Sofia said with a smile. "Go on, we'll manage."
I smiled at them both and ran after my brother.

On our way back, our arms full with Mandrakes, we passed Harry, Hermione and Ron. I stopped in my tracks, and turned to them, looking questioning, because I couldn't just yell about Horcruxes.
"We did it!" Hermione said brightly. "Both of them!"
"Nice!" I said, and ran to catch up with Neville. However, when we came to the Great Hall, where the fighting didn't continue in, I felt a heavy feeling overcome me, and I stood still.
Neville saw it, and looked back.
"Go, Nev!" I called. "I'll catch up!"

I leaned against a wall to catch my breath, put the Mandrakes on the ground and put the earmuffs off my head. Then a headache started, worse in pain than ever before. Everything went black, I didn't even have to close my eyes. A terrible feeling swept through me, and I saw a wall explode, and collapse, and the people in the portraits make a run for it as it blew up. I saw Percy and George as they knelt down by a person, trapped, underneath the bricks, dead. I couldn't hear anything, but Percy was screaming "No! Fred, no!"
"No," I whispered to myself. "No, no, no."

But the vision wasn't done. I caught a glimpse of Helena Ravenclaw, who looked shocked down at the scene.
Bellatrix and a Death Eater of whose face was familiar to me, but I couldn't give a name, were both duelling Remus and Tonks. Tonks? Wasn't she at her mother's with the baby? I guessed that she didn't want to leave her husband to fight alone. There were flashes of light, red and green, and if the vision hadn't zoomed in on the fallen, I wouldn't have seen who hit who. But the fallen were Remus and Tonks. No, no, no!

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