Forbidden (Barty Crouch Jr)

16. Battle at Hogwarts

Chapter Sixteen

                 

“Everybody, back to your dormitory’s and stay there or you will be expelled!” Professor McGonagall yelled to the different houses of students, as she passed them all gathering in the halls, close to where the noises were coming from. She was practically running as she made her way down the hall. She had her wand out ready, and dressed in her duelling robes.

It had only been about 2 hours since I had gotten back from my talk with Barty. From the noises I could hear, things were starting to escalate, and I had joined all the other students in the halls from down in the dungeons.

“What the hell is going on?” A third year Hufflepuff boy asked, looking frightened.

“Death eaters” mumbled Ginny “Harry, Ron and Hermione and some of the other older students of Dumbledore’s Army are fighting them, along with the Order of the Phoenix. Harry would not let me fight, he said it is going to be way to dangerous”

I looked at her like it was the first I was hearing of this. I felt more worried now. Fred and George had told me about the Order of the Phoenix. They are a group of wizards who are brave enough to stand up and fight against Voldemort and his followers. Fred and George joined them as soon as they turned 17. I wondered if they were here in the school right now, fighting against the dark lord.

I could not just stand here and do nothing anymore. I needed to help, but what side? I was still unsure. On one side there is Barty; the love of my life, and the other side Fred and George; my best friends.

I began to run down the hall with my wand out, the way Professor McGonagall had gone.

“Where are you going Laylah?” Ginny yelled out to me.

“To help” I yelled back to her.

I ran as fast as I could, by the sound of things all the noise was coming from outside the castle in the grounds near the forbidden forest.

I got outside to see many curses flying everywhere, they lit up the darken grounds that were covered by witches and wizards everywhere, fighting for the sides of good and evil. I ducked as a yellow curse went flying over the top of my head. I had no idea who had cast it, and nobody had really seemed to notice I was there yet.

In the distance I could see Barty duelling with Lupin and Tonks. I gasped as curses went flying at him, but he managed to block each one with ease.

I saw Hermione, Ron and Neville duelling my father. I pulled my hood up of my robes so my face could not be seen in the dark and went over to help.

I shot a curse at my father that caught him of guard and hit him in the arm. He held his bleeding arm and looked up at me.

He face gasped in horror “You!” he growled. Did he recognise me even with my face hidden?

“I always knew you would grow up to be a traitor Laylah, I don’t care if you are my daughter, I will kill you myself” My father raised his wand and I closed my eyes waiting for what was to come.

“Avada Kadavra”

I opened my eyes when nothing hit me, to see it was not my father who had sent the curse, it was Barty who had sent it, at my father, who now laid dead in the grass of Hogwarts grounds.

I looked up at Barty who frowned at me “Get out of here!” He yelled to me. He looked around to make sure none of the other death eaters had noticed he had killed one of there own.

He seemed satisfied when no one seemed to notice, and went off into the crowd of people to look for his next victim.

I could not believe what had just happened, Barty Crouch Jr had just killed my own father to save my life. I knew right then and there that Barty loved me as much as I loved him.

“Laylah are you okay?” Hermione asked me out of breath. She was covered in scratches, blood and dirt, but so was everyone else.

“I’m fine, where is Harry?” I asked her looking around in the crowd.

“He went into the forbidden forest to find Voldemort,” She sobbed.

“Why the fuck did he do that for?” I asked in disbelief.

“Dumbledore’s dead Laylah” Ron said shaking his head sadly “Snape killed him, and then Voldemort himself attacked Snape so he could be the owner of Dumbledore’s wand. It’s all very complicated really” Ron continued “but Snape gave Harry his memory as he was bleeding to death from being attacked by Voldemorts Snake, and it turns out Snape was on our side all along and it was Dumbledore’s plan for Snape to kill him”

I looked at Ron with a look of confusion on my face. Well I never saw that coming, I seriously believed that Snape was a Death eater.

“Harry has been destroying this things called Horcruxs with Dumbledore over the past two years” Neville told me “They all have apart of Voldemorts soul in them, there is only one left; his snake. All Harry has to do is kill the snake and Voldemort can be killed”

I shook my head “That will never happen, He won’t let anything happen to his pet”

I knew right then that we were screwed. Voldemort was going to kill Harry and I will have to marry Draco still.

At the far side of the grounds I could see Percy Weasley, and one of the Weasley twins fighting Bellatrix. I knew she was quiet powerful and they would need help. I left Hermione, Ron and Neville, and made my way around the side of the fight. One my way over to them I stumbled over some dead bodies. I looked down to see the dead bodies of Lupin and Tonks. I felt sad, Barty must have killed them, but it was better them than Barty. I looked up at the fight between the Weasley brothers and Bellatrix.

What I saw next took the breath right out of my lungs. Bellatrix had sent the killing curse and it hit the Weasley twin right in the chest, he fell down dead.

Bellatrix’s laugh could be herd all around. But before she could kill Percy too, Molly Weasley had begun to battle her, she screaming and crying at the same time about the loss of her son.

Tears filled my eyes and I ran over to the body that Percy was holding in his arms while sobbing. I had no idea, which one of my best friends had just died. It was too dark for me to tell just yet. As soon as I had reached them, I dropped to my knees next to the dead body.

“No Fred!” I sobbed as I hugged the cold stiff body of my best friend.

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