73). Rage of the Grandchildren
Harry POV
I awoke in a place that looked a lot like Lovegood Manor, except for the fact it was full of Death Eaters and pictures of the Malfoys flooded the place. My eyes adjusted, but they were still blurry. I didn't have my glasses on. Hermione, Ron, Y/N and Lana were awake as well while Nathan, Bellatrix, Narcissa and Lucius walked up to us and Bellatrix took her wand to my face. Scabior lifted my hair to show my forehead as Bellatrix shone her wand at my skin to find my scar.
Surprisingly, they didn't find it.
"Where is it?!" Bellatrix said. "The scar!? Get Draco."
The Malfoys looked at each other as Nathan pushed along Draco to us. Lucius got down to his son's level and said, "Look closely, son. If we are the ones who hand Potter to the Dark Lord... everything would be forgiven, it would all be as it was understood."
"You mean you would be forgiven,' Y/N scowled. "Tom's pissed at you from what I remember."
"DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK HIS NAME, CHILD!" Bellatrix roared at him.
"dOn'T yOu dArE sPeAk hIs naMe, cHild?!" He mocked her in an impression of her voice. "FUCK 'EM! I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT HE CALLS HIMSELF, HIS NAME IS TOM FUCKING RIDDLE!"
"Don't dare to talk to me like that in my own house," Narcissa warned him.
"You do realize you're our aunt, right?" Lana questioned. "By that logic, we're allowed to speak our minds."
Draco looked at me and stared at the lumps at my face. "What's wrong with his face?" He asked.
"Yes," Lucius said. "What is wrong with his face?"
"We captured them like that," Scabior said."Something when we captured them in the forest, I reckon."
"No matter," Nathan dictated. "Send them all to the cellar. We will see what to do next."
"Tom killed your mother, you know that!?" Y/N said. "She's dead! And so is Grindelwald! What do you have to say to that, dickhead!"
Nathan looked back with a glare. "She was never my mother." He said coldly as Y/N's eye glowed.
"Hold the twins in the basement!" Bellatrix cackled. "And the boys in the cellar. I'd like a conversation with this one..." She said to Hermione as she inched closer to her. "Girl to Girl!"
"Don't you dare!" Y/N said as he budged from his chains, but the Snatchers unaffected by his and Lana's spell and the 0ther Death Eaters separated us. "Don't do anything to her! You hurt her at all and I'll kill every single person in that room! I won't hesitate to kill either of you bitches!" But the twins were taken to another room while Ron and I were put in the cellar.
"We can't leave them all alone!" Ron said. "If they do anything to Hermione, Y/N's gonna be so pissed."
"Ron? Harry?" a dream-like voice said as we both turned around to find Luna, Anne, Ollivander and a goblin standing there. I smiled for a moment, Y/N and Hermione will be glad to know Anne and Luna weren't hurt.
"The Sword is meant to be in my vault,"" Bellatrix said behind us. "How did you get it? Did you and your friend STEAL IT FROM MY VAULT!?"
"We didn't take anything," Ron answered.
"I do not believe you," Bellatrix answered. "Maybe the screams of the Mudblood will make you answer, it may fill you with worry..."
"If I were you," I said. "I would be worried the most."
"And why is that?" Bellatrix answered.
"Cause if anything happens to Hermione," I said. "Y/N isn't gonna stop until the bastards responsible for hurting her have suffered enough."
The witch sneered and left. "We have to do something!?" Ron said.
"We tried everything," Anne said. "It's enchanted. I tried anything Professor Lovegood taught me, but nothing works." I pulled something as Luna looked at me.
"You're bleeding, Harry," She said calmly. "It's a curious thing to keep on yourself."
And suddenly, we heard Hermione scream in pain and fear. Her screams resonated through the manor with Bellatrix's mad cackling echoing after it.
"STOP!" We heard Y/N yell. "STOP HURTING HER, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! TORTURE ME! TORTURE ME! DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO ME, JUST DON'T HURT HER, PLEASE!!"
"Please stop torturing her!" We heard Lana say. "She's done nothing to deserve this!"
"You hearing her screams is torture enough for you," Nathan said. "And it's more of the fact she even exists for us to torture her."
Just then, a crack was heard as a small figure appeared in the room. The figure turned around and revealed themselves to us. "Dobby?" I asked.
"Dobby has come to rescue Harry Potter!" Dobby cired. "Dobby will always be there for Harry Potter!"
"You say that you can apparate out of this room?" Ron asked. "Can you take us with you?"
"Of course, sir," Dobby said. "I'm -- I'm an elf."
"Well, Dobby," Ron asked. "Take Luna, Anne, Mr. Ollivander and the goblin, please. Take them to Shell Cottage, it's near the sea. Trust me."
Dobby readied himself as Anne and the others got closer. "When you're ready, sir," She and Luna said at the same time.
(A/N: LUNA FRICKING LOVEGOOD I LOVE YOU SO F*CKING MUCH!!! I JUST WANT TO HUG THIS ADORABLE HUMAN....)
"Sir?" Dobby asked. "I like her very much!" He took their hands and looked back at us. "Meet me at the top of the stairs in ten seconds."
With that, the five of them disappeared away. Not before we heard an explosion above us and a Death Eater yelled in pain with a crash above us.
Now... Y/N and Lana were royally pissed off.
Y/N POV
Hermione's screams resonated through my head. It hurt me inside to hear her in pain. They should be doing this to me, not here. Nathan has a grudge with me and Lana. But her screams brought tears to my eyes, they were too haunting.
"Crucio!"
"Crucio!"
"Crucio!"
"Crucio!"
"Crucio!"
"Crucio!"
"Crucio!"
With each Crucio, Hermione's screams got louder and louder. And I couldn't do anything to stop it according to them.
They were wrong. DEAD WRONG.
I got angrier and angrier at the Death Eaters and the Snatchers as Nathan and Bellatrix kept hurting her. Until we had both had enough and thought it was time to give them hell.
"Absolvisti," I muttered angrily as my bonds broke with Lana's. Unfortunately, the Snatchers hear it, but it didn't matter. I was too fucking pissed. At all of the Snatchers and the Death Eaters. At my so-called "Aunt" and "uncle" for torturing her.
All I saw was pure hatred and rage. And I was ready to take it all out on them.
"Avada-"
"Oscuasi." Lana said, just as mad as me and the mouth disappeared off the Death Eater. I teleported behind him and pushed him to the ground. The Death Eater's eyes rose in fear as they saw my eye glowed and my hands reached for his collar.
"This is a fucking message," I growled coldly. "To the little bitch Tom fucking Riddle. He messes with the ones I care about... and his followers will suffer a fate worse than death."
"And another thing," I continued. "Don't... lay... a... fucking... hand... on...my... fiance or my daugther."
Then I threw his body into a wall like a rag doll, not caring whether he lived or not. Voldemort would know my message and my rage wrecking the halls of Malfoy Manor.
Lana was just as furious as I was. "Bombarda," we muttered at the door as it exploded into a million shattered wood splinters. The lights flickered and fire started in various places.
Now... where the fuck are Bellatrix and Nathan.
We both walked out with our eyes glowing and renewed rage for the Death Eaters as more of them spotted us.
(A/N: For this portion, Play, "Blood//Water" As this is going on. Gives it a badass vibe. Where the bass drops.)
https://youtu.be/-V6yHNtGV2A
(A/N: Whoever made this, you're awesome. This fits with Grindelwald's character, even if Johnny Depp won't be Grindelwald anymore.)
"Expelliarmus!" I shouted at them as their wands flew out of the way and Lana yelled out, "Incendio!" causing some of the furniture to burn around us. The Snatchers were there and tried to take the both of us, but they were no match. I no longer had mercy for any of them. I summoned my dagger to my hand and flung it as we continued to attack the Snatchers from all directions with a combination of turning into our Animagi, a barrage of spells, a couple good old punches. I threw one to the ground and another into a wall until I reached Scabior, the one who was hitting on Hermione.
I charged him, grabbed him by the neck and pressed him against the wall. "Look at me." I said coldly. "LOOK AT ME!" I yelled as he stopped fidgeting. "You sick hopeless pieces of shit," I growled. "Preying on teenage girls? With those sick, twisted thoughts in your mind!? You make me sick."
"I wonder," Lana said as Scabior struggled to breathe. "What will Tom think... when he sees this legion of Death Eaters... beaten to death by two supposed, 'Children'?"
"We have no more mercy," I said as Scabior held his hands to his neck. "And if any of you try to hurt Hermione again, they'll know what we did. And what I'll do to you." And with that, I let go of him...
And slit his throat.
He reached for his neck again and struggled to breath as blood flowed out of the cut. "Try to talk, you'll just damage your vocal cords." I said coldly once more. "Best to just, let nature take its course." Scabior fell to the ground, now limp and lifeless as more blood leaked out.
Just then, a set of footsteps came into the room as we both turned around, ready to fight or possibly kill whoever wanted a piece of us, but we loosened when we saw it was Draco.
"My god," he said. "I know how that feels." He looked up at us and took out our wand. "I'm on your side, remember?" he said, trying to cool us down. "Just take a breather."
I took a deep breath in as Draco said and he handed me my wand. "Granger's being tortured in the dining room by Aunt Bellatrix," He said. "My mother is there too. You take a way in and I'll take another. Good luck, Potter and Weasley seem to have escaped from the cellar too." Draco patted us on the shoulder and took the way he said he would, while we took the other.
"Who Stole it!" Bellatrix yelled. "Who stole it!"
"It's impossible to break into Gringotts," Hermione said breathlessly. "The sword is there!"
"Mudblood, I honestly don't see why my bastard of a nephew is in love with you." Nathan said as my blood boiled. "Liar. Crucio!"
Hermione screamed in pain again as Bellatrix kneeled down with her knife and cut into her skin. From across the room, we could see Ron and Harry on the other side. I teleported behind Nathan as Bellatrix's eyes widened and I stabbed Nathan in the back as he yelled in pain.
"SURPRISE, MOTHERFUCKER!" I yelled and came to his other arm where the Dark Mark laid and etched over it, writing the word, "BASTARD" over it as the blood washed over the mark. But Bellatrix had already pushed me and Lana to Harry and Ron's side, who had taken out the Death Eaters on their side.
"Drop your wands!" Bellatrix said as she picked up Hermione and held her knife to her throat. I wanted to scream for her not to, but that might just give her the reaction she needed. " I said drop them! Pick em up, Draco, now!" She commanded and Draco obeyed before winking in our direction. Harry and Ron didn't even notice he did.
"Look who we have here," Bellatrix said. "It's Harry Potter and the Lovegood twins. Whole, bright, shiny and new! Just in time for the Dark Lord. Call him." She said as she turned to Draco. "Call him!"
He rolled up his sleeve and pressed the wand to the Mark as it turned black, but I heard squeaking above us. The chandelier above us was loosening up. And none other than Dobby was the one loosening it. Eventually, it caught everyone's attention as Draco discreetly took his wand in fake surprise as he watched Dobby.
The final screw went off, and it dropped near Bellatrix and Narcissa. Fortunately, Bellatrix's hold let go and I ran to Hermione, catching her in my arms and she buried her head in my chest, crying. Dobby emerged near us as we all looked at the Death Eaters and I tried to comfort Hermione as she muttered into my chest.
"Stupid elf!" Bellatrix scolded Dobby. "You could have killed me!?"
"Dobby never meant to kill," Dobby said, still in fear of his old masters. "Dobby only meant to maim or -- seriously injure."
(A/N: Y/N's obviously holding Hermione. F*ck Romione.)
"How dare you take a witch's wand!?" Bellatrix scolded the elf once more. "How dare, you defy your masters!?"
Dobby stood up bravely. "Dobby has no master!" He cried with his chest out. "Dobby is a free elf... And Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!"
With a snap of his fingers, he disarmed Bellatrix while Harry ran to Draco and forced his wand out of his hands. If only he knew Draco was working with us. Dobby took our hands and began to disapparate out, but Bellatrix had taken her dagger and thrown it in our direction. I didn't know if it came with us, but we arrived near a shoreline with a beach and some familiar people on the coast.
I checked to see if any of us were stabbed, thankfully none that I saw were stabbed. But boy, how wrong was I.
"We are safe," Ron said. "We're all safe." Harry looked around since Dobby didn't appear at the same place, but our hearts broke when we saw the elf.
He was hit by the dagger.
"Harry Potter..."
"Dobby!" Harry cried as we all ran to the dying house elf, who just saw the dagger lodged in his body. Harry laid down Dobby in hopes to stop the bleeding and I carefully removed the dagger and threw it to the side.
"Hold on, hold on," Harry choked and held back tears. "Hold on, yes?"
"We're going to fix it, Dobby," I said breathlessly. "Just hang on a little longer, okay? Please? For Y/N Lovegood?"
"Hermione!" Harry yelled. "The dittany... in your purse!" Hermione was still frozen in fear after her torture with Bellatrix as Lana held her. "Harry... we have to keep him here as long as we can," I said.
"It's... so beautiful than alone..." Dobby choked as he looked at us. "With you here as friends... Dobby... is happy... that he may be... with his friends... Harry Potter and Y/N Lovegood." Suddenly, Dobby went still in Harry's hands and his eyes no longer glimmered with the hopes of being free. He was already free, now roaming up there.
It broke me to see him gone. The small elf that tried to help us 5 years ago was now gone. Harry was sobbing as Luna and Anne walked to us, saw Dobby's lifeless form and kneeled down to our level. "We should close his eyes... don't you think?" Luna said in an almost mournful tone as we nodded. Anne reached her hand towards Dobby's eyes and closed his eyes.
"There," She said from next to me. "Now he can be resting." I looked at her and she did the same while she hugged me. It was the first time in 6 months that I saw her again.
"I want to bury him..." Harry croaked. "...Properly, without magic."
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Hours later, we reunited with everyone else as we gathered for Dobby's funeral. Harry, Ron and I had dug out his grave and Fleur gave us a cloth to wrap Dobby's body. Hermione was still recovering from Bellatrix and Nathan's torture and I gave her the space she needed at that moment while I focused on Dobby's funeral. Lana and Anne were helping Fleur and Bill around while I came in to grab somethings. "It's beautiful here," Luna said as she looked outside next to the wind chimes.
"It was our aunt's," Bill said. "We used to come here as kids. The Order uses it now as a safe house -- what's left of us anyway."
Luna kept looking at the wind chimes and tapped them again. "Muggles think these keep evil away. But they're wrong. Anne told me more about the Muggle World."
I smiled at Luna as I went on to find everything. Fleur told me there was a closet around with some tools and I had finally found it before I heard a voice call me. "Y/N?"
I turned around quickly to find Hermione looking at me and she walked over to hug me. "Hey, 'Mione," I said comfortingly to her. "Are you feeling okay to talk? What did Bellatrix and Nathan do to you, Love?"
"T-They tortured m-me," she hiccuped as she pulled away. "Nathan hit me with the torture and curse... and Bellatrix did this." I was confused as she took her sleeve and rolled it up and I saw what cruel, vile act my aunt did.
Similar to what Umbridge did to me, she had a scar etched in her skin. Hers read out, "Mudblood," In jagged writing as some blood threatened to come out of her hand. I couldn't believe they did that. Hermione was almost crying again and I held her closer to me.
"Hey, hey, hey," I said softly to her. "Don't cry, please. I don't want to see you hurt by anything. That word isn't going to change anything. It won't make me change the way I feel about you. It won't change my decision about marrying you. Nothing about you will change my mind about how I feel about you." She looked up at me with a small smile on her face and I inched closer to her to kiss her.
"You've been working on Dobby's funeral, right?" She said. "Take some rest, you've been working hard for him. Spend some time with me, please?" She asked softly.
"What reason do I have for not spending time with my lovely fiancée?" I said as she smiled again and kissed me. I'm sure Ron and Harry will understand. Hermione led me to the room she had occupied herself in and invited me into the bed with her.
We talked, just like we would back at Hogwarts before we started hunting Horcruxes and we were talking about what we'd do after Hogwarts asides from getting married. Hermione snuggled into me as we continued to talk as her sleeve still exposed the Mudblood scar and she kept looking at it.
"Don't think about it too much, sweetheart," I said as I gently placed my hand on hers and rolled my own sleeve. "If anything, we're scar buddies of sorts. Who cares if either of us are Muggle-born or a Dark Wizard's progeny." She chuckled for a moment and so did I.
It felt nice like this... just us and no one around. Hermione turned to me and looked deep in my eyes as I did with hers. I'm not sure what came over either of us, but we both crashed our lips on each other and our hands intertwined with each other as Hermione sat up and pressed me down to the bed. We continued to kiss as I felt her slide her tongue in and bit my lip. As we stopped for a moment, we looked at each other as I caressed her cheek.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" I asked as she looked at me. She looked lost in thought as she bit her lip. "Yeah..." She said. "I want this. I want to do it with you."
"Good then," I said as I flipped her in the bed, causing her to giggle while I kissed her cheeks, shoulders and left a couple lingering at her neck as she moaned softly. "You're gonna have to do a lot to tame this wolf here, baby." I flirted and left a small but short kiss on her neck, which made her want more of those as she bit her lip seductively and undid the buttons on my shirt and I did the same for her.
And those moments together were filled with pure love and bliss.
(A/N: You can imagine what happened here.)
Hermione POV
I woke up a few hours later with the blanket covering mine and Y/N's bodies. That and Y/N were the only source of heat around. That was amazing, what happened with us. Good thing we put a silencing charm on the room. Y/N stirred a little next to me as he woke up. "Hey there, beautiful," He said as I rose a little and kissed him. "How're you feeling after that?"
"Incredible, honestly speaking," I answered. "That was...wow." I kissed him again and he had done the same with a few on my neck again and a few on my shoulders.
"You know what I'm thinking?" Y/N said. "Since Anne is here... why don't we ask her if she wants to be adopted by us?"
"That's a great idea," I said with a smile and another kiss on his lips. "But we ought to get dressed first. I wonder how'd she react when she finds out we're getting married."
We laid there for a few more moments before we washed up, got dressed in our clothes and removed the silencing charm off the door as we exited. Harry walked by the corridor and laid his eyes on Y/N. "Hey, where were you?" He asked him. "Ron and I needed some help outside with Bill."
"Oh, um..." Y/N said as he scratched his head. "I was..."
"He was with me, Harry," I said for him. "He was just comforting me." I had to lie, didn't want him to know we were really doing. "Where's Anne, by the way? We were thinking of asking her if she wanted to be adopted by us now since she's here?"
"Yeah, I saw her," Harry said. "She's with Lana, talking about things and Hogwarts."
"Excellent," Y/N said. "We'll find her. And sorry about not being there."
"It's fine, Y/N," Harry said with a slight smile. "You're engaged, I understand, you both have to look out for each other."
We made our way through the corridor and found Anne and Lana talking with each other. They were talking about Hogwarts and Addison. Turns out, the Death Eaters, Alecto and Amycus Carrow, are scared of her and Addison restarted Dumbledore's Army in secret, but it was more of an Army this time. Since the Carrows taught Dark Arts, Addison reopened the Room of Requirement and began teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. Neville, Ginny and Luna were some of the other leaders working with her. Anne looked a little better after the desolate reality of Malfoy Manor and hopefully, our news can cheer her up.
"Oh, there you two are," Lana said with a smile and hugged us both as Anne turned around and smiled. "Are you doing better, Hermione?"
"Yeah, I am, Y/N and I talked and we did some things " I said to her with a small wink. She seemed to get the idea and smirked a little.
"Do you mind if we talk with Anne?" Y/N asked her. "About... you know...?"
"Oh, yes!" She said and turned to Anne. "I'll see you later, alright?" Anne nodded as Lana left the room and we sat down next to her.
"It's good to see you both again," Anne said with a small smile. "Have you both been okay? I heard with Umbridge, good riddance with her."
"Yeah, we've been alright," I said with a small chuckle. "In fact, we've had some good moments. One of them nearly has us both crying." Since I was on her left, she couldn't see my left hand, so I brought my hand to her line of sight where she saw the ring on my finger, gasped, looked up to me, then to Y/N, and then back to me.
"You're getting married!?" She said with amazement in her voice and another smile on her face. "That's amazing!" She hugged me and then Y/N, who chuckled as well.
"Yep!" I said with a smile. "We're tying the knot after we graduate from Hogwarts. Y/N's my fiancé and I can't wait for him to be my husband."
"I hope I'm invited to the wedding..." Anne said. "Although I don't know who would take me to wherever you're planning it."
"Oh, of course, you're invited to our wedding," Y/N said to her. "But not just as a guest..."
This left Anne with a confused look. "...What?" She asked with a strange look.
"What Y/N means..." I said. "Is that you'll be at the wedding. You'll be there as someone just as personal as Lana, Luna, Addison, Harry and everyone else."
"But they're your family, how would I..." Anne said before she realized what we meant. "You mean... you want to adopt me?"
"Yes, we do," Y/N said. "We realized that you should have a family... and we want to be your family if you want."
"Really?" Anne asked as tears threatened to fall out of her eyes.
"Yes, really," I said softly. "You've been like a daughter to the both of us."
"It's still your choice," Y/N said. "But at least you won't be alone anymore. We'd be your mother and father, Lana and Luna would be your aunts, Harry would be your uncle of sorts, Mum would be your grandma and --"
Before he could finish, Anne hugged us again and started to cry underneath our heads.
"Yes," She said after a while. "I want to be your daughter."
I smiled and continued to hug them. "We were hoping you'd say that." I kissed Y/N on the lips and kissed Anne's forehead.
"So you both are my mum and dad now?" Anne asked with a chuckle. "That's gonna take some getting used to."
"Unofficially, yes," I said. "We can ask Grace about it since we are adults in the Wizarding World and we can technically adopt you through that loophole. And it's gonna be the same for us too. But you'll still be our daughter."
Anne smiled and continued to hug Y/N as I sat next to him and kept hugging them both while my head rested on Y/N's shoulder. Soon enough, Anne had fallen asleep and we had too. And I was very happy that this sweet girl would soon enough be our daughter.
Lana POV
A couple days passed since we occupied space at Bill and Fleur's, but Fleur was very adamant that we didn't disturb anything. She was happy to see us, even though the circumstances weren't ideal. She was ecstatic to find out that Y/N had proposed to Hermione and that she said yes, she couldn't stop smiling and hugging Y/N tightly. She wished the both of them well in their marriage and nearly exploded with happiness when she heard they were adopting Anne.
"I am going to be an aunt already!" Fleur said (her English has been getting better). "I'm so proud!"
Harry, Ron and I were happy that Anne was going to be their daughter and frankly Anne herself was excited. She was still really giddy, which was adorable. And technically with Y/N and Hermione as her parents, she would be able to do somethings she wouldn't have been able to, like going to Hogsmeade.
Harry was still a bit on edge. "I want to talk to the goblin," He said to us as the commotion stopped. We walked to the door and knocked on it, allowing for Bill to open it as the goblin, whose name was Griphook, watched us with his darkish eyes as Bill left the room.
"How are you?" Harry asked.
"Alive," Griphook grunted.
"You probably don't remember --" Harry said.
"That I showed you to your vault the first time you visited Gringotts?" Griphook questioned him. "Even amongst goblins, you are famous, Harry Potter. As well as Y/N and Lana Lovegood. They have my respect." He looked outside where the boys had buried Dobby. "You buried the elf. I saw you."
"Yes," Harry said.
"And brought me here," Griphook eyed us. "You are a very unusual wizard."
"Why did you leave Gringotts?" Y/N asked.
"Soon the Death Eaters will control it," Griphook said as he curled his fingers. "That was unacceptable to me."
"Then you're on our side?" Ron asked.
"Ron, Griphook is a goblin," I said. "He wouldn't take part in a war with humans."
"She is correct," Griphook said. "This is a wizard's war. I take no side."
"We need to get inside Gringotts," Harry said. "Into one the vaults."
"We need to get into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault," Y/N corrected him. "I'd like to destroy that vault."
"It is impossible," Griphook grunted again.
"Alone, yes," Harry said. "With you, no."
Griphook stared at us until his eyes darted to Y/N, who now had the Sword of Gryffindor in a sheath he designed to hold it on his back. "How did you come by this sword?" He questioned once more.
"It's complicated," Harry said. "Why did Bellatrix Lestrange think it should be in her vault at Gringotts?"
"Yeah, our aunt was a Slytherin," I said. "Why would she have something belonging to Gryffindor?"
"That... is complicated."
Harry looked at the goblin. "The sword presented itself to us in a moment of need. We didn't steal it."
"There is a sword in Madam Lestrange's vault identical to this one, but it is a fake," Griphook said. "It was placed there this past summer."
"And she never suspected?" I asked. "Wow, she is really not that brilliant."
"The replica is very convincing," Griphook said. "Only a goblin would recognize that this is the true Sword of Gryffindor."
"Who put it there?" Ron asked. "The fake?"
"It was not my place to ask, nor did I desire to. There are more than a few curious things in the vaults at Gringotts."
"And in Madam Lestrange's vault as well?" Harry asked.
"Perhaps."
"I have gold," Harry said, in hopes to entice the goblin. "Lots of it."
"I have no interest in gold."
"It's pretty obvious what he wants," Y/N said. "He wants the Sword. It's goblin-made and made for Godric Gryffindor."
"Correct," Griphook said as Y/N handed him the sword for him to examine. "That is my price."
Harry pondered for a moment until he decided. "All right." He said as Hermione grabbed Y/N's hand and Ron stared at Harry.
"I have your word, Harry Potter," Griphook said. "That you will give me the Sword of Gryffindor if I help you?"
Griphook extended his hand to Harry, ready to shake as Y/N eyed the goblin. Harry looked at Griphook and shook his hand.
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After making a deal with Griphook, we had visited Ollivander, who was a little weak, but still agreed to help us identify the wands we stole, which was the wand of Bellatrix Lestrange, and what was the wand of Draco Malfoy. Since Harry had disarmed him, the wands allegiance switched to Harry. Harry had also questioned Ollivander about the Deathly Hallows, as he had revealed that Voldemort found the Elder wand.
I did feel a little upset. The moment we met our biological grandparents, they got killed trying to save us. Gellert Grindelwald sacrificed himself to save us. The Dark Wizard of the early 1900s' died doing something good. If anything, it showed he had really changed and deserved redemption.
(A/N: *cough cough* AMBER HEARD SHOULD BE FIRED. *cough cough*)
When the war is over, we will definitely give him and Grandma Vinda the funeral they deserve. We had hatched a plan for Gringotts, where we would be taking different appearances. Hermione would become Bellatrix, Y/N would become her husband, Rodolphus Lestrange, I would become Narcissa Malfoy, Ron would become someone under the name, "Dragomir Despard". Harry and Griphook would hide under the Invisibility Cloak while we were in disguise.
"This is the closest I could find to what you described, Hermione," Fleur said as she handed Hermione a long black woman's cloak.
"It's perfect," Hermione said. "Thank you, Fleur."
"You are most welcome," Fleur responded with a warm smile. "Prends soin de mon petit frère et de ma petite soeur."
(Translation: Do take care of my little brother and sister.)
Hermione giggled and looked at her. "Bein sûr. Je serai avec mon futur mari." She turned and winked at Y/N as we were talking with Bill.
(Translation: Of course. I will be with my future husband.)
"You're leaving, aren't you?" Bill said.
"In the morning," Harry responded.
"And Griphook?"
"He'll be leaving too."
"Listen, I don't know what you're up to, but I know goblins." Bill whispered. "If you've struck any kind of bargain with Griphook, you must be exceptionally careful to live up to it. If you don't... he won't be forgiving."
We nodded as I joined Y/N, Hermione and Harry went outside to Dobby's grave, where Luna and Anne were standing, watching the grave.
"The sky has lost a star," Luna said as we looked at the grave. "My father used to say that when a child died."
She looked up to us. "Funny how Mr. Dobby knew exactly where to find us."
"Yeah, funny," Harry said. "Listen, Luna, about your father, I don't want you to think I --"
"I know you understand why my father did what he did, Harry. That's why we don't need to talk about it." Luna said.
"At least Uncle Xeno fought against them," I said. "He wanted to honor Dad's memory, I suppose."
"Hogwarts?" Hermione asked Luna and Anne, who had nodded. "At least Addison is helping you all defend yourselves. Oh, and Anne?"
She said as she walked over to her and reached in her bag, revealing the bracelet that Y/N gave her in second year. I looked at Y/N, who smiled as Hermione gave the bracelet to Anne. "Y/N gave this to me in our second year to help protect me. And it helped so much. Which is why I want to give it to you."
"Really?" Anne asked her. Anne was a little shorter than Hermione, so she looked up a little at her.
"Yes," Hermione said. "You need it more than I do now. And hopefully, it will remind you of us." Anne slipped the bracelet on and hugged Hermione, who happily returned it.
"I'm so happy I'm gonna be your daughter soon." Anne said.
"Me too," Hermione said as Y/N walked over and Anne hugged him too. Anne hugged him tight as Y/N smiled and kissed her head. "You be safe for us, okay?" he said to her. "Luna, do make sure everyone is safe." Y/N and I hugged Luna as she had returned it as well.
"Of course, I will," Luna said. "I think I'll like being Anne's aunt. I do like her a lot." Anne smiled at her as they joined hands and together they disappeared.
And now... the heist begins.
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