( May '98 )

"They're alive!" Fred and George chorused.

"Confrigo!" Harry yelled, pointing his wand at Nagini.

Draco aided Cassandra and Harry by rounding up the death eaters. He knew that by standing up against Voldemort and the death eaters, he'd be making Cassandra proud.

Voldemort shot spells at Cassandra and Harry but they dodged them, making their way towards the castle.

"Lure him into the castle." Harry instructed. "We have to kill the snake."

"Neville!" Cassandra warned but she was too late.

Neville was knocked six feet back from whatever spell was launched at him. By this time, Voldemort and Nagini had apparated away. Harry and Cassandra ran through the castle looking for Voldemort. They heard a noise come from behind them so they blasted spells in the general direction. They ran up the stairs and heard someone quickly coming, causing them to hide behind a pillar.

Harry leapt out of the hiding spot before shooting a spell at Voldemort but he blocked the spell. Voldemort apparated behind them and engaged the twins in a duel. Voldemort started walking down the stairs, causing the twins to struggle. A low hissing noise came from behind the twins which turned out to be Nagini. The twins directed the spell towards the ceiling, causing beams to fall down. They jumped off the edge of the staircase and ended up on a lower staircase.

Soon enough, Cassandra and Harry were being tied up in Voldemort's robes and were having a hard time breathing. They managed to slip out of his robes and ran across the little bridges in the castle. Voldemort ran after them, smacking them each twice. Voldemort grabbed them both by the neck before tossing them to the ground. The twins scrambled backwards before Harry began speaking.

"Hey you were right when you told Professor Snape the wand was failing you." Harry said. "You will always fail."

"I killed Snape." Voldemort said.

"What if the wand never belonged to Snape?" Cassandra asked. "What if its legions belonged to someone else?"

"C'mon Tom, let's finish this the way it started." Harry said. "Together."

The twins grabbed onto Voldemort and jumped off the ledge. Their three bodies fell on the floor with thuds in the courtyard. Harry and Cassandra groaned in pain from the fall but otherwise they were okay. The three of them each crawled towards their wands and felt like they were in slow motion.

They engaged in a duel but before they could finish Voldemort off, Voldemort's power diminished because Neville had killed the snake. Voldemort was obviously angry and engaged into another duel with the twins – well it wasn't technically a duel since there were three but it was close enough. The red light slowly overtook the green light. The lights coming from the wands died down and Voldemort's wand was ejected from his hand. The wand flung across the courtyard and into Cassandra's hand.

Cassandra and Harry watched as Voldemort turned to dust. The dust floated into the air and the Dark Lord was finally gone. The first thing the twins had done was bring one another into a hug.

Hermione and Ron walked up to the twins.

"Why didn't it work for him?" Hermione asked. "The Elder Wand?"

"It answered to someone else." Harry replied. "When he killed Snape, he thought the wand would become his. But the thing is, the wand never belonged to Snape. It was Draco who disarmed Dumbledore that night. And from that moment on, the wand answered to him. Until the other night when Cassandra and I disarmed Draco at Malfoy Manor."

"So that means..." Ron trailed off.

"It's ours." Cassandra said.

"What should we do with it?" Ron asked.

"We?" Hermione asked.

"Well, I'm just saying, that's the Elder Wand." Ron said. "The most powerful wand in the world. With that, you could be invincible."

"We're going to fix Harry's wand, fix Hogwarts, and then return it to Dumbledore's grave." Cassandra said.

The four of them interlocked their hands and stood at the bridge, awaiting what would come next.