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There was a small pop, and a snarl as Voldemort was pushed backwards by one lone House Elf that was standing between him and her master. There was a growl and a bolt of green light, and Harry barely registered his own shout as the little creature, Diddy, fell dead.

Draco barreled into the room, hand clenched tightly around Harry’s, and headed for the open pot of floo powder Dobby had placed on the mantle. Lucius entered the room at a run as his son grabbed a handful of the powder, more spilling over the floor in his haste.

“Quickly, go!” Lucius shouted, as an irate Voldemort entered the room.

Harry pulled Draco into the fireplace as the floo powder fell upon the flames, turning them green.

“Father come—” Draco tried to pull his father into the large fireplace.

He was pushed back into Harry with a snarled, “Go!”

Harry realized what Lucius Malfoy was doing as Voldemort raised his wand and pointed it towards him. “Hogwarts!” He yelled as Voldemort spoke:

“Avada Kedavra.”

The last thing Harry saw through the flames was a cascade of black feathers as Draco’s screams filled his ears.

They fell out of the fireplace into an undignified sprawl of arms and legs. Harry grabbed on to Draco as the other boy scrambled to get back to the fire.

“Father!” he screeched.

“Draco, stop!” Harry yelled, fighting to keep the blond away from the flames. “There’s nothing we can do.”

The blond collapsed in a sobbing heap on the floor of Dumbledore’s office as the door was opened and Albus Dumbledore walked in, followed closely by Ron and Hermione.

Chapter 31: A Promise

For five minutes Dumbledore’s office was pure chaos.

“Harry!” both Ron and Hermione cried and ran over to where he was still sprawled on the floor.

“Are you all right?” Hermione kept asking, as if the first time he answered her question was not truthful enough.

“And what happened to Malfoy?” Ron asked after a few minutes.

Draco continued to sob into Harry’s shirt and Harry did the only thing he could think to do: let him, even though he was fast losing feeling in his lower legs because of how Draco’s body had landed on them.