For one Harry Potter, life sucked. At the final battle, he had destroyed Lord Voldemort easily enough but they all hadn't known he had created even more horcruxes, many more. So, Voldemort was once again, a wraith like creature and Harry Potter knew it too. As a wraith, Voldemort gained even more power than both the previous two lives he hd lived and Harry Potter studied to defeat Voldemort once again.

No one on the light wanted to believe that Voldemort was still alive, save for his two friends, Hermione and Ron. So, while everyone else was celebrating and putting together the destroyed ministry, the trio searched for the newly created horcruxes. Unlike last time though, Voldemort used simpler artifacts from around the world and hid them in heavily warded and trapped areas.

Within a year, Voldemort rose to power again and within another year, all the world was fighting. On the second year of Voldemort's return, the statute of secrecy was broken and soon hundreds of millions of muggles were killed. The trio kept searching for the horcruxes and had now only managed to find and destroy one.

As they traveled, they studied all manner of assorted spells and trades. Ron focused on wide-spread destruction spells and strategy. Hermione focused on barriers, wards, and single-target destruction spells. Harry learned everything The other two crammed in him: wide-spread and single-target destruction spells, charms, transfiguration, healing spells, wards, runes, dark magic, and blood magic. They all learned advanced light magic, muggle weaponry, and their animagus forms.

Ron loved to use his long handled double bladed axe while his animagus form was an enormous, fire-breathing dragon; type- Wyvern. In his animagus form, as the largest of all dragons, he could easily crush a group of deatheaters underneath his weight while remaining impervious to spells because of his thick dragon-hide. His thick hide even negated most muggle attacks once the statute of secrecy was broken and the muggles hadn't known who was on their side. Thick hind legs with clawed feet that could pick up a pair of adult bull elephants easily made up for the fact this form had no fore-arms.

Hermione used mainly knives to get up close an personal or used her advanced sniper rifle with superior muggle sighting and her animagus form was a beautiful tawny owl with long sharp claws and a wingspan of two feet. Once she had discovered discovered her quite animagus form, she easily spied on any deatheater and commandeered any owl mail by stealth. During battle she could easily change between her two forms to claw out the eyes of her foes or fly farther away to kill from more of a distance.

Last, Harry used the sword of Gryffindor as his weapon and his animagus was a surprise. Once he discovered his first animagus form, the shadow phoenix, he became a natural animagus as long as he carried an aspect of the specific animal with him, but each animal had the black coloring of his phoenix form.

Five years after the second rise of Voldemort, the trio had been captured after a long drawn out struggle. The only reason they hadn't escaped was because of Bellatrix Lestrange holding Remus' and Tonks' only son, Teddy. Once Teddy's parents had been killed at the "final" battle, the young baby had been given to his grandparents to raise him since the trio were trying to find horcruxes. Now, holding the five year old ransom, the trio surrendered.

Cuffed and dragged to the Ministry Ruins to stand before Voldemort, Ron and Hermione were both killed with the a simple cutting curse and both now sported gaping smiles gushing blood from their throats. "Now Harry Potter, what to do, what to do." Voldemort made a farce of having to think hard on how he was going to handle the 22-year old Harry Potter. All Harry could do now was cry silently as he stared at the silent bodies of his now dead friends. "Oh, I know, I'll let you live, but just for a little while. I want to break you for every price of my soul you destroyed."