Lord Voldemort was killed yesterday in an epic battle at his former school, Hogwarts, in northern England and his opponent was none other than the Boy Who Lived, Harry Potter. Potter, 17, and the Dark Lord came face-to-face for the second time that night to fulfil the words of the prophecy concerning the two of them: neither can live while the other survives. In a daring move, Potter confronted Voldemort and used his former name of Tom Riddle, to the shock of the Dark Lord. “Neither can live while the other survives,” he told Riddle, “and one of us is about to leave for good.” The battle started raging when Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, also 17, returned to the school knowing that their nemesis was headed there. Weasley’s sixteen-year-old sister, Ginny, along with their friends Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood, sent out the call to war for Dumbledore’s Army. Shortly afterwards, the Order of the Phoenix arrived and Hogwarts began to prepare for battle. At 7 PM Lord Voldemort delivered an ultimatum to the entire castle and the rebels within it: deliver Harry Potter to him by midnight or everyone would die. No-one made a move to respond to this call and the battle started up again shortly before midnight, when Potter went missing. Everyone assumed that he was fighting somewhere else in the grounds – they could not have believed that his true purpose had been to go to the Dark Lord and deliver himself for execution. Finally, the two met once more in the Great Hall after Potter made himself known by throwing up a Shield Charm to defend his girlfriend of one year, Ginny, and her mother, who were about to be targeted by Riddle’s evil eye. A conversation ensued between the seventeen-year-old and his arch-enemy, before both simultaneously cast spells. In this moment, Tom Riddle’s Killing Curse rebounded and killed the man who had cast it, and Potter became the true master of the Elder Wand, one of the three famed Deathly Hallows. Hogwarts is rebuilding from the chaos and hopes to re-open to students in 1998. For now, however, it will always be remembered as the final resting place of so many who died there at the battleground in the summer of 1997 – the summer of victory.