(G.Shans A/N) hope everyone likes it, may be awhile before chapter 4 gets out, still being written, and with Spiderman, Star Wars 2, and everything else that's here this month, my mind just hasn't been on this story, I'll try to get back to it as soon as I can clear my head.
(Silverstrek A/N) Woohoo, third chapter is finally up!! As always, thank G.Shans. This, in my opinion, is the best chapter yet. It's great. Enjoy, R/R!!!
The Spell that Binds
Chapter 3
The Weasley's and Harry suddenly became very quiet and got themselves back into position. The Death Eaters walked quietly and swiftly towards the dark house where they assumed all the occupants were asleep. "Let them get close enough for our spells to have full effect," said Mr. Weasley.
Once all the Death Eaters were in range, around 50 feet away, they all yelled out, "STUPEFY." Instantly five of the ten Death Eaters fell to the ground, Fred and George had teamed up on one, and Ron and Harry had done the same, so did Mr. And Mrs. Weasley. Before the other death eaters had a chance to find their targets, the group had again uttered, "STUPEFY," and the other five hit the ground. However, before they could rejoice, another eight Death Eaters had appeared, this time, they did the same as last, but Percy and Charlie had also joined forces.
Suddenly, an extreme cold seemed to pierce the still, summer air, and before their eyes came five Death Eaters flanked by ten Dementors, "Uh oh," said Charlie in a worried voice.
"What did they have to bring them for," said Mr. Weasley in an annoyed voice that sounded like he saw a couple he didn't like at a cocktail party instead of him defending his house and his family.
"Harry, what are you waiting for," Ron said in a more panicky than annoyed voice.
"What, you mean they can't," Harry was cut off by Ron.
"No, now hurry up," said Ron in that same panicky voice. Harry thought through his memories for the best one he could find, and settled on the first task, where he got the horntail to start flying, and he grabbed the golden egg.
"What, can he create a," Charlie began to ask, but was cut off by Harry.
"EXPECTO PATRONUM," yelled Harry, and a shiny, silvery stag whooshed out of his wand. Harry's Patronus began to take out the Dementors one by one, as the Death Eaters and the Weasleys looked on, completely forgetting about their battle. The picture of the golden egg was starting to fade in his mind, and the Patronus was beginning to flicker a little, and before Harry could think of another happy thought, the memory of Ginny, smiling at him before she covered her head with the cloak, jumped to the front of his mind. As quickly as the Patronus had flickered, it began to shine brighter than it had ever done before, and after it ripped through all of the Dementors, it turned, and headed straight for the wizards next to it. Once it reached them, it tore through the first two wizards robes and left deep, gaping holes in their sides, as it's antlers also threw them aside to let it pass, it then jumped on its back two hooves as it hit the next two Death Eaters on the head with one of it's front hooves. It then switched hooves as it threw its back legs into the air, knocking the fifth Death Eater about fifteen feet away and unconscious. It then trotted around as one of the fallen Death Eaters got to his feet and disapparated.
"It's gone to warn its friends," said Fred.
"Which means that they'll stop, doesn't it?" asked George.
"Or come with a lot of Reinforcements," said Charlie.
"Uh, Oh," said Percy, looking out the window. They all followed his gaze and clinched up as they saw around sixty to seventy Dementors with two new Death Eaters and the one that was injured. Harry started thinking of every good and happy thought in his head, and held on to them; the egg, getting almost full marks for moral fiber, reaching for the cup with Cedric, being asked to live with Sirius, pulling the sword of Godric Griffindor out of the sorting hat, and of him making up with Ron last year. As he did this though, he lost the image of Ginny smiling at him, and when he looked up at his Patronus, he was startled to see what it was doing. The Patronus wasn't flickering, but it was re-molding, and then, three things started to come out of the stag, one he saw, was a huge, silvery dog, the second was a large, silvery werewolf, and the third, was a woman, who was riding the stag. When he blinked and looked back at the woman and the stag, he noticed something coming out of her, which turned into in to a big, long sword, the sword of Godric Griffindor. The woman riding Prongs, the Patronus was slicing through Dementors and wizards as she passed them, while prongs was stabbing the ones in front of him out of the way with his antlers. He looked over to the dog and werewolf and he saw that they were biting, clawing, and tearing the Dementors to shreds, while they simply knocked out and de-wanded the wizards.
Once all of the death Eaters and Dementors are knocked out or killed, They all look over the battle field from the windows, and see just how much damage they all did; lying out on the field are close to one hundred Dementors that have been torn to shreds, and around fifty to sixty Death Eaters. "Big Fight," said George, sounding rather wiped out.
"Think that's the last of them?" said Fred in the same sort of voice.
"No," Harry had said so forcefully that all of the others turned to look at him. When he saw their faces, he decided to explain, "When Voldemort consented to this attack, he told Luscious Malfoy to grab several more Death Eaters and to catch up, thinking that with so many of you, there might be some trouble, even if it was a sneak attack." "There will be more coming, he was about twenty minutes behind the main group, and it's almost time for them to show up, we should have around five minutes or so," Harry explained to them.
"Right then," said Mr. Weasley, "I'll call Dumbledore, Molly, could you get us something that might give all a boost, Charlie, Percy, take point," he then went to call Dumbledore through the fire, as Molly quickly walked into the Kitchen.
"Ginny," said Harry very quickly, realizing that she was still upstairs, "she might think we've finished, someone should tell her, Ron you look a bit weak, so I'll do it. Harry set off up the stairs to let Ginny know.
When he opened the door he walked in, Ginny uncovered her head, "is it over?" she asked, and Harry just realized she was now on her bed.
"No, there is just a bit of a break in the fighting, the next group will be here in about three minutes or so, make sure to stay covered," Harry said as he shut the door behind him on his way back downstairs.
When Harry got downstairs, he saw Mrs. Weasley passing out some chocolate, and some bottles of butterbeer, Harry took the piece of chocolate and the butterbeer that Mrs. Weasley handed to him, as Mr. Weasley started speaking. "Eat and drink quickly, they'll be here any minute, get into position, Dumbledore will be here in a few minutes, all we got to do is hold them off until he arrives, he'll finish them off, if they dare to challenge him."
"Good," said Harry, as he swallowed the last of his chocolate and finished off his butterbeer, he felt a lot warmer, and almost back to full strength. He turned to look at Ron and asked, "hey Ron, you okay?"
"Yeah, now, thanks mum."
"You're welcome, now go on, get into position," with that, Harry, Ron, Fred, George, and Mrs. Weasley went back to their positions, and with a flick of his wand, Mr. Weasley turned out the fire, so it was once again dark in the house.
Harry took the nails he had next to him from the Dursley's fireplace, and enlarged them each to the size of small spikes, then Charlie said, "so many stunning spells are using up our powers quickly, we need to think of something else."
"First things first," said Mrs. Weasley, "their wands," then she yelled, "ACCIO," and all the wands of the unconscious Death Eaters came inside the house and laid themselves at her feet.
"I don't know, what about," but Harry cut off Percy.
"Snakes."
"What," asked Mr. Weasley.
"Snakes, serpensortia, if all of us do it, then we may just have a chance to hold them off," said Harry confidently.
"Excellent idea," said Ron, understanding what Harry had meant.
"Oh, I get it, brilliant idea," said George, with an impressed look on his face, and then he turned to Fred and a sparkle shined in both their eyes.
"I forgot, you're a parseltounge, perfect," Fred said in an astonished voice.
"What, you're a parseltounge, I never knew, great, but we'll have to use an engorgement charm on them to make them effective enough," said Charlie.
"What, you didn't know, but Rita Skeeter," said Harry.
"Most of us stopped reading her articles after her second torrent on you," said Charlie matter-of-factly. Then everyone heard a few loud POPS, and everyone shut up and looked out the window.
"Now," said Harry just loudly enough for his group to hear him.
"SURPENSORTIA," everyone whispered, and the Death Eaters stopped as they saw several puffs of smoke appear, "ENGORGIO," and they all stepped a few feet back as they saw eight snakes grow to the sizes of basilisks. Then they heard hissing noises coming from inside the house, and all of the basilisk sized snakes shot after them, avoiding the curses flying towards them.
Harry watched as all of the super-snakes avoided curses and shot at the twenty or so Death Eaters, and then they striked, knocking over their victims, and biting into them at least three times in different places before moving on to their next victim, knocking the wands away from their victims before they moved on.
He heard Mrs. Weasley calling the fallen wands to her before they could be picked up by anyone else, and then all eight of them yelled, "EXPELLIARMUS," and the remaining Death Eaters all found themselves with out wands as the super-snakes hit their next victims, taking longer to mame them, now that they weren't being shot at.
Just as the last, few Death Eaters were tackled, and bitten six or seven times, the next group of about 20 Death Eaters arrived, jumping back as soon as they saw what was happening. The super-snakes got a few more victims from the new group before they vanished, Harry then used his wand to levitate the nails, which are around the length of a steak knife's blade, and used the banishing charm to send them at high-speed to the Death Eaters, where the thirty spikes hit around nine enemies. They fell over, and then the remaining Death Eaters started throwing curses wildly at the house and the windows.
"STUPEFY," they all yelled and four more wizards fell to the ground, just as Ron was hit with a stunning spell threw at random by the other wizards.
"Ron," yelled Mrs. Weasley taking her eyes off of the battlefield and having another curse just miss her face.
"Keep your eyes on the battle, Molly," said Mr. Weasley quickly before deflecting a curse that nearly hit him, and throwing his own back at the caster.
"ENNERVATE," yelled Harry, and as Ron woke up, Harry threw him a piece of chocolate, and said, "eat it and get back to your post, no fair ducking out now," trying to get him mad so his power would come back quicker, while deflecting two curses headed at him. They had just knocked down all but two remaining Death Eaters, when thirty or so more appeared, and Mrs. Weasley again used a summoning charm to collect all of the fallen wands, then they heard someone running down the stairs.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Lucius Malfoy had just apparated at the Weasley house, where his eyes went wide, before him lay at least one-hundred Dementors torn to shreds or sliced in half, and what looked to be over one-hundred wizards knocked out on the ground, and not one of them had gotten more than thirty feet to the house. Somehow, the mudblood lovers must have found out about the attack and prepared for it, that's odd, I meant to apparate right out of their front door, what an I doing back here, he was around a hundred feet away from their front door. They must have had time to put up some defenses around the place, no matter; I'll get them, even if everyone else does fall, just can't go up the center.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"I got it, cover me," said Harry as he turned around to see and possibly strike whoever was running down those stairs, it was, "Ginny!"
"A death Eater came into my room from upstairs, he saw the cloak move on my bed and nearly cursed me, I rolled off just in time, and set his robes on fire," and at that moment they heard more footsteps coming down the stairs.
A Death Eater came into view on the stairs and Ginny jumped towards Harry, and just as he took aim at Ginny, ready to curse everything in sight, all eight of the group had pointed at him and uttered, "STUPEFY," and with a crack the Death Eater flew ten feet up the stairs and landed, unconscious. Unfortunately, they paid dearly for protecting the youngest Weasley, because most of the remaining fifteen or so Death Eaters had gained ground, they were around fifteen feet away from the front of the house now, and could see where the Weasley's were, but still not able to tell that one of the group was Harry Potter. They started firing on the Death eaters frantically, using quick disarming spells, instead of stunning spells, which took a few seconds, and took a bit out of you when used multiple times very close together.
Then Harry saw him, Lucius Malfoy, he was sneaking up from the side of the battlefield, staying out of the main firefight, but Harry couldn't hit him, because he had to fight off the remaining Death Eaters. Oh, and how Harry wanted to knock out Lucius Malfoy, how it would destroy the Malfoy's family, his power, his special relationship with Cornelius Fudge, how Draco Malfoy would both lose all respect in the Slytherin house and be laughed out of Hogwarts. Then he saw Lucius Malfoy raise his wand, about ten feet away from the house, but he wasn't aiming for Harry, he hadn't even seen Harry yet, and Harry realized who he was aiming at, he was aiming at Ginny.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ginny was watching her parents and Charlie fighting off the Death Eaters coming towards them, and was very surprised at just how many Death Eaters and Dementors they had fought off. She knew it was mainly because of the house that they hadn't all been knocked out or killed by now, but it was still a real astonishment at just how well they had done so far.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
No, not Ginny, why Ginny, what, you can't see me, aim a t me, not her, now he wanted to hurt Lucius Malfoy for another reason, because he was about to hurt Ginny, an unsuspecting, and uninvolved target, who was the youngest of the lot. The moonlight was hitting her face, so he knew Lucius knew who she was, and I can't even say anything because of all these dammed curses.
Before Malfoy even opened his mouth, it donned on Harry, just exactly what curse he was going to use, the look on his face was one of pure hatred, and Harry knew he was going to kill her, NO, NOT Ginny, he thought.
"AVADA KADAVRA," yelled Malfoy, and with the skills bourn of his Quidditch reflexes, he jumped up and dived in front of Ginny.
"NO, Ginny," Harry yelled, "AHHH, UNGHHH, get down," he managed to say before falling to the ground.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
All the Death Eaters and the Weasleys stopped when they saw this, and Malfoy distinctly heard a girl's voice scream, "Harry," when he had dived in front of her. Just then they all heard a loud POP and footsteps, they turned to see who it was, they all flinched and disapparated immediately.