The Nazi soldier fell on Harry on Ron. The two boys screamed again. The
silhouette of a small figure with long bushy hair holding a wand at ready
appeared.
"Hermione!" said Harry, pushing the soldier off.
Hermione looked equally shocked as the boys as she couldn't believe what
she had just done.
Ron looked at the soldier. "He isn't dead, is he?"
"Paralyzing spell." muttered Hermione. Another explosion nearby drowned out
her words.
"Come on, let's go!" said Harry, coming back to his senses. The sound of
the battle was coming closer.
"Where did you come from?" Harry asked as the three ran off again through
the trenches.
"Behind the bunker! I was wondering where you two were!" Hermione said
angrily. "What happened? Where are we and why are we here?"
"To see that, I think!" Ron said, pointing. Harry and Hermione looked where
Ron was pointing. Wizards on brooms and flying carpets were flying around
blasting away with their wands. Some wizards were flying on their own or
firing without wands from their fingertips. Despite the confusion, Harry
could tell that the wizards were of many ethnic backgrounds.
One of the wizards caught a glimpse of the three students. He was a young
Asian man flying on his own without a broom or a carpet. He could not have
been older than twenty. "Captain! Look!" He yelled, pointing at Harry.
The captain, Indian wizard with a turban, sitting on a fast moving flying
carpet, looked at their direction. "What the." He said.
"Chang! Retrieve those three!" The captain shouted, surprised to see
Hogwarts uniforms on a battlefield.
"Yes, Captain Sharmar!" Chang said. The Asian wizard who had spotted them
first was Chang. He immediately swooped towards the three like a diving
ghost and landed on his feet in front of the three. He was very tall, and
towered over the three students. Harry could see a young handsome face that
had a hardened expression. The thick black eyebrows, almond eyes, a strong
jaw line gave the young man a strong willed look. If it weren't for his
black robe and pointed hat, he would have seemed like a muggle commando.
Just then, more Nazi soldiers emerged from the trench. They seemed
confused, but were not shy to open fire with their machine guns. Chang
raised his hand and the bullets stopped mid air in front of the children as
if they had hit an invisible force field. When the bullets dropped to the
ground, Chang extended his other arm and released fire from his hand onto
the soldiers. The soldiers were burning, their features unrecognizable
under the flames. Their desperate screams were again drowned out by sounds
of more gunfire and explosions that seemed to be coming closer.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione, however, were once more dumbfounded. They had
frozen where they stood and could only look at what was happening with
horror. Chang wasn't wasting time making conversation. He bent down and
held all three students in a huge hug. Harry could feel the strong arms
under the fabric -- this was for real. Chang launched into the sky at an
amazing speed holding all three children.
An old Indio witch with a colorfully patterned cloak on a broom was
yelling, "Entry path for the allied forces is open, Captain! Artillery has
been destroyed as well! Squads at Utah Beach report success as well!"
"Alright! Mission accomplished! All squads, fall back!" the captain yelled.
The wizards instantly started to fly away from the beach. From above high,
Harry could see the smoking beach as allied soldiers started to overrun the
bunker and the trenches as Chang carried him away.
