Chapter 14

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or anything associated with it.

Rating: PG-PG13

A/N: And here comes the battle scene! It won't be very good, as I'm not very good at writing action sequences, so it will probably be very short, and very lame, so forgive me if it does not live up to the rest of the story! (I also am writing this chapter at midnight:-/) I tried my best! :- /

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny climbed in the room. Lupin was bound, blindfolded, and gagged in the corner of the room. Harry walked over to him. As he reached into his pocket for his wand, he heard a voice over his shoulder.

"Expelliarmus!" a voice shouted.

Harry's wand flew from his hand, and he looked over ad saw the Ron's, Hermione's, and Ginny's had flown over to Lucius Malfoy, who caught their wands with an open hand.

"I thought I should be seeing you here, Mr. Potter. Couldn't resist another rescue mission, could you? You didn't learn your lesson last time to stay out of business not your own? Sirius didn't teach you your lesson did he?" Malfoy said in a slow, cold voice.

"Let Lupin go!" Ginny screamed. Then Harry was struck with a blinding pain in his forehead, and Malfoy muttered a curse, which hit him in the shoulder. Two other Death Eaters appeared at his side.

All of a sudden, a hoard green and red light was raining down on them, from every direction. None of them were armed, and it was all they could do to just dodge curses.

He heard someone yell "Crucio!" and then Heard Ginny scream. He heard someone yell "Imperio!" and saw Ron run into a wall three or four times, before knocking himself out. Hermione crouched behind the couch, ducking everything.

No one noticed that the curtains on the window had blown in suddenly.

Harry ran behind the couch, and then found that his and Ron's wands was being tossed back to him. He grabbed his wand, and looked over at Hermione. She had her and Ginny's wands, too.

He heard someone yell "Crucio!" again, but didn't see anyone on the floor, writing around, or screaming.

"How?" Hermione asked. Harry grinned. He had a pretty good idea.

He made his way over to Lupin, and whipped out his wand. He took the gag out of his mouth, and pulled the blindfold off.

"Harry?" Lupin asked.

Harry nodded.

"How?"

"I'll explain later. We have to get out of here!"

Harry looked around, and noticed that the three Death Eaters were running out of the room, disapparating, screaming. He also noticed that there were things being thrown around by an invisible person. His first thought was, "Ghosts?" Then, suddenly, amazingly, he understood.

Ginny stopped screaming as soon as the last Death Eater disapparated. Ron was looking pale green, and was still out cold against the wall. Ginny stood up shakily. She seemed to be ok, just a little scared.

Hermione got up from behind the couch. She looked over at Ron, and silently began crying. "Is he...?"

Harry shook his head.

"He's breathing," Lupin said.

Ginny looked over at her brother. She took a deep breath. Hermione gave her back her wand.

"We should leave," she said.

Lupin nodded, and levitated Ron out the window, where all of them climbed out.

Hermione turned to Harry at that point, and began laughing.

"What?" Harry asked.

"I'm-I'm-I'm picturing those Death Eaters-running away-from those ghosts in the house-and wondering-what Voldemort-will do to them!" she said, through fits of laughter.

"Gee, Hermione, that's hysterical," Ginny said, very sarcastically.

Suddenly Harry knew why it was funny. Everything was ten times funnier now that they were all out and alive. Laughter was infectious, and soon he was laughing. Then Ginny caught it, and then Lupin. The ride home on their broomsticks, all of them spent laughing as hard as they could, all except Ron, who was out cold up until they landed. Then he woke up, and saw everyone laughing, and asked, "What's so bloody funny?"

Hermione stopped laughing for enough time to pull him into a long kiss, and when they broke away, he said, "Who cares what you're laughing about? It works!"

And then he caught the laughter, and they all walked inside the Burrow, to find an extremely worried Weasley family, and the rest of the Order.

Harry sighed as he looked at their faces. This would certainly take a while to explain.

A/N: I know, that battle was really lame! I've read so much better in other fan fictions, and that does no justice to any battle in the book, but it's the best I can do for the first battle I've ever written! Please be nice in your reviews!