Hermione had gone ahead and bought the tickets. This must be costing her at least a month's allowance, Harry thought. Funny, I never had to worry about allowance.
When the group finally reached the area in which the Necromancer was hidden.
Harry, Hermione, and Harry walked through the wall, followed by the DA. Several audible gasps were released as the group gazed at the thirteen stones that had been placed at the center of the room.
Colin tried to pick up the nearest one to him. "Hey! What's going on?" he cried. Hermione quickly explained the situation to the entire group.
"So we really don't have to do anything except keep a lookout?" Fred said.
"Well I guess…" Ron said.
Several people looked thoroughly relieved. "So let's get on with it then," George said. "The sooner you destroy it, the sooner we can get back to our lives." Lookouts were posted five at a time, while the rest sat on the floor, talking and watching.
Meanwhile, Harry, Ron, and Hermione had bigger problems.
"So how're you going to do it?" Ron said.
"I dunno…drop it?" Harry said, pacing around the stone.
"I think you should resist picking it up at all costs. If you pick it up, it becomes vulnerable. Surely there are other ways of destroying it," Hermione said.
"Lacarnum Enflamare!" Harry cried, thrusting out his wand. The flames shot out of his wand but dissolved into an invisible force field that seemed to surround the stone.
"That didn't work," Ron said, stating the obvious.
Things went similarly for about an hour, and still no luck. Not to mention the fact that the group was starting to get stir crazy.
"Just drop the damn thing," Dean said, annoyed.
"What if you levitated it then dropped it?" Ron suggested.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" Harry cried, swishing and flicking. The spell repelled, just like the last twenty had.
We're never going to get anywhere this way, Harry thought. There's nothing for it.
Harry approached the Necromancer, hand outstretched. The room suddenly became silent and all stared.
"Harry, what are you doing?!" Hermione explained.
"It's the only thing we can do," Harry said. "We've tried everything else."
"There's got to be something else…Lestrange could be here at any second," Hermione warned.
"We've got to try it," Harry said. He reached out and picked up the Necromancer. Then, he let it slip from his fingers. It fell as if in slow motion. It seemed like the time it took to reach the ground was endless. When it finally did, there was a loud crack and flash of light. Harry threw his hands over his eyes.
"Did it crack?" Ron asked.
"If you mean the floor, then yes," Hermione said, impatiently. As she said, when Harry uncovered his eyes, he saw an undamaged Necromancer sitting in a crater about a foot in diameter.
"What else can we do?" Ron asked. "We've tried everything. Maybe it can't be destroyed…"
"There has to be a way," Hermione said. "What has been created can be destroyed…Harry that's it! You have to-"
"Accio Necromancer!" someone cried.
The Necromancer flew out of Harry's hands and into the hands of someone who Harry loathed almost as much as Voldemort.
Bellatrix Lestrange…
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