Chapter 9
Quidditch Trials & Saving the Day Part 2
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That Sunday the Slytherins found out that they had to wade through four feet of red and gold snow to get anywhere in their common room and dorms and when they got out of the common room they noticed that when the snow melted off their robes, they where all coloured red and gold and it wouldn't go off with any spell.
Harry, Audrey, Ron and Hermione had also put a spell on all the armoured suits; these would throw water balloons and shout profanities as soon as a Slytherin passed. While the people in paintings would flip them the bird.
~*~ The Next Day (Monday) ~*~
Harry and co. were heading for Transfiguration while talking about Quidditch, Hermione couldn't complain about it since she was now a member of the team as well. When they got to the classroom they saw that professor McGonagall was already waiting, as was most of the class. They hurriedly sat down with Seamus rushing in after them with barely seconds to spare.
"Well all of you were on time, though some made a close call." McGonagall said, eyeing the Marauders and Seamus with them looking sheepishly back.
"We'll be discussing part human transformations today." McGonagall began the lesson with and proceeded to explain how the spell worked and the class set of to work.
In the middle of the lesson something most peculiar happened. McGonagall was, as the quartet saw it anyway, hovering about by a box by her desk, never letting it out of her sight. At one point they all simultaneously felt a charm being activated in the box and from the box, the feeling of a magic connection leading to Professor McGonagall. When they felt the magic emanating from the box to just above Prof. McGonagall's heart, they felt it that it was the same magic and saw her pluck on a gold chain going from her neck and under the neckline on her robes, reaching down to have a look at it.
It was a round pendant in the form of a Phoenix in flight with flames flowing around it as the charm took place. The eyes was black with silver around the edges, having a red plume on its delicate head with the rest of the flame covered body and the orange/red tail feathers looking like they rustled in a warm heat flowing around the unearthly being.
They then saw her taking something as inconspicuously as possible from the box, trying to sneak it into her robe pocket without being seen. But Harry caught a glimpse of it, what he saw was a scroll with a Phoenix feather rolled around it.
~ That's Fawkes, a sign from the Order ~ Harry thought to the others. Ron, as well as the others, were curious what information it held.
McGonagall had gone behind the class to read the scroll with her back to them and her face had paled slightly when she turned around and hurriedly went back upfront and turned to the class.
"You are to return to your common rooms at once, class dismissed!" she said sternly.
The students packed up and hurriedly left.
Harry and co. walked up to professor McGonagall who in a fast mode was shoving her parchments and inkbottles into her drawers.
"Professor, did someone get attacked?" Hermione worriedly asked.
McGonagall looked around the classroom to be sure that everyone had left.
"You-know-who is attacking a muggle village and the Order is helping until the Ministry wakes up and starts acting." she replied with a sneer as the Ministry was mentioned.
"Now go on to the common room. You can't do anything." she said dismissing them.
The four friends nodded smirking to themselves as they began to walk towards the door.
"Just don't get hurt professor." Audrey said with a small smile.
McGonagall smiled slightly, nodded and threw the scroll into the fire. She didn't see Harry and Audrey who immediately waved their hands and followed Ron and Hermione out and as soon as they reached an empty classroom they entered it and placed themselves on a desk each.
"We're gonna help, right? I'm gonna go weather you want to or not." Ron stated with a determined look on his face.
"Course we are." Harry replied stonily.
"But how do we know where to go?" Hermione wondered with a frown.
"By reading the scroll." Audrey said smartly as Harry snapped his fingers, the scroll appearing in Audrey's hand.
"How did you do that?" Ron sounding curious asked.
"As soon as professor McGonagall threw the scroll into the fire Harry made it fire proof and I just put an illusion spell on it so it would look like it was burning to a crisp. And then the only thing Snitch needed to do was summon it." Audrey explained grinning from ear to ear.
Audrey unrolled the scroll while the others read over her shoulders.
It was short, it just said;
* HE is attacking, Wellmington *
(a/n: don't know if it's a real English village (may be a city) but I wasn't in the mood to look one up)
"Let's suit up then and get going." Harry said.
(*snicker* Suit up... sounds like something from Batman or S-Man ~ Zosa comment, readers can ignore if ye wish)
They apparated to their own dormitories, locking the doors as they did so as to not get any unwanted peers stepping in, and got dressed in their full battle outfits, designed by our all and own adorable not so bookish anymore Hermione.
Harry had black leather pants with a tight black sleeveless shirt for better movement having a small red/yellow rune crest symbolizing fire on the chest and black dragon hide boots. He strapped his weapons on and put on a long black trench coat, which hid his weapons from view.
Ron had the same outfit, only his shirt had a red/green rune crest symbolizing earth on the front. He strapped on his weapons and put on a trench coat, though his only reached to his knees.
Audrey had black leather pants with a black tank top with a blue/purple rune crest symbolizing air on the chest accompanied with one inch high black dragon hide boots. She strapped her weapons on and put on a long black trench coat and quickly put her long hair in a tight braid using a spell.
Hermione had the same outfit, but her tank top had a green/blue rune crest symbolizing water and her boots were flat. She too strapped on her weapons and put on a long black trench coat which reached her knees and put her hair in a high pony tail.
The four of them had their black fingerless gloves on and they had also put on some special sunglasses that would only come off if they wanted them to and they would also make sure that no one recognized them.
This all happened in less than 5 minutes and then the girls apparated to the boys' dormitory. The boys stood listening on some cursing and bonking on the door.
"Who's that?" Audrey wondered, looking at the door.
"Oh, that's just Neville trying to get in." Ron said while letting go a barking laugh.
"Uhhu...Ready to go? And let the poor kid in will ye?" Audrey asked hurriedly.
"All done." Ron said with a grin.
"Let's go!" Harry said.
They disapparated just as Neville charged in, the magic coming off as they disappeared.
"Strange, I thought I heard Harry and Ron's voices." he murmured puzzled, turned and went back down to the common room.
~*~
Harry, Ron, Audrey and Hermione apparated to the edge of Wellmington, looked around once and gasped.
"Holy Goddess, It's almost completely destroyed!" Hermione cried out.
"We'd better start looking if everyone's alright." Harry solemnly said.
They had started running when they reached the centre of the village where they saw the Order battle a lot of DeathEaters. They were outnumbered three to one and, by the look of things, losing to the DeathEaters.
Among the Order members fighting on the field were Minerva McGonagall, Mad- Eye Moody, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Arthur and Bill Weasley, Mundungus Fletcher and Kingsley Shacklebolt and from where the four friends were standing, they all looked to be hurt to some degree.
"We've got to help them!" Ron said, seeing his father getting barely away from a curse.
"See to it so that you don't use your personal wand and try to get them unconscious rather than dead. That way the Order will have some use for them." Audrey suggested
"Keep moving fast! We may be wearing sunglasses with spells but if we stay still long enough they might recognize us." Harry said butting in.
"Let's go!" All of this was said in a very fast mode and only took a couple of seconds and when Hermione shouted while drawing one of her knifes some of the DeathEaters heard the noise and came barging with bloody intent.
While the four of them charged the DeathEaters, throwing of their trench coats along the way which just seemed to disappear into thin air, Harry drew one of his nodachi's, Audrey one of her daggers, Hermione already had one of her knifes in her hand and Ron drew his scythe.
~ Let's resort to full weapon attack latter on ~ Harry thought to the others as they collided with the horde, staining some of the ground red already.
They split up, each one having a target picked out and within a minute there were four less conscious DeathEaters and when Audrey had knocked another couple of DeathEaters up the blue hills, she sensed that someone on their side was in danger.
(A spider sense sort of, they all have it (can sense approaching danger for them or someone who's on their side)
She looked around and spotted a DeathEater approaching Remus from behind.
Muttering "Fuck!" she ran towards Remus who was too busy fighting a DeathEater in front of him to be able to protect his own back and thus wasn't aware of the nearing danger.
Audrey reached Remus just in time and grabbed him by the waist, jumped up fast and used her levitation to keep them afloat. This occurred too fast for the DeathEaters to notice and so ended up killing each other. Audrey looked back shaking her head saying "Good riddance!" as she lowered herself and Remus back to the ground and asked with a masked voice, some octaves lower than her usual light, cheery ones, if he was alright.
"Yes I'm fine thank you!" he replied a little stunned as his savoir called "Don't sweat it!" over her shoulder and ran off to join the fight again.
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In the meantime, Harry was fighting two DeathEaters at the same time but got sick with playing and sent a powerful blast off fire towards one of them, making the Death Eater end up deep fried.
"So much for following Nova's advice." he murmured as he turned to the other DeathEater who was shaking and having a little panic attack and thus decided to use the big guns. A Crucio was thrower at Harry while he was looking over at his friends who were doing just fine finishing off some DeathEaters left and right without breaking a sweat and graceful as the Griffin in flight while dancing over to the next. Harry just reflected it back with a shield, making the DeathEater scream in pain on the ground. Harry then in a quick motion threw a stunning spell at him and tied him up tightly. Harry looked up one more time and saw a DeathEater attack Tonks who had her arm shredded and hanging limply at her side, was bleeding profoundly from a wound in her side and could only just dodge the spells, hardly able to retort with some of her own spells. Harry rushed over to her and attacked the Death Eater and Tonks got away.
It seemed the Order members were having a bit more trouble.
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Ron looked around the battlefield in the town and saw his father and his eldest brother fighting back to back against 4 Deatheaters. It seemed that his father had an injured leg, as Bill was trying to hold him up with his back while Bill's left arm was hanging limply at his side. Even from the distance Ron stood at he could see the bone splinters sticking through the skin. Since the time Ron had seen his dad and brother in deadly danger he had summoned his magic of the earth and asked it a favour and then, let the power go.
What happened next was screaming and frightened DeathEaters falling into the rip in the earth that had appeared under their feet. When every DeathEater around Arthur and Bill was gone, with them staring gob smacked down it, the earth closed again, crushing the Deatheaters and muffling the screams forever.
Bill and Arthur looked around to see who had helped them and what their eyes say was an unknown man dressed in black who saluted them and turned, running off into the battle again.
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Hermione had just defeated another DeathEater by cutting of his wand hand with a following stun and tie up-spell, before she saw three DeathEaters which she hadn't noticed till now as they were hiding in the shadows of the building, holding some muggles prisoner.
She sheathed her knife and grabbed three of her throwing knifes and sneaked over the battleground, going over both stunned and bloodied bodies heading towards the DeathEaters. She was a little less then three meters from them when one decided to turn his head her way and was about to yell a warning to his mates. She then with grim determination successfully slit two DeathEaters throats.
The one who had seen her first still had his head under control and managed to dodge the knife only getting a on his right shoulder. Hermione cursed under her breath when she saw that the DeathEater still stood up and quickly cast a stunning spell before the DeathEater got his bearings straight to flee. Hermione stood up and walked over the two dead DeathEater bodies to the group of prisoners, gathering her throwing-knifes on the way.
She said a spell and the weapons cleaned themselves of all the blood and Hermione hung them back on her belt. She stopped to tie up the stunned DeathEater which was bleeding through his robes where her knife had cut him and quickly put a blood stopping spell on it. She then turned to the prisoners who were all shaking and looking utterly confused with all the weird things happening around them. Hermione quickly untied them and looking at the nearest house, concentrated on it. She didn't feel any danger in it and so urged the muggles on while casting protective wards around, over and under the house. She told the muggles to hide there until it was safe for them to come out.
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While Hermione was saving the muggles Harry, Ron and Audrey had met up and were now fighting together in a circle to protect the ones too injured to fight anymore. There were various faces in there such as McGonagall, Kingsley and Tonks, who was lying on the ground with her wound still untreated but had stopped bleeding as much as McGonagall was the only one conscious, sitting by her side pressing a now blood soaked rag on it.
Harry, Ron and Audrey were busy finishing off the DeathEaters surrounding them. Harry made a down sweep motion with his Nodachi neatly slicing off a hand and in the same time stabbing another DeathEater in the leg which soon was followed with a gurgling sound as a knife found its way to its throat.
Audrey's swords were flying left and right beheading some DeathEaters but got tired of the blood sprouting in her face, and worse, her clothes and changed in a split of a second to close range shuriken practice. Two DeathEaters were soon bleeding from several cut wounds, but were gonna live, though one without his heel wasn't going anywhere for a while.
(a/n: maybe he should grab a Snickers.A bit of inappropriate humour.always fun to ad when at the cost of a DeathEater)
At the mean time both of the DeathEaters Ron fought were still alive, though one was missing a leg because of a up going swing by Ron's scythe and in the same movement he had changed direction so that the other got a superficial cut on his chest and was stunned. The body of the latter DeathEater fell in slow-motion and when it at last found the ground with a THUD...everything stopped.
The threesome quietly began to tie up the DeathEaters that had survived and stopped their wounds from bleeding. While the other Order members took care of the remaining DeathEaters. McGonagall stood up, her body shaking head to toe which was going into a small shock in the aftermath as the adrenalin flow was cut short.
"Thank you for your help." she said shakily as Hermione apparated next to Ron and the remaining Order members came towards them, Moody at the front, grunting "Who are you?" at which the foursome didn't react to at all as they sheathed all their weapons, which had cleaned themselves.
"Don't be so rude Alastor, they helped us!" Mundungus spoke up with a glare.
"Ye' and I'm wondering why?" Moody grunted.
"We're just helping because you're doing the right thing. Besides, you looked as you could use some help." Harry said in a low but friendly voice as the four of them snapped their fingers and suddenly were wearing their trench coats once again.
"I'm sure we'll meet again." Audrey said with a sweet smile under her sunglasses and saluted the Order members and then disapparated with a small POP along with her friends.
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Moody and the others stared at the spot where the four strangers had stood.
"I really wonder who they are..." Bill quietly wondered as he and Remus levitated the unconscious members on stretchers back to the HQ.
"I haven't the slightest idea as to who they are." Arthur answered negative from the ground as his leg was being bound.
"Yet there was something familiar about them." McGonagall said with a frown, trying to see what was so right in front of her nose.
"Yes indeed, but I can't seem to place it." Remus agreed wholeheartedly.
They decided to think about the strangers later, as for the moment they had to hurry to Madam Pomfrey with the injured who was residing at HQ awaiting the wounded. And as Moody grunted; "The almighty Ministry's on its way to take care of the muggles and take credit, the cowardly bastards. We don't want to stay all day with Fudges lapdogs explaining why we're here."
The other members smiled their agreement.
"Remus and I had better return to Hogwarts." McGonagall said.
"We'll see you at the meeting on Saturday then!" Bill said as he and the others disapparated.
"Let's go Minerva." Remus said holding her up. With McGonagall nodding her consent they disapparated to Hogsmeade and walked the rest of the way to Hogwarts.
~*~
Meanwhile Harry and Ron had apparated into the boys' dormitory and were currently changing back to their school robes as the girls did the same thing in their dormitory. Then the girls apparated back to the boys' dormitory.
Hermione asked if everyone was ready and opened the door when she heard an affirmative, the Marauders walked down the stairs to the common room where everybody was talking excitedly about the reason to which they had been sent and locked into their common room.
Ron wondered why Dumbledore had ordered everyone to their common rooms when the attack wasn't even near Hogwarts.
"I guess he was afraid that it could be a distraction to do a successful attack on Hogwarts." Harry said.
"But.shouldn't we have stayed, if it had been a distraction..." Ron stammered worriedly.
"It couldn't have been 'cause the attack was way too small and it's way too early in the war for an attack on Hogwarts. Voldie is still gathering strength." Audrey replied with Harry nodding his head in consent.
"Kay thanks, I understand now." Ron said while they sat down in their usual chairs by the fire.
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That was it for now.
R&R
I'll even welcome Flames.
Luv Ya'll
Nova
Next Chap --- Chapter 10 - The Sorting Potion
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That Sunday the Slytherins found out that they had to wade through four feet of red and gold snow to get anywhere in their common room and dorms and when they got out of the common room they noticed that when the snow melted off their robes, they where all coloured red and gold and it wouldn't go off with any spell.
Harry, Audrey, Ron and Hermione had also put a spell on all the armoured suits; these would throw water balloons and shout profanities as soon as a Slytherin passed. While the people in paintings would flip them the bird.
~*~ The Next Day (Monday) ~*~
Harry and co. were heading for Transfiguration while talking about Quidditch, Hermione couldn't complain about it since she was now a member of the team as well. When they got to the classroom they saw that professor McGonagall was already waiting, as was most of the class. They hurriedly sat down with Seamus rushing in after them with barely seconds to spare.
"Well all of you were on time, though some made a close call." McGonagall said, eyeing the Marauders and Seamus with them looking sheepishly back.
"We'll be discussing part human transformations today." McGonagall began the lesson with and proceeded to explain how the spell worked and the class set of to work.
In the middle of the lesson something most peculiar happened. McGonagall was, as the quartet saw it anyway, hovering about by a box by her desk, never letting it out of her sight. At one point they all simultaneously felt a charm being activated in the box and from the box, the feeling of a magic connection leading to Professor McGonagall. When they felt the magic emanating from the box to just above Prof. McGonagall's heart, they felt it that it was the same magic and saw her pluck on a gold chain going from her neck and under the neckline on her robes, reaching down to have a look at it.
It was a round pendant in the form of a Phoenix in flight with flames flowing around it as the charm took place. The eyes was black with silver around the edges, having a red plume on its delicate head with the rest of the flame covered body and the orange/red tail feathers looking like they rustled in a warm heat flowing around the unearthly being.
They then saw her taking something as inconspicuously as possible from the box, trying to sneak it into her robe pocket without being seen. But Harry caught a glimpse of it, what he saw was a scroll with a Phoenix feather rolled around it.
~ That's Fawkes, a sign from the Order ~ Harry thought to the others. Ron, as well as the others, were curious what information it held.
McGonagall had gone behind the class to read the scroll with her back to them and her face had paled slightly when she turned around and hurriedly went back upfront and turned to the class.
"You are to return to your common rooms at once, class dismissed!" she said sternly.
The students packed up and hurriedly left.
Harry and co. walked up to professor McGonagall who in a fast mode was shoving her parchments and inkbottles into her drawers.
"Professor, did someone get attacked?" Hermione worriedly asked.
McGonagall looked around the classroom to be sure that everyone had left.
"You-know-who is attacking a muggle village and the Order is helping until the Ministry wakes up and starts acting." she replied with a sneer as the Ministry was mentioned.
"Now go on to the common room. You can't do anything." she said dismissing them.
The four friends nodded smirking to themselves as they began to walk towards the door.
"Just don't get hurt professor." Audrey said with a small smile.
McGonagall smiled slightly, nodded and threw the scroll into the fire. She didn't see Harry and Audrey who immediately waved their hands and followed Ron and Hermione out and as soon as they reached an empty classroom they entered it and placed themselves on a desk each.
"We're gonna help, right? I'm gonna go weather you want to or not." Ron stated with a determined look on his face.
"Course we are." Harry replied stonily.
"But how do we know where to go?" Hermione wondered with a frown.
"By reading the scroll." Audrey said smartly as Harry snapped his fingers, the scroll appearing in Audrey's hand.
"How did you do that?" Ron sounding curious asked.
"As soon as professor McGonagall threw the scroll into the fire Harry made it fire proof and I just put an illusion spell on it so it would look like it was burning to a crisp. And then the only thing Snitch needed to do was summon it." Audrey explained grinning from ear to ear.
Audrey unrolled the scroll while the others read over her shoulders.
It was short, it just said;
* HE is attacking, Wellmington *
(a/n: don't know if it's a real English village (may be a city) but I wasn't in the mood to look one up)
"Let's suit up then and get going." Harry said.
(*snicker* Suit up... sounds like something from Batman or S-Man ~ Zosa comment, readers can ignore if ye wish)
They apparated to their own dormitories, locking the doors as they did so as to not get any unwanted peers stepping in, and got dressed in their full battle outfits, designed by our all and own adorable not so bookish anymore Hermione.
Harry had black leather pants with a tight black sleeveless shirt for better movement having a small red/yellow rune crest symbolizing fire on the chest and black dragon hide boots. He strapped his weapons on and put on a long black trench coat, which hid his weapons from view.
Ron had the same outfit, only his shirt had a red/green rune crest symbolizing earth on the front. He strapped on his weapons and put on a trench coat, though his only reached to his knees.
Audrey had black leather pants with a black tank top with a blue/purple rune crest symbolizing air on the chest accompanied with one inch high black dragon hide boots. She strapped her weapons on and put on a long black trench coat and quickly put her long hair in a tight braid using a spell.
Hermione had the same outfit, but her tank top had a green/blue rune crest symbolizing water and her boots were flat. She too strapped on her weapons and put on a long black trench coat which reached her knees and put her hair in a high pony tail.
The four of them had their black fingerless gloves on and they had also put on some special sunglasses that would only come off if they wanted them to and they would also make sure that no one recognized them.
This all happened in less than 5 minutes and then the girls apparated to the boys' dormitory. The boys stood listening on some cursing and bonking on the door.
"Who's that?" Audrey wondered, looking at the door.
"Oh, that's just Neville trying to get in." Ron said while letting go a barking laugh.
"Uhhu...Ready to go? And let the poor kid in will ye?" Audrey asked hurriedly.
"All done." Ron said with a grin.
"Let's go!" Harry said.
They disapparated just as Neville charged in, the magic coming off as they disappeared.
"Strange, I thought I heard Harry and Ron's voices." he murmured puzzled, turned and went back down to the common room.
~*~
Harry, Ron, Audrey and Hermione apparated to the edge of Wellmington, looked around once and gasped.
"Holy Goddess, It's almost completely destroyed!" Hermione cried out.
"We'd better start looking if everyone's alright." Harry solemnly said.
They had started running when they reached the centre of the village where they saw the Order battle a lot of DeathEaters. They were outnumbered three to one and, by the look of things, losing to the DeathEaters.
Among the Order members fighting on the field were Minerva McGonagall, Mad- Eye Moody, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Arthur and Bill Weasley, Mundungus Fletcher and Kingsley Shacklebolt and from where the four friends were standing, they all looked to be hurt to some degree.
"We've got to help them!" Ron said, seeing his father getting barely away from a curse.
"See to it so that you don't use your personal wand and try to get them unconscious rather than dead. That way the Order will have some use for them." Audrey suggested
"Keep moving fast! We may be wearing sunglasses with spells but if we stay still long enough they might recognize us." Harry said butting in.
"Let's go!" All of this was said in a very fast mode and only took a couple of seconds and when Hermione shouted while drawing one of her knifes some of the DeathEaters heard the noise and came barging with bloody intent.
While the four of them charged the DeathEaters, throwing of their trench coats along the way which just seemed to disappear into thin air, Harry drew one of his nodachi's, Audrey one of her daggers, Hermione already had one of her knifes in her hand and Ron drew his scythe.
~ Let's resort to full weapon attack latter on ~ Harry thought to the others as they collided with the horde, staining some of the ground red already.
They split up, each one having a target picked out and within a minute there were four less conscious DeathEaters and when Audrey had knocked another couple of DeathEaters up the blue hills, she sensed that someone on their side was in danger.
(A spider sense sort of, they all have it (can sense approaching danger for them or someone who's on their side)
She looked around and spotted a DeathEater approaching Remus from behind.
Muttering "Fuck!" she ran towards Remus who was too busy fighting a DeathEater in front of him to be able to protect his own back and thus wasn't aware of the nearing danger.
Audrey reached Remus just in time and grabbed him by the waist, jumped up fast and used her levitation to keep them afloat. This occurred too fast for the DeathEaters to notice and so ended up killing each other. Audrey looked back shaking her head saying "Good riddance!" as she lowered herself and Remus back to the ground and asked with a masked voice, some octaves lower than her usual light, cheery ones, if he was alright.
"Yes I'm fine thank you!" he replied a little stunned as his savoir called "Don't sweat it!" over her shoulder and ran off to join the fight again.
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In the meantime, Harry was fighting two DeathEaters at the same time but got sick with playing and sent a powerful blast off fire towards one of them, making the Death Eater end up deep fried.
"So much for following Nova's advice." he murmured as he turned to the other DeathEater who was shaking and having a little panic attack and thus decided to use the big guns. A Crucio was thrower at Harry while he was looking over at his friends who were doing just fine finishing off some DeathEaters left and right without breaking a sweat and graceful as the Griffin in flight while dancing over to the next. Harry just reflected it back with a shield, making the DeathEater scream in pain on the ground. Harry then in a quick motion threw a stunning spell at him and tied him up tightly. Harry looked up one more time and saw a DeathEater attack Tonks who had her arm shredded and hanging limply at her side, was bleeding profoundly from a wound in her side and could only just dodge the spells, hardly able to retort with some of her own spells. Harry rushed over to her and attacked the Death Eater and Tonks got away.
It seemed the Order members were having a bit more trouble.
-----
Ron looked around the battlefield in the town and saw his father and his eldest brother fighting back to back against 4 Deatheaters. It seemed that his father had an injured leg, as Bill was trying to hold him up with his back while Bill's left arm was hanging limply at his side. Even from the distance Ron stood at he could see the bone splinters sticking through the skin. Since the time Ron had seen his dad and brother in deadly danger he had summoned his magic of the earth and asked it a favour and then, let the power go.
What happened next was screaming and frightened DeathEaters falling into the rip in the earth that had appeared under their feet. When every DeathEater around Arthur and Bill was gone, with them staring gob smacked down it, the earth closed again, crushing the Deatheaters and muffling the screams forever.
Bill and Arthur looked around to see who had helped them and what their eyes say was an unknown man dressed in black who saluted them and turned, running off into the battle again.
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Hermione had just defeated another DeathEater by cutting of his wand hand with a following stun and tie up-spell, before she saw three DeathEaters which she hadn't noticed till now as they were hiding in the shadows of the building, holding some muggles prisoner.
She sheathed her knife and grabbed three of her throwing knifes and sneaked over the battleground, going over both stunned and bloodied bodies heading towards the DeathEaters. She was a little less then three meters from them when one decided to turn his head her way and was about to yell a warning to his mates. She then with grim determination successfully slit two DeathEaters throats.
The one who had seen her first still had his head under control and managed to dodge the knife only getting a on his right shoulder. Hermione cursed under her breath when she saw that the DeathEater still stood up and quickly cast a stunning spell before the DeathEater got his bearings straight to flee. Hermione stood up and walked over the two dead DeathEater bodies to the group of prisoners, gathering her throwing-knifes on the way.
She said a spell and the weapons cleaned themselves of all the blood and Hermione hung them back on her belt. She stopped to tie up the stunned DeathEater which was bleeding through his robes where her knife had cut him and quickly put a blood stopping spell on it. She then turned to the prisoners who were all shaking and looking utterly confused with all the weird things happening around them. Hermione quickly untied them and looking at the nearest house, concentrated on it. She didn't feel any danger in it and so urged the muggles on while casting protective wards around, over and under the house. She told the muggles to hide there until it was safe for them to come out.
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While Hermione was saving the muggles Harry, Ron and Audrey had met up and were now fighting together in a circle to protect the ones too injured to fight anymore. There were various faces in there such as McGonagall, Kingsley and Tonks, who was lying on the ground with her wound still untreated but had stopped bleeding as much as McGonagall was the only one conscious, sitting by her side pressing a now blood soaked rag on it.
Harry, Ron and Audrey were busy finishing off the DeathEaters surrounding them. Harry made a down sweep motion with his Nodachi neatly slicing off a hand and in the same time stabbing another DeathEater in the leg which soon was followed with a gurgling sound as a knife found its way to its throat.
Audrey's swords were flying left and right beheading some DeathEaters but got tired of the blood sprouting in her face, and worse, her clothes and changed in a split of a second to close range shuriken practice. Two DeathEaters were soon bleeding from several cut wounds, but were gonna live, though one without his heel wasn't going anywhere for a while.
(a/n: maybe he should grab a Snickers.A bit of inappropriate humour.always fun to ad when at the cost of a DeathEater)
At the mean time both of the DeathEaters Ron fought were still alive, though one was missing a leg because of a up going swing by Ron's scythe and in the same movement he had changed direction so that the other got a superficial cut on his chest and was stunned. The body of the latter DeathEater fell in slow-motion and when it at last found the ground with a THUD...everything stopped.
The threesome quietly began to tie up the DeathEaters that had survived and stopped their wounds from bleeding. While the other Order members took care of the remaining DeathEaters. McGonagall stood up, her body shaking head to toe which was going into a small shock in the aftermath as the adrenalin flow was cut short.
"Thank you for your help." she said shakily as Hermione apparated next to Ron and the remaining Order members came towards them, Moody at the front, grunting "Who are you?" at which the foursome didn't react to at all as they sheathed all their weapons, which had cleaned themselves.
"Don't be so rude Alastor, they helped us!" Mundungus spoke up with a glare.
"Ye' and I'm wondering why?" Moody grunted.
"We're just helping because you're doing the right thing. Besides, you looked as you could use some help." Harry said in a low but friendly voice as the four of them snapped their fingers and suddenly were wearing their trench coats once again.
"I'm sure we'll meet again." Audrey said with a sweet smile under her sunglasses and saluted the Order members and then disapparated with a small POP along with her friends.
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Moody and the others stared at the spot where the four strangers had stood.
"I really wonder who they are..." Bill quietly wondered as he and Remus levitated the unconscious members on stretchers back to the HQ.
"I haven't the slightest idea as to who they are." Arthur answered negative from the ground as his leg was being bound.
"Yet there was something familiar about them." McGonagall said with a frown, trying to see what was so right in front of her nose.
"Yes indeed, but I can't seem to place it." Remus agreed wholeheartedly.
They decided to think about the strangers later, as for the moment they had to hurry to Madam Pomfrey with the injured who was residing at HQ awaiting the wounded. And as Moody grunted; "The almighty Ministry's on its way to take care of the muggles and take credit, the cowardly bastards. We don't want to stay all day with Fudges lapdogs explaining why we're here."
The other members smiled their agreement.
"Remus and I had better return to Hogwarts." McGonagall said.
"We'll see you at the meeting on Saturday then!" Bill said as he and the others disapparated.
"Let's go Minerva." Remus said holding her up. With McGonagall nodding her consent they disapparated to Hogsmeade and walked the rest of the way to Hogwarts.
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Meanwhile Harry and Ron had apparated into the boys' dormitory and were currently changing back to their school robes as the girls did the same thing in their dormitory. Then the girls apparated back to the boys' dormitory.
Hermione asked if everyone was ready and opened the door when she heard an affirmative, the Marauders walked down the stairs to the common room where everybody was talking excitedly about the reason to which they had been sent and locked into their common room.
Ron wondered why Dumbledore had ordered everyone to their common rooms when the attack wasn't even near Hogwarts.
"I guess he was afraid that it could be a distraction to do a successful attack on Hogwarts." Harry said.
"But.shouldn't we have stayed, if it had been a distraction..." Ron stammered worriedly.
"It couldn't have been 'cause the attack was way too small and it's way too early in the war for an attack on Hogwarts. Voldie is still gathering strength." Audrey replied with Harry nodding his head in consent.
"Kay thanks, I understand now." Ron said while they sat down in their usual chairs by the fire.
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That was it for now.
R&R
I'll even welcome Flames.
Luv Ya'll
Nova
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