To all my dear and beloved readers:
I am sooooooooooooooooooooo sorry it has taken this long for me to update!!! And I am also profusely sorry that this chapter is UBER short! In my defense, since my last chapter, I have moved to Alaska (no small feat) and begun school....again. And yes, I know that's not a very good excuse for going about 5 months without updating, but it's all I have. Well, that and writer's block. That's part of why this chapter is sooo short. I want to do the next scene justice, and I'm finding that to be a difficult thing. So please, please, please forgive me. And I swear that I will update again around Thanksgiving. Since I'm not going home, I'll have a lot of time to think and write. Enjoy this little snippet and please R/R. But please don't tell me how short it is. I am painfully aware that it is beyond short. But the next will be nice and long.
Happy Reading!!!!!!!!
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Voldemort barely had the time to register what he had seen before a flash of blinding lightening opened the flood gates of the heavens, allowing the downpour of rain to instantly soak everything. Again, the lightening crashed, and the Death Eaters barely glimpsed the toppling tree through the sheet of rain. Most of them were fast enough to move, but a few of them were lost under its large branches. Shouts of "Lumos" echoed throughout the yard as the startled Death Eaters struggled to see what was happening. But as soon as the light peeked out of their wands, the rain swallowed it like a black hole, pure oblivion.
"I know you're out there old man! Show yourself!"Voldemort demanded. The only answer he received was another crash of lightening, which glowed in the whites of the Death Eater's eyes. They were standing much closer to him, almost huddling together. The sudden and spooky weather change scared them, but they struggled to hide it. Another flash of lightening struck, this time so neat to them it made their skin tingle from the power of it. And then they saw them. Shadows, shapes, mists.........inking closer through the rain. The Death Eaters and their lord were surrounded.
"Don't just stand there, you pitiful cowards! This is nothing but a parlor trick. Get me Harry Potter!!!" Voldemort's command rang clear, even through the muffling downpour. The fear that had griped his followers lifted. They struck out at the figures.
Unbeknownst to Severus, he sent Harry sailing straight into the strong arms of Bill and Charlie Weasley. They struggled to keep their balance as the beam carrying said boy slammed into their chests, but years of wrestling dragons aided Charlie, and Bill always prided himself on being stronger than he looked. With merely a thought, Dumbledore called up a storm of typhoon proportions. The sheets of rain immediately drowned the fire only seconds after the dark knight fell upon it. With more concentration than he showed, Dumbledore spaced the lightening perfectly to allow Remus Lupin and Molly Weasley to levitate Severus off of the steaming collection of ashes and logs. In the span of another breath, Molly activated a portkey and used it to remove Harry, now detached from the log, and Severus to the Order's new location. Dumbledore didn't even have a second to see if the two were still alive before the portkey whisked them away. But now all Albus had to worry about was Voldemort and his followers.