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They came zooming across the landscape just above tree height to hide their approach. The scouting party consisted of some of the best Quiddich players in the league. Marcus Flint, Oliver Wood, Angelina Johnson, Ron Weasley, and Marlie Weasley made up the scouting party. Their mission was to scout out the approaching Muggle army and get an estimate of their numbers and weapons.
As they came over the trees they spotted King Charles' Army, ten thousand strong. It consisted of more and a thousand fully armoured knights, five thousand archers, seven hundred pikemen and a scattered amongst them were thousands of support troops with wagons and carts hauling supplies and disassembled siege machinery. The army was moving very slowly through more than a decade of overgrowth.
It didn't take long for the scouting party to be spotted flying above them. With amazing speed and efficiency, the archers had thrown down their packs, strung their bows and notched their arrows. The first volley sent thousands of arrows into the air! Dodging Arrows was not that different than dodging bludgers. But with that many arrows flying through the air, some of them were bound to hit home. Most of the scouts got only minor wounds from the arrows. Oliver Wood was not so lucky and was fatally wounded several times over. Only Marlie Weasley emerged from the rain of arrows unscathed.
"This Way!" Yelled Marlie as she led the others out of bow range.
As the others flew to a safe height, Oliver Wood fell like a stone. He was dead before he hit the ground. Suddenly Marlie gave a strangled cry as a six foot long crossbow bolt pierced her and she too fell off her broom. Marcus Flint tried to rescue her before she hit the ground, but all he got for his trouble was filled as full of arrows and Wood had. Ron and Angelina fell higher as they looked down upon the giant crossbow which was now reloading. Grieving over the loss of their companions, the two turned and head back home to make their report.
When they got home, the went straight to Hogwarts. Their arrow wounds needed attending and there was not better healer than Poppy. When they landed on the Hogwarts lawn, Hermione ran out the greet her husband. Just before she reached him, a shot rang out and Ron Weasley's head suddenly exploded!