6
You bend over backwards and the curse misses you by a fraction of an inch. In fact, you can feel it shoot over your face and you fall to the ground. You stand up and find that you are quite alone. You search frantically and see that Ron has freed himself from whatever situation he had managed to get into and comes up next to you.
"Are you alright?" he says breathlessly.
"Yes, I'm all right," you reply, "Let's go help Harry!"
You run a few feet and find Harry, still locked in battle with Voldemort.
"Stay back, you two!" he shouts over his shoulder while narrowly missing getting hit by Voldemort.
Voldemort laughs evilly.
"Fool! Do you think that keeping them away will keep them from death?" Voldemort says, "You can't stop me!"
You feel anger fill up inside of you and you start to step forward. Ron grabs your shoulder and you look back at him. His eyes are full of anger, too, but also fear.
"If you do this, you will probably die," Ron says, "I'm going. I know I need to. But the choice is up to you."
He kisses you on the cheek and runs forward into battle. You're feeling mixed emotions; as much as you don't want to die, you know the right thing to do would be to join your friends. What are you going to do?
If you want to prove yourself loyal, go to chapter 10
If you're feeling like a chicken, you need to visit chapter 11