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Chapter 19: HBP 2: against the Giants
(Young Luna's thoughts)
Old Luna's thoughts
Selena, Luna's mom's thoughts
The sword's thoughts
Parseltongue
"Arcesso Paelex!" intoned Luna.
There was a popping sound and Virginia Nott appeared before her.
"Where am I?" asked Mrs. Nott.
"You are in my Lair," said Luna, who, in an effort to be more intimidating, had worn her dominatrix costume. "I've killed your husband, shattered your wand and taken over your house. You belong to me now and if you want to be granted another wand, you will have to establish a record of good behavior."
"I belong to you now?" asked Mrs. Nott. "Does this mean that I am to be your concubine?"
"As temping as that sounds," said Luna, eyeing Nott's gorgeous platinum-blonde haired trophy wife, "my husband would never approve."
"Then I am to be his concubine?" asked Mrs. Nott.
"I don't think he would go for that either," replied Luna. "No, you'll be set up in one of our more modest houses under house arrest and a house elf will bring you food weekly."
"Well, if either of you needs my services, you know where to find me," said Virginia as she struck a sexy pose.
"Wait! You WANT to be a concubine?" asked a shocked Luna.
"Well, if I am to be a piece of property, I can certainly think of worse jobs to be assigned," replied Virginia.
"I'll keep that in mind," replied Luna. "Ablegatio Paelex!"
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"Beggin' yer pardon," said Miles O'Bannon, "but as much as I like takin' the money of an eccentric billionaire, I have to think that yer half daft ta be trainin' an army to use such antique weapons."
"What would you suggest as an alternative?" asked Harry Potter.
"This would be a lot more practical," said Miles, indicating his more modern automatic rifle. "This is an AK-47. It's the most popular gun in the world. It will fire when covered in mud or with sand in it. It's so easy to fire that a child could use it, and they do. With this, I can get fifteen shots inter a target before reloadin'."
"Would you care to pit your modern weapon against my wand?" offered Harry.
"I hate ta do in such a well payin' employer," replied Miles.
"My point is that your weapon is useless against people like me," said Harry. "I believe this so strongly that I am will to let you shoot at me, just to prove a point."
"It's yer funeral," said Mile.
"Ready? Begin. Immunitas Artus Cento!" hissed Harry as he conjured a special shielding charm.
Miles rapid fired his entire clip at the shield but all of the bullets fell to the ground without hitting Harry. He quickly reloaded and carefully aimed a second clip at Harry, firing one bullet at a time. Not one touched Harry.
Harry just stood there with a bored expression on his face. After two clips of bullets had been shot at him, Harry silently waved his arm in a disarming charm. The gun flew out of Miles' hands and Harry caught it.
"This is what you're up against, people who can do what I can do. The arquebuses fire special bullets that are imbued with the Death Curse. No magical shield will stop them. That's why I have you using such antique weapons," said Harry.
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Voldemort had promised a mass Muggle killing. Since his attack on the Brockdale Bridge had failed, this town would suffer in its' place. It was one of the many towns in the West Country that had an all Muggle population. The members of Squad A had been roaming the streets all evening while a unit of pike men waited outside of town. At about midnight, they began to hear a sound in the distance. It seemed vaguely familiar to Harry and Stan. None of the others had ever heard anything like it. Suddenly a realization dawned on Stan with a shock!
Now I know where I've heard that sound before," said Stan, "in Godzilla movies!"
"There!" said Amanda as she pointed to place where the stars were being blotted out by an enormous dark shape.
As luck would have it, the pike men were stationed on the correct side of town. They fought in a formation of eight rows of eight men, each armed with a pike that had been specially enchanted by Rodrik Ravenclaw to pierce giant hide. Each pike was thirty feet long but balanced and weighted as if it were eighteen feet long.
As the members of Squad A ran towards the edge of town, they fired curses at the giants, who, even some distance away, towered over the buildings they were behind. Nobody's spells were able to penetrate the giant's magic resistant hides though. Luna even tried firing an energy beam from her sword, to no effect. Fortunately, all of them, except Luna, were armed with magical swords from the Gryffindor collection. Harry had a long sword that could also be used as a wand. Neville had a rapier that was so thin that it was invisible when seen edge on. It could cut through anything. Ginny had a short sword that altered time so that she could move faster than others. Stan had a broad sword that sucked a little bit of the life force out of anyone it wounded. Amanda had a saber that made wounds that wouldn't stop bleeding. Everyone except Harry also had their wand in their other hand.
Squad G, also know as the General Staff, had determined that fighting in close formation against a giant, was likely to lead to them all getting stepped on at once. So the members of Squad A spread themselves out so that they could attack from many directions at once. With her greater speed, Ginny was able to run ahead. She made a stab for a giant's ankle, but didn't penetrate deep enough to make the giant do more than flinch slightly.
"Expelliarmus!" one of the Death Eaters that had been lurking behind the giants knocked Ginny's wand out of her hand.
As it flew towards the Death Eater, Ginny raced forward and caught it in mid air.
"Crucio!" shouted another Death Eater as Ginny curled up and screamed in agony!
"Accio Ginny!' shouted Harry. His summoning charm made her fly into his arms just in the knick of time to prevent a giant from stepping on her.
"Crucio!" shouted another Death Eater.
Luna blocked it with her sword and retaliated.
"Fulgur!" hissed Luna as a lightning bolt shot out her wand and hit the Death Eater.
"Stupefy!" another Death Eater tried to stun Neville, but in bounced off the shield he had silently conjured.
Amanda silently cast a disarming charm at the first Death Eater and caught his wand as it flew into her hand.
Stan silently stunned the second one.
By now, the giants had come closer. One of them spotted the tertico of pike men and tried to step on them. The pikes went through his flesh like a hot knife through butter. The giant roared in pain as he pulled back his foot.
"SURENDER AND WE'LL LET YOU LIVE!" Luna called out in the giant language.
The giant closest to her, tried to stomp on her, but Luna cart-wheeled out of the way making a deep cut in the giant's foot with her sword as she passed.
The third giant tried to stomp Neville. Neville dodged the giant's foot, then sliced through his ankle. Due to the magic of his sword, Neville was able to make a cut that was about three feet deep.
"Delibro!" shouted Harry as he cast the onion peel curse at the Death Eater who had Crucioed Ginny. The Death Eater began screaming as the layers of his flesh began peeling away. The skin was the first to peel off. The pain center of his brain was the last part to go.
Amanda stunned the Death Eater that she had previously disarmed.
Stan charged towards Luna's giant.
Ginny had collapsed on the ground and was still trying to recover from that Cruciatus curse.
The first giant knelt next the pike men and tried to hit them in a sweeping motion of his fist. Again, the pikes sunk deeply into him before he pulled his arm away from them.
The second giant tried to stomp Luna again. This time, both Luna and Stan's swords bit deeply into his feet as they dodged out of the way. The giant howled as Stan's sword pulled a little bit of the life force from the giant.
Neville had dodged between the third giant's legs. Again, he cut deeply through the giant's ankle, this time on the other side of the same leg. The giant howled in pain as it sat down and clutched at the torrent of blood pouring out of his ankle wounds.
Harry and Amanda ran towards the giant that was fighting the pike men.
The first giant sat down held up his hands and said, "I surrender," in the giant language.
The second one limped away from the town as fast as his legs would carry him.
"He said he surrenders!" said Luna to Harry as she watched her prey escape.
Harry stood and pointed his sword at the captive giant while Amanda and Stan rushed to help Neville.
By now, Neville had sheathed his wand and picked up Ginny's sword in his free hand. With a blinding speed, Neville cut off both of the giant's hands. He then raced around the back and severed the giant's spine. The giant collapsed to the ground. By then Stan and Amanda had arrived and the three of them hacked at the giant until it had stopped twitching. All three of them were covered in blood.
They then heard the familiar "pops" of the Aurors arriving.
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The next day, there was a bigger story than the giants in the Daily Prophet.
Mass Breakout from Azkaban!
Last night saw the biggest breakout in the history of Azkaban. En Mass, the Dementors left their posts and let all of the prisoners loose before they left. Amongst the escapees were: the Death Eaters: Severus Snape, Angus McNair, Thomas Rookwood, and the Le Strange Brothers, the self styled "Deputy Death Eaters" that killed several students and a teacher at Hogwarts last month, the disgraced former ministry administrator, Delores Umbridge, Barnabas Collins, who masterminded the Night Stalker conspiracy to turn all of Wizarding Britain into vampires in the1780's, George Dorn, the "Imperial Rapist," who used the Imperious Curse to rape thousands of muggles, Fenris Strucker, who has single handedly infected more people with Lycanthropy than even Fenrir Greyback. For a complete list of escapees, see section B, page 3.