Harry had already counted that there were nearly 25 Death Eaters who had answered Voldemort's call after his re-birth. They had spread throughout the graveyard after Harry had broken out of the duelling ring of sorts formed by them when Voldemort had challenged him. He thought it would not be easy to hide from them.
'Hide', that word struck Harry's mind like a chord and he looked at himself. His scarlet Gryffindor robes would surely make him stand out and add to it, it wasn't a moonless night. The full moon shone in the cloudless sky in all its glory but he would have preferred to be lucky if it had been a moonless night or cloudy, at least.
'Luck, ha!' , Harry thought, hidden temporarily behind the statue of an angel. Luck had not been much on his side lately. He again looked at himself. Then, he had an idea. Quickly pointing the wand at his robes, he turned them the same color as his surroundings. Looking at his spellwork with satisfaction, he turned his mind again towards the Death Eaters. He would have to act cunningly and try to take them with stealth, if possible. His mind briefly turned back to what had transpired in the last thirty minutes.. He knew that he could not take on the Death Eaters face to face with his wand directly. They would have an arsenal of dark curses. He decided to combine magic and Muggle techniques seriously this time.
He quickly set to work. He first found out where the Death Eaters were concentrated the most. Then, transfiguring a stone into a thick metallic box, he gave it a black color so that it would be camouflaged and using an Engorgement Charm, he made it swell to a size nearly the same as the cauldron in which the Dark Lord was reborn. He then placed a Hover Charm on it to make it feather-light. Quickly banishing it into the air above where the Death Eaters were more in number, he waited. They had not noticed it as their eyes were on the lookout for him. He knew that as soon as he fired the next curse at that box, his position would become known. So, he would have to divert their attention for that particular span of time in the direction right opposite of where he was hidden.
He fired another Severing Curse , this time aimed not at the Death Eaters but at one of the grave marker. A part of it cracked and hid the ground with a thud which was fairly audible to them in the silent graveyard. It had the desired effect. All the nearby Death Eaters turned to the spot, with a few who were already facing that direction firing quick curses, a couple of which were sickly purple and yellow in color. It made him queasy to think what would have happened had been at the end of one of those curses and grateful to have thought up this plan.
As soon as the box slowed to hover over right where they were prowling, Harry whispered, 'Defodio' but did not wait to see its effect. Quickly muttering a Shield Charm to protect himself from the effects of the curse he had just fired, he slipped from his place to move away and towards a new hiding place while keeping an eye out for those and other followers of the Dark Lord.
The curse Harry fired hit the box with a devastating effect. It exploded all over the place and the shrapnel of the metal hit not only those Death Eaters but a few others standing away from them as well. Many were heavily injured, the metal having hit some of them very deeply in places. In some cases, it had pierced their vital organs. Harry knew he had hit a lot of them but he could not lose time to cheer for himself. There were still other dangerous Death Eaters and then Voldemort himself to deal with. He had to try to avoid them, take down as many as he could to stop them from harming him and avoid Voldemort, if possible. A very difficult task and it was a sobering thought but for the first time, he felt hope.
Hope, that he could survive this and make out alive and return to Hogwarts to inform the world about the Dark Lord's rebirth.
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