Chapter IV – Trapped in a Prison
Harry heard shouts and bangs and could distinctly see colours flying, through his closed eyelids. When he regained some of his consciousness, he tried to get up, but to no avail. Neville was shouting, "Harry, get up, we need you!" but Harry couldn't, even if he wanted to. Then Ron yelled, "Get up, don't be lazy, you're not going to get a break!" Harry literally laughed himself to consciousness. He woke up to find a raging battle. The five Death Eaters were much more skilled and fierce than those they had faced earlier, except Bellatrix.
Harry stood up, swiped his wand twice, and entered a duel with two Death Eaters. He was feeling very refreshed, as if he really had gone for a break. He danced around casting spell after spell and finally reducing one of his opponents to the size of an ant. But then, out of the corner of his eye, Harry saw Ron being slashed by a fierce Death Eater, who was hitting him with golden blades. Ron fell with an ominous thud, and his attacker turned to Hermione. Hermione was already terrified as her original opponent sent spells of incredible number In addition, Ron's attacker was also advancing on her. Harry did not notice this as he was helping Neville, who was coping well with his two opponents. Harry sent one of them flying across the room with a bang, but unfortunately he did not succumb to the spell. This was when Harry saw Hermione fall too, under the effect of two combined spells.
Neville and Harry then joined forces to fight the four Death Eaters left. Jets of light flew in so great number, that for over a minute nothing was visible due to bright lights. Harry urged Neville to go away, but he insisted on staying. Finally, Harry too fell under the force of three separate curses, and just a moment too late; because as he was passing out, six white jets of smoke entered the prison.
Chapter V – The Order Arrives
The jets of smoke resolved into the only six figures that could have consoled Neville – Professor Minerva McGonagall, Professor Severus Snape, Professor Remus Lupin, Professor Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, Auror Nymphadora Tonks, and Sirius Black. The Order of the Phoenix had arrived.
At once, they started raining spells on the Death Eaters, all except Professor Snape, who ran forward and, after some effort, revived Harry, Ron and Hermione to full strength.
The fight was soon over; the Death Eaters were no match for the Order. Within seconds, it seemed, the Order had defeated the Death Eaters and was searching for a way out of the prison. The doors of the prison were enchanted to grant entrance, but not exit. Professor Snape declared hat the tower was stiff with extremely powerful ancient protective enchantments. The Order, however, was not to reach home so fast, even if they did manage to find an exit.
All the Death Eaters whom the DA had left behind, sixteen in number, burst through the prison door, and the order and the DA got into a frenzy of action. The Battle restarted with spells coming at you from every which way. The whole tower actually shook with the force of the duels, and rubble rained down on the combatants more often than spells.
Chapter VI – Rage of Magic
Harry could not believe it. He had never even imagined Magic so powerful. The Order was so extremely skilled, that he (for a moment) doubted whether Dumbledore was really the greatest wizard. Fire erupted at one end of the room, where McGonagall dueled two Death Eaters at once. Remus had bound his opponent with ropes and was hitting him, with spells that shook the earth around him. Moody was slashing deep cuts into his opponents' faces, swearing all the time. Tonks was really into dueling, it seemed, because she was jumping and dueling at the same time, forcing her opponents to do a kind of tap dance in defense. Sirius had conjured dogs to chase one of his opponents and wolves to chase the other, while he really caused much more damage with his own spells, which he cast casually and gracefully. Even the DA was fighting better today; it was as if skills had been induced into them from the Order.
Harry himself was fighting alongside Snape, against three Death Eaters. He had a kind of reckless energy pulsing through him. We will win, thought he. Seeing the look of the battle, he was also sure that the tower would fall, granting them freedom. But then he noticed that he was wrong; every time a spell blasted a hole in the walls, it seemed to repair almost instantaneously. He sent another of Dumbledore's inventions – a bolt of lightning that could split infinitely, and could follow the target – squarely into one of his opponents' chests. Snape laughed and praised him at the same time, and told him to help the others while he rounded the other two up. Not that they need help, thought Harry. He aimed spells at random at any Death Eater he saw, and noticed that not many were still standing.
After a few minutes, Professor McGonagall and Sirius twirled their wands as one, and burned three Death Eaters to nothingness, thinking that they were the last. But Harry knew better. Instinctively, he saw that Bellatrix had somehow escaped the Order's vision and was running down the staircase. A staircase? Where did that come from? Harry pursued her, and an energetic duel followed. Together, they blasted every stone off the staircase. Harry kept forcing Bellatrix to descend the staircase step-by-step. He was sure of something that Bellatrix hadn't foreseen. Suddenly, Bellatrix stopped moving downwards, as if she had bumped into an invisible barrier. Harry smiled, and said, "The protective charms, Bellatrix," "You can never get me, pathetic little boy!" screeched Bellatrix, even as Harry aimed curse after curse at her. Finally, Bellatrix was turned into a teacup and transported to Egypt.