Disclaimer: this work borrows from the world of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books; some plot elements, characters, and concepts are hers.

Chapter 15: That looks painful!

Almost as soon as Harry and Jake closed the door to the Burrow Voldemort sent a sickly blue curse at them, which they sidestepped neatly, just in time for it to slam into the front door and explode.

Harry smiled as the spell flew harmlessly by, and promptly saw stars, and then blacked out.

Harry awoke a moment later, to see what appeared to be a green whirl moving at him.

He slammed into it, and felt a stab of pain and heard his shoulder give a sickening crack, letting him know it was broken.

Harry realized that the green thing that had slammed into him had been the ground.

He felt something hot and sticky on the back of his neck, and reached up to touch it, and then looked at his fingers to see blood on them.

Just then a spell shot over his head, hissing loudly.

"Bloody hell!" Harry exclaimed, remembering Voldemort.

He rolled over, gritting his teeth at the shooting pains in his back, and pulled himself to his feet, silently summoning his wand as he did so.

He lurched to the side, dodging a violet spell.

"Reducto, diffindo, avis, abigo." Harry chanted as he kept moving to make himself harder to hit.

The blasting and cutting curses Voldemort batted away harmlessly, but he was caught by surprise when Harry conjured a flock of birds and then banished them at him.

Voldemort muttered an incantation that Harry couldn't make out, and a whip of flame shot out of his wand and wrapped, around Harry's knees, burning through his pants.

Harry screamed as Voldemort's fire-whip seared his flesh, after a moment, he was able to gasp out the only spell he could think of to counter it.

"Aguamenti." He muttered, sending a jet of water out of his wand to put out the fire, this also caused a large cloud of steam, obscuring Harry and Voldemort from each other.

Desperately thinking of what he could do to disable Voldemort long enough to get away, Harry tried a variation of a spell he had never cast, but had seen used many times before.

"Desmodus terriculorum adsultare!" A sickly colored green curse sped out of his wand and hit Voldemort just as he vanished the birds.

Voldemort stood, threw back his head and laughed. "Your spell didn't even work Potter!" He cackled. "Crucio" Harry dropped to his knees and screamed as the Cruciatus curse hit him, ripping through him like hot knives.

Then, almost as suddenly as it started the pain stopped.

Harry looked up, and saw Voldemort standing there, wide eyed, covering his nose with both hands.

Harry saw a small grey blob wiggle through Voldemort's fingers and then form itself into a bat, which promptly flew off of his hand and bit him in the ear. Voldemort shouted in surprise, and moved his hand from his nose to bat the small bat away from his ear, allowing three more blobs to fall from his nose, forming themselves into bats before they hit the ground.

Voldemort screamed as the infamous bat-bogey hex took full effect.

Harry climbed to his feet and picked up his wand, which he had dropped when Voldemort's torture-curse hit him, and he cast the first spell that came to mind.

"Incendio"

Voldemort still had enough presence of mind to duck out of the way, but he was not quite fast enough, and the burning charm caught the tip of his hat, which burst in to flame and was quickly consumed, leaving an unconscious Albus Dumbledore lying on the ground.

"Oi, Harry!" Harry turned just in time to see George toss a pendant to him.

Harry knew it was an emergency portkey, and as soon as he caught it, he said the activation word. "Sanctuary." And found himself back in the bedroom in the twins' flat.

The last thing that Harry saw before everything went black was Fred and George appearing carrying the limp form of Jake between them.

Author's note:

According to the University of Notre Dame website (archives (dot) nd (dot) edu (slash) latgramm (dot) htm)

abigo -ere -egi -actum to drive away; of cattle , to remove, steal. Transf., to banish, be rid of: 'uxorem', to divorce.

terricula -orum n. pl. a bogey.

adsulto -are to leap violently upon; to attack , assault.

And last but not least, according to wikipedia, all species of vampire bats are in the Desmodus genus.

So 'Desmodus terriculorum adsultare' literally means '(vampire)Bat bogeys attack!'

See, you learned something! And your mom said reading fanfic was a waste of time!