Heeeyyy! I'm back…I'm sorry. School started soo…it's tough to try to do everything at once. It's different from the summer when I have time. Now, you'll have to bear with me.

Disclaimer: the same old, same old.

(Back to Harry's POV)

BOOOM! Spells lighted the air. Cries arose from the Burrow and gleeful yelps sounded from the fields. Harry ducked as one deadly looking yellow light streaked near him, pulling down Hermione's arm as he went.

"But the protective spells!" Hermione cried as a collection of stunning spells collided just where their heads were three seconds ago.

"They aren't working properly apparently!" Harry half-whispered, half-shouted. He clutched Hermione's wrists. Screams of gleeful Death Eaters echoed all around them and lights streaked across the night skies, especially green ones.

"Do you have your wand?" Harry asked urgently. She feverishly shook her head.

"Well, I do. We need to—"

Then, they heard Bellatrix's voice quite near them. A boil of anger corrupted inside of Harry. That. Bi'atch. Killed. Sirius.

"So the Order is still cowarding in that hut they call a home? Hiding, eh? How very….dissapointing."

"Do you want to raid them, m'am?" Another raspy voice sounded nearby.

Silence.

"No. Lure them out is better. Do your specialty, Alfonso. We need to start a commotion." Bella ordered and then added. "This party is getting boring anyway."

A moment later, Harry felt the cold air turned hot. He peeked from the grass tops and almost topple backwards from shock. A Death Eater, most likely Alfonso, raised a ring of fire around the house. His stomach lurched when he saw a person jump out from behind the flames, launching spells at the Death Eaters. The person quickly disappeared into the safety, in the grass.

"Is that—?"

"Harry! Move!" Hermione whispered urgently and lead him swiftly through the grass.

"Ginny! She escaped through the flames! She's out in the fields!"

"What!"

"I saw her! C'mon, this way."

Harry backtracked the path, blindly trying to find Ginny. Suddenly a Death Eater jumped in from of them.

"LOOK, THAT'S HARRY PAAH-"

"STUPEFY!"

"THE BOY IS OVER THERE! THE BOY! THE BOY!" Voices of the masked man's comrades popped up everywhere. Spells of all kinds rocketed their way.

"Duck!" Hermione threw herself aside as a yellow ball of light streamed her way and lighted a patch of grass on fire.

Suddenly, everything catched on fire.

"Aguamenti! Aguamenti! Hermione help me!" He cried frantically.

"Harry, I don't have a wand!" Hermione wailed. He cursed under his breath.

"Move, Harry! Go!"

"There they are!" The previous Death Eaters voice sounded nearer. More spells created a collague in the air. Purple, green, red—you name it. One almost hit Hermione but Harry knocked her aside.

They ran in the darkness; Harry feared lighting his wand would alert his position.

"Wait," Hermione pulled his arm to pause. "I hear someone."

Swish, swish…pause…swish, swish..pause.

"Shh…"

Harry turned a 360 circle. The grass swayed all around them as if taunting them. Suddenly someone jumped in front of them. Harry whipped out his wand. He found himself, wand to wand with Ginny.

"Oh thank Merlin, Harry. I was scared to life that I couldn't find you." Ginny started, dropping her hand.

"Isn't anyone from the Order here?" Harry asked looking at the blazing Burrow.

"Remus and Tonks. But that's it. No one could jump the fire. I was lucky."

"Ok. We need a plan." Hermione commented. "It—DUCK!"

An ambush of red and green lights collided above just where their heads were three seconds ago.

"RUN!"

But there's nowhere to run. The Death Eaters trapped them in a corner. Harry looked around. Maybe 10 of them, more or less.

Behind them is the Weasley's barn and broom shack. They slowly advanced on the trio. Harry and Ginny held their wands out with Hermione sandwiched in the middle. Hermione whispered furiously to Ginny who nodded. Then, she leaned toward Harry, her eyes never left the advancing Death Eaters.

"The broom shack…" Hermione was saying. "On a count of three, start blasting curses everywhere."

"And then?"Harry whispered back, eyes never leaving the taunting band in front of them.

"I've got that covered. One—"

She nodded to Ginny who nodded back.

"—Two—"

Harry gripped his wand tightly.

"—Three, NOW!"

All hell broke loose. He felt Hermione freed from him. He couldn't see or think. Cries filled the air. Spells and lights whirled around him.

"STUPEFY! STUPEFY! PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" (Ginny)

"EXPELLIARMUS!" (Harry)

" AVADA KEDEV—" (Death Eater)

"STUPEFY!" (Death Eater)

"OPPUGNENTIUS!" (Harry)

"CONFRINGO!" (Ginny)

"AVADA—" (Death Eater)

"AVADA KE—" (Death Eater)

"STUPEFY!" (Ginny)

"AVADA KEDEVRA! AVADA KEDEVRA!" (Death Eater)

"SECTUM SEMPRA!" (Harry)

It was like dancing between raindrops. Harry missed about a millimeter from death every time. He could see that Ginny barely survives each swerve. The green lights, yellow lights, red lights—they all blinded his vision.

Where's Hermione?

Out of the corner of Harry's eyes, he saw a bushy haired girl swiftly dashed into the broom shack. WHAATTTT?

He cannot believe what he just saw. Did Hermione just ran for her life ditching Harry and Ginny to this suicide mission? Did she just ran into hiding? Wait, WHAT?

Harry felt a surge of power and anger. HOW CAN HERMIONE DO THIS TO ME? I THOUGHT SHE WAS MY FRIEND! SHE BETRAYED ME! SHE DITCHED HER ME TO HIDE IN A BROOM CLOSET AND LEFT ME AND GINNY TO DIE! AAAHHH!

Harry's spells now double in power. His emotions wired his magic and now his spells splits into 3—stunning 2 in front of him and one fighting Ginny.

"STUUUPPPEFFYY! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Harry saw that his particular spell spits into 5 and wiped out the remaining Death Eaters and also caused Ginny to duck as one streaked right at her!

Suddenly it was all over. The hauntingly quietness seeped back into the night. But for Harry, blood rushed to his brain and his heart pounded in adrenaline.

Harry fell to his knees, contemplating on everything that just happened. Ginny rushed toward him.

"Harry. Harry. Are you alright? Are you hurt? Harry?" Ginny panted and pulled him upright.

"I'm fine!" Harry's brain couldn't function, his mind was too overblown.

"Are you sure? You seem a little pale…"

"I SAID I'M FINE!"

Ginny stepped back a little but then regained her ground.

"Did you see Hermione?" Wrong question.

" Did I see Hermione? Are you asking ME that did I see Hermione?HELL YEAH, I did—"

"Shh…sh…it's alright. I know, me too, Harry. Let's get back to the Burrow and explain what happened to the rest of the family."

As Harry traipsed back to the Burrow, his mind is still blinded with the image of a frightened Hermione escaping into the broom closet. Harry turned back and looked. No one's there. So where did Hermione go?