"Bloody hell, it is indeed a very complicated spell and very powerful. How did you know about this spell?" Bill exclaimed trying to do the spell right for the tenth time. He usually never takes more than four to five tries to master a spell. Even the most of the order members found it difficult and impressed with the spell.
"This is a memory spell done by Hermione; it's a bit difficult but just concentrate a bit more you will get it eventually." Ron said. "All of you have to master this spell before night. We are going to execute our plan tonight."
"What do you mean by 'done by Hermione'?" Bill asked sharply.
"I will tell you that when the time comes. But Hermione and I, both worked for this spell. It is new and it requires a bit more concentration than normal." Ron said with a tone that clearly stated that he won't be telling anything further. Reluctantly Bill let it go.
All the Order members mastered the spell within an hour. Arthur is the first one to do it rightly and at the end he was better among the others. Ron divided all the members into groups with four members per group. The stage was set for them. Once all the members are ready Ron spoke up,
"All of you just follow the plan and remember the timing is very important and I have marked all the places where you have to call them. If you feel that they started suspecting anything just come back don't risk getting caught."
"Why don't we just take them down? Why to put memory charm on them?" Lee Jordan asked.
"We are not monsters like them, are we? We just cannot kill anybody until it's absolutely necessary. We just have to take their magical memories and Portkey them to some muggle place and let them be there far away from magical world. The main advantage we are having is this spell can only be lifted by the spell caster. Even if You-know-who finds them in the muggle world he cannot bring them back here without their memories and the spell doesn't wear off even the spell caster died. It's a win-win situation for us in both the accounts. Once we win this war we can bring them back and put them in Azkaban and if not they will be harmless and will be living as Muggles." Ron explained and raised his toast.
All the Order members toasted and set off to their respective places where they have set the trap for Snatchers.
Ron got Charlie, Lee Jordan and Oliver wood into his group. As they were about to leave Molly hugged Ron tightly and said, "Oh Ron, you have grown up so quickly. Quick enough to plan and fight against You-know-who, I am so proud of you my boy. Bill told me everything; you will find a girl whom you will love as much you love Hermione and she will love you the same." Molly said loud enough only Ron to hear.
"I doubt it Mum." Ron kissed her mother on the cheek and joined his group and soon they dissaparated.
"I am going to be the bait. You all take the positions. Stun them all before even they realize what's happening." Ron said to his group.
"But Ron, you are the one who has more combat experience than we do. I think you should be in the attacking position." Lee Jordan voiced his opinion. Charlie and Oliver both agreed to that.
Finally they decided they will take turns, Lee Jordan will be the first to be the bait and remaining three climbed their brooms and flew into the trees. They all were wearing Fred and George's new invention 'night glasses' where they can see in the dark.
Ron levitated a big rock beside Lee in order to hide so he doesn't get into cross fire. Ron nodded and Lee spoke clearly and loud enough for all of them to hear.
"Voldemort" Nothing happened for a minute. Lee opened his mouth to say Voldemort again but he stopped as he heard the sounds of apparating.
Five snatchers apparated within ten meters range of Lee. One of them started to open his mouth to say something was hit by a stunner straight into his face. Before the others raised their wands all of them were nailed by the stunners.
"Blimey, it was rather easier than I thought. But who the hell was that who threw a curse that missed my ear by a whisker?" Lee asked checking his ear for some unseen damage.
Ron's ears turned red with embarrassment, "it was me, I told you to hide behind that rock but you didn't, so I had to take the risk."
"Hey, there was no time for me to hide. You were all firing hexes randomly so I just stayed where I was." Lee said defensively.
"We don't have time for the discussion. Let's get them to the check point." Charlie said taking charge.
All of them apparated to the check point where all the other Order members brought all the snatchers.
They all were shocked to see around thirty snatchers lying unconscious.
"Why are they here? They should be under memory spell and send to some muggle village." Ron asked loudly to no one in particular.
"I think it is better to have one person to do all the memory charms, we don't know about all the Snatchers it will be difficult to remember who modified whose memories and we think Arthur should do it." Kingsley answered Ron.
Ron was taken back. They could have done that without asking him. But they waited for him to come and asked for his approval. Never in his life had anybody given such importance to his words. Normally he would feel proud and likes to tell it to others with a bit of exaggeration, but now he felt humble.
"Alright, Dad you stay here with your group and you modify the memories and your group will transport them. Let's keep going." Ron said as he nodded to his group and dissaparated. All the others soon followed Ron's lead.
All members in Ron's group took turns to take the bait and it was Ron's turn once again. The Snatchers who apparated were the same ones who caught Ron, when he left Harry and Hermione. Instantly Ron felt his anger rise since they are the reason he couldn't go back to them quick enough.
Without waiting for others to stun them he raised his wand and stunned two of them before the remaining two were taken down by his group.
"Let's get them and I think by this time the other snatchers must surely start to doubt." Ron said as he dissaparated with a snatcher.
As soon as he reached their checkpoint almost all the Snatchers were sent off to some muggle places.
"Ron, the snatchers might have suspected something. Nobody apparated and we waited for ten minutes and we came back here straight before they set some counter attack. According to me we took down almost eighty percent of the snatchers in merely couple of hours. I think this is definitely a setback for the death eaters and ministry." Kingsley updated as soon as Ron apparated.
Ron nodded, "Good, I think we should stop now by this time the Death eaters in the ministry must have informed about this. I don't think they would have got these many people calling out their leader's name aloud within this much short span of time." Ron said thoughtfully.
"See the irony here, these are the ones who attacked me when I said You-know-who's name aloud and they came again came seeking me and walked straight into the trap." Kingsley said looking at the snatchers.
Ron's response was interrupted by the apparition of Fed and George. They brought Crabbe Sr and Goyle Sr along with them.
"Here, they suspected a trap-"
"And sent snatchers along with Goyle and Crabbe"
"And apparated far away from the place and came there on the brooms"
"There they saw Remus and they disclosed their cover"
"Far too quickly"
"By stunning Remus"
"We were there invisible"
"Under delusionment charm"
"Bill petrified Crabbe Sr and apparated."
"Gred grabbed Remus and apparated."
"Forge stunned Goyle Sr and apparated with him." Fred and George explained finishing each other's sentences.
"Let us stop here, we shall go to Shell cottage and decide the next." Kingsley said and nodded towards Arthur. He quickly performed the spell on Crabbe Sr and Goyle Sr and soon all of them dissaparated.
Shell cottage completely filled with party atmosphere. All the Order members were celebrating their victory. They all shared their stories how they got all the Snatchers. The hope which became thin and thin by the following months has suddenly bloomed into life.
"Here, here" Bill climbed the staircase and shouted. "Let us toast for Ickle Ronniekins who is not ickle anymore for his brilliant plan and giving us some action tonight." All the members toasted and drank.
Arthur Weasley got up, "My dear friends let us dedicate this victory to all the people who lost their lives because of the Snatchers." Arthur said raising his goblet and all the Order members followed the queue.
The party went on till the morning with Fred and George bewitching the Butter beer into Fire whiskey.
The following afternoon the Order meeting was held in the Aunt Muriel's house.
"The ministry went havoc; nearly eighty percent of the snatchers went missing overnight. This caused so much uproar in the ministry all the Death eaters in the ministry are in fear. They tried to keep this news in dark but and I don't know how but somebody printed palm plates and sent to all the wizarding families and the news is out in open. Nobody saying it aloud but everybody is thinking Harry started to counter attack and You-know-who reign is coming to an end. Last night definitely gave hope to many people." Kingsley said holding the paper.
"Actually it was Ron and I. We both went to Mr. Lovegood's publishing office and printed all the papers. We actually thought of printing Quibbler newspaper for today but seeing Mr. Lovegood is in their custody. We didn't want to take the risk." Bill explained.
"How did you get into Quibblers office? I thought it was under protective enchantments." Arthur asked clearly both surprised and impressed.
"I told them how to enter into the office." Luna said with her dreamy still wearing the night glasses.
"Luna, it is already noon. You should remove the glasses." Charlie suggested.
"Is it really, but these glasses are very useful to find Pimpies. They always like crowded places you see." Luna said staring into the space causing Charlie to stare at her with his mouth hanging open.
"Let us get to the point, what is our next step" Arthur asked out loud.
As if they were expecting Ron to spoke up, they all turned towards Ron expecting him to say something. Ron fought hard not to blush under their gage but his ears which are bright red now gave him away.
"We succeeded in our plan to take away the fear of name. Now even somebody spoke out You-know-who's name accidentally I don't think the snatchers will be brave enough to come. But they will in high alert and they will be definitely waiting for another attack and they will be ready for that. I have discussed my second part of the plan with Kingsley and we tabooed the curse 'Crucio' and anybody who uses that curse on anybody we all will know and this curse is used only by Voldemort's supporters so we can get them the same way they got us by tabooing You-know-who's name." Ron explained and got a proud look from his parents and brothers.
"That's brilliant and what if they use the same strategy we used to get rid of the snatchers?" Remus asked but he is impressed with the plan.
"Well, they are stupid enough to leak the news but only people in the room will know this and we have to sign this parchment so that nobody can speak this out loud accidentally or under some curse or even when we get tortured." Ron said showing them the parchment.
"How in the name of hell you are coming up with these plans and strategies?" Charlie asked clearly astounded.
"I got this idea from Hermione. She used it for Dumbledore army in fifth year." Ron said with a hint of fondness in his voice thankfully nobody noticed.
"She did it in fifth year. No doubt she is the brightest witch of her age." Kingsley said in awe.
"Ron improved it a bit more by combining the spell with Secret keeper spell. He is a bit modest about that." Bill said proudly.
"Let's sign this." Ron changed the topic abruptly as his ears turned red.
All the members signed the parchment starting with Ron. As they completed Ron spoke up again.
"Take these fake galleons; these can be used for the communication. Whenever they turn warmer you all just come to Shell cottage immediately." Ron explained them the complete working of fake galleons.
"I am trying not to be surprised again, where did you get this idea?" Charlie asked again.
"Hermione came up with this for our DA meetings." Ron answered. "I am surprised Fred and George stayed silent for the whole meeting and well behaved." Ron said watching Fred and George who still remained silent.
"That is mother's handiwork you know, she silenced them with some charm I never heard of as the punishment for them for their fire whiskey fiasco. And she got that idea from you. I was thinking if we had this idea couple of years before. It would have been really handy" Charlie said laughing ignoring the murderous look the twins were throwing against him.
"Bloody hell" Ron exclaimed and laughed out loud wholeheartedly at twins' fate along with others for the first time after destroying the locket.