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Draco in an unexpected situation
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After half an hour it seemed that the meeting had finished. Death Eaters started to move around in the house, poking their heads around curtains, braving opening the front door. They had obviously attempted other methods of leaving and found that they could not. After approximately ten minutes, one even flew out of the chimney on his broomstick. When he hit the top of the barrier two miles up, a loud DONG could be heard all throughout the inside of the warded area. Harry had secured it well. The broomstick gracefully floated down to the ground. The Death Eater who had been sitting upon it had however fallen off as soon as the tip of the handle had slammed against the barrier. He was knocked unconscious when he hit his head on the stone of the chimney on the way back down.
After the loud DONG- like a starter pistol, all of the death eaters start pouring out of the house, wands at the ready, coming directly at the army of House Elves, and a few choice wizards and witches.
17) The Battle
Within moments, the army was in action.
The first wave of Ground Assault began sending powerful bursts of magic at the Death Eaters in their sights. The Death Eaters did not know what was happening. As the Elf magic hit the Death Eaters, they disappeared, only to reappear within the specially built magic-proof cages (once someone was secured in a cell, the magic preventative function switched on, and a sedative spell kicked in). It was not long before Draco was reinstructing his troop
"Left flank, close in on the cemetery. Right flank swing round to the Orchard. Hermione, I need wave two. And Neville, where are our barrier spells?"
Neville's barrier spells were having trouble staying up through the magic that the Elves were sending out to the Death Eaters.
Ron and Luna were sending instructions to the whole army to move around the building. Ginny and her air assault remained out of the way and out of the firing range. Until there were enough Death Eaters outside, she did not want to risk sending the aerial assault over the mansion. Ginny's team had two objectives, the second of which was to get as many of the death eaters out of commission as possible without being targeted, but the most important, was to get Harry inside the building. Harry was hidden within the air troops, perched on a broom, with bags of ammunition like the other air troops. His bags contained different spells and potions however.
After several more furious minutes, the healers became desperately needed, as some Elves were injured and needed to be transported back to the cave.
The second waves of troops were sent in. The second ground assault team was flanked by two more small teams of specialist defence to protect them from the worst of the spells.
From his position at the front of the army, Draco was in a susceptible position, despite being protected by Neville's defence teams. Draco was shooting disarming spells and firing pummelling grenades at the death eaters, and one of the Death Eaters managed to deflect a grenade. It shot back towards Draco, and hit him on the shoulder. It hurt him a great deal, and made his eyes water with pain. The healers were having trouble getting to Draco to help him, as he was at the front of the firing line and the healers did not want to be injured also.
The Death Eaters were finding ways out of the building. They were powerful and they knew dark magic and were not afraid to use it.
The aerial assault team came over the main part of the battle. They dropped confusion bombs, paranoia bombs and spell-balls filled with the dagger-headed mosquito spell that Ginny had created. They only dropped these when there were none of their own troops underneath. None of the spells were lethal, but they could result in injury and disorientation and did not want to risk hurting their own team.
The aerial assault teams ensured that their route went over the roof, and Harry, having seen the Death Eater shoot out of the chimney earlier on, dived into it on his broom.
Outside Harry could hear the war waging. He silently crept through the house. He had expected rubble and dirt and a dark mood, but it was light and fairly clean. He crept on, peering in rooms, disarming and binding anyone he found using Elven magic.
He went on through house without being able to communicate with anyone to fine out what was going on. He could not risk using his ear piece until he was sure that so one was around. It was presently switched off.
At the window nearest to Harry, there was a loud smashing sound, which was the sound of a spell coming in through the glass. He dived out of the way and rolled into a nearby room. The room seems to be empty at first glance. At second glance it was also, which relieved Harry. He remained being on guard.
Harry carried on through the house. In the kitchen, he found Nagini. She was feasting on a large cat, which reminded Harry of Crookshanks. He pulled his sword up high about the snake, and sliced her head off. He felt as though killing the snake was like killing a chunk of Voldemort before he even reached the despicable creature. After parting the head from the body, he then ran his sword through the length of the body, cutting into the flesh to a slight hollow. He then crushed the head of the snake by hammering the hilt of his sword onto it several times.
After searching every other room, Harry surmised that Voldemort was holed up in a room which had extremely thick walls, floor, ceilings and even door. It was practically impossible to open. The walls, ceiling and floor were as solid as the door.
Harry gathered his power, and punched his magic out of his fingertips at the slightly weaker join of the door. He punctured a hole large enough to climb through in the wall.
Harry did not want to pose himself as a struggling target as he climbed through, so he grabbed his broom back up, cast a shield charm around himself and quickly shot through the hole, circling the room on entry to gather his bearings. The room was slightly larger than the Gryffindor common room. Voldemort stood next to a throne-like chair that he had obviously just vacated. He wore an expression of extreme disgust, and then when he saw that the figure on the broom was Harry, a spark of pleasure was evident in his serpentine face.
Without waiting for him to commence speaking, Harry shot a body-bind hex at Voldemort. He knew that it would not hold him for long, but Harry just wanted enough time to land safely.
The spell lasted exactly three seconds on Voldemort. This was just enough time for Harry to land the broom and to send another spell at Voldemort. His spell was something that Voldemort had never seen before. It was Elven magic, although Voldemort didn't know this. It bound Voldemort hands together. In fact, it merged his hands together, melting the skin together and the muscles twisting into each other to become one body part. With Voldemort unable to cast a spell, he decided to use his mouth instead.
"What is this? Who are you? I demand that you release me"
Harry did not respond right away. He paused and gathered himself for what had to transpire.
"Goodbye Tom" Harry stated simply and quietly.
He raised his hands quickly. His right hand had a wand in it. The left had a sword. He whipped the sword up, so that the tip faced Voldemort's snake-like face. He then swung it around, cleanly cutting Voldemort's head from his body, like he had done with the snake. He then cast Avada Kedavra on both parts of the body. He then set about using his final spell on the body parts- to kill the evil within. He sat down in front of the body parts and incanted a powerfully light spell. A spell that would enhance his voice so that everyone outside could hear it, a spell that would bring about a pure white light that could be seen for miles around, a spell that would solidify the dark soul of Voldemort into a dark gem where it could never be removed. To be sure, the Elves would bury the gem in a deeply hidden place, void of human life.
When the spell concluded, Harry was exhausted. He looked at the remains of Voldemort's body. They would be picked up later.
As Harry walked out of the mansion, he noticed that the forces were significantly depleted but that they had won. All of the Death Eaters were bound in the massive cage maze structure that Ginny and Hermione had devised.
Some other faces were there that were not before. Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and some people who he did not know where there, along with Professor Dumbledore who looked up and broadly smiled at Harry. Exhaustedly, Harry smiled back briefly, before slowly trudging up to greet them all as best as he could. He would need some sleep soon.
Draco silently watched all of this exchange through partially closed eyes, not understanding what was really going on before all went dark.
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