The Death's of Padma, Dean, Seamus, Slughorn and McGonagall.
McGonagall sent a curse directly at a Death Eater who ran at her, he was suddenly thrown back into the wall, she turned, ready to strike again. Slughorn was next to her, his arms barely being able to deflect the spells aimed at him, Professor McGonagall hurried to his side and slashed her want in a circular motion, and created a stream of fire that she threw at the attackers, and they flew back in fear.
Kingsley ran forward, deflecting and counter-cursing his opponents as he ran to them.
"Remus just gave word that up on the Astronomy Tower there are several students fighting off Death Eaters, there are maybe half a dozen students up there, against the battalion of Death Eaters heading this way, they don't stand a chance. He can't get up there, he's just seen Tonk's in the courtyard, I need you two up there," Kingsley said in a rushed voice. McGonagall lifted her robes and tore the ends of them, making it easier for her to run, to fight.
They nodded to Kingsley, he wished them luck and she turned to Slughorn. "Take my arm, Horace." he did so and the next thing they knew they were stood at the bottom of the stairs to the Astronomy tower, it reminded McGonagall of the night Dumbledore was killed.
She and Slughorn ran straight up and once inside she gasped. Ahead of her was the circular room. Wooden floors, all around marble columns holding up the roof and a metal gate between each one, protecting those inside from falling to their deaths.
Once again, she thought of Dumbledore. Her friend.
All around this room though, was death. One off the columns had been blown to pieces, causing a piece of the roof to cave in on the far left hand side. Under the giant heap of broken stone and rubble lay a student, a student with dark skin and dark hair and empty dark eyes.
Padma Patel lay dead, killed by the explosion.
Other students fought around the room, a few death eaters had gotten in, others were fought away from the tower. Seamus Finnegan, with messy hair, dirt on his face and a cut on his forehead, was battling two death eaters at once. The two were getting the better of him so McGonagall ran at them he own spell threw them both back and away, just in time for her to grab Seamus and pull him out of the course of a killing curse.
"Thanks, Professor." he said.
"Don't mention it." McGonagall replied, as she turned and attacked. The battle went on. She fought again and again, she helped those inside until all death eaters here were either dead or dying. Then she hurried to the railing where she cast out into the air at Death Eaters on brooms and other's apparating towards them.
Suddenly in the air before them, a figure appeared Solid, no smoke apparitions; they hovered there for a second before pointing her wand at them,
"Confringo!" There was an explosion and McGonagall was thrown off her feet. Up, down, left, right, none of it made sense until she hit the floor and rolled across it, bricks and dirt showering her. She used her hands to protect her head as she had dropped her wand in the attack.
Through muffled hearing she could hear people shouting, spells being cast, death eaters had penetrated the tower and were killing students.
Not in her school.
McGonagall got to her feet and turned, just in time to duck out of the way of a fist aimed at her. Oh, they wanted to resort to physical violence now?
McGonagall smiled and struck the Death Eater in the jaw with her fist; she even gasped as he was thrown back and hit the floor with a thump. She rubbed her weak knuckles, she felt like one of them was broken. On the floor, under the body of a student she didn't recognize anymore, was her wand. She reached for it but was tackled by another. They hit the wall next to the steps and started to fall, but she reached out and grabbed the column, she held herself up and then kicked the woman who had attacked her in the chest, she tumbled backwards and fell down the stairs.
Suddenly Seamus was there, helping her up.
"Thank you Mr. Finnegan." she said, she grabbed her wand.
"No Problem, professor." he said, but he was suddenly in the air, his body twitching, he mouth let out a long roar of pain and behind him stood Rookwood with his wand pointed at Seamus. Seamus cried out, she looked into those dark, evil eyes of Rookwood's and lifted her wand but another spell struck Rookwood first, Horace cast the spell.
Augustus Rookwood was on the floor, unconscious or dead she didn't know.
Seamus dropped down, but stood on his feet, catching his breath. McGonagall helped him up properly.
"Are you okay?" she asked, he nodded, smiled and looked up.
"Nothing can keep me down." he said but he was wrong. Because another explosion shook the tower, and blew up the wall above them. McGonagall was grabbed my Horace who held her away, but Seamus was not so lucky. The explosion destroyed and entire column, and blew off the metal railing that held Seamus up, one second he was there, the next he was falling to his death.
McGonagall cried out and killed the Snatcher that had caused the explosion. Then turned and continued to fight.
Dean Thomas was laying on the floor; he coughed up blood that stained his shirt and skin. Horace ran to his aid but Alecto Carrow hurried forward, threw her wand towards him and screamed "Stupefy!" the jet of blue light struck Horace in the chest.
He flew into the air, his arms and legs flayed out in the night, as if trying to grab the air or something to hold him up but he was gone, over the railing and out of sight. McGonagall shed a tear.
"Impedimenta!" The short bursts of light shot around the room before hitting Alecto in three places, her shoulder, stomach and head; Alecto crumpled to the floor. Another figure ran at McGonagall then, McGonagall was tempted to attack at first but then she saw it was Angelina Johnson.
"Professor!" she called, her dark skin was covered in dust and dirt, her eye was black and bruised, her arm seemed to be bleeding, badly and she looked tired. "They're dead, Seamus, Dean, Padma, Professor Slughorn! All of them!" she cried. McGonagall turned to see several other apparitions heading their way.
"We have to leave, we cannot hold all of them off." she said, they hurried to the stairs but a figure was running up them. A blast of yellow struck them, the blast of the spell had hit McGonagall more, so she was the one to fly back, and she hit the metal, rotating rings in the centre of the room, and was sure she cut her face on one.
Angelina started crawling backwards, away from the death eater. It was Fenrir Greyback. His face was dirty, his mouth covered in blood. His claws elongating, he watched her with blood-thirsty eyes.
Angelina screamed and lifted her wand but he kicked her hand and broke it, she cried out carried on trying to hurry away. But he was too quick, he lifted her up by her hair, she cried out and he turned her around, and was about to bite but McGonagall ran forward, and shoved her own wand in Greyback's eye. He cried out as McGonagall had torn his eye open, blood went everywhere. He fell back.
Once again the two hurried towards the stairs, the death eaters were close.
"Go!" McGonagall cried out as Angelina started to descend the stairs but suddenly Fenrir Greyback was there, he grabbed McGonagall's bun of grey hair, pulled it right, exposing her neck wide enough for Greyback to sink his teeth into her flesh.
McGonagall yelled..
"Professor!" Angelina screamed running back up but McGonagall roared.
"No!" Fenrir bit deeper. "Go! Now!" Angelina cried before obeying orders and fleeing from the scene. All of the Death Eaters and Snatcher appeared in, and smiled as they withed the werewolf biting on her.
McGonagall smiled to herself, she was already dizzy. And she knew she was going to die.
But if she was going to die, she was taking Greyback and all of the Death Eaters with her. She then stood on Greyback's toe, making his teeth leave her neck and roar in pain. Suddenly able to move, McGonagall pushed backwards, throwing herself and Greyback over the railing, just before the tower escaped her sight, she raised her wand and pointed it at the tower.
She cast the FiendFyre curse, and a giant stream of fire that took the form of a cat, ran forward and hit the tower. The entire top half of the tower exploded enormously, causing the fire and explosion to rocket high into the clouds. The blast hit her and hurt her ears, but she didn't care.
She realized she had killed all the death eaters in the tower, and that Finrir, who had let go once thrown over the railing, had hit the floor a few seconds ago.
She would be next.
She closed her eyes.