The Love Of A Wizard

The Battle

What they saw caused all of them to pause for only a few seconds. But in those few seconds they saw much. Bill was furiously battling with a Death Eater and in one moment, the Death eater was face to face with non other than Fleur. Who seemed to grow more beautiful and glow a strange blue color around her. The Death Eater stopped battling Bill and stared at her, just long enough for Bill to aim a curse at him that blasted him into the wall, where he lay motionless.
“Thanks honey.” They heard him say and they ran together through a door to the left. For there were many doors, all in a circle.
To the right of them, an elf, who wore at least five hats on his head, was standing with his hand raised in the air and a bolt of light was shooting from his palm. Following the light with their eyes, they saw a man, a Death Eater by his clothes, was being blasted through the ceiling. The elf seemed satisfied with this and nodded to himself. Then with a “POP” he disappeared.
Shackelbot was running before the elf actually disappeared and the muggles leapt into action. Claudia had a feeling none of their weapons were going to be any use tonight. But they carried them anyways. Through the same door Bill and Fleur went through they ran and the door closed behind them. The room was filled with clutter, but on one wall a tank filled with water and something inside of it.
“Don’t touch anything.’ Shackelbot said. And they ran through the room into another room that looked like a stadium. They were on the highest level, looking down at the magnificent battle below them.
Arthur was gallantly battling two Death Eaters at once. He was jumping and rolling and dodging everything that came his way. Claudia had a hard time seeing anything for all of the colorful curses shooting all around the room. She saw a Death eater pointing his wand at that strange little girl, the blonde that she met at the wedding. But in an instant the pudgy boy, Neville, jumped on his back and Claudia thought she saw him bite his ear. The man yelled and tried to throw Neville from his back, but Neville hung on. The blonde girl stood and stared at the two, completely unawares of the battle going on just feet from her.
She saw Remus and Tonks and her heart skipped a beat. Remus was holding Tonks’s arm and dragging her backwards. She was covered in blood from a very deep head wound. From the opposite side, she saw Hagrid running with his arms outstretched clothes lining anyone in his way. She also saw that any curses flung his way, seemed to bounce right off of him.
Then she saw where he was going. Tucked in the farthest corner was Hermione. She lay motionless, but what was strange was that she was surrounded by at least three house elves. They had formed a blue barrier around her and everything was bouncing off of it and heading back the way it came. In fact, the muggle voyeurs were forced to duck more than once as colorful jets of light were flying in every direction.
Claudia grabbed Nick’ arm and cringed as she saw Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucius Malfoy and Severus enter through another door. They hurried to join the foray and Nick held Claudia back.
“We have no business here Claudia. All we can do is watch and wait. Duck!” They fell to the floor just as a green jet of light was lobbed their direction. They looked back up and saw more people entering the stadium room. For the first time, Claudia saw in the middle of the room, stood an archway. It was covered by a black drape, and Claudia wondered what it was for.
People seemed to flood inside of the room. Once or twice, they looked behind them, worried someone was going to come through the door they did. So Bones and Rod sat stationed on either side of the door, ready to pounce if necessary.
Claudia saw Minerva flicking purple jets of light from her wand at a Death Eater who was trying to get close to Shackelbot, but Minerva kept blocking him.
“Hey…what’s that?” Chester pointed to the far corner and Claudia was very surprised.
A group of at least five goblins were walking in a straight line toward the fight. When a Death Eater stepped in their way, they stopped walking and pointed their long, wrinkled fingers at them. A dark blue bolt of light shot from their finger tips and wrapped around their enemy‘s throat. They shrieked with pain and ran away. The Goblins continued to walk together, calmly, across the room.. Lights were shooting from either side of the room and people were screaming in pain and anger. Blood was on the floor and so were a few bodies. Claudia looked and saw, with great sadness, Mad-Eye Moody laying on the floor. Clearly dead.
She fought back the primal scream that was raging in her heart. She tapped Nick and Chester next to her and pointed. Nick hissed through his teeth and Chester closed his eyes.
She had to shake herself back to reality and she watched as the battle continued. From out of nowhere, firecrackers were set off in the room and Claudia let out a snort of disbelief. Fred and George had joined the show and were directing two identical dragons at nearby Death Eaters. When the Dragon got close, sparks flew from its mouth and burnt the robes of the wizard. So now there were little fires all over the room as Fred and George chased a very scary looking man with pock marks on his face.
The elf with the many hats popped into the room and went for Minerva. He spoke to her for a moment and then popped out again. Remus was doing a fantastic job fighting along side of Arthur, who had not suffered even a scratch yet. Claudia found herself, once again, impressed with this seemingly gentle man with the lion’s heart.
The two remaining teenagers, Neville and weird girl, were helping Hermione to her feet. Hagrid was standing in front of them kicking people as they passed by. Apparently, indiscriminately. Claudia saw some of the wizards she knew were in the Order, but didn’t know their names, fighting with everyone else. So many people were crammed in the room, it was hard after awhile to know where anyone was.
It was Antonio who poked her in the back and pointed to a door below them. It had opened and a man was standing in the doorway. It was Voldemort. He hesitated and then sent black sparks from his wand in the direction of Arthur and Remus. Both of them dodged the black flame and landed on opposite sides of the room. Voldemort stood and his remaining Death Eaters went to him. Behind the Death eaters, Claudia saw more Goblins. These were not the same ones she saw earlier. They looked meaner and wore black arm bands.
Claudia scanned the room and her eyes rested on Severus who stood unscathed. She breathed a sigh of relief and saw another door open across the room. It was Harry.
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A/N: Dun dun dun dunnnnn! *lol* We are here, the final showdown...and no more reviews yet?!? Come on guys...can you pay me back for posting this story by posting a little tiny note about it? Please? Geesh...if this continues....I shall hold off posting the last...few chapters. *Evil Grin*