Harry Potter the Power Unknown By Priya Ashok

Chapter 16

Nicholas and Perenelle had been very busy in the few weeks leading to the winter holidays. They had acquired a small cottage in one of the very small islands in the Outer Hebrides and had heavily warded the whole island. Then they had added a complicated charm that would slow time there and then with another magic subduing spell on the chairs they had conjured and placed in the cottage, everything was in place.

Outside the cottage, Nicholas had marked two circles in which he placed a small pipe each, and had charmed it to fire stunner spells at anyone who would land within the marked circle. Sirius had been tickled to find out about it and had laughed long and hard about the automatic stunning spell pipe as he called it.

Then Harry, Nicholas and Perenelle set to work as Snape, Sirius and Remus along with McGonagall and Turdin who had come there to watch the show, watched with wonder as Harry chanted in Parceltongue and they in an ancient language that none of them recognized, continuously for more than four hours, before there was a bright glow that was dark green in color and completely enveloped the marked circle meant for the death eaters.

Then on the night of the first day of the holiday, Harry and the others sent out the phoenixes to bring in all the others. The members of the Order went in one circle and the death eaters in the specially created circle that Nicholas, Perenelle and Harry had made for them. The death eaters, once stunned, were applied a special potion that would interact with the spell cast by Harry, Nicholas and Perenelle and keep the mark ineffective till they left the cottage.

The Order members simply had the stunner and then they were leviated by the elves to the room inside the cottage that was magically expanded. It was a big room with two 'U' shaped tables that faced each other.

Near the window, towards the center of the room was a podium to stand and speak to the whole room. It was to this room that all those who were brought were held.

Harry was standing on the small podium and Snape, Sirius, Remus, Nicholas, Perenelle, McGonagall and Turdin were sitting behind the members of the Order.

Those who had been brought from the side of the Light were the Weasleys except Arthur, Mad-Eye Moody, Hestia Jones, Dedalus Diggle, Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shaklebolt, Amelia Bones, and Emmeline Vance, Augusta Longbottom and Neville and Hermione Granger.

The death Eaters were the Lestranges, the Malfoys, Dolohov, the Zabinis, the Parkinsons, Rookwood, Mulciber, the Crabbes, the Goyles and McNair.

All of then were bound to their chairs and also had binds on their magic so that they could not fight with wandless magic as their wands had already been taken off them.

They were then enervated by Harry and the others in the room fell silent, waiting to see all the reactions when the members of the Order and the death eaters would find themselves in one room on opposite sides and all of them sitting ducks and none of them able to do anything about it.

They were not disappointed. All of them were simultaneously enervated and all of them blinked for a minute and took another minute to get their bearings right, and then the third minute went in looking around. That was when the chaos started.

"What the hell?" that was Moody who was yelling, his magic eye rolling furiously in his head and he was struggling to overcome the binds and was cursing profusely in the process, the curses growing more and more vulgar as his efforts showed no success.

The other Order members were struggling too, as were the death eaters who were cursing more violently than Moody. Bellatrix was actually frothing at the mouth as she, and the others were twisting and turning in their chairs, straining their magic to the utmost to undo the binds that were holding them so securely.