The Last Battle

Chapter 8

There's a loud bang and everyone goes into panic. People are disapparating while Death Eaters are arriving.

"Stupefy!" I shoot at a Death Eater. They turn around and we begin to fight.

Around the room, people are yelling and screaming, a table has caught fire, and Death Eaters are duelling with everyone.

"Expelliarmus!" Remus shouts next to me. The Death Eater's wand goes flying.

"Go! Grab Ginny, Fred and George. Run!" Remus yells over the noise.

I nod and push through the crowd, dodging spells. I feel someone grab into my arm, I spin around, ready to curse them. It's Ginny.

"We have to find the twins!" I shout, pulling her through the crowd.

"Impedimenta!" Ginny shoots them spell at a Death Eater behind her.

"Fred! George!" I scream, they latch there hands into my arm and I turn on the spot.

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Thump

We land on the solid road outside Grimmauld Place.

"Come on." I jump up and race towards the door, the twins and Ginny close on my heels.

I unlock the door and we clamber through. I feel a whoosh of air and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. Something is forming in the shadows at the end of the hallway. It starts flying towards us, Ginny screams and it disappears.

"What was that?" George pants, stepping off the welcome mat and cautiously holding his wand up while walking further down the hall.

Ginny, Fred and I follow him slowly.

"Maia, what about Addy-Adeline?" Fred asks.

I push open the door to the Family Tree where Remus said she was being kept. The room is bare.

"Revelio." A light shoots from my wand and dances around the room.

"She's gone." I gasp, entering the room and feeling around for anything.

"Homenum Revelio!" I say, the light dances around the entire house, but nobody is here.

"What do we do?" Ginny asks worriedly.

I conjure a patronus, "Is it safe?" I flick my wand and send it to Remus.

"When did you learn to do that?" George asks.

I glare at him and direct my answer to Ginny and Fred even though they weren't looking for a reply, "Snape taught me."

"Snape?" Fred spits.

I nod.

A patronus returns, I recognise it to be Remus's, "No. And don't stay at Padfoot's".  It speaks.

"Don't stay at Padfoot's? Why couldn't he have just said Grimmauld?" Ginny questions as the light disappears.

"Probably coded." George answers.

"Where do we go?" Fred asks.

"Remus's." I reply.

"Lead the way."

I walk back out the door and hold my arm out to everyone. Three hands grab it and I disapparate.

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"Aw look how cute you are here!" Ginny coos, pointing to a picture of me pretending to be a horse at the beach when I was younger.

"This one's adorable!" Fred teases showing the picture of me as a baby, naked in the bathtub.