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The very moment they stepped in the school grounds, they heard screaming voices. Without another thought, all of them dashed inside the grounds trying to find the origin of the sound. Trees littered everywhere and it made things quite difficult in finding the one who cried; so they scattered into small groups to look for it.

Harry was several moments away from the rest when there was a bright flash that emanated from his left, facing Hogwarts. With a strong sprint, he went towards the flash of light and saw what was happening. Hermione and Ron (who went to together to look) was now dueling a single person whom Harry had never seen before. Bright flashes of green and blue emanated from their wands here and there. Hermione was having a hard time and was grunting and screaming every moment or two while Ron looked no better as he is being buffeted by jinxes from time to time that made him to become outbalanced.

Out of instinct, Harry joined the fight but when he was about to wave his wand, his body flew into the air and landed several feet away from them with a loud crash. It was at that moment when Ginny came in and helped him stand up. She was not saying anything but she did look concerned and worried as she looked at Ron and Hermione’s duel.

Harry was about to urge her to help them but another burst of lights emanated several meters away from them and saw people dueling too. In a matter of seconds, they saw who were fighting. George, Cho (who had been completely healed from her injury earlier), and Parvati were fighting two strange men that were fighting vigorously at them. The duel became so fierce that the ground before them grew hot and steamy, like they were in a frying pan. But the fight did not end and all five of them kept fighting.

“Who are these people?!” Harry exclaimed as he saw Zacharias and Angelina being pushed into his direction by another man, dueling them.

“HARRY!” Ginny exclaimed and there was a short sizzling sound that occurred to Harry’s senses. He immediately stood up and looked at Ginny, who was now locked at a hooded man in a fierce wandfight. She looked murderous but her efforts were only equal to the man as he flicked his wand in an easy motion here and there.

In a short moment, Padma and Lavender’s cries of pain rang out into the woods. But Harry was too locked at the man’s wandwork when he joined his wife in her fight, therefore ignored the others who were fighting. Ginny was putting up a tough fight, sending high-leveled spells at the man but he seems to avoid and block all of them with ease. Harry on the other hand, kept hurling the man spells that he picked from the Half-Blood Prince’s book and all of it was easily blocked too.

“Harry!” Ginny called, as their duel began to rage into a more difficult situation. “We can’t!” she added, scowling at the man as she waved and twirled her wand.

But before he could answer, her wand flung from her hands and into the air. She looked scandalized as she looked at her husband. And the next moment he knew, she was blown backwards into a nearby tree. She immediately lost consciousness. Harry was struck by the horror for a moment that she may be dead but instead focused on his endeavor.

But his wands also flew into the air. The man was too fast.

“It is futile…” he said in a slow and creepy tone.

Harry was panting heavily, glaring at the man. “What have you done to Hogwarts?! Where’s the headmaster?! Where’s Luna and Neville?!”

“I told you, your actions are futile. Why bother?”

And then there was a burst of red light in front of Harry. When he regained his sight from the flash, he saw Draco Malfoy now fighting the hooded man. He was putting up a good fight and by looking at the anonymous man’s actions he was having difficulties in dueling him. With another wide swirl of Draco’s wand, the enemy’s own flew into the air. The hooded man stopped in his tracks and seemed to be glaring at Malfoy.

“Have you touched a boy named Scorpius Malfoy?” he asked in a calm and composed tone, as if he didn’t duel at all.

“Why bother asking?” the man hissed under his breath. “Hogwarts is doomed. Soon, new soldiers will be joining Lord Alvis and destroy everything that opposes him.”

Malfoy looked unmoved and looked at the man with great apprehension. “I ask you again, you seem to have misunderstood my question: have you touched a boy named Scorpius Malfoy?” he repeated with a more firm tone.

“Everyone will perish...”

And there was another burst of bright light and the man fell at the ground, motionless. Malfoy’s wand was pointing at him and was slightly smoking because of the intensity of the spell he conjured. His eyes glared at the fallen man as if he was dirt by the road.

All of the sudden, a person appeared beside Harry and patted his shoulder. He turned to look at the person and saw a dark man wearing long blue robes and a turban. At the exact moment Harry landed his sight of the man, he gave off an assuring smile that he longed to see in the midst of the skirmish.

“The Order of the Phoenix and several Ministry officials are here, Harry Potter. I am glad that you guys took the initiative to investigate the place we least expected danger to be.” A deep and assuring voice said that belonged to Kingsley Shacklebolt. Harry almost forgotten the fact that Draco Malfoy called for several Ministry officials after they arrived in the school outskirts.

And people began to appear all over the area. Harry was amazed when people he knew from long time ago began to appear. From a short distance, he saw Minerva McGonagall, his former teacher of Transfiguration, and Pomona Sprout, a teacher from Herbology before Neville succeeded her position, running to help Ron and Hermione. After a short moment, more people began to come from all directions. Percy, Bill and Charlie Weasley dashed into the scene and joined the fray. Several Ministry officials surged all over the place and quickly overwhelmed the enemies’ numbers.

“HARRY POTTER!” a voice yelled out amidst the shouts and confusion.

Harry immediately turned to look the origin of the voice and found out that it was McGonagall shouting at him. She was fighting fiercely one-on-one against the same man Ron and Hermione fighting. His two friends were on the ground, obviously exhausted.

“Move immediately! Check people in the castle! NOW!” she yelled out loud he was sure that the rest of the people across the grounds must’ve heard her.

With a strong sprint, Harry dashed to Ginny and checked her situation. She was sprawled across the ground when he picked her up and tried his best waking her up. After a short moment of struggle, her eyes slowly opened and looked severely dazed from her damaged earlier.

“Harry?” she called slowly as she gazed unsteadily at him.

Harry nodded. “Do not worry, you’ll be fine.”

She must’ve recovered quickly because it was at that moment when she smiled at him and gave him a very assuring look. He felt safe and relieved. “I am not worried. I am with you.” She said in a calm and composed tone.