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"Dialogue"
'Thoughts'
-Author notes-
Chapter 238: That was a bad idea!
"That's a… that's a…!" Neville pointed at the masked man with terror in his eyes.
"Expelliarmus!" A flash of light came out of Lyra's wand and blasted the wand away from the masked individual's hand.
"Bloody hell, that hurt!" He let out a shout of complaint.
Two more masked persons came out of their hidden spots.
"You idiot, pay more attention!" one of them said.
"Neville, come on, run!" Lyra took Neville by the cuff of his robes and pulled him along.
The three masked men were blocking the only way out, so they had no choice but to venture further into the maze.
"Hurry you idiots!, we can't let the Boy Who Lived escape!"
"Yes, the Dark Lord will kill us if we fail."
Neville huffed and puffed as they ran. "Those are Death Eaters!" he finally said.
"I know!" Lyra looked around. Everything looked the same, so she had no idea where to go from here.
"You disarmed one of them. That was incredible!" Neville said in between breaths.
"That was nothing… Daphne would have thrown like three more spells and completely disabled him…" As much as she would like to brag, she knew her brother would tell her that she could have done better.
"Lyra… where are we going?" Neville decided to ask as they were just going further and further into the maze.
"To the center. Maybe there is another way out from there," Lyra hoped.
As the two of them took the next turn, they finally arrived at the center of the maze.
"Yes! We found it!" Lyra exclaimed.
"And… if there isn't?" Neville asked after seeing that the center of the maze only contained a small statue with some congratulatory message.
There was no other way out.
"You think they made it fireproof?" Lyra asked.
"What? You don't mean t—"
"Incendio!" Lyra pointed her wand at the back wall. The leaves and branches immediately burst into flames.
"What are you doing? We are going to die in a fire now!" Neville exclaimed.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm making a new path," Lyra pointed.
The fire consumed the shrubbery, and soon enough, there was a hole big enough for them to pass.
"Incendio!" Lyra continued to burn her way through the maze.
After the fourth time, she could tell they were getting closer to the exit.
"Just one or two more…" Lyra's breathing was starting to become more irregular.
"Are you okay?" Neville looked at her with concern. She now appeared to be a lot more tired than he was.
"Fine… just a bit more." Those fire spells were taking a toll on her. "Incendio!"
"There!"
Neville turned around to find the source of the voice. "Lyra! They found us!"
The downside of Lyra's strategy became evident. It was very easy to follow them since they were leaving a trail of burned plants.
"Let's go!" Lyra crossed through another burned hole, hoping to find the exit, but she only found herself surrounded by more walls.
'There is no other choice… I have to fight them.' She turned around, prepared to put up a struggle, but her wand was immediately pulled away from her. "Noo!"
She was then hit by another spell that pushed her back with a lot of force, making her fall against the wall of branches.
"Lyra!" Neville exclaimed. He hurried to get in front of her in a protective manner and pointed his wand at the three masked men. "Leave her alone! I will fight the three of you!"
The trio of Death Eaters started laughing.
"Go ahead, do your worst." One of them got in front of the group and taunted Neville.
The boy trembled. He wasn't even sure what spell he could use in this situation.
"Neville, just run away, you cant beat them!" Lyra told him.
"No…" Neville pointed his wand at the masked man. There was one spell that Professor Potter had taught them during this last trimester, but he had been unable to use it successfully so far. "Stupefy!" A bright red light came out of Neville's wand and flew directly at the Death Eater.
Neville's eyes widened, both shocked and happy at his accomplishment.
This sensation went away quickly when he saw the masked man flick his stunner away like it was some sort of insect.
"What a disappointment… I was expecting something better than a stunner from the Boy Who Lived…" the Death Eater said.
"Just kill him already. There is no need to waste time."
"What about the girl? She is not one of the targets."
"We kill her too, I guess. I doubt the Dark Lord will care."
"I suppose… we better do this thoroughly."
Lyra and Neville were horrified to hear their conversation as they casually decided to kill them. She opted to do the one thing she could do at this moment… she screamed as loud as she could.
"Shut her up!"
"Silencio!" One of them cast a silencing charm at her.
"Just kill them already, we have to leave befo—"
"Found them." The voice of Astoria could be heard on the other side of the maze wall.
"Over here!" Ginny shouted.
"See? I told you that if we follow the wrackspurts, we will find them. Lyra is always surrounded by them," Luna explained.
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