November 1994
Hogsmeade Village
Harry along with Minerva McGonagall, Narcissa Black and Filius Flitwick stood facing 20 death eaters. The remaining professors followed Harry's words and scrambled to help the students and residents of the Hogsmeade village.
Harry, although confidents in his abilities, understood that he was at disadvantage in this battle. The death eaters had overwhelming advantage in numbers.
Also, they would have no worries about the collateral damage of the civilian population or the surroundings but Harry could not go on rampage.
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Harry pointed his wand and jabbed it forwards. Streams of fire started to erupt from his wand and in no time, it took the shape of a huge bird.
"Fiendfyre," muttered one of the death eaters who was supposedly their leaders.
Harry's choice of spell was to bridge the numerical gap between the two sides. Fiendfyre was a large area spell and could damage to a larger area.
The bird enormously increased in size and with a swirl of Harry's wand it shot forwards towards the death eaters.
Although, a water elemental spell was the best way to counter to fiendfyre, elemental spells required exceptional power and talent to cast them and none of the death eaters were capable of this feat.
Even so, the leading death eater took a battle ready stance and pointed his wand.
"Shield with me," he shouted.
Following his action, all the other death eaters also raised their wand and in simultaneous actions jabbed their wands forward.
Transparent magical erupted from their wands but the shields did not remain close to their bodies. Instead, all the shields flew forwards and combined together to form a large shield reddish transparent shield.
Meanwhile, Harry's fiendfyre was already upon them and it collided with the shield. A shockwave erupted from the collision and the magical shield cracked a bit. The death eaters retreated two steps but held on to their wands and the shield contended with the fire bird.
Harry was again in action and another spell left his wand. Bombarda Maxima, struck the shield and it shattered on impact and almost all of the death eaters were flung few steps backwards.
The fiendfyre, though now weak after losing its magical supply from Harry, had still not disappeared and it flew towards the disoriented death eaters. They were not able to react in time and the enormous bird scorched almost half of them before finally dying down.
Almost 10 of the death eaters groaned in pain; their bodied and face charred black. Luckily, no one had died and albeit weaker, they could still fight.
The leader of the death eaters gazed at Harry with hatred, "You dirty blood will pay for this…"
Harry merely smirked at this and smiled in amusement. The smile caused a feeling of fear and dread inside the leaders' heart. His eyes wandered on Harry's wand arm and found it to be simply hanging from his shoulder. Relief washed over the death eater's mind but this relief was momentary.
Harry's first attack was not over yet. A loud and shrill hoot echoed in the Hogsmeade village and before anyone could understand, barrage of thunder rained down at the death eaters.
The death eaters already disoriented from the previous attack went into a mode of panic. Their reaction time was late and it took them some seconds to form shields to protect them. In moments three death eaters were struck to death by the lighting. Their bodies slumped down terrorizing the remaining the death eaters.
Another three death eaters were struck by lightning and though alive, they were badly injured.
Everyone gazed up and to their utmost shock found a little white owl flying overhead. Hedwig's body was covered in small bolts of lightning.
One of the death eaters was quick and fired a killing curse at Hedwig. But Hedwig gave another loud hoot as if mocking the idiot and vanished from the spot.
Although Hedwig's lightning attacks from air while Harry battled the death eaters on the ground would have given him an astronomical advantage, it was not possible. This one attack was limit of what Hedwig could do for now. Harry wanted the full element of surprise and Hedwig had used every bit of her power in the attack, holding nothing back. Now, she needed time to recover.
Harry's strategy was a miraculous success as he had been able to kill 3 death eaters and injured more than 10 of the death eaters in a blink of eye.
"Your turn now," said Harry to the professors and moved forwards.
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Narcissa itching for some revenge and action, took the first action.
She held no kindness for these death eaters and she jabbed her wand forwards. Her spell was epitome of dark spells. It was as if darkness took over her wand.
Three shadow like tentacles emerged from her wand. The tentacles were almost 6 feet in length and had a conical front, like the head of a snake.
Narcissa smirked sending a chill down the spine of the death eaters she was facing. She slashed her wand forward and under the astonished eyes of the death eaters, the three tentacles moved in a flash.
Two death eaters were able to react in time and blasted the tentacles mid way. The other death eater was late and the tentacle struck his arm.
From the spot, the tentacle made its impact, the flesh of the man started to be devoured. It was as if the tentacle was gnawing the flesh of the man and rotting it. The death eater screamed in pain.
The other death eaters who witnessed this swallowed hard. One them fired a cutting curse, splitting the tentacle in two.
The tentacle now in two pieces fell on the ground but it was not alone. Along with it fell half the hand of the death eater, bitten unevenly from his elbow.
The battle of Hogsmeade had begun.
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