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And he saw them: Malfoy with his arms around the unconscious Goyle, the pair of them perched on a fragile tower of charred desks, and Harry divedMalfoy saw him coming and raised one arm, but even as Harry grasped it he knew at once that it was no goodGoyle was too heavy and Malfoy's hand, covered in sweat, slid instantly out of Harry's -
"IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I'LL KILL YOU, HARRY!" roared Ron's voice, and, as a great flaming chimaera bore down upon them, he and Hermione dragged Goyle onto their broom and rose, rolling and pitching, into the air once more as Malfoy clambered up behind Harry
"The door, get to the door, the door!" screamed Malfoy in Harry's ear, and Harry sped up, following Ron, Hermione, and Goyle through the billowing black smoke, hardly able to breathe: and all around them the last few objects unburned by the devouring flames were flung into the air, as the creatures of the cursed fire cast them high in celebration: cups and shields, a sparkling necklace, and an old, discolored tiara -
"\iWhat are you doing, what are you doing, the door's that way!\i" screamed Malfoy, but Harry made a hairpin swerve and divedThe diadem seemed to fall in slow motion, turning and glittering as it dropped toward the maw of a yawning serpent, and then he had it, caught it around his wrist -
Harry swerved again as the serpent lunged at him; he soared upward and straight toward the place where, he prayed, the door stood open; Ron, Hermione and Goyle had
vanished; Malfoy was screaming and holding Harry so tightly it hurtThen, through the smoke, Harry balenciaga motorcycle bag saw a rectangular patch on the wall and steered the broom at it, and moments later clean air filled his lungs and they collided with the wall in the corridor beyond
Malfoy fell off the broom and lay facedown, gasping, coughing, and retchingHarry rolled over and sat up: The door to the Room of Requirement had vanished, and Ron and Hermione sat panting on the floor beside Goyle, who was still unconscious
"C-Crabbe," choked Malfoy as soon as he could speak
"He's dead," said Ron harshly
There was silence, apart from panting and coughingThen a number of huge bangs shook the castle, and a great cavalcade of transparent figures galloped past on horses, their heads screaming with bloodlust under their armsHarry staggered to his feet when the Headless Hunt had passed and looked around: The battle was still going on all around himHe could hear more scream than those of the retreating ghostsPanic flared within him
"Where's Ginny?" he said sharplyShe was supposed to be going back into the Room of Requirement
"Blimey, d'you reckon it'll still work after that fire?" asked Ron, but he too got to his feet, rubbing his chest and looking left and right"Shall we split up and look - ?"
"No," said Hermione, getting to her feet tooMalfoy and Goyle remained slumped hopelessly on the corridor floor; neither of them had wands"Let's stick togetherI say we go - Harry, what's that on your arm?"
"What? Oh yeah -"
He pulled the diadem from his wrist and held it upIt was still hot, blackened with soot, but as he looked at it closely he was just able to make out the tiny imitation tiffany jewelry words etched upon it; WIT BEYOND MEASURE IS MAN'S GREATEST TREASURE
A bloodlike substance, dark and tarry, seemed to be leaking from the diademSuddenly Harry felt the thing vibrate violently, then break apart in his hands, and as it did so, he thought he heard the faintest, most distant scream of pain, echoing not from the grounds or the castle, but from the thing that had just fragmented in his fingers
"It must have been Fiendfyre!" whimpered Hermione, her eyes on the broken piece
"Sorry?"
"Fiendfyre - cursed fire - it's one of the substances that destroy Horcruxes, but I would never, ever have dared use it, it's so dangerous - how did Crabbe know how to - ?"
"Must've learned from the Carrows," said Harry grimly
"Shame he wasn't concentrating when they mentioned how to stop it, really," said Ron, whose hair, like Hermione's, was singed, and whose face was blackened"If he hadn't tried to kill us all, I'd be quite sorry he was dead
"But don't you realize?" whispered Hermione"This means, if we can just get the snake -"
But she broke off as yells and shouts and the unmistakable noises of dueling filled the corridorHarry looked around and his heart seemed to fail: Death Eaters had penetrated HogwartsFred and Percy had just backed into view, both of them dueling masked and hooded men
Harry, Ron, and Hermione ran forward to help: Jets of light flew in every direction and the man dueling Percy backed off, fast: Then his hood slipped and they saw a high forehead and streaked hair -
"Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at fake tiffany heart drop earrings Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort"Did I mention I'm resigning?"
"You're joking, Perce!" shouted Fred as the Death Eater he was battling collapsed under the weight of three separate Stunning SpellsThicknesse had fallen to the ground with tiny spikes erupting all over him; he seemed to be turning into some form of sea urchinFred looked at Percy with glee
"You actually \iare\i joking, PerceI don't think I've heard you joke since you were -"
The air explodedThey had been grouped together, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, and Percy, the two Death Eaters at their feet, one Stunned, the other Transfigured; and in that fragment of a moment, when danger seemed temporarily at bay, the world was rent apart, Harry felt himself flying through the air, and all he could do was hold as tightly as possible to that thin stick of wood that was his one and only weapon, and shield his head in his arms: He heard the screams and yells of his companions without a hope of knowing what had happened to them -
And then the world resolved itself into pain and semidarkness: He was half buried in the wreckage of a corridor that had been subjected to a terrible attackCold air told him that the side of the castle had been blown away, and hot stickiness on his cheek told him that he was bleeding copiouslyThen he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, fendi spy than he had been in his life
And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three redheaded men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apartHarry grabbed Hermione's hand as they staggered and stumbled over stone and wood
"No - no - no!" someone was shouting"No! Fred! No!"
And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face
\p\C0="Chapter Thirty-Two: The Elder Wand"
\bChapter Thirty-Two
\iThe Elder Wand\i\b
The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's mind was in free fall, spinning out of control, unable to grasp the impossibility, because Fred Weasley could not be dead, the evidence of all his senses must be lying\a150\a150 And then a body fell past the hole blown into the side of the
school and curses flew in at them from the darkness, hitting the wall behind their heads"Get down!" Harry shouted, as more curses flew through the night: He and Ron had both grabbed Hermione and pulled her to the floor, but Percy lay across Fred's body, shielding it from further harrm, and when Harry shouted "Percy, come on, we've got to move!" he shook his head"Percy!" Harry saw tear tracks streaking the grime coating ron's face as he sezied his elder brother's shoulders and pulled, but Percy would not budge"Percy, you can't do anything for him! We're going to\a150\a150" Hermione screamed, and Harry, turning, did not need to ask gucci laptop bags
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