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“NOW!” Harry shouted.

All at once, ten different voices shouted, “REDUCTO!” All of the curses flew in different directions and the shelves exploded. Hundreds of glass spheres blew up, raining upon them.

They didn’t need Harry to tell them twice to run; they all flew off, their hands over their heads as they scattered. Emily’s fingers slipped from Draco’s in their run, but she knew he was right behind her. Emily kept up with Hermione and Harry easily, knowing the others were ahead of him. The door they had come through was up ahead and Harry jumped through it, waiting for the rest of them to make it through before slamming it shut. Hermione sealed the door as Emily turned to look for Draco, but he wasn’t there.

“Where—where are the others?” Harry gasped, voicing Emily’s thoughts. Ron, Luna, Ginny, Alicia, and Draco were nowhere to be seen. Emily and Jamie shared a glance, their eyes flying wide open.

“They must have gone the wrong way!” Hermione whispered, terror seeping through her features.

“Listen!” Neville said quietly.

They all listened to the shouts and footsteps from behind the door that Hermione had just sealed.

“Jamie…” Emily whispered as she clutched his arm.

“I know,” he whispered back as he took her hand in his. “I’m sure they’re fine…”

“What do we do?” Hermione asked.

“Well, we don’t stand here waiting for them to find us, for a start… Let’s get away from this door,” Harry answered.

They all started running as quietly as they could. Before they could get to the exit on the opposite side of the room, the door that Hermione had charmed shut was slammed upon with a body. Somebody shouted, and as the door flew open, they all dove under desks. Jamie pulled Emily slightly behind himself, still holding her hand. Both of their wands were drawn as they saw the bottom of the Death Eater’s robes.

“They might’ve run straight through to the hall,” someone said roughly. Emily prayed silently that they would listen to the bonehead without looking around in this room, but that was squashed moments later.

“Check under the desks,” another demanded.

As soon as the knees of the Death Eaters started bending, Harry and Jamie both shouted, “STUPEFY!” Emily was also thrown backwards as the Death Eater’s wand went wild and shot the stunning spell back at her as he fell through the air. As soon as Jamie realized she had been hit, he was at her side in a heartbeat. It took him a few minutes to get her out from under the debris to use the counter curse as the other Death Eater pointed his wand at Hermione, going for the kill.

Everything was chaos as Harry jumped at the man, and then Neville, trying to help, cried, “EXPELLIARMUS!” But this only caused more mayhem as both Harry and the Death Eater’s wands flew out of their hands. Both men scrambled after their wands as Neville tried to redeem himself and aimed another curse at the Death Eater. Instead of hitting him, like intended, it flew over his shoulder and hit a cabinet. The Death Eater had time to grab his wand and aim it at Harry.

“STUPEFY!” Hermione screamed as she caught up with them. The curse hit the man and he collapsed backwards as Hermione summoned Harry’s wand.

“Jamie, can you get into Alicia’s mind? I’ve been trying to talk to her, but I’m getting nothing…” Emily whispered before her hand flew to her mouth, her eyes bulging.

“Don’t even think like that,” Jamie said hoarsely.

“But, if she isn’t responding—” Emily began as tears started forming in her eyes.

“I said stop. Alicia’s fine,” Jamie said stubbornly. Emily just nodded as she wiped her eyes before looking over to the Death Eater that had fallen. His head had shrunken and his hair retracted into a baby’s head before returning to its previous form. His head continued that process while they heard a shout, crash, and scream from a nearby room.

“RON? GINNY? LUNA? ALICIA? DRACO?” Harry yelled.

“Harry!” Hermione shouted.

“You can’t hurt a baby!” Hermione chided as she pulled his wand arm down. The man-baby was flailing his arms everywhere, narrowly missing Harry, who had ducked.

They all started running again when two new Death Eaters barged into the room behind them.

“IMPEDIMENTA!” they cried in triumph. All five of them were knocked backwards, all of them hitting into different things.

As one of the Death Eaters tried giving away their location to his fellows, Hermione silenced him while Harry and Jamie took care of the other one. Emily crawled over to Neville to make sure he was all right, since they landed fairly close.

As she turned her attention back to her friends, she watched as the silenced Death Eater threw a nonverbal spell at Hermione and she crumpled to the ground.

“Hermione!” Emily and Harry yelled. Emily started for Hermione but the man threw her back with the flick of his wand. She smashed into a glass cabinet, which broke into millions of pieces around her. She dropped to the ground, knocked unconscious as Jamie hurried over to her side.

“Emily?” he asked in a shaken voice. He saw some glass sticking out of her arm and quickly pulled it free, ripping off a piece of his shirt to tie above the wound.

He heard a thump behind him and turned around to see Antonin Dolohov hit the ground. Neville, with a bloody face, appeared at Harry’s side as Jamie picked Emily up from the floor.

“She alive?” Jamie asked as he set Emily down beside Hermione and started fixing her wounds.

“Yeah, I dink so…” Neville answered.

“What about Ems?” Harry asked. Jamie nodded as Emily groaned.

“She was just knocked out. She’ll come to.”

“We’re not far from the exit,” Harry said suddenly. “We’re right next to that circular room… If we can just get you across it and find the right door before any more Death Eaters come, I’ll bet you can get Hermione up the corridor and into the lift… Then you could find someone… Raise the alarm,” he continued as he stared at Jamie and Neville, before glancing at the awakening Emily. She tried to sit up and Jamie helped her.

“And whad are you going do do?” Neville asked Harry with a frown.

“I’ve got to find the others,” Harry answered.

“We’re going with you,” Emily, Jamie, and Neville replied. Harry looked at Emily skeptically before turning to the boys.

“But Hermione—”

“We’ll take her with us,” Jamie said immediately.

“I’ll carry her… Y’all are bedder at fighding dem dan I ab—” Neville added.

They helped hoist Hermione over one of Neville’s shoulders and Harry handed him Hermione’s wand to replace his own broken one. Jamie supported Emily slightly before she finally shrugged him off and told him that it’d be harder to fight if they were joined at the hip. Jamie reluctantly agreed as they crept out of the office and back to the door in the hallway.

As the door shut behind them, the room began to spin, the doors no longer holding Hermione’s crosses.

“So which way d’you reck—” Harry started as a group of five teenagers fell through one of the doors.

“Ouch!” Draco groaned as Alicia landed on top of him.

“Sorry,” she said quickly as she got up and looked around. “JAMIE!” Alicia yelled as she sprinted forward and embraced him.

“EMILY!” Draco shouted in relief as he engulfed her in a hug. She kissed him fiercely on the lips as tears welled in her eyes. As Alicia started explaining about what happened on their end, Emily hugged her tightly before returning to Draco’s arms.

“Draco, I thought—I thought…”

“I know, me too,” he whispered back. He kissed her lips as he pulled her closer to him. She winced but when he tried to let go, she refused to let him.

“We’ve got to get out of here,” Harry said, bringing them out of their relief bubble. “Luna, can you help Ginny?” Ginny had no patience and tried walking herself, only to fall sideways and grab onto Luna for support.

They all headed to a door, following Harry’s lead, when another one burst open across the hall. Bellatrix Lestrange led two fellow Death Eaters into the room, shrieking, “There they are!”

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