The wandless girl's pulling does nothing to loosen the rotting corpse's grip on her neck. With a sicking CRUNCH, the bat shatters bone, and the lower half of its other arm falls limply to the ground. The angry creature's good arm clutches tighter and tighter, intending to choke the life out of the human until...

What the-? The inferius's head is knocked clean off by something whizzing by, falling with a dull thud, but its gripping arm is still intact, for now. Without its sight, the creature cannot hope to avoid the severing charm thrown at it; its remaining arm finally relaxes its grip on the wandless one as it detaches. Now headless and mostly armless, the Inferius staggers blindly, narrowly missing the fire spells aimed. It swings its bony stump of an arm in the direction of human voices. It's not giving up the fight that easily!

Several Inferi jump and grab at the boy on the broom, but he's too high to reach. Their sharp, decaying teeth gnash in frustration. They shake as a strange liquid is poured over them, splashing drops onto the humans. The group surrounding the adult move in too fast to be hit by the small human's (Julie) spell. One of the adult's kicks lands on an Inferius's spine, chopping it in half. The top half remains attached to her, arms wrapped firmly around her neck. Its head turns with a crackle of bone, white lifeless eyes staring into hers, and lets out a ferocious cry.

Some of the knockback jinxes fired hit their target, blasting a few Inferi backward in a tangle of bones... but only for a moment. The creatures blink in a daze as they hobble forward again, some missing arms and legs but angrier than ever. Seeing an easy target, several of them round on the frozen boy (Derf) and tackle him to the ground. Surely this one won't put up too much of a fight...