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Chapter 23 continue
"So old man, what's it gonna be? Are you gonna give us the book or not?" Apostollo demanded, taking advantage of Harry's shocked silence.
"You want it?" Matthias asked the shadow. Harry came back with a jolt and looked at Matthias horrified. "Come and get it", the old man added and threw the book at Harry cursing the nearest Death Eater at the same moment.
Harry realized what was happening in a heartbeat and then he sent some curses flying towards the Death Eaters and Apostollo. He managed to immobilize some of them but Apostollo just used a protective spell and the curse bounced back to Harry but he avoided it easily.
Harry could swear that whoever Apostollo was, he was smirking underneath his cloak. They were too many for him and Matthias to fight all alone. Harry hid the book in his cloak before crouching down to avoid a curse that was coming his way. This wouldn't go well, he knew that and Apostollo wasn't even fighting yet. Matthias knocked down a Death Eater and before the rest of them could stop him, he pointed his wand at a certain part of the wall and sent a red spark at it. The alarm was activated and the Death Eaters froze.
"Leave the old man, get the book from Potter and get going!" Apostollo ordered.
But Harry was determined to keep the book safe even if it meant his own life and Matthias not to let them harm Harry, so as the five Death Eaters turned to face Harry, Matthias hit two of them from behind and the rest turned to him again. Apostollo grunted.
"Surrender the book, Potter", the shadow said. He was rather terrifying Harry thought but he would take Apostollo instead of Voldemort any day. He raised his wand too.
"I rather die than give this damn book to you. Believe me no man can fight me for it and win", said Harry and meant every word than escaped his lips. But Apostolo laughed, obviously amused by something in his words.
"Man?" the masked shadow repeated and then turned his wand to himself and murmured an incantation. "I am no man" the shadow said with another voice; a woman's voice.
Harry's eyes widened. Apostollo was a woman? This wasn't good. Women were more vicious. Apostollo raised his-
her, Harry corrected himself,
her hand and reached for her hood. Harry gasped as he realized that in a few moments he would know who Apostollo finally was.
When the alarm started silence reigned over the big hall where aurors and the Death Eaters were fighting. For a few moments everybody was just listening to the deafening sound. Ginny took some stepes forward. She knew the source of that sound, she knew from what room it was coming and she knew that Harry was in that room, probably with a bunch of Death Eaters and probably in mortal danger again. She felt like the sound was making the big hall shrink and she was sinking, sinking, sinking...and then Dolohov pointed his wand at the ceiling, a red flash of light emerged from his wand and the big chandelier that hung from the ceiling dropped at the floor.
Ginny raised her hands to protect her face as glass flew everywhere, while half of the aurors were out and the rest tried to break through towards the stairs but it seemed impossible.
"Did you hear that?" Roxanne asked startled hearing the loud bang the chandelier made when it crashed on the floor.
"The entire building shuddered, Roxanne", James said breathlessly. "How could we have missed it?"
"What was it?" she asked terrified.
"Porbably something the Death Eaters did", James shrugged, trying to act casual in order to keep the other from panicking. "Come on, we still have to find dad".
"James, we're at the third floor already and we have absolutely no idea where we're going", Albus pointed out.
"So what do you think we should do genius?" James asked his brother irritated.
"I don't know but this doesn't help", Albus sighed.
"Neither do you".
"Oh, shut up".
"You shut up", James threw back.
"No, you shut up".
"You can't tell me to shut up kid, I'm older than you".
"I think I just did. Oh and I just remembered! Shut up!"
"You shut up!"
"I am not!"
"Wanna bet I can make you shut up?" James asked with a smug smile.
"Oh, please!"
"Both of you shut the hell up!" Scorpius shouted suddenly and both James and Albus looked at him stunned; his reaction was the one they were expecting from Roxanne.
But the boy wasn't looking at them. He had his eyes fixed on a dark side across the hallway and he was listening hard.
"Um...Scorps? What are you doing?" Albus asked his friend uncertainly.
"I think there's someone there", the boy replied pointing at a dark corner.
James look at that direction but he couldn't make out anything because of the dark.
"Let's find out then", he shrugged and took some steps forward.
"Wait!" Roxanne said alarmed. "What if it's a Death Eater?"
"Chill, Rox. If it was a Death Eater we would probably be dead by now", James smiled.
"You told me that to help me
chill?"
James ignored her and walked towards the dark corner. Now that he was closer he could make out a pair of legs on the floor. There
was someone there. There was someone who was unconscious there.
"James?" Roxanne asked. "What is it?"
"Is someone there?" Scorpius asked too but the boy didn't respond and then they heard him gasping.
"James?" Albus asked alarmed.
"Get over here!" James yelled with an anxious, strained voice. "It's Uncle Ron!"
"What?" Roxanne asked and run there with the two boys behind her.
When she came closer she saw him too. It truly was theri Uncle! He had his back against the wall and his legs were stretched in front of him and his eyes were closed. James was kneeling beside him with a terrified look upon his face. Roxanne herself gulped. Ron's face was still and white like he was...
"Oh, God!" Albus exclaimed. "James, is he...? Is he...?"
"I...I don't know", the boy responded with a trembling voice.
"Well, take his pulse", Roxanne breathed.
"I can't...I'm scared that I won't find it", James admitted.
"I'll do it", Scorpius sighed because obviously none of the others was in state to check if their uncle was dead or not.
The boy knelt beside James and took Ron's hand. He searched silently for what seemed like a century to James and then he sighed.
"Well?" James asked both impatiently and unwillingly.
"You can all relax now; he's alive".
Harry was looking at the woman in front of him out of words. Hate and contempt had wiped out his ability to talk for now. He could only glare at her wide, mocking, smug smile and think of ways he could take her out.
Matthias cursed another Death Eater and turned to see the revelation of Apostollo. His jaw dropped.
"You?" he asked stunned. "You are Apostollo?"
-Angie-
