In the distraction that his presence caused, the two remaining Order members were able to stun two of the Death Eaters. Harry, in the meantime, was doing away with all pretenses and holding up a shield with his left hand as he fired spells with his fake wand. A few of the Death Eaters remembered themselves and went back to firing at the Order members, while about ten black robed figures focused on Harry.
Harry began firing everbero at anything that moved. Most were able to construct a strong enough shield in time to block the spell. He did notice that one Death Eater was not so lucky. He too was thrown clear across the field of battle. Harry was a constant flurry of motion. He never stopped, lest he end up in harms way. There were not just stunners and minor hexes headed his way, and he was not confident that his shield would be able to block everything.
Harry paid special attention to the colors of the spells flying in his direction. Anything resembling the green of the killing curse or the brownish-orange of crucio, he avoided at all costs, even if that meant walking into another colored spell. He would just have to hope that his shield would be enough. Harry continued to fire at his attackers, but he was gaining little ground. With so many of them, he was hard pressed to knock any of them out of the fight.
When one stopped attacking to throw up a shield, there were still nine or ten others bombarding Harry with spells. He knew that he would have to find some way to begin evening out the numbers. The only question was: how? The problem was that all of the Death Eaters were able to conjure a shield in time to block his attacks. He couldn't continue to give them the time to do so because he would quickly become exhausted in a fight like this.
Some people might have called his next move suicidal, but to Harry, it was the only way he saw to win this battle. Rather than keep his distance from the Death Eaters, Harry charged them. He continued to hold up his shield against the onslaught of spells, while avoiding any particularly dangerously colored spells, but he was beginning to grow weary. He knew that he would not be able to hold up his shield much longer, which made it all the more important to end this fight quickly.
With his closer proximity, Harry began scoring hits against his opponents. He managed to catch one with his powerful stunner and another with a cutting curse across his wand arm. An unexpected advantage of his new tactic, was that the Death Eaters now had to be careful with their own spells, lest they hit their comrades. The green lights stopped entirely, and the orange lights were now few and far between. Harry managed to stun two more Death Eaters with everbero before he knew he had to drop his shield.
Kingsley and Minerva were only being covered by a handful of Death Eaters now, so they weren't as limited in their actions as they had been. The Death Eaters did keep a continuous stream of spells coming their way, but they were able to peek out and send several spells of their own. Kingsley managed to stun one of their attackers thanks to McGonagall's skillful Transfiguration work. She transfigured a rock into a cat which she sent out to distract her opponents, leaving Kingsley open to stun the Death Eater as the cat clawed at his legs. They didn't have any idea who it was that had come to their rescue, nor did they have much time or energy to spare to see how he was doing. They could only hope that he could hold them off long enough for them to dispatch their own enemies.
Harry was down to six opponents when he finally had to drop his shields, and one of them was injured on his wand arm. Harry was exhausted already, but he could not allow himself to slow down. He couldn't stop moving, especially now that his shield was no longer there to protect him. He rolled out of the way of a purple light, and shot an everbero at one of the Death Eaters as he jumped back up to his feet, bringing their number down to five.
He dove out of the way of a yellowish curse, casting a stunner on his way down. Four remaining. He rolled over to avoid another flash of light, but he was a little too slow. The curse connected with his left shoulder and sliced down almost to his elbow. Harry let out a scream of pain, but he shot back up to his feet and ignored it as best he could. He shot out another everbero toward the Death Eater who just struck him. The man tried to erect a shield to block it, but Harry was angry. And his spell reflected that anger. The red spell cleaved the shield in two and struck the Death Eater in the chest. It was with slightly less force, but enough to knock him out. Only three left.
Harry rolled out of the way of an orange spell. Unfortunately the action caused him to roll temporarily onto his injured arm. He had to bite back the groan of pain as he continued moving, avoiding a yellowish spell. The action pushed him right into another spell, however. Another gash appeared just below his knee on the back of his leg, stretching down his calf. Another howl of pain and rage escaped his lips as he let out a bludgeoning curse toward the offender. His shield didn't make it up in time to block or otherwise lessen the blow. The man was rocketed out of sight. Only two left to dispatch.
McGonagall and Kingsley tried the same tactic to distract their next target, but he was prepared for them. He shot a reductor at the cat as soon as it drew close enough to him and was able to recover in time to block Kingsley's stunner. Not one to be dissuaded, Minerva McGonagall transfigured three cats and sent them all out. This proved to be too much for the man, and he too fell to Kingsley's stunner. They repeated this tactic again to take out another Death Eater.
With only two Death Eaters left covering their position, they risked going on the offensive. Kingsley was able to quickly down his opponent, while McGonagall dueled her own enemy. Once Kingsley finished off his own Death Eater, Minerva's didn't last long against two opponents. The two Order members turned toward their mysterious savior to see him take a cutting curse to the back of his leg and the resulting bludgeoning curse that sent his attacker flying through the sky.
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