Luna and Neville were still standing in front of the door looking at each other. Their hands interlocked as they were saying all that needed to be said with their eyes. Hermione smiled to herself when she saw the look between them, but she knew it would have to wait. "OK you two, we need to be ready. More will show up soon."
Neville walked Luna back to the spot where he needed to hide, and as she started continue to her spot, he grabbed her arm this time. When she turned to him, he leaned forward and kissed her on the lips. "For luck," He said gently as he blushed.
Luna smiled as her eyes met his. "Luck is always something good to have," She replied before turning and skipping happily back up the path.
A few minutes later the door opened slowly again and three Death Eaters came into the room. All of them were complaining while one was shaking mud off of one of his shoes.
"Macnair, Avery and Crabbe," Hermione said to Harry. She could see one of Macnair's arms had been secured beside him. "I think you hit Macnair. His arm seems to be broken."
"Too bad I missed his head," Harry replied remembering the executioner who was going to kill Buckbeak.
"Look," Avery yelled as he pointed down the path toward Rookwood. All three of them moved quickly down the path. As soon as the neared Rookwood, Neville slammed the door in front of the Veil.
"That way!" Crabbe yelled and started to move past Rookwood but was stopped by Avery.
"You stay here and help Augustus," Avery growled.
"Why can't Macnair do it?"
"Because he can't use both hands, now can he?" Avery replied. "Now help him while we go after those kids."
Crabbe grumbled but then slid his wand into his robes and knelt beside Rookwood. With a look of disgust he started pulling at one of the tentacles.
Avery and Macnair moved down the path slowly and cautiously. As they got to the door, they moved to either side and nudged it open.
"More of tha bloody black stuff," Macnair snarled. "When I get my hands…"
"Stop whining and move it before they get too far ahead of us," Avery said to Macnair as he gave the executioner a shove.
Macnair put a hand into the blackness and it came in contact with the stone archway. "There's something here, feels like stone or something with some kind of curtain. I...I think I hear voices."
"It's them. Stop fooling around and go get them," Avery said and gave Macnair a harder shove through the door only to feel him disappear. He started forward feeling as he went until he ceased to exist a second later.
Crabbe didn't notice his two companions had disappeared. He'd managed to free one tentacle but then cried out in panic as the free tentacle had started to wrap itself around his wrist. As he scrambled to free himself, he didn't notice the witch moving up behind him. He slumped onto Rookwood when the stunner caught him in the back.
Neville and Luna both stunned the Death Eater as well to insure he stayed out, while Hermione mangled his legs with a blasting hex.
"Crabbe's down. Tripled stunned and I hexed his legs. He won't be going anywhere," She said as she knelt and searched the Death Eater. She quickly found his wand and snapped it into two pieces. For good measure, she put the pieces back in his pocket.
"Great work, now get back..." Harry started but then a firework went off to his left. "Damn...someone broke in."
Luna and Neville knew the plan. They ducked down and held their positions. They would only respond if Harry needed help.
Harry threw on his invisibility cloak and ducked out of the black cloud into the area where the firework had gone off. He heard two men cursing as they found themselves in another black cloud that nothing penetrated.
"I'm going to kill those kids," One voice said.
"Only after I get to torture them Jugson," The other voice said. "I want to feed them their own entrails and when I find out who threw that...that thing..."
"What was that thing?"
"Rookwood said it was a living brain, whatever the hell that is."
They broke through the blackness and looked around. "What is this room Lestrange?"
"I don't..." Rodolphus' words stopped as a jar smashed at his feet. Both Death Eaters looked down and saw the brain that had been inside start to unfurl its tentacles.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Jugson yelled in frightened panic as he remembered the tentacles wrapping themselves around Mulciber. His wand moved faster than his mind as he yelled "AVADA KEDAVRA," Green light shot out of his wand and hit the tentacled creature. Unfortunately for his companion, the brain had been right at his feet and the same green light had hit Lestrange in his lower legs and feet. The shocked look on Rodolphus' face was fixed in place as he slumped to the ground dead.
Jugson watched in horror as his companion collapsed at his feet, eyes open in a shocked look. Still fighting the terror he felt from the brain he never heard the slight footsteps closing in.
"STUPEFY!" Harry yelled from two feet behind Jugson. The red light hit the Death Eater and he crumpled to the floor. A bone breaking hex at the Death Eater's arms made sure he wasn't going to be fighting again that day. Harry also picked up his wand and snapped it.
"Both are down. Jugson killed Rodolphus," He said. "Anyone else there yet?"
"No," Hermione replied.
"Then I want to give Jugson a chance to apologize to his friend," Harry smirked.
"What?"
"Just let me know if someone comes in," Harry answered as he levitated the Death Eater's limp body. He slipped into the darkness where he knew there was an opening onto the path. He dumped Jugson onto the path very near the Dais. "Neville, can you open the door fully?" He whispered to his friend who ran out from his hiding place and did what was requested.
"Thanks," Harry said as he tossed the two pieces of Jugson's wand next to the Death Eater's head. When he was ready, he revived the Death Eater and waited.
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