He reversed the disillusion spell to reveal himself as Tomas ran back towards him. "The rat?"
Tomas shook his head. "He apparated as soon as he heard the rock explode. I tried to stun him but he got away."
Bugger. At least, the anti-transportation ward was down for everyone, Remus mused as he turned and started to run for the campsite, Tomas at his heels. He only hoped it was enough to save Harry.
o-O-o
Where the hell were the Aurors, Harry thought frantically as he stared at the tableau of the Death Eaters torturing the muggles.
Dealing with the fire, a voice in his head responded firmly. Harry's jaw set and he sprang out of the bush and levelled his wand.
"Harry…" Ron gasped but immediately got to his feet, pointing his own wand at the pair.
"Put them down!" Harry shouted.
The Death Eaters turned towards them and Harry pushed Ron out of the way of a curse as another screamed towards him. He shielded quickly and dived to the side, casting a wide-spread cushioning charm on the ground as the muggles were released, screaming.
One Death Eater advanced on him, threateningly…
"Stupefy!" Harry yelled. A burst of red shot out of his wand, travelling across the clearing with speed and impacting the surprised Death Eater who hadn't even moved out of the way.
"You brat!" The other Death Eater hollered. "Reducto!"
Harry threw himself backwards and the spell hit a tree. It groaned and swayed. Harry rolled out of the way.
Ron got to his feet and tried to stun the Death Eater but had to quickly dodge another reducto curse himself.
A red beam suddenly came out of nowhere and the Death Eater went down.
"Got you!"
Harry gave a relieved sigh as he recognised Wood from the Rat Squad and Oliver's cousin run into the clearing with Chambers.
"Chambers, bind the pair of them!" He made his way over to Harry and helped him to his feet. "What are you doing out here, Harry?"
"Someone attacked the Potter alliance tent! They threatened the Weasleys – we're on our way to check on them!" Harry said. "Can you contact someone and let them know?"
"Harry, you should stay here with me and Chambers!" Wood said. "The rest of the Squad are dealing with the others but I can call Bones and…"
"No time!" Ron barked. "Come on, Harry!" He was off running again.
Harry gave Wood an apologetic shrug but he was already moving after Ron, following him out of the trees and stumbling into a bright yellow tent that had been on the same row as the Weasleys. He searched immediately for the purple and pink colours and his heart froze at the sight of smoke…
"Merlin! It's on fire!" Ron exclaimed fearfully.
"Come on!" Harry grabbed his arm and helped Ron push through the gaggle of people who were crowded around the Weasleys smoking tent but not actually doing anything.
Harry finally got them through to the front with a judicious use of elbows. Just across on the other side of the crowd Hermione and Neville stumbled to the front just as Ron and Harry did.
"You followed us?" Harry asked surprised as Neville bent double trying to catch his breath.
"As if I'd let you and Ron run off into trouble without me." Hermione retorted. "Oh God, it's on fire! Does anyone know if they're in there?"
"I heard voices about ten minutes ago." An old woman confirmed behind Hermione. Others clamoured to add their agreement.
"Then what are you DOING?" Ron shouted. "MY FAMILY ARE IN THERE AND YOU'RE ALL STANDING AROUND LIKE NUMPTIES!" He made a dive towards the tent and bounced off a ward. He was thrown back and skidded across the dusty grass.
"That young man is why we've sent for the Aurors!" The old woman berated him.
"A lock down ward! It was used in the last war, Harry, and prevented the people inside from escaping and the people outside from helping!" Hermione said breathlessly. "Harry, you could overpower it with a reducto!"
"Don't you think we've tried!" A dark haired man snapped in an Irish accent.
Harry raised his wand. "Everyone stand back!" He warned as he pointed it at the Weasleys' tent. "REDUCTO!"
He made no effort to dial his power back and the stream of light half-blinded those at the front of the crowd; Hermione and Neville knew to cover their eyes.
The spell crashed into the ward and for a second the bright green colour of it was visible before it evaporated.
Ron hurled himself toward the tent. "DAD!"
Hermione caught hold of Harry as he went to follow, her wand casting around his head. A perfectly formed Bubble Head charm appeared and he nodded his thanks to her before entering the tent. The visibility was awful.
Thick grey smoke hovered over the space and Harry was grateful for the Bubble Head as he found Ron already incapacitated, coughing into his arm.
Neville appeared beside him with another Bubble Head around him and pointed at something moving in the corner.
"ARTHUR!" Harry called out. He raced over with Ron, trailing behind him.
Arthur was lying unconscious on the floor, glasses askew. He was curled up around Ginny who was conscious and crying into a damp tea towel which was wrapped around her face.
"Ron, get your Dad out! Neville, help him!" Harry ordered, knowing it would take the two of them to carry Arthur; both were taller and had more muscle mass than he did otherwise he would have been tempted to have asked Neville to rescue Ginny. He stooped and picked her up awkwardly. She held onto him tightly as he carried her out of the tent and into the open air.
He set her down, gently on the grass. "Ginny, who else is in the tent?"
"Charlie!" Ginny croaked out. "He was going to try to see if we could get through the back of the tent!"
Harry checked that Arthur was received healing and gently extracted himself from Ginny's grip to go back into the tent.
Hermione was looking after Ron who had collapsed coughing, his eyes streaming.
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