The Battle for the Prophecy The Battle for the Prophecy

Introduction

This story occurs during chapter thirty-five, “Beyond the Veil” in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.  Part 1 is the story related in that book.  Part 2, this fanfiction, takes place between the time that Harry and his friends surprise the Death Eaters (by simultaneously setting off Reductor curses) and the time that Ron, Luna and Ginny rejoin Harry, Hermione and Neville.  Quotes from that book will appear in red.  All quotes are from Rowling, J. K.  (2003).  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Second Edition.  New York:  Scholastic Press.  ISBN: 0-439-35806-X. 

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James E. Pettis, February 2008

Escape from the Hall of Prophecy

Five curses flew in five different directions and the shelves opposite them exploded as they hit.  The towering structure swayed as a hundred glass spheres burst apart, pearly-white figures unfurled into the air and floated there, their voices echoing from who knew what long-dead past amid the torrent of crashing glass and splintered wood now raining down upon the floor —1

For a moment, Luna was stunned by the amount of devastation they had wreaked,2 and then she heard Harry yell, “RUN!”1  Ron reacted first, grabbing Ginny’s sleeve and sprinting ahead.  Using her arms to protect herself from the falling glass spheres,3 Luna followed close behind.  As they streaked past Harry, she noticed that he had Hermione in tow.4  Ron turned his head halfway and shouted, “Hurry!” but she could barely hear him over the sound of breaking glass, crashing shelves and the yells of those behind.

At the end of the aisle, Ron paused and looked back for a moment.  Ginny was using the opportunity to extricate her sleeve from her brother’s grasp, so Luna turned back to look as well.  She heard someone shout, “Stupefy!” and then Harry, Hermione and Neville all emerged, arms covering their heads, from the expanding cloud that was a combination of debris and ghostlike prophets.  Ron, with a combined look of relief, determination and fear on his face, turned left and resumed his flight, Ginny following, and Luna bringing up the rear.

They reached a closed door.  With his hand ready to push it open, Ron looked back yet again, and Luna saw his mouth open in surprise.  At this, she and Ginny turned to look as well.  What they saw were the backs of Harry, Hermione and Neville as they ran the other way, and a Death Eater in hot pursuit.

“Goblin guts!” whispered Ron, “Where are they going?”

“Out, the way we came in,” replied Ginny quietly, and pointed at a plate on the door:

WARNING
ORRERY ROOM

Ron moaned.  They had come the wrong way! Looking back, it seemed that their friends had escaped.  More Death Eaters were hurtling down the corridor in that direction, but the first appeared unable to pass through the now-closed door there.  Ron said, “No going back, and an Orrery doesn’t sound nearly as scary as a Death Eater.”  Wand raised, he pushed open the door and rushed into the unknown.

¹ Pg. 787.

² wreaked — inflicted or executed, as in wreak havoc.

³ sphere — ball; orb.

⁴ in tow — being towed (i.e. Harry was pulling her in the direction he was going)

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