"Come on, let's see who this mad dog is," Moody muttered to himself as he removed the mask from the Death Eater he'd killed. "So it was Evan Rosier. I should've known. I didn't realize the Dark Lord had corrupted him so completely. I think he was classmates with Wilkes, the one we took out upstairs. He resisted arrest—he got what he deserved!"
Moody grumbled as he dealt with the men, then suddenly seemed to remember something. "By the way, that young wizard Anduin just now—was that Silent Spellcasting? And they took down more Death Eaters here than we did on the main battlefield. What an incredible bunch."
Meanwhile, the others had just returned to the main hall. The front door and the walls inside the house were riddled with holes, clearly bearing the marks of fierce fighting. Several Aurors and members of the Order of the Phoenix were helping repair the damage. Across the hall, a crowd had gathered around Sirius and Peter Pettigrew.
"James!" "Frank!" Lily and Alice each hurried toward their husbands, carrying their children.
"Lily, thank God—we won! You have no idea what we just went through!" James and the others seemed unaware that Death Eaters had infiltrated the underground Safe House. They rushed to Lily, still shaken by what had happened.
The others turned to greet the group as they came up. Anduin spotted Edgar Bones, whom he'd met before, as well as Emmeline Vance and Gideon Prewett. Standing beside Gideon was a man who looked much like him, presumably his brother Fabian. A woman was with them, too. She had an air somewhat like Charles's, so she was probably Marlene McKinnon, the aunt Charles had once mentioned to him.
Sirius and Peter were at the center of the crowd. One had bandages wrapped around