Voldemort and Dumbledore stood facing each other.
"By the time they get here, I'll be gone, and you'll be dead!" Voldemort snarled, raising his hand to cast another Killing Curse.
He was still aiming at Su Er and the others, but Dumbledore merely gave the Elder Wand a casual flick. The streak of green light veered off course, blasting the distant visitors' registration desk into flying fragments.
Seeing that Voldemort's repeated attempts to stop them had failed, Su Er lowered his wand and quickened his pace, urging Hermione, Harry, and Ginny into a jog.
Su Er was about to reach the fireplace with Harry and the others.
Voldemort grew somewhat anxious. He fired several more spells in succession, attacking them from tricky angles, but Dumbledore blocked every one.
"Can you do nothing but stand there like a tortoise shell, Dumbledore?"
Voldemort vanished and reappeared in an instant. Every time he vanished and reappeared, one or two spells shot toward Dumbledore and Su Er's group separately.
"Hum..." Golden magic rippled out, flowing from the tip of the Elder Wand and forming a golden shell.
"Go back to Hogwarts." A handful of silvery powder appeared in Dumbledore's other hand, and he tossed it into the fireplace.
"Whoosh..." Green flames flared.
Hermione went first, also out of Su Er's personal partiality. He pushed her into the fireplace. "Hogwarts."
The green flames spun, and Hermione vanished.
Ginny was second.
She was safe too.
The third-
"Do you think this leaves me with no other options, Dumbledore?!"
Voldemort's voice rang out again. He had lost his earlier elegance, and black mist surged around him. His failure to break through the golden tortoise shell before him with attacks from multiple angles had driven him beyond fury.
"Potter, give it to me!"
As Voldemort's dark, furious voice