Although the Death Eaters led by Voldemort were working with that wizarding organization from Northern Europe, their cooperation clearly was not particularly close.
For instance, the Death Eaters clearly lacked an accurate understanding of Harry's strength.
Previously, two members of the Northern European wizarding organization had joined forces to try to take Harry down, only for Harry to defeat them easily, killing one and sending the other fleeing. Had Voldemort and the Death Eaters known this, their arrangements would presumably have been more specifically tailored to him.
But the Death Eaters did not know, so the force they had sent to attack the Burrow now seemed somewhat inadequate.
Ron and Ginny were having some trouble facing three Death Eaters.
For one thing, although Ron's abilities far surpassed those of the average school-age wizard, and even many adult wizards were no match for him now, his opponents, the Death Eaters, were also outstanding wizards.
In particular, over the past six months, Voldemort had deliberately improved the Death Eaters' strength.
This had made the already highly skilled Death Eaters even stronger. Both their magical abilities and their resistance to magic had improved considerably since the battle at the Ministry of Magic a few months earlier.
Ron was certainly highly skilled, but against Antonin Dolohov, one of the best among them, there was still a gap in both magical skill and combat experience.
As for Ginny, naturally, Black Ginny was the one in control now.
Black Ginny was certainly not Harry's equal at present, but she was stronger than the other members of R.B., including the somewhat older Cedric. It was just that at least seventy or eighty percent of her abilities lay in dark magic.
And Ginny was rather reluctant to use dark magic in front of Harry, so Black Ginny was