Yas!! Patronuses! How I love Patronuses!! All of them sound lovely, I wish I could cast one and I wonder what form it will take.

They got the team back together! Hooray! But injuries are everywhere. Smh. No one died though, so now we're off to get everyone stitched up.

P.S. One question: On their way to the room where the prisoners were, how did they move through all the Dementors without casting a single Patronus? I thought a Patronus is the only thing that could ward off Dementors from sucking away like they always do around people.

Author's Response: Great question! And I love Patronuses too. If my Patronus weren't either a fox or a dragon, I would be very sad, lol. At some point in the books, Sirius or someone mentions that Death Eaters can't cast Patronuses -- and don't need them, because Dementors are their natural allies. It's never explained what exactly Death Eaters do to keep Dementors from preying on them, so I made my best guess, and tried to show Draco thinking back to his instructions to illustrate that guess. Hence also his reveal of his Dark Mark for good measure. Anyway, that whole rambling mess to say that I wanted to give Death Eaters some way other than Patronuses to deal with Dementors. A way that Theo and Draco would both know, even if it didn't work perfectly.

Exciting chapter!