There is a loud crack, and they relight the Deluminator
to discover that Dobby the house-elf, who served the Malfoys until
Harry tricked Lucius into freeing Dobby, has appeared in their midst, ready
to rescue them. Dobby, with his special house-elf magic, can Disapparate
in and out of the house, taking humans with him, so Harry tells
him to take Luna, Ollivander, and Dean to Bill Weasley’s house,
and then return for the rest of them. The people upstairs hear the
crack of the elf disappearing, so they send Wormtail to investigate.
Ron and Harry struggle to subdue Wormtail, but Wormtail’s silver
hand clamps around Harry’s throat and chokes him. Harry reminds
Wormtail that Harry once saved his life and says that Wormtail shouldn’t
kill him, and Wormtail actually loosens his grip. But then Wormtail’s
silver hand, which had been given to him by Voldemort, turns on
Wormtail and strangles him, a punishment for his moment of hesitation.
Upstairs, Griphook tells Bellatrix that the sword is a
fake, and Bellatrix, reassured, summons Voldemort by tapping the
Dark Mark on her forearm. Harry has a vision from Voldemort’s point
of view of Voldemort being enraged at being summoned, and, in his impatience,
killing Grindelwald.
Bellatrix announces that she’s finished with Hermione
and offers Hermione to Greyback to eat. Ron and Harry rush in, disarming Bellatrix
of her wand and incapacitating Lucius, but Bellatrix holds a knife
to Hermione’s throat and forces Harry and Ron to drop the wands
they have taken (from Bellatrix and Wormtail, respectively), which
Draco picks up. Harry senses that Voldemort is very near.
With a grinding sound, the chandelier above them starts
to fall. Bellatrix leaps out of the way, and the chandelier falls
on Hermione and Griphook, who is holding the Sword of Gryffindor.
Harry jumps up and wrests Draco’s wand from his hands, as well as
the two wands Draco had picked up.
Narcissa sees Dobby and realizes that her former house-elf
is the one who helped Harry and his friends. Dobby seizes her wand
as Bellatrix screams for Dobby’s death.
Harry, Ron, Griphook, and Dobby all Disapparate to Bill
Weasley’s cottage, but Dobby arrives mortally wounded, Bellatrix
having thrown her silver knife into his body before he disappeared.
Harry tries to comfort Dobby and pleads with him not to die, but
the house-elf dies in Harry’s arms after saying Harry’s name.
