[ WP ] Voldemort tries to invade only to be completely overwhelmed by the military 's technology .

Malfoy smirked as he turned the corner thinking he would have the first blood of this battle. He saw the traitor, one of the Hufflepuffs several years younger than him. He had been surprised when any of those usually neutral oddballs defected to the muggles with the numerous Gryfindor and Ravenclaws. He was wearing the dark red robes that many defectors had been seen wearing recently, a bit of a strange trend since the muggles they had allied with wore dark black and camouflage. He raised his wand as the Hufflepuff raised both hands and his green flash, strong enough to break whatever shield charm this kid could do without shouting, shot at the Hufflepuff. 
 
 ***PROTEGO! *** Shouted the Hufflepuff. Surprise quickly turned to frustration as he realized that not only did the Hufflepuff save his own life with the little extra oomph that shouting gave his charm but he was alerting nearby defectors and muggles of an attack. Malfoy quickly did his own shield charm as he anticipated this kid had a second wand in his other hand. ***BAM! *** Malfoys shield charm broke pushing him back a few feet and tossing a bullet down a nearby hallway. 
 
 ***Expeliarmus! *** Malfoy's wand flew from his hands as he realized that the Hufflepuff was using a muggle weapon in his offhand. ***BAM! *** rang the next gunshot which was deflected by the death eater that had apperated behind Malfoy just seconds before. As he pulled his second wand ( a bit of a trick the death eaters had taken to since the defectors were so prone to disarm spells ) he heard ***STUPIFY! *** 
 
 He awoke later to the sound of gunshots mixed with the shouts of curses and spells. Malfoy retrieved his wand noticing the Hufflepuff dead with another red robed defector, what startled him was that there were four dead death eaters between him and the traitors. He saw a muggle soldier turn the corner and quickly killed him as he raised his rifle. The soldier was wearing what the muggles called `` thermal imaging goggles''. They were the only way muggles could see the death eaters through their spells. As he ran past the bodies he realized the muggles had fallen back to the open areas of the base, with worryingly high casualties his death eaters were moving forward. 
 
 Nearing a window he stopped to see the battle, an entrance could make all the difference if he did it right. Seeing out the window everything made sense. The red robes, why muggles preferred rifles to their pistols, and why the muggles were falling back despite killing so much of his forces. The retreat was a trick to lure the death eaters into the roads, the defectors and muggles working with each others technology and magic. The defectors were calmly dueling the desperate and dwindling death eaters in the roads of the base, their offhand pistols allowing them to strike twice without taking the time to cast a second spell. The muggle soldiers were sitting atop the roofs of buildings, they seemed very panicked but when they shot their rifles they would break a shield charm and lodge a bullet into their target, a much slower but still lethal bullet. They were no longer wearing their goggles and it was apparent that the various cloaking spells had been countered, the red robes were how the muggles knew who to not shoot. 
 
 Malfoy apperated back to the ministry and began running to the room where Voldemort was waiting to hear news of victory. He wondered if he would be killed for being the messenger of bad news, the death eaters had outnumbered the defectors four to one in that battle. Muggle soldiers had not been taken into account as they had n't fought well before. Voldemort was very pissed, he had lost many men in an anticipated landslide victory and the mere statement that muggle technology had worked against his forces infuriated him. 
 
 What pushed Voldemort to kill Malfoy was not his defeat or cowardly fleeing of said defeat. When gunshots were heard was when Voldemort killed Malfoy. The muggles and wizards had used a portkey hidden in Malfoy's robes to get into the ministry.
