Hi guys! Sorry about the delay. I've been super busy with college and personal issues that delayed me writing this as I could not see past another day at a few points of Autumn and the first part of December.
Enjoy!
Listening to "Nothing Left" by Delain. You might see the inspiration from the song running through the chapter. The song (especially the music) gives me a sense of danger and suspense.
*Julie*
We walked through the Great Hall to the Gryffindor table where we sat down. Susan was still shivering and coughing from the river incident and her hair was still quite damp. I hugged her tightly.
"Thanks Julie!" She said
"It's alright, Susan!" I replied.
"I hope that this year will be a bit calmer than last year." Dan hoped.
"Something tells me that last year was just the beginning." Susan replied
*Harietta*
Then, the Great Hall door blasted open with Death Eaters coming from both the door and the windows.
"Everyone, under the tables, now!" Professor McGonagall ordered from the podium.
We immediately did as she asked, no arguing there.
*Susan*
"Hey, Sharmon kids. Come out. We know you're here!" Draco called out
"What do we do?!" Julie whispered.
"Stay down just now... Then we do whatever it takes to get them out of here!" I whispered back
"Come out, come out. Wherever you are!" He continued.
"Don't move!" Me and Julie whispered.
"What do you think we're gonna do? Do the can-can?!" Dan asked
"Shusht! They're coming this way!" Julie hissed and we put our heads to the ground as we heard Death Eater footsteps going past.
People from the back of the hall crawled out of the Great Hall through the door. We crawled forward to listen into their plans.
"We will find them next time, master!" a female voice I knew so incredibly well spoke.
"No way!" I gasped quietly
"What?" Daniel whispered
"It's Caitlin Taylor! A childhood friend of mine!"
"Looks like he has more friends than we first thought!" Julie answered
"Yep, and looks like Caitlin has gone off her head!" I answered
"Master, what do we do?" Caitlin asked Malfoy
"We leave it for now. We will be come back soon!" he commanded and they disappeared into the black clouds of intense smoke like they appeared in the Hall of Prophesy.
We laid on the ground, frightened to even go out in case they appeared again.
*Julie*
"Do you think it's safe?" Harietta asked
"I'd say yes, Harietta." I replied and crawled out from underneath the table I was hiding under.
"I don't know.... I feel an incredible force of negative magic in the air." I continued
"Julie.... They are gone!" Dan replied
"I know! But there is something not right..."
"Julie, come on! Stop making everyone panic! Honestly, drama-mama!" Dan giggled
"Enough, you two!" Susie replied
"Spoil sport. Let them have a go at each other!" Vera laughed.
We were going out of the Great Hall after the sorting hat ceremony and the feast. I knew that the dark magic has not left Hogwarts.
"Stop you four!" Malfoy jumped in front of us.
"You don't learn a lesson, do you?!" I replied
"Come on, let's show them what 2nd year Hogwarts students are made of!" Susan shouted
*Susan*
Then, the magical lights from the ceiling went down. The darkness was petrifying.
"Hey, I thought magical lights don't go out like Muggle ones do!" Dan shouted
"They don't! Someone must have used a light-extinguishing spell" Julie said
"Nox?" Dan asked
"It extinguishes light from a Lumos spell, you nitwit!" Julie replied
"Alright, alright! I get it!" Dan replied
"Can we squabble about spell later, like when are safe?" I asked
"OK, ok! So, what do we do? It's not like we can turn the lights back on! This isn't Muggle lighting!" Dan said
"Yep, I know. We must try to get the lights back on and protect ourselves!" Jules replied
"Em, Julie, should it not be the other way around? I mean, if we don't protect ourselves we will be overtaken by the forces of evil?!" Dan asked his twin sister
"Yes. Well...."
Then, an unfamiliar feeling of empty space had suddenly overtaken me. Like, there was no one there!
"Susan, help!" Harietta screamed in terror.
"What is happening?!" I asked myself.
Silence fell over the room. It was so motionless and quiet, that you could hear the loud sound of crickets from the garden outside.
I stood there, shocked and petrified. The silence was too scary for words.
"HELP!" Harietta yelled in the distance.
Everything in my head clicked. I knew what was going on, but I had no idea n which direction the Death Eaters along with my siblings and friends have gone. I ran out of the Great Hall and into the front courtyard, where a huge circle of Death Eaters waited outside.
"Tell us, where the Pendant of Traeh is!" Malfoy asked
"So, that is what they want! And my adoptive parents were right....!" I whispered to myself.
"I don't know where it is? How am I supposed to know where it is when I don't even know what it looks like?!" I replied
"You know perfectly well, don't you?" Caitlin asked.
"Caitlin, you KNOW that I don't. We've been inseparable friends since from our childhood."
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever!" She replied
"I've had it with this darkness. Lumos Totalem!" I shouted.
*Lumos Totalem is fan spell I created, the spell is a super powerful, super dense variation of the Lumos Spell. It is hurtful to the Death Eaters and disperses them. To Hogwarts students and to anyone, that is not a Death Eater, the spell is no more than a short burst of really intense light. It affects the Death Eater marks, by causing them to burn, to slither about (like we've seen that they can in the Goblet of Fire, causes the Dark Mark on the arm to burst with light, which can petrify them -almost like the Petrificus Totalus spell for Death Eaters-*
Within seconds, the light from my wand burst out, and the Death Eaters and Draco Malfoy disappeared into nothingness. The magical lights from the Great Hall and the surrounding areas came back to normal.
"Susan, thank you!" Harietta ran over and hugged me. she was at least head smaller than me and such a sweet girl.
"It's ok, Harietta! Don't worry!" I replied
"Yeah, thanks Susan!" Julie, Dan, Vera and Oliver said together.
"Yeah, what happened to you?" I questioned
"The Death Eaters apprehended us and moved us to the Entrance Courtyard." Vera answered.
"Days! We have so make sure that we don't get caught out in the dark again!" I replied.
"How did you know about that spell?" Dan asked
"I read about it in my Advanced Spells Book for the 45 minute Advanced Magical Defense Class." I replied
"Amazing! Wish could learn that..." Dan answered
"Um, Dan, you DECIDED not to take any of those advanced classes!" Julie said
"I'll be fine!" He replied
"Alright, suit yourself!" Julie answered.
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