"I know that you are preparing to fight," a cold, clear voice echoed around the room and wormed its way into everyone's brains. "Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood."
There was silence in the Hall now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls.
"Give me Harry Potter," said Voldemort's voice, "and non shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded."
"You have until midnight."
The silence swallowed them all again. Every head turned, every eye in the place seemed to have found Harry, to hold hikm frozen in the glare of thousands of invisible beams. Then a figure rose from the Slytherin table and he recognized Pansy Parkinson as she raised a shaking arm and screamed, "But he's there! Potter's there! Someone grab him!"
Before Harry could speak, there was a massive movement. The Gryffindors in front of him had risen and stood facing, not Harry, but the Slytherins. Then the Hufflepuffs stood, and almost at the same moment, the Ravenclaws, all of them with their backs to Harry, all of them looking towards Pansy instead, and Harry, awestruck and overwhelmed, saw wands emerging everywhere, pulled from beneath cloaks and from under sleeves.
In the sudden silence, hands trembling warily, a blond-haired boy with piercing gray eyes stood up from the Slytherin table and walked over to the large group with his wand out. Malfoy? Harry thought. He looked around for Ginny. He needed her comfort. Once he found her however, he saw that her eyes were transfixed on Malfoy. Wanting to believe that it was because she was scared of what he'd do, he turned his own eyes back to the slimy little git.
" What do you want Malfoy?" yelled Harry, his voice echoing off the walls.
Without answering, and with no emotion on his pale, smooth face, he turned around to face the rest of the Slytherins, joining the ranks of Hogwarts.
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