Room of Requirement – 2nd May 1998

*They turned a corner and there ahead of them was the end of the passage. Another short flights of steps led to a door just like the one hidden behind Ariana's portrait. Neville pushed it open and climbed through. As Harry followed, he heard Neville call out to the unseen people: "Look who it is! Didn't I tell you?"

As Harry emerged into the room behind the passage* he heard Ginny yell: "Leave quickly, they're coming, everyone else is gone!"

"Who's coming Ginny?" asked Neville.

"Them."

Suddenly, the door burst open revealing the Carrow siblings sending stunning spells towards the five of them. Caught by surprise no one was prepared as soon they all succumbed to the Carrow's spells.

Headmasters Office – 2nd May 1998

Severus was sitting peacefully (or at least as peacefully as one could during Voldemort's reign) and was not expecting his wife's brother-in-law's head to appear in the fire looking quite harried and not a bit like his normal perfect self, however this surprise, which sent the lemon drops flying (they are quite addictive you know) towards a rather disgruntled tabby cat which was quite peacefully sunning herself on the window sill, was nothing to what was to come.

Before waiting for an invitation (which was the done pureblood thing to do) the head blurted out: "They've finally got the Ministry Six. Our Lord's holding a public execution tonight. You are required to be there so don't say you've got a pregnancy test potion to make. You remember how badly that ended last time."

Involuntarily Severus shuddered and the head disappeared (still lacking in pureblood etiquette). With that he caught the disgruntled and slightly sticky (lemon drops are vile things to cats) tabby, dodging claws in the process, and achieved quite a remarkable feat by stuffing her into his old school bag that really was rather worse for wear and unceremoniously dumping a catnip mouse on top of her.

A/N: *taken from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows page 464.