Chapter 1 - Terror
"Harry, RUN!" Hermione screamed, stumbling over a rather large root protruding from the damp ground at the base of the Whomping Willow. "Mate, Harry, come on, no time to be a hero!" Ron yelled frantically, turning paler by the minute as he struggled to move his broken leg. The snarling grey wolf stood, shuddering before Harry, Hermione rush over in an attempt to drag Harry away from the terrifying creature before them. Hermionie's fingers grasped tightly at Harry's arm and she tugged with all her might, but Harry stayed frozen, transfixed by the enormous grey monster before him, the werewolf was now backing away, and Hermionies fingers relaxed, releasing Harry's arm. Harry breathed a sigh of relief as the long awaiting blood returned to his arm. He turned to face Ron and Hermione, now having snapped out of his reviere.
"Let's go!" Harry ordered, Just then a blood-curdling scream erupted shattering the night air, at first he didn't realise why Hermione had let out such a terrifying scream. Suddenly he realised a searing, tearing pain in the back of his neck, he reached back to touch his neck and felt something warm and sticky there,he reached lower and felt the shreds of what had been the collar of his robes. Harry barely heard a new sound, a loud barking noise, now mingling with the howls from Remus, getting fainter and fainter, as his vision blurred, he watched as the world tilted, so he was now looking at the many sparkling stars in the dark purple sky, lightened considerably by the beams eminating from the full moon.
"Harry? Harry? Answer me, please!" Hermione begged Harry, shaking him, his eyes now half closed." Pain," Harry gasped, struggling to draw the breath that wouldn't seem to come. "Help! SOMEONE HELP US!" Ron was yelling towards the dark outline of the castle.
Hermionie's face, swimming in his vision, was the last thing Harry saw as the darkness consumed him.
Hermione watched as Harry's hands, shaking from shock, slacken and slid onto the slowly reddening grass, and his eyes close, one tear escaping from the side of his left eye. Hermione's body was now shaking with sobs as she lay her head across Harry's still chest. listening to Ron's terrified attempts to call for assistance.
