Hello all! This is my first story that I have written since I was in high school so I apologize if I am rusty.
I have had this idea floating around in my head for many months and I have finally started to put it on paper.
I hope you enjoy this beginning of what I hope will be an amazing story when it is completed.
I am writing this as I go so I don't have any chapters pre-written and waiting in the sidelines. If there is anything that you want to see or make suggestions then please review or private message me and I will try it out.
Disclaimer: Characters belong to the ever lovely J.K. Rowling. The story is mine. I hope you enjoy.
18th June, 1996
Department of Mysteries
"Run! Run! Run!" She thought frantically as she ran from the Death Eaters. Her mind, normally compartmentalized and organized, was a frantic mess. Her lungs were burning for a breath she felt she couldn't catch, and a stitch was starting to form in her side. "Maybe Hogwarts should start an athletic program", she found herself thinking as her legs began to burn from the amount of running she hadn't done since she was a small child.
"Hermione!" she hears a coming from somewhere on her left.
"Harry!" she yells, trying to find where he could be in all this mess. There is a door ahead of her and she finally sees Harry and a second boy run through it. Without hesitation, she makes the decision to follow them, in the hopes that they can get away from the Death Eaters who seem to have fallen a bit behind her as she ran. As she sprints through the door, Neville slams it shut and locks it.
"This won't hold them for long. We need to move, and we need to do it quickly," the usually meek boys says. Doubled over, hands on her knees, she nods while trying to catch her breath.
"Neville is right, Harry. We need to find Sirius, if he is really here. Although I am starting to doubt that," she pants, as her lungs slowly begin to resume their normal function.
"Let's go through this door. I don't know where it leads but maybe we can figure something out quickly until help arrives," Harry says as he points to a door almost directly across from the one that they just came through. Sounds of battle and loud banging could be heard from the other side of the door they came through as the Death Eaters that were chasing Hermione began in earnest to try to get through it. The three jog to the door, and as they start opening it, they hear a loud crash from behind them.
"I found Potter! He's-" the Death Eater gets out before Hermione silences him. The murderous look on his face says all they need to know, they need to leave and quickly. Without looking where they are walking into, the three quickly shuffle into the next room and slam the door shut. Neville casts another locking spell at the door.
Hermione begins taking in the details of where they are while Neville and Harry start discussing what they should do next. "Harry, I don't think Sirius here," Hermione states as she turns and examines what room they have entered. The room is big and littered with rows of desks covered with different gadgets over the desk tops. Behind those are about 10 or 12 rows of bookshelves but there aren't books that line most of the bookshelves near the middle of the room. She takes a slow couple of steps forward towards the closest desk and see what looks like dismantled time turners. "This must be the Time Room and is not a safe place to be in unless we want to risk going back in time."
As Harry opens his mouth to respond, another loud crash is heard. The door has been blown apart into splinters of wood that land on the ground between them. The Death Eater that Hermione silenced still has a murderous look on his face. "You can't escape from us now, Potter. Come quietly and we won't hurt your precious friends," says a second Death Eater. Hermione recognizes the first Death Eater's face whom she silenced. This is Antonin Dolohov, one of the Death Eaters that was tried for the murders of Gideon and Fabian Prewett. He had been convicted and sentenced to life in Azkaban because of those crimes among countless others, but had been apart of the mass breakout from from the prison earlier this year. She knows this is not a man to be messed with.
Before either Death Eater can blink, Harry, Neville and Hermione start running between desks and dashing behind bookshelves for cover from the curses that are being flung at them.
"We have you trapped. Running is futile," Dolohov yells, as he focuses his attention on Hermione while the other Death Eater starts after Harry and Neville. Reacting on instinct, and trusting in what she's learned from Dumbledore's Army, Hermione sends spells over her shoulder while running from Dolohov. Amidst her attempts to stop Dolohov, something wraps around her arm. Sparing it a brief glance she sees a time turner with bright green sand has caught on her arm and is riding up towards her shoulder.
As she attempts to duck behind the end of a bookshelf, she feels a searing pain shoot down her back as she is hit by a spell. Failing to grasp at something to break her fall, Hermione hits the ground with a crunch, the sound of breaking glass, before a blinding white light erupts from underneath her. With no time to ponder what just happened, she is startled by the feeling of a sensation that can only be described as a hook pulling at her from her navel. Dolohov approaches where Hermione fell seconds later expecting to find the witch defeated, but he finds nothing except broken shards of glass.