This story is dedicated to all of the fallen victims of the Alabama Tornado Disaster. If some of you reading don't know what I'm talking about, Wednesday April 27th, 2011 around 6 o'clock, 150 tornados rampaged through Alabama. The death toll, as of Saturday April 29th, 2011, has risen to 350 in all of the south. The death toll for each state is as follows: Alabama, 254: Mississippi, 34: Arkansas, 8: Tennessee, 34: Georgia, 15: Virginia, 5. Alabama is in a devastated state. I can only cry every time I think of how lucky I am to be alive. If you're still reading this, don't take life for granted. Enjoy what you have while you have it. Thank God every morning that you're alive and healthy. Please pray for everyone in the south. In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the toll of missing people has gone down from 450 to around 150. Please do all you can to raise awareness about this disaster. Please help get Calhoun County on the National Assistance list. I don't live there but I know that it's been hard hit because of family members that live there. Please pray for my family. I have a family member whose house got hit by 3 of the 150 tornados that were in Alabama alone. I don't know if she's alive. I'm praying that she'll return to school either Monday or Tuesday but that is very unlikely. Please leave reviews to let me know that you're at least praying for my family along with every other family in Alabama that has been affected by this devastation.
Here's the story.
Hermione couldn't believe that all of this happened to her. London was hit by a twister. One hundred fifty to be exact. All eleven year old Hermione had left was a few belongings and the memories that she had left of her parents. You see, her parents were killed from the twisters. They had saved her. Here's how it happened.
Flashback
They were making there way to the bath room. There was going to be severe weather. But nobody in London takes that seriously. It's raining most days. They just thought it was going to be bad thunderstorms. But they would soon find out how wrong they were.
"Get in the bathtub, sweetie. So you'll be safe." Her mother told her.
"Mum, you don't actually believe that the weather is that bad, do you?" Hermione asked her mother.
"It's always nice to be safe sweetheart." Her mother said to her while smiling sweetly. It was going to be the last time she would ever see that smile. But Hermione didn't know that. She didn't know a lot of the things her parents were keeping from her. She would figure it all out soon enough.
"Here it comes!" her father shouted.
"Here comes what, dad?" she asked her father. But he never replied back because the twister came through the house and sucked her father into the twister. Hermione's mother had gotten on top of her to protect her. Debris were flying everywhere. Trees were falling all around her. A tree just happened to fall into her bathroom. Right on top of her mother who was shielding Hermione's body with her own.
"MUM!" she screamed. She started to shake her mother when she wouldn't answer her back. Then everything blacked out for Hermione when she was Apparated away from her mother's body.
End Flashback
Now she was sitting in a strange manor. She didn't know where she was or how she had gotten here. It was dark outside yet calm too.
"Hello? Anyone here?" she called with tears streaming down her face. She had just lost every thing she held near and dear to her heart. All she had left were her friends. If they survived the twisters that is.
"Hello, sweetheart." a woman called out to her. Hermione's started to weep again as she realized that was the last word her mother uttered to her. Sweetheart. "Oh dear. Don't cry. I was keeping a watchful eye over my goddaughter when I saw your mother and father were killed by the twisters. I'm so sorry dear." she spoke to Hermione while cradling her.
"I'm sorry but I don't know who you are. Could you, by any chance, tell me who you are?" Hermione asked through tears.
"Of course, darling. I'm Narcissa Malfoy, your godmother."
I know what you're all thinking, WHAT!, but just to let you know, this all happens the summer before Hermione's first year at Hogwarts. Please review and let me know what you thought of it. Anonymous reviews are welcome! Please subscribe/add me to your favorites! Love you all!
Xx Annabelle-Paisilee Nott xX
