Entry for the "Speed Drabble" at "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges and Assignments)"

Prompts:"dummy" "blow" "dearest" "spider" "weather" "hail" "pinch" "auntie" "hidden" and "wounded."

Entry for the "Scavenger Hunt" at "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges and Assignments)"

Great Hall

This is somehow a prequel to my other oneshot "Hanging by a Thread"

Entry for the "Hogwarts Fair 2014" - Niffler Lucky Dig

I hope you like it :)

Curses flew through the dusty air of the Great Hall and Rolanda Hooch hurried to duck out of the way before she swung her wand to shoot a curse on her own. It hit some random Death Eater and the blow was so powerful that it made the man fly through the air like a dummy.

The battle was exhausting and Rolanda could feel her lungs burning, but she knew that she had to go on, that she had to fight or die today and she definitely did not feel like dying today.

Her blonde curls, encrusted with blood and dust, flew around as she turned over a scream of surprise and she saw Septima Vector fall to the floor, hit by the Killing Curse.

"No, Septima!" She squeaked and shuddered over the dark laugh the man, who had shot the curse, released. Rolanda knelt down next to her colleague, not caring for the debris that did cut into her jeans and skin and horror rushed through her body as she saw the open eyes of the witch, motionless and empty. Again she had to realise how horrible this war was, how useless all these victims were...

Tears ran down her cheeks as she blinked, then her fingers tightened around her wand and she jumped to her feet, letting her eyes wander through the hall until she discovered the Death Eater. She recognised him by the ugly spider tattoo he had on his face and by the smug grin he gave her as she walked towards him, shooting one curse after the other at him, her lips trembling in fury.

"Dearest, why so stormy!" He grinned while cursed hailed down at him. Rolanda wanted to pinch his windpipe with her bare hands, she wanted to kill him for what he had done, but he was putting up a good fight, even against the power she had due to her blinded rage.

"Heey, sweetheart, I know you! Hooch, right?" He screamed cheekily while deflecting the next curse. "I tortured your auntie! You grew up to be a real hottie, baby!"

Rolanda gulped and felt how dizziness flooded her body at the mention of her aunt, a chapter of her life that had been hidden from everyone for a long time. The memories were so painful that she had pushed them away for a long time, but now they came back to her – the bad weather on that tragic evening, it had rained heavily as a man in a dark cloak had showed up on the doorstep of her aunt. Rolanda, who had been staying with her back then because her father had been on a business trip... the screams of her aunt, herself hiding in a cupboard...

The Death Eater used the opportunity to shoot a curse at her and the next thing Rolanda knew was that she was thrown backwards, crashing into a table before she hit the floor, lying still, feeling how the strength left her severally wounded body and then, everything turned black.