The Darkness gathers
PROLOGUE
It was a pleasant evening that night at Hogwarts. The school had just left the great hall after having dinner. They had three hours to do anything, homework, exploding snap or just wander before curfew set in. They were all filled up with pork chops and roast potatoes and gravy. None of them had any idea what was about to happen in the next twenty four hours, they couldn't begin to imagine how the entire world as they knew it was going to change.
Voldermort was gathering his dark forces to him from all over the world, preparing to strike the final blow. Nearly no one knew anything of his plans, he had kept them quiet and spoke of them only to his closest servants, even then not the whole plan. Now he was ready to reveal his final plan to the entire magical world and with it their destruction. Voldrmort was extremely pleased with the way things were going, the giants were stationed on the outskirts of Hogsmeade and his death eaters were waiting close to the ministry of magic ready to attack when they got a signal. He would take over the wizarding world in one crushing blow.
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Harry Potter in the Gryfindoor common waiting for Ron and Hermione. They had been over an hour and they were usually never this long eating. He was starting to get impatient, he stood up and started pacing the common room. He had been waiting for weeks to start his hunt for the Horcurxes. Him Ron and Hermione had been planning vigorously where they would start and what type of dark magic they would have to face. The only reason they had come back to school is because they thought they would be relatively safe to plan the course of action. Ron and Hermione had been helping him as much as they could, Hermione had been pouring over books looking for any indication as to the whereabouts of any of the Horcruxes. Hermione had been allocated the job of looking for powerful spells which might help them fight any death eaters. They were getting no nearer to getting any indication as to where they might actually be.
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The students were making their way up the grand stair case when a CRASH echoed from the direction of Hogsmeade. All the students jumped and turned around. In the distance huge figures could be seen walking around Hogsmeade smashing buildings with clubs as if they were match stick houses.
"Giants!!"Someone screamed from the top of the stair case.
Everyone started screaming, people started pushing each other out the way to escape. It was chaos. Students were getting crushed under foot. A small first year student from Hufflepuff was crouching in a corner rocking to and fro. Two students spotted this and ran over to her to try and help her.
"Hello i'm Hermione and this is Ron. Lets get you up and to the great hall." Hermione said in a calm voice Ron had already took his wand out and was looking towards the large doors the sounds of the giants laughing was so thunderous it could be heard over the screaming of the students. Hermione was making her way to the great hall with the first year in tow. Other students was taking her lead and were following her as well. Professor Mc Gonnogal was shouting for every one to go into the great hall. In the end she raised her wand pointed it to her throat and her voice was magnified twenty times.
"ALL STUDENTS ARE TO MAKE THEIR WAY CALMLY TO THE GREAT HALL."
Ron scoffed at this there was no chance of anyone going 'calmly' to the great hall. Hermione was already there with Mc Gonnogal trying to find out what was going to happen now that Hogsmeade was under siege and most likely Hogwarts.
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Up in the dormitories Harry heard the screaming from down stairs. He jumped up and grabbed his wand off the bedside table. He made his way through the portrait hole. Harry started sprinting towards the portrait hole. When he pulled himself out he heard crying coming from behind the suit of armour next to the portrait hole, he went over to the noise and found a first year huddled in the space behind it.
"Are you OK. Come on get up i'm going to get you out of here just stand up and follow me." He said as kindly as he could.
Slowly the first year stood up and Harry was shocked to find she was violently shaking. Harry lightly pulled her along and they started making their way down the stairs. As both of them were walking down the stair case Harry saw people in the portraits shouting about people coming in from the astronomy tower. Harry knew what this meant, the wards around Hogwarts had been defeated it was now possible for people to fly into Hogwarts. Harry started speeding up pulling the girl along with him.
"Come on we have to move faster." Harry told her.
Harry could hear shouting coming from above now and it was getting increasingly closer. He was getting worried now how was he meant to fight off death eaters with a first year? He doubted she could fire a spell straight let alone one to fight death eaters.
"Come on we have to get moving, bad people are coming."
This seemed to shock her to her senses she started running as fast as she could. Harry sprinted after her and caught up they finally got to the entrance hall. Mc Gonnogal was looking out the doors of the great hall. Harry ran up to her as the first year made her way in side.
"Professor they came through the roof, there was nothing I could do." Harry explained.
"Not to worry Potter, get inside so I can lock the doors" She said briskly.
Harry walked inside with her and she pulled her wand out and pointed it at the doors and a force field appeared round the door.
"What are we going to do now professor?" Harry asked.
"I don't know we will just have to wait and see." She said solemnly
Harry turned away and started looking for Ron and Hermione.
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