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The cold metal pellets that some people called rain pounded her back for hours making her skin raw and sensitive to the touch. A thin bathroom robe covering her star patterned pajama's was her only protection against this storm. It was usually a light material that flowed in the night but when given water it became heavy and a burden to wear. She was too cold to notice. Emily's breathe was disturbed by the cold and made into uneven whimpers. "C-c-come on Emily… it's just a bit further. Home… safety." She couldn't tell if she was crying anymore. Fatigue had plagued her tiny body.

She stood still for a moment and squinted through the thick rain. The trees around her were massive. She was in aw at how frightening they seemed.

Emily was only thirteen years old and never had a good sense of direction. She traveled further and further from home. She tried to scrape up some memory of what had just happened to her but all she could feel was an ever-growing pain of sorrow tighten in her chest. She felt like there was someone following her. She was too scared to look behind herself. She did not want to know what she might find.

Pain suddenly struck her head sending her flat on her back. To her dismay, she found herself flat on her back being weighed down like paper by a massive branch. A scream of fear escaped her lips until she could get a grip of herself.

She tried to roll the branch off her chest but her strength failed her. It was all she could do to breath. She lifted it about an inch and took a deep breath in before her arms melted away and the branch landed on her chest again. A shrill shriek followed by a broken whimper parted from her once more.

Then she heard a voice of a girl call from a slight distance.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" Suddenly the massive branch that was once threatening her life lifted softly from her body.

"Harry, Ron hurry!" the same voice called.

Emily felt herself being pulled away against the rough ground and her back being torn by the rocks on the ground. She failed to scream this time.

"Who is she?" a boy asked.

"She's a muggle!" this time both a different boy and the girl answered.

"How'd you get here?" the boy to her left asked. Emily could hardly make out their faces. It was too dark to see them.

" Let her be!" The girl pulled the boys away. "It's all right," The girl was now talking to Emily. "We'll take you in, you'll be safe for now."

Emily easily slipped out of consciousness soon afterward.