A/N: just a filler chapter and to let you know I haven't given up on this story :D
The atmosphere of the great hall was thick and hung heavenly upon the shoulders of the students of hogwarts; Dumbeldore had just informed the students and professors about the games. When he had first mentioned them there was an excitable buzz about the students as they were naive and thought of it as a cheap spin off of the tri-wizard tournament, but as Dumbeldore explained further and got into the more gruesome details the excitement dyed down and slowly turned to a horrified silence. Just as Dumbeldore explained how the twelve unfortunate students were to be selected a muffled ,distressed wail was heard from the back of the hall, it came from a first year and professor mcgonagall ran to comfort her and swiftly led her from the hall as the girl held her head in her hands in despair.
Dumbeldore merely coughed and carried on, not from insensitivity but form pure bewilderment,
What was he to say? What could he say? Nothing, that's what he could say ,this was sick ,SICK ,nothing god would come of this ,he ,Albus Dumbeldore was sending 11 of his students to die and the one was "lucky" and survived would be severely traumatised for life…no ,nothing good would come of this.
"The students will be excused of lessons for the rest of the day and the reaping will be tomorrow at first light … and remember students, happiness can be found in the darkest of places, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
And with that Dumbeldore stepped down form his podium and walked away,
That was all he could give them after all he didn't want to give them false hope, for there was no hope
For the students that will be chosen, no hope for any of them…
As soon as Dumbeldore was finished his speech, the entire hall of students burst into a chorus of chatter and crying, students were guessing who would be chosen?, was it fixed?, was it real?, was it a sick joke?, but mostly they were wondering how this whole thing was going to end and how would it affect the school or even the wizard world?…
3 students in particular were sitting in silence, Ron had an arm around hermiones shoulder in a protective manner as her silent tears fell onto his hand-me-down robe, and Harry was staring transfixed at the spot where Dumbeldore had stood only moments before.
A/N: Only a short chapter but will update very soon and the next chapter will be the reaping and the peoples reactions J
Constructive criticism is welcome and I know a few of you mentioned my grammar, and I apologise for that hopefully this ones better,
So review and any suggestions for who should be in the games are welcome even though I've got a rough idea ,I'd love to know what you think and thanks to those who reviewed !
Happy hunger games.
