Chapter 2: Hogwarts
May 2, 1998 – Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
"Hello, Minister!" Percy bellowed, sending curse after curse at the man. "Did I mention I'm resigning?"
"You're joking, Perce!" Fred shouted in glee as the Death Eater he was battling collapsed under the weight of three Stunning Spells. "You actually are joking, Perce! I don't think I've heard you joke since you were –"
The air exploded in a blast of rubble, dust, and fire. Hermione turned into Harry's shoulder, blocking her eyes from the dust and rubble flying everywhere around the hall. Hermione heard chokes coming from my right, and she felt coughs rumbled through the body she was leaning on. Hermione took in a deep breath of air, trying to calm her nerves. But she took in a lung full of dust, and started coughing like crazy, kneeling over. Hermione gave one last cough and straightened up, trying to see if anyone was hurt from the explosion.
"Fred? NO!" Hermione's eyes widened and her blood froze along with the rest of her body when she heard the screams of Percy. Her heart started pounding one hundred times faster than it should have gone and her breath got caught in her throat.
She pushed Harry's hand off her shoulder and started running towards the rubble. Hermione stumbled over her own two feet more than a couple of times from not paying attention to what was under her feet. Hermione was choking on the dust still floating in the air, her eyes stinging from the dust hitting her eyes.
Shouts filled the hall, echoing off of the empty walls, but Hermione couldn't make out any of the voices. She couldn't see through the amount of dust clouding over everything, but what she could see wasn't too good. It looked like the entire wall had been blown off where everyone had been standing.
Hermione stumbled on the mountain of wall rubble and nearly burst out in tears. Fred's body had a few chunks of wall coving his front, a few bits of rubble around his body, and a few chunks of rubble under his body. He had a few deep cuts, with the dust clotting the blood flow before he lost a lot of blood. He had a bump on his head, and it looked like a broken arm maybe. There wasn't too much damage done to him.
"Fred!" George called out. Hermione fell to her knees beside George, tears of relief filling her eyes. "Fred, wake up!" George called again. He turned to Hermione with wide, scared eyes. "Why isn't he waking up!"
"He is knocked out, George." Hermione chocked out. George let out a strangled sob and fell onto Hermione's shoulder. She wrapped her arms tightly around George and put her head against his shoulder and started crying. Fred was safe, he would be okay.
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