2
The forest was dark, green and, in a weird way, full of life. On the floor there was an intricate pattern of dark and light patches, made by gaps between the leaves on the trees above. The pattern moved with the wind making a wonderful sound of the leaves rubbing and moving in the wind. Hundreds of leaves laid on the floor, there was a huge array of colours on the leaves; red, gold and green. In the distance leaves crunch under feet, neighs could be heard and there was the sound of a soft gallop. There was a hill leading up the main path deeper into the darkening forest.
Suddenly, Harry ran past. His glasses pushed far back on his nose and his hair whipped back on his head. He had dirt smeared across his face from his left eye to the right of his chin, he had obviously fallen over on the way from the courtyard at Hogwarts. His face was confused and angry at the same time, causing him to grit his teeth and widen his bright green eyes. His head moved rapidly from left to right and then looking ahead. He slowed down as he came into the clearing, making sure he took in every single little thing that surrounded him. The small squirrels bouncing along the edges of the trunks of the trees and jumped from branch to branch, rustling the leaves as they passed them.
A silver doe and stag went through the trees close together, watching through the leaves. This caught Harry's eye. He ran off in the direction of the deer as they disappeared, galloping away from the clearing.
For a moment the clearing was silent, no sounds but the slight movement here and there. Just as Hermione, Ron and Luna came approached the clearing, something entered. It was bright white in colour and had a long, flowing mane. It stood proudly, it's crystal horn glistening in the rays of the sun.
"A unicorn," breathed Hermione, "I've never seen one this close before…not a wild one anyway." She reached out her hand to touch the beast and walked towards it to show she meant no harm. "It's so intelligent…so beautiful."
"Just like you." Ron chirped in, coming up behind her.
"No!" Hermione shouted but in a horse whisper. "He'll run. Unicorns don't like boys…as much."
"Charming." Ron mumbled, almost indistinctly.
"No it's true. Daddy always makes me greet a unicorn before he comes so that it learns to trust us, and my daddy would know." Luna piped in. Ron turned round to give her a funny look before feeling Hermione staring at him, her eyes burning through his head, so he turned round slowly and smiled sweetly at Hermione and looked back to the unicorn.
The unicorn started to leave the clearing now. As it turned, it neighed and moved it's head, as if to say "Follow". And they did.
The white beast led the trio through the dark woods by the clearing, through over grown patches of weeds and slippy brown patches of mud. Luna was out in front, Hermione behind her and Ron behind her. This meant that Ron was left to be hit by the branches pushed by the girls to let them through, forgetting about Ron. As they travelled through the forest, they saw a shadow. It was in the distance now but by the way it stopped and looked to turn, they thought it had seen them. They had no idea who it was or what they wanted but they ran. The unicorn, sensing the danger, sped off into the shadows and the trio could never catch up to it again. They came to a fork in the path. Hermione turned to Ron.
"Left or right?" she asked sweetly.
"Umm… left?" he replied unsurely.
Hermione scoffed and walked of down the left path, followed swiftly by Luna and then someone else…
The person had white/blonde hair, cut short and he swaggered behind the two girls. Ron just stood there gobsmacked, he knew who it was.
Suddenly Hermione turned around and said just one word.
"Draco."
