Chapter 3 - The Battle
Harry's POV
I haven't been able so think straight all day; the Death Eaters could barge in at any moment! If only I knew when they're coming and where from. Well, it's seven - thirty and nothing yet.
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It's eight o'clock and still nothing has happened, maybe I was wrong.
"Hey, mate!" Ron's coming my way; I wonder what this is about... When he gets to me he says, "If the Death Eaters are really coming, then where are they!? I can't wait any longer; I'm going looney, Harry, looney I tell you!"
"Calm down, Ron. I know me too," I tell him.
"I've been looking behind myself all day long," He tells me.
"Well, don't look now because here comes Hermione and she looks worse than you and I combined. Don't tell her I said that," I tell Ron.
So, naturally he looks back and says, "Bloody hell!"
Hermione approaches us saying, "Why can't it just be tomorrow already? I'm a nervous wreck! Should we go spy on Malfoy, maybe we'll be able to find out when and where he's planning the attack. What do you say?"
"Let's go now, right now!" I say.
"What are we still doing standing here in the corridor!?" Ron exclaims.
And with that we're on our way to Malfoy's office.
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"Okay we've been standing here outside his office for half an hour and Malfoy hasn't shown up. I say we go looking for him," I tell my two best friends.
"Are you kidding? Now you're just asking for trouble!" Hermione says.
"I say go," Ron says.
So we decide to head off to the third floor corridor. And what do we see when we arrive? A bunch of Death Eaters filing out of a classroom with Malfoy in the lead.
"Uhhh, I think we found him..." Hermione says.
As we get closer I notice they're exiting the classroom with the secret passage to Honeydukes Sweetshop. So I say, "They must be coming from the secret passage in the cellar of Honeydukes!"
And the next thing I know there's various curses flying in all directions. Mainly the killing curse from the Death Eaters' end.
Now Luna, Neville, and McGonagall are at our sides shouting spells alongside of us.
I dodge Malfoy's killing curse as Hermione screams, "OH MY GOD HARRY THAT ALMOST HIT YOU!"
"Hey, Potter, maybe you're title shouldn't be 'the boy who lived' it should really be 'the boy who almost died' because you almost died again!" Malfoy yells.
"Don't listen to him Harry," Ron says.
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We've been at it like this for the past two hours now. And I can see a prefect coming around the corner. His name is Andrew Carter. So I yell, "Carter, go call the aurours!"
That's all I have time to say before I'm dodging yet another stream of killing curses, courtesy of Draco Malfoy. At least my friends are still alive.
"Malfoy, I'm sure you'll even make the front page of the Dailey Prophet, Hogwarts' caretaker brings Death Eaters to school!" I yell.
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Finally, the aurors are here! The minute everyone realizes it everything stops, spells, movement, talking, everything. It just stops, stops until McGonagall greets the aurors saying, "Hello, aurors, as you can see these Death Eaters have come into Hogwarts and attacked us."
Then she walks over to the head auror who after a short conversation with McGonagall announces, "Death Eaters, if you will please come with me and my fellow aurors. We will be questioning you on our way to Azkaban."
On their way past I hear Malfoy whisper something about not telling a thing.
"Well, that could have been worse, someone could have died. But now I need a new caretaker," McGonagall rants.
"I didn't think about that, new caretaker, right..." I say.
"However did they get in!?" she asks.
"We saw them come out of that classroom there!" Hermione tells McGonagall as she points at the classroom.
"I figured they came in through the secret passage that goes from the cellar in Honeydukes to that room. I used it once," I state.
"So now they're all off to Azkaban, right?" Luna asks.
McGonagall answers, "Yes, I believe they are."
"Can we go to bed now? It's almost midnight and we all have classes to teach in the morning," Hermione asks.
McGonagall lets us all go, so we all head off to our chambers.
