Hermione woke up thus the portrait hole went open and a screaming Collin Creevy rushed inside. Confused the girl climbed out of the bed. What is going on? Why had Collin left the bed? Hermione heard the other girls budged.
All Gryffindor students met in the common room around the totally hysterical boy. Collin's hair was unkempt, in his eyes stood blank fear and he seemed to stand shortly in front of a blackout. The poor one.Caring Hermione put one hand on his back.
"What has happened?", Harry wanted to know. Collin gasped intermittently: "Death Eaters...in the...school!" "What?", asked Ron, "How shall that work?" "No idea ", Collin gasped, "I needed to got to the toilet and there were they together with Draco Malfoy. One of the Death Eaters - a woman with black hair - had seen me and screamed Boo. Then I run away."
Horror lais itself over the attended crowd. Parvati was the first one, who break the silence: "What are we going to do now?" Hermione squinted her eyes. Good question. Searching for help, she eyed Harry, hoped he would have an idea how they should continue.
Harry said: "We need to get out of here. If the Death Eater had followed Collin, they will find the common room and here we can not fight. Too less space." Hermione nodded in agreement. Ron stepped towards the portrait. "Sunflower cores", said he. Barely the portrait was open, the red haired boy called: "Everybody out, now!"
The students rushed in a single mass outside. Nearly automatically the first years were crowed protectively in the middle, while the older ones formed a wall of pulled out wands.
Harry, Ron and Hermione led their comrades. "Where?", Ron asked pestering. Hermione answered instead of Harry. "The Great Hall. There, we have got the most space." The black haired boy nodded. "Somebody must inform Dumbledore", he said, while they were running through the corridors, carefully avoiding any betrayal sound.
"I'll do that ", said Collin and resolved himself out of the group. He seemed to be eager to remake his mistake. "Good", Harry meant, "Collin, you need to get to a spiral stair. It is guarded by a gargoyle and leads to Dumbledore's office. If the stature askes you for a code word, then say that this is a case of need. " "Okay." Collin nodded and ran away
At that moment Parvati shrieked: "There! Death Eaters!" Hermione saw the hooded persons appearing at the end of the corridor. With them was, as Collin had said, Draco. Some Death Eaters yelled: "Stuporfy!" A netwirk of red lightnings shot towards the students. "Protego!", gasped the trio with one accord and Hermione saw the Stunning-yienx flying against the wall.
"Run!", Harry roared. Immediately everybody started to run. Their cloaks fluttered around their ankles during walking. Hermione yelled: "This way! Come on!" Dust flew around their feeth as the Gryffindors turned into the Great Hall. Gasping the students reversed.
Hermione, Harry and Ron stood themselves in front of their comrades. In the eyes of the girl glowed determination. They must not harm anyone! With pulled out wands, they awaited the enemy.