Disclaimer: There shall be a final disclaimer at the end to announce my SUPREME RULE! But in the meantime, Kate Zephrem, Emrissa, Aranel Erin Snape, and the idea/plot is mine. I know, I know, J.K Rowling owns all the HP characters.




Kate couldn't see exactly what was going on. All she heard a was scream and Harry shout

"HERMIONE!" while zooming down.

Everyone had suddenly stood up to see and she wasn't the tallest of people.

"Everyone, calm down!" shouted Professor Flitwick.

He cast a charm enabling himself to float around. Everyone was still shouting, pointing, and running around until there was a, "SIT DOWN!" Everyone immediatly dropped onto their butts, even if a seat wasn't under them. Dumbledore held up his wand which spurted a column of flame. His voice was very quiet and low,

"I want everyone to follow the teachers back to the castle, no one is to be left behind, and there is to be no fooling around" he said and all the students nodded.

Professor Flitwick lead the first quarter of students from the bottom of the bleachers first, then Professor Lupin came for the second quarter. Professor Sprout lead the third quarter to the castle and McGonagall got the last.

Kate was at the end of the line in McGonagall's group, she walked quickly to keep with the rest of the group. Professor Flitwick and Vector's groups were already inside the castle. None of theh students could see the battle because they were lead around the snake and the other bleachers covered the view. But it wasn't that they wanted to see what was going on, everyone was thoroughly frightened into following without a sound.

There was the sound of rustling leaves in the wind, but Kate realized that there were no leaves considering the trees hadn't started 'shedding' yet. She turned around and her eyes widened. It was a tall, dark man in a black robe. His eyes glowed red from under the hood, and she could feel an evil air about him. Her first reaction was to open her mouth and scream, McGonagall turned around and pushed the student next to her ahead forcefully.

"Run! Run back to the castle!" Everyone broke into a mad dash to the castle while Voldemort laughed.

Kate tugged on McGonagall's hand,

"Come on Professor! Don't just stand there!" the witch took a few steps backwards, but seemed petrified by the Dark wizard.

Voldemort seemed amused by this act and stood there, observing. Who would he kill first? The professor or child? So many questions, so little time.

Kate's POV

/What the hell is wrong with you?!/

I screamed in my head, then pulled McGonagall's index finger back to touch the back of her palm with a jerk. She yelped and I pulled on her hand,

"MINERVA!" I barked into her face, she snapped out of it and we started to run for the castle.

My heart was hammering against my ribcage and I coughed while running, loosing some ground. Damned spine. I got into a coughing fit and fell down, McGonagall tried to pull me up.

"Kate!" she said.

I couldn't talk through the fit and held my sides to try an calm down.

"Kate, get up!" said McGonagall again, her voice trembled and for the first time in her life, she said the one word she never thought she could.

"Voldemort..." she whispered and I swallowed.

"Go. Can't. Get up" I coughed out.

But I didn't really want her to go, I wanted her to stay and be here.

"Kate, please" she pleaded, and tried to haul me up.

"Just...GO!" I shouted out the last bit, I felt like I was going to swallow my tongue with the coughing.

McGonagall looked up and her eyes widened. She then looked back down at me.

"You're my student Kate, I can't just leave you" she said quietly and stood up with her wand out.

I admired her then, if I had been in her place, I would've run long ago. I felt cold air wash over me and turned my head, he was there. He let his hood drop and McGonagall took in a deep breath.

"Gryffindor witch" he spat and raised his wand,

"Ara Aquilo!" shouted McGonagall.

I felt the wind blow around, and looked up to see it had created a kind of barrier to protect us.

"That was foolish" he said.

"Wingardem Leviosa! Crucio!"

McGonagall was lifted a great height into the air, then slammed down while screaming in pain. Her shield had disappeared from the impact of the fall.

"Pro-fessor!" I gasped in between my coughs.

"Now for you" he said, turning to me.

I was so scared, and took in big gulps of air.

"Whistleblowers should be killed" he said and raised his wand.

I rolled over to try and get out of aim,

"Eradico" I gasped as a felt something smash into my back.

The spell had hit me, but most of the force had been taken away from the shield. I slumped over, and felt him kick me hard in the side.

/Stop breathing, play dead/

I thought and held my breath, I could see his shadow move away a little bit, and then.

3rd

He aimed a good, hard kick at the side of her head, she fell limp and he wiped the blood off onto the grass. He took a glance at the older witch, she had been through too much pain to do anything, much less move. As much as he wanted to kill them both, he had to deal with his other self first.