Chapter 8 Cassie sighed as she leaned back on the chair she sat on. "Okay, So we'll all just stay here or travel in groups." "Shouldn't we contact someone?" Susan asked, helping George into a chair. "I mean, if he's seriously hurt?" "How can we do that?" Cedric shook his head leaning against the couch. "Besides Snape would think we did it. He won't believe Fred's really hurt. I mean he jokes about everything. He'll think this is a plot to get out of detention." "Hey Pretty boy, Fred's not faking!" George angrily cried out. Susan put a hand on his shoulder to calm him. "No, he isn't." She survayed the room. Everyone was watching the couch. "Should we do something? Some music?" A few people nodded, others just sat blankly. Susan turned on the radio and the Beatles started playing. They looked at her and sighed. She turned it off looking around the room and put the TV on a station that just blankly played techno music. A dark figure appeared in the doorway. It stood about 8 feet high and practically had to duck when it entered the room. It wore a long black cloak and seemed to float. They hood covered the face, but when it came near Cassie it threw its hood back revealing the grotesque face of a clown. Razor sharp teeth and a huge red nose which appeared to be bleeding. Its hair stood on end and was a rainbow of colors. It let out a maniac of a laugh and everyone turned to look at it. Cassie screamed and dove of her chair, hiding behind another chair across the room. Susan soon joined her and they sat huddled and shaking. Everyone else staired up at it, some with horror others with confusion. The clown raised its hand pointing a long slender bony finger at the girls behind the chair. It growled something and the chair flew into the air and landed with a very loud thud across the room, slamming into a wall. The clown laughed and continued toward them. George stopped crying and sat staring blankly. Oliver and Cedric reacted by lifting there wands and Stunning the clown, which fell to the ground and lay motionless.