Death Eaters Attack

A few weeks later Harry tossed and turned uneasily in his bed.

Something was wrong. He had, had an unnerving feelin all day.

It bothered him because he didn't know what was wrong with him. There was nothing wrong that he knew of but there was something, like a sixth sense telling him that all wasn't right.

Stupid, he said to himself, thinking of what Hermione would say if he thought that he could predict future tragedies.

She would probably say that it was a load of bull.

"Forget it you stupid Pratt" he mumbled to himself.

Finally after reading his treasured copy of quidditch through the ages until his eyelids became heavy and his sight became even more blurred, he drifted off into a nightmare ridden slumber.

CRASH.

Harry immediately jumped up. He had amazing reflexes.

What in God's name was that noise.

It seemed that the noise came from outside.

Afraid for what terror lay ahead of him he slowly made his way to the window. But as he heard another crashing noise he quickened his paces and flung the curtains over, nearly knocking them off their rails.

When he peered out his knees buckled and the colour rapidly faded from his face.

The house next door was destroyed.

Vicious orange flames were engulfing what used to be a nice normal house on a suburban street.

And hanging above the house was the dark mark. A sign which can make the toughest wizard's world collapse Voldemort's reign of terror had begun and this was just a small taster of what was yet to come.

Harry quickly pried open his loose floorboard and pulled out the emergency portkey that Dumbledore gave him. Once he activated it would take only five seconds to get to safety in Hogwarts.

He waited 5,4,3,2,1 he felt the familiar tugging sensation and his world went dark.

Sarah was sat downstairs watching the dots bounce about on the television screen. Her life was very exciting right now.

After deciding that she was better off lying in a comfortable bed sleeping like a baby, rather than sitting in a hard chair straining her eyes by staring at the nothingness on the screen, she got up and trudged off to bed.

While in the middle of a lovely dream about quidditch, which involved her being voted keeper on the Hogwarts school team; she was woken up by a shrill ear-piercing scream.

What the hell, she thought groggily. That was a good dream too. It took her a minute but when she came to her senses she realised that her mother would not scream bloody murder just for the craic of it so Sarah wondered what was wrong.

So being the inquisitive person that she is she made her was from her room to the landing.

When she reached the top of the stairs the conversation she heard nearly made her faint with fear.

From the sounds of it there were Death Eaters, not one but many. And they didn't seem like very forgiving ones either.

How was she going to get out of this one? They were all dead, in a matter of minutes they would find her as well and it would give them pleasure to take their lives one by one, only after sufficient torture of course.

But then it hit her. There was light at the end of the tunnel. They had a portkey, just in case, which brought them to Hogwarts. Which was of course the safest place on earth. But the problem was the portkey was locked in the press under the stairs. So to get to the portkey she had to make the impossible possible by getting by a group of evil Voldemort followers unseen.

Suddenly her routes were narrowed when she heard someone running up the stairs.

She flung herself into her room and closed the door.

She was panicking now and her breathing was ragged. She leaned back against the wall to steady herself.

Then the doorknob started to turn.

Flinging her self under her bed she was hidden just in time to see a hooded man enter the room.

As she tried to stifle her crying she felt something strange against her back.

Carefully and noiselessly she picked it up. Her invisibility cloak. Relief flooded through her veins. As the Death Eater left disgruntled at the thought that he still had three more rooms to search, Sarah crawled away from her hiding place with new-found courage.

"Thank you God" She muttered as she thought of all those years that her mother had made her do ballet. While once she had the grace of an elephant she now moved gracefully and swiftly on her feet. Avoiding making any suspicious noises.

Down the stairs she went, learning from a few weeks experience that it was best to avoid the trick stair at the bottom.

When she got down in full view of the siting room she had to block her mouth to keep herself from screaming. Her mother and father were tied up and it looked like they were using one of the unforgivable curses on them.

................ "Tell me about your daughter!" a voice hissed.

"Leave her alone, why would you want her?" her father shouted.

"I need to be sure, I need to be sure if my followers can obey my orders."

"Need to be sure of what? Take me please, but have mercy on my only child. Have some mercy. Please. Ahh.." She was cut off by her own screams as Voldemort shouted "Crucio"

"Now woman you listen and you listen good, do you think that I lord Voldemort am going to leave a job unfinished? Now I know there is something.. Well let me say.different about your daughter. for when I was doing a locator spell for . Potter. lets just say I got more than I bargained for. Now tell me about your "daughter". "Yours" is she?"

"I don't need to tell you anything."

"Big mistake. AVADA.."

"Sarah where ever you are get out of here. Remember we love you just go. Go.Gooo."

"Kadavera.."

With that Mrs. Smith fell to the ground with a thud followed by the lifeless body of her husband.

.............

Meanwhile Sarah who was rigid with fear knew she had to do something. Blocking out the sound of Voldemort's voice she sprinted to the cupboard under the stairs she quickly retrieved the portkey.

Part of her wanted to go but part of her wanted to stay.just in case her parents made it. But as she heard footsteps coming in her direction, she grabbed onto the portkey and she felt an unfamiliar tug at her navel and her world dissolved around her..

............

She landed with a thud in a strange circular room. She tried to get up but as soon as she did she collapsed falling into a peaceful darkness....