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Authors Note: This story is in answer to Challenge #12 at 30minutefics. You can find this group in the Live Journal Community. The challenge states that the author is to write a horror story in first person narrative. It can include any HP characters but must take place in the HP Universe. The author has 30 minutes to write the story from beginning to end (that includes editing if there is time for such).
I stood on the brink of death. It was all over. How could I have been so foolish? They had warned me.
"Miss Granger" they said "remember, no matter how clever you are your only eighteen. Let the adults handle these things."
I never heard their warnings or their concern. All I heard was silly old teachers trying to hold me back. Hogwarts is our last stand. It alone has stood against Voldermort. We watched in Horror as the dark forces gathered at her boundaries. Dementors, hags, deatheaters and Voldermort. They stand there calling to us cackling their obscenities. Daring us to challenge them. Our agents in the field have fallen and are prisoners. Ron, Severus, Percy and Bill. Everyday Voldermort makes us watch as he kills one more of ours.
"Surrender: he yells "give me Potter and I will let you live. Give me Dumbledore and I will give you your loved ones."
The women and children are the worst. Those unfortunates who were outside when Hell engulfed us. He delights in making us listen to them scream. Severus and Ron he tortures slowly. But Hogwarts still holds, for now. I am a fool and will be remembered as the witch that gave Voldermort his victory. Why did I think I could save Ron Why was I so foolish to believe my spell was strong enough to fool his army even for a short while. I lay here the ache in my legs throbbing and the blood from my bound wrist drips slowly down my arm. Voldermort delights in torturing me. I have the information he wants all of Hogwarts defenses rest in my brain and he is determined to make me talk. He has brutally murdered all of the prisoners and Ron's bloody battered head looks up at me his face forever frozen in a look of pain and sorrow. The clearing is littered with blood and gore where his army has fed. I can not look away as a hag feasts on the remains of beautiful Cho Chang once our strongest agent in the field. Cho is still alive and her screams tear at my heart. This is my doing my soul will be dammed for these deaths. I watch Cho finally die and she is the last. Voldermort turns his evil grin on me.
"You will tell me what I want to know girl" he snarls "and I will enjoy making you watch Hogwarts fall"
I look up at him a twisted angry grin on my face." You will never have Hogwarts, Harry and Dumbledore will find a way to stop you." I snarled at him.
Many will call me a fool. But none will ever call me a coward. I fishs around the inside of my mouth with my tongue looking for the tiny pebble filled with a poison so strong it will kill me in seconds. The charmed bubble protected it from my saliva and from being swallowed. I bit down hard and felt the bitter taste of the poison on my tongue. The last thing that swam before my eyes was Ron's head and his eyes seemed to call to me.
"Noooooo" the dark lord screamed and then........
Authors Note: This story is in answer to Challenge #12 at 30minutefics. You can find this group in the Live Journal Community. The challenge states that the author is to write a horror story in first person narrative. It can include any HP characters but must take place in the HP Universe. The author has 30 minutes to write the story from beginning to end (that includes editing if there is time for such).
I stood on the brink of death. It was all over. How could I have been so foolish? They had warned me.
"Miss Granger" they said "remember, no matter how clever you are your only eighteen. Let the adults handle these things."
I never heard their warnings or their concern. All I heard was silly old teachers trying to hold me back. Hogwarts is our last stand. It alone has stood against Voldermort. We watched in Horror as the dark forces gathered at her boundaries. Dementors, hags, deatheaters and Voldermort. They stand there calling to us cackling their obscenities. Daring us to challenge them. Our agents in the field have fallen and are prisoners. Ron, Severus, Percy and Bill. Everyday Voldermort makes us watch as he kills one more of ours.
"Surrender: he yells "give me Potter and I will let you live. Give me Dumbledore and I will give you your loved ones."
The women and children are the worst. Those unfortunates who were outside when Hell engulfed us. He delights in making us listen to them scream. Severus and Ron he tortures slowly. But Hogwarts still holds, for now. I am a fool and will be remembered as the witch that gave Voldermort his victory. Why did I think I could save Ron Why was I so foolish to believe my spell was strong enough to fool his army even for a short while. I lay here the ache in my legs throbbing and the blood from my bound wrist drips slowly down my arm. Voldermort delights in torturing me. I have the information he wants all of Hogwarts defenses rest in my brain and he is determined to make me talk. He has brutally murdered all of the prisoners and Ron's bloody battered head looks up at me his face forever frozen in a look of pain and sorrow. The clearing is littered with blood and gore where his army has fed. I can not look away as a hag feasts on the remains of beautiful Cho Chang once our strongest agent in the field. Cho is still alive and her screams tear at my heart. This is my doing my soul will be dammed for these deaths. I watch Cho finally die and she is the last. Voldermort turns his evil grin on me.
"You will tell me what I want to know girl" he snarls "and I will enjoy making you watch Hogwarts fall"
I look up at him a twisted angry grin on my face." You will never have Hogwarts, Harry and Dumbledore will find a way to stop you." I snarled at him.
Many will call me a fool. But none will ever call me a coward. I fishs around the inside of my mouth with my tongue looking for the tiny pebble filled with a poison so strong it will kill me in seconds. The charmed bubble protected it from my saliva and from being swallowed. I bit down hard and felt the bitter taste of the poison on my tongue. The last thing that swam before my eyes was Ron's head and his eyes seemed to call to me.
"Noooooo" the dark lord screamed and then........