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Chapter 5

It was midnight. The stars shone in the black night sky and the moon was a thin crescent of pale light. Behind the single cloud drifting across the inky sky, a pale red ball gleamed dully. Magic was at work this night.

Draco Malfoy bolt upright in bed, stifling the cry that sprang to his lips. His back was sticky with sweat. His hands were clammy, and his eyes rolled like a trapped horse's. Stilling his trembling fingers, he shivered. The nightmares had been coming more often now. Every night he traveled down a long black hall leading to greatness. Greatness and pain. Lord Voldermort waited at the end of the hall, and every night he asked Draco if he was ready to become a Death Eater, and every night Draco had refused, saying he would consider it. That was what brought the pain, the torturing Unforgivable Curse. But with the pain, strength and wisdom came. He was far stronger now than he had ever been. And Voldermort was teaching Draco curses. Curses, jinxes, and spells of unbelievable power. He brought people, Muggles and Mudbloods, from their dreams for Draco to experiment with. Draco wondered if any of them woke up alive. With a shiver, he guessed not. He laid back down a closed his eyes, but didn't sleep. He was safe as long as he didn't dream.

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Luna Lovegood sat on the edge of her bed, brushing her hair dreamily. She was tired, but she was far too excited to sleep. After a month at Hogwarts, the excitement of the beginning of a new term was wearing off.
But nothing could wear off Luna's excitement when she saw Harry. Just a single smile from him sent her heart pounding and her face scarlet. She had hoped no one would notice her painfully obvious crush, but Ginny Weasley had figured it out, reassuring her that she only figured it out because she was a girl, and boys were extremely dense about these matters.
She had suggested a beauty routine that Luna did her best to stick to. She brushed her hair for ten minutes in the morning, and twenty at night. That took care of the scraggily look, and cleaning her teeth six times a day made them fairly gleam. She refused to wear normal necklaces; she would stick to what made her "Loony Lovegood", purely because she would not change her personality to suit anyone. Not even Harry. Luna was Luna, and no one could ever change that.

She was on her three hundred and ninety-seventh stroke when there was a huge explosion, and the whole castle shook.

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"What the hell was-" Draco didn't finish his sentence, as the whole castle suddenly started heaving, tossing, and shaking. Draco was thrown out of bed and against the wall so hard that he saw stars. He shook his head to clear it, leaping to his feet like a cat. The tossing stopped. Everyone else in his dorm relaxed, Crabbe supporting a bloody nose and Goyle with blood streaming from his chin.

"What was that?" Draco's voice was oddly calm, despite his bruised appearance.

"Duh.uh...uh..I think the castle started shaking..uh.I think." Crabbe nodded to back Goyle up, holding a tissue to his bloody nose.

Malfoy's glare would have frozen ice as he threw up his hands and rolled his eyes. "I know that, you imbeciles! I want to kno-"

The castle suddenly heaved, and it turned on its side and shook itself sideways. Malfoy was thrown down the stairs into the common room-with the rest of the Slytherins-, and was shaken from the common room to the long stone tunnel that lead to the common room, and was shaken down hallways and stairs and all over the place until he and the rest of his house were shaken into the Great Hall. They collapsed in a bruised and bloodied heap.

All of the doors slammed, locking them inside, the shaking resumed, on different side, and ten minutes later Gryffindor joined them in a heap, looking bruised. The doors slammed again as the castle shook again, and then the Ravenclaws were chucked inside. The Hufflepuffs joined them ten minutes later. By then half the students were unconscious. The castle righted itself suddenly, and there was calm. Nobody moved.

Then there was banging on the doors, and the students heard teachers shouting. But they could not get in, and the students could not get out. They were trapped. Suddenly explosions started, each one louder than the other. It sounded as though an army of giants was warring on the rooftops. It was loud. Suddenly, the roof of the castle was torn off. A piece of forked lightning shot down. One end hit Luna who was lying in a crumpled heap; the other end hit Draco, who was dazedly trying to stand. Their hair stood on end, and for one second, there was a third blinding flash of lightning, and everyone fell to their knees, blinded. Then it was over. Explosions and rumblings ceased. The door opened, and the roof fixed itself in place. It was over. Teachers rushed in, and herded terrified students to the Hospital Wing or their dormitories. Whatever it had been, it was over. For now.

A pair of exhausted liquid amber eyes watched the school with satisfaction, and the woman sagged back against a tree. She shouldn't have summoned so much magic. But she had gotten the results she wanted. With a tired sigh, she headed back to Hogwarts.