"Elana!" Harry ran up to her, stupidly dropping his wand on the ground as he did so, which Eliza promptly picked up. "Are you okay?!"
Lani looked into her father's eyes, which were glazed by the tears threatening to come. Why am I not dead? Or am I? No..., Lani thought, and suddenly hundreds of questions erupted in her mind. Was Voldemort trying to just scare me? no...
he would have just killed me straight out. Then again, he wasn't trying to kill me... he was trying to kill my father. Why the heck did I try to jump in front of the curse? I didn't want to... did I? What was that spell he used on me...?
Harry was still staring intently at Lani, beginning to pick her up to carry her to the portkey, along with the others. Lani managed to grunt an answer to her father's previous question of 'are you ok?' , yet wondered how he could ask such a question. DUH I"M NOT OK! she thought, then the welcoming blackness overcame her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There were people staring at Lani. Where am I? she thought, a little freaked out, then a familiar voice said. "In the hospital wing"
Lani's eyes shot open, receiving a searing pain throughout Lani's body. She saw the blurry figures of her father, Dumbledore, her cousins, Matthew and Emma, Eliza, and Will. Lani attempted to tell her father to get out of her head, but her voice wouldn't co-operate, so she thought it instead.
"Okay" He said, breaking eye contact with her.
"wha happened?" Lani managed weekly, then remembered the morning's events.
Oh. Right...why am I not dead? Lani thought again, stupidly. What was that curse? it was slow... slow... ugh... slowre-something.
Then something came to Lani's mind. "who's voice--screamed---out of---my mouth?" Why was it so hard to speak?
Harry turned a bright shade of red and glance towards Dumbledore who nodded.
"Your grandmother's", Dumbledore said, his eyebrows furrowed, looking deep in thought.
"How... she's dead" The second she said those words Lani realized how tactless they were, would they upset her father? but Harry's face was unreadable.
"We're not quite sure..." Harry looked thoughtful as well, and confused, and... sad?
_________________________________________________________
I know… very short… well, I couldn't think of where to stop it without starting something else.
