Lives and Loves of Ravenclaw Girls
Chapter 13 – Tears and Anger
By: Samantha, Julie and Megan
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James pounded at the door to the shrieking shack, still willing for it to open, but to no avail. He began to kick the door in anger before Lily's voice stopped him.
"James!" yelled Lily, pointing down the sloping lawns towards the village.
James ran up and pulled Lily to the ground. "What's wrong Lily? Are they coming?" he asked as he tried to peer down the hill unnoticeably.
"Look! There's Blue robes down there James!" she said, pointing back down. "There not black! There blue!"
James and Will pulled themselves up and looked down into the village. Sure enough wizards and witches clad in blue were wondering the streets with their wands raised.
"Thank Merlin!" exclaimed James, pulling Lily into a hug, "The auror's are here!"
"The auror's?" asked Heidi, standing up out of the snow.
"Kind of like muggle police. They must have run the Death Eaters out of Hogsmeade!" grinned James.
"Come on, lets go down there," said Will, taking Heidi's hand.
"What? No way! It's not safe there!" said Heidi, pulling Will back.
"I agree with Roberts, Singe. Wherever the auror's are is the safest place to be," said James, beginning his trek down the hillside.
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Shannon sighed and shifted her head on Ricks shoulder. She was so scared, and yet so bored. She wanted to know what was going on, but every time she tried to go and look Rick would pull her back down.
"Hey Shan," said Rick, shrugging his right shoulder to get her attention.
"Mmhmm?" exhaled Shannon, opening her eyes slightly.
"Here," he said, holding something out to her. A bouquet of Orange Lily's stood firm in his hand. The petals were mainly orange, but turn a sunshine yellow as it got closer to the center. The stems were a healthy shade of green. Shannon grinned as she took them delicately, trying not to flatten them.
"There not much," Rick was saying, "but i reckon they may be the last pretty things left in Hogsmeade at the moment." He rubbed the back of his neck shyly.
"I think there beautiful," she said, looking up to him. "Thank you," she said.
"Anytime," responded Rick. Shannon reached up to kiss him but a sudden noise stopped them.
A hundred tiny pops had started to go off from the main street, only a building away. Rick put his shoulder around Shannon and pulled her closer.
"FREEZE!" said a voice from the ally into their little clearing. "Wands on the ground now!"
Shannon immediately threw her wand to the ground. "What are you doing?" hissed Rick. "That may be a death eater!"
"A death eater wouldn't have asked," said Shannon bluntly.
"Still," he whispered to her, before raising his voice. "Show yourself!"
An older wizard stepped out of the shadows. He was clad in blue, with deep brown eyes and rough and noticeable facial hair. "Hogwarts students, I presume?" he peered at them.
"Yes sir," said Shannon in a small voice.
"Up to the castle with you. Go straight to great hall, where you will meet up with your teachers."
"Alright sir. Can I ask why? I just really want to go lay down right about now," asked Shannon.
"We need to find out who is missing, and who is injured. We also need your accounts of what happened here today." The couple nodded and rose to leave. They headed silently up to the castle, hand in hand.
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Remus cradled Julie's limp body as Sirius held his wand out guarding them. Remus shifted the piece of cloth they had found to another bloody spot on her bruised head.
"We need to get her help," said Remus desperately.
"I know Moony, I know. But we can't. There's nowhere to go that doesn't have death eaters," replied Sirius, frustrated.
"She's dying," Remus held her tighter to himself, looking down to her closed eyes.
"Just keep holding that cloth to her head," said Sirius quietly. Remus did so quietly.
Please don't die on me. Remus thought to himself, as he stroked a stray hair out of her face. A silence had appeared between him and Sirius, as neither had talked for a while.
Finally Sirius broke that silence. "Look Moony. I ... I think I know what you're thinking about. She's strong, she will pull though this," Sirius hesitated before continuing, "She won't end up like Alexis."
"I hope your right," was all that Remus could say back. He took a deep breath before continuing, "At least this time I ... I can be with her. When ... If she …" Remus trailed off, his throat had tightened itself into a knot.
Sirius put his hand on Remus' shoulder as means of comfort for his old friend. He pulled away quickly though, as the sound of popping filled the air.
"The auror's are here!" he said happily. Sure enough several ministry officials had arrived and were scouring the streets for death eaters. One man came up to there small corner where two shops met. He kneeled down beside Remus.
"Please sir, she needs a healer!" said Remus quickly.
"What happened to her?" he asked as he took her pulse the muggle way.
"What do you think? She was hit in the stomach with a curse and it threw her into this wall." said Sirius, slightly irritated at the question.
The auror muttered a spell under his breath and a small glowing crystal formed over Julies head. It hovered there for a moment before turning a dark pink colour. The man scooped Julie up into his arms and brought her to a woman in all white. After talking for a brief second he handed her over and the woman disapparated with Julie in her arms.
The man walked back to Sirius and Remus swiftly. "You two have to head up to the castle now. Go straight to the great hall for questioning and seeing who is missing."
"But. What ab–" started Remus.
"There's nothing I can tell you about her condition, just as there is nothing you can do for her now," interrupted the man. "It's time for you to go. Now." he enforced to them.
Sirius was ready to hurt the man, but Remus stopped him by hanging his head and walking back up towards the castle. Sirius followed in step with him.
"She will be fine Remus," said Sirius, hoping to comfort him. Remus gave him no response.
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Heidi and Will trailed behind the other three on the way down the sloped lawns of the shrieking shack.
"Are you okay?" asked Will, looking down at a white Heidi.
"Yeah," said Heidi, looking at the ground.
"But?" pressed Will.
"I wonder if they are," she sighed, still looking at the untouched snow in the distance.
"Potter, Evans and Phillips?" asked Will, puzzled.
"No, you prat! My friends. Shannon, Megan, Julie, Sam. We may have been okay, but what about them? Where did they hide? Are they …" she trailed off uncertainly. Will gave her hand a squeeze and she finished her sentence. "What if one of those green skulls is them?"
Heidi blinked back tears as she looked up into the green lit sky. The sun was still high in the sky as it was still the afternoon. Will wrapped his arm around Heidi's shoulders and pulled her tightly. "I'm sure there, okay sweetie," he soothed to her.
Lily saw their movement out of the corner of her eye and fell back to them, causing Kassie and James to follow her lead. "Are you ok Heidi?" she asked, putting a hand on Heidi's arm. Heidi swept furiously at her fallen tears as she nodded.
"She's worried about her friends," said Will on her behalf. Heidi gave Will a small smile of thanks.
"I know how you feel," said Kassie, her arms folded as she looked into them. "We don't know if anyone outside ourselves are okay."
"Look you guys," said James, as means of cheering up, "Sirius and Remus went in search of Julie, and they are excellent duelers, so they are probably okay. Sam was with Snape, and he wouldn't let anything happen to her.
"You're two other friends, Shannon and her date, who, if I'm not much mistaken, is a seventh year, are probably okay. I mean, the seventh years are trained for this. And Docura? Well, I almost feel sorry for the death eaters who cross her and her boyfriends path." Heidi couldn't help but laugh at the comment about Megan.
"Thanks James, your right. I overreacted," said Heidi smiling again.
"Anytime Luv, now let's go find an auror."
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John Grenchuck sighed as he surveyed the damage done to the alley beside Zonko's Joke Shop. It was days like this he felt like quitting the Auror squad. This would take forever to clean up, and even longer for the citizens to forget.
"Hey John," said Mary Ambleworth, his old friend from the force.
"Unbelievable, isn't it?" he said, picking up a piece of fallen rock. "The way they just randomly blow up things like this." He chucked the piece into the big scraping pile of bricks.
"Random? Why come and blow up this one? Wanted easy access to Madam Teringer's Herbal Tea Magic, without using the door? No I think something happened here." She said, walking around the pile of bricks.
"Yes, i'm sure something happened," John mocked sarcastically.
"Come help me move some bricks," she said in her usual bossy manner.
"This is a lost cause," he laughed at her, as she dug through the dull red, shattered bricks.
"Just move some, and when we reach the ground we will stop," John sighed and did as she asked. Together they dug under the bricks until they reached the rocky pavement underneath.
"Okay, so you were right. Let's move on," said Mary, dusting herself off. "John?" she asked when no reply came.
"Is this a shoe?" he asked, pointing to a hunk of black rubber underneath the uncovered part.
Mary dropped to her knees beside John and began excavating under the rest of the bricks. "Oh Merlin! It's a girl!"
Together they pulled the young girl out from under the wall fragments. The girls face was bloody, yet recognizable, her robes were torn, but the Ravenclaw emblem was still eligible. There was no part of her body that wasn't bruised, bloody or broken. Her curly, dark brown hair was blood-soaked and covered her face like a curtain.
They lay the nameless girl on the scratchy pavement, away from the fallen wall, and closer to the main street. Mary felt the girls' wrist, and then her neck for reassurance. "She still has a pulse," Mary sighed.
"Unbelievable! A wall was crushing her, yet she is still alive? That must be some strong girl!" exclaimed John, scratching the back of his head.
"She won't be alive for much longer if we don't get her to St Mungo's, and quick," said Mary, taking the girl in her arms.
"She looks so–" began John before being cut off by a shrill shriek.
"MEGAN!" Came a voice from the road, before a girl with straight dirty blond hair came hurtling into view, with four others trailing behind her.
Heidi took Megan in her arms, and began to sob uncontrollably. "MEGAN! WAKE UP!" she screamed at the half-dead brunette. "MEGAN! IT'S. NOT. FUNNY!" she screamed mercilessly, her tears rolling down her face as she choked out her words.
"Miss, please step back–" started John, reaching out for Heidi's shoulder.
"NO!" she screamed at the unknown man. She looked back down at her best friend, lying on the concrete. "Don't die Megz, don't die!" she repeated between sobs. "You can't die Megan ... You just – cant!"
"Miss, we need to get her to a hospital, please step away," Mary said professionally. Any authority she had was waved aside by the look of empathy in her wise brown eyes.
Heidi was still sobbing when she let Will pull her away. She watched Megan be scooped up into the woman's arms, before they both disapparated.
Heidi couldn't stand anymore; her knees were feeling way too weak. Please no. Not my friends. Don't let her die. Please no! Heidi gave way to the blackness fogging her vision, and fainted into Wills arms.
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John Grenchuck sighed as he saw the sobbing girl collapse in a young man's arms. He turned and went farther down the alley and took a right. He started heading up the main street looking down the allies as he slowly made his way back to the school. He peered down an alley way to find a young man hunched over a lump on the ground.
"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to head up to the school and ... Holy ... Sir, I'll take her straight to St. Mungo's if you head to the school right now," John said as he spotted Sam on the ground in a heap.
"I can't leave her," Snape said glaring up at the auror.
"I have to take her to St. Mungo's, sir." John repeated, he moved towards Sam and put a hand on Snape's shoulder, "She'll be ok if I take her now, but you have to go back to the school and give the auror's there your account of what happened."
"It was a Crucio curse," Snape said letting John gather Sam's limp body in his arms.
"I'll make sure she's given the proper care." John said disapparating.
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"My, this is a disaster," Mary Ambleworth said once she had apparated back. She went down alleys checking bodies and sending up sparks for the healer's over the one's still alive. She came across a body of a woman with platinum blonde hair. She turned the body over to find the Malfoy coat of arms on the chest of her ripped yet extremely fashionable robes. Professor Malfoy. Mary quickly felt for the woman's pulse. She was alive, but only just. She scooped up the woman's limp form and disapparated back to St. Mungo's.
It was complete chaos. Healers were running everywhere. The rooms where all full and patients were in the halls on floating stretchers. "I need some help!" Mary yelled and a healer came running. "She's a Professor at Hogwarts. Her pulse is weak and she has a nasty bump to the head."
"Thank you," the healer said conjuring a stretcher and placing the Professor on it.
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Heidi and her group made the slow trip back to Hogwarts. "She can't die. She just can't, I won't let her die," Heidi kept muttering to herself as Will held her up.
"I'm sure she'll pull through," Kassie said sympathetically, "she's a strong girl."
"Of course she'll pull through," James said, "Docura survived those bricks falling on her, she'll survive this."
"Heidi!" a voice yelled behind her before she was taken to the ground in a rib crunching hug, "You're okay." Shannon said getting up and pulling Heidi up too. "Where is everyone else?"
"I don't know, but Megz is ... she's hurt bad, Shan. A brick wall fell on her. They took her to St. Mungo's." Heidi said tears falling freely from her eyes.
"What about Julie and Sam?" Shannon asked, worried.
"Julie's at St. Mungo's, too." a voice said behind them. Remus and Sirius were climbing up the path behind them. "Where's Peter?" Remus asked.
"I dunno," said James, "hope he's okay."
"I'm sure he is," Sirius said squinting ahead, "He's up ahead of us."
When the students got up to the school they entered and McGonagall nearly started weeping. "You're all alright." she sniffed into a handkerchief. "Please go into the Great Hall and sit at your house tables. Please sit with your dorm mates and we'll figure out who's missing."
The students went and sat at their table next to Chris and Mike. "Where's Tag?" Chris asked.
"He's not with you?" Shannon said exasperated. "And he wasn't with Megan? Where is he?"
"Where's Megan?"
"St. Mungo's."
"What! What happened?"
"A brick wall fell on her."
"What?! Is she okay?"
"We don't know, she was unconscious when we saw her last."
"Excuse me children," An auror said behind them, "but do you know who's still missing?"
"Uh, well Samantha Adams and Ta--Tyler Anderson. Megan Docura is at St. Mungo's now."
"And you are?"
"Heidi Singe."
"Heidi, will you come with me?"
"Yeah."
"Can you tell me your account of what happened this afternoon?"
"Where do I start?" Heidi said sighing as a tear fell down her cheek, "Well ..."
--End Chapter 13
