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They turned around and hurried away, towards the one and only door, in the opposite end of the corridor. I exhaled. They hadn't seen me. But suddenly Moody stopped and turned around. I had forgotten about his magical eye; probably he had been using it to look backwards, and I'm sure it could see even if it was dark.
"Why stopping, Monster-eye? Hurry!" Sirius said.
Moody didn't answer, but drew his wand. When the others saw him doing so, they did the same.
"Seeing anything, Moody?" Lupin asked.
"Sch." Moody muttered. "Someone over there."
I wondered how far it was to the elevator. Five feet, maybe. What if I ran, the doors were closed and then I could go back up again. But five feet... and as I told you before, I've never been much of a sprinter.
"Lumos!" Lupin said.
The light was blinding and I screwed up my eyes. I tried to make myself smaller, pressed myself even more towards the wall, even though I knew that it was no use.
"Who..." started the man whom I didn't recognize.
"Tamara Malfoy, right?!" Lupin interrupted surprised.
"Er... yep" I said.
This was so embarrassing. I felt like a little kid, being caught while I was stealing cookies from the cookie box or something.
"What are you doing here?" Lupin continued.
"Er... well, I... I... saw... them... go in here... I thi..." I mumbled.
"Who went here?" Sirius interrupted me.
I would definitively not have told a mass murderer the location of six of my fellow students, if only his wand hadn't been pointing straight towards me.
"Harry... Potter" I whispered.
His expression changed, from stressed to really worried.
"And Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Luna" I enumerated quickly.
"You saw them? When? Here?" Lupin asked urgently.
"No, I saw them outside the Ministry, they went down in that telephone box" I explained.
"So why did you go to this department?" the wacky woman asked.
"I dunno" I said. "I... I think I remember hearing them say 'department of mysteries' some time'..."
"You go straight back up" Lupin instructed me. "Wait in the entrance. Understood?!"
"But..."
"Now" Moody interrupted and pushed me into the elevator again. The doors closed and the journey back to the main floor began.
"Damn it!" I yelled and my voice echoed in the elevator.
I pressed the button for the third floor since it already had passed the second one.
"Third floor, Department of Magical accidents and catastrophes, including the accidental magic reversal squad, obliviator headquarters and muggle- worthy excuse committee"
I got out and went over to the other elevator, pressed the button and waited for it to arrive. It didn't take very long since it was only two floors down, but it felt like I waited for more than one hour before the elevator finally arrived. I stepped inside, pressed the down button and the doors were closed.
My heart was beating so fast. I'm only going to check what's happening, I reminded myself. If it seems dangerous, I'll back out. No one is going to see me...
The elevator stopped and the doors slid open. I went out and looked towards the only door. There was a lot of noise coming from there. People yelling, smells, hits, bangs and screams. I hesitated. This did seem dangerous, so maybe I'd back out. It's easy! Get into the elevator again, press the button and then you'll be out of here.
I walked slowly towards the door. It felt like it took me an eternity to reach it, and when I finally had gotten there I stood still, hesitating.
You can still go back, I reminded myself. It's your choice...
But this time I was to slow, faith had to make that choice for me. The door flung open and a man came rushing out. He crashed into me, I fell backwards, he stumbled and we both fell onto the floor.
I quickly got onto my feet even though my legs were shaking like they never had been before, in the exact same moment as he stood up. I'd never met a Death Eater in person, but I immediately realized that that's what he was. He was dressed all in black, and with a black cap that cast a shadow over his face. He was holding a glass ball in his hand. I stood a millisecond, staring at him, before I realized who he was.
"Father?" I whispered.
"Move!" he said and tried to push me aside, since I was standing in way of his escape.
But that crash had cost him too much time, and now the crazy woman whom I met before appeared from the room.
"Expelliarmus!" she shouted and father's wand went straight into her hand.
A loud scream that struck like knives in my ears was heard, and she turned around to see what had caused it. I don't know what it was, but it must have been something really important or dangerous, because she ran back into the room.
The door was closed behind her and I was left with my unarmed Death Eater Father. He held the glass ball like it was his loved baby, and stared desperately towards the elevators. Then he started walking, tried to walk past me, but I stopped him.
"Get out of the way!"
I hesitated, not knowing what to do. Suddenly the door flung open again, and a woman in Death Eater dress came running. She zigzagged past Father and I, and escaped into the elevator. Then Harry Potter appeared in the doorway, furious.
"To the hell with you" he said when he saw that Father was unarmed, and pushed him hard into the wall. Then he caught sight of me, and stared confusedly.
"What the hell are you doin..." he said, but I interrupted him by simply hold out his wand. He took it without saying a word and ran through the corridor over to the elevators, jumped into one and disappeared.
The door had been closed again, and we were alone.
"Helping that Potter boy, aren't you" Father hissed. "A traitor in the family, doesn't look good..."
"Oh, shut up" I said and took out my wand.
The moment after, I couldn't believe I just said that to Father. Maybe it was the feeling of having a power, since I had my wand and he was completely unarmed.
"So, what are you going to do, then" he said scornfully. "Wingardium Leviosa?"
The worst thing was that he was rather right. We had studied a lot of spells during all DADA classes for those four years which I had been spending at Hogwarts and we had practiced them in the DA as well, but it was a complete different feeling to use them in reality. For the moment I couldn't think of any spell. It was a complete blackout. In fact, the only words that were in my mind were 'Wingardium Leviosa'. (A/N Swish 'n flick, lol)
So I simply raised my wand and said: "Wingardium Leviosa!" with such a power that Father flew up in the air. His head bumped into the roof, the spell was off and he dropped down unconscious.
I turned around and sprinted towards the elevator shafts. I didn't know anything more than the fact that I just wanted to get out of there, and that NOW. I pressed the up button, and waited restlessly for the elevator to arrive. I practically cast myself into it and pressed the button. The doors were closed and I was heading upwards again.
Everything was a mess in the entrance hall as well. People dueling, spells yelled and bangs. I didn't give a damn about that, but ran through the entrance hall over to the elevators. Someone threw a spell against me but I jumped into the elevator just in time. The doors were closed and the elevator started moving upwards.
I got out of the telephone box and fetched my broom. I got into it, but didn't kick off into the air yet. I had to calm myself down first; my legs were shaking like I don't know what, well my whole body was shaking. After about five minutes, I finally set off into the air.
Author's note: Isn't it interesting how the spell Wingardium Leviosa can become so helpful in such situations (thinking of hp&ps)? Anyway, please review, and thank you for taking your time to read my story.
