A/N: Merry XMAS (Again)
Oh yes and ill try and put some more Ginny in this chapter. Oh yea and this is the 6th month anniversary of the fic (WOOT!!!!!)
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Within a few minutes, the normally peaceful sanctuary of Hogwarts castle had been shattered. Harry had decided to use surprise to his advantage rather than brute strength in the hopes that no one would have time to react. At precisely 7:30 he had set the wards to deactivate. Without the proper bearer that Albus Dumbledore had been the wards had collapsed within minutes.
And that was when the slaughter began.
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Minerva Mcgonagal lay slumped across her desk. She had chosen to not use Albus's old office as her own simply out of respect for the old man and had instead set up in the small office adjacent to her transfiguration class room. It had been a hard day for her with reporters and Aurors constantly barging into her lessons eager for an interview. Her latest problem now sat in a small jar along with thousands of cockroaches just like him, well apart from the fact that they were REAL cockroaches rather than transfigured ones. Severus would be SO happy, well if that man could ever be happy.
Suddenly a shrill alarm sounded. She quickly jumped to her feet, although of a peaceful nights rest gone. A sound came from behind her and she span around just quick enough to glance at her assailant before a sharp, barbed claw sunk into her flesh, piercing her heart and killing her almost instantly.
As her bloodied body slipped to the floor, Harry's servants began to feed…
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"Shit!" swore Draco as the alarms began to ring out. This meant that Harry had decided the attack was to start, and they were still a floor away from the room of requirement. After they had obliviated the students in Gryfindor, they had set off to the 7th floor but along the way they had encountered the fat friar and the bloody baron and had to silence them before they could raise the alarm. Of course this had been easier said than done, as you can't actually kill someone who is already dead. Instead Draco and Blaise had had to employ the use of several petrifying and banishing charms. Although Harry's escorts he had provided were good fighters, they had no weapons against spirits.
Suddenly the suit of armour to his right turned towards him and swung a lethally sharp polearm towards him, Draco had only time to duck before the blade skimmed the surface of his head. All throughout the corridor suits of armour were coming alive. Draco cursed as he realised this must be a defence measure incase the castle walls were ever breached. The founders had created an army of super soldiers. However Draco and Blaise were not along. Their bodyguards had began to fight of the armour and although they were heavily outnumbered, these were ancient warriors of darkness and their armour easily withstood the clumsy swings of the armour.
"We need to get out of here!" yelled Blaise as he narrowly dodged another knight's swing before it was cleaved in half by one of the dark soldiers. Draco noticed a break in the ranks of armour and grabbed Blaise's wrist and pointed towards it. Blaise nodded and sprinted forward, Hermiones unconscious body still clutched in his arms.
Draco followed after him and began sprinting towards the stair case, Blaise had transformed into a much stronger looking boy so that he could easily sprint without Hermione interfering and by now had reached the stair case. Draco however possessed no such power and his head was bleeding from that first swipe by the armoured golem. Luckily however none had followed and no they were on the last stretch.
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Ginny lay in her bd. She had been locked in this room for weeks now without any human contact. Now she knew how Sirius must have felt in Azkaban. The very thought of her former friend brought tears to her eyes. She had already now guessed that Voldemort was holding her prisoner but she could not be sure. Because how would Voldemort be able to be so near Hogwarts without somebody noticing? And how could she have not noticed a flipping massive tower about half a mile from Hogwarts?
The door creaked open and she prepared for the worst, too late remembering her wand was laying a few centimetres away on the side table. The figure that entered seemed like a vision from a childs nightmare. It was covered in metallic black spiked armour and at its side hung a wicked looking longsword. However the visor seemed empty and by the sound of its movement it seemed to be hollow and empty.
"The master wished your presence" the demon spoke, its voice a deep rusty emotionless tone.
"Who is your master?" Ginny braved, her hand itching to reach for the wand laying a few inches away…
"My master wishes his identity to be preserved until you meet with him. I have been told to take you to him even if I have to force you"
Ginny froze, she registered the treat and deep down she knew she would not be able to fight this thing, and it would be better to go along with it.
"Fine" she said "But I need to get dressed first"
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Ron was awoken by a frantic shaking of his arm. He opened his eyes to see the face of Lavender brown staring down at him, her eyes filled with tears
He tried to remember what had happened but all that came up was a blank. He looked around and saw a group of people gathered around something that he couldn't see, he was currently laying amidst the scattered ruins of a chess table.
'Damn I must have got smashed last night' he thought as he sat up and looked at Lavenders tear streaked face
"Ron! Chenille and Ruby are dead and Hermione is missing!"
"What!"
"You heard me!"
Ron got up and ran over to where everyone was gathered round. He gazed down and nearly puked at the sight.
Suddenly an alarm began to ring from somewhere deep in the castle.
Ron quickly ran up to the dormitory and grabbed his wand from the bed. That alarm could only mean something bad. When he got back to the common room, nearly headless nick had arrived and was quickly explaining what the alarm meant
"… means the wards Have been breached and will immediately contact the ministry I doubt there is any cause for pan…."
A shriek came from out side the portrait followed by a sickening ripping sound as the fat ladies portrait was torn off the wall and a sickening creature burst through the portrait hole. Six legs protruded from a hairy fat body, and where eyes should have been all there was a gaping maw. Slimy drool sloped from its fangs and its huge barbed talons flexed, as it smelt for its prey.
Ron was the first to react, although the creatures resemblance to a spider was not lost upon him he managed to conquer his fear and raised his wand at the creature, a strange sounding incantation spilling from his lips, the creature was blown backwards and slammed into the stone archway demolishing it and preventing any of the other creatures entering the common room.
Ron gapped at what had just happened. He had never even heard the words that he had spoken but at least it looked like the creature was at least disabled, for now.
However just as the realisation dawned upon him, a talon pierced through the rubble
"EVERYOBNE PREPARE TO DEFEND YOURSELVES!" He yelled as another talon pierced the rubble. There were more of them?
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Just had to end it here, otherwise you would be moaning for another update :D AND PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!