Shorter chapter, kiddies.
Chapter 3: Bringing down a Giant.
The next morning, Hagrid had been making his way towards the Hogwarts school. He stopped on his advance when he saw a strange shadow on the ground, and the leaves were stained with a dark liquid.
When he looked up, his eyes went wide. Harry Potter's body had been suspended from a particularly thick branch by a rope tied to his arms. The liquid had been blood dripping from the gaping wound in the boys chest.
"Harry!" Hagrid shouted, moving to the tree and straining to try and lower the boy.
"People often ask how one would go about killing a giant." A voice said, clean and crips, from the surroundings. Hagrid looked about, it was had to tell where the voice was coming from.
"Where are yeh?" Hagrid asked, taking a few steps in the direction he thought the voice would be coming from.
Snap.
He had clipped a wire hanging ankle-level between two trees.
A log came swinging down, and hit Hagrid in the back of the knees. Hagrid hit the ground roughly, just in time to hear three "Twang!" noises.
An arrow hit his right arm, chest, and left arm.
Hagrid groaned, pulling the arrows out as quickly as he could. He forced himself to his feet, shouting defiantly into the wilderness. "Was tha' supposed T'do me in!"
"No." The voice said again, this time behind him.
Hagrid turned, seeing the man in a dark uniform, hair blowing slightly in the wind, staring at him. He was leaning with his left shoulder against a tree, arms crossed. His pistol was still in his sheath. "These woods are... distasteful. They bring back such bad memories..."
Hagrid started towards the man. "Are Y'the one who did tha' to Harry!"
The man laughed, turning and running through the woods. Hagrid followed close behind, gaining on the smaller man. When he got his hands on this murderer...
The man jumped suddenly, but landed right back on his feet shortly after the jump. Hagrid kept running, tearing through another tripwire.
BANG!
The sound almost shattered his eardrums, and the light blinded him. He groped at his eyes, stumbling forward.
What he hadn't seen was that Josiah had turned to the left about four feet infront of Hagrid, and for a damned good reason.
Hagrid stumbled another few feet before stopping. "What'd Y'do T'me...?"
He could barely hear the response, but it was definetly the mans voice saying: "THIS is how you kill a giant...!"
He felt rush him from behind, striking him with their elbow and sending them falling into a newly-dug pit. A pit that was too deep for Hagrid to clamber out of even if he could see.
"I didn't fill the pit with spikes, as you've noticed. That's so cliche, don't you think?" the voice asked. A moment later, there were three "Fwump." noises of something hitting the dirt nearby.
"Don't worry about Harry. He, Draco, and Cho are right with you." The voice said.
"We can do this easily, giant. Tell me where I can find this "Remus Lupin", and I'll kill you quickly." Josiah said, standing at the edge of the pit.
"An' if I don't...?"
"Then I'll wait for the poisin I tipped those arrows with to set in and kill you, which could take hours." Josiah slowly took his pistol out and screwed on the silencer. "What do you have left to live for, eh? Harry? Ron and Hermoine? Harry's dead, and the other two are going to be soon."
Hagrid gritted his teeth, jumping suddenly and catching the side of the pit.
Josiah growled, aiming down and firing three rounds into the Giant.
Hagrid fell back into the pit, dead.
"Great..." Josiah muttered, turning away. Now how would he find this "Lupin"...?
He'll have to nab some kid and get the information out of them, instead.