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Chapter 27

Hermione's POV

"Oh my god. Cassidy!" I shrieked, running from the death eater that I had just stunned. Ron was bent over her while Snape stood above him, admiring his spell work. The smug look on his face made me want to murder him.

"You! You!" I yelled repeatedly, not able to put my fury into words.

"You what? What were you going to call me, Mudblood?" Snape mocked, raising an eyebrow.

"Expelliarmus!" I cried. Instantly, he flew backwards against the brick wall, a trickle of blood trailing from his temple. Looking around, I saw Ron, Lindsay, Katie, Austin, and Harry all with their wands pointed at Snape.

"Harry, watch it!" Lupin yelled suddenly, leaping up from where he was bent over Shane, checking his pulse.

Harry flew around and shot a spell at Voldemort that knocked him off his feet. Sprinting forward, he grabbed Voldemort's wand and snapped it in half, causing a blinding white light to obscure my vision.

Cassidy's POV

I opened my eyes slowly, immediately raising my hand to my aching head. I felt as if someone had punched me in the stomach repeatedly until it deflated. Groaning, I tried and failed to sit up. Blinking, I realized that someone had magicked my contacts out of my eyes so that I wouldn't lose them in my eyes. Reaching to the left of the bed I was currently laying in, I felt my fingers brush a wooden surface. Moving my hand up farther, I finally clasped my fingers around the purple-rimmed glasses that I used before bed.

Once I had the glasses over my eyes, my vision was much better. Looking around, I discovered that I was in the hospital wing, and it was the crack of dawn, too, judging by the faint orangey-red light coming through the closed blinds.

"Oh, up so soon?" Startled, I looked up to see Madam Pomfrey standing over me holding a clear glass eyedropper containing a foul looking potion inside.

"Um…yeah." My voice was raspy, and my throat was so dry and sore that it felt like sandpaper.

Just as Madam Pomfrey finished dripping the nastily colored liquid down my throat (the sandpaper feeling left immediately) I shrieked, sitting bolt upright. Madam Pomfrey put a hand to her heart and looked shocked, but I didn't care what she was doing. All I knew was that I had to get to Lindsay, or Austin, or Shane. I needed to know if Dumbledore was still alive.

"What's the matter, dear?" She asked. I looked at her like she had three heads before comprehending what she had just asked me.

"Dumbledore…ali-dea-I need someone…anyone…Shane, or…or Linds…mum, or, or dad!" I mumbled, and she went to the curtain that was concealing the bed next to me and pulled it aside. There, all gathered around someone (I couldn't see who; too many people) were Lindsay, Austin, Shane, Mum, Katie, Dad, and Lupin. No Dumbledore.

"Cassi!" Austin yelled, running the short distance between the two beds and enveloping me in a big hug.

"Austin? What…what happened to Dumbledore?" I whispered into his shirt.

"He…he…Dumbledore…is de…" but he didn't even have to finish his sentence before I knew what he meant. Feeling tears sting me eyes, I burst into large, gasping sobs. I buried my head in Austin's shoulder and cried my eyes dry. He rubbed my back and wrapped his fingers into my hair, resting his head on top of mine.

"Where's Harry? What happened to Voldemort?" I whispered when I regained control of my voice.

"Um, well, Voldemort's gone…as far as we know…but…well, when Harry snapped his wand…he… fainted. And…he's kind of…in a coma…and we can't reach him…we're not sure if he's gonna make it."

Hee hee I'm evil! Will Harry live, or…DIE? Dun dun dun dun…you'll just have to WAIT AND SEE! Please Review!