Monday morning at breakfast, Sophia was feeling decidedly less horny. Remus sat on the other end of the High Table, obviously to avoid a repeat of the last time they were together in the Hall. Still, she could smell him, it was like a beacon calling to her. But, she had to admit, it was difficult to think about Remus when Severus had his hand on her leg and was tracing circular patterns on her inner thigh.
She looked to him and he looked as normal as ever, glaring over at the Gryffindor table. He turned to her and she saw his eyes glittering with a secret smile. She felt herself get hotter as his hand travelled up her leg. She stifled a moan as his knuckles his the edge of her panties.
With a loud scrape, Remus stood up suddenly. Excusing himself, he looked over at Sophia with a look of restraint. She could see his anger and smell his desire, as she knew he could smell her. Guiltily she gave him an apologetic look.
He walked quickly through the Great Hall and opened the door, but as he did, a strong, freezing cold wind blew in, knocking Remus back. He steadied himself before he fell, and with the help of some nearby students, they closed the doors once again. Remus faced up at Albus with a questioning look.
Suddenly the roof in the Great Hall turned a blue/grey colour with the clouds turning darker and moving faster around the 'sky'.
Sophia recognised the clouds and the smell of the wind as a hail storm.
"Smells like hail." She said aloud.
"Hail? Impossible. Hogwarts is warded against natural disasters and extreme storms. Hail, tornadoes, earthquakes. It's all safe," Severus assured her. "Although, I've never seen wind blow that hard through the halls before." Severus stood up. "I'm going to go look around" He announced.
"I'm coming with you." Sophia said, standing. Severus nodded distractedly, took her hand and walked with her towards the door. He had taken her hand subconsciously, but the students were too busy to notice, as they were being mesmerised by the odd shapes forming in the roof charmed to look like the outside sky.
Once at the door, Remus told Severus and Sophia that he would come too.
"Everyone hold onto your papers and books, as well as anything that might fly away." Albus told everyone.
Severus and Remus slowly opened the door and once again the cold air blew in and Sophia struggled against it to get out. Severus and Remus followed, shutting the door behind them.
Yelling over the howling winds, they decided to head outside to see what weather was headed this way. Seeing the large doors leading out to the Quidditch fields open, they walked through and shut them.
Looking into the sky, they saw what appeared to be the beginning of a tornado. The wind was blowing in all directions and the horizon over Hogsmede was black with clouds.
"I'm going to apparate to Hogsmede. You two stay here." Severus yelled over the loud wind.
"No!" yelled Sophia back, "I'm coming too, you can't just leave me." With an annoyed look, Severus nodded. The three of them walked towards the gates.
"I thought we were going to apparate?" Sophia asked.
"We are, we have to get out of the grounds first, the wards won't allow people to apparate in or out of Hogwarts. Severus replied.
"Wait," Sophia stopped. "Lucius did, when he came. He just disappeared when he was finished talking to me!" Severus looked at her, and Remus looked from him to Sophia. Severus turned to Remus.
"Lupin, go back to Albus and tell him the wards are down. Death Eaters may be using this as a smoke screen to distract us, and then attack Hogwarts." Severus said.
"Shouldn't you know something about that then?" Remus replied, still yelling over the wind.
"I don't know, I worry I may have been left out of the loop in this matter." Severus replied, looking grave. "Owl the order as well, get them all here.
"The owls are gone." Sophia said, looking up at the tower. The men followed her gaze and saw that the owls had indeed left.
"We'll send an owl from Hogsmede. Put wards on the Great Hall and ready everyone. We'll return." Severus held Sophia close to him and with a crack, they found themselves on the empty streets of Hogsmede. The place was completely deserted. It was raining sharp, hard, pin-like drops of water and Sophia covered her face.
Walking up to the owlery nearby, Severus whistled loudly and a black owl came struggling in the wind towards them. Severus wrote on a piece of paper, tied it to the owl and it flow off, albeit difficultly.
"Come, we will look for someone to tell us…." Severus stopped abruptly as his arm burnt. "No! Argh!" He screamed. Holding onto Sophia, he apparated them back to Hogwarts, then he quickly disappeared again, without so much as a word to her.
Running to the Great Hall, she walked in to find it empty. A hand out of the space in front of her pulled her forwards and she felt a weird hum over her body, then saw the hall filled with people again. She raised a questioning eyebrow at Remus.
"Wards." He answered. "Where's Snape?"
"He screamed and held his arm, then brought me back here and disappeared. She answered.
"It is as we feared then." Albus said from beside her.
"Attention all!" Albus's voice boomed through the Great Hall. "I regret to inform you all that today is the day that Lord Voldemort has decided to attack."