Food Fights and Strange Lights
All the Hogwarts students were sitting in the Great Hall when Harry's scar started to burn dully. Harry considered telling Ron or Hermione but decided not to worry them. It didn't seem that much of a problem anyway; just a slight throb… that couldn't mean Voldemort was here could it? Everyone else was chatting glumly as only 2 months ago, the Minister of Magic himself, Cornelius Fudge, had fired Dumbledore, the school headmaster.
Voldemort must have tricked Fudge to firing Dumbledore; Harry assumed the Imperius Curse was involved, though Fudge had been known to be swayed by money on more than one occasion. Harry believed that one way or another, Voldemort had to have had something to do with Dumbledore's firing, as only 2 years ago when Fudge found out Voldemort was really back, he was quite keen to help Dumbledore as much as possible in getting rid of the Dark Lord. Oddly though, after succeeding in the removal of Dumbledore from Hogwarts, nothing had happened, nothing at all. It was rather unnerving in itself. While, sadly, Dumbledore was gone, the other professors were still there at Hogwarts thought they did not mention Voldemort to any of the students. Every time a question was fired, trying to catch them off guard, it was dodged just as quickly.
Oddly, the teachers were not in the Great Hall this night and since no one was watching them, a number of small food fights had erupted throughout the Hall. Hermione was glaring at the students throwing food; Harry could tell she was fighting the urge to jump up and start ordering detentions, being Head Girl and all. As Harry was contemplating this, the pain in his scar doubled, and he scrunched up his eyes and placed his hand to his forehead. Hermione looked curiously at him while Ron was busy shielding himself with his plate from an incoming slice of cheesecake.
"Harry? Are you all right? You don't look too good…it's not your scar is it?" Hermione said worriedly, though her eye's kept darting back towards the misbehaving students.
Harry tried to answer, but his voice was drowned out by screams coming from the Front Hall.
"No! Please, no! Ahhhhh…" the screams were cut short as they saw a flash of green light shone from underneath the door the connected the Great Hall to the Front Hall, disappearing as quickly as it had appeared.