Endurance
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Chapter 10
"Professor Dumbledore!" Harry panted and the professor looked up from his desk, surprise evident on his face.
"Yes, Mr. Potter?" he said mildly.
"Tanya needs help," Harry panted. Dumbledore frowned and stood. He gestured for the three students to follow him as he walked swiftly from his office.
"Where is she?"
"I don't know," Harry answered honestly. "I snuck into the infirmary, when my scar started hurting. She frowned and then told me to get Hermione and Ron and you and to stay inside the castle. She wouldn't tell me anything." Dumbledore stopped walking.
"Harry," he said in a low voice. "I'm afraid that Voldemort is here, somewhere."
"And Tanya's gone to find him," Hermione finished Dumbledore's sentence breathlessly. Her eyes widened. "We have to help her!" Dumbledore stared intensely at Hermione for a few seconds.
"Alright," he said. "Follow me, if you cannot handle a battle so soon, you must stay here." He looked to Harry. "I cannot make you stay because this is your battle and I play only a small role."
"I want to save her," Harry said. "She's fighting for me."
"She's fighting for us," Ron mumbled. He pulled his wand from beneath his robes and his friends followed suit.
"Voldemort," Tanya called sweetly into the streets of Hogsmeade. The town seemed deserted and Tanya could tell that the inhabitants had been frightened away. The stores stood wide open and it was the best case scenario of a ghost town that Tanya had ever seen or heard of. "Come on out, Voldy!" she teased. "You know you want to. What's wrong? Can't fight a little girl who's still in school? Oh, what am I thinking? You can't even fight a baby who's only one!" She grinned when this got the desired effect and two Death Eaters removed themselves from their hiding places.
"Shut your mouth!" one of them hissed. "You have no power over the Dark Lord."
"Obviously I do," Tanya said with a lifted eyebrow. "Otherwise, what would you be doing here? Voldy wouldn't be scared of a nobody, now would he?" She grinned as the two Death Eaters drew their wands. Tanya smirked and lifted her hands. She waved them over the Death Eaters, who suddenly found themselves unable to move. They fell, face forward, onto the ground.
"Ooh," she shivered purposely. "It's scary how a kid can throw your whole world order upside down isn't it?" She smiled eerily. "Don't you just love how I'm only warming up?" Tanya continued walking slowly down the deserted street. "You know, Harry's going to kick your slimy ass. I'm only here as backup. I'm not even really needed, I'm a precaution. How funny is that? A precaution, kicking the shit out of your Death Eaters!" She laughed mirthlessly as the remaining Death Eaters, a group of about twenty, showed themselves.
"Shut your mouth!" one of them ordered. Tanya sighed and shook her head.
"Look, I hate to break it to you. But I've done this already and, if you were watching, you know how that turned out." She grinned. "However, I'm only just warming up, so I could use a bit more exorcise." The Death Eaters pulled their wands.
"You will not die by our hand," one of them hissed. "The Dark Lord wishes to meet you first."
"I'm so honored," Tanya said rolling her eyes. She reached into her robes and, before any of the Death Eaters could blink, she pulled out two blue potion vials and threw them at their feet. The Death Eaters were thrown off their feet and landed, unconscious, on the hard ground. "But I'm afraid I have to decline." She walked over the Death Eaters, making sure to grind her heels into them. She'd used two different potions (a stunning potion & a fire potion) on them that would keep them knocked out for a while.
She walked towards the way the Death Eaters had come from. This had to lead her to Voldemort.