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Chapter 9: Evacuating Hogwarts
There wasn't much to do now, just to wait. Lily say alone, she conjured cats, she tried to make them look like McGonagall as much as possible so the Death Eaters wouldn't know the real thing. Hopefully one of them would eat Peter. She was sitting there surrounded by cats when He arrived, when His voice saturated the castle.
"You are surrounded," The high cold voice said, it seemed he was right behind her. "Give yourselves up. Surrender to me. You have been brave, Lord Voldemort rewards bravery. Join me, and all will be forgiven, your family will be spared. But anyone who continues to resist, man, woman or child, will be slaughtered, as will every member of their family. Make no mistake you will not, you cannot win this war. Come out of the castle now, kneel before me, and you shall be spared."
The voice rang through each of them, long after He stopped talking. But the Order also herd something else, the Death Eaters were marching on the school.
Lily stood up "Heads of Houses, over here!" She screamed. The three Heads rushed over. "Okay," Lily said "Now the Death Eaters are distracted we need to evacuate the children, where is the Slytherin Head?" She asked
"That would be professor Carrow." Filius Flitwick said disgusted
"Well if any one knows the password I can get the Slytherin students." Lily said quickly
"It's 'Pureblood'" Professor Sprout answered.
"Alright get the student and meat me in the seventh floor corridor, the blank wall opposite the tapestry of Barnabus the Barmy attempting to train trolls to do ballet as soon as possible."
The four of them ran off. Lily's feet took her down passages and through corridors she hadn't seen in years, all the time running down into the dungeons. "Lily" she told herself, "these are the children of Death Eaters and brain washed students. Be on your guard." She stopped out side the entrance, put a quick charm on her hair, turning it black, and she put a shield charm on herself. "Pureblood." She said and stepped inside the common room, it hadn't changed. From the glimpses and peeks she'd gotten over her last years here, it was identical to the first time she seen it.
With a quick flick of her wand an alarm clock appeared over each and every Slytherin student in the dorms, another flick and they all went off. Thump. Thump. Thump thump thump.
They were up and the first few were coming down the stairs "Up!" Lily yelled, magically magnifying her voice. "Let's Go! We're getting you out of here, it's not safe for you." They stampeded. That's how you get Slytherins moving. She thought to herself, they will always choose to save their own necks. "Follow me," Lily called to them and took off again, towards the seventh floor.
Lily and the Slytherins got there first somehow. She paced in front of the blank stretch of wall three times, each time thinking I need a way to get the students out safely, over and over in her head. A door appeared it lead down a passage into Aberforth's bar, he'd get them out. "All of you," she called "through here and out to safety!" They swarmed through the door as McGonagall appeared with the Gryffindors, then Flitwick with the Ravenclaws and Sprout with the Hufflepuff's. With the Slytherins safely gone Lily could explain. "The Death Eaters have come, we're got to get you all out of the castle."
There were a few shrieks, and many outrages cries of "We want to fight!"
Lily glanced at McGonagall "Anyone of Age can stay and fight if they choose." McGonagall said "Everyone else must go." The three heads shooed the younger students out. Not a single seventeen year old left.
"You don't need to stay," Lily said. "You're still just children."
"No!" they said as one.
McGonagall glanced at Lily "to the Great Hall!" she told the group, and to Lily she said. "Um… your hair."
"Oops." Lily blushed and changed it back, "A precaution, I didn't think red hair would have been a good idea. They are a bit prejudiced in Slytherin house."
"Quite right." McGonagall said as they sprinted after the students towards the Great Hall. James and Kingsley had taken charge, they were dividing the new additions to groups to fight from the towers, the old tower groups would move into the grounds so the students could fight from a safer position.
"Shield charms," Yelled James
"Constant Vigilance!" Moody added as he ran for the front doors.
"They will show you no mercy," Kingsley put in "but if that pose no threat do not kill them. We shall not sink to this level." The troupes set out McGonagall ran from the room only to return moments later herding desks and tables, stampeding out into the grounds with more joining her every second. Lily went to a window, she was useless as close range combat, but at a distance she could do damage. She saw giant spiders fleeing the forest along with centaurs and thestrals. A giant stomped around trying to step on Order members. Then she saw where the Order was headed. Stepping out of the forbidden forest she saw a mass of black, the Death Eaters, hooded and cloaked, save one. It was Him. Lily placed a disillusionment charm on herself and began hexing the Death Eaters. She tried aiming at Riddle but her hexes seemed to bend around him. "Damn that man and his snake!" However the snake was no where to be seen.
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