Chapter 10: Hogsmeade

"Where are we going?" asked Rose, as they slipped past the crowd of third years.

"Shh" hissed Al, "We'll tell you when we get there!"

Scorp beckoned for the pair to hurry up, they quickly followed.

Darting up the stairs Scorp finally reached his destination.

He pulled out his wand, "Dissendium."
The hump opened.

He turned and waited for the others.

They came around the corner puffing.

"Geez Scorp. Next time slow down!" said Al

"Ready?" asked Scorp.

They nodded and Scorp slid down the slide, and landed perfectly on his feet.

He quickly moved out of the way as Rose and Al came tumbling down.

They hit the floor with a thump.

Scorp looked down at them and laughed.

Al scowled at him.

"You'd be like this if you hadn't been down here without us!" he said snidely.

Scorp stopped smiling, "I already said I was sorry! What more do you want?"

Al grinned, "Just pulling your leg mate. Help me up."

Scorp reached out with both hands, Al took the left while Rose took the right.

He heaved, pulling them up.

Once they were all standing he starting to walk towards the stair.

"I wouldn't go up there if I were you." The voice came from behind them.

They spun around to see Fred Weasley stacking boxes.

"There are about fifty Hogwarts students up there. Go out through the back." He pointed to a door concealed by boxes.

Quickly thanking him the trio moved the boxes and went out the door.

"So, where too?" asked Rose.

Scorp shrugged, "I dunno. I've never been outside the shop."

"I want to see the Shrieking Shack. They say it's haunted!" exclaimed Al

Rose kicked his skin, "Don't be stupid Al. You know that was just Uncle Moony!"

"Oh yeah!"

Rose shook her head in disbelief, "Well I want a butterbeer. I'll meet you two there?"

The boys nodded and ran off.

Suddenly Scorp hit something.

He tripped and fell over. He looked around to see what he had hit, and saw a goblin in a black cloak.

"I'm sorry!" he exclaimed, "Here let me help you up."

He grabbed the man's un guarded hand.

Fire. Lots of Fire. Screaming. Death

Scorp blinked away the image, and smiled at the goblin, whose life would end very soon.

The Goblin looked at him, a shocked expression on his face, "Thankyou! You are a very kind wizard! Thankyou!"

Scorp blushed, "Well, I did knock you over. It's the least I can do."
He looked over his shoulder, Al was no longer next to him.

He must have run off.

"Well, I have to go find my friend. Have a nice day!" and with that he ran off, giving the goblin not a second's thought.

He quickly caught up the Al, who was leaning against the wall of Gladrags Wizardwear, puffing.

Scorp stopped beside him, and squatted on the ground.

He was about to make a joke about Al's fitness, when suddenly there was a huge boom.

The boys jumped up as people ran screaming away from a burning building.

Scorp gulped and prayed it wasn't the building he thought it was.

He grabbed on of the fleeing people.

'Which building is that?" he asked.

The girl had tears in her eyes, "The Three Broomsticks." She whispered.

Scorp let go of her arm, as if it had burnt him.

He quickly broke into a towards the pub.

Behind him he could hear Al yelling at him to stop, but he just kept running.

He reached the building and kicked down the door.

The smoke hit him hard in the face, making him couch and his eyes water.

"Rose!" he yelled, "Rose!"

No answer.

The flames were in his way, he couldn't get in.

He quickly pulled out his wand.

"Aguamenti!" he roared and a huge jet of water doused the flames in front of him.

Scorp charge in, wand aloft.

He couldn't see Rose anywhere.

Stumbling over fallen wood, he made his way to the counter.

Rose was slumped half on, half off the count.

She was unconscious.

Scorp reached for her as part of the roof caved in a few metres to his left.

He grabbed her, and with all his strength heaved her over his shoulder.

He looked around for other survivors.

Though he couldn't see anyone, that didn't mean there was no one.

"Anyone there?" he called out.

"Yes!" rasped one voice, to his right.

Two more came from his left and one from in front of him.

The female barmaid, trapped under a fallen shelf.

Scorp looked at Rose.

First he needed to get her out.

He darting out, avoiding the ceiling, which was caving in fast.

He stumbled out and lay Rose a few metres away.

Al came running up to them.

"Rose. Oh no. Rose." He wailed.

Scorp looked at him, "Get her help."

He turned around and ran back into the fire.

His wand was still spouting water but the fire was moving too rapidly.

"Anapneo" he yelled and some of the rumble disappeared to reveal three Ravenclaw girls.

Two of them were nursing the third one, who was clearly unconscious.

"Come on!" He yelled and point towards the door.

The girls did not hesitate as the carried their friend out.

Scorp repeated the spell.

The next person he found was a young wizard.

Possibly twenty years old.

He was dead.

Scorp avoided looking at his eyes, which were wide open.

Again and again he used Anapneo, finding more and more people.

An elderly woman.

Some Slytherins and Hufflepuffs.

A small girl, no more than three who Scorp had to haul out because the girl would not leave with out her mother.

Scorp found the mother lying dead a few spells later.

That was the first time he stopped and wept.

He wept for the young man, the woman and for the little girl who now would go through life without her mother.

But even then he carried on.

Spell after spell.

Clearing the way until he reached the counter.

Suddenly he saw something he had not seen when he had come for Rose.

The Goblin he had bumped into before.

He was also dead.

His chest blasted open, by what?

He soon had his answer.

A unexploded piece of dynamite lay next to the goblin.

Muggle explosives.

His face hardened.

This was planned.

He ignored the goblin and picked up the dynamite.

With all the fire it could go off at any moment. He wasn't risking that.

He jumped over the counter and heaved the shelf of the barmaid.

He lifted her up and ran through the space her had cleared.

He made it out just as the roof caved in.

Al was there waiting for him, but Rose could not be seen.

"Some Healers came to take her away." Explained Al.

Scorp nodded.

At least she was safe.

He lowered the barmaid.

She was now unconscious but still breathing.

"We need to get her some help," he whispered.

Al nodded, "And you too."

Scorp lifted his head, and saw smoke billowing behind Al's head.

"Al!" he exclaim pointing behind him, "isn't that Hogwarts?"

Al spun around. "Yeah. There was an explosion there while you were in the pub. That's why the healers left. There was also two more but I don't know where."

"So that means, that this was a full scale attack."

Al nodded solemnly.

Scorp lifted the barmaid, "Let's get her help, and then go back okay?"

Al looked at his friend's face and saw that there was no room for argument.

"Okay".

A/N:

Okay quickly.

I don't have time to read over this so I apologize for spelling.

I gotta run.

This maybe my last one until January 4 okay?

I'll try and squeeze one in.

If I don't have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!