Lavender Brown's Death

Harry, Hermione and Ron were running through the battlements and once they reached the edge, they looked over at the war. The Hogwarts towers were collapsing, smashing on the courtyard and leaving giant piles of rock and rubble everywhere.

Hermione watched in horror as she saw Madam Hooch fly by, spellings firing at death eaters on brooms. Across the way was Grawp, he looked dazed, confused, but then saw the other giant, who was twice the size of him come charging. Grawp was tackled to the floor.

"Grawp!" Hermione gasped.

"He'll be okay, we have to keep moving!" Harry said, they were making out way down to the boathouse, and they had just got through into the grand staircase. They ran down them, students screamed and shouted and suddenly there was the loudest ever crunch, or was it a snap? they didn't know but Hermione looked up and shrieked, Ron and Harry's gazes looked up to see one of the moving staircases from the top was falling down, crushing and breaking other staircases as it came.

Students jumped for it, hoping to make it through a door or onto another staircase, some made it, some didn't some student's didn't have a chance to escape in time before they were crushed.

Suddenly Hermione' realised the staircases was coming their way, so she cleared her mind and took a hold of them both and suddenly apparated. They didn't get far, further across the giant staircase, they stood, hidden in a dint in the wall where a man in armour once stood. They stood back just as the crumbling staircase fall.

Suddenly someone ran directly underneath it.

Lavender Brown.

She ran towards them, looking beaten, and dirty, and her blonde hair looked messy and ratty. Of course they only got quick glance at her before the staircase hit the staircase she was on, crushed Lavender and fell further down.

Hermione cried out at what she had seen and hid her face in Ron's shoulder, Ron cried as well. Harry did not. He was just shocked. Soon they apparated right down to the bottom where the remains of the staircase were covered in blood, in the corner of the room they could see Lavender. Her bones were surly broken, her head bleeding. Hermione looked at her, shocked when suddenly Lavender took in a breath and cried out.

"She's still alive!" Hermione called and went to take a step forward but Ron stopped her. The staircase had hit the bottom of the wall, breaking through it and leaving a hole large enough. One large, long black hair leg came through, then another, and another. Suddenly a giant Acromantula ran in.

Eight-eyed, eight-legged, black, hairy, gigantic. It was definitely not something Hermione could take on. Another ran in, and another.

"We have to go!" Harry shouted, Hermione looked back at Lavender but it was too late. One of the Arcomantula ran at her and wrapped it's pincers around her chest. She screamed and cried out, Hermione lifted her wand but Lavender stopped crying and the Acromantula dragged her dead corpse out of the hole in the wall into the unknown.

Ron grabbed her and they apparated out.