p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""BLOODY MURDER! Hermione jolted awake at Niki's scream, followed by the sound of glass shattering. It seemed to be coming from the boys dorms. "MURDER! MURDER! DEATH! BLOOD! HELP! MURDER!" Niki continued screaming./span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""What's going on?" Lavender Brown had woken up, as well. Looking around, Hermione realized that all the first year girls were awake, and Niki was not in the room. /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""Come on! That was Niki!" Hermione shouted, leaping out of bed and running towards the door. The staircase was flooded with students, all heading for the first year boys dorm. Hermione heard the portrait hole slam, which made her even more nervous. Hermione and Parvati were in front of most everyone else, but behind a seventh year boy, whose name she thought was Michael Trunkstien. They followed him into the dorm. /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"Hermione almost screamed. The room was trashed, the hangings were pulled off Harry and Ron's beds, and Harry's was soaking wet. The water jug lay broken on the bed. There was blood all over the place, and a kitchen knife lay bloody on the floor. /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""EVERYONE DOWN TO THE COMMON ROOM, NOW!" Michael shouted. The mass of people moved down the stairs into the common room. "PERCY, GO GET PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE!" /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"Percy left the room./span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""SHUT UP!" Michael yelled. The room went silent. I've sent Percy to get Dumbledore. He should be here any minute, and then we'll explain about the blood and stuff in the first year boys dorm."/span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""What happened?" Lavender shouted from near the staircase to the dorms. /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""Well, we heard Niki scream about murder. Once we got into the first year dorms, it was trashed, there was blood in a lot of places, and the dorms were deserted. We couldn't find any of the boys, or Niki." /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"Hermione was about to cry. Had all the boys been murdered, on their first day at Hogwarts? /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""Look! There they are!" Fred yelled. The entire crowd turned towards the portrait hole, where all the boys and Niki were standing. /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""Harry! Niki! Ron! Dean! Seamus! Neville! What happened?" Michael asked./span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""I was just pranking Harry and Ron. I didn't realize you could all hear me." Niki started explaining. "Harry and Ron started to get ready for Potions, because I told them they were late for classes. They trashed the dorm. I don't know where they blood came from, though." /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""I do." Harry said. "I got cut on a knife that Ron had brought up from the common room, Fred and George gave it to him, to cut some rope and string and stuff his mum had used to tie his stuff together." Harry held up his hands, which were cut and bleeding. "The blood must have gotten on my stuff."/span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"At that moment, McGonagall came in./span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""What's going on?" Lavender Brown had woken up, as well. Looking around, Hermione realized that all the first year girls were awake, and Niki was not in the room. /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""Come on! That was Niki!" Hermione shouted, leaping out of bed and running towards the door. The staircase was flooded with students, all heading for the first year boys dorm. Hermione heard the portrait hole slam, which made her even more nervous. Hermione and Parvati were in front of most everyone else, but behind a seventh year boy, whose name she thought was Michael Trunkstien. They followed him into the dorm. /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"Hermione almost screamed. The room was trashed, the hangings were pulled off Harry and Ron's beds, and Harry's was soaking wet. The water jug lay broken on the bed. There was blood all over the place, and a kitchen knife lay bloody on the floor. /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""EVERYONE DOWN TO THE COMMON ROOM, NOW!" Michael shouted. The mass of people moved down the stairs into the common room. "PERCY, GO GET PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE!" /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"Percy left the room./span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""SHUT UP!" Michael yelled. The room went silent. I've sent Percy to get Dumbledore. He should be here any minute, and then we'll explain about the blood and stuff in the first year boys dorm."/span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""What happened?" Lavender shouted from near the staircase to the dorms. /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""Well, we heard Niki scream about murder. Once we got into the first year dorms, it was trashed, there was blood in a lot of places, and the dorms were deserted. We couldn't find any of the boys, or Niki." /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"Hermione was about to cry. Had all the boys been murdered, on their first day at Hogwarts? /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""Look! There they are!" Fred yelled. The entire crowd turned towards the portrait hole, where all the boys and Niki were standing. /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""Harry! Niki! Ron! Dean! Seamus! Neville! What happened?" Michael asked./span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""I was just pranking Harry and Ron. I didn't realize you could all hear me." Niki started explaining. "Harry and Ron started to get ready for Potions, because I told them they were late for classes. They trashed the dorm. I don't know where they blood came from, though." /span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;""I do." Harry said. "I got cut on a knife that Ron had brought up from the common room, Fred and George gave it to him, to cut some rope and string and stuff his mum had used to tie his stuff together." Harry held up his hands, which were cut and bleeding. "The blood must have gotten on my stuff."/span/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em;"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"At that moment, McGonagall came in./span/span/p