26/12/23

AN Thank you to the one single person (whoever you are) and my sister (not from here) for answering the poll and helping me with this.

Also Merry Christmas.

Shivering, looking up, Jack saw dozens of hooded black cloaked creatures coming over to the Shrieking Shack... Dementor's.

"No... Not now..." he said feeling for his wand, getting Elisa's attention.

Seeing them herself Elisa pulled out her wand and tried to cast a Patronus, but was still only getting whips. They were stronger than they were when she started but still, they weren't true Patronus' yet.

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Over with Nixon, he was noticing that the cage holding Pettigrew seemed to be losing its ice around it, meaning he could open it again at a later date.

Looking up to see what was making this happen, he saw the brown-haired boy who exposed him seeming to be having trouble with the Azkaban guards.

'Humph. Serves him right, the brat,' he thought before grabbing hold of the handle of the cage and apparated away with a loud crack which scared Lupin making him look around wanting to attack the something that scared him.

Seeing this, Bunny threw one of his knock-out egg bombs – a normal egg bomb but instead of powdered dye it was full of Sandy's knock-out sand – hitting him almost right in the face, making him fall asleep, little sand figurines of four kinds of animals were chasing each other around his head.

Quickly he then came over to see how everyone was doing.

Hermione was having trouble, having not practiced this before, Harry and Elisa were getting wisps but not much more, and Jack was on the floor, his eyes closed, curled up on himself being protected by dog-Sirius although he wasn't doing much good either.

Snarling and looking up at these beasts, Bunny started throwing his egg bombs at them, but they didn't seem to do anything.

The aurors were trying to fend them off as well, but it seemed there were too many.

Soon a flump was heard behind Bunny and he quickly looked behind him to see Hermione was now on the floor.

"Come on you two," he said to Harry and Elisa who were still having trouble "Think of something happy."

"I don't do well under pressure!" Elisa said loudly looking at Jack on the floor beside her before taking a breath and trying again.

This time a small, but corporal Patronus emerged after she said the incantation, forming into an arctic fox and ramming head first into a single Dementor but then vanishing.

"Agh..." she said trying again, but it was getting harder to do the more they closed in around them.

Soon coming from somewhere along the tree-line came a strong looking powerful doe Patronus, her head down and running five Dementor's down at once.

Following the doe, came a cat, which swiped it's claws at each cloaked figure it could get to, and after that, came a phoenix.

Elisa could see blurry figures running towards them, the sound seeming to be switched off, or someone had turned the volume down, as she finally gave up, feeling she was now safe, and flumped beside Jack as Harry did the same.