Sweet Hermione




Dear readers. Or, at least, I hope so.

I can say I'm ashamed that I haven't wrote much these months.
I got school, work and hobby's and I'm writing a short story at the moment. :')

Chapter 19

By the end of the day, they returned to eat their dinner at Hogwarts.
McGonagall was sitting all alone on the huge table of Gryffindor.
The table was loaded by scales of food. She looked very tiny, what was pretty unusual.
The room seemed to be filled with silence. There was a strange atmosphere around her.
‘Isn’t there anybody having dinner with us?’ asked Lupin.
‘No,’ she said merely. ‘Have a seat.’
Tonks and Lupin sat down next to her. 
‘How are the children?’ asked Tonks. 
‘They’re allright,’ replied McGonagall. 
‘What’s wrong?’ Tonks went on. She raised her eyebrows at her, what seemed pretty rude.
‘Nothing is...’ she answered absent-mindedly. 
And all of a sudden, Lupin could feel the danger. He didn’t knew what was coming, or why he felt that way. But danger was coming closer... Or was that just his paranoia?
He looked into McGonagall’s eyes, and she looked away. That wasn’t really like her, was it?
‘I’d like to see David and Stella, they’re upstairs?’ he asked quickly.
‘Yeah, you can seek for them,’ she replied. Tonks turned around to face her.
‘What did you say?’ she asked sharply. She exchanged looks with Lupin. 
‘You can seek for them,’ she repeated. 
Lupin saw her gaze moving fastly over McGonagall. She opened his mind. 
It’s not her. It’s not. There’s someone else. 
O Merlin, no. This couldn’t be. 

Tonks went upstairs, looking uncertain. Lupin was alone with McGonagall. 
‘You had a nice day?’ she asked, smiling like nothing happened.
‘Er... yes, I had,’ he replied, confused. He looked at her, but couldn’t see anything special.
Tonks ran down the stairs again, furious.
Her face was as pink as her hair was, her eyes were wide open and she shouted at McGonagall.
‘YOU! WHERE ARE THEY?’
What was going on here?
McGonagall raised and looked quite selfconscious. She produced a little smile.
‘Shh, little girl. Be quiet. You’re being very rude.’
Tonks ignored her. ‘I can’t find them. They are... I don’t know... They seem... They are gone,’ she muttered angrily. 
‘Sorry?’ said Lupin, confused.
‘Well,’ said McGonagall, and her eyes narrowed, ‘you couldn’t possibly mean something  for them, could you? You could only care for them, couldn’t you? They’re meaningless.’
She grinned. Lupin saw the coldness in her eyes and shivered. He felt insecure and scared.
Tonks stood beside him, her hand slowely searching for her wand. 
‘Or do they mean something?’ 

‘HELP!’ 
Flying figures broke through the bewitched sky. Falling fragments of glass made a shocking hard noise, like a surreal rain. Loads of dark, bat-like looking people, flew on broomsticks, laughing out loud, faces hid behind white masks, wands in their hands.
Lupin wanted to turn away, but in the middle of his sight he saw a huge, sparkling flying red bulb of light. Four legs extended, four arms seemed to wave trough the thick red fog of the bulb.The cage seemed to exist of red, bewitched strings, leaving sparks whenever the two persons touched the cage. One of the two persons, a young girl, wanted to scream something, but her voice got lost when a Death Eather pointed his of her wand at her and yelled something at her. 

Tonks took Lupin’s arm directly en wanted to ran from the terrifying scene.
‘You can’t do this!’ Lupin yelled at her, standing still. ‘We must save them! TONKS!’
McGonagall made a strange dancing step and turned. Her brown hair turned greasily black, her small eyes became two black ones and her face was suddenly hid by a white mask.
‘I hate to say this, Lupin, but you are right,’ said the deep, supercilious voice of what used to be McGonagall. ‘You can’t run from this.’
‘Oh, GO AWAY, SNAPE!’ screamed Tonks. She stood still at the huge door of the Great Hall. ‘You’re an AUROR, Tonks!’ shouted Lupin, looking to the red bulb with David and Stella inside it. ‘I’M NOT RUNNING AWAY FROM THIS, REMUS, JUST-’
I can’t say anything here, please Remus, begged Tonks inside Lupin’s head.
A Death Eater screamed: ‘Attention, filthy half-human and unavailing Auror!’
Tonks ran out of the Hall. Lupin followed her desperately. ‘Get back!’ yelled Snape, and took his wand out of his pocked.

Tonks and Lupin stood outside. Tonks had closed her eyes and murmed something, her face shining in concentration. Two brooms flew from the right side. They both took one, Lupin still quiet. ‘Trust me, darling,’ said Tonks clearly. They rose from the ground and looked behind them. ‘THEY’RE LEAVING!’ screamed Snape. ‘GET BACK OR WE’LL KILL THE CHILDREN! LISTEN TO US! GET BACK!’ 
Tonks flew away and Lupin got behind her quickly. They rose higher, flew faster... 
Behind them, they heard the terrifying noises of the Death Eaters...


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