Harry was awoken to the sound of screams. And not the nightmare induced ones. After he was shaken awake by Mr. Weasley, everything turned into a giant blur. People floating, people screaming. The panic. The terror. Noise that was stacked onto noise. As he and his friends ran into the forest, they got separated.
Next thing Harry knew the screaming sounded closer. More of pain, than fear. Bone inducing pain. Harry knew he should have stayed away, but he couldn’t. His saving people thing as Hermione started to call it as of last term. As he moved closer, he found a group of three cloaked men in masks, similar to the ones he had seen earlier, standing around a lone woman.
Unable to really get a good view of her, Harry could see that she was blonde, fair skinned. But anything extra that would have stood out was covered in dirt and filth from the forest floor she was rolling around in. Obviously under the effects of some spell.
The group of men laughed. Her screams brought them joy. It had to stop. Harry reached for his wand.
‘Shit. My wands gone.’ Harry thought to himself. Being the rash Gryffindor that he was, Harry did the next best thing. He charged into the group and tackled one of the men.
“What the. . .” the man said. As the sudden tackle threw him off balance. Harry ripped the wand from his hand and stunned him.
The other two men, over their shock, pointed their wands at Harry. He managed to fire off a quick disarming spell at one of them. The spell blasted the man into the tree line, the other started to fire off random spells.
But Harry was too quick. He dodged, he rolled, he avoided everything like it was a Quidditch match. Unfortunately, Harry hit a wet patch of mud and slipped. And quick as a lark, the other man fired a green flash of light which erupted from the man’s wand.
Harry, unable to get out of the way in time, brought the stolen wand in front of him and willed magic out the other end. With a crack and echoing blast, the world went white.
The last thing Harry heard, before the world went black.
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