by zledm007 » Wednesday 6 August 2003 3:41:24pm
ok, well, here goes. (I'm no Meg, but i'll give it a shot)
He woke with a jolt, but didn't know why. It had happened before, but always was acompanied by a sharp pain on his forhead, in the vacinity of his lighning bolt shaped scar. This time was different, there was no pain, no preceeding nightmare, he simply woke with a start and bolted up out of his four poster bead. Something was wrong and Harry Potter knew it. How he knew it, he didn't know. He had seen things happen before, but always in dreams, dreams that seemed so real, that they had to be. Those dreams were real, but this, this was different; there was no dream, and yet he knew someting was up.
Instinctively, he went to his trunk and pulled out his dad's old invisibility cloak and left the boy's dormitory, went through the Gryffindor common room, and proceeded into the halls of the Hogwarts castle. He didn't know where he was going exactly, but knew that he would end up where he neded to be.
Dwn one hall and past another, up one set of rotating stairs and down the next; it was an ongoing circle that he knew would ulimitely lead to something, something he knew was happening. As he turned yet another corner he saw a flash of light, whach was quite odd for the middle of the night, and promptly quickened his pace. As he got to the end of the hall and looked aroud the corner, there they were, in a full out battle, a duel to the end if there could ever be one. There they were, the two poeple on the opposite most ends of harry's life. There was Professor Dumbledore, the one who Harry had more respect for than any other wizard he had ever know or heard of, and Lord Voldemort, the one who killed his parents and gave him his scar. There they were, right in fromt of him, in the middle of Hogwarts, dueling, one to undoubtedly get to Harry himself, and the other trying with all he had, to keep that from happening. Harry knew he couldn't stand there and watch, he had to leave or he had to- He started to walk again, towards the battle, pulled out his wand and shouted-