Ophelia || Harry Potter

Chapter 109

"Reducto"

Hundreds of the glass orbs shattered, echoing voices now coming from the perky white smoke

"RUN" Harry yelled as the shelves became uneasy, allowing more orbs to smash. The group of us instantly begin running in the opposite direction. I ran besides Harry and Hermione with the others in front. We entered a room with it just being us and Neville

"Colloportus!" Hermione gasped, the door sealed itself with an odd squelching noise

"Where-where are the others?" Harry gasped

"They must have gone the wrong way!" whispered Hermione, terror in her face

"Shit" I mutter, raising a hand to my forehead

"Listen!" whispered Neville

Footsteps and shouts echoed from behind the door they had just sealed. We put our ears close to the door and listened. You could hear Lucius Malfoy roar "Leave Nott, leave him, I say-his injuries will be nothing to the Dark Lord compared to losing that prophecy. Jugson, come back here, we need to organise! We'll split into pairs and search, and don't forget, be gentle with Potter until we've got the prophecy, you can kill the others if necessary-Bellatrix, Rodolphus, you take the left; Crabbe, Rabastan, go right-Jugson, Dolohov, the door straight ahead-Macnair and Avery, through here-Rookwood, over there - Mulciber, come with me!"

"What do we do?" Hermione asked Harry, trembling from head to foot

"Well, we don't stand here waiting for them to find us, for a start" said Harry "Let's get away from this door"

As we ran away we heard a loud thud push against the charmed door

"Stand aside!" said a rough voice "Alohomora!"

As the door flew open, we flew under the desks. I could see the bottom of the two Death Eaters' robes drawing nearer, their feet moving rapidly

"They might've run straight through to the hall" said the rough voice

"Check under the desks" said another

"STUPEFY!" Harry shouted

I, alongside Hermione, tried to get up from underneath the table. We watched as both Harry and the Death eaters wand went flying. Both of us saw as the two attempted to go after their wands. However the death eater got his first. As he was about to fire a spell at Harry, Hermione shouted out

"STUPEFY" As the man dropped to the floor she pointed her wand to the corner of the room "Accio wand!" She then threw his wand to him

"Thanks" he said "Right, let's get out of-"

"Look out!" said Neville, horrified. He was staring at the Death Eater's head in the bell jar. We raised out wands again, but none of us struck. We were all gazing, open-mouthed, appalled, at what was happening to the man's head

It was shrinking very fast, growing balder and balder, the black hair and stubble retracting into his skull; his cheeks becoming smooth, his skull round and covered with a peachlike fuzz

A baby's head now sat grotesquely on top of the thick, muscled neck of the Death Eater as he struggled to get up again; but even as they watched, their mouths open, the head began to swell to its previous proportions again; thick black hair was sprouting from the pate and chin

"It's Time" said Hermione in an awestruck voice "Time..."

The Death Eater shook his ugly head again, trying to clear it, but before he could pull himself together it began to shrink back to babyhood once more. There was a shout from a room nearby, then a crash and a scream