The Golden Quartet (2 Weasley's, a Granger, and a Potter) have been friends since their first year at Hogwarts. Now in their third year, Kelsey Weasley and Harry Potter can barely hold onto their feelings toward one another. Will Sirius Black, who h...
"Kelsey! Help!" Ron's voice echoes deep into the earth as he cries out for his sister again.
Harry helps her off the ground as he and Hermione run up to them. Before they can even think of crawling into the hole, the Whomping Willow brings a branch down and sweeps them backward, off their feet. They groan loudly, landing on their backs in a spot a few feet back. Kelsey helps up Hermione as she looks up at the branches swaying against the dusky sky, swishing with eerie movements.
Just as the trio starts to run back towards the tree, it goes into an almost defensive mode, swinging its limbs in their direction. For the first couple of times, they manage to dodge the branches that come down towards them like axes against a log of wood needing to be split apart. Making it closer to the tree again, a branch swoops down once more, aiming for them.
"Duck!" Kelsey cries out.
Hermione and Kelsey manage to duck just in time to avoid being swung away again. Harry, on the other hand, isn't nearly as lucky. The branch snaps against his upper chest, just below his neck, and keeps on swinging. As he goes flying off in one direction, his glasses slip off his face, landing in the grass next to his body as he thumps hard against the ground.
Seemingly satisfied that Potter's down for the count momentarily, the tree focuses its attention on the young girls, sending its branches every which way to throw them off guard and to knock them down. Kelsey hops over one of them that comes towards her feet like a high powered jump rope, and she looks, briefly, pleased and proud of herself.
Only for a moment does she get to feel this way. She lifts her head back up as another branch sweeps her off her feet, grunting with the force of it, but she holds onto it with all her might. She looks down, searching for Harry, and when she sees him, she realizes that he's searching for his glasses.
"Haaaaaaarrrrrryyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!"
Harry squints up, still unable to find his glasses yet, only to see a pile-driving fist of a branch from the Whomping Willow screaming straight down for his head. With only a split second to spare, he rolls himself away, just a few feet, as the branch completely pulverizes the ground where he was just laying.
Kelsey, still clinging onto the branch that swept her up high in the air, for dear life, whips around the tree.
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Harry manages to stand up only to have to duck a moment later as the branch swings his best friend back around, nearly knocking him unconscious if he'd still be standing straight. The branch jerks Kelsey in the air before pulling her straight down through the other branches, scratching her face.
Glancing for a moment, Harry spots his glasses, nestled in a patch of grass, and he snatches them up quickly. As soon as he puts them on, his previously blurry vision turns crystal clear, just in time to see his best friend flying madly towards him, clutching the bark of the tree as best as she can.
