How It Started

Chapter 53 - Selina Black

The courtroom itself was solely lit by one light giving the room a darkened affect. I looked up at the judge table, Umbriges patrons, a cat as such was carefully darting around, pigments of the spell travelled upwards towards the roof. I glanced up following the pigmentation, a series of dementors were floating circling around, like sharks waiting for their prey, one mistake our group made and we would become the prey.

The women in questioning, looked relieved as anything to see Ron, Reginald Cattermole.

Umbridge declared her introduction and help up a wand.

"Who's wand is this?" She questioned with a menacing tone, her eyes looked just as evil since the last time I saw her, I flinched realising where the slytherin locket sat. It was placed carefully around her neck, occasionally the light reflected and bounced off it, as if mocking us.

"M-mine I got it at olivanders when I was eleven, it chose me. Place Reg, tell them what I am tell them please" Mary said basically begging she was shaking and it looked like she would burst into tears at any moment. As for Ron he stood behind her, his awkward stance reflected nothing of a caring husband, instead he placed his hand of her shoulder, which stopped her shaking briefly.

"Yet that cannot be a wand only chooses witches and you are not a witch" Umbrige said twirling her wand around her fingers, a sickly sweat smile spread across her face.

I looked directly at hermione who was nervously writing notes, I wonder how she was feeling after all, for however long we had been here she had witnessed several people come into the courtroom and leave marked as criminals because of their blood status.

The silence that spread across the room shifted slightly as Harry pulled out his wand. That was the first time I saw Harry, his skin was slightly bubbling which informed the rest of us that, his potion was wearing off.

"What on earth are you doing Albert?" Umbridge asked sitting straight up in her chair, the pink bow in her hair wobbling slightly as she did so.

"You're lying Dolores" he paused briefly, the smile wiped clean off of dolores umbridges as she examined his face "and one mustn't tell lies" Harry concluded his face completely transformed from the prior Albert face. Before any of them could realise what was happening or the chaos's that was about to commence Vess had risen out of her chair and yelled;

"stupefy" the spell hitting Umbridge directly in the chest, she fell back sinking into her seat in an unconscious manor, Hermione reached out and grabbed the locket just as the surrounding members of the ministry started firing spells.

I rose out of my chair

"expelliarmus" I said jumping in front of Fred and pointing my wand at a ministry man whom I had never met before, yet had fired a curse at Fred. It reflected off my wand and the man dropped his wand.

"RUN!" Hermione exclaimed purely looking at the roof.

The once contained dementors were now sinking down the roof and beginning to come to life. Without any hesitation I pulled Freds arm and we started running towards the only exit, the elevator. We were the first to arrive at the elevator.

"HARRY DUCK" Fred yelled out watching as Harry slightly tripped over the now too long clothes, a spell came firing at him.

I practically pulled Hermione and Vess into the elevator, we were only waiting for Ron and Mary, Mary gripped ahold off Ron and I could see the fabric of his jumper form around her fingertips, I wonder how tight she was holding onto her seemingly normal husband. They made a flying leap into the elevator. Harry pulled the creaking doors of the elevator shut just as the dementors arrives.

Their hands reaching through the copper frame, I could feel them taking the life out of me as the elevator rose upwards. I breathed in heavy, deep breathes looking at the others who were also panting. We were done though, we had only made it out of the courtroom.

Each one of our polyjuice potions were starting to were off the only one that remained was Ron's.

"My god Reg, it's Harry Potter" Mary said gasping as Harry turned to face the group, her stunned look continued as she wiped around to face the rest of us.

"What a story to tell the kids huh" Ron said trying to master a deep sort of voice, Mary seemed oblivious to any thing wrong with her husband and agreeing nodded just as the elevator pulled to a sudden stop. Our group rushed out of the elevator and pushed past he wizards and witches crowding the Ministry, I knocked someone over as they fell they threw up a handful of posters into the air. The posters in question were the ones I had already seen before, our school pictures plastered in black and white as the words "Wanted" were written in thick, black, bond letters.

Mary came to a sudden stop which forced Ron to stop as well

"Mary please, take the kids get out of town I'll explain it all later" Ron said getting more into character than he really needed to.

I starred wide eyes as Mary reached down and kissed Ron, as the kiss progressed the potion completed its cycle and Ron returned to his normal appearance, Mary gasped just as hermione pulled Ron away, even he looked gobsmacked at exactly what had just occurred.

We didn't get to take much time to ourselves as the sudden flashing light of a curse stunned me as I looked behind me to be met with the angry look of the man from the court house, we started running again yet this time he was also chasing us and at an alarming rate, using his wand he pulled out a handful off spells, many of which we avoided.

Now was our only chance, the one last elevator we needed to take in order to be free, I noticed immediately as the rest of the elevators doors went slamming shut, each one crashing down and echoing as they did so. Only one elevator remained, each one of us slid across the floor until we made it to the edge of the elevator. Each one of us grabbing ahold of each other as hermione started speaking the Apparating spell.

"Hermione wait Ron's arm" I started saying thinking immediately of the splinching side effect to the spell but it was too late, we were whisked into the darkness of aparation.