Year 3 - It Can't Be

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Once all the people that we saw were inside we rushed to the top of the hill leading to Hagrid's we saw the axe rise up and then disappeared behind the pumpkin patch as crows fewl away. I felt Hermione turn to me as she hugged me shaking I wrapped my arms around her comforting her as she cried. I rubbed her back and she looked up at me she was about to say something before Ron broke the silence. 

"Oww he bit me," Ron said as he dropped Scabbers.

"Ron! No!" I said as he run off after Scabbers.

Ron reaches the summit of the hill and disappears over the top. Hermione, Harry and I follow. the three of us reach the top of the ridge and stop.

"Harry Y/N. You do realize what tree that is..." Hermoine said as Ron nabs Scabbers, and cradles him in his bloody palm.

"That's not good," Harry said.

"Ron! Run!" I yelled as Ron spins and looked toward Harry.

"Harry! Hermione Y/N Run! it's the Grim" Ron yells back. 

As we look behind us bounding toward us is an enormous, pale-eyed, jet-black...dog. Harry
shields himself when the dog leaps clear over us.

"Aaaahhh!" Ron said.

The dog's teeth flash and close on Ron's foot, dragging him towards the trunk like a rag doll. Instantly, Harry dashes forward leap out, and grabs Ron's hands... but he and Ron just keep skidding along the ground.

"Harry!" Ron cried out.

Harry raises his chin. The dog vanishes into the gap at the base of the tree and begins to pull Ron through.

"Hold on, Ron!" Harry said.

But it's no use. The dog is too powerful. Harry glances around desperately, then finds himself looking directly into Ron's eyes. He can read his mind. Ron then disappears As his voice echoes deep into the earth Harry rises, peering into the hole.

WHOMP! 

The Whomping Willow sweeps first Hermione, then Harry, into the air.

FLOOMPH!

It hit me in the chest dropping us all on our backsides. As one, we rise. Run back toward the gap in the tree. A branch swoops down. Hermione ducks. Harry doesn't. 

WHOOSH!

He is flung one way, his glasses the other. Hermione hops over another branch and looks briefly pleased with herself only to find herself swept high in the air by a second branch. She looks down and sees Harry searching the ground for his glasses. I jump to the side to avoid a branch hitting the ground I roll to the side as it went down again. 

"Haaaaaaarrrrrr!!!!!!!!!," Hermione screamed. 

She flies straight down for his head. He rolls away just as the branch pulverizes the ground. Hermione whips through the tree, still clinging on for dear life, and Harry rises. He's promptly knocked to the ground again. Hermione goes crashing through the high branches, Harry spies his glasses and grabs them. Rising, he fits them to his face as Hermione reaches out, grabs Harry's shirt and riding the branch in tandem the two boomerang back, hurtling toward the trunk of the tree, through the gap, and into the darkness. I hop over a bench and jump forward and down the hole myself as I roll down I hit something seeing I had landed on Hermione. 

"Sorry about that," I said getting up.

"It's alright," Hermione said as I help her up. 

"Lumos," I said as the tip of my wand reveals a long, snaking tunnel.

"Where do you suppose this goes?" Hermione said taking my hand.

"I have a hunch. I just hope I'm wrong..." Harry said.

Harry, Hermione and I make our way through the primitive passageway, ducking the roots that dangle overhead. Then, abruptly, the tunnel ends. Confused, Harry and Hermione glance about, and then as one, we all peer up. A small opening. Harry reaches up and hoists himself through.

"It can't be," Hermione said.

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