Breaking the shadows

Shadows

1996

Saturday September 11th

It is dark out before Ginny, and I leave the three broomsticks. As Ginny and I are walking home, I keep having the feelings that someone or something is following us. I try to push the feeling away, but then it feels like something is touching me, I turn around and I don't see anything, Ginny gives my hand a gentle squeeze, and asks: "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, it's nothing."

We keep walking, but the feeling won't go away, we walk for maybe 200 meters, and I turn to look behind me, at first, I don't see anything but then the light from the streetlamps flickers, and then I see a figure, standing under the streetlamp that flickers the most, and then lights out. Completely dark around me, more flickering from different streetlamps, and suddenly one lights up even brighter than normal, and under is standing now two dark figures. I am frozen by fear, my heart is pumping even harder than usual, and it scares me. I stand frozen for what feels like thousand years, but I feel Ginny pulling my hand and I hear the fear in her voice: "Harlow, HARLOW, we need to go NOW."

We start running but the dark figures just walks slowly behind us, I look back and one of them is gone, I feel Ginny pulling me in a different direction and I cant do anything but follow, and I see why she ran in a different direction, one of the two dark figures has appeared in front of us, walking in slow-motion towards us. We run into a dark alley; I hear something; Is it crying? Or a cat? I listen closely while catching my breath, and now, I'm sure, It's definitely a kid crying. I take my wand to make some light. And I wish that I didn't because, I see both figures has arrived to the alley, but now there aren't only two, I cant count them, maybe there is ten maybe a hundred, my eyes get blurry and I cant see where I'm going, so I start backing toward the end of the alley hoping there is a way out, but I hit the something, it doesn't feel as hard as a wall, too scared to look, so I feel my way to find out what it is, I feel something that feels like

... a hand? 

And then I hear laughing, Its not Ginny's laugh, it's a deep, evil laugh. I turn around and a tall man dressed as a clown with the biggest grin, his eyes as dark as the night and whose eyes could kill. I panic because I can't seem to find a way out, but then my eyes glance over a small path hidden in the wall, with a light at the end of it, I let go of Ginny's hand and I push towards the path making sure she gets to safety first, I turn around, I lift my wand towards the clown and I yell at the top of my lungs: 

"STUPEFY" 

I hit the clown perfectly and he slams into the wall and then I run after Ginny. 

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Puplished: 17-05-23