Well today's the day, it's Buckbeaks execution, I get up and get changed for the day feeling the dampened feeling all around.
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I head down to the common room and meet up with Ron, Harry and Hermione and we head in silence to the courtyard, as we walk through we see the executioner sharpening his massive blade, we make our way by and as we get out of the tunnel Hermione says "I cant believe theyre going to kill Buckbeak its just too horrible" and as we walk out of the tunnel we see Draco and his goons standing there hiding behind the big statue like stones this sit on the hill which has the perfect view of Hagrids hut below. "It just got worse" Ron mumbles as Hermione starts storming over to them, we're quick on her heels.
"Ah come to see the show?" Draco asks with a smirk but Hermione doesn't stop her step "You!" She shouts as she pulls out her wand aiming it at his neck "you foul, loathsome evil little cockroach" She pins him against one of the stones with her wand poking into his throat, he looks like he might wet himself.
"Hermione no, he's not worth it" Ron tells her and after a long pause she pulls away, she turns back to us and as Draco composes himself and starts to laugh she whirls around and punches him directly in the nose, the impact makes him bash into the rock, leaving his goons to grab him and usher him away in a hurry.
"That felt good" She says with a small smile "not good, bloody brilliant" Ron confirms and we all chuckle slightly "That's my girl" I praise with a smile causing her to shyly smile at me as I walk by, we head down to Hagrids hut and knock the door, he ushers us in and after a moment we look at Buckbeak out the window. "Oh look at him, loves the smell of the tress when the wind blows through them" He tells us sadly as Hermione, Ron and I sit at his table "why don't we just set him free?" Harry asks as he looks at the bird.
"Well then they'd know it was me, and Dumbledore would get into trouble and we'll he's actually coming down, he wants to be with me when they... when it happens" Hagrid explains "great man Dumbledore, great man" he says as he comes away from the window. "Well stay with you too Hagrid" Hermione says "you'll do no such thing, think I want you seeing something like that? No just drink your tea and you be off" He says and I smile slightly at his caring nature.
"Oh and before you do Ron" Hagrid walks over to a cookie jar and pulls out Ron's rat "Scabbers! You're alive" He takes the pet into his hands in relief, I had heard about the ongoing argument of Ron and Hermione because Scabbers went missing and Crookshanks, Hermiones cat was the top suspect.
"I think you owe someone an apology" Hermione stands up "right, next time I see Crookshanks I'll let him know" he replies snarkily "I meant me" She says but a loud crash and a pot breaking makes us all freeze, Hermione reaches over and picks up the smooth stone that flew in "ow" Harry's hand goes to the back of his head as seemingly another one flew it but as we look out the window to find the culprit we see Dumbledore and the minister walk down with the executioner in tow "Hagrid" I warn and he ushers us out as they knock on the door, as we run out I turn around "it'll be okay Hagrid" I assure him and he smiles and pushes me out the back door before we hear him greet his new guests.
We sneak out and hide behind the pumpkin patch, as we watch them there's a snap of a twig and Hermione whips her head around "what is it?" I whisper "I thought I just saw...nevermind" she sighs and we make sure we won't be seen and head back up the hill to the stones and look down over the hut.
We watch as the executioner goes outside, he readies his blade and brings it down with a crunch, Hermione wraps her arms around my shoulders and buries her face in my neck and let's out a whimper, I wrap my arms around her as Ron puts an arm around my right side and Harry doing the same to Hermione on the left, after a moment Ron hisses and pulls away as Scabbers drops from his hands and runs off "Scabbers" He shouts after the rat.
He chases after the pet and we follow behind calling his name, we make it to a hill and as we watch him catch the rat at the bottom we stop "you do realise what tree this is" Hermione says as we look over to the Whomping willow "that's not good" Harry mumbles "Ron run!" I shout but he looks over at us and stammers "Guys run! It's the grim" we turn and see a big black dog about 15ft away and it heads straight for us with a growl but it jumps over us and down to Ron grabbing his leg and dragging him towards the tree, he cries out in pain and fear and I quickly jump down and run towards him with the other two on my tail.
"Ron" I leap to grab him but he gets pulled out of reach and into a hole at the tree stump, Harry pulls me up but we don't even get a second before a tree branch whips the three of us back, we groan as we get up and hear Ron's screams "come on" Harry encourages and we all grab hands and start running towards the tree, it's doing everything it can to keep us back, "Duck" Hermione shouts but it's too late for Harry and I, we get struck and as I jump back up I see Hermione grab onto one of the flying branches, I help Harry up and give him his glasses that got hit off "go now while it's distracted ill get Hermione" I tell him and push him towards the hole, he heads down and I look back up to a screaming Hermione who's getting flung around like a doll.
"Andrew" She shouts as she flys by me, she grabbed my shirt in the process and I shout as I get hauled up with her, we both fly around but as the branch comes around the front she let's me go successfully throwing me down the hole, I slide down and land face first in the dirt and when I get my arms under me Hermiones scream gets louder and I get thrown back down with a groan "oh im sorry" she groans out landing on top of me, I stifly get up with her help as Harry heads over to help us get through, we make it into what seems to be a house "The shrieking shack" I say realising where the tunnel had taken us.
