The Blood Traitor || Oc x Oc

Inside the Shrieking Shack

Sera and Dante held tightly onto each other when they had realized what had just happened. They stood there, not moving, until —

Ron groaned. Scabbers dropped from his hand. Ron clutched at his now-bleeding finger. He looked amazed and shocked that his pet had just bit him. 

"He bit me!" he groaned in shock. "Scabbers!" 

"Ron? Ron!" Hermione called out desperately as he began to sprint after his escaping rat. 

"Ron, come back!" Harry demanded as the rest of the group began to chase after them. Finally, Ron fell on his stomach, managing to grab his rat, which still squealed, squirming from his grip. 

"You idiot rat! You bit me!" Ron scolded. 

Sera went pale when she knew exactly where Ron had landed. Even Hermione seemed to notice. 

"Sera. You do realize what this tree is, don't you?" she asked anxiously. 

"Oh, no. That's not go," Sera muttered to herself. In a louder voice, she added to Ron, "Ron! Run!" 

Ron looked up before his face turned unbelievably pale. He pointed a shaking finger behind their shoulders. 

"Seraphina, Hermione, Harry, Dante run! It's the Grim!" 

The four of them whipped around. Sure enough, there was a black dog, vaguely described as the Grim that Sera and Harry had encountered many times in their Divinations class. Sera's eyes widened in fear. 

But instead of the dog going after the four teens, it jumped over their heads before grabbing Ron by the ankle, pulling him down. Ron wailed, calling desperately for his friends. They tried to get him, but the Whomping Willow came alive just on time. 

They were smacked across their stomachs. The four of them went flying into the air, landing on their backs. Sera wheezed, groaning in pain, before getting to her feet again. They'd been doing fine, until Sera had been lifted into the air by one of the Whomping Willow's thick branches, along with Hermione. 

Sera let out a blood-curdling, terrified scream as she soared dangerously through the air. She finally managed to grab Dante by the scruff of his shirt while Hermione grabbed her brother. They forced them both down the Whomping Willow's secret entrance before flying in after them. 

Sera let out another shriek as she landed on top of her brother, forcing him back to the ground again. She groaned. 

"I'm so sorry," she apologized. 

Harry gently eased his sister off of his back. He knew that she didn't mean to hurt him. The Whomping Willow's actions can be quite unpredictable. 

"Don't mention it," he retorted, brushing her comment aside. 

"Where d'you suppose this goes?" his sister asked anxiously. 

"I have a hung. I just hope that I'm wrong." 

A creaking noise came from within the building they were in. Sera immediately realized where they were, and so did Hermione. 

"We're in the Shrieking Shack," she whispered. "Aren't we?"

Neither Harry nor his sister answered. A yell from Ron came from somewhere upstairs. They followed the noise and the muddy footprints before coming into an empty room that had a deflated mattress in one corner — where Ron sat. 

"Ron! Thank goodness! Are you okay?" Sera immediately asked. 

"The dog! Where is he?!" Harry demanded at the same time. 

"Sera, Harry! It's a trap! He's the dog, he's an Animagus!" 

The four of them followed the direction Ron pointed at. Sera lifted her eyes to see a scrawny, skin-sunken man standing in a corner by the door. He slammed the broken door shut. Sera, being the protective older sister that she is, immediately put herself in front of her brother.