Ginny's Story

Chapter 11 Muggleborns

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Chapter 11 Muggleborns

Neville and I rushed to our first classes, me to Transfiguration and him to Potions. We didn’t want to be late especially with Hogwarts in a state of terror. Who knew what the punishments were.

McGonagall was sitting at her desk in her animagus form when I arrived. She nodded to me as I sat down at an empty desk at the front. Luna soon joined me.

“I was so surprised,” she stated dreamily, “when I found out we would be having classes with the Gryffindors instead of Hufflepuffs. Pleasantly surprised, of course. Not many people in Hufflepuff like me.”

How anyone could dislike Luna was beyond me. She was never fazed by anything and always had an explanation to everything, no matter how wacky it was.

“Professor McGonagall’s looking older that usual,” Luna examined, nodded to our professor.

I looked at McGonagall – really looked this time – and noticed the same thing. Her fur (she was still in her animagus form) was nearly all grey, the dark rims to show her glasses faded. If you didn’t know what you were looking for, you never would be able to see them. McGonagall’s body seemed to be hunched over a bit and it scared me to compare this to the brisk and proper lady who taught me last year.

McGonagall stood up, turning back to her human self and just as she opened her mouth to begin the lesson, Snape walked in with a purposeful stride.

“Line up,” he ordered to us. There was a flurry of movement as everyone did as they were told.

“Professor Snape,” McGonagall said, addressing the traitor. “What are you doing? I am trying to teach a class!”

Snape turned his black eyes on her. “I will do as I please,” he said slowly. “And you will live with the decisions I make with no complaints.”

McGonagall bristled but was smart enough to keep her mouth shut.

“It has been brought to my attention that some muggleborns escaped being caught on the Hogwarts Express yesterday.” The class looked around, eyebrows furrowed. “I will be checking blood status this time instead of my… instead of the Aurors.”

Who was Snape kidding? I doubt anybody believe his rubbish about those men being Aurors. They were Death Eaters and everyone here knew it.

Snape interrogated every single person in the class, sending them back to their seats once he’d finished with them. Until it was Lisa Morgansen turn. Lisa walked up to Snape for her turn, shaking like a leaf on a windy day. We all listened intently.

“Surname?” Snape said flatly.

“M-Morgansen,” Lisa replied. Snape’s eyes flicked to her face.

“So you were one of the many people who escaped consequences,” Snape sneered. We all knew what he was going to do next, but it terrified me all the same when it happened. “Crucio!”

Lisa fell to the ground, screaming and shaking violently.

“Stop this at once, Severus,” McGonagall ordered, holding her own wand up at him. Snape stopped the curse, but petrified her and put her on a floating stretcher. The stretcher floated out of the room. We all knew that would be the last time we saw Lisa.

Snape left the room and McGonagall dismissed us all immediately, seeing how disturbed and frightened we were at what we had witnessed.

Luna and I ran to catch up with Neville as we saw him rounding the corner.

“Did… Snape… Muggleborns,” I panted, clutching the stitch in my side.

Neville nodded gravely. “Nobody from our class got in trouble, but I’ve heard what happened to the muggleborns from other people.”

“It’s horrible!” I exclaimed with tears blinding my vision. “Just imagine those poor families. They won’t know what happened to their children, they just will have… disappeared!”

I think that was the moment we all realised we would have to fight back. We had to give people hope. We had to reinstate Dumbledore’s Army.

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