Blank Sheet

Fight in the Ministry

She could feel something was wrong when she arrived at the Ministry of Magic. Even though Medea had been the fastest she could with sneaking into Umbridge's office and using her floo pulver to get to one of the gilded fireplaces in the giant atrium, Ron and the others had arrived at least two hours before.

She hurried to the lifts on the one side of the room, cautious for any kind of movement or noise. The tracking charm Flitwick had taught her, told her where to go. When the rickety lift finally arrived on level nine, her nerves were strained to the utmost. She believed the lack of knowledge over her friends' fate and the paranoia over where and when the fight would start to be worse than actually fighting alongside her friends.

The room with the twelve identical doors freaked her out even more because her tracking spell went crazy and spinned around faster than she could look. Medea had to open five doors, two times running into a room where planets floated through mid-air, though Pluto was destroyed the second time she looked. Finally, she entered the room with the veil, which meant she was thrown in the fight immediately. There was no time to take a deep breath or revise all those useful hexes. A Death Eater had apparently guarded the door and the only reason his spell didn't mangle her was that Kingsley hit him with Stupefy not a second early. Her heartbeat turned up instantly, she heard the blood pounding in her ears and she stormed down the giant stairs.

On her way, she stunned a Death Eater in the back and apparently gave Lupin a second to breathe. She then arrived in the middle of the room where Harry was fighting off a blonde man as well as Sirius was battling Bellatrix. She was about to send the psychotic female Death Eater to the ground from behind when another one of Voldemort's followers appeared right next to her. It was something she would be ashamed of for ages afterwards, her shock of his instant upturning stopping her from casting a curse and giving him an easy goal. The knowledge that she could have fought him didn't minder the pain though, more of the opposite. His jinx was unknown to her but it felt like a knife. A deep cut was hexed into her right, wand arm which she had held up. She gritted her teeth and groaned in pain. The young teenager just barely managed to use the Body-Bind Curse on her opponent because he thought to have beaten her, then pressed the bleeding arm to her chest.

One of her green strands of hair got caught in the wound and made it hurt a little more, then coloured her face in a bloody red, even a little drop hung from her eyelashes. The pain had become steady now, it was like somebody turning around a blunt knife in the wound.

Suddenly, Lupin yelled at Harry to take the DA members outside and the messy-haired boy and Neville attempted to leave when a glass orb fell through Neville's pocket and shattered on the ground. The colour left his face as he realized he had just broken everything they were fighting for. At that exact moment, Dumbledore arrived. The headmaster strode past her and the boys, who still looked at the broken glass. When the headmaster stood close to the strange vail, many of the Death Eaters had noticed his arrival and fled with their accomplices.

Medea saw a glimpse of dirty blonde hair in the next room and hurried over. She was sure to see Luna, Hermione and Ginny in there and was just hoping they'd forgive her for not coming at first and that they wouldn't be hurt. Even though most of their opponents had fled, Harry let out a loud, agonized cry and she turned just in time to see the dark-haired, female Death Eater who had made a psychotic impression to her, run through the next door. Harry stood next to the veil, torn between pain and anger. She didn't know what had happened but she just really wished no one had died.

Harry then yelled another time, now in anger. He ran to the door the Death Eater had disappeared through, his wand rifled. Lupin yelled his name and was about to follow the boy but was disturbed by the sight of Tonks, laying on one of the stairs, unconscious. Dumbledore looked concerned, he hurried up the giant stairs and followed the other two.

Medea was now torn between following Harry or going to her other friends but ultimately decided to go and see if she could help Luna, Ginny or Hermione since she doubted to be much help up there with Dumbledore around. She didn't get to enter the room though, Kingsley came by and saw her wound. He took her arm and said an enchantment which made the wound close. A small, white line remained on her already pale skin.

"Magical wounds can not be healed fully," Kingsley said, shaking his head. Medea looked down on the scar and gulped. She had already been marked by the war.

Suddenly, a loud bang came from upstairs. The adults grouped and guessed what could have happened. Remus suggested the big statue might have crashed and the others seemed to realize Harry and Dumbledore weren't just fighting a nasty little Death Eater up there.

Remus and Kingsley left to help Dumbledore and Harry. Moody and Tonks, both wounded, unwillingly stayed behind. Medea went to help the young Auror. She had fallen down the stairs after being blasted unconscious and was full of blood. They were limping to the atrium to get to Madam Pomfrey quickly. Just after a few meters, her arms and jacket were already coloured red. And suddenly, she wasn't that sad about the little sign of weakness on her arm, she was happy it wasn't a bigger one and, after seeing the regret and pain on Remus' face earlier on, vowed to herself to never let a bigger sign of weakness mark her body or mind.

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Uh, we're getting closer to the fight in the atrium.

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-Tonks