The Snake and The Seer

Quinn

I could feel my chest rapidly rising and falling, I could feel twigs and leaves crunching under my feet, and the wind whipping my hair back behind me. Running through the forest after a particularly helpful vision. I eventually came to a riverbed, where I could see a ginger pulling another figure out of the water. This has to be them.

"Harry? Ron?" They didn't seem to hear me, I stepped closer, calling out for them again.

"Quinn?! We thought you were dead!"

Everything faded to a blue-ish grey color, and I was then in the basement of what seemed to be a manor or something. I could see other figures across the room, but didn't have the strength or voice to call out to them. I tried to move in their direction, but found myself unable to move, pinned to the wall by a spell, probably.

"HERMIONE!" Hermione? Was that Ron's voice? Where am I?

"HERMIONE!" That's definitely Ron.

"Be quiet!" Harry whispered sharply. "Shut up, Ron, we need to work out away –" 

"HERMIONE! HERMIONE!"

"We need a plan, stop yelling – we need to get these ropes off –"

 "Harry?" came a whisper through the darkness. "Ron? Is that you?" Ron stopped shouting. There was a sound of movement closer to the boys than me, but the voice sounded familiar. "Harry? Ron?" 

"Luna?"

 "Yes, it's me! Oh, no, I didn't want you to be caught!"

"Luna, can you help us get these ropes off?" said Harry. 

"Oh, yes, I expect so ... there's an old nail we use if we need to break anything ... just a moment ..." I could hear screaming from above, which also sounded familiar. 

"Mr Ollivander?" I could see a faint figure shuffling around to the right of me. "Mr Ollivander,have you got the nail? If you just move over a little bit ... I think it was beside the water jug ..." She was back over by the boys. "You'll need to stay still," she said.

"Ron, please stay still!" Luna whispered. "I can't see what I'm doing –" 

"My pocket!" said Ron. "In my pocket, there's a Deluminator,and it's full of light!" A few seconds later, there was a click and bright orbs of light floated in the basement. I could see everyone better now, Luna, Ollivander, Harry, Ron, Dean Thomas, and some goblin. Harry seemed to be looking around too, as well as Ron, looking for a way out.

"Is that-?" Harry started, squinting in my direction.

"Oh yes, Quinn Diggory is here too, been asleep for a few days though, she's bound to wake up sooner or later. They were using the Cruciatus curse on her for hours, sounds like whatever's happening to Hermione up there." I could hear a small gasp from Harry as he made his way over. Luna drifted towards me and seemed startled to realize my eyes were open.

"Or now! Hello, you're in the dungeon of the Malfoy Manor with other prisoners, if you're too disoriented, it's Luna Lovegood, Dean Thomas, Ollivander the wand maker, Harry Potter, and Ronald Weasley." I tried to talk but my voice was gone, I looked at everyone and they looked back as if I was on my deathbed, which, maybe I was. We could hear Hermione screaming and some crazy lady yelling at her, Ron was pounding on the walls and screaming for Hermione. Harry was yelling at a shard of glass.

"Quinn how did they capt-" Harry started asking, but before he could finish, even more light filled the room and the door at the top of the stairs opened. The newcomer cast a spell that sent everyone else against the wall, unable to move. Ron accidentally punched me in the stomach on his way to the wall, and some guy that looked like Draco Malfoy took the goblin, Griphook. 

The orbs of light came back, to reveal Dobby, a house elf I met last year, who tried to kill Harry to keep him from dying.

"DOB-" Harry shut Ron up before he gave us away. I seemed to be drifting a bit, cause next thing I knew, Luna, Dean, Ollivander, and Dobby had disapparated, and some guy named Wormtail was in the basement trying to kill Harry.

Harry, Ron, and 'Wormtail' were all struggling, until eventually, the latter died. Harry and Ron quickly ran over to me with Wormtail's wand and released me from whatever was holding me to the wall. Harry grabbed my hand and tried to help me up the stairs.

"Go get Hermione and Griphook, I'll catch up." I was slowing them down, if I could catch up, maybe they could disapparate me too. They seemed hesitant, until they heard someone talking about killing Hermione.

They kept going, and I tried my best to get up the stairs in time, I heard shouting and the sounds of spells hitting furniture, until everything got quiet for a second. I made it up the stairs to see Dobby dropping a chandelier onto a woman with crazy hair and grabbing onto Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Griphook. Harry stretched his arm out to me, and I ran, finally reaching them. My hand in Harry's, Dobby began to disapparate, and then I felt a claw-like hand grab my other wrist, yanking me away from my friends. From the dark, air sucking, feeling of apparition.

"QUINN NO!" Harry screamed and tried to grab me again, but they were gone. 

"Well, well, well, finally woke up, have we?" I felt a dark presence, a life-sucking one, my brain hurt, bad. Voldemort arrived.

"Where is Potter?" I could feel how angry he was, "WHERE IS HE?" everyone else in the room cowered slightly. 

"They get away due to Lucius's incompetent house elf. But don't worry, the girl will know where they went. We have the Seer." The woman with the crazy hair smirked at me, and then bowed to Voldemort. 

"Get me the information I want. Then kill her." Voldemort walked into another room, and the woman turned to me. 

"Where did they go? Tell me."

I kept quiet. If these are my last moments, I'm not going to spend them giving away my friends, no matter how confused I am.

"Where. Are. They." 

Draco, who looked old, it was weird, looked at me as if asking for forgiveness.

"WHERE DID THEY GO?!" She pulled a wand out of Draco's hand, pointing it at my chest.

"Crucio." She had a smirk on her lips, and the man holding me down gripped onto my wrists tighter as overwhelming bright white pain took over my mind.

"TELL ME!" she increased the intensity of the spell, I didn't have the energy to even try and fight anymore.

"N-no. No." I croaked out, losing my breath.

"CRUCIO! CRUCIO! CRUCIO!" white filled my vision, which then faded to blue, and I started to hear people calling my name.

"Quinn?! Quinn please wake up."

"Is she okay?"

"Is she gonna die?"

"Did Sirius Black get her?!"

"Is he coming after us next?!"