"Can I call you Tori? You know Tori, I'm a great friend."
"I don't get it, why are you being nice to me?"
"Maybe I don't want to see you friendless."
When Victoria Silvers, who comes from a long line of Slytherins, is sorted into Gryffindor her life...
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Tori had only seen The Dark Mark once in her life, and that was at the Quidditch World Cup after being attacked by Death Eaters.
She hated that the second time she saw it, it was above Hogwarts. She and Tonks were told very little about what was going on, except that somehow Death Eaters were inside the castle.
There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building.
She and Tonks rushed in immediately only to be greeted by many Death Eaters. "Stupefy!" Tori cried, blasting back two that stood in front of her. It was an immediate battle after that, Tori was facing off one to two Death Eaters at a time, protecting herself with a shielding charm. She could see Ron, Professor McGonagall, and Lupin each taking on their own Death Eater. Tonks was beside her, facing off an enormous blond wizard who was sending curses flying in all directions, so that they ricocheted off the walls around them, cracking stone, shattering the nearest window.
Tori cast an umbrella shielding charm to stop herself and Tonks from getting hit by the glass. Tori could hear the sound of more shattering coming from inside of the Great Hall but something else had caught her eye.
Avalon.
Tori felt a feeling she had never felt before. Pure rage. It was consuming her, controlling her almost as she ran after him in the corridor.
Her heart was pumping so loud she could barely hear anything else. Avalon turned just in time to see her coming.
"YOU!" Tori screamed, "YOU FILTHY EVIL LITTLE-"
"Stupefy!" Avalon's spell sent Tori flying into a wall. She shriveled down it, pointing her wand. "Expelliarmus!" Avalon cried, and Tori's want went flying towards the other corridor.
"Finish the job, Avalon." A tall Death Eater stocked near her brother. "Finish it! There's no time to waste!"
Avalon rose his wand up, shaking.
Tori's wand... she needed her wand...
"Victoria!" She heard a whisper, turning her head to see a frightened Dove. Her eyes scanned to the scene and she kicked Tori's wand back to her without a second of hesitation. Tori grabbed it, "Impedimenta!" Casting the spells directly at her brother and the other Death Eater.
Tori turned but Dove was gone.
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Dumbledore's eyes were closed; but for the strange angle of his arms and legs, he might have been sleeping.
A crowd formed around him, staring in horror. Albus Dumbledore was dead.
The Quidditch Pitch was burning down at this point and Hagrid's Hut had also felt with similar damage. But nothing could equal the pain everyone felt inside.
