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Old 09-10-2017, 09:14 PM   #12 (permalink)
MeredithRodneyMckay
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The branches had not looked THIS thick on the viewing screen last term...nor as menacing really. In fact the Whomping Willow had seemed mostly tame to the Hufflepuff when compared to the image he had had of the tree previously. Although his vibe from it had come with how much his mum adored it like she adored flesh eaters so that really, well, it left very little to the imagination now, didn't it?

He still had a decent distance between the actual tree and himself - maybe still out of the range of the branches should it decide to animate itself but this thought was FAR from the third year's mind when something struck him with a surprising force and knocked him to the ground. While the reality was one thing, the Hufflepuff's mind went into overdrive and of course ridiculous assumptions were being made. Namely that the Whomping Willow was moving and had struck him down FROM BEHIND.

Also the unfortunate coincidence in that all he heard was the YOU'LL DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH!!!!! ARE YOU OKAY?!"

She probably didn't need to shout, as they were both laying very close to each other, but her heartbeat was rushing in her ears and making her a bit deaf. As a large branch swung overhead, she rolled onto her front and commando crawled across the grass, tugging at Derf's leg to get him to follow her. The sooner they got away from the tree the better. She hadn't been a witch for very long, she had no wish to die at the hands of a tree.

When she was sure she was a safe distance, she stood up, brushing herself down and picking bits of twig out of her hair. "What are you doing?! Are you trying to injure yourself? This thing is dangerous!" If he didn't already know that, which considering he wasn't a first year like her, he probably did. But that fact made it all the weirder that he was choosing to walk into the path of destruction. "I don't want any Hufflepuff's to die!" Because that would just be such a bad start to term.
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