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Luna's eyes were wide with fright. Ginny had a similar expression. Slowly, I
turned around, terrified of what I knew I would see.
Severus Snape was standing in the doorway, a raised wand in his hand and
an unpleasant leer on his ugly face. I let out a terrified squeak and stumbled
backward into Ginny. Snape laughed softly. "I don't think so, Longbottom." He
clicked his thin fingers. "Get them." He stood aside as two hulking figures
burst through the door. Amycus and Alecto Carrow advanced, leering, and
three more figures darted through. Draco Malfoy pinned Ginny to the wall,
wand held aloft, and both Crabbe and Goyle went for me. Each took one of
my arms and they smashed me into one of the cabinets. "Oof." I groaned
with pain. I looked past Goyle's shoulder to see the Carrows advancing on
Luna. She held up the sword defensively. Alecto flicked it out of her hand
effortlessly. Luna blanched.
WHAM.
Crabbe slammed his fist into my stomach and I doubled over. "No!" I slammed
my shoulder into his stomach and stood up, pulling my wand out of my
pocket. "Stupefy!" I cried, pointing my wand at Goyle. It struck him
square in the chest and he fell over. The same fate awaited Crabbe.
"Stupefy!"
Ginny punched Draco in the nose, hard, and then performed her legendary
Bat-Bogey Hex. It hit Malfoy in the face and he stumbled backwards and
landed hard on his butt. "Ow! Get 'em off! Get 'em off!" he whimpered.
"Nice one, Ginny!" I yelled, and then I looked over my shoulder wildly at the
sound of a scream.
My heart nearly fell out of my body.
Luna was slumped on the floor, whimpering, while both Amycus and Alecto
stood over her. Amycus, I saw, had his wand pointed at her heart. I realized
with terror that he was using the Cruciatus Curse on her. My eyes widened. I
was on the verge of crying out when suddenly, Luna kicked out at the
Carrows. They both stumbled back, surprised. Luna picked up the abandoned
Gryffindor sword and pointed it threateningly at them. "Don't you dare come
near us," she said, and all the dreamy quality was gone from her voice. She
sounded nearly as hard as Professor McGonagall, and there was a dangerous
glint in her eyes. The Carrows looked at each other and in that moment, I
made a run for it. I grabbed Luna's hand and ran out the door. Ginny was
right behind us. Severus Snape was waiting for us at the bottom of the
stairs, but (by some unbelievably amazing luck) he had fallen asleep. We
crept past him and ran, ran down the corridor as fast as we could.
We stopped behind a suit of armor. I looked at Luna concernedly. "Are you all
right?" She had a bleeding cut on one cheek and a bruised lip, but other than
that she seemed fine on the outside. "Oh, Neville, I feel as though I've been
run over by the Hogwarts Express," she groaned. Ginny took her hand
comfortingly. "You were amazing, Neville," she beamed at me.
"Yeah, thanks, Ginny. So were you. You both were." I told them proudly.
Aching all over, we headed back to our common rooms with a promise to
meet at breakfast at the Gryffindor table. It was half an hour later, safe
under my covers in the dormitory and looking at Harry's and Ron's empty
beds, that I realized we had left the sword in Snape's office.
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