2I know I know. I dont own the world of Harry Potter
The Rise of the Dark Lord
The pressure on my chest lifted allowing instead the cool night air to wash over me. I took a couple of quick breaths before turning to look at the other wizards who had also apparated with me. They all seemed to be looking at the houses in front of us with great trepidation, their cloaks swishing in the wind. I on the other hand was dressed in a jeans and T-shirt for what they had been calling muggle training. Like I needed that considering that I was after all a muggleborn wizard.
My supervisor and I had apparated to the end of the street that had sent the distress calls. The head auror, Crouch had been shocked at first seeing that a whole street had sent out a distress call at once. Then he had organized the department to apparate in twos to each house on the street. Kingsley tapped my hand to get my attention before motioning for me to enter the house in front of us. It was dark and all the windows seemed to be shattered but what chilled me most was the fact that the door was hanging open on only one hinge.
For the past one year the atmosphere at the auror office had been tense almost palpable. Nasty rumours had been floating around that there was new dark wizard in the making. But what really scared me most was that everyone seemed to be frightened of even saying the name. I had heard it only once. A whisper in the dark, Voldemort. The name and the whisper still gave me the creeps just thinking about it. The wizarding world had unconsciously started to call him You-Know-Who in their conversations but the Ministry had not yet made any official statement. The disappearances of some key and minor personalities had not gone unnoticed though and calls had gone up only last week that Albus Dumbledore take charge and stamp out the nonsense like he did Grindelwald. But the headmaster had refused the position but I was still thankful that my former teacher was around to protect us if things go out of hand. He was after all the most powerful wizard I knew of.
We entered the house and we automatically began 'spreading out'. He went right while I went left. Our wands were already drawn and I heard him stop and mutter, "Lumos." The light glowed for the briefest moment it was extinguished. I then heard Kingsley retching.
"Kingsley." I said softly.
"This is insane. Whoever did this cannot possibly be called a human. It can only be an insanely cruel and deranged person." He answered, a cold fury punctuating his words.
At the words cruel and deranged only one name came to mind. The last I had seen of that person was the leaving feast in Hogwarts our final year and she had been threatening to find a way to purge the wizarding society of mudbloods and traitors. Some bad nights I would still see the demented expression of Bellatrix Black.
Suddenly all I wanted to do was get out of there and go home. My shift had ended before the call had come in anyway. If whatever had happened here had made Kingsley vomit, I was in no mood to see anything. He apparently had the same idea as he cast a spell to detect any living thing in the building. We both turned to live when the spell revealed nothing. I stepped out first turning to look at the other aurors.
From what I could see of their faces they were clearly shaken. I knew that tonight would be the end of the rumours. This was a confirmation that there was a dark wizard out there. And we had to face that darkness before it consumed the society.
I was stuffing my wand in my back pocket before I realised that a greenish glow had interrupted the darkness of the night and began looking for the source. Up was the fourth direction I looked in and then froze. There was an immense glowing skull in the sky, comprised of green sparks and a snake was coming out of the mouth.
"CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" A voice yelled from behind me, almost in my ear. My hand went for my wand as I began turning around, a curse escaping from my mouth. I felt the magic leave my hand going through the wand before I felt the tip stuck at the top of my pocket. Then there was only pain.
I had already turned a full circle and faced Auror Alastor Moody taking the opportunity to drill in me his insane view of life. I managed to see his face change to look surprised, even shocked before the pain and humiliation became too much. I realized I had just blown my buttocks away because of an idiot yelling in my ear as fear had flooded in me on seeing the skull and snake. Thankfully my vision began clouding as the ground came rushing up to meet me.
A/N I wrote this for a competiion whose topic was how I lost my Buttock by keeping my wand in my back pocket.
I am not a major fan of first person stories but somehow I was stuck with this isea however difficult it was to write.