The bombing of Hogsmeade Who: Everyone in school Where: Hogwarts When: Friday, 22 January 1943, 11.30pm What: The bombing of Hogsmeade
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Eleven twenty-nine pm finds fifth, sixth, and seventh year students dutifully peering into the heavens and scribbling down star charts. But for the occasional whispers and staccato of Professor Sinistra's shoes across the stone floor, everything is silent.
One student squints at the rush of light across her lens.
The noise and shaking of the entire castle belies the beautiful glow of orange and red that smears out across the horizon, and there is a moment before anyone realises what is going on. The ground shakes again, and again. The screams of Hogsmeade's siren are followed suddenly by the ominous clang of Hogwart's air-raid bell. Nobody in that room has any misconceptions about this being another drill.