Re: Trio, Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Peter Pettigrew
And then everything was a blur again. Snape was running, Pettigrew was running, and Dumbledore's arm was lying at Harry's feet so that when he looked down all he could see was how far that deadly black had spread. He wanted to kill Snape, but he couldn't look away from that arm. Not for a long moment, anyway. Not until Hermione was pushing him toward their escape, because he could hear cries somewhere behind them that sounded as if they were getting closer.
"Harry!" Hermione shoved him hard toward the door. "We have to go. We - we can't stay. We can't stay with him." And there was just a note of hysteria in her voice.
"She's right," Ron said, dragging his own eyes away from the impossible still and awkwardly positioned figure on the floor. "There's more of them, we can't fight them off. We have to go." He shuddered as he started for the back of the room again. Would they have to use the same escape route he had? He didn't know whether to hope they caught up with Snape or not. The three of them might have stood a chance against him ... but going back to school was the better option. Especially considering the company it sounded like they were about to have. It was too late to do anything for Dumbledore, and probably to late to do anything about Snape ... better to get to safety, and - Well, he didn't really know what would happen then.
That seemed to snap him out of it, and once he was there Harry had the presence of mind to at least pick up Dumbledore's wand, though he wasn't sure what he was going to do with it. For now, he held it, tighter than he held his own. He started to speak, but Hermione said it first.
"We can't go back to Hogwarts. If they've taken the Ministry..." And that had to be what this was, didn't it? "We can't. They'll tear it apart looking for Harry." And a moment later she looked at them both and shoved them in the opposite direction, toward the far door. "I have an idea. I know where we can go." She hadn't been there since she was a little girl, camping with her father - not until this last summer, at least. The first time they'd started thinking over what would happen if they didn't return to Hogwarts. It was a contingency plan.