Door-Gavroche-Dementors

[wand_wavers]

The grounds of the Riddle Manor are desolate now. Since right after Frank Bryce was found dead in the house itself, the residents of Little Hangleton... seem to have forgotten about the manor's existence. No one goes out there anymore. The boys who might have thrown rocks through the windows wheel their bicycles around and go the other way. Birdwatchers or drivers through the country take the other fork in the road.

Mist creeps across the overgrown lawn, and a single candle glows in the darkness. There are shadowy figures stationed close to the moldering house.

They are not human.

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[wand_wavers]

The Dementors pull back, shrieking, their gaunt arms shielding what could be eyes.

The light hurts. The light always hurts.

[iopenthings]

Door never thought she'd be grateful for light--sun-derived or not--but she is.

Temple and Arch, she is.

And then her jaw tightens and she grabs Gavroche's arm, bending over to Open a door in the ground and dragging the boy through.

It's time to pull back and regroup.

Time, perhaps, to actually have a plan.

She'll get Tom back if it kills her.

Or almost anybody else.