Harry Potter: Another Chance

Chapter 280: No Escape

Chapter 280: No Escape

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"Dialogue"

'Thoughts'

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Both Pansy and her mother became alarmed.

"You are hurt!" Aurora just noticed that her husband was not only terrified but his robes were in a terrible state and his left arm was bleeding.

"Where is Albert?!" Lord Parkinson ignored his wife's concerns while he looked around the hall.

"The butler? You sent him away, remember? Perseus, tell me what is going on. Who attacked you?" Aurora asked.

Pansy approached her father. "Dad, what is going on? You lock us at home, then you disappear and n-"

Lord Parkinson turned his gaze to her and screamed. "Now now!"

This was so out of character that neither Pansy nor Aurora knew how to react. One thing that everyone could agree on when it came to Lord Parkinson was that the man was always calm and composed, no matter the situation.

Pansy had never seen her father lose his mind in such an extreme way. While Aurora hadn't seen him like this since...

"Perseus... is this about..." She did not want to ask. The words stuck in her mouth.

"Those bloody traitors! All of them, bloody hell. I'm going to kill them all!" Lord Parkinson was not in the mood to listen at the moment.

"I'll explain things later...." Lord Parkinson took a handful of floo powder and threw it onto the fireplace.

"Farnese Cottage."

The powder turned into green smoke, but the flames failed to ignite.

"What?! No!" Parkinson yelled.

"The floo is not working?" Aurora got closer to the fireplace to take a better look. "How can that be? You just used it."

"They must have closed it from the Ministry." Lord Parkinson concluded. Beads of sweat fell across his face as he stared at the fading smoke.

"But Dad, you are the Minister! Who can do that to you?" Pansy didn't understand what was happening, just that it was something very bad.

"Well, use Apparition. Come here, hurry!" Lord Parkinson held his wand out and lifted it in the air.

Pansy and her mother knew this was not the time to question him any further, so they immediately grabbed onto him and prepared to be pulled away... but nothing happened.

"Dad?...." Pansy glanced up at her father's pale face.

"I can't... apparate..." Lord Parkinson said with a trembling voice.

"An anti-apparition ward?!" Aurora exclaimed. "But how can that be? What about our protections?!"

No one should have been able to get so close to the manor without triggering their own safety wards.

But if there was an anti-apparition charm in place... this meant that intruders were already around their home.

"What do we do?!" Aurora was truly scared now. Whoever had her husband so terrified... was here now, and they could not escape.

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