Keep Calm and ...

[Minnie Pendergast]

After the embarrassingly but fortunately not too destructive incident at the Market less than a week ago, during which she had become the pilot of a rogue magic carpet and ended up careening into a rather less than impressed Mr Crouch, Minnie had been quite sure than anything else that happened at the Marketplace would be quite uninteresting. She had been quite, quite wrong.

After the initial attack – during which she had managed to stun a tiger into near-unconsciousness before promptly hiding for all she was worth and casting a protective charm around herself – Minnie had seen the end in sight. The tigers were winning, the Ministry was slow in responding and, after living through fire and plague and Mr Crouch’s ire and auntie Olivia’s school and all manner of other terrible calamities, she was going to be eaten by tigers. She had cried silently in her huddled hiding place, hoping Emma remembered her well and that mama wouldn’t be too sad and before she knew it the world, as she had expected it would, came crashing down around her and darkness fell.

Before it could occur to her to apparate away unconsciousness had claimed Minnie briefly until a voice cut through the haze of her mind and she realise that, against expectations, she was alive!

“I…I think so,” she replied uncertainly, unable to make her voice especially loud and so she kicked out against the barrier in the hope it’s movement would stop whoever it was before they left her here, thinking her dead. “Please help me!” She coughed out.

YOU CAN BE HER HERO BABY