Another World

Hey guys!

Guess what? I just got won my first writing competition!! My submission will be published in Poetic Power's 6-8 Grade Essay Book. You will probably know right away which scene in which book it's describing!

I stare at the world below me, at the flashes of light and the yells and screams. I watch as three people run towards a large tree that is shaking in the wind - but wait. There is no wind! The tree is moving by itself, slashing and hitting anything that gets near. I watch in horror and anticipation as those three people reach the tree, waiting for the branch to come crashing down on their heads. But no, they're too fast, and they slip down a hole at the base of the tree. I follow, hiding with them behind a crate, watching the two people walking and talking in the room. I look closer and see that one of them has the face of a snake, and that a snake is in a floating box near his - her, it's? - head. The other man seems terrified of the snake, but more of the man with the snake face. I listen closely and hear 'My Lord' repeated over and over, as if this 'lord' is a high and mighty being. I gasp as I hear the words, spoken in a slithering tongue: Kill him. I wait in anticipation - and am jerked back to reality by my dad standing near my bed, where I am curled up. “Megha,” he says, “It’s time to go to sleep.” I groan, because I was at one of the most exciting parts. I reluctantly put Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows on my bedside table and close my eyes, already impatient for tomorrow so I can go back to the book. I sigh, rolling over, and think of Lord Voldemort and Severus Snape and Harry Potter and Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley and....