"Come now, it is the flight class now and we shouldn't be late. I don't want professor Hooch to glare at me with her hawk eyes." The young man said as he put an arm around her shoulder as they walked toward their class. And at that moment, everything was fine for Violet.
The hostage exchange went smoothly with Dumbledore there and with a loud "POP!" Nick was forcefully apparated away by the cloaked individual while his hands were tied behind him. Having experienced the method of travel before Nick didn't stumble much after they landed and was alert to his surrounding. It was a cold and musty room clearly located inside a building and had exactly two other occupants other than Nick and the cloaked person who tossed him away after they landed. One was an exotic snake that looked like a strange mix of python and viper with the size of the former. The other was a pale veiny bald man with red eyes and no nose that had a cold smile on his face , Voldemort.
If Nick was still there he would be surprised to see that it was the woman who had a familiar bond with a genuine horned water serpent from the pageant. 'Damn it! These last few weeks have been such a pain in the ass! First I just had to run into HIM of all people in the pageant that he won because of whatever the hells that creature was. Then to top it all off the ancient Hydra egg I was going to use to help my sweet Styr evolve had been snatched the very day I could afford it!' the woman was complaining to herself.