It was nearing four o'clock in the morning and Hogwarts was as quiet as it ever got. There was no indication that several lives were about to change forever. The clocks hit 3:59 a.m.. In the Gryffindor boys dorms five boys disappeared. In the Gryffindor girls dorms two girls disappeared. In the Ravenclaw girls dorms one girl disappeared. In the rest of the castle Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, and Severus Snape all disappear from their respective rooms.

At Number Twelve Grimmauld Place the whole house had been woken up when Tonks, who had been about to leave for guard duty, tripped over the old trolls foot. This resulted in her colliding with a coat rack, ending with both her and it crashing to the ground. Of course, the painting of woke up and started screeching her head off, leading to Sirius, Remus, Mr. and , Kingsley, and Madeye rushing to shut it up. Suddenly all of them disappeared.

Bill had been working the night shift at gringotts when he disappeared. Charlie was tending to a new burn he had gotten when he disappeared. Percy was at his desk having had fallen asleep the previous night working on a report when he disappeared.