Jumping into a situation blind is these sorts of crisis scenarios is generally a terrible idea. But fortune favours the bold, or perhaps caution is simply boring, because Bellatrix Black has Apparated close enough to a levitating creature that appears to be a mass of flesh, a large eyeball, and a handful of stalks with smaller eyeballs that she feels it prudent to pop out again. Some distance away.

Only she finds that as the thing is looking at her, she can't. She staggers back, one hand pressed to her head as a sense of inexplicable dread seems to crush her chest and leave her short of breath. She gasps - quite audibly - wand at the ready, and shaking in her white-knuckled grasp.