Chapter 3 of Year 2: "Whisper In the Dark"

Title derived from a song title! Can you guess it?

*Susan*

The first week at the Sargents went by quickly. Emilia has been a genuine gem to us all. She helped out during the Second Wizarding War and taught us many things about that period of time. She also did everything a mother did and to Dan (even though it wasn't his real home) it felt as if he was home.

But, she was worried that the Malfoy was starting a Third Wizarding War. She was concerned for the safety of her kids for when they would go to Hogwarts. We got a secret keeper sense from her throughout that first week. It was as if she knew something that we should've known. 

Jules, Dan and I sat outside in the grassy fields, playing gobstones and exploding wizard card games. 

"I have a feeling that Emilia isn't telling us something. She's keeping something from us." I said to Jules and Dan who were busy unwrapping brand new gobstones. 

"I've caught that same vibe. Not something she would do though!" Dan replied as he put an unwrapped gobstone on the grass. 

"It was a shock to me as well. Emilia is usually very open. I don't understand what she's trying to hide." Julie commented. 

We played Gobstones for a good few hours with the wind blowing lightly and softly on us. Messed up Julie's hair though. She was not happy. But then again, she never was happy when the wind made her look like a bird's nest. 

*Julie*

We went to bed that night. But I kept hearing strange whispers in the dark. Nothing that I've ever experienced. 

Someone knocked on the door of my room 

"Come in!" I said

Susan came in through the door. 

"Do you hear the whispers as well or is it just me?" She asked

"Yes, and it's pretty creepy!" I replied

"Yeah. I wonder where they are coming from. It's definitely not coming from the house."

"I suggest we investigate the sound. Rather than sit here and try to guess what it is" I suggested

Susie nodded in approval. We quietly sneaked out of the house through the window using the Arresto Momentum charm and followed the whispering sound into the nearby woods. 

*Susan*

The sound was getting closer with every step we made. 

"Where's it coming from? And what could it be?" I asked

"Don't know! Our best bet is to follow it and find out!" Julie said as we continued our trekking through the dark, mysterious forest. The sound was getting clearer. It was Barty Crouch and Malfoy having a conversation 

"Listen here, Barty! You better get those kids to me or I will make sure you end up like the Longbottom's parents all those years ago!" Malfoy shouted

"I'm trying master! But every time the escape!" Barty replied

"Julie, it's Barty Crouch and Malfoy. We must not get spotted." I whispered

"Our best bet is to cast some illusion spells to keep them occupied and run for it!"

I nodded and cast a huge snake, spider and wolf illusion around them and ran with Julie back in to the forest

"Hopefully that will keep them busy enough for us to get back to the house!" Julie puffed out. 

"Too little too late for that!" Malfoy said as he walked out of the shadows with Barty Crouch. 

"You two are trapped. You'll have to come with us." Barty said and grabbed my wrist tight. 

"Thing is, we have no idea what there is that our uncle and aunt had. We are clueless and we are not the most valuable source of information." I replied coldly. 

"Liars, you kids are!" Malfoy snapped at us. 

"No, we are not." Julie angrily talked back. 

I managed to free my wrist from Crouch's grip but a spell hit me.  It was hurting everything inside. 

The Crucio Curse. I screamed in horror. It wasn't anything like I've ever experienced. The pain was horrid. The torture was so much like being cut open everywhere, but 100x worse. 

"Will you tell us where it is? Or should I keep torturing you?" Malfoy asked. 

I thought to myself for Julie to just run. I could see that she closed her eyes as if she heard something and immediately ran. 

"I can contact her too?" I thought to myself. And apparently my messages were a lot clearer than Hermione's  

*Julie*

The message was clear. I wondered how Susie could do it. It's not as rare as McGonagall said it was. 

I ran through the dark, moonlit forest to find my way back to the house to get help. 

I barged through the back door of the house. 

I went up to Emilia's room. 

"Emilia!" I shouted. 

"What's happening Julie?" She replied, with a sleepy voice. 

"Help! Susie and I went into the forest as we heard voices coming from it. Now, Susie's being tortured! (or at least I thought it was, by the sound of it)

Emilia jumped out of her bed as if someone fired her out of a canon. 

"Take me there! Now!!!" Emilia quietly screamed. Her fear for Susan was so real. I could see it in her frightened blue eyes.  

She ran through the hallways faster than the speed of sound (it seemed like that, anyway.)

"Please, hurry!" Susan's voice screamed in my head.

We ran through the woods to find Susie on the ground, without moving or breathing. I kneeled next to her and hugged her. "Susan...." I whispered in her ear. 

Her eyelids moved slightly before collapsing into my arms again.

I laid her on the grass. 

"Malfoy!!!" I shouted 

"Right here, Julie!" He said as he walked out of the shadow of the trees  

"Stupefy!" I yelled and a red light fired from my wand and hit Malfoy. The spell knocked him spinning backward to where he came from. 

"Nice shot, Julie!" Emilia patted me on the shoulder. 

"Thanks Emilia. Susie!" I replied and ran over to my sister to pick her up. She wasn't responding to anything I said. Her eyes were closed and her intake of air was very irregular.
"Susan!" I screamed and hugged her tighter. I just did not want to let go.

After Emilia finished off fighting Barty Crouch Jr, we carried Susie back to the house. We carried her up the stairs, and into her room. We laid her in her bed and I sat beside her bed.
"Will she be alright?" I asked Emilia.
"This lasted for quite a while. The spell was just so intense on her. But she'll be OK. Just give it a few hours."
She then left the room.

Until the late hours of the morning, I sat beside Susan's bed and wept. As the sun kissed the earth with the warmth of it's July rays, I promised myself that I'd avenge this. At around 11am, Susan's eyelids began to move and slowly opening up. I could see that her eyes were totally blank, or at least they seemed like it.
After an hour and a half, Susie began to slowly talk and wake up to where she was and what happened. At around 8pm, Susie was fully alive but she couldn't walk very well, It took her a few days to get used to walking again as her legs suffered greatly during the interrogation for the information that we did not even know.


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Chapter 2 of Year 2: "Hold Your Breath"

Hello! The title of the chapter is derived from a song I love.
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After the attack on our town, we watched as people who's houses were burned down were trying to rebuild their lives.
"Why have we got to bring misfortune on people, wherever we go? The meteor at Hogwarts and now this?" Susan asked
"I don't know, Susie. I just hope that people will readjust and live their lives normally!" I replied
"Maybe we should go to Sargent's or Susan's home for the rest of the summer. I fear we will bring more of what happened last night to this town!" Dan suggested
I thought about it for a while. A long while....
"I say we go! Daniel's right, we might put people in danger again!" I replied
"Let's go and pack our trunks and get ready to leave." Susie said.

We went into the house and packed everything into our trunks.
"Hey, where are you guys off to?" Dad asked
"We're going to the Sargent's for the rest of the summer. It will be easier for us to keep a low profile there." I replied without taking in air.
"Right, OK then. Behave yourselves there!" Mum replied
"What, did you think we won't?" Dan asked
"Especially after last night? Dad replied.
"Dad, I said sorry! I'm gonna try my best!" I groaned
"I was just winding you up." Dad answered with a cheeky smirk on his face.
I smiled and then laughed. He was well known in our town for winding people up.

We finished packing and left the house. As we walked down, we met up with Oliver (the guy from my class that was going into his first year at Hogwarts.
"Oliver, I heard the good news!" I smiled.
"Yeah, Hogwarts.... I wonder what it's like....." He wondered
"Better than High School. Trust me, a lot better. Just don't tell your mum I said that otherwise she'll hate me for the rest of my life!" I explained
Oliver laughed. "Yeah, my mother's kinda known for that! Don't worry, I won't say a word!"
"See you later, Oliver!" I finished the conversation and we walked down to the station.
"So, did you say that Oliver was joining Hogwarts?" Dan asked
"Yeah, after I helped Mrs Ashton from the Death Eater's flames, she told me. It's going to be great, having an old friend of mine at Hogwarts." I replied
"That's our train!" Susie pointed and we walked over to the train and bought tickets from the driver. There was something about his face that had put me on high alert.

We went to sit down in an empty carriage.
"There's something about that driver. It feels like he either he is a Death Eater or he just doesn't like kids." I said to Vera.

"You're right. But I guess he just doesn't like kids. I mean, why would a Death Eater be working among Muggles?" She replied

"Good point" 

*Susan*

After half an hour, the train stopped because of a technical hitch. But something about the technical issue that wasn't exactly "Muggle like."

The silence on the train was a little creepy and disturbing. We were stuck out in a middle of a bridge. 

"Strange place to stop!" Julie said. I didn't wait a second. I ran out of the carriage. But the train was a ghost town. Absolutely empty. 

"Guys, the train has been deserted. Something's not right!" I said and ran along. I then noticed that there was practically no air in other carriages. 

I cast the Bubble Head Charm on my head to be able to breathe easily. I walked along the carriages and as I walked, I was shocked to see that people left their belongings. But where did they go?

I looked out of a window and noticed everybody outside. I gave out a sigh of relief. 

"Hello there, Susan" the driver said 

The voice I knew so well 

"Barth Crouch Jr." I replied 

"Like my surprise?" He laughed 

"I get a laugh now. The air removal spell didn't exactly reach our carriage!"

"Oh crap it..." He spat out in anger 

"Levicorpus!" I shouted and pointed my wand. 

"End the spell and get us to King's Cross Station or you're going overboard into the River Forth!" I warned 

"All right!" He agreed. I lifted my spell and ended the bubble head charm. The air removal spell lifted and everyone came back on board. 

I returned to our carriage 

I sat down and crossed my arms. My facial expression must have been infused with anger as neither Julie or Dan spoke to me for at least half an hour. 

*Julie* 

"So, what happened?" I asked

"Don't ask. I don't want to talk about it!" Susie replied and walked out of the carriage. 

"OK, that was unexpected!" Dan said

"I wonder what happened! It really seems to have angered for Susie to act this way!" I replied

"Girls, when will they ever be easy to understand?"

"Don't start your comedy. It's not funny at this moment in time!" 

"Shush you. I'm always funny" 

"In your dreams!" I said and we looked at each other. We then laughter our heads off. 

"See? I am funny!" He said 

"And I am a pixie from the Wonderland. Not always funny!" I replied. 

*Susan* 

The train stopped violently again, which made me fall over. Everyone from the carriages took their things and ran for their lives. The electricity inside the train started to flicker. 

"Did you really think I'd let you get to your destination without causing a bit of chaos!" Barty Crouch Jr said as he towered over me. I rolled away from him and stood up. 

"Stupefy!" I shouted 

His body was thrown back and hit the driver's cabin door. 

A song that Julie played ran through my head "Oh I've got to turn and run from faces you'll never see"

I ran back to our carriage. 

I quickly shrank our trunks and I got the twins to put them in their pockets. 

"Come on! Now!" I shouted. It was as if I knew something bad was going to happen. 

"OK, what's going on?" Julie cut me off on my way out. I tossed her arms to the side and I ran out of the train. 

*Dan*

"Let's do as she asked, Julie!" I said

"I'd like to know what's going on first!" Julie demanded 

"Let's not question and just trust her with it! Come on, Jules!" I replied and put both shrunken trunks into my pocket. I took Julie's hand and dragged her out of the train. We were in a middle of no where. Or as Sargents would say: "Station Meadows, cattle come off!" (I still had no idea what that was supposed to mean)

*Susan*

"You two, over here!" I shouted and waved at Dan and Julie as they ran out of the train. 

They were extremely lucky as about three seconds after they did, the train caught fire. Whole of it. 

"Run!" I said and I ran along the grass

Dan and Julie followed. 

"SUSAN!" Julie yelled. I stopped 

"What's happening?" She asked

"Probably should have told you earlier. You were right in suspecting that the Driver is a Death Eater. It was Barty Crouch Jr. He basically cast a spell on the front of the train to take all air out of the front carriages. Now he set the train on fire!" I explained 

"How do we get to Sargents now that the train is on fire?" Julie asked 

"Daniel, did you say that the Sargents live due south?" I asked

"Yeah but...." Dan answered

"Point Me!" I said as I took my wand out

"This way!" I continued 

They followed me for half an hour and we stopped for refreshments 

"So, we're going to walk to their home?" Dan asked. I nodded

"Well, not entirely. We'll walk to the King's Cross Station, which is about 3 and a half hours. But it's getting dark." I replied 

"I suggest we camp out and resume walking in the morning. Good thing I brought camping stuff with me." Julie said

"How did you manage to fit all that in your suitcase?" Dan asked

"Shrinking Charm" she replied. 

We built the tents (she took three with her) and went to bed for the night. But I wasn't able to sleep. My mind was just raving through the things that happened a few hours before. 

I walked out of our tent and walked to the land edge to sit and marvel at the beauty of the countryside. The stars were clearly visible and created many patterns in the sky. But one that cought my eye was the archer. An archer always pointed a witch or wizard towards danger. 

I heard rustling in the trees from where the archer's arrow pointed at 

I pointed my wand in caution. 

"We meet again, Susie!" Barty spoke in his deep, mysterious voice.

"Why are you following us?" I asked him

"Malfoy wants you three." 

"In your deepest imagination" I said and non verbally cast Levicorpus to drop him into the deepest part of the sea. 

He was struggling (but I did not bother.)

I went back to my tent and fallen asleep at around half one. 

Julie woke me up at 9am. I yawned widely as I stretched my arms upwards. I walked out of my tent and Dan already had our breakfast ready. 

"Wow Dan, you certainly have discovered a skill. Magic cooking!" I said as I tasted the camp fire toast he made. 

"It's not that hard Susie!" He replied. 

We quickly ate and packed up our camping stuff and went on our way. 

"So, Susan. Tell me about your adoptive family more!" Julie asked as we walked the path in a huge forest. 

"My mother works in a bookshop in Grenlanchs (fictional town). She would always bring me best-sellers and horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller books because the are my favourite books to read. Romance books aren't my go to books. 

My father is a research scientist for the University of Grenlanchs. He specialises in research of animals, their behaviours and their ways of living their lives. Their organisms and how their DNA is structured." I replied 

"Very interesting. So, you're practically surrounded by books!"

"There's nothing better than to take out a good book and read it with a hot chocolate before bed. Brilliant thing to do!" I smiled

"Same here!" 

After three and a half hours of a similar chat and walking alongside each other, we made it to the King's Cross Station. 

"Thank goodness we're here! Let me give  Sargents a call and they might be able to pick us up in their magic car from here!" Dan said and phoned his adoptive parents 

"Done. We'll just have to wait an hour for them to come!" 

After an hour, the Sargents came and took us down to the house I got to know so well the summer before that. 

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Chapter 1 of Year 2: "Summer With Siblings - Not As Expected"

Welcome to Year 2, guys! Hope you enjoyed Year 1 and I'm determined to make this one just as good (if not better and even more exciting) as Year 1.
The song I'm listening to is Broken Pieces - Apocalyptica  feat Lacey Sturm!


***Dransenden is fictional town***


Susie, Dan and I sat in my room
"So Jules, Muggle High School.... What's it like?" Susie asked
"Boring!" I giggled
"How?"
"Well, it's like Umbridge's read-the-textbook lessons only everyday. Apart from sciences - which are like Potions- everything else was extremely dull in comparison to Hogwarts."
"Interesting. So what music do you like to listen to when you're not at Hogwarts?" Daniel asked.
I put my iPod on in the dock. Broken Pieces started playing.
"Such a dark, mysterious sound. Her voice is powerful as well. It's my kind of music as well!" Susie said
"I agree. I grew up listening to Wizard and witch musicians but this is a lot better." Dan replied
"I thought you might like it." I answered them.
"Want to go outside? We should enjoy the sunny weather while it lasts." Susie asked
Dan and I nodded in approval.

We went to the nearby park and sat on the bright green grass (we already had books from the Diagon Alley) and we studied some of or second year textbooks.
"The new spells are so intriguing." I complimented
"Let's just hope Umbridge won't drown them in her "theory only" teaching." Susie replied.
"And let's hope that Professor Binns won't drown this interesting and battle filled Wizarding History in boredom of his voice. The past in the textbook is so well expressed. Not a boring lecture like he gives."
"I know! Hey look, isn't that Snowy?" I asked Susie
"Snowy!" she replied and caught the letter that it carried in her delicate, black beak.
"Well done Snowy! Here's your treat!" She handed the snowy owl a rat-shaped treat that she had in her shoulder bag.
I opened the letter that Snowy delivered.
"It's from Professor McGonagall."
"Dear Susan, Daniel and Julie,
There's a wave of evil magic making it's way to you. It is Malfoy and the Death Eater. They are expected to arrive near ***Dransenden around 4:30pm. I strongly suggest you stay indoors and don't look out of the windows for they will find you. I do not wish for you to be harmed in anyway. 
If they encounter you in any way, know that the Minister for Magic has relaxed the use of magic outside of school and in front of Muggles rule. You are allowed to use magic outside of school.
With regards
Professor Minerva McGonagall."
I looked at my watch. It's 4:15pm. "Come on, let's do what McGonagall said." Susan said and we ran over to the house.
"Hey guys. You all OK?" Mum asked
"Yeah mum. We just have to go upstairs!" I replied and we ran upstairs.

We went to Susie's room and shut the door.
"OK, so we have to hide! I wonder for how long?" I asked
"Not sure. It's 4:29pm right now. By looking through the window from the distance, I can't see anything happening." Dan replied
"Well, you won't see ANYTHING from a distance. Would you?" Susan questioned
"You could see things. Like strange green lightening that just struck the road!" Dan replied
"They're here. Let's sit on the floor and not make any noise. They'll just go past." Susie said in fear
"It's not gonna work like that. We must go out and fight!" I exclaimed, but not too loud.
"Um, are you mad? You know how that might end!" Susan said
"Susan, we are the only ones in the neighbourhood that can do something about this!" I replied
"No, Susan's right. We can't!" Dan approved her.
"We just came back from a battle. We must protect this neighbourhood."
"If we don't do anything, they'll just leave." Susan angrily said
"Um, remember the meteor? The silence from that? They've never stopped until they found us."
"Julie stop arguing with us! Seriously, what did McGonagall say to do??? Stay in and don't cause trouble!" Dan stomped his feet to the ground.
"You'd be the same if you lived here for as long as I have. You'd do the same if the neighbourhood around the Sargent family or around your home, Susie. What would you do?"
"Wait it out! If I was given an instruction from someone of a higher rank than myself I'd probably do as I've been told to!" Dan and Susan said simultaneously.
"You know, I never thought you would be THAT inconsiderate about people from your neighbourhood!" I stood up violently
"GO THEN! JUST KNOW THAT SHE WARNED YOU!" they shouted back at me.

I went downstairs.
"I think Death Eaters are here!" Mum said as soon as she saw me.
"Wait, you know about them?" I asked
"Your professor sent us a letter. I am not to let you out the door for your safety." Mum answered
"Mom, you need to let me! What if they set the town on fire? What if they torture people for information about us living here?"
"But we can't let you out! Professor McGonagall clearly gave us instructions and I'm not gonna let her down!"
"Mum, do you really want Mrs Ashton to die because of those freaks?"
Mrs Aileen Ashton was my mother's best friend and my Chemistry teacher.
"No, but our instructions were very clear!"
"Fine!" I chucked that word out of my mouth as I went upstairs and into my room.

I sat on my bed curled up. But then I realised that my family just wanted the best  for me. But I wanted the best for everyone else.
I went to get a hooded jumper out of wardrobe and put it on. I decided to pack a bag with a few spell books, DADA books and light reading material. A tent that I managed to shrink with the Shrinking Charm, food, a few sets of clothes (all of which were shrunk), a purse with Muggle money and a few more essentials and jumped out of my window (it wasn't high, so I managed to land on two feet without damage and ran along the road.
There wasn't much damage done (yet) although the green lightening bolts kept on striking the ground. The park we sat at an hour ago was in flames. Green Flames.
I hid under a tree and cast the spell to extinguish the flames from there.
As soon as the fire was out, I noticed Mrs Ashton covered in burns.
"Mrs Ashton!" I exclaimed as I ran up to her
"Julie!" she replied quietly.
I helped her to her feet and helped her to get home.
We were at her home.
"Thank you, Julie! I knew that you'd make an excellent witch. My son, Oliver has got his Hogwarts invitation yesterday!" she thanked me
"Oliver from our Chemistry class? The one I spoke to on the street when I found out I was a witch?" I asked
"Yes, m'dear! Thank you for your help!" She finished as she walked into her house.

*Susan*
"No way!" I said as I walked in to Julie's room
"What is it, Susie?" Dan asked
"Julie escaped through her window!" I answered
"Is she crazy? We must go and find her!" Dan questioned
"We have to do what McGonagall told us. We have to stay!" I said
"No way! I'm not staying knowing that Malfoy is on the loose!" Dan replied
"We just have to this time." I told him

*Julie*
I put my hood on and zipped my jumper up so only my eyes would be visible.
As I walked the streets, I heard cries of many families. The lightening bolts set some houses on fire and some people's businesses were trashed by magic. I felt it in the air. It was so thick and heavy with dark magic. The same sensation I had when I battled Malfoy for the first time.
The streets were empty. Everyone hid for their lives.
I looked up into the sky. The clouds were glowing with shades of green. 
 "Who are you young lady?" A guy asked from behind me.
I met his eyes.
"Cassie-Anne Lloyd" I lied in a deeper voice. It was Barty Crouch Jr. One of the former and present Death Eaters.
"Right. I suggest you go home. It won't be safe on the street in a few minutes"
I nodded and walked along the road.

I decided to give Susan a call
"Susan!" I said
"For heaven's sake! Are you OK?!" She exclaimed
"I'm fine. The streets are like scenes from a horror film. Empty, burning with green flames, dark...."
"Come back home! Please!" She begged
"I can't. There's so much darkness happening. I can't leave especially that there are many people probably still in danger"
She hung up without warning.

I walked further along the road I was going. The chill of the rain was starting to fall around. The rain was black. The drops were just so dark. Filled with dark magic.
It was completely dark outside as well. It was now 6pm. It was meant to be very light outside at this time in July.
"Help!" I heard a scream from a nearby home. I ran over to see what was going on.
"Laura!" I exclaimed
"Julie! Do you know what that is?" She asked in panic, pointing at the opposite wall to us. It was a black serpent made out of the Senpersortia spell.
"I do." I pointed my wand at it and mumbled the Finite Incantatem spell to make it perish. It was huge.
"Thank you, but what did you do? What is happening today? Green lightening bolts, green flames...."
"I can't answer that. I know what it is but I'm not allowed to mention anything." I replied and left.

I walked back down to the park but hid behind a tree because I've spotted Malfoy and Barty Crouch Jr talking in the center of the park.
"We must find them! Have you seen anyone around here?!" Malfoy commanded.
"I've just spoken to a young girl by the name Cassie-Anne. But I have a feeling she isn't who she said she is! She was nervous a little bit when I asked for her name!" Crouch Jr replied
"It must be her. Bring that girl to me at once!"
"I can feel her presence around here."
I shook a bit. But it is hard to find someone in the area I was in. It was just bushes and trees. I pointed my wand at them both and used a Memory Charm to erase what happened.
I quietly sneaked around the trees to find my way back.
"There's someone in that bunch of trees!" Malfoy said and quickly ran up and caught me.
"Who are you? Why are you sneaking around here?" He asked
"I'm Cassie-Anne and I'm not sneaking. I was just walking along the path between the trees." I lied
"I don't believe in anything you just said. Where do you come from?"
"Edinburgh. I'm on my summer holidays from school and I'm visiting my family." I lied again.

He pulled my hood off.
"Julie Sharmons! I knew that it was you! Tell me, where's the rest of your dear family."
"NEVER! I'D BE MAD TO TELL YOU WHERE THEY ARE!"

*Daniel*
"I'm really worried, Dan. It's 7:30pm and she's not back yet. I'm just really...."
Then she heard Julie's desperate cry.
"NEVER! I'D BE MAD TO TELL YOU WHERE THEY ARE!" Julie screamed.
"Julie's been caught! What do we do?!" Susan asked
"We can't go outside. It will reveal our location so easily!" I answered.

*Julie*
"Tell us where your siblings are!" He asked again
"NO WAY! I'LL NEVER TELL YOU." I said and quietly whispered the Memory Charm to implant a false memory in their minds. He let me go and I put my hood back on.
"Sorry Cassie-Anne. We thought you were someone we came here for."
"No problem" I said and walked back home.


I walked in.
"Mum, dad, Dan, Susie!" I said
"Julie!" They said as they hugged me
"We heard your scream and we were freaking out about you!" Dan said
"I'm alright. Thanks to a Memory Charm!"
"Thank goodness!" Mum and Dad said.

We talked through what I've seen on the streets. The chaos, the devastation to some people's homes.
Then we noticed that the storm let up.
"They must have moved on. Phew!" I said, relieved
"Never do something like that again, Julie! The past three hours were torture!" Susan replied
"OK!" I agreed

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Chapter 18 of Year 1: "Fire! Fire! Fire! (Aim Your Wands High)

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*Susan*
"Fire!" Dan said
"Fire your first year spells all you want, but you'll never beat us! We are more advanced in our magical skill than you are, kiddos" Ron replied.
"Try again. Stupefy Maxima!" I answered him and fired a series of shots at him until he was thrown into the wall. Hermione immediately ran over to him.
"You evil Mudblood kid!" She cried
"Um, newsflash! You aren't a Pure Blood either! Expelliamus!" Vera said and Hermione's wand flew out of her hand and Vera caught it without a problem.
Then, Ron fired Accio to get Hermione's wand back and battle recommenced.
"We need to get Julie to safe place before Malfoy decides to show up!" Dan shouted at me.

*Julie*
I got up from the floor. I was able to stand up through the internal pain.
"No need for it! I've had it! Flamme Cirlins!" I shouted.
A ring of blue, cold flames surrounded the trio. Those flames can't be put out with the water charms because they are cold flames so they can't be put out by cold or hot water. Only by a End The Spell Charm (finite incantatem)
"You are pushing it guys!" Harry said
"That's us, Potter!" Susie said
The trio used the Carpe Retractum to escape the flames.
"We can outsmart you children!" Hermione said.
"We'll just see about that!" Susie giggled

*Susan*
"Susie, what the heck are you thinking?!" Julie hissed
"Split up, run to hide, get them to join back together and fire! Trust me, it will work like a charm. Just be careful that we don't meet Malfoy on the way." I replied without stopping for a single breath.
"Good plan! Not Let's get this show on the road"

We ran in all possible directions, spreading out all over the Hall of Prophecy. Hermione was always on my tail. 

"Stupefy!" I whispered as I pointed my wand at her. The spell quickly hit her and I ran even faster to hide. 

"Where are they?" Ron asked Hermione and Harry as they met in the middle. 

In my hiding spot. 

"Julie, how lovely to see you..." Malfoy whispered. 

"Great, why do I always jinx it?" I've asked myself. 

"Expelliarmus!" I whispered and his wand was now in my hand.  

I looked at Dan, Vera and Susan, who were all ready to 

"Fire!" I shouted and we jumped out and fired our Stupifys at them. 

Now MalFoy walked out of the shadow. 

*Daniel* 

"There's Malfoy!" Susie said 

"Who are you, young lady?" He asked

"Your worst nightmare. Triple trouble for I am their older sister, Susan!" She replied without taking in air, standing proudly. 

"Susan Sharmons! I knew that you would be hiding somewhere."

"Glad that you're amused by it. So, have you had any plans for the summer? Because you're gonna be spending it in a hospital because we are gonna kick your butt back to where you belong, you nasty excuse for a wizard!" 

"Julie, she's worse in yelling at him than you. She just practically gave him a lecture!" I said to Julie. 

"Just because you never heard anyone giving someone a row!" She replied to me 

"Hey, I've heard a row before but that was simply a beginning of one of Mr Binns History of Magic classes"

"And you can't stop talking!" 

"You two! We're in a middle of a battle and you are squabbling like kids in a supermarket! Stop it!" Susan complained. 

Awkward silence fell. All four of us fell into laughter. 

"Right. Let's show Malfoy what we are all about!" Julie shouted 

*Susan* 

"Fire! Stupefy" we shouted and Malfoy hit the concrete wall. 

I walked up to him and pointed my wand at his neck.

"You separated me from my parents. I'll never let you get away with it!" I said

"You've not missed much" Julie replied. 

"And from my siblings. My brother and sister. You are the cruelest. You've attacked them too. But trust me, you won't be able to handle whatever is hidden" 

"Don't start an essay!" Dan said

"Daniel! Seriously, shut up!" Julie hissed 

But then, Malfoy disappeared into black particles. 

"He's gone!" Julie punched out in anger 

"Come on, the least we can do is break the spell that he cast on the trio!" I answered her. 

*Julie*

"Finite Incantatem!" I said as I pointed my wand at the trio. 

As soon as the spell hit, they were confused as to what they were doing there. 

"Julie, Daniel, Vera..." Hermione said in confusion 

"Susan. Julie and Daniel's sister." Susie replied

"Pleasure to meet you. What happened?" Harry asked

"Well, Malfoy used the Imperius Curse on you all. But it must have been partial because Hermione was able to contact me in my thoughts. She made them very much a puzzle as they were just few lines from my favourite songs put together. Ron had his input in the last message that put everything together. McGonagall was a little surprised when I said it makes sense. It all makes sense." I explained

"Yeah. I was able to somewhat communicate with you by songs. Other way was purely impossible" Hermione answered. 

We walked to the door and helped to put the shied up again. 

After returning to Hogwarts, it was around midnight. Umbridge was shocked to see us all still alive. We all just smiled at her cheekily and walked past her. 

The next few weeks were exam times and we barely had time to talk to each other. 

After we finished our exams.

"Offt, those exams were the beast." Dan said

"They were super easy." Vera, Susie and I said together 

"That's because you're all bookworms" 

"It's not because of that. It's because you kept on playing the exploding wizard card game instead of actually studying" Vera laughed. 

"Hey, I just went through one talk about school exam rules. Spare me another!" Dan replied. We laughed as we remembered the moment in the Hall of Prophecy where Dan made a similar comment. 

"Do you want to come home for the summer? I'm sure our parents will be delighted to see you!" I suggested. 

"Such a fantastic idea!" They replied. 

We went to our dorms to back our trunks (in my case a suitcase) and went off to the train.

We arrived in London and we went on another train to Scotland. 

I phoned our mum after Vera met her parents at King's Cross. 

"Hi mum!" I greeted

"Julie! Long time no hear! Are you OK? How was your first year? We're so sorry, we shouldn't have tried to keep you from where your destiny lies!" She shouted in happiness

"I'm fine mum, honestly! The first year was eventful and informational. And I've got a surprise for you two. A HUGE surprise. Part of which is why I will make my own way home!" I said and smiled at the others. 

"Really? Are you sure you don't want us to pick you up?" She asked 

"I'm fine mum, really! It's only a five minute walk. See you soon!" I replied. 

"OK sweetie. See you soon!" She said and I finished the call as we bought our ticket to Dramsemden (fan created town)

It was a long 8 and a half hour trip back home. In the mean time we slept, played card games, read books and laughed as we still couldn't get enough of that slip up in the Hall of Prophecy. 

"When will we ever let go of it?! It's kinda embarrassing." Susie asked

"Knowing Dan, probably never" I answered her, not caring of what he thought. 

He just looked at me and laughed. 

"Guys come on, our stop's here!" I said and we packed up the stuff we has out and got off the train. 

I lead them to our home. 

"It's a big house in comparison to our hut near London" Susie said in amazement 

"Stay here for a bit. I need to go in first" I answered her and walked in to our house 

"Mum, dad!" I shouted. Our parents came running to hug me in a speed of sound. 

"I missed you!" I said as I embraced them. 

"We have as well! So what have you been up to? What's the surprise you want us to see?" Dad asked. 

"Ah, let me just step outside for a second!" I said and walked outside. 

"Come in!" I shouted at them 

Susan and Dan walked up the steps and into the house. 

I closed the door. 

"Mum, Dad. I want to introduce you to Susan and Daniel. My siblings." I explained. 

"Daniel, Susan.... Is it really you?" Mum asked 

"Yeah, I think so." Daniel giggled. 

"He likes to be a comedian." I whispered to her. 

"Susan..." Dad said as he hugged her 

"Dad... I never thought I'd meet you!" she replied

"And I never thought we'd see you after all that time." Susan said to him. 

"How did you find them, Julie?" Mum asked 

"Can I explain over dinner? It really is a long story!" I said and we put our suitcases and trunks upstairs and went down for dinner. 

Year One officially complete! So happy with how it turned out! a lot going on, but Year 2 will hopefully be just as good! 

Stay tuned for that! 

Chapter 17 of Year 1: "Danger All Around Us - And A New Secret Revealed (Or More Than One)"

Yet another title derived from a song title. I'll let you guess this one, this time! :)

So, I explained to Vera the message I've heard in the Pensieve.
"Wow. that is very, very strange!" Vera said
"I know. Who knows who sent me that. I was thinking that it could've been you but you were under a spell. Since it not you, who is it. It was definitely a female voice." I replied
"OK, let's go to bed. We'll try to think of it more tomorrow." Vera said and we went to bed.

I sat in my bed all night, trying to figuring out who it was that tried to communicate with me.
"Sorrow lasts through the night.
I felt it deep within me,
And set apart this dream for me
Freedom, oh freedom.
Both end up dead"
I was trying and trying to figure it out but nothing. Absolutely nothing.I walked out our dorm as quietly as I could and slowly and silently sneaked downstairs to sit on the couch in the Common Room.
There was something about the air in the Common Room. It was so heavy and thick. It was heavy - with dark magic. The wind coming into the Common Room was cold and breezy. I just knew that something was wrong outside of Hogwarts. Something dark.
I stepped outside of the portrait and Professor Umbridge stood right in front of it.
"Where are you going, Miss Sharmons?" She asked
"Just going to sit on the stairwell, Professor. I can't sleep."
"Come with me." She said.
"Sure....." I replied and followed her to her office.

Her office was even more pink than I remembered. With even more cats meowing from the enchanted plates hanging on the wall.
"Sit down." She invited and pointed at a cushioned chair. I cautiously sat down at her desk. She locked the door, which clicked my alert levels on. She came over to the desk and sat down.
"Is there anything I can help you?" she asked.
"No, thank you!" I replied politely.
She walked over to me and grabbed my arm. I tried to pull away from her grip but she was too strong for me.
"What are you doing?" I asked her, shooting an angry look at her.
"I'm just getting ready to hand you over to Draco Malfoy."
"Stupefy Maxima!" I shouted with my wand pointing at her. She was thrown backwards
"Bombarda!" I yelled and the door shattered into a thousand pieces. I ran outside and as fast as I could back to the Common Room and into the girls dorm, where Vera was waiting in impatiently.
"Jules, where did you go? I was freaking out that Malfoy got to you" she said and walked over.
"Almost did. Umbridge was ready to hand me over but I blasted her away. By the way, you've not seen Dan before we went for bed, at all during the day, haven't you?"
"No. No I haven't. Not after you came to see us in the Great Hall."

We haven't slept all night. The whole Umbridge situation was a shock to my system.

We went down to breakfast in the morning.
Dan was at the table when we arrived.
"Dan! We haven't seen you since I've seen you yesterday early afternoon." Vera and I said together
"Yeah, sorry. I was studying for exams" he replied
"Studying? Since when did you decide to study."
"We do have exams soon!"
"Good point"
"Good morning!" Umbridge shouted from behind us.
"Morning, Professor Umbridge. Came back to hand us over to Malfoy have you?" I asked calmly
"If you mention to anyone what happened last night, I will personally kill you. Right here, right now." She replied with anger in her tone
"I already have, you can give up hope for that not happening." I giggled.

I then walked off to Charms with Vera, Dan and Susan.
"Professor Umbridge is a monster. How dare she say she will kill you? A first year?" Vera said in disgust.
"She works for Malfoy. I'm sure of it. Why would she otherwise say that?" Dan replied
From the corner of my eye, I've seen Umbridge follow us.
"We have company. On Three, fire Carpe Retractum on the lantern and jump."
"WHAT?" They shouted.
"One, two....Three. Carpe Retractum!" I fired the spell at the hanging lantern above the dungeon entrance and jumped.
The rate that I was pulled at was quite fast but I managed to land on my feet. Soon, Dan, Vera and Susie joined me.
"Susie!" I exclaimed
"No time to explain. We have got to go before she catches up on us."

We ran across the dungeons and hid in a small room that we used to hide from the Prefects in the first term.
"Susie, please explain!" I begged
"I'm your older sister! I was born 6 months before you two through IVF."
"No way! Third of March?" Dan asked
"No cheese, Sherlock. Of course, March 3rd!" Susie replied
"So, what happened to you?" I asked
"According to my adoptive parents, it was for my own protection as Malfoy would come after me for our aunt and uncle's treasure too! I was given away for adoption a month and a half after birth, so I've grown up not knowing our real parents"
"I've wondered why we had two spare bedrooms in our house" I said
"Susie, has your adoptive parents mentioned anything at all about what the treasure could be?" Dan asked
"No, but speculated that it could be the Magical Pendant of Traeh (heart spelled backwards.) Pendant so powerful and rich in magic that it can protect the wearer and destroy their enemies. So rich in magic that the heart feels instant connection with the pendant's immense power (explains the backward spelling of Heart)
But if the person who is not willing to love wears it, the pendant will destroy them."
"This is so interesting. You mean that this pendant could be what Malfoy wants us for?"
"This is just speculation. I don't know if that's it."
"Shhh!" Dan said.
"I'll find you four." Umbridge shouted. She walked over to where we were.
"You won't escape. I've got you four"
I looked at my siblings and Vera. We nodded and fired an Expelliamus together. She was thrown back at such force, a few bricks fell on her from the pillar that she hit.
"Let's get out of here!" Dan and Susan shouted and we ran out of the dungeon and to the grounds.
I sat on the grass and felt the same feeling of being communicated with as last time.
"Someone is communicating with me. I feel it" I pulled my wand out and pointed it to my head and pulled out the light
"What the heck is that?" Susie asked
"Don't ask but I must go to find McGonagall." I said and ran back into the Hogwarts castle to find McGonagall's office.

"Professor!" I shouted as I have seen her going into her office.
"Miss Sharmons! How can I help you?" she asked
"I need to use your Pensieve. I've been communicated with again!"
"Come in!" She said and she welcomed me in.
I dropped the light into the Pensieve. The light was bright blue this time.
I've put my head into the basin.
The same scene appeared as last time.
"We played for peace tonight
Bleeding because you knew the fight was right
Save me
Time for surrender (spoken: more like control)
All my twisted thoughts free float into everlasting memories (spoken: controlled by those memories)"
Yet again, parts of songs I knew well.

I took my head out. Now that this clue was sang again with male voices speaking the last spoken, everything started to make sense from the last few days. Everything. The last communication, the Imperio cast on Vera, Umbridge's desperate attempts to get us all to Malfoy. It was making sense.
"It all makes sense. It makes sense!" I said and ran out. McGonagall stared at me, confused.

I went on to find Vera, Susie and Dan.
"Guys! Guys!" I shouted.
"Here, Jules!" Dan whispered.
I walked over and sat on the grass beside them.
"What's up, Jules?" Susie asked
"Everything that happened in the last few weeks makes sense. Those messages have put everything together. 
The meteor, the silence, the Umbridge's attempts to get us all to Malfoy, the Imperius curse on Vera....It makes sense. The messages are from Hermione. And from what the last message just said, Harry, Ron and Hermione are under Malfoy's control.
Vera listen to this:
'We played for peace tonight, bleeding because we knew the fight was right. Save me. Time for surrender with a male voice saying more like control. All my twisted thoughts free float into everlasting memories and a male voice saying controlled by those memories!' "
Vera remained silent until:
"You're right. Everything makes perfect sense!" she replied
"No, it doesn't. How can she contact you through your thoughts?" Dan asked
"McGonagall said that I and now apparently Hermione, have an uncommon ability to contact each other through our thoughts. Anyone with it is able to communicate with me through it although a Pensieve -a magical basin containing memories- is required to read them"
"OK, so what do we do now?" Vera asked
"We go to the DoM!" I replied
"How do you know for sure that they will be there?" Dan questioned
"Remember last time? What other place could Malfoy possibly choose to fight us? The Malfoy Manor proved to be too rusty for big spell fights." Vera answered
"Exactly" I replied
"Let's go. But how do we get from here to London?" Susie asked
"Simple. The fifth floor corridor passageway." Vera answered her.

We walked over to the fifth floor corridor statue.
"Raisin Cases" I whispered. The statue opened the passageway and we all stepped through and walked along the path.
"Brr, it's so chilly down here" Susie said, shivering.
"It wasn't as cold as this last time we were here. It was breezy, but not this cold!" Vera answered.

After an hour of walking, we were at the MoM.
"This place is so so cool. After the renovations from the Wizarding War 2, I think it looks pretty awesome" Vera said.
"Come on guys, we have to go to the DoM. Can we admire the walls later?" I asked
"DoM? You've got to be joking. We can't even bypass the security system." Susie answered in shock
"Julie can" Vera smiled back at her as we walked into the lift to take us to floor 9.

We quickly made our way to the DoM after we got off from the lift.
"This is the door. Jules will you...?" Dan asked
"Step aside!" I replied but I noticed something about the door.
I tried to touch the barrier. But no barriers were there.
"Guys, the barrier isn't here. Malfoy must already be inside!" I said and we walked in.
We quickly walked over to the Hall of Prophecy.
"Well, well, well. Isn't it the Sharmons' kids" Ron said
"So is. Come on, it's time to give them a little lesson in Defense Against the Dark Arts" Hermione replied as they stepped out of the shadows.

*Hermione*
It felt as if I've completely lost my mind. To Malfoy's Imperius curse. There was no use in fighting it. I was spelled to do his bidding (which was to destroy them all, which wasn't what I wanted to do)
"Sectumsempra"  shouted and fired the spell at Julie

*Susan*
Julie flipped backwards twice and hit a big stone wall. We couldn't run to her otherwise we would've got the same thing.
As we stood with our wands pointed at Harry, Ron and Hermione and theirs at us, we looked at each other to see wherever to attack or to run. Julie wasn't moving. She laid on the floor, frozen with blood pouring out of her hand and neck
"Attack or run?" Dan asked.
"I don't know! We can't run otherwise we will be fired at." I replied
"Fire!"


Offt, this was a horrendously long chapter. I wanted to make sure that I can fit everything -the battle and the ending of first year- into the next chapter.
The song references will be easy for certain people to guess. Have fun.
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Chapter 16 of Year 1: "Deep Silence (In)Complete

The title is derived from one of my favourite songs. Nightwish fans will know it! :)

The next few weeks were relatively quiet. No major incidents (OK, rebellion against Umbridge rose... even Slytherins had trouble standing her. Whole class literally walked out when she lied about her involvement with the Death Eaters).)
But -to me- the silence from Malfoy, the Death Eaters and so on was worrying and distressing. The deep silence from them all was very confusing (after the meteor, the silence was NOT what I expected.)
I sat on the grass of the Gryffindor courtyard and read the book I borrowed from the Hogwarts Library: "The Connection" by Sylenthia Adder Salem. It was a magical philosophy and psychology book, looking into behaviours and beliefs of the wizarding world for Muggle Born witches and wizards. But one thing that caught my eye in the book was a diagram of how a Pure Blood, Slytherin mind works. The cycle described in so much detail and the precision of writing stunned me by a mile. In the page footnotes, was a quote by a famous Muggle Born wizard Edwardo Polline - "If an evil witch or wizard is silent and not continuing their attacks, beware. He or she are looking for the right moment to strike. Do NOT take silence as a sign to give up your guard. But always be on your toes for surprise attacks."
"Hey Julie! Wow, that book has got to be interesting. You've not looked up from it all morning!" My friend Susan giggled. She was a Muggle Born, just like Dan and I.
"It's greatly fascinating! Have you seen Vera and Dan on your travels?" I replied, smiling. Everyone knew I was a bookworm.
"I've seen both of them in the Great Hall!"
"Thanks Susie!" I replied and went on my way there.

After just a few steps, I heard a large bang coming from the Great Hall. I ran across the entrance courtyard and into the Great Hall. I was hugely relieved to know that it was just Professor Flitwick testing a new cleaning spell he invented but it backfired and turned him into a Christmas tree, The funniest thing was, it even had lights and baubles on it. Even a star at the top too! I looked around, but no sign of either of them anywhere whatsoever.
"Over here, Jules!" Dan sad and waved from the furthest table down. I calmly walked over.
"Hey. I just came to check up on you and to tell you to be on your guard. The Connection warns about silence from the forces of evil." I sad as I sat at the empty table.
"That book talks rubbish! My mother works for the British Aurors Association. She warned me about this book" Vera huffed.
"It's not! Vera, it's not! The librarian said that it's the best book to read for any Muggle Born witch or wizard. I'm into books myself and I know a good book!" I shouted and I angrily punched to the table with my fists.
"No, you wouldn't. Not the books on the wizarding world!"
I picked my book and walked back to the courtyard.
I suddenly heard something in my head. Something or someone was trying to communicate with me. I couldn't make out the message. It was so quiet and muddled up. It was as if it was a Cornish Pixie was talking. Quite high-pitched too.
"Are you OK, Julie?" Professor McGonagall asked as she walked past me.
"I'm getting a very vague message from someone. I can't hear the words or even from whom it is"
She pointed her wand to my head and as she pulled it away, a lilac liquid-like light came along with it.
"Come with me!" She said, sharply. I followed her without a word to her office. She placed her wand inside a stone container which contained similar lights but of different colours.
"This is a Pensieve." she said
"A what?" I asked
"A Pensieve. It reviews memories. But also can be used to review messages. You and the other person have an uncommon natural ability to send each other messages via the mind"
"You mean we are connected to each other through our thoughts?" I asked, slightly freaked out.
"Yes and no. You have a connection through the mind. You cannot read each others thoughts but you can connect through them. You can't create visual images either, unlike Harry Potter. You have an easier job then him for it is easier to shield thoughts. You need to put your head inside the Pensieve"
I did as she said.

An image of a blackened out figure appeared.
"Help, help, help help. Out out out out. Now now now NOW!" a voice screamed the words of a song I knew so well.
"Sorrow lasts through this night,
I felt it deep within me
And set apart this dream for me
Freedom, oh freedom
Both end up dead"
The voice sang and the message stopped. The lines were parts of my favourite songs. But the whole thing just didn't add up. I took my head out of the liquid and shook my head in clear it a little bit. I was just purely confused.
"What did it say?"
"I'd like to keep that to myself, if that's OK."
"Sure. If you get anymore let me know and I'll let you use the Pensieve at any time."
"Thank you"  said and walked out of the office.

I sat in the corner of the Gryffindor Common Room, curled up.
"Hey" Vera said
"Hi" I said
"What's wrong?" She asked and she sat beside me.
"I cannot say."
"Yeah, you can!"
I looked at her.
"Um, someone thought messaged me a few hours ago. Help help help help. Out, out, out, out. Now, now, now NOW! Sorrow lasts through the night. I felt it deep within me And set apart this dream for me.
Freedom, oh freedom. Both end up dead"
"That doesn't make ANY sense. Are you sure it's not just you singing these in your head?"
"Vera! What's wrong with you? You've been insulting me all day!"
"I think that it's just me growing up. You are not." She giggled and walked away.
It hit me.
"Finite Incantatem!" I said as I pointed my wand at her. The spell directly hit her.
Vera shook her head, in immense confusion.
"Julie!" She ran over and hugged me
"I am so sorry. I can't remember what happened" she continued
"Someone has probably cast the Imperio on you." I replied, happy to have a friend back.
"All I remember is when I said that the book The Connection that you are reading is rubbish. Truth be told, my mum has read the book and said that the magical world works exactly as the book has described. So, what's wrong with you?" She explained.

I hope that you enjoyed the chapter and I will hopefully complete the Year 1 today! :D
Sorry for such a huge wait. I've been extremely busy. It was worth it. I passed the Art & Design course and I've helped to lead a Christian Teen Camp last week and all the prep that went in to that. A Leadership training camp in June as well. Loads of stuff. 

Chapter 15 of Year 1: "Magic Overload"

Announcement: Hey guys! I am so sorry that I did not write in a while! I have had a college (Scottish further education) overload. So much to do and so little time to do it all....
Either way enjoy the chapter! :)

I sat on one of the couches in the common room, lost in thoughts. The anger and grief about what happened a few hours before have stuck in my head on constant repeat, almost like having only one song on an iPod. This situation lost me.
Vera sat next me with her arm around my shoulder. Her cold skin gave me the shivers. I could not think of going class the next day.
"Cheer up, Jules! Will find a way to beat him." She said to me.
I sighed. "I know. But the events of tonight aren't really giving me any rest. Think I'll be staying up all night and not go to class tomorrow."
"Julie, it's ok. It's the last day of term before Christmas holidays anyway." Dan replied as he came up to sit on the chair opposite of the couch.
"But what is so special about whatever our parental sibling's 'thing'? I mean, what could it be and what could HE want from it enough to nearly kill us?"
"I don't know." Both of them replied, sighing.
I walked over to a window. I put my hands on the bottom of the frame and watched the tiny snowflakes fly past the open window.
Then, a bright orange glow appeared in the middle of the sky. So bright that some people came up to see what was going on.
"What is that?" Lizzie-Anne -a third year- asked in confusion. I stared at this orange thing, not exactly knowing of what to think about it.
"It's coming towards us!" Dan said and pulled Vera and I to the ground. This orange energy bolts nearly -only half a centimeter away- hit us.
"Wow, freaky!" Adam -a sixth year- commented as he got up from the ground.
"What the heck?" Dan asked
"Um, I don't know...." I replied back
"Hey, you would have been hit if I didn't pull you to the ground. Why were you staring at that thing?"
"Uh... I have no idea. I think I was just strangely attracted to it!"

Professor Mcgonagall then stormed into the Common Room.
"What happened?" She asked, concerned.
We suddenly became speechless as we had no idea what exactly happened. The orange thing has not been identified.
"Well?" she asked again.
I groaned and ran out of the common room. I wanted to find out for myself of what that thing was.
As I walked to the bottom of the Grand Staircase, I noticed that the orange thing settled near the entrance to the dungeons.
I ran down the stairs to investigate. The orange 'thing' started to glow brighter with every step that  took.
"Freaky, it's like it knows who you are!" Vera said from behind me.
"Vera, Dan!" I replied in shock
"It's sensitive to whenever you step near it." Dan said
"And it's seems to be a magical fire type of thing. Aguamenti!" I said and pointed my wand at the orange thing. The wand fired a blue, glowing stream of water that extinguished the thing. We ran downstairs to see what it was.
"Check it out! It was a charmed meteor!" Vera gasped
 Along with Dan, I cast a spell to find out wherever that was a present from Malfoy.
"Malfoy sent us a gift." I said
"Sheesh, he needs to cool off his jets!" Vera exclaimed.
"Reducto!" I said and the meteor exploded and the pieces splashed all over the place. Dan got up and caught something that sprayed off the meteor.
"Look! He wrote a note with his gift too!" He said as he opened the note up.
"You two are not safe. Wherever you go, I'll find you and destroy you" Vera whispered the contents of the note.
"Great, we can't even go a step without him knowing where we are! I groaned
"Stalker much?" Vera asked
"Let's stick together everywhere we go!" Dan said
"Not everywhere.... What about your meetings with the 'Pet Squad'?" I asked
"Ah, didn't think of that!"
"Well, they meet on the sixth floor. How about we just go up to the entrance to the sixth floor corridor and let you get on from there?" Vera asked
"Sounds like a plan. What about all the study groups Jules attends? I mean, I don't want to go to them!"
"Yeah, just because you think that books are haunted!"
"Not my fault that a flying book tried to eat my DADA homework scroll."
"It would do you a favour!"
"Kids, stop squabbling! We are friends, not some girls fighting over a dress at Primark!" Vera replied
We laughed.
"OK, so any idea why he sent this meteor?" Dan asked
Awkward silence fell between all of us for a while.
"Well, we know that he hates us and that he wants the treasure." Vera said
"And the fact that he seems to be after Julie more than any of us!" Dan continued
"I think that he just wants us dead. Or he wants to distract everybody else to get to us!" I replied
"This day has been absolutely crazy! first we go into the DoM, Julie gets kidnapped and we rescue her now a charmed meteor. Everything seems to be going at a very fast pace!" Vera said
"Too fast if you asked me. What 'keep out of danger and trouble' did Hermione mean? There is nowhere safe anymore with Malfoy being able to track our location!" Dan spat words out in anger.
"Hermione really haven't thought about this, didn't she?"
"We must go back to the Ministry and inform them of the incident with the meteor!"
"No! We can't!!! If we do, they'll just move us to a different school and then we won't be able to help people out with the Queen of Punishment!"
"That too!"

I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter.... Only 3 more chapters and Year 1 will be completed.

Sneak Preview of chapter 18 (last chapter)
'As we stood with our wands pointed at Harry, Ron and Hermione and theirs at us, we looked at each other to see wherever to attack or to run. Julie wasn't moving. She laid on the floor, frozen with blood pouring out of her hand and neck
"Attack or run?" Dan asked" '

Chapter 14 of Year 1: "Mission Rescue"

Last time we left off, Julie was kidnapped from the MoM. Vera is just in near tears in thoughts of losing her friend and Dan is just more emotional than Vera is. But how will they explain the whole thing to Hermione?

When someone's name is in stars (**) it means that the events from that part of the story are from their perspective instead of Julie's.
E.g. *Vera*, it will be the part of the story that she participates in but Julie's not there.

"Welcome to the Malfoy Manor, where my family used to live" Malfoy spoke
I tossed about in immense fury. The disgustingly dark setting of the place gave me the chills. Then, a rope from my mouth vanished
"No kidding. I don't think that even a moth would like to live here." I replied sarcastically
"This building will be your prison and eventually the place where I kill you. I've been waiting too long to find out about your aunt's treasure. WHERE IS IT?" He shouted
"I don't know! I don't even know of what it is not to mention the location of it!" I replied in anger
"You do know!"
"No I don't!"
"Greyback!" He shouted. From the shadows came out a figure that was partially human and partially werewolf. He wore a black leather jacket and a pair of matching jeans. They were worn out and grey in some places.
"Take her to the cells. don't bite her or undo the ropes." Malfoy continued
Greyback nodded and gave out a noise of frustration as if he wanted to bite anyone. He took me by the ropes and dragged me along to this really creepy cell with silvery bars, as if they were brand new. The cell was small and dusty. With no communication with the outside world, all I wanted to be is back home.
'I just wish that I'd listened to my parents. Now, I wouldn't be minutes or seconds away from being killed.' I thought as I sat there hopelessly.

*Vera*
"It's 3:30 Dan. We only have two and a half hour to find Jules and get back to the castle!" I said to Dan.
"I know. Let's find Hermione's office and beg her to help us." Dan replied
"Dan, we can't just say 'Oh yeah, we kind of went in to the DoM."
"Duh, I know! That is why I have it rehearsed in my mind already!"
"What will you say 'We just ran away"
"Shut it! Come on. let's go!" Dan said and we went on our way to find Hermione's Office in the Magical Law Enforcement, which an discovered while exploring the third floor. I could not say that the Ministry was the most pleasant place to be. With all those workers and passerby's starng at you for being out of Hogwarts, it did make us feel a bit uncomfortable.
"It's here!" Dan said and I gently knocked on the door.
"Please, come in!" Hermione said

We went inside to find Mrs Weasley sat behind her desk with a pile of papers laying on top of the worktop.
"How may I Help you today?" She politely asked
"Mrs Weasley, I am Vera and this is Daniel Sharmons, Julie's brother!" I explained
"I am pleased to meet you both. How may I help you? Please sit down!" Hermione said and pointed at the seats n front of us. We sat down.
"Mrs Weasley, we have to confess something and I know that you won't be happy with it. Julie, Dan and I went in to the DoM" I started to explain
"Why did you go there? You were the ones to weaken the magical shielding charms around it, weren't you?" She spoke in a much angrier tone.
"We're sorry. Fact is that ever since Julie found a charm in the Potions classroom with 'Property of the Department of Mysteries' inscribed on it, she went through nearly every book in the library to find something out about the DoM. But nothing. We decided to go right into the source and Julie promised to strengthen the shield charms when she said she would come out. But nothing" Dan explained
"You mean, she just vanished?!" Hermione's voice was now overfilled in worry.
"No. She was kidnapped by Malfoy himself. The fact is that we don't know what exactly happened since she asked us to leave it her to battle it out. But she vanished along with him."
I put my head down on the desk and just let tears flow right from my eyes. I was worried about Julie like no one else was. I didn't want to lose a best friend
"Hey, Vera it's OK!" Dan said and patted my back
"Dan, I'm just emotionally destroyed right now. What if she's already dead? What if we will be too late to show up and we find her lying on the floor, dead?" I asked through my tears
Then someone stormed into the room
"Hermione, we have just gotten word that someone broke the enchantments at the DoM door!" Harry and Ron said in unison. Dan and I looked down in shame.
"It was you guys?" Ron asked
"Ronald, be polite for once in your life! For heaven's sake, we are adults not 16 year old teens anymore!"
"Hey I asked politely, Hermione! Chill!" Ron replied in defense. Dan and I laughed
"Ron, Harry we have got a problem on our hands." Hermione began
"Um, the fact that you are in such a bad mood or the fact that someone took down DoM?" Harry asked.
"Neither. Draco kidnapped Julie" Hermione replied coldly.
"How?" Ron asked
"Cut long story short. Battle and apparition" I replied
"We should use the Trace. We'll find her that way!" Harry suggested.

*Julie*
As I laid on the cold stone floor tied up, I heard a song in my head. The song that I always loved. "Fully Alive" by Flyleaf was stuck inside my head for some reason. Maybe because I was still alive. Maybe because I was trying to be happy through my last few moments of my life. But that song could't stop making me think of something that kept me truly alive. It was love and compassion. Selflessness and joy. Something that Malfoy would never understand. Just like his master, Voldemort, Malfoy's love and compassion were gone. Even if he had a son, Scorpius, he would not understand friendship, love and joy the way my friends and I did, which was much more of a treasure than whatever we were to find.

But, I was never expecting this large BANG coming out of the main room.
"Where is my sister?" Dan demanded
"Dan?" I asked in hope
"Sister? WHAT sister?" Malfoy asked
"Julie Sharmons.  am her brother that you tried to curse eleven years ago!" Dan replied bravely.
"Daniel Sharmons! You were supposed to have perished just like your sister!"
"Looks like you got your wand in a knot!" Vera said
"And you did not expect us either!" Harry, Ron and Hermione shouted
"Fire! Stupefy!" All of them shouted together. I heard a huge KABOOM noise, as if something fell from a great height

Then three people came downstairs. It was Hermione, Vera and Dan.
"Watch out, Greyback's behind you!" I gasped out as the ropes squeezed tighter
Greyback stood behind the trio. Vera turned around and pointed her wand at Greyback.
"Impedimenta!" She shouted. Greyback was backed up the back of the room into a dark corner.
"Bombarda!" Hermione said, pointing her wand at the cell.
The lock burst into a thousand pieces and blasted the door open.
"Finite Incantatem!" Vera said
The ropes disappeared and i felt extreme relief for I never thought that I would see my friends again.
"Thank you, everybody!" I hugged them when I stood up.
"No problem!" They replied
"I'm going to get payback no matter what!" I swore to them loud enough for people upstairs to hear.

I rushed upstairs to find Draco Malfoy on the floor defeated.
"Haha! See how good comes back to bite your backside?" I asked
"You just wait. will get you!" He replied
"You always say that but it fails every time!"
"Apparate!" Harry said and we huddled around. Then in a matter of seconds we were in Hermione's Office.
"Vera, Daniel could you leave us alone for a moment? We must speak to Julie privately"
"After what just happened? We are never leaving her side again!" Vera and Dan said simultaneously.
"Please, we must speak to her privately. Don't worry we aren't going to hand her over to Malfoy!"
"OK" They agreed and left the room.

"Harry, Ron, Julie please have a seat!" Hermione said. We sat in the chairs in front of her glass topped desk.
"Right then, so what made you go into the Department of Mysteries?" Hermione asked politely.
"How do you know?" I asked
"Dan and Vera told us when they came seeking help to find you. Please, tell us!" Harry replied
"Well, every since our first Potions lesson, I have been on the look out for information in the Hogwarts on the DoM. I found this while looking for ingredients in Professor Slughorn's classroom." I said and took my charm out
"Property of the Department of Mysteries!" Ron read out the inscription.
"Ever since finding this, I have been on a lookout for information everywhere. But no luck. So along with my brother and Vera we decided to go right into the source. I believe that this charm could possibly be a key to something. In the Hall of Prophecy, we found a prophecy about Dan and I. But after I heard it, Malfoy turned up out of nowhere to fight me. I told my friends to run for it and I fought Malfoy until he used the Rope Curse to get to me" I explained
"This charm was not there by accident. Someone planted it there. Keep it safe. And if you guys need entry to the DoM just let us know! And we will strengthen the enchantments on the door for you. Go back to Hogwarts and stay there for now. As it comes to Hogwarts, what's Umbridge up to?"
"Same as to what she was up to 16 years ago. Making lives miserable."
"Go back and stay out of trouble." Harry said
"Thank you once again for rescuing me!" I finished
"No worries!" They replied in unison as I left the room.

*Hermione*
"OK, this day was just crazy!" Harry said
"No cheese, Sherlock!" I replied sarcastically
"By the way, that charm must have been planted there by someone from the DoM. There is no way that it got there by accident." Ron said
"I agree on that, but how will we find out what that charm was supposed to do? It cannot just be a fashion accessory!" Harry replied
"It could be a key to something. I just have no idea of to what it would be used for." I commented
 "Either way, we must get to  enhancing the shielding charms again" Ron finished

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Chapter 13 of Year 1: "The Kidnap"

Lat time we left off, Dan and Julie were finally talking. Jules doesn't trust her brother, but takes him back after all. Is she right in doing so or is it one of those Inquisitorial tricks?

I got up bright and early the next morning (a Saturday may I add) to find out more about the Ministry of Magic and the Department of Mysteries. I scrolled through at least 4 books on the Ministry but NOTHING on the Department of Mysteries, as if no one wanted anyone to know what exactly was hidden in it or what it was even.
"Oh come on Jules! Give the Ministry a break. You've been going through those books without going in deeper" Vera said
"Deeper... that's it. I must go right into the source!" I replied
"Go to the Department of Mysteries?! You have got to be kidding.... count me in!"
"Me too!" Dan said
"OK. We have to set out now. Let's pack everything and we will be spied on by your fellow 'Inquisitorials'!
"No worries. I've quit but didn't mention a word about it to those freaks. Anything I say to them is like an order. They respect me"
"You thought about this for a bit, didn't you? I can see you are FINALLY thinking!"
"Shut up!"

We walked up the statue of the Witch of Astronomy.
"What are you doing with those misfits?" A guy from behind asked
"I found them here. But I will personally deal with them, Gregory."
"Whatever you say, chief" Gregory said and walked off.
"Oh so you're a chief now?" Vera asked
"Ahoy, Chief Daniel Sharmons has just entered the yacht!" I giggled
"Shut it!" Daniel replied sarcastically as he opened the passageway. The corridor was much noisier than  from when I last went.
"Ohh, so cold! It's as if someone opened a drafty window down here!" Vera said
"I know! It wasn't like that the last time I've been down here!" I answered.

As we walked through, we noticed the dark and mysterious panels with dark green glow. Vera tried to walk up to find out about what it actually was. But the second she touched it, the dark panel glowed brighter green and gave out a hissing noise. Then, the panel turned into a snake head and launched at us. All of us gave out a quiet scream as we dived to the ground to avoid getting hit.
I laid there on the ground, feeling slightly confused about the whole thing.
"Julie, are you ok?" Vera asked
"Yeah, little freaked out but yeah, totally!" I replied
"What just happened?" Daniel asked
"This is not in here by accident. There is something hiding behind that wall. Something that the Ministry would much rather for us not to know!" I replied
"For our insanity's sake, I would rather not to know either!" Vera said
"OK, let's get on, you guys! We haven't got all day. Umbridgers and the Prefects start their duties at 6pm after dinner." Daniel said and we walked on.

"Wow, the Ministry is even cooler than I imagined." Vera spoken as she gazed at the MoM for the first time.
"Slit up. we might find it faster. And let's be as careful as as we can be. Department of Mysteries is heavily guarded by powerful spells that can only be broken by powerful counter-charms, of which I already know. The Three Protagos are some of the protective spells that are used there. I finally managed to find that out via the Hogwarts library. Took a while though!" I explained.
"I'll go through floors 1 to 3, Vera you concentrate on floors 4-6 and Jules you explore floors 7-9. It'll take us less time if we concentrate on them like that." Dan commented
"Let's get to it. But before we do, I have got something for you two!" I said and took out two Sikles.
"Sikles? Why?!" Vera asked
"These are spelled with the Protean Charm, a communication charm which allows us to speak to each other via the coins. Spell  learned a couple of days ago." I replied
"It's genius! Nice work and now, we are set let's go!" Dan said and we split p to the different lifts.

Floor seven wasn't very interesting. Just doors upon doors upon doors of offices and random other things. Nothing to catch the eye to be totally honest with you.
Floor eight had a very interesting factor to it. All doors were made of Sikle-like bronze with elaborate designs on each and every door of any office. The dark theme was giving the floor a bit of a wow factor, I suppose.
Floor nine on the other hand was the "Oh My Gosh" factor. Even more than the floor eight. The deep dark tones of the walls were spectacular. And with me being an art enthusiast, colour mattered a lot. The bright green glow of the lining of the wall was even brighter than before.
Then, a mysteriously dark blue door resided at the end of the corridor. Within the spell of chilled breeze that filled the corridor, I felt that it was the right place.
I took my Sikle out.
"Psst, Vera!" I whispered.
"Julie, what's up?" she asked
"I think I found the Department of Mysteries and fair to say that it is certainly not the kind of place that I'd class as a 'workplace'
"Which floor? I'll let Dan know!"
"Floor nine, just follow the corridor and you will find a dark blue door at the end of it. You'll find me there!"
"OK, see you there!" She finished and I put my Sikle away.

As a walked up to the door, I have seen a transparent, white shield of mixed spell work. The three Protago's and some other very powerful charms and hexes were used to protect the entry to the door.
"Jules!" Dan and Vera whispered as they joined me at the door.
"OK, do your counter-spells so we can get in!" Dan said
I started to cast the counter-enchantments at the shield. Many of them being non-verbal spells and some of them verbal, but were very hard to cast due to the immense strength of the spells and my wand being one of the most powerful, the energy of each charm was hard to control.
The final enchantment and Voila!
"Come on, this is temporary and won't last long." I said as we entered the dark door,
"What happened to the shield?" Vera asked
"Well, because of the counter-enchantments, the shield has been weakened. I will re-strengthen it when we get out." I replied

As we walked through the corridor, it became fairly obvious why it was called Department of Mysteries. Nearly every door was shut. Apart from one.
"The Hall of Prophecy? What is that?" I asked
"Hey,  heard Emilia talk about it once. It is a chamber filled with small crystal balls that include prophecies about specific people. The prophecies are usually made by Sybill Trelawney, the Hogwarts Divinations teacher" Dan replied
"You are brilliant. Now, you don't think that there is one about any of us here, do you?" Vera questioned
"Only way to find out" I said and we began to search for a crystal ball with our name on it. There were at least 6 million of those crystal balls.
"Hey, Julie. I think found yours!" Vera pointed. I took the little crystal ball into my hand and Trelawney's voice came booming at me
"'These children born at the beginning of September will be the ones to inherit their family treasure, something that Draco Malfoy will forever want and won't rest until he gets it. Aunt Eveline's treasure will be hidden from sight and forever stashed away, where no one will know of it's location. Only the children will be in position of regaining this artifact and will only find it when they reach 18."
I stood there staring into the cloudy ball that just said those words.I blinked quickly (which I usually did if I was shocked)

Then a large bang came from the back of the room. I placed the ball on the stand and quickly went into hiding inside the room.
"I know that you are in here, Julie. Come out and face me!" Malfoy said
"How did he find us? What do we do?" Vera panicked as she asked
"You escape and I deal with that low life!" I replied
"No way, last time he left you with a near-broken leg. Together!" Dan said
"No, I am not letting him hurt any of you guys. Go NOW!" I nearly shouted
"OK ok, we're going! Take care and please, come back in one piece!" Vera said
"No promises but I'll try!" I replied as they went away.

I walked to the central path of the Hall of Prophecy.
"Looking for me?" I asked
"Julie Sharmons! Stupefy!" He shouted
"Protago!" I replied
"Avada Kedavra!"
I dodged the Killing Curse by just a millimeter.
"Conjuvictis!"
Malfoy curled up onto the floor in intense pain in the eyes.
"I will get you back for this one!" He shouted
"You keep saying that, it's getting seriously old!"
"Incarcerous!"
My hands, feet and mouth were then tied by by thick, very coarse ropes that were hard to get out of. Malfoy recovered from the eye stinging hex and got up from the floor.
"Prisoner, at last!" He laughed.
I tossed and turned on the floor in fury. I was so angry, furious even.
"At last, Miss Sharmons has finally fell into my hands."
I managed to press the coin but it was a bit too late as he apparated out of the Ministry and I dropped my coin in the DoM.

Dan and Vera sharply came through into the room and found my coin.
"Oh man, she was kidnapped. What do we do!" Vera cried
"We have to find the wand's trail, you know, the Trace!" Dan replied
"Right, but only the Ministry can actually trace these things."
"We might not, but I'm sure Hermione Granger will! She knows Julie now, so she'll hopefully help us!"

The Malfoy Manor, to which we have apparated to, wasn't exactly pleasant. It was dusty and dirty. It was a small place with just one window to the entire house.
"Welcome, to the Malfoy Manor. This is where my family lived. And now, it will be your prison. And eventually your killing place" Malfoy cackled.


Oh, it's getting very interesting. With Jules kidnapped, Dan and Vera will have no choice but to tell Hermione, Harry or Ron or all of them about what they were doing in the DoM. But how will this part of the story end? Will Julie ever escape the Malfoy Manor? Will Dan and Vera with maybe thee compaany of the three famous wizards be able to free her? How will Malfoy react Julie's brother being still alive and Draco's reaction to meeting Harry, Ron and Hermione again after so long?
Find out in the next chapter!

Chapter 12 of Year 1: "Play The Quidditch Right!"

Next morning was the Quidditch match Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw. I sat on the other side of the stadium to avoid Dan. I was still in hate and shock about what he had done.

The wooden benches weren't very comfortable to sit on and we were there for an hour.

The match started early due to the weather forecast. It was supposed to rain at ten so they started the match at nine to avoid the rainy weather. Both teams flew out of the inside of the podium with our captain Amy Leene Hansen bowing her head to Ravenclaw seeker Walker Salomon. The teams then began flying about trying to score into one of the three rings on the other side of the stadium and the seekers looking for the Golden Snitch. If caught it secured the win and 150 points for the house.

Then green lightening bolts came out of no where and hit Amy. I stood up and pointed my wand at her.

"Arresto Momentum!" I shouted. Amy fell at slower pase and landed on the grassy pitch safe and sound.

"Green bolts. I must get Vera now!" I thought and left the podium in a great hurry.

I rushed to the podium she was at and ran over to her.

"Hey Jules. What's happening?" She asked

"Death Eaters. How often are lightening bolts bright green?" I replied

"Let's go!" She finished and we ran out of the podium.

We hid beneath the podiums to talk.

"What's the plan then?" She asked

I looked around and found two brooms .

"Easy. We use the brooms to fly high into the sky, find them and cast them out of the sky!"

"Excellent! But... My broom flying skills are just as good as a penguin trying to fly." Vera said

"We are only flying up. No actual turns, dives or anything 'fancy'" I replied.

We ran on to the stadium with everybody looking at us. We hopped onto two brooms that were left by two players and flew up.

I noticed Barty Crouch Jr about to cast a spell at us.

"Petrificus Totalus!" I said and before he could even block it, the spell hit him and he fell to the ground with everybody seeing proof of the Death Eaters' return

"Draco Malfoy..." I whispered as I noticed a guy with platinum blond hair casting his spells to the stadium.

"Malfoy, nice to see you again!" I said calmly

"Who are you?" He asked

"Recognize this?" I said and showed him my wrist.

"Julie Sharmons! After all those years, you are still alive!" He groaned

"Yes, and I am ready to send you to where Harry sent your master!"

"Let's sort it on the ground, right here and right now!" He shouted

"You got it, snake head!"

I flew to the ground and he followed. After we got off the brooms, we stood facing towards each other with me staring at him in anger.

We pointed wands at each other.

"Stupefy!" I shouted

"Protago!" He replied and spell hit me right back. I fell to the ground

"That's it!!!! Sectumsempra!" I shouted, not knowing the full effects of that spell.

The spell hit Draco and he collapsed to the ground.

"You filthy Mudblood! You will pay for thus dearly!" Malfoy coughed out from his pain inflicted body. Blood came out of his side as well as his arm and several points of the leg.

"Never mess with an angry me, I tell you now!" I warned him. He stared at me.

"Jules, what happened?" Vera asked.

I couldn't reply. The effects of the spell were clear. Internal injury but only a few external symptoms.

I got up from the ground but limping on one leg. The fall has broken my leg.

"Lemme help you!" She said and offered a shoulder to lean on while I tried to jump on one leg.

That night I sat in the common room with Ministry of Magic - Uncovered Truth on my lap. But I was getting no where in finding out about either the charm(that I wore on my neck) or the Department of Mysteries.

"Hey Jules, can we talk?" Daniel came up to me.

"Sure, like I have choice in a matter" I replied

"Look, after seeing you in the field.. I quit the Umbridge's Pet Squad. I wanted you to know that I am here every step of the way with you. We'll take her out of commission, together!" He said

I looked at him.

"I'm not convinced. How can I know that you aren't just saying that so you could tell Umbridge of my every plan?" I asked

"I actually quit. Making people suffer made me suffer inside. Seeing you go through the torture of the quills killed me inside a little bit"

"Yeah right. Especially since you laughed when they took Vera and I away for punishment"

"I realized that this was going way too far"

"Ok. I'm not convinced but I'll take you back. For now!" I said and hugged him.

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