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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