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A few days later, we boarded the Hogwarts train. Vera, Dan, Susan and I found an empty carriage to sit in. Dan brought the game of Exploding Snap but after all the 'explosive' events we've been through in the months that passed, we have decided to keep from playing.
"Oh come on! Just one game!" Dan begged as I read the new spell book and Susan decided to practice a few spells she learned.
"Vermiculus!" she whispered and turned Dan's box of Exploding Wizard Cards into a worm.
"Susie!" He groaned. It was his favourite box.
We laughed out loud. On the other hand, Dan was mortified as he could not get his cards back to normal.
"Alright, alright! Finite incantatem!" Susie smiled and turned the worm into the set of cards that it originally was.
"Is there anymore space here? Everywhere else is over capacity!" Oliver asked.
"Sure. There's space for plenty more!" Susie replied
Oliver brought his new friend in along with him as they sat down.
"Hi! I'm Harietta Flemming!" the sweet, platinum blond hair girl said as she sat down next to me and Susie.
"Hey! I'm Susie. This is Dan, Vera and Julie." Susan introduced us all.
"Pleasure to meet you, Harietta!" I greeted her.
"Julie! My mum told me how you, your siblings and the Potter Trio have fought Malfoy in the DoM!" Harietta explained
"Your mum?" I asked
"Yeah. Lillian Flemming. She works with Hermione Granger." Harietta answered.
Then, the train violently stopped. Everything had gone cold, dark and gloomy, with the bright moonlight peeking through the window. That had made things twice as spooky.
"What's going on?" Dan asked.
"This is not a Dementor attack. Otherwise, we would feel no emotion whatsoever. And I feel pretty happy but freaked out right now!" I replied.
"Explain, how do you know that? Mum told me about Dementors before but she never told me that!" Harietta asked
"Simple. Julie's a book worm and a library basher." Dan answered, plainly.
"Just because you detest the library so much, we actually have to drag you in!" Susie huffed back at him.
"Hey, no over exaggeration, OK?" He groaned
"It's the truth that you can't admit. You should be ashamed, Daniel!" I giggled.
"Right. Guys..... We are in a middle of a spooky we-might-get-attacked-anytime situation and all you do is argue over how much you guys like the library? Where ARE your priorities?" Oliver asked
"You're right. Come on, let's find out what's going on!" Susie got up and went outside the carriage.
*Susan*
Now everyone that was outside of their carriages were panicking. None of them had an exact idea of what was going on.
I walked up to the window, to see black cloudy trails flying around the train.
"Death Eaters. How am I not surprised?" I asked and walked further up the corridor.
I walked over to the central carriages, where the pets are kept while travelling. The carriage was unsurprisingly dark but very quiet. The train suddenly moved forward and back, causing me to fall over. I kept the grip on my wand extremely tight to ensure that I was ready to fight whoever of whatever came. One of the cloudy trails flew in, revealing Barty Crouch Jr and Malfoy.
"Well, hello there. Did your friends leave you all alone?" Barty asked in a cutie wee voice.
"Apparently so, Crouch. Or should I call you Couch?" I asked calmly.
"Haha. Very funny, Sue" he replied snappily.
"Don't you DARE to call me Sue. Stupefy!" I fired.
Crouch flew all the way to the back of the carriage.
"Levicorpus" Malfoy spoke, with his wand pointed at me.
I was listed off the ground. With the memory of the attack in the forest of Sargent family home, I tossed about angrily.
Malfoy without looking at me waked up to the door and let go of the spell when I was over the water. When I fell in, I panicked as I hated deep, open waters. Even swimming in the sea made me fear for my life. I sunk deeper and deeper into the freezing cold river and I had no other choice but to try to swim. I sunk deeper and deeper still, but managed to case the bubblehead charm so I wouldn't drown.
"Julie, Julie, can you hear me!!!!" I thought
*Julie*
"I fell down to the ground as I heard Susan's desperate cry.
"Julie, Julie, can you hear me!!!!" I heard in my head
"I can hear you! What's happening?!?!" I thought and shouted
"Who is she talking to?" Oliver and Harietta asked
"Her sister, Susan. They have a mental connection with each other" Dan explained
"Help me out. Please! Malfoy just tossed me overboard with Levicorpus into the river! HELP ME OUT, I'M SCARED TO DEATH OF DEEP OPEN WATERS!" Julie screamed.
"Don't worry. We're on our way!" I replied
"What's going on?" Oliver asked
"We must help Susie. Malfoy just threw her overboard with the Levicorpus spell."
I explained without taking in air
"Let's go!" Vera commanded. So, we all left our carriage and went up to the animal carriage.
*Vera*
"So, what do we do?" Julie asked
"Guys. I've got an idea. But you need to agree to it!" I said
"OK. Go for it" they replied
"I'm gonna go after Julie into the deep open. I'm a competent swimmer so I should be up on the surface with her in a matter of seconds. If she sank deeper, you do not worry about me when I don't come back up after those few seconds. Meanwhile, you need to be able to stay up here and ensure safety for others on board." I explained
"You're going in to the river? No way, you're not!" Oliver replied
"Oli, I'll be alright. All I need is the Bubblehead Charm. I won't drown." I said and ran off into the tracks and jumped into the river.
*Julie*
"Is she nuts?" Harietta asked
"Nope, and our priority right now is to help the others. Lets go!" I said and they walked back to be with the others.
*Vera*
I swam deep into the heart of the river, looking for Susie. But, I couldn't find her.
"Susan?" I asked through the bubblehead charm.
But, I spotted her on the river bed. She wasn't moving. And no breath protection. The bubblehead charm must have somehow ended.
I grabbed her hand and pushed the water with the other. It wasn't easy.
I took my wand out.
"Carpe Retractum!" I shouted. The spell's light hung onto a hook they I knew was there on the bridge and we were pulled up. With Susie on my back, I tried to climb up the wall of the bridge. As a competent climber, blinding walls wasn't difficult. But, climbing it with Susan on my back was.
Yet, we made it to the top of the wall and I carried her on my back into the animal carriage.
I laid her on the floor of the carriage.
"Susan, can you hear me? Susan? Susan!" I kept asking, desperately. I felt her pulse and heart beat. They were there, but very faint.
I then remembered a nonverbal spell mum taught me from infancy. A spell that helped to resuscitate people. I used my wand to move it in 8's and wavy lines in the pattern mum taught me. And it worked!
"Susie!" I exclaimed
"Vera... What happened?" She asked slowly.
"It would seem that your Bubblehead Charm stopped working after a while that you were underwater. It's ok, everything's ok." I hugged her.
"Who brought me out? Was it you?" She asked
"Yep. Don't stress, everything is ok. The Death Eaters are gone and we're on our way to Hogwarts " I explained as I helped her to get up and walk to our carriage.
"Susie!" Julie exclaimed and hugged her as she saw Susie.
"I'm ok, Jules. I'm ok. Thanks to Vera" Susie replied
"Thanks Vera. Susie and I owe you big time!" She hugged me and said
"It's ok. Anything for a friend" I smiled
We sat down and talked all the rest of the way to Hogwarts.
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