It was one of those days when everyone felt depressed. To the people of this town this was nothing new. Even though this happened often, no one knew the cause. The people of this town just called it The Grey Fever. Little did they know that The Grey fever, as they called it, was happening all over England. Though no one else knew the cause, unless you were a wizard. Then you would know the problem was dementors.

Or if you were Autumn. Autumn could see dementors, even if she didn't know what they were. Something no other muggle could do. Autumn is 17, so there is no way she could be a wizard, both her parents are muggles and she never went to wizard school. She could se them, but she didn't know that she was the only muggle who could. To her all she saw were shadows. Shadows darker than their surroundings. Shadows that always bring a despair darker than themselves. She had never told anyone about these "shadows"; she was old enough to know that they would think that she was crazy. Moving shadows that brought despair; ha!

But, sometimes she thought that things would be better if she told someone. But, every time she told herself that; the shadows came back. She saw the worst moments of her life, then saw things as a worst case scenario if she told someone, after that she had no intentions of telling anyone. Sometime she thought she saw someone who saw the shadows as well, but before she could take a second glance, they were gone.

For some reason ,though she never saw one in town. They were normally at the edge of town, and when you where in the middle of the town things always felt a lot better.

Entry 1

I felt the need to tell someone my story. So, instead off telling someone I'm going to write my story here. Sort of like a diary. I hope whoever finds this doesn't think of me as insane. See, I 'see' things. Things that are more like shadows than anything else. They are always darker than the shadows that surround them though. Is that why no one else sees them? I'm really scared of them, but I don't think I'd admit that to anyone. They're just shadows right? Please let them be shadows.

Entry 2

I have decided to carry this book around with me. I've been getting really paranoid. All my friends have started acting really weird. One of them, Jane, won't leave her house. Sometimes she won't leave her room. She been getting really depressed. And she says she sees 'things' when she leaves the house. When I asked her about it; she said that they were things from the past and that it was all in her head. Then she accused me of thinking she was insane. I haven't seen her since.

Entry 3

My friend and I went shopping today. We haven't gone shopping in like forever. This would have cheered me up a little, had we gotten past the first store. We were just walking out of the store. Almost back to normal. that's when the things came. There where two of them. I just froze. They looked like something out of a horror movie. I didn't want to stay to investigate though, I told my friend I wanted to go home now. And we just left. Funny thing is that everyone else was walking around them, not even looking at them. Now I'm sure no one else can see them. This scares me more than the things themselves.

Entry 4

So far nothing has happened in a week. Hopefully it stays like that.

Entry 5

School has started and nothing has happened since the mall incident, maybe that got rid of them? That's too much to hope for.

Entry 6

My friends and I are going out tonight. I think I might stop and get rid of this journal soon if all keeps going like this.

Entry 7

I want to get rid of this journal, but I can't. I just can't. I wish I could.

Entry 8

I'm going to hang out with Jane. I wish I knew why I had to write this.

Entry 9

Ok, I now know why I had to write that last entry. I don't know what day it is, I don't know how much time has past and I am terrified of what has happened and what might happen. I am going to write according to how the events had happened.

Jane and I had just walked out of the theater. We were feeling better than we had in a really long time. We had some chocolate at the theater. (I now know the importance of that.) That's when the things came, again. I froze. Jane stopped to ask what was wrong. I just watched the things' progress. They were heading straight for us. Jane was tugging on my arm now, but she wanted to go towards the things. Then I felt desperate. I grabbed Jane's arm and ran.

I ran as hard as I could, dragging Jane behind me, I didn't glance back for fear of what I might see. I turned a corner and found myself in a deserted ally. And a dead-end. I turned around and saw nothing, so I turned to Jane.

"What do you think you are doing? Why in the world did you run like that? And why did you drag me behind you? Where are we?"

"Shhhhhhhhhh." was all I could say at the moment. "I… saw…"

"What on earth did you see to make you run like that?"

"Shhhhhhhhhh."

"Do not shh me. I want answers now." at that the things turned the corner. They were worse than I remember. They slowly came towards us. I knew then why they call it a dead-end. I grabbed Jane's arm.

"Even though you might not be able to see them, there are two things coming at us right now." Jane looked at me like I was insane.

"Are you sure you're all right? Maybe we should take you to see a doctor." Jane said looking concerned, as the things came closer and closer. I had a feeling that they could go much fast, but they knew we were trapped and took they're time closing in on us. The one that was closer reached up and pulled down it's hood. Underneath was something that should belong only to horror movies. It was like a mummy, but less solid. It was more like a ghost wrapped in silk. It just had an air of doom, or despair.

Then a huge mass of black smoke dropped from the sky. It was pitch black for who knows how long. I could hear someone shouting. It sounded like "You were given sections of muggle communities to eat, you were not to come in the towns, nor were you to administer the kiss.", but that couldn't be right. It didn't make any sense.

Then the blackness started to fade, and the voice shouted "Obliviate!" There was a blast of white light, and the blackness completely faded. I saw a man in long black robes holding a stick at Jane. How very strange, don't you think. Then Jane said "I'll see you later Autumn. I have to go." and she walked past the man without a glance. The man turned to me and said, "You can see them?"

"Yes, can you?" I said.

"Why are you in the muggle world?", he asked ignoring my question.

"Muggle?" I asked confused.

"Yes, muggle, since you seem like a complete buffoon I will ask a simpler question." he said, with a sneer, "What is your name, and let me see your wand."

"My name is Autumn, as you heard my friend Jane call me. I don't have a wand, wands are fake. There isn't real magic, so why would I carry a wand around with me. If you ask a geek they might have a wand.". At that the man looked surprised. The first emotion I saw on his face other than disgust.

"You are not a wizard?"

"Of course not. Wizards are fiction, fiction meaning fake. As I see you are not as smart as you thought you were."

"You're a muggle? Don't lie to me. You said you could see the dementors. Describe one to me."

"Well I don't know what a muggle is. I haven't lied to you. And I don't know what a dementor is. If you mean the things then, they are really big, Darker than they're surroundings, they looked cloaked, and when the first one lowered it's hood, it looked like something died then was wrapped in a silk darker than black."

"How?" he said looking bewildered. "you are coming with me to see the Dark Lord. He grabbed my wrist, twisted on the spot, and dragged me into a tub so small I felt like I was suffocating.