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Michelle's POV

SIR WILLIAM FABRAY III

ESCAPES FROM AZKABAN

by Renee Skeeter

Sir William Fabray III, convicted of kidnap, attempted murder and multiple counts of murder has recently escaped from Azkaban. Fabray has evaded capture for multiple years but was finally caught in late June at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Headmaster Aberforth Dumbledore refuses to reveal the events that had happened involving Fabray but he was convicted of kidnap and attempted murder for three of the second year is the second case of a prisoner escaping from Azkaban, the first being Sirius Black, who was convicted of murder but was found innocent after he died. No one knows of his method of escape. Fabray was sentenced to the Dementor's Kiss to be done at the end of the month.

Is Fabray innocent? Is that the reason he was able to escape? Does this have anything to do with the numerous amounts of dark events recently? Is he a follower of he who must not be named? Is he going to raise again? Maybe cause another war? Keep reading for more details.

I just stare at the newspaper for who knows how long. He's escaped? How can he have done that? He's definitely not innocent like the predictions say. If that has anything to do with escaping that's not how he escaped. What's bad is that now we've made him angrier than before. What if he comes after us?

Suddenly Melanie grabs the newspaper from my hand disturbing my trail of thoughts.

"What are you looking at? You've been staring at it for over ten minutes." she says. Her eyes skim the page and she puts it down angrily on the table. "They should have done it right away! Now he's escaped and free to go kidnapping and killing more people!"

"Melanie, calm down, he might not even come after us. They'll catch him again soon." says Milly.

"They better..." says Melanie still angry.

Just then Nellie walks in. "Mis~ I mean Michelle, Ms. Lynn and Ms. Xiang are here to see you, would you like me to let them in and call Ms. Wu down?

"Yes please Nellie, and no need to be so formal with my friends either. Thank you." I say.

Nellie leaves the room and soon comes back with Tamara and Natalie. They look almost exactly the same. Maybe they've grown a centimetre taller or something...Then again I always think that. I just always feel short.

"Hey," Natalie greets with a smile. "How's your summer been?"

"Terrible now that I've read this." I say pointing to the Daily Prophet on the table. "Have you read it?"

"Yeah, I can't believe he's escaped." says Tamara.

"Who's escaped?" asks Jennifer from the doorway as she walks in.

"William Fabray." I answer dully.

"III?" she asks surprised, eyes widened a bit.

"Yeah..." says Natalie.

"But how...?" asks Jennifer.

"That's the problem, we don't know." says Tamara.

"Do you think he'll come after us?" asks Jennifer with concern.

I shrug. "I don't know, that's what I've been thinking about."

"Same." says both Natalie and Tamara.

"Well we shouldn't worry about it, he might not come after us again right?" I say trying to lighten up the mood in the room.

"I guess..." says Natalie.

Just then six owls come flying through the window, each with a letter tied onto their leg. I take the letter with mine and give it a few pieces of cereal from the table. It flies off soon after that.

"Well I guess we should go get our school supplies today." says Tamara.

"Yeah, I guess so," I say. "We can take the Knight Bus, my parents are at work today and we're out of floo powder"

"The Knight Bus?" asks Jennifer. "What's that?"

"You'll see." I say.

The six of us walk out and I look around for Muggles. I see that there is no one else on the street and quickly raise my wand. Within a few seconds the purple, triple-decker bus pulls up to the sidewalk.

"Hello, my name is Stan Shunpike and I'll be your conductor today on the Knight Bus. Where are you going today?" the conductor says.

"The Leaky Cauldron please," I say.

"The six of you?" he asks. "That'll be ten sickles each." We all pay and walk onto the bus. We decide to stay on the first deck.

"Um...shouldn't the chairs be nailed down to the floor?" asks Jennifer as she sits down on a chair. The rest of us are standing holding onto the bars on the side of the bus.

"I would suggest you stand Jennifer." says Tamara.

"Why?" she asks.

Before she can answer Stan says "Start driving Ern," to the bus driver, Ernie.

We zoom off and Jennifer's chair starts sliding as we try to hold on to the side of the bus. The bus starts going faster and faster and Jennifer holds onto the chair as hard as she can as she slides back and forth. Luckily we don't see any other cars or trucks that block our way or we would have been squeezed into a sandwich. Soon the bus stops in front of the Leaky Cauldron.

"That's why?" I say to Jennifer as we all walk off the bus.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" she asks as we walk to the back of the Leaky Cauldron, tapping on the right bricks.

"Well, we never really got the chance." says Natalie.

"It's okay Jennifer, we all went through that the first time." says Tamara.

"So where are we going first?" I ask.

"I guess we could get our books." says Natalie.

"Yeah, let's go." says Jennifer still looking a little disoriented from the ride.

When I arrive I take out the list of school supplies:

COURSE BOOKS

The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 3) by Miranda Goshawk

The Monster Book of Monsters by Edwardus Lima

Intermediate Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

Unfogging the Future by Cassandra Vablatsky

We get our books and walk out of the store. Next we decide to go to the Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. After last year, we definitely need new ones.

We're about to pass the entrance to Knockturn Alley when I bump into someone walking in. He looks to be about our age but I haven't seen him before. He has grey eyes and red hair; and I mean completely red, not highlights. Not a neon red, more like a settle red.

"Oh, sorry." I mumble. I not even sure he even caught it, because by the time the words came out of my mouth he was already turning into Knockturn Alley. Wait.

Turning into Knockturn Alley?! Why would he do that? Even if we're wrong about his age he should still be about the age of an Hogwarts student. Even if he was out of Hogwarts most people wouldn't go in there unless they were involved with Dark Magic. That's strange...I wonder who he is. I decide to just ignore it and we keep walking. After getting new robes the four of us go to Ollivanders to get Natalie a new wand while Milly and Melanie walk off to meet some of their Gryffindor friends.

We walk in and Natalie goes up to Ollivander at the desk.

"Try this one, oak and dragon heartstring, eleven and a half inches, quite flexible." says Ollivander holding the wand out for her to hold.

"Wingardium Leviosa." she says aiming at a book. It bursts into flames.

"No, I don't think that's right." he says as he puts out the fire. He pulls out another wand. "How about this one, pine and unicorn hair, 12 inches exactly, bendy."

"Lumos." The wand tip lights up immediately. "Nox"

"Well, I guess that is the wand for you, try not to break it." he says.

"I'll try." says Natalie handing him the money. Ollivander hands her the box and we all walk out. We walk back to the Leaky Cauldron and meet up with Melanie and Milly. We order pumpkin juice and we wait and talk for the rest of the morning till Mr. and Mrs. Chang come and pick us up.


I run into the platform between nine and ten and appear on the other side. Jennifer follows. The two of us find Natalie and Tamara and we board the train. We find a compartment to ourselves and sit down.

I let out a sigh of relief. "Oh thank goodness we don't have to share a compartment with him again."

"You know, Keith made you go on that date so you can become friends, not make you hate him even more." Tamara states.

"Well...I don't hate him. I just strongly dislike him."

Jennifer rolls her eyes. "How do like your new wand Natalie?"

"Eh, it's fine." Natalie replies, holding it gently. "I miss my old one though."

"Don't worry, you'll get used to it." Natalie nods.

Out of the corner of my eye I see a flash of red, through the window. I jerk my head over, I could have sworn I just saw...

I spot Brian and Irene walking by. Irene catches my eye and waves. I motioned her to come in. She happily opens the door and takes the spot next to me.

Irene has gotten a bit more tanned since the last time we saw her. She also looks like she's grown a couple centimeters taller. Why do I feel like I'm the only one not growing? Even Melanie and Milly are taller than me! This is totally not fair!

Brian pokes his head in. "Are you sure you don't want to sit with me and my friends?"

Irene snickers. "Duh." Then she double takes. "Wait...what friends...?"

"Lewis, some other Gryffindor guys. Why?"

"Just leave." Irene says waving off.

Brian rolls his eyes. "Alright. See you later."

Irene shrieks. "Ehhh! I'm so excited!" she exclaims, handing out hugs to each of us. Wow, she's such a contrast to Brian.

Tamara widens her eyes suddenly. "Oh yeah..." she turns to Natalie. "Did he...like tell you yet?"

"Tell me what...?" Natalie questions.

Tamara sighs. "Guess not...figures..."

"What...?"

Irene smiles. "Is it maybe a confession?! I mean, out of all of you, he looks at Natalie the strangest." Natalie blinks.

"I know right?! What is wrong with that guy?!" Jennifer immediately jumps in.

"Um?" Tamara tries to cut in.

Irene snickers. "Tell me about it! I've been asking that my entire life!"

Natalie just looks uncomfortable now, Tamara stopped trying to interject, seeing that this conversation is going to last a while. "Can we change the subject?" Natalie finally speaks up.

"I mean seriously! He's a Gryffindor and he can't even stand up and tell a girl that he likes her! How lame can he get?" Jennifer pushes, completely unaware of Natalie.

"Trust me, he's way more pathetic than he seems and he seems quite pathetic to begin with." Irene says.

I turn to Natalie and Tamara, who are just sitting there waiting for the conversation to end. Tamara raises an eyebrow. "This is going to take a while, isn't it?"

I nod. "Yup..."


"I'll see you guys later." Irene waves, heading over to the the first years.

Natalie turns to Jennifer. "Did you really have to talk about him the entire trip?!"

"What? It's true though! He should totally man up." She replies, jokingly nudging Natalie on the sides. This makes her extend her distance from Jennifer, pushing Tamara and I in between.

"Oh come on! Is that really necessary?!" I say.

"Yes." she replies.

I turn to Tamara. "What does he really need to tell her anyway?"

Tamara bites her lip. "I think it's best if he tells her first."

The Great Hall is the same as always; I separate with the others and head over to the Slytherin table. People are just starting to come in and the place is already full of murmurs of conversation. All of my friends have gotten a little bit taller. This is so unfair! Why am I so short!? At the table, I spot Keith and Helda. I sit in between them as usual.

"Hey guys." I greet them. Keith smiles and waves at me. He continues chatting with his friends and ignoring his fangirls as usual.

"Hey Michelle! How was your summer?" Helda asks.

"It was good. Until I saw a recent news article." I complain.

"You mean the dude who just broke out of Azkaban?" Helda questions. I nod in response. "Who wouldn't? He was the one who got you petrified and kidnapped Milly. Not to mention what happened in our first year." She says.

"Don't remind me of the pain I went through just to try to get Milly back." I groan. Flashbacks of the date with Lewis randomly come up into my head. I shake my head to get the thoughts out.

"Oh yeah, we have a new student. Again." Helda mentions. That gets my attention. Is it the red haired guy I saw at Diagon Alley and earlier on the Hogwarts Express?

"Is it the-" I begin to say but get cut off by Professor Dumbledore, asking for attention.

"Welcome students, to a new school year! I hope you've all had a great summer. Whatever happened last year, let's put it behind us. Let's sort the new first years into their new houses shall we? Bring them in!" He says and waves his hand in the air. The big doors open majestically. Professor McGonagall guides the first years into the Great Hall with a long piece of parchment in hand.

Once they reach the front of the room, the first years begins to look nervous. I guess they're not just nervous about being sorted into their houses. They're nervous because of all the older students watching, judging by how they won't meet our eyes, keep looking at each other and are fidgeting with their robes. At the end of the line, I see the red hair boy. He sticks out like a sore thumb with his hair and eyes. Professor McGonagall grabs the Sorting Hat and a stool. She places the Hat on the stool. The Sorting Hat opens its' mouth, shocking some of the first years. I'm guessing they're Muggle-borns.

After the Sorting Hat finishes its sorting song for the year, Professor McGonagall announces that we have a new third year transfer student from Durmstrang Institute. When she is about to call him up, the Sorting Hat speaks up again, getting the attention off all the students.

"Beware, for things are about to occur

Missing, dead, danger stirs

Beware for it acts at unexpected times,

It acts when it thinks time is prime."

Dead? People are actually going to die this year? Not just missing...I clench my fists. I have a feeling the William dude has something to do with it. When is he going to stop making our lives here at Hogwarts troublesome? I look at the first years' expressions. I pity them. Now they think Hogwarts is a bad, dangerous place to stay.

Professor McGonagall clears her throat and gains the attention again from the students.

"Aidan Matthews. May you please come up to get sorted?" She announces. At the back of the line, the red hair boy, now confirmed to be Aidan Matthews walks up to the podium where the Sorting Hat is.

"He's cute." I comment in a whisper to Helda. She nods, agreeing with me. Keith must have heard me because he turns around to look at me, with a weird look on his face. I smile nervously at him. Then he turns back to the front.

"Slytherin!"

All the people in my house, including me, claps for our newest addition. He casually takes an empty seat not too far away from us. Yeah, it's definitely the same person I bumped into the other day. He's the one who turned into Knockturn Alley. Does he do dark magic...Or just like Jennifer when we first met; who mistakenly went into Knockturn Alley.

"Hey man. Welcome to Slytherin." Keith greets him with a smile. Aidan just completely ignores him. "Okay..." Keith frowns and turns back to his friends, while the Tanmirers are glaring at Aidan for being rude to their `Prince Charming'. Again he ignores them and just looks bored.

"Lee, Irene." Professor McGonagall calls. I turn my attention back to the front. Irene goes up to the front and sits down, looking nervous. Professor McGonagall sets the Sorting Hat on her head. "Ravenclaw!" The Ravenclaw table cheers and claps for their new house member. At the Gryffindor table, I see Brian looking relieved. Ha ha, he must not want his little sister spilling embarrassing stuff about him.

Professor Dumbledore stands up from his seat and calls for attention. "As much as I would like to start the year on a lighter note I cannot...You may all know, except for the first years of course, a criminal has escaped from Azkaban just a few nights ago. The Aurors are doing their best to capture him. However since his capture is due to...the involvement of some students, he will stop at nothing for revenge." Gee, isn't that great to hear something like that.

"So the Faculty and I have decided to strictly enforce rules for your safety. First, all of you must be back at your dorms at 5:00 pm sharp. All the Prefects and your Head Professor will escort all the students to the Great Hall for supper and back to your dorms. You must not go out of your dorm and common room without any teacher with you. When you go to the washroom during class, you must have a partner with you. You must have your wand with you at all times. If you happen to see the criminal, do not approach him. He's taken lives before, and won't hesitate to take yours. Even the Professors must be on guard. You all must abide to all these rules, do you understand?" He asks.

"Yes, Headmaster." All the students say in unison.

"Anyways, let's get on a brighter note. Our Keeper of the Keys and Grounds, Hagrid has come back from doing something for the Ministry. Please welcome him back warmly. Now that is all. Enjoy the feast!"

Dinner is served by the house elves as usual. I chat with Helda. As we talk I accidentally kick someone under the table. Aidan suddenly turns to me, revealing his grey eyes behind his red hair. They look hard and cold.

"Oh. Sorry about that." I apologize. He just turns away from my gaze. Well. Isn't that rude?


After we finish eating dinner, we have to make a single file line to get escorted out of the Great Hall. Oh yeah, now that I think about it, what happens to Quidditch if these rules are enforced?

We soon arrive and I walk up to the dormitory with Helda.

"So what did you do this summer?" I ask.

"Not much, stayed home most of the time. You?"

"Basically the same as you, my parents were too busy this summer to take us anywhere." I say. "I read a couple of Muggle books though. They're quite interesting."

"Yeah, I did that too." she says. "What electives did you choose?"

"Care for Magical Creatures and Divination."

"Oh same, but I guess we'll be in the same classes."

Just then a Prefect from the outside of the door says that's it's time for 'Lights out'. "Talk to you more tomorrow?" I say.

"Yeah, good night." says Helda as she climbs into bed.

"Good night."


I walk into the Transfiguration classroom and go to sit next to Natalie. Before I get the chance to talk to her Professor McGonagall walks into the classroom.

"Welcome back to another year of Transfiguration. Today we will be learning how to turn teapots into tortoises. I have placed a tortoise in front of each person for you to try on. The incantation is testollam and you must wave your wand exactly three times. If you need reference, the spell is on page two of your textbooks. You may begin."

I wave my wand over the tortoise three times and say "testollam". The tortoise starts to breathe steam which according to the book, is not supposed to happen. I look over to see that Natalie's is doing the same thing.

Soon Professor McGonagall announces that class is over and that we are to perfect the spell for homework.

We all walk out of the classroom with Professor McGonagall behind us to make sure we get to class safely.

"So what do you think the Sorting Hat was talking about?" I ask as I finish up my potions essay.


"Well the first line just says that dangerous things are about to happen." says Natalie.

"'Missing, dead, danger stirs', I guess means that people are going to go missing and some may even die. The last part is basically a repeat of the first line."

"The next line just means that you can't expect when it happens." Jennifer says.

"And the last means it acts when it's the best time." I conclude.

"Do you think this is about the William dude?" asks Jennifer.

"Well, he did try doing it last year. He might try it again." Natalie says.

Jennifer looks hesitant. "Do you think this has anything to do with his master?"

"I don't know, kidnapping and killing might be his instructions from him." I say.

"What about the mutant pelican?" Jennifer asks.

"I guess, maybe he's another follower." Natalie guesses.

Tamara shrugs. "He could be. It's possible"

"Hey, do you think there's something weird about the new student?" I ask.

"Not really, I haven't really thought about it. Why?" Natalie asks.

"Well, he completely ignored Keith and I when we tried talking to him." I say.

"Maybe he hasn't adjusted yet." Tamara suggests.

"Remember when I bumped into someone at Diagon Alley? It was him." I say.

"Well, what's so strange about that? He could have gone there to get his school supplies." Jennifer questions.

I knit my brows together. "In Knockturn Alley? What school supplies could he get there?"

"That is a bit strange but it doesn't mean he's involved in dark magic." Natalie says.

"Yeah, I went in there and I'm not involved in dark magic." Jennifer states.

I nod. "True."

Tamara shrugs. "We'll see, you've only just met him."

"Yeah, I guess so." I say.

"We should start working, our curfew is earlier. We can't work as late as before." Natalie says, flipping open her potions book.

I take out my Charms reading when I notice Aidan walk into the library. He looks around like he doesn't want anyone to see what he's doing and walks through a couple of aisle of books. Soon I notice that he comes out again but this time heads toward the restricted section of the library. Madam Pince doesn't seem to notice him. He looks back and forth like he did when he first walked in and walks behind one of the shelves. He's blocked from my view. I turn back to my reading but I'm not actually reading. Why would he go into the restricted section? He most likely knows that it's restricted since he walks around like he doesn't want to be seen. What could he be looking for? Just then someone waves their hand in front of my face.

"Hey, you've been looking at that page for over ten minutes." says Jennifer. "And I know you read faster than that."

"Oh, I'm just a bit tired." I say. "Can't concentrate."

"Okay then." she says, then goes back to her work.

I look back to the restricted section and see Aidan quickly walk out. He isn't carrying a book so he must have only went in to read something. But what? He walks out of the library and I'm back to staring at my book. I just can't think of a reason of why he would need to read something in there.

Could he really be involved with dark magic? Is he involved in what the Sorting Hat said? Hopefully I'm wrong.

"Hey," Tamara says, shaking my shoulder gently. "Time to go."

"Oh okay," I say as I pick up my books and walk out of the library, my thoughts still running through my head.


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