Title: The Deathly Amulet
Chapter two: My Sweet Friend
Disclaimer: I don't own Hogwarts on Harry Potter. They are Rowling-san's.
Summary: this fic was taking time five years after the seventh book's scene. So Harry and friends wouldn't show up here, because they had been graduated.
'Hhmmmm…awkward…' I raised an amulet that I found on my luggage, observing it carefully. 'I never pack it nor have it. Is this sister's? Well it's good if she act as a generous sister sometime.'
I locked that amulet chains behind my head. It had a good pendulum shape of a red star.
I continued arranging my stuffs on my room. Beside me, my three roommates were doing the same. Harebell was of course one of my roommates. She would have been finished, since her stuffs were less than mine.
Seems like harebell stuffs were muddy and in a poor condition. I wonder why, but I wouldn't ask. It's her business and I didn't like to prey. Harebell never talked much about herself on last dinner. She was an introvert girl.
My other roommates were Lunamaria and Meyrin Hawke. They're twins, but easy to difference since Luna had a short hair and Meyrin not. (Can you guess? They're Gundam seed destiny's characters! And they are here in this fic for the sake of 'fun' .)
"Lilt," Harebell called me. "May I help you? Looks like your stuffs still in a mountain."
"Iie (no)…you not need to. Just sleep as a nice kid would be in this late hours. I could manage this mountain alone."
"I think you should continue it tomorrow, or else you'll wake up late for the morning class." Luna gave her voice. The twins had done replacing their things.
"Don't worry. I wouldn't." ()
But the fact was, yes, I woke up late in the next morning. Luna and Meyrin had gone first. Harebell was still waiting for me.
"Let's go!" I grabbed her hand and ran for our first class.
"But you're not brushing your hair…" she uttered.
"That's not important. I'm not going to Hogwarts for searching a boyfriend." I said, but she still waving her wand, tidying my hair.
"#ER#!#!" said my stomach. (What a shame!) #ER#!#"umbled.et a detention." clasped my hand in front of her until she aware. agged me away.
"And you're not having breakfast too. Sorry, but I can't wake you at that time." Harebell added shyly.
"Hhh….guess that's the consequence of becoming late sleeper." I stopped running and walked fast instead. I said, I could manage it, but actually my stomach's singing.
Suddenly Harebell popped out a big apple pie from her cloak. "hora…tabemasu yo.(hei, please eat it)" she smiled brightly," I spare this from breakfast."
I blinked my eyes, and without any conventionality I ate it while walking. It's really my luck to have a sweet friend like Harebell. Its really strange for someone like Reef said that she had death playing around her.
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A month had passed away. Harebell and I had many friends, even from the other dorms. Not all of them were anime lover, but thank god they didn't underestimate us because we were a minor. From them, I knew that wizard world was magnificent. They'd lived side by side with muggles (a human who didn't posses magic power) without being known for all long time. Wizard today had had a good and easy life, but still expanding their knowledge. But I dared say that they style was odd (for the eyes of muggles), I had my introvert friend as the example.
Harebell never let her wool hat open along this month, never in front of us. I wonder, could it be that she hid something behind that wool? Well that's her privacy and I shouldn't prey. But different with me, there're many student that couldn't accept just being curios.
I hate it. They smiled at Harebell, acted as if they had being a long friend, offering a help, but while they're helping they asked the truth behind Harebell's hat. All was the same. All of them just wanted to over their curiosity by humiliating Harebell privacy. Harebell always smiled, but I could say it was a fake one. I was the best for making fake smile, that's why I was the expert to difference the true and the fake one. I also could describe any kind of its meaning.
Just as now, after dinner, four seniors from Slytherin came and asked Harebell a favor. They had a smile that intended something bad. I wanted to stay beside Harebell, but one of the senior said he needed my help and dragged me away. Since all of them smiling, I couldn't find any excuse to against them.
"Sorry for disturbing you, and thanks for your help." The black short hair girl from Slytherin smiled then left. She just asked me to accompany her to the bathroom.
"Not at all…" I said. 'What a bane.' I thought.
I waited until that girl's enough far then I tailed her. I knew that's the quickest way to find where was Harebell now. Those prey lover Slytherin must have planned it together.
She got out from the castle, went to the group of trees near the lake. From a distant, I could hear some loud voice of laugh.
I run and arrived there. Hiding behind blueberry bush, I saw Harebell's wool hat had been rid off. And it showed something that she did hide.
Harebell's ear was unlike human being should be. It had a big-house elf-like shape. She's crying while the four Slytherins laughed at her.
"No wonder she was so low profile, she IS LOW anyway."
"Who is your master, Harebell?"
"I think it should be me. If not, I will spread out this silly news."
"Hogwarts shouldn't receive a slave blood like you."
They shouted disgusting words more and more. I couldn't understand it since I had already blank because of furious. Harebell kneeled on the grassy ground, her whole frame was shaking, and her hands covered her teary face. "Stop it already…"she hissed.
"Petrificus Totalus! Invicible Wires! Spell Binding Circle! Expilliarmus!" I cast spell to all of them. I knew this was unlike the hero should do since I did it not in a fair duel, but my rage was blind me.
I stroked and kicked the Slytherin who lose his wand. I also knocked out the others that bind by my spell. After they all unconscious, I removed and remade their memories.
"Daijoubu ka, Harebell? (Are you all right, harebell?)"
Harebell looked stunned. I had to call her for three times and clasped my hand in front of her so she recognized me.
"……" she downed her hands and saw my face. "eh? hai (yes)" she smiled, and covered her face once more. "a..a..arigatou (thank you)…Lilt…If only you wouldn't come…"
"Don't mind it…" I patted her head. "Let's rush back to our warm dorm. If we're late, we could get a detention."
We arrived at our room. Luna and Meyrin had been there. They asked why we're so late, but instead of answered honestly I said that we stayed in the Great Hall to play. I had modified the Slytherin thug memories as if they were never meet Harebell and I, so the story must be compatible.
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Morning came, I didn't awake late, but my room had been empty. I wonder where were my roommates at this early morning.
I got change lazily and got out from my dorm. Suddenly someone grasped my hand right when I had been out from the guardian paint of Huflepuff dorm. He was Reef. He made me running along the corridor.
"What the meaning of this?" I yawned.
'Fool! Don't be too relaxed! Harebell is going to kill you!' He said in telepathy.
"Harebell what?"
'She's going to kill you! Now you should hide somewhere in this earth where she couldn't find you, if not you'll be dead meat!'
"Ohayou…(good morning)..Lilt." cheered Rei while I passed her. I said good morning back.
I turned to Reef. "Don't kidding me. Why must she kill me?"
'She thought that you are the one who spread it out.'
"Spread what? To the point please."
'All Hogwarts have known that she was half house elf. It was announced by a big poster on the great hall's wall. And what she knows, that four Slytherin had forgotten about it. Teachers and headmistress wouldn't do it. So it left only you as the suspect.'
I released my self from Reef and ran into the Great Hall direction. It wasn't me because I slept like a log last night and it couldn't be me who did it in sleep since I wasn't a sleep walker. I had to explain it to Harebell. Besides, she must be really shock. I couldn't imagine how she's been laughed in the great hall. It must be hard for her.
'Don't!' Reef telepathy screamed in my head. 'Another her has been awoke! 'She' is merciless! 'She' could kill without hesitation! That what 'she' did to her caretaker back then.'
I didn't care and entered the great hall. There, a big poster patched on the wall, said, 'Harebell is our house elf.' Under it was the paint of Harebell without her wool hat.
In the middle of the laughing crowd, Harebell stood. Her hat had off, showing her silky golden hair and her house-elf-ear. She was awkwardly quiet, and she didn't shake nor cry.
She turned and walked to me as if wanted to greet 'good morning'.
"Ohayou Lilt." She smiled. A smile that terrifying me. "Could we have a talk?"
To be continued
End of chapter 2