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Chapter 4

"Rav..."

I looked around, wondering who was calling me. Maybe it was another Death Eater. I only saw the blood around the study and all I could do was shudder and try not to scream.

"Raven, wake up," the voice came again and I felt myself shaking.

"Please, don't!" I started hitting the open air... With a sudden jolt my eyes shot open to a much brighter room as the study. As my eyes started to focus I saw a worried face in front of me. Everything came back to me as I realized it was only a dream. A dream formed from reality.

"You're okay. It was just a dream." The calming voice said. I looked into the warm green eyes of my best friend and felt like they were seeing all my pain and fear with just a look. "You're okay."

I was cover in a cold sweat and I could feel my heart beating frantically. I kept Gustav's eyes my main focus, afraid to think about the dream. He saw the emotions in my eyes and pulled me into his arms in a crushing hug.

"Ow," the sound escaped my lips as Gustav squeezed me as if he was scared that if he let me go I would disappear.

"Mr Royce! I strictly remember telling you to not handle her roughly," Madam Pomfrey's voice broke through the moment and Gustav let me go.

"You could've send word, you know. When we saw the Dark Mark over your house we thought..." Gustav's voice caught in his throat and I could see tears forming in his eyes.

I couldn't stop the tears running down my face and suddenly everything over the past days fell over me like a fat ugly old woman that was nagging at me from the inside out.

Not even a moment after, I felt his arms around me and his soft comforting words were whispered into my ear. Gustav's arms were the only thing keeping me from falling apart and after a long while my tears started to turn into soft sobs.

All the fears I had about what happens next and the pain of being guilty for not saving Mum was calming down. But even then it felt like a stabbing pain in my heart.

"I... I-" my voice caught and a sob broke lose again.

Gustav held me at arms length and that's when I saw the tears running down his face. "We'll make it through, Rav."

I could see the promise in his eyes and I just wanted to tell him everything. From the way my mum acted before the attack to the part where I'm the daughter of the red-eyed-man.

Every little detail from that night started to get heavy on my heart and all I wanted to do is tell Gustav to take me away to a cave somewhere unknown to man. Take me to a place where I could just escape my life and grieve for my only family that's now gone. A place I could cry without people staring at me.

The silence stretched with me and Gustav just looking at one another, the words in our eyes were enough for that moment. We were only pulled out of our silent conversation when the door banged shut.

"Oh, dear Ravenia." The man said, walking to where Gustav and I sat on the infirmary bed. His eyes held clear pain and caring as he looked at me.

I looked at him with my eyes burning. I cleared my throat before replying softly. "Hello, Mr R."

"Dad, I don't think now is a good time," Gustav said, standing up and whipping his eyes.

I frowned wondering what was going on. How did they know where I was? Did Dumbledore tell them? But how would Dumbledore even know Gustav was my friend?

My mind was spinning with unanswered questions that was only confusing me more and more as the time ticked on.

"What's going on?" I asked bemused as I got hold of my voice and emotions. Mr Royce came to stand next to my bed and took my hand in his two big ones.

"The ministry thought it best if I were to handle your case, as there seemed to be difficulty when Auror Young tried it yesterday." Mr Royce said and I could see a sad smile tilting at the corner of his mouth.

"How did you even know where I am?" I asked, looking between Gustav and his father.

"Dad tells me the Aurors were going on and on about a Death Eater named Septimus with green hair and then your name popped up." Gustav said with a smirk forming on his lips. I couldn't help but choke a laugh at that and I knew they knew my imagination ran wild there.

"Yeah, I guess I could have made it more convincing," I said, rubbing my eyes to dry the tears.

Mr Royce looked into my eyes and I could see them turning serious. "I don't need the story of what happened, the ministry has already enough that's more or less the same but I have to discuss your mother's will, the funeral arrangements and also what will happen to you."

Before I could even think about coming up with a reply a voice answered from behind Mr Royce. "Ms Aeron will be staying with me for I am her guardian and for the funeral arrangement, it's already being taken care of."

We all looked at Dumbledore, who appeared out of nowhere in his silver and violet set of robes. He looked so joyful in those robes that it made me smile.

"Albus, we searched for you on our arrival but Argus said you weren't here," Mr Royce said, releasing my hand.

"Ah, yes. I was away for business, I'm afraid. But I'll be more than happy to finalize everything with you in my office," Dumbledore gestured to the door that led out of the infirmary.

Mr Royce nodded and looked back at me. "I'll be back in a moment." He gave me a small smile before following Dumbledore out of the infirmary and leaving Gustav and me alone once again.

I pulled at Gustav's arm and pulled him to sit next to me on the bed so that I could tell him the whole story. To just let someone else try to feel and understand my pain and internal suffering.

I started from when I left him to go home and he sat next to me in silence and listened with his green eyes filling with tears as my story went on. He held me every time I started to sob or cry and when I was ready to continue he listened to every word I said.

His eyes went wide when I told him about Voldemort being my father but he didn't even once spoke a word and let me finish my story before he took a big breath.

He rubbed his forehead as he went over everything that I said and I could feel my heart beating harder and louder with every second that ticked by in his silence.

"Blimey... We're quite pooped, aren't we?" He said with a sigh and I could see all the wheels in his head turning.

"I figured that... But I'm not sure what I'm going to do now," I said, releasing a breath that I didn't even know I was holding. I felt relieved that Gustav was talking about 'we' and not leaving me on my own while he ran away as far as possible.

"I guess go to school and taking it from there." Gustav took my hand and squeezed it. "This is the safest place for you now and I think you're quite lucky that Dumbledore is your godfather."

"Me in school?" The thought sounded a bit absurd. "From all your stories about this place I doubt that it would be that fun."

"Oh, come on! My stories were always fun and I bet you'll make a lot of friends that would make you enjoy school!" Gustav said, trying to get me excited.

All my life it was only really my mum and I and when it was summer Gustav too... But being crowded by students and being expected to stay still in a room and just listen is kind of hard to imagine.

"You know I'm claustrophobic so I'm not liking the many students surrounding me thing," I said and I felt like I'm already being crushed between a dozen children and I couldn't breathe.

Gustav looked at me concerned, "It won't be like that. I'm sure they'll notice you like your space and respect that."

I groaned, never having really thought about school. That would mean staying with Dumbledore - a complete stranger - and being surrounded with kids my own age. I guess that doesn't sound so bad... But all my life I've been surrounded by Medi-wizards and witches, Potion Masters and Mistresses, and really old researchers.

"Well, then you'll have to give me some tips..." I exclaimed once I made up my mind.

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Could it be possible that even the air could be in a depressing mood? Today was like that as I stood with my head bowed. The air was filled with sounds of sobs and people crying, but yet I couldn't shed one tear in front of all these strange people.

I looked up as the coffin was being lowered into the ground. As it went deeper and deeper I could feel a hole opening in my heart that was growing bigger with every centimeter. I felt like just dying and joining my mum in the after life but I knew it would be no use. I'll let my mother's sacrifice be worth it and not for nothing.

The sad eyes I saw all around me were mostly from strangers. There was just a few I recognized from past traveling trips and of course Gustav was next to me with his parents and two younger sisters. Dumbledore was on my other side and it was strange that in a week we didn't talk much.

Most of the past week I spent in the infirmary with Gustav being there day and night. For the first time in a while I could just feel the appreciation in me burning to have such a good friend as Gustav.

"I'm sorry for your loss," came a voice pulling me out of my thought. I looked up and saw the burial was over. The voice was from a woman standing in front of me with dirty blonde hair and I could see her laugh lines around her eyes even in her state of grieve.

I nodded, not knowing really what to say. Do I say thank you? But why should I if I don't mean it? Their words were empty to me as I never knew them and it was not comforting at all.

"I went to Hogwarts with your aunt and that's when I met Violet..." The woman continued but I looked at her bewildered, feeling my heart breaking.

"My aunt?" I asked, starting to wonder if I ever even knew my mother or even anything about my life.

The woman looked at me with a confused frown. "Yes, Twylla."

My mind was spinning once again. How could my mother keep this silent? It wasn't like I never asked her about my family but she never wanted to talk about it. She always got this look of hurt in her eyes and I hated that look so I stopped asking after a while... But how couldn't she told me about an aunt?

"Ms Wakevield, it has been 20 years if I'm not mistaken," Dumbledore said breaking the silence that was beginning to form between me and the woman.

"I'm afraid I've not been Ms Wakevield in years." She smiled and it looked so natural to her face. "It's been 13 years that I've been Mrs Harrison."

Gustav then pulled me to the side as the graveyard started to empty as the strangers started to leave.

"I'd need to go home before I go back to Hogwarts with you to get clean clothes," Gustav said as I saw his family walking to the apparition point.

"You needn't stay with me, Gustav," I said, feeling bad that he has to spent summer at a school he spent the whole year at with only my company.

"Come on, Rav. I haven't even given you a proper tour of the castle," Gustav said, giving me a hug and then turning to leave. "I'll see you later tonight."

Once again I felt thankful for Gustav and I couldn't even imagine doing all this without him. He gave me a final wave before he disappeared with his family.

I stood still for a moment before I started to walk back to Dumbledore and feeling like he was the only thing a bit familiar here in this depressing place.

Standing next to him as people came over to me and expressing their hurt for my loss and telling me things I never even knew about my mum. With every person talking to me I felt like the image I had of my mum disappearing and being replaced by a woman that looked like my mum, but was someone I never knew.

Dumbledore and I apparted to the front gates of Hogwarts. I started to walk ahead, wanting to be alone and not wanting another word that would even blur my vision more about the memory of my mum.

I looked up at the magnificent castle. The place where my life would start over. The place I should be safe from my dear evil father. And the place where I'll plot my revenge to make Voldemort and every Death Eater pay for what they did to me, to my mum...

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