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Thanks to all who reviewed! All the suggestions help and all the love keeps me going! I really hope you enjoy this chapter! Some action as well as Harry Emma bonding! Also this chapter is a bit longer as a special treat so i hope you all enjoy!
The week flew by in close to the same way that the day before had. We had Herbology with Grace on Tuesday and Transfiguration and Flying with Astoria on Friday. By the time Saturday rolled around, I had made friends with at least one person in each house including Luna Lovegood, a girl from Ravenclaw.
On the start of Saturday, Ginny and I met with Astoria and Grace in an empty classroom after breakfast to finish the homework that we received. Ginny and I just had our potions essay on the elements of asphodel. We worked for an hour before starting to help Astoria and Grace with their homework. After that we all ate lunch together and then Ginny and I went to the common room to hang out for a bit. We played a few rounds of exploding snap with Harry and Ron while Hermione nagged them to do their homework and then went to the Library while they did work on their homework.
"Remind me why we are here after we finished all of our homework," Ginny said.
"Because I want to pick up a few books," I replied, going straight to the History section. "If Binns is only going to teach us about Goblin rebellions, I'm going to teach myself. That and also defense because I am not spending one of my years at hogwarts only learning about what Lockhart claims he did."
"Fair enough," Ginny said as I picked up multiple books on history and DADA. "Ok, well I need to shower before dinner, so I am going to go an do that. You have fun with your..books."
I smiled at her before she walked away, leaving me at my small desk in the corner of the library. I took out a pen and parchment, opting to use the pen rather than the quill, and began to write a note to Lizzy. After that I went to dinner with Ginny and then bed, having another successful day.
September flew by and went to October and before I knew it, I had almost been at Hogwarts for 2 months. With October came cold season and I was in Madam Pomfrey's wing more than once with a cold. Ginny had gone multiple times and we suffered through the steam coming out of our red hair together.
The rain at Hogwarts was worse than anything I had ever seen in New York and it lasted for days on end, rain the size of rocks thundering the roof cancelling all Herbology classes.
There were many nights I stayed up late with Harry after one of his late night in the rain quidditch practices that his captain, Oliver Wood, decided the whole team needed. These normally with me inside after stealing hot chocolate from the kitchens with Ginny and us passing them out to Ginny's twin brothers, Fred and George as well as Alicia, Katie, Angelina, and Harry. They all pretty much shunned Wood for making them practice in the rain so he didn't get hot chocolate. Afterward, everyone would go up to bed leaving Harry and I downstair to talk and to have some sibling bonding time. Over the course of October, we got very close and it felt great to have a brother, I must say.
"How are classes?" Harry asked one night after a particularly wet practice where he was bundled in blankets.
"Same as always. I'm still self teaching myself History and Defense because I refuse to let those two oafs who call themselves teachers teach me the only things I learn." This made Harry laugh a bit and we both took sips of our hot cocoa. "How about you? Hermione still keeping you and Ron in line?"
"I guess you can say that," Harry responded. "You excited for your first Halloween feast tomorrow?"
"Should be great," I replied, "After I get through classes. At least it's only potions and charms tomorrow."
"I still don't see how you like potions," Harry replied.
"It just comes naturally to me. It's pretty much all memorization." We talked for another few hours before I fell asleep on Harry's shoulder and he gently nudged me awake and told me to go to bed, which I did.
The next morning, I went through my usual routine of running in the mornings, showering, and changing all before I had to wake up Ginny at 7. I read my book on History (The Extended History of the Wizarding 1700s) before going down to breakfast with her.
The great hall was all decked out in Halloween attire which made some of the Slytherins look very mad. I looked over at Astoria who was sitting alone at the end of the table, being shunned by the rest of her house for hanging out with some
"So what do we have today?" Ginny asked, "And why are you not eating."
I looked down at my food but didn't find any appetite which was surprising for me. "I'm just not hungry."
Ginny looked at me worriedly but I pointedly ignore her looks and instead, got up and grabbed my bag. "Let's get down to the dungeons for potions," I said before beginning to walk away. Ginny got up and followed throwing worried glances at my back.
We met Astoria down at the dungeons. "You feeling alright, Emma?" she asked when we stopped next to her. "You look kind of pale."
"I feel fine," I replied, slightly exasperated. Astoria just sighed and then turned to Ginny.
"Did you ask her also?" Astoria asked and Ginny nodded.
"Let's just leave it," I replied, opening up my potions book and reading ahead until Snape came and let us into class.
I made it through the whole day of classes without any problems.
"I'm telling you, Ginny, I feel fine!" I said after Charms on the way to the library. That wasn't entirely true. I had had a headache all day and it had steadily got worse as the day progressed. My scar on my neck had also been bothering me all day.
"Emma, your look like a ghost because you are so pale. Just go to Madame Pomfrey."
"But the feast is in an hour! I can't miss that," I replied.
"Pomfrey will have you done in less than that. Let's go." Ginny grabbed my arm and my head was hurting to much to argue. Pomfrey had me sat down on a bed within seconds of seeing how pale I was.
"You should have come to me the minute you were feeling bad," Pomfrey said, fussing around me. Ginny had to leave for a bit, but when she came back, she sat in a chair next to me watching as Madame Pomfrey gave me pepperup potion as well as a cure for headaches. By the time she let me go, it was already almost halfway through the feast and Ginny and I were running towards the feast. Of course, nothing is as easy as you want it to be in the life of a demigod. I was hoping that monsters couldn't get into this school because of the magical wards, but I guess I was wrong.
"Emma, what are those?" Ginny asked, staring at the giant hellhounds sitting in the middle of the hallway.
"Ginny, step back slowly," I replied as I pulled out my knife from its sheath at my belt. The hellhounds started to growl.
"Emma, why do you have a bloody knife?" Ginny asked with wide eyes as she stopped stepping back and just stared at me. One hellhound leaned back on its hind legs and got ready to pounce.
"GINNY! BACK!" I yelled as the hellhound did just that and began to fling at me. Ginny sprinted behind the corner and looked around as I ran to meet the hellhound, knife flashing.
I slashed out at the hellhound and hit it in the arm, leaving a bloody gash down the side of it. I rolled out of the way of its swinging claw. It caught the edge of my robes and ripped it them leaving a nice slash down my arm right arm. I cried out and grabbed my arm, putting pressure on it to stop the bleeding. I swung out again but my long hair, that just my luck was down, got in my face and I hit its leg instead of its chest. In response, the other hellhound's claw hit me across my middle and I fell over, crying out again as I felt warm blood trickle down . My knife was thrown out of my hands and I grabbed my little throwing dagger out of my boot. Still on the ground, I chucked it hard, right into the chest of the first hellhound. It exploded into ash and the other hellhound growled and I turned but found it was facing a cowering Ginny.
"Emma!" Ginny cried. I stumbled to my feet and limped/ran over to where Ginny was.
"Emma!" came another cry from behind me. I turned and saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione at the other end of the allway with their wands out.
"Stay back!" I called to the three, and continued to make my way towards where Ginny was standing. They didn't listen though and Harry and Hermione ran forward, casting spells and Ron ran towards Ginny. The spells did nothing other than annoy the monster who turned its attention to Harry and Hermione instead of Ginny and started to run. I lept out of the way and landed on my ankle, hearing a slight crack and a shock of pain. "What part of stay back do you not get!" I cried.
"Why are our spells not working?" Hermione called.
"Stop throwing spells you're just annoying it," I cried. "And RUN!" Harry and hermione turned and split but the hellhound started to run after it. I chucked my other throwing dagger at it and hit it in the chest causing it to explode as well.
"Ok, you're good!" I called to Hermione and Harry who stopped running and Harry instead turned and sprinted towards me.
"Emma, you're hurt," He said, taking out his wand.
"No, none of that, I said. "Go into my pocket and grab out the little bag inside of it." Harry did as I said and passed my my bag full of ambrosia and nectar. He passed it to me and I opened it and put as much into my mouth as I dared. The wounds on my chest started to close but were still a bit red and the bleeding in my arm started to slow but hadn't stopped yet. My ankle was still swollen but hurt a bit less. I pulled off my robe and started to rip piece of it up to bind my arm. Then I wrapped my ankle up and took my wand and pen to make a splint.
"Give me a hand here," I said to Harry and took the hand he offered and got to my feet. I put my messed up ankle down and tried to put some weight on it but it immediately shot pain up my ankle. I picked it right up and with the help of Harry, hopped over to where Ginny was. "Are you alright?" I asked to a pale face Ginny. She nodded. "Are you hurt at all?" Ginny shook her head.
"Are you going to explain what happened here?" Harry asked, pointing to the slightly wrecked hallway, the2 daggers and knife I just picked up and were now in my hand, and my splinted ankle, bleeding arm, and ripped up robe.
"Sure. There was a monster and I killed it," I replied, rolling my eyes.
"Who are you?" Ron asked, rather rudely and Ginny smacked him and Harry threw him a dirty look. That was good. Two people who I knew didn't hate me.
"I'm a demigod, of sorts. I am a child of Hecate, which is why my magic is so strong, and why monsters come after me." The four of them stared at me before Harry spoke up.
"I thought your parents are my parents," Harry replied.
"I am," I responded hurriedly. "It's just, while mom was still pregnant with me, Hecate worked some magic and made it so I was also a child, of sorts, of her. I know it's confusing, you've just gotta learn to accept it." The four of them continued to stare at me, Ginny still white faced. "We might want to get her to the Hospital wing, I think she's in shock."
"I'm-i'm fine," Ginny said weakly. "Let's just go to the feast." Ron helped her up and Harry was still supporting me on one side and Hermione came over and took my other side. Together, we half limped half walked over to the great hall. But of course, the night wasn't over yet.
"Do you hear that?" I asked.
"Yeah," Harry said, stopping.
"Hear what?" Hermione asked and Ron and Ginny looked confused as well.
"I think it's going to kill someone!" I cried. Harry was as pale as a ghost and we limped/ran with Ron, Hermione, and Ginny following behind us.
"Is that- is that Mrs. Norris," Ginny asked weakly. The cat in question was hanging by her tail on a torch holder. She was a stiff as a board and above her was red writing-
THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN
OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.
"What's the chamber of secrets," I asked.
"Let's get out of here," Ron replied.
"Wait!" Harry and I said at the same time.
"Shouldn't we try to help-" Harry began awkwardly, but Ron shook his head.
"Trust me. We don't want to be found here."
But it was too late. There was a rumbling sound of feet, probably the entire school coming out of the feast, coming up the stairs.
The noise died down as soon as the students all got to where Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and I were standing. We all just stood there, me still supported by Harry and Hermione, Ron still holding onto Ginny. The whole school pressed in, trying to get closer to where we were standing. Then someone shouted through the silence.
"Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods."
It was Draco Malfoy, the boy Harry had pointed out to me before that he said was always trying to get Ron, Hermione, and him in trouble. He was also the one that was leading the shunning of Astoria. Long story short, I had many reasons to hate this guy.
He had pushed to the front of the crowd, his pale eyes gleaming. His usually pale face was flushed with a new light and he was grinning at the sight of the stiff cat.
"What's going on!" Attracted, probably by Malfoy's screams, Argus Filtch came pushing through the crowd. He fell back at the sight of his cat hanging from the torch hanger. "My cat...my cat...you killed my cat…" He turned to face where Harry and I were standing. "You! YOU MURDERED MY CAT! I'LL KILL YOU!"
"Argus," Dumbledore said calmly, coming up behind Filtch, followed by a number of the other teachers. Dumbledore gave the five of us a look over before moving on and detaching Mrs. Norris from the torch bracket. "I need you five to come with me," DUmbledore said. "You also, Argus."
Lockhart stepped forward eagerly. "My office is the nearest, Headmaster- just upstairs- please feel free."
"Thank you Gilderoy. The rest of you, get back to your common room!" The crowd parted to let Dumbledore through and they all gawked at Ron, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, and I as I limped and the rest of them walked, up to the stair case.
"I'm going to carry you now," Harry said. I tried to protest but Harry grabbed under my legs and lifted me up baby style. "You're very light," Harry said. "Could be how short you are." I slapped his arm softly but didn't have the strength to respond. Hermione smiled softly from next to us and I put my head on Harry's shoulder and shut my eyes. "Emma. Emma, stay awake. You've got to. Please Emma." I nodded but kept my eyes shut. The pain in my ankle was still really bad. The ambrosia healed my worst injury firs and then started on the next one, but not much happened to my ankle. I heard a door open and felt Harry lower me into a seat before I looked up. Dumbledore was sitting at the main desk, examining Mrs. Norris body. I was curled in a ball on a chair and Harry was standing next to me and Ginny was in the seat over with Ron by her. Hermione took the last seat closest to the wall. McGonagall was next to Dumbledore, Snape was in the shadows, and Lockhart was hovering around making suggestions that I paid no attention to. The last person in the room was Filtch who was racking with sobs.
Finally, Dumbledore spoke. "She's not dead, Argus."
Lockhart stopped his muttering about different murders he had witness and turned to look at Dumbledore.
"Not dead? But why is she all- all stiff and frozen?" Filtch asked.
"She has been Petrified," Dumbledore said.
"Ha! I thought so," Lockhart said and Filtch threw him a nasty glance.
"But how, I cannot say," Dumbledore said.
"Ask them!" Filtch said pointing at us.
"No first nor second year can do this,"" Dumbledore said. "The magic is too complex."
"No, I'm telling you, they did it! The Potter boy saw the letter in my office and he told all of his little friends that I'm a- a squib."
"I don't even know what that is!" Harry cried. "And I never touched ."
"If I may speak, Headmaster," Snape said, silkily, "It could be that they were all in the wrong place at the wrong time," he looked me over once, taking in my torn up robe, bloodstained arm, and broken ankle, "though that is rather unlikely. I say that we take away all privileges these students have until they are ready to talk. Including," Snape gave Harry a pointed look "Quidditch."
"You can't be serious, Severus," McGonagall said, as Harry began to protest.
"Oh, quite. Tell me, why were you all not at the Halloween feast?" Snape asked.
"We were at a deathday party," Harry said pointing towards himself, Hermione, and Ron.
"I was in the Hospital wing with Ginny. I had a headache and my neck was bothering me…" I trailed off remembering the pain coming from my scar.
"Alright, but why not join the feast afterwards?" said Snape. "Why go up that corridor at all?" Harry glanced over at me and I gave a slight shake of my head, but not enough for the other teachers to notice.
"It was on the way down from the Hospital wing and my brother came to meet me with Hermione and Ron. We were all just making are way down to the feast when we found Mrs. Norris," I said. Not all a lie.
"I don't believe that Potter is telling the whole truth sir. I believe she and her brother may not have been doing as they said they were. I think we should ban quidditch and other activities until they are ready to tell the truth."
"Come now, Severus. I see no reason why we should ban the boy from quidditch. The cat wasn't hit over the head with a broomstick." McGonagall was glaring at Snape.
"You five are free to go. Harry, why don't you take Emma up to the Hospital wing." I gave a sluggish nod.
"Look at her, headmaster," Lockhart said, "The poor girl is falling asleep in her chair. No need to go to the hospital wing. I can heal her right here. I've done it dozens of times."
"Professor, I really think we should take her to the hospital wing," Harry said and I nodded again.
"No need, my dear boy! Don't you worry, Emma. I'll have you fixed up in no time."
"No...please…" I said, but the damage was already done. There was a nasty crack and I cried out in pain. I didn't want to look down but I knew something was wrong by the look on Harry's face.
"What did you do!" He yelled, and finally daring it, I looked down at my ankle that was swollen three times the size it was before and I could see a bit of bone sticking out of the bruising around it. My stomach lurched at the sight and I had to shut my eyes to keep from throwing up.
'Harry, hospital wing," Dumbledore said calmly."And I think Mr. Weasley, that you might want to bring your sister as well. I think she is still in shock."
Harry picked me up again and I cringed when he bumped my ankle slightly. "Sorry," he muttered, but I just shook my head, way too tired to respond. Ron took Ginny by the hand and lead her out and Harry followed with me in his arms. Hermione went back to the tower to get some sleep and the boys took us up to the Hospital Wing.
"What in Merlin's name happened here!" Madame Pomfrey said. "Put her," Madame Pomfrey pointed to me, "here and put her," she pointed to Ginny, "here." Ron and Harry did as they were told and I felt myself being lowered onto the soft bed. Harry sat down next to me and took my hand in his. Madame Pomfrey started on Ginny by just giving her a bit of chocolate and a sleeping drought to calm her down before turning to me. I didn't argue when she attempted to magic my injuries away but I knew it would be no use. Demigod's injuries don't react the same to magic as wizard's do and they really don't react well if they were made by a monster. My ankle just swelled more and I shoved my head back into a pillow. "What in Merlin's name is happening?" Madame Pomfrey said and tried again. By now my ankle was really swollen and I could feel it throbbing. Madame Pomfrey didn't try again after that. She bound my ankle tightly in white gauze and wrapped my arm as well. The whole time, Harry kept my good hand in his and Ginny slept with Ron next to her. After Pomfrey was done binding my injuries, she gave me a sleeping draught as well, which wasn't really needed because I knocked out anyway.
And there you are! I hope you all enjoyed it! I tried to add in a bit more action since I felt the story was dragging a bit. Thanks for reading and please please please review! See you Wednesday!