The Deaths

Author's Note: I'm sorry I killed off Parvatti but I don't know how to pronounce her name and neither does any of my friends. I might replace her but I might not. Thx. ~Julie

The Death

About two weeks had gone by and Parvatti and Lavendar were back to perfect health. They were enjoying all the attention from all the classmates. When they told Professor Dumbledore about the attack we found out that Lord Voldemort hadn't performed the spell. From their description, Peter Pettigrew had entered the dorm and had performed the spell. What we didn't really understand is how Pettigrew had gotten into Hogwarts. Harry said that maybe he was an unregistered animagus and that seemed like the best explanation. Well Peter Pettigrew really was an unregistered animagus. He had been ever since he, James Potter, and Sirius Black had found out that their friend, Remus Lupin, was a werewolf.

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Everything had returned to normal. It was the third week of January until the awful tragedy occurred.

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I was sitting in the Quidditch stands waiting for practice to end. I was doing a Divination assignment when all of the sudden I got the chills. Hermione and Ron had gotten them too because they went pale and they started shivering. We grabbed our books and shoved them into my bookbag. We ran to the field where Harry had lowered his broom onto the ground. He was also pale and shivering. Harry looked really freaked out and said, "What the hell is going on?" Me and Hermione shook our heads and Hermione said, "We have no idea! We have to tell Dumbledore!" We nodded and rushed to the castle.

When we got to Professor Dumbledore's office Ron knocked on the door. To our surprise, Professor Snape opened the door. He said, "Come in. We were expecting you to pay us a visit." We nodded and stepped in. Dumbledore was slumped in his chair behind his desk. Once again to our surprise, all of the teachers were in the office. So were the head boy and girl. Dumbledore said, "I can feel that something horrible has happened. I fainted and luckily Professor McGonnaghall was coming to talk to me so she brought me back to conciousness. We have to be on the lookout. I know what happened to you. I forgot to tell you that when I faint I go into a visonary state. That means that I can see what's happening and I knew that you were having weird experiences so I watched you." We nodded and I said, "May we go to out dorms?" Madame Pomfrey shook he head and said, "No you have to have some chocolate first!" She shoved chocolate in our mouths and then shooed us out of Dumbledore's office.

We hurried to the Gryffindor Tower. When we got there I said, "You guys stay here. I want to show you something." I ran up to the dorm to show them a new kind of candy that I had gotten from the candy store in Hogsmeade.

When I got there I noticed that Parvatti was lying on her bed. She didn't look like she had been petrified. I walked to her bed and said, "Parvatti? Wake up hon'!" I shook her and then I started freaking out. I started screaming, "Come on wake up! Come on Parvatti!" I started crying hysterically and screaming. I put my ear to her chest to hear if her heart was beating. I didn't her anything. I didn't hear her breathing either. I didn't know CPR so I sat her up and started screaming, "Wake up damnit! Come one!" I let her drop back onto her bed and started screaming, "God someone help me! Help! Damnit someone help me!"

I heard Hemione, Ron and Harry appear behind me along with some other Gryffindors. I screamed "Get Professor Dumbledore!" A little first year started running to the door to get him. I screamed, "She's dead! She's freaking dead!" By now Hermione was also hysterically crying. Ron and Harry were trying to calm her down but she was fighting her off. Harry and Ron started softly crying.

Dumbledore appeared at the door and came running toward Parvatti with a group of teachers following him. He bellowed, "Everyone out of here!" We all ran out and went downstairs to the Common Room. A lot of the students were crying. Many were just stunned that their classmate and friend had been killed. Lavendar was upset the most. Parvatti had been her friend ever since they first came to Hogwarts. You never saw Lavendar without Parvatti and vice-versa.

Dumbledore came down from the girl's dormitory's. He had tears in his eyes but he didn't say anything. He just kept his eyes ahead and disappeared out of the portrait hole. We all knew what had happened but none of us wanted to acknowledge it. No one moved. We all just sat there in silence quietly crying. About half an hour later Professor McGonnaghall came out of the girl's dormitory and said, "Parvatti has been killed. Murdered by Peter Pettigrew. Were assuming that she was killed by Peter Pettigrew because he also made the attack a few weeks ago. We do not know if Voldemort has been getting stronger but that is what we are suspecting. Tomorrow in the Garden, there will be a Memorial service. All of you are invited. You do not have to come if you don't want to." The rest of the teachers walked out of the Girl's dormitories and McGonnaghall joined them and left the Gryffindor Tower.

Hermione shook her head and whispered, "I can't believe it! The world is going to Hell!" I nodded. I agreed with her. This was hard for us but it was going to be even harder for Padmae, Parvatti's twin sister.

What was left of the Gryffindor Quidditch team walked through the door. They had no idea that something was going on. When they saw how sad everyone was they suspected something.

They walked to us and asked, "Hey! What's wrong with everyone? You all look as if someone has died." I glared at him and Harry said, "Parvatti has been murdered by Peter Pettigrew. There's going to be a Memorial Service tomorrow night in the Great Hall." They looked stunned. Ginny whimpered, "What? Are you serious? Why did he do that? Oh this is so sad!" She started sobbing and Harry hugged her. Ron said, "Yeah were serious. I guess he did that to show that You-Know-Who is getting stronger. God! I can't believe this has happened!" He let his face fall into his hands and Hermione patted his back.

We all went to diner that night and saw that the Slytherins were sniggering at the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw tables. (Padmae was from Ravenclaw.) Dumbledore put a stop to that and took 200 points away from the Slytherins. Snape didn't argue with him. It was oddly quiet in the Great Hall and Patil wasn't there. She was probably with family. Amanda finally spoke up and said, "Couldn't he have killed Snape instead?" That made us smile a little and Harry said, "No he wouldn't. Snape used to be a Death Eater. Voldemort doesn't kill his own kind unless it'll help him become greater." Amanda nodded and said, "Oh."

We left the Great Hall and went to the Gryffindor Tower. When we got there, Hermione, Ron, Harry and Me decided to go visit Hagrid. We left and walked to his hut. When we got to his door we heard him crying from inside. We walked in and saw Hagrid sitting at his table crying. The table was soaking wet from all his tears. Hermione started talking to him and I fixed some tea. She finally got him to stop crying. We talked about Parvatti for about an hour and that seemed to cheer him up a little. We left after I cleaned up the tea and his tears. We walked back to the Gryffindor Tower in silence. I could tell Hermione was crying because I saw that Ron had his arms around her.

That night, in the girl's room, no one could sleep. Especially Lavendar. She was the most upset. Me, Hermione, Ginny, and Amanda finally got her to calm down and then we went to bed. The only reason that I fell asleep is because my eyes were dry and I had a headache from crying.

To be continued……..