Chapter Eleven
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Alice couldn't get down to Harry's room fast enough. She ran down the hallway towards his door and knocked loudly when she got there. She was greeted by a rather frazzled-looking Harry. "You found the Portkey? Where?" Alice almost screamed. Harry put his fingers to his lips and shushed her. He took her by the hand and led her into the living room where Officer Mayse was now standing. "I think we're just about done here. We'll be in contact if we need anything more from you, Mr. Potter," Mayse said, slipping the necklace into a small manila envelope labeled EVIDENCE. Great, Harry thought to himself. I'll be lucky if I ever get to see that again.
As soon as Mayse shut the door behind him, Alice was full of questions. Harry tried to calm her down and tell her the whole story. "Eric's necklace is the Portkey. He was wearing it when the police found his body. It all makes sense now. The Death Eaters came through the Portkey and killed him." "But why would they do that?" Alice asked. That was a very good question. "The only thing I can figure," Harry began, "is that Eric is not who they expected to see on the other side of that necklace. Maybe they thought he stole it from whoever wore it before him and they killed him." Harry wasn't sure who that person was. Before he could get his next thought out, Alice took the words right out of his mouth. "We need to find out where Eric got that necklace."
After checking with Eric's parents (who had no idea he even owned a necklace, let alone wore one every day), Alice and Harry headed to a meeting of the Saved Hearts Alliance, the campus church group that Eric was a member of. They got there 15 minutes before the meeting was supposed to start and started looking for the group's president, Josh Owens. After being unable to find him, Harry approached two members sitting cross-legged on the floor talking. "Sorry, but do either of you know where I can find Josh?" Harry asked the two. One of them, a pretty brunette that Harry vaguely recognized from his Chemistry lecture, Ashley or Amber or something like that, spoke. "Josh hasn't been here for the past couple of days. It's really weird, actually. We were just talking about where he might have gone." "Okay, thanks anyw—" Harry stopped himself. "Excuse me, but where did you get that necklace you're wearing?" Harry asked, gesturing to the necklace that the other girl, a chubby but non unattractive redhead with glasses and her hair in a low ponytail. He wouldn't have even noticed it had the light not caught the obsidian-like stone that shone in the middle of a silver inlay. "Oh, this? We each got one a couple of weeks ago." The redhead said. Ashley/Amber pulled a chain that was previously hidden from underneath her shirt to reveal the same necklace around her neck. "Everyone has one. Why?" "Where did you get them from?" Harry asked, trying not to let the fear show in his voice. "From Josh," both girls said at once.
Harry grabbed Alice's hand and practically dragged her out of the church group's small room. "What's wrong?" Alice asked. She could tell Harry was scared, and she knew that meant something really bad was going on. "They've all got one, Alice. Every single one of them. Josh is behind it, and no one's seen him for days." "One what?" Alice asked. Harry ran his fingers through his hair, already trying to think of what he should do next. "A Portkey. Josh has been using the cover of the church group to get God knows how many Portkeys on the necks of students across the entire campus." Alice gasped and sat down. They were outside now, near a group of benches. "This is just the beginning," Harry said. "A storm is coming. We've got to do something." No sooner had the words left his lips than they heard a gunshot ring out across campus.
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