How to live life
Chapter 13
A/N: Hello readers of this here story of mine. I know I promised you guys that it wouldn't be two weeks for the next update, I'm sorry, it was even more than that! I just have major writers block and well... that's it. Writers block sucks, I don't know what to do with this story right now, so I put off writing it. I'll try harder, and hopefully I'll be over this bad case of writers block soon. I also started crew and I'll tell you one thing about crew(rowing) it's tiring! There is a ton of just working out and running before we can even get on the water, and rowing itself it just exhausting, it's all fun though :) I go to the boat house right after school and don't get home till 7:00, and I have regattas every Saturday. Once I get home I'll have time to do is eat and do my homework till I pass out because I'm so tired! I promise I'll try harder to update more often because crew just ended and summer break is less than a month away! So we'll see! Anyway, here's the chapter y'all been waiting for!
Disclaimer: I'm obviously not JK Rowling, so I obviously don't own Harry Potter...
PS: sorry for jumping around a lot in this chapter, I just think they need to be getting back to Hogwarts soon, so I'm rushing through the rest of their break, hope it doesn't bug you :/
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"It doesn't change anything, she's still a little traitor. I would've got help, not have gone to the dark side, wouldn't you do the same?" Ella ranted to Harry after he finished telling her what Celeste told him.
Harry nodded, "I agree with you. I wasn't trying to say that this made anything better, just thought you ought to know. She told me to tell you too."
"She did? What nerve she has," Ella said as she rolled her fists up in anger.
"Calm down, it's all okay," Harry told her, scared she was going to punch something.
"I know, it just bugs me," Ella sighed.
"Don't worry, you'll be back at Hogwarts in a few days, all the work will get your mind off it," Harry told her, giving her a reassuring smile.
Ella laughed before she exited the room saying, "If not that, I'm sure your dear son will bug me enough so I'll forget all this."
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"Happy New Years!", Everyone in Grimmauld place yelled as the clock struck twelve.
Adults drank their champagne, while the underage kids had their apple cider. Everyone happy to see 2018 finally arrive, hoping the new year would bring better things, but they all knew they were kidding themselves, things would only get worse with this "war" becoming more serious.
Things have only gotten worse in the past few days, random attacks, nasty threats, and it would only get worse.
Everyone could tell the wizarding world was getting pretty suspicious, some even already figuring out war was once again, coming back.
The threats were only to the Smith's, rather than them and the Potter-Weasley family now. Vlasta really wants them, no one knows why though. I mean they are 'blood traitors' through the prejudiced wizard and witches eyes, why does she want blood traitors that would probably turn on her? There must be somethings more.
James and Ella have been getting along better though, no one would say they're best friends or friends at all, but they look like they're on their way to being that.
Ella and Chloe only were becoming more nervous, but who could blame them? They're on Vlasta's kill list and their parents could be dead for all they know!
As for Harry, he was only getting more stressed out at work, he and Kingsley agreed not to tell anyone about this war yet, not knowing who to trust with Vlasta's world wide headquarters in the same city as them! They both knew she was about to expose herself to the wizarding world soon, the whole wizarding world! And when she did, their lives will be like they were back in 1997 and 1998, everyone on the run, hiding, or dying.
All anyone knew right now was that 2018 will not be a good year.
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"You ready, Ella?" James asked Ella, who was currently staring out the window with an unreadable expression across her face.
Ella didn't respond though, she didn't even more a muscle.
"Ella? Ella I asked you a question?" James said as he shook her shoulder to snap her out of it.
Ella's eyes blinked and she shook herself as if she was coming back to life and said, "Sorry, what'd you say?"
James sighed and said, "I asked if you're ready, but you're clearly not, what's wrong?"
Ella as well sighed before she said, "It's just my parents, are they dead? Are they in pain? Where are they?"
Ella held back her tears by looking out the window once again, but James knew what she was doing.
"Ella, you can talk to me, I won't tell anyone," James said in a soft voice.
Ella looked at him with watery eyes and gave him a half smile, "I know, let's go, don't want to miss the train."
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The first week back at Hogwarts was pretty uneventful, nothing bad nor good happened. There was nothing with Vlasta happening for all they knew, which scared them to death. There was no way she gave up, so she must be planning something, something big.
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"Celeste, is everyone ready and in formation!" Vlasta yelled across head quarters.
She saw red sparks in the distance, knowing that was Celeste's single, she then yelled, "Let's go!"
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"Minister! Minister Kingsley!" yelled a young wizard, terror clearly in his voice.
"What is it?" Kingsley asked, who was packing up to leave, seeing it was almost midnight.
"There is an attack! Wizards attacking everyone, even muggles, the attack is spreading around the city as I speak," The wizard told Kingsley.
"Thanks," Kingsley yelled to the wizard as he raced to find Harry.
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"EVERYONE IN THE GREAT HALL NOW!" roared the voice of Professor McGonagall as she got the news of the attack from Kingsley.
This is what Ella woke up to that night, but even though she was tired, she got up knowing something wasn't right. In matter in fact, she raced to the Great Hall as fast as she could, not even paying attention to James and Chloe calling her name.
Once she got there and saw the look of terror on the headmistress' face, she knew for certain that bad news was coming.
Soon enough, McGonagall started to speak, "I'm sorry to wake everyone, but I thought I should tell you before you read lies in the Prophet in the morning, there's currently an attack in London."
McGonagall paused when everyone started to whisper and murmur, but quickly continued, "It's very bad and spreading out of London, it's only going to spread more. I'm telling you students this because many people already died and only more will, I just want all of you to be prepared for the news you may get later in the morning."
This only got more whispers but McGonagall continued, "The Minister also told us to be on alert because they may be trying to find the location of Hogwarts, so they can attack us along with the rest of England. But whoever is in charge of this attack should know Hogwarts is no where close to London. Anyway, Everyone will be locked in their house dormitories until further notice, starting now, so pip pip, off to bed."
Everyone started to run back to their dormitories in fear, all but one, with an evil grin plastered across her face as she formulated a plan in her head. This "one" was Ella.
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"Where is Ella?" James asked around the Gryffindor common room.
"No idea, did you ask her friends?" Chloe asked him.
"Well of course I did, you don't think she is trying to escape to fight do you?" James asked fearfully.
Chloe's eyes widened in realization, "that's exactly what she is doing."
The two then ran out of Gryffindor tower, luckily it wasn't locked yet, only to get pulled to the side seconds later.
"Where are you two going?" Fred asked the pair, Louis and Victoire following him.
"Ella, we think she is trying to escape," James told them as he continued to run.
"Well we're coming too," Victoire told them.
Chloe sighed and said, "Whatever you say, but we just need to find her before she does something stupid."
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"Where is James?" Al asked Scorpius.
"I saw him run out looking for Ella a while back," Scorpius told him.
"And you didn't tell me," Albus yelled at him.
Scorpius shrugged as Al pulled him out of Gryffindor tower after the others.
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"Where in hell is she?" Yelled James in frustration.
"I don't know, just keep looking," Chloe yelled back to him.
"What's all the yelling about?" Albus said as he arrived on the scene.
"Al! Scorpius! What are you dong here?" James yelled at them.
"Looking for you," Albus told his brother.
"Whatever, do you know where Ella is?" Chloe asked the two boys.
Albus shook his head, but Scorpius asked, "Do you think she is trying to escape?"
Everyone nodded and Scorpius looked at the floor guiltily and said, "I think I know where she is."
Everyone paused to look at him, he then said, "She asked me if there was anyway out of here before I left the Great Hall minutes ago, and I told her how my dad got death eaters here in his sixth year and that it would probably still work today."
"Scorpius! Whatever, go back to bed, you too Albus, you know what, everyone but James and I leave," Chloe yelled to everyone as she left for the Room of Requirements.
James shrugged and said, "you heard the lady," before rushing off to follow her, leaving everyone else with no choice, but to go back to Gryffindor tower.
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Ella was currently circling the vanishing cabinet, trying to figure out how to get it to work, when James and Chloe bursted in the room.
"Ella, what do you think you're doing?" Chloe asked.
"I'm not trying to get in a fight, just trying to save Mom and Dad, this is the perfect opportunity seeing everyone guarding them is probably fighting," Ella told them.
"That is actually not a bad idea, you have to agree Chloe," James admitted.
"It's dangerous though, we could get killed!" Chloe shouted.
"It's the only way to get them back, plus I want to say a little hello to Celeste," Ella said evilly.
"No, we can save them, but you're not talking or going anywhere close to that girl," Chloe told her sister.
"Whatever, I figured out how to work this thing, let's go," Ella told them, but Chloe and James both knew she was going to find Celeste anyway.
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"Where are we?" Ella asked.
"It doesn't matter let's just get going!" James said, knowing where they were and the type of people in it.
"James, wait! Wars going on out there!" Chloe told him.
"Oh yeah, thanks, probably would've walked right into a killing curse," James laughed.
"Don't joke about that," Ella said as she glared at James.
"So, we're we going, do we even know where Vlasta's headquarters are?" Chloe asked.
"Yep, figured out this thing not only lets me contact mom and dad, but has a tracking device on it, so even if they don't have it on them, it's probably in the same building as them," Ella told them.
James sighed and said, "Now the hard part, getting there without dying."
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A/N: Sorry it was a short chapter, but I wanted to give you guys something after that wait! Hope you all liked it, please review and tell me how it was! Also, if you have any suggestion for what happens in the story, I promise I will consider it! As for the Contest, I will probably reveal the winner next chapter, so if you haven't yet voted, do it now! Everyone is voting for Bellatrix right now, but if you have something else for a plot twist, then suggest it! I'm all for plot twists, look at this story! It was not how I intended it to be! I added the prologue once I was like 10 chapters in this story. But if you want Bellatrix, then vote for her! This is all about what you want, not what I want or what you think will happen, you choose! Anyway, I'll try to update soon, but sort of loosing interest in the story. I may start another and come back, I hope it doesn't come to that, but I just don't have the drive to write it like I used to.
Till next time!
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