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Chapter 12

"No." I said promptly and turned my body away and turned to glare at the fireplace.

"Why not?" Marlene asked confused.

"Let's just say I'd rather stab myself in the knee three thousand times than interact with him again." I said continuing to glare at the crackling fire.

Kenneth Williams was my ex-boyfriend. He was the smartest Ravenclaw and annoyingly- the most handsome one too. He was like the Sirius Black of Ravenclaw, except he was awful, conceited and down right horrible. But in a sneaky way, which made him even more terrible.

He was tall, broad-shouldered with dirty blond hair and baby-blue eyes. At first, it was like a fairy-tale. He was charming, gorgeous and intelligent. He had it all, or so it seemed. It was after six months of dating that I realized he didn't date me because he liked me. He liked who I was friends with, he liked my so-called 'popularity'. He liked the attention and he didn't care about me at all. Obviously, I had no idea and was deeply and stupidly in love with him.

The boys didn't like him at all. Which I hated, of course. I couldn't understand why they didn't like Kenneth, he was perfect- to me, of course. But ultimately, they could see what I couldn't. Literally. One day James found me and told me that he saw Kenneth holding hands with another girl - a ravenclaw. I was crushed. He didn't only break my heart, he broke me. I wanted to break his face but 'surprisingly' I found that the next day he had a black eye and was bruised badly to the point where he had to stay at the infirmary for a week. They never admitted it but I knew that they were the one's responsible for that. After that day, Kenneth would always run the other direction if he saw any of the boys.

"I'll talk to him, then." Remus offered.

Sirius made a disgusted face, "I hate that bloke. He thinks he's so great. Winnie you were way out of his league, he pretty much down-graded after you."

A small smile worked it's way up to my face, "You think?"

Sirius scoffed, "Are you kidding me? Of course, love. Have you seen who he was with? Amy Joliber? She's awful. You were probably the best thing that ever happened to him."

Peter nodded, "Amy Joliber is scary."

"Thanks guys." I said, happily.

I knew it was bad to wish sadness on people but I wished Kenneth every sadness possible. Like his cat dying or him becoming bald faster. Yeah, I held a grudge. I did, however greatly appreciate the fact that Sirius cheered me up even if it was a bit flirtatiously. I liked that we had been getting on well, recently. I liked things drama-free.

"Okay, Moony and Wormtail you speak to Kenneth. I guess I'll go with Marlene and we can go to Hogsmeade and ask the shop owners if they've remember seeing any of us." James said and then turned to Sirius and I. "You too, go ask people what they remember from the party."

I raised my brow at him, "You want me to ask people about a party that happened a year ago despite the fact that none of us can remember who was at the party?" I asked incredulously.

He nodded, "So you get it! Great. See you later, alligator." He chuckled, "Isn't that funny? Pete taught me that one."

Sirius shook his head, "That's the opposite of funny."

"I guess it's Sirius then." I said, pun fully intended.

They all turned to me and laughed, except for Sirius who gave me an annoyed but amused look.

"That's a good one. I'll remember that." James said, laughing and then left the room with Marlene, Peter and Remus following him. It kind of looked like chicks following their mother.

Sirius turned to me and flicked my forehead, "I'll never forgive you for that one."

I rubbed my forehead, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's just do what James says - the faster we do this the faster I can get back and take a nap." I said boredly as we all walked out of the common room.

"Hey, d'you reckon one of us did a memory charm so that we could all forget what happened that day?" Sirius said as we turned a corner, we had asked a bunch of people about the party and most of them had said the same thing, 'I don't remember' or 'I don't know'. Or, they were too busy flirting/staring at Sirius to actually pay attention to what we were asking. it was extremely infuriating and tiring.

My eyes widened, "That would make sense! Sirius you're a genius! Wait, who's the best at charms from all of us?"

Sirius snapped his fingers, "Me! I'm the best at charms. I probably did it."

I was going to retort but I stopped when I saw a girl from our grade, Dorcas Meadowes. "Dorcas!" I yelled, making her turn to me and give me a confused smile. She approached us with a confused look.

"Hey there, Dorcas. Mind if we ask you a quick question?" Sirius said, giving her one of his charming smiles making her blush slightly.

She nodded, "Sure. What's up?" She said, looking at Sirius happily.

I rolled my eyes and cleared my throat, making her look at me. "Well, I don't know if you were there but last year do you remember what we were doing on my birthday?"

She bit her lip and looked down as if she was remembering something, "I do remember you guys were sad that Moony couldn't make it to the party. He was like sick or something. Also I remember Kelly Evyyon getting madly drunk at that party and shaving her head off it was hilarious!" She said laughing.

I laughed awkwardly, "Yeah, that's great." Now I knew why Kelly Evans randomly had short hair in the middle of the year. "Did you see anything else?"

She was too busy focusing on Sirius to hear what I just said so I just took that as a no.

Sirius nodded, "Thanks a lot Dorcas, you've been a great help. See you around." He said and gave Dorcas a wink before he pulled me away from her.

"Whoa, easy on me. I'm fragile." I said as we turned into an empty hallway.

He quickly let go of my arm and shot me an apologetic look, "Sorry Dot - anyway, weren't you listening to what Dorcas said? Moony was sick, d'you know what that means? It was the 'time of the month'." He whispered the last part, even though it was a empty hallway.

"Don't call me Dot." I nodded, "But you're probably right. So let's try to pierce this story together. First of all we know that we left the party and went to Hogsmeade and we know that we were sad that Moony couldn't make it. So, do you reckon we went to Hogsmeade and went to the Shrieking Shack to keep him company or something?"

His eyebrows shot up and he grinned a bit crazily, "Winnie - you're a genius! That must be it! Wow you are absolutely brilliant! We are so much closer to solving this mystery!" he said, rubbing his hands madly. He looked like a detective who had just found out about a clue that could lead him to solving a murder.

I laughed, "Calm down there Sherlock Holmes. But also thank you, I try." I said, beaming.

He gave me a puzzled look, "Who?"

I shook my head, "Never mind, anyway we need to ask more people! Let's go we have no time to lose, Black!" I said, pulling him from the hallway and into the great hall where dinner was about to be served.

What I was not expecting was to see the devil himself sitting with my friends and having a conversation with Marlene. Stupid Kenneth Williams. What bothered me the most was how dashing he looked today. But I still hated him and wished him nothing but agony. Sirius noticed how annoyed I looked but before he could question what was wrong with me he saw him too and groaned.

"What does this annoying git want now?" He said, glaring at him.

I narrowed my eyes at them, "Why are they fraternizing with the enemy?" I said, crossing my arms.

"Do we have to go over there?" He said, scowling.

I shook my head, "Absolutely not. Let's just leave before they see us." I said turning around, Sirius did not argue and did the same. But unluckily for us, Peter noticed us and called Sirius and I over. Peter Pettigrew, the boy who hardly speaks decides to do that. He was the person I literally counted on to never actively participate in anything and what does he do? He calls us over! Before we could escape everyone - including Lucifer himself turns to look at us. James sees us and anxiously waves us over, making Sirius and I reluctantly walk over to them.

"I hate my life." I mutter to Sirius, not even pretending to be happy. I was full on scowling at Kenneth.

"You and me both, darling." He said and forced a tight-lipped smile at Kenneth as we sat down next to each other.

I could literally feel Kenneth's gaze on me and it took everything in me not to throw a fork at him, "So James. Any new, shocking discoveries you would like to share with us?" I said, looking at James and purposely ignoring Kenneth who was sitting right next to him.

He obviously could feel the tension in the room and his eyes darted between us, "Eh- yeah actually. Kenneth just told us that had been fussing over Moony that day because he was sick and couldn't make it. Then apparently you two got into a fight about it and then we all went to Hogsmeade and disappeared for a few hours and he didn't see us until the next day. I asked the shop owners if they saw us but they didn't. What about you two?"

Sirius nodded, "We also got the same information, but" he nudged me "This brilliant girl figured out something important."

He looked impressed, "That's great, Winnie. What is it?"

I turned to look at Kenneth who caught my eyes immediately, "I'll tell you later when he's not around." I said, sharply.

He clucked his tongue, "Nice to know you haven't changed, Winnie." he said giving me a tasteless smile.

I narrowed my eyes at him, "What's that supposed to mean, Williams?" I said, sneering at him.

James also jumped in my defense, "Yeah, whats that supposed to mean Kenwick?" he said, glaring at him.

Kenneth rolled his eyes, "You know exactly what I mean."

Sirius leaned forward, "No, I don't think I do mate." he said dangerously low. It was kind of awesome.

Kenneth turned to look at me, "Are you going to tell your boyfriends to lay off?"

I laughed, "Yeah, you're right. Boyfriends lay off him. I can take care of myself, have you seen my bat-bogey hex? You know what, do you want me to show you?" I said in a eerie tone, drumming my fingers at the table.

He laughed scornfully, "Winnie, don't start things you can't finish."

"Try me, Kenneth. Try me." I said, lowly.

We were full on glaring at each other. There was a fire building inside me that could only disappear by punching Kenneth's smug face right in the jaw. Before I could get another word out of him, he laughed. He literally laughed as if this was amusing to him. I furrowed my brows at him, why the hell was he acting so weird?

"I'm leaving." He said and got up and left.

I slammed my fists on the table, "Damn you - damn you to hell!" I said in a loud tone, making everyone turn to look at me. Kenneth blatantly ignored me and left the great hall. I wanted to punch him, that smug bastar-

"That was kind of - I don't know - incredibly badass!" James said, interrupting my angry train of thought and also greatly surprising me.

"What?" I asked quizzically.

"I don't know why that was attractive." Sirius mumbled, shaking his head.

"What?!"

"Godric, I knew he was smug but I didn't know he was that bad. Why are the cute ones always so terrible?" Marlene said, resting her face on her palm.

I laughed and looked at Remus and Peter who were still in shock at what happened, "Hey- weren't you two supposed to talk to him? Alone?!" I questioned them.

"We were looking for him! I guess he went to Hogsmeade too because when he came back we saw him talking to James." Peter said, uneasily.

"You know what's so annoying? Is that none of you guys have a journal or something that can help us. Maybe you did just get that drunk. Anyway, I'm gonna go sit with Mary and Lily see you guys later." Marlene said and waved at us before going over and sitting with Lily and Mary.

They all turned to me, "Except one of us does have a journal. You." James said, pointing out the obvious.

I chewed on my lip, "D'you guys think that maybe I wrote about this in my journal? I haven't used it in a long time."

"There's only one way to find out." Remus said.

"It's in here somewhere, I know it!" I said as I looked through everything I owned. I was basically trashing my room.

"Hey how come the girls have a better view than us?" James said, looking outside the window and frowning slightly. "They get to see everything. Lucky girls."

"Let's just focus on finding the journal." Remus said as he searched through my bag.

My breath hitched in my throat as I found my journal at the bottom of my trunk, "You guys. I found it."

We all sat down on my bed and I flipped through the pages until I found the last entry - December 10. My birthday. I could feel my heart beat as I scanned the page, it was messy as if I had written it at the last minute but it was a full page entry.

"Read it out loud, please." Peter said.

I cleared my throat, "Dear me or to whoever is reading this. I found my journal and I have to tell you/me something. Today something crazy happened and not just regular crazy, it was literally the craziest thing I have ever experienced. What I'm about to tell you is top secret and you can't let anyone know this. If you ever find this, you must hide it from everyone. Even James." I said looking up and meeting James's eyes, he furrowed his brows and looked at me.

I continued, "Sirius and James are now talking about making us forget but I don't want to forget. But, that doesn't make sense. I'm sorry if I don't make sense, let's just start at the beginning. It was the beginning of the day and James decided to throw me a party but unfortunately it was the same day Moony had to 'wolf out' so we were at the party and I was complaining to Kenneth about how I wished Moony was here so we could have a good time and then we ended up having this huge fight about how I only care about the guys and not about him. Some stupid stuff like that. So I punched him."

"Atta girl." Sirius said, chuckling.

I laughed, "So then we decided to skip the party and go to the shrieking shack through Hogsmeade and keep Remus company, like the amazing friends we are. So we go to the Shrieking Shack but we don't find him there - instead we find him attacking someone." I said, my eyes widening.

"W-what?" Remus said, wide eyed. "N-no, no. What?"

"Calm down, Moony. I'm sure that's not the case." Sirius said, calming him down. Remus swallowed his words so I could finish the journal entry.

"Luckily, it was only a few bruises and scratches and she was fine. But we wiped her memory so she wouldn't remember what happened. I had to - in animagus form obviously fight with Moony and it was intense. It was like he wasn't himself, I felt so bad for him. I wish I could help. Now, we're at Hogwarts - at the quidditch pitch actually and Remus is back to normal but he cried - he regrets it so much even though it wasn't his fault and he's falling into his depression again. Like I said Sirius and James are planning on performing the memory charm I can't write anymore." I said and lowered my journal.

"I hurt someone?" Remus asked, rhetorically.

"Remus.." I said quietly and gave him a sympathetic look.

"I always thought that I was stronger than that- I thought I could never hurt someone..I was wrong." Remus muttered, mostly to himself.

"Moony, mate. It wasn't you. That isn't you, mate. Believe me. You would never do that." Sirius said, urging him to listen. But it was like Remus had put up a bubble, disconnecting himself from reality.

"Yeah, he's right." Peter said, quietly.

"But I did. ." Remus said putting his hands on his face. "I can't even remember it and I hate myself for it."

"Stop, Remus. You can't do this to yourself. First of all, Winnie said the person was fine. Second of all, you should be hating yourself if you actually intended to hurt someone. Did you intend to hurt someone? Have you ever intended to hurt someone?" James said, putting his hand on his shoulder and forcing him to look at James.

"No." he paused, "But he did. He does." Remus said referring to the werewolf part of him.

"Remus, I need you to listen to me. Whatever the werewolf tries to do you should know that that isn't you, you're a kind person. You have a heart of gold! You may have hurt someone but that was a one time thing, that's never going to happen again. Not on my watch I gave you that potion for a reason and if you can't stop yourself - we will. We did on my birthday and we will stop you any day. We're with you, no matter what." I said loudly, hoping that my words were reassuring in some way.

I wasn't usually the one who was emotionally comforting or supportive, I didn't know how to deal with emotions at all. But sometimes, you just got to do what you have to do as a friend.

"You're going to get through this mate." James said, comfortingly.

"Thank you. I appreciate that." Remus said and I could tell that he was being genuine.

"So if you were expecting us to ever let you go then think again mate- you're stuck with us for life." Sirius said and clapped him on the back.

Remus laughed and the tense air cleared, like the sun appearing after a rainy day. Thats what I loved about our group, we always had each other's backs and we prevailed no matter what the situation was. That was a good thing, because dark times were coming and we had what we were going to need in the future. Each other.

Sirius nudged me, disturbing my train of thought. "Some birthday you had, huh?"

I laughed, "Tell me about it."

James pushed his glasses back up the bridge of his nose, "So nobody tell Marlene about this. Agreed?"

"Agreed." We all said simultaneously.