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Thankfully we got Ginny to Madame Pomfrey just in time, turns out the curses had caused internal bleeding in Ginny and it was even a struggle for Madame Pomfrey to stop it but she did it and it just shows how awesome Madame Pomfrey is. From the day Ginny was brought into the hospital wing I stayed with her at every moment I could. I was there before breakfast, during lunch and after dinner until it was curfew, and during the weekends I'd spend the whole day there. I was there that much I had begun to ask Madame Pomfrey to teach me some of what she knows. She did, she said that I spend so much time in there with her I might as well be helpful. She taught me how to heal simple cuts and to mend bones. And while I was around she put me in charge of giving everyone their potions. It was a very interesting job. So I thought if I lived through the war I would look at becoming a healer maybe.
It was a cold late February afternoon when I was wandering into the hospital wing after my last class. I saw Madame Pomfrey sat at her desk, I wandered over.
"Afternoon Madame Pomfrey." I smiled. She looked up from her papers on her wooden desk.
"Afternoon Lucinda. I have some good news." She smiled. A shot of hope ran through me.
"Ginny has made improvement?" I asked.
"Better she is awake and sat up reading a book." She said with a smile. A giant smile broke out on my face and I dashed through the wooden doors that separated Madame Pomfrey's office and the ward. I pushed the doors open and there she was. The red head was sat up munching a piece of toast with her charms book in hand.
"Ginny!" I said with so much happiness. She looked up from her book and smiled widely as I crossed over to her bed.
"Hey Lu." She said as I sat down on the chair that was next to her bed.
"How you feeling?" I asked.
"I'm doing good. Better than I was." She said leaning back on her pillow.
"That's good. Do you remember what happened?" I asked. She nodded.
"I do. And don't you for one second blame yourself misses, you couldn't have done anything. You did well." She said with a smile. "So what happened after I slipped into the land of the unconscious?" She asked.
"Well you know Malfoy was in the room right?" I asked.
"Malfoy? What happened to Draco?" She asked with his eyebrow raised as I pulled a face.
"Well besides the fact that he went through our room. After you got knocked out I said that if you ended up dying Voldermort was going to be the least of his and the death eaters problems." I smiled. She laughed. It was nice to hear her laugh. I had missed her so much.
"But other than that not much happened." I said with a shrug.
"Do you know how long I've been out?" She asked.
"About two weeks I think." I answered.
"Crap. I have a bucket load of homework don't I?" She said looking sad.
"Yes you do. But I can help all mine is done." I said with a smile.
"How can you do all your homework and get it in on time when every other week you are in the hospital?" She asked as she picked her charms book back up. I shrugged.
"Magic I guess." I smiled, she laughed and shoved me playfully on the shoulder, and then we got down to business.
After that Ginny got back to her old self. About a week after she had woken up Madame Pomfrey had let her leave, while giving me some books on healing to read. I had told her my plans about becoming a healer and she was happy to help me. As February turned into March the teachers began to seem to be on edge, especially McGonagall she seemed more on edge than anyone, and it was putting me, Neville and Ginny on edge. There was something coming to Hogwarts, something bad.
It was a March afternoon and the spring sun was out and classes were over so, me Ginny, Neville and Seamus were sat outside taking in some of the sun's rays when Lavender ran over with a Daily prophet in her hand.
"You guys! You have to see this!" She said as she chucked it on the floor in front of me. I took it in my hands and shocked at the headline. Someone had broken into Gringotts Bank and even worse than that the person was crazy enough to break into Bellatrix Lastrange's vault. I mean who was crazy enough to do that! Well I knew three people who would. But they wouldn't be that stupid would they?
"You guys this is bad." I said handing the paper to Ginny. She nodded in agreement as she read the paper.
"Something bad is coming. Anyone else feel it?" Neville said.
"You bet." Seamus said.
"We need to be prepared at all times you guys." I said and they all nodded in agreement. We sat in silence mulling over the information we just found out. Our world was heading for crap, and the only person who could do something about it was Harry and Merlin knows where he is. The next two weeks passed by slowly, the death eaters were becoming more ruthless. I had the Cruciatus curse done to me about a dozen times. The pain was becoming bearable so nine times out of ten I walked away from it though each time it did leave me with a new cut or bruise. It was a Friday and I had just finished classes for the day and was changing into normal clothes for the rest of the evening. I put on a pair of skinny jeans, a black turtle neck jumper that clung to my body and a pair of flat black knee high boots. I placed my wand into the wand holder I had made into my boot. I walked downstairs to the common room where everyone was sat. They were all incredibly quiet. I sighed and took a seat next to the window and watched as the grey cloud rolled over the sky and watched the rain come down. There was a bad feeling in the air. Something bad was going to happen.
The silence was disturbed by one of the portraits in the common room making a noise. It was the one that had the secret passage to Aberforth's pub. Aberforth Dumbledore had been incredibly kind to us, he let us take some of the younger students there when they were suffering from pain and the hospital wing was full. He also fed us information from the outside world when the death eaters took away our papers. Neville went to the portrait and exchanged words with the woman in the portrait. After Christmas me and Ginny found out that the girl in the portrait was Aberforth and Dumbledore's sister who had died before her time. Neville turned to me.
"She says Aberforth has something for us." He said. I nodded and he opened the portrait and climbed in and went down the secret passage way. It was about 5minutes before Neville returned. He pushed open the portrait and everyone turned to look at him expectantly.
"Hey guys you will not believe what I have here." He said with a crooked smile.
"What more of Aberforth's homemade cake? No thanks I almost chocked to death on the last piece." Seamus laughed I rolled my eyes. It wasn't the best cake in the world to be honest it was like a rock.
"It's something better trust me." He smiled even wider and stepped aside and revealed one hell of a surprise. Stood there as clear as day was Harry, Hermione and Ron. Neville jumped down and let the other three get down. Instantly they were swarmed by people.
"All right, All right give them space they need to breathe." I said making my way through the crowd. I looked at them. "You three better have a damn good reason for being here. It's good to see you by the way." I said as I pulled Harry in for a hug. I did the same to Hermione and Ron. I turned towards Collin Creevey.
"Colin send word to the order." I said and he nodded and scurried off. I turned back towards the golden trio. "Now why are you here?" I asked them folding my arms across my chest. Harry looked round the crowd nervously.
"We are looking for something belonging to Rowena Ravenclaw." He said.
"Do you know what?" I asked.
"No." He said.
"Do you know where it would be?" I asked again.
"Nope." He said again. I looked at him with my mouth hung open.
"You're joking?" Seamus said.
"Unfortunately no." Hermione said.
"Rowena Ravenclaw had a Diadem." Luna spoke in her dreamy voice. We all turned and looked at her strangely. I hadn't even realised she was in here.
"Say what now?" I said.
"Rowena Ravenclaw left a Diadem to her daughter Helena but then it was lost after she died." Luna explained.
"Yes but it's been lost no one knows where it is." Parvati said. It was silent until Ginny walked in the room. The group parted and Ginny just started at Harry.
"Hi Gin." Ron waved, Ginny completely ignored Ron. He looked down. I gave a smile.
"Don't worry Ron I missed you." I said putting an arm around his shoulders.
"Cheers Lu. I missed you too." He smiled. I looked at Ginny; I could tell by the look on her face that something was wrong.
"What's up Gin?" I asked moving away from Ron.
"Snape knows they are here." She said. "He wants the whole school in the great hall now." Everyone was eerily silent as they looked around the room at each other. They didn't know what to do.
"Everyone get down there." I said, they all looked at me. "Look if we don't get down there soon death eaters will come looking for us. Now move." I said and people began moving towards the common room door. I turned back towards Harry.
"I assume you have a plan?" I asked.
"Yes. Kind of." He said.
"Good. Because you are going to need one." I said.
"Do you have a spare robe?" He asked. I looked at him strangely.
"Do I want to know?" I asked, he shook his head. "I'll get one." I said as I ran upstairs grabbed two robes and ran back down. I chucked one at Harry. "Whatever your plan is, keep your head down." I said as I swung my own robe on. Harry turned towards Ron and Hermione.
"Try and find the order if you can." He said and they nodded. Harry and I headed for the great hall. Once there we carefully blended with the crowds that were walking in through the doors. There was a sense of doom hanging in the air, there was something going down today. Something bad.
The students in the hall stood in their houses in lines. Starting with the first years going all the way to seventh years. Around the room stood numerous death eaters watching our every move, looking for Harry they weren't doing a very good job seen as the boy was stood next to me. Snape stood at the top of the hall glaring down on all the students.
"It has come to my attention that Harry Potter has returned to Hogwarts. If anyone knows his whereabouts it would be wise to step forward now." Snape said. The hall remained silent as I cast my gaze carefully over to Harry.
"I will repeat. Harry Potter has returned to Hogwarts. Anyone with any knowledge of his whereabouts should come forward now and they shall not be punished. Refuse to do so and you will be severally punished." He said again walking along the top of the hall. When no one answered he back to make his way down the hall. I began to get nervous. I thought Harry had a plan?
"Anyone who is caught helping Harry Potter will also be severally punished." He repeated. I gave a deep breath and then the next thing I knew Harry had moved through the crowd and out to where Snape could see him.
"Hello Snape. Seems your security is a little bit lacking." Harry said. "He trusted you, and you went and sold him out! Tell them how you looked him in the eye and killed him without batting an eyelid!" Harry yelled. Snape took out his wand and raised it at Harry before he could get a spell out McGonagall stepped forward and shot a spell at Snape. For the next few minutes McGonagall and Snape fought it out before Snape went flying out the window in a puff of black smoke the rest of the death eaters that were around the school did the same. I ran over to Harry and McGonagall.
"Professor if you don't mind me saying, that was the coolest thing I've seen you do." I said with a smile. She gave me a smile back as the great hall doors open and the order walked in along with Ron and Hermione. With them was the Weasley family, Fleur Delacour, Lupin, Tonks, Kingsley, Dean Thomas and a few others. They all walked over and I hugged Dean. I was so happy that he was okay. McGonagall looked at Harry.
"I assume you have a plan Potter?" She said. Harry was about to start talking when a voice echoed through the hall.
"Hand over the boy and none of you will have to be harmed. Hand over the boy and none of you shall die. If you do not then you shall all perish."The voice echoed. We all turned towards Harry. He looked around uneasily.
"Well don't just stand. Grab him!" A shrill voice rang. Everyone turned to see Pansy Parkinson pointing her wand at Harry. I walked in front of Harry point my wand at her. Ginny and Hermione did the same.
"Stand aside Llewellyn." She spat. I looked over at Professor McGonagall.
"Professor would it be wrong to disarm Miss Parkinson of her wand?" I asked glaring at the Slytherin girl. The professor nodded.
"Expelliarmus!" I shouted and Parkinson's wand flew over to McGonagall.
"Mr. Flinch please escorted the Slytherin house down to the dungeons and make sure they stay there." McGonagall said as everyone cheered. As Parkinson walked past me she sneered at me and I just smiled back. We all turned back to Harry.
"What do you need Potter?" McGonagall asked.
"I need you to stall them. For as long as possible professor." He said.
"Will do Potter." She said with a smile. "Go do what you need to do. The rest of you spread out around the school. Follow the teacher's orders and protect yourselves and the school." She shouted. She turned to Neville, Ginny, Seamus and me. "You four follow me." She said as we headed out to the courtyard. Once there she turned to Neville, Seamus and Ginny.
"Take out the bridge that connects us to the forbidden forest." She said.
"How?" Neville asked.
"Use your imagination boys. Mr. Finnigan has a special flare for explosives and fire does he not?" She said with a slight smile. They ran off and then she turned to me.
"You better be ready for a fight Llewellyn." She said. I gave a smile and pulled out my wand.
"Born ready Professor." I said. She smiled and turned back towards the entrance hall and chanted something in Latin. The next thing I knew these stone warriors came out of the hall.
"Have we always had them?" I asked with an eyebrow raised. She nodded yes and then raised her wand to the sky and so did many others who were stood in the courtyard.
"Lucinda go and find Potter and the other two. I reckon you'd be more help there." McGonagall said. I nodded and dashed into the school. Sprinting up the stairs I headed towards the first floor, I stopped and I saw a blue force-field thing going up around the school, it would be impressive if it wasn't holding out the doom that was awaiting us on the other side. I took off again, running through the maze that was the corridors of Hogwarts School. I stopped at another window and saw the shield shimmering. I paused for a moment trying to think where the golden trio would have gone. What had Luna said? Rowena Ravenclaw had a Diadem and it had been lost after her daughter Helena had died. Now is I was a lost item where would I go? It puzzled me for a while. Then I remember something that Ginny had told me once. She told me about a room where Harry had hidden his potions book and I remember she said that it was cluttered with nothing but old junk, she said it was on the seventh floor. Then it clicked. The room of requirement! I mean it was a long shot probably but it was a shot. A loud booming noise that sounded a lot like thunder shook me out of my thoughts. I looked out the window and saw orb like things hitting the shield. They were attacking from the outside. I took off as fast as I could towards the seventh floor.
Rounding the corner that led to the room of requirement I saw Harry standing at the wall where the door would appear.
"Harry!" I shouted, his head snapped in my direction.
"Lu! What are you doing here?" He said as I reached him. I gasped for breath as the running took the wind out of me.
"McGonagall...thought...I...would...be...more...help...with...you." I wheezed leaning over trying to get my breath back. After I had I stood up straight. "So shall we go get that Diadem thingy?" I asked, he nodded and faced the wall and closed his eyes. As he did that I saw that the shield was failing. The doors opened and Harry and I entered. I was in awe at the mess. Ginny was right when she said it was cluttered. There was nothing but books, tables, cupboards and other random junk. I followed Harry closely not wanting to get lost in here. I think getting out of here would have been harder than fighting death eaters. Harry stopped by a small round table that held a small square box that was covered in dust. I stood next to Harry.
"Is it in there?" I asked.
"I think so." He said as he lifted up the lid of the box. Inside it held what I think was the Diadem. It was covered in silver and in the centre held a blue Sapphire. While we were looking at the Diadem we didn't notice someone come round the corner.
"Hello Potter." Damn, I thought. I recognized that voice. We turned to see Malfoy, Blaise Zambini and Gregory Goyle all stood with their wands pointed at us. Draco looked at me shocked but in his eyes I could see his pain.
"Malfoy." Harry said as he raised his wand. I did the same.
"I'd like my wand back please?" Draco said with a sneer.
"You have a wand." Harry said.
"It's my mothers." Draco answered.
"Too bad." Harry said as Ron and Hermione came around the corner with their wands out.
"Harry!" Hermione said.
"Lucinda?" Ron asked.
"Hermione." Harry said
"Weaselbee." Malfoy spat.
"Malfoy." Hermione said with a glaring.
"Mudblood." Goyle said.
"Zambini." Hermione said.
"Llewellyn." Zambini said.
"Seriously people we are in the middle of a war and we are going round in circles saying each other's name. There's something wrong with this picture." I said with an eyebrow raised. Everyone looked at me like I was crazy.
"What?" I asked with a shrug.
"Come Draco let's kill him." Goyle said.
"No! He is the dark lord's." Draco snapped.
"Fine but I'm killing the others." Goyle said and shot the killing curse towards Ron, Hermione and me.
"Portego!" I yelled and the spell rebounded, and the three Slytherins took off running with Ron following.
"That was my girlfriend you dick head. Wait till I get my hands on you!" Ron shouted as he went. I turned towards Hermione with a smirk.
"What?" She asked.
"About bloody time." I said with a smiled, and I sensed Harry was smiling to. I was about to say something when Ron came running back towards us, he didn't slow down as he grabbed hold of Hermione's hand and pulled her after him. I looked at Harry who just shrugged, I did the same and I turned round. I was surprised at what I saw. On the old junk that was piled high to the ceiling was a soft yellow glow that began to get harsher. To me it reminded me of a glow from a fire, if it was from a fire then we were in trouble.
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