Chapter 25

Imperio

April turned into May and I had no word from Harry or any of the others. I was wondering desperately if they had even succeeded getting into the Lestrange's vault. There were dragons in there for god sakes! And try fighting a dragon…it's impossible with all the fire it breathes. Ginny knew nothing so finding out anything was hopeless. Thankfully though, I was back in Spain by 3:00 in the morning so no one had noticed I was gone. Still, I couldn't help but wonder what was happening to them.

On May 16th, I was in my bedroom watching the telly when all of the sudden I heard my trunk vibrating. I knew what it was…it was Hermione's enchanted coin that she had made for the DA 2 years ago. It had been going off all year saying things like, "Vandalizing Snape's office 2:00 am," or "Placing stink bombs in the Carrows offices, 5:00 am," I'm guessing it's the DA's (or what's left of it rather) way of rebelling against how horrible Hogwarts has become lately. I went over to my trunk and picked the coin up. This time though, it said, "Attention all members of the DA! Come to the room of requirement now! Urgent! Apparate into the Hog's Head now!"

I stared at the coin. Now? But why? I had to find out what was going on. And I decided I was going.

"Danielle!" I called down the stairs.

"Si Karina?' she asked.

"Can you come up here for a moment?"

"Si," She appeared up the stairs moments later. I pulled her into my room and locked the door.

"Danielle, I have received word from Hogwarts and they need me there right now,"

"Yeah, but what does this have to do with anything?" she asked.

"I'm going," I said.

"But how?" Danielle asked.

"Apparition," I said, "I'm going to get there, now,"

"And what do you want me to do?" Danielle asked.

"I'm going to put everyone under an imperious curse," I said slowly, "And they're going to forget about me for 24 hours. You make sure they don't see anything that may cause them to remember me, got it?"

"But Karina, you can't go! It's too dangerous!"

"Dani, listen, I have to!"

"Do you even know what day it is?"

"May 16th," And then I remembered. It was my birthday and Danielle, Maria and Fatima's too.

"See?" Dani cried, "I don't want you getting killed on your birthday!"

"I'm not going to fight," I muttered.
"Yes you are!" she said, "your mother told me about all the times with the death eaters. She said to make sure that you didn't do anything stupid!" This wasn't going to work. I pulled out my wand.

"What are you doing?" she asked, "You can't curse me! I won't let-"

"Imperio," I muttered. I felt so weird then. I felt as if I could do anything, as if I was invincible.

"Go to sleep for 24 hours," I said. Dani nodded then obediently went to her room and flopped onto the bed.

I snuck downstairs. Fatima and Marie were watching the telly.

"Imperio," I said and I ordered them to sleep. They did. I did the same to my mom, my dad, my aunt and uncle. I felt so bad though: I have never used an unforgivable curse on anyone and now that I am it just feels so wrong. I shouldn't be doing this, I though once I got outside. I put some muggle repelling charms on the house and then imagined the Hog's Head and spun. I disappeared with a loud crack.