Phineas Nigellus' Revelation
A/N: HAPPY EARLY SWEET SIXTEEN CELIA HOPE YOU LOVE AND ALSO ILYSM. Omg I am so sorry for not updating. High school and everything you know lol. I'm pretty sure I lost my entire fanbase omg but I don't need a fanbase as long as I have myself, and my two best readers and ibfs by my side ;)
I'm sick rn and I turned fifteen five days ago omg I started the series when I was twelve and now I'm fifteen omggg. Omg but my dad wants me to try and get a learner's permit and I'm like no siree bob lmao.
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Draco
"We have a bone to pick with you, Malfoy."
Daphne and Blaise stiffen by his side as they stare at Percy and Annabeth.
"Let me guess…you want to know why I was forced to end it with Lina?"
"Forced to?" asks Annabeth, confused.
"Save it," hisses Percy, "He's probably just saying that to act."
"You ignorant fool. I get that you guys are pissed for what he did to Qui—Lina, but hear the full story," huffs Daphne.
"Let's listen to them, Percy," says Annabeth in a placating tone, "But, if we get any hint that you're lying…we'll hurt all three of you."
"I'm surprised Thalia and Anne kept them in the dark. Both of them knew the full story," mutters Blaise to Daphne, who nods.
"They probably wanted more vengeance to happen," mutters Daphne.
"It was for the War," says Draco through gritted teeth.
"You mean the war that she's out on the streets thinking you hate her?" asks Annabeth coldly.
"This again," exclaims Daphne. "He didn't mean anything out of it!"
"My mother said because of the war…I should end the relationship," he starts.
"So you still love her?" asks Annabeth skeptically.
"I still feel like this is all an act," hisses Percy.
"Just listen," snaps Annabeth.
"I thought we'd be each other's weakness so I ended it. It's only now I see how wrong my mistake was," his voice was so solemn that Annabeth falters, but Percy snaps,
"Alright if this is true then swear it on the Styx."
"I swear on the Styx that I've always loved Lina."
Percy and Annabeth exchange looks. Their faces guarded, they nod slowly,
"No one lies on the Styx."
"Finally. Rational people who aren't trying to kill us," huffs Daphne, sneering towards the entrance to the Slytherin common room, which Thalia had entered five minutes ago.
Thalia
BREAKING NEWS: MINISTRY INVASION.
It has been found as of 4 September 1997 that the notorious Undesirable Number One has invaded the Ministry, along with three accomplices. They were found to have impersonated Albert Runcorn, a fugitive, Mafalda Hopkirk, and the Lady Eunice Witherston. Remember, if you are to find Potter he should be brought immediately to the Ministry for punishment. It is highly likely that they were robbing the Ministry itself! And people actually worship this vermin?
It is not sure who Potter's accomplices are but all signs point to Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger (who is also a thief of magic as she is a Mudblood), and Lina Quimby. Seeing as our sources state that the young Weasley is currently at home with spattergroit, this is not entirely certain. However, it is highly likely that the girls are travelling with the Undesirable. No matter who is with the Undesirable, all accomplices must be punished.
Stay tuned.
Thalia sneers as she reads over the article. Just how idiotic can these people even get?
"Here," she grunts, tossing the article over to the fifth year boy she borrowed it from.
As she walks, she hears these people talking,
"What idiots, that idiotic Quartette deserves everything that's coming to them," a sixth year girl sneers to her friends, who were two guys that towered over her.
One of the guys sneers. "I never liked Potter, he is such an attention seeking brat, I hated him and his little posse ever since my older brother told me that the prejudiced little shit of a Headmaster literally took the House Cup out of Slytherin's hands."
"Hope he dies," the second guy chimes in, and the two guys and the girl burst into laughter.
Thalia grits her teeth as she listens to them talk.
"What about Potter's lot, eh?" one of the guys jeers.
"I hate all of them. Especially that disgusting Weasel," the girl sticks up her nose.
"Oh, don't even get me started on the Weasel," the guy chortles, "Granger's a know-it-all that doesn't know when to shut up, and I've honestly got nothing against Quimby, I just hate her by association."
The girl frowned, as if realizing something. "Didn't she go out with Malfoy?"
"Nah," the guy says, "You should know better than to believe such things, Aves. That's a rumor, and it's fake. I mean, don't get me wrong, she's fit as hell...but we're Slytherins. Besides she went out with Potter. You can't exactly have gone out with both Potter and Malfoy, they're sworn enemies. No girl can be on good terms with both, and no girl could have relationships with both."
"That rivalry'll be gone pretty soon, cause the Dark Lord will make sure Potter's dead!" they laugh, and their voices fade off.
Thalia could hear the footsteps of Zabini and Zabini's girlfriend...Greengrass, was it...behind her. "I'm trying to decide whether to turn around and kill you two or go after those three," she says finally, "Article's shit, by the way."
"What do you expect, You-Know-Who practically runs the Ministry," scoffs Daphne. "Anyways, those four-the Quartette? Idiots. What made them think they could invade the Ministry?"
"Why do you think they invaded the Ministry?" snaps Thalia. "Why're they on the run in the first place? To hide from everything like cowards? No, no. Those four are looking for something. Something that can help all of us defeat Voldemort."
"How do you know they're not just in hiding from the regime? It doesn't make them cowardly, it makes them care about self-preservation. Self-preservation's important sometimes," defends Daphne.
"We're talking Lina and the Quartette. Do they know what self-preservation is?" questions Thalia.
"You're right, they're probably looking for something," says Daphne quickly, "And hopefully they find it."
"No hopefully," says Thalia. "They will."
Annabeth
"How the hell do we trust him?" screams Seamus Finnigan furiously, as Percy and Annabeth suggest the idea of potentially letting Draco Malfoy in Dumbledore's army.
Dumbledore's army had been something Neville, Ginny, and Luna started, and Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia had all joined up with it. While everyone agreed it wouldn't be the same as it was under the leadership of Harry and Lina—who knew all sorts of practical spells, they decided that it had to be continued for the sake of the resistance and for a place of solace from the Carrows.
"He's a Death Eater! My best friend's on the run! Dean could be dead at any moment! Malfoy's one of the people that caused it!"
Everyone in Dumbledore's army yells their assent.
Everyone looks toward Neville, as if waiting for him to decide. Neville finally shook his head. "No. No! No Malfoy here. Not worth the risk. Harry, Lina, Ron, and Hermione are out there fighting, and we're not going to let them down. There's only one Slytherin we can trust, and she's here with us at the moment," he turns toward Thalia, who wasn't lifting a finger to help either side of the debate.
"Malfoy broke Lina's heart and toyed with her for years, right before a war no less. Is this really the way to honor Lina? I can see her spitting in our faces if we allow Malfoy in Dumbledore's Army," adds Ginny darkly.
"WHAT?!" a bunch of people who didn't know about this shriek.
Annabeth shoots a look at Ginny, who simply smirks smugly at her.
"Guys," says Luna serenely, "Maybe they're right. Maybe we should try."
"He left Lina Quimby in tears! What the hell, I thought you were her friend!" a boy protests angrily.
"He's part of the reason Dumbledore's dead!" protests another girl.
"He bullied Harry Potter for years!"
"If it comes to it, and he finds out Harry's location, he'd rat out the Quartette and we'd all be screwed!" a girl yells.
"What if we were to swear that Malfoy still loved her?" asks Annabeth.
"What do we look like?! Idiots?!" screeches Ginny, and everyone yells in agreement, some going as far as to bellow swear words regarding Malfoy and throw books around the room in anger.
"ENOUGH! We're not animals!" roars Neville. I'm sorry guys, but no," he says quietly to Percy and Annabeth. "As you can see, everyone is strongly opposed and there's plenty of evidence why we shouldn't do it. Unlike Ginny and the rest, Luna and I can see reason, and if you say that he lied to protect Lina then we do believe you. But the cons outweigh the pros here, and there's too many risks at stake. We want to protect the Quartette. Not do them in," an undercurrent of anger was in Neville's voice.
"Neville—"
"I'm sorry. I've made my decision. We can't risk letting a Death Eater in here, willing or not."
"You'd only trust him if Lina does," sums up Annabeth.
"Lina is in the Golden Quartette if she says Malfoy's trustworthy then he is," a girl says reverently.
Percy and Annabeth turn over to Thalia, "You were supposed to help us?"
Thalia shrugs, "I don't trust him just as much as these people do. For as long as Lina's out on the streets, is how long I'll hate Malfoy. Period."
"Anne?" asks Annabeth softly.
"I'm with Thalia," says Anne firmly.
As the meeting ends, Annabeth pulls both Thalia and Anne aside, "Guys, what the hell? He swore on the Styx, and he might be able to help us. We need all the help we can get. As does Lina."
"Don't tell us what Lina needs when she's currently out on the streets hating him," says Thalia, Anne nodding in agreement.
"You stubborn idiots!" rages Annabeth, "We're throwing out perfectly good help, and gods know we need it. Thalia I get, but Anne, this isn't like you at all."
"I lost Quinn, my best friend, in this war," says Anne slowly, "I received word that Harley is sick at Camp. And I swear, if Lina goes the same way—"
"And knowing Lina, do you think she'd forgive him right away?" asks Thalia pointedly.
"Well, once she saw the truth—"
"We are talking about Lina Quimby. The answer's no, at least not right away. Lina is the type that needs to be shown that he would stay with her, not told. And even then…so no. He is not perfectly good help, and Neville was right to do what he did," says Thalia.
"You cannot put Malfoy as a scapegoat for all our troubles and treat Lina like an innocent broken doll! What you two are doing is literally as silly as blaming Percy for my pregnancy when it was both of our faults," insists Annabeth, "We all know she'd go through with this whether he ended it with her or not," she says in a lowered voice.
"We also know that Malfoy's her weakness, and if he didn't end it, she wouldn't have a weakness."
"I just want this war to be over. In the end it is all up to Lina."
"I told you it was a lost cause," Draco told the blonde.
Annabeth sighs. "This school? Everyone complains about the Dark controlling everything, which is true-but the Light literally don't trust anybody. I feel like if the Light opened their horizons, just a little bit more, we'd have peace in the Wizarding World, Voldemort wouldn't be alive."
"What about your little delusion that Thalia would agree with the idea?"
"I thought she would," defends Annabeth, "I didn't realize just how resentful she is. I think she'll only be fully okay when Lina comes back. I don't think Lina realizes just how much power she holds...literally the entire resistance respects her. One of the reasons Dumbledore's Army so harshly rejected the idea of you joining…"
"...Is because they all know what I did," says Draco solemnly.
"Yeah. They already didn't like the idea before, but then Ginny Weasley felt like getting some revenge and told the lot. It's not like I could've explained. They were going to throw things at me," she huffs.
"Did Longbottom do anything to stop it?" he asks.
"Neville stopped the Army from behaving like well...an uncontrolled Army, but he disapproved of letting you join," she says.
"You should honestly think about putting protection spells around your stomach."
Annabeth's eyes widen as she clutches her stomach, "I...I never told you I was with child. The father doesn't even know."
He smirks over at her, "Check the mirror."
With that he went for the Slytherin dormitories. Annabeth glares in his direction, her heart racing as she then rushes up to Ravenclaw tower.
She was starting to show. And she didn't know what the Carrows would do to the defenseless child inside of her if they found it.
Malfoy's voice rang in her ears, "You should honestly think about putting protection spells around your stomach."
She'd better consider.
Lina
"You're a pain in the ass Quimby."
"Am I so?" I smirk.
"I love you all the same."
I smile as our lips collide.
"What kind of a name is Quimby anyways?" he asks me.
I glare, "Something wrong with my name slick git?"
"Yeah. You should change it. I always thought Lina Malfoy had a nice ring to it."
I bolt upright. "Fates, I'm sick of having these dreams. Showing me stuff that isn't in any universe happening," I growl to myself, pulling off my covers.
For the next couple of days, none of us spoke Ron's name. We took to taking out Phineas Nigellus' portrait and asking information about Hogwarts.
We were finished talking to Nigellus one day, when he suddenly turns to me with a nasty smile. "Wanna know a secret?" he asks me.
"Um…sure?" I ask.
"Your friends are in Hogwarts," he says. "Those ones that came two years ago."
Bile rises in my throat, "P—Percy, A—Annabeth, and Thalia?" I stammer.
"Oh! Yes! Those were the names!" exclaims Phineas, "I think the blonde one's showing signs of being pregnant too. They probably wouldn't've come if it weren't for you."
Phineas cackles gleefully at my expression of horror and at the tears about to fall from my face as I turn on my heels and flee out of the tent.
Malfoy Manor
"Brooklyn, I've been going about your training all wrong," hisses her Father. "I have been training you practically. But what is the one thing that your dearest sister cannot do?"
She shrugs.
"Sixth year. You made two very prominent slip-ups in your play as Lilliana Schrodinger, and yet? Her mudblood friend might've been suspicious but did she put it together?"
"She can't think," smirks Brooke, and Voldemort nods.
"I need to train you mentally and strategically. I need to train you not at her strength, but her weakness."
"And how do you intend to do that?" she asks curiously.
He smiles cruelly, "You don't need Occlumency, daughter. What you need…is Legilimency."
Lina
"All. Your. Fault. Quimby."
I'd lost count of just how many rocks I'd hurled into the lake in anger, but it was a fair few.
I should've realized that nobody would've stayed in America.
I should've just gone to Hogwarts. Then they would've been safe.
"Lina," I hear Harry's voice call, "Are you alright?" He asks this soothingly and cautiously.
"Ron was right," I say, my voice cold. "This whole Horcrux Hunt is a waste of time."
"Lina—"
"Annabeth might be pregnant!" I burst out, "Percy and Thalia and Annabeth are in Hogwarts! With the terrible regime! Maybe if I had stayed, nothing'd have happened to them! I made a mistake in putting the Wizarding World before the Demigod one."
Harry keeps his lips pressed into a thin line. "You're just not thinking straight—"
"AND WHY DON'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE, POTTER! DON'T LOOK AT ME, DON'T TOUCH ME, DON'T TALK TO ME, JUST LEAVE ME THE BLOODY HELL ALONE! I DON'T EVER WANT TO TALK TO YOU AGAIN!" I scream at him.
"Lina, please, I understand—"
I feel myself losing control within my element, "DIDN'T. I. JUST. SAY. TO. LEAVE. ME. ALONE."
Harry hesitates before running back up to the tent, and I think about Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, and Anne risking their lives at Hogwarts and sob.
A/N: Here comes Ana with the angst AS USUAL. So we have TWO CHAPS (I have it planned lol) BEFORE MALFOY MANOR. TWO CHAPS BEFORE MALFOY MANOR. AHHH I NEED IDEAS FOR DRALINA SOMEBODY REVIEW ME DRALINA IDEAS FOR WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM AT MALFOY MANOR AHHHH IDK WHAT TO DOOOOO
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