Chapter 41: What can be worse than that?
The next day I woke up, just like always. My vision was blurred from the remains of the tears spilled, and I felt my eyes swollen. Altough I fell sound asleep the night before as soon as my head hit the pillow, I somehow knew that I trembled at least an hour after that. When my mind cleared a little, it all hit me, all that happened merely eight hours ago. The older Draco getting out of the cabinet, Narcissa laying dead on the ground, the Dark Mark, the blurry way to the common room. I had to swallow back my tears because I had to go to class. I got up and sleepily did my morning routine. As I finnished getting my clothes on, the others finally woke up. Hermione's eyes widened when she looked at me.
"Selene…"
"What? Hermione, are you ok? What happened?"
"Your hair…"
"My hair?"
I ran up to the mirror in the bathroom to look at my hair. Out of all the crazy looks I ever had for my hair this was by far the most unexpected. My hair was short, bowl cut, dyed in stripes: green and silver, Slytherin colors. I took a strand of it in my hand. It wasn't my natural hair, it was dyed by someone. I frowned and went back to the room to take my wand for the sake of the others seeing that, before I just naturally turned my hair back to normal. I headed to the Great Hall with a stunned Hermione on my heels and anger burning through my veins. I didn't look at the Slytherin table at all during breakfast, at least until Fred and George sat next to me.
"What happened…"
"…to you? Last night…"
"…you didn't come back to the…"
"…common room"
"Oh, I came back, only at midnight." I shot a sad look to the farthest table from us, to a bunch of blond hair."
"Oh, problems in…"
"….paradise? " they smirked
I looked at them with a tired face as their smirks turned into worried frowns.
"What happened Selene? Where…"
"…were you last night? And why did..."
"...you cry? Your eyes are..."
"...all swollen."
"I went to the teachers office to see what my boggart looked like. With him. And I realized that unfortunately, for many people to be safe, my worst nightmare has to become a reality first. And I have a feeling it won't be long before the time comes. And I also have a really bad feeling, that something bad is coming"
"But then what-"
"Don't bother, I won't tell you that here, where everyone can hear."
After breakfast, we had the first Care of Magical Creatures lesson with Hagrid.
The look on Pansy's face when I arrived was priceless. She was gossiping with Bullstrode and Daphne Greengrass and laughing when I arrived with Hermione, Harry and Ron, not a single strand of green or silver in my hair, just my messy brown and ocasionally red hair. She looked at me like she had seen a ghost. Her jaw dropped and her brows were so high, the were almost getting lost into her hair.
We approached her and I stopped half a meter away from her, with a smirk plastered on my face.
I whispered to her.
"Next time you try something like that, make at least sure it's permanent. We're in the wizarding World, Puginson, we have spells to fix that." I flipped my hair and left with three confused friends to the hut where we were all supposed to go to start the lesson.
"Puginson? Well that's new"
"Oh, shut up! She deserved it. You should've seen what she has done to my hair. It looked horrible. What the hell did you tell her last night?"
"Me? Nothing. I don't even remember what I did after leaving you. Just saying something about fighting with you. Why?"
"She got revenge for you dumbass. Revenge at me for angering you."
Hagrid came and introduced the Hipogriffs to us. The biggest of them was apparently his favorite, Buckbeak. And he had every reason for it. His white shiny feathers had grey tips and his big eyes were a deep golden yellow. He was very beautiful.
"...Moreover, the Hipogriffs are very good creatures for detecting danger. Now, who wants to pet him first?"
Everyone stepped back, besides Harry. He went for a ride with the creature and then all of us were able to go pet all of them. I approached the second biggest one who had entirely grey feathers and light blue eyes and bowed to him. The Hipogriff bowed back, but when I tried to pet him, he pulled back. Curious...
I haven't really had time to worry about it, because Draco was obviously trying to show he's better than Harry again and insulted Buckbeak. As the animal got up on his back legs, I casted a slight shield charm between Draco and him. Unfortunately, it didn't go as well as planned. Buckbeak slipped on the shield, one of his claws digging into Harry's leg, as he was right next to Draco, trying to tell him not to anger the Hipogriff. The beak tough was strong enough to break by spell and cut right through Draco's arm. Even though I felt my leg pulsating from the pain, I didn't say anything and waited for Hagrid to dismiss the class before running off to the Hospital Wing where both my brother and my friend were.
Harry's point of view:
Madame Pomfrey gave the Slytherin a potion and put him to sleep before she turned to me and frowned.
"At least it's you this time and not her." she stated as she started to clean the blood off me.
"What are you talking about Madame Pomfrey?"
"Oh, she didn't tell you? Maybe it's better that way if she wants to torture herself who am I to stand up to her ?"
"Please, is this about my sister? What is it about? I have to know in order to protect her!" I stated desperately.
Third point of view:
The nurse's eyes softened, her heart pounding with guilt for hating this boy for so long. It wasn't his fault for his beatings. And now all he wanted to do was protect Selene. She sighted.
"She'll have my head if she founds out I told you, so you don't know from me, om kid?"Harry nodded. "Well, you see, the two of you have a rather...special connection and ever time- every time you get hurt, she feels the pain twice as bad. But she never once complained all those years, for she only thought about how hard it must be for you."
Too stunned to talk, Harry looked at the woman in front of him as she finnished healing him and hardly sent him back to his common room.
Selene's point of view:
I stumbled into the Hospital Wing, only to see that my brother was gone and Draco sound asleep. Poppy wasn't there so I pulled a chair next to Draco's bed and sat there watching him. At some point I must have fell asleep because I could see now the usual fog covering my memories.
"You can't have a kid now that Severus"
"Maybe that wasn't a good idea, I admit, but when are you going to tell her?"
"At the same time I'm going to tell her brother, when they're older."
"But...can we do something about it? Can we save them and kill the Dark Lord if they have those in them?"
"Momentarily we can't do anything about them being...Horcruxes... "
"There's more, isn't it? Something you didn't tell me."
Dumbledore sighted.
"I'm afraid, getting the Horcruxes out of them is the simplest part. They can survive that, yes, but Selene..."
"What about her?"
"She has more in her than just a Horcrux"
" What can be so bad?"
"You see, the night she was born-"
But I didn't get to find out what happened the night I was born, because Draco shifting into his sleep woke me.
"Shhh, I'm here. Go back to sleep."
I couldn't go back to sleep thinking of that memory.
I read about Horcruxes, they were really dark forms of magic, the darkest even. It was a living nightmare if we really were such things. But the thought that haunted me wasn't that. I was thinking more along the lines of "I have a Horcrux inside of me. What can be worse than that? And what had that to do with me?"
A/N: Yasss, one of the secrets found out, more to go. Anyway, I hope you liked the chapter and thanks for reading.
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