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Chapter Four: The Dementor of Bath
After leaving Hogwarts I set out on my first adventure. I didn't know where I was going exactly, but my award winning smile was able to secure my access to places that probably no ordinary person has been. As I traveled, I noticed that I was able to please both Muggles and Wizards alike and perhaps that was due to my charming nature and my smile (winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award five times). Eventually I found myself in Bath, a city of which I am very familiar. By this time, however, I was missing everything about Hogwarts--my friends, teachers, and Hogsmeade. Shaking off my feelings, I found an inn located in the center of the town called "The Lazy Witch" that was suitable enough for my lodgings. While in my room, combing my golden locks of hair and gazing in the mirror, I heard a scream from the street. I looked down and saw a dark figure wearing a dark, hooded robe. A chill went through my body and reverberated in my teeth. Could it be? I wondered. In all truths, I was frightened for I had never been this close to a Dementor before and nor had I ever wanted to be. I had heard the horror stories of Azkaban and as I sank back on my bed I couldn't help but wonder why one would be here.
My award winning smile left my face and my eyes must have glazed over for I was in deep thought. Ideas raced through my mind, including the fact that maybe this wasn't a Dementor at all, but a boggart that had escaped from its dark place. However, I soon learned that, unfortunately, that creature was indeed a Dementor. Fear engulfed me, as well as the rest of the community, and everyone looked to me to do something about this foul creature.
But what could I do? I was still a young Wizard and had yet to win Witch Weekly's coveted Most Charming Smile award. I was young and only beginning to prove how glorious I truly was. After a meeting in the inn that I found myself attending, the town decided that something had to be done, and since I was a charming and brave Wizard, I should lead the way. They knew that I had passed Hogwarts with flying colors, that my specialty was charms and defense against the dark arts and thus they looked to me and my soon-to-be-award-winning smile to help them. So I pushed up the sleeves of my lilac coloured robe (after all, lilac is my favourite colour) and set out to do my deed.
Now as one might know an award winning smile is no weapon compared to the power a dementor has. As I stood on the street with it coming towards me, various intense sensations (not unlike winning Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile award) entered my body. The closer the black figure came to me the more pleasant sensations began leaving me. Somehow I managed to conjure up a pleasant thought and screamed "Expecto Patronum!" A flash of lilac light left my wand and began chasing the dementor away. The town, from that day forth, has renamed the inn to the Golden Lockhart in honour of my glorious deed of saving the town with my quick wit and Most Charming Smile.
Now I must stress that expelling dementors is not for the average wizard. Successfully conjuring up a Patronus is a difficult task and should only be performed by those experienced enough. My defeat of this dementor was a historical moment for myself for it was the first time this award winning author (Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile) encountered a dementor and sucessfully banished it from the area. I told my mother of wha happened and she said that she knew from the moment she saw my golden locks and charming smile as a baby that I was no ordinary wizard. My mother was right. While I was confident of my abilities while at Hogwarts, I never realized exactly what she meant when I was in Bath.
Not everyone is as special and gifted as I am and I wish that wasn't so. I wish that we could all be equal and that my dream of my own hair can line can be accomplished. How the latter is relevant I'm not entirely sure but I do think it would be a glorious day when we can all unite and create wizarding hair care together.
My next chapter means a great deal to me. There was only one person that I felt deserved a chapter and I sincerely hope I can do that person justice.