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CHAPTER SEVEN: Caught in the Mist
Not long after my encounter with the vampires did I have another strange encounter. This one has yet to be published and therefore I feel I should discuss it now. There are only two things I greatly fear in this world. One is worldly destruction and the other is the lost of my award winning most charming smile. Only once in my life have I encountered a creature that could succeed at fulfilling both of these fears.
I had ventured into Scotland one day, the mist circled the land that I was walking on and to my left I noticed a small pond. I decided to stop and rest. As I approached the pond I immediately saw my superior reflection. My boyish face was exhausted from my journey, my golden locks were damp with my sweat and the dew from the humid air. Yet my smile, voted Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile five times, remained. That that fact excited me and I stayed by the pond, glaring at myself.
Suddenly I noticed something splash in the center of the lake. Startled, I broke my gaze with myself and looked around hastily. Nothing was there. But I felt a surge of adrenaline in my body and my senses told me all was not well. I stood slowly, clutching my wand in case I would have to shout out "Peskipiksi Pesternomi" to save the day.
Once again, I heard a splash in the water and as I looked back at the pond I saw something coming out of it...a kelpie. It had to be a kelpie for it looked like a horse. It saw me and came charging at me and as it did so I leaped out of its way. As I was in the bushes hiding from the fearsome creature, something tapped me on my shoulder. I turned slowly and saw through the mist...
Myself.
The kelpie and shifted its shape into one that resembled myself. It even had my award winning smile! But slowly it began changing its shape, contorting its image of me and turning my smile into the most hideous thing ever! Describing it gives me too much pain and therefore I shall stop there. But I felt an overwhelming fear. Was this what I, the beautiful Gilderoy Lockhart, would look like one day? The horror of the question! It then shifted, god save me, into a form of me that looked as though it were decayed. The mist began to become thicker and fear in my heart grew. I felt as though my two biggest fears had been realized.
Slowly I picked up my wand and aimed at it. "Peskipiksi Pesternomi!" shouted I. Suddenly the kelpie began to shrink into a smaller form and scurried back to the pond from wince it came.
Since then I have realized that anything can make my nightmares come true and so I have started sleeping with a night light and a teddy bear.
