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Chapter 21
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After New Years, they got back to the castle and started
school. January came by fast and then
February followed soon after. Angelina grilled them with hard-training
practices.
"We have to get
ready to beat the Hufflepuffs next week," she reasoned at the Locker Rooms one
night after practice. "I just heard
that they almost beat the Ravenclaws in their last game."
"Come on,
Hufflepuffs? They are so easy to beat!" exclaimed George.
"I don't know. I heard that the Hufflepuffs have a new
motivation. I mean remember what
happened to Cedric?" said Alicia. They
were all silent for a moment.
"Exactly, so you
can never be too sure. We have to be prepared.
Remember what Mad-Eye Moody said? Constant Vigilance?" said
Angelina. They burst into laughter. "What? Hey, I don't have any piece of wisdom
I can share with you, all right?"
"Yeah, but
Mad-Eye?" said George through a surplus of laughter. "Constant vigilance? You're really funny, Angelina. Ow!"
Fred had hit him on the head. "Angelina's trying really hard, you guys. Give her a break."
Angelina blushed with pleasure and beamed. George rolled his eyes and rubbed his
head.
Harry walked out of the locker rooms with Ron and
Seamus. They were walking and laughing
about the incident that had just happened.
As they approached the grounds toward the castle, Harry noticed some
flashes of light coming from the forest.
He stopped and Ron bumped into him.
"Hey, Harry, what's
wrong?" he said. He looked at where
Harry was looking. Seamus also looked
at where they were staring.
"Whoa," he
whispered. Harry ran towards the
Forbidden Forest. He knew something
must be wrong. "Hey, Harry, wait up!"
Seamus and Ron were running after him. They approached the forest. Harry heard male voices.
"Avery, I have
chosen a side."
"You're wrong! You
and me, we could have worked together again.
You and me at the Dark Side. We
could bring back everything."
"You fool! Don't
you see what's has happened? To Rosier,
Wilkes, the Lestranges? You see what has happened to them? Gone! I'm not going
to end up that way, Avery!"
"I called you my
friend. But now, I have the privilege
to kill you. Good bye, dear
friend." Harry looked at Ron.
"Go get
somebody. Dumbledore, anybody! Seamus,
you too, go!" he whispered to them. Ron
and Seamus sprinted up to the grounds.
Harry went in the depths of the forest.
BANG! A curse hit a trunk of a tree next to Harry.
"Don't do this,
Avery." Harry approached the place
where the voices were arguing. Two men
were dueling. One with billowing black
robes and the other with hooded robe and a mask, a Death Eater. Harry stepped on a twig. The masked man heard him and the other
turned around, it was Snape.
"Well, well, the
boy who lived and my dear friend, Severus.
Two people that the Dark Lord wants to get rid of the most. I have the privilege of killing both of
you. Master will be really
pleased."
Snape gave him a dangerous look. "Go! There's nothing to see here!" he snapped.
"You are not going
anywhere!" Avery raised his wand.
"EXPELLIARMUS!" He was thrown back onto a
tree. Harry turned around and saw
Professor Sullivan with her wand out.
She ran to him.
"Go! Leave this to me," she said. Harry was about to say something when Snape
interrupted him.
"But-"
"No, go now. Harry, go with him and leave now," she
said. Harry looked at her like she said
something quite impossible. Snape gave
him an angry look.
"No way, I'm not
going anywhere with him!" he pointed.
Suddenly, Professor Sullivan's eyes flashed with anger. "I'm not asking for a miracle, Harry. Go with him, now!" Harry had never seen her so angry. Avery stood up and laughed.
"How happy will the
master be when he finds who has come into town."
"Harry, go
now. I mean it. Go with him,
Severus. This is my job. I have to do this. For your safety, go and leave now!" Harry needed no second word.
He ran out of the forest, closely followed by Snape. When he approached the edge of the forest, he found Professor
Dumbledore there with Ron and Seamus, both seemed out of breath.
"Is she in there?"
asked Dumbledore to Harry. His eyes
were full of concerned. Harry nodded.
He looked at Ron and Seamus.
"We found Professor
Sullivan coming down from the stairs.
So we told her that we saw some light at the forest. She asked if you were down there, and we
said yes. Then she ran down to
here. That's when we went to Professor
Dumbledore's office to get him. And he came out of the office-" Seamus stopped
explaining when someone emerged out of the forest. It was Professor Sullivan.
She had gashes on her face and her robes were torn. Her left arm had a huge cut on it. She was holding her right arm.
"Professor!" Harry
approached her.
"I'm all right,
really. I'm fine," she said meekly. She
looked at Dumbledore. "It's a Death
Eater. He summoned a broomstick and flew
away before I could get to him."
"Of course, you
can't apparate within Hogwarts," he replied.
"Are you sure you are all right, Briana? Why don't you go to the hospital wing and have those things
mended? You three, why don't you go with her?"
Ron, Harry, and Seamus looked at each other.
"All right, I'll
go. What about you?" she asked at him.
"I am going to talk
to Severus, Briana," he replied.
"Harry, Ron, and Seamus, why don't you go ahead and accompany your
professor to the hospital wing right now?"
The four of them walked up to the castle. All of them were silent along the way. Professor Sullivan broke the silent when she
said, "Madam Pomfrey is going to have a fit when she sees these. Don't worry about me, you three. I had far worst injuries before."
They went inside the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey did have a fit when she saw
Professor Sullivan's cuts.
"Just like when you
were a kid. You never seemed to change.
Climbing a tree, you broke your arm.
You broke your nose just because of the damn bludger! And now, look at you! Still getting hurt!"
"Madam Pomfrey, you
sound like a mother. Honestly, it's my
profession." She winked at the three.
She saw Ron's and Seamus's pale faces and Harry's stern look. She then added, "Look, I'm fine. See?
Gone."
When Madam Pomfrey was finished mending her wounds, she
looked at the three.
"Well, what about
you three? Do you have any wounds
too? What about you, Potter?" Harry shook his head. Madam Pomfrey left to her office mumbling to
herself. Professor Sulllivan
sighed.
"Well, I guess I
should take you three back to your common room." Harry was thinking of going to the Owlery to send Hedwig to
Sirius telling him what had happened.
Professor Sullivan seemed to have read his mind and then said, "I'm sure you three would be fine walking by
yourselves, right? Afterall, you three are fifteen."
She bid them goodbye and left the hospital wing.
"-And that's when
you came out," said Ron. It was an hour
later, and they were in the Owlery with Hermione. Ron has just finished telling Hermione and Harry his version of
the events. "But you know what? What I don't get was when Professor Sullivan
was coming down from the stairs; she was holding her right wrist. I don't know what that was about."
"Hmm…" said
Hermione thoughtfully. Harry was
sitting down on the stone floor writing his letter to Sirius.
"I know. Maybe she's a Death Eater!" exclaimed Ron so
loudly that he woke up a few owls, who flew out of the window.
"Oh, honestly, Ron,
she's an auror. I mean she fights the
Dark Arts. I don't think so," said
Hermione.
Harry was reading his letter and was quite satisfied with
it. At once, Hedwig came flying down to
him.
"So what do you
reckon, Harry?" asked Ron. "What do you
reckon she was holding her wrist for?"
Harry thought for a while.
He did notice that Professor Sullivan was holding her wrist at the
grounds.
"Well, whatever it
is, she probably has a good reason why she's holding it." He said as he let Hedwig fly out the
window.
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