Chapter 20 Chrismas truths
The next month was normal. ron's family went home, and nothing bad had happened or anything. It was now the day before christmas morning, and they were all in the common room listening to hermione talk about the statue of liberty in some place, while Avalon began to lean on Harry's shoulder, but shoot back up and sit straight when she realized this. She seemed to be sleeping less and less everyday, and Harry began to realize this. Every 3 minutes, he'd feel Avalon lean onto his shoulder and lay her head on his shoulder as well. but he didn't care, he knew what was going on with Avalon, and he had to find out who made her what she is. a vampriss. Avalon has been staying in the corridor on the 5th level behind the portrait of the bear, and only Harry, Ron, and hermione knew. After herbology, they slowly went to lunch. People were now acting better around Avalon now that nothing has happened in over a month. But the truth was, it has been happening every night, when the moon rises, but she is locked up by magical chains when she becomes a vampriss, by the works of professor mcgonagal of course. Harry can swear he hear her cries and screams in the night, but only thinks his imagination, for no one else hears them. Until, Harry heard Justin finch-fletchey, a hufflepuff, talking to some other hufflepuffs.
"Have you guys been hearing screams and cries at night?" Justin asked one of his friends. "Yes. people are saying there is a lost soul in the castle that is looking for her lost love. such a romantic story. hope she finds him, and her soul will be free. But her cries and screams are so lonely." A girl replied. Harry thought a bit before walking to the gryffindor table with Avalon, hermione, and Ron. "So, what are you guys doing for Halloween?" Ron asked starting up a conversation. "Stayin." Harry and Avalon said together. "I'm going to my uncles in America." Hermione explained. "Wow. Cool." Ron said sarcastically. "i leave tomarrow morning, so i won't be able to say good bye to you guys... cause i'll be leaving like at 7 in the mrning on christmas morning." hermione explained. Suddenly, they all heard screaming outside the doors. They all decided to see what was going along with everyone else in the great hall. "This is injustice! An outrage! You can't make all these bats go somewhere else! This is there home!" professor crimson was screaming down in a dungeon. "Melissa. these bats, are scaring the lives out of the students at this school!" snape explained coolly. "Well then they should stop screaming down these halls." Crimson replied. "sorry, but they have to go. For the safety of the students!" snape replied. "You will be so sorry for this severus!" crimson screamed as she turned and stormed off. "Hm. wonder what she meant by that." Ron said. "Yea." Hermione added.
they all walked back to the great hall, avalon feeling shakened up from what they heard from crimson and snape. after dinner, they all headed u to their common room, avalon going to her room after saying good bye to the gang. as harry took off his glasses and began to drift off to sleep, he suddenly heard a scream and someone screaming please no. surprised, harry darted up, put on his glasses, grabbed his seeko ball, and shook it. "show me avalon." harry whispered. ron got up and looked at him. "What's going on?" he muttered rubbing his eyes. the seek ball fogged then showed avalon being held by someone in a cloak hiding their face in a chamber. "Avalon..." harry said standing up. "Avalon's in trouble ron." harry explained seeing ron's confused face. "Let's go." ron said standing up. harry grabbed the invisibility cloak and the map that showed everyone in the castle and went down to the common room. they went through the portrait under ther invisibility cloak and looked at the map. avalon and professor crimson were together in one of the towers. "we better hurry!" harry gasped as they ran towards the tower that those two were in. they slowly, but quickly, crept to the tower, up the steps, and through a trap door. harry looked at the map. avalon was moving quickly towards snape! who was in his office. crimson was no where in site. "That's odd. crimson just, disappeared. wait, avalon stopped, and crimson reappeared. they are... right behind us!" harry gasped as he and ron turned to see avalon and professor crimson starring deeply at them.
"Can they see us?" ron whispered. harry shook his head. "Listen to me avalon. i want you to kill severus snape. you got me? suck his blood dry. and do it quietly!" crimson hissed as ron and harry jumped to the side of the wall and listened in. they began to follow them down a hallway quietly. "professor... i'm tired... this isn't fair." avalon moaned. "Listen to me brat! i own you now. you have to do what i tell you to, or you and that little harry potter kid will suffer. lord voldemort will come and get you sooner or later." crimson explained. "Wha?" avalon asked. "Shut-up! he's coming!" crimson hissed as they hid in teh shadows. "Please no professor. i don't want to." avalon moaned. suddenly, avalon screamed, but under professor crimson's hand and fell to the fllo .harry could barely see them. "who is there?" snape asked. harry looked at him. "go. NOW!" crimson barked. avalon walked forward. ron and harry gasped. avalon's eyes were glowing blood shot red. snape looked at her and gasped as well. avalon walked up to him and pushed him. snape fell to the floor. "What is going on? how did you ever get out?" snape asked worried. "Today. you die severus." a voice whispered out. "Avalon... kill him now!" the voice hissed. "no." avalon replied. "WHAT? Kill him NOW!" the voice shouted.
""no! leave me alone! i don't want to do this anymore! you go kill him! i'm not doing it!" avalon screamed as she fell to the floor. "What's wrong with avalon?" ron whispered. "I don't know." harry whispered. avalon began to scream. very loadly, harry and ron held their ears from the pain. "get away from me!" avalon screamed. snape got up and walked back away from avalon. "Fine! i'll do it myself!" the voice screamed as professor crimson shot out and attacked snape. "Let go of him!" avalon screamed grabbing professor crimson's arm. crimson was grabbing snape and attacking him while avalon was trying to pull him off. soon, crimson finally let go of snape and gasped. "This is not over severus! avalon! you are so going to be sorry!" crimson screamed as she disappeared in a poof of black and red smoke. avalon's eyes became dull, but her fangs stayed put. soon, the teachers were coming out of no where looking at them. harry and ron stayed in the shadows to watch. "Severus. what happened?" it was dumbledore. he looked at snape. mcgonagal, filch, twealaney, all the teachers were gathered around. even hagrid came from his hut to see what was going on. they were swarming avalon and snape. "Avalon... melissa... attacked." snape muttered.
"It wasn't my fault!" avalon protested. "Calm down avalon... so you and melissa were attacked by avalon?" dumbledore asked. avalon looked at snape. "Yes." he replied. "What? crimson made avalon attack snape. she didn't get attacked." ron whispered. "Is this true avalon?" dumbledore asked looking at avalon. avalon didn't say anything. "Where is professor crimson?" mcgonagal asked. "She ran from fear." snape said. "i-i didn't mean to get out... she-she let me out and made me attack him!" avalon explained. "Who?" hagrid asked. "Er... she-she is, i don't know... who she was... now." avalon muttered. "You don't?" mcgonagal asked. "no... but she was, or she is, i don't know all of a sudden..." avalon thought while her eyes widened. "Are you alright?" hagrid asked. "No... i-i don't know... i... where am I?" avalon asked looking around confused. "Avalon. do you know what happened to night?" dumbledore asked kindly. avalon shook her head. "no," she said silently. "Very well... all of you, please go back to bed, its chrismas eve, we'll deal with this in the morning. severus, are you going to be ok?" dumbledore asked. "Yes. thank you." snape replied. "Very well... come along avalon, let me take you back to your room." dumbledore said walking away. avalon looked at everyone and quickly followed.
after about 5 minutes staying in teh shadows waiting for everyone to leave, ron and harry made their way back to the common room and to go to bed. harry instantly fell to sleep thinking about avalon, professor crimson, and snape lying about crimson. the next morning, the glee of the presents, and avalon sitting on his bed holding 3 cups of hot chocolate smiling with a present in her lap made harry totally forget about the night before. "morning sunshines!" avalon chimed. she handed ron a cup as he shot up looking at her and all his presents, by the look of it, he had forgotten as well. "Avalon... thanks!" ron smiled as he sat the cup down and began to open his presents. "I had no one to talk to sinse hermione left, so i decided to go see how you all are doing." avalon explained. "did you get my present?" harry asked taking a sip of his hot chocolate. "yea. thanks!" avalon said showing him a little round golden orb with a leather string and one little blue feather hanging next to the golden orb. "What is it?" ron asked. "It's a pocket watch." harry explained. "cool. get mine?" ron asked. "Yep. the comic book about the muggle fighting with a witch about a broom?" avalon asked. ron nodded. "Yea!" avalon replied. "And i got chocolate frogs from hermione." she added. "so, open yours!" avalon said to ron and harry.
harry opened his presents to find a emerald green sweater, box of brownies, berty botts every floavored beans from ron, a pack of canary cremes and some other things from fred and george, a scarf from hermione with his name glowing on the rim, and a picture frame of hermione, him, ron and avlaon happy waving at him, which he got from avalon. he also hot some rock cakes from hagrid and a newspaper clipping from sirius black, his god father, about him being released! "You guys! sirius has been released! he-he, they aren't after him anymore! they found evidence from a muggle movie... that he didn't do it!" harry explained excitedly. "Really? that's great!" ron replied excited as well. "Cool." avalon replied a bit confused. after all the presents were opened, they all went down to breeakfast.
The next month was normal. ron's family went home, and nothing bad had happened or anything. It was now the day before christmas morning, and they were all in the common room listening to hermione talk about the statue of liberty in some place, while Avalon began to lean on Harry's shoulder, but shoot back up and sit straight when she realized this. She seemed to be sleeping less and less everyday, and Harry began to realize this. Every 3 minutes, he'd feel Avalon lean onto his shoulder and lay her head on his shoulder as well. but he didn't care, he knew what was going on with Avalon, and he had to find out who made her what she is. a vampriss. Avalon has been staying in the corridor on the 5th level behind the portrait of the bear, and only Harry, Ron, and hermione knew. After herbology, they slowly went to lunch. People were now acting better around Avalon now that nothing has happened in over a month. But the truth was, it has been happening every night, when the moon rises, but she is locked up by magical chains when she becomes a vampriss, by the works of professor mcgonagal of course. Harry can swear he hear her cries and screams in the night, but only thinks his imagination, for no one else hears them. Until, Harry heard Justin finch-fletchey, a hufflepuff, talking to some other hufflepuffs.
"Have you guys been hearing screams and cries at night?" Justin asked one of his friends. "Yes. people are saying there is a lost soul in the castle that is looking for her lost love. such a romantic story. hope she finds him, and her soul will be free. But her cries and screams are so lonely." A girl replied. Harry thought a bit before walking to the gryffindor table with Avalon, hermione, and Ron. "So, what are you guys doing for Halloween?" Ron asked starting up a conversation. "Stayin." Harry and Avalon said together. "I'm going to my uncles in America." Hermione explained. "Wow. Cool." Ron said sarcastically. "i leave tomarrow morning, so i won't be able to say good bye to you guys... cause i'll be leaving like at 7 in the mrning on christmas morning." hermione explained. Suddenly, they all heard screaming outside the doors. They all decided to see what was going along with everyone else in the great hall. "This is injustice! An outrage! You can't make all these bats go somewhere else! This is there home!" professor crimson was screaming down in a dungeon. "Melissa. these bats, are scaring the lives out of the students at this school!" snape explained coolly. "Well then they should stop screaming down these halls." Crimson replied. "sorry, but they have to go. For the safety of the students!" snape replied. "You will be so sorry for this severus!" crimson screamed as she turned and stormed off. "Hm. wonder what she meant by that." Ron said. "Yea." Hermione added.
they all walked back to the great hall, avalon feeling shakened up from what they heard from crimson and snape. after dinner, they all headed u to their common room, avalon going to her room after saying good bye to the gang. as harry took off his glasses and began to drift off to sleep, he suddenly heard a scream and someone screaming please no. surprised, harry darted up, put on his glasses, grabbed his seeko ball, and shook it. "show me avalon." harry whispered. ron got up and looked at him. "What's going on?" he muttered rubbing his eyes. the seek ball fogged then showed avalon being held by someone in a cloak hiding their face in a chamber. "Avalon..." harry said standing up. "Avalon's in trouble ron." harry explained seeing ron's confused face. "Let's go." ron said standing up. harry grabbed the invisibility cloak and the map that showed everyone in the castle and went down to the common room. they went through the portrait under ther invisibility cloak and looked at the map. avalon and professor crimson were together in one of the towers. "we better hurry!" harry gasped as they ran towards the tower that those two were in. they slowly, but quickly, crept to the tower, up the steps, and through a trap door. harry looked at the map. avalon was moving quickly towards snape! who was in his office. crimson was no where in site. "That's odd. crimson just, disappeared. wait, avalon stopped, and crimson reappeared. they are... right behind us!" harry gasped as he and ron turned to see avalon and professor crimson starring deeply at them.
"Can they see us?" ron whispered. harry shook his head. "Listen to me avalon. i want you to kill severus snape. you got me? suck his blood dry. and do it quietly!" crimson hissed as ron and harry jumped to the side of the wall and listened in. they began to follow them down a hallway quietly. "professor... i'm tired... this isn't fair." avalon moaned. "Listen to me brat! i own you now. you have to do what i tell you to, or you and that little harry potter kid will suffer. lord voldemort will come and get you sooner or later." crimson explained. "Wha?" avalon asked. "Shut-up! he's coming!" crimson hissed as they hid in teh shadows. "Please no professor. i don't want to." avalon moaned. suddenly, avalon screamed, but under professor crimson's hand and fell to the fllo .harry could barely see them. "who is there?" snape asked. harry looked at him. "go. NOW!" crimson barked. avalon walked forward. ron and harry gasped. avalon's eyes were glowing blood shot red. snape looked at her and gasped as well. avalon walked up to him and pushed him. snape fell to the floor. "What is going on? how did you ever get out?" snape asked worried. "Today. you die severus." a voice whispered out. "Avalon... kill him now!" the voice hissed. "no." avalon replied. "WHAT? Kill him NOW!" the voice shouted.
""no! leave me alone! i don't want to do this anymore! you go kill him! i'm not doing it!" avalon screamed as she fell to the floor. "What's wrong with avalon?" ron whispered. "I don't know." harry whispered. avalon began to scream. very loadly, harry and ron held their ears from the pain. "get away from me!" avalon screamed. snape got up and walked back away from avalon. "Fine! i'll do it myself!" the voice screamed as professor crimson shot out and attacked snape. "Let go of him!" avalon screamed grabbing professor crimson's arm. crimson was grabbing snape and attacking him while avalon was trying to pull him off. soon, crimson finally let go of snape and gasped. "This is not over severus! avalon! you are so going to be sorry!" crimson screamed as she disappeared in a poof of black and red smoke. avalon's eyes became dull, but her fangs stayed put. soon, the teachers were coming out of no where looking at them. harry and ron stayed in the shadows to watch. "Severus. what happened?" it was dumbledore. he looked at snape. mcgonagal, filch, twealaney, all the teachers were gathered around. even hagrid came from his hut to see what was going on. they were swarming avalon and snape. "Avalon... melissa... attacked." snape muttered.
"It wasn't my fault!" avalon protested. "Calm down avalon... so you and melissa were attacked by avalon?" dumbledore asked. avalon looked at snape. "Yes." he replied. "What? crimson made avalon attack snape. she didn't get attacked." ron whispered. "Is this true avalon?" dumbledore asked looking at avalon. avalon didn't say anything. "Where is professor crimson?" mcgonagal asked. "She ran from fear." snape said. "i-i didn't mean to get out... she-she let me out and made me attack him!" avalon explained. "Who?" hagrid asked. "Er... she-she is, i don't know... who she was... now." avalon muttered. "You don't?" mcgonagal asked. "no... but she was, or she is, i don't know all of a sudden..." avalon thought while her eyes widened. "Are you alright?" hagrid asked. "No... i-i don't know... i... where am I?" avalon asked looking around confused. "Avalon. do you know what happened to night?" dumbledore asked kindly. avalon shook her head. "no," she said silently. "Very well... all of you, please go back to bed, its chrismas eve, we'll deal with this in the morning. severus, are you going to be ok?" dumbledore asked. "Yes. thank you." snape replied. "Very well... come along avalon, let me take you back to your room." dumbledore said walking away. avalon looked at everyone and quickly followed.
after about 5 minutes staying in teh shadows waiting for everyone to leave, ron and harry made their way back to the common room and to go to bed. harry instantly fell to sleep thinking about avalon, professor crimson, and snape lying about crimson. the next morning, the glee of the presents, and avalon sitting on his bed holding 3 cups of hot chocolate smiling with a present in her lap made harry totally forget about the night before. "morning sunshines!" avalon chimed. she handed ron a cup as he shot up looking at her and all his presents, by the look of it, he had forgotten as well. "Avalon... thanks!" ron smiled as he sat the cup down and began to open his presents. "I had no one to talk to sinse hermione left, so i decided to go see how you all are doing." avalon explained. "did you get my present?" harry asked taking a sip of his hot chocolate. "yea. thanks!" avalon said showing him a little round golden orb with a leather string and one little blue feather hanging next to the golden orb. "What is it?" ron asked. "It's a pocket watch." harry explained. "cool. get mine?" ron asked. "Yep. the comic book about the muggle fighting with a witch about a broom?" avalon asked. ron nodded. "Yea!" avalon replied. "And i got chocolate frogs from hermione." she added. "so, open yours!" avalon said to ron and harry.
harry opened his presents to find a emerald green sweater, box of brownies, berty botts every floavored beans from ron, a pack of canary cremes and some other things from fred and george, a scarf from hermione with his name glowing on the rim, and a picture frame of hermione, him, ron and avlaon happy waving at him, which he got from avalon. he also hot some rock cakes from hagrid and a newspaper clipping from sirius black, his god father, about him being released! "You guys! sirius has been released! he-he, they aren't after him anymore! they found evidence from a muggle movie... that he didn't do it!" harry explained excitedly. "Really? that's great!" ron replied excited as well. "Cool." avalon replied a bit confused. after all the presents were opened, they all went down to breeakfast.