Chapter 45

The final days had finally come, the day that all fifth years wished never would come, except of course Adora Potter. The days that the fifth years took their O.W.L.s.
They could earn up to five for each class, and they could earn O.W.L.S. in Potions, Transfiguration, Herbology, Defense Against the Dark Arts, History of Magic, and Charms. All fifth years grumbled about having to do these tests. So that morning in the Great Hall at breakfast all fifth years got their schedule of what classes they'd start testing on Wednesday. Adora heard Harry and Ron groan she then looked at their identical schedule.

Monday:

8:00 - 10:00 Potions

10:07 - 12:07 Herbology

12:07 - 1:07 Lunch

1:14 - 2:14 Transfiguration

3:21 - 4:21 Charms

Tuesday:

8:00 - 10:00 History of Magic

10:07 - 12:07 Defense Against The Dark Arts

12:07 - 1:07 Lunch

1:14 - 2:14 Divination

3:21 - 4:21 Care of The Magical Creatures

Wednesday:

8:30 - 11:30 Potions O.W.L.

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 3:30 Defense Against The Dark Arts O.W.L.

Thursday:

8:30 - 11:30 Charms O.W.L.

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 3:30 History of Magic O.W.L.

Friday:

8:30 - 11:30 Transfiguration O.W.L.

11:30 -12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 3:30 Herbology O.W.L.

"You think they gave us enough?" Ron asked looking lighter than usual.

"Well, Ron they've got to get us ready, anyways I hear the O.W.L.s are externally long. That's why we have three hours to take them."

"THREE HOURS!" Harry and Ron both groaned.

"Well, look at it this way, Wednesday through Friday we get out almost an hour sooner than all of the other years. Well except the seventh years, they'll be taking their N.E.W.T.s they have the same schedules as ours."

"You mean we've got to do this again in another two years!" Adora nodded at Harry's question.

" So is yours any different than Harry and mine?" Ron asked very curious about what his girlfriend would be doing during the week.

"It's the same except for when you two have Divination, I have Arithmacy."

"What about you?" Harry asked his twin sister who was sitting across from him, beside Adora.

"Same as Adora's, I wasn't stupid enough to sign up for Divination. Besides Mrs. Bones told me that it would be a waste of my time."

"Why don't you just call her mom?" A voice came behind Susan, when she turned around she saw Jess, her adopted brother.

"Jess it's just that…."

"No! Don't explain yourself. Ever since your family found out 'who you are', you dropped all of us like flies. You don't even care about us anymore! They raised you since your parents died and this is how you repay them! Well, you know what? I don't want a sister like you anyways," Jess stepped on his heel and went back to the Hufflepuff table.

Susan looked back at Harry, Ron, Adora, and Ginny. "I have to go…."

"We understand." Adora said as they all nodded to Susan, but when Susan tried to approach Jess, he stormed off. When Susan came back she looked as if she was going to be in tears, "What am I going to do?"

Adora turned to her niece, "Susan can we go somewhere and talk?" Susan nodded and they stood up to leave, but as she was so upset she didn't see Draco Malfoy behind her. Draco and Autumn had been together a little over two months, and Susan had been with Oliver Wood for about a month now.

"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry sneered, he didn't like the way Malfoy looked at his little sister.

"Be nice Harry." Ginny snapped at her boyfriend she then turned to Draco, "What can we help you with?" Although Ginny already knew the answer.

"I needed to talk to Susan, but she looked really upset. Is she alright?"

"It's none of your business."

"Harry shut up! Draco, Susan just stepped outside to have a word with Adora. You can probably find Susan near the lake, if you really need to talk to her." Draco nodded and took his time to get outside, Draco had seen Susan with Oliver Wood and her good name had been brought through the mud. Not to say that Draco's hadn't as he was dating Lord Voldemort's daughter, and although Draco thought he loved Autumn, whenever he'd see Susan Potter something funny would happen to him. Draco felt awful, not because she was a Potter or because he was afraid of what she'd think of him. But, because Draco knew that a girl like Susan would never give him a chance, and if she ever did he'd have to kill his father to see her. Even if Draco didn't like Autumn the way he did, his father would still see to that he marry Autumn. Not that Autumn was a bad person or anything either, she had a great body and face, most of the time was an angel around him. But, she did have Slytherin blood in her, and she was Lord Voldemort's daughter, sometimes he was afraid of what she could do. Draco was so caught up in his own thoughts that he didn't even realize that he'd approached the two girls until Adora said, "Draco, can we help you with anything?"

"Oh, um…I need to talk to Susan, but since you two…"

Adora smiled, "No, it's okay we just finished." As Adora started to walk away she looked back at the two, they would be strong together, a very strong couple. But, if they were ever going to make it…they had a long…long road to go down. A long hard road.

After Adora had left Susan turned to Draco, just by the look of Susan's face Draco felt so bad. Susan had been crying and it made him want to cry too. "What's wrong?"

"I don't want to burden my problems on you," Susan said still sniffling.

"You could never burned me," Draco sat down beside the lake and motioned for her to sit beside him which she did. "So what's bothering you?"

Susan took a deep breath, "Well, first off ever since Arabella, Sirius, and Harry found out who I was that's all I've tried to be is the Sadie Susanna Potter, not little Susan Bones. I haven't even been in contact with the Bones. Jess came up to me today and got all mad at me, I've got to do something, I feel terrible. Second, ever since I started dating Oliver…"

Draco felt a thousand knives stab at his heart.

"…my name has been tossed and turned and stomped all over in the mud, as if I'm some scarlet lady. Third, if the paper isn't talking about Harry and Ginny, Adora and Ron, Arabella and Sirius, or Oliver and me, it's about Autumn and you."

Draco felt another knife stab him.

"I'm so glad you've found someone so special to you, and I hear that you two are to get married after you get out of Hogwarts, and I'm so happy that your happy it's just that…."

Draco felt his whole body go numb.

"Just that…."

"Just that, what?" Draco said starting to get impatient.

Susan's voice changed as if she was about to start crying and her eyes filled up with tears, although she wouldn't let a single one drop, "Sometimes I wish you were with me."

And now all of the knives were being pulled out and re-entering.

"You just talked about how much you loved me and wanted to be with me, and everything like that, but I was too late because when I realized I felt the same for you…you were with Autumn."

"Then you got with Oliver."

"Just to get back at you."

"But?"

"I love him, Draco."

Draco nodded, "I understand. You could never love me anyways, even if you ever did there's no way my father or your family would ever allow it. They either kill us or disown us, and you just got your family back." Draco ran his hand through her beautiful auburn hair, "I could never take you away from them."

Susan stood up and Draco followed her, she grabbed his hand as a few tear drops fell down her face, "Run away with me." Susan whispered, and Draco wiped away the tears from her face as he felt his heart drop, "I'd love to, but you need your family."

Susan shook her head stubbornly, "Susan, trust me. There's an attack to come soon."

"WHAT ATTACK!" Susan began to sob harder than she had all day, but before he could say a word there was a snowy white owl with black spots on it that Susan knew to well. "That's my owl, but what is she doing here? My owl, but I don't take her to Hogwarts with me, because The Bones use her to talk to Jess and me at school."

There was a boom coming from the school that made Susan jump, when she looked at Draco he looked as scared as she did, "What do you think that was?" Susan asked Draco, as he was as pale as she was.

"I have no clue, but that didn't sound so good." Susan agreed with Draco by nodding with him.

Inside the Great Hall was total uproar and explosion, there had been yet another attack except this one a Death Eater didn't try and get another Potter. This one had been a suicide bomb, there was people screaming from everywhere blood and fear.

By noon the entire hospital wing was full and there were classrooms that hadn't been used in years that had even more patients in it. In the last attack there had been ten injured Gryffindors, and three dead. Now not only were Gryffindors hurt but also Hufflepuffs, Slytherins, and Ravenclaws.

By the next day everyone had found out the story, it had indeed been a Death Eater attack. This Death Eater had been a student though, a student at the school…fifth year as a matter of fact. She thought her one true love was in the building, and if she couldn't have him then no one could have him. At the end of the week the parents of the young girl had come to pick up her body and had arrangements for her funeral, only friends and family were going to be there. The family knew that she'd been a Death Eater as they were, but never thought she'd take her own life for a boy. It only seemed that the Slytherins were effected by this uproar, as the girl had always been rude to any other girl or boy that wasn't in her own house, this girl was Pansy Parkinson.

Later after the girl's parents were gone The Order Of Phoenix was called into Professor Dumbledore's office to discuss the happening that had been going on at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The people involved in The Order of Phoenix was: Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, Flitwick, Snape, and Sprout. Minister Black, Arabella Evans, Remus Lupin, and a few head of departments at the Ministry of Magic.

"So have we have found out who has been doing all of these attacks on the Potters, or should I say Potter." Fletcher spoke up, sitting on the left side of Minister Sirius Black, Bella on Sirius's right.

"Potter? You mean the Death Eaters are only after one of them now?" Bella said taking this piece of information.

"No, Voldemort wants all of them, but this Death Eater wanted this one gone…as in...finished. That's why she attacked Gryffindor Common Room."

"She?" Sirius said stupefied.

Albus Dumbledore nodded, "These attacks we keep having at Hogwarts are not of a Death Eater on the outside, but of one on the inside…well she was on the inside until today."

"You mean…."

"Yes, Minerva. Miss Parkinson. She sees the spark that Mr. Malfoy and Miss Potter hold among each other like the rest of us do."

"Spark?" Bella asked, "What spark? Doesn't that little girl know that Adora is his aunt, there's nothing going on between them."

"I'm sorry Bella, but not that Miss Potter. I'm talking about Susan."

"Susan! That little Death Eater better stay away from Susan, I swear I'll kill him!" Sirius started to uproar.

"Black!" McGonagall roared at him, "Have you not been reading that much, wait when did you ever read?" Sirius started to blush, Professor McGonagall still knew how to shut him up. "We can't stop the feelings that the children have for one another, but they are seeing two different people, there is nothing to worry about yet."

"Minerva you are right," Severus Snape spoke up which made Sirius's face stiffen up. Although Sirius and Snape were on the same side, Sirius still hated Snape but of course the feelings were mutual. "The two children seem to have feeling for each other, but it's only yet. I have a feeling that if Draco's father didn't force him to see Autumn Lewis, that he would still be following Miss Potter."

"If Draco wants to live he will stay away from her," A person stepped out of the shadows which made Sirius and Arabella nearly faint, how could he…where did he….

Bella turned around to face Dumbledore, "Is this?" Dumbledore nodded and she turned back around, totally speechless.

Voldemort's hideout…

"So, Lucius have you heard we've lost a perfectly good Death Eater to your son?" Voldemort hissed at his servant.

"My son did what! Which one?"

"Pansy Parkinson, you can imagine the Parkinson's are quite upset and angry with your son."

"How would Draco get us to lose her?"

"Parkinson did a suicide attack, hoping that Potter girl and himself were inside, she loved him. I swear if he hurts my little Autumn, I'll I'll…"

"I understand, master. Maybe we should tell them it's time to call it quits, I mean I have no idea what's going on in his head. Draco won't talk to me and all he keeps telling me is that he wants to see Adora. I won't allow him to have any contact with her."

"No, that might make him rebel against you even more." Voldemort commanded him. "We already know that he despises you since you killed his Grandma, mother, and step-father. Don't tell him he can't see Adora, that's not the Potter I'm talking about."

"What other Potter could there be?"

"Sadie."

"If that boy knows what's good for him, he'll stay away from that little halfblood, if he's the one to dirty our family name, I'll kill the both of them."

"Lucius," Voldemort hissed at him. "If you don't shut up and listen to me I'll kill you."

"Yes, master."

"Now, don't take the boy away from his aunt. We need to keep an eye on him about, the Potter's daughter. There is some connection there that I don't like, I don't think we need to break Autumn and Draco up. They are to get married we arranged it when he was four months and she was two months old, but if they choose we could break it. We will tell them it's all up to them to get married, although I'm sure Autumn will find a better choice. Your boy doesn't have the hate streak in him that he use to, I want her to be with someone that hates as much as she does, the boy is starting to make her a softie. You might need to let him see Adora this summer, as much as he wants, the more he doesn't rebel against you, the more we have the upper hand. Got it?"

"Yes master, but I have one question."

"What is it now! "

"The only way Draco will be able to see his aunt, is if he goes to Black's house. I have no clue where it's at and I know that the boy would never tell me, he's more loyal to that nasty Potter than he is to me. If he goes to see his aunt, Potter's daughter lives there with Adora. Draco will see her there, you are not afraid there will be any old sparks to hit between the two of them."

"If things progress between the two, we'll kill them."

Lucius gulped at the thought of having to kill his son, but didn't want to argue with his lord. So Lucius nodded and saw himself out of Voldemort's sight.

Sharon Lewis turned to her husband, "What do you think? Should we tell Autumn that she can't see this boy anymore?"

"I'm not sure. I'm just not sure right now. We're not all sure which way Draco is going to turn."

Sharon gasped as if this thought was absurd, "You mean you actually think he'll take Dumbledore's side!"

"Never thought he would not until he found out who Hermione Granger really was. She's changed him, and I think little Sadie Potter will too."

"You mean a Malfoy with a….a…Potter?" Sharon Lewis spat at the name. "It's unthinkable, the last time that happened Anthony was killed, and Adora was suppose to be killed."

"Yes, no one could do their job right."

"No one?"

Back at Hogwarts…

That crazy day classes had been cancelled, classes would resume tomorrow and the schedules would be changed yet again, so the six classes that the fifth and seventh years had to attend would be able to attend to get ready for their big tests. Adora was in the Hospital Wing, Ron had seemed to get himself hurt again, but no as bad as before. Something had hit Ginny really hard on the head, and Harry being the worry wart that he is, especially about Ginny made her go to the Hospital Wing, in which he followed her. As Draco and Susan hadn't been in the building when the attack was made, and weren't hurt at all they decided they'd sit beside the lake again and talk. Since they'd silently agreed that the other one wasn't interested in one another, they were going to be friends. Besides, everyone knew a Potter and a Malfoy could never be together.

While they were chatting, the very weird, and odd Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher passed them, Professor Dunn. No one really knew to much about him, except he'd stayed in America for about eleven years, he was originally from England. But, something very traumatic happened and he was forced to move away from all of his loved ones, so everyone figured that he'd moved back to England to re-unite with his loved ones, but as far as the students knew he hadn't had such luck.

"Mr. Malfoy? Miss Potter?" Professor Dunn asked as if he suspected something out of them. "All alone are you? Even an American like me knows that you two shouldn't be outside by yourselves.

"Well, we figured that we'd be in the way of everyone if we were inside." Susan spoke up.

"Why is it any of your business anyways?" Draco spat at him.

But by both young teenagers surprise, their teacher laughed. "My word, you do have your Grandma's spunk."

After Professor Dunn walked off still laughing, Draco had a look of puzzlement on his face, "Anything the matter?" Susan asked him.

"Yes."

"What is it?"

"I just realized he was at my Grandma, mother, and Remus's funeral."

"And?" Susan questioned him she wasn't picking up on this.

"He didn't know them, or at least I don't think he did."