Ch. 18 The Train Home
The next day, the school gathered in the Great Hall and waited for the House Cup winner to be announced.
Dumbledore rose from his seat and a hush fell over the room.
"I know you are all waiting anxiously for the winner of the House Cup," said Dumbledore, "but I just want to say that next year, there will be a new potions teacher. The old one has," he shot a glance over to where Professor Snape's chair had been. "gone on a little vacation. To Azkaban prison." Everyone except Bethany, Ron, Harry, Hermione, Kiara, Ruby, Fred, and George gasped.
"He has murdered a fellow student, and he has been caught. Patrick Crane of Hufflepuff has been murdered." Dumbledore paused. Some Hufflepuff girls screamed. "Therefore, I am giving Hufflepuff the House Cup in honor of Patrick Crane." Everyone clapped and some cried, but the Slytherins sat, unmoving.
As the train pulled off that afternoon, Bethany, Harry, Kiara, and the rest of them sat in the same compartment that had on the first day. They didn't say anything about Patrick, but they were all thinking about him.
When they got off the train, Bethany and Caleb went to meet their mother, who stood wearing a new, pink, fuzzy, boa and dark sunglasses, with a new man they hadn't seen before. He was wearing a leather jacket and had his hair slicked back. He was smoking a cigarette, but he was smiling. And it wasn't an evil kind of smile her mother's other boyfriends had had before. It was nice. Bethany smiled at her brother and she thought that this new boyfriend might turn out alright after all.
Before she went over to her mother, she said goodbye to her friends who all gave her their condolences about losing her best friend and she gave hers back. Just as she was turning around to leave, she did a double take and saw just one flash of white light and the last trail of the end of a robe going back into the train. Bethany smiled and turned to leave with her mother. Only 2 more months until she would be back again.
The End
The next day, the school gathered in the Great Hall and waited for the House Cup winner to be announced.
Dumbledore rose from his seat and a hush fell over the room.
"I know you are all waiting anxiously for the winner of the House Cup," said Dumbledore, "but I just want to say that next year, there will be a new potions teacher. The old one has," he shot a glance over to where Professor Snape's chair had been. "gone on a little vacation. To Azkaban prison." Everyone except Bethany, Ron, Harry, Hermione, Kiara, Ruby, Fred, and George gasped.
"He has murdered a fellow student, and he has been caught. Patrick Crane of Hufflepuff has been murdered." Dumbledore paused. Some Hufflepuff girls screamed. "Therefore, I am giving Hufflepuff the House Cup in honor of Patrick Crane." Everyone clapped and some cried, but the Slytherins sat, unmoving.
As the train pulled off that afternoon, Bethany, Harry, Kiara, and the rest of them sat in the same compartment that had on the first day. They didn't say anything about Patrick, but they were all thinking about him.
When they got off the train, Bethany and Caleb went to meet their mother, who stood wearing a new, pink, fuzzy, boa and dark sunglasses, with a new man they hadn't seen before. He was wearing a leather jacket and had his hair slicked back. He was smoking a cigarette, but he was smiling. And it wasn't an evil kind of smile her mother's other boyfriends had had before. It was nice. Bethany smiled at her brother and she thought that this new boyfriend might turn out alright after all.
Before she went over to her mother, she said goodbye to her friends who all gave her their condolences about losing her best friend and she gave hers back. Just as she was turning around to leave, she did a double take and saw just one flash of white light and the last trail of the end of a robe going back into the train. Bethany smiled and turned to leave with her mother. Only 2 more months until she would be back again.
The End