DISCLAIMER! no, i do not possess magical powers that let me gain the rights to all my favorite books, so i have not acqiured them since my last post, as i am very much not rich enought to do that without magic. thus, anything you may recognise from the books or movies is NOT MINE! sits down and cries about it

Fingers brushing ever so lightly against the blue walls, she choked back a sob. Only last week, Celeste had been staying in this room. She repainted the day she woke up from that sleeping draught. The babies had been fine. She didn't even tell me if the second was a boy or a girl, just whisked it away to its new home. At least that child is safe, none but Celeste knew who it went to, the family doesn't even know whose it is. Hers was in the nursery, never realizing her young, beautiful mother had died, only just managing her spells before her fiery spirit was extinguished.

The Daily Prophet didn't have the real story, not by a long shot. Merric Sloane said the last descendent of the Raven's had been found in the waiting room of St. Mungo's, dead, the Dark Mark floating above her, glaring with its hideous empty sockets at all who came near.

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The Daily Prophet

Raven's Last Found Dead

This morning, the day after Harry Potter's amazing survival, writes Merric Sloane, young Celeste Raven was found dead. The ominous Dark Mark staring down on her, it is obviously the work of Death Eaters. Miss Raven, it is commonly known, associated with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and was seen as the closest thing to a wife He would ever have. Though she never emerged from the seclusion of their secret home, letters to her family indicate she was very close to Him. This reporter believes the Death Eaters were trying to get information from her as to his whereabouts, she being His closest companion, and dumped her at St. Mungo's when she proved useless…

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The attacks were closer to her home now. They were circling in on her little shop. People were remembering that she and Celeste had been school friends. She was getting dirty looks in the streets for being connected to someone so close to the man they all feared and hated. Soon his minions would find her. She knew they had ways to make her talk. She couldn't let her dead friend's daughter fall into their hands. The child had to grow up good. She wasn't near as good as Celeste had been at coming up with on-the-spot spells, but maybe if she….

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yes, it's short, but thats because it's the end of the prologue! i bet you're excited! i mean after this we get into who the story was meant to be about! lucky you!

thanks again to dragonwing. and sorry i took longer than before, i had prom and then my friends' graduations. it wasnt the time for writing anything that would make me sad. anyone reading this without reviewing: just click that little button, i know you can do it! i dont think i would mind flames, wont know until i get one, but perhaps i will just use them to make s'mores! yum!