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Chapter 27: Discovered.........Almost

Another two weeks passed and soon Luna had been in her dwelling for about a month.

Cho and her imprudent friends continued to call on her at least once or twice a week.

"Harry sends his love! Oh I forgot, he loathes you now!" Cho and her friends would

always mock.

Luna had given up hope by this point. No one was going to find her and if they were to

walk into the room, well she would have been so soiled that they wouldn't have

recognized her from the wall.

Luna didn't have to feel anymore, she knew that she was extremely ill. Cho didn't bother

giving her water to bathe in, and the only food she got contained of an apple or two and a

loaf of bread.

Now it was the morning of the first Friday in June and Luna was feeling sicker than ever.

"Wake up idiot." Luna watched Cho come into her dungeon. Luna was so ill that it hurt

to glare, or else she would have.

"What do you want?" Luna croaked, her voice unsurprisingly sounding scratchy and

arid.

"Well we are taking our last time to Hogsmeade today, so I thought I would bring you

something for being a good girl."

Luna observed Cho "accidentally" scatter several Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans

across the floor.

"Oops." Cho gave a high snigger. "Guess you are gonna have to eat them off the floor.

Well, toodles."

Luna looked at the beans. She didn't want to get any sicker, but then, all she had for the

past weeks were apples and bread.........

Luna picked up a pink and purple colored bean. Should she or shouldn't she?

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"What the bloody hell is keeping Cho and Kindel?" Poppy asked crossly.

Liz chewed on her Drooble's Best Blowing Gum.

"Don't know. But they better hurry soon, or Madam Puddifoot is going to give away the

table we reserved." Liz snapped before blowing a five-foot bubble.

"What are you doing here?"

Poppy gasped. Liz choked on her gum as she hide behind the nearest tree.

"What do you mean?" Poppy sneered.

Lissa looked at Poppy suspiciously.

"You know what I mean," she said quietly, raising her right shoulder in the direction of

the Shrieking Shack.

"What do you think we are doing bitch?" Poppy snarled. "We are waiting."

"For who?" Frances asked.

"Who do you think slut? Cho of course."

"And what is she doing in the Shrieking Shack?"

Poppy's face paled, but returned to its regular color before one could say "Skiving

Snackboxes".

"What makes you so sure she is in the Shrieking Shack?" Poppy asked.

"Well why are you all the way out here when you could be enjoying a nice butterbeer at

the Three Broomsticks?" Lissa inquired.

"Well for your snotty, snoopy nose of yours, last time we were here, we dared each other

to go into the Shrieking Shack and she forgot her...uh....bracelet up there. So she is up

there trying to find it. We said we would wait for her right here.."

"We?" Frances crossed her arms.

Poppy seemed even more nervous now.

"Well duh!" Poppy lied. "Only Liz and Kindel decided to go up there and help her."

"But you didn't want to."

"No it's just........" Poppy was frantic by this point. If Lissa and Frances found Luna in

the shack, they would be expelled for sure!!! "I don't like to get my clothes dirty!"

Lissa and Frances looked at each other. It was entirely apparent that neither girl believed

Poppy's story.

"Well....Ok if you say so."

Both friends walked off and Poppy sighed in relief. She had been so sure that those two

ragheads were not going to accept her story, but they did and that was all that mattered!

"Well, that's better now huh?" Poppy turned to Liz whose face was a snowy white.

"They didn't believe it." She whispered as two figures made their way behind the

Shrieking Shack. "They are taking the back way to see if it is true!"

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"So have a pleasant night, if you live first!"

Kindel watched Cho appear out of the basement doorway.

"What are we going to do if she dies?" Kindel asked once Cho bolted the lock upon the

basement door. "It's clear that she is sick."

Cho sniffed.

"If she dies, then the world will be a better place." Cho answered indignantly, "Now

come one, let's go to Madam Puddifoot's."

"Cho!"

"What are you guys doing up here," Cho asked snottily "when I told you to keep watch?"

"Lissa" said Poppy

"Frances" Liz cried.

"They are coming up here. In the back way. We have to do something!"

Cho's face went from white to red faster than a drop of blood falling onto a white carpet.

"Quick!" she growled. "You guys pretend you...."

"are looking for a bracelet?" Liz interrupted. "That's the story Poppy told."

"Yes. Ok then a bracelet. I will take care of Looney!" Cho hurried back into the

basement while the others got into their positions.

Luna viewed as Cho reentered the place.

"I have no alternative." Cho snapped. "If they aren't going to find you, then no one

will!"

"Silencio!"

But the spell did not have such an effect on Luna as she had barely a voice left.

Cho rapped the cage hard. Luna knew she had placed a Disillusionment Charm on her

area as it swiftly evaporated in the cracked mirror across the room.

Cho studied her work.

"That should do the trick." Cho said inaudibly. Turning to the door she looked back once

more and vanished.

Luna laid down, her body throbbing with soreness as she moved. Closing her eyes, she

could vaguely hear voices on the floor above her.

A door slammed shut. Luna peeled her eyes open as two pairs of feet traveled down a

staircase.

"Is anyone down here Lissa?"

Luna sat up promptly and at once regretted it. But she knew those voices.

"Frances?" she whispered. "Lissa?"

But Frances and Lissa didn't hear or see inadequate Luna as Cho's spells had keep her

hidden from the world.

Lissa poked her head in. Peering around the room, Lissa pulled her head behind the door.

"No. No one is in there. They were right. Let's go." Luna heard the frustration in

Lissa's voice as the feet trekked back upstairs.

Luna grabbed an apple and threw it on the ground in anger. She had been this close.

this close to being rescued from this dreadful state and Cho had to ruin her chance.

"Shit." Luna murmured as she spotted the dent in the apple. It was useless now.

Angerier, especially at herself, then she had been before, Luna collapsed onto the floor.

The beans that she had eaten only moments before shot flames of pain in her stomach.

Luna didn't need a fortuneteller to tell her what was going to happen next.

Kneeling over, Luna vomited, everything she had eaten earlier today coming back up.

When she was finished, Luna wiped her mouth. She was hungrier than ever by now and

Luna had a sinister feeling that her upset stomach was not caused by the filthy beans.

Laying back down, Luna started to weep. It was hopeless. She was going to die. She

knew it, Cho knew it, her friends knew it. Luna Lovegood was going to die and nothing

was going to stop her.