Author's Note- Hey! I'm soo sorry for the delayed update! School has been very demanding, and I'm going through a bit of writer's block. I also started a new story "My Last Breath", but I'm a bit depressed at the lack of readers and reviews. Oh well, here is chapter 10!
Chapter 10, Black sets trend...
I made my way down to breakfast with Harry, Ron and Hermione. I was exhausted due to the fact that I hadn't gone to sleep until sometime early this morning. I collapsed into my seat and looked up at the teacher's table, more at of habit than anything else. Remus wasn't there, that much I presumed.
He rarely came down to breakfast because the students-his former students- don't feel safe and they would send letters home to their parents saying 'the werewolf is back'. He doesn't like to be ridiculed and put into a category like that. He's a bit sensitive on that subject. Can you blame him?
The screech of owls and the flutter of wings brought me out of my thoughts. The post had arrived. I looked down at my uneaten porridge gloomily. I knew I wasn't getting any mail. I never did. Who was I supposed to get mail from? Remus was here, and he was usually the only person I heard from.
Hermione retrieved the Daily Prophet from an owl's leg and paid it. It took a slight bow before flying off.
Hermione opened the paper and gasped. Her hand flew to her mouth and her eyes widened in shock or horror, I couldn't tell, but it could have been both.
"What?" I asked, I was a bit nervous. Her face had paled considerably.
"'Mione what's wrong?" Ron asked. She handed the paper over to me and I looked down. I found myself looking into the eyes of Bellatrix Lestrange. I felt a not forming in the pit of my stomach and my mouth was becoming dry. Next to her was a picture of Lucius Malfoy. I looked at him in disgust. But what really got me was the title. "Black sets trend-Lucius Malfoy becomes the second to breakout of Azkaban prison"
Black sets trend...That must mean they think he's still alive! They don't know about what happened in the department of mysteries!
"What is it?" Harry asked.
"Read it out loud." Ron said.
I nodded and began to read.
Black sets trend-Lucius Malfoy becomes the second to breakout of Azkaban
Lucius Malfoy broke out of Azkaban Prison yesterday afternoon. I'm sure all of you remember the incident three years ago, when Sirius Black became the first to escape. Black, who is still at large, seems to be setting a trend. Is Black recruiting members? That is very likely.
It is said that Bellatrix Lestrange helped Malfoy escape, and has been last sighted heading north. Their destination is unknown, but the ministry is doing all they can to capture and recapture the ones in question.
In the meantime beware of your safety. The streets are closed to the public at six o' clock every evening. Please take all precautions, all three of them are highly dangerous and aren't afraid of using the unforgivables.
-Samantha O'Neil, Daily Prophet reporter-
A tense silence followed my reading. I tried to digest everything I had just read but it was too hard to focus on one thing.
"They think Sirius is still alive!" Hermione exclaimed. She looked like she had just seen a person resurrected from the dead.
Harry nodded slightly, a grim expression on his face.
"Why are they heading north?" Ron asked.
We all thought about it for a moment. Then it struck me.
"Oh my god! They are heading in our direction!" I exclaimed as all the pieces fell in place.
"Why would they want to come to Hogwarts?"
"Because of me." I answered, unable to say anything else. The horror of the reality that my parent's murderer was coming to finish me off was just beginning to sink in.
Hermione's eyes widened, and Harry nodded knowingly. It was up to Ron to press the matter further.
"Why would they want you?" he asked, I sighed and shook my head at his ignorance.
"Because, I'm the last of the Black's. My father is Sirius Black, the one person whom Bellatrix truly hated. Besides I'm following in his footsteps, and they don't want me to become a threat to them. Though I am not much of one now, in a few years I may be. So she wants to finish me off and get me out of the way."
Harry gave me a sympathetic smile. I knew he understood what I was going through. He was going through pretty much the same thing. Voldemort wanted to finish him off because he posed as a threat as well. There were other reasons, but I'm not going to get into them right now. I already get off topic enough as it is.
"I have to do something." I said getting up and leaving the Great Hall.
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The rest of the day went by pretty uneventful. I couldn't focus in any of my classes. The thought of what was ahead of me pretty much took over the whole of my attention span.
I skipped dinner and went up to my dormitory to try to sort out my thoughts and focus my energy. My mind was swirling with everything that had happened earlier. I contemplated writing a letter to Remus, but I found myself looking through an old photo album instead.
The photo album was pretty much all I really had to remember by parents by, besides my dad's necklace. I didn't have anything from my mother.
I stopped at a picture of all of us. I was only a baby, not even one yet. They were standing outside. It was a very scenic area and the beautiful fall foliage seemed to explode in fiery colors behind them. My mother was holding me in her arms and Sirius had his arm around her. They looked so happy, and I smiled sadly as they looked back up at me and waved.
I found myself drifting off to sleep, and before I knew it I was out cold, the album still propped open in front of me.
I was running from something. Some invisible force it seemed. It was dark, and I couldn't see my surroundings. I was outside, in a forest I guessed, as my feet crunched on the fallen leaves that littered the forest floor.
I was breathing heavily, and I could just make out the sound of my pursuer close behind me. I tripped over a root and fell to the cold forest floor. The wind was knocked out of me and for a moment I couldn't move.
I could here them closing in on me, and a dark figure loomed over me. I squinted through the darkness but it was useless, I couldn't escape.
The silence of the night was broken by a cold maniacal laughter. The moon peaked from behind a cloud and caught a glimpse of my pursuer.
"Crucio!" I heard a voice yell. And the sound of the laughter was drowned out by my piercing screams of agony.
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