Lives and Loves of Ravenclaw Girls
Chapter 32 – An End of Sorts
By Soretta
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"Pomfrey told Dumbledore!" Samantha exclaimed when her, Heidi and Shannon arrived at their dormitory after classes. "I knew I shouldn't have gone to her!"
"Calm down, Sam," Shannon sighed motioning for her to sit down. "Stress is not good for your baby."
Samantha half heartedly glared at her. "I bet he's going to tell my parents!"
Shannon and Heidi sat down on either side of Samantha and spent the best part of the next three hours consoling her.
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Heidi sat in History of Magic the next day napping. Next to her Shannon had gone in some kind of trance while Samantha was making two spider's tap dance across her desk. Sirius and James where across the room in muggle sleeping bags sound asleep on their in their chairs.
Suddenly there was a loud knock at the door and Professor Flitwick came toddling in.
"Miss Adams, Miss Singe and Miss Harley please come with me," Professor Flitwick squeaked. Heidi, who had sat bolt upright when he had knocked on the door rubbed her tired eyes and quickly followed Samantha and Shannon out the door.
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Professor Flitwick, Samantha, Heidi and Shannon stopped in front of two great stone gargoyles.
"Mentos," Flitwick said. The gargoyles turned revealing a sweeping stairway. Flitwick motioned for them to stand on the stair. Once they were all standing on the stairs they started moving gently upwards.
The door to Dumbledore's office was open when they reached the landing and they could see Mr. and Mrs. Adams inside the room already.
When they entered the office Samantha's parents turned around and glared at the three girls as they walked past the many whirring instruments in Dumbledore's office. If they were there for pleasanter reasons, they would have stopped and had a look.
"These girls have no reason to be here," Mr. Adams said sharply.
"I have invited Miss Harley and Miss Singe here, we are more likely to have sensible discussion with Miss Adams if she is comfortable," Dumbledore told them and Heidi, Samantha and Shannon nodded fervently. "Let's get on with it, shall we?"
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"Where are Heidi, Sam and Shannon?" Megan asked upon her return to Hogwarts. She was unwilling to talk about Tag's future even to Julie. She still held out some hope as to Tag getting his memory back, no matter what the healers at St. Mungo's say.
"I have no idea," Julie said drowsily. "They've been avoiding us for weeks now."
Megan merely shrugged and sat in front of the fire. Staring into the flames depths she was contemplating her life as of now. There would be no more Tag; she was going to have to move on from him. At the moment that was entirely impossible.
Julie had noticed something was up with Megan since she had returned from St. Mungo's but had decided not to question her about it. She knew Megan would tell her in due time.
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"Where is the bastard who knocked up my daughter?" Mr. Adams said furiously. The seat he had been sitting on was knocked carelessly to the ground.
"I can't say!" Samantha cried. Heidi and Shannon both knew well that the father of the baby was Severus Snape, but Samantha had long since broken up with him. "I don't want him to know!"
Mr. Adams threw his hands up in frustration and returned to his seat. "Well then, if you're not going to kick Samantha out of school, this meeting is over," he said looking to his wife for support.
"I assume you're going to cast some kind of concealment charm on her until the baby is born, Albus?" Mrs. Adams asked kindly. Her husband might be prone to outbursts of anger but she wasn't.
"Oh, yes, of course," Flitwick spoke up. "Mr. and Mrs. Adams, if you'll come with me to my office, we can make arrangements for the charm."
Mr. and Mrs. Adams rose and followed Flitwick out of Dumbledore's office. Samantha, Heidi and Shannon sat in silence under Dumbledore's powerful gaze.
"Girls, you may return to your dormitory," Dumbledore said resting his head on his fingertips. "Miss Adams, Professor Flitwick will see you about the charm once he has talked to your parents."
They made a hasty exit from Dumbledore's office. They passed Megan and Julie on the way but didn't even look at them. They made it all the way up to their dormitory before Samantha let go of the tears that had been threatening to fall in Dumbledore's office.
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It was Friday night and a week had passed since the meeting with Dumbledore. Samantha was now waiting in a niche outside the Slytherin common room. She saw Severus walking down the corridor and stepped out of the shadows.
"Ready?" he asked when he saw her. She nodded and took his hand. He put his other hand to his dark mark and they apparated away.
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They appeared inside the Riddle manor in a cluster of Death Eaters.
"Finite," he said pointing his wand at his Hogwarts robes. They slowly morphed into death eater robes and then he placed the mask over his face.
"My servants come forth," said a quiet hissing voice. Samantha followed the voice and saw a snake like man with red eyes sitting on a throne-like chair. Standing either side of him were Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Black.
Samantha looked defiantly into the eyes of Lord Voldemort. He stared back as a grin played out on his face.
"Severus," he hissed. "Bring forth your visitor."
Severus and Samantha walked forward. As she walked towards him she thought how odd it was they she wasn't scared in anyway. This man was about to become her master and she thought of it only as a great step forward.
"Master," Severus said dropping to his knees before Lord Voldemort. Samantha followed suit.
"Please rise," Voldemort hissed again. The rose but kept their heads bowed. "Let us proceed."
Voldemort put his hand to his dark mark and disappeared. Severus then grabbed Samantha's hand and did the same.
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Shannon and Heidi sat before the fire in the Gryffindor common room. Will and Rick were sitting silently by their sides.
"Where's Sam tonight?" Rick asked, breaking the silence.
"She's with Professor Flitwick," Heidi said while yawning. "Something about the extra class she wants to take next year or something."
The four of them fell into a pit of silence again. Every now and again a shower of red sparks would go across the common room. James and Sirius were entertaining first years who found every bit of magic compelling.
Heidi rolled her eyes and yawned again. "I think I'm going to head off to bed now, you coming Shan?"
Shannon agreed and they bade goodnight to the boys and left the common room.
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A fire the size of a two storey building rose before her. She looked either side of her and saw Victoria Lestrange from Slytherin on one side and a man she had never seen before on the other. They were all dressed in white robes with no shoes.
A hissing filled the air. The three stepped into the fire together. They walked forward on hot coals. Samantha barely registered the pain as her feet started to blister.
Samantha emerged from the fire first to find Lord Voldemort and a giant snake waiting.
"Come forth my child," he hissed. She knelt before him and presented her left arm to him. She bit the inside of her cheek as she felt as she felt the mark being burnt into her arm. Pain flared and her arm felt like it was on fire.
Voldemort let go of her arm and she rose and was led away by a masked death eater.
She watched the rest of the initiation in a daze, completely unaware that Severus was the one sitting next to her. She was now a death eater.
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A group of students were gathered around the notice board in the Ravenclaw common room. A sign had just been posted informing them of the next Hogsmeade weekend.
"Good, there are going to be auror's this time," Heidi breathed a sigh of relief. Samantha pretended to be glad too for she knew that there would be no attack on Hogsmeade that day anyway. Voldemort was too smart to attack Hogsmeade now; of course it would be crawling with auror's.
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The rest of the week passed in a blur and pretty soon it was Saturday morning and time to go to Hogsmeade. Samantha had decided she was going to stay behind and go see Snape while Heidi and Shannon met up with Will and Rick.
She watched her friends disappear out of the gates before walking the familiar path to the Slytherin common room. What she didn't realise was that Megan was following her every step of the way.
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Mr. Roberts grabbed his son by the scruff of the neck and jabbed his wand into the small of his back.
"Imperio!" he whispered. Will was filled with a floating sensation. 'Break up with Heidi' a voice whispered in his ear. He, of course, would do anything this lovely voice told him to as long as he kept floating.
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Shannon and Heidi waited outside the three broomsticks for Will and Rick. Finally they saw Rick approaching them from one end of Hogsmeade and Will coming from the other.
"Hey," Will said, kissing Heidi on the cheek. "Ready to go?" Heidi nodded and waved to Shannon and Rick as they headed towards Madame Puddifoot's.
Many other Hogwarts students where dining inside Madame Puddifoot's. Will and Heidi chose a little table towards the back of the tearoom.
"Heidi," Will said taking her hand.
"Yes?" she asked fondly. She was getting giddy just from holding his hand.
"These past few months have been great," he said rubbing his thumbs across her knuckles.
"I know," she mused, smiling at him.
"But, I can't see you anymore," he said and looked down.
"WHAT!" she exclaimed. "Did your parents ask you to do this?"
"No, no," Will said, "I just think we need to take a break."
Heidi was not willing to listen to anymore of what he had to say. She pushed her seat back and fled the tearoom sobbing.
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Heidi ran blindly back up to Hogwarts, she didn't notice anyone until she ran full on into Julie.
"Heidi, are you alright?" she asked, putting an arm around her. Heidi shrugged her arm off and glared at Julie through her tears.
"Leave me alone, Walsh," she said scathingly. Julie was taken aback and actually took a couple of steps backwards. Heidi took this opportunity to run away from Julie.
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Shannon enjoyed her time with Rick at the three broomsticks. They had joined James and Sirius and their respective girlfriends and had ended up playing truth or dare Marauder style, of course.
She was completely unprepared for finding Heidi sobbing on her bed when she returned to their dormitory that night.
"Heidi," she breathed and knelt in front of her. "What happened?"
"Will broke up with me," she sobbed.
"Oh, Heidi," she whispered, taking her into her arms. Heidi sobbed on Shannon's chest.
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Megan was backed into a corner with Samantha glaring down at her. Both their wands were raised.
"You're a death eater!" Megan screamed when she saw the ugly dark mark on her friends arm.
"No shit, Sherlock," Samantha sneered. "Crucio!"
Megan crumpled to the floor in pain. Samantha laughed as the girl writhed on the ground.
"You bitch," Megan screamed as the pain began to ebb away.
"You're a blood traitor and you shall die!" Samantha laughed maniacally.
"No!" Megan cried. She tried to get away but Samantha flicked her wand and Megan landed back against the wall. "Someone, help me!"
"No one can here you, Docura," Samantha sneered. "Don't you remember when Potter and I put the silencing charms on the room for Walsh and Lupin?"
Megan only sobbed as she looked up at her ex-friend. How had so much changed in so little time. Only two months ago they were all perfectly happy. She remembered before the attack on Hogsmeade how fancy free they all were. Tag had been well back then. But that was all history now.
"Avada Kedavra!" Samantha screamed. A jet of green light shot out the end of her wand and connected with Megan's chest. A scream of pain filled the air and she was dead before she hit the ground.
"No! Megan!" Samantha turned to find a distraught Julie standing in the doorway. "You bitch! You killed Megan!"
"I will do the same to you, if you get in my way, Walsh," Samantha said calmly.
Julie stared in amazement at Samantha. She hadn't realised her wand was in her hand it let out red sparks.
"Whoa, is ickle Julie angry?" Samantha said in a babyish voice so much so like that of Bellatrix Black. "Is ickle Julie going to hex–"
"Avada Kedavra!" the magic crackled in the air between them.
"No!" Samantha said throwing her hand across her middle as if to protect her unborn baby. The jet of green light hit Samantha square in the chest. She had a look of shock written across her face as she fell to the floor.
Julie looked into the dead eyes of Samantha Adams and burst into tears. 'What have I done?' she asked herself. Without thinking she pointed her wand at herself.
"Avada Kedavra!"
The End
