Lives and Loves of Ravenclaw Girls
Chapter 33: Epilogue
By: Soretta
18 June 1993
"Mummy!" a three-year-old girl squealed as she ran up the pathway. Her mother opened her arms and enveloped her daughter in hug.
"What did you do a pre-school, today?" the woman asked.
"Painting!" the girl giggled. "Daddy has my painting. You see it?"
"Oh, yes please."
Mother and daughter walked hand in hand down the pathway were a man putting away his motorcycle. He looked up and smiled radiantly upon seeing his wife walking towards him.
"Hello, sweetheart," he said pecking her on her cheek.
"Tiffany says you have her painting." Tiffany jiggled in anticipation as her father nodded and took a child's painting out of the folder he was carrying. Her mothers face burst into a large smile when she saw the picture.
"It's beautiful, darling," she complimented her daughter.
"Yay! My show Candace now?"
"Of course, I'll take you up to the house." She said taking her daughter's hand.
"Oh Heidi," the man called. "I ran into Shannon when I was in Diagon Alley, she's coming over tonight to see you."
"Oh, goodie!" Heidi couldn't help but get excited she hadn't seen Shannon since her and Rick had had their baby a month ago. "Thanks, Will."
She was so excited that she and Tiffany skipped up the pathway together.
Shannon indeed came over that night, but what Will neglected to tell her was that Megan, Julie and Samantha were coming aswell. Julie had been working in Canada for five years now and their only correspondence was by letters. Megan was very busy all the time between mothering her three children, keeping track of Tag and holding down her job at the ministry. Heidi was surprised that Megan even had time to breathe. Samantha was another one she hadn't seen in some time, she was a hard and fast career woman hell bent on being the next minister for magic and heading pretty fast in that direction. The rest of the time she spent at home with her son. Shannon, of course, would always be around. She had lived next door to her and Will ever since they left Hogwarts up until last month when she and Rick moved into a bigger house across town.
The Ravenclaw Girls were back together at long last. It seemed just like old times the only differences being that they weren't at Hogwarts and they were no longer comparing bra sizes but baby fat and other such things.
"I'm thinking of getting rid of this the muggle way," Shannon said prodding her baby fat. Megan and Heidi looked at each other and burst out laughing. "What?"
"The muggle way? Honestly, if I had to go around for months after giving birth to Tammy being fat so do you!" Megan exclaimed. "It's only fair."
Shannon harrumphed and prodded her fat again. "I want to be thin again!" she cried. "Monique Devereaux lost all her baby fat within weeks of having Aimée"
"Monique Devereaux is a bitch; don't compare your self to her." Julie said scathingly. Heidi cocked an eyebrow at her.
"Erm, Julie, have you been keeping up with news from here at all?" Samantha asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"Because weren't not enemies with Monique anymore," Samantha explained. "With Bellatrix in prison, Monique and Angelica are completely different people. I wish I could say the same about their other friend, Victoria. But she's in Azkaban with Bellatrix."
"But-but," Julie spluttered. "They were horrible to us! Monique was sometimes meaner to us than Bellatrix was! Come on! She'd be a Malfoy if it wasn't for her father!"
Julie was getting louder and louder with every sentence until finally Heidi pulled her down and covered her mouth with her hand.
"Ssshhh!" she whispered. "If you wake Candace or Tiffany up they won't go back to sleep for hours."
"Sorry," she said calming down. "It's just that I can't believe it!"
The rest of the girls smiled at her confusion and filled her in what had been happening over the last five years.
Later that night the girls sat around in a circle in the middle of the Roberts' living room reminiscing their days at Hogwarts and what had happened since then.
Samantha tried to catch her breath. Her sides were aching with laughter and tears were poring down her cheeks.
"Remember when I made out with a snowman?" the rest of the girls nodded and collapsed in laughter.
Only one did not laugh. Heidi Roberts was remembering an event that happened after that. One that was more prominent in her mind that any other.
"I remember the dream," she said in hallow voice. The other girls immediately stopped laughing and looked over at Heidi.
"So do I," Megan said in a low voice. "I remember it as if it happened yesterday …"
21 March 1975
A scream echoed through the Ravenclaw dormitory. A girl threw back her bed hangings with shaking hands. She tore around her dormitory pulling back the bed hangings on the four other beds. Three were empty but one held her only surviving friend, who was sitting bolt upright in bed, looking as if Voldemort was coming to take her away.
"Where are Sam, Julie and Megan?" Heidi asked sounding tense.
"I don't know, perhaps they are with their boyfriends. What is wrong with you, Heidi?" Shannon said breathing heavily. "You scared me half to death."
"Megan, Julie and Sam are dead!" she screamed maniacally.
"You've had a bad dream, Heidi," Shannon said soothingly.
"No! No, it wasn't a dream!" Heidi's eyes were unfocused as she screamed. "I'm going to find their bodies!"
And with that Heidi ran out of the dormitory leaving a very confused Shannon behind, who, once the realisation of Heidi's words hit her, ran out of the dormitory after her.
Heidi ran along the corridor and screeched to a halt outside the Gryffindor common room.
"Cowplant," she said breathing heavily. The fat lady opened one eye and swung forwards to let her in.
She ran up the stairs to the boys' dormitory and quietly opened the sixth years' room.
Snoring met her ears as she entered the room. She made a beeline to Will's bed and pulled back his red and gold bed hangings.
"Will?" she whispered shaking his shoulder. He slowly woke up and looked her bleary eyed.
"Heidi?" he said thickly. "It wasn't me, I swear."
"What?" Heidi looked confused.
"It was my father, he put the Imperius curse on me to break up with you," he explained.
Heidi's face dawned with comprehension. Whatever it was she had come to Will's dorm for was quickly forgotten. She had Will back, that's all that was important.
Heidi awoke the next morning in her own dormitory. That in itself was extremely strange considering the night before she had fallen asleep in Will's arms. Perhaps he had brought her back here. But why?
"OH DEAR MERLIN!" she exclaimed. Last nights events came flashing back to her. She had witnessed her friends dying but had been helpless to stop it. It was as if she were a god watching over mortals.
A bell sounded deep within the castle telling students that it was their last chance to go down and have breakfast before class started.
Heidi looked around. The dormitory was deserted all four beds hadn't been made. That again was strange because when she had woken up in the middle of the night all the beds were made except the one that Shannon was sleeping in.
She swallowed slowly. Slowly she reached for her clothes and got dressed before heading down to the great hall for breakfast. Shannon would be there, she would help her see sense.
The great hall was rowdy that morning. Heidi quickly found Shannon at the Ravenclaw table. There was no sign of the other three girls. A dead give away that the dream was in fact correct.
"Guess what, Heidi?" Shannon said excitedly.
"What?" Heidi said slowly.
"I've changed my name!" Heidi rolled her eyes.
"Again? What to this time?"
"What again? I've never changed my name before!" Shannon exclaimed.
"Well, what to?" Heidi asked wearily.
"Princess Consuela Banana Hammock!" Shannon giggled.
"You changed your name to Princess Consuela after we got back from Christmas break, Shannon."
Shannon looked at her with her eyebrows creased. "Today is the first day back from Christmas break, Heidi."
Heidi looked at her wearied and then gasped and jumped up from the table and ran out of the great hall.
She rushed up to her dormitory and hastily got out her diary. She knew for sure that she had written in it just the day before.
She closed her eyes and opened the diary to the page were the marker was. She could believe her eyes the last entry in the diary was one she had written two months ago:
January 2
Tomorrow I'm going back to Hogwarts. Everything is going to be so weird, diary; Megan is already spending most of her time at Tag's side while he regains his memory. The healers seem certain that he will recover but it won't be for awhile yet.
I worry about my relationship with Will, diary, his parents were very cold to me when I met them. It's all because I'm a muggleborn and they're the type of wizard that looks down upon people like me. I wish that purebloods didn't think themselves better than muggleborns. Professor Flitwick says not to worry about what other people say, and that muggleborns are just as much magical as purebloods are.
Anyway, goodnight, diary. I have to get some sleep before spending tomorrow on the Hogwarts Express.
Love, Heidi
"Heidi?" Shannon asked tentatively as she opened the door. "What's wrong with you?"
"Nothings wrong, Shan," Heidi said turning to face her and smiling. "I had a really bad dream last night and I must have thought it was real."
Shannon stuck her head out the door and motioned to someone who was standing outside the door. Megan, Julie and Samantha filed into the room after Shannon and sat down on Heidi's bed.
"This dream, Heidi, did Megan, Sam and I die at the end of it?" Julie asked. Heidi's mouth dropped open.
"I had that dream too!" Shannon exclaimed. More mouths dropped open.
"Mine was extremely weird, we weren't friends with Megan and Julie anymore and Tag permanently lost his memory. Then I became a death-eater and killed Julie and then Megan killed me and then killed herself!" Samantha said trying to wipe the tears that were traveling down her cheeks.
Megan started giggling despite the morbid feel to the room. Soon the other girls couldn't help themselves and joined in.
"I can't believe we all had the same dream!" Megan exclaimed once she had gotten a hold of herself.
"Let's make a pact." Heidi announced. "We all promise to not let the stuff that happened in the dream happen in real life."
"Agreed." It was unanimous. The five girls wiped their tears both from crying and laughing and headed down to their first class of the term arm in arm.
18 June 1993
Tears glistened in all the girls' eyes as Megan recounted the last of the fateful dream. Samantha felt a tear trickle down her cheek as the story came to a close.
"I keep thinking … what I hadn't left Snape?" Samantha questioned herself. "What if I stayed with him? Would I be a death eater now?"
"We have no way of knowing," Shannon sighed. "I think we all had that dream for a reason, you know."
Samantha nodded in agreement and said, "I think that it was a warning of what could have happened. After the dream, every time I saw Snape I would think about getting back together with him. But then the memory of the dream would surface and the feeling would go away."
The other girls smiled and nodded. "It gave me the courage to stand up to Will's parents. Look where that got me, a husband and three kids." Heidi laughed.
The others tried to keep straight faces but soon laughter was poring out of their mouths.
"Friends Forever?" Megan asked.
"Friends Forever!" They all said at once before converging into a group hug.
End Chapter 33
Author's note:
I'd like to take this time to thank you all for your continued support throughout Lives and Loves of Ravenclaw Girls. We authors loved reading the reviews left here by our readers. You gave us all a boost to continue writing.
I also wanted to make a couple of comments on the ending of LALORG. Just before the fateful chapter 32 was written the authors had a falling out and chapter 32 was the one the suffered. It was a very weird, salt and vinegar chip induced idea to kill of half of the main characters. A plot I later came to regret writing. Which is why I listened to one particular reader and made it a dream. I hope you can all forgive that little blunder and enjoy this chapter.
Now that LALORG is over, we hope you won't stray too far away from our works. Julie and Megan have a story coming out soon which will be fantastic and I urge you all to read it once it's released. Heidi, Samantha and I are also writing a new story which will be released very soon.
Thank you for reading and I hope to hear from you all in the near future (koffREVIEWkoff)
Thanx,
Soretta (AKA Professor Malfoy from LE;AH)
