SILVER LINING
CHAPTER 16-EPILOGUE
Things were finally over for good now. Harry and I began dating. We were careful around Snape though.
I couldn't believe he thought a human could do that. Professor Dumbledore did indeed, speak to Snape about what happened.
He left us alone after that.
The curfew was lifted and everyone was much happier now knowing that the killer had been caught and dealt with.
Oddly, Malfoy and Crabbe hadn't given us any trouble for the rest of the semester. We found that a bit odd but oddly refreshing.
We didn't have to hear his taunting, or name calling.
Just to test this out, on the way back to Kings Cross station on the Hogwarts Express, as Malfoy was heading past our compartment, Harry called out to him.
"Hey, Malfina," Harry called out.
Malfoy stopped short and entered our compartment.
"What?" he asked.
Astonished, we looked at each other.
Professor Lupin was reading a newspaper in the compartment with us. He was sitting next to me.
"What's wrong?" Harry asked. "Why aren't you calling me Potty, or her...well, you-know."
He said gesturing to Hermione.
Hermione was looking at him like he was mad to instigate Malfoy into calling her a 'Mudblood'. She looked at me for help, but I just shrugged, not even knowing what Harry was up to myself.
"Get bent," Malfoy snapped. "What makes you think I'm going to tell you what my problem is?"
"Because if you don't," Harry continued. "It's not going to make our day."
"My mum and dad are going to talk to the Ministry about banning all in-humans from Hogwarts. I just didn't think it would be right to torment those that aren't going to be with us for much longer," Malfoy snickered.
There was the old Malfoy. God we missed that...NOT.
At that, Professor Lupin looked up from his newspaper.
"In-humans eh?" he said slowly. "Might I suggest telling your parents that in order to do that, they're going to have to expel almost everyone at Hogwarts?"
Malfoy's eyes glittered maliciously. "Why is that, Professor?"
"Because Hogwarts is so diverse, they're going to have a hard time picking them out," Professor Lupin said. "And I might just sic Stephanie on you if you think you're going to get away with this."
I grinned at Malfoy, deliberately showing my long canines and incisors. My eyes changed to jaundice.
Malfoy momentarily looked terrified before he hurried and fled down the corridor. I shook my head and everything went back to normal.
"Um," Hermione asked weakly. "Was that such a good idea?"
"Malfoy isn't going to do that," Professor Lupin said calmly. "I had an inkling that he would come up with that plan. So Dumbledore put a charm on him. The minute he starts talking about werewolves or such, he starts to babble incoherently. People will just think he's mad."
We burst out laughing.
Harry was laughing so hard he was crying.
"God bless Dumbledore," I said laughing.
Professor Lupin grinned.
It was good to be back home and know that things would finally be alright going forward.
