Chapter 29: Dementor
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'Quidditch, how I love playing it,' Rose thought while up in the air. The Gryffindor Quidditch team was out on the field practicing for their upcoming game.
"Hey earth to Rose get your head back in the game!" Mary yelled. Rose jerked her head and realized she had been floating for a full two minutes holding the quaffle also. Rose threw the quaffle to Ginny and Ginny passed to Jack and they continued passing it to each other. Harry had released the Snitch and was trying to find it while Mary and Seamus had taken the extra quaffle and were testing Ron. Hermione was out in the stands reading as always. Rose rolled her eyes and caught the ball as Jack passed it to her.
Harry caught the Snitch and blew his whistle and everyone descended.
"Mary, Seamus, go get your bats and release the bludgers, the rest of us we're going to play a mock game. Ginny, Rose, and Jack you be the opposite teams chasers. Ron, don't let any quaffles in." Ron blushed, 'Damn, even when he is embarrassed he is still hot.' Rose thought and found herself having to look away.
Mary and Seamus returned carrying their bats in one hand the crate with the bludgers with the other between them.
"Ok, let's begin." Harry said. Rose flew up quaffle in her hands. Ron flew up and stopped in front of the middle goal post. Mary and Seamus let the bludgers go and Harry released the Snitch once more.
Rose passed to Ginny who passed back to Rose after Rose got further up the field near the goals. Rose passed the quaffle to Jack as Seamus hit a bludger that almost hit Ron. The play continued. Harry caught the Snitch after a few goals were scored due to Ron's carelessness. In other words he was looking away or paying attention to another player then the one that had the quaffle.
The seven players landed Rose in the lead having been close to the ground. She shivered; somehow the warm spring day had turned into a cold one. Hermione who had been walking down towards the team was frozen in terror trying to find her wand. Rose turned around to see what had captured her gaze.
Rose let out a shriek of terror making the rest of the team to turn around, well almost everyone.
Mary didn't need to turn, she would not face it. She knew what it was. A dementor, what else would make her relive her worst moments. She glanced over at Harry who seemed frozen stiff; he tried to get his wand but realized he had left it in the dormitory.
Mary screamed every bad moment was playing in her head. The day her biological mother was killed by a horrid death eater who in Mary's opinion was a bloody coward, hiding his/her face behind a mask.
The day well night really when she was bitten by the vampire that gave their cursed life to her. The day when… Mary screamed again and ran. Ran like a bloody coward, ran as unlike a Gryffindor as ever possible. She was scared so she forgot about her friends.
Mary closed her eyes trying to drown out the thoughts and sounds of the cursed day in which it has made it almost impossible to have a normal life. It only brought more images and clearer, louder sounds. She tripped her face hitting the hard Earth causing her to let out a groan. She pushed herself up off the ground and turned for the first time, there stood at least ten dementors and beside the frozen Gryffindor team stood, Harry had fallen.
"Expecto Patronum!" A voice yelled. The dementors were backing away. Mary started running back towards her friends.
"Harry!" Mary yelled when she was close. "Harry, wake up!" She was now kneeling down and shaking him to wake him. Everyone seemed to be unfreezing as the dementors glided away from the patronus apparently none of the Gryffindors created. Hermione was the first to realize what was going on, and the look on her face was not relief.
"GET AWAY!" She yelled angrily at Mary.
"W-what?" Mary choked.
"Just get away from Harry, you can't run and then pretend you care all of a sudden!" Ron stepped in. Mary was now getting mad; she got up so she was eye level with Ron.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN PRETENDING? I DO CARE!" She yelled louder than both Hermione and Ron.
"How can you sleep at night, lying like that?" Rose asked.
"I'm not lying! Why won't you believe me?" Mary yelling, why didn't her friends believe her? "You know what," Mary started a bit calmer but not by much. Her American attitude coming back. "I don't need this." She muttered and turning on her heal she left for the forest where she could climb up a tree and think.
Rose couldn't believe Mary could stand there and pretend she cared and then just leave like that. Actually, she could believe she'd do something like that. 'What else would you expect from a vampire?' Rose asked herself mentally. Harry awoke and she helped him up and helped her friends tell him what had happened. When they were finished telling him he asked the last question Rose thought would ever come out of his mouth after today,
"Where's Mary?" He asked.
"She went off to the forest I guess. To play around with her vampire buddies," Rose said in disgust.
"Don't say that!" Harry yelled at Rose. Rose was appalled at the fact that he was taking this so lightly as if Mary hadn't really betrayed them.
A while later Rose, Ron, Hermione, and Harry found themselves walking up to their DADA teachers classroom not knowing why he wouldn't just let them go off and practice more Quidditch or something.
Unseen to anyone Mary trailed behind her four friends. She was beginning to like her powers. Came in quite handy when needed to spy on someone or some people, no wonder Voldemort wanted her on his side.
Mary hurried her pace and was able to squeeze into Professor Lupin's office before the door closed. Mary walked over to a corner and sat down cross legged on a stack of books. When she became invisible she became lighter than she normally was since her molecules were spread out rather than tight and close together. Mary watched as Professor Lupin gave everyone chocolate to get rid of the dementor effects and then he made them sit down.
She wished she could have some chocolate, the never ending dread she felt from the attack still lingered around her. The memories still fresh in her mind.
Mary watched and listened to their guesses as to why the dementors had arrived at the Quidditch pitch. The only one that made sense was Rose's; she had said that the dementors had been sent from Voldemort to capture Rose and Mary. Then the conversation turned to something Mary was interested in.
"I heard you four accusing Mary of betraying you." Professor Lupin said calmly.
"That is because she did!" Ron said.
"Yeah, she ran away. She was a coward and a bad friend. A true friend would have stayed and helped fight off the dementors." Rose added.
"A true friend would also believe another friend when they said they were telling the truth." Professor Lupin pointed out then let out a sigh. "Do you four know about Mary's past?" Mary almost fell from her spot. He couldn't tell them! Ron, Rose, and Hermione shook their heads but Harry said,
"We know that she is a vampire."
"I knew you would possibly know that, but there is more to Mary's story." He let out another sigh as if trying to figure out how to put it. Mary found she was mad and scared that he would tell her friends. She felt herself becoming visible. She looked down and saw her hand was beginning to appear. "When Mary was two years old her mother was killed and her father was unable to take care of her, she was sent to a muggle orphanage in downtown London. She was then adopted by a family who wasn't on the rich side to say the least. A few years later Mary's foster father lost his job and they had to put Mary in the orphanage. She was adopted once again and then moved to America. A little before she turned eight she was bitten by a vampire on a family camping trip." Mary was so scared of what her friends were thinking now that she didn't stop herself from becoming visible.
Her molecules pulled together and she became heavy again and fell, the stack of books falling onto of her. Her hair that was in a neat bun on top of her head fell loose and her long hair fell into her face.
"Uh, hi?" Mary said.
"So, first you run and then you spy on us." Rose yelled, "I knew we couldn't trust you." Mary felt as if she had just been slapped. That had really hurt her. But she didn't let it show. She drew herself to her full height which didn't help much. She was still a head shorter than Rose. Then Rose said the one thing that really hurt Mary more than anything anyone could have ever said, "How could I have been so stupid as to trust a vampire."
All of Mary's anger bubbled up to the surface. "I thought you were my friend. I guess I was wrong wasn't I? A friend doesn't act like this. A friend doesn't accuse a friend without knowing the facts." Mary pushed past Rose purposely bumping her shoulder against Rose's so Rose was pushed back. Mary walked out of the office leaving her friends.
Ron went and put a hand on Rose's shoulder. She spun around quickly and met with Ron's eyes.
"Rose, you're being a bit harsh on Mary, don't you think?" Ron said.
"Pft. As if. Did you see how she ran away like that?" Rose threw back.
"She didn't mean to run away," Harry said, joining the conversation. "The dementors were making her remember things she didn't want to remember."
The train ride home for Easter Break was quite boring without her friends. 'No,' Mary corrected herself, 'my ex-friends.' She thought in a very childish way.
At the platform her foster parents were waiting for her. Mary wondered how long it would be until they too realized that she was an awful person. Who would want to take care of a vampire?
"Hello sweetheart," Her foster mother said. Mary wished she wouldn't use sweet talk it was annoying, but she just smiled. "Where are your friends you wrote to us about?" Mary glanced over at where Rose, Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Ginny were standing by another red head Mary silently decided was Mrs. Weasley.
"They aren't my friends anymore," Mary said and left through the barrier into muggle London.
sigh—I am evil aren't I writing that. And then making Rose and Mary act bitchy to each other. Ha-ha. It was so fun. Erm ok, reviewers.
DannyPhantomLover: Yes, I did need you to help me write and then you went on vacation. You are an evil person.
I'm joking –winks—
Ginnylover86: Thanks for reviewing, made me laugh. (the second part of the review that is, I don't find someone being blind funny, I might be mean but I'm not that mean)
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