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Chapter 9 – To Dumbledore We Go
I couldn't fly properly; I was definitively not concentrating. It's pretty understandable that my thoughts were in another place. I held desperately on to my broom, trying to stop the tears from falling down. If I started crying; I wouldn't be able to see a damn thing.
It felt like it took me hours to reach Hogwarts again. I landed just beside the Forbidden Forest. My next problem was how to get back to the castle unnoticed. I really didn't want any attention. I guess I'm just not that kind of a person who wants to be in the spotlight.
But it was pretty late, and most of the students had gone to bed, so it was possible to sneak back to the castle. I didn't feel for going to bed at all when I had left my broom off. Instead I went to Moaning Myrtle's toilet, which was the only place where I could be sure I'd be alone. Being alone was just the thing I need.
I sat on the floor, leaning towards the wall and closed my eyes. It took less than a minute before the tears I had kept inside me for so long flooded down my face. I cried and cried and cried, let all of my emotions leave my body. I felt a beginning head ache, and decided to sneak back to the dormitory and try to get some sleep.
But I didn't make it more than half the way, before I met someone in the corridor.
"Miss Malfoy!" she shrieked. "Are you aware of the fact that every teacher is looking for you?!"
I stared at her. She was back?!
"Professor McGonagall?! I thought..." I started but she interrupted me.
"Going out all alone, looking for danger! And then not tell anyone that you're back, just disappear!"
"Honestly, I didn't know that everyone was looking for me..."
She snorted.
"Then we're going to see the Professor Dumbledore."
"He's back, then?!" I asked, surprised.
She looked at me with scorn.
"Of course he's back! What did you expect?"
"I dunno..."
We walked to Dumbledore's office in silence. The door was closed, but Professor McGonagall knocked on the door.
It took maybe five minutes, before Dumbledore opened. Before letting us in, Harry Potter exited. His face was pale and tired, and he avoided looking at anyone. I looked after him when he was walking away alone in the corridor.
Professor McGonagall pushed me into Dumbledore's office, where he told me to sit down.
"Found her in the corridor, Professor." McGonagall said.
"Thank you, Professor McGonagall. I'll take it from here. Please go and alert the other teachers."
"Certainly, Professor Dumbledore" McGonagall said and left.
So I was left with Dumbledore. He sat down in his chair, observing me through his half-moon glasses. He said nothing at all. I looked bothered around in the room. I had never been there before, and found it rather interesting. I looked anywhere but at him. I could feel his eyes on me, though, burning.
"Excuse me, Professor" I said after ten minutes. "I'm wondering, since you obviously have nothing to say, if I could leave and go to bed because I'm really tired..."
"No" he said simply.
I raised my eyebrows automatically but immediately lowered them again.
"I beg your pardon?"
"You may not leave" he repeated. "Not until everything is made clear."
I stared at him. I'm sure he was a great wizard, both powerful and smart, but I have to admit that he seemed rather crazy from time to time.
"Then make everything clear..." I muttered.
"Miss Malfoy, you are going to make everything clear. Not I."
"Look, Professor, I'm really tired. Maybe this could wait..."
"I know most of the story. This won't take long."
"Then... what am I supposed to do?"
"Let's take it from the beginning. Your brother arrived to the Hospital Wing, his hair transformed into some kind of worms. I believe you are responsible for that?"
"Why do you think that, Professor?" I asked innocently.
"He said so. And it's not impossible that it's true."
"I was provoked."
He didn't say anything, but lowered his glasses and looked calmly upon me. Aargh! He was so irritating.
"You have no idea what it's like!" I exploded.
"No, I don't."
I stared wildly at him.
"Why don't you tell me, then?" he continued.
I hesitated.
"Sorry, I'm just a little bit tired. If I could..."
"If you don't want to ease your heart, why don't you tell me what happened today, then?"
I sighed. Okay, then. Let's get this done.
I quickly related the whole story, in a non-emotional way, almost like a machine. He didn't say a single thing during the story.
"You are a very brave girl."
No, don't talk like that... I hate it, when people talks like that. I don't like being a hero. I don't like spotlight at all.
"Could I go now, Professor?"
"Okay, then. You may go for now."
"Thank you, Professor."
I was out of his office in less than ten seconds. I jogged through the corridors over to the Gryffindor Common Room, told the fat lady the password and entered. I looked around in the room. I wasn't alone, there was someone standing by the window. At first I thought of trying to sneak past him, but then I changed my mind and cleared my throat to kind of tell him that I was there.
"Oh, hi" Harry said.
I could swear he had been crying, but he acted like nothing had happened and I didn't want to embarrass him, so I did the same.
"Hi" I said simply.
We stood quiet for a while, avoiding eye contact.
"Sorry, but really what happened in there?" I asked at last.
"The only kind of family I've ever had in my life died" he said simply.
"Oh. I... I'm sorry."
"I don't really want to talk about it. But what were you doing there?!" he said, obviously trying to change the subject.
"Well, I..."I said but hesitated. "I came across your wand, and..."
"Mal... sorry, Draco had it!"
"Yeah, I know. We kind of... had a fight, and I was really angry and I threw a spell at him, well it's a long story but anyway I got your wand."
"It was you that cursed your father in the Department of Mysteries, wasn't it?"
"Good night, Harry."
Author's note: Well, here you go. I'm pretty busy right now, a lot of stuff coming up, and I have a web site under construction as well. Added to that, I have my other HP story which I haven't written something on in quite a while. So maybe I won't be able to update this for a while, but I'll try. Please review, because if anything make me type faster, it's reviews!
