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"Okay,
I'm all set!" Chris said, emerging from the dormitory.
"Well,
finally!" Kenzie said, standing up and giving him a hug and a
quick kiss on the cheek. "Let's
go."
"Okay,
I'm all set!" Wormtail said, emerging from the left
chamber.
"Well, finally!" Voldemort said, standing up
and giving him a punch and a quick slap on the head. "Let's
go."
"Okay,
I'm all set!" Kayla said, emerging from under the one bed
everyone had to share.
"Well, finally!" J.J. said,
standing up and giving her a hug and a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Let's
go.
"Okay,
sooooo... which way we goin'?" Chris asked, turning the map
upside down as if it would help.
"Hey, stupid, the map's
downways-up. Turn it the right way!" Kenzie said, helping him
with it. "Besides, I don't even think we need it. We're taking
thestrals."
"Thestrals? But you can't see those until
you see something die..." Chris said.
"Yeah. Exactly.
I've seen my grandparents on my mom's side die," Kenzie
said.
"But... didn't they die in the Department of
Mysteries?" Chris asked.
"Yeah. I saw it, somehow. I
think Voldemort must have killed them and somehow transmitted the
image to me," Kenzie said. "It's actually very
strange."
"Yeah, now I remember what I saw die. I saw
Harold die."
"Harold?"
"My sister's pet
gerbil."
"How?"
"Dog."
"Ouch."
"Yeah,"
Chris said, wincing. "Changing subject!"
"Yes,
NOW!" Kenzie said, starting to get a very bad vision of Harold
and the dog.