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>Magnolia Fall, 1994 (I'll Be Seein' You): I am now getting slightly worried about your sanity.
Dark Vampiresss: Tis a good teacher... but I have an awful teacher...
CHAPTER 10: Not So Beautiful
The moonlight dripped into the Gryffindor boy's dormitory that night, and painted the floor. All of the sixth year boys were asleep apart from Harry, who was just staring at the window. A few bats seemed to be having a tiff outside the window but had made up and gone away.
Harry pulled out the photo book, which he had received of Hagrid in the first year and placed it on his lap. The newest editions where that of the young Sirius Black. He smiled and smirked in all of them, but he looked the happiest in the ones which he was with James Potter. It was when he was watching the pictures carefully that he realised in one of them, with James, Lily, Harry as a baby and Sirius, was a women with long brown hair hovering in the background. She had piercing blue eyes and a long pointy nose. Her body was curvy. The woman was clutching a baby closely, but she still managed to look seductive.
Sirius kept looking back at his woman and smiling and gesturing for her to come forward, but she refused and blushed. Harry stared at it, the woman looked more and more familiar to him the more he looked.
This familiarity disturbed Harry, so he slid the photo out of the album and threw on a few robes. He quietly left the boys dormitory and was about to walk down the stairs when he heard voices.
"That Draco Malfoy is fit!" he heard Raven's crow like laugh.
"But he's a slytherin," Shadow's voice said firmly.
"Is he? Well, what ever house he's in, he's fit!" Raven said and Harry heard footsteps and Shadow sighing.
"By the way, I never got the chance to ask you, what's your mum like with you going to a school…with other witches and wizards?" Shadow asked.
"Meh, she was ok, if ok is blowing the roof off!" Raven laughed, "Well, she wasn't happy as she kept ranting on about how," she put on her mothers voice, "' People in the Dark family have always been home taught, you know our traditions! Like becoming and animagus at the age of 13!' yada, yada, yada,"
"Maybe it's because she's scared you'll hurt someone," Shadow said absent mindly. Harry guessed that Raven glared at Shadow because Shadow said, "Well, you have to admit, you aren't the best with a wand!"
"And you aren't the best with a potion!" Raven said, sharply.
"Oh, c'mon Raven! You nearly killed someone!" Shadow yelled.
"YES, NEARLY! BUT I DIDN'T, SO DON'T DRAG IT UP!" Raven roared and Harry heard the portrait hole slam shut.
He edged down the stairs and saw Shadow slumped in a chair, eyes closed and tears gently running down her pale face.
"S-Shadow?" Harry said, quietly.
"Sorry if we woke you up," Shadow said in a startled tone, she straightened up, turned her back to Harry and wiped her tears aside
"What was all that about?" Harry asked, deciding that it was safer to pretend her hadn't heard. He sat in a chair by the fire, opposite Shadow.
"Oh, nothing, just a tiff…" Shadow sighed and turned around, her red tear stained face.
"So…" Harry muttered, entering an awkward silence.
"You don't like Draco Malfoy," Shadow broke the silence.
"He's a two-faced muggle hating prat," Harry said, flatly.
"He seemed perfectly nice to me," Shadow muttered.
"He's only trying to sweet talk you," Harry hissed. Obviously, by the fact that Shadow leapt to her feet and glared at Harry, that this wasn't going to put her off him.
"What's that meant to mean? He's trying to get to you, through me?" Shadow snapped.
"Well, yeah!" Harry replied, getting to his feet.
"IS IT SO HARD FOR SOMEONE TO LIKE ME OR TALK TO ME NOT BECAUSE OF YOU!" Shadow yelled, tears lining her eyes.
"What?" Harry asked, thunderstruck.
"You heard me," Shadow said silently, yet deadly, "people only care about me because of you. Why? Because, Harry Potter, I am your shadow,"
"You're not my shadow," Harry scoffed.
"Yes I am, why do you think my thoughtless father and bimbo mother called me Shadow?" Shadow hissed.
"Sirius was thoughtful!" Harry defended his Godfathers memory.
"Yeah, then why did he treat you like his son and me someone he had never heard off. He never visited me, never came near…" she said, quietly, "Why? Because I had to be hidden. I had to be hidden so you could be free, Harry. It was me or you, and he chose you,"
The flames of the fire roaring, causing Shadow's pale face to look like death and her angled featured to look scary.
"You see, Harry, when the truth is told…everything's not so beautiful," Shadow said, simply and left to the girl's dormitory.
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