Greetings everyone! Welcome to a 2 week late chapter which i only wrote today! I've had no inspiration, mainly because Emma and Beth, my sources for my stories, have been on holiday this week, which is our half term at school. It was so bad i almost regained my sanity! Luckily, i was saved by Tash over MSN. Thank god...what if i HAD become sane again?...

Anywhoo, i must say that i don't own "Stars" or "I dreamed a dream" from chapter 2 for that matter, both of which are from Les Miserables, which I went to see on Thursday for my birthday pressie! (does happy jig).

It was night time. Well, very early morning, which was dark, so therefore looked like night. You get the idea. Anywhoo.

The Two Beacons, Tash and Jenny were lying under a huge oak tree in a field. They had been travelling through the countryside after landing in Wales from the ferry. As night had fallen, they had decided to stay under the sheltering tree. It was old, with wrinkles in its wide trunk and thick, long branches stretching outwards. Beth was fast asleep, her stomach going up and down as she breathed consistently, in, out, in out.

Kate however lay on her back, her deep blue eyes wide open. She couldn't sleep at all. She was gazing at the stars, as she sang another song quietly to herself.

"Stars, there in your multitudes,

Scarce to be counted,

Filling the darkness,

With order and light,

You are the sentinels,

Silent and sure,

Keeping watch in the night,

Keeping watch in the night."

She got up as quietly as she could and walked in the large field, breathing in large gulps of air. She used to do this with Beth, walk in the fields around the school while they talked. Walking like that often reminded her of Lizzy from "Pride and Predjudice".

"Draco, come on!"

Kate stopped breathing.

"Leave me alone Snape," a young boy spat in reply.

"You have no time to be a child," the deep voice replied, "we have to reach there before dawn."

"I've had enough though!" the boy said vehemently, "I don't care anymore!"

"Draco, shut up! Be quiet before I curse you to do so!"

They continued to run in the dark, their bodies silhouetted against the moonlight. Kate followed them silently, leaving the bodies of her friends sleeping behind her. She ran behind them, hiding behind trees and bushes when Snape cast glances over his shoulders. They'd been running from ten minutes when suddenly Snape turned and cried,

"Levicorpus!"

Before she could react, Kate was flipped upside down and was dangling in the air. Darn her clumsy nature.

"Well well, what have we here?"

"A muggle! Ha!"

"What you laughing at bum face?" Kate snapped.

Draco went to reach for his wand.

"No Draco," Snape said, "we have no time."

"What have you done with Emma?" Kate demanded.

"So you are one of the Beacons," Draco said. "Best be rid of them now."

"You have to get me first" Kate said. She closed her eyes, concentrating hard, then opened them to release a red flash. It wasn't as powerful as when her and Beth joined together, but it did blind Snape. She dropped to the ground, and began to run when Snape shouted while pointing his wand at her,

"Crucio!"

She fell to her knees, crying out in agony. The pain was unbearable. She curled into a ball, tore at the grass, anything to destroy the pain which crushed her body.

"Beth" she gasped.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Beth screamed suddenly, waking from her sleep. She felt like she was dieing. Her head throbbed and her lungs couldn't hold any air.

"Beth?" Jenny said, who had been woken by her cry.

"Bludi Hell, what was that!" Tash said getting up.

"Kate," Beth said crawling desperately across the grass. "Over there, in trouble."

It wouldn't stop. She gritted her teeth and tried to breathe.

"Now, insolent muggle, you've wasted enough of my time. The Dark Lord will deal with you."

"The Dark Lord can shove his wand up his big, fat- AH!" Kate yelped as the pain increased further still.

"How dare you!"

He was stopped as an orangey glow shone on his dark robes.

"Dawn. Draco, hurry!"

There was a crack, the pain disappeared, and when Kate looked up, gasping for breath, the two wizards were gone.

"Kate!"

She looked behind her as her three friends ran towards her, reaching her and throwing their arms around her. Tears were streaming down both and Kate and Beth's faces from the pain.

"What happened?" Jenny asked. "Beth suddenly screamed and woke us up."

"Snape," Kate gasped, still out of breath, "and Malfoy."

"WHAT!" Tash said.

Kate nodded. "I was following them, they had to be somewhere before dawn."

"But Snape set a cruse on you?" Beth asked.

She nodded again. "The Crucio curse. You felt it to?"

"Like dieing." They both shuddered.

"Hang on," Jenny said, looking thoughtful. "What happened at the end of Half Blood Prince?"

"Snape killed Dumbledore," Tash replied, "then him and Malfoy legged it while being chased by Harry Potter."

"But they escaped at the gates of Hogwarts", Beth continued, "they apparated."

"They must have come to Wales," Kate concluded. "But why?"

"And," Jenny added, "we never found out what happened to them because JK Rowling never finished the 7th book." She was correct. After the 6th book had been published, she had disappeared, never been seen again, leaving everyone in suspense as to what could have happened to Harry and his friends.

"So," Beth said, "that means that something has happened to make the books continue, for Snape and Malfoy to have appeared now, 5 years later after they were supposed to."

They all nodded in agreement.

They all began to think, but none knew a sensible answer. Why would they come to Wales? What had happened to make them suddenly appear? Was JK Rowling still alive somewhere, continuing the final Harry Potter book? No-one knew. But now the story had progressed, like the Author had unhelpfuly said in chapter 4, would they find out more?