Hey y'all! Hope you liked the last chapter! I was getting a bit stuck.
Hope you had (are having) a great Christmas.
Chapter Five
When the train finally got to the school, they took the carriages up to the gates. They had their feast and the headmaster told them the rules and boundaries. The next thing he did was introduce Candie to the whole school.
"Today we have a new student. She is a fifth year but is here for the first time. Everyone! I would like for you to meet Candace Melt." The headmaster announced. Everyone clapped for Candie. The headmaster continued, "She was raised by a witch and a wizard, therefore she is a pureblood. Her parents gave up magic so they could have a normal child. Though they did not want their daughter knowing about their talent, it was difficult for them not to use magic. They left the Wizarding World and went to the muggle world. Her parent's, parents were wizards also (on both sides). Since she lived in the United States, we had a very hard time contacting her. All thanks to Mr. Weasley, we found a way to contact her. I hope that every one of you befriend her, and make her feel at home. Now that we have welcomed all of our new students, let us have our wonderful dessert."
The next morning Pansy knocked on their dorm door. "What are you still doing in bed?" yelled Pansy.
"Sleeping! What else!" Candie moaned sarcastically.
"You were supposed to be up a century ago."
"Really? Am I that old?"
"Never you mind!" pansy said angrily. "Get going!"
"Alright! I wasn't trying to be rude!" Candie punched her pillow to blow off the extra steam. She hurried down to the common room and met up with Draco, Pansy, Crab, and Goyle. They went down to the Great Hall for breakfast, and to get their class schedules.
"You've been here less than a week, and you have fan mail." Draco teased as Hunter soared down and dropped a few letters in Candie's lap.
"These aren't fan mail! It's from my friends in California!" Candie cried excited. She hesitated with opening the envelope for a minute. "It says here, that they have planned to come to Hogwarts during winter and Spring break."
"But they are smuggles! They can't come here!" Pansy said annoyingly.
"They believe in magic though. Can't they come since they believe in magic?" Candie asked aloud.
"I don't know, but we should ask the headmaster." Pansy suggested.
"Okay, but you have to come with me."
"Alright, I will come with you. You are doing all the talking though.
"Thanks Pansy." Candie said irritated.
The two girls went to the Headmasters office. The knocked on the phoenix entryway.
"Come in ladies." The headmaster called.
"Sir, can muggle friends visit during winter and Spring break?" Candie asked bravely.
"Do they believe in our world?"
"Yes Sir, they do. Can they visit me during the vacation?"
"Yes Candace, I give you and only you permission to have muggle friends come to the school. Everyone else only has the permission to have wizards and witches visit them. I will make your common room bigger so that your friends will have a dorm. Is two dorms enough?"
"Yes Sir, it should be. One for the girls and one for the boys."
"I see, how long will they be staying?"
"They will be leaving a day before our classes start back up."
"Very well then. How have you been doing on your magic?"
"Brilliant Sir!"
"Would you be so kind to show me? Perhaps a simple spell?"
"Sure!" She pointed her wand to the feather on his desk and said, "Windgardium Leviosa!" The feather levitated in front of them.
"Very good! You have the talent of your father. He could do any incantation perfectly, and even if he had never done it before. Remarkable, your father was."
"Thank you Sir. I have never done that incantation before."
"Can you show me another one?"
"Yes Sir." She pointed her wand to the floating feather and said, "Accio feather! When she had it in her hands she said, "Laconem Inflamare!" the feather burst into flames. Pansy jumped backwards and tripped over herself and fell on her back. Candie helped Pansy to her feet.
"Thanks." Pansy said softly.
"No problem."
"I see you are very talented for practicing for only a day." the headmaster replied.
"Thank you Sir. I read about one that controls people. I also read one that tortures people and one that Kills people. They are horrible!"
"Yes, the unforgivable curses. They are indeed horrible, yet strong. Candie they are illegal, I do not want you to use them, you could l go to prison. At the prison, you are tortured until you have no happy feelings left." Pansy shuddered to the thought. "Can you do them Miss. Melt?" he asked.
"I'm not sure Sir."
"Would you like to find out?"
"What do you mean? You said that they were illegal."
"I did, but you should witness them."
"Okay Sir, but if I do them I won't go to prison will I?"
"No, of course not." He conjured a small, spider-sized, dragon. "Enlarge it, and put the Imperious curse on it."
"But Sir…"
"Do it!"
"Okay! Engrowsio!" The dragon was now about a foot tall. "Imperio!"
"Now tell it to burn this chair." Candie moved her wand and thought the demand in her head. The dragon spit fire out and burned the chair in front of it. Candie dropped her wand. She begged the headmaster to let her stop.
"No! you need to know how magic can be used to hurt people!"
"I don't want to know." Candie screamed. "Look at Pansy! She is scared to death!" Pansy was curled up in a corner of the room crying, gripping her wand so tightly that if she held it any firmer she would break it in two.
"You only have two more to go. Now do the Crucious curse."
"No! I won't do it!"
"You will do as I say. Is that clear?" he spoke strictly.
"No! I won't!"
"Do as I say!" he roared. It was so loud that the windows vibrated.
"Alright!" Candie sobbed. "Crucio!" she watched the dragon curl and scream with pain. She cried, and ran towards the door. The headmaster had locked them inside his office.
He spoke with a soft, quiet voice this time, "You have one more left."
"Sir, please! Can you do it for me? Sir I beg of you! Let it alone! Please!"
"Enough! You shall do this last one yourself. Do you hear? Go on now, get to it.," his voice almost sounded scared.
Candie picked up her wand and pointed it towards the dragon once more. "Good-bye." She whispered to it. She lowered her wand and approached the dragon. She stroked the face of the beast and silently wept. "I am really sorry I have to do this. You're so beautiful." The dragon nudged her and made a purring noise. Candie backed away from the dragon and yelled, "Avada Kedavra!" A green light shot from her wand. The dragon froze up and died. She stood there like a statue. She finally dropped to her knees and cried. Pansy got up from her spot in the corner, and sat besides Candie. She comforted Candie and told her it was going to be all right.
"My brother!" Candie cried.
"Your brother?" Pansy asked.
"Yes, my mother said that he was tortured by the Crucious and Imperious curses."
"That's horrible!" Pansy choked.
"I am so sorry. Candace I didn't know. I had no idea. Who did it to him?"
"You should have asked first. Before you brought back the memories. I had already witnessed the curses. My father… Torture my brother… he would join… force…It was horrible… Killed his own mother…" She tried to hold bake tears.
"What!" Pansy asked loudly.
"My father put the Imperious curse on my brother, told him to kill my father's mother with the killing curse, and then hw would put the Crucious curse on him if he refused. I happened to witness all of them."
"I can't believe this."
"Well believe it, because it is true."
"Sir, may we go now?"
"Uh, oh! Yes, yes, go on." He said oblivious to what they were saying. Pansy and Candie went to the common room to get ready for their first class.
"Did you find out if your friends could come?" Draco asked.
"Oh! We found more than that out!" Pansy blurted out.
"Really? What happened?"
"Nothing happened Draco, its between Pansy and me on what happened in the headmaster's office."
"Are you alright?"
"We will be fine. Just don't talk about it, okay."
"I understand. If you don't want to talk about something, I won't butt in."
"Thank you Draco."
"And yes, my friends can come during the breaks."
"That's great! I can't wait to meet them."
"Yes, it should be fun."