Ellie's turn...
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Chapter 5:
Lily and I soon fell asleep after we changed from our costumes and got into bed. I was sleeping soundly until the familiar dream popped into my head again. This time, I wasn't dancing with Lupin, but I still could hear my mother's voice. I was sitting in a dark room and unable to see anything around me. The only thing I could sense was my mother's voice calling out to me.
"Colette! Colette!" she called out. I shivered and didn't respond. "Colette! Why
would you ignore your own mother? Colette! The room, the room! Hidden!" I covered my ears to get rid of the voice, but couldn't escape it. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get the voice of my dead mother to go away.
"Go away! You're dead! Stop it, you're dead!" I shouted back, but as I opened my eyes, I didn't see the dark room anymore. I saw my dorm room. This room was dark as well, but I could faintly see the outline of a bed and a window. I sat up in my bed and wrung my hands anxiously.
'What does this mean?' I thought. 'Is Mom trying to contact me or something? Is she really not dead? She has to be dead! I went to her funeral and everything!' I threw the covers off my legs and
walked over to the door. For the second night since I had arrived at Hogwarts, I was going down into the Common Room during the middle of the night.
As I plopped myself down on the couch, thoughts kept racing through my mind. 'What did she mean by the room and how it was hidden?' Then suddenly a thought popped into my head. What if she was telling me to look for her in the castle? 'Yes, of course! I have to find her in the castle! But how? This place is huge! Hm… Oh, I'll figure it out. Right now I have to go find her!' I sat up and jumped off the couch, then raced back to my dorm and grabbed my wand.
I knew that students weren't allowed to wander the halls at night, but I didn't care. I
had to find my mother and try to understand what this was all about. If Filch came around, I would just hide until he went away.
I tiptoed my way up the staircases until I reached some floor that seemed suitable. I jumped off the staircase just before it started to move, and glanced down the hall. It was long and had many doorways off of it. Sighing softly, I started down the hall, wand lit with the lumos spell and senses ready for my mother to contact me again.
It took a surprisingly long time to reach an empty classroom. Every other one was filled with desks and teaching supplies that were obviously just used recently, due to their lack of dust. The one classroom that I came across I knew
was abandoned because there was a lot of junk that people seemed to just toss in there as a storing room, and a rather large amount of dust piling up on each object.
'This is the one,' I thought to myself, gripping my wand tightly. 'This is where my mother is. The question is, however, where inside here is she?' I crawled over desks, chairs, and other miscellaneous things to get to the other side of the classroom. A suspicious looking door was in a corner of the room. I pushed away cobwebs and grasped at the handle.
Locked. Not surprising at all.
I said the unlocking spell, and then tried at the door again. It unlocked and slowly creaked open as I pushed against it. What I saw surprised me. This was no ordinary closet. It didn't even look like a closet at all, really. More like a hallway. It stretched out for as far as I could see. There was nothing down the hall except more spider webs and stone walls.
'Well,' I thought, 'Here goes nothing!' I stepped into the doorway and held my wand up for more light. I walked for what seemed to be five minutes before coming across another doorway. Slightly annoyed at all the doors I had to unlock, I turned the doorknob and entered yet another room. Though this one was not a hallway, it was an actual room. A… familiar room…
I glanced around, holding my light up to the darkness, but still could not see much of anything. I walked toward the middle, or what I thought would be the middle, of the room and sat down, holding my wand up and around me.
Suddenly, I heard a voice.
"Colette? Is that you?" it said. Startled, I spun around.
"Who's there? What do you want?" I cried.
"Colette. Relax, love.
I'm just a lonely spirit looking for some company." The voice did not sound like my mother any longer. It sounded like a lonely woman.
"Spirit?" I asked, standing up.
"Yes, I'm a spirit." It answered patiently.
"Are you… a ghost?"
"We're different creatures, dear. Spirits are lost souls wandering aimlessly around until they find something that will make them happy or completely die." It said to me. I
shivered at the thought. "Ghosts are-"
"I know what ghosts are." I stated, almost rudely, then walked forward. "What do you want with me? I'm brand new here! Why would you want some stupid half blood who gets lost in the woods and has a crush on-" What was I doing? Shutup, Colette, shutup! But the spirit simply laughed softly.
"You really are… what they say you are."
"What? Who says I'm what?" I asked sternly.
"Oh,
nothing."
"I'm getting a bit ticked, what do you want with me?"
"I want you to keep me company. Innocent company, that's all," She said with sadness in her tone.
"Oh," I answered, feeling slightly guilty. She was just a lost soul and wanted some company. Surely I could give her that. "Well, alright. What do you want to talk about, then?"
"I… don't know," she said.
"Well, why don't you tell me about yourself? How did you become a spirit, exactly?" I was curious about how these spirits work. I was also feeling a bit silly talking out into the open without a face to stare at. The voice was just coming out of nowhere and speaking to me. It wasn't echoing throughout the room, so maybe she was inside my head? I shook my head. That was crazy.
"Well," she began, "I went to Hogwarts as well,"
"Really?"
"Of course. Why else would I be here if I hadn't gone to
Hogwarts?"
"I… don't know." I said sheepishly.
"Anyway, I was about fifteen when I was killed. I don't know what happened. One minute I was in the forbidden woods, only at the edge, of course. I thought nothing could hurt me, since I was so nearby the grounds, when suddenly a creature, or a person, I never figured it out, killed me on the spot!" I winced.
"That's awful!" I cried, sinking to my knees.
"Yes, it is. I don't think I was dead for more than a
few days before I realized I was still there. Just because I didn't have a body didn't mean that I wasn't actually there. Since I didn't have even a presence like the ghosts did, I wandered the halls, occasionally popping into people's heads and causing them to go mad." She chuckled almost in an evil way. I gulped and backed up. "Oh, sorry dear." She said, though I didn't return to my other spot.
"So… how did you find yourself in this place? It's so… lonely." I asked.
"Well, I just ended up here one day. I found it peaceful, and I was able to sleep. Not like I was actually dead, but I could rest and not be disturbed."
"So why did you come to me in my dreams?"
"Well, you disturbed me, dear. I don't know why or what you did, but you being at the school awoke me. At first, I didn't know why I was awake. I was concerened that I would never be able to get back to sleep. So I went to the first person I found suspicious. Since you were the newest student here, I assumed that you had something to do with my waking up."
"But I didn't do anything, I swear!" I argued.
"I know you didn't do anything, but I think it's just you being here that stirred me." She said cooly...
ooc: CLIFF HANGER!
