Alice:

''Harry! Ron! Come with me, I need your help.''

Last night had seemed endless to me, so I was in a pretty bad mood today. Harry and Ron came over and looked at me questioningly.

''I have a friend and she has a lot to learn when it comes to guys. So today we will help her.'' I told them briefly and pulled both with me. From the corner of my eye I could see them giving each other weird looks but I could give them no pity, because I had to help Theo. I didn't care about their embarrassment.

I had told Mary to wait for me in one of the classrooms. We entered the room and I let go of the two. Mary stood up and looked confused.

''Why exactly am I here?'' She asked somewhat uncertain. ''We are going to give you a lesson about boys. Soo, let's get started.'' I placed Harry and Ron side by side and Mary in a chai across from them.

''What does it mean when a boy next to you quickly gets red or is slightly nervous?''

Mary:

Taken by surprise, I looked at Alice.

''No idea? He has a fever, or he's not feeling well? '', I replied uncertainly.

She clapped her hand to her forehead. ''Ron, what do you think about that?'', Alice now turned to the red-head. He was getting a little red. ''Well I'd say that the boy shows interest in a girl. ''

''Hah!'' I jumped up and pointed at him. ''Then you're interested in Alice!'' I exclaimed, happy that I got it.

''What?!'' Ron yelled and now his ears were red too. No, his entire face made his hair competition.

''Hit.'' I laughed. Even Harry joined in my laughter. Alice just looked with a raised eyebrow.

''There are many different types of blushing. This is one of embarrassment.'' She said gravely.

''Ok... but why should I even learn this?''

''So that you finally realize what Theo feels for you!'' She said slightly annoyed. Not her too! ''Why does everyone think that he feels something for me!'' I yelled annoyed.

''Because it is so!'' She retorted.

''You're just interpreting something! He's just a friend. A damn good friend, yes, but no more!'' Annoyed I walked past the guys. ''I appreciate that you want to help me, but there's nothing. '' I said to Alice and stepped out of the room. I just had to get out. I had to go cool my head and think about some stuff.

Alice:

Ron and Harry looked at me.

''What just happened here?'' Ron asked in a confused tone. Hm, I actually didn't know that myself.

Suddenly Hermione rushed into the room and pulled us out.

''Guys hurry up! Buckbeak is going to be executed!''

We ran through the school building, when I suddenly stopped. I felt it again, this presence. Black was here. Harry had stopped and looked at me questioningly.

''Go! I'll catch up!'' I yelled to them. He nodded and ran on. So where are you Black? I tried to locate him but couldn't, there was too much going on in the near proximity. Damn, I did not have the time for this shit! I ran on, when I turned around a corner and suddenly slammed into someone. I fell backwards flat on my arse. Draco sat on the floor in front of me, holding his nose. Crabbe and Goyle came running around the corner behind him and stopped. Draco gave them the sign to move on and stood up when they were out of sight. He seemed to be in an internal debate before he offered me his hand to get up. Saying that I was surprised was an understatement. I couldn't remember a time where Draco had been any kind of chivalrous towards me. Granted he had knocked me off my feet first but that had most certainly been an accident. A tingling warm feeling spread in my stomach as I looked up at him. And suddenly the blood hit me. It was coming out of his nose and there was some on his sleeve. The tingling was replaced by a carnal urge to press myself up against him and clean his face and maybe take some more. I didn't dare take his hand. Instead I stood up on my own, which seemed to offend him to a certain degree because he huffed and tried to walk past me. I reached out and held on to his shirt.

''Thank you, Draco. That was very kind. I knew it, you do have a warm heart. That's something you can be proud of.'', I said loud enough for him to hear me. His eyes widened. I would never forget that Draco's kindness had temporarily made me forget blood that was literally smeared on his face. I gave him a smile and walked on. I only brought a couple of meters between us when I suddenly heard a growl.

I turned around and saw that Draco was turned in my direction and that there was a Grimm between us, who looked as if he would jump up to eat Draco's face any second now.

''Here you are, Black.'' I whispered barely audible. Draco was paralyzed with fear, Black made himself ready to jump and I smiled devilishly. Between him and Draco were seven meters, between me and Draco fifteen. Let's see who was faster, the Grimm or the vampire.

The second Black jumped; I ran. In the second last meter, I passed him by and pulled Draco to the ground. We rolled a few feet until I stopped to keep the Grimm in sight. The Grimm growled at us and looked at me in anger. He looked as if he was going to attack again, but then he apparently found something more interesting and ran off. Oh no, you won't escape me so easily, I thought angrily. I glanced at Draco, who was under me, to see if he was okay. He slowly calmed down, but the word fear was written on his face.

''Go back to your dorm, it is safer for you there. Tell no one what happened, I'll take care of the Grimm. Ah, and before I forget, I saved your life, now you owe me one.'' I said and stood up without paying attention to him. I started to run and the last thing I heard was how he called my name.

I followed Blacks tracks that brought me to this damned whomping willow. Currently Harry and Hermione were trapped on it. I heard noises under the tree and discovered an entrance. Now I just needed to be fast enough to come in. I threw Harry and Hermione a final look and then ran in. They would manage. I jumped in between the branches and ran through the entrance.

I ended up in a room in the Shrieking Shack. Ron was sitting injured in the back part while holding on to his rat. Why was Ron here? He looked scared past me. I turned around and there he was, Sirius Black.

''I've been looking for you Black.'' I said determined and stood between him and Ron. Sirius was extremely nervous and raised an eyebrow.

''How did you escape from Azkaban?'' I asked a little more energetic. When the word Azkaban fell, he flickered a little. From the looks of it, he had been suffering there.

''That's none of your business girl!'' He said angrily.

''Like hell it is! My father is there!'' I yelled angrily.

''Alice.'' I turned to the side and saw Harry and Hermione.

''It's a trap.'' Ron finally said.

Harry got extremely angry at the sight of Sirius. Harry attacked Sirius, pushing him to the ground. Sirius just laughed like a maniac. Harry was just about to blow away his head when the door opened and Lupin burst in.

"Expelliarmus!" He shouted and Harry's wand flew away. Lupin gave Harry the sign to get off Sirius and then went to him.

"You look pretty dirty. Finally, your appearance shows your inner madness."

"You wouldn't want to say something about the madness inside, do you Remus?'' Sirius asked. Lupin began to smile and helped Sirius to get to his feet. They embraced and thus shocked us all. I did not expect that.

"I've waited so long! Let us kill him now!" Sirius said. Now Hermione intervened and said that Lupin was a werewolf and with that, some strange minutes started.

Finally, it turned out that Ron's rat was the man who had betrayed Harrys parents to Voldemort. Snape had arrived too, but Harry had blown his lights out. After a very strange situation we now all stood back out on the field close to the willow.

Me and Hermione helped Ron to walk, because he was quite hurt. Harry was talking to Sirius when Snape came out and threatened him with his wand. However, I discovered a much bigger issue.

"Guys, we have a problem!" I yelled.

The others discovered the problem. Lupin was turning, Sirius tried to talk to him while Snape protected us. But the werewolf smacked black away and ran away after a howl coming from a different direction. Sirius, who was a dog again, walked away wounded and Harry ran after him. Professor Snape could hold us about 3 minutes, before I had freed myself and ran down too.

When I arrived, Harry and Sirius lay side by side on the floor. I knelt next to Harry and felt his pulse. He was weak but at least it was there. I had just the time to bite myself in the arm and to give Harry and Sirius some of my blood. I wasn't quite sure why I had saved Sirius, but I knew I would regret it if he was going to die now. Just as I removed the arm from Sirius mouth, the others came running down.

After this everything happened quickly. Sirius was detained in the Astronomy Tower, Harry and Ron were transported to the hospital wing and I waited with Hermione for our two princesses to wake up. After 10 minutes, Harry finally woke up. Shortly afterwards, Ron opened his eyes. Hermione explained to both of them what was going on when Dumbledore suddenly entered the room and came to us. Harry told him that Sirius was innocent, whereupon Dumbledore once again said something confusing about, 3 rotations and more than one innocent life. But I was only half listening because I was distracted by the fact that he pushed down on Ron's leg unintentionally. When he was gone, Hermione began to say strange things and took out a long chain.

''This is a time-turner. McGonagall gave it to me at the beginning of the year, so that I was able to attend all classes." She put the chain around me, Harry and herself.

"Sorry Ron, but as you are now, you cannot help us. "She said swiftly and then turned three times on a small cogwheel. Suddenly the room went back past us. The whole time was running backwards. AS the time stopped again, you could hear a clock strike.

"Dumbledore wanted us to come back to this very moment. Where were we at eight o' clock?" Hermione asked. I thought about it for a second before I realized.

"Buckbeak!" I cried.

I started to run and the other two followed me. We arrived just in time to see how Hermione straight up punched Draco in the face. So that's why he had held his nose when I met him. Which meant that... I grabbed the other two and ran.

"What's wrong Alice?" Harry asked, confused. I looked back into the distance, and yes, I had been right. There I stood, or rather sat on the ground, because I just ran into Draco. I didn't want them to know about the moment I had shared with Draco. It was private.

"We have to hurry I do not want to be late. And we probably shouldn't run into ourselves.''

We went down the hill and could free Buckbeak just in time. We entered the forest to hide and went near the willow. We were able to see how the other version us disappeared into the tree, followed by Lupin and Snape.

"And now we wait..." Hermione said.

"Alice ... you said that your father is in Azkaban. I know, it's none of my bus-"

"He killed a Ministry employee, but he is innocent..." I said sadly. Harry and Hermione both looked at me quizzically. "I was 5 years old. My mother was already dead. One day my father and I were out for a walk, just like we had done it many times. when suddenly, three men attacked us. They were all wizards and of course I was too young to defend myself, not like today. My father could kill their leader, which made the others run away. When my father took off the man's mask it turned out that it was a Ministry employee. My father was arrested and taken to court. When I testified at the trial, one said, that I was lying and that I was traumatized, and I could not remember the 'Truth'. This 'truth' was that my father attacked the Ministry officials for no reason. The two who had fled, testified as witnesses and, of course, they believed them more than they believed me. My father was sent to Azkaban and I came to Hogwarts. I can only visit him once a year. When I heard the story of the outbreak, I absolutely wanted to find Sirius. It may sound silly but-"

"No, it does not sound stupid." Harry said and hugged me. Hermione also smiled at me kindly. Suddenly I heard a noise.

"Here we go." I said and pulled away from Harry. We turned around and watched the spectacle. Suddenly our Hermione yelped like a werewolf.

"What are you doing?" I asked worriedly, because the werewolf was off the Grimm and came running towards us.

"I draw his attention from Sirius" She said quickly.

"Awesome Hermione. But now he's coming towards us. " Harry said, and took a few steps back.

"Run!" Hermione shouted and ran. Harry went after her and I gave my best to stay at their pace. It was better to stay in the group. The other two hid behind a tree and I climbed up on a higher branch. Three seconds later he was here, the werewolf. He slowly sneaked around through the trees, trying to find us.

Harry and Hermione tried to go around the tree, but they were too fast, he would see them any second now. To prevent this, I jumped down from the tree and landed on him, of course he had not expected that and therefore fell to the ground. However, he reacted quickly and threw me against a tree. I felt a strong pain in the back, but still stood up again.

We were facing each other and stared at us attentively. I was not sure if I could take on a full-grown werewolf. Or rather, I was sure that I couldn't. Fortunately, I did not have to find that out because Buckbeak turned up and took care of him. Me, Harry and Hermione ran on, down to the small lake. We saw how the other Harry and Sirius were dying.

"You will see, my father will be right there!" Harry said excitedly. But after a few seconds still nothing happened and there I couldn't wait any longer. Harry and Sirius were dying. Eaten up by the dementors.

I made a few steps forward and took out my wand. From the corner of my eye I saw that Harry did the same thing and at the same time we said the saving words.

"Expecto Patronum!", Giant white light beams came from our wands, in addition to the light, a deer came out of his wand and out of mine a desert fox. Together we had quickly cleared the area of Dementors.

After that, everything happened the way it had with the other us. A short time later we were on Buckbeak, on our way to the Astronomy Tower. When we landed, Hermione freed Sirius and we flew to a secure part of Hogwarts.

"Take me with you!" Harry pleaded, but Sirius had to decline and turned to me before going.

"You absolutely have to speak with your father. I know him, he is one of the few decent people there. Something important has happened and it is important that he tells you everything, believe me. But now I have to go, it was nice to meet you all, I hope that we will all see each other again."

Heavy hearted I said goodbye to buckbeak, and then the two flew away.

"We have to go back, now!" Hermione yelled and made us run. Just in time we came back to the hospital wing. On the way, we had met Dumbledore, who had acted, as if he knew nothing. That sly old man.

Mary

Alice was wrong… she just had to be. Theo was my friend, nothing else. But while thinking that, I couldn't stop my mind from picturing me and Theo together as a couple. I blushed and then put my hands on my cheeks. Get a hold of yourself, Mary! It's not as if I had feelings for him, right? No, I had to stop myself from thinking like that. To do so, I decided to spend some time with the others. On my way to the common room I spotted Draco who stood by the stairs who led to the dungeons. He was peeking at the way that went to the entrance of the infirmary.

''What are you doing?''

He almost jumped to the ceiling and I snickered. He turned around, took note of me and went back to staring at the way.

''Nothing. Go away.'' Why did he always have to be so mean? Well, didn't matter. I passed by him and went down the stairs and straight to the common room. There I met Astoria and Daphne who were talking about some girls. They seemed to notice me and called me over. Smiling I went to them and we spent the rest of the day talking about everything and nothing at once. Sometime in between Draco came in with a satisfied look on his face. Whatever or whoever he was looking for, had to havecross his path.

Alice:

After those exciting moments, time passed and the investigations against Sirius led the Ministry into another direction, away from Hogwarts. Peace returned to the School, which was much needed cause we had to prepare for the yearly exams. Hermione and I founded a study group. Sometimes Harry and especially Ron were interrupting but most of the time it was easy to concentrate and just like that the remaining few months were over soon and with that, so were the exams. We passed with magnitude. Some of us did, others just passed, and to celebrate we made a picnic. It was a beautiful sunny day and it felt great to spend some time with my friends, like normal people do. No more stressing about the exams or Sirius Black.

The only thing that still bothered me was, that Professor Lupin resigned his job at our School. I had met him a couple of days ago. Or rather, I had walked into him packing his stuff. His departure made me sad. He was one of the only people I knew who understood how it was to have a monster on the inside. He had noticed my sadness and gave me a reassuring smile. He told me that he would always lend me an ear if I needed someone to talk to about this subject. He also told me that I shouldn't stop practicing my Patronus.

Like in the last couple of years, Gryffindor won the House Cup again and then we all parted ways. But before leaving, Ron had given me a ticket for the World Cup of Quidditch. I was convinced that the next year would be very exciting. I just hoped that there wouldn't be as many troubles.

Mary:

My year passed uneventfully. I wasn't surprised that this year again, Gryffindor won the House Cup. And again, with extra points. But I granted it Alice and the other people, they did deserve them after all. When we arrived at the station, Theo pulled me aside and hugged me tightly. Surprised, I hugged him and looked at him expectantly.

"I've got a surprise for you." He muttered. Slightly blushing, he fumbled in his robes. Finally, he pulled out a long envelope and handed it to me. I eagerly ripped it open and stared in shock at the content.

"And?" Theo asked, after I still hadn't said anything after a minute. I struggled for words.

"Are you serious?" I finally broke out. He nodded.

"Theo, you're giving me a ticket for the Quidditch finals?!" I almost shouted with joy and fell around his neck.

''Yes. And my father has offered again that you can come to us for a month. Will you? "He asked me and looked at me uncertainly.

"Of course I will. I just need to clarify things with Pa and Grandma. "I said and he looked at the people I just mentioned. They waved to me. "So Theo. I am sending you an owl. " I said, giving him a kiss on the cheek, before I left and waved goodbye.

"So that's Nott.", Greeted me my Grandma.

"Yes, he seems to be a good match for you. A cute couple." She said and smiled at me.

"Grandma, he's not my boyfriend. He's only a very good friend. " I clarified. She was still smiling.

"Well, the familiarity made it seem like." She added, looking at my father. "What do you say John?" He scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. He looked back and forth between me and Nott. Finally, he shrugged.

"Nice boy." He said and turned around. ''Can we leave now?"

"Sure, Dad. But I still have a small question?"

"Yes little one?" He asked and I rolled my eyes. "

''Could I stay with the Notts again? Only the last month. Mr. Nott already agreed, and it even was his suggestion. Theo wanted to go to the Quidditch final with me. It takes place in the last two weeks of my vacation."

"Sure honey, but the first month you stay here. Your cousins come to visit us again.''

Great. Two crazy idiots in our apartment. Soo those holidays are going to be interesting, that's for sure.

The weeks passed rather quickly and as I had predicted, they weren't boring. Full of anticipation for the next month I packed my suitcase and placed it in front of the fireplace.

"Have fun next year.", My family wished me, before I threw the floo powder into the fireplace.

"The Notts!" I shouted clearly and stepped into the emerald flames. With one last big smile, I said goodbye.

A few seconds later I was received in Theo's living room.

. "Mary." Theo greeted me and took me in his arms. Oh yes, I had missed him. "How were your holidays?"

"Until now? Chaotic." I laughed and turned to Theo's father. "Thank you for allowing me to stay here." I said politely and smiled slightly.

"Anytime Mary. You are always welcome!"

"Thank you." I repeated myself.

"Come, I'll carry your suitcase up to your room." Theo offered, grabbing the black handle of my suitcase. He lead the way and I went after him. We stopped next to the room I had stayed the last time.

"You get the same room as last time." He grinned and opened the door. "Arrange yourself. I'll come back later."

I nodded and heaved the giant suitcase in 'my' room.

The weeks went by quickly and soon we were closer to the day of departure for the Quidditch final. When the day finally came, I took Mr. Notts arm and we three apparated to the game. We appeared in front of a staff person from the Ministry.

"The Notts, 11.30 clock! Campgrounds in sector 15 at No. 401 4th in row, " he informed us monotonous. We nodded to him and went on our way. Arriving at the tent I opened my mouth. This was not happening right now! We had our tent next to the Malfoys.

Alice:

''Hurry up children!" Exclaimed Mr. Weasley.

Today was finally the beginning of the Quidditch final. In addition to Ron, Fred, George, Ginny, and me, Harry and Hermione were there too.

"Ah, here they are!" Mr. Weasley walked up to a man who seemed to be waiting for us under a tree.

"May I introduce you to Mr. Diggory. He works with me at the Ministry. And uh ... where is he?" Asked Mr. Weasley and in this exact moment a guy sprang out of a tree.

"This is my son Cedric, he's at Hogwarts too. So, now we really have to go." Said Mr. Diggory and made us move.

Mr. Diggory was very excited about Harry, while Hermione and Ginny seemed rather enthusiastic about Cedric, but he threw most glances at me. He probably wasn't used to the paleness of my skin, especially in the peak of summer. Me and Ron watched the spectacle from a safe distance. On a hill, we stopped and placed us around an old leather boot.

"So people on three, you all need to hold on to the portkey!" Said Mr. Weasley shortly.

"What?" Harry asked confused, but too quiet for anyone to hear him.

"1 ... 2 ... 3!"

As Harry still did not move, I pulled his arm forward and put his hand on the boot. I don't know how, but suddenly we were hurled through the air.

"Let go, children!" Mr. Weasley shouted.

Was he crazy? Although I really doubted the existence of his brain cells right now, I let go and immediately fell down. But I was not the only one. All others, except for the adults and Cedric also dropped to the floor. I looked at how these 3 somehow walked through the air and landed on the ground. Everyone began to get up and I also wanted to get up just as someone held his hand out to me. I looked up and met Cedric's eyes.

"Let me help you.", He said with a smile.

I didn't exactly know what I should think of this guy, but I had no time to think about it right now, I was about to take his hand, but just before our hand touched, I was pulled upwards from the back.

Cedric's eyes widened in surprise, but he pulled himself together quickly and smiled. When I turned around, I had obviously not thought of how close the person had to be to me, to pull me up. And so, it happened that my lips almost touched Harrys. I almost stumbled back.

"Thanks for the help, Harry." I muttered and turned around before I walked away.

Suddenly, now that I paid attention to my surroundings, I discovered all the tents and the people who were happily dancing or drinking. We walked pass the tents until we stopped in front of a small tent.

"Well, see you later." Mr. Weasley said to Mr. Diggory and entered the tent. The rest of us except the Diggorys and Harry entered the tent. Although it looked very small from the outside, inside it was huge.

"Ginny, Hermione and Alice, you can choose a couple of beds." Mr. Weasley said kindly. Me and the other two walked a bit through the tent and then decided on a, room with three beds.

A few hours later we entered the stadium and were on our way to our seats in the honour lounge. I was not really excited to sit there, but I was not going to be picky since I was happy that I could be here.

"Oh you're here?" We suddenly heard. I turned around and saw Lucius Malfoy standing behind us.

"Lucius." Mr. Weasley said curtly.

"Arthur."

We had arrived in the honour lounge and I laid eyes on the man I never wanted to see again, Cornelius Fudge.

"Ah, the Weasleys and the Malfoys, nice to have you here. And you have even brought guests! Mr. Potter nice to see you again, and you must be Miss Granger. I've heard that you have exceptional grades. And-" he instantaneously stopped to talk, when he saw me. "What a coincidence that you are here, Miss Tepes ..." he said, without the vigour he previously had.

"It is, isn't it?" I said sarcastically.

"Mr. Fudge, may I introduce to you, my wife Narcissa and my son Draco." Mr. Malfoy had pushed himself forward and now proudly showed his family, which now also joined the front. Mr. Fudge turned his gaze from me and now focused on the Malfoys.

"Come on, let's go children." Said Mr. Weasley, and went on.

I walked past Malfoy and gave him a quick look. He did the same and in this moment I could see something weird in his eyes. It looked like misery. His gaze went back to Mr. Fudge and he started to act all nice. That was weird. Shouldn't he be happy to be here with his family?

"Malfoy will probably never change!" I heard Ron whisper behind me. I didn't know if he was right or wrong, but it didn't really matter anyway. We followed Mr. Weasley further when someone suddenly called out my name. I stopped and spotted Theo and Mary in the crowd.

"How are you?" I asked with a smile. Mary and Theo came to us.

"Great! I'm really glad that I'm here." Mary said excitedly. "And that only thanks to Theo," she added with a smile. I could see how he blushed slightly behind her, but she did not notice.

Mary:

"Theo, Mary, come sit down!" Yelled Mr. Nott.

"We have to go. Ciao people, maybe we will meet again." I said, smiling to the Gryffindors. Theo waved uncertainly.

"Isn't it weird for you to be seen and to cope with them?" Asked Theo unexpectedly.

"Nope," I answered promptly.

I let myself fall on the chair beside Theo and noticed too late that Malfoy Junior sat right by me.

"Riddle, what a coincidence." He said and made me flinch, while I tried to ignore him.

The tournament started and I got half a heart attack when I saw Krum fly in. Over the whole match I admired his flying skills and then left the stadium happy.

"Oh, Krum is so insanely cool." I enthused Theo's ears fully. He only gave an incomprehensible sound.

We were heading for our tent, when suddenly a cry and bangs were heard. In front of me a group of masked people popped up. They pointed their wands at the tents and those instantly went up in flames. As the group passed us, I got pulled in and something hard hit me on the head. I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I found myself on the floor again. Everything around me was burned.

"You're awake." Startled, I stood up and looked into the young face of a man.

"Who are you?" I asked weakly and looked at him. He grabbed my left arm and said:

"A faithful follower." With these words, he drew his wand and pointed it at my arm. Green sparks and a stinging burning spread. When it stopped, the Dark Mark appeared. Shocked I slumped back to the ground.

"Mary!"

Alice:

It was a huge mess ... A few minutes ago, everything was fine and now everything was in flames. Death Eaters had surfaced and had set everything on fire. Curiously enough, no one except me thought to fight them and therefore everyone was running back and forth in panic. I ran through the crowd looking for someone I knew. Our whole group had somehow been split up. After ten minutes, most people and the fire were gone. Since I still hadn't found anyone, I ran across the field between the burned down tents. Suddenly I spotted two people in the distance. I recognized Mary but not the other one. Suddenly the guy grabbed her arm and did something. I was too shocked to react but as Mary slumped down, I was able to break away from this rigidity.

"Mary!" I ran to her and stood between the two. "Bombarda Maxima!" I shouted and pointed my wand at the guy. He was too surprised to react and flew in the air with an explosion.

I watched as he stood up in the distance, and pointed his wand towards the sky. Out of a spark the Dark Mark suddenly appeared.

"Mary, get up we-" I suddenly discovered the mark on her arm. She sat totally paralyzed on the ground, staring at her arm. "Get up!" I pulled her up and tore off a piece of my sweater and tied it around her arm to cover the Mark.

"Alice ..." she said suddenly, looking past me. I turned around and saw Harry standing there, who looked horrified. This was a very bad situation. Something switched inside me and I started to act mechanically.

"Damn." I said, and ran to Harry. I held him by the shoulders and looked into his eyes. "I'm sorry, I am so sorry." I whispered. "Harry, you came here and saw how Mary was hurt, because of a fallen pole. We helped bandage her arm. You will not remember what really happened." I released him and stepped back. I didn't like it to manipulate people. Especially people I liked.

"Harry! Alice! There you are!"

Mary:

Guilty, I turned around. Mr. Weasley and some Ministry officials had appeared behind us.

"Who was it? Who did it? Confess!" Suddenly, a man stumbled toward us. On his head perched a bowler, his wand swung between the three of us back and forth.

"Barty, these are children, for god's sake!" Said Mr. Weasley outraged. But this man stepped closer and looked at me more closely.

"Come on girl, confess your act!" He dug his wand into my stomach.

"I can't confess anything I did not do Mr. Crouch." I gasped.

Pinching his eyes scanned me from above. His gaze stayed at my left arm. "What's that?" He hissed lurking.

"Mary has been injured! A pole fell down upon her!" Alice said and turned to Harry. "Right Harry?"

The latter nodded. "Yes, I saw it. We came to help her."

" But then who conjured up this damned thing?"

"A man. Alice and I, we have seen a man. When he saw us, he ran in this direction." I pointed to the right. They seemed to believe me, then they instantly started to move.

"Mary. For God's sake!" Cried a voice, I turned my head in the direction of the voice and saw Mr. Nott and Theo run towards me. Theo immediately took me into his arms and hugged me tight.

"We were so worried!" He whispered. "Please, never disappear again," he added. I just shook my head, unable to speak.

"Thank you, Arthur, for the Patronus." Said Mr. Nott and shook the hand of the redhead almost to death.

"You're welcome." Muttered the other.

"Come on, Mary. Let's go home." With these words he took Theo's and my hand and we apparated into the property of the Notts. Once home they wanted to examine my arm.

''No, it's okay, I'll do it myself. "I mumbled and dragged me to my room. I tore the piece off of my arm.

My first thought was: I owe Alice a new sweater. A smile appeared on my lips, which quickly disappeared again given the skull snake on my arm. It squirmed constantly. I looked at it with mixed feelings. I touched it very gently. Instantly it was jet black and began to pulsate. What a bummer, I thought, and started to bandage the thing. If someone saw it... I was screwed.

Please Alice, be trustworthy, I prayed and let myself fall on the bed. This would be a tough year...