NOTE: I haven't edited this chapter yet, so it's still pretty rough. You've been warned! :)

One Month Later

Anne sat up, looking at Selena intently who was watching the fire.

"What's wrong?"

Selena shook her mind absently. "Nothing, I guess. I don't know... I feel like... An idiot. I can't help feeling responsible."

Anne cocked her head, red curls brushing her shoulder. "Why? I thought you Elizabeth, Renee, and Hazel had spoken to Harry and the Diggory's. They don't blame you."

Selena swallowed, her mouth dry. "The don't know... Remember how I told you how I knew Moody was planning to murder Harry- or I guess someone. And I knew for three days. Three Days! I never said something until it was too late, and then no believed. I just... I could've stopped it. And I didn't."

Anne set her jaw, and moved from the wicker chair where she had been reading Unfogging the Future. She sat down on the couch opposite Selena's seat, the squishy red chair.

"No, you couldn't," she declared. "You can't run from Death. You can't stop it."

Selena glanced ever so slightly at her cousin. "We stopped Sirius's death."

Anne blinked, and squeezed her hands together so hard, her knuckles went white. "That was worse than death. And besides, I think you should move on. Half the kids at school think that Cedric died from a heart attack."

Selena breathed out of her nose. "I might have been able to outsmart death, but I didn't."

One Week Later

Selena peeked into Dumbledore's office. The Headmaster was admiring Fawkes. The bird turned, his glittering feather shimmering in the candlelight.

"You wanted to see me, Professor?"

Dumbledore nodded, and smiled gently, motioning to the chair in front of his desk. "Have a seat, Miss Malast."

Selena walked over and sat down in the creaky chair.

"I wanted to speak to you... Miss Black is concerned with your mental health. She said that your friends are all forgetting it happened, looking towards the future. But you are... Blaming yourself."

Saying nothing, Selena bit her tongue.

"I wanted to talk to you about everything that's happened," Dumbledore continued. "I realize that your depressed about it. I took note of your concern the day you crawled out of Moody's room. However, I didn't heed all your warnings from the Second Task as carefully as I should have. When Madame Pomfrey consulted me last month and said the Professor Moody was planning murder, I cannot tell you how much despair I felt."

Selena nodded. "I'm sorry I wasn't as responsible, Professor."

Dumbeldore gave her a funny look. "My dear, you are a child. No one, not even an old man like me, should be pressed with any knowledge of such. Much less you young men and women here at School. Now, I wish to tell you, Moody is actually good. He is an auror."

Selena shook her head. "I know... Everyone in the school has been speaking about how Moody was actually Barty Crouch Jr. I think Malfoy heard from his father because all the Slytherins were talking about it."

Dumbledore nodded. "I just want you to know that there was nothing that could've prevented this, really. Now, why don't you finish packing and join your friends?"

Selena cleared her throat. "Of course. Thank you, Professor."

He nodded and offered her a lemon drop, and then she left, sucking on the tart candy.

Left to return to her dorm.

Left to go back to her house.

Left to forget what had happened.

Left to forget the murder of Cedric Diggory.

Wow! This has been an action-packed year!

I'm SUPER excited for the next one, because it's one of my favorites! Woo-hoo!

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~Meghan