p id="docs-internal-guid-06fbfc00-5f09-f233-286c-828dcc00103f" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"CECILIA/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"From what I was told, after that day, I was asleep for a week, and everyone worriedly checked on me daily. Once I woke up, I asked for my mother, and that's when Professor McGonagall had to regrettedly tell me about her fate. I had known, in the back of my mind, that this was the case, but it hadn't really hit me until then, and by that time the thought had finally sunk in for Katrina, and she was there by my side to comfort me for the following two days. But Tiffany now knew that we were after her horcruxes, and we needed to get back to work, desperately, so I would have to save the rest of my mourning for once we killed her. Because we had to get rid of her. There were three horcruxes left, and we needed to hurry. When I finally was allowed to leave the hospital wing, I went to Katrina and told her that she had to get rid of the jewelry box that she already knew where it was. She told me she would, and that the next day we would go and get the rose from "Voldemort's grave," because we had to. Before she realized that we had a copy of the list and were moving them. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"KATRINA/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I crept up into Tiffany's dormitory, with the fang in my bag. I had to get rid of the jewelry box before she hid it in another place. Thankfully, it was sitting on her nightstand where it had sat the last time I was in there. This time, I was even more careful. I tried not to make a sound as I moved like a cat to the box, fang outstretched, ready to stab the box, hopefully, not resulting in a loud noise. As I stabbed it, though, my heart started to thump even harder. It started screaming, and once it had died, then I ran out of her room, and hurried out of the common room to quickly hide somewhere that she wouldn't be able to find me in. In the hallway, I ran into McGonagall, who had a dazed look on her face. "What's wrong, Professor?" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Nothing," she snapped. "I should deprive your house of ten points for running in the hallway, Miss Malfoy. I have no idea what might cause you to run so quickly." I looked at her face closely, for some sign, maybe a wink, but none appeared. "What are you standing here gaping for? Go!" The Headmistress seemed unaware that we had been on close speaking terms for the past week. She had allowed me to get out of my classes to go visit Cecilia, but now it seemed as though she had only known me for a short while, like when she had called me out so long ago in Transfiguration. This was very odd. I had to tell the others, quickly. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" AMY/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I got two unexpected letters that morning, that kind of worried me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Amy, /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I am sorry to tell you that I am not going to be residing in the forest any longer. You may write to me, but I will not be there if you attempt to talk to me. If you can, without it getting in the way of getting the /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"you-know-whats, /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"then please aviod the forest overall to the best of your ability. It may not be safe for much longer, and I know you know that there are dangers from experience./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"-Your Friend/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I hadn't seen my mum in the short while since before the last horcrux was found, but surprisingly, not being able to see her had become a loss. I had grown quite accustomed to her being there for me, as unusual as she was. The second letter was even more unsettling./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Short Stack'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Amy, /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Short Stack'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I ran into Professor McGonagall in the hallway, and she seems not to remember anything that has happened in the past several weeks that Rose had told her about. I'm worried that this is the doing of /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Short Stack'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"her. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Short Stack'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Short Stack'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"-K.M./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"How was that possible? Had Tiffany confunded her? Obliviated her? Definitely not the latter, because that would mean that she wouldn't remember magic at all, and she was perfectly capable of teaching the Transfiguration class that I had attended the day before. Then, it came over me. She must have been under the imperius curse. This would be so much harder than it already was without the aid of an adult. Neither my mum, nor our Headmistress could help us. We were almost alone./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"LILY/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"We met outside the next day to have Cecilia lead us to the shrine to the battle of Hogwarts. I looked at her now scarred face and I felt very sad for her. We followed her into the forest until we came to a stop at a large wall that had many, many moving photographs on it. It was peaceful. I saw faces and names that I had heard of or seen other photographs of. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Fred Weasley, /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"said a portrait of a young man who looked exactly like my Uncle George. Remus and Nymphadora Lupin, Teddy's parents. Colin Creevey, Max's uncle. So many people that my family and family friends had mourned. There were several names, however, that I couldn't quite recognize, like Lavender Brown or Vincent Crabbe. The other side of the wall had pictures of people who had died in the first war. I made a hurt animal noise when I looked at the picture at the very middle of that side of the wall, of a smiling man and woman, holding a small baby. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Lily and James Potter. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Mine and my brother's namesakes. My granddparents. I looked at the picture wistfully, and observed how similarly I resembled my grandmother. The only difference were my eyes. I had my mother's eyes, rather than my father's. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"ROSE/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Dumbledore's portrait had spoke about sacrifices. Would there be another wall of faces after this war was over? Would there be more deaths, more sacrifices? I turned to the empty clearing right beside the two walls and created another, smaller, shorter wall, beside it. I engraved the name /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Pansy Malfoy /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"in the stone, and summoned a picture of the Malfoys' mother. She smiled and looked longingly at her daughters. "Thank you," Cecilia whispered. It was worth it. "Here's the rose," said Amy, staring in awe at the floor in front of the walls. It said, /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Harry Potter destroyed Voldemort, saving the Wizarding World from what it had been enduring for years and years. Thanks to Harry, Tom Riddle lies to rest here, no longer to cause chaos. Thank you. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"There was a red rose siting next to these words. It had been clever of Tiffany to put the flower in a place that Voldemort's daughter would never put a flower, next to the acknowledgement of Harry Potter. Once again, I got the fang out of my bag. "Cecilia, your turn," I told her. She clutched the fang and then stabbed the rose with all the power that she had, relieving her anger that had been building. It let out a soft scream, and then it withered and died. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""That felt good," she said. We all laughed and nodded. She needed to get some stabbing out of her system, and this was letting all her anger go. "One more." She said solemnly. The barrette. And if it was where I had feared it was, we would have to go and get it out of her hair without getting killed. That seemed very unlikely, but we had to. There was no other way. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Tomorrow we'll have to get the barrette. We'll have to find her and fight her." Everyone looked at me with sad eyes. This would result in pain. There was no way that all of us would get out of this situation alive. It was impossible. Yet, I still wanted to try. It was worth it. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"KATRINA/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"The rest of the day we were solemn and quiet. I went to my classes, and I payed attention, trying to get my mind off of the thoughts that had be plaguing me that day. We would have to face her, and I would make sure that she was killed, because it was her fault that my mother had died. Her fault. I opened the letter that a white owl had brought me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Katrina Malfoy,/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I will be in the forbidden forest tomorrow, and if you and your little friends do not come to me, then I will attack the school. You will have the choice to surrender or die. When you feel your dark mark burn you must all come to the forest to surrender or die. If you don't, then the school will be attacked. I have lifted my enchantments from certain staff members at the school so you may say your final goodbyes. Remember, If you surrender, I will greet you as the friend you once were to me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"-Your friend, Savvy./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"In the morning, we would have to fight. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Della Respira'; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"Thank you for sticking with the story thus far, and I just want to say that I have been trying to get this story written down for over a year now. Thank you for reading it. Please review, because any changes that need made I would be delighted to change. /span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Della Respira'; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"-IWillAlwaysBeAHarryPotterGeek/span/strong/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"From what I was told, after that day, I was asleep for a week, and everyone worriedly checked on me daily. Once I woke up, I asked for my mother, and that's when Professor McGonagall had to regrettedly tell me about her fate. I had known, in the back of my mind, that this was the case, but it hadn't really hit me until then, and by that time the thought had finally sunk in for Katrina, and she was there by my side to comfort me for the following two days. But Tiffany now knew that we were after her horcruxes, and we needed to get back to work, desperately, so I would have to save the rest of my mourning for once we killed her. Because we had to get rid of her. There were three horcruxes left, and we needed to hurry. When I finally was allowed to leave the hospital wing, I went to Katrina and told her that she had to get rid of the jewelry box that she already knew where it was. She told me she would, and that the next day we would go and get the rose from "Voldemort's grave," because we had to. Before she realized that we had a copy of the list and were moving them. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"KATRINA/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I crept up into Tiffany's dormitory, with the fang in my bag. I had to get rid of the jewelry box before she hid it in another place. Thankfully, it was sitting on her nightstand where it had sat the last time I was in there. This time, I was even more careful. I tried not to make a sound as I moved like a cat to the box, fang outstretched, ready to stab the box, hopefully, not resulting in a loud noise. As I stabbed it, though, my heart started to thump even harder. It started screaming, and once it had died, then I ran out of her room, and hurried out of the common room to quickly hide somewhere that she wouldn't be able to find me in. In the hallway, I ran into McGonagall, who had a dazed look on her face. "What's wrong, Professor?" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Nothing," she snapped. "I should deprive your house of ten points for running in the hallway, Miss Malfoy. I have no idea what might cause you to run so quickly." I looked at her face closely, for some sign, maybe a wink, but none appeared. "What are you standing here gaping for? Go!" The Headmistress seemed unaware that we had been on close speaking terms for the past week. She had allowed me to get out of my classes to go visit Cecilia, but now it seemed as though she had only known me for a short while, like when she had called me out so long ago in Transfiguration. This was very odd. I had to tell the others, quickly. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" AMY/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I got two unexpected letters that morning, that kind of worried me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Amy, /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I am sorry to tell you that I am not going to be residing in the forest any longer. You may write to me, but I will not be there if you attempt to talk to me. If you can, without it getting in the way of getting the /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"you-know-whats, /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"then please aviod the forest overall to the best of your ability. It may not be safe for much longer, and I know you know that there are dangers from experience./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Sofia; color: #20124d; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"-Your Friend/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I hadn't seen my mum in the short while since before the last horcrux was found, but surprisingly, not being able to see her had become a loss. I had grown quite accustomed to her being there for me, as unusual as she was. The second letter was even more unsettling./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Short Stack'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Amy, /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Short Stack'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I ran into Professor McGonagall in the hallway, and she seems not to remember anything that has happened in the past several weeks that Rose had told her about. I'm worried that this is the doing of /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Short Stack'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"her. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Short Stack'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Short Stack'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"-K.M./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"How was that possible? Had Tiffany confunded her? Obliviated her? Definitely not the latter, because that would mean that she wouldn't remember magic at all, and she was perfectly capable of teaching the Transfiguration class that I had attended the day before. Then, it came over me. She must have been under the imperius curse. This would be so much harder than it already was without the aid of an adult. Neither my mum, nor our Headmistress could help us. We were almost alone./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"LILY/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"We met outside the next day to have Cecilia lead us to the shrine to the battle of Hogwarts. I looked at her now scarred face and I felt very sad for her. We followed her into the forest until we came to a stop at a large wall that had many, many moving photographs on it. It was peaceful. I saw faces and names that I had heard of or seen other photographs of. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Fred Weasley, /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"said a portrait of a young man who looked exactly like my Uncle George. Remus and Nymphadora Lupin, Teddy's parents. Colin Creevey, Max's uncle. So many people that my family and family friends had mourned. There were several names, however, that I couldn't quite recognize, like Lavender Brown or Vincent Crabbe. The other side of the wall had pictures of people who had died in the first war. I made a hurt animal noise when I looked at the picture at the very middle of that side of the wall, of a smiling man and woman, holding a small baby. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Lily and James Potter. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Mine and my brother's namesakes. My granddparents. I looked at the picture wistfully, and observed how similarly I resembled my grandmother. The only difference were my eyes. I had my mother's eyes, rather than my father's. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"ROSE/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"br class="kix-line-break" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Dumbledore's portrait had spoke about sacrifices. Would there be another wall of faces after this war was over? Would there be more deaths, more sacrifices? I turned to the empty clearing right beside the two walls and created another, smaller, shorter wall, beside it. I engraved the name /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Pansy Malfoy /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"in the stone, and summoned a picture of the Malfoys' mother. She smiled and looked longingly at her daughters. "Thank you," Cecilia whispered. It was worth it. "Here's the rose," said Amy, staring in awe at the floor in front of the walls. It said, /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Harry Potter destroyed Voldemort, saving the Wizarding World from what it had been enduring for years and years. Thanks to Harry, Tom Riddle lies to rest here, no longer to cause chaos. Thank you. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"There was a red rose siting next to these words. It had been clever of Tiffany to put the flower in a place that Voldemort's daughter would never put a flower, next to the acknowledgement of Harry Potter. Once again, I got the fang out of my bag. "Cecilia, your turn," I told her. She clutched the fang and then stabbed the rose with all the power that she had, relieving her anger that had been building. It let out a soft scream, and then it withered and died. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""That felt good," she said. We all laughed and nodded. She needed to get some stabbing out of her system, and this was letting all her anger go. "One more." She said solemnly. The barrette. And if it was where I had feared it was, we would have to go and get it out of her hair without getting killed. That seemed very unlikely, but we had to. There was no other way. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""Tomorrow we'll have to get the barrette. We'll have to find her and fight her." Everyone looked at me with sad eyes. This would result in pain. There was no way that all of us would get out of this situation alive. It was impossible. Yet, I still wanted to try. It was worth it. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"KATRINA/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"The rest of the day we were solemn and quiet. I went to my classes, and I payed attention, trying to get my mind off of the thoughts that had be plaguing me that day. We would have to face her, and I would make sure that she was killed, because it was her fault that my mother had died. Her fault. I opened the letter that a white owl had brought me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Katrina Malfoy,/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"I will be in the forbidden forest tomorrow, and if you and your little friends do not come to me, then I will attack the school. You will have the choice to surrender or die. When you feel your dark mark burn you must all come to the forest to surrender or die. If you don't, then the school will be attacked. I have lifted my enchantments from certain staff members at the school so you may say your final goodbyes. Remember, If you surrender, I will greet you as the friend you once were to me. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Bad Script'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"-Your friend, Savvy./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Della Respira'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"In the morning, we would have to fight. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Della Respira'; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"Thank you for sticking with the story thus far, and I just want to say that I have been trying to get this story written down for over a year now. Thank you for reading it. Please review, because any changes that need made I would be delighted to change. /span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Della Respira'; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"-IWillAlwaysBeAHarryPotterGeek/span/strong/strong/p