Chapter Eight- The Fat Lady's Flight

Defense Against the Dark Arts was one of Alice's favorite classes. However, it was soon everyone's favorite class to go to. Only Draco Malfoy hated Professor Lupin's classes. His next few lessons were as interesting as the first. After boggarts they studied Red Caps. Red Caps liked to lurk on battlefields wherever there was bloodshed. From Red Caps they moved onto kappas. Kappas lived in the water that looked liked scaly monkeys that had webbed hands waiting strangle waders in their ponds.

Alice went to visit Professor Lupin every other weekend. She was allowed to call him by his first name when they were alone. She wanted to know why he couldn't take her in. "Remus, why couldn't you take care of me? The Dursley's weren't exactly doing a good job."

"Alice, I wanted to take you in, but I couldn't." She nodded her head as she left his office.

October arrived and Alice had something else to think about. That was Quidditch season was approaching. Oliver Wood called a meeting to discuss tactics for the new season. He was seventeen years old, and in his final year at Hogwarts. "This is our last chance to win the cup okay my last chance. I'll be leaving at the end of the year. We've had the worst luck with injuries and the tournament getting called of last year. We have the best team in the school. We've got three superb chasers, two unbeatable beaters, and a seeker who never failed to win us a match."

"We think you're pretty good as well, Oliver," the Weasley twins chorused together.

"We'll do it, Oliver," said chaser Katie Bell.

"Yes, we will win the cup this year," Alice said. She smiled as if she knew what was going to happen at the end of the year.

The Gryffindor Quidditch team decided on training sessions three nights a week. The nights were not only getting colder, but wetter as well. No amount of wind, mud or rain could darken the team's hopes of winning the silver Quidditch cup. Alice knew that her legs were slowly getting weaker every year.

When Alice returned to Gryffindor tower one evening after training cold, but pleased the way practice had gone. Her friends and brother were sitting in front of the blazing fire doing their star charts for Astronomy.

Jasper came up to her and said, "First Hogsmeade weekend at the end of October."

"Excellent, we need to visit Zonkos, don't we Fred?"

"We are running low on some things George."

Hermione's cat Crookshanks leapt into her lap with a large dead spider dangling from his mouth. "Cleaver Crookshanks did you catch that all by yourself?"

"Does he have to eat that in front of us? Harry, why don't you ask McGonagall if you can go to Hogsmeade?"

"Ron, no, Harry is supposed to stay in school,"

Alice and Jasper worked together on their own star charts. They ignored Hermione and Ron's auguring. "Ali, do you want to come to Hogsmeade with me?"

"I'd be honored to, Jazz."

"Have you told Professor Lupin the truth about why your boggart changed in the half way through?"

"Yes, I have. He promised that he wouldn't say anything to anyone. I only gave him permission to tell Professor McGonagall."

After about ten or so minutes Alice and Jasper said good night to each other before they went to bed. She went up the stairs on her right while Jasper went up the stairs on his left. As she fell asleep in her four-poster bed for the first time she actually had a good dream. It was more of a vision because it involved her and Jasper dancing together sometime in the future.

Halloween morning came and Alice and Jasper handed their permission slip to Mr. Filch before headed down to the village. The place that they went was Honeydukes to look at all of the sweets. After they went to The Three Broomsticks pub for lunch. At 1:30 they headed back to the castle for the rest of the afternoon. They even had their sweets they got from Honeydukes.

Alice and Jasper went straight up to the common room. As they sat down on the couch in front of the fire Alice slipped into a vision. The Gryffindors were heading back to the tower from the Halloween feast. The fat lady was nowhere in sight. Her canvas looked it has claw marks on it. No one noticed a brown rat scurrying away. Alice blinked as she came out of her vision.

"Ali, what did you see?"

"I think that Peter Pettigrew is going to attack the fat lady sometime tonight. There is no way that I can stop this from happening."

"What do you mean, Ali?"

She took a deep breath before answering. "There are some things that I see that I can't stop, Jazz. I don't think that I want to stop this one because everyone will think that it was Sirius Black. I want them to think that because I'm not going to get the truth out too soon. The truth will come out eventually and I am going to make sure that happens."

"Ali, how are you going to make sure that the truth will come out? When will the truth come out?"

"By the end of the year at least. Peter Pettigrew will be caught, and Sirius Black will be a freeman."

Alice and Jasper just sat on the couch talking to each other until it was time to go down to the feast. It didn't take very long until the common room began to empty again. He helped Alice up as they headed down to the Great Hall for the Halloween feast. They were able to hold hands until they reached the great hall. They still didn't want anyone to know about their relationship. At the Gryffindor table they still sat together. Soon the feast ended with no interruptions.

The Gryffindors went back to their tower. However, the fat lady was no longer there. Everyone thought that it was Sirius Black who did it. Gryffindor house was sent back to the Great Hall.

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