Chapter- 25

My talk with Kyara lasted a total of two minutes. Kyara was too enthralled in the pranks Sirius was telling her about that he had pulled when he was in Hogwarts. Nothing extremely exciting had happened at Hogwarts since I overheard Remus' s and Maddie' s conversation. Many times, I actually considered going home for the remainder of the summer. Somehow, Sirius convinced me to stay for a little longer just in case something else happens. Remus was up and walking about now, Madam Pomfrey did a fantastic job healing him up. Every now and then Maddie, Kyara, and I would take short walks around the beautiful Hogwarts grounds. The lake looked like a pool of shimmering light because of the way the moon reflected off of it. All the stars were out every night and they looked bigger here than anywhere else I've ever seen them.

One night, I decided to walk around alone since Maddie was in a conversation I didn't feel like interrupting and Kyara was nowhere to be found. The night was quiet and calm but seemingly darker than usual. That didn't bother me much, the dark kind of appealed to me now-a-days. Just as I was about to go back to the Gryffindor Common Room, there was a blindingly flash of pure green light. I looked up at the sky and fear instantly filled me up. In the sky, there was a green stencil of a skull with a snake wrapping around it. The Dark Mark! The sign the Lord Voldemort' s been here!

My first instinct was to run back inside but something stopped me. I decided to look around for the creator myself. Why I thought this, even I didn't know. I walked toward the lake and crossed the bridge to the other side. There came another bright flash of light and the Dark Mark appeared again, yards from where I stood. Still I walked toward that stop where the Mark appeared. There in that stop lay a motionless, white, bleeding Kyara. She had huge, deep gashes on her arms and legs and a particularly large gash on one of her major arteries. Without thinking, without even considering that I couldn't accomplish side-along apparition, I grabbed Kyara' s good arm, turned on the stop and disaparated to the hospital wing.

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