A/N: In this chapter, Lupin is the DADA teacher again! Yeah! Sorry people but I like him too much so I gave him the job again. Snape teaches potions still too. To my reviewers, sorry if it's confusing, I'm trying, I really am but this is really my first fanfic along with 'The Price of War'. Nice names: 'hey scruffy', 'you smell', thanks for the ego boost. Lol. Sorry for not updating in a while, I haven't had time to write with all the school homework.
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"Is there a library here?" Elizabeth asked as she buttered her toast.
"Yeah, what books do you need?" Harry was picking at his bacon, slightly put-off that Malfoy was sitting with them again.
"Spells to try, I'm going to be done year 4 and 5 soon and I'm sure I've not learnt all of the spells there are to know," she smiled and stuffed the whole piece of toast in her mouth.
Draco sighed, "Do you have no sense of etiquette?"
"No," she said through a mouth-full of food.
"After post gets here we'll go get you some books ok?" Harry smiled at the disgusted look on Malfoy's face and continued eating until the owls began swooping in with the morning post.
Arion, Elizabeth's newly named owl swooped down and began stealing her sausage. Without post, he left shortly after with another piece of food in his talons as Hedwig landed in front of Harry. Harry looked over the Daily Prophet and then put it on the table, quickly snatched up by the muggle girl.
"What's this?" she began flipping through, fascinated that the pictures moved.
"Wizard paper. Those are Death Eaters, followers of Voldemort," Draco pointed at the front page where a picture of two Death Eaters running from the scene of burning buildings. Without thought, Elizabeth ripped the paper in two and it suddenly caught fire. The startled girl dropped the burning paper on the wood table but the fire simply turned green and burned the paper until there was nothing left, including no marks on the table.
"You ok Lizzie?" Harry reached over the table to place a hand on Elizabeth's shaking arm. Draco was looking at her with concern he couldn't mask. The girl's shaking grew less noticeable but continued none-the-less and the glasses near the three began to crack and shatter. "Malfoy, help me get her to Dumbledore, something is wrong! Draco!"
Draco started and jumped up from his seat and took Elizabeth's right arm while Harry jumped over the table and took the girl's left arm. Leading the shaking girl out of the hall, they heard more items smash as the door closed behind them.
The two 6th year boys more or less had to hold the girl up because she was shaking violently, lights above them shattering and suits of armor clattering to the floor as they passed. Finally they reached the gargoyle but realized they didn't know the password. "Now what do we do?" Harry yelled and Draco shook his head, at a loss.
Before either could think, Elizabeth began shaking on a greater scale, making the boys have to tighten their hold so she wouldn't fall to the floor. The gargoyle was smashed in two by an invisible force but the two didn't pay attention as they rushed the girl into the Headmaster's office.
Elizabeth had been trying to hold herself up but when a glint of light reflected off the ring she had seen the day before hit her eye, her world went black and her body went limp in the boys' arms. "Professor Dumbledore! Something's wrong with Lizzie!" Harry and Draco put her in a conjured chair and looked at him.
"I think it would be best if you told me what happened…" Dumbledore inclined to more chairs as he sat down in his.
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Ten minutes went by as Harry explained all that had happened and when he was done, Dumbledore leant back into his chair and steepled his hands. "I think it would be safe to assume that seeing those Death Eaters is what set off Ms. Moon."
Both boys nodded their agreement and the old man continued, "I will start teaching her how to control her magic so she does not cause so much of a…interruption," Harry rolled his eyes and Draco made a sound any normal person would call a snort (but Malfoys don't snort so that obviously wasn't that). "I would say to keep any Death Eater and Voldemort activity from her, but I do not think that would be wise."
"So what do we do?" Harry looked up at the old man.
"I think it would be best if she learn as much as possible and I think we should help her learn more about her past, I have a feeling Death Eaters somehow intervened in her past before joining us here. And speaking of which…" he looked over as Elizabeth shifted in her chair.
"Ah Ms. Moon, how are you feeling?"
"Lizzie you ok?" the two boys took a more direct approach.
"My head hurts and I really want to sleep but I'm fine, what happened?" she rubbed her head and then looked at the three with a reassuring smile.
"It is quite understandable that you are tired and your head hurts, you used quite a lot of magic destroying everything in your path on your way here," Dumbledore smiled and laughed lightly. "Now, we think you seeing those Death Eaters in the paper set you off, something to do with the past you cannot remember. Do you remember anything?"
"When I saw that picture…I didn't remember anything in the sense of an image but I remember screaming, laughing, anger, triumph and…pain," she shuddered but the shaking did not start up again.
"Hmm, very odd. Explain these feelings. Could you tell who was feeling them? Or who was laughing?"
"Some lady was screaming. Some man was laughing. I felt anger at the laughing man because he was feeling the triumph and I…felt the pain."
"You felt the pain? Is that why you were shaking?"
"I felt like someone was sticking 1000 knives in my body, I guess that's why I was shaking." She shuddered at remembering the pain.
"Anything else?" Dumbledore was very interested, what she was saying was giving him a lot of possibilities to think over.
"Green…then white. That's all," she shrugged.
"Well Ms. Moon, we shall be taking on more in our classes together. We will continue the normal spells, but we will also be teaching you how to control your magic better and also different techniques for trying to blow away the fog covering your memories."
"When?"
"We will have to stay to our schedule but we can make the classes longer if you don't have homework. Now if you are able, Defense Against the Dark Arts will be starting in 20 minutes. I suggest getting a headache and pick-me-up potion from Madam Pomfrey on your way."
"Bye Professor," Elizabeth was helped out of her chair by the two boys but then walked without assistance to the door but once more stopped to stare at the beautifully alluring ring sitting on the table, the jewel facing her.
The Headmaster's eyes sharpened, his attention fixed solely on the girl's hand as it moved slowly towards the ring. "Come on Lizzie, we need to get you a potion," Harry said from the doorway and Elizabeth jerked her hand away from the ring as if she had been shocked. She looked up and left the office without a word.
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"Hello class, I'm Professor Lupin and I will be teaching you Defense Against the Dark Arts for your 6th year," Remus Lupin stood in front of the class of Slytherins and Gryffindors with a tired smile on his face seeing as the full moon had been last week. "I will do a few demonstrations for spells we will be learning to fight and to cast and then we will break into pairs for the remainder of class to practice spells from last year. We have an odd number so there will be one group of 3. Now, who would like to come up and help me with demonstrations?"
A few hands rose cautiously into the air while Elizabeth's shot into the air like a bullet, making Hermione smile. "Ms. Moon, are you sure you wish to? You are not quite as prepared as the others but it is entirely your choice."
"I'd like to Professor, there's no way better to learn than to do it," she got up slowly from her seat and moved to the front.
"Very well spoken, ok have you learnt the shielding spells yet?" He drew his wand while Elizabeth stayed standing.
"Protego isn't it?"
"Yes that's right, can you cast it?"
"I only tried it once yesterday, but I wanted to try it without speaking the spell so I could try it now," she smiled and the werewolf smiled back.
"Very well, now everyone pay attention. This will most likely break her shield since she hasn't had practice yet so you'll be able to see the effects. Are you ready?" Elizabeth nodded and the teacher spoke the spell before she even thought.
Automatically, Elizabeth thought 'Protego' and just before Lupin's orange-coloured spell hit her, there was a loud, low hum and the spells ricocheted back and Remus had to duck so it wouldn't hit him.
"Your shield charm is extraordinarily strong, would you mind very much if I tested its strength?" Professor Lupin asked her and she looked warily at Draco and Harry. Draco looked nervous but Harry nodded with reassurance in his expression. She nodded also and Lupin cast much more complex spells on the girl, all bouncing back off the invisible shield.
"Very well, thank you for your assistance, please give this note to Dumbledore when you see him next. Now everyone, we have another hour for you all to practice spells from previous years, get to it."
Elizabeth went back to the table she shared with Draco and Harry. "That was awesome Lizzie!" Harry exclaimed while Draco merely smiled lightly.
"That was very impressive, would you like to be my partner Ms. Moon?" Blaise stood behind the three and smiled lightly at the girl alone.
"Actually Blaise, we were going to be the group of three," Draco looked up at the dark skinned boy with a look Elizabeth couldn't place. Protectiveness possibly?
"Oh now Draco, I'm sure you wouldn't mind sharing Ms. Moon for a little while, you can have your time with her later," he gave an evil smile to the blonde.
Draco looked like he was going to do something stupid so Elizabeth stood up and looked at the Slytherin boy with an even look, "sure I'll be your partner." He nodded and led her away to an empty corner of the classroom. Both boys kept a close eye on them as they started practicing.
Blaise began shooting spell after spell at the girl without warning but Elizabeth thought quickly and her shield blocked them all. The boy was clearly getting upset that none of his spells reached the girl so he began spells his father had been teaching him. Elizabeth could feel the power of these spells as they hit her shield and bounced back.
Getting worried about how she was a sitting duck for a spell that was too strong for her, she immediately took the offense and Blaise was knocked back onto the floor. Elizabeth rushed over and listened to her instincts and pulled up his left sleeve to reveal the same mark as that on that Pansy's forearm.
"You ok? I didn't mean to knock you over," she pretended she had pushed up the sleeve by accident trying to help him up but he got up and shoved her away and without thinking cast 'imperio' silently on her. If Draco wasn't going to do it, he would and he would get the glory.
He saw her eyes glaze over and he silently commanded her to come up to him. She did. He wanted to test it to see if it was working and ordered him to kiss him. She slowly began leaning over, her lips moving closer to his but about an inch away, she smirked and shoved him into the wall.
"What the hell did you do to me?" she screeched at him and everyone stopped to looked at the two. Professor Lupin ran over and asked what was going on. Blaise was dazed from being shoved into the wall so Elizabeth answered, "he cast some spell on me and started trying to order me around. Something like 'imerpio' or something!"
Many gasped at Blaise casting an Unforgivable Curse on the muggle girl in class but before anyone could react, the dark skinned Slytherin pushed himself up from the floor and yelled loudly 'crucio'.
Elizabeth cast her shield charm out loud and for the briefest moment everyone thought the shield would withstand against the spell but there was a sickening cracking sound and the white light hit Elizabeth square in the chest.
The same pain she had experienced when she had seen the pictures of the Death Eaters enveloped her again and she fell to her knees in the pain. She forced herself not to cry out as the pain worsened and then she collapsed, unconscious.
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"Shield nearly stopped curse…cast 'imperio' then 'crucio'…on trial…alive but confused…miracle," Elizabeth groaned as she slipping in and out of consciousness, only catching pieces of the current conversation. Something wrapped itself around her body and she whimpered at the pain still coursing through her.
"Ms. Moon? Ms. Moon can you hear me?" she grumbled and cracked open a painful eyelid but could still not see anything because there was a curtain of platinum blonde hair covering her face. She couldn't think of who was on top of her or who was talking to her so she made a small squeak-type sound.
Suddenly she felt wetness on her face, whoever had their arms around her must have been crying. "Mr. Malfoy, please let go of Ms. Moon, any contact will only cause her more pain."
'Malfoy? Draco? Who's talking to me? Why does everything hurt? Wait a minute…' the curtain of hair was removed and Elizabeth looked around wildly, where was that fucking Blaise?
"Ms. Moon, please stay still while Madam Pomfrey gets you some more pain relieving potions," Dumbledore said quietly from her right where he was sitting on a conjured chair. She ignored him and looked around, Harry was lying motionless in the bed next to her.
"What happened?" she looked at the old man. Draco took a place on Elizabeth's bed, looking at her through tears.
"Well, Mr. Zabini first cast 'imperio' on you, which is called an Unforgivable Curse because it was created by Voldemort but when it didn't work he cast 'crucio', another of the three Unforgivables. Mr. Potter is fine; we just had to knock him out for a while seeing as he was trying to kill Mr. Zabini after you collapsed," Dumbledore sighed.
"Professor Lupin knocked out Blaise immediately and now he's on trial, he'll probably get the death penalty for this soon," Draco looked over at her and when she smiled at him slightly, he broke down and began hugging her again, blonde hair tickling her face. "I had to pretend I didn't care because of the other Slytherins serving Voldemort but most of them, including the ones who have been marked looked ready to kill Blaise."
"Professor," she took a breath, even talking hurt, "whatever that second curse was, that pain I felt when I saw that picture of the Death Eaters, it was exactly the same…"
"Yes, when you mentioned the pain and the white light I assumed it was the Crucio Curse. Also, I think the green light you mentioned was the third and worst of the three Unforgivables; 'Avada Kedavra', or the killing curse. If my guess is correct, Death Eaters or maybe even Voldemort himself came and cast those on you and someone with you. Your family may still be alive, but I wouldn't hold up much hope," the old Headmaster looked down at the floor sadly.
"I'll kill that bastard!" she snarled and she heard a snort from her left. She looked over and saw Harry looking at her. Even with the current situation, she couldn't help but laugh lightly when Harry spoke, "Join the club."
A/N: Again, sorry for not updating soon, please review, even reviews from 'hey scruffy' makes me laugh. Lol.