For the past week, Ava found herself more quiet than usual, she couldn't get her and Dumbledore's conversation out of her head. Every now and then she would jump when a book fell in her class or if someone ran into her in the hallway.
Ava's sudden change seemed to go unnoticed which made her feel relieved, she didn't want to bring to scare her friends with her news.
She had to admit, she was scared for her life, but she was going to fight.
There was a Quidditch match after 5th period and she was happy that she would be able to spend more time with her friends.
Ava picked up her act in class, she started paying more attention again, and did her work quietly, she even surprised Snape in potions by listening to him and answering every question he asked correctly. She wanted to hang out with Donna as much as possible and Ava even found herself flirting with Seamus a little bit.
She tried to stop herself, but she found that she couldn't help it, she felt happy when she was with him.
Ava knew it was odd to feel happy when her whole life was in danger, but she knew that she didn't have much time with her friends and wanted to make every moment count. It wouldn't be long until she was 16.
After the bell rang at the end of 5th, she Donna and Elaine ran upstairs to put their books back and to get their coats, boots scarves, mitts and hats.
When they went downstairs, the found Dean, Seamu, Ben, Tyler, Neville and Ron talking happily.
Dean had some red stripes on his face and Ben and Tyler had Gryffindor across their forehead, Seamus however had his while face painted in red with a gold strip running down his forehead to his chin. She laughed at him. Every year he was always into Quidditch and he supported Gryffindor as much as possible
She couldn't wait to see the Quidditch match.
…..
Ava groaned loudly as they stood on the stands cheering for their team, the weather was worse than she thought. There was still snow on the ground, but it had begun to rain, which turned into hail, she hugged her coat tighter to her and looked up at the sky.
Seamus, Ben, Tyler, Ron and Dean were at the top of the stands cheering. Ava looked up. She saw Harry fly up into the sky. He must of saw the snitch, she thought. The Hufflepuff seeker was right behind him.
They flew higher and higher until they both disappeared in the clouds. Ava waited for Harry to come flying back down, snitch in his hands. But he didn't.
She waited and waited. The boys at the back stopped cheering, everyone waited, and everyone was quiet.
Suddenly Ava heard screams and looked up to see the Hufflepuff seeker falling to the ground, he was still on his broom though it looked like he got truck by lightning, even in all the rain Ava could see the crisp blackness of his hair as it stood up on end. He seemed to be unconscious. She saw Dumbledore raise his hand and the seeker fluttered gently to the ground.
Everyone had gone quiet and looked up at the sky to find Harry, suddenly more screams were heard, only louder.
Ava looked up and saw Harry falling, unconscious, he fell off his broom and was falling rapidly headfirst towards the ground.
Ava screamed and hid her face in her hands.
After a few minutes she looked up and saw Harry lying safely on the ground. Dumbledore was standing up, she knew that he must have had something to do with Harry's safe landing. She saw him whisper to Macgonogal and then he walked away quickly from the Quidditch pitch.
A few teachers ran out on the field to help the unconscious seekers, and they other teachers sent the students back to the castle.
They walked quickly back to the castle, Everyone knew by the looks the teachers were giving them that something went wrong.
Ava looked up at the sky, her heart dropped in her stomach when she saw through the clouds, little black figures floating across the sky. Dementores.
Ava didn't say anything until they went back to the common room. They all sat on the couch kind of glum.
" I wonder what happened" Dean asked.
" It was the Dementors" Ava said.
They all looked at her. " But that can't be" Hermione said. " they aren't allowed within 5 feet of the boundaries of Hogwarts"
" Well I can tell you for sure, that they were way in the boundaries, I saw them floating above us, just in the clouds"
" Blimey" Seamus said.
Ron stood up " I am going to see how Harry is doing, I don't think all of us should go, he might not want too many people"
Ava looked at the boys " you guys go, you are probably much closer with him than we are"
They nodded and followed Ron out, who was followed by Hermione.
Nancy leaned toward Ava " Are you sure about the Dementors?" she asked. Ava nodded
" Maybe you should tell Dumbledore then" Elaine said.
" Something tells me he already knows about it" Ava said.
….
A few hours later, the boys and Hermione came back to the common room.
" How is he feeling?" Nancy asked.
Ron shrugged.
" He's fine" he said, but he had a sad look on his face
" Whats wrong then?" Donna asked. " You seem upset about something"
Ben rubbed the back of his head
" Well when we got there, he was still sleeping and Madam Pomfrey told us to come back in a few mintues, so we took a walk outside and…umm well we found his Nimbus 2000, all smashed up near the Whomping Willow. We think that it flew straight into it and the tree smashed it to pieces"
Ava felt sympathic towards Harry, the nimbus 2000 was his very first broom
" How did he take it?" she asked.
" He didn't really say anything, I think he is trying to show that it didn't really bother him, but I could see it in his eyes that he is really sad, he loved that broom" Ron said.
Poor Harry, Ava thought.
" Do you guys know what made them fall yet?" Donna asked.
" Yeah it was the dementors" Seamus answered. " They were too close in the boundaries so Dumbledore sent them off"
Nancy shuddered " Well I am glad, I never felt comfortable with them around"
" I thought they were cool" Tyler said. Ava looked at him " your crazy" she said. Tyler laughed " Oh com'on, you didn't think that they were the least bit neat?" They all just looked at him. His face turned red with embarrassment " Ok, ok, fine they were a little creepy",
" A little?" Elaine said " What kind of person are you?"
Tyler stopped talking.
" Well maybe we can all pitch in with our galleons and get him a new broom" Dean said.
Ava shook her head. " Even if we did pitch in with all our money, we still wouldn't have enough, a broomstick costs a lot"
Everyone agreed.
" Poor Harry" Ben said. " First there is the Serius Black problem, and now his broomstick"
Seamus shot Ben a dirty look, and Ben instantly went pale. Donna looked from Ben to Seamus " What does Serius Black have to do with Harry?"
Seamus laughed nervously at them. " Well, we kinda found something out about Harry last week in Hogsmead"
" Well what is it" Ava said.
" Umm well we were upstairs in the bar-
" I knew it! I knew you guys went sneaking around back there again!" Donna said, Ben and Seamus face turned red, Ava snickered at them,
" How many detentions do you guys need to realize that you are not yet of age to drink Butterbeer?" she said.
" Well its kinda different this time" Ben said. Donna glared at him.
He looked nervously at her " Fine, it wasn't different this time"
" But when we were up there, Macgonogal and the owner of the place and some other oaf came upstairs and started talking" Seamus said.
" You couldn't leave?" Elaine asked.
" No she blocked the secret passage and there was no way to get through the door without them spotting us, so we just hid and listened to what they said"
" so what did they say?" Ava asked.
" Well they were telling the story about Serius Black and how they escaped but their conversation trailed on to the Potters, and supposedly Serius Black use to be good friends with Harry's parents. He was suppose to hide them away from Voldemort but he betrayed them."
Seamus waited for the news to sink in, he seemed to be enjoying telling the story to everyone and watching the shock on everyones faces. Then he continued
" But the shocking part is, Serius was James Potters best friend and they put Harry's life in Blacks hands, so Serius Black is really Harry Potter's godfather, and supposedly he is trying to get into the castle to take Harry and give him to Voldemort"
Ava gasped and Nancy squealed.
" We need to tell Dumbledore" Nancy said. " He probably already knows" Dean said.
" Yeah true, but what if he breaks into the castle and gets Harry?" Nancy asked.
No one answered. No one wanted to know what would happen if he got to Harry.
Suddenly a teacher walked into the common room.
" Com' on kids there is no time to dawdle, you need to get your pajamas and come down to the Great all at once, now hurry"
Her face was pale and she waited for them as they ran upstairs to grab their stuff.
" What on earth is going on" Ava asked. Donna just looked at her.
They sped down the stairs, the teacher and the boys were already waiting for them. The teacher led them out and walked down to the great hall. All the students were there in the pajamas and in sleeping bags that were spread over the whole room. " Now all of you go pick a sleeping bag, the lights are going to turn out any minute"
They spotted Evelyn, Stacey and Mary and called them over to them. Then they all found sleeping bags together and walked toward them.
Suddenly Ava felt someone grab her hand. She spun around to find Logan smiling at her. " Hey" she said
" Hey, where are you crashing tonight?" he asked. " Just over there with a bunch of my friends" she said.
" Okay, do you mind if I join you tonight?" he asked. Ava hesitated but smiled
"No of course not"
They walked over the sleeping bags
As she walked past Seamus, Dean, Ben, Tyler and their friends, she could feel eyes watching her. She didn't have to think twice to know it was Seamus, she knew he was glaring at them. She ignored him and walked over to Donna and her friends, they stared at her and Logan but they continued with their conversation. She found a sleeping bag beside Donna and crawled in. She saw Logan climb in to the one beside her.
Some boys came up to them, one of the boys looked at Logan " Hey man, what are you doing over here, we are sleeping over there."
" I am crashing with the third years tonight" he said and smiled at her. She saw him give them a dirty look.
They looked over at Ava and smirked at him " There is now reason for us to move" one of the boys said, and they climbed into the sleeping bags next to Logan.
Logan sighed. " Sorry about that" he said. " They just like to tease me"
Ava laughed " It no problem, my friends like to tease me too, they are probably staring at us right now,"
He looked over he shoulder and laughed " Yep your right"
She turned to see them quickly look away to start another conversation.
She sighed
" Do you know why we are in here tonight?" she asked. He shrugged, but she could tell by the look in his eye that he knew.
" You know don't you, well go on tell me" she joked. He smiled at her "it might be too scary for you" he said and laughed when he saw the look on her face.
Ava huffed " com'on spit it out, before I make you tell me"
He laughed and rolled over on his back " and how exactly will you make me do that?" he said and raised an eyebrow.
Ava knew where this was going, she didn't want to play games like this, and instead she too rolled on her back.
" I will call Professor Snape over and tell him that you have been in his cupboards making polyjuice potion" then she raised an eyebrow at him.
He laughed " harsh" he said. "Worse than what I had in mind". He looked at her and her face grew hot
" So are you going to tell me or not?" she asked. He swung his arms behind his head and looked up at the ceiling " Serius Black broke into the castle" he said. Ava's face went pale, he could be anywhere in the castle right now.
" How do you know that?" she asked.
" Supposedly the fat lady to the Gryffindor common room was scratched or something, he was trying to get into Gryffindor tower" he said and then he stared at her. " Aren't you in Gryffindor?" he asked.
" Yeah but I just saw the fat lady, like a hour ago, I was in the common room with my friends"
He rolled on his stomach " was there anyone else in the common room besides you and your friends?" he asked.
She recalled her memories " No there wasn't anyone else"
" Then she was attacked when you were in the common room" he said
Ava's face yet again went pale, she and her friends could of died.
" You could have been killed" he whispered. She looked up at the ceiling. She felt Logan grab her hand, but she was too dramatized with what just happened to care about him holding her hand.
All of a sudden the lights turned out and everything was in complete darkness, except the ceiling which was covered with stars.
" Goodnight Ava" she heard a whisper beside her, knowing it was Logan, and she soon drifted off to sleep.