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Chapter 15 already? Dang!

I want to say salamat hô (I think that is thank you in Filipino) to TonyAnnaAndre and yshann77 for reviewing my story.

It made my heart glow to see the reviews so thank you guys.

So this chapter may be a bit, I don't know, fillerish.

It's going to be short

...maybe longer

...idk

...my heart will decide.

Anyway read on!

It didn't take Emily very long for her to recover from her little fainting spell. Madam Pompfrey let her out early with a warning saying that she needed to be careful when going out and about the school.

Of course everyone had been telling her that.

Anyway tomorrow was the Saturday which meant that she could rest or at least that is what she truly hoped to do.

Unfortunately she had been invited by her cousin and two of her friends, Laura and Ashley, who just happened to both be Gryffindor students as well.

Even though she wanted to hang out with them, she really wanted to invite a fourth year, Cassie, from Ravenclaw. Cassie reminded her so much of herself when she was younger plus she was fun to hang out with.

Today the teachers were letting the students wear halloween oriented stuff with their uniforms in an attempt to "brighten" up the place.

That was strange of the teachers to let them do that but she couldn't care less. She loved to dress up for Halloween.

Before Emily headed off to her first class, she pulled black and orange stockings up her legs. Quickly she grabbed her patchwork Halloween hoodie jacket and zipped it up while she shoved on her lace up platform boots.

Now she was rocking her Halloween attitude.

Looking down at her watch, her eyes widened when she saw that she had to reach the divination tower in ten minutes.

Unfortunately it was all the way across the school.

The only way she would be able to get there is if she flew and that would be against school rules.

An idea popped in her head though. There was more than one way.

"That's it. The secret passage way. I can get there with at least two minutes to spare."

As fast as she could she ran out of the dorm rooms and out of the common room. The secret passage was on the fifth floor so she had to scamper down the staircases and run her butt down down to the portrait with the shrunken old man.

"Filantro Nostrum Vitam"

Emily whispered to the portrait.

"Rightie Oh! Good memory young one!"

The portrait boomed before moving sideways so that she could step through.

When the portrait slid back into place she ran as fast as she could.

It didn't take her long to reach the end of the passageway. She whispered the same password again and was let through.

Looking down at her watch, she nearly jumped with happiness when she saw that she had two minutes left just as she thought she would have.

Once again she walked very quickly out of the passageway and into the divination room with a big goofy grin on her face.

"Well you seem very chipper today, Emily."

Ron and Harry said in unison as she walked over to her desk next to them.

"So I am guessing that Halloween is one of your all time favorite holidays, Emily?"

Harry asked her before getting out the homework that they had been assigned. Why in the hell Mr. Malfoy had made them draw out their dreams for his class when they were supposed to studying the future and crap, he couldn't guess.

Emily also took out the completed drawing that she had worked on before their last divination class.

"Well it is one of my fave holidays. Now tomorrow I want to ditch the ball but Hermione is dragging me along to go shopping for a costume for tomorrow's ball and she isn't going to let me leave without buying a costume for myself. It sucks, Harry. Ron can't you tell her that I hate dances?"

Both of the guys shrugged before the door to the room creaked open.

In walked Lucius Malfoy with a smirk on his face while he observed the classroom. His smirk turned to a frown when he heard their thoughts about tomorrow's ball instead of thinking about the topic at hand, divination.

"Hello Class. I hope that you all did your homework that I assigned. It doesn't matter if you drew it poorly but the true meaning behind the assignment is that we are going to decipher the images in your dreams to help explain what they mean."

Several groans were emitted before Mr. Malfoy silenced them with a glare.

"All of you get out your books about dream symbols and get out your drawings, then begin to pick out the symbols that you drew. Okay? Now begin."

In unison everyone reached down to their pile of books and bookbags to grab their homework and books. Fear ran through each and every one of the students except for Emily, James, Harry, and Ron since they all had their own personal feelings for him.

Opening her book up, Emily looked down at her drawing while flipping through the pages of the book.

A page stood out to her explaining about what the hands in her dream meant.

"To dream that you are holding hands with someone represents your connection with that person. Your dream may also reflect your anxieties about losing touch with him/her or that you are drifting apart. Also to dream that your hands with whom you are holding are clasped or closed signifies unity, completeness, acceptance, or agreement."

Emily whispered to herself before looking at her drawing again.

"That's interesting."

She said before she felt someone's eyes staring at her. Looking up she saw Mr. Malfoy standing before her but looking down at her in a curious fashion.

"Find something interesting, Miss. Granger?"

Timidly she shook her head before shutting her book closed. Her cheeks began to blush a deep scarlett before she looked down at her drawing.

"No need to be shy, Miss. Granger. Tell the class what you deciphered about your drawing. Get up and show your picture to the class right next to me."

Harry looked at Mr. Malfoy with anger in his eyes before he looked at her.

"Emily, you don't have to do it if you don't want to. He can't force you."

"Fifteen points from Gryffindor, Mr. Potter. Miss. Granger, please come up and share with us."

The smirk on his face made her want to hide herself in a place where no one could ever find her. Suddenly a voice appeared in her head, the voice of Mr. Malfoy.

Emily, my dear, I would always be able to find you whether you wanted me to or not.

Her gaze went back up to his as she stood up with her drawing in her trembling hands and faced the classroom.

"Um well I drew a picture with two hands holding each other. In the book it says that to dream that you are holding hands with someone represents your connection with that person. Your dream may also reflect your anxieties about losing touch with him/her or that you are drifting apart. Also to dream that your hands with whom you are holding are clasped or closed signifies unity, completeness, acceptance, or agreement."

The class looked at her as if she had grown a third head or something for knowing this.

"Um so overall I think that my dream that I am going to accept a connection that I have with someone I know, someone I...I care about."

After that she quickly walked back to her seat and put her head on her desk to hide the bright red that her cheeks had emitted after embarrassing herself up in front of the students.

"Well class now you have your next assignment. By Monday I need you to turn in your dream interpretations with your drawing. Class Dismissed."

As fast as she could, Emily ran out of the classroom and went to go find her cousin along with her friends that were coming including Cassie. It was time to go to Hogsmeade to do what girls loved best - shopping.

It wasn't too hard to find the costume shop newly set up for the Halloween festivities that were going to occur. Luckily for them no one was there except for the owner so they all had peace in trying out their clothes.

Emily though didn't have any idea why she would need to buy a costume if she wasn't even going to go to the dance.

While the other girls gleefully began to try on costumes, Emily sat down in a chair and waited for them to be done.

It wasn't until Hermione came up to her dressed in what appeared to be a white strapless dress, well really a nightgown from what she could tell, that she began to realize that her cousin wasn't going to let her be unless she tried on costumes as well.

"Em, how do I look?"

Emily looked her over and nodded her head. Her cousin looked pretty good but something was missing.

"Hermione, wait one sec. Let me get you some things."

Getting up, she walked around the store to find some accessories for her cousin to use. After a quick search she found a platinum blonde wig, a faux wand, and a white wreath that her cousin could use to put on her head.

Hermione took one look at the accessories before she squeelled with delight.

"Em, this is perfect. I could wear those white high heels that you picked out for me before school started."

She shrugged before she returned back to her seat.

"Um...Em, I want you to try stuff on too you know."

"But I am not going to the ball."

"I don't care, Emily. Try stuff on or I will make your life suck until Christmas."

Her eyes widened with mock fear before she got up and began to look around. She didn't want a costume that would be slutty but she wanted something that was cute and kind of flirtatious.

The other girls seemed to have found their costumes and were beginning to look for accessories while she continued to look around.

After awhile she found a little red riding hood costume that was cute and not slutty which was a double bonus.

Making sure no one was watching she snuck inside the dressing room and tried it on. Her reflection in the mirror made her feel a little bit self concious. God! She had never really cared about her appearance before.

Stepping out of the dressing room, Emily tried not to be surprised when she saw all of her friends and even her cousin looking at her in awe when she stepped out.

"You have to buy that, Em."

"Yeah Emily, you should totally buy that."

"YEAH!"

"Buy it now!"

All she could do was roll her eyes, but she knew what she had to do.

In five minutes they were already to go back to Hogwarts with their new costumes in their hands when they saw someone at the end of the pathway that led to their school.

The figure didn't seem to move but Emily had a feeling that it wasn't there for her friends.

It was there for her.

Turning to Hermione, she gave her the bag with her costume in it and sighed.

"Herm, I need you to take Laura, Ashley, and Cassie back to Hogwarts safe and sound."

Hermione looked at her confused before looking behind her at the figure. Understanding the situation, she nodded her head.

"Okay. You understand. Just in case use the charm that you have in your pocket. I slipped it in there just in case something like this happened. It should protect all four of you guys."

Now her cousin was even more confused.

"What do you mean? You could die! What if that is the creature that is haunting the school?"

Emily shook her head and began to push Hermione towards a different pathway.

"Hermione it doesn't matter. As long as you are safe and our friends are safe then I will be happy. Now go to Honeydukes and use the secret passageway to get back to Hogwarts. Before you go through the end, you have to use the Dissendium Spell. Now go!"

"But?"

"I said go!"

With the final say, Emily nodded before she began to head towards the figure with fear in her heart.

Up ahead she saw that the figure was cloaked in blackness with a hood that covered the head. It also looked like the figure was wearing a mask that from far way looked like a skull.

Suddenly the figure disappeared causing her to panic.

Before she could react to the disappearance, she felt a knock on the back of her head which caused her to immediatly black out.

"I am sorry, my dear, but Lucius wishes to chat with you."

Those were the last words she heard before she slipped away.

OOC:

Okay sorry for the delay but school has started again.

Gah! I hate school!

Anyway the chapter took forever to get out so I hope ya'll like it.

Review please.

I will try to get one out as soon as I can.

Love you all.