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Chapter 14

Ellie's p.o.v.

Filch brought us to McGonagall's office. However, she wasn't there at the moment. I tried to think of an excuse but nothing. Moments later, I saw her come into the room. Behind her was Neville and to my surprise Lucas too.

"Ellie! Harry!" Neville shouted. "I'm sorry! I was trying to find you two. Lucas told me that he heard Malfoy telling people that you were trying to get rid of a dra-"

Neville stopped in his tracks when he saw Harry and me shaking our head for him to stop talking.

"So, I see what we have here!" McGonagall fumed. "You were trying to get Mr. Malfoy in trouble by telling him some ridiculous story about a dragon and somehow, Mr. Longbottom and Mr. Knight overheard the conversation and was trying to help you. Feel good about that, do you?"

"Professor it's not like that-"

"Then explain yourself ?"She said

I opened my mouth a couple times, trying to figure out what to say, but There was nothing i could say that would help. Even if i told the truth, Hagrid would get in trouble from Dumbledore and the Ministry, and i didn't want that. I looked at Neville and at Lucas , but lucas's eyes were firmly on the ground.

"I'm disgusted," said McGonagall. "Six students out of bed in one night! All five of you will receive detention – yes, you too, Mr. Knight, , nothing gives you two the right to walk around school at night, especially these days, it's very dangerous – and fifty points will be taken from Gryffindor."

"Fifty?" Me and Harry gasped simultaneously.

"Fifty points each!" she said.

"But, Professor-" Harry started.

"I don't want to hear it," she cut him off. "Now, off to bed all of you!"

When we got back to the common room, neither of us talked and went to bed. I could barely sleep.

The next day gryffindors would walk past the giant hourglasses that recorded the house points and had to do a double take. Then the story started to spread. 'Harry and Ellie Potter and a few other gryffindors lost all the points.'

I could hear them talking bad about us. The Hufflepuff's and Ravenclaw's turned on us apparently because they wanted to see Slytherin lose the house cup. They insulted us. The Slytherin's on the other hand would clap as we were near them. Whistling and cheering. Except Lucas while the others shunned me and my friends he'd try to comfort me. But the worst part was that they thought that I deliberately lose points because I wanted my friend who's a slytherin to win. I didn't want to talk to anyone since then I just got depressed. I would eat but not much.

"Ellie, don't be too upset."Lucas said "I heard that The weasley twins lose points all the time."

"Did they lose two hundred points in one night?"I said depressively.

"I'm sure in a few weeks they'll forget it."Lucas said

"Sure they will..."I said dejectedly I wanted to be alone so I walked away leaving Lucas alone. I passed the hallway and saw a few Ravenclaws and gryffindors.

"Well I can see why Ellie lost the points." Turning around I look at the older kids

"Yeah. She did it because she's friends with that Slytherin." I couldn't take it anymore. I just ran and wanted to go someplace to be alone.

Third's p.o.v.

Snape walked the halls doing his usual routine He turned left and heard a faint sob. He paused for a minute, surely it was some girl crying about nothing. With each step He took he was closer to the sound, he then noticed a faint image of a familiar blue backpack. Stopped and saw Ellie her long hair covered her face and sobbed. He didn't know what to do in this type of situation.

Snape looked at Ellie but she didn't notice his presence until he spoke.

Ellie didn't say anything. she stopped sobbing and looked up at Snape her eyes were a bit puffy and red, her cheeks had tear steaks.

"What's wrong?"He asked

"Nothing professor..."Ellie said getting up wiping her eyes and grabbed her things.

" if something is bothering you can tell me."Snape said

"It's fine, just having you talk to me feels a bit better." Ellie said. In fact it was right his mere presence was enough to relax her was it because she met him first and helped her when he could? The fact that they somewhat bonded a bit? Either way she felt a bit better.

A few minutes later Severus was grading a few papers. Across the desk, Ellie was using the mortar to crush the lavender into a paste. He had decided to take some unnecessary pity on the girl and allow her to brew a second year potion as long as he's there supervising her.

Not once did he criticize any of her actions making the potion, in fact he would glance at her work and felt slightly impressed by the first year. 'She's definitely her daughter.' He thought. When she finished he gave her a somewhat of a compliment even though he would hardly ever compliment anyone much less a gryffindor. Her green eyes sparkled in happiness at his praised that she just hugged him. She didn't notice the faint blush that stained the Potions professor's face at the sudden close contact. She let go and apologized for her action. She thanked him for letting her brew the potion. Her friend Lucas came inside to see if Snape was here but as soon as he saw Ellie he got close to her like glue. Lucas helped Ellie cleaned up and grabbed her backpack going with Lucas.

Severus was silent and staring down at the floor. He had to be honest with himself. She's not Lily...nothing can bring her back But just knowing that he's doing this for her is enough. The other thought was everytime he looks at Ellie and Lucas brought back memories of him and Lily in their school years, it felt like he used the time turner in his life. He snapped out of his thoughts and went back to work.

Ellie's p.o.v.

That night we had to go to detention, the second time I've ever gotten detention I feel like my dad would scold me when I get home for the summer. Filch led Harry, Hermione, Neville, Malfoy, Lucas and me outside of the castle.

"Where are we going?" Malfoy asked Filch.

"You'll see that in a moment boy," Filch said.

We walked a little further and then I caught sight of Hagrid.

"Is that you Filch?" He asked. "Hurry up, we need to head out into the forest soon."

"The forest?" Hermione asked nervously. "As in the Forbidden Forest?"

"That would be the one," Filch said with an evil grin.

Neville walked up beside me, looking incredibly scared. I felt a bit scared too, I then felt Lucas's fingers brush pass mine. I glanced at him as he glanced back.

"We can't go into the forest," Malfoy said. "Aren't there…werewolves or something in there."

"Scared, Malfoy?" Lucas jeered smirking. "Is little Malfoy afraid of the big scary forest?"

"Shut up,Knight" Malfoy snapped. "I'm not scared."

Lucas laughed at his defensive tone.

"There's more than that in there boy," Filch said. "You'll be lucky if you find just that."

Neville's eyes widened and he went very pale. However, he wasn't the only one. Malfoy stopped walking immediately, his face as white as a ghost.

"You're kidding, right?" Malfoy asked.

"I wish I was," Filch chuckled evilly.

Hagrid walked over to us, Fang next to him, and was carrying a large crossbow just in case if we run into an unpleasant creature.

"Thanks Filch, I'll take 'em from here."he said

Filch turned around on the spot and made his way back to the castle.

"Okay, we're gonna go into the forest 'n-" Hagrid started.

"I'm not going into that forest," Malfoy interrupted.

"You will be if ya want ter stay at Hogwarts," Hagrid said.

Malfoy frowned. "But this is servant stuff, it's not for students I thought we'd be writing lines or something –"

"Oh Shut up, Malfoy." Lucas snapped

"Just take the punishment like a man."I said as I turn to hagrid " Hagrid, what do we have to do in that forest?"

Malfoy glared at Lucas and me furiously as Hagrid nodded.

"Right then," Hagrid said , "Now, listen carefully, 'cause it's dangerous what we're gonna do tonight an' I don' want no one takin' risks. Follow me over here a moment."

Hagrid motioned for us to follow him to the edge of the forest and held up his light for us to see. Right in front of us was a large pool of silvery liquid.

"See that," Hagrid said. "That's unicorn blood. "

"A unicorn? Oh, poor thing it could be hurt." I said

"Now, we're gonna try 'n find the poor thing. I found a trail of blood in the forest, so we should be able ter follow it." Hagrid said

"What if something finds us first?" Malfoy asked, sounding like he was panicking.

"There's nothin' that lives in the Forest that'll hurt yeh if yer with me or Fang," Hagrid said "An' keep ter the path. Right, now, we're gonna split inter two parties an' follow the trail in diff'rent directions. There's blood all over the place, it must've bin staggerin' around since last night at least."

"I want Fang," Malfoy said quickly.

"All right, but I warn yeh, he's a coward," Hagrid said. "So me, Harry, Lucas an' Hermione'll go one way an' Ellie, Neville, Draco, and Fang'll go the other. Now, if any of us finds the unicorn, we'll send up green sparks, right? an' if anyone gets in trouble, send up red sparks, an' we'll all come an' find yeh – so, be careful – let's go."

We followed the path Neville stayed on my left while Fang was on my right, and Malfoy next to Fang. I did not want to be stuck with Malfoy of all people, but what can you do right? I know if he does something to me or to Neville I'll kick his butt. Neville was so nervous that I held his hand trying to comfort him somehow it did help him, he squeezed my hand tightly in every step we took together.

"The Unicorns do they look the same as the book in muggle fairytails ?" Neville asked me, looking around the forest.

"Yeah, I remember my next door neighbor reading me a few when she looked after me."I said "Why?"

"I was just curious." Neville said

A branch snapped behind us, I whipped around and held my wand higher and full alert. Neville was right behind me. I could practically feel him shaking, but he held up his wand as well despite being scared and kept a firm grip on my hand in case if we had to run. I glanced around and Malfoy was nowhere to be found I had guessed that it's either that he ran or that he's trying to scare us.

"Hey! Just come out!" I said harshly. "This is not funny, you think it's a game? It's not a game Malfoy!"

Another snapping to our left. Fang whimpered and moved to my left. I really didn't want fang to be afraid too, poor dog.

"Malfoy, if it's you trying to scare us. " I threatened, "if you don't come out right now, I will –"

Neville screamed and jumped. Red sparks flew into the air as Neville fell to the ground crying. Malfoy was laughing his head off at Neville's state.

"You shouldn't have done that, Malfoy!"I snapped

"Look at him!" he said gleefully. "The blundering fool! He's a wimp!"

"You're such a jerk Malfoy! You think you're so brave but your not! Just why did you do that to poor Neville here! He didn't do anything to you!" I said

"Yes he did something to me that I didn't like..."Malfoy mumbled

"Really what?! What did he do to deserve this stupid prank?!"I said

"It's because he held your han-" Malfoy started

Hagrid showed up minutes later, looking worried. "Wha' happened?"

"Malfoy snuck up behind Neville and me to scare us." I said. "A stupid, immature joke.

Hagrid did not look impressed as Neville nodded, conforming my statement. We went back with the others and explained what happened.

"We'll be lucky ter catch anythin' now, with the racket you three were makin'. Right, we're changin' groups – Neville, you stay with me an' Hermione, Lucas, Harry, you go with Ellie, Fang an' this idiot."

We walked for nearly half an hour, deeper and deeper into the Forest until the path became almost impossible to follow. There was blood on a few trees and I looked up ahead and saw more blood which I thought we're getting closer to the creature.

"Look," Harry said.

In front of us sat a large, white unicorn and it was lying on the ground. It wasn't moving, nor any sign that it was alive I concluded that it's dead.

Suddenly, from out of the bushes, a figure emerged. It was dressed in a large, black cloak and it crawled over towards the animal. The man bent over in front of the unicorn and began to drink its blood.

I cringed and the first thing I thought was that it's a vampire it's the only thing that popped in my head, if only I had garlic and a wooden stake right now.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Malfoy screamed and began to run in the other direction along with Fang, leaving me and Harry alone.

The figure rose its head, which the hood concealed, and appeared to look the noise in our direction.

Suddenly, Harry fell to the ground, he got up immediately despite the pain and got in front of me protectively we were trying to see if we could get away from it but I trip backwards and Harry too again.

The figure started to move towards us, I got scared and looked at my brother and I figured that moments from now we would both be dead. I didn't know any spells that could help us at the moment I wished that someone would help us right now.

Then, suddenly, someone came out of nowhere and ran at the figure.

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