I woke up the next morning feeling a little on edge after than previous nightmare. Fortunatley, I convinced myself to get over it and went downstairs with Amy after getting changed and removing bandaids I then went bac Me and Amy were at the Slytherin table in the Great Hall eating our breakfast. This was a day that we were not prepared for. Dumbledore then walked up to the front of the room. Something seemed off. Dumbledore was visibly distressed.
"Can I have your attention" He asked and the room went silent. Dumbledore was clearly upset about something and I was very nervous.
"This was all very sudden and none of the Staff were prepared for this but..." he struggled to say the sentence. Something was very very wrong. Then he continued.
"Theodore Nott, a seventh year Slytherin, has DIED". Dumbledore stated. The room fell very silent when he said the last word and there were a few audible gasps. Then some students began chattering among themselves and Dumbledore motioned for us to be quite. Then he continued.
"Theodore Nott died in his sleep from...chlamidia." I gasped. Chlamidia! Someone actually had sex with Theodore Nott!? I couldn't believe it! He seemed like a kid who would be a permavirgin the rest of his life. Then I continued listening to Dumbledore.
"None of the staff can explain how Nott contracted the disease. A few of us initially suspected sexual abuse from a family member, but we immediately discounted that due to lack of evidence. How Nott got chlamidia remains a mystery." Dumbledore said struggling to say his words.
"The Ministry has been notified about this and plans to send a team to Hogwarts within a week to interview students if they ever had sexual activity with Theodore Nott and to test for chlamidia. They are very concerned about a...chlamidia outbreak in Hogwarts." Dumbledore finished. Then there was an uproar in the Great Hall. People were screaming and a lot of the first and second years that didn't get "the talk" yet were convicined that chlamidia was like cooities.
"Don't give me your chlamidia Betsy!" screamed a slytherin first year named David who was sitting next to a first year slytherin girl named Betsy and he didn't want her chlamidia cooties.
"Quiet! Quiet!" said Dumbledore trying and failing to prevent the borderline riot that was occurring in the Great Hall. Food and untensils was being thrown around everywhere. Pansy got hit in the face with a fork and it was hilarious. Then Snape started screaming
"QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!" he roared and we all instantly shut up.
Then Dumbledore began to finish. He was clearly holding back tears. "Out of respect for Theodore Nott, there will be no classes today. This was tragic, tragic news that I really hated to deliver, but it had to be done. May Theodore Nott...rest in peace. Thank you." Then he got away from the front of the room. Everyone began talking again like the food riot that occurred a few seconds earlier never happened. But the talking was more...lethargic. The whole Great Hall was like a morgue. Fitting atmosphere for someone who just died. I was very upset. Yes, Theodore Nott was the most cringe-inducing kid in Slytherin, but this was just plain sad. He had a whole life ahead of him and he was supposed to graduate in only five months or so. Plus what are Theodore's parents gonna think when they get the news that their son got an STD and died? Would they blame the school? Would they freak out because they think their son was playing with other people instead of playing with himself?
"Oh my God. Someone died in this school. Poor Theodore." gasped Amy.
After we finished our breakfast (well, the parts of breakfast that weren't thrown around), we met up with Harry, Ron and Hermione. They seemed devastated by the news as well.
"He may have called me a mudblood and made me cringe when I saw him put his fingers in his mouth like a two-year-old, but he didn't really deserve chlamidia." muttered Hermione.
"I'm really scared about what will happen to the school if there is an outbreak. What if they shut it down?" asked Ron.
"Maybe that's a sign we should start using condoms." said Amy.
"What's a condom?" asked Ron and we all stared at him in disbelief.
"I'll tell you later Ron." said Harry. "So what do we do now?" Amy decided to hang out with the three some more (probably to get closer to Harry) and I thought it would be a good idea to visit Hogsmeade, so I did.
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The news about Theodore Nott's sudden and unexplained death was circulating around Hogsmeade as well. I saw a town crier, a tall, thin and pale man, screaming the news.
"THEODORE NOTT! A HOGWARTS STUDENT! HAS DIED! TODAY! OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ THEODORE NOTT! SEVENTH YEAR SLYTHERN! HAS DIED! TODAY! OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ! " He yelled loudly. I then found my destination nearby. The Three Broomsticks. The morgue-like atmosphere was present there too. I don't blame them. A student a Hogwarts actually died this morning of a sexual disease and nobody knows how he could have gotten it because he was so unpopular and disliked by all the girls.
While I walked around looking for a table, I was shocked to see someone I would have least expected here. Professor Lupin! I never thought he'd be the type to come here and get drunk. I felt nervous, but then I told myself to get over it.
"Hey!" I called and he looked up, just as surprised to see me here as I was to see him. "Do you mind if I sit here?" I asked.
"Not at all." Professor Lupin said calmly. I plopped myself down right next to him. He looked just as distressed and upset as Dumbledore. Maybe that's why he came here. To get drunk and forget about...what happened. I tried to say something to snap him out of it.
"It's okay. There was nothing we could do." I muttered.
"I'm just completely flabbergasted about what happened to Nott. How the hell could he have gotten chlamidia? To tell you the truth, he didn't seem like the type that girls would want to sleep with". Lupin said. No shit! I thought to myself. Professor Lupin still seemed rather upset. The burden of a student dying seemed to weigh down on him.
"I'm confused too. I'm so worried that some other people will have chlamidia and they'll shut down the whole school!" I stated.
"Let's try to think positively about this and not think about the...worst case scenario." advised Professor Lupin. Soon our butterbeers arrived and we washed away our worries with alcohol.
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After our little pseudo-date at the Three Broomsticks, Professor Lupin and I proceeded to head back to Hogwarts slightly buzzed. It was already getting late.
"Hey." Professor Lupin said with a slight hiccup. "Thank you for talking with me on this dark day." Hogwarts was in sight and off to the side we could see a coffin containing the corpse of Theodore Nott being loaded onto a hearse and nearby a man and a woman (obviously Theodore's parents) were crying. I ignored that sad and depressing sight and continued my conversation with Lupin.
"I never thought you'd come have a chat and a drink with your professor. That was very...kind of you". He said. We were soon on the Hogwarts grounds. Then he...he put his arm around me and I was stunned. Was this alcohol doing this or did...he really like me. I kinda felt like I was going limp and he held me tighter. Oh god. Is this gonna real happen? I couldn't believe it. My heart stopped. I kinda flopped up closer to Lupin preparing to be kissed. Then he got a confused look on his face.
"I really have to get going". He said, visibly flustered and then walked quickly into the school. So close, yet so far away. Theodore Nott may have died, but a new relationship was about to be born.
Holy shit this chapter was sad. That nasty tart Pansy killed Theodore Nott.
