*Elektra's P.O.V.*

When I saw that Dumbledore had left, I sat back down in my seat and stared at the wall.
If he wasn't supposed to be here, then why was he? Was he here for me? The only hint he gave was that he seemed to look at me longer then everyone ealse, but I think I was just paranoid...
And then something hit me. This whole time I was wondering what would happen to me are why Mr. Fuego was here, but theres one person I haven't even thought about... What happened to Professer Magonagal?
I pulled myself out of my seat and stumbled over to the door, having to use verious objects around the room to balance myself so I didn't fall over my numb feet.
When I got to the gargoyle, I stepped inside and waiting until I was now facing a hallway. I expeced that when I got to the hallway, that it would be loud and scary outside: That people would be freaking out over the newly-figured out intruder. But what I found was silence. There was no noise in the hallway, no usual Slytherine skipping class, no teachers wandering the corridor. Just silence and emptyness. Some how, this was worse.
I stepped into the corridor and catiously rounded the corner toward the Great Hall. Everything I was expecting in the hallway was happening in the Great Hall. People were shouting and crowding eachother into groups, wispering to friends and yelling over all the noise. I only caught some of the conversations.
"... It's probably Ellies fault-"
"... I heard that teachers a murderer-"
"... I hope Ellies ok-"
"...Do you think this will effect the dance tonight?"
"...I wonder where the imposter went..."
"...Wheres Magonalgal?"
That exactly what I should be worrying about right now. If Dumbledore thinks I'm gonna join the mess thats going on in there, he is sadly mistaken.
I finised walking down the corridor and checked all the closets and classrooms in it.
twenty minutes later, I had checked all the closets and classrooms and secret passage ways that I knew about. I even walked around outside until I realized shes probably not out in the open...
The only thing I could think of was to go and ask the Room of Requirment.
When I got to that corridor, I walked back and forth, repeating I need to find Magonagal, I need to find Magonagal, I need to find Magonagal...
Until the large door appeared and opened before my eyes.
When I walked inside, I looked around. All that was here was a giant empty room. Well... It wasn't really empty. In the middle of the room rests a clear glass ball, sitting on a beautifley carved pedastal.
I walked over to it, scared to touch it, thinking I would break just by handling it. I decided I had to take the chance, so I reached out and as soon as my fingers brushed the outside of it, a fine grey dust started swirling around it. Once the dust cleared away, an image appeared. It showed Magonagal, handcuffed to the inside of a door handle and tugging with all her might, her wand -I could see- was resting on a small table next to a bed that was covered in small and large stuffed animals, must of them wolves. My bed.
As soon as I saw that, I jumped away from the crystal ball, causing it to dangerously sway back and forth. It remained on its pedastal, so I took that as a good sign, so I ran from the room in a hurry.
I wasn't really paying attention to where I was going, but soon ended up in front of the fat lady and mumbling "Fire flys" to her-The password.
When I got inside, I realized that some point during my little adventure in the Room of Requirment all the Griffindor's were moved into the common room.
When I got inside, all conversations stopped and all eyes were on me. Some first year dropped all the books he had in his hand in suprise, creating a rather large thump!
At that sound, the room exploded into noise and I was tackled to the ground by multiple people. five to be exact.
"I thought you were missing!" Lily shreeked.
"You could have been dead, Elektra!" Alice said, using my real name to prove how serious she is right now.
"Where were you?" Sirius laughed out, because he was sandwiched in between James and Moonbug.
"What happened?" James voice was muffled because his face was smooched in between Sirius' shoulder blades.
"Are you ok?!" Moonbug asked. His eyes were slightly red-rimmed. Had he been crying? Woah...
"...Can't... Breath... GUYS!" I yelled, using up the last of the oxygen in my lungs. I scrambled out from underneath my five best friends and sat with my back leaning against a wall, gulping air down like it was water. After a gathered up my breath, I pushed myself up off the floor and to my feet.
"I promise I'll answer all your questions as soon as I get back." All eyes were on me as I sprinted up the stairs toward by dorm. When I got there I shouted out-
"Professer!? Are you in there?" I heard an intake of breath from the other side of the door and she called back-
"Miss Bell! Thank goodness it's you!" Her voice was slightly muffled rom the wood between us, "Open the door! I can't reach my wand from where I am!"
I tryed to open the door, but it had a charm on that made it locked, and no spell could be used to remove it. When I relayed this message to Magonagal, she called back-
"Then you'll have to break it down muggle style!"
"But professer... Won't that hurt you?" You would have thought she would have though about that...
"Miss. Bell, I assure you that I'd rather be out of here in injured then left in here to waste away." Thats actually kinda a good point... But I had to try one more time, to make sure she was sure.
"But professer-"
"Elektra, open the door!" She yelled. Well... Someone needs a chill pill...
But I decided she was right. We needed to get her out of here- one way or another. I slammed my body into the door, but nothing happened. I backed up further and tried again, but still, nothing happened except a small noise of protest that came from the wood. I decided I need help.
"Professer, I'll be right back! I need some help."
"Just hurry, Elektra! I do not like standing in this room!" She answered... Yeah, she's probably getting annoyed...
I shoot back down the stairs as fast as I could. Until now, I was very happy with my lack of face-platting during this... Adventure. But that soon came to an end when I tripped over the lip of the last step and my face connected with the ground. I let out a small moan of pain as agony crept up the side of my face. There was no blood this time, but it will leave a mark tommorow...
"Ellie! Are you OK?" Moonbug said, suddenly appearing at my side. Did it look like I'm ok? Whatever...
"Moonbug! Just the person I was looking for! You see-" I stopped talking when I realized that everyone in the room was watching me and listening to what I had to say.
"Ummm... Okay..." I leaned over to wisper into his ear, "I need your help breaking down a door..." He jerked back in suprise, but nodded anyway and helped me up. I grabbed his hand and dragged him up the stairs.
"Ok, we need to break down the door to my dorm because professer Magonagal is stuck in my room and she is kinda freaking out, you know, as much as professer Magongal can freak out, and we need to get her out bacause she is handcuffed to the door and her wand is on the other side of the room and theres a spell on the door that keeps me from getting in with magic and I'm not strong enough to break it down by myself and-"
"ELLIE! Be quite would you!? You just need the door open, right?" I had said my totally run-off sentence in one breath and now I couldn't really answer him, so I just nodded my head.
He shrugged his shoulders and started counting down from three. When he reach one, we both slammed into the door and it completely released from it's frame with an ear-splitting crack!
Moonbug managed to stay on his feet, but I basicly flew across the room and landed on the floor with a small thud. When I looked over my shoulder, I saw Moonbug helping up Professer Magonagal up slowly she was craddling her wrist and had an expression of pain on her face.
"See! I told you it would hurt!" She just shoot me a look and said-
"Just use your wand to fix it please, Miss Bell." I dragged myself off the floor for the third time tonight, and took out my wand. I pointed it at her injured wrist and muttered, "episky." and moved on to study my door.
It was lying on my floor, cracked down the middle, Handcuff still stuck around the handle. Great.
"Repairo. Repairo. Repairo." I mumbled. When I finished, the door was now back in it's frame and the only thing left was the handcuff locked on the handle.
"I think I'll leave that... It looks kinda cool..." I said, and returned my wand to my robe pocket.
"So do you care to explain who that man was who locked me in here?" Magonagal asked.
"Ummm... I think this is something thay I should explain to my friends to... Moonbug, would you go get Sirius, James, Alice and Lilo?" I asked him politley.
"Actually, I would-"
"It was a retorical question. Go get them." I said and pointed to the door. Moonbug chuckled and went out the door, returning a few seconds later with the rest of my friends.
"Okay... Lily already knows exactly what I want to tell you guys about... I just needed her for backup..." Lily looked kinda confused so I tryed to clear it up alittle for her.
"Four years ago, something happened that I haven't told anyone about other then Lilo..." I encouraged her to understand. It took a few minutes, but finnally, her confussion cleared up and she went to go sit on my bed. I joined her there, Alice came to sit with us and the Marauders went to go sit on Lily's bed, leaving Magonagal awkwardly standing in the middle of the room. She seemed not to mind, so I just left her be. I took a deep breath and began telling them about what happened four years ago.
"Ok... so four years ago, my parents were sitting in the kitchen like they usually do after they came home from work. I was in the living room, just sitting on the couch reading a book..."
Everyone looked kinda weirded out, but I continued with my story.
"My mom sent me out to go pick some flowers from the backyard garden so she could decorate the kitchen for the guests we were planning on having. I went outside and picked some flowers, and right before I was about to go inside, I smelt smoke. I walked around the house looking for signs of a fire, and that when I noticed the flames crawling through the kitchen window. I remember thinking 'my parents are in there' but I knew I couldn't do anything. I watched as my house burned to the ground." Lily was now holding my and, her silent way of telling me to go on.
"Thats also when I noticed that... That there was a man coming out of my house. A man I didn't know. Thats when I realized that this man... This man lit my house on fire and killed my parents. My parents were murdered and there was nothing I could do about it. When the police showed up, I told them about him, but they didn't believe me. They said there was no sign of forced entry or anything. So they let this man free."
Everyone was silent for awhile. Professer Magonagal was the first to break the silence.
"I'm very sorry for your unfortunate experiance... But might I ask what this has to do with me and my captor?" Lily shot her a look and I was very suprised. Lily never did anything like that to teachers. EVER! I squeezed her hand, silently telling her it was okay.
"The person who locked you in here, and took over your class is... well... The same person who killed my parents."
Everyone stayed silent after that.
Professer Magonagal left after awhile to go to the hospital wing and get checked out. The Marauders all came and gave me a hug and left, leaving me alone with Lily and Alice.
"I'm really sorry you have to go through this, Ellie." Alice said quitely, "The only question I have is that where is that guy? And whats his names anyways?"
"His name is Fuego. And I have no idea where he went."
"Well it's now official that you can no loger go anywhere alone!" declared Lily, and she jumped off the bed from beside me.
"We have had enough depression-y stuff happen today! It is now time to cheer you up!" She pumped her fist into the air, "It's time... TO GET READY FOR THE DANCE!"
Before I had anytime to protest, she grabbed my hand and dragged me to the bathroom, Alice giggling and trailing behind us.