Author's Note: I would love to thank the five people who voted on the poll, and the results are:
Year 2: 28%
Year 3: 71%
Year 4: 0%
(I am aware that it only adds up to 99%, but this is how I have been given the results on the poll) and so I shall make the quartet learn about Boggarts in their 3rd year, but it will be briefly discussed near the end of their 2nd year. I don't own anything that you recognise. So yeah, I would also like to thank The403yearold for reviewing and correcting my error in chapter 6. Please read and let me know what you think in any way electronically allowed by this website.

Not much had changed since the couch/homework incident, except that Rose and Scorpius had both tried to outdo each other in History of Magic, and James and Fred had gotten more detentions. One of the only things that had made a difference to Carter's life since the couch/homework incident and that there had been no more relapses since. Lessons had progressed further, although History of Magic was still as boring as ever, because Carter really didn't care about centaur wars. Halloween had passed without any troll invasions or murders.

Carter woke up with a stabbing pain in her neck. She looked out the window and saw that the sun was close to rising, which really meant that it was way too early to get up. Alas the pain would not go away, so the young girl got up and got ready for class despite it being hours away. Carter dressed in a black skivvy and long black pants underneath her school robes to hide the scars, the locket and the bracelet that she received for her birthday. After Carter had gotten ready she looked over at Rose's bed and found her sleeping soundly as if there was no tomorrow and snoring quite loudly too.

Carter walked down the stairs to the Common Room and sat on the couch, and let her mind wander. Something wasn't right; there was something that she was forgetting about, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was. Her mind continued to wander for about another hour up until someone snapped her out of it. It was Scorpius, when she finally realised that she said "Hi, sorry, zoned out. What do you want?"

"It's five o'clock in the morning on a Monday, and you're sitting on the couch ready to go? That's not strange at all" he said sarcastically

"Says the person in their pyjamas up at five on a Monday morning" she responded under her breath. She looked around the Gryffindor Common Room to avoid talking anymore and once Scorpius realised that she wasn't going to talk, he walked back up the stairs and left Carter alone. While Carter was looking around the Common Room, the calendar on the mantle above the fireplace caught her eye.

It can't be the 17th December, it can't be, she thought. She had finally connected the dots. Carter had remembered what today was. She had figured out why her neck hurt and why some of the scars on her body stung. The 17th December 2018 was the ninth anniversary of Carter's sisters' murders. She honestly couldn't believe it; it had been nine years to the day, that two of her role models were brutally taken from Earth.

Carter could remember that day with perfect clarity; the pain, the blood, the screams, the attackers, the baseball bat and the knife. Kayla and Ariel tried to protect, and they had always loved her. It was all too much for Carter, she couldn't handle it anymore, and so she grabbed her bag full of books and her photo album and ran out the portrait hole.

Carter kept running until she found an abandoned bathroom, with an out of order sign on the door. She opened the door and entered. She sat down in front of the sink and cried over her losses. She retrieved the photo album from her bag and flicked to the picture of her family that had been taken shortly before the first attack. She stared at it for hours, admiring their faces, imagining what they would look like now and wondering how different life for herself would have been had the first attack never happened.

Nobody saw Carter that day besides Scorpius at five o'clock that morning. As the day went on, Rose, Albus and Scorpius all became more worried and anxious about her. The teachers also noticed her absence but didn't mention it. It wasn't until dinner that the teachers decided to try and find Carter. Rose, Scorpius and Al had already looked in all the places they knew where it was likely she would go, and were still trying to find her.

It was ten o'clock and still no one knew that Carter was crying her eyes out in one of the most obvious spots in Hogwarts. Around ten thirty Carter heard the bathroom door open, she quickly stuffed the photo album back into her bag and wiped the tears from her eyes. When the young girl looked up and saw both her herbology teacher and Head of Houser looking down at her. He said nothing, but with a finger he beckoned her to follow him to his office…

Author's Note: Oooh Cliff-hanger. Do you know where Carter hid? Should she tell Neville everything and swear him to secrecy about her situation or should she just lie? You've read so why not let me know what you think?