A/N: Hello! Sorry it's been a while, I've been submerged in school work, literally the books are piling on top of this chapter is really short but there is one more in this part of the story. After chapter ten I am going to skip to 4th year, where basically everyone is still friends and stuff. I will explain in the story and will do a few flashbacks I think. But yeah basically I don't see a point of writing 2nd and 3rd years becuase in my head not much happens, But yeah, I hope you like this chapter please favourite and review! :)
Clara threw her stuff down in anger on the bed, as soon as she got back to her dorm. Molly who had been walking down the stairs when Clara started screaming, and then sobbing. Molly knocked on the door, confused as to what was going on.
"Clara is that you? Are you okay?" Molly asked concerned.
"Yes, it's me. I'm fine! You can come in!" Clara answered as she cleaned herself up. Molly quietly closed the door and went and sat down on Clara's bed.
"You don't look okay I'll see if I can find Eliza, Poppy or Rose," Molly said as she handed Clara a tissue and left. Clara walked to the mirror and wiped her eyes; red and sore. Eliza walked in with Rose moments later, they rushed over immediately.
"Oh Clara! Are you okay?" Eliza asked as she hugged her friend.
"Come on what's wrong?" Rose asked as she put the kettle on top of the fire. It was a new addition to each room, put in by numerous requests.
"I'm fine, and just leave it, it doesn't matter," Clara said, her voice wavering slightly.
"You don't look fine. Just tell us why you're so annoyed or sad, we won't tell anyone," Eliza said handing Clara another tissue.
"Please just don't tell anyone else, especially Scor or Al. You know what they're like. Well I went to look for any information I could find about my dad in the library. But I couldn't find anything at all," Clara said, chewing her nails as she was worried, Rose told her to stop.
"Did you check the books on all the wizards' alive last century, or whatever?" Rose asked.
"Course I did. But he wasn't there, so were my mum and McGonagall wrong, was my dad just a muggle? Like I know for a fact that his name before marriage was defiantly Lake, I am certain of that. My mum's maiden name I know was William's, my uncle is Rory Williams, my mum's sister. But when I looked in the book, under the name Lake, there was a Mitchell and a Max, but no Matthew. I checked the list loads of times, and then in loads of the other books as well, I was exceptionally thorough, but his name just wasn't there. God. I'm just so worried and confused; I don't know what to think. Am I just being all wrong? When he died we could see no cause, they did the post-mortem and found nothing. The day before he died he left home for work and he just didn't come home. We all thought he had run away, but then we saw him on the news. My mum was distraught when she saw him, and so sad when we could see no reason for his death. When I found out that I was a witch I was so pleased and just thought maybe this had something to do with his death. I looked a lot in my first week here and found out about the unforgivable curses. I immediately presumed that he had been killed by a wizard or witch, I think it's the killing curse. So If he had links to wizards or witches, he must be a wizard? Mustn't he? But I just don't know what to think then as he wasn't there at all," Clara explained still sobbing in parts; Eliza and Rose looked so shocked.
"Clara I'm so sorry but you really shouldn't worry. I know that he's your father but just focus on school. I am sure neither of them was lying to you, and if you think he was killed like that it is unlikely some witch or wizard went around and killed a random muggle. He must have gone into hiding or something in the second war, loads of kids did. Clara I just advise leaving it, and if you really want to find out what happened ask your mum. Please don't worry about it, just leave it at what you know already. Okay come on go have a shower and clean up, and then we'll go to dinner. We won't talk about this again if you don't want to and we defiantly won't tell anyone," Rose said, Clara groaned but agreed that that was the best option, Eliza and Rose hugged her and got up to leave.
"Oh and Clara I think Charles is looking for you something to do with Catherine I think," Eliza said as they left. Clara nodded and headed for the bathroom.
Clara found Charles later that evening after dinner.
"Ahh, Clara. I presume Eliza told you I needed to speak to you," Charles said and Clara nodded, "Well I need to ask something of you, it is rather big and I know that you don't want to do anything other than just the practices, but Catherine can't be the seeker anymore."
"Right, okay. What's wrong with Cat?" Clara asked.
"Well Cat thought it was a neat idea to do a stupid prank with her friends. So basically they did a Weasley in a Dark arts lesson, and Kirk, despite him finding the fireworks hilarious, he had to ban her and the rest of them from Quidditch. I know it's asking a lot but can you play seeker for the rest of the year. You are an excellent player, and everyone knows it. There is no one else who can do it as well as you can. If you want me to ask everyone on the team whether you are good enough then fine because I will get them to tell you that. Please can you do it, please, please, I will beg if I have to. Please be seeker?" Charles asked, now begging on his knees. Clara laughed and nodded.
"Oh course I will but I will need practice I suck you know," Clara said.
"Nah ya don't," Charles said as he scuffed Clara's hair and walked up to his friends in the common room.
Clara after that just submerged herself in her school work and Quidditch. She always kept in her mind what Rose had said to her, she didn't want to ask her mum, worried she'd get upset or something. Months passed quickly, with her not really worrying about it much anymore about her dad. The snow cleared, the lake thawed, the trees grew lovely fresh leaves and the winter gave way to a fresh and bright spring. The Quidditch match between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw passed, Ravenclaw winning, meaning that Gryffindor would face Ravenclaw in the final match for the Quidditch cup. Ravenclaw won by a huge way, Hufflepuff didn't mind though, it's not like they never tried in Quidditch it's just that they never minded the outcome, always the ones that could see the joy and happiness in everything, even sorrows. Hufflepuff even had a party in their common room; they had undying spirit in everything. But even they were low on morale now; there was a growing threat of uncaught death eaters. Even though in the second war Voldemort had died 19 years before, there had always been a threat since then and although most of the death eaters had been killed there was a portion which hadn't been taken in by the Ministry. But now the threat was worsening apparently. Al's dad had sent a letter to him saying not to worry but that the Auroras were on it and ready. Some weren't worried about it though but morale was still low as exams were coming soon and they still stood in the way of the summer. Many were just hoping for a birthday to come soon. Since winter had come Scorpius, Lorcan and Lysander had all had theirs. Chris and Lewis had both had theirs in the last week of the Christmas holidays.
Eliza and Rose had their birthdays within a week of each other. So all their friends were arranging a big party.
Clara slumped herself down on the sofa, along with Al and Poppy. They had just spent the whole Sunday with Scorpius, Lorcan, Lysander, Chris, Lewis and John, making some banners for the party next week.
"Hey! What you been up to?" Eliza asked, Clara tapped the side of her nose, Eliza's face fell slightly.
"It's about me and Roses' birthday isn't it," Eliza said.
"No!" Clara lied, very badly.
"Well I'm not saying anything at all but I love Pumpkin Poppy seed cake and Rose loves Red velvet. But I'm not saying anything," Eliza said absentmindedly as she got up and went to her dorm.
They had the party the following Saturday afternoon, they had loads of banners and pumpkin and poppy seed cake of Eliza and a red velvet one for Rose, both in the shape of books. They had loads of food and just played games and chatted way into Sunday morning in the Room of requirement. It was nice having something like that given the state of things.
They all slept in the room, woke up very tired and lounged around doing homework the rest of the Sunday. They all had such a fun time that day, as did Eliz and Rose expesically. Well apart from the falling asleep in lessons on the Monday due to being so tired.