Once again I hope you all enjoy this chapter… it's the longest one for a long, long time so I'll just get straight into it!
By the time that the 6th year Weasley had recounted the details of his poisoning and Madam Pomfrey had kicked them out of the Hospital Wing as curfew was about to come into effect, Harry had somehow managed to work himself up into a frenzy about the possibilities of why Professor Dumbledore and Professor Snape would be arguing. With neither Leo or Hermione wanting to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole, they left him downstairs in the Common Room and made their way up to their respective dormitories for a much needed sleep.
He joined Fay and Anna the next morning for a late breakfast given that it was a Sunday, and was halfway through telling them what had happened to Ron to an engrossed pair of women when loud, rushing footsteps grew louder and Harry threw himself into the seat beside Leo. "Fay!" The Boy Who Lived exclaimed, as Leo looked upon his dormmate in a brand new light given his conversation with Sirius the day before, seeing for perhaps the first time the true burden that had been placed upon him all those years ago when he was just a baby..
Fay's eyes widened in a fluster at the new arrival. "Harry Potter!" She squeaked out awkwardly, before grimacing at herself and adding just as awkwardly. "Hi, hello. What's up?"
Harry, thankfully, took no notice. "I know you're a Beater really… but how are you at Keeper?"
"Urm…" Fay trailed off, looking towards Leo with a horrified expression. "I'm fine against my brothers, but Baz was never much of a Quidditch player and the other two are due to start Hogwarts next year..."
"If you can save the Quaffle, I'll take it." Harry admitted exasperatedly, before looking around the Gryffindor table and lowering his voice. "Vicky's got a detention so it's either you, or I'm forced to have McLaggen on the team, and between us, I think I'd rather forfeit the game."
Both of the girls winced and in unison called out. "Yuck."
"Exactly." Harry stated excitedly, seeing that his plan was working. "So listen, I've scheduled emergency practices for tonight, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Come along tonight and we'll see what we can do."
Fay's eyes widened once more in horror. "I… I haven't said…" She looked over at Leo who simply nodded in encouragement, knowing how much his friend loved Quidditch. Closing her eyes for a moment, she sighed deeply. "I'll do it, but I won't be very good Harry."
Harry nodded his understanding. "Look, I'm not going to kid myself into thinking you're going to be a natural, but if you work hard this week and we get some good tactics sessions in, we'll be sure to at least outscore Hufflepuff until I can catch the Snitch." He tapped his hand on the table in excitement. "Brilliant, I'll meet you in the Common Room at half past seven and we can go and get your gear sorted out."
With that, Harry rose out of the seat and went bounding away back out towards the Entrance Hall leaving the trio of Gryffindors completely perplexed. "What the hell just happened?" Fay asked, her pitch rising in panic. "Did I… Surely I didn't…" She stumbled over her words before faceplanting the table.
"You did." Anna grinned, before squealing in excitement. "You're going to be on the team!"
"Merlin's beard…" Fay whispered as she rose upright again, her face paling as she looked like she was about to throw up.
Finishing his own breakfast, Leo swallowed down the last of his eggs before saying. "Finish that and we'll go out on to the grounds…" He trailed, looking up at the Enchanted Ceiling to see that the weather outside was dry but cloudy and grinned at the chance to get his own broom out, a rare occurrence for Scotland in March. "We can help you get a feel for it before practice."
Thankfully Anna nodded along enthusiastically. "We'll have you as good as Ron in no time!"
The dark-haired girl still looked as if she was going to turn green, but she nodded her agreement and tried one final spoonful of her breakfast before refusing any more, before allowing her friends to drag her down the Great Hall so that they could ignore their homework for a day of Quidditch.
On the morning of the match it took all of Leo's willpower to not delve into Harry's trunk to find the bottle of Felix Felicis to douse Fay with, given that the 6th year was constantly flitting between confidence and self-doubt with every minute that was passing by. As he pulled on his crimson jumper that had been charmed in the past week with 'Dunbar 1' on the back in gold lettering, he hoped that this morning was a confident one. Descending down the dormitory stairs to see it completely empty only worried him more.
The only person he knew more than as a face to say hello to as he passed them in the dormitory left in the Great Hall at breakfast was Neville, and so the pair finished their meal together before eventually wondering down to the Quidditch Pitch for 11 o'clock. The stands were completely packed as the sun shone down on them all, with everybody in the school seemingly eager to see how Harry Potter had reacted to his best friend being hospitalised. Together with Neville he climbed the stairs to their spaces, with Leo noticing that Anna was sat down nervously looking ahead, giving him his answer from earlier. "That bad?" He asked knowingly, as he looked around and failed to spot a certain brunette, with Lavender Brown also missing from the stands.
"She barely ate." Anna admitted when Leo stood beside her. "Ginny dragged her away before I could shovel some toast inside her, so I hope she's alright."
Leo did too as he turned back to the pitch, with one final glance at his watch to see that it was 2 minutes to 11. "They should be out by now." He muttered worriedly.
He didn't need to wait too much longer though, as out from the tunnel came the Gryffindor team to thunderous applause, closely followed by the Hufflepuff's, to which the commentary began as a familiar, dreamy voice echoed over the stadium.
""Hello, everyone! Welcome to today's Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff! It's such a lovely day, isn't it? The Wrackspurts seem to be keeping their distance, which is always a good sign for clear thinking…"
"Miss Lovegood!" The voice of Professor McGonagall sounded, and Leo grinned fondly at the Ravenclaw 5th Year while his eyes remained on Fay who was zooming around the pitch on her broom, trying to get a feel for flight.
"Yes Professor?" Luna asked innocently, before some silent words were spoken between teacher and student. Eventually the commentary continued. "In today's match, we have Gryffindor, known for their daring and bravery. Perhaps the Lions have been eating lots of Gurdyroot, which could make them extra sprightly today. They will be playing, Hufflepuff, the House of loyalty and hard work. I wouldn't be surprised if their brooms have been enchanted with a bit of Nargle-repellent to keep them flying smoothly…"
"MISS LOVEGOOD!" Professor McGonagall cried again, but a decent chunk of the crowd were laughing as the players began to take their spots over the pitch, with Harry and the Hufflepuff Captain, Eurig Cadwallader, shaking hands.
"Is Nargle repellent a banned substance now?" The dreamy voice was asking the Deputy Headmistress. "Oh that's a shame… well here are the teams!" Luna continued, listing out the Hufflepuff team first before she arrived at the Gryffindors. "At Keeper we have a late change, with 6th year Fay Dunbar coming in for Ronald Weasley." Leo made sure to give a hearty applause for his friend. "At Chaser we have Ginny Weasley, Demelza Robins and Dean Thomas. The Gryffindor Beaters are Ritchie Coote and Jimmy Peake, while we all know the Seeker…"
Harry seemed to not be listening to the commentary, Leo noted, thinking that he may have gone as crimson as his jersey at the commentary, but soon enough Madam Hooch was ready to begin the game, letting the Bludgers and Snitch go before she threw the Quaffle into the air. "And that's Smith of Hufflepuff with the Quaffle. He did the commentary last time of course, and Ginny Weasley flew into him, I think probably on purpose, it looked like it. Smith was being quite rude about Gryffindor. I suspect he regrets that now he's playing them… oh look, he's lost the Quaffle! Ginny took it from him. I do like her, she's very nice…"
Leo grinned amusedly, but his eyes turned over towards Fay, analysing her positioning as the first Hufflepuff chance grew closer, to which Cadwallader scored it much to the groans of the Gryffindors in the stands.
The game did begin to even out thankfully, and Leo was among the loudest again as Fay made a couple of really good saves, but soon it was 30-40 to Hufflepuff as they neared the posts again. Leo felt like he was trying to direct his friend with his eyes, but Zacharias Smith feinted well and scored through the smallest post and causing Leo to growl in frustration again as the score changed once more in Hufflepuff's favour.
"Look!" Neville cried. "Harry!"
All eyes looked upwards as high above the stadium Harry Potter was utilising all the speed of his Firebolt chasing something, with the Hufflepuff seeker Summerby trailing behind. Everybody around Leo was leaning forwards in anticipation, watching as the captain extended his arm…
"YES!" Harry was the first to cry out, closely followed by a quarter of the stadium as all those in crimson and gold erupted.
"Oh look!" Luna seemed to realise later than everyone else. "Harry's caught the Snitch! Gryffindor win 180-50!"
He was quickly assaulted by a mane of auburn hair as Anna jumped at him in celebration, with Fay flying past them pumping her fists in the air not a moment later. "Come on! We need to get back to the common room!" Leo called out above the noise of the crowd. Anna grinned at him knowingly, and copied Leo's next words at the same time. "Victory party!"
Just like last time Leo had barely settled down before having a bottle thrown towards him, as the celebrations well and truly started early. Before his first sip he had already heard three people mention how it was Gryffindor's first victory over Hufflepuff since his first year, that 'blink and you will miss it' game where Snape refereed and Harry caught the snitch inside 5 minutes.
He was three drinks down when Fay finally appeared to a thunderous reception as she was forced to shake hands and thank everybody that was rushing around her, clearly making the poor girl flustered at all the attention. Eventually she managed to make her way over to Leo and Anna, the latter of whom forced a crushing bear hug onto Fay. "Well done!" Anna squealed.
"I can't do that again." Fay grimaced, grabbing Leo's bottle and draining it completely within seconds, gasping for air as she finished and wiping her mouth unceremoniously with her Quidditch robes. "That was bloody terrifying."
"You were great." Leo admitted, hugging her less vigorously than Anna had done, but with no less meaning.
"I was lucky." Fay shook her head, her blue eyes still wide and fearful. "Half the time I was up there thinking 'what in the name of Merlin's left bollock am I doing up here'."
Leo snorted at the image as Anna gasped. "Fay!" The auburn haired girl whispered, horrified.
"I'm serious!" Fay shuddered. "That was terrifying."
"Even so, it's our first victory over Hufflepuff since First Year." Leo found himself as the one repeating the stat now. "And you played a part in it." He jabbed her lightly in the shoulder before reaching around for two more bottles of butterbeer. "So take the praise, have a drink, and tell us all what it was like!"
Accepting the bottle, Fay went into all of the details of the game, starting with Harry being late into the changing rooms. "He gave a quick speech before getting changed and then asked all of us but Ginny to leave… so that wasn't great to start with." She explained, causing Leo to frown, realising that there was an inevitability of Harry not telling him whatever was going on once again. Fay had now reached the actual game in her retelling however, and so Leo tuned back into his friend's words as she began to tell them all about being up there and watching the Hufflepuff chasers speeding towards her. "I thought I was about to wet myself." She whispered. "Then when the first went in…"
"Don't dwell on that." Leo shrugged. "You're a beater, not a keeper, and yet you still made 2 good saves." Fay's attention was behind him however. "Are we keeping you?" He asked with a smirk.
"Don't look." Fay muttered. "But Vicky Frobisher keeps looking at me." Of course, both Anna and Leo ignored her completely and turned around to see that across the room the 5th year Gryffindor was in fact staring over, a small blush appearing on her cheeks as she ducked behind her own friends. A knowing grin appeared on the pair's faces as they turned back in unison, to which Fay landed a pair of punches on them both. "Arseholes." She muttered.
"Look, relax Fay." Anna said, rubbing her shoulder. "Have a drink, and chill. Then when you are nice and buzzed, you go over there and talk to the girl a bit later on."
"What if she's just annoyed I took her spot?" Fay whispered.
"I'm no expert, but girls don't hide like that if they're annoyed." Leo grinned, taking another swig of his own drink. As he moved his arm back down he noticed the portrait closing and a familiar bushy haired girl enter the Common Room. "And on the note of girls…"
"He's abandoning us." Anna retorted.
"How rude is that." Fay grinned back teasingly; her shyness seemingly forgotten.
Leo flipped them both off before grabbing a second drink and making his way over to Hermione, who's eyes brightened up as she waved him over. "Hi Leo… oh, thanks!" She beamed as she took one of the bottles. "I guess we won?"
"180-50." He nodded. "Fay was good, and is getting the attention she deserves now because of it." He chuckled, managing from his new position to see that she was giving her new admirer the odd glance from across the room. "Did you find anything?" He switched subjects as Hermione took a sip of her own drink.
"Huh?" Hermione asked. "How do you know…"
"You weren't at the game; I presume you were combing the library over while it was quiet." Leo shrugged. "Did you?"
She sighed frustratedly. "No, nothing on Horcruxes, nor on who this Half Blood Prince could be." She told him, reminding Leo of her change of focus since the bezoar incident. "Then I saw Cormac on the way up. He's not happy at all with Harry, nor with Fay."
That made Leo lose basically all of his excitement as he looked back over at Fay, this time with concern. "We won, can't he just back off." He mumbled, as Hermione placed her hand on his arm comfortingly.
"He won't make a scene." She added, though Leo silently doubted that, and he could see from her eyes that she barely believed her own words either.
Thankfully there was no sighting of McLaggen for the first hour of the party and so Leo and Hermione quickly forgot about him, turning their conversations instead to the lack of Slug Club meetings recently, to which Hermione was clear in her belief that Harry's failed attempt to gather the memory was the reason for that. Talk then moved on to their respective lessons, with Hermione asking a hundred questions a minute about Leo's Magical Law class to such an extent that the arrival of both Harry and Ginny to thunderous cheers was a welcome relief. It took a while because of the entirety of Gryffindor wanting to congratulate them both, but eventually Harry and Ginny joined them in a more secluded corner of the room, to which Harry immediately brought out his wand and muttered. "Muffliato." He looked around to ensure that nobody was watching them too closely before going to begin, but a final look at Hermione gave him pause. "Oh, lighten up Hermione, you don't want other people listening in to this…" The brunette still closed her mouth tightly and crossed her arms with a huff, but Harry ignored her. "So before the game, I ran into Malfoy…"
Leo immediately wanted to groan, and both Harry and Ginny could sense it. "Please, listen. Something is up." Ginny insisted.
"It's the second game running where he has used the emptiness of the castle to do… something." Harry insisted. "If it hadn't been for Ron being in the Hospital Wing I might have asked Ginny to play as Seeker, but anyway… we've just been to see Ron in the Hospital Wing and were talking about it…"
"It's brilliant really, and it was all Ron's idea." Ginny said with a hint of surprise in her voice.
"Dobby is following him to see what he is up to." Harry finished off, his face beaming with pride. "We'll finally get the proof we need that Voldemort has given him something to do."
Leo looked over at Hermione who's eyes had narrowed in anger, but was still refusing to talk under the spell. "Is that fair on Dobby?" He asked for her, thinking of his rare experiences with Kreacher whenever he had been at Grimmauld Place. "House Elves take things really literally, if you just told him to keep an eye on Malfoy then he'll barely get any sleep…"
"We were careful." Ginny appeased him. "We had three of us, Dobby knows to sleep and to only follow Malfoy at certain times, away from classes."
Leo remained unconvinced, vowing to himself to call upon Kreacher that night and see if the House Elf of the House of Black would know any more. Before Harry could continue however the portrait was opened once more, and the room fell silent as Cormac McLaggen walked in.
"Oh boy." Hermione muttered, as Harry took the spell down and Ginny placed her hand on his wand arm, with Leo sensing that another conversation about the Gryffindor 7th year had occurred between them.
With another look over to Fay and Anna, who had finally moved over to talk to the 5th years, Leo noticed that his best friend once again looked worried. "I'll be back in a bit." He muttered quietly in the silence as he left his seat and made his way over towards Fay, noticing her grip his jumper arm tightly as he moved beside her.
"Don't stop celebrating on my account." McLaggen called out. "I just want to congratulate our new Keeper."
"Back off, Cormac." The 7th year prefect, Carl Hopkins, called out. "We don't want any trouble."
"Trouble?" Cormac retorted as he looked over towards Leo and Fay. "I won't be any trouble. I only spent the last 7 years dreaming of being Keeper, and despite a rigged try out I was the natural replacement…"
Leo took a single step to block McLaggen's path. "That's enough." He stated firmly.
"I just want to congratulate…"
"Yeah, you've said." Leo stated coldly, barely registering the fact that the entire House was staring at him now. "But you're causing a scene when all we want to do is celebrate the win, so back off."
"I'm causing a scene?" McLaggen exclaimed incredulously. "You're the one getting in my face, MacDonald." He stated, jabbing a finger into Leo's chest.
It was at that moment that Leo realised that McLaggen was at least half an inch taller than he was and built with far more muscle. If it came to muggle brawling Leo would be outmatched in an instant, and so his hand tightened around his wand in his pocket, staring coldly towards the 7th year as his mind raced through the best hexes to use if it came to it.
Harry then stood up from his table and called over. "This is exactly why you didn't get picked, McLaggen. Quidditch is a team game where we need to trust one another. If you're going to get like this when something doesn't go your way, why would I want you?"
Cormac was growing redder with anger and Leo had settled on the Jelly Leg Jinx, withdrawing his wand ever so slightly from his pocket when Carl Hopkins had closed the gap and pushed himself in between the pair. "That is enough. Break it up or you'll both get detentions." He stated firmly looking between McLaggen and Leo. "This is a party, act like it."
Leo stood deathly still however as he refused to back down until McLaggen turned away, finally sighing loudly in relief when the 7th year was marched up the Dormitory stairs by Carl. He turned back around to his friends where the first thing he noticed was Anna staring at him as if he had grown an extra head. "Bloody hell Leo, where did that come from?" The auburn-haired girl asked, breaking all the tension in the room as the music began once again and conversations returned.
He turned back to his friends and shrugged. "He's been lusting after Hermione all year and she's not been very complimentary about how he takes rejection; I didn't want him to get in Fay's face and have a go at her in the same way." He explained, turning to the darker haired 6th year girl. "Sorry Fay, I know you could have handled it but…"
"I'm glad you did." Fay insisted. "I'm so overwhelmed with everything I'd have probably just cried." She leaned in to hug him. "You're a good friend, Leo." She told him quietly, giving Leo a warm feeling of pride in his chest as he returned the hug, before they pulled apart again and Fay took a large gulp of butterbeer, inhaled an extremely deep breath, and made them all laugh with her final comment. "I think I'll stick to Gobstones in the future…"
Ron was released from the Hospital Wing on the Monday after the Quidditch Match and had immediately come to find Leo to praise him for what Leo considered to be an extremely overexaggerated version of what had happened in the Common Room of an actual dual occurring between the pair, a tale that seemed to be the story being spread around the castle and had led Leo to frequent the secret passages through the castle to get around to his lessons, something that was intended to avoid both Cormac McLaggen's retaliation, as well as people asking him for the thousandth time what it had been like to cast the Cornflake Skin Jinx.
As such the library became a home away from the Common Room, more often than it had been beforehand. Together with Hermione after her Wednesday afternoon double potions lesson they had bunkered down for the evening, and Leo must have read all the books relating to Dark Magic thrice over since lunch without even a mention of the word Horcrux in any of them, as well as reading all of the news articles about Hogwarts Students over the last 40 years in a hope to find the identity of the Half Blood Prince. Neither were giving up any form of information however and so while Hermione was stubbornly continuing, Leo had changed his approach and instead had begun to research the Gaunt family, an old Pure Blood family directly descended from Salazar Slytherin himself that Harry was being taught all about in his lessons with Professor Dumbledore.
As a part of the Sacred 28, there was an abundance of information on the House of Gaunt up until the turn of the 20th Century, where all information seemed to just disappear after a news article about an influx of Dragon Pox killing a number of the male line. One descendant of the House had even travelled across the Atlantic and founded a school in the New World… but that branch seemed to die out in the 18th century with the current Ilvermorny being useless when it came to information about the Gaunt's that would be directly linked to You-Know-Who, so that was no help to their current predicament. Leo closed his latest book slightly too vigorously, causing Hermione to peer over her own at him. "Nothing?" She asked.
Leo shook his head, turning to the next book all about Ranrok's Rebellion in the hope of any word being mentioned on Marvolo Gaunt's generation when his bag began to vibrate. Cursing under his breath, Leo quickly waved his wand, muttering what seemed to be each 6th year Gryffindor's favourite spell. "Muffliato."
Each 6th year barring Hermione, who once again tutted at the use of the Half Blood Prince's knowledge as Leo withdrew his communication mirror out. "Sirius." He said quietly, his eyes darting to make sure the spell had worked.
"Leo! I've not caught you at a bad time, no?" The elder man asked.
Shaking his head, Leo replied. "I have a free afternoon on Wednesday and I'm up to date with homework, we're just in the library trying to help Harry out about the You-Know-What's while Professor Slughorn is still being stubborn."
The grin that rapidly appeared on Sirius' face was completely unexpected. "Well, I think I can help you out there." Though it disappeared just as quickly as Sirius looked away from the mirror and stared into his other hand, where Leo presumed he had a book."
Hermione must have come to the same conclusion as almost instantly she had moved around the table to sit closely beside Leo, to the extent that her hair began to tickle his neck as she leaned in. "You've found something?" She asked Sirius eagerly.
"Something is the right word…" Sirius nodded, as his face began to look pale. "This book Hermione… I cannot in good conscious even try and disguise it so you can read it. The things in these pages could get me sent back to Azkaban if I'm caught sharing it out with students, and I don't say that lightly. I remember my Mother complaining about Professor Dumbledore stealing it from the school library back when she was in school when I was younger, as she believed it to be essential reading." He clenched his jaw tightly. "But it has information on how to create these Horcruxes, and more importantly, how to destroy them."
The students looked at one another with a mix of both excitement and horror. "Thank you." Hermione was quick to say. "Can I at least see?"
"Be quick." Leo muttered, looking around again to make sure nobody was watching them, before a check of his watch. "We have half an hour until dinner."
"It won't take that long." Sirius shrugged, setting the mirror down so that all they could see was the ceiling. "It's barely a couple of pages." A couple of pages that took a determined Hermione mere minutes to scribble down onto a new bit of parchment. "I've combed through everything I can in this place though, and while there's an abundance about the most obscene magic you can think of, this is all I could find about Horcruxes."
"This is a big help." Leo admitted, reading the scribbles Hermione was writing out and wincing at the descriptions. "Even if they're… unnerving."
"If Voldemort has created one of them then finding it needs to be our biggest priority." Sirius admitted. "But until Dumbledore tells us about it…" He sighed. "It feels like last year again, wanting do something but being cooped up in this dump instead." He grumbled the last couple of words miserably
"At least you have Mum." Leo noted, trying to cheer them all up.
There was a pause, to which Leo could imagine the nod of realisation that could have followed. "You make a good point. She can't wait to see you, by the way. Sends her love and wants to make sure you're prepared for your Apparition exam."
Leo groaned. "They've scheduled it for the 21st. A great way to spend my coming of age…"
"No better way to do it!" Sirius retorted chirpily. "Once you can Apparate my boy not even the sky is the limit! Well, under normal circumstances…"
The silence that followed made Leo think of all the ways the current war was affecting his life. Sirius was right, normally after returning home this summer he would have spent his days practicing his wand work and apparition out by the Loch, though the reality was that he would likely be cooped up in Grimmauld Place again. "I guess I can join the Order." He muttered.
"Not quite, not until you're out of school." Sirius stated, perhaps the most parental that he had ever been. "Dumbledore's orders."
"I'm done!" Hermione exclaimed. "Now, to make sure that nobody finds it… Inconspiculum." She whispered, waving her wand delicately over each line. Leo watched as the ink seemed to soak into the parchment, leaving it almost as fresh as it had been brand new. She then marked the corner with a scribble that Leo couldn't quite decipher.
"I better burn this now then." Sirius muttered with a slight smirk telling Leo that even Sirius Black knew that certain books were too valuable to just destroy despite their contents being awful. "And Buckbeak needs cleaning out, so I best let you two go."
"Thank you again, Sirius." Hermione stated quickly. "This is a great help; we'll go right to Harry."
Leo nodded his agreement. "And hopefully we can think of some way to try and persuade Professor Slughorn…"
"Good luck with that." Sirius snorted. "If Harry can't… well, some things are beyond even the memory of Lily I guess."
With a final wave, Sirius' face shimmered and disappeared, leaving Leo looking at himself once again. He stuffed the mirror back in his bag along with his own writing tools, noticing Hermione do the same. "We need to make sure that parchment doesn't get lost."
"I'm already on it." She smiled, stuffing it inside her robes. "This is a breakthrough; we do really need to go and tell Harry."
Looking at his watch Leo noticed that it was close to 6 o'clock. "We've almost missed dinner as it is." He said. "Let's go and eat, and we can show him afterwards. We've earned a break I think."
Hermione seemingly agreed as she pulled her bag strap over her shoulder. "I couldn't agree more." She said, grabbing a handful of books to put back before the pair of them made their way out of the library, both pleased with the progress they'd ended up making.
Reviews:
Proxygalaxy2.0: This isn't something I'm looking for, sorry.
SkepticPrinceArthur: That's my favourite type of Sirius and why it's so tragic that he's killed early, because he was truly on Harry's side and in Harry's corner.
Lightningscar: They really dropped the ball on a lot in the 6th movie and Apparation was one of those things… something I hope they amend in the upcoming show for sure! That was something I thought about including a small mention in but it didn't feel like quite the right time for a drop of humour.