When she got to her dorm, Laura was glad she hadn't crossed paths with any one she didn't particularly like. She immediately got out some spare parchment and started writing to Moony.
𝓗𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓸 𝓜𝓸𝓸𝓷𝔂,
𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓷! 𝓡𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻 𝓱𝓸𝔀 𝓘 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓭 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝓵𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓪𝓰𝓸 𝓱𝓸𝔀 𝓰𝓵𝓪𝓭 𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓷𝓸 𝔀𝓪𝔂 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓱𝓲𝓶 𝓽𝓸 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓭? 𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝔀𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰. 𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂'𝓼 𝓷𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓖𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓮𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓱𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓽𝓱 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓹𝓲𝓸𝓷. 𝓗𝓸𝓰𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓼 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓹𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓒𝓮𝓭𝓻𝓲𝓬. 𝓕𝓵𝓮𝓾𝓻 𝓓𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓻 (𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓫𝓮𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷 𝓘'𝓿𝓮 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓷, 𝓲𝓯 𝓘'𝓶 𝓫𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓱𝓸𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓽), 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓥𝓲𝓴𝓽𝓸𝓻 𝓚𝓻𝓾𝓶.
𝓘𝓷 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓼, 𝓶𝔂 𝓫𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻, 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓽 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝔃𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓪 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓵𝔂 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓹𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹 𝓸𝓯 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱, 𝓶𝔂 𝓫𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓱𝓪𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓪𝓷 𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓾𝓫𝓫𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓢𝓷𝓪𝓹𝓮'𝓼 𝓸𝓯𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓻. 𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓮𝓵𝓼𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝓯𝓸𝓻?
𝓢𝓽𝓪𝔂 𝓼𝓪𝓯𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓸𝓷𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘'𝓵𝓵 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓲𝓷 𝓷𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴.
𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓪
(𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓪𝓿𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓰𝓸𝓭𝓭𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓻)
After having sent the letter, Laura quickly went to bed, not wanting to be awake when roommates walked in. The next morning, Laura woke early and went straight to breakfast, sitting down at the Gryffindor table beside Ginny, Ron and Hermione.
"Good morning," she greeted them. Hermione and Ginny responded with a smile, but Ron didn't even look her way. "Where's Harry?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Ron spat at her. Fred, George and now Ron too?
"Excuse me, Ronald, can I ask you what the bloody hell you mean?" She snapped. "Have I been hit by a curse where all the Weasley's suddenly hate me, or something?"
"Only the idiot ones," Ginny mumbled.
"Ron thinks you helped Harry enter his name in the Goblet of Fire," Hermione explained to her. Laura frowned at the ginger boy.
"Well, he obviously didn't do it himself," Ron argued.
"He obviously didn't do it at all, you mean," Laura responded, shaking her head. "What makes you think he entered his name in a deadly tournament, Ron? Why on earth would he ever do that?"
"Why wouldn't he?" Ron countered.
"Because he's a fourth year competing against wizards of age? Because this was his chance of living through a normal, calm school year? Because it's plain stupid to enter if you know you have no chance of winning?" Laura stood up. "Hermione, where's Harry?"
"He's at the black lake with Neville," Hermione told her, shaking her head at Ron's idiocy. "They've been trying to figure out the first task."
"Thanks," she said and grabbed an apple, leaving them at the table and heading outside.
Slytherin's and Hufflepuff's alike wore pins making fun of Harry. Laura tried her best to keep to herself, but when she spotted Cedric laughing with his friends, she couldn't stop herself from walking over there.
"Seriously, Cedric?" she called. Cedric turned around, his friends snickering at Laura for some reason.
"Sorry about the pins," he told her, a ghost of a smile on his face. Some Hufflepuff snorted behind him and Cedric gave him a look, making him stop immediately. "I've asked them to not wear them, but Malfoy's been distributing them around."
"That's real funny," she snapped at him. "I thought you were better than this, honestly."
"I'm, sorry Little Potter, but your brother is the enemy now-"
"Excuse you, don't call me that," Laura cut him off. "Be better, Diggory."
Laura walked off before hearing his response, but she didn't miss the laughter from his Hufflepuff friends. She ignored them, however, continuing her way to the black lake.
A/N HERE'S THE LETTER IN A NORMAL FONT
Hello Moony,
Happy Halloween! Remember how I said two letters ago how glad I was that Harry was underage and therefore there was no way for him to get involved? I was wrong. Harry's name came out of the Goblet of Fire and now he's the fourth champion. Hogwarts has two champions, the other being Cedric. Fleur Delacour (the most beautiful person I've ever seen, if I'm being honest), and Viktor Krum.
In other words, my brother is in mortal danger, competing against over age Wizards in a deadly championship of death, my best friends are still not talking to me, and I just had to spend an hour scrubbing Snape's office floors and walls. What else could I wish for?
Stay safe Moony, I'll write back again next week.
Laura
(your favourite goddaughter)
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