I leave the girl’s bathroom while still invisible, feeling happy with myself and triumphant. Lizzy is always the playful one in our relationship, I’m always the serious one due to my experience these two years. It feels good to start the fun for once. I almost start skipping like a kid when I see Stacia standing in front of the girl’s bathroom, looking determined. I look at the boy’s bathroom on the other side of the corridor and I go there quietly and thankfully the door is open and I enter, relieved. Thank you, Lizzy for teaching me this invisblo spell. I check the bathroom but no one’s here, everyone is in class already. I’ll be late for Amycus’s class, and I don’t care. That’s the beauty of being a death eater. The only beauty to be honest. I take a few minutes in the bathroom. When I get out I find Stacia still standing in the same spot, it’s like she’s on the lookout for something or someone. I get suspicious. I get more suspicious when she sees me and her eyes go wide.
“H…How did you?” She asks pointing from the girls’ bathroom to the boys’ bathroom. She saw me following Lizzy there! Bloody hell! All I cared about was to go after her, I didn’t even care who saw me. Stupid and careless!
“What?” I ask harshly.
She shakes a little and composes herself, “Why aren’t you in class?” She asks innocently.
“Good question. Why aren’t YOU in class?” I ask her with anger.
“I…It’s… I’m… Pa…” She stutters, sweating.
“Well, I’m not going to ask you again. You get one more chance, and I’ll get the answer out of you, whether you like it or not. And it won’t be pretty.” I threaten calmly.
“Pansy thought you went inside after this Miller girl and she went in to look for you.” She rushes the words, they nearly stumble over one another.
Heat reaches my head in seconds. Lizzy is in there alone with Pansy. She can hurt her. Lizzy is strong and smart but Pansy is angry and evil. I try to speak as calmly as I can, “Go to class, Now!” I raise my voice in the end. And Stacia runs to class.
As soon as she disappears I run to the girls’ bathroom. I push the door harshly and what I see is the most horrifying, breaking and horrible thing I’ve ever seen. Pansy is standing over Lizzy’s body, horrified. And Lizzy… is that even her? Her body is blue, eyes are wide open but they don’t see anything, and her body is all twisted in the wrong places.
All the air escapes my body. “What the Hell did you do?” My voice, it’s not my voice. It’s a thick high pitch I don’t even recognize.
Pansy backs away from Lizzy’s body shaking her head, “I don’t…I didn’t…” She stutters.
I could kill her, I could kill her right now. But I need her help. “Go now! Get Snape to go to the hospital.” She looks at me, still frozen. “Now!” I scream and she runs out of the door.
Sometimes in the worst situations in life, when you think you’re going to break, it’s exactly the time when you can think the clearest and act with calmness and bravery. I guess this is my moment. I carry Lizzy’s body off the ground. Her skin is still soft but all underneath it is hard. I can’t imagine what that could be. I don’t want to imagine. I rush to the hospital with her in my arms.
As I enter the hospital Madam Pomfery sees me “Oh dear, I’ll be right behind you. Put her on a cot there.” She says and runs to her office.
I put Lizzy’s body down gently on a cot and lean close to her. I can’t look at her, not when she looks so… I can’t even say it. I can’t even think it. I can’t lose her. Suddenly I remember the pendant she gave me to keep me safe, she took it off to give it to me, she cared about my own safety more than hers. I hold the tears from coming out as I take off the pendant and put it around her neck, “Please keep her safe. Please come back to me, Lizzy. Please don’t leave me.” I beg in her ears and kiss her forehead and move away when I hear steps rushing into the hospital wing.
