Golden | h.p

57| Astronomy Tower

Thanks to Diana's mind wipe he had no idea why he woke up on the ground of the bathroom. Diana explained to her friends that she figured out how to control her Sapphire Witch side, which made Hermione ecstatic. They had been in the common room talking about this when Diana got an idea. 

"I guess I should tell you about a vision I had" Diana lied. "What happened? Is it Bonnie again?" Hermione asked, a hint of worry in her voice. "No, thankfully. It was of Harry and the Half Blood Prince book" Diana went on and this got Harry interest. "Did you have a vision on who's the book is?" Harry asked.

"No... I have a theory about that but it's not important right now. Harry, you used that spell Sectumsepra against someone as self defense and you almost killed the person" Diana said slowly, Ron snatched the book out of Harry's hand once he heard that. "Let's burn the bloody book" Ron said.

"I'd never use that spell. I don't even know what It does" Harry told Diana, who knew that was the truth to him but seeing as he used the spell a few hours ago she didn't want to risk it.

"It's still not safe. That spell could be one of many things that are dangerous in that book and seeing as neither of us know what it has in store it's only best to get rid of it" Diana told Harry. "I agree with Diana" Hermione said, to which Ron nodded. 

"Must we burn it? Can't we keep in hidden? In the Room of Requirements, for example" Harry said. "Hell no. We don't need to pull a Jumanji" Ron exclaimed.

"Jumanji?" Harry asked. "In a movie this board game is living hell and instead of destroying it the people buried it underground only for a new group of teenager to find it many years later and getting trapped in Jumanji once again" Diana said.

"I think it's best if Diana burn this hell book. Fire is her specialty after all" Ron said and placed book on the table. Harry and Hermione nodded. Diana focused for a moment, her eyes turning blue and she said "Phesmatos Incendia" and watched blue flames burn the book. The table wasn't burning seeing as Diana had full control over the fire.

"That is so cool" Ron mumbled. Hermione rolled her eyes in a joking manner. Once the book was gone the four sighed in relief, Hermione being glad it was gone. 

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The next afternoon Ron and Harry had been walking through the corridors. Slughorn had found himself in the same hallway as the two and then turned around and left almost immediately. "No luck with Slughorn?" Ron asked the raven haired boy, "luck... that's it. I need a little luck" Harry mumbled.

While in the common room Harry opened his bottle of liquid luck. Drinking it in an instant. Hermione and Ron waiting anxiously to see if it worked, while Diana sat on the staircase waiting.

She was thrilled to have become stronger thanks to Aurelia's magic but once she was done worrying about he Sapphire Spawn she realized her and Harry were barely even dating anymore. 'He has his priorities... I'll just be getting in the way of that. Best to stay away for a while' Diana thought. 

"Well? How do you feel?" Hermione asked Harry seeing his expression change once he drank the potion. "Excellent. Really excellent" Harry replied as he stood up from the couch. "Remember, Slughorn usually eats early, takes a walk, then returns to his office" Hermione said. "Right... I'm going down to Hagrid's" Harry said as he walked past them.

"No! Harry, you've got to go speak to Slughorn" Hermione exclaimed. "We have a plan" Ron reminded him. "I know. But I've got a really good feeling about Hagrid's, like it's the place to be tonight. Do you know what I mean?" Harry asked. "No" Ron and Hermione replied in unison.

"Trust me. I know what I'm doing, or at least Felix does" Harry said as he turned around and began walking out. "Maybe one of us should go with you" Ron spoke out. "Diana can go. Make sure you stay on task" Hermione suggested.

"No, it's fine. She'll just get in the way" Harry said as he walked out, not aware Diana had been in the room. 

Hermione and Ron turned to Diana, who did seem surprised. "He didn't mean that. He's high on Liquid Luck" Ron told Diana. "He's right either way" she said. "I'm gonna go write a letter to my aunt Caroline, it's been a while since I last wrote to her" Diana mumbled as she walked up stairs to her dorm. 

~~~

It had been hours since Harry left. He came back and told Hermione and Ron everything he had learned plus some information Dumbledore told him afterwards. He noticed Diana wasn't with Ron or Hermione, but didn't bother to go look for her right away.

Meanwhile Diana had been up in the Astronomy Tower rereading 'The Outsiders' while cloaked with her invisibility spell. Diana had actually heard a rather interesting conversation between Dumbledore and Snape. 'Snape's playing a double agent' Diana thought as she flipped the page of her book, unbothered until she put two and two together.

'The unbreakable vow he made with the Malfoy family must be related to... he's gonna kill Dumbledore. Draco has been tasked to do so but seeing as he clearly isn't the biggest fan of the tattoo on his arm he'll chicken out last minute and Snape will swoop in and kill Dumbledore for him. That would be why Snape looked disappointed at the poison Mead that Malfoy tried poisoning Dumbledore with or why Snape's been hovering over Draco the entire year' Diana figured it out.

Diana saw Harry walking up the steps of the Astronomy Tower. He looked around as he assumed Diana would be there, seeing as she was still cloaked he didn't see her. But she did hear him and Dumbledore above her, she also saw them teleport out of the tower. Diana wasn't sure what to do with the information but she was almost certain that Dumbledore was aware of his upcoming death.

She ended up leaving the Astronomy Tower and going toward the Room or Requirements. Diana uncloaked herself while running. She made it to the entrance but felt someone grab her wrist and pull her to the side. "Do you have a death wish?" Malfoy asked her rather harshly. 

"It's happening tonight, isn't it?" Diana asked, he nodded slowly. "You can't be here when it does" he told Diana, she was about to say something but he did first, "the Death Eaters and Voldemort think you're dead. It's best to keep it that way".

"I was supposed to use you. Voldemort knows about Aurelia Bennet and he wanted to use your magic. He wanted me to get close to you and then turn you into him. I lied and told him that you killed yourself after fining out about Aurelia" Malfoy told her. 

Diana didn't know what to day. The only three words she could think of were "what the fuck". "I suggest you use your invisibility spell and get as far away from this as possible. I wasn't able to do anything to you. No Death Eater will hesitate the way I did" he said.

She cast the invisibility spell and ended up running to the Gryffindor tower. She had put a barrier spell on the entrance of the door, just in case anyone tried leaving while Death Eaters roamed around the school. She then did the same to Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. 

Once that was done and over with she made her way to the Astronomy Tower, knowing it was the place she most definitely was not supposed to be in. But she knew Harry would be there and she wanted to make sure he was okay. 

Diana made it to where she was reading earlier and where Harry was no waiting anxiously. She cloaked him as well, know he was able to see her as they were both under the same spell. "Do you have a death wish?" Harry asked her quietly. "You're not the first person to ask me that in the last hour, so, maybe" Diana whispered back.

They heard Malfoy's voice from above them. Harry looked up and saw him pointing his wand at Dumbledore. "I knew it" Harry muttered quietly, Diana shook her head so he would shut up. Harry was listening to every word that was being exchanged while Diana was lost in thought.