Effervescence | h.p.

i | xxxxi. ghost in the wind

Maybe Harry should have asked if Lyra wanted to go to the library with him. Not necessarily because she desperately wanted to go, but because he would've been able to notice how she was not in her dorm.

He would've had the opportunity to spend a night with his friend and maybe he could have rescued her.

You may be asking, "What are you talking about?" Well, that's the fun of being the Chosen One, isn't it? Not knowing what'll happen to you and when it'll happen.
———

Lyra was walking to the Astronomy Tower. She was tired, yes, but she couldn't seem to fall asleep. She blamed it on it being the first night she was back at Hogwarts after the two week long holiday.

She was alone the trip there and the whole time she watched the stars above while the clouds rolled by, but she wasn't alone on the trip back to Gryffindor Tower.

"Miss Lupin-Black?" a voice asked from behind her.

She recognized it, but it wasn't the kind of recognition that she could identify this person without looking at them. It was a kind of recognition where she felt she might have an idea of where she met the person, but no specific features about them. So she turned around.

"Mr. Nott," she said quietly with surprise. "I wasn't expecting to see you here, sir."

"I could say the same for you, Miss Lupin-Black," Theodore Nott's father, Tiberius Nott, replied. "Out past curfew — alone?"

"I wasn't able to fall asleep," she muttered back with a pale blush tinting her cheeks. "Well, I had better be getting back to the common room. Goodnight, Mr. Nott," she nodded, turning away from the man she had met at the Malfoy Ball.

"Excuse my asking, Miss Lupin-Black," Tiberius stopped her, "but I was wondering if you could tell me about your beautiful necklace. I saw it at the Ball and have been wondering about it ever since."

"Oh, um — okay," she stuttered, turning back to face her friend's father. "It can bring me different places, similarly to apparation."

"And how do you do it?" he asked, stepping closer to her.

"Well, er — you — you open it, say where you want to go, and close it," she lied, leaving out a very crucial detail as to not reveal everything to Mr. Nott.

"And does it work within Hogwarts?" Tiberius asked as he approached the girl more.

"I-I don't know. I really should be going, Mr. Nott," Lyra said, chuckling humorlessly and awkwardly as she turned on her heels to run back to Gryffindor Tower. That was, until Tiberius grabbed her wrist.

"Hey — "

"I wasn't finished, Miss Lupin-Black," he stopped her. "Will you join me on a walk to Hogsmeade Village?" he asked, but before he received a response, he answered for her, "lovely."

He cast a silencing charm on the girl so her screams would go unheard. He wrapped his arms tightly around her, carrying her out of the castle undetected. He practically dragged her body to Hogsmeade — where he would be able to apparate.

"You could have woken me up," said Ron, crossly.

"You can come tonight, I'm going back, I want to show you the mirror."

"I'd like to see your family," said Ron eagerly.

"And I want to see all your family, all the Weasleys, you'll be able to show me your other brothers and everyone."

"You can see them at any old time," said Ron. "Just come round my house this summer. Anyways, maybe it only shows dead people. Shame about not finding Flamel, though. Have some bacon or something, why aren't you eating anything?"