Lost : A Harry Potter Fan Fiction (Sequel To Run)

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Chapter 13: An unlucky number?
(wearing this)
I wake up in the morning and realise its Christmas Day! I let myself get really excited just to look at the clock and see that it is 5am. I could not get back to sleep and then I remember the book that I had been given at 10 years old on my last day of school when my mom wanted me to be homeschooled before I got my Hogwarts letter. I miss my old friends but they'll have gone to muggle high school. Some of my best memories were at that school and that's probably going to change but it is hard. I pick up the book of Grimms fairy tales from my trunk after taking down the protective enchantments I put around it, a little silly for a book but it's all I have left from muggle school. I open it and begin to read the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. I hear footsteps come down the stairs and wonder who else could be up at this time.
"Guess who?" Said cedric
"What are you doing up?" I ask
"I could say the same to you."
"Couldn't sleep, now you."
"Couldn't sleep."
"Okay." I say and let my attention fall back to my book for it to be taken away from me.
"what cha reading?" he said and looks at the book
"if you don't give it back I'll get uncle rem to get you."
"Really those tactics?" He asked in disbelief
"yup so book please!" I say cheerfully
"fine." He says an hands the book over.
"Thank you. This book means a lot to me you know." I say seriously

"Oh yeah? And whys that?" He asks
"Because I was given this book on my last day of muggle school and funnily enough I always read it when I can't sleep so I can remember the times when we would sit on the carpet and listen to the teacher read from a copy of this book." I explain
"Wow, what a tale."
"I know right, there's not a day that goes by where I miss them but remember that I have you lot to keep me on my toes." I say and smile at him
"Don't cry because it is over, Smile because it happened."
"What?"
"Don't cry because you miss them, smile because it happened that you knew them."
"I'll try to remember that."
"Merry Christmas, Olivia." He says
"Merry Christmas, Cedric." I reply and he leans down and kisses me but still it doesn't feel right. Tiny sparks were felt in the kiss not the things you were meant to feel or are they just a myth? We sit on the sofa and read from my book after that.
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So it's 7am now and I am still sat on the sofa with Cedric. I yawn and stretch, closing the book whilst I do.
"I'm going to see if Holly is awake and then we can open our presents together." I say standing up and tucking the book under my arm.
"okay, I'll bring mine down to the common room so that we can open them together." He said getting up.
"Okay." I say and we go up to our separate dorms. I walk up to my dorm to hear Holly calling my name from the other side of the door. I sneak in to the room and under my own bed which is this year near the door. I wait for her to walk over to
My bed and grab her ankles. She screams.
"Woah bitch calm your tits." I say getting out from under the bed trying hard not to laugh
"Really?!? A Christmas prank?" She splutters.
"Don't think about that, think of how we are all going to open our presents together in the common room." I say
"You told me to calm my tits didn't you?"
"No?" I say but it sounds like more of a question.
"Okay. Sure! Let's just go downstairs."
"Two minutes, you go ahead I just need to check something." I say and she just gathers her presents and goes down the stairs. I carefully take my book out from under the bed and place it in my trunk under the same enchantments to stop people from taking it without permission. I gather up my own wrapped presents a bit at a time when I notice one that says: Open alone love Remus
I left that one under my bed for later on today when I could get the chance to open it. I take the rest of the presents down to the common room where Cedric and holly were both waiting.
"Sorry I took so long, I had to deal with something." I say and they nod
"Okay so now that we're all here let's open some presents!" Said Holly enthusiastically
"Let's do it!" I say and Cedric had already started on a present from his mother.
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The floor was strewn with Christmas wrapping paper and I had even received a present from Harry, Ron, Ginny and Ron's mom. Then I noticed Venustas outside tapping to be let in with a parcel clutched in her talons. I point upstairs and she flies to my dormitory window.
"I'm going to go get changed and thank you for the lovely presents." I say and pick up the Presents I had received and walked up to my dormitory to let Venustas in the window. I soon reach my dormitory and rush inside. I race over to the window to let Venustas in through it and she flies in and drops the package on my bed and flies back out again. I close the window once again and open the mysterious package on my bed. A note was attached to the outside. It said:
​thanks for all your help with food hope you like this I had it made a long time ago. - SB.
​ I carefully open the package to reveal a why so Sirius t shirt and a pair of earrings that had a black dog on them. I sigh and think 'gods sake Sirius. I didn't get you anything you daft dog.'
I hide the shirt in my trunk along with the earrings and the note knowing if these were found I would have a lot of questions to answer and since I was alone in the room I decided that I could open Remus' present but with the curtains of my bed shut and locked with a locking charm. I took the present out of its hiding spot and place it on my bed, I then close the curtains and place an advanced locking charm on them and begin to slowly open the present. I tear away the paper to find a guitar, a hufflepuff notepad and a heart locket. I say with the guitar in my hands and placed a silencing charm on my curtains and remembered the guitar chords I had learned in year 4 of muggle school. I played a little and decided to write a song to play to Remus when I see him tomorrow. I'd have to do that later though because Cedric and Holly are both waiting for me downstairs. I take down my silencing and locking charms down from my curtains and shrink the guitar so that it will fit into the most protective bit of my trunk. i then get a quick shower and get changed into this . once i was changed i walked down the stairs to the common room where Holly and Cedric were both waiting. I walk into the common room to see Holly and Cedric waiting for me and i guess Holly had been up to get changed already.
"I came up but you were in the shower." she said
"Okay." i say and turn to Cedric who hadn't said a word, "You okay?"
"Huh, what? Erm...yeah." he said
"What's up?" i ask him and sit down next to him.
"You look beautiful today."
"And whats wrong with me any other day of the week? " i say and he gulps
"I...Well-"
"I'm joking silly." i laugh and he pouts
"that wasn't funny."
"Come on its Christmas." i say
"Nope."
"Come on Ced. Please."
"Fine.' he says and i get up but he pulls me back down.
"Hey!"
"Not getting away that easily."
"What do you want?" i say but he kisses me. once we broke apart i look at him "Really?"
"Yeah pretty much." he says as he lets me get up.
"happy now?"
"yup lets get breakfast from the kitchens."
"Why the kitchens?" asked holly
"He just likes the fact the house elves have big plates of food, we are not interrupting the house elves at work today of all days."
"But-"
"They'll be busy enough as it is, okay?"
"Okay. we'll go to the great hall then," he says and we all make our way to the great hall for breakfast.
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I left Holly and Cedric in a rather heated snowball fight with the few people who had stayed behind for the holidays. i ran up to my dorm to get a song ready for when i see my godfather tomorrow. i take out the guitar from it's hiding place and resize it so that it is back to normal. I put a locking and silencing charm on my curtains and start to write the song. I chose a few guitar chords and sing whatever comes to mind and if i like it i write it down. It takes a few hours but eventually I have got a new song written into the yellow book and to pass the rest of the morning I transferred all of my older songs into the new book so that i had them all in one place but kept the old versions of them in my trunk.
About 11 o clock, I had finished so i shrunk the guitar back down to its previously shrunken state so that it would fit back into my trunk. I place the guitar and the book in my trunk again in the most protective bit and pick up my wand. I walk down to the common room and sit in a chair by the fire but i could also just see out of the window. The snow ball fight between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff is still going on but we were losing, I'm a witch so why don't i help them out? I open the window and jinxed some snowballs to hit all of the Gryffindor students playing the snowball game and whilst this was going on Holly and Cedric both look up bewildered and i wave to them.
An hour of me messing with the game, Holly and Cedric both come in from the fight. "Hi, guys. Did we win?' I ask with a grin on my face.
"Yeah. after a bunch of snowballs were enchanted to go after the Gryffindors and near the end the Gryffindors that were covered in a wave of snow. do you know anything about that?" asks Cedric
"Even if I did, you did win."
"So we did. Let us go get changed and we'll go for christmas dinner." he said
"Okay then."
-In the Great Hall-
We got to the Great hall expecting the 4 House tables but only the main staff table remained.
"As there is so few of us we thought it would be silly to sit out the house tables. come and sit down." said Dumbledore as we walked in. We sat down across from a couple of familiar Gryffindors.
"Hi, Olivia." said one
"Harry?"
"Yeah?"
"Hey! Merry Christmas. Thank you for the present." I say with a smile and notice Ron, " Merry Christmas to you too Ron. Thank you for the bag."
"Merry Christmas, Thanks for our presents too." said Harry whilst Ron just nodded. I turn back to Dumbledore.
"Merry Christmas Professor." I say and before he could reply a mystical looking woman came rushing in. She was saying something about it being foretold that she would join us for Christmas dinner.
"I daren't sit with you professor dumbledore. When 13 dine the first to rise dies." she said
"I think we will risk it." said Professor McGonagall and I just zoned out.
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I had zoned out and hardly ate any of the turkey and trimmings that the house elves had prepared all morning. All of a sudden the woman Screamed in horror. I jumped a little but only Cedric noticed. "Which one of you rose first?" she screamed
"We both did at the same time." said Harry
"But how do we know which one dies?"
"How about we see which one drops dead in the next ten seconds and then we'll know." I say
"This is no laughing matter!" she said seriously
"Yeah and Ronald over there likes to dress up as a pink fairy princess(!)" I say with my voice dripping with sarcasm
"Hey!" Said ron as Harry and the others start laughing at him.
I just raise my eyebrow and say coolly crossing my arms " Harry there, likes to be a ballerina and Cedric here Loves to be a pretty princess too." I swear i got a smile from snape before i continued even more " Oh yeah, And as I recall Snape is a Drag queen at the weekends and rocks it too, heard he owned a vulture stuffed hat ! Now if you don't mind I will be going now." I finish and leave the hall quickly before any hexes could be fired. It's stupid all of this superstition just for nothing. It's really quite annoying. I find my feet making their way to the room of requirement. 13 is not Unluckier or Luckier than any of the other numbers. I walk through the door of the Room of requirement to a different sort of room, it still had a piano but it held different instruments too and some kind of magical microphone. A sheet of paper fell at my feet it said:
Congratulations!
You have found the Old music room where I studied music in my years at hogwarts. I will teach you one thing in this note which is how to use the violins and make the instruments play themselves without any aid from you just a song idea in mind.
1. Picture the instruments you want to play at the times in the song
2. think of a vague melody line that each instrument will play
3. Say the words 'musica sit fabula'
4. the music will play so you can sing.
Follow the steps and master the room. I created this magic so enjoy
from
Maya Waterson
I look at the note in disbelief and tried it with the violins and an old song stuck in my head and they picked themselves up and started playing the thing i had tried on the piano only it sounds better. I did it again this time adding different instruments such as drums. It took a few hours but eventually I had lyrics to put to the melody I had mapped out.
Unknown Object (pretend she wrote this)
Remember all the things we wanted
Now all our memories, they're haunted
We were always meant to say goodbye
Even with our fists held high
It never would have worked out right, yeah
We were never meant for do or die
I didn't want us to burn out
I didn't come here to hurt you now I can't stop

I want you to know
That it doesn't matter
Where we take this road
But someone's gotta go
And I want you to know
You couldn't have loved me better
But I want you to move on
So I'm already gone

Looking at you makes it harder
But I know that you'll find another
That doesn't always make you wanna cry
It started with the perfect kiss then
We could feel the poison set in
"Perfect" couldn't keep this love alive
You know that I love you so
I love you enough to let you go

I want you to know
That it doesn't matter
Where we take this road
But someone's gotta go
And I want you to know
You couldn't have loved me better
But I want you to move on
So I'm already gone

And I'm already gone, I'm already gone
You can't make it feel right
When you know that it's wrong
I'm already gone, already gone
There's no moving on
So I'm already gone

Ah already gone, already gone, already gone
Ah already gone, already gone, already gone

Remember all the things we wanted
Now all our memories, they're haunted
We were always meant to say goodbye

I want you to know
That it doesn't matter
Where we take this road
But someone's gotta go
And I want you to know
You couldn't have loved me better
But I want you to move on
So I'm already gone

And I'm already gone, I'm already gone
You can't make it feel right
When you know that it's wrong
I'm already gone, already gone
There's no moving on
So I'm already gone

I finished and collected up the sheets where i had written down the melody and lyrics and the note that had appeared and shrunk them so that they would fit in my pocket. I left the room and went straight to the common room. I sat and read my Grimms fairy tale book and the rest of the afternoon passed without much event. At dinner, there were still a few giggles about lunch and my argument with the woman who turned out to be Sybil Trelawney, the school divination teacher... Oops?
I went to bed at Midnight and fell asleep.
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I Am SO sorry! I was meant to upload this chapter earlier but Quotev found it funny to delete it so i have sat and re-written it and its not as good and not as long so i really hope you enjoy this and tell me what you want to see in these stories
Merry Christmas :)

Kelsey Dunford <3