School Courtyard - Day
Bundled against the chill, Harry - burdened by heavy thoughts - enters the empty courtyard, Hedwig on his arm. As he releases her, she sails high over the castle walls... wending her way through the turrets and then out over the wintry grounds, her reflection glimmering on the surface of the icy lake below.
As she turns, beating her way back, the dark sky lightens, turning a slow, glorious blue and the once-dark trees shimmer in the crisp Spring light. Hogwarts itself shimmers as well, no longer dusted with snow. Hedwig glides over the castle walls, swoops, and comes to a fluttering rest outside one of the high windows of the Great Hall.
"Hogwarts always looked so beautiful at Yule." Narcissa sighed.
"If any we had the traditions, then Hogwarts would shine." Zoe told her mother-in-law.
Great Hall - Day
Hermione - book in hand - quizzes Ron, who seems more interested in the pack of Chocolate Frogs in his hand.
"I'll ask you again. What are the three most crucial ingredients in a Forgetfulness Potion?" Hermione asks.
"And I'll tell you again. I forgot." Rom repeated.
"And what, may I ask, do you plan to do should you get that question on final exams?" Hermione asks.
"Crib off you." Ron glares at her.
"You will not. Besides, according to Professor McGonagall, we're to be given special quills bewitched with an anti-cheating spell." Hermione informs him.
Ron frowns. "That's insulting. It's as if they don't trust us." He opens the chocolate frog to reveal the wizard card. "Dumbledore again." As Ron tosses the wizard card onto the table, Harry watches it spin... just as... a smattering of laughter erupts across the hall. Neville is hopping like a bunny, legs stuck together, while Seamus trails after.
"They really shouldn't be laughing." Lily shook her head
"Leg-Locker Curse." Ron and Hermione say together. They look to each other. "Malfoy." Neville, breathing hard, reaches the Gryffindor table, then, before anyone can catch him, topples to the floor.
"You've got to start standing up to him, Neville." Ron says.
"How? I can't stand up at all." Neville say, gesturing to his legs.
"I offered to do the counter-curse, but he wouldn't let me." Seamus offers.
Neville shakes his head. "Of course not. That's all I need, you to set my bloody kneecaps on fire."
"I don't appreciate the insinuation, Longbottom. Besides, if anyone cares to notice, my eyebrows have completely grown back." As Seamus turns away, the others see a curious bald spot on the back of his head. Ron takes out his wand.
Everyone laughed. "How the hell did he do that?" James laughed.
"I actually don't know." Harry said. "He never actually said, just known it as a spell gone wrong." He shrugged.
"All right then, Neville, who shall it be? Me, Hermione, or..." Ron says but is interrupted by Harry.
"I found him." Ron stops, sees Harry holding up Dumbledore's wizard card. Ron takes it.
"He's bowling. So what? He's always bowling." Ron shrugs. Harry rolls his eyes, turns the card over for Ron to read. "Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood... and his work on alchemy... with his partner, Nicholas Flamel."
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The Truth | Draco Malfoy
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