Hogwarts Legacy : A Sixth Year Continuation

Chapter Forty-Three : Emerald's Mind III

"Is this starting to make sense to you?" Ominis asked as we finally pulled ourselves from the penseive again.

It was and it wasn't. Mammy and Malachi Gaunt were both tortured souls. My mother had lived a life before Hogwarts I had no idea about. Being betrayed by your own parents, a whole community ready to murder you...she said she had destroyed her village, that she had destroyed everything. Did that include her parents? Was it the guilt from murdering her family that made her so keen to try and heal everyone else? To invent magical medicines to save people who were inches from death? To illegally distribute potions to the muggle babies in our own village?

"Kitty?" Ominis asked again ,placing a hand on my shoulder.

"I need to keep going." I answered. Ominis sighed and nodded, taking the next phial from my hand and adding it to the basin as we continued our journey through the past.

Emerald was sat at the edge of the Black Lake, she had cut her hair. It fell to her shoulders in a blunt line. She didn't look like herself. She looked unhappy.

It was autumn time , the falling leaves scattered around her. It was the exact spot her and Malachi had become friends that day she had saved him from the centaurs. Now she was alone, flicking her wand absentmindedly toward the water of the lake. Allowing it to freeze in various spots from her charms.

There was a loud flap of wings to Emeralds right hand side. The familiar black owl perched himself on the ground before sprouting upwards, morphing into Malachi Gaunt. Emerald looked away from him , back to the lake , still throwing charms at it.

"You got my letter then?" He asked sitting next to her on the dewy ground.

"Obviously." Her breath hit the air in a fog as she spat the word at him. Not taking her eyes away from the lake.

"Of course...obviously." He replied, flicking his wand toward the water, copying Emerald. She immediately put her own wand away.

"Is this going to take long? I've to be at the ministry in half an hour." Emerald said glumly, taking a pocket watch from inside her coat. Malachi's brows furrowed together, he seemed disappointed.

"Whats at the ministry?" He asked , keeping his tone as friendly as possible. Emerald sighed loudly , before meeting his eyes. "A job opportunity. Now what do you want?"

" I just, miss you I suppose. I never see you in class. We had picked the same electives this year but I haven't seen you in a single one. I barely see you at meal times and you're never in the library."

"I don't need to take classes. I got all the NEWT and OWL results I need. I just need to take the seer's mastery exam at the end of the year then I'm gone for good. Hogwarts is just a free place to sleep at the moment. I'm not here to socialise. Especially not with you." She snapped brushing herself off and standing up. Malachi matching her as he began softly, reaching toward her

"Listen I know the last few months have been hellish..."

"HELLISH!? Malachi don't dare try and understand how I feel don't you dare. You let me walk from that fucking house alone, not even a glance in my direction as your brother drunkenly shouted abuse at me from the door. I have cried and cried and cried myself to sleep for months. You had your chance. If we are being honest we both know what happened. You got your sick mudblood sex fantasy and then didn't give a shit anym-"

"DONT YOU DARE. DONT YOU DARE TELL ME HOW I THINK." Malachi's voice caused several nearby owls to scatter from tree tops. It didn't make him lower his volume.

"YOU HAVE GOT NO IDEA THE SITUATION I HAVE BEEN PUT IN! CRUCIO AFTER CRUCIO AFTER CRUCIO FROM MY MOTHER AND FATHER!"

Emerald listened, her face barley flinching as he came closer, his shouting becoming a determined growl.