slytherin princess

chapter fourteen

"Run!" Sirius screamed and the group all scurried away as Lupin began to transform,

Hermione clung onto Lyra as they hurried around a corner, waiting for whatever was going to happen to end. A scream pierced the night.

"Sirius!" Harry shouted, Lyra and Hermione darted after him as he ran off, ignoring Ron's calls for them to all return. Dementors swirled around Sirius, they were coming for them,

Harry kept screaming the patronus charm, but nothing happened and they were all growing weaker,

"Think of a happy memory!" He shouted at them, Lyra tried. She thought about Cedric. A silvery glow appeared from her wand but it wasn't enough, and she felt her legs giving out. And consciousness slip from her body.

When she woke up, she felt someone clutching onto her hand, her eyes flickered open to see a nervous Cedric staring at her, she was about to say something but he put his finger to his lips, nodding his head in the direction of the door. The Minister and Snape were talking.

"My my impressive work... yes I think an Order of Merlin...." Fudge was rambling as Snape told lies about what had occurred, Lyra listened, eyes widening, Cedric's face filled with concern and he quietly climbed in the small bed with her, his arm wrapped around her shoulders, her head on his own shoulder. He held her tighter as the conservation outside continued. She felt his hand running over the top of her arm, comfort.

Snape continued to lie about everything, eventually the conversation outside ceased and Madame Pomfrey noticed they were all awake. As Hermione and Harry tried to check on Ron, Lyra turned to Cedric.

"H-how....?" She questioned, a small smile spread on his face and he tucked some of her hair behind her ear, causing a blush to spread.

"I was on a prefect patrol when Snape brought you all back... I couldn't just let you be here, I needed to make sure you were okay..." he held her tighter,

"He'll be given the dementors kiss..." Madame Pomfrey said and Lyra immediately knew who she was talking about,

"WHAT!" Harry and Lyra shouted at once, jumping out of the bed, Cedric hurriedly stood up too to keep his arm around her,

At this shout, the voices outside ceased and several people came rushing into the room.

"Harry, Harry.... What's all this?" Fudge asked approaching them, "you should be in bed.... All of you.."

Harry tried to explain everything thst happened, Hermione and Lyra jumping in to continue the explanation. But Fudge wouldn't listen. Cedric didn't look like he believed her either, he kept rubbing her arm soothingly in an attempt to calm her.

"You see minister, confunded, all of them" Snape sighed,

"WE'RE NOT CONFUNDED!" Lyra's eyes widened, Nix was a ghost. He couldn't be confunded, but where was he.

"Uncle Nix....?" She whispered, within seconds he appeared at her side.

"Hiya Ly, curls, ginger, hot potter 2.0, greaseball" Nix greeted most of the room as he arrived, "oh and pretty boy too!" He looked at Cedric,

"Get out of here" Snape seethed, Lyra sighed.

"Uncle Nix can't be confunded, he's a ghost. Tell them what happened" Nix began to recount an overly dramatic sequence of events that had taken place that night, but that didn't work either.

Then Dumbledore came in,

He said he needed to speak to her, Harry and Hermione and that he'd been speaking to Sirius. Dumbledore then looked at Cedric,