i know the end ,, harry potter

chapter three

ALYRA approached her brother as he sat at the slytherin table along with his group, he was conversing with pansy parkinson when she walked up, "are you alright, draco?" she asked, looking at her brothers arm.

"i don't want to talk to you, alyra." he answered, turning his head away from the girl as she furrowed her eyebrows, confusion growing on the girls face

"well, why not?" she questioned, and he just looked towards her for a second before rolling his eyes and scoffing at her. the reaction made her feel small, and she felt like she just wanted to sink into the floor, "okay, what did i do? i'm seriously confused, draco."

"i saw the way you were with pottah this morning." she looked at him with confused eyes, but also noticed how the trio not too far away from them, at the table next to them had stopped talking when harry was mentioned

"what do you mean?" she asked, tilting her head to the side, and placing her hand on her hip

"you like him? don't you?" draco glared up at his sister, and she felt herself wanting to sink into the floor more and more as the conversation continued
"no, i-"

"save it alyra." draco stood up, now taller than his sister so she was the one looking up now, "you know how much i hate him and you go out of your way to stand up for him. so be honest, do you fancy him or not?"

"this is a silly argument draco, either you believe me or you don't." she said flatly, before walking away from him slightly upset, leaving her brother stood there looking like an idiot. when she reached estella she looked up for a second and saw harry's eyes on her, like he was trying to figure something out. she only hoped he hadn't heard ang of her and draco's conversation. she then zoned out for a while, staring down at the table in front of her and accidentally tuning stella and her other classmates out, picking up on bits and pieces of a conversation about sirius black.

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"INTRUGUING, isn't it?" professor lupin, the new defense against the dark arts teacher questioned as he had the students stand before a large closet, "would anyone like to venture a guess as to what is inside?"

"that's a boggart, that is." alyra twisted her head to see dean thomas speak, accidentally catching sight of harry as she looked towards the other boy, snapping her head quickly back to mr lupin when she saw harry's head turning towards her

"very good, mr. thomas." professor lupin nodded with the boy as he made his way towards the front of the room, "now could anybody tell me what a boggart looks like?"

"no one knows." alyra jumped suddenly when she heard hermione right behind her, as the girl was most definitely not there before

"when'd she get here?" she chuckled lightly as she heard ron's confused voice, turning around to smile at the granger girl

"boggarts are shape shifters." hermione spoke, smiling back at her friend in front of her, "they take the shape of whatever a particular person fears the most. that's what makes them so..."

"so terrifying." lupin finished for her, "yes. yes, yes, yes. luckily, a very simple charm exists to repel a boggart."

lyra felt stella's hand wrap around her wrist as the boggart thudded into its current imprisonment, the diggory girls hand was cold and took alyra by surprise.

"let's practice it now." professor lupin continued to speak, looking over the students, "um, without wands, please. after me. riddikulus!"

"riddikulus!" everyone in the room repeated after him, stella moved slightly closer to alyra as the case shook again