Spells and Visions; A Harry Potter story

Chapter 4: Prisoner's Daughter

One night, we sat in the common room. Harry was just back from Quidditch practice, and looked exhausted. There was a note on the noticeboard, saying that on Halloween, we'd be able to visit Hogsmeade. I smiled, I was really looking forward to that. Harry didn't look as happy at the news.
"What's going on?" I asked, sitting next to Harry. "Hogsmeade will be awesome."
"I can't go," Harry sighed. "My uncle didn't sign my paper."
"What? Why not?"
"Well, I walked away, right? Because I just hated that place."
"Hm," I said.
"Ask McGonagall if you can go this time," Ron said.
"Ron!" Hermione said. "He's supposed to stay here-"
"He can't be left behind. Go on, Harry. Ask McGonagall."
"I think I will," Harry answered determined.

Crookshanks, Hermione's cat, which she bought in Diagon Alley in the summer, went onto her lap with a spider in his mouth.
"Does he have to eat that in front of us?" Ron said, with a dirty look. "Just keep him there, alright? Scabbers is in my bag."
Suddenly, Crookshanks took a jump at Ron's bag and digged his claws into it.
"Get off, you stupid animal!" Ron yelled, causing the entire common room to look up. Ron tried to get his bag away from the cat, but without success.
"Ron, don't hurt him!" Hermione said.
Then Scabbers flew out of the bag, and Crookshanks sprinted after him. Everyone in the room did their best to catch the cat, but no one succeeded. The cat went for a closet, where it got stuck getting underneath it.
Hermione quickly grabbed him, and Ron took Scabbers from underneath the closet.
I didn't pay much attention to them arguing, it always happened. Sometimes I wondered how they actually were friends, since it mostly seemed like they hated each other.

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Harry didn't get permission from McGonagall to go to Hogsmeade, which he was really bummed about. I was surprised our mother even let us go there, since Sirius Black could be anywhere now. She didn't exactly love us, but she wouldn't let us get killed. I think.

I tapped Cedric on the shoulder.
"Hey," I said.
"First time Hogsmeade?" he said. "Want me to show you around?"
"Sure."
Hogsmeade was basically a little village with a lot of shops. Cedric led me to Zonko's, where you could buy all kinds of jokes and pranks, and of course we found Fred and George there.
"Hey, prisoner's daughter!" George said.
"Not afraid that your father can catch you here?" Fred said, jokingly.
"You must be brave," George said.
"Haha," I said, rolling my eyes. "There are Dementors guarding this place, by the way. Anyway, let's look for something useful here. Some things could come in handy."

After having a look around I bought a few things, for, well, you never know. After that we went to Honeydukes, a place where you can get every kind of candy you could wish for. I bought a bunch for myself, and Cedric bought some too, and I bought some for Harry. I knew he had tons of money to buy stuff with, but I kind of felt bad that he couldn't go, and while me and my brother were practically in danger too, we could.
Then we went to the Three Broomsticks. They had the most delicious Butterbeer there, and I didn't exactly get that every day at home, so I took my chance. I had the best time in Hogsmeade.

When we returned, Hermione and Ron gave a lot of sweets to Harry, and I also gave the part of my stack. He still seemed a bit down, though.
"What did you do?" Hermione asked.
"Lupin made me tea in his office, and then Snape came in. He gave him a goblet with... something. Lupin drank it."
"Is he mad?" Ron said in shock. "What if it was poison?"
"The feast is about to start in a few minutes," Hermione said. "We better go."
While walking, I whispered to the three: "If Snape wanted to poison Lupin, he wouldn't have done it with Harry watching."
"Yeah, maybe," Harry said.

I was smart enough to not eat to much candy, so I would have some place for the feast. And I was right to do so. We had loads of fun, while enjoying our food. Even Harry looked a bit more cheerful.