"𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙮"
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IN WHICH ~ Jupiter Cassiopeia Lestrange thought she could escape her family's dark legacy at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but in her second year, Tom Riddle's diar...
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"Oh, boy, it's you that I lie with as the atom bomb locks in. Yes, it's you that I welcome death with as the world caves in."
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The world had ended. Or at least, it felt like it. Jupiter couldn't comprehend how everything could still be moving—the fighting, the screaming, the sheer chaos—when Fred Weasley was gone. Her chest tightened painfully as she stared at Percy clutching his brother's lifeless body, tears carving paths through the grime on his face. It wasn't real. It couldn't be.
And then everything shattered again.
A body fell past the jagged hole in the wall, and curses sliced through the air like streaks of deadly light, blasting chunks of stone behind them.
"Get down!" Harry shouted. His hand was on her arm before she could react, yanking her to the ground just as another curse whizzed by. Her heart pounded, her ears ringing as she crouched beside him. Percy, however, didn't move.
"Percy, come on!" Harry shouted, his voice thick with urgency. Jupiter reached out, her trembling fingers brushing against Percy's shoulder, but he shrugged her off without even looking at her.
"Percy, we have to go!" she pleaded, her voice breaking. "Fred wouldn't—he wouldn't want this!"
But Percy shook his head, his grip on Fred's body unrelenting.
"Percy!" Ron's voice cracked as he seized his brother by the shoulders. "You can't do anything for him now! We're going to—"
Hermione's scream cut through the air, sharp and piercing. Jupiter's head snapped toward the jagged hole in the wall just in time to see the monstrous spider climbing into view, its legs clicking against the stone.
Her blood ran cold.
"Move!" Harry shouted, and she barely registered the spells flying from his wand and Ron's in unison. The spider screeched, its grotesque body twisting as it was blasted backward into the night.
But it wasn't alone.
"It brought friends!" Harry yelled, firing Stunning Spells down at the swarm of enormous spiders scaling the castle walls. Jupiter's hands shook as she gripped her wand, sending a blast toward one of the creatures and knocking it off the edge. Her stomach churned at the sound of its body hitting the ground far below.
"Let's move, NOW!" Harry ordered, shoving her forward.
Jupiter hesitated, her eyes darting back to Fred's still form. Her heart clenched painfully, but she forced herself to follow Harry's lead, grabbing one of Fred's arms to help lift him alongside Percy and Harry.
"We have to hide him," she muttered, her voice barely audible over the chaos.
"Here," Harry said, nodding toward a niche where a suit of armor had once stood. Together, they laid Fred's body there, Percy reluctantly releasing him. Jupiter swallowed the lump in her throat as she glanced at Fred one last time before Harry pulled her away.
