Lily Luna Potter Book Three: The Beginning of the End

The Necromancer

I was running. Running fast- I was running away from something- I couldn't see it. And that worried me greatly.

Jake was at my side, and he held my hand. The beast we were running- fighting against, really- then tripped him.

"LILY!" He screamed, as his hand slipped out of mine, and he fell back- the monster's huge, scraggigly feet stepped on him. It jumped on him, repetively.

I screamed. My scream seemed to be blood curdling.

"JAKE!"

I kept on running, tears streaming down my cheeks. My legs went as fast as they could, and then I tripped- some idiotic dead person left a rock laying around.

Somebody helped me up, and me, being me in the situation, took the hand.

I looked up, expecting to see a monster of some sort.

Instead, I was looking into the exact face of Uncle George.

"Ginny? Are you dead?"

I awoke, sweat drenching my face. I was breathing heavily, and I gasped.

"Just a dream, Lily... Just a dream..."

Except, there was part of me that felt like it wasn't one. Like it wasn't a dream.

I'd figure it out later.

Oh no!

It's five in the morning...

It's Friday, and we have classes today.

So, grudgingly getting up, I took a quick shower. I slipped on my skirt, and Ravenclaw uniform top, and stockings and black flats.

I concentrated in my metamorphagus powers and decided for a look.

Hmmm....

My eyes were now a dark blue colour, and my hair was down to my shoulder blade, and was a pretty bronze colour. I made my skin just a bit tan.

I smiled and put on make up using m metamorphagus powers.

I grabbed my bag and went to the Great Hall.

Oh shit, I have Astronomy homework to do...

"A black hole is a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole, there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return. The hole is called "black" because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics. Quantum field theory in curved spacetime predicts that event horizons emit radiation like a black body with a finite temperature. This temperature is inversely proportional to the mass of the black hole, making it difficult to observe this radiation for black holes of stellar mass or greater.

Objects whose gravity fields are too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was first published by David Finkelstein in 1958. Long considered a mathematical curiosity, it was during the 1960s that theoretical work showed black holes were a generic prediction of general relativity. The discovery of neutron stars sparked interest in gravitationally collapsed compact objects as a possible astrophysical reality.

Black holes of stellar mass are expected to form when very massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. After a black hole has formed it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings. By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes, supermassive black holes of millions of solar masses may form. There is general consensus that supermassive black holes exist in the centers of most galaxies.

Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with electromagnetic radiation such as light. Matter falling onto a black hole can form an accretion disk heated by friction, forming some of the brightest objects in the universe. If there are other stars orbiting a black hole, their orbit can be used to determine its mass and location. These data can be used to exclude possible alternatives (such as neutron stars). In this way, astronomers have identified numerous stellar black hole candidates in binary systems, and established that the core of our Milky Way galaxy contains a supermassive black hole of about 4.3 million solar masses."

I wrote about Black Holes out of the topics of a neutron star, a super aside star, the asteroid belt, or the super nova, since I figured that this one would most likely be the hardest- it'd be a challenge.

I like challenges.

They're fun.

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I walked with Rue on the grounds today, and once we were in the courtyard, I saw a spirit looking figure float around.

It was a boy- he looked to be about... Sixteen or so.

He had curly, strawberry blonde hair, and blue eyes that were full of wonder. He wore ripped, burnt, and disheveled Gryffindor robes. He had a label on the back of them, and they had the initials of:

C.C.

I swear the boy had a ruined camera hanging out of his robes pocket, and a wand in his other pocket. The camera read the name:

Colin Creevey.

It's that the kid who stalked my dad in dads second year?

Wait...

Isn't that kid suppose to be...

Dead?

"Rue? Do you see that boy.. He has a camera hanging out of his pocket?"

"Lily... No... Are you feeling alright?" She looked at me worriedly.

I shrugged. "I'm never alright, Rue."