Hogwarts School Years: Year 3

Strange Pasts, Tryouts and Disappearance

Michelle’s POV 

“Since we were wondering where the scream came from, we decided to check it out. Biggest mistake that we ever made in my opinion, if you ask me....” Brian says.

Natalie shakes her head. “Why was I such a stupid eight-year-old....?”

Jennifer smirks. “You called her Nattie? That’s adorable! Can you start doing that again?”

“What happened after?” I ask.

“William found Natalie-” He continues. Jennifer cuts him off again.

“Say Nattie.” she says, with a big grin on her face. Seriously, how can she be smiling at the name ‘Nattie’ while she just heard the story of her parents death?

Brian rolls his eyes at her. “Anyway, William found out where she was and shot this spell at her that I’ve never heard before. Whatever it was, nothing happened. After, he had this creepy grin on his face and he started saying all this stuff that I didn’t have a clue about...”

“Something about finding...forget it I have no idea. After, I grabbed her wrist, about to drag her away when he shot the memory erasing spell at her. After that, he just left.”

Natalie blinks. “Then?”

Brian rubs the back of his neck. “You kind of passed out and I had to carry you back...you were heavy....”

Jennifer laughs and calms down almost instantly. “Seriously. Why did you stop calling Natalie ‘Nattie’?”

“I don’t know. I guess cause we stopped hanging out after that happened. The next day, when I went to visit her she just looked at me and was like, ‘who are you?’” He shrugs, as if it’s nothing and turns to Natalie. “I don’t even remember why I started calling you that anyway. I guess, maybe it was when I was too young to say your full name. Instead of calling me ‘Brian’ you called me ‘Brain’ sometimes, even though I was never half as smart as you were. It still stayed that way. I always knew you would be a Ravenclaw one day, and look. You are.”

Natalie blushes, causing Jennifer’s smile to grow wilder. Wow, I wonder what would have happened if Zoey were here...

“What spell was it?” I question, saving Natalie from his little walk down memory lane.

"Futurum.” Tamara answers, seeing Brian had completely forgotten.

Natalie shoots a confused look. “That’s a spell?”

“Apparently it is.” Tamara shrugs. “There’s probably a bunch of spells we don’t know about. I mean, who knew Aquafenti was a spell until Jennifer said it...”

Jennifer beams. “I remember! I still haven’t gotten a chance to use it this year...poor Collin...” she drifts off, remembering what happened in first-year. Oh boy. That just brings me back to what happened in the infirmary.

Shivers.

Jennifer shakes Brian’s arm. “Tell me more about what Natalie was like when she was little!”

Brians glances at Natalie. “Uh..why don’t you ask her? I’m sure she didn’t forget everything. Or you can ask Joey, I’m sure he’ll know.”

Jennifer pouts. “Then can you continue calling Natalie ‘Nattie’? Please?”

“Natalie never really liked it when I called her that.” Brian says, laughing. “I called her that to tease her. Her annoyed face is absolutely adorable.”

Natalie blushes again. “Wait. Is all this why you’ve been looking at me strangely all year? You just didn’t know how to tell me?”

Brian nods. “Yeah. Why? What else would it be?”