Charted {Book Two in my HP FF series}

Chapter 1

My eyes fluttered open, and my blurry vision cleared. My brain pounded against my skull and I groaned softly because my throat felt too dry to say anything more. My legs and arms tingled as if they had been asleep for a very long time. With a lot of effort and pain, I slowly sat up.

I rubbed my eyes and took in my surroundings. It slowly came to me where I was and then came the events of the last time I was awake. I gasped in both shock and excitement. It worked!

I quickly put my hand to my chest and felt my heart beat thump against my chest I smiled and laughed. I never thought I would be so excited to know I was alive…and a horcrux.

And it wasn’t far from here where many saw me take my last breath (or what they thought was my last breath) because now I was sitting in Hagrid’s hut, in his oversized bed, with Fang sleeping soundly at my feet. I wondered, though, where Hagrid was.

Just as this thought occurred to me, the door swung open and Hagrid came in humming to himself, carrying a bucket of water, not a notice to anything. I sat and stared at him as he fixed himself a cup of tea and sipped it at the table. I wasn’t sure what to do so I cleared my throat. It was quiet but enough to make Hagrid fall out of his chair and throw his cup across the room with a loud yell.

“Blimey!”

“Oh my gosh! Hagrid, are you ok?” I went to him and tried to help him up.

“Don’t mind me. Yer alive!” He exclaimed

“Yeah, um…I assumed you knew already…I mean you wouldn’t have put me here right?”

“I felt a pulse on yer, but I wasn’t sure you’d wake up. I mean, Harry’s alive, so why couldn’t you be” Hagrid explained putting another pot on the kettle. Harry’s alive.

“You didn’t tell anyone about it, right?”

“No, I didn’t want ter excite anyone and have yer die on em” He said solemnly, “but everyone will be so excited ter know-“

“No!” I suddenly said. “Hagrid, you can’t tell anyone I’m alive”

“Are yeh crazy? The whole wizard world will-“

“That’s just it. There will be people that want me to take my father’s place and there will be people that want to kill me, and they’ll use the people I love against me” I sighed sadly. “It’s better and safer if everyone thinks I’m dead”

“But what ‘bout Harry, and Ron, a-and Hermione. Even Malfoy cried over yer body fer hours” My breath escaped me when I heard their names. It broke my heart but I know I had to stay in the shadows.

“Even they can’t know. They’re all in the spotlight right now and people would expect me to tell them first” I said.

“If yer sure, Victoria” I nodded, “Yer a good friend, Victoria”

“Thanks Hagrid”

“Yeh know, yer free ter stay here with me, I’d just have to ask Professor McGonagall. She’s the new headmistress”

“That’s alright. I’m going to go somewhere where I know I’ll be safe. Somewhere where no one would expect me to be” I took a deep breath.

 I knew it was going to be hard leaving everything behind, but it would keep everyone safe. It was worth that.

My eyes happened to glaze over to Hagrid’s table. There sat a copy of the Daily Prophet. The date on the paper was aged two days after when I had ‘died’, but that wasn’t the thing that made me rethink my plan. It was my face on the cover that made me add something else.

Our Favorite Girl, Tricked Us, and

Then Saved Us?

Read more about what happened that night here

By: Rita Skeeter

It then occurred to me that maybe this wasn’t going to be as easy as I thought. I was going to need to do a whole lot more than just lay low. I was going to need a disguise and a new name, but I couldn’t just make something up. I had to have people that would say they were family.

That would testify who I really was…or wasn’t

It was all starting to become more and more confusing and complicated. I just had to keep reminding myself why I needed to do this. I couldn’t lose anyone more.

I turned to Hagrid again. He seemed to be in deep thought and looked worried about what I was going to be doing. It must be hard for him to go along with this.

“Hagrid, do you have a mirror somewhere?” I asked suddenly.

He nodded and pointed to the other side of the room. I walked over to it and looked at myself. I didn’t look any different. I pulled out a small compact mirror and lifted up my hair to look at the back of my neck. It was completely clear, which made me smile.

It made a wave of relief wash over me.

I felt like a whole new person, and by tomorrow, I will be.

I turned back to Hagrid.

“Well, I guess I should be going” I sighed and Hagrid started to tear up.

“Awe, I know yeh have ter go an’ all, but if you ever need me…or anyone in general…well yeh know where to find me”

“Thank you” I gave him a sad smile. “If I’m ever in that kind of trouble I’ll come straight to you” I promised him

“Can I have one last hug for the road?” He asked

“Of course” I nodded and embraced him. I breathed out shakily and held back my tears. I didn’t want to let go but I pulled myself away from him.

“I’ll miss yeh” Hagrid sobbed, “Will yeh come to yer funeral? Arranged it me ‘self. It’s in a month”

“We’ll see” I said, not sure I could give an honest answer

I walked out of Hagrid’s hut and looked up at the runes of the castle. I wasn’t sure where my plan was going to take me, but if it works out like the everything else has, I’ll probably end up at Hogwarts soon, just like always.

“Victoria!”

I turned around to see Hagrid running after me. I stopped and waited for him to catch up to me. He stopped in front of me, out of breath, and held out a long black, hooded cloak.

“I figured you’d need to hide if yeh needed to go somewhere public, you’d need something ter hide in” He said. I smiled and took the cloak.

I smiled at Hagrid one last time. Then, I wrapped the cloak around my body, and turned once in my place. I felt it then.

I felt myself being sucked into cold air. I felt myself being squeezed through a small tubed space. I felt myself being stretched beyond limits. I felt myself leave the ground I was standing on, leave the soil of Hogwarts with one final…

 Crack!