Hogwarts School Years: Year 3

Amnesia, Old Memories and Running

Natalie’s POV 

We watch as Michelle escorts Liza’s family out the door. Apparently her parents and their parents are friends. She, Liza and her brother Daniel, had met each other in a formal party and became friends soon after that. Michelle won’t be back for a while. So most chances we would see her tomorrow.

“So how’s your head, Jennifer?” Tamara asks, sitting down at the end of Jennifer’s hospital bed. Jennifer nudges her with her foot, telling her to get off. She likes to have her personal space and doesn’t like people touching her that much.

“It’s killing me. My ribs aren’t helping.” She grumbles.

“Now who told you to take a Chimera head on when you don’t know a way to take it down, much less the correct spells?” I lecture her. She sticks out her tongue at me and I roll my eyes at her immaturity.

“Not everyone is like you Natalie. Reading every book you see and having no fun at all.” She snaps at me. I narrow my eyes at her.

“Don’t turn this on me, Jennifer. You should have at least thought things over before doing something that dangerous.” I rebut back. I sense a fight is coming between us.  

“Okay, stop it you two. We all don’t want a repeat of first year, do we?” Tamara interrupts before it gets out of hand. Jennifer rolls her eyes and scoffs. “Stop it. Seriously.” Tamara warns Jennifer.

“Fine, fine.” Jennifer says. I turn away rolling my eyes and face full of annoyance.

“Can someone fill me in on what happened? How did I get saved?” Jennifer demands.

“I heard from Bianca, that after she sent up the red flares into the sky two times, you got knocked to the ground by the Chimera. You hit your head pretty hard against the ground.” Tamara begins explaining.

“Stupid mutant cat chicken...” We heard Jennifer grumble.

“You fainted as it was about to eat you. She was sending spells at it to get it away from you.” Tamara continues. “But it just ignored her and continued trying to eat you. It actually was about to succeed when Professor McGonagall zapped it away from you. Then Professor Dumbledore turned the Chimera to ashes, while Madame Pomfrey got you and Liza’s body to the Hospital Wing. Bianca was escorted to her dorm by Professor Longbottom and McGonagall.”

“Oh ok. Can you guys leave now please. I want to sleep.” Jennifer says. “Sure.” I answer and we both leave the room, closing the door quietly. We start to walk into the halls that lead to the library. “Hey Natalie, do you think Liza died because she got mauled by the creatures in the forest or was it by something else?” Tamara asks as quietly as she could, enough for me to hear.

“I don’t know. Even if there were evidences of her being murdered, it’s long gone by now. Remember the state of her body now? It’s almost beginning to decay badly and at least 1 third of her flesh was eaten by a creature. So there’s no way to know.” I answer back in a soft voice.

“It could also be the work of William Fabray III too. He did escape remember?” Tamara suggests. It’s a good point. He could have done this and Liza is one of Michelle’s friends, who made him so mad...It could be revenge.

“True. But we don’t know for sure.” I answer. “But how could he even get into the school’s enchantments, especially with all the Aurors around?”

Tamara shrugs. “You’re the Ravenclaw here. You usually figures these things out.” She answers with a teasing tone to her voice. With that again?

“Hey, just because I’m the only one in Ravenclaw here, doesn’t mean I always figure it out. You guys can easily be in Ravenclaw if you wanted to be at the Sorting.” I point it out.