SCARS || Newt Scamander

Seven

As Sophie, Maggie and the rest of the Hufflepuff girls left, Clara groaned and pulled her covers up and over her head. She felt like she was going to throw up so she ran to the bathroom. She looked into the mirror, frowning at how she looked.

Her scratch looked black, and there were bags under her eyes. She looked paler too. She splashed water onto her face, hoping to clean up her looks. Clara headed back to bed and pulled the covers over her once more.

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Newt entered Herbology wondering where Clara was. They had every class together, so he knew that she wasn't in another class.

"Have you seen Clara?" He asked Emma as she walked over to him.

"No, me and Jasper haven't seen her since Quidditch yesterday." Emma said. He frowned as the professor walked into the Greenhouse.

"Welcome to Herbology! Today we'll be collecting pus from these Bubotuber plants." She said, tapping her wand against the pot.

"Now, put your gloves on and make sure to get all the pus out, and don't get any on you, you'll have pimples growing for days." The professor said. Some girls winced at the thought.

Newt made sure to be very careful with his plant as he squished the pus out.

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Clara cursed at how painful the transformation is. Her scratch was really painful. She covered her face with her hands, trying to stop the tears from coming.

"Why me?" She mumbled. She sighed and decided to work on her homework so she wouldn't be that behind. Clara got a throbbing headache and put her homework away. She closed her eyes and drifted off into a painful sleep.

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Newt frowned as the end of the day neared. Clara hadn't shown up to any classes, Newt was starting to be worried. He caught up to Jasper.

"Hey Jasper." He said.

"Hey Newt. Still haven't found Clara yet?" Jasper asked.

"Nope. She must be sick." He said.

"Oh, that stinks." Jasper said.

"Yeah."

"Well, I gotta head to the Slytheirn common room, see you around." Jasper said, heading off to the dungeons. Newt waved as he walked away.

Newt decided to go to his common room as well. Tapping the correct barrel to the rhythm of  Helga Hufflepuff, Newt didn't believe himself when he thought Clara was sick. He thought for a while when he came up with nothing.

Sighing, he walked into the common room. A lot of Hufflepuffs were already in there. Newt pulled out his homework and got to work.

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Clara opened an eye as the Hufflepuff girls entered their dorm. She groaned when the light shined into the room.

"Why weren't you at class?" Maggie asked. Sophie shot a glare at Maggie.

"Your doing it again!" Sophie said.

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"I am not!"

The two continued to bicker before another Hufflepuff girl told them to shut up. Sophie and Maggie got quiet and climbed into bed.

Soon it was late past hours as the full moon light shown into the common room, hitting the wooden floors. Clara sat up and the transformation begun.

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Newt couldn't sleep. He felt like something bad was about to happen. He climbed out of bed and left the common room.

Newt heard a loud howl the seemed like a werewolf's. He knew they were in the forbidden forest, but it sounded too close to be from the forest.

He shrugged it off and walked down the hallway. Turning the corner, he nearly jumped out of his skin. Standing in front of him was a werewolf. It whined and took a step closer to Newt. He looked at the creature and reached his hand out to it. It rubbed it's head against Newt's hand.

"I'm not going to hurt you." He said, petting the beast. It whined again.

"You must have come far from the forest, I wonder how you got in." He said.

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Clara wished she could tell Newt it was her. He talked to her the way he would talk to one of creatures. She howled, he hushed her.

Clara backed up. Newt watched her. She then turned and ran down the hallway, out towards the doors.

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Newt watched the werewolf run off as he went back to the common room. Climbing into bed, he still wondered how it had gotten inside the castle.

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