SCARLETT: THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

Chapter 15: The Second Meeting and Threstrals

  'Cause baby you look happier, you do. My friends told me one day I'll feel it too, and until then I'll smile to hide the truth. But I know I was happier with you...  - Ed Sheeran, 'Happier'

________________________________________________________________________________

"All right- think of your happiest memory! Maybe the day you got an award, a pet, a broom, whatever! Just think about it!" shouted Harry. "Reach deep inside of yourself and pull something out!"

I focused on the time that I got my prefect's badge. There was only a small flicker of light. Sighing, I racked my brain in search of something else, something even happier.

All around me, there were feeble attempts at the charm. Then, out of nowhere, a silvery, wispy fox burst out of Eliza's wand. She grinned as it swirled around her. Raven was next; a Raven bird, like her name. Then Alice, a mocking bird. Even Den, who I expected didn't have many happy memories to go through, managed to produce hers; a Labrador puppy like her Animagus.

That meant mine was going to be a wolf. If I could get it to work.

After what seemed like forever, I thought of the time that Draco had told me he liked me a lot at the end of third year. I had been confused, yes, but there had also been a strong fuzzy feeling inside me.

A silvery wolf erupted from my wand. It danced around me for a while before fading away.
*
Polly, Piper's sister, now has new a friend. Her name was Marlene Markin, but Polly was calling her Missy. She had Sapphire blue eyes and blonde hair with blue streaks in it. She had heavy black eyeliner that made her look like Avril Lavigne.

Anyway, Harry and The Weasley Twins lifelong Quidditch bans because they attacked Draco. Great.

And the next DA meeting is next week on Tuesday. Eliza has had another detention and has ordered some more of that cream for her red and irritated hand.

I sat at breakfast the next morning with Eliza.

"Do you think she's going to inspect his class today?" Eliza asked as we looked up at Hagrid sitting at the staff table.

"I wouldn't doubt it," I said. "She's probably dying to get him fired at this point - just look at the way she's looking at him."

It wasn't only Umbridge staring at Hagrid though - most of the school kept throwing him a look every now and then. I guess it wasn't all that shocking because his face looked awful because of the massive bruises on it. When I had asked him what had happened when we had walked in for breakfast only moments ago he seemed quick to change the subject.

"I jus hope that he has a good lesson planned," Hermione said nervously. "I tried to help him with making a lesson, but he insisted that he would be fine..."

"I just hope that he will be," Eliza said. "But I have a feeling that she is going to do everything in her power to have him sacked."

"Only because he's part giant," Hermione said angrily. "I can't stand people like her - she doesn't even know him and she's already set on firing him simply because of what he came from."

When we went down to his hut later on, we were pleasantly surprised to see that she wasn't with us. However, I was a bit nervous when I saw just where Hagrid had decided to take us for our first class back with him.