Millicent Bulstrode. She was first on the list, and surely she was going to be the easiest. She was sitting in front of the fireplace in the common room alone, stuffing her face with something.
"Bulstrode." I called out, she turned to face me and her eyes widened. I guess she knew we weren't exactly friends, and she also knew that when I spoke to one of Parkinson's friends it wasn't going to be good.
But this time, she was wrong.
"G-go away." She stuttered as I walked over and sat next to her, trying to avoid sitting on her pile of food.
"I'm not going do anything nasty. Trust me, I'm actually going to be nice." I smiled, which confused her. She narrowed her eyebrows and swallowed the remains of her chocolate muffin. "I want to make a deal with you. Parkinson 'protects' you, right?" She nodded. "Well, I can protect you even better. Promise. My deal is this: I'll look after you, make sure no one so much as touches you AND I'll give you my dessert at dinner every single night. All you have to do is stay away from Parkinson."
"Why would you do that?" She asked, suspicious of my deal. I was going to keep my deal, she just didn't believe I would.
"Because I'm just that nice." I smiled, lying through my teeth. "We have a deal?"
"Um... okay." She lightly smiled and held out her hand for me to shake. I smiled back and stood, ignoring her hand.
She had agreed, I couldn't help it, I was smiling like a lunatic. One down, four to go. I walked away from the girl, leaving her to eat the rest of her sweet food in peace.
"Potter! That brother of yours is outside."
I turned to see Parkinson standing by the exit of the common room, Draco next to her. Why was she actually telling me? Something was up. Slowly, I walked towards her, then past her as I inched closer and closer to the painting.
After turning back to look at Parkinson and Draco I pushed the painting slightly and it opened, Harry smiled back at me. Once more I turned to Parkinson and furrowed my brow. What was up with her? Why was she suddenly being nice to me? Maybe it was just because Draco was there too, but that was unlikely.
I span back to Harry, a smile flying across my face.
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"He visited you in the fire again? What did he say?" I asked, it was rare for Sirius to answer Harry's letters in person, well, in the fire. We were walking towards the exit of Hogwarts, Harry wanted to take me into Hogsmeade. He still couldn't believe I'd never been there.
"Fudge thinks we're forming some sort of army against him with Dumbledore, so we're not gonna be trained in combat. Said Voldemort's on the move, and then he left." Harry told me.
"What? That's so stupid!" I exclaimed, Fudge was stupid, Umbridge was stupid. Everyone was stupid and I hated them. "It makes me actually want to form an army against them."
"Actually, we're sort of doing that now. That's why I need you today."
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Harry and I found Ron and Hermione waiting for us outside an old dilapidated pub on the edge of the town. We trudged through the snow, wolley hats, gloves, scarfs and big coats concealing the cold.
"This is mad. Who'd wanna be taught by me? I'm a nutter, remember?" Harry asked in disbelief, but it was true. No one in the school trusted either of us because of Fudge hiding the return of Voldemort from the wizarding world.
"Look on the bright side: You can't be any worse than old toad face." Ron snickered. I guess it was a compliment, sort of.
"Thanks, Ron."
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Wander || The Order of the Phoenix || DISCONTINUED
Teen Fiction"I watched the light fade from his beautiful eyes just before it faded from mine. Except I got the second chance he deserved. I walked away from the one I loved, leaving him in death while I chose life. I was the last person to see his pale corpse...
