Love and Black Magic

Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Sweet Letter

"And?" Asked little Black.

"The last name Black is not very common," Malfoy replied.

"What do you imply, Malfoy?" Asked Sirius this time trying not to sound nervous.

"Me? I do not imply anything, are facts, not assumptions," he replied, waving the newspaper in his hand. "And I know you know these people," he continued defiantly. "Are they your parents?" Malfoy questioned Sirius with a mischievous smile.

"The Black family is too big and even more than yours," Sirius began defiantly, "if these people are part of our family, we didn't know," he finished without letting Malfoy answer that he was about to reproach.

"So, if you don't know these people, I don't think it bothers you that the whole school finds out," he finished with a smile on his lips.

Calynn was very nervous about that situation, she could not say that it would bother her that the whole school found out because it would raise suspicions, but that everyone would find out would not matter because she is not the only Black in the school.

"Still, they'll find out, won't they, Malfoy? Or are you the only one who reads The Daily Prophet?" Sirius scoffed.

Lucius stopped smiling and was about to answer when McGonagall's voice interrupted them.

"Johnson, come with me to my office," Minerva ordered with a paper in her hand.

"But teacher, it's the banquet and..." Meryl stammered.

"I would cancel a Quidditch match for this, miss," McGonagall replied hurrying to the blonde, who rolled her eyes rather annoyingly.

Meryl got up from where she was and said goodbye to her friends with a sad movement of hands.

"Why does McGonagall call her always?" Calynn asked Lily.

"Surely she committed some mischief," she replied without giving it any importance and continued with her pudding.

"Did you say something to her, Lilianne?" Calynn asked annoyed and at the same time nervous, it was really strange that she disappeared so frequently.

"Why would I do that? And since when do you call me Lilianne?" Asked the slightly offended redhead.

"Who else would I suspect?" Asked little Black.

"Oh, I don't know, maybe Malfoy? Also, don't you trust me?" Lily snapped.

"You have too much confidence in Meryl," Calynn replied.

"I would never do anything that could harm you," Lily promised.

Calynn smiled at her melancholy and slightly mired in her thoughts.

"Strange," she began, "my father always repeated that when he hugged me," she said, "look at him now."

"I mean it," said the redhead. "You can't compare me to those ruthless and heartless people."

Little Black smiled at her before someone caught their attention.

"Listen! Do you really want to feel a good party?" Asked a second-year boy from Gryffindor, he smiled and took out from his robes a group of fireworks that began to explode forming huge orange pumpkins causing everyone to get up from their seats to observe better.

Two more students mounted on brooms entered the door leading to the Great Hall while flying.

"Wonderful!" Exclaimed Lily and Calynn at the same time.

The boys who were on the brooms passed over the tables and began throwing chocolate frogs out of their packaging causing them to jump everywhere or over the heads of some students. The students who were on the broom went around the tables and this time they took out boxes and boxes of Bertie Bott beans and began to spread them creating mountains of beans on each table with hundreds of them, not to mention thousands. Then they stopped in the middle of the dining room and from the pockets of their robes they took out more fireworks that they threw with some purple and orange confetti. The students were amazed at the bursting of fireworks and all kinds of figures that formed as pumpkins, hats, candy and so on. When all the rockets exploded the students applauded along with some teachers who stopped eating to see the show.