Love and Black Magic

Chapter thirty-nine: Frank.

It was night, the wind was blowing around her while she wished it didn't rain, she kept walking with her eyes full of tears as she followed a platinum bluish bird that flew just a few inches away from her, went deeper into the forest while only the girl's sobs were heard until they reached a tree where the bird landed on the ground. The little girl imitated it and sat next to the bird, it began to remove grass from where they were sitting and Calynn joined to help him until she saw a trapdoor full of spiders, opened it with enough effort because of the weight of the same trapdoor of where more spiders came out accompanied by other insects, the little Death Eater jumped the horrified insects and then peeked through the trapdoor to see what was inside, but a long darkness was the only thing visible. She said goodbye to the bird that was next to her and threw himself into the trapdoor, felt like she was falling and falling when she saw the characteristic canopy of her bed in Gryffindor's bedroom, beside her was Lily, who had woken up to her friend to shut up her screams.

"What time is it?" Asked the sleepy girl.

"Fortunately, it was only a couple of minutes before we woke up so don't worry," the redhead reassured her with a smile on her face.

Once both girls were entering the dining room they started talking like every day.

"Then," Lily began, "what did you see with Dumbledore yesterday?" twitched.

"We begin to see basic spells, such as Lumos, Rictusempra, we review Expelliarmus and seeing that I could quickly master them we begin with some of more difficulty, on Saturday we will see the enchantment Expecto Patronum, one of the most difficult according to Dumbledore himself," the girl explained.

"How impressive, before you were afraid of wands..."

It was true, only a few months ago that every time she watched a wand it was hidden, but now she had lost that fear without realizing it.

"You're right, I hadn't noticed," the girl replied.

"And today will they meet at the usual hour?" Asked the redhead.

"No, yesterday he told me that he had some pending issues with the Ministry of Magic so he won't be able to find me at that hour." She shrugged as she took another bite. Little Black observed the group of James who had sat some more remote places than their old friends. Calynn noticed that Lily saw them too, but decided to look away, shaking her head.

"What about Meryl?" The girl asked when noticing the absence of her friend.

"She has forgotten the duties of potions, the only class we have today, can you believe it?" Commented her exasperated friend.

And just a few floors up there was a Meryl awake in the solitary Gryffindor common room, but she wasn't doing any potion duty, but just holding her wand and reading a book while repeating the spells.

Now, as never before, Slughorn commissioned them with five scrolls of each of the subjects learned in class, all because of Potter and his friends had taken some of the teacher's material to add to the potion, causing an outburst that came accompanied by flames that burned everything around him, apart from that Alice Howell had to go quickly to the infirmary because her tunic and part of her hair had been burned during the explosion. They only learned through other Gryffindor students that the punishment assigned to Potter and his friends had never been observed at Hogwarts.

The rest was spent with Meryl who, despite some time, still did not fully accept Severus.

"Then why did you defend it?" both girls asked at the same time.

"One thing is that it belongs to Slytherin and another want to see him suffer, there is a big difference."

There was a silence until the redhead called Calynn excited.