Conall Wolf

49) Last day

"Now tell me in detail, what happened?" Conall says seriously to Dean. Conall intercepted him in the Hallway later that day. He needs to know the whole story.

"Alright... The thing is that I got sad you know. I got bullied so much, and everyone saw me as a failure. Then you said some things about luck. and the day after I found that Felix Felicis and I thought that it would be my only change. So I drank it during the Second Task, just to see how it worked. And for some reason I didn't make any sound, and when I did make some noise, the attention of the centaur got to something else. So it didn't hear me. The potion also fixed that Rue Miller had a lot of trouble with her chains, so she made a lot of noise. And it fixed that your cursing was audible, and that I delivered my mandrake first." Dean says.

Conall thinks about it, this explains a lot. He remembered that he already found it so weird that Dean went so good, and that Rue Miller did so bad. But this explains everything. And it probably also explained this Last Task. The only thing that Conall doesn't realise is why?

"Okay so after that Task I got more appreciated at Durmstrang. They didn't pick on my anymore and I got to hang out more and more with them. I almost saw them as my friends. Everyone was so surprised of my appearance during the Second Task, so they wanted to hear more and more. I had so much fun during the last months... So during this Task I still had some Felix Felicis left. I used it again because it worked so good previously. I thought that I could be a good foundation for my future you see?" Dean says.

"Not really... but keep talking." Conall says.

"So, I got through that lake really fast, because I immediately knew where to swim to, and I discovered the riddles quick enough. In the forest I had some troubles, because my skills weren't that good. But I got through it pretty fast and invisible. In the Quidditch pitch I got near you, and I just caught the right keys so fast. And then the tricky part came. Duelling is a question of skill, and no luck. I had a lot of difficulty with duelling against Aspen, because I wasn't skilled enough. You were better with that, so you were earlier done. Then I ran after you when I finally knocked him done. I didn't come across anything in the hallways, and then I found you standing there. I knocked you down..." Dean says and then he stops talking for a minute, not really knowing what to say.

"Damn..." Conall says sour.

"The moment I was about to touch the cup, I broke through the lucky potion. I hesitated, everything came back to realisation and I couldn't reach that cup. It felt wrong, I felt terrible and I realised that I fucked it up so badly. And the rest you heard..." Dean says and he looks back at his feet.

"You really are... Dean! What did you do!" Conall says disgusted. If Conall can't handle one thing, it is things being unfair. He broke the rules, and he played a foul play.

"What are you gonna do?" Dean asked scared.

"I am sorry Dean, but I really have to tell this to someone. You can't just get away with this. You are a shame, a shame to everyone, a shame to you school, a shame to yourself." Conall says and he jumps up in disgust. He looked at Dean as a complete new person. And he hates that person. Dean looks up sad at him, tears rolling over his cheek. Conalls words must have hurt him, and he doesn't care. Conall is done with him and he walks away.

The day after, everyone was sitting in the new Three Broomsticks. It wasn't much, but it was something. Madame Pryor made sure that you can't see that this place has been burned down. Conall is impressed by how fast she fixed that. The only difference is that she has a small amount of cheap tables. This was to make sure that she didn't sell to much butterbeers, because her stocks weren't that big.

Madame Pryor fixed that Conall could be here with all his friends, and now thery'e sitting here with a few others. The Beauxbatons students would be leaving the following morning, so this is the last time that Conall is together with Katsumi. He doesn't know when he will see him again and it worries him. He doesn't want to leave this place. He was so happy here. Happy that he had a change of having the wolfsbane potion, being with Katsumi a whole year long, being the triwizard champion, seeing the school he always wanted to go to. And now he will have to leave this place.

A group of old wizards are joining the bar and sitting at the table next to them. His friends were all talking but Conall heard something interesting at the table next to him.

"Did you hear the rumours about the Shrieking Shack?" One of the the wizards asks.

"Yes, I heard that if no one wants to buy the place, they will going to take it down." Another one said.

"Well are you surprised? They say that the haunting came back. People heard screams again from the house. Everyone got really scared of it... what if the house is really haunted? I always thought it was on old myth that they came up with years ago, but now I might think that it is true." The smallest wizards says.

"Oh come on, I think that there are some stupid kids trying to let you think that. Besides Durmstrang and Beauxbatons were here this year right? I think it is just a stupid joke from them." The first wizard says.

"I am surprised tho that no one is buying it. I heard that the prize is low, like really low. And you will get a lot of ground, just tear it down to the ground and you have a lot of ground for not that much money." Someone says.

"Well would you buy it then?" The smallest asks scared. He definitely not wants to buy it Conall thinks.

"Well... I already have my place you see." The one says, but he doesn't sound that convincing.

Conall doesn't listen to them anymore, and he thinks about what he said. The Shrieking Shack is for sale? Conall places his hands in his pockets and he feels the bag full of galleons. He smiles inside himself. What if?

"Conall what are you thinking about?" Katsumi asks to him.

"I think I just came up with the best idea ever." Conall says and he looks out of a window, having the Shrieking Shack in view. He gets an even bigger smile on his face. Conall knows what he is going to do in the future. He finally knows it.