Cassandra White

Defence Against the Dark Arts

Weeks later, it was the last week of September which meant that Cassandra's OWLs were only a few days away. She had been engrossed in studying for it making all the revision and solving as many practise papers as she could. During her preparation for her exam she hardly hung out with any of her friends but they did not seem to mind.

Professor McGonagall too assigned extra hours to her for studying and preparing. She even personally tutored her for transfiguration and also for charms.

Now that it was the last week of the month it meant the Harry would come at Hogwarts for a guest lecture.
Cassandra was not nervous but definitely tired of the rigorous pressure she had to undergo the last few weeks. She was prepared but she did not want to be overconfident.

Cassandra woke up early that morning and went down to the lake for a walk before breakfast. She wanted to spend some time alone without worrying about the exam or classes at all. She sat there for a while in silence, before she knew Cassandra fell asleep leaning against a huge tree. She did look oddly comfortable. In her dream she wandered off into the forest and saw the wizard, he looked so familiar, as if she had seen him before but where?
Cassandra inched closer to the wizard, carefully hidden behind a large bush and tried to hear what was happening.

"Will this help in any way?" The wizard questioned.

Cassandra was clueless, she thought the man was talking to himself but to her surprise, she heard a hiss.

"Yesss, my father would have wanted this" a high-pitched female voice replied.

As soon as the woman hissed those words, the colour seemed to drain from that man's face. He immediately became pale. Cassandra could not see their faces clearly but only their silhouettes were visible in the dark hour.

Cassandra took a step back, but she soon realised that it was the worst mistake she made. As soon as she took a step a dried twig snapped underfoot giving away her presence to the two foreign wizards.

The two people turned and looked at the bush, Cassandra feared she was in danger and tried to run but it was then that she woke up with a jolt. She looked around as if fearing she would see them standing near her, wands raised ready to hex her.

Cassandra stood up and walked back to the castle. All the way she was clearly disturbed. She went to the Great Hall instead of her dorm as it was already time for breakfast and many students were heading down. She walked in and went straight to the Slytherin table and sat beside Scorpius.

Scorpius was a bit startled at her presence so early in the morning at their table.

"Hi Cassie, are you okay?" Scorpius could visibly see that she was distraught.

Cassandra mentally debated whether she was going to tell him or not. She kept quiet for a moment and did not say a word.

Scorpios looked at her intensely waiting for her to speak up but was distracted when he saw Rose walk in. Their eyes met for a moment and then Rose decidedly walked over to the Gryffindor table without another glance at him. Cassandra did not notice that and was still looking down at the table in front of her.

Cassandra almost jumped when she heard Albus say, "Hey, seeing you after weeks."

"Oh hey, Al." She said. Scorpius almost snapped his head when he heard her say 'Al'. Albus never lets anyone call him Al. He hates it in fact.

"Is everything okay?" He asked. Albus could see she was disturbed by something or someone.

"Yeah...no. Did you guys ever have weird dreams?" She finally asked.