ALULA (VOL. 4)
Family is rooted deep within the cracks of time.
Alula Nova Black has to decide. The ones she loves; the ones she hates. The wizarding world has started to crumble as past resurfaces in aid against the darkness. Who's keeping secrets...
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{1997}
The Fat Lady
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Harry could feel the Felix Felicis wearing off as he crept back into the castle, his arm wrapped around Alula. The front door had remained unlocked for them, but on the third floor, they met Peeves and only narrowly avoided detection by diving sideways through one of their shortcuts and trying to keep Alula quiet. She was quite hilarious in this state, but Harry knew she was going to have a headache tomorrow. By the time they got up to the portrait of the Fat Lady and pulled off his Invisibility Cloak, he was not surprised to find her in a most unhelpful mood.
"What sort of time do you call this?"
"I'm really sorry - We had to go out for something important -"
"Well, the password changed at midnight, so you'll just have to sleep in the corridor, won't you?"
"You're joking!" said Harry. "Why did it have to change at midnight?"
"That's the way it is," said the Fat Lady. "If you're angry, go and take it up with the headmaster, he's the one who's tightened security."
"Can you, at least, let Alula in?" Harry said.
"No."
"Fantastic," said Harry bitterly, looking around at the hard floor. "Really brilliant. Yeah, I would go and take it up with Dumbledore if he was here because he's the one who wanted me to -"
"He is here," said a voice behind Harry and Alula. "Professor Dumbledore returned to the school an hour ago."
Nearly Headless Nick was gliding toward them, his head wobbling as usual upon his ruff.
"I had it from the Bloody Baron, who saw him arrive," said Nick. "He appeared, according to the Baron, to be in good spirits, though a little tired, of course. What's wrong with Alula?"
"She's just... umm... tired. Where is he?" said Harry, his heart leaping.
"Oh, groaning and clanking up on the Astronomy Tower, it's a favourite pastime of his -"
"Not the Bloody Baron - Dumbledore!"
"Why so loud, Ree?" Alula moaned, holding her ears.
"Oh - in his office," said Nick. "I believe, from what the Baron said, that he had business to attend to before turning in -"
"Yeah, he has," said Harry, excitement blazing in his chest at the prospect of telling Dumbledore he had secured the memory. He wheeled about, holding Alula's hand and hurried off again, ignoring the Fat Lady who was calling after them.
