ALULA (VOL. 3)
Time to put things into perspective- into order.
When a war has begun there's no waiting for children to group up. Alula Nova Black knows this too well. The last thing needed is a government who are corrupt in thinking everything is o...
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a hat's warning
{1995}
Hogsmeade Station
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She got into the carriage. Alula did not want to tell the others that she, Harry and Luna were having the same hallucination if that was what it was, so she said nothing more about the horses as she sat down inside the carriage and slammed the door behind her. Nevertheless, she could not help watching the silhouettes of the horses moving beyond the window. The carriage was like having sardines in a tin as they were only meant for six and there were seven of them. Harry had found his arm around Alula shoulder so the two were more comfortable being squished beside each other.
'Did everyone see that Grubbly-Plank woman?' asked Ginny. 'What's she doing back here? Hagrid can't have left, can he?'
'I'll be quite glad if he has,' said Luna, 'he isn't a very good teacher, is he?'
'Yes, he is!' said Harry, Ron and Ginny angrily.
Harry glared at Hermione. She cleared her throat and quickly said, 'Erm . . . yes . . . he's very good.'
"He cared about the creatures," Alula said. "Teachers nowadays don't seem to care about the cause, just the effect."
'Well, we in Ravenclaw think he's a bit of a joke,' said Luna, unfazed.
'You've got a rubbish sense of humour then,' Ron snapped, as the wheels below them creaked into motion.
Luna did not seem perturbed by Ron's rudeness; on the contrary, she simply watched him for a while as though he were a mildly interesting television programme.
Rattling and swaying, the carriages moved in convoy up the road. When they passed between the tall stone pillars topped with winged boars on either side of the gates to the school grounds, Alula watched Harry lean forwards to try and see whether there were any lights on in Hagrid's cabin by the Forbidden Forest, but the grounds were in complete darkness. Hogwarts Castle, however, loomed ever closer: a towering mass of turrets, jet black against the dark sky, here and there a window blazing fiery bright above them.
The carriages jingled to a halt near the stone steps leading up to the oak front doors and Harry got out of the carriage first, helping Alula next. She turned to look for lit windows down by the Forest, but there was definitely no sign of life within Hagrid's cabin. Unwillingly, because she had half-hoped they would have vanished, she turned her eyes instead upon the strange, skeletal creatures standing quietly in the chill night air, their blank white eyes gleaming.
Why could she see them? Why could Harry and Luna see them?
