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𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫: 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 '𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐘𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄'

. during their sixth year harry had been made gryffindor quidditch captian, he had denied the position until professor mcgongall made himself and charlotte co-captains. she had been just as, probably even more devoted to the team than harry. for the first week and a half of their first term back at hogwarts for their sixth year, gryffindor did not have a captian. professor mcgonagall was that peeved off with harry and his childness that she had finally seen that not only harry, but the rest of the team wanted charlotte as their captain too.

. he had been too scared to ask charlotte to the yule ball, which resulted fred weasley to ask the girl to go as her date during their trip to hogsmeade village. charlotte had ended up wearing a beautiful blue dress that she had bought herself from gladrags wizardware with the money she had saved from working at honeydukes and the three broomsticks. harry was waiting by ginny weasley, his date for the ball. there were numerous gasps as charlotte entered the great hall. when harry laid eyes on her, his heart had skipped a beat, three times in a row. this was when he had realised that he had feelings for the girl- that weren't just platonic.

. harry is known to lose his temper, he had a short fuse at times and he did hate it for the most part. but whenever he would lose his temper around charlotte, no matter what the situation included he had always apologised to her for it, even though it may not have been directly aimed at her. he hated making her feel unsafe or scared.

. it took harry a long time to realise that charlotte was truly and utterly in love with him (he's oblivous), during their first lesson of the patronus charm with the DA, he patronus had been a thestral, it was the same animal when she had helped harry save sirius from the dementors in their third year. after the christmas break, when they resumed their lessons, harry had noticed that her patronus had turned into a stag, which was his patronus. this was when he truly understood how she felt and they were meant to be with one another.

. her entire life charlotte had struggled with eating, it had started when she had been bullied in the orphanage where she had grown up. her health was almost perfect- but then her best friend, her chosen brother had been murdered, she had fallen back into her old ways. causing the girl to lose a signifgant amount of weight throughout the summer holidays between their fourth and fifth year at hogwarts. harry had been the first person to notice, and he lost his temper at all of her other friend for noticing it sooner.

. although fred weasley had cheated on her, and charlotte wanted nothing to do with the boy. harry got extremely jealous whenever he would be near her. jealousy and anger. because fred never apologised for how he treated her, when charlotte had caught fred snogging with angelina johnson when they were together.

. he always carry spare hair ties in his school bag for her, due to charlotte always losing her own. he knew she liked her hair being out of her face at all times, either in a messy bun that sat at the bottom her head or a braid that she could put together in less than two minutes.

. before they started officialy dating harry always kept a spot next to him at great hall during meal times, he just always wanted to be around her. it did not become a prominent thing until their fourth year. charlotte had been one of the only people to believe harry that he did not put his name in the goblet of fire, neither asking one of the older students to do it for him. every meal they ate together, even during their study blocks, they had began to work with one another.

𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭: 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐣 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 part 2

𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲: 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐬𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐨, 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐌𝐀𝐉𝐎𝐑 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐱 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 (𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜) / 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐱 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 (𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜) 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦: 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 <𝟑

𝐈𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 two weeks since draco malfoy had thrown a diffindo curse at charlotte- and almost killed her, and with draco being well draco he got out of it scott free- with professor snape coming to his aid almost immediately. which made harry and the rest of their friend group furious more than anything. during this though there was one person who hadn't spoken to charlotte at all since the night in the forbidden forest and that was her slytherin friend, theodore nott. she had spoken about it to hermione, keeping both of their male counterparts out of the conversation- last thing any of them needed was having either ron or harry starting a fight with him in the corridors.

thursday afternoon meant that they had a double lesson of divination as their last two classes of the day. like always charlotte sat with hermione and nora- their friend andromeda had dropped the subject as quickly as she could. the only reason why charlotte stayed in this subject was so that she could understand the skill and talent of legilimens, which she found out about last year that she was indeed one. and had been for a while, it just took someone to push her over the edge for her brain to open to understand and see the rare ability she was born with.

a stifled chuckle left her lips as she watched harry and ron basically falling asleep at their table, nudging nora so that she could see their two friends not listening to a word that professor trelawney had to say to the class.

on the other side of the room however there was the slytherin boys, well some of them anyway and one of them was theodore nott. all she wanted to do was talk to him about everything that had happened that night, and to be honest. she was missing her friend.

"that is it my darlings!" professor trelawney announced to the class, clapping her hands together. "i will need your first set of astrological charts by the end of next week! till then. class dismissed." professor trelawney dismissed the class, theodore nott was the first one down the ladder, with charlotte close on his tail. she waited till both of the, descended the stairs before she started calling out his name.

"theodore!" she ran after him, he just kept his head forward not looking back at the girl. "theodore nott! you listen to me right now!" this was when she had a brilliant idea. she stopped in her tracked, prendted to feel pain in her abdomen just like how she would've looked when she had fallen back into fred's arms a fortnight ago. when he did not hear her voice, this was when he turned around and saw her leaning over in pain. he knew she was lying, he sighed and walked back to where she was. going along with the charade she was pulling. "charlotte?" she heard his voice, this was when she stood up properly, pulling him by the wrist towards the nearest alcove, where no one would be able to see them. "pull up your sleeve, now." she crossed her arms across her chest. theodore sighed. "now, nott." she looked at him with a stone-cold look on her face. the amused look on theodore's face was gone. he sighed and rolled up the sleeve of his cloaked right arm. she knew that she was not seeing things on that night, theodore nott had in fact had become a death eater.

"are you an idiot? are you stupid, you promised!" she said as she grabbed a hold of his arm, examining that mark he had on his arm, she had never seen one up close before. theodore stood there, saying nothing.

"this was pointless." she began to walk away, and he almost let her do so. he cursed at himself as he scratched the back of his head. he reached out now grabbing her small wrist. "are you going to talk or is just going to be-" "oh be quiet!" theodore spoke to charlotte, and she stopped talking. "let me explain, you weren't even meant to be there! you could have been killed, he almost killed you!" theodore's voice sounded stressed as she spoke to her, her heart sank when she saw the look on his face appear. he looked like he hadn't been sleeping well.

"it was either i become a death eater or you were killed, charlotte. i couldn't let him kill you. i like having you around too much." theodore laughed at his own words, and she slapped him across his chest. "that is not a laughing matter, theo! i appreciate what you did for me, but why didn't you tell me what was going on? we, i mean you me, potter and the rest of us could have figured something out!" her voice was strained as she spoke to her friend, the stress and anxiety that she felt was now making her abdomen hurt- for real this time round, making her fall back onto the wall behind her. "this is what i am getting at, charlotte." he spoke to her, holding a hand out in case she needed help stabling herself. "us being friends, it is going to put you in danger!" "theodore, my boyfriend is the chosen one, the boy who lived. i put myself in danger every day just by kissing him on the cheek. my life is in danger every single day by just being here in this school because of the dark lord!" she hissed at the boy.

theodore looked at his friend, he did not know how to answer, because he knew that she was right. charlotte, alongside harry was in danger. and she was every single day that she was alive.

voldemort wanted her on his side because of her abilities, but the dark lord knew he would never have her. as long as she lived.

"you do not get to dictate our friendship, theodore! you do not get to decided who is in my life! i know what the people have been saying! they have been saying since last year!" charlotte's words began to turn soft as she spoke to him. "you're my friend, and when it comes to it, i will make sure you're safe. you get that right?"

-

while charlotte was conversing with theodore nott, harry was looking for his own slytherin, draco malfoy. the slytherin boy had practically been in hiding for the past week after what had happened int he forbidden forest.

draco knew it was wrong to throw the curse at her, but he was trying to inpress his father. which he did fruitfully.

harry watched as draco walked into the boys lavatory, he looked ill like he hadn't slept in weeks, while that might be true, draco was also under another sort of pressure, he had been set with the task of killing the headmaster of hogwarts- albus dumbledore.

the gryffindor boy followed draco into the lavatory, making sure not to make any sudden movements.

last year the two boys had gotten into a physical fight over charlotte- but draco had deserved the punches that harry, george and fred threw at the slytherin boy. draco after all was a racist git at times, and the three gryffindor boys had heard enough of it.

"we all know what you did to her, malfoy." draco looked through the mirror that was in front of him, draco didn't look stressed or worried, he had been waiting for harry to make his move all week. "she deserved what she got." draco spoke, as soon as the words left the malfoy boy's lips harry threw a spell from his wand, making draco run for his life behind the side of the stalls. "you could have killed her!" harry's voice rang out once more, it was laced with tension and anger.

"i was to do it if nott didn't!" a huff left harry's mouth while a vile laugh left draco's. "that's right, potter! her dear friend, theodore nott was tasked with killing her." this piece of information, harry was never supposed to find out about.

"that is the only reason why he got close to her! so he could kill her and bring her to him." draco's head peaked over the side of the wall of the stall, his body recoiling as soon as he did so, harry was quick to throw yet another spell- just missing draco's hair. the spell ended up destroying the side of the stall.

"you're lying! unlike you, he is not a git." harry stalked his way over, draco had his back turned. and just like the previous year harry had the boy pinned to the ground, he began to throw punches at the slytheirn boy. "you go anywhere." punch. "near her again." punch. "and i will happily kill you myself."

harry got to his feet, leaving draco on the floor, he looked down at his knuckles they were already starting to bruise from the impact they had made to draco's face.

he did not even look back at the whimpering boy who was on the floor as he left the boys lavatory.

harry walked out of the lavatory as if nothing ever happened.

𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭: 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐣 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 part 1

𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲: 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐨 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭- 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝... 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞? 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐌𝐀𝐉𝐎𝐑 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐱 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 (𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜) / 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐱 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 (𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜) 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦: 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 <𝟑

𝐈𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 charlotte loved more than anything it was brilliant adventure and mystery and that is what charlotte carter, a sixth-year gryffindor student was up to right now. during potions class earlier in the day, she had heard her close friend theodore nott talking with some of his slytherin peers about meeting up in the forbidden forest after curfew that night, and when he hadn't said anything about it to her, she became curious. obviously, charlotte knew about theodore and his family, his father was one of lord voldemort's most valued followers, and when she got to know the boy it made her realise that he had grown up to be nothing like his father- or so she thought. after her dear friend cedric diggory had been killed she had theodore had befriended one another during their defense against the dark arts class, as they sat next to one another for the majority of the term.

charlotte looked around her dormitory to see that the other four girls were fast asleep, the girl was still dressed in her school uniform from the day and had pretended to go straight to be as soon as they all reached the dormitory after the evening feast that night. quickly, but silently she picked up her wand and the marauders map that she had been able to pinch off of harry during their history of magic class, the dulcet tones of professor binns had the teenage boy almost asleep in the chair next to her- she hated stealing and lying to her friends, but if she had gotten hermione, ron, harry or even her dear friend andromeda involved, she knew that she would have a much harder time finding out what and where theodore were going.

a hiss left her mouth when the timber flooring beneath her feet creaked, thank-merlin that none of the other girls had awoken from her movements. although she knew that she would be back with her friends in no time, she looked over them as if it was the last time she would be seeing them. in the world that they all lived in today, you never knew what could happen or who was lurking around a showed corner.

-

𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 able to get past both professor snape and professor mcgonagall on her way out of the castle, she yelled at herself in her mind for not also taking harry's invisibility cloak as well- the disillusionment charm almost giving her presence away to the ghosts that were doing their rounds of the castle during the night time.

the entire time she had made her way out of the castle it felt like she did not breathe more than once, she exhaled with exaggeration once she had made it outside into the autumn air. She used the wand in her hand to exit from the disillusionment charm she had used to mask her body, pulling the marauders map out from her back pocket and looking for either theodore nott or unfortunately draco malfoy.

the girl was about to give up and call it a night but then a name caught her eye. the name of lucius malfoy appeared on the map, now she knew she needed to be there. she needed to hear and see what on earth the death eaters were doing on hogwarts grounds.

it was more than likely stupid for charlotte to be doing this, a muggle-born witch entering a dark and scary forest with a bunch of pure-blood, blood-status raging wizards. she was going to be safe as soon as she made here foot off of the brick of the castle she adored so much.

-

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐓𝐎 where the map had shown theodore and the rest to be, keeping herself hidden with the disillusionment charm once more. she had found herself hidden behind the stump of an old oak tree. she could clearly see mr. malfoy and the rest of the dark lords' most loyal followers, most of whom had students at hogwarts.

from where charlotte was crouching down she could see theodore perfectly, he looked like he was in distress. which was not normal for the boy. he always had a smirk plastered onto his face at all times, and this was when she watched him pull up the sleeve of his black cloak. a dark mark had been branded onto his arm, this was it he had joined his father within voldemort's ranks. yet again she had lost someone close to her because of the dark lord. she could feel warm tears run down her face as she continued to look at theodore, his face tried to hide the pain he was in. he didn't want to do this, he wasn't like his father or the cronies that followed around draco malfoy. her body had been engulfed with so much stress that she had lost concentration on the charm that had been protecting her from the death eaters in front of her. this meant that the guards who were on watch spotted her, she had't noticed the man come up behind her and pick her up off of the ground, making her drop both her wand and the map.

"let go of me you git!" Her voice could be heard, theodore and the rest of the death eaters looked up in the direction from where charlotte's voice could be heard. "let go of me!" "well isn't this just delicious?" mr. malfoy could be heard, theodore's eyes were stuck on charlotte's body as fenrir greyback carried her to where he was. "isn't this one of your classmates?" mr. malfoy looked at his son. draco only laughed before answering his father. "i have nothing to do with this, mudblood." when the word left this son's mouth, mr. malfoy knew who it was that fenrir greyback had brought to them.

"oh." mr. malfoy looked at his son with a devious smile. he watched as charlotte was thrown onto the ground below, landing right in front of theodore. he did not know how to react, he wanted to scream to allow charlotte to find out what he had done. when he had done this all for her. "whatever shall we do with her?" mr. malfoy looked at the older men of the group, and they all laughed at mr. malfoy's words. "i do believe his lordship has been looking forward to meeting this one." mr. malfoy crouched down to her level, both sets of blue pupils meeting. "you created quite a stir at the end of last year didn't you?" he reached his hand out to grab a hold of her chin, charlotte moved her face so that he could not touch her. "look at me when i talk to you girl!" all charlotte did was turn her face back to look at mr. malfoy, taking a moment before spitting right in his face. she had nothing nice to say to the man. after all, he was the one who made her an orphan. "you insolent mudblood!" mr. malfoy got to his feet, wiping the wetness from his face and taking his wand out from the cane he held so closely to him. "i am going to make you suffer, just as i made your hideous and dirty parents did."

she gave theodore a pleading look, but they both knew that he could do nothing, or he would risk getting himself or even both of them killed if he tried anything. "crucio!" the curse left mr. malfoy's wand, the red-headed gryffindor was now on the ground, groans and belts of pain flew from her mouth as the red sparks that came from mr. malfoy's wand wrapped around her body. "crucio!" mr. malfoy allowed the spell one last time to hit the girl. this would have to be one of the worst things she had ever experienced in her life, and she had broken almost every major bone in her body. "theodore, theodore! help me!" she could not help but call out for her friend, mr. malfoy and mr. nott looked at the teenage boy, his eyes were still fixated on the girl on the ground. her body still shaking from the pain that mr. malfoy had caused her. "tell me you're not friends with this... with this impure half-breed!" mr. nott's voice could now be heard as he stormed over to his own son. theodore did not know what to do or how to answer, that was when he looked at fenrir greyback, who had a hold of both charlotte's wand and the map she had used to find him.

"i have no idea who this is." theodore lied, the look that was now on her face made theodore want to break. "well, why then does she know your name? how did she find where we were?" nott senior questions his son once more. "i have no idea- expelliarmus! charlotte run!" theodore threw both her wand and the map back to charlotte, she barely had enough time to catch the items and make a run for her life.

charlotte ran through the trees back to the castle, making sure to hide as much as she could. "potter ain't here to save you!" draco's voice could be heard, he was trying to taunt her and it was not going to work, not this time. "go to hell malfoy!" she looked back briefly as the spell bombarda flew from the end of her wand, bringing up soil and rocks to fly up into his face. "you're going to pay for that you filthy mudblood!" draco chased after her, with theodore running after draco. to make sure that he wouldn't hurt charlotte. she had her body plastered to the side of the tree, the only source of light was from the full moon above them in the sky, the thoughts and memories of her summer with remus running through her mind. this could be it, this could be the night she died.

when charlotte thought it was okay for her to move she did so, taking a few steps before another spell had hit her body. "diffindo!" this made charlotte stop in her tracks, looking down at her body, she could not see the damage but she knew it had been done. "run charlotte! go!"

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𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 it back to the castle, not even caring who saw her at this point, she needed to get to dumbledore and tell him what had happened in the forest. she pushed the main doors open and walked through to where the central hall was, slowly but surely making her way back to the gryffindor common room.

"dilligrout." she spoke the word to the portrait of the fat lady in front of her, she nodded and opened up the portrait allowing the girl to walk through- she would be the one to notify dumbledore about her condition. as she entered the gryffindor common room charlotte was quick to take off the blood-soaked robes she had on. making her stagger slightly. "hello?" she looked up and saw someone coming down the stairs from the dormitories. "harry? is that you?" she called out weakly, but her demise it was snot harry who walked down it had been her ex, free weasley. "lottie!" free basically jumped down the last set of steps and rushed to her side "what on earth happened?" as he reached her he could see the red seeping through her white button-down shirt. "Oh my god, we need to get you to the hospital wing now." "fred, what is going on?" he looked up and saw harry now standing there. "harry." the word left her mouth and she fell back into fred's arms, passing out as she did so.

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𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐃 charlotte still hadn't woken up from the slumber she had fallen into, the curse that draco had thrown at her had cut her stomach that deep that even madam pomfrey needed to call in another set of hands from st. mungo's hospital. everyone was worried about her.

harry hadn't left her side, the two might as well be together at this point. they had been staggering over one another since their third year. and everyone was just becoming annoyed at the fact that they were not officially together

he had been a mess, harry never wanted to see her in that state ever again.

"come on lottie, we need you," harry said as he sat there next to her. madam pomfrey had been able to give her a calm agent for the time that she had been out and asleep.

"hermione is starting to drive us all crazy, i do not think she has left the library once since you have been out of it. but i think fred and andromeda have taken it the worst. i miss you." a sigh left the boys mouth as he looked at her, he was just hoping for a twitch in her face, or a smile. "i miss your laugh, and honestly just miss having you around, lottie." a sigh left his mouth when he did not have a response from her, he squeezed her hand one more time before picking up his bag and began to leave her for the day so he could get to his first class of the day. "damn potter, didn't know you were such a softy." the words left her mouth, he had never moved as quickly as he did. the small distance was closed by harry as he hugged her, a huff left her mouth a long with a tiny giggle. "can't... breathe... need... air." her voice staggered, harry let go of her. their faces being inches a part, this always seemed to be how they would end up, faces merely apart but nothing ever came from it. and it was starting to drive her crazy.

"what can i say, i like have you around." harry spoke, pushing up his glasses further as he did so. "you going to kiss me or what, potter?" her words were confident. "what?" he moved further away from her slightly, god he was so clueless for when it came to girls. especially charlotte. "i almost died, harry. i think it' the least i deserve." and there it was, the magic word 'harry.' she rarely called him harry, no one knew why, not even charlotte. she just like calling him by his last name. so when she used his first name, he knew that she was serious. "are you sure?" harry questioned her, she rolled her eyes. "we have been stumbling around one another since we were thirteen, i think it's about time we put all of those awkward teenage feelings and just bite the bullet. harry when i was out there the only person i thought of was you. you're it for-" he did not need to hear the rest of what she had to say, both of his calloused hands cupped her hands delicalty, not wanting to harm her in any form. and after many, many yearsharry could now say that he was kissing the love of his life. the fact that it had taken her to almost being killed for him to realise that this is how he felt made him feel like an idiot.

"also next time, just ask for the map. you knew i would've said you."