Slashed Portrait
Krestena's POV
I enter the common room to see Ron and Hermione giving Harry stuff from Hogsmeade. "So how was Hogsmeade?" Harry asks us.
"It was amazing Harry" I tell him smiling. We then told him about all the places we'd been too. Hermione couldn't stop talking about post office, while Ron couldn't stop talking about Honeydukes. "And the three broomsticks, we should of brought you a butterbeer. It really warms you up" I tell him smiling. "So how was your day?" I ask him.
"What did you do? Get any work done?" Hermione asks.
"No, Lupin made me a cup of tea in his office. Then Snape came in" Harry start to explain. How Snape brought in a potion and that my uncle drank it. Ron was shocked, but I wasn't. I know the potion is to help my uncle with the full moon. Sure Snape doesn't really like my uncle, but he'd never try to poison him under Dumbledore or McGonagall's noses.
"We'd better get going" Hermione states looking up from her watch and I look at my own.
"She's right, the feast starts in five minutes" I tell the boys. So we get up and leave for the great hall.
"Krestena!" Cedric calls as we enter the great hall. "Do you want to sit with me?" he asks sheepishly.
"I'd love too" I see holding his hand smiling. "I'll see you three after the feast" I tell the trio before following Cedric to his house table. "How was practice?" I ask as we sit down.
"Tiring" the beaters say in unison.
"But we are so going to kick Gryffindor's butts" Heidi says.
"We'll see about that, we've been training hard too" I tell her smirking.
"So how was Hogsmeade?" Cedric asks.
"Awesome, went practically everywhere but the shrieking shack. But I plan to go there next time" I say smiling. After the feast Ginny came over asking me for help with her homework. So I kiss Cedric on the cheek saying goodnight to him and the others before following her to the common room. However, when we got there we saw the portrait of the Fat Lady slashed and her nowhere in sight.
Soon the other Gryffindors appear along with Peeves. I hear Harry and Ron, so go down them with Ginny. "The fat lady, she's gone" Ginny tells them. Just then the teachers arrived with the headmaster and we allowed them through.
"We need to find her" Dumbledore states after looking at the damaged painting and turns to Professor McGonagall. "Please go get Mr Filch at once, tell him to search every painting in the castle for the Fat Lady" he tells her.
"You'll be lucky" a cackling voice states from above. Peeves still bobbing above us looking delighted. As he always is, when there is wreckage or worry. Dumbledore turns to him.
"What do you mean Peeves?" he asks calmly and Peeves grin faded a little. He'd never dear taunt a headmaster, especially Dumbledore. So he adopts an oily voice, which in my opinion was no better then his cackling voice.
"Ashamed, Your Headship, sir. Doesn't want to be seen. She's a horrible mess. Saw her running though the landscape up on the fourth floor, sir, dodging between the trees. Crying something dreadful" Peeves said happily. "Poor thing" he added unconvincingly.
"Did she say who did it?" Dumbledore asks gesturing to the slashed portrait.
"Oh, yes, Professor-head" said Peeves, with the air of one cradling a large bombshell in his arms. "He got very angry when she wouldn't let him in, you see." Peeves flipped over, and grinned at Dumbledore from between his own legs. "Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black" he finishes and the teachers look at me along with my friends.
"What will we do Albus?" Professor McGonagall asks. Dumbledore sent us all to the great hall and the other students soon joined us along with the teachers. Professor Dumbledore organized a search party to look for my father. He then conjured purple sleeping bags and pillows for us all. Then left the prefects and head boy & girl in-charge. "Miss Black a word" McGonagall says and I follow her out.
"Krestena come with me please" Dumbledore says and leads me to his office. We were alone apart from his Phoenix Fawkes. "Please take a sit" he instructs and we both sit down. "Do you know how your father got into the castle?" he asks me.
"No sir" I tell him.
"Have you had any contact with him?" he asks.
"None" I lie avoiding eye contact.
"Krestena, the ministry will be informed of the break in and they will try to question you. They may even try to read your mail. Keep your friends close, you'll need them more then ever this year. Now return to the great hall" he tells me. When I leave the office McGonagall escorts me to the great hall.
"Krestena, come I saved you a spot" Cedric says wrapping an arm around me. The spot he saved was right next to him and we were surrounded by his quidditch team. "Sleep now, you'll have a busy day tomorrow" he tells me kissing my forehead as we lay facing each other. I snuggle close to him and soon fall asleep to the sound of his heart beat.
A/N
Picture above of the slashed portrait and picture on the external link of the students sleeping inside the great hall.
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