[AUTHORS NOTE] Only two chapters left of this book! That's insane! I've enjoyed every second of this!
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       Remilda was with Lucy and Raelyn in the Great Hall, following orders from McGonagall. Picking up the pieces of the scattered exams. The whole time, a smile was plastered on Remilda's face. She was estatic about what happened. Bit the look on Umbridge's face, the grand exit that the twins made was outstanding.

"I never would have thought they had the guts to do that." Lucy sighed as she motioned to the Great Hall that was a mess and currently being picked up by a dozen other fifth years. "I mean don't get me wrong, it was bloody brilliant. But..."

"It was more than brilliant," Raelyn smiled, "it was the mother of all pranks. I don't think anyone will be able to beat that."

"I know that nobody will be able to." Remilda smiled.

"Did George tell you?" Lucy asked.

Remilda shook her head, "He said him and George were leaving. But he didn't tell me about all that."

Lucy smiled, "You know, I don't think George has ever dated a girl this long." she stated, shrugging a bit.

Remilda felt her cheeks flush red.

"I don't think that Remilda has ever even dated." Raelyn said, smirking. Then after a moment, she and Remilda made eye contact and Raelyn offered her a small smile.

"There was that one boy last year." Remilda reminded her.

      Despite the girly conversation, they were all quickly snapped out of it when Neville Longbottom came running towards them. As he neared them, he began to slow down and had to catch his breath.

"Harry...saw....something...we need...to go to..." he began, huffing and puffing as if he had just run across the whole castle. "the Ministry of Magic. It's about...Sirius and You Know Who..."

Remilda stared at him. So did the other two girls.

"You two go," Lucy said with a nod, "you two are Harry's cousins." she stated, "I'll cover for you guys."

"Come on, we've got to hurry!" Neville urged them. Raelyn eagerly shoved her pile of papers into Lucy's hands, and Remilda did as well.

      The two girls ran with Neville from the Great Hall. Raelyn however shrugged off her cloak and dropped it on a desk, and Remilda copied her. There wouldn't be much help with a cloak at the Ministry.

"Neville," Raelyn began, "you said Harry saw something?"

Neville nodded.

"How could he see something? Divination or something?" Raelyn asked as they hurried outside of the castle and down a path that went right past the greenhouse and into the Forbidden Forest.

"Dunno," he replied.

"Then why are we out here?" Remilda asked as they passed the greenhouse and hurried into the tree's. "How will this get us to the Ministry of Magic exactly?"

"Thestrals," Neville replied, "Not too sure what they are, but Luna said we could fly with them."

      When they got to the others, Harry, Luna, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione were already there. Luna was already propped on a creature that Remilda was unable to see. Raelyn and Nevill, along with everyone else besides Luna and Harry looks completely stumped as to what they were doing. So one by one, Harry guided each of them on the invisible creatures. Then, just like that they were off. Flying through the air on something that they couldn't see, hundred of feet in the air. But Remilda tried not to think about that. She just looked straight ahead into the clouds until the practically nonexistent creature followed Harry to the ground and landed so they could get off and hurry inside the ministry using a phone booth. It took a few trips, but eventually they were all inside and well on their way to the elevators. Which then brought them to the same floor that held Jacob's hearing.

"I'd seen this door before! It's right down here!" Harry told them quickly as they ran down the corridors until finally, they found it. A lonely door, with nothing else around it. But Harry eagerly ran towards it, with the others right behind him.

      As Harry opened the door, they all stepped into the giant room. The ceiling didn't seem to end, and the width of the room went on beyond what they could see, and there were hundreds of shelves. Each with glass orbs sitting on them with a light swirling around inside of it. But Harry was on a mission, he didn't seem phased the size of the room or what it held inside. Instead, he hurried along using his wand to shed light on the ends of the shelf. Muttering to himself...

"...here! This," Harry said as he stopped in a small area between shelves. "this is where it was..."

"Harry," Hermione began softly, "are you positive?"

"Yes, Hermione. I'm sure;" he assured her as he turned around in a few circles, looking at the ground for a sign.

"Hey, Harry, this one has your name on it..." Neville said quietly, pointing his wand up at a shelf. Lighting up the name tag on the orb.

      Harry made his way towards it and examined it first with his eyes, and then carefully picked it up. His green eyes were glued to it as everyone looked around the enormous room. When suddenly, a fugue appeared. They had a silver mask, and they slowly walked towards them.

"Harry..." Remilda began, and Harry quickly turned and saw the figure as well. As he did, the figure pulled out his wand, and removed the mask. Revealing a man about the same age as his father, with white-blonde hair and cold gray eyes.

"Don't worry, children," he began, "I've only come to retrieve that," he said motioning to the orb that Harry was grasping. But Harry held it behind him to keep it further from his grasp.

       A second figure approached behind the man, she had sunken in eyes, and dark curls. Remilda recognised her from the wanted posters, Bellatrix LeStrange.

"Well, look at that, both itty-bitty-baby-Potter's..." she giggled. "Oh, and Longbottom, how's mummy and daddy?" she laughed.

Neville tensed up, and he quickly rose his wand, "Better now that they're about to be avenged-"

"Now, now," the man began and held out to hands as if to calm down the situation. "all we want, is the prophecy."

"No,"

        Suddenly there a few pops from different aisles and more figures appears surrounding them. Raelyn grabbed on to Remilda's arm and pulled her tighter into the group. Which one by one were all raising their wands towards a figure that was surrounding them.

Harry stared at the mans outreached hand for the glowing orb, "Now!"

      Harry's voice echoed and all of them quickly shouted a spell and all of the figure left within a blink of an eye. Harry encouraged the group to run, back to the door; if they could find it at least. However when black smoke landed before them they had to sharply turn, and Hermione quickly did a quick spell towards one of the shelves. Causing it to crash down to slow down anyone behind them.

      The group of them ran and ran back towards the direction they had come. But the door they ended up at was nothing like the one they had entered, in fact it opened into a room of nothing it seemed. Just a back and empty room. And one by one, without really thinking they stepped through the door and found themselves tumbling down to nothing. 

       Screaming surrounded Remilda as they all hurtled down to the ground. As they got closer the bottom, an eerie glowing coming from the center of the ground they were quickly falling towards. Inch by inch, Remilda could feel her heart pounding more and more.

"Arresto Momentum!" Hermione cried frantically and just then, as the stone ground got closer and closer-- Remilda stopped. Mid-air, her face just inches from the ground when a second ago, there wasn't a doubt in her mind that she was going to splatter all over it.

        Remilda dropped to the ground a moment later, along with everyone else. Remilda laid there for a moment; her finger felt the ground and then she took a moment to begin to catch her breath and waited for her heartbeat to get in check. Her eyes then looked at the source of light in the room, a tall archway stood in the middle of the room.

"Remmy," Raelyn said sharply as she touched her shoulder, "you okay?" she asked.

       Remilda nodded in response to her as she slowly began to get up. Raelyn eagerly helped her up by putting an arm around her and pulled her up. Raelyn wrapped her arms around Remilda tightly. Everything had moved so fast, Remilda barely could remember it all without just seeing it as a blur.

"I'm so sorry..." she muttered, and she was about to say something else until Harry spoke up.

"Everyone, behind me," he said simply and the two girls quickly let go of one another and hustled to get behind him.

        Everyone stood there, looking upward towards the direction that Harry was looking with their wands ready. Remilda couldn't see a thing up there, but she couldn't help but wonder if this was what things were just like for Harry. Every year some outrageous story about the famous Harry Potter at Hogwarts would be the talk of Ilvermorny. She was positive at the time that it was always exaggerated. But now, living it, she wasn't so sure. Would that happen to her too if people found out about who she really was? Of course it wasn't hard to hide as a Potter, just hiding the fact she was really James and Lily Potter's daughter and not Jacob and Allison's was tricky. Gut wrenching even.

       As she drifted farther and farther away in her thoughts about it what it would be like if someone were to find out; if the wrong person were to find out at least. Swirls of black smoke were flying towards them, and as they all prepared to fight back; it was too late. The swirls of black surrounded them, and one got a tight grip on Remilda's arm and yanked her upwards until they landed. Remilda's wand arm was twisted tightly behind her back and the death eater's wand was pressed against her throat. She couldn't move anything but her eyes, which scanned the room and saw that everyone was pinned by a death eater around the archway, everyone except for Harry. Who laid on the ground covering his head, until he looked up as Lucius Malfoy landed before him.

       Harry slowly stood up, taking a step wards with the small orb still in his hand. His eyes looked at Lucius and then darted to each of the others in the room. His green eyes filled with panic.

"Give me the prophecy, Potter. Or watch your friends," he paused as he took a step closer, "die."

"Don't give it to him, Harry!" Neville exclaimed loudly.

"Nip it, Longbottom." Bellatrix hissed, giving him a shake and tightened her grip on him.

      Harry looked at Neville for a moment, and then slowly looked around at the others. Part of Remilda thought Neville was right. What was so special about that thing that made them want it? Another part of her desperately hoped that he would hand it over. For her own sake. Sure enough, slowly, Harry held out the orb and dropped it into Lucius's hand. And as he did, a loud crack and white smoke shot down and landed directly behind Lucius.

"Get away from my godson," the familiar voice of Sirius Black stated, and as he said that. Lucius turned and Sirius punched him so hard he stumbled and tripped on a stone, and orb that Harry had given him shattered.

       Chaos ensued then, white streams of smoke were everywhere and one swiftly grabbed Remilda away from the death eater and a stunning spell struck the death eater at the same time. The person who grabbed her set her down behind a rock, and Remilda caught a glimpse of her. She had long brown hair and hazel eyes. A thin face and a sharp chin.

"Stay down here, okay?"