I was rudely awaken by Anne making a ruckus since she woke up in the morning. She and Remus would go to her house and then go to the burrow. Me and Sirius would join them later. I couldn't go back to sleep after that so I roamed around in the house. 

I stepped outside the house when I saw a confused Christopher standing opposite to the house. Christopher worked as a spy for the order. He worked in the ministry,  but the department where he got the job was what made him the spy. I don't remember the department (there are too many departments), but a lot of death eaters and voldy supporters worked there. 

"Hey Christopher!" I called out. 

"Hey Smith. Is this the house?" he asked pointing the where I came out from. 

"Yeah." I confirmed. 

"I've some happy news." he said and jogged over to where I was standing. He had a huge smile on his face. 

"I'll call Sirius. Questioning you know?" I gave a small apologetic look and went inside to call Sirius. I wasn't trying to be rude. But we had to question everyone now a days. 

Sirius came outside and they asked each other a few questions. He then invited him inside. "Anything to drink?" I asked him. 

"No thanks! I'm just here to say that my kids were born yesterday..." he said with a huge smile. His wife Rose was pregnant and we were all very excited for this day. 

"Ohmygod! That's great news!" I exclaimed. "I know that Cassie will be at Hogwarts. But was wishing that you and Lupin would come." He said looking at Sirius. 

"You bet we would." Sirius replied. 

"No fair! I'll see the baby one day. After I'm done with Hogwarts." I said. 

"Babies.. They're twins." Christopher corrected. 

"Sirius can I skip Hogwarts for a day?" I asked. 

"I can't believe I'm saying this. But no." he replied. 

We congratulated Christopher once more and then he got going back home. I packed some last minute stuff into my trunk, and then me and Sirius went to the Burrow.    

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The burrow was loud and busy. Within a few minutes of me entering, Harry came in a hurry towards me. 

"Cass! Can you help me find my glasses?" he asked. "I just put it away to wash my face and now I can't see a thing. I hope you are Cassie."

"I'm Cassie." I assured and took his glasses from the top of his head and gave it to him. "Oh. Thanks." he said fixing it and giving a smile. "Where's-" I started but he cut me off. 

"Anne's there in Ginny's room." he smiled and walked to the couch. 

I went up to Ginny's room and saw Anne helping her to pack her trunk. Ginny didn't really care to fold them properly and it was hard to fit that many clothes in a pile form. "Fold it up it'll save space." I said entering the room. 

"I don't have time! We're leaving in an our!" she exclaimed and frantically shoved her book bag into the trunk.

"Well.. you should've done it yesterday." I said. 

"Which is more fun? Packing a trunk or playing exploding snap?" she asked. 

"That's why Ron was missing half an inch of his hair..." I said as I thought of how I had seen him this morning. 

Me and Anne used magic to fasten up the process and we were done in like 10 minutes after that. Molly called us doewn for breakfast and we were rushing down the stairs when I heard someone call me from behind. I turned to see Fred and George who pointed towards their room. 

I went back up. "Hey there! I hope whatever it is, it's fast because I'm starving." I said. 

They gave me a black ball shaped thing and I immediately recognized it. "Isn't this the black color bomb thing?" I asked. 

"Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder." said Fred. 

"It was one in our batch that went a bit extra dark. Figured you could use it since you go for so many dangerous adventures." George said. 

"Thank you! I think this could really come of help." I smiled and we rushed down for breakfast. 

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We all reached the station and we were busy telling goodbyes and listening to the adults telling us to behave and stuff. I looked around to see any familiar faces and I saw a slightly pissed of Draco pointing towards his direction, as he went into one of the waiting rooms. 

I said a final goodbye and sneaked my way into the room. "Hi!" I said smiling. But he did not smile back. 

"Why didn't you tell me that day when we met that your protection ring was stolen?"

"Well it wasn't exactly stolen-"

"Walburga Black took it. I know. I'm asking why you didn't tell me?"

"I just thought it wasn't something to tell... I could just go and take it back." I said. 

"Well Cassie sorry to say this but Walburga Black isn't a harmless baby to just 'take it back'."

"I know but I can do this on my own. Wait- How did you know that she took it?"

"Did you forget that I'm part of the Death Eaters? The Dark Lord forgave Walburga for the actions of her son. They're joining hands to become one force."

"This is not good."

"Not at all. That's why I have a plan."

"What plan?" I asked but then heard someone turning the knob of the door. Draco ran and hid under one of the seats. Harry entered and said, "I was looking everywhere for you. The train's leaving." 

I followed him out the room. "What were you doing in there?" he asked. 

"Nothing. Just gathering my thoughts."

"I definitely understand." he said. Harry never had an easy year. Not at Hogwarts nor at the Dursleys. I put an arm around his shoulder and slightly squeezed him towards me in a way of comfort and gave him a smile. Through my peripheral vision I could see Draco walking behind us. 

We entered the train and I looked for Anne. I saw Neville and Luna in a compartment so I went inside. "Hey guys! Did you see Anne?" I asked. 

"Oh she was here a minute ago. She went looking for you." Luna replied. I gave a small smile and went looking for Anne along the corridor peeping into compartments to see if she was there. I found her in sometime and we walked all the way back to Neville and Luna. 

We sat there are caught up with everything that was happening in the past few months. It was long train ride of about 9 hours and we played cards and charades and stuff. I think it was about after 5 hours that Hermione entered out compartment. 

"Cass.. I guess this is for you." she said and stretched her hand which had a note. I got up from my seat next to Anne and took it. 

Come meet me at about 4 near the prefects area. -F.B

"Thanks. How did you get this?" I asked confused. Why did Draco give it to their compartment. 

"We almost threw it to be honest... It was there when we entered after taking a round of the train an hour ago. We thought it was just a piece of paper. Good thing I read it." 

"Thank you 'Mione.." I smiled and I looked at my watch. It was four so I headed out the door telling Anne that it was Felicia Bones (she understood). 

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I didn't exactly know where the prefect area was so I asked around until I reached there. It was a rather huge compartment filled with prefects who were busy chatting; there was no sign of Malfoy. I heard the compartment door behind me open and before I could turn around, someone tugged at my sweater and pulled me inside. 

I let out a small scream and said, "You almost gave me a heart attack." 

Draco gave out a small chuckle and locked the compartment door and pulled the blinds down. "Sorry about that but I have an idea."

"What idea?" I asked. 

"Maybe you don't have to get the ring back."

"Don't be ridiculous. You're the one who said that the Death Eater-"

"Yes they know. But what if we remove the curse?"

"Like become free?"

"That's what remove the curse means...."

"How? It can't be that easy."

"It isn't I never said it was." 

"Tell me the plan." I said and he told it. There was a woman who lived in Hogsmeade Village. She used to do Dark Magic for the Death Eaters in the First Wizarding War (the one from 1970-81). There was a 99% chance that she could break the curse. But the issue was trust. We couldn't trust her completely and nor could Draco accompany us in the fear that she would rat him out. 

After the short meet up we left the compartment, making sure no one saw us. I went back to our compartment, and when Neville and Luna went to buy something from the trolley, I told Anne about the plan. 

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The train ride was long and tiring. Anne loves her sleep so she slept for the majority of the train ride. At about 9 we were all at Hogwarts, eating dinner from the great hall. "Ginny and the Gryffindor Quidditch Team is hosting a party after dinner. Why don't you tell Anne and Bones to join?" asked Harry. 

I put my fork down and asked, "Bones?"

"Yeah.... Felicia Bones?"

"Oh..." I said blinking a couple of times. Make up an excuse Cass! "Um... Felicia is busy.... You know school work? A bit of a studious person." I made up an excuse. 

"Oh come on Cass.... Even I love to study but I'm taking a break. Besides just tell her to stay for like 30 minutes. We just want to meet her." said Hermione. 

Now what do I do? Where do I get a Felicia Bones? "Sure! I'll tell them." I said with fake enthusiasm.  As soon as dinner was over, I went over to Anne and told her about the small hiccup.

"But now who's gonna act for us? We can't take a random student, one of them will surely recognize them.." said Anne. 

We both thought for a while; shortlisting people who we suspected the trio to not know, but then there was Ginny too, and her being an extroverted person knew almost everyone in the school. 

"Wait! I have an idea..." I said. 

"What?"

"I don't know if he'll agree though..."

"Who?"

"The person who is actually Felicia Bones."

"You know a Felicia Bones?"

"No... Malfoy. He is the 'original' Felicia Bones. F.B"

"Good Luck convincing him. Besides aren't they gonna notice it's him?" 

"We'll put up a disguise or something...."

"It's worth a shot."

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We stood infront of the Slytherin Common Room. A paper (which was Anne's potion homework) sat in my hand as a prop for our little drama that was going to happen now. Anne knocked on the door, but there was no response. She did it again and some random Slytherin opened the door.

"What are you two doing here?" he said. 

"We're here to hand over Draco Malfoy his homework." I said firmly as if it's the last thing I wanted to do. 

"Give it here, I'll just give it to him." he said and tried to snatch it from my hand. 

"But there are some changes that we have to tell him." Anne added quickly. 

"Wait is this a badger in the snake area? Not scared?" he asked in an obnoxious tone, laughing.

"Well badgers eat snakes... So no. I'm not scared of a wimp like you." Anne said. 

 "Look Mr. Slytherin... We just want to meet Malfoy." I said. 

"Fine. Wait a minute." he said and went inside. He came back with Draco by his side. "These two mudbloods wanted to meet you." They boy said, and I could see Draco flinch a bit at the word. 

"Hello Malfoy." I said in a formal tone. 

"Hello Smith." he said and turned to Anne as he added, "Hello Smith's friend."

"We're just here with the corrections for your homework from Snape. I hope to make it quick cause' seeing you is the last thing I want to do..." I said. 

"As if I wanna see you..." he mumbled. We stood there with the stare that enemy's give to each other. The same cold look he gave me till last year. 

The Slytherin guy left and closed the door behind him and just as he did, the three of us dropped our serious expressions. 

"Sorry for what he called you two." Draco apologized. 

"I mean I've heard it from you too since I came to Hogwarts, and Anne heard it since first year... So I guess we kinda got used to it." I said and Anne nodded in agreement.

"So... what happened?"

"Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny want to meet Felicia Bones." I said. 

"What?!"

"Yeah.... We have 20 minutes to arrange everything."

"Make it 19." said Anne. 

"What should I do exactly?" Draco asked. 

"We want you to be Felicia Bones." Said Anne, and Draco started laughing. He stopped when he realized we weren't joking. 

"No.. No way am I dressing up as a girl." He said. 

"Yes way.. Just for like an hour or something." I said. 

"Besides Potter will know it's me."

"That's where the disguise and magic comes to use... Please?" I asked. After a lot of arguing, we finally made Draco agree. I dashed out the corridor and asked Draco and Anne to wait in the Room of Requirements, as they find a spell to change eye colour. 

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"Where did you find these?" asked Draco as he held up a brown wig in one hand, and a pretty dress in the other. 

"Well I certainly know where the dress is from. Don't ruin it." She said to Draco. It was Anne's dress that I just took from her dorm. 

"As for the wig, I stole it from the muggle studies room. We had a muggle drama before winter holidays." I said. 

"Stole?!" asked Anne in guilt and shock. 

"I'm gonna keep it back Anne.. I promise." I said and we got to work. Draco changed into the dress and the wig and I used some of my foundation and makeup to alter his pale complexion into a more darker shade. 

"Draco please try not to make too much contact with your hand... The foundation will smudge and stain.." I warned and we walked to the Gryffindor Common room. Draco found it a bit hard to walk in Anne's heels so we switched into some converses. 

The reason that everything was Anne's was because they were both around the same height and size. Both were lean tall people, where as I was average height and had a midsize body. We got to the party just 2 minutes late, but the party was already in full mode. 

"Cass! Over here!" waved Hermione from near the sofa. The three of us walked towards them, though Draco walked a bit awkwardly. 

"Hey Guys! Great party." said Anne as she hugged Hermione. "Isn't it?" she agreed. 

"And you must be Felicia Bones..." she said. Draco nodded his head. 

"Are you new? I've never seen you around." asked Harry. Draco nodded yet again. 

"Yeah she is.. Gonna go back tomorrow. She was just here for a while under Dumbledore's care." I lied. 

"You look kinda familiar...." said Harry. 

"Does she?" I asked. 

"Maybe it's me... But does she look kinda like Malfoy?" Ron asked. "No offence." he added looking at 'Felicia'. 

Me and Anne made Draco stay there for like 20 minutes and then helped him escape from there. We rushed back to the room of requirements and Draco was relieved to finally remove his disguise. He washed off the makeup and then we sat down for a quick discussion. 

Draco was able to find the lady who could help remove the curse from me, but there was one fear; will I lose my magic?

"It is not common, this curse. When people remove these their magic is taken along." said Draco. 

"So she will be a muggle?" asked Anne. 

"Ya kinda..... She won't have magic." 

"Guys... What if I just lose my muggle core?" I asked. 

"What?" They both asked confused. 

"I have an acquired core. The muggle core was growing onto the magic core. I know this much from what Alice told me then."

"So what is your point?" asked Anne. 

"Things like curses have a tendency to be attracted to weaker stuff... And my muggle core was growing smaller in these past years.." I said. 

"So you're saying that there is a probability that the curse is on your muggle core?" asked Draco. I nodded in agreement. 

"But are you sure? We have to be sure." said Anne. 

"I'm not sure. But it is a guess." I replied. 

"But what if we end up losing your magic core?" Anne asked

"Well then I'll not do any magic?" I said. "It's no laughing matter Cass." Draco warned. 

"Do you see me laughing?" I asked. 

"He's right Cass.. There is You-Know-Who, Death eaters and Walburga Black after you. You need your magic." Anne said. 

"I know! But it's worth a shot. If the death eaters do catch me they'll use me for this. I don't want to harm any of you." I said and Draco agreed. After a small debate Anne also agreed, and Draco said that we could go during Hogsmede weekend. 

That night when I went to bed, I thought of a lot of things. The curse, the day soon to come that will either destroy my magic or the curse. The anxiety of the incident if the Death Eaters do catch me and the curse isn't broken. 

And as I closed my eyes, the face of the one person that could calm me down came to my mind; Annalise May.