Song of the chapter: Come out and play- Billie Eilish
One week later.... again
~E V A N G E L I N E~
I stood with my back to the common room, looking at a hanging tapestry of the mer-people in the Black Lake. Pansy, Millicent and Daphne had gone on some type of Christmas-Hogsmeade tradition and I hadn't wanted to intrude on something they'd been doing since their first year. Therefore I was almost alone in the castle.
Today the train was taking most of the students home for the holidays, Dumbledore was even leaving. He said his brother, Aberforth whom I'd only met once or twice in Godrics Hollow, needed to meet with him and they'd decided to spend the very first Christmas together in a long time.
I'd been invited of course but I'd never cared much for Aberforth and the castle seemed safer than Hogsmeade anyway.
I turned away from the tapestry and went out of the Slytherin common room to find something to do.
I found my way to the library, then to the great hall where a few students sat playing chess. This included Ron and Harry.
Ron waved me over when he caught sight of me and I smiled in spite of myself. My old friends, welcoming me back again.
"Hey!" Ron said joyfully.
"Hello. Aren't you going home today boys?" I asked.
"Yep! The train comes at three and we've put off packing our trunks until about 2:50. Ten minutes is long enough to stuff some jumpers in a case," Ron chattered.
I laughed and Harry looked up at me with a smile on his face.
"Are you going somewhere Eve?" Harry asked. It seemed like he was being very careful not to use the word home.
"No. I'll be staying in the castle with Cho and Luna. Luna's dad exploded part of their house a few weeks ago so she can't go home yet," I laughed.
Harry nodded as Ron knocked his knight off the board brutally.
"Ha! Got you there. You can never win now Harry!" Ron exclaimed gleefully.
Harry rolled his eyes but offered another game which I took as my queue to leave. I said goodbye to them both and hurried back through the corridors I'd come through, running, very literally, into Hagrid.
"Hagrid!" I said happily.
"'Ello there Eve! Merry Christmas to yeh," Hagrid said with a big smile.
"Merry Christmas! Sorry for not coming down more often! You know how the snow is this time of year," I said with a genuine frown.
"Oh- it's alrigh' not many folk'll be wantin to see me if they've gotta trek through the snow."
I smiled at his sympathy.
"Hey listen! I saw that someone- or should I say two people- found the rose garden behind the school. Yeh wouldn' happen to know who they were now would yeh?" he asked. It seemed as if he already knew who it had been and I was reminded of the way Draco had pressed me up against the stone arch, then of the words of warning Hagrid had given me against him.
"No idea! Sorry," I smiled guiltily and his eyes sparkled with knowing.
We said our goodbyes- my face flushed crimson- and I took to walking the school for exercise.
It only occurred to me after I'd been walking in the dimly-lit hallway near the transfiguration classroom for a while that I wasn't wearing a jumper and it was freezing.
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