The third sister

The attack

Alice Smith watched confused and slightly worried as the place next to Amelia Bones stayed empty for the first time this school year. She leaned over to her partner Frank Longbottom and whispered: Hey do you know where Nesrin Evans is? It doesn't seem like her to skip a class. Frank shook his head. No I haven't seen her since yesterday when she left the common room to return a book. Maybe she's sick. Why are you asking after her? You're not even friends and now that I think on it I don't believe you are even talking to each other at all. So why the interest. Alice shrugged her shoulders. I guess it's just strange not see her in Transfiguration as it's her favourite class. Now you tell me you haven't seen her return from the library and from what I know of Nesrin she wouldn't have left so close to curfew. Frank looked at his best friend in surprise because she was right. You're right she left at five and curfew is not until nine o'clock in the evening. I stayed up until midnight trying to finish the difficult Transfiguration essay and I was the entire time in the common room without seeing her returning. They were interrupted by Professor McGonagall who looked at them sternly. So you have something better to do than listening. Please share what's more important. Alice and Frank looked at each other before Alice was brave enough to speak up. I'm sorry Professor but I'm worried about Nesrin seeing as she never returned to the common room last night. Encouraged by Alice taking the incentive Frank added concerned. She left at five in the evening and wasn't back by midnight and now she is even missing her favourite class. Doesn't that strike that you as odd. Professor McGonagall could tell that her two students were quite troubled by the disappearance. She went to one of the portraits in the classroom and asked it to look for a student called Nesrin Leilani Evans. Not event thirty minutes later the portraits found the prone body in an empty classroom on the third floor. Only because of the concern of two students who were not even befriended with the Muggleborn Nesrin Leilani Evans she was found this fast. Later it was clear that any moment later and the girl would have died. Only a stasis spell kept her from bleeding out.

Nesrin slowly regained consciousness. Am I alive, she thought to herself. A part of her was terrified of opening her eyes in case she was still in the hidden room. Eventually she forced herself to be brave and opened her eyes. She laid in a bed with white sheets and wore just a hospital gown. She tried to sit up but fell back down again. Oh good you're awake. We thought you might not wake again when you were found, the nurse Madame Pomphrey said in a relieved undertone. Do you know who you are? At that question Nesrin looked confused at the nurse. Of course I know that. Its Nesrin Leilani Evans. Madame Pomphrey breathed out in relief. Before she could ask the girl if she remembered what had happened to her the door to the hospital wing burst open. Going in were the headmaster and Professor McGonagall. The nurse looked angrily at the two intruders. How dare you burst in here. My patients need their rest. The headmaster looked apologizing at the nurse and answered in a firm tone. We need to know what happened to Miss Evans so that we can prevent something like that from happening ever again. Nesrin pushed herself up into a sitting position. Its okay but I'm afraid I won't be much of help, reassured she the frazzled nurse. I only remember pieces of it and I don't remember their faces or names, admitted Nesrin reculantly. Don't worry about it just tell us what it is that you are able to recall, said Professor McGonagall softly. After a short hesitation Nesrin began her tale. From what she managed to remember there had been four persons. Two had been passive participants while the other had dealt out her punishment. They wanted her to understand that as Muggleborn she wasn't allowed to do better than a pure blood. She barely made it to the rape sobbing as she told of it and then she was outright crying as she relived the pain that the knives caused her. The professor's shared horrified looks after Nesrin's tale and were even more troubled when the girl admitted shaking I thought I would die. How did you find me? Alice Smith and Frank Longbottom were worried about you and alerted me that you've been missing since well before curfew, explained Professor McGonagall gently. What but we're not even friends , would you please tell them thanks from me, stammered Nesrin  feeling horribly confused.  This is enough my patient has to rest, said Madame Pomphrey before making the professors leave the hospital wing.

Meanwhile the Gryffindor first years sat huddled together in the common room. Noone dared to speak but all thoughts were with Nesrin Leilani Evans. The Prewett twins Gideon and Fabian felt terrible guilty of making her life hard. The girls regretted Not noticing her absence. Frank Longbottom hoped desperately that they hadn't been too late.

On the other side of the castle in the Hufflepuff common room Alice Smith and Amelia Bones shouted violent insults  at each other and noone was brave enough to separate the two girls.
You call yourself her best friend but you didn't even notice her missing. You're a hypocrite.
Alice you haven't spoken a word to her before today and now you pretend to care about Nesrin. Ha as if
Before anyone could react Amelia shoved Alice to the ground and hit everywhere she could reach. Instead of hitting her back Alice wrapped her arms around Amelia and hugged her. After a bit of struggle Amelia collapsed and started to cry. What if she doesn't make it , she sobbed brokenly and spoke out what everyone who cared for Nesrin Leilani Evans feared.

That evening when everyone was gathered for dinner the headmaster made an announcement. His voice was grave and he said these words. This morning a first year student by the name Nesrin Evans was brutally attacked by four persons for being a talented muggleborn student. In the outside world a conflict is brewing but we can't allow prejudice and discrimination to penetrate the castle. Miss Evans will fully recover from this ordeal but we will make sure that something like this is not going to happen ever again. This means that everyone who is seen or heard using slurs or violence against another person will be dealt with accordingly. Now more than ever we have to stand together. After the Headmasters speech the Gryffindor first years, Amelia Bones and Alice Smith from Hufflepuff and Enya McDougall from Ravenclaw all went to Professor McGonagall. Please can we go visit her they pleaded with the stern deputy headmistress. Not today tomorrow is another day. I'm sure she will be happy to see you then. Defeated the first years took off to return to their dormitories. They all thought the same. Yes tomorrow is another day but how would Nesrin Leilani Evans recover from the attack and would she still be the same girl they all knew and liked. This would remain to be seen.