The Forgotten Twin

Chapter 13

"Miss Potter, please head to your common room. Weasley, you better stay."

Delilah was about to protest when they turned and left. She rolled her eyes and started walking towards her common room.

Why would Professor McGonagall let Ron and Harry go with her, but not Delilah? Someone had obviously been attacked, but the only person that both Ron and Harry were friends with was one of the Weasleys and Hermione, all of which were Delilah's friends as well.

A few minutes after everyone was in the common room, Professor Snape walked in.

"All students are required to return to their House common rooms by six o'clock in the evening. No one is allowed to leave their dormitories after that time. Your teachers will escort you to your lessons and no student is allowed to use the bathroom unaccompanied by a teacher. There will be no further Quidditch training and the matches are postponed. There will be no more evening activities."

All the Slytherins listened to Snape in rapt silence. He rolled up the parchment he had been reading from and said, "It is likely that the school will be closed unless the culprit behind the attacks is caught. If any of you did it, or have a theory of who did, contact me."

He walked out of the dorm and everyone started talking immediately.

Things such as, "Who is it?" "Hope the school doesn't get closed," and "Who got attacked?" were said.

Delilah made her way over to Draco, who was staring through the wall that showed into the lake. A pair of grindylows were swimming past.

"Guess we won't be able to continue our swim lessons," he stated as she walked up beside him.

"Yeah, we can continue them next year though, or whenever the person is caught, it can't be long now."

"Or, if you'd like, you could stay the summer with me. There's a nice lake we could swim in, it's surrounded by a nice forest and you've met my parents. My father can be a bit pushy, but my mum's nice."

"I'd love to, but I'll have to think about it. I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable leaving Harry alone at the Dursleys. You say your father's pushy, but the Dursleys are worse. They treat almost everyone like dirt, especially wizards like me and Harry," Delilah answered. She'd love to spend the summer with Draco, but she couldn't leave Harry.

Draco looked disappointed but not surprised.

"I thought that's what you'd say, but if you change your mind, write and we can come pick you up."

"I might take you up on that." Deciding to change the topic, she added, "Do you know who got attacked? The teachers seemed worried, especially McGonagall, so it has to be a Gryffindor."

He nodded. "Yeah, it's Granger and the Ravenclaw prefect, Clearwater. I overheard some teachers talking about it as I left the pitch."

So that's why McGonagall needed to talk with Harry and Ron, they were Hermione's best friends, but why couldn't Delilah come along? Did McGonagall suspect her?

"You ok? You look like you want to punch something and I'm really hoping it's not me...." Draco grinned.

"No, it's just McGonagall took Harry and Ronald to show them about Hermione but basically told me to leave while letting Ronald go."

Draco frowned. "But you're her friend as well, if Weasley and Potter were allowed, you should have as well." He still seemed distracted.

"Yeah, are you ok? You seem distracted."

Draco looked surprised.

"That obvious? Yeah, I am. My father said that Dumbledore was finally going to get what he deserved, and I was wondering what that could mean." He twiddled with his thumbs.

Delilah pondered for a moment.

"Your father is on the school board and doesn't approve of Dumbledore as a headmaster, right?" When Draco nodded she continued. "So he probably got the other members of the school board to sign Dumbledore off as headmaster."

Draco stared at her as if she was a genius, but it was just street smarts and logic.

"You're a genius, it'll probably be soon then, Father wouldn't have said anything otherwise."

The rest of the day was free. Teachers were told to prepare for the rest of the year so they'd have time to escort the students. The students were forced to stay in their common rooms, which wasn't that bad. Delilah spent most of the time trying, and failing, to beat Draco at wizard's chess and learning sign language.

The merpeople had learned sign language, and so each year the older students taught the younger students how to do it so they could communicate, because if no one didn, they got angry, so that's what most people did, with the exception of taking a break now and again.

That night, everything was an eerie silence, and despite being in a comfortable position on a comfortable bed, Delilah couldn't fall asleep.