❝SHE BURNED BRIGHTER THAN YOUR FUTURE ❞
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Liana Holly's life was a mystery, a puzzle and in some aspects, a down right disaster. With the disappearance of her parents when she was barely seven years old to the discovery that her family was not as sh...
"Twerp" she muttered under her breath. Dean only laughed slightly, apparently unfazed.
"Correct Mr Thomas, now can anyone tell me what a boggart looks like?"
This time it was Hermione who answered.
"No one knows-"
"- where did she come from?" Ron exclaimed in surprise as he turned behind to see Hermione standing next to Harry. No one paid any attention to Ron however and Harry just shrugged. Liana frowned as she watched Hermione tuck something golden and sparkly down the front of her robes as she spoke, but Liana didn't ask.
"Boggarts are shape shifters, they take the shape of whatever frightens us most," she finished ignoring Ron.
"Now that gives us a advantage doesn't it, have you spotted it Harry?" Professor Lupin called on Harry, who had been letting his focus slip slightly as he watched Liana shove Dean away again, snapped his attention back to the class.
"Erm-" he paused as he thought for a second, trying desperately to ignore Hermione who was practically leaping into the air such was her desire to answer.
"Because there's so many of us the boggart won't know what shape to become?" It sounded more like a question than he intended it to but Professor Lupin nodded proudly.
"Excellent Harry, now Neville-"
The poor boy shrank back the instant he heard his name being called.
"Come on Neville," grinned Liana encouragingly as she noticed this and she gave him a tiny shove to push him forwards again. Neville shot her a petrified look however.
" -What frightens you the most?"
There was a distinct pause as all eyes turned to look at Neville with curiosity. Neville quivered for a moment before answering, his bottom lip wobbling slightly with nerves.
"Professorssnape" he mumbled all in one go, refusing to meet the eyes of anyone around him.
"What's that?" Professor Lupin cupped his ear and smiled lightly at the shaking boy.
"Professor Snape" Neville admitted more slowly and his cheeks flamed red as there was a chorus of laughter from around the class.
"Ah yes he terrifies all- and Neville you also live with your grandmother is that correct?"
Liana had no idea where Professor Lupin was going with this.
"Yes but- I don't want that boggart to turn into her either-"
Liana had stopped listening to the conversation by now. She left Dean and Ron and drifted back to stand next to Harry, resting her head on his shoulders. Harry felt his heart beat a little faster as Liana comfortably adjusted herself on him. He and Liana hadn't really spoken as much as her and Hermione, this was all uncharted waters for Harry.
"Liana, where were you last night by the way?" Hermione asked under her breath as Neville and Professor Lupin continued to talk.
"I had something to do with my brother," she brushed off, trying to avoid the questions.
"what were you doing?" Harry questioned, his interest now peaked as he looked down at her tired face on his shoulder. She truly was extremely beautiful, her eyes wide and innocent blue as she gazed up at Harry sleepily, and her red curls like soft ringlets of silk.
"Just homework. I find concentration really difficult- so sometimes Grey will swoop in and help me out," She confessed, rather embarrassed to be telling her new friends how she struggled in school.
"I highly doubt you've ever done a piece of homework in your life, even with Grey's help," snickered Hermione with an amused expression.
"You'd be surprised," yawned Liana with a smile at the girl.
But she shot upright with a small shriek seconds later when Neville successfully transformed Professor Boggart Snape into wearing his Grandmother's clothes and snorted loudly with laughter.
"Wonderful Neville! Now everyone form a line" instructed Professor Lupin amid laughter as he settled himself against the wall to watch, slipping a record onto his record player, the soft tunes of muggle music filling the air.
Liana eagerly elbowed her way towards the front along with everyone else and watched Parvati, Seamus and Dean encounter their boggarts. She practically wet herself with laughter at Ron's reaction to the spider and playfully nudged him out the way as she realised it was her turn.
"Focus Liana, focus," nodded Professor Lupin as his eyes followed the curious girl closely.
Liana raised her wand, still not entirely sure what was going to come out of the Boggart but when the roller skating spider began to morph it hit her what it was but it was too late to step away now. Sure enough from within a woman stepped out.
She had long chocolate hair and soft hazel eyes filled with sadness, her features delicate and sharp, giving her a doll like face. She stared at Liana as if she had just seen her for the first time ever before.
"Darling-" the woman tried to edge forwards.
"Ridikulus" Liana barely breathed the spell, her eyes glued wide open as if she had just seen a ghost.
The woman suddenly morphed into a plant pot on the ground, branches swaying happily, but that didn't stop Liana staggering backwards into Hermione. Hermione gripped Liana arm in worry and to stop the girl falling over.
"Liana?" Professor Lupin attempting to sound comforting despite not having a clue what had just happened as he stopped the record player immediately and began to make his way over to her.
Professor Lupin gnawed the inside of his cheek as he looked the girl up and down, things were beginning to click in his head and he had a nauseous feeling in the pit of his stomach if he was right. He had tried for the longest time to hope his mistakes from his youth wouldn't come back to haunt him. But, unfortunately, that didn't seem to be the case.
"Can I go the toilet?" Liana asked, a smile plastered over her face quickly to try and mask the incidents that had just occurred.
Without waiting for a reply she turned on her heel and dashed away. Hermione felt a stab of sorrow for her and looked to Ron and Harry, none of them understood what had just happened.
Which could only mean one thing: that there was more to Liana Holly than what met the eye.
And they were going to find out very soon what that was.
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AN
I'm so sorry this is such a late and probably boring chapter but I hoped you enjoyed it anyway! Comment of the day: what is or was your worst subject at school? ( mines French lol, I completely suck )
Xoxo Edited: 9/4/19 Re-edited: 28/7/19
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