𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑂𝑛𝑒
𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙜- 𝘼𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝘽𝙮 𝘾𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨.
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"𝐴 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠: 𝙄 𝙎𝙐𝙍𝙑𝙄𝙑𝙀𝘿"
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ASTRIA REGULUS BLACK broke the rules. The students had been told precisely not to enter the Forbidden Forest. But Astria Regulus Black broke the rules.
Numerous times.
Since the night of her dorm, Astria Regulus Black has been sneaking out to the said forest.
She was aware of the dangers, and the chances of expulsion, but she was hardly worried about it.
She had nature on her side.
Astria had always had a strong relationship with nature. In times of need, it was always there to help her, Vice versa. She always protected nature when it needed it, and it always protected her.
Since birth, her magic has always gravitated towards nature.
From wandlessly growing plants, understanding animals, and creating rain, to being able to hold her breath for immense amounts of time underwater and feeling the things nature feels.
She adored her connection with Mother Nature, she wouldn't replace it for anything, even with its flaws.
Forest fires, littering, draughts, slain animals, she could feel it all when it happened near her, or in her forests.
When she would spend her weeks in the forests of the Malfoy Manor, only coming back when absolutely necessary, she could feel the struggles of the forest.
Thunderstorms and Forest fires were the worst, each bringing a different kind of suffering.
Thunderstorms brought sleepless nights full of misery and torture. Every time the strike of pulsing silver met the earth, a gut turning pain ricocheted throughout her frame. Every time the angry roar of the sky echoed through the forest, an agony stole her breath away.
The nights of Thunderstorms she would curl up under a towering willow tree, that stood old and powerful 20 miles away from the Malfoy Manor. Or back at her original home, she would curl up into her father, as he hugged her tightly.
She would shake and cry as her power betrayed her and she met a pain stronger than most would feel in their lifetimes. However, she never screamed, because Astria Regulus Black never screamed. Even on those nights, when knives cut at her skin and hands stole away her breath, she never screamed.
Astria had only experienced a Forest Fire once. And ever since that day she has vowed to stay away from all, and every, forest that had a forest fire in it.
Now not every forest fire affected her, sometimes they were so small her power was able to protect her from the pain.
But one, when she was eight years of age, the forest she lived in, with her father, had lit aflame horribly, for a week.
For the days she was awake, it felt as if she was being burned alive. But three days into the week her body passed into a coma from the pain, and she was unconscious until the fire was dissipated.
That was when Remus had finally contacted Dumbledore. After months of research, they came to a conclusion she had some sort of control and connection with green magic: the magical life force in nature.
So Astria Regulus Black broke the rules and went into The Forbidden Forest at some point in everyday
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Multiple weeks into the beginning of the school year-
"Did you hear?"
"Hear what Nevy?"
At the moment Astria and Neville were walking to the great hall for lunch. It was the day after Halloween, Astria hadn't joined the rest of the students in the hall that night, due to the day and the odd pain throughout her body. That happened every year. On October 31st Astria would be in a high amount of pain, unable to get out of bed. Remus always assumed it had something to do with that night.
"Harry, Hermoine, and Ron fought off a troll and lost points for the house!" Neville huffed, evidentiary maddened by losing points part.
Astria Black and Harry Potter might have been friends, might have been great friends at that. But Ron told Harry the story of her father, and Harry believed the stereotype that came with it.
He never talked to the girl, he never waved at her in the halls, he pretended she wasn't there. however he was never unkind if they were forced together, but he was never kind either.
He was just emotionless.
"Is the troll okay!" Astria asked, visibly worried. She wouldn't ever dream of hurting a creature like that.
"I-I don't know"
The rest of the day had gone by quickly, Astria had skipped lunch and dinner to head out into the forest. And now she was heading back to the castle. Leaves in her hair, and the scent of the woods on her skin.
To anyone with at least two brain cells, it would be obvious where she was coming from, but no one seemed to ask the girl about her disappearances.
Either they feared her too much to ask, or they cared too little.
She skipped freely under the setting of the falling sun. The wind spun around her, playing with her hair and embracing her like an old friend. The warm colors coating the earth laid gorgeously over her pale skin.
She was ethereal.
Her feet padded softly on the stone she skipped on, but still, they were loud footsteps compared to the silent cat running alongside her.
As she approached the Black Lake, voices filled her ears.
"You both are bound to fail your end of the year exams with your study rate!"
"Hermione stop being so stuck up, we are only taking a walk!"
"Ron's right, plus I have something to tell you about Snape-"
That firm wave of comfort crashed into the curly-headed boy, the one that only came when Asrtia was around.
"What about Snape?" Hermione seemed to forget about the exams for a moment.
"We aren't alone," Harry tried his best to hush the two other kids.
Thinking back on it, Astria thought it might have over-all been better if she had just kept going. However, instead, she stopped skipping and peered at the group, as they peered right back.
"Is that Bonkers Black?" The group was standing a good couple yards from Astria but she could still hear Ron whisper.
Bonkers Black, A name she had apparently earned for herself on the first day of the school year when dean and Ron had a conversation and had decided she was Bonkers.
"Ron-" Hermione elbowed Ron in the side.
"Uh- What are you doing out here Black?" Harry spoke, ignoring Ron's comment. He had never used the name they came up with, but at the same time, he never said anything about it when other people did.
The sun was getting lower now, and Astria was sure she had missed Dinner.
"What are you doing out here Harry?" Astria knew she couldn't tell them where she was, they didn't seem to like her and she didn't think they would go out of their way to keep a secret for her.
Harry was going to speak, but never got the chance
"Why so secretive Bo-Black?" The raven-haired girl was slightly surprised he had stopped himself from calling her Bonkers.
"I must be on my way now!" And with the sun setting behind her, she was gone.
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Harry James Potter didn't trust Astria Regulus Black. He thought she was very suspicious. Always popping up random places, missing meals, showing up to classes with leaves in her hair, the odd feeling of comfort he got when she was near. He just didn't trust her.
Ever since that night, he seemed to think she was up to something, maybe even something to do with the stone.
One night he had followed her in the invisibility cloak, wanting to see where she went at night. However, he didn't get very far because somehow she knew he was there and disappeared around a corner, only to pop up behind him and pull the cloak right off of him.
"Hi, Harry!"
"Black-" he had sputtered.
"It's okay, here's your cloak, have a goodnight!" And like before, she was gone with that.
After watching Astria a couple more times, he had a nagging feeling in his gut. However it wasn't about her, it was him. He felt guilty.
Astria Regulus Black didn't seem like a bad person, in fact, she seemed like an amazing person, maybe a little odd, but still amazing.
He started to regret everything, following her, not standing up for her, thinking she had something to do with the stone, not becoming friends with her, he wanted to go back and redo it all.
But little did he know soon there would be no going back.
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"It's a great plant-"
Neville and Astris were sitting in the common room talking about a new muggle plant his grandma had sent him.
While listening to his story about the plant she felt envy in her gut.
Astria wished she could get sent things by Remus, or at least she wished she could Owl him at all. When she was taken away from him, the Malfoys made sure it would be prohibited by the law for the two to keep in contact.
"-And whenever a fly comes by it eats it," Neville continued, "Kind of like Trevor."
They both laughed at that, however before they got to keep talking footsteps made their way towards them.
Astria looked at Neville, and she could tell by the look on his face he had any idea who that was.
The footsteps echoed as they got closer and Trevor started to croak loudly,
"Trevor," Three voices said, trying to get the toad to shush before they got caught,
"He shouldn't be here!" They panicked.
"Neither should you." Neville turned around, surprising Astria, and moved from his place on the chair next to her.
The young black haired girl was going to follow in his footsteps and get up when he continued to talk, "You are sneaking out again, aren't you?"
"No Neville-," Astria was sure it was Harry speaking to her friend, meaning, without doubt, his friends were there also.
"NO, I won't let you," Astria was very proud of Neville for standing up to them, she knew he had always struggled with that.
"You will get Gryffindor into trouble again," he panicked, raising both his fists into the air, "I-I'll fight you!'
The raven-haired girl knew it was time for her to step in.
"Where are you three going?" Astria asked, while gracefully standing from her chair next to Nevilles and swiftly walking to stand with her best friend.
"Bonkers?" Ron whispered in shock, eyes wide and round, making Harry hit him upside the head rather hard, which shocked Astria.
Both boys soon looked to Hermoine as she slowly started to talk, gripping her wand.
"Neville I am really sorry about this, Petrificus Totalus!" The blue jinx hit Neville before Astria could respond or react.
He went falling to the ground, frozen.
Astria bolted down to the ground and kneeled next to him. Her silver eyes were wide and surprised, she thought Hermione didn't like the two, but she never thought she would do this to either of them.
"I can't believe you did that Hermoine," Astrias voice was soft like usual, but also had a hint of hurt in it, "I can't believe this!" She whispered, pushing a loose piece of raven hair away from her face as she spoke.
The three kids stood just as frozen as Neville, Hermoine looked like she was ready to cry, Ron was just unmoving, eyes still round, and Harry looked generally sad. Astria almost felt bad for the boy with the emerald eyes.
However, the moment passed by and she looked away from the three and peered at her friend laying on the ground.
"I'm sorry she did that Neville," She said in a quiet voice, angry flushing red on her pale cheeks.
"Astria you have to let us go," Harry begged the Black girl, even though for some reason he didn't want to leave Astria, he wanted to help the girl
She didn't say anything for a long second, still checking to see if Neville was hurt.
But when she finally said something, her response shocked the three.
"Just leave Potter."
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Rereading this chapter months later is embarrassing- it's super irreverent and written so bad compared to all the other chapters- plus it's lacking in word count. So I will be redoing this part soon but thanks for reading this chapter even with its huge faults :))) love you guys.
This is slightly edited, Comment if you find mistakes please.
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