Chapter 126: Creatures (2/2)

”Me neither, Ron.” Chris sighed.

Minister of Magic Fudge, clearly denied the fact that it has anything to do with Voldemort, which was a total lie. Dumbledore told him about Voldemort's connection with Mr Crouch's son. How could he just ignore something this much serious?

It took lots of effort to stop herself from running to Dumbledore again and ask him directly about these.

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”Dumbledore must be already busy because of this... I shouldn't bother him.” Chris told herself.

Suddenly Chris saw Neville running out of the Great Hall.

”What happened to him?” Colin asked.

And soon realization dawn on everyone's faces as they looked at each other and the Daily Prophet article.

”Yes, Frank Longbottom is his father.” Chris replied as she got up. ”I'll go and check on him.”

”I'll come with you.” Harry said getting up to. ”I never thought why he lives with his grandmother. Voldemort's death eaters killed them, isn't it?”

”No. They're not dead. They're...” Chris stopped. ”If you want to come... just come...”

And she walked out the Great Hall. Neville was running out to the grounds. Chris followed.

”Neville! Neville!” She called but Neville didn't stop.

At last he stopped in front of the lake and Chris finally caught him.

”Neville...” Chris was breathing heavily because of running. ”Neville....”

Chris was facing Neville's back. He didn't turned around or spoke.

”Neville... please... talk to me... I know it's hard...” Chris said.

Still silence. Chris didn't say anything else. After sometime Chris realized Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna and Colin all of them where standing behind her.

”You know Chris... when Granny told me the names... of... those four people... who... who tortured my mother and father...” Neville said suddenly. His voice was trembling badly. ”I thought.... if... if something bad... happens to them... then I'll... feel better... or I'll feel different...”

Chris stepped towards him and put a hand on his shoulder.

”But I was very wrong... today... after reading... the Daily Prophet... I felt nothing... do you know why?” Neville continued. ”Maybe because... this doesn't change anything... for me... my parents are still in St. Mungo's... They still don't...”

Neville started sobbing. To Chris's surprise, suddenly Harry came forward and hugged Neville.

”I know it's hard Neville but we're strong.” Harry said. ”We can get through anything.”

Neville hugged Harry back.

Chris smiled at Harry.

After Neville calmed down a little, he told her parents story to others. Everyone was feeling pity for him just like he predicted but Luna started to say few things which cheered up Neville a lot. He even laughed at one point. Soon they all realized they all had missed their first classes. Neville, Ron, Harry and Hermione had Transfiguration and Chris, Luna and Colin had Divination. Neville felt a little guilty seeing Hermione's dull face but soon Hermione brushed it off saying that Neville was more important than this.

Soon the day of the third task started to come close, Harry was spending his all free time to learn new jixes and hexes. Most of the times it was Hermione and Ron who was sacrificing themselves for Harry's practice but sometimes they asked Ginny and Colin for help. Ginny refused but Colin agreed to help sometimes, only because he knew that Chris can perform the counter spells. So he wasn't nervous about Harry's practice. As Colin was spending time with Harry, Ron and Hermione; and Ginny and Luna were with Michael and Shawn, Chris was spending her time with Jason.

”They're called machines. Obviously they worked faster then humans.” Chris said giggling.

She and Jason were strolling through the forbidden forest and Chris was talking about normal muggle machines.

”Wow... sometimes I feel muggles are more progressive than us. I mean, they can't do magic but they create things, which work like magic.” Jason replied.

”True.” Chris said.

It was Jason's idea to sneak out and watch some magical creatures in the forest. Though he didn't love the magical creatures, he knew Chris loves this kind of things. Chris was very happy when Jason suggested this. They saw many unicorns, Chizpurfle (a small parasites up to a twentieth of an inch high, crablike in appearance, with large fangs), Bowtruckle (a tree-guardian creature, apparently made of bark and twigs with two small brown eyes), Clabbert (a tree-dwelling creature, in appearance something like a cross between a monkey and a frog), and Diricawl (A plump-bodied, fluffy-feathered, flightless bird).

Nothing much dangerous but it was fun. On the back as sun started to set Chris felt someone's gaze on her. She looked around few times but found no one but she thought she saw a shadow of, which seemed like a Centaur, a human head, torso, and arms joined to a horse's body.