Chapter 23 - Chapter 23

The three of them got to Charms, but something was off or REALLY wrong as soon as they got through the doorway and walked up to Professor Flitwick, "Professor, what's going on, has something bad happened?" Professor Flitwick looked at the trio with such sorrow in his eyes, deeply exhaled, before he finally spoke, "Something tragic I'm afraid, one of the female students," he paused to try and keep his composure before continuing, "has been killed." The three of them were shocked by this sudden news, "D-do you know what killed her or who could have done this?" Fred asked with a lot of hesitation and was terrified of what the answer might be. "I honestly don't know who did it, but I know what killed her," Professor Flitwick paused once again to muster up the courage to continue, "it was the killing curse, one of the three unforgivable curses." Lily cupped her mouth for she knew EXACTLY the spell he was talking about, slowly moving her hand from her lips to ask, "Wh-" Lily was beyond petrified in anguish over how to ask this next question, "What did the student look like, sir?" Professor Flitwick didn't speak for a moment for he was trying to remember what the student's description was. "She had blonde hair, green eyes, and pale complexion." Lily didn't want to say anything, but just bolted out the door and ran to the bathroom that she knows no one uses. She begins to pace around a circular pillar of six faucets that is located in the center of the room, muttering, but almost repeating the same lines as if it was an incantation or chanting, "She's back to finish what she started, she's looking for me, what to do? What am I going to do? How did she know that I am even here to begin with?" to herself until Fred and George finally found her, "Lily what is it?" they asked at the same time, "It's Bellatrix, it's her, she's killing any female student that fits MY description! I-I-I-I don't know how she found out that I'm here, but I endanger a lot of lives by being here!" "Lily, Lily, calm down, we'll think of something, but I think we should tell what we think we know to Professor Dumbledore." George said, but before they left there was a LOUD voice, "WILL YOU KEEP IT DOWN?! I HAVE A HEADACHE!" A ghost of a young student appeared out of one of the cubicles, shouting on top of her lungs, Lily felt like she disrespected her by raising her voice and lowered her volume to almost like a whisper. "Please forgive me, for I had not known that a spirit was in here. You must be Myrtle, I presume?" Myrtle floated down slowly as if time itself had slowed down to her, "How do you know about me? Did one of the mean students say awful things about me?" Lily softly shook her head. "I read about what happened to you thirty-three years ago, but it never actually explained how- you died, just that you were found dead in a girl's lavatory that day." Lily looked at her with deep pain and sorrow for her dying so young and not able to rest or get justice knowing that. "I would one day like to write the whole story from your perspective of how tragedy snuffed your light out so quickly." Moaning Myrtle was generally shocked that there was a student that ACTUALLY takes an interest in her and her story and nodded in agreement. "I'm so very sorry to have disturbed you Myrtle, I hope your headache subsides, even just a little bit." Lily said before leaving after Fred and George did and softly closed the giant door so it wouldn't aggravate Myrtle's headache any further, this made Myrtle smile a little before going back to her cubicle down to the u-bend to think about death. Lily's mind was racing an enormous amount in trying to figure out how Bellatrix found out that she is in fact alive, let alone Nora's child, unless, it isn't her at all, but Wormtail, also known as Peter Pettigrew, that is hunting her down. It would make much more sense now that she actually thinks about it, afterall, he has been a friend of the family for years, him, and another man, but she doesn't really remember what he looks like or even his name for she was only an infant at the time when he did come to visited her and her parents. Lily stopped dead in her tracks and a surprised, wide-eyed, deer in headlights expression came upon her face, Fred and George stopped walking, realizing that Lily was appearing to be frozen where she was standing and finally broke the silence between the three of them which broke Lily's train of thought. "Lily?" they said in unison, making Lily's head shot up to look up at both of them. "It isn't Bellatrix that is doing this. I think it's my parents' friend who we trusted, he's only seen me as a child, so he's never seen what I look like now, that is why he must be killing students fitting my description. It all makes absolute sense, he's only seen me in my youth so he knows what I at least look like regarding my hair, eyes, and complexion. But, he must have never imagined that there were so many students fitting the bill with those features, otherwise he would have found me in no time at all, so he is just going to keep this up until he makes sure that he kills me, until then, this won't ever stop. I have to do something to save the innocent girls before this turns into a full-fledged massacre." Lily cupped her chin as she said all of that with her eyes closed, she turned to her left side, where she is now facing a wall instead of the twins, pondering on her plan and how she should do this. She suddenly jolted, opening her eyes as if something instantaneously came over her, and she immediately ran off as if her legs had their own willpower and the twins instantly followed after her without realizing that they were heading straight to Dumbledore's office.