𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧 𝐠𝐨 → 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘺

→ chapter sixty two

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after yesterday's catastrophic events, chae decided it would be best to lay low. she neither wanted to risk her animagus form being revealed nor have umbridge question her whereabouts. chaerin had a sick feeling that umbridge had been putting two and two together. either way, the evil woman had no solid evidence the cat that attacked her last night was an animagus.

the brunette was making her way inside the castle when harry came zooming towards her, looking positively panicked and stressed. he said nothing and grabbed her hand, racing towards the great hall. the girl figured they were going to find ron and hermione.

ron and hermione came hurrying towards them, asking harry if he was okay and where he had been. harry said nothing but told them to follow him. for a while, they walked along the corridors of the castle, peering into classrooms before he found and empty classroom and dived inside.

harry hurriedly shut the door the moment his three friends were inside, leaning against it whilst facing the three who now looked very confused.

"voldemort's got sirius"

chaerin nearly choked on air at the sentence that had left the green-eyed boy's mouth.

"what?"

"how d'you--?"

"saw it. just now. when i fell asleep in the exam"

"but--but where? how?" said hermione, whose face was white.

"i dunno how" said harry "but i know exactly where. there's a room in the department of mysteries full of shelves covered in these little glass balls and they're at the end of row ninety-seven... he's trying to use sirius to get whatever it is he wants from in there... he's torturing him... says he'll end by killing him!"

harry's voice was shaking, nearly as much as his knees were, chae watched silently as harry sat on a desk trying to compose himself. chae didn't know what to do, arguably voldemort could've been trying to get into harry's head which he seemed to be doing a lot recently. it was getting rather tiring now and chae wondered if he would ever give up.

"how're we going to get there?" he asked them.

there was a moment's silence, then ron said "g-get there?"

"get to the department of mysteries, so we can rescue sirius!" harry said loudly.

"but--harry..." said ron weakly.

"what? what?" said harry.

chae swallowed the lump in her throat, she was all for an adventure but this seemed unreasonable. if they were to leave the hogwarts grounds, umbridge would have a reason to expel them all.

"harry" said hermione in a rather frightened voice "er... how... how did voldemort get into the ministry of magic without anybody realising he was there?"

"how do i know?" bellowed harry "the question is how we're going to get in there!"

"but... harry, think about this" said hermione, taking a step towards him "it's five o'clock in the afternoon... the ministry of magic must be full of workers... how would voldemort and sirius have got in without being seen? harry... they're probably the two most wanted wizards in the world... you think they could get into a building full of aurors undetected?"

"i dunno, voldemort used an invisibility cloak or something!" harry shouted "anyway, the department of mysteries has always been completely empty whenever i've been--"

"you've never been there, harry" said hermione quietly "you've dreamed about the place, that's all"

"harry... hermione's right, this seems foolish. if we walked into the ministry, we'd get eaten alive. you've only ever dreamed about this place" chae finally spoke.

"they're not normal dreams!" harry shouted, standing up and taking a step closer to the girls in turn "how d'you explain ron's dad then, what was all that about, how come i knew what had happened to him?"

"he's got a point" said ron.

this lead to an argument, ron siding with harry as the four of them argued back and forth. throughout the argument, chae felt that harry was definitely in need of anger therapy. the brunette girl fell silent when he began to shout, rubbing hermione's arm comfortingly. the argument only ceased to a stop when ginny walked in, followed by luna.

"hi" said ginny uncertainly "we recognised harry's voice. what are you yelling about?"

"never you mind" said harry roughly.

ginny raised her eyebrows.

"there's no need to take that tone with me" she said coolly "i was only wondering whether i could help"

"well, you can't" said harry shortly.

"you're being rather rude, you know" said luna serenely.

"yes he is, isn't he luna? harry, you should realise that if you want your friends to help you shouldn't start blowing up on them just because they're trying to keep you from wandering into a field of death eaters! you're being unfair" chae scolded, taking a step towards harry.

harry nodded his head, his god sister's words calming him just a little. hermione began to explain that ginny and luna could help, her plan was actually very logical and chae couldn't find any faults within it so she decided to join them. if harry wanted to get himself killed by a bunch of death eaters, then chaerin would go with him, she would not let harry die alone.

"right" said hermione, twisting her hands together and pacing up and down between the desks "right... well... one of us has to go and find umbridge and--and send her off in the wrong direction, keep her away from her office. they could tell her--i don't know--that peeves is up to something awful as usual..."

"hey, i actually like peeves, he's funny and he's cheered me up a few times" said chae, in defence of the poltergeist.

"yeah but that's because you trashed binn's office with him once" said ginny, a small smile on her face but the two had been ignored due to the serious conversation taking place.

"i'll do it" said ron at once "i'll tell her peeves is smashing up the transfiguration department or something, it's miles away from her office. come to think of it, i could probably persuade, peeves to do it if i meet him on the way"

"ok" she said, her brow furrowed as she continued to pace "now, we need to keep students right away from her office while we force entry, or some slytherin's bound to go and tip her off"

"luna and i can stand at either end of the corridor" said ginny promptly "and warn people not to go down there because someone's let off a load of garrotting gas" hermione looked surprised at the readiness with which ginny had come up with this lie ginny shrugged and said "fred and george were planning to do it before they left, but then fred got distracted with chae"

ginny wiggled her eyebrows at the asian, chae blushed deeply but shook it off.

"i'll go with luna and ginny, i haven't threatened anybody recently" said chae.

after everything had been decided, the group left to put their plan into action.

a/n~ happy thursday loves !! i hope you're having a lovely day! thank you for 14k reads! please remember to vote and comment, i love hearing what you think of the story so far !! <3