Good vs. Evil

Chapter 23

𝒟𝑒𝒶𝓇 ℳ𝓈. ℱ𝒶𝓌𝓁𝑒𝓎, ℐ 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒷𝓊𝓉 ℐ 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒶𝓈𝓀 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 ℳ𝓇. 𝒫𝑜𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔. ℐ𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝒻𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝒻 𝓌𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒾𝓂. ℐ 𝒽𝑜𝓅𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹.

𝒜𝓁𝒷𝓊𝓈 𝒫𝑒𝓇𝒸𝓊𝓋𝒶𝓁 𝒲𝓊𝓁𝒻𝓇𝒾𝒸 ℬ𝓇𝒾𝒶𝓃 𝒟𝓊𝓂𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒹𝑜𝓇𝑒

𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲. 𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐝, 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐰𝐞'𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞

𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙙𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝙃𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙡𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙪𝙢 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙚. 𝙎𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮, 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙨𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙.

𝙍𝙤𝙣

Y/n, can you tell me anything thats going on? Professor Dumbledore isn't answering and Ron and Hermione are useless. I have no idea what's going on, I just want to make sure everyone is okay. Owl me as soon as possible.

Harry.

I looked through the letters for the millionth time, hoping to calm my nerves. I was getting more and more impatient.

I knew about the disappearances but nothing else. I was totally in the dark. I haven't seen Father all summer and Artemis had been more secretive then ever, I only ever saw her at meal time now.

I rolled the chain of my necklace in between my fingers, a bad habit I developed over the last month.

My room was almost completely dark now and I stared out into the garden, watching as the fountain slowly died down before shutting off completely.

I sighed, stuffing the letters back into my desk drawer before trudging down the stairs for dinner.

I walked into the empty dining room. At the end of the bare table was a plate of food, a cup, utensils, and a single candlestick. The small flame was the only source of light.

I picked at my food, staring at the dark side of the table.

After a few minutes, I pushed my plate forward and got up, sick of the silence.