AMORTENTIA // Luke Patterson *COMPLETED*

•Chapter 26•

When we got home, contrary to my composure throughout Reggie's speech, I was freaking out. Not only did my suspicions about them behind related to death eaters become a reality, but they're also all actually dead.

That night, it was hard to sleep, but after a while, i eventually fell asleep, and didn't wake up until an hour before Reggie was supposed to show up.

When I was dressed, and had a quick breakfast, I made my way to the tree, that James and Albus had found me near when they arrived at the burrow. I was hoping Reggie would be able to spot me, and luckily he did. I heard the leaves crunching as he walked closer to me.

"Sleep well?" He smiles while sitting down next to me.

"After finding out one of your friend is a ghost, I don't think that's possible." I lean against the trunk of the tree as we sit in silence for a few moments.

"We're friends?" Reggie seems shocked.

"Of course, even though I mostly annoy you, I do consider you a friend." He smiles at my response. "So are you gonna tell me about the other two, today?"

"That was the plan."

"Who are you starting with then?"

"The next one of us to die, Alex." I sit up and face Reggie before he starts talking, just so I can listen to every word that he's saying. "Alex was born in 1988, 8 years after his brother was born. Alex always said that they never acted like siblings, it's like Draco always despised Alex for some reason. He tormented him when they were growing up, and his parents never really did anything to stop it. It was when draco first became a death eater that he layed off of Alex for a while, but once Voldemort was defeated, he resented Alex even more." Reggie pauses.

"So how was Draco apart of Alex's death. Yesterday you said he was indirectly involved in all of your deaths?"

"Draco, liked to play games with Alex. One was his absolute favourite, he would chase Alex around malfoy manner, threatening to use the Cruciatus Curse on him. Eventually things got too far, Alex realized that if he went to the roof, Draco probably wouldn't find him there. So he ran up there, hid and waited. Draco did find him after a few hours, chased him around the roof, until Alex mis-stepped. He fell 7 stories. Broke virtually every bone in his body, and died on impact. His parents didn't find him until the next day - they said it was a suicide because all evidence pointed to that. Draco never came forward, to tell the truth, so Alex was basically disowned from his own family, after he died. It seemed unfair but, when are the malfoys ever known for their fairness."

"But why didn't Scorpius know about him, surely he would know he had an uncle."

"When Alex died, the family agreed to never speak of him again. They said they were shamed because of how he died. Scorpius wouldn't know because the malfoy family - refuse to acknowledge the existence of Alex. We were all surprised when Lucius let Alex stay in the dungeons with Luke and I when he finally became a ghost."

"Why would he let him, if he was so shameful of Alex, why let him live here?"

"That was draco's doing, I suppose his guilt got the best of him. He convinced Lucius to let him stay here."

"I guess, that's nice of him." Reggie laughs at my words.

"Well, last off is Luke, he was born in 1991, to two people who weren't ready to have a child. Not that they weren't ready to be parents, they just weren't in the right mind, to do so. I'm sure that you're familiar with Professor Longbottom. Well he is Luke's brother, he never knew it of course, but they are siblings. Before the second wizard war started, it was widely known that most of the order of the Phoenix members, were killed off, that included your grandparents. However unlike most of the other members, Alice and frank Longbottom, weren't killed, they were captured, and tortured by my mother for nearly a year. After my mother and father were sent to Azkaban, the Longbottoms were put into the possession of Lucius malfoy, They were forced to have a child together, my mother hoped that they could use that child as some sort of bait to find out where Voldemort had gone, just after the death of your grandparents, seeing as they couldn't get their hands on their other son, Neville. That baby was Luke, and as soon as he was born, Lucius and Narcissa replaced Alex with him. Luke was always the golden child, he would be at every death eater meeting, even when he was a baby. Every death eater loved him. But Voldemort had always favored him more then anyone else. When Voldemort was officially defeated, Luke was only 7, but for some reason - that was unknown until very recently - Luke was constantly protected. When Luke was 14, Lucius went behind everyone's back, and helped Luke come up with a way that they could bring back Voldemort once again. Unfortunately the first time Luke tried to do this task, he was hit with an unknown curse, and died on impact. When Draco found out, it was actually really sad to watch, Luke had been Draco's second chance at having a brother, having one that he could actually protect. But after Lucius did that to Draco, he flipped, and all of a sudden - Draco was the man of the house. He helped us three boys get enrolled into Hogwarts, it was tough to convince McGonagall, but eventually she agreed."

"But if you're living in malfoy manner, why did scorpius not know about you?"

"Draco made us promise to not contact him, he wants his son to still see him in a positive way, all our deaths would change his sons view on him. Although he doesn't deserve it, I think we all forgave him a while ago."

"All of your stories are so tragic."

"I know right, but now that we're all at Hogwarts things are going better for us. Anything else you wanna ask?"

"I heard you all talking about a task you were all given, Luke said their were consequences for not completing it, what's the task?"

He looks at me, like he has nothing to say. I look back at him, waiting for him to reply.