They stayed to fight with the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws, respectively,Īnd all three of them have spent quite a while living in the Room of Requirement Until she can hear voices calling for her. The Ministry canīreathe their sigh of relief. Is dead, he is dead, and she is never going to see him again. Staring down at the soot-stained tomb, knowing that is what it is, that Lucifer If she’s taken an Impediment Jinx directly to the chest. This doesn’t have to beĬhloe’s breath feels driven out of her as The rest of the castle is still being searched. Insanely wealthy Slytherin family and the Dark Arts and everything they’veĬhosen to be after they cast him out, but it’s hard to see past. That’s not Lucifer, that’s not the Lucifer she knows, who hates his

Gotten a two-for-one special, taken down both You-Know-Who and a likely heir to Knows there will be absolutely no tears shed if he’s discovered dead, if they’ve He is one of the most talented,Īnd potentially deadly dangerous, wizards that Hogwarts has ever taught. Got detention at least a dozen times for being caught by Filch in Unleashing advanced and esoteric curses – far beyond O.W.L., possibly evenīeyond N.E.W.T., and Lucifer always did like to push boundaries, refine Chloe can’t give up.Īnd flick, she thinks, remembering first-year Might otherwise be, isn’t killing her own son. Surely Charlotte Morningstar, devoted Death Eater as she No one else is getting hit by Avada Kedavra once, let alone twice, and living Of her Quidditch team, more or less a friend, is special, the Boy Who Lived – If Harry can survive, whyĬan’t he? She knows that Potter, a year ahead of her in Gryffindor, the captain Grievously wounded and unconscious but still alive. This, but she can’t take the risk of hitting him if he’s somewhere under there, Levitating the rubble – it would be quicker to just Reducto her way through He has to be somewhere.Ĭhloe takes out her wand again and starts Sixteen with everything that has happened to them, everything they have doneĪnd not said, it makes something close to agony rise in her chest. Named Samael, who she met just five years ago, wonders how they can only be When Chloe thinks of the bright-eyed, eleven-year-old boy Merlin himself, Lucifer’s defiance is unfathomable to them. The anciently pureblood Morningstars, who claim to trace their descent from Want to believe half the whispers about what they were doing to him – scion of Then, Lucifer has been pushing the Carrows’ buttons all year, and Chloe doesn’t The two of them among the few from their house who stayed back to fight. Lucifer’s best friend, his loyal shadow, co-leader of the “cool Slytherins,” Stuffs her wand in the filthy sleeve of her robes so she can have both handsįor climbing. Giant, or a curse, or – Chloe’s breath catches painfully in her chest, she There’s a particularly deep crater that could have been made by a They said they last saw him around here, dueling And yet just now, as the recovery of bodies continues, Chloe has It’s going to take a while for everyone toīelieve it. Sounds like a dream, it sounds like a trick, he’ll spring up and order theīattle resumed – but he doesn’t. Hogwarts is blastedĪnd broken, but still standing, still standing, and Voldemort is dead. Shoulders as she wades through the rubble of the courtyard. (I have to tag for reasons, since we invented the details of this verse together.) Enjoy!ĭust, the burnt-ozone afterglare of spells, the pale, tremulous sunlight of theįirst day of the rest of everyone’s lives, bear down on Chloe Decker’s Anyway, yes, the promised Deckerstar Harry Potter AU. Happy Deckerstar Summer Exchange to I was intending this to be longer, but then summer turned insane… alas.

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