Stay - Mattheo Riddle

16th of October

Kirra, Theodore and Mattheo were all walking towards the transfiguration classroom and joined the queue outside the classroom, trying to get through everyone. However, there was a disturbance at the front of the line.

Lavender Brown seemed to be crying. Parvati had her arm around her and was explaining something to Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas, who was looking very serious.

'What's the matter, Lavender?' said Kirra anxiously, as she, Harry, Ron and Hermione went to join the group. Mattheo and Theodore let out small sighs before moving to the side and waiting for the Hufflepuff

'She got a letter from home this morning,' Parvati whispered. 'It's her rabbit, Binky. He's been killed by a fox.'

'Oh,' said Kirra sadly. 'I'm so sorry, Lavender.'

'I should have known!' said Lavender tragically. 'You know what day it is?'

Hermione suddenly spoke up, 'Er –'

'The sixteenth of October! That thing you're dreading, it will happen on the sixteenth of October!' Lavender exclaimed, "Remember? She was right, she was right!'

The whole class was gathered around Lavender now, Theodore and Mattheo were smirking off to the side at the dramatics in front of them, they just wanted to get out of there but they had to wait for the Potter girl. 

Seamus shook his head seriously. Hermione hesitated; then she said, 'You – you were dreading Binky being killed by a fox?'

'Well, not necessarily by a fox,' said Lavender, looking up at Hermione with streaming eyes, 'but I was obviously dreading him dying, wasn't I?'

'Oh,' said Hermione. She paused again. Then –'Was Binky an old rabbit?'

'N-no!' sobbed Lavender. 'H-he was only a baby!'

Parvati tightened her arm around Lavender's shoulders. 'But then, why would you dread him dying?' said Hermione. Parvati glared at her. 'Well, look at it logically,' said Hermione, turning to the rest of the group. 

'I mean, Binky didn't even die today, did he, Lavender just got the news today –' Lavender wailed loudly '– and she can't have been dreading it, because it's come as a real shock –' 

"Herm-" Kirra went to ask her to stop being insensitive but Ron cut her off

'Don't mind Hermione, Lavender,' said Ron loudly, 'she doesn't think other people's pets matter very much.' Professor McGonagall opened the classroom door at that moment, which was perhaps lucky; Hermione and Ron were looking daggers at each other, and they all walked into the classroom

"well that was interesting" Mattheo whispered as they made their way to the back of the classroom 

"Okay why is McGonnagal looking at you as if she saw a ghost" Theodore suddenly cut in and they turned to see the professor looking right at Kirra, her face pale and her eyes wide but as soon as the woman noticed the looks she was receiving from the three students, she quickly looked away

"that's odd" Kirra commented, but she was mentally scolding herself, as soon as she had called her Minnie, she knew that she had messed up, but she doubted that McGonnogal was going to say anything to her.

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A week passed and Mcgonnogal hadn't said anything to anyone about the encounter, yet she hadn't stopped thinking about it since the incident occurred. She had been keeping a close eye on the girl since it happened, and she hadn't failed to notice her stashing her invisibility cloak and then running off into the forest at night.