Ch 22-Year End Feast

A/N: Sorry for the long absence, was enjoying the Holidays. BTW Happy New Year

It was the last day of this term of Hogwarts. The results were out, Hermoine Granger had topped with me coming second, the only reason I came second was transfiguration I sucked at it, another reason why Mcgonagall didn't like me, I was loud and trouble maker who couldn't get my spells to work in her eyes. Transfiguration just felt wrong to me, I picked up all the charms, hexes easily cause I felt magic and could easily move and make it do what I want but with transfiguration I just felt it was wrong, like I was going against the basic nature of the thing. Anyway I accepted that I sucked at Transfiguration and threw it at the back of my mind.

"What you thinking about?" Asked Notts.

"How much I suck at Transfiguration." I replied.

"Well that's common knowledge tell me something new." said Notts.

"I am waiting for Dumbledore to declare that we won House Cup, I wanna see his reaction." I told him.

Notts smirked at that and said" Last time we were gonna win, he just gave away extra points to Gryfindor, I mean can he be any more bias. One Galleon says he does the same this time."

"I'll take you up on that bet. We will definitely win this time."

Astoria came and sat next to us followed by an unwilling Daphne.

"Hello Astoria." I said then I went on to greet Daphne " Greengrass" clearly it looked like she didn't want to sit here.

"You don't have to sit here if you don't want to." I told her

"I'll sit where ever I want Rivers, and I am not letting Astoria out of my sight." said Daphne.

Woah so much arrogance."Well suit yourself" I said not bothered to talk with her.

"So little one, you look fine now." I said turning my attention to Astoria.

"Yes, I am fine now." She said cheerful pulling up food to her plate.

Soon Dumbledore made his year end speech and declared Slytherin as the House Cup Winner.No one at the Slytherin table celebrated at first, clearly aware of the headmasters tendency to give away some last minute points. When a few minutes passed and Dumbledore finished his speech only then did the Slytherin Table shot up all of them celebrating finally winning the House Cup.

"Oh god we won, I though he would give away some last minute points." said Notts.

I just flashed a smile, with the number of points I had won for the house this year, if we hadn't won then I would have probably started a riot just here.

"What do you mean when you say 'last minute points?'" asked Astoria.

"Let me tell you in my first year, we had won the house cup but then at the last moment Headmaster gave away large number of points to Potter, Weasley, Granger and LongBottom and thus Gryffindor won same happened ini our second year. That's the reason why no one celebrated just when he said Slytherin, we all were expecting him to give points to the Gryffindor." said Notts.

"Your sister didn't tell you this?" I asked.

"No, she doesn't talk much about what goes in Hogwarts" said Astoria.

"Well makes sense, not much interesting happens here anyway unless you are Potter then you are doomed to be at danger." I replied

"What do you mean?" asked AStoria.

"Well the first year there was something do with with the 3rd floor corridor," I said when i was interrupted by Notts.

"And in the second year it was the chamber of secrets. Blake here was petrified by the basilisk." said Notts.

"There was no need for that extra information at the end." I said annoyed.

"You were petrified?" Astoria asked.

"Hmm" i said not wanting to talk much about that.

"She asked you something Rivers." said the elder sister this time.

"And I don't want to talk about it." I replied a bit agitated at her.

seriously what does she think she is clearly demanding thing of me.

"I am sorry." said Astoria, "its fine if you don't want to talk about it."

"Well at least one sister has manners." I said looking at Daphne.

"Whatever." Daphne said emotionlessly and then went back to eating.

The feast ended soon and the next day people made thier way to the Hogwarts Express to go Home. All but me.

I had Pip apparate me as soon as we reached the Platform. I apparated back to the Chameber. There was nothing for me to do at home and I still had to perform the ritual to increase my strength.

"Finally decided to grace me with your presense Sir?" asked Salazar cheekily.

"Yes, but you are forgetting to bow before me Salazar, where are your manners?" I replied to his comment.

"Cheeky brat." said Salazar.

"Well thank you." I replied.

"So what happened? you didn't come down here for a long time." asked Salazar.

"Oh where should I start." I said and then went on to tell him about everything that had happened.

"Good job at the Ministry having them give you control over a vault. At least now you will be able to get all the required ingredients for the ritual." Salazar said.

"What all do we need?" I asked.

"Not much but what all we will need will be expensive and do take some blood from Bela." said Salazar.

"Bela's blood, was it also one of the reason you left her behind?" I asked.

"NO, none of my direct descendant would have been this weak, and Bela's blood will be used so that you can speak Parseltongue."

"Wait Parseltongue?" I asked about the thing that mattered ignoring the first comment he made.

"Well of course, spells in Parseltongue are way more effective and powerful. We still need to train you in wandless magic(sigh) so much to be done. So till then Parseltongue will get you along." said Salazar.

A/N: Prisoner of Azkaban ends here. Goblet of Fire here we come.