THE CURLS

𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭: 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐣 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 part 2

𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲: 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐬𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐨, 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐌𝐀𝐉𝐎𝐑 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐱 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 (𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜) / 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐱 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 (𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜) 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦: 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 <𝟑

𝐈𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 two weeks since draco malfoy had thrown a diffindo curse at charlotte- and almost killed her, and with draco being well draco he got out of it scott free- with professor snape coming to his aid almost immediately. which made harry and the rest of their friend group furious more than anything. during this though there was one person who hadn't spoken to charlotte at all since the night in the forbidden forest and that was her slytherin friend, theodore nott. she had spoken about it to hermione, keeping both of their male counterparts out of the conversation- last thing any of them needed was having either ron or harry starting a fight with him in the corridors.

thursday afternoon meant that they had a double lesson of divination as their last two classes of the day. like always charlotte sat with hermione and nora- their friend andromeda had dropped the subject as quickly as she could. the only reason why charlotte stayed in this subject was so that she could understand the skill and talent of legilimens, which she found out about last year that she was indeed one. and had been for a while, it just took someone to push her over the edge for her brain to open to understand and see the rare ability she was born with.

a stifled chuckle left her lips as she watched harry and ron basically falling asleep at their table, nudging nora so that she could see their two friends not listening to a word that professor trelawney had to say to the class.

on the other side of the room however there was the slytherin boys, well some of them anyway and one of them was theodore nott. all she wanted to do was talk to him about everything that had happened that night, and to be honest. she was missing her friend.

"that is it my darlings!" professor trelawney announced to the class, clapping her hands together. "i will need your first set of astrological charts by the end of next week! till then. class dismissed." professor trelawney dismissed the class, theodore nott was the first one down the ladder, with charlotte close on his tail. she waited till both of the, descended the stairs before she started calling out his name.

"theodore!" she ran after him, he just kept his head forward not looking back at the girl. "theodore nott! you listen to me right now!" this was when she had a brilliant idea. she stopped in her tracked, prendted to feel pain in her abdomen just like how she would've looked when she had fallen back into fred's arms a fortnight ago. when he did not hear her voice, this was when he turned around and saw her leaning over in pain. he knew she was lying, he sighed and walked back to where she was. going along with the charade she was pulling. "charlotte?" she heard his voice, this was when she stood up properly, pulling him by the wrist towards the nearest alcove, where no one would be able to see them. "pull up your sleeve, now." she crossed her arms across her chest. theodore sighed. "now, nott." she looked at him with a stone-cold look on her face. the amused look on theodore's face was gone. he sighed and rolled up the sleeve of his cloaked right arm. she knew that she was not seeing things on that night, theodore nott had in fact had become a death eater.

"are you an idiot? are you stupid, you promised!" she said as she grabbed a hold of his arm, examining that mark he had on his arm, she had never seen one up close before. theodore stood there, saying nothing.

"this was pointless." she began to walk away, and he almost let her do so. he cursed at himself as he scratched the back of his head. he reached out now grabbing her small wrist. "are you going to talk or is just going to be-" "oh be quiet!" theodore spoke to charlotte, and she stopped talking. "let me explain, you weren't even meant to be there! you could have been killed, he almost killed you!" theodore's voice sounded stressed as she spoke to her, her heart sank when she saw the look on his face appear. he looked like he hadn't been sleeping well.

"it was either i become a death eater or you were killed, charlotte. i couldn't let him kill you. i like having you around too much." theodore laughed at his own words, and she slapped him across his chest. "that is not a laughing matter, theo! i appreciate what you did for me, but why didn't you tell me what was going on? we, i mean you me, potter and the rest of us could have figured something out!" her voice was strained as she spoke to her friend, the stress and anxiety that she felt was now making her abdomen hurt- for real this time round, making her fall back onto the wall behind her. "this is what i am getting at, charlotte." he spoke to her, holding a hand out in case she needed help stabling herself. "us being friends, it is going to put you in danger!" "theodore, my boyfriend is the chosen one, the boy who lived. i put myself in danger every day just by kissing him on the cheek. my life is in danger every single day by just being here in this school because of the dark lord!" she hissed at the boy.

theodore looked at his friend, he did not know how to answer, because he knew that she was right. charlotte, alongside harry was in danger. and she was every single day that she was alive.

voldemort wanted her on his side because of her abilities, but the dark lord knew he would never have her. as long as she lived.

"you do not get to dictate our friendship, theodore! you do not get to decided who is in my life! i know what the people have been saying! they have been saying since last year!" charlotte's words began to turn soft as she spoke to him. "you're my friend, and when it comes to it, i will make sure you're safe. you get that right?"

-

while charlotte was conversing with theodore nott, harry was looking for his own slytherin, draco malfoy. the slytherin boy had practically been in hiding for the past week after what had happened int he forbidden forest.

draco knew it was wrong to throw the curse at her, but he was trying to inpress his father. which he did fruitfully.

harry watched as draco walked into the boys lavatory, he looked ill like he hadn't slept in weeks, while that might be true, draco was also under another sort of pressure, he had been set with the task of killing the headmaster of hogwarts- albus dumbledore.

the gryffindor boy followed draco into the lavatory, making sure not to make any sudden movements.

last year the two boys had gotten into a physical fight over charlotte- but draco had deserved the punches that harry, george and fred threw at the slytherin boy. draco after all was a racist git at times, and the three gryffindor boys had heard enough of it.

"we all know what you did to her, malfoy." draco looked through the mirror that was in front of him, draco didn't look stressed or worried, he had been waiting for harry to make his move all week. "she deserved what she got." draco spoke, as soon as the words left the malfoy boy's lips harry threw a spell from his wand, making draco run for his life behind the side of the stalls. "you could have killed her!" harry's voice rang out once more, it was laced with tension and anger.

"i was to do it if nott didn't!" a huff left harry's mouth while a vile laugh left draco's. "that's right, potter! her dear friend, theodore nott was tasked with killing her." this piece of information, harry was never supposed to find out about.

"that is the only reason why he got close to her! so he could kill her and bring her to him." draco's head peaked over the side of the wall of the stall, his body recoiling as soon as he did so, harry was quick to throw yet another spell- just missing draco's hair. the spell ended up destroying the side of the stall.

"you're lying! unlike you, he is not a git." harry stalked his way over, draco had his back turned. and just like the previous year harry had the boy pinned to the ground, he began to throw punches at the slytheirn boy. "you go anywhere." punch. "near her again." punch. "and i will happily kill you myself."

harry got to his feet, leaving draco on the floor, he looked down at his knuckles they were already starting to bruise from the impact they had made to draco's face.

he did not even look back at the whimpering boy who was on the floor as he left the boys lavatory.

harry walked out of the lavatory as if nothing ever happened.

Casting directors really see Shawn Hatosy and just

SHAWN HATOSY as KEVIN FAHEY Law & Order : Special Victims Unit S13E18 (x)

#sad wet cat

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"Hold on to the memory, and let the rest of it come."

Robby cursing

I am so in love with this man— i need to be his age inappropriate girlfriend

SHAWN HATOSY as DEPUTY CHIEF CHARLIE REID Chicago P.D. | Season 12

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