Chapter 2
Lavender Brown wasn’t much of a rule breaker.
Technically she was supposed to still be in her dorm until breakfast started. But she felt antsy. She hadn’t been able to sleep. She’d been thinking a lot about her future and what she wanted to do. Her parents had been bugging her about what she wanted to do after school and she’d eventually realized that she didn’t have a plan.
She only had two years left. After that, the world was her oyster. But her parents wanted her to do something. Something good and meaningful. But Lavender just couldn’t figure out what she wanted to do.
Her grades weren’t the best and she’d never had the best luck. A fact that became prominent this very early morning.
Lavender had decided to take a walk around the school. Just to clear her head. But the portraits either gave her dirty looks or woke up at the sound of her footsteps. So she decided to make her way up to the Astronomy Tower. When she reached the top of the staircase, she paused. The color drained from her face.
There was a body on the floor.
A dead body.
This wasn't good. This wasn't good at all.
She stood on the top step staring for a moment. What was she supposed to do? There was no point, right? Whoever they were, were already dead and gone. If she was fast enough she could run back to her dorm without anyone noticing she'd been gone. Before she can make a choice, the body moves.
She’ll takes a small step closer, nearing the opening of the tower. She can see more clearly that it's a girl. Her light brown hair was ruffled and she didn't miss the spots of blood on her pink shirt. The girl looked so familiar.
She should leave.
Lavender takes another step closer. The girls head is moving around slowly. Her hands are feeling all over her body and then her face. She moans in pain.
She really should go.
She barely takes another step in before the girl turns around. She can't even fight the gasp that comes out of him. Hermione Granger turns to her but it's not exactly her. Her eyes look beady and inhuman. The veins underneath her eyes become prominent momentarily as she moans in pain again.
"Lavander?"
She peers up at her as her eyes continue to flicker from brown to beady red. Another moan leaves her lips and she almost falls back down to the floor again. Lavender runs over, her hands shooting out to help steady her.
"What's happened? Why are you up here?"
Hermione freezes as their hands meet. Almost as if she was realizing something. Lavender stays still, watching her.
Now that Lavender was closer, she could actually see her eyes. They were red and void and her veins continued to pop in and out of her skin, blood shooting through them. Her lips were coated in blood aswell. As if she'd been eating something. What the hell had happened to her?
"Hermione? Talk to me. What happened?"
Her face scrunches in pain but this time she doesn't moan in pain. She lets out a heavy sigh instead.
"Im...hungry..."
Hungry? Is that why she'd passed out? Had she not eaten?
"If you wanna eat breakfast starts in a few hours."
Hermione immediately shakes her head.
"Not....for food..."
Hermiones grip on her hand tightens and Lavander feels her bones crushing in on themselves. She lets out a yelp of pain as she's thrown up against a pillar. Hermione stands, pinning her down.
"So...hungry.."
Her eyes go full black and her veins pop out. She tilts her head upwards and four of her teeth begin to grow into fangs. Lavenders eyes widen at the sight. Hermione was no longer Hermione. She was overtaken by a monster of sorts. She had become the monster.
There’s was a ripping sound as Hermione sunk her fangs into Lavenders neck. Lavenders screams only last for a moment as her heart slows and her eyes go black. She can feel all of the blood in her body being drained from her.
She barely feels when her body hits the floor and her heart stops beating.