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http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/im ... /smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>**********************************************<br>PART ELEVEN:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> Hmmmm</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, Genevieve thought. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> What an oddly serene feeling.</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> She had the notion that she was in the most tranquil state she’d ever been in. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> Not a care in the world</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, she thought. It was like she was hovering in some surrealistic world and she was utterly and completely mindless. Then she heard a hissing voice in her careless mind. “Clap your hands<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> ss</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->,” the voice said. Genevieve complied, giving a hearty round of applause for the two onlookers.<br><br>Pettigrew chuckled. “Tell her to do something else,” he ordered. “Have her lick my boots!”<br><br>The viper-like sorceress gave him a look of approval and a moment later, Genevieve had bowed down before him and licked each one of his boots like a faithful dog. He chortled and said, “She doesn’t resist at all! This is going to be like taking candy from a baby! Shall we send her on or can we play with her a bit more, my pet?”<br><br>Ophidia twisted her thin red lips into a devilish smile. “More play would be fun, but our Mas<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> sss</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->ter mightn’t like it, dear Wormtail. Bes<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> sss</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->t to command her to apparate now.”<br><br>Pettigrew nodded. The thought of upsetting the Master didn’t sit well with him at all. He pushed Genevieve back, as she was still bowed at his feet, and said, “Off you get, girl. You have work to do.”<br><br>*****<br><br>As Remus Lupin, Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape walked out of Hogwarts castle towards the winged boars at the entrance gates where they would be able to apparate and begin their search for Genevieve, each man was thunderstruck when they saw her appear with a pop, just on the other side of the gateway.<br><br>At first they paused, wondering if they had all seen a mirage of sorts. Dumbledore even rubbed his eyes under his half-moon spectacles, thinking they were playing tricks on him.<br><br>“An illusion?” Snape muttered in disbelief, but Lupin ran at full speed towards the girl. <br><br>“Genevieve!” he cried as he crushed her in an embrace. Genevieve said nothing as Lupin stroked her wavy hair.<br><br>Dumbledore and Snape had caught up and looked absolutely relieved.<br><br>“You must tell us how you got away, my child,” said Dumbledore. “We were afraid for your life, when Severus came back and told us what had happened.”<br><br>“Yes, how <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> did</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> you escape Pettigrew?” inquired Snape.<br><br>“Did he hurt you?” whispered Lupin, who was still holding her tightly.<br><br>“I’m not hurt,” replied Genevieve flatly. “I don’t know how I got back here.” She looked at Dumbledore and Snape blankly. “Oh, wait. Yes, I apparated.”<br><br>Snape and Dumbledore exchanged perplexed glances as Lupin said, “We need to get you to the hospital wing just the same. I’ll feel better once Madam Pomfrey has a look at you.”<br><br>In the hospital wing, as Madam Pomfrey was performing the examination of her new patient, Snape, Dumbledore & Lupin stood off to the side, discussing her inexplicable arrival.<br><br>“She seemed rather vague, didn’t she?” asked Dumbledore.<br><br>“Yes,” agreed Snape.<br><br>“She <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> was</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> acting a little odd,” admitted Lupin. “But she’s just been through something very traumatic.” He looked over at the bed where Genevieve lay as Madam Pomfrey poked and prodded her. “She’ll be OK,” he whispered, mostly trying to convince himself of that more than anything else. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> She has to be</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, he thought.<br><br>As Genevieve lay in the stark, white hospital bed, she had a mini battle raging in her mind. The effects of the draught had made her incapable of blocking the Imperius Curse at first. She’d complied with every command Ophidia had given her, but now she began to question why she did what the hissing voice told her to do, but she still found it almost impossible to resist. <br><br>The voice was telling her not to give anyone too much information. “No dis<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> ss</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->tinct clues<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> ss</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> to where you were, girl”, it ordered. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> But Remus is here</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, she thought. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> I should tell him.</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> “No!!” bellowed the voice of the hag. So Genevieve obeyed and Madam Pomfrey went on with her examination. <br><br><br><br><br> <p><center><img src=
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