final chapter Hp and the HoC

Chapter 14- Home Taranees PoV

In the morning Taranee woke up just as early as always regardless of how tired she was. She got up and changed then made her way to the hospital wing where the trio had spent the night. She entered, Ron was awake the other two were sleeping. She went over and said hi, his leg was in a cast. It was only broken and hadn’t had to be amputated as Ron had suggested. His leg was going to be healed by the next day so he’d be able to join them on the way down to the train in three days. At that moment Hermione woke up and came over, She said in a whispered conversation that they had been out last night, her and Harry, and they’d saved Sirius and buckbeak on Dumbledore’s orders and that they were both going into hiding somewhere. Taranee was relieved, since she knew that they were both innocent. She suddenly got a mental call
‘where are you?’
She answered
‘I’m in the hospital wing, why?
‘oh, ‘cause we woke up from an incredibly scary night and you were missing, we went down to breakfast and you weren’t there, we were so worried’
‘we’ll be right up’
Taranee sighed, why, they didn’t need to worry about her, plus she’d thought it’d be obvious that if she wasn’t at breakfast she’d be visiting their friends. She jumped as Irma and Hay Lin came through the door with a bang waking Harry up, well Irma made the bang Hay Lin followed her. Harry stood up and walked over to Taranee and Hermione along with Irma and Hay Lin
“don’t ever do that again! We were worried”
“well, you were asleep, I didn’t want to wake you since we were all so tired last night, you know very well I can take care of myself, you had no reason to be worried” she was annoyed that they’d treat her like that “now, I’m going to go talk to someone” with that she left the hospital wing leaving a very shocked group behind her, none of them had ever seen her stand up to someone like that, she caught Irma’s last words “what’s her problem?” her problem was that they all tiptoed around her all the time because she had a lot of fears, she didn’t need that. She went up to professor Lupin’s office to see how he was and was surprised to find Harry joining her, he ran after her down the corridor, they walked together, her explaining her problem and then other things like why she was so scared of Frost, because he had in fact kidnapped her twice and it always seemed to be her as his target, she then went on to explain about Elyon and her brief evil period, boy was that a lonely and depressing two weeks I spent with her. By the time they had reached Lupin’s office Taranee was amazed at how easy it was to talk to Harry, she’d told him things she hadn’t even told the other guardians, she looked into his eyes and blushed. She quickly turned away and knocked on the door
“come in” was the answer from the other side. Lupin was packing, he explained that it was because the parents wouldn’t want a werewolf teaching their children so he was resigning before the governors fired him. He gave Harry his map back and bade them farewell, he was announcing his resigning at breakfast so they followed him down to the great hall and took two seats at the Gryffindor table next to Will and Cornelia, Taranee assumed Irma and Hay Lin were still in the hospital wing a fact she told Will and Cornelia when they asked. The next time she saw them they’d got over her outburst and thankfully didn’t mention it again. So the last three days of school passed without much happening, the last day erupted in a panic of finding lost clothes and last minute packing and then double checking, when Taranee was sure she had everything she picked up her trunk and went down to meet the others at the horseless carriages that would take them to the station, when they arrived at the station they boarded the train. They were around halfway home when there was a tapping at the window, Taranee looked up to see a tiny owl at the window. Harry stood up and opened the window and the owl flew over to him with a letter. He opened it and skimmed it
“it’s from Sirius!” he said in amazement “he’s ok, he’s in hiding and…Ron, he says you can have the owl since its his fault you lost your rat” Taranee giggled along with everyone else in the carriage. Ron hesitantly took the owl, it flew out of his grasp and fluttered around the carriage twittering madly, Taranee grinned again the sight was so comical. She lay back in her chair and closed her eyes feeling tired… She jolted forward suddenly and looked around. They were at the station she’d actually fallen asleep, on Harry’s shoulder no less. She smiled sheepishly “sorry” she said as everyone exited the carriage. She stretched to lift her trunk down from the luggage rack, it came down with a clonk. She stood up, Harry was still in the carriage hovering nervously “are you ok?” she asked
“um, yeah, there’s just something I want to ask you that I didn’t want to say in front of the others” she was half worried and half excited
“really, what is it?”
“umm, Taranee…”
“yes?”
“doyouwannagooutwithme?”
“pardon” she’d caught some of that but not quite all of it. Harry gulped, she smiled encouragingly
“do you want to go out with me?” she gasped and let out a little excited squeal
“I’d love to” she ran over and hugged him. The hug was stopped abruptly by laughter from the window, Taranee turned to find everyone peering in
“Ron, I told you not to tell anyone!”
“sorry mate, but they wondered where you were I thought it only fair to tell them” Taranee grinned at her friends, “fine, laugh, I don’t care what you think” and she didn’t she was just too happy