Enjoying the Moonlight

[Samantha]

Samantha awoke in the middle of the night and couldn't quite fall back asleep. Her mind kept raceing from one thing to the next and before she knew it she was up out of bed. She walked by a mirror and saw that she looked a little funny to be leaveing the dorm and she decided to get dressed, well, sort of. She picked up some of her jeans off the floor, a pair well worn and ripped all over the place. Then she found a tight tee shirt, and pulled it over her head. She attempted to brush her hair, but gave up when she broke her comb. She grabbed her notebook, and walked out of the dorm.

Her bare feet lightly touched the ground, as she walked down the beaten path to the Graveyard.Samantha had decided that she should go out and enjoy the night. She used to be terrified of the dark, but got over it. She decided that if something was going to get her it would, whether she wanted it to or not. The moon was full tonight and it caught her bright green eyes, makeing them shine. A light breeze sent shivers up her arms and blew her long, long, white hair behind her. She fineally got to the old gates leading into the Graveyard. She opened it carefully, the screetch of the metal an intursion to the quiet of night. She walked in slowly, takeing in the scene before her. A full moon, shining off the newer of the graves, which were polished, and makeing contrast against the old scruffy ones.

She walked around for a while, reading headstones, looking at the dates and wondering how so-and-so died and so on. Then she came on a rather large tree and a little open area away from the mass of graves, where she sat down, right in the light of the moon . Opening her notebook she began jotting down a song she had been working on in her head.

[Genesis Radcliffe]

As Genesis slipped out the door to the Slytherin common room she felt second thoughts. The young but tall Slytherin girl with her pale skin and long raven hair was headed outside wearing nothing but some pants underneath a long sleeved, black nightgown and some black satin slippers. In her arm she carried a book, and notebook, her wand was in her pants pocket. For some it might have been strange to see her creep along the corridors of the school until she reached the front doors. To most it would have been strange if they’d seen her head for the Graveyard. But to Genesis this was normal behavior.

As soon as Genesis got to the Graveyard she dropped her notebook on the floor and pulled out her wand, “Lumos!” She whispered and the tip of her wand lit slightly so she could see better. In a small whisper she read aloud, “…two feet from the tall willow tree hunched over the graves, three…”

Genesis closed the book and picked up the notebook. Tucking them both under her arm she moved her wand up and started to walk, looking carefully for the tree over the three graves. But as she moved along she saw something in the Graveyard. Genesis couldn’t see who it was but the moment she saw their dark figure she dropped her book and notebook and screamed.

It took her a second to realize that the figure belonged to a student and she breathed a sigh of relief. “I am sorry,” Genesis said with her light French accent to the girl with her hand on her heart.

[Samantha]

Samantha jumped up at the scream her wand out. Realizeing she was the cause of the terror she put her wand back on the ground. "Oh, no worries..No need to apoligize. I don't bite just by the way." She said with a smile. Sam walked over to the girl and picked up her books. "Here ya go.." She said holding them out to her.

"I'm Samantha, well, Sam is fine actually, pleasure to meet you." She added, figureing that she might as well intoduce herself. "What are you doing out here?" She said pleaseantly, Then added, to be careful, "Just curious, I don't mean to be nosy." She didn't want this girl thinking bad of her.

[Genesis Radcliffe]

Genesis smiled at Sam’s pleasantness and said, “Thank you for picking up my books. And it is not at all rude to ask why I am out here. I know I must seem strange out here. But now is really the only good time for me to find…what I am looking for.”

Genesis opened her book and flipped through the pages until she found the page she was looking for then she went on, “I am looking for the grave of a student. Her name was Genesis Baulair I, she was my Great Great Great Aunt and she died when she was a third year student.

“She was a Ravenclaw student, a very promising girl. But one with a talent for getting in trouble. One day she was in the potions classroom, after hours, and was fooling around with a potion that was supposed to have made the drinker’s hair turn a sickly green. She was going to use it on the entire school as a prank with her best friend Ryan.”

Genesis paused to allow that much of the story to sink in and then continued, “But then something went wrong and when my aunt tried it and it killed her.”

Genesis knew that this was a sad story so she went on quickly, “Well she was buried or course. But some how everyone forgot where she was buried. But as ledged has it, during the night her grave glows sickly green. That’s what I’m looking for.”

[Samantha]

"Mind if I help?" She asked, with a sad smile.

"Thats really terrible, about your aunt... Uhm..you never told me your name.." She said slowly, hopeing it wasn't becasue she didn't want to give her name.

"Know where we start with this search?" She said with a smile.

[Genesis Radcliffe]

“Of course you can help,” Genesis responded to Samantha’s first question, “And by the way, my name is Genesis Baulair.” Genesis handed Samantha her notebook and then went back to the book. Now that she had a better grip on it she was able to read, “…two feet from the tall willow tree hunched over the graves, three…

“That’s the second clue,” Genesis continued, “the first lead me here. But the second clue seems tricky. I guess we have to find some sort of willow that’s pretty old that is hunched over three old graves. The net clue after that is ‘Once you’ve found the three deep graves look for the grave that isn’t in its correct place…’

Genesis closed her book and took her notebook back. “So I guess it’s time to start looking for that tree,” Genesis said and she started forward again, moving her wand from side to side to see the trees better.

[Samantha]

Sam had an idea. "I think I know where it is! I climbedthat tree before..." She said grabbing Genesis's hand. She slowed to a walk and they came to another little gate. She unlocked it and walked in. A little meadow appeared. A huge Williow was right in front of them. "I never really checked through the branches...just climbed. I think this is the only willow though.." She said walking over to it slowly. The thing was gigantic, and very hunched over.