The next morning a scream pierced the silence of the castle.

I woke with a start upon hearing it, what was wrong? Had someone else discovered that three headed beast? I assumed everyone had gone to bed easy last night after dinner and some fun in the Common Room, well everyone except Harry, Ronald, Hermione and myself that is as we were battling with a giant dog! This morning, however, something dreadful must've happened and I swiftly got dressed before racing downstairs into the Common Room where Harry was about to go out the portrait hole.

'Harry what happened?' I asked.

'I don't know, but I'm gonna find out, come on.' He said and we went out onto the freezing cold steps and down to the Entrance Hall. We were lucky that the stairs didn't decide to move as we were running and if we fell it was a long way down.

'I hope that no one's been hurt.' I murmured, but I was wrong, I gasped as we neared the bottom, I spotted a girl lying unconscious on the floor and a brunette girl standing next to her, eyes wide in shock with her hand over her mouth. Harry and I ran over to them to try and find out what had happened.

'What happened to her?' Harry asked.

'I-I.' The girl stuttered shaking her head, unable to form any coherent words with her quivering mouth. I noticed that she looked slightly older than us, she was probably in third or fourth year and her robes showed that she was in Ravenclaw as was the girl on the floor.

'Someone should get the teachers.' I suggested, I was about to run and get them when Dumbledore walked in from the Great Hall.

'No need Miss Granger, we're already here.' He said walking over, Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape behind him. The teachers then tried to talk to the girl and I concerned myself with the unconscious one on the floor.

Her skin was a deathly pale as if all the blood had drained out of it and ice cold when I touched it, her eyes were closed and her midnight black hair was spread out on the floor, if I was honest she almost looked like a sleeping China doll. The question was what in the world could have caused this? Then as I moved around her I discovered the biggest clue; two small puncture marks in the side of her neck.

I felt myself turn almost as pale as she was and I nervously stepped backwards away from the body. I knew what had done this, but I didn't want to believe it.

'What's wrong Melanie?' Harry asked watching me.

'Headmaster.' I said turning my gaze to Dumbledore. 'We have a problem.'

The girl was promptly taken to the Hospital Wing after I pointed out what I had discovered and the other girl was taken to the Headmaster's office for questioning, unfortunately so we're Harry and I.

'Please sit down Miss Quill.' Dumbledore instructed gently and the distraught girl sat down in the chair, her face was wet as her make up was running and her eyes were filled with tears. 'Now Miss Quill, what happened?'

'Last night my friend Stacie Ridge left the tower, she said that she'd be right back, I told her not to go but she did anyway. I fell asleep not to long after that and when I woke up this morning she wasn't back yet, so I went out to look for her. Then I found her like that.' She burst into tears.

'Why did she leave Ravenclaw Tower?' I asked.

'S-She said that she needed to talk to someone, but she wouldn't tell me who.' She sniffed. Snape, who was still with us, looked to Harry and I who had been standing a couple of feet behind her.

'How do you two fit into this?' He asked quirking an eyebrow.

'I woke up when I heard the scream.' I replied.

'Me too.' Harry nodded.

'So your first thought was to find out what had happened.' Dumbledore understood.

'Yes.' Harry replied.

'I see.' He nodded. 'You may go.' We turned and headed out through the door.

'So what do you think?' Harry asked me as we walked back through the halls.

'About what?'

'Do you think it was a vampire?'

I froze, I hated that word, ever since I was little and Hermione used to mention it, but I managed to regain my composure and answered his question.

'I don't know.' I replied honestly and we kept walking. What I did know is that this could be the start of some very bad things to come.

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The next two weeks flew by and Hallowe'en had arrived, everyone was excited, but news of the incident had spread an by now everyone was talking about. In fact many students had made jokes about the creatures coming alive early in preparation for the festivities of Hallowe'en, while others were planning on dressing up as such creatures for the years 1-4 Hallowe'en party that was to happen after the feast tonight in the Great Hall, while the 5-7 years party was held in the dungeons.

Most people were expected to attend with the exceptions being Miss Amberley Quill, Hermione and myself. The reasoning behind this was obvious: Miss Quill didn't want anything to do with that stuff since her friend was in the Hosptial Wing unconscious and Hermione and I were expected to stay in the Gryffindor Common Room and study as were "bookworms" who were more interested in our grades than partying.

I didn't mind what any of the others thought, we still had a normal school day to get through before all that stuff happens tonight and that was what I intended on focusing on. The day was going fine until we got to charms, just after lunch and we were going to be casting the levitation charm "wingardium leviosa".

Ok guys you know what comes next, or do you? Dun, dun, dun, da! Keep reading to find out more!