The girl whose pet was a toad asked quietly.
"I..."
Pain flickered in Emily's eyes from time to time. "I... I can't say."
"What?" The girl froze. "What can't you say?"
Her fingers clenched tightly, and her face grew paler and paler. "I... I have to..."
Emily suddenly stood up and looked around the Common Room. "Where's Audrey? Where is she?"
"She seemed to go out early this morning. You know, she and that Edward seem to have certain privileges."
"Damn it, I need to get out too! I have to..."
Emily staggered toward the Common Room exit and pounded hard on the door. "Open the door! Let me out!"
A ghost covered in blood poked his head through the door. "I'm very sorry, Miss Larson. My orders are to let no one in or out."
"Then hurry and tell the Hogwarts professors. Tell them, tell them..." Drops of blood seeped from the corners of her eyes, and her skin grew redder and redder, as though it were being burned.
"What's wrong, Miss Larson?" The Bloody Baron looked rather bewildered. "Are you trying to trick me into opening the door?"
"Tell them... the Death Eaters are right..."
"AAAH!!!"
Suddenly, a scream came from behind her.
The girl who kept the toad was staring in horror at a green human hand sticking out of her pocket. A few seconds later, she snapped out of it, grabbed the arm, pulled it out of her pocket, and flung it away.
It was that toad!
Only one of its feet had turned into a human hand.
After landing, the toad croaked, then rapidly began to contort and grow. Its other three feet swiftly turned into a human hand and two legs. A little over ten seconds later, it had become a human in a