The sequel to The Wrong Witch is now posted! I'm not too sure about this chapter, so please review, even if it's to tell me you hated it. But I wanted to get something out here.
Eventually, this story will go to the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (although not for awhile). There's a poll on my profile so you can vote on who your favorites are to go on it! (Or leave reviews with who you want if you don't have an account and I'll be sure to take note of it)
Here's a quick synopsis of The Wrong Witch for anyone who's just joining us now. If you did read it, then skip to where the bold ends. If you're considering reading the Witch Witch at any point, don't read the synopsis because it'll give away all the twists and turns in the story.
Caspian decided to call up the White Witch, but the magic got mixed, and Hermione ended up in Narnia while the White Witch ended up in Hogwarts! The Narnians are terrified of her, and she hates the idea of a monarchy, but eventually they come to terms. She and Peter start off horridly, but eventually become interested in each other. After Harry tells Dumbledore about Hermione being missing, Dumbledore sends Harry and Ron into Narnia to find her and to ask Aslan for help with dealing with the White Witch. After they defeat the Telmarines, Aslan sends Caspian, Peter, Susan, Glenstorm, and a few others to Hogwarts. Peter and Susan were warned that choosing to go to Hogwarts made it so they could never return to England in their own time, where Lucy and Edmund returned.
Peter ends up in Hufflepuff and Susan in Slytherin (chapter 10 if you want to know why the hat sorted them there). Dumbledore then asks Susan to befriend Draco so she could keep an eye on him. Susan decides the easiest way to do that is to flirt with Draco, even though she and Caspian have been interested in each other.
They find out the White Witch got to Ron, but allow Ron to lead them into the trap so they could know where she is. But instead, Voldemort is there, saying the White Witch promised him Potter as long as he gave her Peter and Susan. By surprising him with using non-magical weapons, they manage to run away, although Death Eaters are chasing them. Peter finds the merpeople who then give them a safe place to hide. The merpeople's ancestors traveled here from Narnia after the fall of the Golden Age, so they feel loyal to Peter & Susan.
The centaurs tell them about the fruit that they must plant to keep the White Witch out of Hogwarts for good. Susan, Peter, Hermione, and Caspian go to find the fruit. While on that trip, both sets of couples finally become real couples.
When they return, Susan finds out that the White Witch has been trying to recruit Draco. She manipulates Draco by flirting with him and pretending to be terrified to get him to help her by distracting the White Witch until they can plant the fruit.
Harry gets Neville to help plant the fruit, being the best at Herbology. The White Witch eventually finds them, but the others hold her off until Neville's done. Aslan comes to return the native-born Narnians to their world.
In the last scene, Susan reluctantly agreed to work with Draco, who hopes they could eventually please Voldemort together so Susan can be a Death Eater with him.
"Yes!" she cried out in ecstasy, seeing their project completed.
"Susan, you're brilliant," Draco said, spinning her around. "Using magical versions of Muggle objects? No one would have ever thought of that."
"The Dark Lord will be pleased," she said shyly.
"He will. I… I'll tell him this bit was your idea. Then he should have no problem making you a Death Eater," Draco said eagerly. After so many years of dealing with Pansy, he could hardly believe that such a perfectly… perfectly Slytherin girl had come along. Susan was just so brilliant, so cunning, and seemed eager to support everything he did. Too eager, a voice in the back of his head warned him. Too perfect. But he shoved those thoughts aside. He desperately needed someone, anyone to lean on. And Susan had come along at the perfect time, giving him everything he needed in a partner, both a partner in working for the Dark Lord and the perfect girl to have on his arm.
"And all our dreams will be realized," Susan cooed, pushing Draco's hair back. "But… you still haven't told me why this cabinet is so important."
"All in due time," he said nervously.
"Don't you trust me?" she said, pouting just a bit.
"I… I guess…" he said slowly. "But Su, this… this is really serious. The Dark Lord could easily kill my whole family if I don't succeed. I already have Snape trying to discredit me. And most of the Death Eaters believe I will fail."
"Haven't I already proven my loyalty when I found the way to fix the cabinet? Without knowing the reason why?" she said haughtily.
Draco licked his lips nervously. "Yes, I suppose you did."
"Then trust me, Draco. Please," she pleaded, her hand running down his chest. He blinked, distracted by her touch.
"I… It's so the Death Eaters can come through."
If they had been standing closer to the edge of the room, they would have heard a muffled gasp.
"Your.. friends?" she asked, cocking her head to the side.
"The Dark Lord's supporters. We… there's something I need to do here at Hogwarts."
"Then, why not do it right now? What do you need them for?" she said, stepping even closer to him.
"They… It's not easy. I may need support."
"Draco, love," she almost purred. "You said yourself that you can't trust them. That others might take the credit for what you've worked so hard to earn."
"I…They will," he said, as though this realization had only just dawned on him the moment she said it.
"But… you know who the one person you can trust is," she said suggestively.
After a pause, he whispered, "You," running his hands through her hair.
"Me," she agreed, playing with his tie flirtatiously. "So… I saw we forget those pathetic losers trying to steal your glory, and finish the job ourselves."
"Ye…Yeah," he said slowly, after a long inner struggle. "But… I don't know if we'll be enough. The job… it's not easy. I've tried other ways already. A necklace, a potion."
"What is the job?"
"I… um…"
"I can not help you until I know," she said, her eyes accusatory. "I'm insulted that after all this time, you still do not trust me."
"Susan, please," he pleaded. "I… I can't trust anyone."
"But you were going to trust all those Death Eaters? You'd rather trust them than me?" she said, willing her eyes to fill with tears.
"Susan! No… I… I trust you. The job… I… I have to kill Dumbledore," he said.
Draco was too absorbed in anxiously watching Susan's reaction to hear more gasps from the corner of the room. Susan, however, had trained her ears for hunting and couldn't help hearing it. But after a quick glance, she decided to ignore it.
"And… there's no way we could… get your parents and you to safety instead? This… this is really the only way?" she said slowly.
He nodded, his face masked in pain. "You don't realize how evil the Dark Lord can be. I have to do this. There will be no where safe for me should I not follow through with it. I… I'm scared," he confided, his arrogant mask slipping away.
"Don't be," she said soothingly, taking him in her comforting arms. "Because you'll have me at your side when you face him."
"You… you'll help me kill Dumbledore?" he said incredulously.
She smiled thinly. "Have I ever failed you before?"
"No…I just… I wouldn't have thought you would support it."
"It's not the action I support. It's you I support. And if you have no other choice, then neither do I," she said.
"Thank you. I… you don't know how much this means to me. After my father failed the Dark Lord last year… we … we lost everything."
"But now you have me," she said seductively.
They caught each other up in a passionate kiss. Suddenly, Susan pulled away, saying, "Not here."
"Why not? Who's going to come in and see us?" he said. "We're in the Room of Requirement, after all."
"No, um…" she said, searching for a reason to leave. "I… I think of this as our workspace. And I just have this weird obsession with keeping personal stuff like this out of workspace."
"Um… seriously?" Malfoy said dubiously.
"Yes… how about we go back to our dormitories and start this again there?" she offered temptingly. She soon got him out of the Room of Requirement.
As soon as they left, Hermione, Harry, Peter, and Ron burst out of their hiding place, and Peter hurled a random diadem across the room in anger.
"Seriously? What the Tash is he going to be doing to my sister in their dormitories? I swear, I want to thrash him solidly," Peter vented.
"He would definitely deserve that, mate," Ron said.
"Peter," Hermione said sternly. "She was coming on to him, not so much the other way. And I think we have bigger problems than that."
"Like how my sister's turned into evil incarnate?" he groaned.
"I wasn't going to quite put it like that. I mean, it looks like she's made some bad choices…"
"Some bad choices?" he said incredulously. "She helped Malfoy find a way to get Death Eaters in here and offered to help him kill Dumbledore."
"She can't be all bad," Harry suddenly piped up. The other three all turned to him, bemused. Harry was the one who had been most suspicious of Susan and Malfoy. "I mean, she saw us. I know it. She looked right at me. After we all gasped? And then ignored it."
"So… she knows we know?" Ron said, shaking his head left and right, trying to make sense of it.
"Maybe she just pretended to get information out of Draco? It certainly worked," Hermione offered, brushing back some strands of her boyfriend's hair in an attempt to soothe him. She knew how close Peter was to Susan. And she herself had been friends with her and hardly wanted Susan to be evil either.
"She fixed the whatever this is," Peter said, absently gesturing in the general direction of the cabinet.
The others fell silent, unable to find some reasonable defense for Susan. Well, more like Hermione couldn't think of a reasonable defense for her. Harry had only spoken up because he had been the one Susan had seen and it didn't add up.
"I – I can't report my sister. I… I can deal with it. Don't worry, I'll have it sorted, I'm sure. Just, don't get Su in trouble. Please," he pleaded.
"Of course," Hermione finally said. She was torn. She knew very well that Peter claiming he "had it sorted" was almost never true, but at the same time, he never pleaded. Not like this. At least, not in the couple of months that they'd been dating since he chose Hogwarts with her over going home with his own parents. But finding out Susan was involved in evil plots, even seeming to want to become a Death Eater must have been quite a shock to him. It was rather touching though how much he cared about his sister. It had been one of the many things that had attracted her to him in the first place. Especially since Susan wasn't exactly one of the easiest people to get along with.
"What?" Harry protested. "We need to tell Dumbledore! His life is at risk!"
"Just give Peter a chance with Susan first, alright?" Hermione asked.
Ron shrugged, not really sure what to do here.
Harry silently vowed to tell Dumbledore anyways in the next session they had together in his office and lied, "I guess. But if it doesn't work…"
"Then I'll tell Dumbledore myself," Peter said decisively.
"But, mate, are you sure you'd be able to do that? I mean she's your sister," Ron said anxiously. "Wait, that reminds me! What if Susan's been enchanted, like Ginny?"
"She's not. Don't ask how I know that… I just… do. She's definitely not enchanted," Peter groaned.
"Well, I guess you know your sister best."
"I... Harry, where's your map? I…I'll go find her right now," Peter said shakily.
"Go ahead," Harry said, offering him the map.
"Good luck," Hermione said, giving him a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Thanks," he said, pocketing the map after locating his sister.
He ran to intercept her before she and Malfoy could return to their common room.
"Su, we need to talk," he said.
"I'll see you later," she said to Malfoy, much to Peter's relief.
Malfoy sneered, but didn't protest.
"I assume this is about what happened in the Room of Requirement?" she said succinctly. "I don't appreciate you spying on me."
"That's all you have to say about that? About how… how… evil you've become?" he said in a strangled voice.
Susan turned and glared at him. "What's so evil about helping out a friend? Especially one who's life is on the line?"
Peter could only gape at her. While he didn't have a real response to her question, he still knew what she was doing was just, plain wrong. But she didn't seem to see it. Instead, she seemed to be impatiently waiting, as though she had asked a rhetorical question. He knew he needed to convince her before she got herself killed, but she had changed so much he felt he hardly knew her any more.