I had no idea what had happened and neither it turned out did my uncle. He took me through to our room and left me. I suppose I could have left but I didn’t, I was rooted to the spot. I could see flashes of my mother in my head. My uncle came back a while later, what did you say about Professor Moody? I was puzzled, where is Cedric? He took me to Professor Moody’s office, which was in the tower above us, he said “disfigure him Louisa”. I would love to give a more detailed telling of what happened but that is simply all that is needed. His name was Barty Crouch Jnr and on the 24th June 1995, he was responsible for aiding the return of Voldemort and the death of Cedric Diggory.

For the next 24 hrs I was a pool of water in the dungeons. Literally. I could not control my powers well enough. You call it grief but was agony. I managed to get a human form and my uncle sat with me. Exactly as he had done when I was little, just stroking my hair and holding my hand. Professor McGonagall asked for me on the 3rd day and I went to Dumbledore’s office. I knew I was in for some sort of talk. What I hadn’t prepared myself for was what for. It was with Mr Diggory. He told me that Cedric’s last words to him were “look after Louisa for me” and that’s what he intended to do. The long and short of it was “do it for Cedric”. To this day I still have something similar that comes to mind when I need to calm down or focus. It was the best form of meditation that anyone could give me. I achieved the marks in all my subjects that I needed and knew he would have been proud of me.

I don’t really remember much of that summer. I probably wasn’t the greatest person to be around. I spent the whole time at Sirius Black’s House. It was me, Sirius and creature. We had intermittent visits from people of the Order of the Phoenix. I really only saw my uncle and Tonks. In August It became a lot noisier when we were descended on by the whole Weasley Family. Normally I would have been really happy to see them but I wasn’t. Molly and Arthur always hugged and kissed you in front of anyone and when I didn’t mind that at the Burrow it was strange in front of my uncle. When Mad eye Moody was there, I would insist on holding his hand to check for death eater marks. It sounds daft but I needed to do it. Eventually Harry arrived at the house. Finally, I was able to hear his account. The others thought it was fun but I kept myself to myself. Preferring to transfigure into different creatures or be completely hidden to all but Tonks, Sirius and Lupin. I often sat at the table as a snake and Fred and George would throw me food to eat. Once I actually managed a quidditch ball and rings on a dare.