Chapter 127: True Seer (2/2)
”Gone off me a bit, hasn't she?” said Harry lightly.
”Join the club.” Chris said smiling. ”Now you're also a dark wizard. You've to give credit to her imagination.”
”Really... she need check her theories a little bit... there are lots of healing potions, which need snake venoms and she thinks...” Luna bent over the paper again. ” 'serpents are often used in the worst kinds of Dark Magic,' like she practices dark magic, everyday.”
Over at the Slytherin table, Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle were laughing at him, tapping their heads with their fingers, pulling grotesquely mad faces, and waggling their tongues like snakes.
”And they're supposed to be Slytherins.” Chris said looking at them. ”Sometimes I feel they're great disgrace to Salazar Slytherin, specially people like Carbbe and Goyle.”
”But I'm thinking how did she know Harry's scar hurt in Divination?” Ron said. ”There's no way she was there, there's no way she could've heard ...”
”The window was open,” said Harry. ”I opened it to breathe.”
”You were at the top of North Tower!” Hermione said. ”Your voice couldn't have carried all the way down to the grounds!”
”Guys leave it. We can think about Rita Skeeter later.” Chris said, shrugging. ”I know it's weird but we've exams now, we can't waste our time in that stupid woman. C'mon.”
”Right.” Hermione said seriously. ”Let's go. Bye Harry.”
”Yeah... bye.” Harry said as they all got up, and walked out, leaving Harry at the Great Hall.
Ron and Hermione had their History of Magic exam and Luna had Charms. So all of them went in different directions. Chris and Colin were walking towards the North Tower when she saw Dumbledore, Karkaroff and Madame Maxime talking to few people outside the Entrance Hall. One of them was Minister of Magic Fudge and Chris didn't recognize the other two men.
”What's going on?” Colin asked, looking towards them. ”Do you think they're the new judges?”
”New judges?” Chris repeated.
”Yeah they need someone in the place of Bagman and Crouch, don't they?”
”Right. Maybe they're just new judges.” Chris said. ”Let's go.”
They walked up the marble staircase together and proceeded all the way up to the seventh, where many of their class were sitting on the spiral staircase to Professor Trelawney's classroom, trying to cram in a bit of last-minute studying.
”She's seeing us all separately,” Alex informed them as they went to sit down next to him. He had his copy of Unfogging the Future open on his lap at the pages devoted to crystal gazing. ”Have either of you ever seen anything in a crystal ball?” he asked them unhappily.
”Not me but Chris did.” Colin replied.
Chris nudged him in the ribes.
”Oh that's right. You saw something last month, didn't you?” Alex said looking more nervous. ”Trelawney is really impressed with you.”
”Just made up things if you don't see anything.” Chris suggested. ”She'll not see the same thing as you, it's the biggest advantage here.”
”I can do that.” Colin said happily. ”I'll tell her about a accident in Hogwarts and she'll be happy.”
Chris chuckled and Alex looked happy by this idea.
The line of people outside the classroom shortened very slowly. As each person climbed back down the silver ladder, the rest of the class hissed, ”What did she ask? Was it okay?”
But they all refused to say.
”She says the crystal ball's told her that if I tell you, I'll have a horrible accident!”
”Colin Creevey.” said the familiar, misty voice from over their heads.
Chris showed a thumbs up to Colin, as he climbed the ladder. Chris was now the only person left to be tested. She settled herself on the floor with her back against the wall, thinking about the third task.
What can happen inside the maze? No one will know. They all will think Harry died in a accident. If anyone else wins and something happens to them? Cedric? Fleur? Victor? They also didn't sign up for this. This is getting nasty. Can I help them? But how? Ughhh....
”Chris!”
Chris looked up, Colin was standing in front of her.
”You're done?” Chris asked surprised.
”Yes. She's calling you, go.” Colin said. ”I'll wait for you.”
”No go to the Great Hall. I'll meet you there.” Chris said climbing the ladder.
The tower room was hotter than ever before; the curtains were closed, the fire was alight, and the usual sickly scent made Chris uncomfortable as she stumbled through the clutter of chairs and tables to where Professor Trelawney sat waiting for her before a large crystal ball.
”Good day, my dear,” she said softly. ”If you would kindly gaze into the Orb. . . . Take your time, now . . . then tell me what you see within it. . . .”
Chris bent closer but only saw some fogs nothing else.
”Er....”
”Well?” Professor Trelawney prompted delicately. ”What do you see?”
'Urghhhh... why did I was thinking about the third task that badly. I could've been done some meditation. Maybe then I could've seen something in real.' A voice said in Chris's mind.
But there was no point. Professor Trelawney was staring at her expectantly. She gave up and tried to make something up.
”I see.... a.... umm....” Chris was thinking about the Dragons then the merepeoples them suddenly.... ”The Triwizard Cup!”
”Really?” Professor Trelawney looked a little disappointed and unconvinced.
But Chris wasn't lying she was clearly watching the Triwizard Cup inside the crystal ball.
”Who won?” Professor Trelawney asked.
”I don't know. It's lying on the ground and Harry...” Chris stopped, there was Harry and Cedric lying on the ground beside it and there was another figure beside them. It was Chris. She was lying on the ground clutching her bloody robes.
”Harry? Harry Potter won? Then why it's lying on the ground?” Professor Trelawney said, suddenly looking excited. ”What happened dear?”
”Er... umm... I...” Chris's mind was blank. How is this possible?
And then there was a snake lurking towards them.
A snake? Harry saw a snake in her dream. Voldemort is going to feed them to the snake.
”What's it dear?” Professor Trelawney repeated.
”He died.” Chris burst out.
Chris wasn't able to process what she was watching inside the orb and then Professor Trelawney's curiosity made Chris mad, so she said what Professor Trelawney will like to here. A death story.
”What?” Professor Trelawney looked startled. Then looked sympathetic. ”Oh dear I knew this was coming... that boy is... but how did he died, dear?”
”By an enormous creature in the maze. He was very near the Cup.” Chris replied without thinking.
”Oh! Poor boy! Poor boy! I hope that's not true... but we can't prevent the future, can we?” She said softly.
”I guess not.” Chris replied.
'But I'll... as much as possible.' A voice said in her mind.
”Well, dear, I think we'll leave it there. . . .” Professor Trelawney said, scribbling keenly on the parchment perched upon her knees. ”I can feel it, dear. You're going to be a true seer...”
”Thank you.” Chris got up, picked up her bag and climbed out of the room and ran towards Dumbledore's office.