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"What's wrong?" Ginny asked to Hermione.
"No one told you about the new article?" Hermione said.
"Article? What article?" Luna asked.
"You shouldn't have mess with Rita Skeeter, Chris." Ron said.
"Oh shut up Ron. That woman is just horrible." Hermione snapped.
"Are you going to tell me what's the article?" Chris asked looking annoyed.
"Here." Harry handed a magazine to Chris, finally looking at her.
Chris looked at the magazine, it was Witch Weekly. The moving picture on the front showed a curly-haired witch who was smiling toothily and pointing at a large sponge cake with her wand. Chris opened it. After flipping many pages at last, in the center pages, Chris found what they were looking for. Luna leaned in closer. A color photograph of Harry headed a short piece entitled:
The Dangers around Harry Potter
A boy like no other, perhaps — yet a boy suffering all the usual pangs of adolescence, writes Rita Skeeter. Deprived of love since the tragic demise of his parents, fourteen-year-old Harry Potter thought he had found solace in his steady girlfriend at Hogwarts, a Muggle-born girl, Christina Norton. Little did he know that he would shortly be suffering yet another emotional blow in a life already littered with personal loss.
Though at first look people might consider Miss Norton a charming and innocent girl, in reality she's very ambitious and power-hungry witch. Since she stepped into Hogwarts, she is trying to make powerful connections, whenever she can. Her first target was obviously The boy who Lived, and unaware about her motives, our poor Harry Potter helplessly fell in love with her. According to the sources, nowdays she is working with a third year boy, who is none other than the son of Jonathan Fawley. Everyone knows how was the Fawley family's reputation was after the Ministry found out Jonathan Fawley was a spy for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. So we don't think, Miss Norton's wandering around with this Fawley boy, in hand in hand, is just a coincidence.
To confirm this, some of students admitted that they saw Miss Norton using some illegal curses on people and also brewing illegal potions in out of order places in Hogwarts.
"I've seen her using dangerous curses on senior students," said Draco Malfoy, a fourth year student.
"She beat people up mercilessly if they don't agree with her," said Pansy Parkinson, another fourth year student.
"She once forcefully fed a poisonous potion to a first year boy, for experiment," said a third year student.
This kind of behavior shouldn't be encouraged in Hogwarts as we don't want another dark wizard or witch within us. No doubt Albus Dumbledore will want to investigate these claims. In the meantime, Harry Potter's well-wishers must hope that, next time, he bestows his heart on a worthier candidate and learn about them before trusting them blindly.
"That woman is really evil, isn't she?" Luna said angrily.
Chris finished reading and gave the magazine to Ginny who was looking anxious.
"Well... It's nice" Chris said cooly.
"Nice?" Ron, Hermione and Luna said together.
"Yeah, I was thinking that I should change my potions brewing place." Chris said smiling. "But the interesting part is how did she found out about these?"
Everyone was looking at Chris like she was a crazy person.
"So these are true?" Ron said looking shocked. "You really aren't practicing dark arts, are you?"
"Of course she isn't Ron." Ginny snapped as she finished reading the article. "I'll kill this Rita Skeeter. How dare she....?"
"Relax. As I said, I don't care what she writes about me." Chris chuckled and started eating again. "I'm thinking how did she found out about my hideout?"
"What? You seriously have a hideout?" Ron said.
"It's Myrtle's bathroom. Nothing special." Ginny replied. "Also we just work on some advance potions and spells there, nothing illegal."
"But we always put a silencing charm on the bathroom door." Luna said thinking.
"Really?" Hermione looked rather impressed.
"Yeah." Chris replied then giggled suddenly. "That's why people were giving me weird looks this morning. They really believed I'm a dark witch or something."
"It's really not funny Chris." Ginny said, looking frustrated. "You can't let that Skeeter woman walk away with this."
"Who said I'll?" Chris smirked. "I'll see what I can do about her. Meanwhile, you all relax."
"I think someone told her about you and Ginny beating Goyle when he was making fun of Luna last month." Colin said grinning.
"Maybe." Chris said thinking. "Though I know Jason doesn't bother this kind of things, I'll still check on him before our next class."
"So it's true about you going out with... the Slytherin boy?" Harry asked suddenly, he was looking at his food.
"Yeah. His name is Jason Fawley." Chris replied casually.
"But..." Harry looked up, shocked. "His father..."
"His father wasn't a death-eater Harry." Chris said firmly. "And if he really was, so what? I don't judge people like that."
"But what if.... what if... he is like his father?" Harry said, looking at Chris in disbelief.
Chris felt Harry has gone mad as she realized what Harry might be indicating by this.
"You think he has something to do with your name coming out from the goblet?" Chris snapped.
"Er.... Yes..... If his father was a death-eater... like Malfoys then he also know about dark arts and.... Professor Moody said that only a wizards who knows dark arts can do it. And also everyone knows you're close to me.... maybe he just wants to get inside information from you." Harry said with a uncertain note in his voice.
"How can you..." Chris felt like Harry had just slapped her. She wanted to jinx him right now. She said angrily, "Then, for your information, he hasn't asked me anything about you except about you dating Ron."
"What?" Ron's mouth fell open.
People were starting to stare at them.
"How could you say something like that?" Chris glared at him. "But you know what? That's it. Go to hell Potter."
Chris jumped to her feet, swing her bag on her shoulder and stormed out of the Great Hall, without looking back at anyone of them.
She walked straight to the North Tower for divination. She was walking without paying any attention to her surroundings, she was out of breath when she finally reached the trap door of divination classroom. As expected no one was there, she was first. She lean towards the near by wall to catch her breath. After some time the bell rang and people started to come towards the trap door. Colin and Luna were the first ones to join her. But before they could say something, the trap door opened and without waiting Chris climbed the ladder.
As she entered the classroom Chris saw glowing on every little table was a crystal ball full of pearly white mist. Chris, Luna and Colin sat down together at the same rickety table.
They just finished palmistry last month and started crystal ball gazing two weeks ago. Palmistry was really nice as Chris found almost everyone of her friends life line long. Even Professor Trelawney said that Chris had the longest life line she had ever seen.
But in last two classes Chris saw many foggy things inside the crystal ball but nothing was quiet clear.
"Good day to you!" said the familiar, misty voice, and Professor Trelawney made her usual dramatic entrance out of the shadows. "As I said previously, crystal gazing is a particularly refined art. We should practice relaxing our conscious mind and external eyes, so as to clear the Inner Eye and the superconscious. Perhaps, if we are lucky, some of you will See before the end of the class today."
Professor Trelawney said 'today' because no one in their class saw something before. Chris usually meditate in every division class but today she wasn't in a mood of concentrating on a crystal ball.
'It's not like I'm going to see something special.'
And Chris stared distantly at the crystal ball, trying not to think about anything.
"You ok Chris?" Colin whispered, also looking at the crystal ball.
"I'm fine." Chris lied without looking at him.
"We can see you're not." Luna replied. "And you've a right to be upset."
"Yeah, but you know, after you stormed out of the Hall, Ginny shouted at Harry so badly, I was feeling bad for him." Colin said sadly.
"Ginny shouted at him?" Chris asked.
"Yes. Even Hermione and I joined her." Luna whispered.
Professor Trelawney rustled past.
"Would anyone like me to help them interpret the shadowy portents within their Orb?" she murmured over the clinking of her bangles.
They stopped talking and looked back at the crystal. Chris was thinking about the fight she just had with Harry. Suddenly she saw something was moving inside the foggy crystal ball. First Chris thought, like last two attempts, even this time she will see something unclear substances but to her great surprise, the vision started to clear up.
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Then Chris saw clearly, it was unmistakably a big cauldron. It was so large that a full-grown man can comfortably sit in. Suddenly there were crackling flames beneath the cauldron. Chris curiously peered more closely, and saw the liquid in the cauldron seemed to heat very fast. The surface began not only to bubble, but to send out fiery sparks, as though it were on fire. Steam was thickening, and there was three blurred outlines near the cauldron, one woman and two men. One of the man was clutching tightly, a skinny, black untidy haired boy, who was wearing round glasses, it was Harry Potter. Then suddenly the woman picked up, which looked like a baby wrapped in clothes, and dropped it inside the cauldron where the water was alight with sparks now. Harry screamed for help.
"STOP! NOOO." Chris yelled.
"Chris! Chris!"
Chris became aware of her surroundings. The crystal ball was in her hands and the entire class was staring at her. Luna and Colin were shaking her, looking terrified.
"You all right Chris? What happened to you?" Colin said.
"Of course she isn't alright!" said Professor Trelawney, looking thoroughly excited. Her great eyes loomed over Chris, gazing at her. "I knew you had it in you. What was it, Miss Norton? What did you see? The future?"
"I don't know... I saw..." Chris stopped abruptly. What was she going to say? People drowning babies in poisonous cauldrons in front of Harry Potter? Chris calmed herself then took few deep breaths.
"Yes? You saw?" Professor Trelawney said enthusiastically.
"Erm... I saw something terrible." Chris said calmly. "An accident."
"An accident? Who's?"
"I don't know.. It was a car accident.... Maybe a muggle family's." Chris lied.
"Oh." Professor Trelawney looked really disappointed and suspicious at the same time. "Are you sure, you saw muggles, Miss Norton? Because witches usually don't see anything like common muggle lives..."
"Er... Professor!" Chris interrupted. "Can I leave? I'm not feeling good. It was not a great sight.. the accident."
"Oh. Of course. Of course, dear. You can leave." Professor Trelawney said, giving a dewy smile. "The moment you entered my class, I knew you were special, dear. This is just the beginning, you'll see more things through your inner-eye."
"Erm.. thanks." Chris said and picked up her things. Luna and Colin were still looking worried. "See you later." She whispered and walked out of the room trough the trap door.
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"What's wrong?" Ginny asked to Hermione.
"No one told you about the new article?" Hermione said.
"Article? What article?" Luna asked.
"You shouldn't have mess with Rita Skeeter, Chris." Ron said.
"Oh shut up Ron. That woman is just horrible." Hermione snapped.
"Are you going to tell me what's the article?" Chris asked looking annoyed.
"Here." Harry handed a magazine to Chris, finally looking at her.
Chris looked at the magazine, it was Witch Weekly. The moving picture on the front showed a curly-haired witch who was smiling toothily and pointing at a large sponge cake with her wand. Chris opened it. After flipping many pages at last, in the center pages, Chris found what they were looking for. Luna leaned in closer. A color photograph of Harry headed a short piece entitled:
The Dangers around Harry Potter
A boy like no other, perhaps — yet a boy suffering all the usual pangs of adolescence, writes Rita Skeeter. Deprived of love since the tragic demise of his parents, fourteen-year-old Harry Potter thought he had found solace in his steady girlfriend at Hogwarts, a Muggle-born girl, Christina Norton. Little did he know that he would shortly be suffering yet another emotional blow in a life already littered with personal loss.
Though at first look people might consider Miss Norton a charming and innocent girl, in reality she's very ambitious and power-hungry witch. Since she stepped into Hogwarts, she is trying to make powerful connections, whenever she can. Her first target was obviously The boy who Lived, and unaware about her motives, our poor Harry Potter helplessly fell in love with her. According to the sources, nowdays she is working with a third year boy, who is none other than the son of Jonathan Fawley. Everyone knows how was the Fawley family's reputation was after the Ministry found out Jonathan Fawley was a spy for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. So we don't think, Miss Norton's wandering around with this Fawley boy, in hand in hand, is just a coincidence.
To confirm this, some of students admitted that they saw Miss Norton using some illegal curses on people and also brewing illegal potions in out of order places in Hogwarts.
"I've seen her using dangerous curses on senior students," said Draco Malfoy, a fourth year student.
"She beat people up mercilessly if they don't agree with her," said Pansy Parkinson, another fourth year student.
"She once forcefully fed a poisonous potion to a first year boy, for experiment," said a third year student.
This kind of behavior shouldn't be encouraged in Hogwarts as we don't want another dark wizard or witch within us. No doubt Albus Dumbledore will want to investigate these claims. In the meantime, Harry Potter's well-wishers must hope that, next time, he bestows his heart on a worthier candidate and learn about them before trusting them blindly.
"That woman is really evil, isn't she?" Luna said angrily.
Chris finished reading and gave the magazine to Ginny who was looking anxious.
"Well... It's nice" Chris said cooly.
"Nice?" Ron, Hermione and Luna said together.
"Yeah, I was thinking that I should change my potions brewing place." Chris said smiling. "But the interesting part is how did she found out about these?"
Everyone was looking at Chris like she was a crazy person.
"So these are true?" Ron said looking shocked. "You really aren't practicing dark arts, are you?"
"Of course she isn't Ron." Ginny snapped as she finished reading the article. "I'll kill this Rita Skeeter. How dare she....?"
"Relax. As I said, I don't care what she writes about me." Chris chuckled and started eating again. "I'm thinking how did she found out about my hideout?"
"What? You seriously have a hideout?" Ron said.
"It's Myrtle's bathroom. Nothing special." Ginny replied. "Also we just work on some advance potions and spells there, nothing illegal."
"But we always put a silencing charm on the bathroom door." Luna said thinking.
"Really?" Hermione looked rather impressed.
"Yeah." Chris replied then giggled suddenly. "That's why people were giving me weird looks this morning. They really believed I'm a dark witch or something."
"It's really not funny Chris." Ginny said, looking frustrated. "You can't let that Skeeter woman walk away with this."
"Who said I'll?" Chris smirked. "I'll see what I can do about her. Meanwhile, you all relax."
"I think someone told her about you and Ginny beating Goyle when he was making fun of Luna last month." Colin said grinning.
"Maybe." Chris said thinking. "Though I know Jason doesn't bother this kind of things, I'll still check on him before our next class."
"So it's true about you going out with... the Slytherin boy?" Harry asked suddenly, he was looking at his food.
"Yeah. His name is Jason Fawley." Chris replied casually.
"But..." Harry looked up, shocked. "His father..."
"His father wasn't a death-eater Harry." Chris said firmly. "And if he really was, so what? I don't judge people like that."
"But what if.... what if... he is like his father?" Harry said, looking at Chris in disbelief.
Chris felt Harry has gone mad as she realized what Harry might be indicating by this.
"You think he has something to do with your name coming out from the goblet?" Chris snapped.
"Er.... Yes..... If his father was a death-eater... like Malfoys then he also know about dark arts and.... Professor Moody said that only a wizards who knows dark arts can do it. And also everyone knows you're close to me.... maybe he just wants to get inside information from you." Harry said with a uncertain note in his voice.
"How can you..." Chris felt like Harry had just slapped her. She wanted to jinx him right now. She said angrily, "Then, for your information, he hasn't asked me anything about you except about you dating Ron."
"What?" Ron's mouth fell open.
People were starting to stare at them.
"How could you say something like that?" Chris glared at him. "But you know what? That's it. Go to hell Potter."
Chris jumped to her feet, swing her bag on her shoulder and stormed out of the Great Hall, without looking back at anyone of them.
She walked straight to the North Tower for divination. She was walking without paying any attention to her surroundings, she was out of breath when she finally reached the trap door of divination classroom. As expected no one was there, she was first. She lean towards the near by wall to catch her breath. After some time the bell rang and people started to come towards the trap door. Colin and Luna were the first ones to join her. But before they could say something, the trap door opened and without waiting Chris climbed the ladder.
As she entered the classroom Chris saw glowing on every little table was a crystal ball full of pearly white mist. Chris, Luna and Colin sat down together at the same rickety table.
They just finished palmistry last month and started crystal ball gazing two weeks ago. Palmistry was really nice as Chris found almost everyone of her friends life line long. Even Professor Trelawney said that Chris had the longest life line she had ever seen.
But in last two classes Chris saw many foggy things inside the crystal ball but nothing was quiet clear.
"Good day to you!" said the familiar, misty voice, and Professor Trelawney made her usual dramatic entrance out of the shadows. "As I said previously, crystal gazing is a particularly refined art. We should practice relaxing our conscious mind and external eyes, so as to clear the Inner Eye and the superconscious. Perhaps, if we are lucky, some of you will See before the end of the class today."
Professor Trelawney said 'today' because no one in their class saw something before. Chris usually meditate in every division class but today she wasn't in a mood of concentrating on a crystal ball.
'It's not like I'm going to see something special.'
And Chris stared distantly at the crystal ball, trying not to think about anything.
"You ok Chris?" Colin whispered, also looking at the crystal ball.
"I'm fine." Chris lied without looking at him.
"We can see you're not." Luna replied. "And you've a right to be upset."
"Yeah, but you know, after you stormed out of the Hall, Ginny shouted at Harry so badly, I was feeling bad for him." Colin said sadly.
"Ginny shouted at him?" Chris asked.
"Yes. Even Hermione and I joined her." Luna whispered.
Professor Trelawney rustled past.
"Would anyone like me to help them interpret the shadowy portents within their Orb?" she murmured over the clinking of her bangles.
They stopped talking and looked back at the crystal. Chris was thinking about the fight she just had with Harry. Suddenly she saw something was moving inside the foggy crystal ball. First Chris thought, like last two attempts, even this time she will see something unclear substances but to her great surprise, the vision started to clear up.
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Then Chris saw clearly, it was unmistakably a big cauldron. It was so large that a full-grown man can comfortably sit in. Suddenly there were crackling flames beneath the cauldron. Chris curiously peered more closely, and saw the liquid in the cauldron seemed to heat very fast. The surface began not only to bubble, but to send out fiery sparks, as though it were on fire. Steam was thickening, and there was three blurred outlines near the cauldron, one woman and two men. One of the man was clutching tightly, a skinny, black untidy haired boy, who was wearing round glasses, it was Harry Potter. Then suddenly the woman picked up, which looked like a baby wrapped in clothes, and dropped it inside the cauldron where the water was alight with sparks now. Harry screamed for help.
"STOP! NOOO." Chris yelled.
"Chris! Chris!"
Chris became aware of her surroundings. The crystal ball was in her hands and the entire class was staring at her. Luna and Colin were shaking her, looking terrified.
"You all right Chris? What happened to you?" Colin said.
"Of course she isn't alright!" said Professor Trelawney, looking thoroughly excited. Her great eyes loomed over Chris, gazing at her. "I knew you had it in you. What was it, Miss Norton? What did you see? The future?"
"I don't know... I saw..." Chris stopped abruptly. What was she going to say? People drowning babies in poisonous cauldrons in front of Harry Potter? Chris calmed herself then took few deep breaths.
"Yes? You saw?" Professor Trelawney said enthusiastically.
"Erm... I saw something terrible." Chris said calmly. "An accident."
"An accident? Who's?"
"I don't know.. It was a car accident.... Maybe a muggle family's." Chris lied.
"Oh." Professor Trelawney looked really disappointed and suspicious at the same time. "Are you sure, you saw muggles, Miss Norton? Because witches usually don't see anything like common muggle lives..."
"Er... Professor!" Chris interrupted. "Can I leave? I'm not feeling good. It was not a great sight.. the accident."
"Oh. Of course. Of course, dear. You can leave." Professor Trelawney said, giving a dewy smile. "The moment you entered my class, I knew you were special, dear. This is just the beginning, you'll see more things through your inner-eye."
"Erm.. thanks." Chris said and picked up her things. Luna and Colin were still looking worried. "See you later." She whispered and walked out of the room trough the trap door.
"What's wrong?" Ginny asked to Hermione. "No one told you about the new article?" Hermione said. "Article? What article?" Luna asked. "You shouldn't have mess with Rita Skeeter, Chris." Ron said. "Oh shut up Ron. That woman is just horrible." Hermione snapped. "Are you going to tell me what's the article?" Chris asked looking annoyed. "Here." Harry handed a magazine to Chris, finally looking at her. Chris looked at the magazine, it was Witch Weekly. The moving picture on the front showed a curly-haired witch who was smiling toothily and pointing at a large sponge cake with her wand. Chris opened it. After flipping many pages at last, in the center pages, Chris found what they were looking for. Luna leaned in closer. A color photograph of Harry headed a short piece entitled: The Dangers around Harry Potter A boy like no other, perhaps yet a boy suffering all the usual pangs of adolescence, writes Rita Skeeter. Deprived of love since the tragic demise of his parents, fourteen-year-old Harry Potter thought he had found solace in his steady girlfriend at Hogwarts, a Muggle-born girl, Christina Norton. Little did he know that he would shortly be suffering yet another emotional blow in a life already littered with personal loss. Though at first look people might consider Miss Norton a charming and innocent girl, in reality she's very ambitious and power-hungry witch. Since she stepped into Hogwarts, she is trying to make powerful connections, whenever she can. Her first target was obviously The boy who Lived, and unaware about her motives, our poor Harry Potter helplessly fell in love with her. According to the sources, nowdays she is working with a third year boy, who is none other than the son of Jonathan Fawley. Everyone knows how was the Fawley family's reputation was after the Ministry found out Jonathan Fawley was a spy for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. So we don't think, Miss Norton's wandering around with this Fawley boy, in hand in hand, is just a coincidence. To confirm this, some of students admitted that they saw Miss Norton using some illegal curses on people and also brewing illegal potions in out of order places in Hogwarts. "I've seen her using dangerous curses on senior students," said Draco Malfoy, a fourth year student. "She beat people up mercilessly if they don't agree with her," said Pansy Parkinson, another fourth year student. "She once forcefully fed a poisonous potion to a first year boy, for experiment," said a third year student. This kind of behavior shouldn't be encouraged in Hogwarts as we don't want another dark wizard or witch within us. No doubt Albus Dumbledore will want to investigate these claims. In the meantime, Harry Potter's well-wishers must hope that, next time, he bestows his heart on a worthier candidate and learn about them before trusting them blindly. "That woman is really evil, isn't she?" Luna said angrily. Chris finished reading and gave the magazine to Ginny who was looking anxious. "Well... It's nice" Chris said cooly. "Nice?" Ron, Hermione and Luna said together. "Yeah, I was thinking that I should change my potions brewing place." Chris said smiling. "But the interesting part is how did she found out about these?" Everyone was looking at Chris like she was a crazy person. "So these are true?" Ron said looking shocked. "You really aren't practicing dark arts, are you?" "Of course she isn't Ron." Ginny snapped as she finished reading the article. "I'll kill this Rita Skeeter. How dare she....?" "Relax. As I said, I don't care what she writes about me." Chris chuckled and started eating again. "I'm thinking how did she found out about my hideout?" "What? You seriously have a hideout?" Ron said. "It's Myrtle's bathroom. Nothing special." Ginny replied. "Also we just work on some advance potions and spells there, nothing illegal." "But we always put a silencing charm on the bathroom door." Luna said thinking. "Really?" Hermione looked rather impressed. "Yeah." Chris replied then giggled suddenly. "That's why people were giving me weird looks this morning. They really believed I'm a dark witch or something." "It's really not funny Chris." Ginny said, looking frustrated. "You can't let that Skeeter woman walk away with this." "Who said I'll?" Chris smirked. "I'll see what I can do about her. Meanwhile, you all relax." "I think someone told her about you and Ginny beating Goyle when he was making fun of Luna last month." Colin said grinning. "Maybe." Chris said thinking. "Though I know Jason doesn't bother this kind of things, I'll still check on him before our next class." "So it's true about you going out with... the Slytherin boy?" Harry asked suddenly, he was looking at his food. "Yeah. His name is Jason Fawley." Chris replied casually. "But..." Harry looked up, shocked. "His father..." "His father wasn't a death-eater Harry." Chris said firmly. "And if he really was, so what? I don't judge people like that." "But what if.... what if... he is like his father?" Harry said, looking at Chris in disbelief. Chris felt Harry has gone mad as she realized what Harry might be indicating by this. "You think he has something to do with your name coming out from the goblet?" Chris snapped. "Er.... Yes..... If his father was a death-eater... like Malfoys then he also know about dark arts and.... Professor Moody said that only a wizards who knows dark arts can do it. And also everyone knows you're close to me.... maybe he just wants to get inside information from you." Harry said with a uncertain note in his voice. "How can you..." Chris felt like Harry had just slapped her. She wanted to jinx him right now. She said angrily, "Then, for your information, he hasn't asked me anything about you except about you dating Ron." "What?" Ron's mouth fell open. People were starting to stare at them. "How could you say something like that?" Chris glared at him. "But you know what? That's it. Go to hell Potter." Chris jumped to her feet, swing her bag on her shoulder and stormed out of the Great Hall, without looking back at anyone of them. She walked straight to the North Tower for divination. She was walking without paying any attention to her surroundings, she was out of breath when she finally reached the trap door of divination classroom. As expected no one was there, she was first. She lean towards the near by wall to catch her breath. After some time the bell rang and people started to come towards the trap door. Colin and Luna were the first ones to join her. But before they could say something, the trap door opened and without waiting Chris climbed the ladder. As she entered the classroom Chris saw glowing on every little table was a crystal ball full of pearly white mist. Chris, Luna and Colin sat down together at the same rickety table. They just finished palmistry last month and started crystal ball gazing two weeks ago. Palmistry was really nice as Chris found almost everyone of her friends life line long. Even Professor Trelawney said that Chris had the longest life line she had ever seen. But in last two classes Chris saw many foggy things inside the crystal ball but nothing was quiet clear. "Good day to you!" said the familiar, misty voice, and Professor Trelawney made her usual dramatic entrance out of the shadows. "As I said previously, crystal gazing is a particularly refined art. We should practice relaxing our conscious mind and external eyes, so as to clear the Inner Eye and the superconscious. Perhaps, if we are lucky, some of you will See before the end of the class today." Professor Trelawney said 'today' because no one in their class saw something before. Chris usually meditate in every division class but today she wasn't in a mood of concentrating on a crystal ball. 'It's not like I'm going to see something special.' And Chris stared distantly at the crystal ball, trying not to think about anything. "You ok Chris?" Colin whispered, also looking at the crystal ball. "I'm fine." Chris lied without looking at him. "We can see you're not." Luna replied. "And you've a right to be upset." "Yeah, but you know, after you stormed out of the Hall, Ginny shouted at Harry so badly, I was feeling bad for him." Colin said sadly. "Ginny shouted at him?" Chris asked. "Yes. Even Hermione and I joined her." Luna whispered. Professor Trelawney rustled past. "Would anyone like me to help them interpret the shadowy portents within their Orb?" she murmured over the clinking of her bangles. They stopped talking and looked back at the crystal. Chris was thinking about the fight she just had with Harry. Suddenly she saw something was moving inside the foggy crystal ball. First Chris thought, like last two attempts, even this time she will see something unclear substances but to her great surprise, the vision started to clear up. Find authorized novels in Webnovelfaster updates, better experiencePlease click www.novelhall.com www.webnovel.com for visiting. Then Chris saw clearly, it was unmistakably a big cauldron. It was so large that a full-grown man can comfortably sit in. Suddenly there were crackling flames beneath the cauldron. Chris curiously peered more closely, and saw the liquid in the cauldron seemed to heat very fast. The surface began not only to bubble, but to send out fiery sparks, as though it were on fire. Steam was thickening, and there was threeblurred outlines near the cauldron, one woman and two men. One of the man was clutching tightly, a skinny, black untidy haired boy, who was wearing round glasses, it was Harry Potter.Then suddenly the woman picked up, which looked like a baby wrapped in clothes, and dropped it inside the cauldron where the water was alight with sparks now. Harry screamed for help. "STOP! NOOO." Chris yelled. "Chris! Chris!" Chris became aware of her surroundings. The crystal ball was in her hands and the entire class was staring at her. Luna and Colin were shaking her, looking terrified. "You all right Chris? What happened to you?" Colin said. "Of course she isn't alright!" said Professor Trelawney, looking thoroughly excited. Her great eyes loomed over Chris, gazing at her. "I knew you had it in you. What was it, Miss Norton? What did you see? The future?" "I don't know... I saw..." Chris stopped abruptly. What was she going to say? People drowning babies in poisonous cauldrons in front of Harry Potter? Chris calmed herself then took few deep breaths. "Yes? You saw?" Professor Trelawney said enthusiastically. "Erm... I saw something terrible." Chris said calmly. "An accident." "An accident? Who's?" "I don't know.. It was a car accident.... Maybe a muggle family's." Chris lied. "Oh." Professor Trelawney looked really disappointed and suspicious at the same time. "Are you sure, you saw muggles, Miss Norton? Because witches usually don't see anything like common muggle lives..." "Er... Professor!" Chris interrupted. "Can I leave? I'm not feeling good. It was not a great sight.. the accident." "Oh. Of course. Of course, dear. You can leave." Professor Trelawney said, giving a dewy smile. "The moment you entered my class, I knew you were special, dear. This is just the beginning, you'll see more things through your inner-eye." "Erm.. thanks." Chris said and picked up her things. Luna and Colin were still looking worried. "See you later." She whispered and walked out of the room trough the trap door.
