Professor Mconagall showed me to a chair, then promptly left, closing the door with a snap. I swallowed hard. What would they do to me?
Put me in a room full of dead bodies, and ask me to bring them all back to life?
Take me to St. Mungo's?
Study me?
I thought the last one was pretty unlikely, but you never knew. Just yesterday, my Great Uncle Adalbert announced his plans to move to some obscure island to save the very endangered purple-nosed sea lion. I just hope the people here weren't as crazy as my Great Uncle Adalbert.
I was so lost in my own thoughts that I didn't notice that Professor Dumbledore had entered the room until he spoke to me.
"It has been a long, long time since we had a Foxpaw, Ms. Zole. The last one, I believe, was a woman called Avalon Roux. She had a special gift, which all true Foxpaws share. I am sensing that you have that gift as well, Ms. Zole."
He seemed to take my silence as confirmation, and continued on.
"I will not elaborate, because I am sure you know what I am talking about. But, then I also owe you an explanation..."
Finding my voice at last, I said,
"Yeah, you do! I don't know what that hat told you, but I have no idea what's happening, and i'm about run out of this place and put as much distance between myself and this crazy school as humanly possible!"
Dumbledore chuckled a little at that. " No, you are not. You are Just confused, angry, and most likely hungry. We can easily remedy two of those emotions, but the other you will unfortunately have to work out on your own. So let us start on your hunger.'
As he said those words, a plate of steaming food appeared before me. I ate quickly, and noticed to my amazement that I did feel slightly better afterwards.
Dumbledore smiled, and he continued.
"When this school was first founded, There were four known founders."
I nodded. I knew that.
"But what most people do not know, is that there was a fifth founder."
My jaw dropped.
"Fianna Foxpaw.
"Fianna had a special gift, a gift that the founders knew had to be kept secret."
Dumbledore raised his eyebrows at me.
"She could bring souls back from the dead."