I stepped to the pedestoll took a deep breath, you can do this palme this is nothing compared to what you've been through.
"It has come to my attention that not all ghosts are content about an etenity of haunting, some i believe wish to move to let go of regret and to move onto the next adventure, my people had a ritual of great power called the sending and summoners like myself would perform it when there were deaths and funerals the ritual is a way to guide the spirts to let go of past burdens and pain, it not only works with the recently deceased but also the deceased who are unwillingly or unable to go on. I myself would like to offer the chance to perform the sending for the ghosts of hogwarts, those wish to go follow me to the lake after dessert, those who wish to remain stay within the castle and avoid looking at the lake, those who wish to watch may come down to the lake after dessert as well, that is all i have to say"
There was an uproar in the crowd of ghosts, there were two groups one that refused to leave and one that wished to go, peeves was among the first group shrieking things like:
"It's a trap she's going to eat our souls, hogwarts is my home, i'll never leave"
I sat down as the whole school exploded in the chatter over dinner, the rest of teachers looked at my strangely as if seeing some different myself.
"Well played Palme"
Filius moved towards me with a sad smile,
"Many of the ghosts have terrible pasts any many of them are pain though they hide it, it is a most generouse offer".
Snape stared cooly at me as if calculating all the things i havn't yet showed him. I smile at him cooly and began to help myself to some of the roasted meats on display, i didn't much i was too wracked up with nerves to eat much.What if doesn't work ghosts arn't unsents after all, i close my eyes and swallow my mouthfull of cake, i'd eaten more desserts then dinner. Sweet things had always reminded me of happier times in bevelle eating sweets with my brother laughing as the priests tried to find us. I rose, it was time i went to the lake, a small crowd of ghosts followed me and the teachers were all there, as well as several hundred students that had decided to watch. Most the ghosts were floating over the lake, I held up my staff my robes swinging around me and i was about to step onto the lake when a ghost sherieked charging towards me.
"You have no right to set to set free my killer"
A female ghost flew towards me with gale force, long transulucent locks floated aimlessly above despite the speed she was coming towards me.
"No right you hear, he deserves to stay here after killing me"
Hints of desperation could be heard she looked utterly distraught looking through the crowds of ghosts.
"Helena it's time, i can't bear this suffering anymore remembering existing, knowing what I did, I've paid over and over for my mistakes but i can't take it any more"
"Baron listen to me for my sake stay please your the only one who knows"
Now Helena is begging leaning over the barons body his chains rattling his, eyes weary from hundreds of years of suffering, his body long since defeated standing broken, bent. Now i step forward.
"Helena tell us your story"
She sniffed, eyes closed pearly tears falling from her eyes and dissolving like smoke in the air.
"I abandonded my mother Rowena Ravenclaw, i stole her diadem of wisdom, and refused to see her at her death bed, it was baron my former lover who killed me, out of anger he took my life in repayment for my mothers sorrow. After realising what i he had done he fell on his sword to join me, lovers till death and in death he wore these chains in penance".
Silence surrounded the lake as everyone was listening to the ghosts story. She spoke quieter niw so that only a few could hear what she said.
"After hundreds of years of regret i wished to destroy the diadem, it was the source of my overwhelming greed and guilt. A boy came to me, tom he was called, he asked me for it's location so that he could destroy for me, i was blinded by the urge of guilt but he lied, he turned that thing into an anchor transforming it into an instrument of darkness".
She had stopped crying by now her face lifted from the Bloody Barons chest. The next line was only whisper and i just heard he from being so close.
"Still I wait for somene to destroy that diadem that infernal instrument, th baron is the only other person to know until now, thats is why i cannot leave and why he must not go as long as i suffer he must too".
I think carefully letting the next few words come out quietly.
"What if i promised to find it and end your suffering, would you allow yourself and Baron to rest in peace, for i can give you peace an guide you to the next realm".
"Do you swear it Lady Palme by your honour and pride".
"I swear it by the fayth and the power it has bestowed on me, i swear upon on my own life honour and pride, let all gathered here bear witness to my vow, i will destroy the diadem".
"Then let us rest"
and with that she and the baron held each other close and tightly, tears of white smoke fell one bye one, the heaviness of the past wearing down their souls. It was time to perform the sending. I took a single step standing on top of the water, i begun the dance, the hymm of the fayth on my tongue other voices from different realms joined in. I took another step my rod swinging in high arc, there was utter silence except for the singing.
Leyui, nobomenu, renmiri, yojuyogo, hastekanae, kutamae...
Over and over again the rod swung the water glistening with blue light as i danced across the surface of the lake, i could see strange creatures from the water below look up at me in silence. Another arc, another twirl, this time the rod swung high and around an around and around until i was standing on a pillar of water spinning. From my view i could see all the ghosts cry out in relief one bye one they dissolved into blue flames before being swept away by the wind, i watched the Baron and the Gray Lady slowly fade away like an after image of pure light swept away into blue flames, still i spun at the crux of the ritual. Blue fire rippled around me like an aurora of own pure energy, deep blues and indigos, thousands of shades i would never remember. Tears glistened from my cheeks tears of sorrow and tears of joy, the hymm of the fayth grew louder and louder and then quiter as i swung my staff for the last time, the swirl of blue flew free on the wind dissolving into the night, the last dredges of sun light melted as the blue lights floated into the twilight before going out. It was done the sending was complete, utter silence was followed, no one spoke hundreds of rowdy tennagers silenced by an act of pure peace, like there own souls wanted to join those ghosts on there journey, deeper question, deeper pains all awakened by the sending. She walked towards Dumbledor tears had formed behind his half moon spectacles, Snape looked utterly at tormented his face filled with pain, all the other teachers stared in awe. This was magic on a whole different level, selfless magic with no other use then to serve. This truly moving not a single ghost could be seen all at rest from her selflessness. This why she had become a summoner to help other find peace amongst suffering, every one be they human, al bhed, guado, dead or alive.
"That was truly touching Professor Diandar"
Dumbledorr spoke up breaking the silence and the moment of peace, Snape ran off his black cloak billowing behind him, taking his tears of sorrow with him.
"You have done something i have tried to do for years, you've given me a brief respite from all the guilt, all the pain, all the injustice in this world. For moment watching you dance gave me peace, for a moment i could believe everything was fine".
"This is my duty as summoner to help all those who come to no matter who they are or where there from".
The walk back to the castle was a quiet one. hundred of students pondered on the deeper questions all brought to there minds from the sending. Deeper pains all hidden from friends, hidden injustices, year old grudges all disssolved by the sending. The tears had not dried, tears from past pains all buried by the joy of the present and the despair of the unchangable end that claims us all. Brought to light and made okay, as if the whole idea of life was fair.
I vaguely remember the weasly twins having detention with me in half an hours time, it was always a touching moment performing the sending. I walked into the castle under the gaze of twenty or so ghosts all moved by the dance but all to far away to be put to rest, to far away to hear the hymm of the fayth. No one dared speak to me the teachers no longer regarded me as a powerful witch now, they held me with the deepest respect, all of them had recognised the deep pains i had felt through the singing, the willingness to ease pain they could hear also in the song, the collecttee sighs they made as they played the memory over and over again.
I headed to my classromm planning to get them to help me make more advanced dolls. For a moment i sat in silence staring at rod reminded of the countless times i had performed sendings. I sat for a moment at my desk lighting candles and lantern filling the room with warm light. I begun with a plain mog making a quick incision in the back planning to combine it with different jewels in the hopes of making several kinds of advanced mogs. Fred and George appeared at the door way both nervous for once i smiled to them motioning towards the seats.
