After a short hiatus, I am back with chapters 9 and 10. Enjoy! Thanks to my reviewers Nielispirn, Alliriyan, David Fishwick and Obsidian Sage. Keep posting your feedback!
Chapter 9: Mind-reading
I dreamed vividly that night, for the first time in a while. I saw blood, and the horrified expression on Professor Gardenia's face, and Alecto stroking my cheek whispering, "You'll be first." I bolted upright, soaked in my own sweat.
"Shit," I said, looking at the clock. I had overslept and missed Charms. I dressed quickly and headed to Potions.
I entered the classroom a little early, and was tempted to walk back out again when I heard several Slytherins discussing the vandalism.
"I think she deserved it, the little Muggle-loving freak," Scorpius Malfoy said. "Oh, look class, it's a VA-coom cleaner!" he mimicked Professor Gardenia to gales of laughter.
"No one deserved that," I said quietly.
"Don't mind Malfoy," Nagisa said. "He's just pissed because he didn't think of it himself."
Malfoy glared at her. "I'd watch it if I were you, Miss la-STRANGE."
"Haha. You'd better go get Daddy to buy you some new insults," Nagisa said, smiling sweetly.
When Scorpius left, I turned to Nagisa and asked. "Do you think he did it?"
"No." She sounded certain.
"How do you
know?"
She hesitated. "I can use Legilimency."
"You mean like, mind-reading? Isn't that real high level stuff?"
She blushed. "Not really. Well, I mean it is a little complex, but it's easy once you've gotten the hang of it."
I smiled at her. "Just as long as you don't use it on me."
"Maybe I already have." My blood ran cold for a second, but then she smiled to let me know she was joking.
After class, Professor Talomancer asked me to deliver a special fertilizer to Professor Longbottom at the Herbology greenhouse on the way to Care of Magical Creatures.
"I'll go with you," Nagisa offered.
"Don't you have Divination next?" I asked. "It's on the other side of the school."
"No; I've dropped Divination and opted for Care of Magical Creatures instead."
"But you were brilliant!" I protested. "Professor Trelawney raved about your Seeing Eye or whatever. She said you were one of the most prescient Seers she had ever met."
"I know; I didn't want to disappoint her. But I don't set much stock in prophecies. The future is unknowable. You must forge your path yourself, relying on your own talents to succeed."
I looked at her thoughtfully. Something about that speech sounded very familiar.
Nagisa can use Legilimency? What other surprises might the characters of Voldemort's Heir have up their sleeves? And what was familiar about Nagisa's speech on prophecies? Stay tuned to find out!
