An: Okay, this is the second update I'm doing tonight. I do apologize for the delay, but my life has taken a turn for the crappy lately. (Check out the author's note on Wolf Child if you care to know the details). Here's the next chapter. People are starting to get suspicious of things all around, especially Marie and one character who might surprise you.
Marie was starting to feel lost. She had made it out of the tower just fine, but when she had gone in search of the Gryffindor common room she found that she had no idea where she was heading. This became obvious to her once again as she passed a suit of armor that she had seen six times already.
Now Marie was starting to panic, probably not a good thing. She began to run blindly down hallways looking for anything that seemed familiar to her. She was running just this way down a dark hallway when she hit something or rather someone solid. The person lost their balance and fell backward, Marie on top of them.
"Peeves!" the man beneath Marie bellowed. His voice was muffled by his cloak, which had fallen over his face. She flinched at the sharp tone in his voice. The man beneath her flailed his arms wildly until he hit her. Suddenly, he stopped moving and moved a hand up to touch her face. He touched her face for a few minutes as if he were trying to figure out who she was. Marie didn't move. She was too scared to move.
Finally, fighting the urge to flee, Marie reached up a hand to pull the man's cloak off of his face. Blue eyes meet green, and in that instant Ron Weasley froze in his place. Marie looked at him, realizing all to well the irony in this situation. She lifted a hand to brush some stray hair away from his eyes, and they both lay there motionless for quite some time.
Marie suddenly realized that Ron was probably very uncomfortable underneath her, but was too nice to tell her so. Carefully, so that she did not hit him or place any extra wait on the parts of him she was already leaning one, Marie raised herself off of the confused looking Gryffindor. She offered him her hand, and after a few minutes of confused gazing he took it, and she pulled him up.
"You should really watch where your going," he commented sounding just a little over concerned, "You could get lost running around these halls like that."
"I know, but I already was lost, and I had such exciting news," she replied giving him a childish grin.
"Oh? And what would that be?"
"I passed my Divination final! I only got a C, but I passed!"
"That's great!" he said sounding truly impressed. "Why only a C?"
"Oh, I saw the past instead of the future or some such rubbish." At this Ron gulped nervously.
"What did you see?"
"Um, if you don't mind…. It's kind of private…"
"Oh, okay. Didn't mean to pry. SO what are you going to do now?"
"Well, I don't really know. I want to do something fun! Anything fun! Whoa!" Marie put a hand to her forehead as her vision began to blur. She swayed dizzily for a moment before Ron grabbed her shoulders and forced her to look him in the eyes.
"Are you okay?" he asked. Marie shook her head no. Quietly, Ron mumbled something in Latin, and Marie started to fell just a little bit better. She looked up at him once her vision had cleared.
"What happened?" Ron asked still looking confused.
"Another memory flash," Marie replied. "Ron, can you do me a favor?"
"What kind of favor?" Ron asked reluctantly.
"Well, I know that you can't tell me what happened, but do you think that you could tell me if what I keep remembering is right, because I'm really worried. I mean things are coming back to me so quickly that I'm not sure what of it is real and what my mind has just decided to make up. So what we'll do is I'll tell you what I remember and then you can tell me if I have it right or not. Please?" She gave Ron a look that she knew was a patented puppy dogface, some instinct inside telling her that it would work.
"Oh, alright," Ron sighed, "I guess there can't be an harm in that, and I would hate for you to think that you did something you didn't actually do. We wouldn't want you to get a big head about yourself now would we?"
"Very funny," Marie said while swatting him playfully on the arm. "Come on lets go to the common room." Marie caught his hand in her own, and thought she saw him blush. Deciding that it must have been a trick of the light, Marie trudged on, pulling a very happy and, little did she know, very red Ron Weasley with her.
Meanwhile, Professor Trelwaney gazed at her crystal ball in wonder. Why would it have shown Marie the past? She tested it again using her own limited divination skills, and saw only a few fleeting glances of possible futures. With a huff the elder witch walked over to a tall bookshelf on the other side of the room, and pulled down a copy of When Good Globes Go Bad. She scanned its pages for a few minutes before shaking her head and placing the book back on the shelf.
No, the ball was not malfunctioning. So why had Marie seen the past? Suddenly, Sybil wished that she had let the girl speak more of her premonition before shushing her. Could it be possible that Marie had not seen the past, but a possible future? That the baby she had mentioned was not herself, but her own child?
Cursing herself silently for her own stupidity, Sybil Trelwaney did something that she rarely did at all. She climbed down the ladder, out of her tower room, and went to see a man who was quite possibly the most disagreeable in the entire school, Severus Snape.
AN: I know it's short, but next chapter will be pretty long, since it will contain some stories about how Marie fits into the Harry Potter world and the books themselves.
Avalonians:
Mandy: I'm glad you like my story. I'm very sorry that I was unable to update until now, but it couldn't be helped. If you like this one try reading Wolf Child. It has just as many twists and turns. Oh, and if you have an idea for a story, write it! It's the only way to know whether or not it is better then mine.
Singer: ::giggles:: Yep, a C for not seeing the future. I figured you'd like that one.
Mystical Kiwi: Did I ever mention I love your name? Well, I do. And I love your idea for why Severus brought Marie to Voldemort, but that's not really the answer. Sorry, but I think you'll like my explanation anyway. Yes, Anne is evil, but not in the way that you want to think she is.
