The Visit

Shoron had fallen asleep in bed and missed lunch and his next class. All day Patricia had kept the secret of her dream from his. Little did she know that her dream was the clue Kat had seen in the crystal ball.

"Where's Shoron?" She asked Octavian in the common room.

"Up stairs, in the dormitory I think." She walked there to see Shoron's sleeping figure on his four-poster. She touched the edge of his trunk and there was a sudden shock. Her eyes closed suddenly. It was a premonition. She saw herself telling Kat and Shoron about her dream. So she shook Shoron awake.

"Shoron! I hade a dream premonition!"

"What?" He sat up and was sure it was to do with the alethiometer. " What did you see in it?"

"A snake and there was this girl around my age. She gave some kind of compass to the snake and then everything went black and I woke up. Oh! I shouldn't have kept it from you!" Her daemon was a young puppy with a guilty face. He instantly knew the compass represented the alethiometer but the other 2 he had no idea about what they meant.

"Thanks for the info, sis." He got up and ran downstairs, through the porthole, down another set of stairs, through a corridor, and into the library where he found Kat at a table reading.

"Kat! Patty had a premonition dream!"

"Tell me about it." So he told her what Patricia had. "I can't tell you exactly what everything means right now, I'll have to do a bit of research."

"Ok then, thanks." And he walked back to the common room where Selena gave him the homework he missed in History of Magic and he started it. The only homework he had besides transfiguration. Unfortunately he couldn't concentrate.

"Let's visit Hagrid." He finally said to Selena and Ovtavian.

"Now? What about our homework?" Said Selena.

"We can do it later. Right now I need to speak to Hagrid."

"Alright, just let me finish this." Octavian replied. When he was ready to go they put on their cloaks walked through the porthole and down a marble staircase into the entrance hall out the great oak doors. The evening was cold and the moon was shining on them brightly for the sun had gone down completely now. They eventually made it to Hagrid's hut at the edge of the forest. Selena knocked on the door.

"Who's there?" Came Hagrids booming voice.

"It's us!" Replied Shoron. The door opened and they group saw Hagrid's beetle black eyes and his great hairy face.

"'Bout time you visited." He opened the door wider and moved to the side to let the others in. They sat the table in the middle of the room while Hagrid prepared tea. "Alrigh' Shoron, now tell me why you took Matt and Kat outta class this morning."

"You have to promise not to tell anyone."

"You know I won't." Selena and Octavian shared a slight look of unsureity and Shoron took a deep breath.

"I lost the alethiometer." Hagrid dropped the kettle he was holding. He had seen Shoron use it once or twice before and knew of it's importance.

"You lost it?!" He finally yelled. "How could you?! Shoron, you know how important it is!"

"I didn't exactly loose it… It was stolen."

"Got any idea on who mighta taken it?"

"No, not yet, but Patty had a dream that we think is our only clue. That's why I took Kat, to use her divination to help find it but all it told her was that a clue had already been sent."

"Tell me about this dream." So Shoron explained for the 3rd time.

"Hmm… I'm sorry but I can't tell you what any of the other stuff. Have ye asked anybody 'bout it?"

"I sent a letter to my mother…" Said Shoron uneasily.

"What about Dumbledore?"

"Didn't want to worry him…."

"Oh no, Shoron. You shoulda told Dumbledore."

"Well…What can he do?"

"Find the alethiometer."

"I don't think so."

"So how are ya gonna find it then?"

"I'll find a way."

"I hope you do. Why didn you try ya godfather, Ron?"

"Same as Dumbledore, didn't wanna worry him."

"But you did worry your mother I expect."

"Ron's already got things to worry about, curses to break."

"What your mother does is far more worry sum then what Ron does!"

"I think we should get going now." Interrupted Selena.

"I do too." Agreed Octavian. And they all got up to leave.

"Goodbye then."

"Ya, we'll see you around then Hagrid." Selena said. It was cold but they walked slowly back up to the castle into the Gryffindor common room where there homework lay on a table waiting for them. As they were sitting doing the rest of their homework, Matt approached them.

"Shoron, Kat's expecting you and Patricia in the 4th floor corridor. First room to the right."

"Why? What for?"

"Dunno. I think she might've figured out what Patty's dream meant."

"Alright." He got up and followed him through the castle, but they didn't find Kat.

"Well? Where is she?"

"I don't know! She was right here when I left to get you."

"Uh… What more can go wrong?!" He ran out of the room and down the corridor where he paused at a corner because he heard someone struggling. He thought to Sophonax to come and she appeared as a moth on his shoulder within a few minutes.

"What is it?"

"I need you to go around that corner and tell me what's going on." Without any more discussion, Sophonax flew around the corner into the next corridor. Around 10 minutes later she came back and the struggling had ended. Matt was with Shoron now.

"It was some women, a masked figure. She had Kat tied up and dropped her into some passageway."

"Just great…" Said Shoron.

"What are we going to do?" Asked Matt.

"Get Kat back." He walked to the stone panel Sophonax pointed out and used a simple charm to open it. There was a long metal slide that led down into the darkness.

"You first." Matt blurted, and Shoron got on and slid down with Sophonax on his shoulder followed my Matt. They hit hard stone floor in a dark room.

"Lumos…" Shoron and Matt muttered lighting holding their wands up. In the small light that their wands produced they could see Kat in a corner her ankles tied and her arms tied behind her back. On her mouth lay a large piece of tape through which she was mumbling. They walked over to her and Shoron, with a large grin, pulled the tape of her mouth.

"Ouch! You little prat!"

"What? I had to take that off."

"You could've used a spell."

"No time for that. What happened?" Said Matt.

"There's no time for that right now. Help me untie her." So they did and soon enough Kat was free. Shoron orbed them to the front of the passage.

"What do we do from here?" Asked Matt.

"We have to go Dumbledore, I have a plan."

"Why didn't you just orb us there?"

"'Cause it's not polite!" Barked Kat. And Shoron led them off to Dumbledore's office.