CHAPTER SEVENTEEN- Foggy Visions (Ron's point of
view)
The end of the Christmas holidays came way too soon. Waaaaayyyyy too soon. And the teachers piled mountain high mounds of schoolwork. Ugggghhhh.
"Hermione." I asked hopefully.
"No. I am not doing your homework." She snapped. We were all around a table, studying. I, like Harry, was wondering if the follower of you-know- who was sitting here. And if so, that meant it was Hermione, Jasmine, Peggy or Amy.
I looked at the four girls with narrow eyes. Hermione was bent over her paper, bushy hair fallen over her face, and a look of concentration. Amy didn't have as much as a look of concentration on her face but was deeply in her studies. Jasmine was doodling flowers on a piece of parchment as she studied. Her hair was pulled back and glinted in the light of the torch on the wall. Peggy was relaxing back in her chair, with her feet against the table and reading 'The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle'. My kind of girl. I caught Harry's eye and could tell he was wondering the same thing I was. Was one of those girls evil? I shook my head slowly and returned to studying.
***
I waded through blue fog that came to my waist. All around me was blackness. A sense of foreboding filled me.
"Hello?" I called out. There wasn't even an echo. I looked in confusion as Pig flew past my head, leaving a trail of gold behind him.
A dream? I pinched myself and I didn't feel anything. Ah. A dream. A weird dream but a dream.
Slowly I waded through the blue fog. "Hellllooo?" I called again, wondering if there was someone else here. Anyone to at least talk to would make my dream less. boring. "Oh come on! Give me someone to talk to!" I shouted towards the ceiling.
Suddenly I tripped over something and fell into the blue fog. Groaning slightly, I stood back up and saw something rising in the fog ahead of me. I ran forward and saw it was a large silver rock with Sirius, in dog form, sitting on the top. "Sirius?" I asked. The dog was silent as it panted and wagged its tail slowly, causing blue fog to drift back and forth.
I ran over towards him but he jumped off the rock and disappeared. Looking around I saw the silver rock had disappeared as well. Sighing, I walked forward, looking for any signs of anything.
"Someone close to me is a follower of Voldemort." I whirled around and saw Harry standing there. "Someone close to me is a follower of Voldemort." He repeated. And repeated. And repeated. Like a broken record.
"Hello? Harry?" I demanded, waving my hand in front of his face. He didn't even blink.
"Someone close to me is a follower of Voldemort."
"Fine, be that way." I grumbled and walked away from him. After a moment, I turned and saw he was gone. This dream was starting to freak me out. As I turned, I ran into something. Blinking, I looked up. A curved wall of electric blue veins rose up towards the sky and back down like a. a dome. I was in a dome. I slowly put my hand up and touched the veins. They began glowing, and pulsated.
"Ron." I turned and saw Peggy.
"Hi Peggy." I said. It didn't look like Peggy yet it did. There was something. she glowed blue slightly and she was wearing a black dress.
"What're you doing here?" She asked.
"Uh. I don't know." I said slowly. She took a step forward and narrowed her eyes.
"There are things you can't understand." She said.
"What?!" I asked in confusion.
She took another step forward. "Ron."
"Peggy what are you talking about?" I asked.
"You know."
"No I d-don't." I stuttered, backed against the blue vein wall.
"Ron." She said and adjusted her glasses. "Think."
"Think.?"
"Harry told you."
"What?" I asked, feeling completely confused.
"There is a Death Eater at Hogwarts." She said and I immediately wondered how she knew that told myself that it was a dream.
"Yes." I said slowly.
"Think." She said again and there was a crack like lightning. Purple smoke surrounded her and she was gone as it drifted away. I blinked and looked around. The blue fog was now purple and the blue veins were now black.
"I will get Harry. I will kill Harry. I will have revenge." Hissed a high- pitched voice that sounded purely evil. I began shaking. You-Know-Who.
"I want to wake UP now!" I screamed and began running. I got to the other side of the dome. The black veins pulsated angrily at me.
"I will get Harry. I will kill Harry. I will have revenge." The voice seemed to be coming from everywhere. I pounded at the veins.
"Ron." I turned and saw Hermione standing there. Her hair was not bushy but curly and blew back slightly at a wind that wasn't there. "We have O.W.Ls. You should be studying."
"Hermione." I said, sounding exasperated. Which I was!
"Study. We need to study." She said and a book dropped from the top of the dome. It landed with a loud 'thump' beside me. "Study. We need to study. We have O.W.Ls." More books fell, landing around me with loud 'thuds' and I covered my head. "If we don't study we won't pass our O.W.Ls and if we don't pass we won't get into our Sixth year."
I began running to get away from the books. Along the side of the dome. Finally I could no longer hear Hermione saying 'study' and no longer heard books. I bumped into someone and looked.
It was Malfoy.
"What?" I asked in confusion.
Beside him Jasmine appeared. They had their arms linked and looked deeply into each others eyes, both seeming very happy.
"Nothing will keep us apart, Draco." Jasmine said and looked at me. "Ron. Harry doesn't understand. He's never had these feelings." She whispered and rested her head against Malfoy's chest. Green mist surrounded them and they were gone.
I began running again, wishing I'd wake up. My breath got short and sweat ran down my face though I wasn't feeling out of breath. I ran in circles around the dome trying to find the way out of it. I must of gone around ten times before I stopped and fell back against the wall.
I looked up and saw something rising from the middle of the floor, pushing back the purple fog around it. I gulped and shook as it rose up. It was huge and blue and smooth.
I began shaking harder and harder.
Ron..
I heard a voice whispering. It came from the blue thing. Though incredibly scared, I felt myself walking towards it. I reached it. It loomed clear to the top of the dome. I rose my hand and put it against the stone. It was smooth and pleasant-feeling. Like. water almost or something.
Ron..
The stone whispered again.
Suddenly there was a burst of blue light. There was a high-pitched screaming as the black veins broke and shattered and fell to the ground. The stone glowed brighter and brighter.
I fell back into the purple fog, eyes squinted. I felt immense fear inside of me yet immense pleasure. it was so weird.
I scrambled back. breathing hard.
Ron.. Ron...
"RON!"
I sat up quickly in bed, breathing hard.
Harry, Dean, Seamus, Donnie, and Neville were gathered around my bed. "Ron." Neville squeaked.
"What. what?" I asked slowly, feeling weird.
"Ron. are y-you okay?" Donnie stammered.
"Yes. why?" I asked.
"You were." Seamus began and fell silent.
"I was what?" I asked.
"You were glowing. in the dark. blue." Dean said.
"I was what?!?!" I shrieked.
"Glowing. In the dark. Blue." Harry said.
"I was glowing in the dark. I was glowing blue?" I asked slowly.
The five guys nodded, all looking worried. "And." Neville stuttered.
"And what?" I asked, running my fingers through my hair.
"Well. we heard a weird noise. It sounded like. wind. high powered wind." Donnie said.
"We woke up and saw your curtains had blown back." Harry said.
I looked around me and saw, indeed, they had. "And you saw me glowing blue?" I asked.
"No. then. then." Neville sputtered out and looked ready to cry. "Y-you started floating!"
"What?"
"You floated. Levitated. About a couple feet above your bed. Still asleep." Seamus said.
"Then you gently came back down and lay there a moment then began glowing blue." Harry said.
"And then there was this weird feeling like. something invisible tugging at our hearts." Dean said.
"And something pressing against us." Donnie added.
"Then we woke you up." Harry finished.
I stared at them, hardly believing this. "Guys. are you sure you weren't dreaming this?"
"Ron! We're positive. We couldn't all be dreaming the same thing. And the pressing feeling hurt." Harry said.
"I think we should take you to the hospital. What if the glowing thing did something? A spell maybe." Neville whispered.
"Guys I'm fine. I'm perfectly fine." I said then suddenly there was something damp and heavy pressing against me. My nose and mouth. I couldn't breathe. I gasped and fell back, trying to push it off but there was nothing there. but there was!
"Ron!" They shouted.
Then everything went black.
***
Peggy ran into the hospital as fast as she could. "Oh my gosh! Hermione was right!" She yelped, seeing Ron's body.
"He fainted." Harry said.
"He lost air. He could of suffocated." Pomfrey said.
Peggy looked at them, eyes filled with worry and demanded to know what happened.
"He just. went weird this morning. That's all." Harry said.
"Oh." Peggy said and sat by Ron's side, staring into his rather pale face.
Just then Amy and Hermione ran in. 'What happened?!" Amy demanded.
"He went weird this morning." Harry said.
Hermione eyed Harry and could tell there was more to this story, though Amy ran to Ron's side. "Oh my. will he be okay?" She asked.
"He should. Now leave." Pomfrey snapped.
The four of them trouped off.
*** (Hermione's point of view)
My eyes got wide as Harry told me what had really happened that morning with Ron.
"And we took him to the hospital." Harry finished. We were in the library that night. Ron was still in the hospital.
"Oh my gosh." I said, "I wonder."
"I want to know what happened." Harry said.
"I've never read about anything like that." I whispered and shook my head. "I'm going to find out." I said and went down isles. I found a bunch of books and carried them back.
"What are these for?" Harry asked as I tipped them onto the table.
"'Modern Magical History', 'Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions', 'Important Modern Magical Discoveries', 'A Study Of Recent Developments in Wizardry', 'What Happens When This Happens?', 'A Guide of Mysterious Things and What to Do', and last but not least 'Magical Theory For The Advanced'." I said.
"And these are for.?" Harry asked. I shoved 'What Happens When This Happens?' at him.
"To find out what happened to Ron." I said.
"More studying? Hermione. I'm all studied out and we're still months away from our O.W.Ls." Harry moaned.
"Harry!" I said, opening 'Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions'. "don't you want to know what's wrong with Ron? What if its serious?"
"I-he-the-oh okay." He moaned and opened the book.
"Maybe I should write to Viktor. he might be able to help."
"Viktor?" Harry asked.
I turned bright red. "Yes."
"By the way you never said what you did with him over the Holidays." He said slowly.
I burned even brighter red. "We just, you know, visited."
"Then why are you all red?" Harry asked.
"I-I'm not red." I muttered, feeling myself go even redder.
"Yes you are!"
"Harry just read." I said.
"Hermione. what happened? I won't laugh or tease or tell Ron."
"He kissed me, okay?" I snapped.
"Krum kissed you?" He asked and I went even redder.
"Yes. Now read." I said and buried my nose in the book.
***
Ron was out of the hospital the next day, looking weary and confused.
"Ron!" I ran to him and stared. "What happened? Harry told me but. what did you feel? Why did you faint? What were you feeling before you blacked out?" I asked breathlessly.
"I-uh-what?" He asked as we walked down a corridor.
"Here," I shoved 'A Study Of Recent Developments in Wizardry' at him. "Harry and I have been reading up, trying to figure out what happened but so far- nothing. It'd help if you told me everything. What you felt and stuff." I said.
Ron stared down at the book in his hand then looked at me. "Hermione have you ever thought about curling your hair?"
"I'm just hoping this isn't a-what?" I asked.
"You'd look very pretty that way." He said, shoving the book back at me and walking off. I blinked, watching him leave, feeling confused.
*** (Ron's point of view)
"Night guys." I said the night I got out of the hospital.
"Night Ron." The others said. I was the only one sleepy, or at least the only one who would go to sleep. I drew my curtains and covered up and fell asleep.
I was in a meadow. A bright, happy meadow. Tall grass that game up to my chest swayed gently in the wind. I heard the sound of a brook gurgling somewhere. The sky was clear, sunny and the deepest and purest blue I had ever seen. The air was filled with chirping birds and I was immediately happy.
Ah, this was more like a dream then that other one.
I heard laughing and looked over and saw everyone. Harry, Hermione, Peggy, Jasmine, Sirius, Remus, and. Malfoy? What the heck was he doing here?
Anyway they were all under a huge, huge larger then normal tree. I didn't know what kind of tree, but the long branches spread out wide and held leaves that glittered like emeralds. As I went over I saw they were emeralds. Cut into leaf shapes.
I turned my gaze back down to the picnic and realized Amy was not there. The group was on a huge, huge sapphire blue blanket. There was luxurious food spread about them and they all seemed to be enjoying themselves. The glasses they drank from were gold and studded with diamonds.
Their clothes were odd, too. All the guys wore black slacks and white, billowy shirts like you'd see a pirate wearing. And all the girls wore loose, gauzy dresses. Hermione's was pearl white and the collar was studded with pearls. Peggy's was ruby red and the collar was studded with rubies. Jasmine's was emerald green and the collar was studded with emeralds. She was sitting against the tree, listening to Malfoy read from a book.
Harry looked up and saw me. "Hey Ron! Come join us." He said.
"Okay." I said with a smile and went over. I sat on the blanket between Harry and Peggy. "Where's Amy?" I asked.
"Amy who?" Peggy asked, as she had her nose buried in a book.
"You're best friend Amy." I said.
"I don't know anyone named Amy, dear." She said.
"But she-dear?!" I said.
"Yes?" She asked, looking up from the book. She was no longer ugly. On the contrary, she was extremely beautiful. Her hair was down and slightly wavy and blew back in the wind. She didn't have glasses on and she was. well, beautiful.
"Wow." I whispered.
"Wow what?" She asked.
"You're beautiful." I said.
"Thank you." She said and continued reading.
"Her-My-Own-Ninny." Said a thick, Bulgarian voice.
Viktor Krum, wearing his Bulgarian Quidditch robes, appeared.
"Vicky! Darling!" Hermione said brightly. Once again her hair was curled. She leapt up and ran over. Krum held her and kissed her on the lips. I turned away and saw Sirius and Remus fighting over the last chicken leg.
"Its mine!" Sirius said.
"Is not, you got the last petty four!" Remus snapped back.
"Moony give it to me!"
"No way, Padfoot!"
"The chicken leg is mine."
"Is not!"
"Is so!"
"You are both wrong- its mine!" Said a new voice.
My eyes got wide as a man- identical to Harry yet older and with deep brown eyes- appeared.
"Hey dad." Harry said.
Harry's father snatched the chicken leg.
"PRONGS!" Sirius and Remus both yelled and began chasing him.
"Boys, boys, boys. Stop fighting." Laughed another new voice.
It was a woman identical to Jasmine, only older with Harry's eyes.
"Give it up, mum." Jasmine laughed.
"Yeah, you know they'll never stop. They're always going to be kids." Harry said.
"Harry why are your parents here?" I asked. This dream was beginning to get as confusing as the first.
"Um. to have a picnic like the rest of us?" Harry asked.
"They're-" I stopped. This was a dream, I reminded myself. Dead people could be alive in dreams.
"They're what?" Harry asked.
"Nothing, never mind."
Suddenly the sky grew black. "Looks like a storm is heading our way." Peggy said. The clouds were black and swirling. They kept lighting up with lightning though no lightning was seen.
"We better stop the picnic. We'll finish it tomorrow." Malfoy said.
"James! Sirius! Remus!" Harry and Jasmine's mother snapped at the three, who were wrestling. "let's hurry before-"
There was a crack of lightning and a hooded figure stood there, laughing a high-pitched laugh.
Everyone began screaming. "Its him! Its him!" Shrieked someone. I was knocked over in the confusion. The figure, I knew was You-Know-Who, raised his wand.
"Say goodbye, Harry! Avada Kedavra!" There was a flash of green light and Harry dropped down- dead.
"Harry!" Jasmine screamed.
You-Know-Who shot the death curse at everyone, except me and Peggy, killing them all.
Peggy stood there, staring at You-Know-Who. I was trembling. You-Know-Who turned to me and pointed his wand.
"Avada. Kedavra." He hissed and I fell to the ground but didn't die. "What? No!" He shouted and with a crack of lightning, he disappeared.
Sitting up, I looked around me. The dead bodies had disappeared. It was once more a clear and sunny day.
"Peggy?" I looked over at her. She was no longer in the ruby dress, but all in black once more.
"Think." She said and reached her hand towards me.
Then I woke up.
Looking around I saw the others had fallen asleep. Then realized once more my curtains had been blown back. I wondered if I had been glowing.
I ran to the mirror but I was normal. Shrugging, I flopped into bed and fell back asleep.
***
Professor Trelawney glided around the room, staring at us ferociously as we gazed into crystal balls.
"This is so stupid." I muttered, seeing nothing but myself.
"I agree, what you're seeing in the crystal ball is stupid." Harry said.
"Not as stupid as what you're seeing."
"But I'm seeing you."
With this I smacked Harry as he snickered. Trelawney came over and peered at us. "And what do you see in the crystal ball?" She asked me.
"Um. I see. I see." I said, wondering what I should make up. Something nice and morbid, so she'd like-
Inside the crystal ball there was black veins spreading, the ones in the dome from my first weird dream. They began pulsating. A heart beat throbbed in my head. Gray smoke swirled in the crystal ball and pulled back to reveal slitted red eyes surrounded by green light.
I screamed and pushed back quickly. My chair fell over backwards and I found myself looking up at the ceiling, head pounding in pain. "My dear. what did you see?" She asked.
"I saw. I saw. er, the grim." I muttered.
Trelawney, Lavender and Parvati all gasped. "My poor dear. class dismissed!" Trelawney said, shaken up from what I had said.
Harry helped me up and we headed down towards the Great Hall. "Great acting with the scream and stuff. I almost believed you saw something horrible in the crystal ball." Harry said.
"Yeah." I mumbled, rubbing my head.
I had just seen You-Know-Who in the crystal ball. And in two dreams.
Dreams?
I stopped in my tracks and closed my eyes, feeling sick.
Was I beginning to actually. have visions?!
***
"Ron. are you sick?" Hermione asked and I looked up.
"No, why?" I asked.
"You're actually. studying." We were all seated around a table in the library (minus Jasmine. She had been disappearing a lot lately. And I had a feeling it had to do with Malfoy).
"Yeah well you know. O.W.Ls." I muttered.
"You-Ron! You're reading 'A Guide To Dreams and Visions'?! As in- Divination?!" Hermione demanded.
"Er. well. yeah I mean, I'll have O.W.Ls in that, too you know."
"But we're studying crystal balls." Harry said suspiciously.
"Harry, you see visions in crystal balls. I want to know what to do to make up stuff." I said.
"Oh. right." Harry said and turned back down to his 'A Guide to Intermediate Transfiguration'.
"Hi guys!" Jasmine appeared, looking rather flushed.
"Hey Jasmine, where've you been?" Harry asked.
"Erm-walking." She said.
"Jasmine I need to ask you a question. Privately." I said and Jasmine and I went a few isles away where they couldn't hear us. "You were with Malfoy, weren't you?" I asked in a whisper.
Jasmine went red but scowled. "None of your business, Ron."
"Jasmine. I know it. You're. you're with Malfoy, aren't you?"
"His name is Draco, Ron. Not 'Malfoy'. And how would you know if I was or not?"
"Jasmine as much as I don't like this." I began and sighed. "I promise I won't tell Harry."
Jasmine stared at me in disbelief. "Y-you're kidding." She said.
I shook my head. "No. I'm not. I hate it. I hate Malfoy. I hate you're with Malfoy. I positively loathe it. But. I won't tell Harry."
Jasmine flung her arms around me and hugged me tightly. "Thank you." She whispered.
***
I sat up in bed, reading wearily the book about dreams and visions. I had to know. I couldn't POSSIBLY be having Divination dreams and visions. No, I couldn't.
I went to the index and looked up 'colors'. There was a whole chapter on them.
Chapter Eleven- Colors and their Meanings More often then not, a color in a dream or vision means something. A lot of people overlook the importance of color in a dream or vision. But it is extremely important.
Colors. I thought of my first dream. The blue fog and blue veins. Then black veins. and the purple fog. and the blue stone. I shook my head and skipped ahead of the lecture, to what colors actually meant.
Black is often connected with evil. Black things in dreams and visions can usually mean three things. 1. Evil 2. Mystery 3. Power
If you see a black object in your dream or vision, it usually means the object is one of those three things. The same goes for a person wearing black, or just plain. black surrounding you.
I looked up as Neville snored a particularly loud snore. It was way past midnight and the others were sound asleep. I looked back down to the book and skipped to blue. After reading about black, blue and purple I began to get very drowsy and nodded off to sleep, slumped over my book.
I was in the Potions dungeon, stirring a scarlet-colored potion that let off gold smoke. Looking around, the only other people in there were Amy, and Snape.
Snape was standing over Amy, yelling that her potion was too thin. "It looks exactly like yours!" She yelled back.
"Don't you dare yell at me, missy! A hundred points from-"
"You are not fit to be teacher!" Amy screamed and pointed her wand at Snape. "Homo Switchus Oryctolagus Cuniculus!" She shrieked.
There was a 'crack'! and Snape was now a shaking rabbit. It was black, brown, buff and lighter buff colored. Snape the rabbit hopped away quickly.
"Amy! You turned Snape into a rabbit!" I said.
Amy looked at me and smiled. "I think I'll be very popular now." She said.
The door flew open and Sirius ran in, dog form, chasing a rat.
Ron! Its Wormtail! Get him! Sirius yelled in my head. I pointed my wand at the rat.
"Stupefy!" And the rat fell, stunned. Sirius turned to human and picked the rat up.
"Thank you, Ron." He said and left, carrying Wormtail with him.
"Ron, your potion is bubbling over." Amy said. I looked down and saw the scarlet potion was overflowing. It spilled across the room, making everything it touched scarlet. It spread up the steps and out the door. There was a crack like lightning and I knew what had happened before I turned. You-Know-Who. I turned and indeed, he stood there. Cloaked in black and red eyes glowing. He touched his wand to the floor and the scarlet turned to green and black. "These will be the new school colors once I have taken over." He said.
Suddenly the doors burst open (I didn't realize they had closed but this was a dream. Nothing made sense in my dreams lately) and a huge golden lion came in. It was actual gold with glittering ruby eyes. It let out a roar and pounced on You-Know-Who. The lion then sprouted garnet wings and flew over to me. Knowing what it wanted, I got on its back and we flew up into the sky (the ceiling and all of Hogwarts was now gone). We flew high into the sky.
Do not worry, Ron. The gold, garnet and ruby-eyed griffin informed me. It will protect you.
"What will?" I asked as we flew into the Forbidden Forest. "Harry?" I said, seeing Harry there. He was bent over something on the ground.
"Ron, come look." He said and I walked over and looked. It was a glowing purple thing on the ground. "Its a Faerie." And when he said that, I saw the form of a teeny human in the glow. The Faerie flew in the air and hovered right in front of me. Then zipped over to Harry. Purple light surrounded Harry and he was thrown back against a tree.
"Avada Kedavra!" Came the teeny voice from the Faerie, and Harry was dead.
The griffin appeared again and ate the Faerie. That was no Faerie. The griffin informed me.
"Its a magical creature Anamagi." Hermione had appeared with her armfuls of books. And her hair was once again curly and being blown back by a wind that touched nothing else.
Yes, young scholar. The griffin said and folded its wings back. They melted in the gold and he became a lion once more. Very hard but possible for powerful witches or wizards. And with this, the lion turned to me. His form began slowly melting. gold spread on the ground and soon it was a gold puddle. Then the puddle rose up and began taking form. It was now a huge gold stone. There was a flash of white and the stone turned blue.
Ron.
It whispered.
"Ron, come on." Hermione said to me.
"Come where?"
"Back to Hogwarts. Peggy wants to talk to you." So we walked. It was barely three feet before we reached the grounds of Hogwarts. We went into one of the greenhouses where Peggy was, surrounded by huge flowers that almost reached the ceiling. The stems and leaves were emerald and the petals were pearl, ruby or sapphire.
"Peggy what do you want?" I asked.
She looked at me. "Ron. You need to think."
"Think about what?" I asked crossly.
"Just think."
And I woke up, feeling more confused then ever.
*** (Harry's point of view)
Ron got unusually more quiet and more studious over the next two days.
"Hermione you were right."
"About what?" She asked.
"Ron's sick. He must be." I said, pointing to the corner of the common room where Ron was hunched over a book.
"I can't find anything about the condition he had." Hermione said shaking her head.
I sneaked over to Ron and glanced at the title of the book he was studying. ' Interpreting Dreams'. Divination? Why on earth would Ron be studying that? "Ron?"
He must of leapt fifty feet. "Harry! Oh god don't do that?! Especially this chapter." He held up the book and I saw at the top of one page 'Nightmarish Meanings'. "Ugh, I was reading about this one dream this man had about a silver knife chopping up everything in site and the next day, when he was cooking, the cleaver slipped from his hand and." Ron didn't finish it.
"And what?"
"Let's just say he was out one child."
"UUUUUGGGGHHHH!" I said, screwing my face.
"Yes. Ugh." Ron said and turned down to the book.
"Ron, you hate Divination."
"I know." He said, flipping a page.
"So. why do you have these?" I pulled the three books from his backpack. ' A Guide To Dreams and Visions', ' Dreaming Meanings' and 'Interpreting Visions'.
"I'm. curious. You know." He said with a shrug.
"Ron." I sat down, staring at him. "are you getting visions?" He was silent at this. "The other day. in Divination. the crystal ball and the scream and the falling back. Did you see something in the crystal ball?"
"No."
"Ron your ears are red. You are lying."
"Okay, okay. Yes I saw something." He said, scowling slightly.
"And are you having dreams?" I asked, eyes falling on the book he had in his hands.
"Everyone has dreams."
"I mean. vision-dreams."
"Maybe."
"And visions? Are you having those?"
"Not yet. At least, I don't think so. I did see something in the crystal ball. And I have been having dreams that I figure are trying to tell me something." He said.
"Like.?"
"Like maybe who the Death Eater close to you is."
"Are there any clues?" I asked.
"Well. I'm beginning to." His eyes darted across the room then he leaned forward. "suspect Peggy." He whispered.
"Peggy?" I asked in confusion.
"She. in my dreams she was almost always wearing black, and in this book it says black usually means evil. And she keeps saying 'Think'. But."
"But?" I asked.
"I don't know. in my dreams Hermione is acting pretty odd, too but I don't think. you know, she's it. And." Ron hesitated.
"And what?" I asked.
"You-Know-Who has been in every single one and he's. he's either saying he's gonna kill you or. or actually killing you and-and well in the crystal ball I saw him. Or rather his eyes. They're-they're slitted and red, right?"
"Uh, yeah."
"And-and-and-well I don't know. Sirius has been in all of them too. Mostly in dog form. He usually says stuff but the first one he didn't and-well I don't know. And in two of them."
"And in two of them.?" I asked.
"Well, your parents were alive. And Remus has been in two. once in human form fighting over a chicken leg with Sirius and the other in werewolf form. A-at least I'm pretty sure that was him. The werewolf I mean."
"How many dreams have you had?" I asked.
"Five. The past five nights. the first one was the-the night you said I was glowing. The dreams are all weird. I just. it confuses me, you know? The first one I was in this dome. then the second one I was in a meadow, a picnic with everyone. The third I was in the Potions classroom, Forbidden forest then a greenhouses-and the fourth I was in the Great Hall. And-and the fifth, the one last night, I-I was back home at the Burrow."
I stared at him as he said all this then there was silence a few minutes. "Ron. that's. weird."
"I know, Harry but what can I do? I-I don't know what is going on but you know these dreams and the crystal ball and." Ron buried his face in his hands. "I think I'm actually becoming, you know. Divination-y."
"Ron." I took the book he had been reading and shut it. "why don't you just- " I picked up the other books and stacked them. 'take these back to the library and forget about it all. It might go away."
"You think?" He asked hopefully, peering at me with one eye, through his fingers. "Yeah." I said.
"Okay. man it feels good to finally tell someone." Ron said.
"Hey, what are friends for?" I asked. He smiled, took the books and left to return them.
*** (Ron's point of view)
It had been a week since I returned the books, and tried forgetting it all- and I hadn't had a weird dream since. No crystal ball gazing things in Divination and everything was back to normal. Or so I thought.
The end of the Christmas holidays came way too soon. Waaaaayyyyy too soon. And the teachers piled mountain high mounds of schoolwork. Ugggghhhh.
"Hermione." I asked hopefully.
"No. I am not doing your homework." She snapped. We were all around a table, studying. I, like Harry, was wondering if the follower of you-know- who was sitting here. And if so, that meant it was Hermione, Jasmine, Peggy or Amy.
I looked at the four girls with narrow eyes. Hermione was bent over her paper, bushy hair fallen over her face, and a look of concentration. Amy didn't have as much as a look of concentration on her face but was deeply in her studies. Jasmine was doodling flowers on a piece of parchment as she studied. Her hair was pulled back and glinted in the light of the torch on the wall. Peggy was relaxing back in her chair, with her feet against the table and reading 'The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle'. My kind of girl. I caught Harry's eye and could tell he was wondering the same thing I was. Was one of those girls evil? I shook my head slowly and returned to studying.
***
I waded through blue fog that came to my waist. All around me was blackness. A sense of foreboding filled me.
"Hello?" I called out. There wasn't even an echo. I looked in confusion as Pig flew past my head, leaving a trail of gold behind him.
A dream? I pinched myself and I didn't feel anything. Ah. A dream. A weird dream but a dream.
Slowly I waded through the blue fog. "Hellllooo?" I called again, wondering if there was someone else here. Anyone to at least talk to would make my dream less. boring. "Oh come on! Give me someone to talk to!" I shouted towards the ceiling.
Suddenly I tripped over something and fell into the blue fog. Groaning slightly, I stood back up and saw something rising in the fog ahead of me. I ran forward and saw it was a large silver rock with Sirius, in dog form, sitting on the top. "Sirius?" I asked. The dog was silent as it panted and wagged its tail slowly, causing blue fog to drift back and forth.
I ran over towards him but he jumped off the rock and disappeared. Looking around I saw the silver rock had disappeared as well. Sighing, I walked forward, looking for any signs of anything.
"Someone close to me is a follower of Voldemort." I whirled around and saw Harry standing there. "Someone close to me is a follower of Voldemort." He repeated. And repeated. And repeated. Like a broken record.
"Hello? Harry?" I demanded, waving my hand in front of his face. He didn't even blink.
"Someone close to me is a follower of Voldemort."
"Fine, be that way." I grumbled and walked away from him. After a moment, I turned and saw he was gone. This dream was starting to freak me out. As I turned, I ran into something. Blinking, I looked up. A curved wall of electric blue veins rose up towards the sky and back down like a. a dome. I was in a dome. I slowly put my hand up and touched the veins. They began glowing, and pulsated.
"Ron." I turned and saw Peggy.
"Hi Peggy." I said. It didn't look like Peggy yet it did. There was something. she glowed blue slightly and she was wearing a black dress.
"What're you doing here?" She asked.
"Uh. I don't know." I said slowly. She took a step forward and narrowed her eyes.
"There are things you can't understand." She said.
"What?!" I asked in confusion.
She took another step forward. "Ron."
"Peggy what are you talking about?" I asked.
"You know."
"No I d-don't." I stuttered, backed against the blue vein wall.
"Ron." She said and adjusted her glasses. "Think."
"Think.?"
"Harry told you."
"What?" I asked, feeling completely confused.
"There is a Death Eater at Hogwarts." She said and I immediately wondered how she knew that told myself that it was a dream.
"Yes." I said slowly.
"Think." She said again and there was a crack like lightning. Purple smoke surrounded her and she was gone as it drifted away. I blinked and looked around. The blue fog was now purple and the blue veins were now black.
"I will get Harry. I will kill Harry. I will have revenge." Hissed a high- pitched voice that sounded purely evil. I began shaking. You-Know-Who.
"I want to wake UP now!" I screamed and began running. I got to the other side of the dome. The black veins pulsated angrily at me.
"I will get Harry. I will kill Harry. I will have revenge." The voice seemed to be coming from everywhere. I pounded at the veins.
"Ron." I turned and saw Hermione standing there. Her hair was not bushy but curly and blew back slightly at a wind that wasn't there. "We have O.W.Ls. You should be studying."
"Hermione." I said, sounding exasperated. Which I was!
"Study. We need to study." She said and a book dropped from the top of the dome. It landed with a loud 'thump' beside me. "Study. We need to study. We have O.W.Ls." More books fell, landing around me with loud 'thuds' and I covered my head. "If we don't study we won't pass our O.W.Ls and if we don't pass we won't get into our Sixth year."
I began running to get away from the books. Along the side of the dome. Finally I could no longer hear Hermione saying 'study' and no longer heard books. I bumped into someone and looked.
It was Malfoy.
"What?" I asked in confusion.
Beside him Jasmine appeared. They had their arms linked and looked deeply into each others eyes, both seeming very happy.
"Nothing will keep us apart, Draco." Jasmine said and looked at me. "Ron. Harry doesn't understand. He's never had these feelings." She whispered and rested her head against Malfoy's chest. Green mist surrounded them and they were gone.
I began running again, wishing I'd wake up. My breath got short and sweat ran down my face though I wasn't feeling out of breath. I ran in circles around the dome trying to find the way out of it. I must of gone around ten times before I stopped and fell back against the wall.
I looked up and saw something rising from the middle of the floor, pushing back the purple fog around it. I gulped and shook as it rose up. It was huge and blue and smooth.
I began shaking harder and harder.
Ron..
I heard a voice whispering. It came from the blue thing. Though incredibly scared, I felt myself walking towards it. I reached it. It loomed clear to the top of the dome. I rose my hand and put it against the stone. It was smooth and pleasant-feeling. Like. water almost or something.
Ron..
The stone whispered again.
Suddenly there was a burst of blue light. There was a high-pitched screaming as the black veins broke and shattered and fell to the ground. The stone glowed brighter and brighter.
I fell back into the purple fog, eyes squinted. I felt immense fear inside of me yet immense pleasure. it was so weird.
I scrambled back. breathing hard.
Ron.. Ron...
"RON!"
I sat up quickly in bed, breathing hard.
Harry, Dean, Seamus, Donnie, and Neville were gathered around my bed. "Ron." Neville squeaked.
"What. what?" I asked slowly, feeling weird.
"Ron. are y-you okay?" Donnie stammered.
"Yes. why?" I asked.
"You were." Seamus began and fell silent.
"I was what?" I asked.
"You were glowing. in the dark. blue." Dean said.
"I was what?!?!" I shrieked.
"Glowing. In the dark. Blue." Harry said.
"I was glowing in the dark. I was glowing blue?" I asked slowly.
The five guys nodded, all looking worried. "And." Neville stuttered.
"And what?" I asked, running my fingers through my hair.
"Well. we heard a weird noise. It sounded like. wind. high powered wind." Donnie said.
"We woke up and saw your curtains had blown back." Harry said.
I looked around me and saw, indeed, they had. "And you saw me glowing blue?" I asked.
"No. then. then." Neville sputtered out and looked ready to cry. "Y-you started floating!"
"What?"
"You floated. Levitated. About a couple feet above your bed. Still asleep." Seamus said.
"Then you gently came back down and lay there a moment then began glowing blue." Harry said.
"And then there was this weird feeling like. something invisible tugging at our hearts." Dean said.
"And something pressing against us." Donnie added.
"Then we woke you up." Harry finished.
I stared at them, hardly believing this. "Guys. are you sure you weren't dreaming this?"
"Ron! We're positive. We couldn't all be dreaming the same thing. And the pressing feeling hurt." Harry said.
"I think we should take you to the hospital. What if the glowing thing did something? A spell maybe." Neville whispered.
"Guys I'm fine. I'm perfectly fine." I said then suddenly there was something damp and heavy pressing against me. My nose and mouth. I couldn't breathe. I gasped and fell back, trying to push it off but there was nothing there. but there was!
"Ron!" They shouted.
Then everything went black.
***
Peggy ran into the hospital as fast as she could. "Oh my gosh! Hermione was right!" She yelped, seeing Ron's body.
"He fainted." Harry said.
"He lost air. He could of suffocated." Pomfrey said.
Peggy looked at them, eyes filled with worry and demanded to know what happened.
"He just. went weird this morning. That's all." Harry said.
"Oh." Peggy said and sat by Ron's side, staring into his rather pale face.
Just then Amy and Hermione ran in. 'What happened?!" Amy demanded.
"He went weird this morning." Harry said.
Hermione eyed Harry and could tell there was more to this story, though Amy ran to Ron's side. "Oh my. will he be okay?" She asked.
"He should. Now leave." Pomfrey snapped.
The four of them trouped off.
*** (Hermione's point of view)
My eyes got wide as Harry told me what had really happened that morning with Ron.
"And we took him to the hospital." Harry finished. We were in the library that night. Ron was still in the hospital.
"Oh my gosh." I said, "I wonder."
"I want to know what happened." Harry said.
"I've never read about anything like that." I whispered and shook my head. "I'm going to find out." I said and went down isles. I found a bunch of books and carried them back.
"What are these for?" Harry asked as I tipped them onto the table.
"'Modern Magical History', 'Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions', 'Important Modern Magical Discoveries', 'A Study Of Recent Developments in Wizardry', 'What Happens When This Happens?', 'A Guide of Mysterious Things and What to Do', and last but not least 'Magical Theory For The Advanced'." I said.
"And these are for.?" Harry asked. I shoved 'What Happens When This Happens?' at him.
"To find out what happened to Ron." I said.
"More studying? Hermione. I'm all studied out and we're still months away from our O.W.Ls." Harry moaned.
"Harry!" I said, opening 'Common Magical Ailments and Afflictions'. "don't you want to know what's wrong with Ron? What if its serious?"
"I-he-the-oh okay." He moaned and opened the book.
"Maybe I should write to Viktor. he might be able to help."
"Viktor?" Harry asked.
I turned bright red. "Yes."
"By the way you never said what you did with him over the Holidays." He said slowly.
I burned even brighter red. "We just, you know, visited."
"Then why are you all red?" Harry asked.
"I-I'm not red." I muttered, feeling myself go even redder.
"Yes you are!"
"Harry just read." I said.
"Hermione. what happened? I won't laugh or tease or tell Ron."
"He kissed me, okay?" I snapped.
"Krum kissed you?" He asked and I went even redder.
"Yes. Now read." I said and buried my nose in the book.
***
Ron was out of the hospital the next day, looking weary and confused.
"Ron!" I ran to him and stared. "What happened? Harry told me but. what did you feel? Why did you faint? What were you feeling before you blacked out?" I asked breathlessly.
"I-uh-what?" He asked as we walked down a corridor.
"Here," I shoved 'A Study Of Recent Developments in Wizardry' at him. "Harry and I have been reading up, trying to figure out what happened but so far- nothing. It'd help if you told me everything. What you felt and stuff." I said.
Ron stared down at the book in his hand then looked at me. "Hermione have you ever thought about curling your hair?"
"I'm just hoping this isn't a-what?" I asked.
"You'd look very pretty that way." He said, shoving the book back at me and walking off. I blinked, watching him leave, feeling confused.
*** (Ron's point of view)
"Night guys." I said the night I got out of the hospital.
"Night Ron." The others said. I was the only one sleepy, or at least the only one who would go to sleep. I drew my curtains and covered up and fell asleep.
I was in a meadow. A bright, happy meadow. Tall grass that game up to my chest swayed gently in the wind. I heard the sound of a brook gurgling somewhere. The sky was clear, sunny and the deepest and purest blue I had ever seen. The air was filled with chirping birds and I was immediately happy.
Ah, this was more like a dream then that other one.
I heard laughing and looked over and saw everyone. Harry, Hermione, Peggy, Jasmine, Sirius, Remus, and. Malfoy? What the heck was he doing here?
Anyway they were all under a huge, huge larger then normal tree. I didn't know what kind of tree, but the long branches spread out wide and held leaves that glittered like emeralds. As I went over I saw they were emeralds. Cut into leaf shapes.
I turned my gaze back down to the picnic and realized Amy was not there. The group was on a huge, huge sapphire blue blanket. There was luxurious food spread about them and they all seemed to be enjoying themselves. The glasses they drank from were gold and studded with diamonds.
Their clothes were odd, too. All the guys wore black slacks and white, billowy shirts like you'd see a pirate wearing. And all the girls wore loose, gauzy dresses. Hermione's was pearl white and the collar was studded with pearls. Peggy's was ruby red and the collar was studded with rubies. Jasmine's was emerald green and the collar was studded with emeralds. She was sitting against the tree, listening to Malfoy read from a book.
Harry looked up and saw me. "Hey Ron! Come join us." He said.
"Okay." I said with a smile and went over. I sat on the blanket between Harry and Peggy. "Where's Amy?" I asked.
"Amy who?" Peggy asked, as she had her nose buried in a book.
"You're best friend Amy." I said.
"I don't know anyone named Amy, dear." She said.
"But she-dear?!" I said.
"Yes?" She asked, looking up from the book. She was no longer ugly. On the contrary, she was extremely beautiful. Her hair was down and slightly wavy and blew back in the wind. She didn't have glasses on and she was. well, beautiful.
"Wow." I whispered.
"Wow what?" She asked.
"You're beautiful." I said.
"Thank you." She said and continued reading.
"Her-My-Own-Ninny." Said a thick, Bulgarian voice.
Viktor Krum, wearing his Bulgarian Quidditch robes, appeared.
"Vicky! Darling!" Hermione said brightly. Once again her hair was curled. She leapt up and ran over. Krum held her and kissed her on the lips. I turned away and saw Sirius and Remus fighting over the last chicken leg.
"Its mine!" Sirius said.
"Is not, you got the last petty four!" Remus snapped back.
"Moony give it to me!"
"No way, Padfoot!"
"The chicken leg is mine."
"Is not!"
"Is so!"
"You are both wrong- its mine!" Said a new voice.
My eyes got wide as a man- identical to Harry yet older and with deep brown eyes- appeared.
"Hey dad." Harry said.
Harry's father snatched the chicken leg.
"PRONGS!" Sirius and Remus both yelled and began chasing him.
"Boys, boys, boys. Stop fighting." Laughed another new voice.
It was a woman identical to Jasmine, only older with Harry's eyes.
"Give it up, mum." Jasmine laughed.
"Yeah, you know they'll never stop. They're always going to be kids." Harry said.
"Harry why are your parents here?" I asked. This dream was beginning to get as confusing as the first.
"Um. to have a picnic like the rest of us?" Harry asked.
"They're-" I stopped. This was a dream, I reminded myself. Dead people could be alive in dreams.
"They're what?" Harry asked.
"Nothing, never mind."
Suddenly the sky grew black. "Looks like a storm is heading our way." Peggy said. The clouds were black and swirling. They kept lighting up with lightning though no lightning was seen.
"We better stop the picnic. We'll finish it tomorrow." Malfoy said.
"James! Sirius! Remus!" Harry and Jasmine's mother snapped at the three, who were wrestling. "let's hurry before-"
There was a crack of lightning and a hooded figure stood there, laughing a high-pitched laugh.
Everyone began screaming. "Its him! Its him!" Shrieked someone. I was knocked over in the confusion. The figure, I knew was You-Know-Who, raised his wand.
"Say goodbye, Harry! Avada Kedavra!" There was a flash of green light and Harry dropped down- dead.
"Harry!" Jasmine screamed.
You-Know-Who shot the death curse at everyone, except me and Peggy, killing them all.
Peggy stood there, staring at You-Know-Who. I was trembling. You-Know-Who turned to me and pointed his wand.
"Avada. Kedavra." He hissed and I fell to the ground but didn't die. "What? No!" He shouted and with a crack of lightning, he disappeared.
Sitting up, I looked around me. The dead bodies had disappeared. It was once more a clear and sunny day.
"Peggy?" I looked over at her. She was no longer in the ruby dress, but all in black once more.
"Think." She said and reached her hand towards me.
Then I woke up.
Looking around I saw the others had fallen asleep. Then realized once more my curtains had been blown back. I wondered if I had been glowing.
I ran to the mirror but I was normal. Shrugging, I flopped into bed and fell back asleep.
***
Professor Trelawney glided around the room, staring at us ferociously as we gazed into crystal balls.
"This is so stupid." I muttered, seeing nothing but myself.
"I agree, what you're seeing in the crystal ball is stupid." Harry said.
"Not as stupid as what you're seeing."
"But I'm seeing you."
With this I smacked Harry as he snickered. Trelawney came over and peered at us. "And what do you see in the crystal ball?" She asked me.
"Um. I see. I see." I said, wondering what I should make up. Something nice and morbid, so she'd like-
Inside the crystal ball there was black veins spreading, the ones in the dome from my first weird dream. They began pulsating. A heart beat throbbed in my head. Gray smoke swirled in the crystal ball and pulled back to reveal slitted red eyes surrounded by green light.
I screamed and pushed back quickly. My chair fell over backwards and I found myself looking up at the ceiling, head pounding in pain. "My dear. what did you see?" She asked.
"I saw. I saw. er, the grim." I muttered.
Trelawney, Lavender and Parvati all gasped. "My poor dear. class dismissed!" Trelawney said, shaken up from what I had said.
Harry helped me up and we headed down towards the Great Hall. "Great acting with the scream and stuff. I almost believed you saw something horrible in the crystal ball." Harry said.
"Yeah." I mumbled, rubbing my head.
I had just seen You-Know-Who in the crystal ball. And in two dreams.
Dreams?
I stopped in my tracks and closed my eyes, feeling sick.
Was I beginning to actually. have visions?!
***
"Ron. are you sick?" Hermione asked and I looked up.
"No, why?" I asked.
"You're actually. studying." We were all seated around a table in the library (minus Jasmine. She had been disappearing a lot lately. And I had a feeling it had to do with Malfoy).
"Yeah well you know. O.W.Ls." I muttered.
"You-Ron! You're reading 'A Guide To Dreams and Visions'?! As in- Divination?!" Hermione demanded.
"Er. well. yeah I mean, I'll have O.W.Ls in that, too you know."
"But we're studying crystal balls." Harry said suspiciously.
"Harry, you see visions in crystal balls. I want to know what to do to make up stuff." I said.
"Oh. right." Harry said and turned back down to his 'A Guide to Intermediate Transfiguration'.
"Hi guys!" Jasmine appeared, looking rather flushed.
"Hey Jasmine, where've you been?" Harry asked.
"Erm-walking." She said.
"Jasmine I need to ask you a question. Privately." I said and Jasmine and I went a few isles away where they couldn't hear us. "You were with Malfoy, weren't you?" I asked in a whisper.
Jasmine went red but scowled. "None of your business, Ron."
"Jasmine. I know it. You're. you're with Malfoy, aren't you?"
"His name is Draco, Ron. Not 'Malfoy'. And how would you know if I was or not?"
"Jasmine as much as I don't like this." I began and sighed. "I promise I won't tell Harry."
Jasmine stared at me in disbelief. "Y-you're kidding." She said.
I shook my head. "No. I'm not. I hate it. I hate Malfoy. I hate you're with Malfoy. I positively loathe it. But. I won't tell Harry."
Jasmine flung her arms around me and hugged me tightly. "Thank you." She whispered.
***
I sat up in bed, reading wearily the book about dreams and visions. I had to know. I couldn't POSSIBLY be having Divination dreams and visions. No, I couldn't.
I went to the index and looked up 'colors'. There was a whole chapter on them.
Chapter Eleven- Colors and their Meanings More often then not, a color in a dream or vision means something. A lot of people overlook the importance of color in a dream or vision. But it is extremely important.
Colors. I thought of my first dream. The blue fog and blue veins. Then black veins. and the purple fog. and the blue stone. I shook my head and skipped ahead of the lecture, to what colors actually meant.
Black is often connected with evil. Black things in dreams and visions can usually mean three things. 1. Evil 2. Mystery 3. Power
If you see a black object in your dream or vision, it usually means the object is one of those three things. The same goes for a person wearing black, or just plain. black surrounding you.
I looked up as Neville snored a particularly loud snore. It was way past midnight and the others were sound asleep. I looked back down to the book and skipped to blue. After reading about black, blue and purple I began to get very drowsy and nodded off to sleep, slumped over my book.
I was in the Potions dungeon, stirring a scarlet-colored potion that let off gold smoke. Looking around, the only other people in there were Amy, and Snape.
Snape was standing over Amy, yelling that her potion was too thin. "It looks exactly like yours!" She yelled back.
"Don't you dare yell at me, missy! A hundred points from-"
"You are not fit to be teacher!" Amy screamed and pointed her wand at Snape. "Homo Switchus Oryctolagus Cuniculus!" She shrieked.
There was a 'crack'! and Snape was now a shaking rabbit. It was black, brown, buff and lighter buff colored. Snape the rabbit hopped away quickly.
"Amy! You turned Snape into a rabbit!" I said.
Amy looked at me and smiled. "I think I'll be very popular now." She said.
The door flew open and Sirius ran in, dog form, chasing a rat.
Ron! Its Wormtail! Get him! Sirius yelled in my head. I pointed my wand at the rat.
"Stupefy!" And the rat fell, stunned. Sirius turned to human and picked the rat up.
"Thank you, Ron." He said and left, carrying Wormtail with him.
"Ron, your potion is bubbling over." Amy said. I looked down and saw the scarlet potion was overflowing. It spilled across the room, making everything it touched scarlet. It spread up the steps and out the door. There was a crack like lightning and I knew what had happened before I turned. You-Know-Who. I turned and indeed, he stood there. Cloaked in black and red eyes glowing. He touched his wand to the floor and the scarlet turned to green and black. "These will be the new school colors once I have taken over." He said.
Suddenly the doors burst open (I didn't realize they had closed but this was a dream. Nothing made sense in my dreams lately) and a huge golden lion came in. It was actual gold with glittering ruby eyes. It let out a roar and pounced on You-Know-Who. The lion then sprouted garnet wings and flew over to me. Knowing what it wanted, I got on its back and we flew up into the sky (the ceiling and all of Hogwarts was now gone). We flew high into the sky.
Do not worry, Ron. The gold, garnet and ruby-eyed griffin informed me. It will protect you.
"What will?" I asked as we flew into the Forbidden Forest. "Harry?" I said, seeing Harry there. He was bent over something on the ground.
"Ron, come look." He said and I walked over and looked. It was a glowing purple thing on the ground. "Its a Faerie." And when he said that, I saw the form of a teeny human in the glow. The Faerie flew in the air and hovered right in front of me. Then zipped over to Harry. Purple light surrounded Harry and he was thrown back against a tree.
"Avada Kedavra!" Came the teeny voice from the Faerie, and Harry was dead.
The griffin appeared again and ate the Faerie. That was no Faerie. The griffin informed me.
"Its a magical creature Anamagi." Hermione had appeared with her armfuls of books. And her hair was once again curly and being blown back by a wind that touched nothing else.
Yes, young scholar. The griffin said and folded its wings back. They melted in the gold and he became a lion once more. Very hard but possible for powerful witches or wizards. And with this, the lion turned to me. His form began slowly melting. gold spread on the ground and soon it was a gold puddle. Then the puddle rose up and began taking form. It was now a huge gold stone. There was a flash of white and the stone turned blue.
Ron.
It whispered.
"Ron, come on." Hermione said to me.
"Come where?"
"Back to Hogwarts. Peggy wants to talk to you." So we walked. It was barely three feet before we reached the grounds of Hogwarts. We went into one of the greenhouses where Peggy was, surrounded by huge flowers that almost reached the ceiling. The stems and leaves were emerald and the petals were pearl, ruby or sapphire.
"Peggy what do you want?" I asked.
She looked at me. "Ron. You need to think."
"Think about what?" I asked crossly.
"Just think."
And I woke up, feeling more confused then ever.
*** (Harry's point of view)
Ron got unusually more quiet and more studious over the next two days.
"Hermione you were right."
"About what?" She asked.
"Ron's sick. He must be." I said, pointing to the corner of the common room where Ron was hunched over a book.
"I can't find anything about the condition he had." Hermione said shaking her head.
I sneaked over to Ron and glanced at the title of the book he was studying. ' Interpreting Dreams'. Divination? Why on earth would Ron be studying that? "Ron?"
He must of leapt fifty feet. "Harry! Oh god don't do that?! Especially this chapter." He held up the book and I saw at the top of one page 'Nightmarish Meanings'. "Ugh, I was reading about this one dream this man had about a silver knife chopping up everything in site and the next day, when he was cooking, the cleaver slipped from his hand and." Ron didn't finish it.
"And what?"
"Let's just say he was out one child."
"UUUUUGGGGHHHH!" I said, screwing my face.
"Yes. Ugh." Ron said and turned down to the book.
"Ron, you hate Divination."
"I know." He said, flipping a page.
"So. why do you have these?" I pulled the three books from his backpack. ' A Guide To Dreams and Visions', ' Dreaming Meanings' and 'Interpreting Visions'.
"I'm. curious. You know." He said with a shrug.
"Ron." I sat down, staring at him. "are you getting visions?" He was silent at this. "The other day. in Divination. the crystal ball and the scream and the falling back. Did you see something in the crystal ball?"
"No."
"Ron your ears are red. You are lying."
"Okay, okay. Yes I saw something." He said, scowling slightly.
"And are you having dreams?" I asked, eyes falling on the book he had in his hands.
"Everyone has dreams."
"I mean. vision-dreams."
"Maybe."
"And visions? Are you having those?"
"Not yet. At least, I don't think so. I did see something in the crystal ball. And I have been having dreams that I figure are trying to tell me something." He said.
"Like.?"
"Like maybe who the Death Eater close to you is."
"Are there any clues?" I asked.
"Well. I'm beginning to." His eyes darted across the room then he leaned forward. "suspect Peggy." He whispered.
"Peggy?" I asked in confusion.
"She. in my dreams she was almost always wearing black, and in this book it says black usually means evil. And she keeps saying 'Think'. But."
"But?" I asked.
"I don't know. in my dreams Hermione is acting pretty odd, too but I don't think. you know, she's it. And." Ron hesitated.
"And what?" I asked.
"You-Know-Who has been in every single one and he's. he's either saying he's gonna kill you or. or actually killing you and-and well in the crystal ball I saw him. Or rather his eyes. They're-they're slitted and red, right?"
"Uh, yeah."
"And-and-and-well I don't know. Sirius has been in all of them too. Mostly in dog form. He usually says stuff but the first one he didn't and-well I don't know. And in two of them."
"And in two of them.?" I asked.
"Well, your parents were alive. And Remus has been in two. once in human form fighting over a chicken leg with Sirius and the other in werewolf form. A-at least I'm pretty sure that was him. The werewolf I mean."
"How many dreams have you had?" I asked.
"Five. The past five nights. the first one was the-the night you said I was glowing. The dreams are all weird. I just. it confuses me, you know? The first one I was in this dome. then the second one I was in a meadow, a picnic with everyone. The third I was in the Potions classroom, Forbidden forest then a greenhouses-and the fourth I was in the Great Hall. And-and the fifth, the one last night, I-I was back home at the Burrow."
I stared at him as he said all this then there was silence a few minutes. "Ron. that's. weird."
"I know, Harry but what can I do? I-I don't know what is going on but you know these dreams and the crystal ball and." Ron buried his face in his hands. "I think I'm actually becoming, you know. Divination-y."
"Ron." I took the book he had been reading and shut it. "why don't you just- " I picked up the other books and stacked them. 'take these back to the library and forget about it all. It might go away."
"You think?" He asked hopefully, peering at me with one eye, through his fingers. "Yeah." I said.
"Okay. man it feels good to finally tell someone." Ron said.
"Hey, what are friends for?" I asked. He smiled, took the books and left to return them.
*** (Ron's point of view)
It had been a week since I returned the books, and tried forgetting it all- and I hadn't had a weird dream since. No crystal ball gazing things in Divination and everything was back to normal. Or so I thought.