Chapter 29: The Augurey's Cry
"Well I remember learning a potion in fourth year to help people think straight," Cho continued looking through the potions book.
"Are we allowed to use a potion to help us?" Chanse asked nervously.
"Well to study I bet, but on the test I dunno." Cho quickly said, as she flipped through the pages faster.
Angelina picked up a jar and looked in it a saw a small brown mound with thick dirty brown water around it. Angelina turned the jar, around to read the label, "Armadillo...CHO THIS IS GROSS!" Angelina quickly set the jar down.
"What Angelina?" Chanse quickly asked.
"THAT'S AMADILLO BILE!" Angelina yelled.
"Found it! And shut up Angelina, it says we need it, so we have it." Cho hissed, and went back to reading the ingredients list...
"Ground scarab beetle?"
"Check." Chanse smiled.
"Cut up ginger root?"
"Well we still need to cut it up, but...Check."
"Ok Angelina go get a large cauldron, a cutting board, and two measuring goblets, while Chanse and I finish checking off the ingredients."
"Fine." Angelina sulked, as she stood up and walked out of the room.
"And last, armadillo bile?"
Chanse pushed the jar, of armadillo bile, next to the other jars, "Check."
"Great we have everything now. We just need Angelina to get back here."
"Back."
"Nice timing." Chanse laughed.
"What?"
"Never mind forget about it Angelina," Cho shook her head, and signaled Angelina to sit down, "just hand me the chopping block, measuring goblets, and cutting board."
Angelina walked over to the Cho and handed her the things and sat down, "What do you want us to do Cho?" Angelina smirked.
"Well Angelina cut up the ginger root please; cut up twenty roots to be exact." Angelina nodded, and grabbed the ginger root jar, and cutting board, and began to cut.
"Now Chanse please measure...Actually Angelina cut up sixty ginger roots."
"But I already started twenty!"
"Well add forty and then cut them all up, and add them to the cauldron."
"Fine." Angelina began to cut the roots hardly, and then laughed, and began cutting them normally.
"Ok, Chanse."
"Yeah?"
"I want you to measure," Cho's voice trailed off, "a cup and half times three," Cho whispered to herself.
"What Cho?"
"Measure four and half cups of ground scarab beetle." Chanse nodded and grabbed a goblet and the scarab beetle jar.
"And I'll measure three fourths armadillo bile." Cho said confidently.
Angelina and Chanse both stopped what they were doing and looked up at Cho, who was slowly adding the bile into one of the goblets. "How can you do that Cho?" Angelina cringed as she watched Cho measure.
"I just don't think about it." Cho shrugged.
A few minutes later Cho and Chanse were done measuring and set the goblets aside. "Hurry up Angelina." Chanse teased.
"Hey," Angelina pointed the knife at Chanse, "I'm going as fast as I can."
"I was joking there." Chanse said nervously.
"So was I." Angelina laughed, as she went back to chopping.
A couple minutes later Angelina was done, and the girls looked at the book, "What does it say Cho?"
"It's says...Once all the ingredients are ready to mix, set them aside, and add four, I mean twelve cups of water to the cauldron and heat it till it boils..."
"Can you not read Cho?" Angelina nudged Cho, "Three no twelve." Angelina said in a mocking tone.
"No I'm multiplying all the ingredients by three," Cho hissed, "stupid." Then she laughed.
"Whatever," Angelina rolled he eyes, "Back to more important things, like...how do we heat a cauldron...in here?"
"Well there's that one spell that does fire out of your wand." Chanse shook her head trying to think of what it was.
"Actually Chanse that spell shoots fire-LIGHTING out of your wand, and its incendio." Cho smirked.
"Oh well then there's lumos?"
"I think we should stick with...will lumos even heat the cauldron?" Angelina asked.
"Maybe." Cho shrugged and stuck her wand under the cauldron, "Lumos." The wand's tip began to glow.
"I doubt one wand can heat twelve goblet's worth of water." Chanse whispered to Cho, "Angelina get your wand."
Chanse turned behind herself, and grabbed her wand, as did Angelina, and they both stuck their wands under the cauldron, with Cho's wand, "Lumos." Angelina and Chanse said.
The girls stayed like this few twenty minutes, "I don't think this is going to work." Angelina pulled her wand out from underneath, "Nox." And her wand's light went out.
"I think Angelina's right." Cho pulled her wand out too, "Nox."
Chanse pulled hers out, "Nox."
The three girls sat there, on the floor, staring at the cauldron, with their wands in their laps, trying to think of a way to heat the water.
"This is just sad." Angelina threw her arms in the air.
"What?" Cho asked.
"We're all smart witches, right?"
"Yeah," Cho asked more puzzled then before, "So what?"
"We can't even think of a way to boil a damn pot of water." Angelina laughed.
"That is sad." Cho laughed.
"I THINK I KNOW HOW!" Chanse screamed.
"How?" Cho and Angelina quickly asked.
"With lumos."
"Oh I think Chanse has lost it," Cho whispered to Angelina.
"Chanse...sweetie," Angelina sweetly said, "we already tried lumos, remember?"
"Yeah, but we tried on the outside of the cauldron right?" Chanse happily said.
"I see what you're saying...instead of putting on the outside, we put it..." Cho smiled.
"In the inside." Angelina busted out.
"Exactly!" Chanse shouted, as she stuck her wand in the water, "Lumos."
Angelina and Cho followed Chanse, "Lumos."
The girls waited, with excitement, for the cauldron to start boiling. "Cho, Angelina!" Chanse shouted at the girls.
"What?" They both shouted back.
"Haven't you ever heard that rule: 'If you watch a cauldron, it will never boil'?"
"No." they both laughed.
"Well you've now heard it," Chanse leaned back, still holding onto her wand, "SO DON'T WATCH IT!" She loudly laughed.
"OK!" the two girls laughed back.
Twenty minutes past by, and the girls still hadn't gotten the cauldron to boil, "Were wasting good studying time, doing this." Cho pulled her wand out of the cauldron, "nox." She wiped off her wand, and set it down and picked up her magical creature book. "I'll find the page."
"Ok," Angelina pulled her wand out of the cauldron, too, "nox." She wiped off her wand too.
"I guess you guys are right." Chanse looked in the cauldron, and saw a few bubbles floating to the top of the water, "You guys it's starting to boil!"
Cho dropped her book, and her and Angelina looked in the cauldron and saw the tiny bubble make their way to the top. They both grabbed their wand and slid them into the cauldron, "Lumos!" the two girls shouted, with excitement.
About ten minutes later the cauldron was boiling, "YES!" Angelina screamed, as she pulled her wand out, as did Cho and Chanse. They laid their wands underneath the cauldron, and let the wands continue glowing.
"OK it says," Cho looked for her place in the book, "Ok here we are...It says, 'Once the water had come to a boil add the ingredients in...' Ok girls, add them in."
Chanse grabbed the ground scarab beetle, Angelina grabbed the cut up ginger root, and Cho grabbed the armadillo bile. They all held the ingredients up above the cauldron, and turned their wrists and all the ingredients fell into the cauldron with a big splash.
The girls turned their faces, as the ingredients fell in. "What next Cho?" Angelina asked excitedly.
"Calm down Angelina," Cho laughed, "It says, 'first slowly add the armadillo bile in and stir...'"
"Oh no." Chanse whispered.
"What happened?" Angelina whispered.
"Cho didn't read ahead and we were NOT supposed to dump all the ingredients in at the same time." Chanse looked angrily at Cho.
"Sorry." Cho whined.
"It's ok." Chanse sighed, "Some spell probably wouldn't have helped us anyways." Chanse laughed.
"Yeah." Angelina smiled.
The three girls leaned over the cauldron and then looked at each other, "What should we do with it?" Angelina asked.
"I guess we could skip the whole 'one at a time' thing and continue on with it?" Chanse suggested.
"Why not." Cho looked down in her book, and skimmed past some things, "stir gently, for fifteen minutes," Cho handed Angelina the spoon, "and then take the cauldron away from the fire, and let sit for two hours," Cho looked up at Angelina, who was stirring the mixture, gently. Then Cho looked over at Chanse.
"That's right before supper time."
"Yeah, ok, we'll take with our supper." Cho smiled and then looked back in the book, "take with food in stomach, and pour mixture in with a drink."
"Perfect." Chanse smiled.
Cho shut her book, and stood up, "Where you going Cho?" Chanse asked.
"I'm going to go get three vials for us to pour to mixture in." Cho turned around and went to go get the vials.
Fifteen minutes later, Cho came back in the room and Angelina and Chanse pulled the wands out from underneath the cauldron, "Nox."
"Good Cho you're back, we can continue studying now."
Cho walked in the room and set the three vials down by the cauldron; sat down in her chair, and picked up her book, "Ok onto studying 'Magical creatures'" Cho said in an announcer's voice.
"Shut up Cho." Angelina laughed.
"Chanse this questions for you," Cho still in her announcer's voice. Chanse nodded her head as she laughed, "What bird is believed to share the same abilities as the banshee?"
*TAP* *TAP* *TAP*
Angelina, Cho, and Chanse looked up at the window, and saw a thin greenish- black, sad-looking bird pecking at the window.
"An Augurey." Chanse whispered.
"That is correct." Cho waved her arms in the air, "Maybe you don't need this potion, after all."
Chanse smiled at Cho, and then got up and walked over to the window and let the bird in. Cho, Angelina, and Chanse watched as the bird, gracefully, flew around the room, and then landed on Oliver's pillow, next to his head. The bird looked around the room, at Chanse, Cho, and Angelina. Then it looked down at Oliver.
Cho and Angelina looked at each other and then looked at Chanse, who was staring at the bird.
There was a long moment of silence until the bird began to let out, beautiful high-pitched, sorrow-filled, cries. Cho, Angelina, and Chanse listened to the bird, which went on forever, till finally Mrs. Pomfrey walked in the room, "Girls what id going on here?"
"An Augurey came in...see its right there," Cho pointed at the green bird, which was quiet now, and staring at Mrs. Pomfrey.
"Oh my," Mrs. Pomfrey hurried over to the bird, and shooed it out the window. "Girls I think you should continue your studying in the library from now on."
Cho and Angelina looked around at each other, and began to pack up their things.
Chanse walked over to Mrs. Pomfrey and looked her dead in the eyes, "He's going to die isn't he?"
Mrs. Pomfrey looked at the open window, and then looked at Angelina and Cho who had their arms full of jars, and books, "Come on Chanse." Angelina yelled with a smile, as she walked out of the room, behind Cho.
"I'll be there in a second," Chanse laughed, and then looked back at Mrs. Pomfrey, "Is he?"
"I think you should be going." Mrs. Pomfrey whispered, as she bent her head down, not being able to look Chanse in the eyes.
Chanse looked over at Oliver, who was gasping, with all his might, for his next breath of air. Chanse closed her eyes, and took a deep breath in. She opened her eyes and looked at Oliver and then saw the Augurey sitting on the window sill, staring back at Chanse.
Chanse looked away from the bird and up at Mrs. Pomfrey, and stared at her waiting for her to look up at Chanse...she's didn't look up.
Chanse nodded her head and walked out of the room, shutting the door behind her. She rapped her arms around her stomach and stood outside the door, and took a deep breath in. She turned and walked down the hallway, with her head held high, till...
Chanse stopped half-way down the hallway when she heard the cries of the Augurey again. She half-way turned around and looked at Oliver's door, and heard Mrs. Pomfrey shooing the bird out the window once again, and slamming the window shut.
Chanse looked down at the ground, and continued walking down the hallway.
She finally reached the hospital door, and walked out into the day light, and looked around at all of Hogwarts.
She walked down the hallway, and pasted the library's doors, where she saw Angelina and Cho setting everything back up for more studying. Chanse turned away and continued walking up to the front stairs.
When she reached the stairs, she placed her hand on the railing, and looked up at the giant wooden doors of the Great Hall. She looked down at the ground, and sighed. She stood there staring at the ground in silence, as the world around her pasted her by...all she felt was emptiness inside.
"It's hard isn't?" a voice whispered from the top of the stairs.
Chanse looked up at the top of the stairs and saw Blaise standing there looking down on her, "It's hard...I know."
Blaise whispered, as she slowly walked down the stairs to Chanse, "It's hard loosing someone you love." Chanse looked at Blaise with confusion and saw that Blaise's eyes were filled with sympathy.
"Yeah," Chanse lowered her head, "It's even harder watching them become lost...and knowing that you can't do anything about it, but know that your one of the reasons they're becoming lost." Chanse whispered, holding back her tears.
"Chanse," Blaise raised Chanse's face up, and looked deep into her eyes, "It's not your fault."
"Everyone keeps telling me that, but I can't help but feel that it is."
"Why do you feel you've lost Oliver?"
"An Augurey cried for Oliver...that's how I know." Chanse looked off to the side, down the hallway to the kitchen.
Blaise stood there, in front of Chanse, speakless...not knowing how to comfort her.
The two girls stood there, on the front steps, in silence...Blaise staring past Chanse, and into the courtyard; Chanse staring down the kitchen hallway, trying to figure a way to make her world go back to normal.
They stood there till a shadow past by the side of them, "Blaise?" a deep voice screeched.
"Well I remember learning a potion in fourth year to help people think straight," Cho continued looking through the potions book.
"Are we allowed to use a potion to help us?" Chanse asked nervously.
"Well to study I bet, but on the test I dunno." Cho quickly said, as she flipped through the pages faster.
Angelina picked up a jar and looked in it a saw a small brown mound with thick dirty brown water around it. Angelina turned the jar, around to read the label, "Armadillo...CHO THIS IS GROSS!" Angelina quickly set the jar down.
"What Angelina?" Chanse quickly asked.
"THAT'S AMADILLO BILE!" Angelina yelled.
"Found it! And shut up Angelina, it says we need it, so we have it." Cho hissed, and went back to reading the ingredients list...
"Ground scarab beetle?"
"Check." Chanse smiled.
"Cut up ginger root?"
"Well we still need to cut it up, but...Check."
"Ok Angelina go get a large cauldron, a cutting board, and two measuring goblets, while Chanse and I finish checking off the ingredients."
"Fine." Angelina sulked, as she stood up and walked out of the room.
"And last, armadillo bile?"
Chanse pushed the jar, of armadillo bile, next to the other jars, "Check."
"Great we have everything now. We just need Angelina to get back here."
"Back."
"Nice timing." Chanse laughed.
"What?"
"Never mind forget about it Angelina," Cho shook her head, and signaled Angelina to sit down, "just hand me the chopping block, measuring goblets, and cutting board."
Angelina walked over to the Cho and handed her the things and sat down, "What do you want us to do Cho?" Angelina smirked.
"Well Angelina cut up the ginger root please; cut up twenty roots to be exact." Angelina nodded, and grabbed the ginger root jar, and cutting board, and began to cut.
"Now Chanse please measure...Actually Angelina cut up sixty ginger roots."
"But I already started twenty!"
"Well add forty and then cut them all up, and add them to the cauldron."
"Fine." Angelina began to cut the roots hardly, and then laughed, and began cutting them normally.
"Ok, Chanse."
"Yeah?"
"I want you to measure," Cho's voice trailed off, "a cup and half times three," Cho whispered to herself.
"What Cho?"
"Measure four and half cups of ground scarab beetle." Chanse nodded and grabbed a goblet and the scarab beetle jar.
"And I'll measure three fourths armadillo bile." Cho said confidently.
Angelina and Chanse both stopped what they were doing and looked up at Cho, who was slowly adding the bile into one of the goblets. "How can you do that Cho?" Angelina cringed as she watched Cho measure.
"I just don't think about it." Cho shrugged.
A few minutes later Cho and Chanse were done measuring and set the goblets aside. "Hurry up Angelina." Chanse teased.
"Hey," Angelina pointed the knife at Chanse, "I'm going as fast as I can."
"I was joking there." Chanse said nervously.
"So was I." Angelina laughed, as she went back to chopping.
A couple minutes later Angelina was done, and the girls looked at the book, "What does it say Cho?"
"It's says...Once all the ingredients are ready to mix, set them aside, and add four, I mean twelve cups of water to the cauldron and heat it till it boils..."
"Can you not read Cho?" Angelina nudged Cho, "Three no twelve." Angelina said in a mocking tone.
"No I'm multiplying all the ingredients by three," Cho hissed, "stupid." Then she laughed.
"Whatever," Angelina rolled he eyes, "Back to more important things, like...how do we heat a cauldron...in here?"
"Well there's that one spell that does fire out of your wand." Chanse shook her head trying to think of what it was.
"Actually Chanse that spell shoots fire-LIGHTING out of your wand, and its incendio." Cho smirked.
"Oh well then there's lumos?"
"I think we should stick with...will lumos even heat the cauldron?" Angelina asked.
"Maybe." Cho shrugged and stuck her wand under the cauldron, "Lumos." The wand's tip began to glow.
"I doubt one wand can heat twelve goblet's worth of water." Chanse whispered to Cho, "Angelina get your wand."
Chanse turned behind herself, and grabbed her wand, as did Angelina, and they both stuck their wands under the cauldron, with Cho's wand, "Lumos." Angelina and Chanse said.
The girls stayed like this few twenty minutes, "I don't think this is going to work." Angelina pulled her wand out from underneath, "Nox." And her wand's light went out.
"I think Angelina's right." Cho pulled her wand out too, "Nox."
Chanse pulled hers out, "Nox."
The three girls sat there, on the floor, staring at the cauldron, with their wands in their laps, trying to think of a way to heat the water.
"This is just sad." Angelina threw her arms in the air.
"What?" Cho asked.
"We're all smart witches, right?"
"Yeah," Cho asked more puzzled then before, "So what?"
"We can't even think of a way to boil a damn pot of water." Angelina laughed.
"That is sad." Cho laughed.
"I THINK I KNOW HOW!" Chanse screamed.
"How?" Cho and Angelina quickly asked.
"With lumos."
"Oh I think Chanse has lost it," Cho whispered to Angelina.
"Chanse...sweetie," Angelina sweetly said, "we already tried lumos, remember?"
"Yeah, but we tried on the outside of the cauldron right?" Chanse happily said.
"I see what you're saying...instead of putting on the outside, we put it..." Cho smiled.
"In the inside." Angelina busted out.
"Exactly!" Chanse shouted, as she stuck her wand in the water, "Lumos."
Angelina and Cho followed Chanse, "Lumos."
The girls waited, with excitement, for the cauldron to start boiling. "Cho, Angelina!" Chanse shouted at the girls.
"What?" They both shouted back.
"Haven't you ever heard that rule: 'If you watch a cauldron, it will never boil'?"
"No." they both laughed.
"Well you've now heard it," Chanse leaned back, still holding onto her wand, "SO DON'T WATCH IT!" She loudly laughed.
"OK!" the two girls laughed back.
Twenty minutes past by, and the girls still hadn't gotten the cauldron to boil, "Were wasting good studying time, doing this." Cho pulled her wand out of the cauldron, "nox." She wiped off her wand, and set it down and picked up her magical creature book. "I'll find the page."
"Ok," Angelina pulled her wand out of the cauldron, too, "nox." She wiped off her wand too.
"I guess you guys are right." Chanse looked in the cauldron, and saw a few bubbles floating to the top of the water, "You guys it's starting to boil!"
Cho dropped her book, and her and Angelina looked in the cauldron and saw the tiny bubble make their way to the top. They both grabbed their wand and slid them into the cauldron, "Lumos!" the two girls shouted, with excitement.
About ten minutes later the cauldron was boiling, "YES!" Angelina screamed, as she pulled her wand out, as did Cho and Chanse. They laid their wands underneath the cauldron, and let the wands continue glowing.
"OK it says," Cho looked for her place in the book, "Ok here we are...It says, 'Once the water had come to a boil add the ingredients in...' Ok girls, add them in."
Chanse grabbed the ground scarab beetle, Angelina grabbed the cut up ginger root, and Cho grabbed the armadillo bile. They all held the ingredients up above the cauldron, and turned their wrists and all the ingredients fell into the cauldron with a big splash.
The girls turned their faces, as the ingredients fell in. "What next Cho?" Angelina asked excitedly.
"Calm down Angelina," Cho laughed, "It says, 'first slowly add the armadillo bile in and stir...'"
"Oh no." Chanse whispered.
"What happened?" Angelina whispered.
"Cho didn't read ahead and we were NOT supposed to dump all the ingredients in at the same time." Chanse looked angrily at Cho.
"Sorry." Cho whined.
"It's ok." Chanse sighed, "Some spell probably wouldn't have helped us anyways." Chanse laughed.
"Yeah." Angelina smiled.
The three girls leaned over the cauldron and then looked at each other, "What should we do with it?" Angelina asked.
"I guess we could skip the whole 'one at a time' thing and continue on with it?" Chanse suggested.
"Why not." Cho looked down in her book, and skimmed past some things, "stir gently, for fifteen minutes," Cho handed Angelina the spoon, "and then take the cauldron away from the fire, and let sit for two hours," Cho looked up at Angelina, who was stirring the mixture, gently. Then Cho looked over at Chanse.
"That's right before supper time."
"Yeah, ok, we'll take with our supper." Cho smiled and then looked back in the book, "take with food in stomach, and pour mixture in with a drink."
"Perfect." Chanse smiled.
Cho shut her book, and stood up, "Where you going Cho?" Chanse asked.
"I'm going to go get three vials for us to pour to mixture in." Cho turned around and went to go get the vials.
Fifteen minutes later, Cho came back in the room and Angelina and Chanse pulled the wands out from underneath the cauldron, "Nox."
"Good Cho you're back, we can continue studying now."
Cho walked in the room and set the three vials down by the cauldron; sat down in her chair, and picked up her book, "Ok onto studying 'Magical creatures'" Cho said in an announcer's voice.
"Shut up Cho." Angelina laughed.
"Chanse this questions for you," Cho still in her announcer's voice. Chanse nodded her head as she laughed, "What bird is believed to share the same abilities as the banshee?"
*TAP* *TAP* *TAP*
Angelina, Cho, and Chanse looked up at the window, and saw a thin greenish- black, sad-looking bird pecking at the window.
"An Augurey." Chanse whispered.
"That is correct." Cho waved her arms in the air, "Maybe you don't need this potion, after all."
Chanse smiled at Cho, and then got up and walked over to the window and let the bird in. Cho, Angelina, and Chanse watched as the bird, gracefully, flew around the room, and then landed on Oliver's pillow, next to his head. The bird looked around the room, at Chanse, Cho, and Angelina. Then it looked down at Oliver.
Cho and Angelina looked at each other and then looked at Chanse, who was staring at the bird.
There was a long moment of silence until the bird began to let out, beautiful high-pitched, sorrow-filled, cries. Cho, Angelina, and Chanse listened to the bird, which went on forever, till finally Mrs. Pomfrey walked in the room, "Girls what id going on here?"
"An Augurey came in...see its right there," Cho pointed at the green bird, which was quiet now, and staring at Mrs. Pomfrey.
"Oh my," Mrs. Pomfrey hurried over to the bird, and shooed it out the window. "Girls I think you should continue your studying in the library from now on."
Cho and Angelina looked around at each other, and began to pack up their things.
Chanse walked over to Mrs. Pomfrey and looked her dead in the eyes, "He's going to die isn't he?"
Mrs. Pomfrey looked at the open window, and then looked at Angelina and Cho who had their arms full of jars, and books, "Come on Chanse." Angelina yelled with a smile, as she walked out of the room, behind Cho.
"I'll be there in a second," Chanse laughed, and then looked back at Mrs. Pomfrey, "Is he?"
"I think you should be going." Mrs. Pomfrey whispered, as she bent her head down, not being able to look Chanse in the eyes.
Chanse looked over at Oliver, who was gasping, with all his might, for his next breath of air. Chanse closed her eyes, and took a deep breath in. She opened her eyes and looked at Oliver and then saw the Augurey sitting on the window sill, staring back at Chanse.
Chanse looked away from the bird and up at Mrs. Pomfrey, and stared at her waiting for her to look up at Chanse...she's didn't look up.
Chanse nodded her head and walked out of the room, shutting the door behind her. She rapped her arms around her stomach and stood outside the door, and took a deep breath in. She turned and walked down the hallway, with her head held high, till...
Chanse stopped half-way down the hallway when she heard the cries of the Augurey again. She half-way turned around and looked at Oliver's door, and heard Mrs. Pomfrey shooing the bird out the window once again, and slamming the window shut.
Chanse looked down at the ground, and continued walking down the hallway.
She finally reached the hospital door, and walked out into the day light, and looked around at all of Hogwarts.
She walked down the hallway, and pasted the library's doors, where she saw Angelina and Cho setting everything back up for more studying. Chanse turned away and continued walking up to the front stairs.
When she reached the stairs, she placed her hand on the railing, and looked up at the giant wooden doors of the Great Hall. She looked down at the ground, and sighed. She stood there staring at the ground in silence, as the world around her pasted her by...all she felt was emptiness inside.
"It's hard isn't?" a voice whispered from the top of the stairs.
Chanse looked up at the top of the stairs and saw Blaise standing there looking down on her, "It's hard...I know."
Blaise whispered, as she slowly walked down the stairs to Chanse, "It's hard loosing someone you love." Chanse looked at Blaise with confusion and saw that Blaise's eyes were filled with sympathy.
"Yeah," Chanse lowered her head, "It's even harder watching them become lost...and knowing that you can't do anything about it, but know that your one of the reasons they're becoming lost." Chanse whispered, holding back her tears.
"Chanse," Blaise raised Chanse's face up, and looked deep into her eyes, "It's not your fault."
"Everyone keeps telling me that, but I can't help but feel that it is."
"Why do you feel you've lost Oliver?"
"An Augurey cried for Oliver...that's how I know." Chanse looked off to the side, down the hallway to the kitchen.
Blaise stood there, in front of Chanse, speakless...not knowing how to comfort her.
The two girls stood there, on the front steps, in silence...Blaise staring past Chanse, and into the courtyard; Chanse staring down the kitchen hallway, trying to figure a way to make her world go back to normal.
They stood there till a shadow past by the side of them, "Blaise?" a deep voice screeched.