Prologue - Trelawney's First Prediction
Everyone has heard about Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived from You-Know- Who's attack. There are always two sides to a coin. It's just that most people only hear one side of the story.
* * * Mid-August 1981
Professor Trelawney rushed into Headmaster Dumbledore's office. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was preparing to have students arrive.
"Albus!" She said panting as she flew open his door.
"Yes Sibyll?" Professor Dumbledore stood up from behind his desk, looking very concerned for the Divination teacher.
"I had the most horrible premonition! I think it might just be true!"
He motioned her to sit down. Again he took his seat behind his desk. "Tell me," he said very calmly.
"It was horrible! I was just sitting, having some tea when it came to me," said Trelawney. "I saw two families being destroyed, Albus, two families of our brightest students!" She was on the verge of tears. "I saw-saw, You- Know-Who, go to a home."
"Who's home?" asked Dumbledore.
"The Rastaban's I'm afraid," she confessed.
Dumbledore paused for a moment. David and Julie Rastaban had graduated from Hogwarts not that long ago. They couple were very talented. He knew Julie very well. She was his nephew's goddaughter. Julie had been a school prefect. David had been Keeper for a school Quidditch team and had played on the Puddlemere United team right after he left Hogwarts. Both had been in Gryffindor house. They had a daughter who was a year old.
"Albus?" she asked, looking concerned. He looked up and nodded for her to continue. She sighed heavily. "As I said, I saw him go to the Rastaban's home and ... and kill David and Julie." Tears slowly fell down her face. "It was awful!"
He got up and went around his desk and put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. This was horrible. Dumbledore could hear Trelawney try and to take in deep breathes to calm herself down. "Is there more?"
She nodded her head. "Then I saw him murder - oh the evil man! He murdered Lily and James! He got them too!" Trelawney proceed to sob.
Lily and James Potter were also from Hogwarts and Gryffindor house. They had graduated with David and Julie. Lily had been Head Girl. James had been a chaser for Gryffindor. He had also been leader of a group of four boys that were his best friends. Like the Rastabans they had been married after Hogwarts and were very talented. They had child also, a one-year-old son.
Both couples were loyal to Dumbledore against Voldemort.
"We'll just have to protect them somehow," said Dumbledore.
"How can you? I don't know when it will happen. The future cannot be change Albus," protested Trelawney.
"We'll do our best then to protect them till the time comes. I'll contact the Potters and Rastabans and warn them. This is very terrible. Your prediction didn't tell you why he did it? No, I suppose it didn't."
There was silence in Dumbledore's office as he wrote letters to the two couples, except for Trelawney, who started to sob a few times.
Trelawney was going to say something more when Professor McGonagall came in.
Everyone has heard about Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived from You-Know- Who's attack. There are always two sides to a coin. It's just that most people only hear one side of the story.
* * * Mid-August 1981
Professor Trelawney rushed into Headmaster Dumbledore's office. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was preparing to have students arrive.
"Albus!" She said panting as she flew open his door.
"Yes Sibyll?" Professor Dumbledore stood up from behind his desk, looking very concerned for the Divination teacher.
"I had the most horrible premonition! I think it might just be true!"
He motioned her to sit down. Again he took his seat behind his desk. "Tell me," he said very calmly.
"It was horrible! I was just sitting, having some tea when it came to me," said Trelawney. "I saw two families being destroyed, Albus, two families of our brightest students!" She was on the verge of tears. "I saw-saw, You- Know-Who, go to a home."
"Who's home?" asked Dumbledore.
"The Rastaban's I'm afraid," she confessed.
Dumbledore paused for a moment. David and Julie Rastaban had graduated from Hogwarts not that long ago. They couple were very talented. He knew Julie very well. She was his nephew's goddaughter. Julie had been a school prefect. David had been Keeper for a school Quidditch team and had played on the Puddlemere United team right after he left Hogwarts. Both had been in Gryffindor house. They had a daughter who was a year old.
"Albus?" she asked, looking concerned. He looked up and nodded for her to continue. She sighed heavily. "As I said, I saw him go to the Rastaban's home and ... and kill David and Julie." Tears slowly fell down her face. "It was awful!"
He got up and went around his desk and put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. This was horrible. Dumbledore could hear Trelawney try and to take in deep breathes to calm herself down. "Is there more?"
She nodded her head. "Then I saw him murder - oh the evil man! He murdered Lily and James! He got them too!" Trelawney proceed to sob.
Lily and James Potter were also from Hogwarts and Gryffindor house. They had graduated with David and Julie. Lily had been Head Girl. James had been a chaser for Gryffindor. He had also been leader of a group of four boys that were his best friends. Like the Rastabans they had been married after Hogwarts and were very talented. They had child also, a one-year-old son.
Both couples were loyal to Dumbledore against Voldemort.
"We'll just have to protect them somehow," said Dumbledore.
"How can you? I don't know when it will happen. The future cannot be change Albus," protested Trelawney.
"We'll do our best then to protect them till the time comes. I'll contact the Potters and Rastabans and warn them. This is very terrible. Your prediction didn't tell you why he did it? No, I suppose it didn't."
There was silence in Dumbledore's office as he wrote letters to the two couples, except for Trelawney, who started to sob a few times.
Trelawney was going to say something more when Professor McGonagall came in.