Visions of the End
~Chapter 1~
Disclaimers: I don't own anything blah blah blah it's always the same!!!
A/N: I hope you liked the last chapter. this is where everything begins. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Great Hall was buzzing with excitement as the 1st years were being sorted into their new houses. Everyone waited patiently for the sorting to be over so they could eat. The sorting was finished and the room went silent when Dumbledore stood from the faculty table.
"Welcome to Hogwarts and for those of you returning welcome back. I hope the summer treated you well. On to business, as usual, the Forbidden Forest is once again for limits unless told other wise, also the 3rd corridor on the 3rd floor is also off limits to all of those who do not wish to suffer sever consequences. On to more eventful news I would now like to present to you the house perfects and the Head Girl and Boy." The hall was once again filled with chatter, speculating on who would be Head Boy and Girl, but quickly died down when Dumbledore cleared his throat.
"The house perfects are as follows: for Gryffindor, Hermione Granger," every house cheered and clapped for her as she made her way to the faculty table, every house except Slytherin of course. Dumbledore continued with his speech," for Ravenclaw, Danny Tomas, for Slytherin, Draco Malfoy and for Hufflepuff, Clarissa Welch." They all stood and made their way to the faculty table, each of them smiling as they heard their house cheer them on. " And now for Head Boy, Camron Switch of Ravenclaw, and for Head Girl, Samantha Unis of Slytherin." Both houses once again cheered for their fellow piers while others booed and moaned as they made their way to the head table. After a brief meeting with Dumbledore they all proceed to take their seats and for the last time, Dumbledore cleared his throat and the room fell silent again, "Now that that's all taken care of, Let the feast begin!" The food appeared on the tables and everyone dug in making sure they got the most out of the meal.
The feast was pretty much uneventful, excepts when Neville Longbottom spilled pumpkin juice all over Hermione but other then that the feast went without a hitch. The houses started to file out of the hall were lead to the common rooms by the house perfects, once that was taken care of, the Head Boy and Girl showed the perfects where there new courtiers will be for the next year. The perfects were lead down a tiny hallway that no one knew existed but soon came to their destination. They were lead in front of a portrait of a knight on a beautiful white horse.
"This will be your living courtiers for the next year..."Samantha continued, " If you ever need anything, our courtiers are down the hall with a portrait of little girl in a meadow. Just tell her that you're a house perfect...." Camron took over "... your new password is `Fire Breather'. If you ever want to change it just come and see one of us. You will see all of your belongings are in your rooms. I guess that's it..."and Samantha ended, " Oh, by the way, there is a perfect's meeting Thursday morning before breakfast we just need go over some one the responsibilities, now you may go and see your new rooms." With that, Camron and Samantha left the perfects to explore the common room.
The common room was in the form of a circle, decorated with the house colors: red, green, yellow, and blue. There was a large seating area with couches and pillows and a beautiful oak table with each of the house crest carved into the table, by the warm, inviting fire. In the back of the room was a mini library with another oak table. There was a portrait of chubby little boy chasing after his puppy on a wall which lead to the perfects' bathroom. On each side there was a staircase leading up to two different rooms. One staircase lead to the rooms of Ravenclaw and Slytherin and the other lead to Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. The rooms had the same layout but with the house colors as decoration. In the middle of the room was a huge four-poster bed with silk linens and see through curtains, there was a balcony and a desk next to a bookshelf. There was a gorgeous oak wardrobe that had the house crest carved in the middle, and the carpet had the house crest imprinted on it too.
"This is better then I imaged," Hermione squealed in delight.
"Yeah, it's wonderful," Clarissa screamed, overwhelmed by the size for her bed. She walked over to Hermione's side of the hall and into her room.
Hermione, over-joyed at the size of her bookcase, turned to hug Clarissa, "This is going to be great"
"Yeah....it will be...as soon as I can breathe," Clarissa replied, gasping for air.
"Oh, sorry about that,"
"It's fine. Come on lets go and check out the common room again." With that the two girls ran down the stairs and plopped themselves on one of the comfortable couch. Danny was already there, finishing up some homework he had over the summer. "So what do you think of your room, Danny" Clarissa inquired.
To caught up in his work, he murmured a quick, "It's fine," and continued to work.
"Well if you ask me, I've seen better." Everyone turn to see Draco walking down the staircase. He had changed over the years, he stop slicking back his hair and let it fall naturally across his eyes. His cold, dull, gray eyes were now a cloudy blue and he didn't hide his emotions anymore, you could all ways tell what he was feeling through his eyes. He wasn't a scrawny little thing anymore, his shoulders were broader and he was toned, from him abs to his legs, quidditch did wonders for him over the years.
"Well no one asked you now did they," Clarissa sneered back.
"I thought Hufflepuffs were the quiet ones, the stupid ones," he said in a matter-of-fact voice. His smirk made an involuntary shiver shoot up her spine. She just started at him, trying to think of a comeback.
"Well I'm not," was all she could manage to say.
"Well your not too quick, now are you?"
"Stop it you two. Lets not start of the year on a bad note. Draco, Clarissa." Hermione sounded as if she was the mother of two arguing children, trying to resolve the argument.
"Yes mother," Draco replied with a smile. His smile made Clarissa weak in the knees, {Thank Merlin I'm sitting down or I would have just made a huge ass of myself. Now I see why all the girls swoon over him, he's perfect in a sort of bratty way.} Hermione sweetly smiled and started a conversation with Danny about his summer and offered to help him with is homework.
"So your Clarissa Welch, the so-called seer. Well I am..." Draco was cut off.
"Yes I know who you are, you're Draco Malfoy, mudblood-hater, the only son of Lucius Malfoy, the loyal servant of Voldermont, the one who killed my parents." Draco was caught off guard, so was Hermione and Danny, who was listing to the conversation.
"I'm...I didn't mean....I," For once, Draco was a loss for words
"It's fine, really, it was a while ago I'm over it. I really am."
"Were your parents muggles," Draco spurted out
"Draco...come on I don't think that she want to talk about..." Hermione said once again in a motherly sort of way.
"I don't mind really...yes they were muggles. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time that's all. I was really young when it happened, I was just about 4. But now I live with my grandparents. I don't really remember them anyway."
"I'm sorry. I really am."
"It's fine Hermione. Don't worry about it."
"Okay...but I think Draco should apologize, he shouldn't of said anything to begin with."
"Hey she said she was fine with it..." Hermione whipped her head back at him giving him a sort of death glare. "Yeah er...sorry."
"It's fine..."
"Think I'm going to turn in," Hermione yawned.
"Uh...yeah me two," Danny replied. The two said their good-nights and walked up the staircase to their rooms. They left Draco and Clarissa, alone in the common room. It was quiet for a while before Draco spoke up.
"I'm not a mudblood-hater you know. If I was I wouldn't be here talking to you. My father brought me up that way. I never really followed him."
"That's always good to know... I really am seer you know. Give me your hand and I can prove it to you."
"Sure, fine. I'm up for a little entertainment." Draco held out his hand, and Clarissa grasped it in one hand and letting her finger trace over the palm of his hand. Draco stared at her, getting goosebumps when he felt her finger lightly trace the lines in his palms.
"Hmmm...well from what I can tell...it seems that you'll being going through a major battle...and you'll win and lose," she said still tracing the lines in his palms.
"Win and lose? Anyone could make that up. How do I know that you're telling the truth?" He snorted.
"We'll just have to see, now wont we?"
"Yeah whatever. I'm going to bed are you going to stay here?"
"Yeah I think I am, maybe ill read a book or something."
"Suit yourself. Night."
"Good-Night." Clarissa waved at him as he walked up the staircase. She sat on the couch, staring into the fire. It was nearly 11 before she decided to go to bed but when she stood, it felt as if a ton of bricks hit her. She fell to the floor with a loud, "thud".
{What the hell...what was that} Draco thought as he heard something crash to the floor. He quickly jumped out of bed and walked down the staircase to see what he thought was an unconscious Clarissa on the floor. Panicking, he rushed to her side and picked her up, putting his ear close to her mouth to see if she was breathing. By this time Hermione and Danny had rushed out of their rooms to see what the commotion was. {Good she's still breathing} he thought. Clarissa's eyes fluttered open and she nearly screamed but after releasing what happened, she whispered into Draco's ear, "Please put me down." Startled, he dropped her. "Oh...Sorry," he said in an innocent tone
"Fine...I'm fine... We need to go and see the headmaster right now."
"Why...what happened...why did you pass out," Danny inquired.
"There's no time for me to explain right now, but I have to see Professor Dumbledore right away." She picked herself off the floor and walked towards the portrait hole, "Well, are you guys coming or what?" They look at each other before nodding and following Clarissa out the portrait hole.
It was 20 minutes to midnight and well past curfew when the got to Dumbledore's office, "Lemon drops," Clarissa yelled as she was running through the halls to the staircase leading up to Dumbledore's office. The door swung open and before Clarissa could say anything, Dumbledore stood from behind his desk and spoke "I know Miss Welch, I know. Come, take a seat." She did as she was told and took a seat in front of Dumbledore as the other three perfects burst through the door.
"I want...an explan....explanation and...I want it now," Hermione said as she was catching her breathe.
"Of course Miss Granger, please all of you, have a seat," Dumbledore replied as he conjured up some chairs for the other students to sit in. "So Miss Welch, tell me what your saw in your vision."
"Wait a minute here, you have visions," Draco interrupted.
"Shut up Draco and let her talk," Danny shot back at him, "Please Clarissa go on." Draco shot him a glance but soon all of his attention was on Clarissa as she began to speak.
"I've been having the same one over and over again Professor. Each time it gets more detailed, it gets harder for me to control them...well anyway, I see him, Voldermont with this knife, I don't know what it looks like but its not a normal knife, and then he cuts himself and starts to bleed into this fire and then it turns green. Then he chants something I don't understand, but then he says 'Let the revolution begin!' very clearly. Are my visions right Professor? Is Voldermont planing a revolution?"
"I'm afraid so Miss Welch. I too have been seeing this for awhile now. The Professors and I have been talking it over, he's getting stronger everyday and I'm afraid I don't know when he's going to attack."
Hermione, Danny and Draco were taken back at what they just heard, "He's coming back, how can this be," Draco inquired.
"I'm not sure but the staff and I will do everything in our power to keep you all safe."
"I want to help Professor, I'm sure Harry, Ron and I can find something that will bring Voldermont down," Hermione offered.
"Of course you can help, but I do not want a word of this going around the school not unit I'm sure the school can handle it, is this clear?" Dumbledore's normal twinkling blue eyes, were now cloudy and unreadable. The four of them nodded in agreement. "Great. Now the four of you, off to you rooms, oh and Miss Welch, if you see anything new, please come and see me as soon as possible."
"Of course Headmaster."
"Good, now off with you. You all have classes tomorrow." With a sigh, they all left the office of the Headmaster and walked toward their common room. "Are your visions always that bad, to the point where you pass out, " Hermione questioned Clarissa.
"No, but lately they are like that, sometimes worst. I'm afraid that something horrible is going to happen, something we're not prepared for." The rest of the walk to the common room was quiet. When they reached the common room, the boys went their separate ways and the same with the girls. "Good-night Hermione."
"Good-night Clarissa, sleep well." Clarissa nodded and walked into her room and plopped on the bed. {Something is going to happen and I'M afraid that I won't be prepared for it} kept repeating in her head before she fell asleep. Her dreams were filled with her vision, horrifying her. Sleep did not come easy that night, not at all.
TBC****************
A/N: I know that chapter was long but I need to do it so I can explain some things, ill make sure that the next one is shorter okay. Review okay thanks luv ya.
Krissi
~Chapter 1~
Disclaimers: I don't own anything blah blah blah it's always the same!!!
A/N: I hope you liked the last chapter. this is where everything begins. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Great Hall was buzzing with excitement as the 1st years were being sorted into their new houses. Everyone waited patiently for the sorting to be over so they could eat. The sorting was finished and the room went silent when Dumbledore stood from the faculty table.
"Welcome to Hogwarts and for those of you returning welcome back. I hope the summer treated you well. On to business, as usual, the Forbidden Forest is once again for limits unless told other wise, also the 3rd corridor on the 3rd floor is also off limits to all of those who do not wish to suffer sever consequences. On to more eventful news I would now like to present to you the house perfects and the Head Girl and Boy." The hall was once again filled with chatter, speculating on who would be Head Boy and Girl, but quickly died down when Dumbledore cleared his throat.
"The house perfects are as follows: for Gryffindor, Hermione Granger," every house cheered and clapped for her as she made her way to the faculty table, every house except Slytherin of course. Dumbledore continued with his speech," for Ravenclaw, Danny Tomas, for Slytherin, Draco Malfoy and for Hufflepuff, Clarissa Welch." They all stood and made their way to the faculty table, each of them smiling as they heard their house cheer them on. " And now for Head Boy, Camron Switch of Ravenclaw, and for Head Girl, Samantha Unis of Slytherin." Both houses once again cheered for their fellow piers while others booed and moaned as they made their way to the head table. After a brief meeting with Dumbledore they all proceed to take their seats and for the last time, Dumbledore cleared his throat and the room fell silent again, "Now that that's all taken care of, Let the feast begin!" The food appeared on the tables and everyone dug in making sure they got the most out of the meal.
The feast was pretty much uneventful, excepts when Neville Longbottom spilled pumpkin juice all over Hermione but other then that the feast went without a hitch. The houses started to file out of the hall were lead to the common rooms by the house perfects, once that was taken care of, the Head Boy and Girl showed the perfects where there new courtiers will be for the next year. The perfects were lead down a tiny hallway that no one knew existed but soon came to their destination. They were lead in front of a portrait of a knight on a beautiful white horse.
"This will be your living courtiers for the next year..."Samantha continued, " If you ever need anything, our courtiers are down the hall with a portrait of little girl in a meadow. Just tell her that you're a house perfect...." Camron took over "... your new password is `Fire Breather'. If you ever want to change it just come and see one of us. You will see all of your belongings are in your rooms. I guess that's it..."and Samantha ended, " Oh, by the way, there is a perfect's meeting Thursday morning before breakfast we just need go over some one the responsibilities, now you may go and see your new rooms." With that, Camron and Samantha left the perfects to explore the common room.
The common room was in the form of a circle, decorated with the house colors: red, green, yellow, and blue. There was a large seating area with couches and pillows and a beautiful oak table with each of the house crest carved into the table, by the warm, inviting fire. In the back of the room was a mini library with another oak table. There was a portrait of chubby little boy chasing after his puppy on a wall which lead to the perfects' bathroom. On each side there was a staircase leading up to two different rooms. One staircase lead to the rooms of Ravenclaw and Slytherin and the other lead to Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. The rooms had the same layout but with the house colors as decoration. In the middle of the room was a huge four-poster bed with silk linens and see through curtains, there was a balcony and a desk next to a bookshelf. There was a gorgeous oak wardrobe that had the house crest carved in the middle, and the carpet had the house crest imprinted on it too.
"This is better then I imaged," Hermione squealed in delight.
"Yeah, it's wonderful," Clarissa screamed, overwhelmed by the size for her bed. She walked over to Hermione's side of the hall and into her room.
Hermione, over-joyed at the size of her bookcase, turned to hug Clarissa, "This is going to be great"
"Yeah....it will be...as soon as I can breathe," Clarissa replied, gasping for air.
"Oh, sorry about that,"
"It's fine. Come on lets go and check out the common room again." With that the two girls ran down the stairs and plopped themselves on one of the comfortable couch. Danny was already there, finishing up some homework he had over the summer. "So what do you think of your room, Danny" Clarissa inquired.
To caught up in his work, he murmured a quick, "It's fine," and continued to work.
"Well if you ask me, I've seen better." Everyone turn to see Draco walking down the staircase. He had changed over the years, he stop slicking back his hair and let it fall naturally across his eyes. His cold, dull, gray eyes were now a cloudy blue and he didn't hide his emotions anymore, you could all ways tell what he was feeling through his eyes. He wasn't a scrawny little thing anymore, his shoulders were broader and he was toned, from him abs to his legs, quidditch did wonders for him over the years.
"Well no one asked you now did they," Clarissa sneered back.
"I thought Hufflepuffs were the quiet ones, the stupid ones," he said in a matter-of-fact voice. His smirk made an involuntary shiver shoot up her spine. She just started at him, trying to think of a comeback.
"Well I'm not," was all she could manage to say.
"Well your not too quick, now are you?"
"Stop it you two. Lets not start of the year on a bad note. Draco, Clarissa." Hermione sounded as if she was the mother of two arguing children, trying to resolve the argument.
"Yes mother," Draco replied with a smile. His smile made Clarissa weak in the knees, {Thank Merlin I'm sitting down or I would have just made a huge ass of myself. Now I see why all the girls swoon over him, he's perfect in a sort of bratty way.} Hermione sweetly smiled and started a conversation with Danny about his summer and offered to help him with is homework.
"So your Clarissa Welch, the so-called seer. Well I am..." Draco was cut off.
"Yes I know who you are, you're Draco Malfoy, mudblood-hater, the only son of Lucius Malfoy, the loyal servant of Voldermont, the one who killed my parents." Draco was caught off guard, so was Hermione and Danny, who was listing to the conversation.
"I'm...I didn't mean....I," For once, Draco was a loss for words
"It's fine, really, it was a while ago I'm over it. I really am."
"Were your parents muggles," Draco spurted out
"Draco...come on I don't think that she want to talk about..." Hermione said once again in a motherly sort of way.
"I don't mind really...yes they were muggles. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time that's all. I was really young when it happened, I was just about 4. But now I live with my grandparents. I don't really remember them anyway."
"I'm sorry. I really am."
"It's fine Hermione. Don't worry about it."
"Okay...but I think Draco should apologize, he shouldn't of said anything to begin with."
"Hey she said she was fine with it..." Hermione whipped her head back at him giving him a sort of death glare. "Yeah er...sorry."
"It's fine..."
"Think I'm going to turn in," Hermione yawned.
"Uh...yeah me two," Danny replied. The two said their good-nights and walked up the staircase to their rooms. They left Draco and Clarissa, alone in the common room. It was quiet for a while before Draco spoke up.
"I'm not a mudblood-hater you know. If I was I wouldn't be here talking to you. My father brought me up that way. I never really followed him."
"That's always good to know... I really am seer you know. Give me your hand and I can prove it to you."
"Sure, fine. I'm up for a little entertainment." Draco held out his hand, and Clarissa grasped it in one hand and letting her finger trace over the palm of his hand. Draco stared at her, getting goosebumps when he felt her finger lightly trace the lines in his palms.
"Hmmm...well from what I can tell...it seems that you'll being going through a major battle...and you'll win and lose," she said still tracing the lines in his palms.
"Win and lose? Anyone could make that up. How do I know that you're telling the truth?" He snorted.
"We'll just have to see, now wont we?"
"Yeah whatever. I'm going to bed are you going to stay here?"
"Yeah I think I am, maybe ill read a book or something."
"Suit yourself. Night."
"Good-Night." Clarissa waved at him as he walked up the staircase. She sat on the couch, staring into the fire. It was nearly 11 before she decided to go to bed but when she stood, it felt as if a ton of bricks hit her. She fell to the floor with a loud, "thud".
{What the hell...what was that} Draco thought as he heard something crash to the floor. He quickly jumped out of bed and walked down the staircase to see what he thought was an unconscious Clarissa on the floor. Panicking, he rushed to her side and picked her up, putting his ear close to her mouth to see if she was breathing. By this time Hermione and Danny had rushed out of their rooms to see what the commotion was. {Good she's still breathing} he thought. Clarissa's eyes fluttered open and she nearly screamed but after releasing what happened, she whispered into Draco's ear, "Please put me down." Startled, he dropped her. "Oh...Sorry," he said in an innocent tone
"Fine...I'm fine... We need to go and see the headmaster right now."
"Why...what happened...why did you pass out," Danny inquired.
"There's no time for me to explain right now, but I have to see Professor Dumbledore right away." She picked herself off the floor and walked towards the portrait hole, "Well, are you guys coming or what?" They look at each other before nodding and following Clarissa out the portrait hole.
It was 20 minutes to midnight and well past curfew when the got to Dumbledore's office, "Lemon drops," Clarissa yelled as she was running through the halls to the staircase leading up to Dumbledore's office. The door swung open and before Clarissa could say anything, Dumbledore stood from behind his desk and spoke "I know Miss Welch, I know. Come, take a seat." She did as she was told and took a seat in front of Dumbledore as the other three perfects burst through the door.
"I want...an explan....explanation and...I want it now," Hermione said as she was catching her breathe.
"Of course Miss Granger, please all of you, have a seat," Dumbledore replied as he conjured up some chairs for the other students to sit in. "So Miss Welch, tell me what your saw in your vision."
"Wait a minute here, you have visions," Draco interrupted.
"Shut up Draco and let her talk," Danny shot back at him, "Please Clarissa go on." Draco shot him a glance but soon all of his attention was on Clarissa as she began to speak.
"I've been having the same one over and over again Professor. Each time it gets more detailed, it gets harder for me to control them...well anyway, I see him, Voldermont with this knife, I don't know what it looks like but its not a normal knife, and then he cuts himself and starts to bleed into this fire and then it turns green. Then he chants something I don't understand, but then he says 'Let the revolution begin!' very clearly. Are my visions right Professor? Is Voldermont planing a revolution?"
"I'm afraid so Miss Welch. I too have been seeing this for awhile now. The Professors and I have been talking it over, he's getting stronger everyday and I'm afraid I don't know when he's going to attack."
Hermione, Danny and Draco were taken back at what they just heard, "He's coming back, how can this be," Draco inquired.
"I'm not sure but the staff and I will do everything in our power to keep you all safe."
"I want to help Professor, I'm sure Harry, Ron and I can find something that will bring Voldermont down," Hermione offered.
"Of course you can help, but I do not want a word of this going around the school not unit I'm sure the school can handle it, is this clear?" Dumbledore's normal twinkling blue eyes, were now cloudy and unreadable. The four of them nodded in agreement. "Great. Now the four of you, off to you rooms, oh and Miss Welch, if you see anything new, please come and see me as soon as possible."
"Of course Headmaster."
"Good, now off with you. You all have classes tomorrow." With a sigh, they all left the office of the Headmaster and walked toward their common room. "Are your visions always that bad, to the point where you pass out, " Hermione questioned Clarissa.
"No, but lately they are like that, sometimes worst. I'm afraid that something horrible is going to happen, something we're not prepared for." The rest of the walk to the common room was quiet. When they reached the common room, the boys went their separate ways and the same with the girls. "Good-night Hermione."
"Good-night Clarissa, sleep well." Clarissa nodded and walked into her room and plopped on the bed. {Something is going to happen and I'M afraid that I won't be prepared for it} kept repeating in her head before she fell asleep. Her dreams were filled with her vision, horrifying her. Sleep did not come easy that night, not at all.
TBC****************
A/N: I know that chapter was long but I need to do it so I can explain some things, ill make sure that the next one is shorter okay. Review okay thanks luv ya.
Krissi
