Chapter 7

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Gwynny walked back into the school. Anyone could see she was currently in one of the Weasley rages, her face was flushed, and her eyes were flashing. Also, she was broadcasting anger towards everyone and everything. Anyone who walked past could feel the anger emanating off of her slender form. She felt so angry, she could almost be Ron and Kati, making things spontaneously combust all over the place. When Ron got extremely angry, Kati did too, and their combined anger run into magical backwash, causing glass things to either implode, or explode.

"Aw, wassa madder with the little weaslette?" The older Malfoy sneered. Gwynny swept past her.

"Sod off, I'm to pissed off to deal with you now." She snapped. She was so angry, she didn't care that she was talking to someone that could pound her face in as soon as look at her. She kept walking, not even noticing the older girls astonished look.

She stormed to her mother's and father's shared quarters. "Amoris." She said angrily. The wall melted, and she walked into the crimson and gold sitting room. The familiar colours did nothing to ease her anger, and she stood in the middle of the room, focusing her magic, trying to sense her parents. All she got was the vague disapproval, and hunger, that was coming from her mum's cat, Ana. She didn't like the creature, and it didn't like her. She thought Persians were sneaky, deceitful animals. You grabbed onto them, expecting because of all the fur to get a good squeeze, but they were all skin and bone. She preferred her unidentifiable Pooka, whom she had had since before she could remember. According to her mother, she'd gotten the cat for her eighth birthday, but after walking into a tree, and breaking her nose the same day, she couldn't remember anything except the pain, and fright.

Her Talent was a hindrance, in the fact that it allowed her to remember feelings, and pain, things she wouldn't usually remember after an incident. Sure, she'd know that she had been in pain, but she wouldn't feel it all over again. At least; according to Kati she wouldn't. She didn't know that for herself, after all, she'd never known anything different. Class must have ended then, because both her mother, and her father came in. Mum smiled, obviously delighted to see her. Dad took one look at her face, and edged out of the room.

"Gwynny!" Her Mum exclaimed.

"Mother." Gwynny said, face pale with suppressed anger. Ana hissed, and left the room.

"Is there something wrong?" Her mother's smile flickered.

"One might say that." Gwynny said tightly.

"Ah, you just had your first flying lesson." Mum said.

"Very good."

"Honey-"

"How could you, Mum?" Gwynny asked. "I thought you trusted me."

"I do trust you, sweetie." Her mother said soothingly. "But I don't want you to get hurt. I love you."

"No you don't. If you loved me, you'd let me grow up." Gwynny turned around, and stormed out. Her father stopped her by the wall. He gave her a hug.

"Elf," He began.

"Don't, Dad, just don't. I can't believe she doesn't trust me." Gwynny choked out. "I've gotta go." She raced back outside.

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Gwynny took off her glasses, swiping away the tears angrily. She walked right into the Forbidden Forest. She leant against a tree, breathing hard. The last thing she knew was a thump on the back of her head.

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"Those Serpanthri were…wow." Jason commented. Kati smiled politely, and took a sip of her butterbeer. Ron had gone into Hogsmeade with Mere and Gina, and they'd brought back a whole bundle of food. Kati cursed her brother, who was talking to Gina and Mere about their latest prank (they were planning to turn the Slytherin Boys' Bathroom pink.) She hated talking to Jason. He'd had a crush on her since their second year, and definitely didn't know how to get a hint.

"Yes, I quite agree." She said frostily. "Excuse me, I've got to go…feed my…owl!" She ran off. As she rounded the corner, she felt her migraine tighten around her head like a steel band. She leant against the wall, clutching her head.

She was standing, chained to a wall, in a dungeon. There were people in front of her talking. She couldn't see very well, her vision was blurred, so that she could only just make out two people shaped blurs.

"She's here." One person whispered. It was a female voice.

"Good. Potter'll realise she's gone eventually, but by then, it'll be too late. She'll be nothing more than a rotting corpse. Stupid girl, going into the Forbidden Forest. Even I knew better than to go in there when I was at Hogwarts."

"She's going to see us, she's waking up." The first voice said. The second voice, a male, laughed cruelly.

"Not in a moment, I'll blind her. She'll be even more frightened; after all, her sight will be gone. Octiclius Dispersus."

She Kati came out of the vision, as everything went black. She was breathing hard. What was that all about? She wondered. She hurried back to the dorm, to write down what she'd seen.

~*~

Ginny bit her lip. Maybe she'd been a bit hasty, in assuming her daughter didn't want to fly. Xiomara is very careful. She thought reluctantly. Maybe I shouldn't have assumed…What am I thinking? Gwynny's too little! She shook her head, and began to get ready for Charms. She had the first years, so she could tell her daughter she was sorry, and try to get her to stop sulking. She walked into the room, and waited for everyone to file in.

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Ginny raced to her study, and burst in. Her eyes were wide with fright, and her hair was in tangles. Harry looked up startled. "Ginny!" He exclaimed. "What's the matter?"

"Gwynny!" She panted. "She wasn't in Charms, and one of the Gryffindor first years said she was last seen running towards the Forbidden Forest!" Just then, Kati came running in as well.

"Mum! Dad!" She said, "I had a Vision!"

"What was it about, Kati?" Harry asked.

"Ok, I was standing in a dungeon, chained to a wall, and for some reason, I couldn't see properly. There were two people standing in front of me, they looked like smudges. They were talking, saying I was stupid for going into the Forbidden Forest. Then they said a spell, which made it so that I couldn't see them. I was totally blind. Then I came out of it." Kati pushed her hands through her hair, which was coming undone.

"What did the people look like, Kati-Bee?" Harry asked.

"I don't know. One was a guy, and one was a girl, I could tell that much from their voices. The guy was the one who said I was stupid for going in, that even he'd never been that stupid when he was at Hogwarts. They were going on about how by the time 'Potter' realised I was gone, there'd be nothing left, just a rotting corpse."

"Are you sure it was you?" Ginny asked, stroking her daughter gently on the head.

"No, I don't think it was me they're talking about. I think I was seeing things from someone else's perspective." Harry hugged her.

"Thank you for telling us, Kati. Why don't you go to the Kitchens, and ask Dobby to make you some hot chocolate, say your father wants you to have his special one."

"Ok, Daddy." Kati hugged him, then gave Ginny a kiss on the cheek. "I love you, Mum." She left. Harry turned to Ginny, face solemn.

"Gwynny?" Ginny nodded.

"Definitely. We'll have to go see Albus." Both adults got up, and left.

~Preview of Chapter 8~

Gwynny moaned, and opened her eyes, pretending that she hadn't heard what the two people were saying. She made her voice high and frightened, not too hard, considering she was.

"Where am I?" She asked.