Chapter 7 : Valentis Hurley
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DISCLAIMER : Yet again, I shall state : I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER. Yet, Valentis Hurley is my character, and the plot is entirely mine. You may use Valentis Hurley in your stories if you wish, however, you must have my permission to use her name. Thank you!
WARNING: there may be slight OoTP spoilers!
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RECAP FROM CHAPTER SIX :
"So Harry, what did you get?"
Silence, then, "Dandrista"
"WHAT?" Hermione and Ginny yelled.
"Then. then." Ginny couldn't finish her sentence because she was angry beyond words. How could that slimy git give poor Harry that?
"You didn't you your homework then?" Hermione asked quietly.
"Yes." Harry looked awfully grumpy.
"What exactly IS dandrista?"
"Ron, how can you not know that?" Ginny rolled her eyes.
"It's fire crystals found deep inside the core of the earth. Since it's so deep in the ground, there isn't any information on it."
"Why that slimy old bat! I'll kill him!" Ron made furious swings of fist in the air.
"What about you Neville?" Harry asked kindly.
"I-I-I got, I got.Whigiginon."
"What? Wiggie-what?"
"It's Whigiginon." Hermione sighed. "How can Snape do that to you?"
"Well, what is it?"
"It's this bluish silver egg found deep in the Marina Trench."
"The Verantis egg." Ginny muttered to herself inaudibly to herself, "the only power stronger Voldermort himself." (A/N: Ginny is speaking in a completely different voice, it's SO not her voice, a lot softer!) everyone turned to face Ginny. Then, moments later she fainted.
BaCk To ChApTeR sEvEn!
"Omigod! Ginny!" Hermione screamed as she leaped to her feet in panic. "Ginny! Ginny! Ginny!" Within seconds Harry, Ron and Hermione had rushed to Ginny's unconcious body, yet at the same time, Ginny's eyes fluttered open- dazed. "Wha-wha-what happened?" She sputtered. Hermione let out a sigh of relief. She was not going to let one of her friends die, let alone get hurt.
"You're fine now Ginny." She said now calm.
"I-I can't remember anything. The last thing I remember was when Harry was complaining about his Potions homework. and then. then." Ginny shuddered. "Everything went black. I saw a face. I don't remember the face. but. it was calm and soothing, saying something like, 'do not be scared dear.'"
"Shhhhh, Ginny." Harry said soothingly, "don't think about it."
However, while Hermione and Harry were trying their best to sooth the hysterical Ginny, Ron (of all the people) was staring up at the compartment door in awe. This irked Hermione and she was ready to hex Ron to hell. 'How can he look dreamily up at the compartment door when his little sister just recovered from a nasty fall?' Hermione thought angrily. Harry must have been thinking the same, because he was about to whack Ron over the head when he too looked up and saw whatever Ron saw. Hermione rolled her eyes up at the ceiling in frustration and looked up to see who or what Harry and Ron were looking up in awe at.
When Hermione looked up, her breath caught her throat. She was looking up at the most beautiful girl in the whole of the world, no, the whole of the universe. The girl had a silverish tinge to her long, soft jet black hair that was softly curled. Her vividly green eyes flashed and twinkled like sharp emerald orbs. Her skin, which looked smooth and soft like butter, seemed to be a mix of a golden, creamy, tannish color (Hermione could not tell if her skin was tanned, creamy or golden). Her lips were a fiery red color like cherries on fire. She was extremely tall-taller than Hermione herself who was 175 centimeters-looking about 180 centimeters tall (A/N: I'm sorry for those of you who don't follow the metric system; but I'm used to the metric system, so I'll just say that 180cm is about the same as 5'9" RANGE and 175 is about the 5'7" range). The girl seemed fragile and strong in a way that confused Hermione. She was thin and underweight (that was the only fault in her beauty) yet she had super long legs and had the curves in the right spot.
Hermione suddenly felt ugly near her. Not that she was vain, not that she cared, but suddenly Hermione wished that she was just as beautiful. That feeling wasn't envy, it was just a wishful thought; after all, Hermione was a very friendly girl and little did she know that she herself was almost as beautiful as the girl despite her bushy hair. If Hermione had gotten rid of her stubbornly bushy hair, then she would have been equally as beautiful. The girl looked from the jet black hair to the bushy brown hair, to the two vividly red headed people and to the trembling honey-colored hair (A/N: that's Neville by the way, I don't remember the color of his hair, so sorry if I made a mistake-correct me if I made a mistake). Then she spoke, her voice yet again fragile and strong at the same time and soft like silver thread. "Oh, I'm sorry, is this compartment taken up?" For a moment the compartment was deathly silent. Then, Hermione spoke using the most friendliest voice out of all of her friendly voices. "No, of course not, you're welcome to stay here." The girl's soft fiery cherry lips curved up into a smile making everyone in the compartment, including Ginny and Hermione, melt.
The girl sat down in one of the couches. With her she carried a strangely long wand. or that was what Ron and Harry thought. Obviously, Hermione and Ginny, being the top five students of Hogwarts knew that it was a staff. The eyes of both girls went round. Staffmagic was a highly advanced magic studied by witches and wizards that wished to go on with their magical education. Becoming a posessor of the staff, however, was extremely difficult. At the end of the last year in magic school, the seventh year students that wished to proceed to Magic Collage put their names in the cup of Angilese and only the chosen few were able to posess a staff. It was usually three out of seventy students that got to proceed to the higher level.
"Why is your wand so long?" Ron asked.
"It's not a wand you dimwit," Hermione sighed rolling her eyes irritably up at the ceiling.
"Then what is it?" Harry inquired.
Now it was Ginny's turn to roll her eyes. "It's a staff. DUH."
"Oh." Was the only reply from both boys.
"There was staff magic too?"
"YES." Hermione sighed. The girl just smiled mysteriously; her emerald- green orbs scanned the room. Hermione turned to the girl and entended her hand, "Hello, I'm Hermione Granger, and I'm sorry about Harry and Ron's idiotic acts. They're always like that." Ginny snickered.
"Hello, the name's Valentis Hurley." The moment Valentis took Hermione's hand to shake it, Hermione's hand seemed as if it was on fire and frozen at the same time. She involunteerily shot her hand back to her side. When she realized what she had done, Hermione felt instantly horrible and she hastily apologized. "I-I-I'm sorry for that. I didn't mean to." Valentis smiled and as if she was reading Hermione's mine, she said, "no need to Hermione, frankly speaking, everyone who touches me does that." Hermione silently kicked Ginny's leg to get her to introduce herself.
"Wha-oh right, Hello, my name's Virgina Weasley."
"Hello Ginny. hmmm, Ginny. that name sounds nice." Ginny's eyes turned round as Valentis turned to Harry, Ron and Neville and said, "And I suppose that you," she nodded politely at Harry, "are Harry Potter-that famous wizard, and you," another polite nod at Ron, "Are Ronald Weasley but preferred to be called Ron." She smiled and turned to the trembling Neville, "and you're Neville Longbroom. I'm sorry about what happened to your parents, but I assure you that they'll recover by the end of this year." Hermione looked at Valentis with round eyes. How did she know her friend's names? Harry was easy to remember, but Ron, Ginny and Neville? It seemed impossible, almost ludicrous. Was she reading their minds? Hermione had read that if someone had studied magic long enough they had the ability to read people's minds and do telepathy and other wonderful things; but that was like studying magic for a thousand years! No one lived long enough to feel those powers. Valentis, however, seemed to be their age and she already had a staff and had the abilities of someone who had studied magic for a thousand years! Then, could it be that she knew wandless magic as well?
Valentis smiled. The plump witch pulled open their compartment door and asked, "anything from the trolley dears?" The moment Harry and Ron heard her, they forgot about Valentis and ran straight out the door to buy thousands of sweets. All Valentis seemed to do was smile. 'Is she a student or is she a teacher?' Hermione wondered to herself. Valentis made no signs that she had read Hermione's mind. She smiled at Ginny and at Neville then at Hermione herself. It was all strange. Nevertheless, Hermione smiled at her and decided to get friendly and so did Ginny.
~*Ten minutes later*~
Hermione had gotten used to Valentis and so had Ginny. Once they got extremely close to Valentis (to the point where they were inseparatable) she seemed just like a normal witch. They realized that she didn't smile mysteriously. Harry, Ron and Neville also grew accustomed to her, and soon the group of six where laughing and joking while playing a game of exploding snap. They were having so much fun that they didn't even bat an eyelid when Valentis swooshed her Staff out to magically re-grow Ron't hair and Harry's eyebrows.
"Oy! Harry! You lost so you have to do thirty monkey jumps!"
"Hey! That's no fair Ron!" Harry yelled jokingly annoyed.
"Seems fair to me! Last year you made me kiss Malfoy. Nothing compared to that!"
"Fine, fine. I'll do that."
"Ugh! I lost all my leg hairs. AGAIN!" Ron complained as Harry was hopping around the compartment doing his monkey jumps.
"Don't worry Ron, I'll fix it." Then, swoosh! HeValentis regrew Ron's leg hair.
"Thanks! This is great, I don't have to wait until I get to Hogwarts for Madam Pomfrey to regrow my hair!"
At that moment, the intercom came on: "Attention all students! We shall be arriving in Hogwarts within ten minutes, please change into your appropriate robes, thank you." So, Hermione, Ginny and Valentis went into an empty compartment to get dressed. As soon as the trio got into the empty compartment, Valentis whipped out her wand and muttered, Silencio!
"What was that for?" Hermione asked.
"I have to give something to you two; and I want you to give this to Harry and this to Neville."
"What is it?"
"You'll find out when they show you what I gave them."
"Now, for you Ginny, I'll give you this," Valentis withdrew long bluish- silver tail feather and handed it to Ginny.
"H-h-how did you get this?" Ginny was holding up the Verantis feather.
"You need not to know."
Then Valentis handed Ginny a rolled up scroll. "This is a drawing of the Verantis. Keep it well. As for you, Hermione, this is your gift."
"Angel Blood." Hermione was speechless. "Where, how, and why?"
"Again, you need not to know. Keep them well; and Hermione?"
"Yes?"
"Just show Snape the blood. You will need it later on."
Hermione checked her watch and realized they only had three minutes left. "OH NO! We'll be late!" Valentis gave her mysterious smile and said, "Not exactly!" Then again with a graceful whisk of her wand (dresinta!) all three of them were in their robes. Then another whisk, dissilencio! The trio left the compartment to see Harry and the rest of their friends. Hermione's spirits have risen considerably; now her day wasn't that bad now. She had met a wonderful girl and now she had completed her homework. She was sure that she would have an A+ on her homework now. Ginny and Hermione came bouncing out of the Hogwarts express.
"Oy! Harry! Neville! Come here for a second!"
"What?" Harry inquired as he came over.
"I have something to give you."
"Well, why didn't you give it to us on the train."
"Oh, just shut up! Here, these are yours."
"What are they?" Harry and Neville asked in unison.
"Open them in the carriage." So they joined the other three in the carriage and Harry and Neville hastily opened up their presents.
"OH MY GOD!" Harry roared, "IT'S THE BLOODY DANDRISTA!"
Sure enough, in the pouch there were dozens of Dantristas twinkling and flickering and flashing like fire and shining like the finest rubies. From the small mound of Dandristas there came a redish-orange glow that hovered just above the crystals.
Neville opened his, and to his surprise, a huge egg bigger than an ostrich egg came rolling out on his palm. It was silvery-blue and looked like a silvery sapphire that shone brilliantly, so brilliantly that the egg cast eerie pale blue rays of light everywhere. "This is a dream!" Neville whispered.
"COVER IT UP NOW!" Valentis almost yelled. "Do not show it to the rest of the Hogwarts now. Show it when you confront Snape." As Valentis was scolding Neville about the egg, Harry's forefinger came closer and closer to the Dandristas.
"Under any circumstances, DO NOT TOUCH THAT!" Valentis said in a terrible voice.
"Why not?"
"If you touch it, your whole body will burn like never before. It's a nasty, nasty, nasty death!"
"But. but. why didn't the pouch burn up?"
"It's a-errr-it's been magiked." Valentis finished lamely; then she added quickly, "Highly advanced magic." The carriage was deathly silent. Hermione knew that Valentis was keeping something from them. She couldn't figure out what it was.
"I know you're hiding something. What it it?"
"Nothing." Valentis' voice was calm once more.
"No, Seriously, what are you hiding from us?" Ron asked.
"I can't tell."
"You can tell us. We won't tell a soul."
"I'm very sorry, all of you, but. demiobliviate! Hiegylic tohten voiche wan urtisotic ga aviellint doche viehn grienlish! (Translation: all you will remember are the gifts that I have presented to you)"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* A/N: Hehehe! I love cliff hangers, so I'll leave a few questions up to you:
What happened? What is Demiobliviate? What will happen next?
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DISCLAIMER : Yet again, I shall state : I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER. Yet, Valentis Hurley is my character, and the plot is entirely mine. You may use Valentis Hurley in your stories if you wish, however, you must have my permission to use her name. Thank you!
WARNING: there may be slight OoTP spoilers!
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RECAP FROM CHAPTER SIX :
"So Harry, what did you get?"
Silence, then, "Dandrista"
"WHAT?" Hermione and Ginny yelled.
"Then. then." Ginny couldn't finish her sentence because she was angry beyond words. How could that slimy git give poor Harry that?
"You didn't you your homework then?" Hermione asked quietly.
"Yes." Harry looked awfully grumpy.
"What exactly IS dandrista?"
"Ron, how can you not know that?" Ginny rolled her eyes.
"It's fire crystals found deep inside the core of the earth. Since it's so deep in the ground, there isn't any information on it."
"Why that slimy old bat! I'll kill him!" Ron made furious swings of fist in the air.
"What about you Neville?" Harry asked kindly.
"I-I-I got, I got.Whigiginon."
"What? Wiggie-what?"
"It's Whigiginon." Hermione sighed. "How can Snape do that to you?"
"Well, what is it?"
"It's this bluish silver egg found deep in the Marina Trench."
"The Verantis egg." Ginny muttered to herself inaudibly to herself, "the only power stronger Voldermort himself." (A/N: Ginny is speaking in a completely different voice, it's SO not her voice, a lot softer!) everyone turned to face Ginny. Then, moments later she fainted.
BaCk To ChApTeR sEvEn!
"Omigod! Ginny!" Hermione screamed as she leaped to her feet in panic. "Ginny! Ginny! Ginny!" Within seconds Harry, Ron and Hermione had rushed to Ginny's unconcious body, yet at the same time, Ginny's eyes fluttered open- dazed. "Wha-wha-what happened?" She sputtered. Hermione let out a sigh of relief. She was not going to let one of her friends die, let alone get hurt.
"You're fine now Ginny." She said now calm.
"I-I can't remember anything. The last thing I remember was when Harry was complaining about his Potions homework. and then. then." Ginny shuddered. "Everything went black. I saw a face. I don't remember the face. but. it was calm and soothing, saying something like, 'do not be scared dear.'"
"Shhhhh, Ginny." Harry said soothingly, "don't think about it."
However, while Hermione and Harry were trying their best to sooth the hysterical Ginny, Ron (of all the people) was staring up at the compartment door in awe. This irked Hermione and she was ready to hex Ron to hell. 'How can he look dreamily up at the compartment door when his little sister just recovered from a nasty fall?' Hermione thought angrily. Harry must have been thinking the same, because he was about to whack Ron over the head when he too looked up and saw whatever Ron saw. Hermione rolled her eyes up at the ceiling in frustration and looked up to see who or what Harry and Ron were looking up in awe at.
When Hermione looked up, her breath caught her throat. She was looking up at the most beautiful girl in the whole of the world, no, the whole of the universe. The girl had a silverish tinge to her long, soft jet black hair that was softly curled. Her vividly green eyes flashed and twinkled like sharp emerald orbs. Her skin, which looked smooth and soft like butter, seemed to be a mix of a golden, creamy, tannish color (Hermione could not tell if her skin was tanned, creamy or golden). Her lips were a fiery red color like cherries on fire. She was extremely tall-taller than Hermione herself who was 175 centimeters-looking about 180 centimeters tall (A/N: I'm sorry for those of you who don't follow the metric system; but I'm used to the metric system, so I'll just say that 180cm is about the same as 5'9" RANGE and 175 is about the 5'7" range). The girl seemed fragile and strong in a way that confused Hermione. She was thin and underweight (that was the only fault in her beauty) yet she had super long legs and had the curves in the right spot.
Hermione suddenly felt ugly near her. Not that she was vain, not that she cared, but suddenly Hermione wished that she was just as beautiful. That feeling wasn't envy, it was just a wishful thought; after all, Hermione was a very friendly girl and little did she know that she herself was almost as beautiful as the girl despite her bushy hair. If Hermione had gotten rid of her stubbornly bushy hair, then she would have been equally as beautiful. The girl looked from the jet black hair to the bushy brown hair, to the two vividly red headed people and to the trembling honey-colored hair (A/N: that's Neville by the way, I don't remember the color of his hair, so sorry if I made a mistake-correct me if I made a mistake). Then she spoke, her voice yet again fragile and strong at the same time and soft like silver thread. "Oh, I'm sorry, is this compartment taken up?" For a moment the compartment was deathly silent. Then, Hermione spoke using the most friendliest voice out of all of her friendly voices. "No, of course not, you're welcome to stay here." The girl's soft fiery cherry lips curved up into a smile making everyone in the compartment, including Ginny and Hermione, melt.
The girl sat down in one of the couches. With her she carried a strangely long wand. or that was what Ron and Harry thought. Obviously, Hermione and Ginny, being the top five students of Hogwarts knew that it was a staff. The eyes of both girls went round. Staffmagic was a highly advanced magic studied by witches and wizards that wished to go on with their magical education. Becoming a posessor of the staff, however, was extremely difficult. At the end of the last year in magic school, the seventh year students that wished to proceed to Magic Collage put their names in the cup of Angilese and only the chosen few were able to posess a staff. It was usually three out of seventy students that got to proceed to the higher level.
"Why is your wand so long?" Ron asked.
"It's not a wand you dimwit," Hermione sighed rolling her eyes irritably up at the ceiling.
"Then what is it?" Harry inquired.
Now it was Ginny's turn to roll her eyes. "It's a staff. DUH."
"Oh." Was the only reply from both boys.
"There was staff magic too?"
"YES." Hermione sighed. The girl just smiled mysteriously; her emerald- green orbs scanned the room. Hermione turned to the girl and entended her hand, "Hello, I'm Hermione Granger, and I'm sorry about Harry and Ron's idiotic acts. They're always like that." Ginny snickered.
"Hello, the name's Valentis Hurley." The moment Valentis took Hermione's hand to shake it, Hermione's hand seemed as if it was on fire and frozen at the same time. She involunteerily shot her hand back to her side. When she realized what she had done, Hermione felt instantly horrible and she hastily apologized. "I-I-I'm sorry for that. I didn't mean to." Valentis smiled and as if she was reading Hermione's mine, she said, "no need to Hermione, frankly speaking, everyone who touches me does that." Hermione silently kicked Ginny's leg to get her to introduce herself.
"Wha-oh right, Hello, my name's Virgina Weasley."
"Hello Ginny. hmmm, Ginny. that name sounds nice." Ginny's eyes turned round as Valentis turned to Harry, Ron and Neville and said, "And I suppose that you," she nodded politely at Harry, "are Harry Potter-that famous wizard, and you," another polite nod at Ron, "Are Ronald Weasley but preferred to be called Ron." She smiled and turned to the trembling Neville, "and you're Neville Longbroom. I'm sorry about what happened to your parents, but I assure you that they'll recover by the end of this year." Hermione looked at Valentis with round eyes. How did she know her friend's names? Harry was easy to remember, but Ron, Ginny and Neville? It seemed impossible, almost ludicrous. Was she reading their minds? Hermione had read that if someone had studied magic long enough they had the ability to read people's minds and do telepathy and other wonderful things; but that was like studying magic for a thousand years! No one lived long enough to feel those powers. Valentis, however, seemed to be their age and she already had a staff and had the abilities of someone who had studied magic for a thousand years! Then, could it be that she knew wandless magic as well?
Valentis smiled. The plump witch pulled open their compartment door and asked, "anything from the trolley dears?" The moment Harry and Ron heard her, they forgot about Valentis and ran straight out the door to buy thousands of sweets. All Valentis seemed to do was smile. 'Is she a student or is she a teacher?' Hermione wondered to herself. Valentis made no signs that she had read Hermione's mind. She smiled at Ginny and at Neville then at Hermione herself. It was all strange. Nevertheless, Hermione smiled at her and decided to get friendly and so did Ginny.
~*Ten minutes later*~
Hermione had gotten used to Valentis and so had Ginny. Once they got extremely close to Valentis (to the point where they were inseparatable) she seemed just like a normal witch. They realized that she didn't smile mysteriously. Harry, Ron and Neville also grew accustomed to her, and soon the group of six where laughing and joking while playing a game of exploding snap. They were having so much fun that they didn't even bat an eyelid when Valentis swooshed her Staff out to magically re-grow Ron't hair and Harry's eyebrows.
"Oy! Harry! You lost so you have to do thirty monkey jumps!"
"Hey! That's no fair Ron!" Harry yelled jokingly annoyed.
"Seems fair to me! Last year you made me kiss Malfoy. Nothing compared to that!"
"Fine, fine. I'll do that."
"Ugh! I lost all my leg hairs. AGAIN!" Ron complained as Harry was hopping around the compartment doing his monkey jumps.
"Don't worry Ron, I'll fix it." Then, swoosh! HeValentis regrew Ron's leg hair.
"Thanks! This is great, I don't have to wait until I get to Hogwarts for Madam Pomfrey to regrow my hair!"
At that moment, the intercom came on: "Attention all students! We shall be arriving in Hogwarts within ten minutes, please change into your appropriate robes, thank you." So, Hermione, Ginny and Valentis went into an empty compartment to get dressed. As soon as the trio got into the empty compartment, Valentis whipped out her wand and muttered, Silencio!
"What was that for?" Hermione asked.
"I have to give something to you two; and I want you to give this to Harry and this to Neville."
"What is it?"
"You'll find out when they show you what I gave them."
"Now, for you Ginny, I'll give you this," Valentis withdrew long bluish- silver tail feather and handed it to Ginny.
"H-h-how did you get this?" Ginny was holding up the Verantis feather.
"You need not to know."
Then Valentis handed Ginny a rolled up scroll. "This is a drawing of the Verantis. Keep it well. As for you, Hermione, this is your gift."
"Angel Blood." Hermione was speechless. "Where, how, and why?"
"Again, you need not to know. Keep them well; and Hermione?"
"Yes?"
"Just show Snape the blood. You will need it later on."
Hermione checked her watch and realized they only had three minutes left. "OH NO! We'll be late!" Valentis gave her mysterious smile and said, "Not exactly!" Then again with a graceful whisk of her wand (dresinta!) all three of them were in their robes. Then another whisk, dissilencio! The trio left the compartment to see Harry and the rest of their friends. Hermione's spirits have risen considerably; now her day wasn't that bad now. She had met a wonderful girl and now she had completed her homework. She was sure that she would have an A+ on her homework now. Ginny and Hermione came bouncing out of the Hogwarts express.
"Oy! Harry! Neville! Come here for a second!"
"What?" Harry inquired as he came over.
"I have something to give you."
"Well, why didn't you give it to us on the train."
"Oh, just shut up! Here, these are yours."
"What are they?" Harry and Neville asked in unison.
"Open them in the carriage." So they joined the other three in the carriage and Harry and Neville hastily opened up their presents.
"OH MY GOD!" Harry roared, "IT'S THE BLOODY DANDRISTA!"
Sure enough, in the pouch there were dozens of Dantristas twinkling and flickering and flashing like fire and shining like the finest rubies. From the small mound of Dandristas there came a redish-orange glow that hovered just above the crystals.
Neville opened his, and to his surprise, a huge egg bigger than an ostrich egg came rolling out on his palm. It was silvery-blue and looked like a silvery sapphire that shone brilliantly, so brilliantly that the egg cast eerie pale blue rays of light everywhere. "This is a dream!" Neville whispered.
"COVER IT UP NOW!" Valentis almost yelled. "Do not show it to the rest of the Hogwarts now. Show it when you confront Snape." As Valentis was scolding Neville about the egg, Harry's forefinger came closer and closer to the Dandristas.
"Under any circumstances, DO NOT TOUCH THAT!" Valentis said in a terrible voice.
"Why not?"
"If you touch it, your whole body will burn like never before. It's a nasty, nasty, nasty death!"
"But. but. why didn't the pouch burn up?"
"It's a-errr-it's been magiked." Valentis finished lamely; then she added quickly, "Highly advanced magic." The carriage was deathly silent. Hermione knew that Valentis was keeping something from them. She couldn't figure out what it was.
"I know you're hiding something. What it it?"
"Nothing." Valentis' voice was calm once more.
"No, Seriously, what are you hiding from us?" Ron asked.
"I can't tell."
"You can tell us. We won't tell a soul."
"I'm very sorry, all of you, but. demiobliviate! Hiegylic tohten voiche wan urtisotic ga aviellint doche viehn grienlish! (Translation: all you will remember are the gifts that I have presented to you)"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* A/N: Hehehe! I love cliff hangers, so I'll leave a few questions up to you:
What happened? What is Demiobliviate? What will happen next?