Chapter 15: The Premonitions!
It was now the last day of exams and it was time for Rachel's Divination exam.
"I am really not looking forward to this exam. It is going to be boiling in that classroom." Rachel moaned.
"Well this is your last exam, so be happy that when you walk out of that classroom you'll be free from exams for another year." said Clare.
"Yeah I suppose so." Rachel replied as she left the Great Hall and slowly began to walk to her Divination exam.
"Ah hello Rachel. You are just in time." droned Professor Trelawney. "The exam is going to be simple, all you will be required to do is read my future in the crystal ball. Now sit down and we shall begin."
Rachel peered into the crystal ball and at first saw nothing just a cloudy ball. Then Rachel was sure she saw a black figure that flashed a few times and then disappeared.
"I see a figure, it's an animal, a dark animal." said Rachel, as the figure reappeared.
"Indeed. It may well be my new black kitten that I bought yesterday. Can you tell what animal it is?" asked Professor Trelawney, looking quite happy.
"Erm I don't think it's a cat. It's more like a dog." said Rachel.
Professor Trelawney now looked a bit worried.
"The Grim." she uttered in a frightened tone.
"I don't think this is your future. Don't ask me how I know, I just know." Rachel replied.
"Well I'm sure you did your best. The exam is now over." said Professor Trelawney.
Rachel turned to leave, but a loud harsh voice spoke from behind her.
"It will happen tonight."
Professor Trelawney had gone rigid in her chair and her big bug-like eyes had begun to roll. Rachel stood and stared, thinking Trelawney was having a seizure of some kind, and then Professor Trelawney spoke again.
"It will happen tonight. The Darkest of Evils will come tonight. Those whom you care about will be in danger for they have been mistaken. The traitor will join his master in getting revenge on his friends. The Darkest Evil will be aided by those with the mark. Tonight... Before midnight... the Dark Lord will kill." Trelawney rasped.
"Excuse me." said Rachel.
"Oh I'm sorry dear girl, did you say something? It's been a busy day hasn't it?" said Trelawney, who now appeared to be fine.
"Yeah, right." Rachel said before she ran back to the Great Hall.
"How'd it go then?" asked Amy.
"Really weird. I mean weirder then usual." Rachel replied before launching into an explanation of what happened in her Divination exam.
"Wow that's strange. I wonder who she was talking about?" said Kirsti.
"Well we can think about that in a few minutes, lets go and get changed, it's too hot to wear these robes all day." said Rachel.
15 minutes after arriving at the Gryffindor common room, Rachel and Amy grabbed Harry to meet Clare and Kirsti outside the Fat Lady's portrait.
"Where can we go where we won't be disturbed?" Rachel asked.
"Room of Requirement?" Kirsti suggested before falling to the floor and looked like she was fitting. Her eyes suddenly opened and rolled over white, "It will happen tonight. The Auror has been mistaken. He will unwittingly lead his friends into a trap and into death. Near the place where one used to hide." Kirsti rasped before her eyes rolled back.
"The Auror? The place where one used to hide? Well I don't understand a word of that." Amy said, thoroughly confused.
"It's like a riddle, it's a list of clues. If we add it to Trelawney's seizure thing I think I can work it out. I think Kirsti meant Moody when she says the Auror, and obviously when Trelawney said the Darkest Evil she meant Voldemort. Now the place where one used to hide, what could that mean?" Rachel said matter-of-factly
"I have no idea." Harry replied.
"I've got it, she was talking about the Shrieking Shack. You know, Lupin used to hide there didn't he, at the full moon." Rachel said knowingly.
"Merlin, you're so clever, shame you hide it most of the time!" Amy said sarcastically.
"Well I guess doing all those Quibbler Crosswords has finally helped. Now both of them said whatever is going to happen will happen tonight, so we need to act fast. I think we should go and check with Firenze about what Trelawney and Kirsti have said." Rachel replied.
"What? I haven't said anything, what am I doing down here?" Kirsti said, pulling herself up.
"Welcome back to the land of the living. We'll explain on the way there." Rachel said.
They ran down into the Forbidden Forest and after 10 minutes of constant shouting and searching for Firenze they finally found him in a clearing.
"Firenze, we need your help. Kirsti and Professor Trelawney both had these funny seizures this afternoon and both talked about the Darkest Evil killing and Kirsti mentioned Moody. Neither has any recollection of what they said, what does this mean?" Clare said calmly.
"From what you have said, it sounds like you have two Seers in Hogwarts. From what you have described your Professor Trelawney and Kirsti have had real premonitions." Firenze replied.
"What's going on? What's going to happen?" Rachel asked.
"The stars have revealed there will be a battle, the Dark Lord will trap Moody and others you care about, and kill them." Firenze said indifferently.
"What! Others we care about, are you talking about our parents?" Kirsti roared.
"Mars looks very bright tonight." Firenze continued.
"WE DON'T BLOODY CARE ABOUT MARS, DO YOU MEAN OUR PARENTS OR NOT?" Amy yelled.
"That's for you to decide." Firenze said before Amy whipped out her wand.
"Tell us now!" Amy shouted angrily.
"No wait. I've got it. I know the importance of Mars now. Mars is the God of war, that means when it burns bright there will be war or danger." Rachel said.
"You read the Quibbler too much. But we definitely need to get to the Shrieking Shack, we can't take the risk." Clare added.
They ran out of the clearing and arrived at the Hippogriff paddock.
"How are we going to get there, it's getting late?" Kirsti asked.
"You can be so thick sometimes. We are standing in a Hippogriff paddock, full of Hippogriffs, we can take Buckbeak." Rachel said, astounded by Kirsti's slow thinking.
"Yeah and Amy and I can fly in our animagi forms." Clare said.
"Amy can but you won't be able to keep up, if you transform either Harry, Kirsti or me will carry you." Rachel said.
Clare and Amy transformed and Clare flew into Kirsti's pocket, as Harry, Kirsti and Rachel bowed before Buckbeak, desperately hoping he would bow in response. As soon as Buckbeak bowed, they clambered on to his back and began to fly to the Shrieking Shack.
Rachel got Buckbeak to land behind some trees near the Shrieking Shack, so they could see what was happening. As soon as they touched the ground they could hear shouting and small explosions. Rachel immediately told Buckbeak to return to the Hippogriff paddock and returned to concentrate on the shouts.
"We're too late, it's started." Kirsti said quietly.