*Young Iredessa's POV*

"What does Tchaikovsky's Andante cantabile have to do with the coming battle exactly?" I asked after hours, it seemed, of playing the cello in music class.

"It teaches you to be patient and listen. Two traits you normally don't have problems with. What's wrong Iredessa?" Well let's see, my parents have been kidnapped, probably killed, by Lord Voldemort. It's summer and instead of being a normal kid, I'm at my grandmother's mansion taking summer lessons to prepare me for some huge battle my grandmother saw in a vision. And finally, my twin sister Lux is pissed because she thinks that everything just comes easy to me.

"Nothing. I'm just…" Mrs. Pasternack tilts her head to the side sympathetically waiting for my response. "a little tired." I finished.

"Well I understand that. You've been working from the crack of dawn until the deep night for weeks." Mrs. Pasternack awkwardly places her hand on my head in some sort of compassionate gesture.

"Okay," I said standing up and shaking her hand off my head. "well I got a howler this morning from Grandmother ordering me to have lunch with her today so I'm going to skedaddle." I put away my cello in the cupboard while Mrs. Pasternack said, "Why did she send a howler to tell you that?"

"Cause I've been kinda standing her up for lunch for the past two weeks." And with that I slung my backpack over my shoulder and headed down to the dinning room.

I push open the thick doors to the dinning room flooding the hallway behind me with light.

"So you decided to show up? I guess you only answer to howlers."

"Sorry Grandmother." I said taking a seat next to Lux. "I didn't know that you were coming Lux."

"Yeah well Grandmother needed some company." She said not looking at me.

"I get it, you're mad at me. But can you…"

"We can talk about this later, Grandmother needs to tell us something." Lux said interrupting me, and still not looking at me by the way. So I followed her example and looked away toward Grandmother.

"Your cousin Lauren has had a vision." I leaned forward in my chair definitely listening now. None of the girls in our entire family has had a vision in months. Not since my mom was kidnapped. It was like she took our visions with her.

"She saw your mother. She says that she's not dead and that Vo…He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is still…"

"Still what?" Lux yelled.

"torturing her into working for him." And then my vision started to get cloudy, oh right, blinking is a necessity for most humans.

"Did she see anything useful?" I asked.

"No… not really. The significance of this is that she had a vision and that your mom is still alive confirming our belief that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named does not intend on killing her." Lux and I looked at each other at the same time and I could tell she shared my concern. What about our dad?

"Well anyway." Grandmother said in a scarily cheerful voice. "Dig in. We don't want you two to collapse from starvation now do we?" Lux and I shared another look of exasperation. Ever since Grandmother had a vision of Lux and I in some hug battle at Hogwarts she's been making sure we are prepared in every single way. She hired a charms teacher, a defense against the dark arts teacher, a potions teacher, transfiguration teacher, and for some reason a music teacher. Grandmother taught divination to us herself.

"Alrighty." Lux and I said together.

"Okay great," Grandmother said five minutes later. "Ready for divination?" Still trying to eat, Lux and I got up and followed our grandmother.

Our divination room wasn't like the traditional divination room. There were no curtains on the roof, or incense in the air. It wasn't dark and gloomy either. Grandmother says that incense clouds your senses and that the best visions come in the light of the day. And who am I to argue seeing as though our family, the Tealeaf family, is…well…we're famous because of our gifts.

Lux and I sat on our pillows in front of Grandmother, sketchbooks in hand.

"Close your eyes children." We did. "Now focus on the sunlight streaming through the windows. Only think of the light on your skin." I hear Lux begin to draw in her sketchbook, she's getting faster at getting to her center.

"Now, only think of…" I'm running. My long black hair bouncing in and out of my face. I push open door after door and each one greeted me with darkness. I round a corner and almost run into a man I've never seen before. We keep eye contact as I run down the hallway and turn into a doorway. Finally I break our eye-contact by wishing him away and away he went. I push open the door and walk into the light. But instead of having a vision like I normally do when I find my center, I snapped out of it.

"What? What's wrong dear?" Grandmother asked. I got up dropping my sketchbook to the floor and walking over to the window.

"Did you have a vision?" Grandmother pestered.

"I was trying to find my center and I was looking through this house and checking all of these doors."

"Yeah but that always happens when you're about to have a vision." Grandmother interrupted me.

"Well right before I found the correct door I ran into a man I've never seen before. He wouldn't go away, we just looked at each other until I finally wished him away." Grandmother looked at me intently.

"Did this man have a mustache and walk with a cane like he belonged to a different time period?"

"Yes! Do you know this man?"

"That man is your great grandfather. He is the only male in the Tealeaf family to have visions. Your mother used to have visions of him all the time." Lux finally stopped drawing and asked, "How could she have visions of our dead great grandfather?"

"Your mother had visions of the past as well as the future." Grandmother said.

"What good does having visions of the past do any body?" Lux asked.

"Knowing your past is important as well but this could mean that your mother is trying to reach out to you Iridessa."

"Through a dead man?" I asked.