Chapter 53: Glimpses
Where am I?? Am I having some premonitions in my dreams again?? Arabella tossed and turned around in the bed, cold sweat formed around her sleeping face. I've got a bad feeling about this.
Wake up!! Stef?? What's happening??
Stefanie was covered with some bruises over her and was lying on the ground unconscious.
What's that sound??
Sirius was flew out from somewhere and landed in front of Arabella.
Sirius!! Wake up!!
I thought we were protected against curses and spells. How could anything ever hurt them??
Dark magic.
Suddenly James' and Remus' voice could be heard some distance away.
Arabella ran towards the source.
"Let them go!!" James shouted at a guy who was dressed in black and had a shallow face with blood shot eyes. Beneath the deadly look, one could see that the man was once good looking, although evil loomed over his face right now
"Go get Dumbledore!!" Lily struggled to shout and the two deatheaters held her tighter and shut her up with force.
"No one could help anyone of you. Join me and I shall let you off." Voldemort said.
"Never ever." James retorted bravely.
"Gryffindor spirit huh." Voldemort said in a very calm manner.
"Take me if you want. Let them off." James said.
"Take me instead. Let them off." Remus said. James looked at Remus, some form of understanding shared.
"What I want is a healer and someone with a gift of premonition?? What would I want both of you for??" Voldemort said, turning towards Lily and the slightly older-looking Arabella.
That's myself. But how old is that??
"Tell me about my future." Voldemort said to the slightly older and trapped Arabella, touching her face with his cold hand.
"You'll be defeated!!" Arabella said insolently and shook off Voldemort's hand.
"How dare you!!" Voldemort gave Arabella a tight slap.
"Bell!!" The older Arabella bit her lower lip to hold back the anger and pain. Lily looked at Arabella sympathetically, glaring at Voldemort with anger and revenge.
"Stop it!!" Arabella shouted in her dreams. No one could hear her of course.
James conjured up an imaginary punch and controlled it to hit it hard on the deatheaters who were holding Lily and Arabella as captives. Both girls released themselves and ran back to join James and Remus.
"Great display of wandless magic." Voldemort said. "But you can't do that to me. I've magic to protect myself from children like you." James looked as if he was ready to boil. He glared at Voldemort murderously.
Remus quietly slid behind the three of them and disappeared.
"Master, one of them escaped!!" A deatheater spoke up.
"Capture them!!" Voldemort instructed. A big herd of deatheaters appeared from all directions and surrounded Lily, James and Arabella.
"NOOO!!"
"Bell is having nightmares again!!" Stefanie said as she shook a shivering Arabella.
"Wake up!!" Samantha lightly slapped Arabella's face.
"Joey, wake Lily up please??" Stefanie asked. Bell is having a horrible premonition. If I enter her thoughts, more things might happen. How can we wake her up??
"What happening??" Lily asked sleepily as Joey pulled her upright.
"Bell is having a nightmare!!" Samantha said as she tried shaking Arabella more vigorously.
"Oh no!!" Lily jumped out of bed and the four girls were surrounding Arabella.
"NOOOOOO!!!!" Arabella shouted and sat upright all the sudden, knocking her head onto Stefanie's. Arabella sat up, stunned for a moment and tried to gather her thoughts.
"Are you alright??" Joey asked in a concerned tone.
"You're hafing a nightmare, aren't you??" Samantha said, wiping Arabella's cold sweat with tissues.
"Yes. It was horrible." Arabella said as she looked at her concerned friends.
"Everything is fine now. We're here." Lily said as she hugged Arabella.
"Don't worry." Stefanie pushed back Arabella's hair and looked at her.
Bad premonition??
Yes.
How bad??
Life threatening.
Tell Dumbledore tomorrow.
Ok.
"Do you want some water??" Joey asked a calmed down Arabella.
"Yes please. Thanks." Arabella said tiredly, still lying onto Lily's shoulder. Joey got some water from the bathroom and drank down slowly. That was one of the most horrible premonitions I ever have.
"Do you want some sleeping potion??" Samantha asked.
"I think I need that. And some dreamless potion as well if you have." Arabella said.
"I've them." Samantha went to her bedside table and fetched two bottles over and poured them into Arabella's goblet.
"Drink them down and you'll be sleeping in no time." Samantha said soothingly.
"Thanks, girls. Sorry if I woke you up." Arabella said apologetically and gulped down the mixed potion.
"It's alright. We're here for you." Lily said. Arabella fell back onto her pillows and slept peacefully instantly.
"Let's head back to bed." Stefanie said as she pulled the comforters up to Arabella's chest, arranging her hands over her stomach. Samantha and Joey returned to their respective beds first.
It's a horrible one.
I guessed that.
See Dumbledore tomorrow morning.
Wake me up early.
I will.
Stefanie and Lily returned to their beds after making sure Arabella was comfortable. Both girls tossed and turned on their beds for some time before falling asleep again.
"Remus, can you travel twenty years down to check out the situation??" Dumbledore asked Remus. The six of them gathered together the morning after Arabella's premonition. She told her entire dream to all of them and they were brainstorming on how to solve the situation.
"I'll go with him." James offered.
"Me too." Sirius said.
"We all are going together." Stefanie said, looking at Lily and Arabella for permission. Both girls nodded agreeing.
"I'm glad the six of you are so united. What we need now is the seventh person so that you all can be invincible." Dumbledore said.
"But who is it??" James asked.
"I don't know." Dumbledore said quietly. "The six of you better set off soon."
Remus nodded. The six of them held hands and closed their eyes tight.
They could feel the surrounding swirling for a few seconds and stopped. Remus opened his eyes to check first.
"We're here." Remus said, looking around. They had landed outside Hogwarts not too far away from Hagrid's hut.
"Shall we go and ask him about it??" James said, pointing at Hagrid's hut. They walked towards Hagrid's hut and knocked on his door. Suddenly a dog barked and they jumped in a fright. Hagrid opened the door and looked at them in amazement.
"Who are you??" Hagrid asked.
"I'm Remus, that's James, Sirius, Stefanie, Lily and Arabella." Hagrid looked at the six fifteen-year-olds and they looked at him.
"Erm, Remus??" Hagrid looked at Remus.
"Yes."
"How did yeh guys get here??"
"We traveled through time to the future. Basically we're fifth years." Remus explained.
"No wonder. Dumbledore always say teh six of yeh are gifted. Now I can see why." Hagrid grinned at them.
"We need some information about some stuffs." James said, straight to the point.
"About what??"
"First, Voldemort." Hagrid looked a little shocked to hear the name.
"He-who-must-not-be-named in power now. He's teh most powerful wizard. Dumbledore might not be his match." Hagrid explained. "Things happened, people died."
"What happened to us??" James asked again.
"James an' Lily killed by He-who-must-not-be-named. Sirius sent to Azkaban, Stefanie went missing for years since Sirius went into Azkaban." Hagrid shuttered. "Remus and Arabella became the Defense Against Dark Arts professor for a year each."
"Oh my god."
"Unbelivable. How could I ever be sent to Azkaban??"
"You were said to betray Lily an' James."
"Never ever!!"
"I don't know. You killed a dozen muggles an' Peter."
"Oh merlin."
"What about Stefanie??"
"She was n'ver heard since Sirius sent to Azkaban. Must've gone hidin'."
"So many things had happened to us."
"But James an' Lily has a son named Harry Potter who is known to be the-boy-who-lived." James and Lily were blushing furiously, not looking at anyone else. This time, the situation was too serious to make a joke out of it.
"Then how long was I in Azkaban??"
"Twelve years."
"Then??"
"You escaped from there, came to Hogwarts an' escaped. Till now, unheard o'."
"I rather not hear about my future." Lily muttered to herself.
"I wonder if there's anyway for us to change it." James asked no one in particular.
"It's not possible. Our future is fixed. I've been to our past before. Similar case." Remus said quietly.
"Maybe we can try to reverse the situation??" Sirius suggested.
"How??" Arabella asked.
"I don't know. Maybe we defeat Volcano before he erupts??" Sirius replied.
"I think we were trying that out. That's my nightmare last night." Arabella said quietly. Silence filled the room.
"Thanks Hagrid. I think we got to start heading back now." James spoke up, breaking the five minutes of silence they shared in Hagrid's hut.
"Obliviate!!" Remus shouted to Hagrid just before he shut the door. "Let's head back now!!" The six of them held their hands together and returned to Dumbledore's office in present day.
"How was it??" Dumbledore asked. The six of them went into a long description of what Hagrid said. Each of them added some left out details for one another.
"Why don't you travel with us through time as well??" Remus asked Dumbledore after everything.
"I can't leave Hogwarts unattended at any time. It will endanger everyone else. Besides this is your life. It's not mine. I can only advise you all, but you will have to lead it yourself."
"We can't change the future. Don't brood over it and just lead it the way it is." Arabella said exaperatedly.
"You're going to be a professor while I'm going to sit in Azkaban and rot and then go missing in action for good!!" Sirius practically shouted. The seven of them were in the boys' dormitory discussing.
"We don't have a choice!!" Remus said. Sirius was very stubborn and brooding over the fact that he would end up in Azkaban.
"Let's defeat Volcano for good so Lily and I won't die and you won't go to Azkaban." James said finally.
"But how??"
"We need the seven items."
"We need to try to defeat him without them."
"Sounded impossible."
"But we're really no match for him."
"What can we do??"
"Even Dumbledore have no idea."
"It's our life afterall."
"I think the only thing we can do is just wait for the time to come."
"I waiting to be sent to Azkaban for murdering muggles?? I better enjoy my life to the fullest first."
"Sirius, I already know a lot of things that all of you don't know. If I let those facts haunt me. I won't be able to lead a life in the first place." Arabella said finally after a long silence.
"Tell us about it." Sirius said.
"I won't. Some things are best left unknown. Let nature takes its course."
"Give Bell some peace. She's suffering more than we do."
"Can we take a break during the summer break??"
"Like how??"
"Go somewhere far away??"
"Free from studies."
"Free from schools."
"Free from responsibilities."
"Free from practices."
"Free from people."
"Free from Volcanoes." Sirius said and the seven of them start laughing.
"Pete, can you join us this time??" James asked Peter who had been keeping quiet throughout the whole conversation.
"No, I can't. Parents won't allow." Peter said quietly. I really don't want to tell Master some stuff that I know. I rather not know. Master used Dark Magic to block my memory from erased off by the Memory Charm and made me repeat everything I know about them to him subconsciously. What can I do?? I can only hope all of you defeat him soon.
"Not negotiable??" Sirius said. Peter shook his head sadly.
"Can we discuss this during the break?? I'm really tired." Arabella spoke up.
"I think we better get some rest. We need to start revising for our O.W.L.s soon. Only three weeks away." Lily said. The three girls stood up and left the dormitory. Arabella's premonition had added extra stress to the five of them.
James 'obliviated' Peter after the girls left the dormitory.
"I think we better get some sleep. It's gonna be another killer week from tomorrow onwards." Remus said and climbed into his bed. The other three guys followed suit and returned to their respective beds.
"Good night."
"How's your memory with James??" Stefanie asked as they returned to their dormitory.
"Not much improvements. But it's ok. Anyway I've nice new memories of him. But some parts of my memories aren't there. Like certain things that happened when I was younger. Part of me knows that something had happened during that time. But I just can't seems to remember them."
"I thought you only forgotten about James."
"I don't know. But now I know James as a new friend. And hearing that we're going to have a child together was really embarrassing."
"We met Harry Potter when we traveled though time before."
"We did??"
"You don't remember??"
"Not much of an impression actually."
"We all traveled back through time. Remember James discovered the pensieve?? Fawkes??" Stefanie suggested.
"I don't. Today was the first time I heard about Harry Potter."
"It's not. We met him before."
"I don't remember."
"Don't think too much. Some day you'll remember."
"It's a pity Remus can't take you back to our past."
"Yeah. It really is. Otherwise I can watch it like a show."
"You past self might try to kill your present self although you're an illusion."
"I know. There can't be two mes and two Remuses at the same dimension. And even if it's at the same time, we can't meet. It might be disastrous." Lily sighed.
"Don't be discouraged. Someday those memories might just pop out."
"Where it does or it doesn't, it does not matter anymore. I'll remember James the way he is now. The past isn't as important as the present."
"Let's forget the past, don't bother about the future, and lead the life now!!" Arabella said.
"Make that our motto in life!!"
"Hey Lils." James called out from behind.
"I thought you were at the prefects' room already." Lily turned around.
"Was out having fun with the Slytherins." James said, grinning.
"Having fun with the Slytherins?? What a way to put it."
"We were. Guess what we done??"
"Colored their hair??" James shook his head.
"Modified their clothes??" James shook his head again.
"Then??"
"Nothing much actually."
"I don't believe that."
"We just did a little bit with their beds."
"What?? Put cockroaches on their bed??"
"Nah. We just did something to those beds we could lay our hands on."
"What??"
"Jinxed them to make the beds collapsed at three in the morning."
"That's so mean!!"
"That's us!!"
"When did you do that??"
"During dinner time."
"Smart huh. Malfoy's is celebrating his sixteenth birthday at the Slytherins' table today."
"Too bad mine wasn't that great."
"What you mean by not great??"
"Getting smashed by a cake isn't my idea of great."
"Well. That was my idea."
"Jeez. Thanks manz."
"Yeah."
"Not angry, are you??"
"Nope. I just did the same thing to you 'coz you did that to me last time."
"You remember that??"
"I remembered being smashed by a cake. By who, I don't know. Bell and Stef told me and that's why I suggested that."
"Oh well."
"When's our patrolling duty again??"
"The week after O.W.L.s"
"Great. Free night again."
"Yeah, better start studying."
"Don't worry about me."
"I'm not."
"You're not??"
"Why should I??"
"Because you like me??"
"Excuse me??"
"Don't you??"
"No, I don't. Don't think so highly of yourself."
"I'm just being confident."
"That's overconfident."
"It's still confident."
"If you say so."
"Then who do you like??"
"No one."
"Don't bluff."
"Really."
"Fine."
"Ego deflated??"
"A little."
"Good. Your ego is too big."
"Sirius' one bigger."
"Both are equally huge."
"They're normally sized."
"I think they're the size of the earth!!"
"If mine is earth, Sirius' must be Jupiter."
"Yeah. Remus is Neptune huh."
"Peter is Pluto."
"Wow. So this is how you guys measure your ego sizes."
"You suggested it."
"Yeah. Planet sizes are the best way of measuring ego sizes. It's too big to be measured by any measuring units."
"People measure planets too."
"But it's only an estimate by the satellite."
"So our ego sizes are estimated as well??"
"Something like that." Lily joked. "Here we are."
"Guess who's inside??"
"Andrew and Michelle."
"You're guessing the obvious."