Chapter Eight:
The First Task
After the champions were announced, and the other students were dismissed, George led Abella to the Gryffindor common room. Abella sat in front of the fire, trying to sort through her thoughts. She was a seer, what did that mean? She remembered briefly, that her mother had always excelled at Divination, so maybe that was where she had gotten her gift from. George sat beside her, gently rubbing her shoulders and back, as her shaking began to subside.
"You're a seer?" Hermione watched as Abella nodded again.
"I had been thinking it for a few days, but today I realized it's true, I saw Fred, George, and Paul get thrown out of the Age Line, and then I saw the champions, including Harry being chosen." Abella sighed as she rubbed her temples.
"Wait... when we were younger, you used to always get us in trouble." George stared into the fire as he got lost in thought
"I believe it was the other way around." Abella smirked as George rolled his eyes.
"No, you used to always go tell mum about Ron or us getting hurt, hours before we even did anything." Fred continued George's thought, a light bulb coming on in his head.
"One time, we made Ron jump off the roof, and you told mum, she ran outside just as we got up there." George laughed as Abella's eyes widened.
"Mum always brushed it off as me telling on you, because I knew about it." Abella stared at her friends, all of them smiling.
"This is a huge gift Abella." Hermione smiled wider as Abella nodded. After a moment the group decided that the day had been full of enough surprises, and headed off to bed.
The next morning Fred, George, Abella, Ron, and Paul were all sitting down eating breakfast. Hermione had gone to find Harry, since him and Ron were not speaking at the moment Abella was silent, lost in thought, trying to work through the entire seer mess.
Later into the day Abella was more annoyed than ever. The Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors were arguing, which they never did, and Malfoy popped up out of nowhere to glare at her. When they got to Care of Magical Creatures, she thought her head was going to explode. She was tired of listening to people argue, and she was extremely annoyed with Malfoy's constant looks.
Abella watched a Hagrid called Harry over, more than likely to talk about him being the champion, considering that was all anyone wanted to talk about lately.
That night Abella could not sleep, even if she wanted to. With a sigh she got out of bed, and wrapped her Gryffindor robe over her pajamas, as she made her way out of the common room. She stood there for a moment trying to figure out why she had left the common room at all.
She closed her eyes, trying to figure out what her mind was telling her. In her mind she saw Paul, he was near the lake with a small fire burning, but he was doing something. Paul was moving his hands back and forth over the water, causing it to swirl. Abella opened her eyes and walked towards the lake.
Abella stood behind a tree, as she watched him move the water. When he got bored with that, she watched as he looked at the fire. Suddenly the fire began to move, in ways that it should not be moving. Abella let out a gasp as realization dawned on her. Paul's head snapped towards her and her green eyes met his lone blue one.
"Taken to sneaking around to attempt to scare people now Bells?" Paul said nervously, hoping she hadn't seen what he knew she had.
"I'm not going to tell anyone Paul. You're an Elementalist. We've been best friends since I started St. Marcus, why would I rat out the person who crossed the world to keep our friendship?" Abella smiled at him as he seemed to relax.
"Speaking of secrets, are you going to tell me the truth about that bruise?" Paul slightly cocked his head as Abella let out a low sigh.
"Malfoy." Was all Abella said as she waved before returning to her dorm. She didn't notice Paul's eyes flash angrily, as he stalked off into the night.
Days later, and people were still absolutely enthralled with Harry being a champion. Abella was sitting in the common room with Fred and George when she felt something pulling at the back of her mind. Abella closed her eyes, allowing her mind to see what her subconscious was trying to tell her.
Abella closed her eyes, and she was looking inside of Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore was talking to a man. The man was standing with his back to Abella, but she would have recognized that red hair anywhere. Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and the red head quickly hid in a door to the left. The clock behind Dumbledore, read five minutes from the current time. Abella smirked as she opened her eyes. She quickly excused herself before practically running to Dumbledore's office.
As Abella approached the door she could hear talking. After a moment she knocked, and a small shuffling could be heard. Dumbledore told her to come in, and she walked inside.
"Hello Miss Weasley. What can I do for our young seer today?" Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as Abella walked to the spot in the room that the man had been standing.
Abella pointed a finger as Dumbledore, before slowly turning to her left, pointing at the wall. Abella slowly turned her head to smirk at Dumbledore, as he began to laugh.
"Come on out. She's already figured it out. You cannot hide much from a seer I'm afraid." Dumbledore laughed as the wall opened. A tall redhead stepped out an Abella squealed as she launched herself into her brother's awaiting arms.
"Charlie!" The older man laughed as Abella hugged him tight.
"So the first task, is Dragon's then?" Abella smirked as Charlie stared at his little sister.
"How did you, oh right seer. Mum knows doesn't she?" Charlie laughed as Abella continued to hug him.
"I sent her a letter the moment I found out, Abella would rather keep it quiet, but it's an extraordinary gift." Dumbledore smiled at Abella as she sighed.
"Well I need to go, everyone is probably wondering why I jumped up so fast. Don't worry; your secret is safe with me." Abella pretended to lock her lips and leave the key on Dumbledore's desk as she left his office, and heading to her common room.
On the day of the first task Abella was absolutely terrified she had been having visions of fire, and it scared her. She didn't know if it was an omen for Harry, or if was just warning her about the dragons. Abella sat in the stands, with Hermione, Paul, Ron, Fred, and George. She stood in between George and Fred, and had already warned them that she would be squeezing their hands if she was scared.
They watched the first three go against the dragons, causing her to become even more nervous, because they all had a few near misses that could have ended up with them dead. When Harry walked out Abella stood up straight, grasping George's hand for support.
Most of the time Abella's eyes stayed closed, afraid to see what would happen.A few moments later Abella heard a whooshing noise. She opened her eyes and watched as Harry grabbed his Fire Bolt from the sky. Abella watched him fly off, a smile plastered on her face.
Abella laughed, and jumped when Harry grabbed the egg. She was beyond excited. She was glad her visions had not turned out to be omens at all.
Later on Abella was sitting in the common room with her fellow Gryffindors, awaiting Harry's return. When he walked in the room, it erupted into cheers and yells. Abella and Fred had been laughing and joking around, when they heard a loud ear piercing scream. Abella and Fred both covered their ears, as they turned to see Harry with his egg open.
"Shut it!" Fred bellowed, as Harry closed the egg.
"What was that?" Seamus said as Harry slammed the egg shut.
"It was someone being tortured!"Neville yelled. "You're going to have to fight the Cruciatus curse!" He had turned white suddenly, at the idea. Abella ran over to him and patted his back to calm him, during one of their study sessions he had revealed to her what had happened to his parents, causing Abella to feel protective over her new friend.
"Don't be a prat Neville, that's illegal."George said. Abella shot him a glare, and he jumped back a little. "They wouldn't use the Cruciatus curse on the champions. I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing. Maybe you have to attack him in the shower Harry." Abella and Fred burst into fits of giggles as George took a seat beside his twin. Abella walked over to join them after Neville had returned to his normal color.
"Want a jam tart Hermione?"said Fred
Hermione looked doubtfully at the plate he was holding, before looking at Abella who simply shrugged.
"It's all right, I haven't done anything to them. It's the custard creams you've got to watch-"
Neville, who had just bit into a custard cream choked and spat it out.
"Just a little joke Neville." Fred sighed.
Hermione took a jam tart before asking. "Did you get all this from the kitchens Fred?"
Abella laughed before turning to George, ignoring Fred and Hermione's conversation.
"I saw Charlie, before the dragons got here, he brought them." Abella smiled as George began to laugh.
"You and Charlie did always get along, better than you and Bill." Abella took his jam tart before nodding.
George, who had apparently been paying attention to Fred and Hermione laughed. "Going to try and lead the house elves out on strike now, are you? Going to give up all the leaflet stuff and try to stir them into rebellion?"Hermione did not reply.
"Don't you go upsetting them and telling them they've got to take clothes and salaries!" Said Fred warningly. "You'll put them off their cooking.
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary.(***)
"Oh- sorry Neville!"Fred shouted over the laughter. "I forgot it was the custard creams we hexed."
Within a minute Neville's feathers were gone, and he joined the laughter.
"Canary Creams!"Fred shouted to the excited crowd. "We invented them: seven sickles each such a bargain!" Fred smiled at Abella, George, and Paul. It was early in the morning, when everyone finally went to their dorm rooms.
(***) I had to add this line because it's one of my favorites "a slight diversion" Lord.
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