Violet Potter and the Basilisk Plague (Year Two)

Chapter Twenty-Four: Mopsus In The Chamber of Time

When Violet Potter opened her eyes again, she found herself in a mysterious room with an abundance of magical and non-magical clocks, hourglasses, and mirrors all around her. Violet found it all very peculiar, and tried to remember how she could have possibly ended up here after she'd ended up destroying the Phantom of Illusion and, she supposed, the Mirror of Erised itself. That was all Violet had remembered. At some point someone must have rescued her and brought her here.

"So you have awakened at last, Violet Potter, that was quite a predicament, though nothing that could hinder my rescue of you..." A mysterious voice, an ethereal male voice had called out to her. Almost as if to beckon her. "Who are you?" Violet called out, uncertain if she really wanted to find out but at the same time, also cautiously intrigued. "Where have you brought me? Am I inside the Chamber of Time?" Violet felt inside her robes toward her hidden wand pocket, preparing herself to produce and use her wand to fight off this stranger if necessary.

"You would have no need of a wand in this place, at least not at this moment." There, floating and dazzling before Violet, was a magical sphere of bright light, from which the voice emanated. As the sphere touched down to the stone floor, it grew and took the shape of an elderly man, or the ghost of an elderly man with long robes and silver beard. He was also Greek, he had been born all at once blind, and a seer.

He was Kostos Mopsus. And although there were those in his life who laughed and didn't always take him seriously, as a prophet he saw all.

"Violet Potter, I am Mopsus. Though I am departed from the world of the living, I have been watching the fortunes and misfortunes of you and of your brother. There is much that I have seen, and many trials you both have yet to face until the one who calls himself the Dark Lord is to be confronted and battled."

"And what about the Phantom of Illusion? The last thing I remember, I was trapped and fighting him, though it was beginning to feel like I couldn't for much longer. Does this mean that he---and the Mirror of Erised---have both been destroyed?" Violet asked the Blind Seer.

"Tell me my child, how else could you have been brought to this place? I would say that the Mirror and the Phantom are both no more. You see Violet, it was you all along who was destined to rid wizardkind forever of the curse of the Mirror of Erised when for centuries, so many others had fallen into temptation or desperation from something that never really was or truly ever could be, and failed."

Something suddenly clicked for Violet. "That must be why, when I looked into the mirror to see my heart's deepest desire in my first year, there was something very obviously off about it, something strangely blurred." It was then, that a small crystal vial, full of a shimmery, pearlescent looking substance had also been discovered to be hidden in her other robe pocket. "Glimmersalve, Violet, from Rowena Ravenclaw's Chamber of Time. No more and no less than is sufficient for the Mandrake Draft." Mopsus explained.

"Thank you so much!" Violet placed the vial of glimmersalve into one of her robe pockets.

Suddenly, a vast entrance into the Chamber of Time had also opened, and through it, Victoria and Devon both appeared and hurried over to where the raven-haired girl was standing, and Violet hurried over to her friends, and told them all about her battle against the Phantom of Illusion and the Mirror of Erised which he had occupied for centuries. Then, the three of them turned to Mopsus when he spoke to them. "Before I transport you all back to the Three-Door Corridor, there is one thing, that I must reveal about the future. Violet Potter, Victoria Maynard, and Devon Wolfe, if you will, I shall need you to heed what I am about to reveal to you before you depart from this place.

And Violet, Victoria, and Devon all turned to face Mopsus and to listen just before the ghost began to contort and go into a bizarre, trance-like state that was really beginning to creep Violet out. And when Mopsus spoke again, it was in a far more terrifying, otherworldly, tone, almost like a warning. But it was really prophecy.

"It will happen in the immediate years to come, that the One Who Titles Himself The Dark Lord shall return, aided by three loyal servants, the first three to return to his side. One who was once a member of the Marauders four, who had sold out his friends in betrayal and murder...one who is currently seen by most to be the father of one now present, but who is not by blood her father, is currently imprisoned. This however shall not remain true as he shall escape before the end of Summer's time, and the third is the son of one prominent wizard who has gone so terribly astray and whose father has his own terrifying skeletons. A young student of wizardry, looked up to by many of his peers shall meet his end before his time, there shall be an intense battle waged for another prophecy, and all shall know the grim truth their current leader would fail to silence and pay through public disgrace and resignation. A legend among wizardkind shall fall, but all shall not be as it at first seems. And the three now in my presence shall have neccesity to travel far and wide to locate others to help fight in the battle to determine if the Dark Lord or the chosen will fall...."

And after that, Mopsus was gone in a flash of nearly blinding light. And Violet, Tori, and Devon now discovered that they had even more questions without answers than when they first ventured into the other three Chambers.