The Jade Malfoy Book 1: Goblet of Fire

Chapter 30: Visions

Ursa's eyes slowly close as she struggles to stay awake in Divinations. She glances over at Harry to see him asleep. Ursa furrows her brow as he starts looking in pain. Ursa carefully gets up and goes over to him. The class slowly surrounds him. Trelawney tries to get him to say what he saw but he insists on going to the hospital wing.

"I'll go with you." Ursa says.

"I'll be fine." Harry says.

"I insist." Ursa says sternly and follows Harry despite his objections.

"I can go alone." Harry says when they are alone in the hall.

"Don't be a hero Harry. I can feel some forms of magic and Dark Magic was radiating off of you. What happened?"

"I need to talk to Dumbledore."

"Then let's go." They go to the gargoyle guarding the entrance.

"Sherbet Lemon?" Harry says. "Pear Drop. Um. Licorice Wand." Ursa watches Harry attempt to guess with an amused look. "Fizzing Whizbee. Drooble's Best Blowing Gum. Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans oh no, he doesn't like them, does he? Oh just open, can't you?" he said angrily. "I really need to see him, it's urgent!" Harry kicks the gargoyle and Ursa chuckles.

"Cockroach Clusters." Ursa says and the gargoyle spins to reveal the staircase.

"Seriously? You knew it and let me guess?"

"It was entertaining. Decided you'd probably hurt yourself more if I didn't interrupt you." They go upstairs to find the office empty except for Fawkes.

"Hello Fawkes." Harry says.

"Hey Baby Bird." Fawkes says to Ursa and Ursa rolls her eyes. "No reply?" Ursa nods towards Harry who sits. "Oh he doesn't know." Ursa paces in the office. After a few minutes of glancing around, Harry notices a stone basin. He walks over to the stone basin. He looks at it's contents, slowly getting closer until his face is in it. He's suddenly lurched into it and Ursa sighs.

"Damn it." Ursa groans. "I forget he was raised by Muggles and doesn't know what a Pensieve is."

"You should probably go fish him out." Fawkes says. Ursa sighs and touches the tip of her finger to the water and gets pulled in.

"Ursa, what is this?" Harry asks as he waves a hand in front of Dumbledore's face.

"A memory. He can't see us idiot."

"Bring them in." Crouch says.

Ursa gasps and covers her mouth as dementors enter flanking four people, three wizards and a witch with wild black curls. A tear falls down her face. "Are you okay?" Harry whispers to Ursa. Ursa nods but cannot take her eyes off the witch. They watch the trial, Ursa silently holding back tears. The witch looks up into the crowd, searching for someone. Ursa follows her eyes to see her mother holding baby Draco and Narcissa's parents and the tears finally fall. Her eyes don't leave Narcissa as the witch speaks.

"The Dark Lord will rise again, Crouch! Throw us into Azkaban; we will wait! He will rise again and will come for us, he will reward us beyond any of his other supporters! We alone were faithful! We alone tried to find him!" Ursa sobs as tears come to Narcissa's eyes. Harry is too focused on the Crouchs to notice.

"I think, children, it's time we return to my office." Dumbledore says. Ursa nods while Dumbledore gently takes Harry's elbow. When Dumbledore and Harry return to the office. Ursa is on her knees crying.

"What was that?" Harry asks.

"Ursa?" Dumbledore questions. "I take it that was hard for you to see."

Ursa nods. "She didn't try to deny it."

"What's wrong?" Harry asks.

"The woman in that trial," Dumbledore says. "That was her aunt."

"Bellatrix Lestrange?"

"I always thought she at least tried to not leave me." Ursa says. "My mother told me she tried to fight it."

Dumbledore carefully kneels next to Ursa. "She did love you Ursa. But her devotion to him was stronger. The jury and I saw you, her, and your mother's visit before the trial. She looked at you like she looked at your mother. Fawkes go fetch Severus." Dumbledore rubs Ursa's back as she cries. Snape runs in a few minutes later.

"What is-" Snape starts until he sees Ursa.

"She saw my memory Bellatrix's trial." Dumbledore says.

"Oh." Snape walks over and helps Ursa to her feet.

"I am sure you can comfort her better than I can."

"Come on Ursa." Snape leads Ursa from the room. Neither of them speak until they reach Snape's office.

"I guess I'm not over her leaving me like I thought I was." Ursa says.

"You don't say?" Snape replies and a small smile appears on Ursa's face.

"I thought she would have at least tried to stay with me."

"I know."

"Mother told me she did."

"You were two Ursa. You were already so broken that she was gone that your mother didn't want to make it worse."

***

Ursa furrows her brow as she reads the letter Lyra just gave her. "What?" Draco asks.

"Our parents aren't coming for the last task." Ursa replies. "Apparently they have a prior engagement." Ursa reads further. "But we still have to sit with Severus. Fun." Ursa hands Draco the note and a candy before getting up and going to the trio. "Good news. My parents won't be here for the last task. Bad news. I still have to sit with Severus."

"So Dumbledore reckons You-Know-Who's getting stronger as well?" Ron asks.

Ursa's head snaps to Ron. "How do you know about that?" She asks.

"He told me." Harry says. "And I saw Professor Snape's Mark in the Pensive. Did you know?"

"Narrow it down." Ursa replies.

"That he is getting stronger, that Snape was a Death Eater, that Karkaroff was one."

"Yes... to all of those." Ursa replies. "I've known for a while. Well I've known about Severus my whole life. When you spilt your armadillo bile in potions, Karkaroff showed Severus his Mark. I was in the storeroom and saw it. And Severus showed me his to confirm it. Dumbledore also confirmed it."

"And Dumbledore trusts him?" Ron asks.

"Yes." Harry and Ursa both say. Hermione starts talking about Rita and Ursa starts absentmindedly playing with the silver snake ring on her finger.

"Is that Draco's?" Ron asks when he notices her. "The ring."

"Huh?" Ursa says. "Oh. No. We both have one. I just sometimes forget to put it back on in the morning. It's a Malfoy family tradition. We get it on our 11th birthday. Supposed to represent our loyalty to the family or something. Every Malfoy has one. Well Malfoy by blood.

"So your mum doesn't have one?" Ron asks.

"No, but her wedding ring is a coiled snake. It's actually very pretty. I actually have two snake rings. The other is black and worn for events.