Tempus | Harry Potter |

Seventeen

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After Raya's intense screaming episode, the classroom was filled with Professors, all of whom were trying to attend to the unconscious girl first before attending to the rest of the students whose ears were still ringing from pain.

"All of you are to remain in this classroom until the end of the class period, Professor Flitwick will be here shortly to watch over you all," Lupin said as he tried his best to sound calm, but Harry could read his facial expressions so clearly. He was worried, if only he knew what about.

Standing from his seat, he walked over to him, Lupin sighed. "Harry, I need you to be in your seat right now."

"What was that thing back there, and why was that her biggest fear?" Harry asked in a low tone, only it didn't matter since the rest of the class was still talking about what they had all just witnessed.

"Harry I really must go, sit back down please, and don't get up unless it's an emergency," and before Harry could say anything else, Lupin patted the boy's shoulder, and was soon exiting the classroom.

He was now left standing alone, still without any answers to what he had just witnessed, with what he just heard.

What was that thing? And why did it say I was dead, was that thing death? Is Raya's biggest fear of me dying?

Harry could feel a warm feeling forming in his chest, but immediately brushed it off as he was now heading to the back of the classroom.

"What the hell was that back there, Weasley?" Ron had now jumped from his seat, as Harry had harshly slammed both of his hands onto his desk.

The chattering classroom had come to a halt, as they too were curious to hear Ron's answer.

Only Ron was continuously shaking his head, "I have no idea what that was, or how she did that, I promise!" he said with a slight shake in his voice.

"Oh, that is such bull!" Hermione's voice yelled out from the front of the classroom, "You're like her only friend, how would you not know she could do that?"

"I'm not lying!" Ron yelled out, "I'm telling the truth, I had no idea she could do that, now can you just sit-down Potter, just because you want answers doesn't mean you'll magically receive them."

An echo of 'ooos,' went across the classroom, irritated Harry did as he told, though his anger was still showing as his leg was shaking uncontrollably.

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Harry thought he was able to get his answers soon, as he hoped for Raya to return by the end of their second lesson.

But as their third lesson of the day was now starting, he was starting to lose hope.

Once lunch rolled out, it seemed half of the school knew by now what had happened that morning. Already different versions of the thing that they had all witnessed were being spread around.

"I heard he had no eyes and no nose, how scary," Harry heard from a Hufflepuff boy as he entered the Great Hall.

"He was white as a ghost and had no teeth, at least that's what I heard," Harry heard from a fellow Gryffindor girl who was sitting down a couple of rows down.

He could feel all eyes on him, which he loathed, people staring at him, what for?

"Oh Harry, are you all, right?" Harry's body was less tense at the sight of his girlfriend, Cho, who was now taking a seat next to him.

"Everyone from my class is talking about it, we even heard it, you should have seen the look on Professor Trelawney, it would have appeared if all her bad predictions were coming all true at once."