Through The Veil「 The Veil Trilogy Part Ⅱ 」✔

[38] Cursed Sight

With every passing minute, the anticipation I felt increased.

I was worried for so many people at the same time. Almost my whole family had gone after Voldemort to free Harry and the others while I could do nothing as I was still at school.

I had gone to the Hospital Wing to ask Madam Pomfrey for a calming drought. But seeing Umbridge there as well as the state she was in made me want to throw up so I returned to the Head Prefects' dorms.

True, I hated Umbridge and I still do but what the centaurs did to her was too much of a punishment that I certainly did not want to be inflicted on her.

Now I felt terrible for all the times I had wished she would get jinxed by the curse on the Defense teacher's post. It made me feel that I was in some way responsible for her current situation.

And if everything else already going on wasn't enough, that thought made me sick to the core.

"Kat, I brought some calming drought for you," Roger's voice shook me out of that dreadful pit of worries and I looked up to see him standing in front of me. "I met Madam Pomfrey and she said you came to get it from the Hospital Wing but left before she fetched it for you."

Oh...

Well, I did need that potion badly so that I would be able to calm myself down. My nerves were all over the place and even the slightest of sounds were starting to make me jittery.

I could kinda relate to how Moony felt a few days before full moon.

"Thanks," I took the potion from him and conjured a goblet so that I could drink it.

Thankfully, he didn't ask me why I was so on edge instead he just stood there in assurance. Roger Davies truly was a kind soul that I had failed to recognize earlier.

But I am glad we sorted things out and are friends now.

"You don't have to worry about anything," he told me after I drank he potion, waiting for its effects to kick in, "you should rest here and I'll manage the curfew rounds with the other prefects. I'll also get you notes of the remaining classes for today."

I nodded, feeling too drowsy to say anything as my eyelids started getting heavier.

I knew it was an effect of the drought, it would put me to sleep for a short while and hopefully when I wake up, I will feel better.

But the darkness that I thought was engulfing me due to the potion soon started to clear up, showing me a place that I hadn't been in before. It was almost as if I had been teleported from the Head Prefects' common room to the eerie hall that spread out before me.

I couldn't even see Roger but deep down I felt he was still there.

Oh no... Not another vision.

I was certainly not ready to have another vision that would turn out to be true and haunt me forever.

"Roger?" I called out but it felt as if my voice was stuck.

Someone gripped my hand and I could feel it was Roger but his voice too was coming for very far away. To far for me to decipher the words. And all I could see was that dark hall with a giant veil erected in a corner.

Seeing that veil made my skin crawl as if something terrible was going to happen and it involved that veil.

I tried to snap out of the vision before I saw anything but it was already too late.

Jets of red and green light were flying everywhere and I barely recognized the Order members locked in battle with the Death Eaters. My eyes only searched for one face but when I saw him, everything around me went numb.

He shouldn't have come with the Order... Sirius shouldn't have risked himself...

I told him not to leave Grimmauld Place but he didn't listen...

"Stupefy!" A jet of red light struck Sirius and he went toppling back, right through that terrifying veil.

I don't know what happened next. The clamor in my head grew louder and I could only hear my name being called out again and again as if someone was trying to wake me up.

After a painfully long time, I snapped out of that vision, seeing Roger in front of me and feeling my face was wet as he had probably tried to use water to snap me out of the horrible thing that just happened.

"Kat, are you okay? What just happened?"

My eyes were wide in shock and tears were streaking down my face. I stared at him blankly as all I could see repeating in front of me was that terrible vision.

Sirius fell through that veil and no one could help him. Sirius fell and Remus was trying to hold Harry back with the look of defeat and sorrow on his face that I could never forget.

Sirius fell and Bellatrix Lestrange's ominous cackle erupted in my head, making everything hurt horribly.

Sirius...

"I must take you to the Hospital Wing..." I felt Roger try to support me and lift me up but I was still in a state of half consciousness.

"Don't," I managed to choke out, "just... Leave, please..."

Everything seemed to be crashing down on me and the weight was crushing me underneath. I did not know what happened next, whether Roger took me to the infirmary or not.

All I knew was that it had been too late. I had been too late.

And that horrifying feeling clawed at my heart that Sirius couldn't be brought back from the veil.

We had gotten too late...

That very instant, I felt it stronger than ever that my ability to see into the future wasn't a gift but a curse. I only ever saw the bad things, the things I wished would never happen.

And then after I envisioned them, they would come true and I would be unable to do anything about it.

I was helpless...

I would feel guilty that I knew and could still do nothing. And my cursed sixth sense made me go through the torture over and over again.

Being a Seer was no blessing. It was the worst curse ever put on a witch or wizard. I could see that very clearly now.

I was cursed just like Sybil and Cassandra Trelawney and the many Seers before them.

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