Summer's Eve

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A/N Fun fact, Cordelia James is actually my character from Hogwarts Legacy.

"This memory is from one Miss Cordelia James," Dumbledore told me. "Cordelia James?" Harry wondered. "Cordelia was Joy's great great grandmother, the first benefactor of Arylwren's abilities. Born 1875 and died 1900," Dumbledore told him.

Dumbledore poured the memory into the Pensieve. "Shall we?"

We all went inside and found ourselves in Hogwarts over a hundred years ago. Cordelia James walked down the halls and I noticed she looked a lot like me. Her eyes were a deep violet. I noticed her in the DADA tower. She entered a room where a Slytherin boy was sitting.

"Della?"

"Don't worry, Ominis, I wasn't trying to sneak up on you," Cordelia reassured him. I got a closer look at her uniform. She was a Slytherin too.

"Are we...sure turning Sebastian in was the right thing to do?" she asked him. "He was too far gone," Ominis told her. "Too invested in dark magic. I'm glad he did not pull you into that void, Della."

"Me too, it was a close call," she sighed. "So, I got your owl, what was it you wanted to show me?"

"Sebastian had it, from the restricted section, he was trying to understand your powers," he told me. "Who knows if he'll tell..."

"Let me worry about that," Cordelia put her hand over his. She opened the book and flicked through it. "I don't understand it much myself, you said you were cursed."

"My entire bloodline is cursed Ominis," Cordelia told him. "In my whole family tree, only Muggles have been born. I'm the first chosen descendant of Arylwren, gifted with rare magic but cursed to die young."

"You mean..." Ominis looked scared. I saw in his eyes that his vision was impaired but anyone could see the love in his eyes.

"Yes, including me," she sighed. "I may be able to do things no other witch can do but..."

Cordelia had come across the spell that cursed Arylwren and read it over. Ominis used his wand to help him navigate. "There was a counter curse."

"The curse itself was for no magic to pass through the bloodline and for the descendants to die young but Arylwren fought it and cast a counter curse, which is why I have my powers," Cordelia read through it. 

Cordelia raised her hands instinctively. A sapphire hue flowed from her hands. "Arylwren said whoever was to inherit her power would die young. With the amount that's happened, with poachers, goblins...."

"Cordelia.." Ominis held her hand. "It's going to be alright. I won't let anyone hurt you. We'll fight off this curse as long as we can."

"Ominis Gaunt..."

I nearly gasped once I learned his full name. I looked at the book myself and read the passages about the curse on the three descendants.

Cordelia was the first.

Mum was the second.

I was the last.

The wren's magic was too dangerous for one person to control. Therefore the witches and wizards of this generation banded together to stop that power. They decreed that the wren's offspring will never have magic flow through their veins ever again.

However, once the wren caught a glimpse of their plan, she created a counter curse so only three would inherit her abilities.

The Creator, surrounded by sapphire. The Bringer of Death, surrounded by gold will then birth the Saviour, surrounded by scarlet.