Long Gone

Chapter VIII

"Go, Miah!" I shout from the bottom of my lungs as he flies next to the gryffindor seeker. The snitch is right in front of them, but neither of them catches it.

"Come on take the snitch! It can't be so hard!" Elodie screams.

"Isn't quidditch just wonderful?"

I turn around to see who said it. It's a tiny first-year boy. I've never talked to him before, but I know he adores me. And he's looking up to me right now, like I was the most beautiful thing in the world. I'm about to turn my back on him, but then I realize that I could need him one day. I'm going to need everyone I can get.

"Oh hi there" I say, after a little silence. He looks surprised. Then he smiles really brightly.

"Hi I'm Mike! I just started here, a few months ago... But you know that already, the hat put me in slytherin and I'm so happy to be in a same house with you! It thought of putting me in hufflepuff, for almost three minutes..."

I'm not listening half of what he's saying, but I smile and nod as if I was.

" Oh I'm so sorry, sorry. Nice to meet you, miss Y/N" he says and shakes my hand. He's ridiculous.

"Same words for you" I say. Before he can open his mouth again, Cecil pushes through the crowd and drags me and Elodie with her.

"What's the matter with you?" Elodie snaps. They almost get along nowadays.

"Well you can stay if you want, but if I were you, I wouldn't want to" Cecil says and leads us to the castle.

We're in the secret room again, only it's not tiny anymore. We made more space with spells, and also Jackson and Alyssa stole a sofa from professor Trelawney's room. Yep. A sofa. It was wonderful, one day we all met in the secret room (which we nowadays call our base) and Jackson wanted us to see something. He was holding a tiny little purple sofa. Cecil was like, what are we going to do with a toy sofa? Then he used the engorgio charm on the sofa and it swelled until it was normal-sized. I thought it was so cool. I also said so, which I clearly should not have done because it inspired him to steal more furniture from her room, which she definitely noticed. Luckily Jackson didn't get caught. Oh and he decided to dye his hair purple, like the sofa, and Alyssa of course did the same. So yeah, now they both look like they're wearing a cheap curly wig.

There are now me, Cecil, Elodie, Jackson (I usually call him just Jack), Alyssa and our gang's newest member, Carolyn. She's pretty quiet, oh and she's ravenclaw. Now we have members from all the houses. Jeremiah is the only one who's not here, but he's playing so he can't.

"What is it?" I ask.

Jackson and Alyssa trade a look.

"Alyssa saw something" Jackson says carefully after a little silence.

"About professor O'Connell" Alyssa continues.

I sit down to the sofa, I take most of the space like a boss and let the others sit down in not so comfortable chairs. There's not enough for all of us, so Carolyn sits down on the floor. Suddenly i feel sorry for her so i give her some space and she comes to sit next to me.

I take a deep breath.

"Go on."

Alyssa and Jackson look at each other again, then Alyssa clears throat.

"I think he... I think he's almost figured out how to repair the Elder wand... After that..." she seems to swallow painfully.

"After that he's going to be able to take over the school, i don't know, maybe the ministry. And Y/N, he's seen you!! He has the Sight just like us!! He knows you're after the same thing. But his Sight is weak. Really weak.  shouldn't be seeing this all so clear. "

Elodie gets up.

"What does this mean?" she wonders out loud.

Carolyn moves a little next to me. She takes off her large round glasses, which she clearly wears only because of the fashion, and starts with a quiet voice:

"So he has something that strengthens his Sight."

We all shut our mouths and listen to her.

"I'm pretty sure I know what it is. We could use it, too. Only getting near to it would be quite... Dangerous. And to use it, we need to brew a potion... And oh no, I don't believe that we have enough time for it."

Elodie seems really interested, but also annoyed because she didn't about know this.

"What is it and why don't I know about it?" Elodie asks, speaking barely louder than a whisper.

Carolyn looks at all of us, and I'm surprised that I can't see in her any happiness of knowing something that no one else does.

"You don't know it because it's only mentioned in one book in the whole Hogwarts's library, and it's in the restricted section. McGonagall gave me permission to go there because of an extra essay that I was writing. And I of course read all the books I could in three days, while the permission lasted - "

"Stick in the subject, please? " says Cecil, but it sounds more like a question than an order like usually when she speaks.

"Oh of course, sorry. So it's basically a chair made of wood" Carolyn continues, "and it's called the Throne of the Prophet. Nobody knows who made it, or if it just made itself. It's very old, almost ancient, and it changes place once in a while. What is known is, that it's always in a dungeon surrounded by deadly traps. It represents itself to anyone who has even a weak Sight and happens to be nearest. Seems like professor O'Connel was that person this time."

"Yeah, what is the chair?? How does it work?" I ask, losing my patience.

"It's complicated, but if we're going to use it, I'm going to have to explain it anyway. So here we go" she says and takes a deep breath.

"You'll need Wideye potion, I'm not exactly aware why. Then you're going to put some lavender in it... Again, I don't know why. I guess that'll protect you from the traps or maybe the chair is trying to make you fall asleep... Anyway, going near it will be tricky. But once you're sitting in the chair, if you just have the Sight, you're going to have a Sight clearer than you could ever imagine. Of course it depends on how strong your Sight already is. Seems like O'Connel's is really, really weak. But yours - " she looks at me very seriously.

"Yours must be one of the strongest in existence."

A deep silence follows her speech.