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alt_sally_anneRight, so. If I'm going to drink a potion that's supposed to let me see into the future I thought I might as well take notes in case I see anything useful. I got, I mean Pansy got me, one of those quills that lets you dictate and it writes down your, I mean it writes down what you say. Um. Yeah. So, I should be able to just describe what I see and it should all get written down, assuming it works right, and right now it's working. I mean I guess it's working.
Okay.
Yeah, give it here. You set aside the bit of it you're sending to Pennifold, right? That's really disgusting looking. Smells pretty terrible too. Not as bad as some of the stuff Madam P makes people drink, though -- oh, bugger. ARGH. I mean, sorry, I wasn't thinking about how it was writing down EVERYTHING. Right. I'm drinking it now. GAH ugh give me the water. Bleah. Tasted like cat pee smells and kind of burned a little going down.
How long do I have to wait?
I'm feeling sort of dizzy, is that supposed to happen?
I think I'm starting to
I see Professor Dolohov and Auror Crouch. They're in his house, the one in London, and they're sitting in his library reading the paper. Auror Crouch is laughing at something. Maybe this is important? ...no, I can see the date on the newspaper and it's two weeks ago. What sort of prophecy potion gives me visions of stuff that happened two weeks ago, are you sure you made it right? Maybe sometime in the future they'll read a super old newspaper? That doesn't make any sense...oh, yeah, she did mention that sometimes you'd see stuff from the past but there's nothing INTERESTING about this, they're just sitting around, why can't I see Crouch doing something more
oh
oh god I don't like this one, MAKE IT STOP, I don't need to see
okay
okay, now I'm seeing myself, on a broom, I'm flying in a Slytherin quidditch game. Wait, it's not a Slytherin game. It's the Holyhead Harpies. I'm flying with the Holyhead Harpies, at least that looks like me. Brilliant! I'd never have thought I had it in me. And there's Pansy in the stands, and Ron, and ... and ... it's a beautiful day and the sun is shining and we're beating the Cannons. Sorry, Ron. I just scored on their Keeper. You know, I don't mind watching this but it doesn't seem very useful.
Things are speeding up, I see
I see Megan Jones with her cat on her shoulder shouting, 'petrificus!'
I see Sirius Black and there are Dementors coming, it looks like hundreds, they're coming and he's falling to his knees. Wait, not Dementors, the swarm, it's Inferi, and it's Regulus Black, not Sirius Black, pulling him down into darkness.
Umbridge's plate, only it's broken and Umbridge isn't a toad anymore and she's straightening up, and she looks confused but really angry.
An old, old woman, in an old fashioned parlour, dead on the floor.
The Lord's Mark in the sky, made of thick black smoke, and I hear Professor Dolohov's voice, he's saying, 'I would rather go into the worlds beyond at the bidding of someone who loved me.'
It's London, I mean I'm seeing old London, I think, really old, like the sort of London you'd read about in Neville's Christmas book, and there's a big, grim building with an iron fence, and a boy with dark hair and a rabbit, it's struggling to get away and then he whispers in its ear and it goes still and he's smiling, but it's not a nice smile.
It's the Leaving Feast and Slytherin's won the House Cup, only suddenly all the banners are turning red and gold, and Harry's smiling like he's really, really happy about it and we're all so young and I'm at the Ravenclaw table, and I'm smiling and whispering something in Padma's ear and she's laughing. Oh, Pansy, you look so angry, so angry, and Draco. And Mr Snape is up at the head table with the teachers and he's FURIOUS but Ron you think it's brilliant, I guess that bit's not surprising. And Hermione's with you at the Gryffindor table, she's in student robes, and she's hugging Neville.
There's a swamp, it's full of creatures, they're like grindylows only they're holding tiny lanterns and pattering around on top of the water, wait, on lilypads that are growing out of the water, it's very dark, they're reaching for oh, it's Hydra, Hydra's here. I mean she's there. I see Hydra and she's pulling up her sleeve. Justin's there too, oh, he's grabbing her wrist like he wants to stop her, I see Justin with Professor Dolohov, wait now he's fighting Bellatrix, he looks like death, Justin I mean, he looks like a cross between himself and Auror Crouch, that sort of death.
The giant squid is singing the Hufflepuff marching song. I didn't even know there was a Hufflepuff marching song. It's a bit like Tow Row Row but with marching badgers. Oh, it's because the giant squid is a Hufflepuff! I never knew that. I wonder how they put the Sorting Hat on its head? Oh, I see, they took the Hat down to the lake and it swam up close to the shore. It was Dumbledore! Dumbledore managed it. That was really nice of him, I think, because I think the squid really wanted to be Sorted and now it has a House of its own.
And now it's time for the Firsties to all get Sorted. Of course Gemma Stretton went into Hufflepuff, she's wanted to be in Hufflepuff for ages. They're sorting Arista Selwyn next. The Hat's taking longer with her, but oh! She's going to be in Hufflepuff with Gemma. That's brilliant, I think they'll be good friends, don't you? Matthew Fawcett to Ravenclaw, I suppose that's not surprising, his sister was a Ravenclaw, after all. And Sanji Patil to Gryffindor! I guess he's more like Parvati than Padma. Just as well because really the world doesn't need more than one Padma.
Oh.
Oh, that can't be right.
I'm sorry, Pansy.
Harry and Draco are furious at each other, they're duelling and OH GOD HARRY WHAT DID YOU DO Draco's covered in blood, I think he's dying, and now Harry's crying and saying he didn't mean it.
Draco's angry, he's angry at everyone, and he's with Bellatrix, is that MLE? it looks like an office, he's sitting at a desk with parchment and pencils and he's drawing something. Did you know Draco draws really beautifully? Except he's not doing a portrait, he's drawing something else. I think it's a map.
Now I see Hogwarts only it's ... it's shattered, there's stones everywhere and rubble like after the World Cup and bodies. So many bodies. There's Colin Creevey. And one of the Twins. And Mr Lupin and Tonks right by each other, side by side, and ...Hydra. Is that -- oh and Terry, and ugh, it's Daphne, and so many others. So many others. People are moving all the bodies into the Great Hall, Sirius is there, and Mrs Longbottom, they're crying.
Oh, Mrs Longbottom
Wait
I'm in St Mungo's and she's there. She's not talking, she's not -- she's just sitting there, not really looking at anyone, even though Neville's there with her, and Neville's Gran. She's staring into space and not looking back at him, this is just awful. He's getting up to go -- oh NOW she's coming after him... she gave him a sweets wrapper and he put it in his pocket. Neville looks so terribly sad.
Harry you're looking for something important only it's in Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringott's. My rat told you where to look and I think he was told by Pansy's Pirate. No, hold on, it's not in the vault, it's on display at Buckingham! Well THAT'S going to be a disaster. Maybe we could burn down Buckingham.
I see the room of hidden things only it's burning. Burning. I think that's Fiendfyre. That's a really terrible idea to cast, by the way, unless you really know what you're doing because once it gets out of control
Burning
That's not Fiendfyre anymore, it's a phoenix.
There's a noise. It's a loud noise but not like the Fiendfyre. I'm outside, I mean I'm outside in London now by Pansy's house and and it's roaring, what is it, it's coming closer, it's getting louder. OH. OH MY GOD PANSY OH
IT'S AN AEROPLANE
IT'S A MUGGLE AEROPLANE RIGHT OVER US.
Okay.
Yeah, give it here. You set aside the bit of it you're sending to Pennifold, right? That's really disgusting looking. Smells pretty terrible too. Not as bad as some of the stuff Madam P makes people drink, though -- oh, bugger. ARGH. I mean, sorry, I wasn't thinking about how it was writing down EVERYTHING. Right. I'm drinking it now. GAH ugh give me the water. Bleah. Tasted like cat pee smells and kind of burned a little going down.
How long do I have to wait?
I'm feeling sort of dizzy, is that supposed to happen?
I think I'm starting to
I see Professor Dolohov and Auror Crouch. They're in his house, the one in London, and they're sitting in his library reading the paper. Auror Crouch is laughing at something. Maybe this is important? ...no, I can see the date on the newspaper and it's two weeks ago. What sort of prophecy potion gives me visions of stuff that happened two weeks ago, are you sure you made it right? Maybe sometime in the future they'll read a super old newspaper? That doesn't make any sense...oh, yeah, she did mention that sometimes you'd see stuff from the past but there's nothing INTERESTING about this, they're just sitting around, why can't I see Crouch doing something more
oh
oh god I don't like this one, MAKE IT STOP, I don't need to see
okay
okay, now I'm seeing myself, on a broom, I'm flying in a Slytherin quidditch game. Wait, it's not a Slytherin game. It's the Holyhead Harpies. I'm flying with the Holyhead Harpies, at least that looks like me. Brilliant! I'd never have thought I had it in me. And there's Pansy in the stands, and Ron, and ... and ... it's a beautiful day and the sun is shining and we're beating the Cannons. Sorry, Ron. I just scored on their Keeper. You know, I don't mind watching this but it doesn't seem very useful.
Things are speeding up, I see
I see Megan Jones with her cat on her shoulder shouting, 'petrificus!'
I see Sirius Black and there are Dementors coming, it looks like hundreds, they're coming and he's falling to his knees. Wait, not Dementors, the swarm, it's Inferi, and it's Regulus Black, not Sirius Black, pulling him down into darkness.
Umbridge's plate, only it's broken and Umbridge isn't a toad anymore and she's straightening up, and she looks confused but really angry.
An old, old woman, in an old fashioned parlour, dead on the floor.
The Lord's Mark in the sky, made of thick black smoke, and I hear Professor Dolohov's voice, he's saying, 'I would rather go into the worlds beyond at the bidding of someone who loved me.'
It's London, I mean I'm seeing old London, I think, really old, like the sort of London you'd read about in Neville's Christmas book, and there's a big, grim building with an iron fence, and a boy with dark hair and a rabbit, it's struggling to get away and then he whispers in its ear and it goes still and he's smiling, but it's not a nice smile.
It's the Leaving Feast and Slytherin's won the House Cup, only suddenly all the banners are turning red and gold, and Harry's smiling like he's really, really happy about it and we're all so young and I'm at the Ravenclaw table, and I'm smiling and whispering something in Padma's ear and she's laughing. Oh, Pansy, you look so angry, so angry, and Draco. And Mr Snape is up at the head table with the teachers and he's FURIOUS but Ron you think it's brilliant, I guess that bit's not surprising. And Hermione's with you at the Gryffindor table, she's in student robes, and she's hugging Neville.
There's a swamp, it's full of creatures, they're like grindylows only they're holding tiny lanterns and pattering around on top of the water, wait, on lilypads that are growing out of the water, it's very dark, they're reaching for oh, it's Hydra, Hydra's here. I mean she's there. I see Hydra and she's pulling up her sleeve. Justin's there too, oh, he's grabbing her wrist like he wants to stop her, I see Justin with Professor Dolohov, wait now he's fighting Bellatrix, he looks like death, Justin I mean, he looks like a cross between himself and Auror Crouch, that sort of death.
The giant squid is singing the Hufflepuff marching song. I didn't even know there was a Hufflepuff marching song. It's a bit like Tow Row Row but with marching badgers. Oh, it's because the giant squid is a Hufflepuff! I never knew that. I wonder how they put the Sorting Hat on its head? Oh, I see, they took the Hat down to the lake and it swam up close to the shore. It was Dumbledore! Dumbledore managed it. That was really nice of him, I think, because I think the squid really wanted to be Sorted and now it has a House of its own.
And now it's time for the Firsties to all get Sorted. Of course Gemma Stretton went into Hufflepuff, she's wanted to be in Hufflepuff for ages. They're sorting Arista Selwyn next. The Hat's taking longer with her, but oh! She's going to be in Hufflepuff with Gemma. That's brilliant, I think they'll be good friends, don't you? Matthew Fawcett to Ravenclaw, I suppose that's not surprising, his sister was a Ravenclaw, after all. And Sanji Patil to Gryffindor! I guess he's more like Parvati than Padma. Just as well because really the world doesn't need more than one Padma.
Oh.
Oh, that can't be right.
I'm sorry, Pansy.
Harry and Draco are furious at each other, they're duelling and OH GOD HARRY WHAT DID YOU DO Draco's covered in blood, I think he's dying, and now Harry's crying and saying he didn't mean it.
Draco's angry, he's angry at everyone, and he's with Bellatrix, is that MLE? it looks like an office, he's sitting at a desk with parchment and pencils and he's drawing something. Did you know Draco draws really beautifully? Except he's not doing a portrait, he's drawing something else. I think it's a map.
Now I see Hogwarts only it's ... it's shattered, there's stones everywhere and rubble like after the World Cup and bodies. So many bodies. There's Colin Creevey. And one of the Twins. And Mr Lupin and Tonks right by each other, side by side, and ...Hydra. Is that -- oh and Terry, and ugh, it's Daphne, and so many others. So many others. People are moving all the bodies into the Great Hall, Sirius is there, and Mrs Longbottom, they're crying.
Oh, Mrs Longbottom
Wait
I'm in St Mungo's and she's there. She's not talking, she's not -- she's just sitting there, not really looking at anyone, even though Neville's there with her, and Neville's Gran. She's staring into space and not looking back at him, this is just awful. He's getting up to go -- oh NOW she's coming after him... she gave him a sweets wrapper and he put it in his pocket. Neville looks so terribly sad.
Harry you're looking for something important only it's in Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringott's. My rat told you where to look and I think he was told by Pansy's Pirate. No, hold on, it's not in the vault, it's on display at Buckingham! Well THAT'S going to be a disaster. Maybe we could burn down Buckingham.
I see the room of hidden things only it's burning. Burning. I think that's Fiendfyre. That's a really terrible idea to cast, by the way, unless you really know what you're doing because once it gets out of control
Burning
That's not Fiendfyre anymore, it's a phoenix.
There's a noise. It's a loud noise but not like the Fiendfyre. I'm outside, I mean I'm outside in London now by Pansy's house and and it's roaring, what is it, it's coming closer, it's getting louder. OH. OH MY GOD PANSY OH
IT'S AN AEROPLANE
IT'S A MUGGLE AEROPLANE RIGHT OVER US.
(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 01:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 01:58 am (UTC)I say, let us know when she's in Matron's care.
It's dashed difficult to read this sort of thing in one's journal in Professor Dolohov's office and not react to it, what.
I believe I shall proceed to a nice, calm book on the meanings of curse scars, to settle the nerves.
(I wonder what all that means? How much was a true vision, what, and how much was simply things that might be. Or never were.)
-Justin
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Date: 2014-05-02 02:04 am (UTC)Severus, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is not a particularly RELIABLE method of getting a peek into the future, is it? If it were, it wouldn't have fallen out of use.
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Date: 2014-05-02 02:35 am (UTC)Hope she'll be ok. Pansy, give us a report as soon as she wakes up?
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Date: 2014-05-02 02:39 am (UTC)Hope that something useful comes out of all this. Sounds like it was bloody unpleasant to experience first-hand.
Private Message to Fred and George
Date: 2014-05-02 03:45 am (UTC)I'm sorry.
Besides, it might be utter rubbish, like the squid.
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Date: 2014-05-02 03:26 am (UTC)There is Muggle science theory that attempts to explain it, but you do not have the background to appreciate it, so I will forego the lecture. Your fate is not, however, written in stone. No one's is.
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Date: 2014-05-02 03:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 03:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 03:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 04:00 am (UTC)Private Message to mum
Date: 2014-05-02 03:52 am (UTC)Or a symbol
Or nonsense
Or something we can change, and make sure it doesn't happen
Right?
Re: Private Message to mum
Date: 2014-05-02 03:54 am (UTC)Yes, that's quite true.
And sweetie, I'm going to work as hard as I can to make sure we all get through this in one piece.
I think the vision of the aeroplane was rather hopeful. I'm going to hold that close tonight.
Re: Private Message to mum
Date: 2014-05-02 03:56 am (UTC)Give dad a hug for me, will you?
And if Colin comes up, give him a hug too.
Re: Private Message to mum
Date: 2014-05-02 03:59 am (UTC)Your dad could feel the magical surge all the way in Moddey Dhoo today, you know. He was grinning from ear to ear when I came back home.
And right now, we're all safe, and sound, and healthy.
And that means the world.
(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 03:54 am (UTC)In essence, what this vision provides you is knowledge that each of us has already had: that, like all men, you are mortal, and will someday die. Hominem te esse memento, memento mori, and all that.
That we will all someday die is inevitable; this vision is but one potential version of that death. And as multiple elements of Miss Perks' vision are clearly counterfactual — I was not teaching at Hogwarts when the children were younger; Sanji Patil is dead and cannot be Sorted — it is impossible to tell which of the remaining are true visions, and which are phantasts.
The potion is no longer in favour for that very reason. Do not allow yourselves to dwell upon what might be or what might never come to pass.
(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 04:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 04:51 am (UTC)Will you leave off the damn squid? It's not important. That's just the sort of thing this hallucinogenic potion makes people see.
(If all we wanted were visions of improbable alternate realities, I could have saved her loads of trouble with the brewing.)
(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 02:14 am (UTC)Well, Helga did say she'd take them all...
(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 02:20 am (UTC)I think we can decide that both that vision and the one where I'm surrounded by Dementors are not going to happen.
Private Message to Remus
Date: 2014-05-02 02:27 am (UTC)Merlin, I'm still all over gooseflesh from that bloody stone on Skye.
(I can't quite imagine how Charlie and Dora must have felt trying to do anything in all that. Either they were so distracted by the blinding headaches they couldn't manage anything or they'll have been practically vibrating so much that they did their solemn duty several times over. Not that I'm going to ask!)
Re: Private Message to Remus
Date: 2014-05-02 02:30 am (UTC)Re: Private Message to Remus
Date: 2014-05-02 02:47 am (UTC)Re: Private Message to Remus
Date: 2014-05-02 02:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 02:24 am (UTC)I'm staying put. Pansy'll stay at least for a while. I don't know, maybe Madam P will let her stay over, too, if she wants. There aren't too many people in here tonight.
(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 01:54 am (UTC)Are you finished?
I say, are you all right?
Ron, Pansy--you're with her, what--is everything all right?
-Justin
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Date: 2014-05-02 01:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 02:17 am (UTC)If Sally-Anne's playing professional Quidditch, that must be a vision once the war's over. Unless it's wishful thinking. Does anyone know if Sally-Anne ever dreamed of playing Quidditch?
I've no idea if the one about Jones' cat is anything significant, it seems like it could be or it could just be a random event. We'll have to wait to see if Sally-Anne can remember anything else about it.
The one about Sirius could be the future if MLE ever catch him again. And the one about Regulus.... Well, no one's heard from him in a long time so maybe that's really how he died? (Sorry, it if was, it sounds horrible.)
I really hope the one about Umbridge doesn't come true.
No idea about the next two. They seem plausible, though.
Oh, I wish we could put Sally-Anne's memory of this in a Pensieve because it would be really helpful to see the faces she saw. I mean, the old woman and the boy in this one, and other people she doesn't recognise because maybe someone else could if they saw them.
And obviously the next one and the one later about me at the Gryffindor table, those aren't real. Maybe those are things that could have happened if things had been different.
The rest.... I hope you're right, Mr Lupin, and it's not true. But I think it could be what happens if Draco takes the Mark? Or, I don't know, maybe it's a warning of some kind.
Divination is such a frustrating field.
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Date: 2014-05-02 02:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 02:53 am (UTC)Private Message to Neville
Date: 2014-05-02 03:41 am (UTC)No matter what the future holds, we're all still here right now, and I love you.
I love you so very much.
We'll get through this. I promise. And it's important to not take these things at face value. Some of it might be a potential future, but Severus is right. Nothing is set in stone.
Re: Private Message to Neville
Date: 2014-05-02 11:23 am (UTC)Oh.
Unless the Protectorate falls.Well, never mind. You're right. It's best to just concentrate on the here and now.
(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 03:08 am (UTC)I mean, I know you want to be a Healer. Still, I think I could see it happening.
(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 03:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 04:02 am (UTC)I find that agreeable.
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Date: 2014-05-02 04:13 am (UTC)That's the problem with Divination. It's far too imprecise.
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Date: 2014-05-02 04:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 04:30 am (UTC)Some of it's rubbish, though.
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Date: 2014-05-02 04:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 04:53 am (UTC)And anyway, I do think you're right and it's not really worth bothering with about half of what Sally-Anne reported but some of it could be really important. Like the bit about looking for something at Buckingham. Or whatever's in your aunt's vault that might be helpful to us.
(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-02 03:38 pm (UTC)Even if there were something in this that weren't rubbish, how would anyone even know? until AFTER it happened, at which point it's completely useless.