𝐎, 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃 ⎥ "He wants a fight with
a God? I'll give him one."
﹙ from stardust we came, to stardust we return ﹚
Prisoner of Azkaban - Deathly Hollows
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ELARA HAD NEVER SO URGENTLY WANTED TO GET SOMEWHERE. luna helped elara to dumbledore's office. no comments of nargles were made and the walk was silent except for elara muttering the password.
the gargoyle sprang to life and leapt aside; the wall behind it split in two to reveal a stone staircase that was moving continuously upward like a spiral escalator. the three of them stepped onto the moving stairs; the wall closed behind them with a thud, and they were moving upward in tight circles until they reached the highly polished oak door with the brass knocker shaped like a griffin.
though it was now well past midnight, there were voices coming from inside the room, a positive babble of them. it sounded as though dumbledore was entertaining at least a dozen people.
elara didn't bother with the knocker. she rapped her fist on the wooden door once and pushed the doors open.
the room was in half darkness; the strange silver instruments standing on tables were silent and still rather than whirring and emitting puffs of smoke as they usually did. the portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses covering the walls were all snoozing in their frames. behind the door, a magnificent red-and-gold bird the size of a swan dozed on its perch with its head under its wing.
"oh, hello, elara... and miss lovegood — "
dumbledore was sitting in a high-backed chair behind his desk; he leaned forward into the pool of candlelight illuminating the papers laid out before him. he was wearing a magnificently embroidered purple-and-gold dressing gown over a snowy-white nightshirt, but seemed wide awake, his penetrating light-blue eyes fixed intently upon elara.
"professor," started elara quickly, "i've had a vision — arthur weasley, attacked — snake bites all over — he needs help — "
she stumbled over her words so much that only bits were coherent.
"was the snake — "
"it was nagini — please, professor, we need to help him — "
"this could very well be a vision of the future — "
"then prevent him from going on guard duty!" elara's strong voice rang through the study.
"you know very well not to interfere — "
"but that's just it, sir, something else happened — i saw a woman — "
the knocker on the door sounded three times before professor mcgonagall strode in with harry and ron. luna smiled merrily at them, but elara shot a rather withering glare at harry.
