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Great! Nick was up for some music. “Coming right up!’’ Adi jumped to his feet to scurry off to the wall indicated by the portrait. Whipping out his hippogriff feathered core wand, he touched it to the wall and almost immediately soft instrumental music, the kind he had ever so often heard in this room and during some lessons, began to play. “Better, Nick?’’ Because Adi sure was feeling more focused. And his determination was there too. He wouldn’t be letting anything get the best of him today.
And so he was still gazing, totally focused and not letting any thought enter his mind. This was sort of new… the cleared mind since he was constantly being plagued by thoughts no matter how hard he tried. He was still being plagued by them right now but he seemed to be having an easier time keeping them away. Must be because of the portrait lady’s encouragement.
Adi seemed to be focusing on the crystal ball for what seemed like an eternity when he became aware of a shadowy figure in the crystal. His eyes immediately widened in shock and he moved his face an inch or so closer. Yes, it was a shadow, all fuzzy so he couldn’t exactly make out what it was. He blinked and it was gone. But he knew he hadn’t imagined it! The fifth year quickly checked behind if to see if there was a possibility there was an object reflecting but there was none.
He looked up at Nick excitedly to tell him this development but the other boy seemed to be focused on what he was doing.
Soothing music, just like the kind they had in class. Frankly, Nick was already having difficulty concentrating, and he'd barely started trying yet. He was anything but hopeful. Needless to say, it came as a surprise to him when the soothing music seemed to help.
"Yeah, I think maybe that'll help." he nodded nervously up at Adi. It wasn't as if he was doing very well already, so a little music couldn't hurt, right?
Concentrating. Concentrating.. Concentrating...
Why did divination have to be so hard? Sometimes, Nick really didn't feel like it was fair for something to be on the curriculum if it required the student to have some 'gift' that apparently not everybody had. It was moments like these when Nick could really get upset. Sometimes he really felt like he was never good eno- Wait, what was that? Was that a shadow?
Distracted by his thoughts - the ones he had been supposed to clear his mind of - Nick hadn't been focusing on the crystal ball at all. He'd just been sort of zoned out, looking at nothing in particular, lost in his thoughts. The world had been out of focus, de-saturated and quiet for a few moments, and in a single one of those moments, he'd seen a shadowy shape flicker inside the crystal ball. At least, that's what he thought it was.
He focused on the crystal to try to make out clearly what he was seeing, but as soon as his eyes focused, it vanished. As the edges of the crystal ball sharpened, the shape became more and more blurry, eventually becoming part of the crystal ball's outline, as if that's all it had ever been. Was is some sort of illusion? Wishful thinking? Despite his obvious excitement which he tried to hide, he'd noticed Adi look up from his crystal with an excited look on his face.
"D- Did you see something?" he asked, nervously.