SPOILER!!: Nicky! <3
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Compootor 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.
An excited Adi kept looking at Nick, all set to blurt out his news but the other boy was REALLY concentrating on his task. There was no way the fifth year could concentrate now that he had seen the shadow in the crystal ball. His concentration had gone out of the window and gone soaring among the clouds. He did keep glancing back to the ball, though as if hoping to see the shadow again.
“Or an actual image,’’ he thought.
Adi looked back up at Nick to find him already in the process of asking a question.
“I DID!’’ Woops. He hadn’t meant to shout. Lowering his voice, he continued.
“Yep, but it was a shadow like so I couldn’t tell exactly what it was.’’ WOOT! This was progress!
“What about you?” Did Nick have any luck?
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Wonderful, just wonderful. Edgar let a smile cross his portrait face. "Thank you Professor and thank you again Adi, this will be a great move to get out of that dusty closet." He really didn't like the dust. "I had many ideas, but many that failed." He scratched his head a moment, "There should be a journal of my plans and ideas floating around somewhere still. It would have been in my vault when I passed." Though he wasn't sure who would have ended up with it so many years later. "I tried to invent many magical security items for a home." He had his reason for doing such things, but he did succeed on a few.
“You’re very much welcome,’’ Adi said happily again. Helping out always felt so great and rewarding.
“I hope you get a spot where there would be lots of students visiting and that they’re a careful bunch.’’ Or maybe the bad stuff only happened when a portrait was guarding a passageway.
Back to the inventions.
“That’s understandable. Oh well, at least there’s the Sneakoscope that’s been super useful to everyone at some point in time.'' And a journal with all those ideas! Adi wished he could get his Hufflepuff hands on that! Just to read, of course. Not like he was going to steal Edgar’s ideas.
“I think you journal would make an excellent read, Mr Edgar.” The boy looked at his watch.
“I must be going. Thanks for taking the time to speak with me. I’ll find out where your portrait is put and come visit you someday.’’ Adi finished up his hot chocolate before saying a cheery good bye to Professor Cassie. That was one excellent meeting.