FORTUNA SPEAKS
“Of course all the Rasperites behind us couldn’t believe it,” said Alice. Their great leader was gone. They were as shocked as we were, but that didn’t last long. Horne and Rory were in a fury.
“They shouted ‘Get them! Throw them into the corn!!”
And they started to come towards us. We didn’t know what to do. There was nowhere to run and there were hundreds of them, but then...then there was a voice from the Great Hall speakers!
It said, ‘The Corn has spoken! The Corn has spoken!’
And everyone stood still. I knew who the voice was. It was Fortuna. And that’s what I mean when I said, I don’t know how it happened. I know she was with us carrying the chair when we were at the stadium. She must have slipped away when we were running and somehow got into the Great Hall to th
