Three Idiots and a Ghost

The first weeks of Meridas time in Hogwarts was interesting or maybe fantastic would have been a better word to describe it. For an adventurous soul like her this was the place to be. She had always loved the fairytales with magic when she was younger. She used countless of hours exploring the strange castle.

The lessons were fun. She had never went to a school that was fun or interesting. She had always ached to get outside run around and practice with her archery. She was an average student. Not the best but certainly not the worst, with the exception of transfiguration in which she excelled at abnormally. Professor Fitzherbert, who teached the subject, called it raw talent.

She absolutely loathed History of Magic. It was often spent whispering with her friends. She talked a lot about Elsa with Anna. Despite how sad she was that she was being ignored, Anna loved talking about her sister.

"It seems like the only one she talks to is that ghost Jack Frost. Who is he?" Merida whispered during one of the before mentioned torture sessions. Anna smiled at my never-ending fascination of her sister before she answered; "Well besides being the house ghost of Ravenclaw, he is an ancestor of our family. He was well known for his ice magic, even in muggle society. You haven't heard of him?"

This made Merida giggle a little. "Well I'm not that interested in history" she whispered back as she absent-mindedly watched the ridiculous toupee of their history professor slowly fall off his head. "Well muggles have a legend of him being the bringer of winter or something, they don't even know he was a real person." Anna said just as absent-mindedly, just as class ended.

"Finally!" Merida cheered as soon as professor Weselton let the class leave. She then grabbed Anna, spun her so that she faced her and made sure no one was listening in when she asked; "Now how do we get her to talk to us?"

This made the usually happy-faced Anna frown. "If I knew that I would be talking to her all the time," She said "I mean she doesn't even talk to mom and dad. It surprised me that she talked to Jack." Anna looked at Merida, then added "You know you could try just to talk to her, you might have better luck then I had."

"Aye that's the problem lass." Merida said with a look that rarely flashed her face. "I'm scared." she looked away "What if she turns me down? What if she laughs at me? And even worse what if she just ignores me, like she does with everyone else?" She sighed and looked Anna in the eyes again "I don't think I can handle it if that happened!"

Anna leaped forward and hugged Merida. "Elsa would never laugh at you," She said gently "I may not have talked to her in like forever, but Elsa is kind, I know this much. You have to talk to her, you'll never know otherwise" she pulled back and looked at Merida with a fierce determined look and then added "And if she ignores you, she'll answer to me!"

Merida didn't know how to answer that with anything else than "Thank you." She decided to go outside and look for a place to shoot her bow and dragged Anna with her. She didn't know if she was allowed to shoot it on the castle grounds, she had to ask Professor Fitzherbert about it, but scouting the best places couldn't hurt and they needed fresh air after Weaseltowns class.

As she walked outside, moving her stiffened body, she thought of her conversation with Anna. It was strange, how much she cared for Elsa. She didn't even know her very well, she had never talked to her. Merida knew herself pretty well though, she knew that she had to do something about these feelings or they would consume her, she knew that Anna was right.

Somewhere inside the castle, in an emty classroom, Elsa was thinking something similar. She didn't consider talking to anyone. She only considered her strange fascination with the adorable redhead that had been sorted into Gryffindor, the adorable redhead that weren't her sister. Merida DunBroch the professor had called her.

She had never talked to her, she couldn't risk that. She hadn't heard anything about her. She was however illogically infatuated with the girl. She didn't know what to do with these feelings. She liked when things were straightforward. She loved logic. She hated the irrationality of the situation, though she couldn't hate the feelings she had or the girl that these feelings revolved around.

It was one of the reasons she had such trouble controlling her ice magic. They were controlled by feelings. Something that more often then not had nothing to do with logic. That was what Jack had told her anyway. The wizard family Frost had a talent, an affinity for Ice magic. Without incantation or wand some of the family members could control ice and snow. It wasn't a power that could be turned off. Only controlled.

It was a talent that often skipped a generation and it hadn't been since Jack Frosts time it had been as powerful as Elsa was. When she was younger Elsa had hurt Anna because she couldn't control it. She wouldn't allow it to happen again. Until she was in control, Elsa would be alone. She couldn't interact with Anna, Merida or anyone else for that matter, until she had it under control.

She really wanted to though. She looked out a window and saw the two adorable redheads talking and laughing together. "Why don't you just talk to them?" a voice beside her inquired. Jack frost was floating beside her with a knowing smile. "You like your sisters new friend right?"

Elsa rolled her eyes. "You know that I can't do that. What if I hurt them?" Jack sighed before he answered, "I've told you a thousand times, nothing good will come from you keeping yourself from interacting with others. I did that almost my whole life until Tooth came into my life and smacked some sense into me."

"Just because you learned it when you met someone doesn't mean I will." she said with annoyance in her voice, "What did she do that taught you control anyways?"

"She stole my heart and calmed me down, maybe this girl will do it for you."

"What if I won't calm down? What if my feelings get out of control and I hurt her? Have you considered that?" She wasn't shouting, but it was close to it. The room she was in had cooled down considerably and frost started to form on the window. As she noticed this she bolted from the luckily empty classroom, away from Jack.

She ran to the only place she could let her powers free, outside. She didn't see where she was going. She just needed to contain it. If she had stayed in the castle she would have frozen it solid, out here it would at most start snowing.

She ended up at the lake. Out of breath she sat on a rock, as she watched it freeze over. She felt the new snow on her shoulders. She relaxed and let it out for a moment.

"Hey, are you all right?" she heard a concerned voice behind her. She turned her head and froze, no pun intended, when she saw who it was. Merida continued, "I saw you run out of the castle like a dragon was chasing you."

Elsa stared at Merida for about a minute before she said, "I'm fine." and turned her head towards the now frozen lake. She knew she didn't look fine.

"Are you sure?" Elsa could hear that Merida walked closer. Without much thought she turned to face Merida and half-shouted, "I said I'm fine!" and out of anger and fear, frost shot out of her hands.

Elsa panicked for a few moments and when she saw that she miraculously she hadn't hurt Merida, she ran again, leaving her there astonished. Merida wasn't entirely sure what had just happened. Why had Elsa conjured up ice?

In the week to come the little incident at the lake hadn't deterred Merida in the slightest. Elsa had been upset and in came a first-year that knew nothing of her. She was still confused about the ice thing but she let that go. Their little meeting at the lake had given her the courage to talk to her again.

Though in the week that Merida tried to talk to her, she had been painfully ignored. Every time she walked up to her Elsa would just go somewhere else. Even if Merida only tried to look her in the eyes Elsa would avert them. At the end of the week Merida felt defeated and thought she might as well stop; Elsa clearly didn't want to talk to her.

All of this was observed by Anna. She had kept herself out of it at Meridas request. She had heard about their encounter at the lake. It wasn't easy to watch. It had made her remember the time Elsa had started ignoring her. But she respected Meridas wishes to leave it up to her.

That was until she saw the pain in Meridas eyes, as she realised that she was defeated, that she couldn't do anything. She couldn't just sit and do nothing. Anna knew that Elsa had a good reason. She always did, for everything. She knew that Elsa loved her and therefore could accept that she was ignored.

This was different she could accept it if it was only done to herself, but if Elsa started doing it to her friend and hurt her in the process? This was something she just couldn't accept. It was time for her to do something, it was time for her to tell her sister she was being mean. It was time to get mad!

She quickly searched the castle until she found Elsa, talking casually with Jack. When she saw Anna walking up to her she widened her eyes, then averted them. "Elsa I need to talk to you," Anna said with fire in her eyes.

"Go away Anna." she said simply and walked towards the Ravenclaw tower.

"Oh no you don't get to ignore me this time!" The anger in her voice made Jack jump, as much as a ghost can jump and he said "I think i'm just gonna go.." as he floated away with haste.

"Please Anna, don't do this!" Elsa pleaded, they were close to the riddling knocker of Ravenclaw.

"You can't stop me this time! You can ignore me, that's fine. I know you love me. I know you never do anything without a good reason." Her voice was a little sad as she said this, but picked up the anger again as she continued, "But you don't get to do this to my friend! Do you know how much courage it took to approach you? How heartbreaking it was when you ignored her? You could have done ANYTHING else and it would have been fine! I know you always have a good reasons for what you do, but in this case you don't even have that excuse! there is never a good reason for this."

They had now reached the entrance to the tower. Anna was out of breath from chasing Elsa and her outburst. They just stared at each other for a little while, Anna having said what she wanted waited for Elsa to say something and Elsa shocked by said outburst. The silence was quelled by the knocker, "If I have it, I don't share it. If I share it, I don't have it. What is it?"

"A secret." Elsa answered simply, "Well said." the knocker replied, as Elsa disappeared into the tower, before Anna could stop her. As the door closed, Anna turned on her heel, incredibly unsatisfied with her sister, not as angry as before now that she had vented a bit of her anger, but still angry.