I Still Unfortunately Own Nothing.
Merlin Returns
Chapter 3: Merlin's, Phoenix's, and Defense Oh My!
The trio made their way back to Gryffindor Tower after all of their classes that day. "Merlin's pants! Can you believe the homework we have on our first day! Its OWLs all over again." Said Ron as they pass through the Fat Lady's portrait.
"Honestly Ronald what did you expect? This is NEWT year. And even if Voldomert is dead now we can't just give up on our studies. Besides DADA has a new Professor; and you can go back to playing Quididtch."
Harry hung back listening to their familiar bickering glad that not everything had changed because of the previous year. "So Hermione what is the first chapter of DADA about anyways?" he said with a faint smile.
"Magical Animals and their uses in long term defense. Besides that I haven't actually read it yet. I spent most of my summer with you guys and with my parents. To be honest they didn't let me out of their sight long enough to read much. It was a bit annoying actually." She said sitting down in their seats by the fireplace as the common room started filling up with students coming back to study and get ready for dinner.
Laughing they sat down and started reading, and to their surprise found that the first bit was about magical birds and none magical ones used in defense. There were two in particular that stood out Phoenix and Merlin (a type of falcon).
"What type of spells is he gonna teach us with this?" asked Ron. "Long term defense. You know like the hexes and protective charms that were on the stone." Said Hermione without looking up from her book
"Okay. Well time for dinner." And they all stood up and stretched and headed down for dinner
The next day found the trio in their seats waiting for Dragoon to come in when through the window a phoenix flew in and not just any phoenix but Fawks.
"Ahhh. Fawks long time no see old friend. What are you doing here?" Said Merlin as he walked up to the bird and stroked his beak. And listened to his musical reply. Oh so that's why you want to see me teach again. Yes I realize it has been a long time; you were a mere hatchling then over several hundred years ago.
"Okay class Fawks has apparently decided to grace us with his presence for todays class. Now Mr. Malfoy if you could go to the closet next to you and pull out the bird feathers that would be great. Everybody else pull out your wands. Today's class will be a bit funny and completely serious this spell once saved my life. Ahh great the Merlin feathers. Everybody grab one."
"Now merlin feathers, can anybody tell me the magical use?" at this nobody raised their hands, not even Hermione. "What about you Miss Granger?" he said while looking straight at her. "No sir it wasn't in the book."
"Correct Miss Granger it was not in the book. Now this particular spell is a rather simple, but effective, one. now I have already enchanted the feathers you have so if you would just lay them on the floor in between you as you separate into two separate groups, that would be good."
To start this out I want you to use a fairly simple spell, explelliumus, on the people opposite to you on the count of three. One…Two…Three!" and the entire class shouted "Expelliumus!" and the feathers started to attack the students. Either tickling them or dive bombing them and in the unfortunate case of one Gryffindor it went down Ron's pants. Huh serves him right always saing "merlin's pants" and "merlin's beard" I don't really have a beard. Laughing he wrote the spell upon the board Cleití de ionsaí Merlin más rud é go díobháil tiomantasi1; along with the wand movement and conditions to do it under.
Looking over Merlin could see Fawks laughing at the students jumping around once they found out their wands had no effect on the feathers. "Now can anybody guess the counter charm? Besides it naturally wearing off in four or so hours?" looking around laughing in his head I remember me and Gwen pulling this prank on the knights during one of their practices; Arthur was so annoyed when Leon kept getting attacked by feathers during the meeting afterwards.
"Well it's a cry of a Pheonix, either bottled or natural. Fawks if you could be so kind I do not think that Professor Flitwick would appreciate his next class being distracted by feathers for the entire class." At this Fawks shook his head and let out a cry and all of the feathers dropped at once.
"okay class this particular spell had three uses before it expires and needs to be redone so you can all have one. and can anybody guess who it was that invented this spell and of what use it could be against an enemy? Mr. Potter?"
"I don't know who invented it but it could be used to distract an attacking enemy since once they start to attack they can't use magic against it and shields do not appear to work on it."
"Correct Mr. Potter 5 points to Gryffindor for half of the correct answer; now this spell is not particularly well known and was invented by Merlin sometime during Camelot before King Arthur died."
"yes Miss. Granger what is it?" asked Merlin as Hermione raised her hand. "How do you know it was invented by Merlin, I mean I haven't heard about it and I've read almost everything about Merlin and Camelot in the Library."
"Well if you must know my family is descended from Merlin and somewhere along the line one of my ancestors was taught by him and it was recorded in his journal which was published for reading a three hundred years ago, I have no idea if the library has a copy as my family published it only once." And at that the bell rung "Class Dismissed"
Authors Note:
Translation: feathers of a merlin attack if harm is ment1