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Father Mine
Chapter 06: Charms, Divination and care of magical creatures
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'Knock! Knock!' 10 minutes after the beginning of the class, professor Flitwick was interrupted by a knock on the door. "Enter!" He called with his small voice. "Oh! It's you! You are late, Miss Tsukino. May I have the reason why?"
The bunny entered and blushed in embarrassment when she felt every eyes in the class follow her movements. She nearly tripped on a book on the floor and glared at it as if it could melt under her gaze, while some students laughed at her antics. She gazed at the teacher and handed him the note professor Snape had given her earlier.
He read the note and lifted his eyebrows at her. "You can sit next to Mr. Longbottom. I was telling the class how to use levitation charms on humans. If you have any troubles, just say so and we'll help you!" Usagi bowed her thanks and went to her seat. Hermione, who was on the other side of Neville, gave her a curious look that said 'What about that note?', but Usagi waved and smiled happily.
When the teacher began his lesson again, she sank in her chair and mentally scowled, tuning out the voices. 'I don't need help! I just need to get my hands on Setsuna…just. for. 2. Minutes!' She punctuated her phrase angrily. 'Why do I even have to do this? I'm acting way overly perky for my own good!'
A hand on her shoulder made her jump in surprise and she blinked. A pair of big green eyes was looking straight back at her and the proximity of Harry's face with her made her blush. That's when he also noticed the proximity and hurriedly let go of her shoulder, face reddening. "Professor Flitwick said we should partner up." He bit his lips in nervousness and Usagi looked on in amusement. "Umm…Do you want to be with me?"
She smiled warmly at him, all the while thinking; 'It's amusing how he truly can make me smile.' She nodded with a big grin. Beside them, Hermione was already scowling at Ron for not doing it right. She wasn't even levitating yet. The other students had some trouble getting their own partners into the air.
"Well Harry", Usagi started, "you can go first. Try to make me levitate!" The green eyed boy looked uncomfortable for a second before he nodded and swished his wand, saying the incantation. Usagi, still up on her feet, felt the power of the spell hit her. It was fairly strong, but she didn't bulge from the ground. She encouraged him. "Come on! You can do way better than that! Concentrate!"
Harry took his position once again and concentrated even harder. He forced the incantation out of his mouth and the spell hit her stronger than the first time. She heard an exclamation of pleasure and opened her eyes to see an overjoyed Flitwick looking up at Harry. "Good job, Mr. Potter! Though she is still levitating near the ground, you are the first to achieve this in the second try! You can put Miss Tsukino down for now. Everyone change places!"
Flitwick went to Neville, who had much trouble getting Seamus into the air.
"Well Serena, It's your turn!" Harry said. She nodded and took her position. Harry blinked. "Huh, I don't want to sound stupid but don't you need your wand?"
Usagi sweatdropped internally. "Silly me! I forgot!" It was Harry's turn to sweatdrop. She mentally winced and took out her 'wand' from her pocket. She grimaced at it while Harry gave an exclamation of admiration, making some students stop what they were doing and look at them. Harry inspected the wand from all sides without touching it. "Wow! It's cool! I didn't know there were white wands! What is it made of?"
Usagi grimaced even more. "You DON'T wanna know!" Flitwick rasped his throat at them. "What are you waiting for, Mr. Potter? Take your place! It's Miss Tsukino's turn!"
"Yes professor!" Harry took his place once again and the other students continued their incantations. Usagi exhaled deeply and concentrated hard. 'This shouldn't be so difficult.' Beside her, Ron was floating inches above the ground and Hermione was receiving praises from Flitwick. They other students were too preoccupied to mind Harry and her so she started.
She swished her wand, mentally saying; 'This is sooo degrading! My poor staff!' and murmured the spell, aiming it towards Harry. Nothing happened. Harry was going to tell her to try it again but he felt something brush past him. He closed his mouth and looked behind him. There was no one. He gave a questioning look but thought nothing of it. He was about to turn back when it happened again, with a growing intensity.
That's when Flitwick noticed the papers on his desk starting to fly away. A gust of wind made some books shift. Neville looked at the books in surprise. "It sure is really windy today! We should close the windows!" Professor Flitwick frowned. "The windows are already closed, Mr. Longbottom." Neville squeaked in response.
A yelp made them turn away and they gasped. Potter was floating high above the ground, maintained by strong gusts of wind, while Usagi was trying to get him down. "What are you doing, Miss Tsukino?! This is not the spell I wanted to see!" Usagi gritted her teeth and gave a glare at the teacher that clearly said; do you think I'm not trying?!
She recognized Uranus in this. STUBBORN ol' Uranus, she mentally added. She called on the wind and luckily, it let go of Harry, who would've dropped directly on the floor if it hadn't been for the quick Hermione who threw some cushions on the hard ground. He gave her a thankful look and got up.
The wind had been so ruff with him, as if it didn't like him. Harry shook his head. Wind cannot hate people! He looked at Usagi in distress for it was aiming straight at her. But when he thought she would be projected into the air, it calmed and swirled around her, caressing her, making her hair lift gently. "Oh Uranus!" She whispered. "I miss you too!"
Then, she let go of her 'wand' and it fell on the floor with a small 'thump!' The breeze suddenly dropped, along with her hair. She got out of her daze and ran to the green eyed boy worriedly. "Harry! Are you ok? I'm so sorry!" She inspected him thoroughly and turned to the teacher when she saw Harry wasn't hurt. "I'm sorry professor! I didn't do the spell you asked us to do correctly! I'll do better next time! I promise!"
Flitwick chuckled. "You're forgiven! And I dare say that you beat Miss Granger today!" He started to laugh at Hermione's face and soon, everyone was laughing with him.
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"So Serena! What do you think of Hogwarts so far?" Ron asked her, between 2 bites. It was lunch time. "It's great. I mean, I still didn't see the other classes yet but it can't be bad." Serena answered.
Hermione nodded. "Yeah. The worse is potions with Snape. Why did he want to see you for anyway?" She asked curiously.
Usagi blushed in embarrassment. "You're not going to like it!"
Harry frowned, saying; "Did Snape threaten you?"
"NO! God no!" She laughed. "He just asked me if I wanted to become his apprentice and do more advanced potions in class!" Ron almost choked on his food and let go of his utensils in favor of his pumpkin juice, while Hermione slapped him on the back. Harry was as pale as Nearly Headless Nick. "Did he, really?" Harry said, in a daze. He looked at Snape at the teacher's table but turned away quickly when Snape glared at him icily.
"I never thought the git would care about a Gryffindor!" Ron sputtered.
Usagi chuckled. "You just never gave him a chance!" She changed the subject quickly when she saw Ron open his mouth in protest. "Anyway! What do you guys wanna do when you graduate?"
Ron smiled proudly. "I wanna be an auror!" Usagi raised her eyebrows at him. "An auror? You'll have to work pretty hard! What about you, Hermione?" The clever girl put her hand on her chin in a pensive manner. "I was thinking about being a mediwitch. It's hard work but rewarding in the end."
Usagi hummed lightly. "That's a pretty good choice coming from you. What about you, Harry?" The boy held his eyes downcast. "I was also thinking about being an auror," he started calmly, "if I live through the war, that is." He finished in a whisper. Hermione and Ron gazed at each other meekly but stayed silent. Usagi frowned. The boy didn't have much self esteem left in him. Harry sighed tiredly. "We should go. Our classes will begin soon.
Usagi found out that Harry, Ron and Hermione had dropped Divination class. So she was stuck with the Patil sisters who were admiring Trelawney with stars in theirs eyes, while the centaur Firenze was trying to teach the class about the stars. Those 2 were constantly arguing, she mused.
Although Firenze was an old and experienced being, she was in disagreement with some of his methods. But Trelawney? She snorted. The woman was totally out of it! Reading the future with tea leaves?! What was Dumbledore thinking about when he hired her? She spent most of her time staring at the woody environment of the class. All in all, it was really boring.
She joined Harry and the gang outside for the last class of the day. Even if their future job didn't require Care of magical creatures, they weren't going to let their friend Hagrid down. Especially since it was a mixed class with the Slytherins. Most of the group had already arrived and waiting for the class to begin. There was a big reinforced cage in front of the half-giant's hut and the Slytherins backed away when they heard a growl coming from the inside. It was covered with a sheet so they couldn't see what was inside.
Malfoy watched the cage with disdain, while addressing his fellow classmates. "I wonder what kind of dangerous, illegal creature the half blood will try to kill us with today." The Slytherins snickered when Ron turned a darker shade of red. Usagi sat beside a seething Harry. "Hi guys! What's going on?"
Harry turned to her and started to explain. "Malfoy insulted Hagrid again. It's true that sometimes he brings dangerous animals but Malfoy could shut his trap about it. Hagrid is only trying to do his best! He's not that bad once you get to know him." The rabbit nodded in understanding, as well as Dean Thomas, a fellow Gryffindor. He looked happy about something. "Malfoy hated Hagrid since the beginning, but when he got attacked by Buckbeak…"
Ron interrupted. "Oh! Oh! Let me tell her! Let me!" And Usagi learned what had happened in the 3rd year during this class. "The hippogriff attacked him because he couldn't keep his mouth shut? What an idiot!" She muttered, while the Gryffindors laughed at the memory and Malfoy had mysteriously gone back to his side of the group.
"Calm down everyone! Class will begin!" Hagrid got out of his hut, took the big cage and put it down in front of the semi-scared students. Today, we'll be workin' on a dangerous creature. But don't worry! It's been given a strong sedative potion so it won't move too much or be a threat. It'll stay in the cage. All you have to do is draw it as best as you can and describe its characteristics. Can anyone tell me what it is?"
He lifted the sheet and everyone gasped in horror. The thing was hideous! Usagi merely raised her eyebrows at it. 'It's ugly but not youma ugly.' She lifted her hand and Hagrid asked her if she could name it. "Miss Tsukino, is it? Well missy, can ya tell me what kind of creature this is?"
Usagi nodded and got up, only to crouch back down beside the cage and gaze at the 'thing'. Ron let out a hiss at the proximity she was with the animal. Usagi fingered the bars of the cage and spoke up. "This is a Manticore, there's no doubt about it." She looked at the half sleeping beast more closely.
A red and hairy coat with the body of a lion, a human head, a melodious voice and an extraordinary tail of scorpion bristled by poisoned spades which could reach their target up to 30 meters of distance. No, that made no doubt.
Hagrid beamed happily at her. "That's correct! 10 points for Gryffindors! Do you know anything else about it? Could you tell the class about it? I'll fill in if you forget somethin'."
Usagi nodded at him and faced the class. Well, mainly the Gryffindors. The Slytherins were sulking on their side.
"Well, the Manticore is really rare by our time. Its name means 'man eater' in Persian. So you all know by now what its favorite activity is; eat man flesh." The class gasped in revulsion. The rabbit continued.
"It's the historian and Greek doctor Ctesias who first evoked the existence of the Manticore, in the 5th century B.-C. The beast was supposed to live in the jungles of India, where its speed, its force and its insatiable sound cruelty made it the worst predator around. When his victim had succumbed to the powerful poison of its tail, the Manticore put itself in job to dismember it by means of its gigantic jaws extending from an ear to the other, stocked with 3 rows of hooks sharp as razor blades. The Manticore eats its preys without leaving anything behind: skull, bones, clothes and even the contents of pockets! Everything is eaten and digested. The muggle never really believed in this myth because they never found a specimen of it. However, they named a rare muggle animal after it; the Tasmanian Devil."
When she finished, the class gaped at her. Even the Slytherins were on the edge and looked totally fascinated. Hagrid looked at her with huge eyes. "20 points for Gryffindor." He seemed to be in a daze. "I couldn't explain it better even if I wanted! Now! Everyone choose a partner! For today's homework, you'll have to draw a Manticore with every detail you can remember. Take a good look at it now, 'cause class'll finish soon!" Hagrid said with his big accent. Harry once again paired himself with Serena, and she smiled back in return.
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Ugh! Another chapter done! I was sooo in it today! And I didn't invent anything on the Manticore. It's a real myth and I described it as it should be. Yeah. It's disgusting. So what? Hagrid was perfectly able to procure himself one for his class. It's a shame it didn't eat Malfoy, though. *author sweatdrops* ^_^;
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