The Deceiving Truth
Ch. 8 – New Powers
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(2nd period, Snape's Potions classroom, 5th years, Monday October 13th)
Snape glided through the rows of desks in his class room. He paused to snap at a student before he added the wrong ingredient. 'Why do I teach such idiots? I could have been an important Ministry person like mother wanted. Instead I chose this!' He glared at his class. 'They are all such brats. Especially the Gryffies.'
A Slytherin boy named Monte Crystal, raised his hand.
"What Crystal?" 'That kid is such a dingbat. I bet he can't even tie his shoes.'
"I can too tie my shoes!" He glared a frosty glare. "I am not a dingbat and if you want to insult anyone, DO IT IN YOUR GREASY HEAD!"
Snape stared in shocked at his student. "I DIDN'T say anything Crystal." 'That kid probably mixed a mind reading potion instead of a fire resistance potion.'
Monte glared angrily. "I mixed the right potion Professor."
Snape glared back. "Crystal, stay behind after class!" He walked to his desk and faced the class of fourth year Gryffindors and Slytherins. "You should not light a fire beneath your potion as this potion is extremely flammable and the result would be very dangerous."
Timothy Blight sighed. That had been the fifth time Snape had said that. Timothy was extremely bored in Potions and couldn't wait for the class to end. He stared at the embers beneath his caldron and rested his chin on his arm. 'I'm so bored.'
"So am I Gryffie, so am I," said Monte to his Gryffindor friend.
Timothy stared at his friend. "What do you mean?" he whispered.
"I'm bored too," whispered Monte in his cousin's ear.
"But how did you know? I was thinking it."
Monte shrugged and turned back to staring out the window as Timothy went back to staring at the embers.
He slowly rubbed his eyes as they began to burn.
He dug his nails into his palms to stop himself from rubbing his eyes and he went back to staring.
A bug landed in his caldron as it started to bubble. "What the FUCK?"
The potion was suddenly engulfed in flames and the bug flow out perfectly intact.
Snape ran over. He quickly caught the bug in his hands and looked at it. "It seems that you get an A, Crystal, Blight." He glanced underneath the caldron. "Due to the fact that the embers are now boiling the potion, I will be taking off marks." He turned and hurried away.
Timothy glared at the embers beneath his potion. "Due to the fact…" he said mockingly. He continued to glare until he noticed a fire roaring to life on the embers. "SHIT!" He yelled. "EVERYONE DOWN!"
Everyone dropped to the floor a second before the potion exploded and hit the ceiling creating a hole there.
"Everyone OUT!" yelled Snape.
Everyone hurried out of the class happily except Monte and Timothy who he had told to stay put.
"Dumbledore's office. Come." He swept out of his ruined class room with the two boys following him.
(2nd period, McGonagall's Transfiguration classroom, Monday October 13th)
"Welcome class." Professor McGonagall smiled tightly as the 2nd year Ravenclaws sat down in their seat.
"Good day Professor McGonagall," chorused the class.
"Today we will be TRYING to change animals into water goblets." She walked over to the raven on the stand beside her desk and tapped it three times before saying, "Vera Verto." The raven changed into a crystal water glass. "No everyone will try one at a time as I call on you."
She walked around the room stopping in front of a raven headed child. "Miss. Thomas (A/N: Dean Thomas' little sister.) would you please be so kind and show us?"
Jennifer smiled. "Of course!" she said excitedly. She tapped her wand to her pet ferret, Malfoy, (who had been given to her by her brother) three times and said, "Vera Verto!" The ferret transformed into a silver goblet.
McGonagall grinned at her before moving onto her next victim. The red-head two seats away. "Mr. Crystal, your turn."
Jeremy sighed. "Ok," he said as he picked up his wand and aimed it for the snake in front of him. 'One, two, three.' "Vera VertACHOO!" The spell flew at Jennifer. She jumped out of the way and turned into a Peregrine Falcon and flew out of the way. The spell hit Paul who was sitting next to her turning him into a talking water goblet.
Paul was yelling "When I get my hands on you Jer, you are so dead"
Jennifer turned back into her human body and sat down in her seat clueless of what just happened.
The whole class stared at her like the world just blew up
McGonagall said "Jennifer, Can I talk to you after class please?"
"Sure Professor" she said happily.
McGonagall quickly changed Paul back into a human.
Paul, cherry red, launched himself at Jeremy, but luckily for Jer, a lioness had Paul pinned to the ground. Slowly the lioness changed back into a clueless Jennifer, again.
She quickly got off Paul and went back to her desk.
Paul, having the weight of a full grown lioness off his chest, quickly got up and launched himself again at Jer.
Jeremy put up his hand defensively and Paul was just standing there, an ice statue. "Well now we've got early Christmas decorations," said an embarrassed Jer with a nervous laugh.
McGonagall tried a number of complicated spells to unfreeze the boy, but none worked.
"Crystal, you and Thomas stay here." She turned to the rest of the class. "Pertrice and Brut, please take Paul to the hospital wing. Class is dismissed." She turned to her two remaining students. "Please follow me."
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"Black Out," said two voices at once. (A/N: Can you tell that we were in the North American East Coast Black Out???)
Minerva turned to look at Severus who had two students behind him. "And why are YOU here?" she questioned as the gargoyle moved from its guarding position.
Severus glared at her calmly. "Oh, you know." He glared at the students behind her. "Crystal, Thomas." He turned back to Minerva. "Sorcerer Duty!" he growled out.
Minerva snorted. "You too? Looks like the Headmaster was right." She looked at the two students behind him. "It looks like we have a family of sorcery here."
Severus raised an eyebrow at her and he and his students stepped onto the moving staircase with Minerva and her students following.
"Both Crystals and their cousin Blight!" she exclaimed. "Don't you ever see what's in front of your large nose Severus?"
The students snickered until Severus shot them a glare as he stepped off the stair case.
"You knock," he firmly told the Deputy Headmistress.
"No, I think you should since you are closer."
A laugh stopped them from farther bickering. Albus Dumbledore stood in the doorway to his office.
"Come in, come in," he offered with a wave of his hand.
"Thank you Headmaster," Minerva and Severus said together and glared at each other.
'I never thought I would see those two argue so much,' thought Jeremy Crystal loudly.
"My god Jer, stop talking SO LOUD!" Monte Crystal shouted to his brother.
"But I didn't say anything" argued Jeremy
"Sure," said Monte in a very sarcastic tone "You didn't say anything. Neither did Snape, or Timothy, or that little squirrel in the school yard. It's either you guys are all deceiving me, are incredibly deaf, or I am just fuckin' INSANE!"
McGonagall gasped. "Mind your language Crystal. Especial in front of the Headmaster!"
Monte muttered something that strangely sounded like 'Whatever Minnie-Mouse!'
"I beg your pardon?!?"
"I didn't say anything."
Dumbledore cleared his throat. "Clearly you are all here for a good reason." He sat down behind his desk and motioned for them to sit in chairs that appeared from nowhere. "Now, what can I do?"
Snape and McGonagall started talking at once.
"One at a time. Severus?"
Snape sneered at McGonagall and began his story. When he finished McGonagall started hers. When she finished, everyone sat in silence as Dumbledore pondered all of it.
*Ethelinda, could you bring your friends up to my office?* (A/N: *=Telepathy)
*Huh? What? Who is this?*
*It is Professor Dumbledore.*
*What exactly do you MEAN by friends?*
*Mr. Malfoy, Mr. and Ms. Potter, Ms. Geter, Ms. Hsitu, and yourself.*
*Be there in a second!* pause, *What's the password?*
*Mr. Potter knows it as he is Head Boy.*
*I forgot about that hehe.*
"Well Albus?" asked McGonagall.
"Just a few more minutes before I say anymore."
There was a sudden pop as six people fell onto Snape.
"DRACO MALFOY WERE YOU EVER LISTENING TO WHAT I WAS SAYING? WHY'D YOU TELEPORT US?"
Draco glanced around. "Eth, where'd you what to go anyways?" he asked carefully as he noticed six people staring at them. "Would you want to go be going to Dumbledore's office by any chance?"
"If you had listened to me you wouldn't be asking, but yes that is where we need to go. Harry, if you could tell us the password?"
A muffled voice was heard.
"What was that Harry?"
She felt something moving under her.
"That's better. Could you please move?"
"What'd you mean?"
"As much as I enjoy you lying on top of me," 'Which is an activity I hope will become a common between us. Damn, she can read minds!'
"Ewww!" squealed Monte. "That is just wrong."
"Potter, clean up your mind!" yelled Ethelinda. 'But I wouldn't mind that happening!'
"Ewwww! You are just as gross lady!"
"As I was saying, could you please get off me?"
"What?"
'Ah, young minds are definitely more entertaining.'
"Professor!" squealed Ethelinda.
"Ewww." (Again… Monte.)
Suddenly Ethelinda realised what she had said. "Draco," she said as she pushed him off her stomach. "You did something right for once." She pinched his cheek as she stood up.
"What do you call my good marks?"
"You mean Potions? What about the time when you made the fire resistant potion and you froze the person?"
Draco blushed as Snape said, "He was creative. Now could you all please get off me?"
Everyone quickly got off Snape.
"Sorry Professor," said the still flushed Draco.
Ethelinda turned to Dumbledore. "You called us sir?"
"Yes I did. We have found four new Sorcerers today."
Jennifer cleared her throat.
"Ah yes, I mean three Sorcerers and one Sorceress."
"So?" asked Saphira, a little mad that she had been pulled out of her favourite class, Spell Making.
"We need to arrange a time to teach all of you how to control your powers."
"What exactly are their powers?" asked Esmeralda.
"Jennifer can shape shift. Monte can mind read. Timothy can start a fire with his eyes. And Jeremy can freeze people."
"Let me get this straight. Jennifer is a shapist, Monte is a psychic, Timothy is a pyro, and Jeremy is an iceberg."
"That is right Esmeralda. Anyway, I will make classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from the end of your last class to dinner."
Harry groaned but agreed with everyone else.
"If you six will stay," said Dumbledore pointing to the seventh years, "I need to speak to you all. The rest of you can go."
The two professors and the four new sorcery students left quietly.
"Yes?"
"The trial for Peter Pettigrew is on Thursday next week. Harry, you and Sirius are to testify and I would like the rest of you to come so you can witness a real trial. Especially you Esmeralda. As a Sheikrah it is important for you to witness this because when you and Harry fully come into your powers you will be judges in trials."
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