Aqurthia and Saphyria
By Traci of the Wild Magic
Disclaimer: I own Traci (Saphyria) and my friend Alana owns
Aqurthia/Alana. J.K. Rowling owns all HP peeps, and the song-spell belongs
to "Toad the Wet Sprocket" The counter-spell belongs to me, for I made it
up. (Do the Eirsed trick on it, ALL of it.)
A/N:: We get to do our first trick on Snape!!! Yeah!! I was writing as
fast as I could just so we got to that part, and I finally got to do sumpin' to
"Ole Snape." And yes, our masks ARE real, we designed them ourselves.
Read, Think, Review, Thanks…
Also, read my Top Ten Things They'd Never Say list.
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(A week later)
Dumbledore stood before the group of Aurors and teachers in the
staff room, looking from face to face. From Professor Snape's pale
suspicious frown to Professor McGonnagal's stern face. They were all there,
not counting Sirius and Remus, who were not able to be here. He glanced out
the window at the rising moon. It was full. He sighed and decided that it
was time to start the meeting.
"Friends," he said, as the low mutter of talk died away, "you are
probably wondering why we are here tonight. And I am about to tell you.
We're all here to meet two people who are going to help us in our fight
against Voldemort."-Some of the teachers flinched, but none of the Aurors
had any reaction to the name. He continued, more seriously now, "They are
to be treated with respect and are to be considered one of us as of now."
Yeah, just like the man says. A voice said out of nowhere.
The people in the room all looked around to find the source of the
voice.
Pitiful. Said another.
Dumbledore smiled and said, "I'd like to introduce you to Alana Lee
and Traci Duncan, the girls of the Wild Magic."
Suddenly there were two soft popping noises and the two girls were
standing there. Quite a few of the Aurors jumped and one of the teachers
let out a small scream.
"Hallo," they both said.
The crowd just stared at them, blinking. "Tough crowd," muttered
Alana.
"Dumbledore shook his head, smiling, and explained, "These girls have
offered their help in our fight. They put their resources and skills into our
hands."
"Not totally," muttered Traci, with a small gryn in the general
direction of Snape.
She had spoken so softly that Dumbledore had not heard her, and he
didn't pause. "They came to me a few days ago offering help in our battle,
but now was the soonest time I could have you all here at one time and even
now-"
But Snape stood up and interrupted Dumbledore. "And how do we
know that they are totally on our side, Dumbledore? How do we know they
are not under the orders of the Dark Lord? You know as well as I do that he
has spies everywhere." He turned and looked venomously at the two girls
who stared calmly back. But when he had turned back to Dumbledore, they
both made faces at his back.
Dumbledore was not smiling now. "I must admit, that thought did
cross my mind when I first met them, but they now have my full trust,
Severus."
But Snape wasn't satisfied yet, "Besides, what skills of theirs would
we even want?"
Never gives up, does he? Traci said into Alana's mind.
Of course not, Alana answered, He wouldn't be so fun to irritate if
he ever gave in easily.
I never thought of that… Traci thought.
"What can they do other than apparate like any other wizard can?"
He said.
Traci smiled at him and said in a voice one would use while talking to a
child, "And into a place where no wizard is able to apparate into, too! Fancy
that!" Snape glared at her and she grynd back.
Dumbledore saw what was going on and decided to put a stop to it now.
"I think," he said deliberately, "That I'll let them answer that for
themselves. It would take too long if I explained it, and you would probably
still doubt them. Go ahead." He waved to the girls to take over and sat down
near the back.
Alana said to the crowd, "So. You want to know what we can do? Tell
us to do anything regarding the four natural elements, we can and will do it,
for we control them."
Everyone in the room not counting Dumbledore and the girls looked
stunned at the statement. All except Snape.
He smiled oily and said smoothly, "Make it rain, hard," He glanced out
the window at the cloudless sky then looked back at the girls.
They looked at each other and Alana nodded. Traci took a step back
towards the wall.
Snape looked so pleased the he could have just come up with a plan to
rule the world. He thought they couldn't do it. Alana said calmly, "Out
there, or in here?"
"Huh? What?" He said, "Oh…outside…" He frowned at Alana.
"Fine," Alana said, and then suddenly she smiled at him. There was the
sound of large raindrops hitting the glass. Snape's face lost the smugness as
he turned to the window in consternation. Then he saw what was going on.
The raindrops came faster and more frequent, until there was a total
storm going on outside. There were no lightning flashes or thunderclaps to
be heard, which was strange for such a large storm.
Alana looked from the window to Snape, who seemed disappointed that
she had succeeded. With every eye in the room on her, she walked to the
window and opened it. Some of the rain fell on the floor and soaked into the
rug. Alana paused, as if contemplating whether or not she should do this,
but she seemed to make up her mind. She smiled and thrust her hand out
into the rain.
The raindrops, instead of hitting her hand, curved sharply and sped
towards Snape's face. They struck him head on. In about 2 seconds his face
was soaking wet. He had covered his face with his hands but it did no good.
Many of the teachers were trying to hide broadening smiles that were
threatening to break in to laughter.
"Shame she missed his hair, though. It could use it," muttered an old
Auror with a bright blue eye.
"Yeah Alana," said Traci, "You really need to work on that aim of
yours."
Alana brought her hand back in out of the rain and smiled. "It's not my
fault I haven't practiced since last summer in Wales, and you know it." Then
she said to the crowd, "As I said before, we can control the elements. I
have control over water and earth. Believe us, we're not lying."
Snape wiped off his face and glared at the girls.
"And your…friend, here? What can she do? Any more tricks?" He
said contemptuously.
"The name's Traci," she said, "Get it straight."
"Whatever." He said, "Just hurry up."
"What should I do?"
"Who cares? Do something with your…your control."
"Fine," she said.
Man, this guy is pissing me off. Traci projected her thoughts to
Alana. You wouldn't mind if I did something ~nice~ to show him my true
feelings? And to show we're for real, too.
Just don't get anyone hurt. Seriously, I mean. We can do that
later. Alana warned with her mind.
Traci kythed, Don't worry… I'm just going to make him look like an
idiot, which shouldn't be too hard.
Have fun. Alana smiled as she thought.
Ok. Traci thought.
"Ok," she said, "For this I am going to have to explain a bit and also
have a volunteer from the crowd to help me."
Snape smirked nastily, "Can't do it alone? Since you obviously can't do
anything very powerful and since I'm the one who asked you to do this, I'll
help." He stood up and walked forward until he was level with Traci.
Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou… thought
Traci.
Alana was confused, so she thought at Traci, Why? Whassamatter?
You don't really need his help. Why are you-
I know, but I wanted him to be my volunteer because I'll get to do the
spell on him. You had your fun, I want my turn. Even Traci's thoughts
sounded impatient.
Be my guest, but make it worthwhile. Thought Alana.
"Be careful, Severus," said Dumbledore quietly.
"Well?" Snape said, paying no heed to Dumbledore's warning.
"Yes," Traci said, smiling. "First I'm going to explain what's going to
happen. As Alana said, we control the elements. She controls water and
earth, I- fire and air. But some of our magic is very precise, and we cannot
control them by simply willing. We actually have to say a spell for it to
happen. Some of these that we have to say spells for are tides for Alana,
and light for me. Right now I am going to do a specific spell that none other
can do to control light. And I am going to do it to our kind Professor Snape,
here. But he doesn't mind, do you Professor?" Traci smiled serenely at him.
Oh, wipe that lie off your face, Alana thought.
But I was having fun! Traci kythed.
Snape's lip was curling, making him look all the more murderous.
"Now," Traci said, paying no attention to his face, "I shall begin. It's
rather complicated so please be patient." She shut her eyes and started to
sing softly.
"Through the Dark,
What do I see?
Something is happening,
Is it for me?
Is it for me?
Snape looked around at the others in the room who, just like himself,
were wondering, "What is this girl playing at?"
Alana smiled. She recognized the song-spell. This was going to be
interesting.
Snape glared suspiciously at Traci, then glanced at Dumbledore, who
was sitting in the back of the room, calmly watching what was going on.
Snape turned to Traci, "You, girl, whatever your name, is this some kind of
joke?"
She didn't answer, but kept singing. Suddenly she opened her eyes.
She held up the mask on the end of her necklace, which grew to the size of a
real mask. She put it over her face, singing all the more loudly.
Go get him. Alana whispered.
"Take them,
Come quickly,
You're missing the whole thing!
Open up your eyes
And take in the Sunrise!!!"
There was a sudden flash of light. It happened so quickly that many
of the teachers thought that they had imagined it. Traci took off her mask,
grinning. Her mask shrank back down to its normal size and hung from its
cord as usual. Traci looked pleased as she turned to Snape, who was just
standing there with a blank look on his face. She heard him mutter, "Why
was the fire put out?"
She turned away from him and said, "The spell I performed is a very
strong one. He'll have no idea what happened to him for a while, they usually
don't when they get hit with that one."
"But nothing happened," squeaked tiny Professor Flitwick.
"To you, nothing happened. But to Snape, yes, something did." She
paused, then continued, "You see, though Prof. Snape doesn't, the charm that
I used on the professor was one that causes-"
"Will whoever put the fire out please rekindle it at once!! This is
getting ridiculous!" broke in the voice of Snape. He looked odd. He was
standing in the same place he had been before and was talking towards a wall
with that same uncomprehending look stamped across his face. "I really can
see no reason to continue this meeting in the dark!"
"-blindness." Traci finished.
The whole group looked incredulous at her remark and many started
muttering.
"-But there's only one spell in the world that can-"
"-And that wasn't it."
"-The one I 'erd of was one that only a Dark wizard-"
"-is 'ee really blind, then?"
"-But look at 'is face-"
"Is it permanent?"
"-I ne'er seen him lookin' so calm-"
"I 'ope so…"
Unbeknownst to anyone but herself, Alana had been adding her
comments into those of the crowds. She looked like she was having fun.
Traci let out a shrill whistle to get their attention. She looked at all
the faces, "Don't worry about him being like that forever, it is reversible."
Alana snapped her fingers disappointedly. "But it can only be reversed by
the one who cast it."
Alana mutters gleefully, "Then there's hope, yet!"
"Then show us, just don't leave him like that!" said Prof. McGonagall.
Dang, I was hoping that they would thank me for doing this to
him…but they're all spoilsports… Traci kythed.
Hey, there's always next time… thought Alana.
"Ok," Traci pointed all five fingers of her left hand at Snape and said
softly, almost whispering, "Ti-Wonk-Ew-Dna!! Selur-Cigam-Dliw!!"
Snape looked around and blinked several times, "Well at least you
finally relit the fireplace!"
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By Traci of the Wild Magic
Disclaimer: I own Traci (Saphyria) and my friend Alana owns
Aqurthia/Alana. J.K. Rowling owns all HP peeps, and the song-spell belongs
to "Toad the Wet Sprocket" The counter-spell belongs to me, for I made it
up. (Do the Eirsed trick on it, ALL of it.)
A/N:: We get to do our first trick on Snape!!! Yeah!! I was writing as
fast as I could just so we got to that part, and I finally got to do sumpin' to
"Ole Snape." And yes, our masks ARE real, we designed them ourselves.
Read, Think, Review, Thanks…
Also, read my Top Ten Things They'd Never Say list.
* * * * * *
(A week later)
Dumbledore stood before the group of Aurors and teachers in the
staff room, looking from face to face. From Professor Snape's pale
suspicious frown to Professor McGonnagal's stern face. They were all there,
not counting Sirius and Remus, who were not able to be here. He glanced out
the window at the rising moon. It was full. He sighed and decided that it
was time to start the meeting.
"Friends," he said, as the low mutter of talk died away, "you are
probably wondering why we are here tonight. And I am about to tell you.
We're all here to meet two people who are going to help us in our fight
against Voldemort."-Some of the teachers flinched, but none of the Aurors
had any reaction to the name. He continued, more seriously now, "They are
to be treated with respect and are to be considered one of us as of now."
Yeah, just like the man says. A voice said out of nowhere.
The people in the room all looked around to find the source of the
voice.
Pitiful. Said another.
Dumbledore smiled and said, "I'd like to introduce you to Alana Lee
and Traci Duncan, the girls of the Wild Magic."
Suddenly there were two soft popping noises and the two girls were
standing there. Quite a few of the Aurors jumped and one of the teachers
let out a small scream.
"Hallo," they both said.
The crowd just stared at them, blinking. "Tough crowd," muttered
Alana.
"Dumbledore shook his head, smiling, and explained, "These girls have
offered their help in our fight. They put their resources and skills into our
hands."
"Not totally," muttered Traci, with a small gryn in the general
direction of Snape.
She had spoken so softly that Dumbledore had not heard her, and he
didn't pause. "They came to me a few days ago offering help in our battle,
but now was the soonest time I could have you all here at one time and even
now-"
But Snape stood up and interrupted Dumbledore. "And how do we
know that they are totally on our side, Dumbledore? How do we know they
are not under the orders of the Dark Lord? You know as well as I do that he
has spies everywhere." He turned and looked venomously at the two girls
who stared calmly back. But when he had turned back to Dumbledore, they
both made faces at his back.
Dumbledore was not smiling now. "I must admit, that thought did
cross my mind when I first met them, but they now have my full trust,
Severus."
But Snape wasn't satisfied yet, "Besides, what skills of theirs would
we even want?"
Never gives up, does he? Traci said into Alana's mind.
Of course not, Alana answered, He wouldn't be so fun to irritate if
he ever gave in easily.
I never thought of that… Traci thought.
"What can they do other than apparate like any other wizard can?"
He said.
Traci smiled at him and said in a voice one would use while talking to a
child, "And into a place where no wizard is able to apparate into, too! Fancy
that!" Snape glared at her and she grynd back.
Dumbledore saw what was going on and decided to put a stop to it now.
"I think," he said deliberately, "That I'll let them answer that for
themselves. It would take too long if I explained it, and you would probably
still doubt them. Go ahead." He waved to the girls to take over and sat down
near the back.
Alana said to the crowd, "So. You want to know what we can do? Tell
us to do anything regarding the four natural elements, we can and will do it,
for we control them."
Everyone in the room not counting Dumbledore and the girls looked
stunned at the statement. All except Snape.
He smiled oily and said smoothly, "Make it rain, hard," He glanced out
the window at the cloudless sky then looked back at the girls.
They looked at each other and Alana nodded. Traci took a step back
towards the wall.
Snape looked so pleased the he could have just come up with a plan to
rule the world. He thought they couldn't do it. Alana said calmly, "Out
there, or in here?"
"Huh? What?" He said, "Oh…outside…" He frowned at Alana.
"Fine," Alana said, and then suddenly she smiled at him. There was the
sound of large raindrops hitting the glass. Snape's face lost the smugness as
he turned to the window in consternation. Then he saw what was going on.
The raindrops came faster and more frequent, until there was a total
storm going on outside. There were no lightning flashes or thunderclaps to
be heard, which was strange for such a large storm.
Alana looked from the window to Snape, who seemed disappointed that
she had succeeded. With every eye in the room on her, she walked to the
window and opened it. Some of the rain fell on the floor and soaked into the
rug. Alana paused, as if contemplating whether or not she should do this,
but she seemed to make up her mind. She smiled and thrust her hand out
into the rain.
The raindrops, instead of hitting her hand, curved sharply and sped
towards Snape's face. They struck him head on. In about 2 seconds his face
was soaking wet. He had covered his face with his hands but it did no good.
Many of the teachers were trying to hide broadening smiles that were
threatening to break in to laughter.
"Shame she missed his hair, though. It could use it," muttered an old
Auror with a bright blue eye.
"Yeah Alana," said Traci, "You really need to work on that aim of
yours."
Alana brought her hand back in out of the rain and smiled. "It's not my
fault I haven't practiced since last summer in Wales, and you know it." Then
she said to the crowd, "As I said before, we can control the elements. I
have control over water and earth. Believe us, we're not lying."
Snape wiped off his face and glared at the girls.
"And your…friend, here? What can she do? Any more tricks?" He
said contemptuously.
"The name's Traci," she said, "Get it straight."
"Whatever." He said, "Just hurry up."
"What should I do?"
"Who cares? Do something with your…your control."
"Fine," she said.
Man, this guy is pissing me off. Traci projected her thoughts to
Alana. You wouldn't mind if I did something ~nice~ to show him my true
feelings? And to show we're for real, too.
Just don't get anyone hurt. Seriously, I mean. We can do that
later. Alana warned with her mind.
Traci kythed, Don't worry… I'm just going to make him look like an
idiot, which shouldn't be too hard.
Have fun. Alana smiled as she thought.
Ok. Traci thought.
"Ok," she said, "For this I am going to have to explain a bit and also
have a volunteer from the crowd to help me."
Snape smirked nastily, "Can't do it alone? Since you obviously can't do
anything very powerful and since I'm the one who asked you to do this, I'll
help." He stood up and walked forward until he was level with Traci.
Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou… thought
Traci.
Alana was confused, so she thought at Traci, Why? Whassamatter?
You don't really need his help. Why are you-
I know, but I wanted him to be my volunteer because I'll get to do the
spell on him. You had your fun, I want my turn. Even Traci's thoughts
sounded impatient.
Be my guest, but make it worthwhile. Thought Alana.
"Be careful, Severus," said Dumbledore quietly.
"Well?" Snape said, paying no heed to Dumbledore's warning.
"Yes," Traci said, smiling. "First I'm going to explain what's going to
happen. As Alana said, we control the elements. She controls water and
earth, I- fire and air. But some of our magic is very precise, and we cannot
control them by simply willing. We actually have to say a spell for it to
happen. Some of these that we have to say spells for are tides for Alana,
and light for me. Right now I am going to do a specific spell that none other
can do to control light. And I am going to do it to our kind Professor Snape,
here. But he doesn't mind, do you Professor?" Traci smiled serenely at him.
Oh, wipe that lie off your face, Alana thought.
But I was having fun! Traci kythed.
Snape's lip was curling, making him look all the more murderous.
"Now," Traci said, paying no attention to his face, "I shall begin. It's
rather complicated so please be patient." She shut her eyes and started to
sing softly.
"Through the Dark,
What do I see?
Something is happening,
Is it for me?
Is it for me?
Snape looked around at the others in the room who, just like himself,
were wondering, "What is this girl playing at?"
Alana smiled. She recognized the song-spell. This was going to be
interesting.
Snape glared suspiciously at Traci, then glanced at Dumbledore, who
was sitting in the back of the room, calmly watching what was going on.
Snape turned to Traci, "You, girl, whatever your name, is this some kind of
joke?"
She didn't answer, but kept singing. Suddenly she opened her eyes.
She held up the mask on the end of her necklace, which grew to the size of a
real mask. She put it over her face, singing all the more loudly.
Go get him. Alana whispered.
"Take them,
Come quickly,
You're missing the whole thing!
Open up your eyes
And take in the Sunrise!!!"
There was a sudden flash of light. It happened so quickly that many
of the teachers thought that they had imagined it. Traci took off her mask,
grinning. Her mask shrank back down to its normal size and hung from its
cord as usual. Traci looked pleased as she turned to Snape, who was just
standing there with a blank look on his face. She heard him mutter, "Why
was the fire put out?"
She turned away from him and said, "The spell I performed is a very
strong one. He'll have no idea what happened to him for a while, they usually
don't when they get hit with that one."
"But nothing happened," squeaked tiny Professor Flitwick.
"To you, nothing happened. But to Snape, yes, something did." She
paused, then continued, "You see, though Prof. Snape doesn't, the charm that
I used on the professor was one that causes-"
"Will whoever put the fire out please rekindle it at once!! This is
getting ridiculous!" broke in the voice of Snape. He looked odd. He was
standing in the same place he had been before and was talking towards a wall
with that same uncomprehending look stamped across his face. "I really can
see no reason to continue this meeting in the dark!"
"-blindness." Traci finished.
The whole group looked incredulous at her remark and many started
muttering.
"-But there's only one spell in the world that can-"
"-And that wasn't it."
"-The one I 'erd of was one that only a Dark wizard-"
"-is 'ee really blind, then?"
"-But look at 'is face-"
"Is it permanent?"
"-I ne'er seen him lookin' so calm-"
"I 'ope so…"
Unbeknownst to anyone but herself, Alana had been adding her
comments into those of the crowds. She looked like she was having fun.
Traci let out a shrill whistle to get their attention. She looked at all
the faces, "Don't worry about him being like that forever, it is reversible."
Alana snapped her fingers disappointedly. "But it can only be reversed by
the one who cast it."
Alana mutters gleefully, "Then there's hope, yet!"
"Then show us, just don't leave him like that!" said Prof. McGonagall.
Dang, I was hoping that they would thank me for doing this to
him…but they're all spoilsports… Traci kythed.
Hey, there's always next time… thought Alana.
"Ok," Traci pointed all five fingers of her left hand at Snape and said
softly, almost whispering, "Ti-Wonk-Ew-Dna!! Selur-Cigam-Dliw!!"
Snape looked around and blinked several times, "Well at least you
finally relit the fireplace!"
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