Harry Potter and the Duplaticus Curse
Chapter 22 The Inner Child
A.N. What would you do if you could meet your inner child? Would you enjoy a day at Disney world together? Or go for a lovely walk? Well, in this chapter Harry and Co. meet their inner children, and the inner children just won't go away.
J MalenaJ
P.S. I own nothing except the Duplaticus Curse and Professor Ralon.
P.S.S (or is it P.P.S?) I will NOT be giving up on this story. Under no circumstances
"Settle down class!" Cried Professor Flitwick, waving his wand and sending purple sparks into the air. The class was being rowdier than usual, they were still excited that Gryffindor was going to the Quidditch Finals again.
After several more minutes of trying to get the class's attention, Professor Flitwick finally got everyone to settle down.
"Thank you," Professor Flitwick squeaked, sitting atop his pile of books, "Today we will be performing a more advanced stage of the "Duplaticus Curse". I know that none of you have done this spell before-", Harry glanced at Ron, "And this spell is very recent discovery. This will only be my second time performing this spell. In the spell, your inner children will appear in a form of yourself. You, or your inner child, may look like you when you were six, to others it might look like them from when they were any other age. You will get to speak to your inner child, it knows everything that you know," Professor Flitwick smiled around at everyone. "Now, first you will flick your wand three times and say the words Duplatica Januvallie, and if all goes well, your inner child should appear wherever you have pointed your wand. After you have talked to your inner child for a while, we will perform the counter curse and your inner child will go away. Any questions?" No one raised their hand.
"All right!" Exclaimed Professor Flitwick, "Wands out! I will be seeing you one at a time, so get in line!" The class got in a single file line (Neville was last), and Professor Flitwick showed everyone, one by one, how to perform the Inner Child spell.
Parvati Patil was first. She flicked her wand three times and said, "Duplatica Januvallie," Suddenly, a bunch of sparks came from her wand and landed on the floor. From the sparks a form appeared, the form was a girl, about four feet tall with dark, curly hair. She was wearing a sundress and when she smiled, her two front teeth were missing.
"Oh my god," Exclaimed Parvati with glee, "It's me!"
"Of course it is," snapped Parvati-the-inner-child, "Now can you get me out of this dump, it stinks." Parvati–the-inner-child wrinkled her nose, took the real Parvati by the hand and pulled her from the classroom.
"Wow! This is so amazing!" They heard Parvati exclaim out in the hall.
"All right! Who's next?" asked Professor Flitwick. In turn, each of the Gryffindors created their inner child. Seamus's inner child was very energetic and instantly started to run around the school, with Seamus chasing after him. Dean's inner child was wearing a West Ham shirt and had a soccer ball under his arm.
Dean put his arm around his inner child and said, "Come Mini-me!" (I'M ONLY JOKING!!!)
When it was Ron's turn to perform the spell, a short-but-still-tall-for-his-age Ron came out of the sparks. He looked about 4 or 5 and his hair was an absolute rat's nest. His face was still freckly and when he looked around at everyone his ears turned red. He whimpered and went and hid behind the real Ron.
"Well," Ron said, "I'm going to go show my inner child around," Ron took his inner child's hand and led him out of the classroom. Then it was Hermione's turn.
"Duplatica Januville!" She cried. Out of her sparks appeared a girl about 4 years old. The girl had her bushy hair pulled into two lopsided pigtails. She was sucking her thumb.
"Oh my, she looks just like me!" Hermione said happily, "Hi, uh… Hermione."
Hermione-the-inner-child didn't answer, but she continued to suck her thumb. Hermione took the hand that wasn't in her mouth and pulled her to the side of the classroom. She was staying to watch Harry perform the spell.
"Duplatica Januville," said Harry. Out of the sparks, a form appeared. The boy was about the same height as Hermione-the-inner-child. He had the exact same, messy jet black hair, and the same bright green eyes as Harry. When he saw the real Harry, he smiled happily and bounded over to him.
"Hi! I'm Harry! And you're Harry too! Wow! Can I-"
"Harry, do you want to go find Ron?" Hermione interrupted.
"Sure," said the real Harry. "Let's go." Neville had just finished creating his inner child, which had screamed when he first saw Neville.
(From now on "tic" means the-inner-child)
Harry took Harry-the-inner-child's hand and started to lead him out of the classroom.
"Come back at five so I can show you how to delete your inner child."
"AHHHHHHHHH!" All of the inner children around them shrieked.
"You-you're not going to delete us, are you?" Hermione tic said.
"No. No. No. No. No. No. NO." Chanted Harry-tic.
Neville t-i-c didn't say anything, he had fainted.
"Well, we have to delete you," Professor Flitwick said, startled. "The students can't look after you all."
"EIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!" Hermione tic shrieked. She yanked her hand out of Hermione's and ran screaming from the room.
"Come back!" Hermione yelled, chasing after her. Harry-tic looked up at Harry with utmost terror in his eyes.
"You-you-you-" Harry tic stammered. Then he dropped Harry's hand and ran after Hermione tic.
"See ya later," Harry said, running after his Inner Child.
Harry got out into the hall, but his inner child was nowhere to be found. After a minute or two of searching, Seamus tic ran up behind him.
"Hi! Hi!" Seamus tic exclaimed.
"Hello Seamus," Harry said. "Have you seen my inner child around?"
Seamus just stared up at him.
"Well?"
"I'm not telling!" Seamus exclaimed suddenly. He gave a giggle and ran away from Harry. Harry sighed to himself and went off in search of his inner child once again.
A few minutes later Harry ran into Dean and Dean tic. They were playing soccer in the hallway.
"Have you seen my inner child?" Harry asked. Dean nodded and pointed to a curtain. The curtain was squirming and giggling softly.
Harry went over to the giggling curtains and pulled it away from the window. Harry tic was standing behind it. He gave a loud laugh and ran away giggling, tagging Harry on the way.
"You're it!" Exclaimed Harry tic gleefully. Hermione tic ran from the other curtain. Harry sighed and looked back at Dean and Dean tic.
"You're it!" Dean tic echoed, running away from Harry.
"Yeah Harry, you're it." Dean said, grinning and following his tic. "Try and tag us!" Dean called over his shoulder.
Harry grinned to himself and ran after Harry and Hermione tic.
He finally caught up with them in the library. Madame Pince wasn't too happy about them running through her library, playing tag. Finally, after tagging Hermione tic, Harry found Ron, but Hermione tic tagged him. After a little while, more tic's started to show up. Harry recognized a short, pale, and pointed faced tic as Draco Malfoy. He refused to join the game of tag.
At about five o'clock Harry, Ron, and Hermione took their tic's, kicking and screaming, to the Charms classroom. When they got there, it looked as if a tornado had hit it. Papers were everywhere, and poor Professor Flitwick was lying in the middle of them.
"I've been trying to find the counter curse for ages," Professor Flitwick squeaked. "I can't find it anywhere. I think Crabbe tic ate it."
"Oh no," Hermione said, "That means that we can't get rid- uh, I mean we can't send these Inner Children back to, wherever they cam from."
"Yep, I guess they'll just have to spend the night." All of the inner children's faces brightened immediately, and they all cheered loudly.
Hermione groaned softly.
"Taking care of them for one after noon is fine," She whispered to Harry and Ron, "But all night too is just unbearable!"
Meanwhile…
"On the day of the Quidditch Match," Voldemort whispered, "That is when we will strike…"