Chapter 4: A sudden realisation
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!!!! Have you guys seen the teaser trailor…it's only a matter of time before the real trailor comes out…4 the second movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway in answer to the simgle review I got very well I will try and make the chapters longer but what can I say…I'm not a long chapter person. (By the way the swear-word was w anker)
It was Sunday, and about 2 weeks had passed since that first day at Hogwarts. Malfoy, needless to say, didn't mess with Jelly again. Harry Ron and Hermione considered this to be very pleasant indeed.
Also Jelly had managed to get into the Gryffindor Quidditch team as the Keeper, and they were very impressed with her. Angelina Johnson had been elected as the captain (I would've made Harry the captain but I didn't think it went well with the story) and she was thrilled with what Jelly could do. She didn't miss one goal that the other two chasers, Katie Bell and Alicia Spinnet, pulled at her.
"Have you always been able to do that?"
"Well no of course not, but I was put in the team at my school in Australia when I was in year 6 (first year) so I've had lots of practice. I would have had potential as a seeker but they already had one so they trained me to be a keeper instead."
Angelina, like many people, had noticed the resemblance between Jelly and Harry, including their obvious talent for Quidditch. She smiled to herself as the two of them walked off from the first training session. One would almost think they were twins.
On that fine Sunday Harry had decided to go visit the house-elves. Ron and Hermione came with him (Ron wanted the sweets) but Jelly wanted to stay indoors…said she wasn't feeling well. Harry had noticed something…the magical vibes she gave were getting so strong that now Harrys hair obviously was blowing in the non-existant wind, as was jelly's. They could both feel what nobody else could. Harry was desperate to find out why this was happening…but obviously didn't know how to find out.
Anyway they stayed at the kitchens for most of the day. Dobby was telling them of where he had gone during the summer, and Harry and Ron were telling of their adventures aswell. Mind you Harry wasn't really in it…all day he'd been thinking about something else, and he felt something strange, then…
"Jelly! Guys, something's wrong, something's wrong with her!" Harry suddenly flew up alarmed. As did Ron and Hermione
"Harry, who do you know that there is—"
"don't ask why…I can just feel it…I can sense it…come on we have to hurry."
Well Ron and Hermione knew about what Harry can sense and they doubted he would make anything up, so without another word they flew out of the kitchens and ran all the way up to the dormitories, where they found an abominable site.
The common-room was a complete mess, things everywhere were strewn and broken into millions of pieces. In the middle of it all stood Jelly, looking completely wreckless. She was holding her head in pain, and she was blowing things up like they were small paper cups. Harry could tell she would be screaming if she could. His hair was blowing out now as though he was standing close to a tornado. Ron and Hermione were fine, but when they saw Harry they got the basic message; Jelly's power was out of control.
She was muttering. She was saying "Come on, give me one, give it to me, come on…"
"Jelly?" questioned Harry, looking very concerned.
"Harry? Harry! It's come too far, it's out of control, it's…it's—"
With a scream Jelly fell to the ground, clutching her head. Harry didn't know what to do…he could feel her pain, though not as severely, but couldn't see what she saw. In a minute or so it was suddenly all over. Harry's hair remained still, as did Jellt's, and the magical vibes Jelly gave were perfectly normal again…blissful…like they were when Harry and Jelly first met. Of course right now Harry didn't care…he was too concerned about Jelly.
With a wave of her hand she'd repaired everything that was broken, and was standing up and brushing herself off, as though nothing had really just happened. Then she went over to Harry, who looked at her, very concernedly.
"It was a power imbalancement Harry," she said. "Whenever the amount of power inside me is too much, it gets really, really painful…unbearable…one becomes wreckless."
"But why would your power build up too much?" asked Harry. "I mean, you use up all your powers in school work.
"No," said Jelly shaking her head. "Every day whenever I don't use up any power, it get's stored up inside me, and then it builds up, and it can't get out, so then one gets out of control, until I have a vision that is."
"Is a vision what consumes all of the power?"
"Yeah. I can never remember what I see, but it uses all of the energy. Sometimes I don't get a vision though, and I have to use all the power destroying stuff. It can take weeks."
Harry had a flashback of the pain he had felt coming from Jelly. Just that feedback for a week would be murdering. He wondered how Jelly survived getting something 100 times worse.
"Is there a way to get rid of these surges?"
"No. Some would say to use all the power every day, but that can't be done. If I uses all my power every day I'd faint…I'm always gonna have some power extra every day. So no there is no cure…I'm working on it though…there's gotta be one somewhere."
Hermione, who had been listening to their conversation, wrinkled her brow. So she needs a cure…might be something I can do…
A week or so after that experience nothing really happened…but then of course, something did have to happen, or else I wouldn't be continuing this chapter would I?
It was another Potions lesson, and Jelly was running a bit late (something about forgetting a book) so Snape began the lesson by saying "Guess our little Hand user forgot to turn up today…(Slytherins snickered) so we will begin the lesson and she will have to catch up. Now, today we will be doing a new potion, called the Surrender Solution. Does anyone have any idea what it does and is not Miss Granger."
Hermione put down her slowly raising hand, looking slightly deflated. Malfoy then had a go.
"The Surender solution makes you seem almighty and powrerful," he told the class. "When you have some, anyone that approaches you can only do what you order them to do, and this means that you can be ordered to do very nasty things…I care not to go into examples Professor."
"Nicely said Mr Malfoy. So, the ingredients for this—"
Snape was cut short by Jelly running in, appearing red faced and breathless. Snape turned and glanced at her in disapproval.
"Very sorry about that Professor…I was getting my book."
"And you shall be rewarded with 10 points away from Gryffindor. Now sit down and Miss Granger will undoubtedly explain to you what we are doing."
Jelly sat down slightly embarrassed, the Gryffindors looking on and wondering why she would dare to be late for a Potions class…and why she'd been given such mild punishment. No matter.
"Each of you will have to test it on your partners. I am only going to allow simple commands like walking over to the sink or picking up a ladle. Anything major, or offensive, I shall be forced to take 50 points from that house."
The Slytherins couldn't feel very threatened about this…they knew Snape had never taken points off them and probably never would. The Gryffindors knew they would have to follow instructions however, and they set straight to work.
"Hmmm…said jelly when Hermione told her about the Potion. I remember doing one of these once at my old school in a more advanced lesson I was put in for some reason…and some of the things people were forced to do…wow…"
Hermione swore she saw a small tear slip down Jelly's cheek…but she didn't inquire. She figured that Jelly had been made to do something that she regretted…but it couldn't have been that bad, not with a school policy like that.
Anyway the Potions were finished. Hermione was able to command Jelly to add some beetles to the Potion to give it a stronger surge of power, and Jelly gave Hermione instructions to walk over to the sink and wash out her Potions ingredients…nothing major there.
From the other side of the room Malfoy had told his partner to stand on the table and sing lullabies, much to amusement of everyone but his partner, who looked hurt. Jelly was disgusted.
"Why doesn't the teacher do something?"
"What a question Jelly," remarked Ron "Think about it."
"Jelly looked over and saw Snape not really caring at all about Malfoys orders. If anything he was amused. Jelly couldn't stand that.
"Professor, that was unfair! Wasn't Malfoy told that he could only give small commands…his partner was obviously embarrassed…why is it OK for him to do that when it's clearly hurting his partner?"
Everyone turned around or looked up to look at Jelly. She didn't seem the least bit embarrassed, but rather very insulted that it would be allowed. Talk about biased
Snape studied her for a minute, and then said "One more outburst like that, and I will take that 50 points off Gryffindor I'd promised. Now sit down and continue writing up your work."
Jelly didn't have a choice. Still fuming, she sat down and got out her quill.
She didn't notice Malfoy coming up behind her. His Potion was still strong, he hadn't taken any of the reversal potion yet, and he was soon within range for the potion to take effect. Jellys mind became a blank.
"Jelly," said Malfoy "Walk over there and bang your head against the wall."
She got up and did this. When she was finished Harry, watching in amazement, could see the bruise on her head. He could see now what Hermione meant when she said that this potion was not to be taken lightly. What else would Malfoy do to her?
"Jelly, knock over Longbottoms cauldron and make it seem like an accident."
This she did aswell. When Snape looked up he saw nothing. Hermione had just reversed the damage with a very quick little charm she'd figured out.
"Malfoy, stop it. You'll get her in trouble."
"Yeah…that's the point." Said Malfoy with an evil smile.
"Jelly, go over there and slap Hermione across the face as hard as you can."
Jelly, of course, had no choice. She walked over like a robot and slapped Hermione as hard as she could. Hermione couldn't hide her scream of pain.
"Malfoy!" yelled Harry. "Knock it off! Snape wouldn't even allow you to do this."
"On the contrary Potter," said Malfoy indicating Snape writing something down, not caring at all about what the class was doing.
Harry was furious. Seeing Jelly like that, in someones control, was so weird, so scary, that it was unbearable to him. Jelly had no idea…but of course she'd find out the instant the Potion was reversed. Harry didn't want to think about it. He looked down and began writing his summary, and didn't notice Malfoy leading Jelly out of the room.
At the end of the lesson Malfoy managed to creep back and make it seem as though he hadn't just made Jelly do something horrendous. Jelly was still under his control, and followed Malfoy back in suddenly.
"Now, for all of you who were too stupid to figure out how to reverse the potion I will reverse out all the rest," said Snape. Malfoy hadn't bothered reversing Jelly's…though he knew how. He just wanted to see her reaction when Snape reversed it.
"Now," said Snape when he was done. "You will all read up on the chapter that we covered today by doing this Potion, and clearly summarise it for me. Do care to remember what you've written…it will be important in the future."
He dismissed the class, and Harry, Ron, Hermione and Jelly came out at the same time.
"Interesting lesson," said Harry. "You all right Jelly?"
Bad question. Jelly looked up at Harry, and Harry could clearly see that she was not OK. She'd only just then remembered what she had done, and feeling for the bruise on her head, she ran back to the dormitory and didn't show up for Charms.
"Hermione…do you think you could give her a cheering charm?" asked Harry when they'd come out and were on their way back to the Gryffindor Tower. They were of course talking about Jelly, and Harry was worried…he could sense that something was really, really wrong with Jelly.
"No, I think the best thing we can do is talk to her and find out what happened…without magic."
In the common room they found Jelly in a chair, looking at the fire, her eyes wide open with terror. It reminded Harry of Dobby.
"Jelly?"
She looked up and saw Harry there. She shook and went back to her terrified state.
Harry came over to her and knelt down in front of her. "Jelly, what is it? Come on, you can tell me. You have to get it off your chest. Please."
Jelly rose her head and looked at Harry, her eyes still wide open. "Harry. You wouldn't want to know."
"Well no I don't want to know…but I have to know. What did he do to you?"
"Malfoy? oh…it wasn't him…he did all of those things, then he took me outside and made me imitate animals…nothing that big, but…what happened in Australia…I…I can't…"
Harry looked at her more…then suddenly he realised. "Oh!"
Jelly suddenly looked at him with even more terror. "You can't tell anyone…it wasn't my fault…they forced me…I couldn't get out…it was too much…"
Jelly fell into Harry's arms…and he held her there, and was just there for her…it was secure, and Harry knew that she needed a friend. Ron and hermione, who were standing on and watching, understood as well (well it took Ron awhile) and just stood there, unable to think of what they could say or do…it was shocking…were people in Australia really like that?
Ahhhh yes everyone, we have now discovered a very deep secret of Jellys…but one must wonder, is this something to do with her past, and was it a regular person, or was it someone evil…hmmm, who knows?????
Well don't ask me cause I don't!
Hope you all enjoy this chapter everyone cause it took me a fair while to write it…I also hope y'all R&R because the story will get interesting…we're about o get round to the whole thing with Voldemort in the story.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!!!! Have you guys seen the teaser trailor…it's only a matter of time before the real trailor comes out…4 the second movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway in answer to the simgle review I got very well I will try and make the chapters longer but what can I say…I'm not a long chapter person. (By the way the swear-word was w anker)
It was Sunday, and about 2 weeks had passed since that first day at Hogwarts. Malfoy, needless to say, didn't mess with Jelly again. Harry Ron and Hermione considered this to be very pleasant indeed.
Also Jelly had managed to get into the Gryffindor Quidditch team as the Keeper, and they were very impressed with her. Angelina Johnson had been elected as the captain (I would've made Harry the captain but I didn't think it went well with the story) and she was thrilled with what Jelly could do. She didn't miss one goal that the other two chasers, Katie Bell and Alicia Spinnet, pulled at her.
"Have you always been able to do that?"
"Well no of course not, but I was put in the team at my school in Australia when I was in year 6 (first year) so I've had lots of practice. I would have had potential as a seeker but they already had one so they trained me to be a keeper instead."
Angelina, like many people, had noticed the resemblance between Jelly and Harry, including their obvious talent for Quidditch. She smiled to herself as the two of them walked off from the first training session. One would almost think they were twins.
On that fine Sunday Harry had decided to go visit the house-elves. Ron and Hermione came with him (Ron wanted the sweets) but Jelly wanted to stay indoors…said she wasn't feeling well. Harry had noticed something…the magical vibes she gave were getting so strong that now Harrys hair obviously was blowing in the non-existant wind, as was jelly's. They could both feel what nobody else could. Harry was desperate to find out why this was happening…but obviously didn't know how to find out.
Anyway they stayed at the kitchens for most of the day. Dobby was telling them of where he had gone during the summer, and Harry and Ron were telling of their adventures aswell. Mind you Harry wasn't really in it…all day he'd been thinking about something else, and he felt something strange, then…
"Jelly! Guys, something's wrong, something's wrong with her!" Harry suddenly flew up alarmed. As did Ron and Hermione
"Harry, who do you know that there is—"
"don't ask why…I can just feel it…I can sense it…come on we have to hurry."
Well Ron and Hermione knew about what Harry can sense and they doubted he would make anything up, so without another word they flew out of the kitchens and ran all the way up to the dormitories, where they found an abominable site.
The common-room was a complete mess, things everywhere were strewn and broken into millions of pieces. In the middle of it all stood Jelly, looking completely wreckless. She was holding her head in pain, and she was blowing things up like they were small paper cups. Harry could tell she would be screaming if she could. His hair was blowing out now as though he was standing close to a tornado. Ron and Hermione were fine, but when they saw Harry they got the basic message; Jelly's power was out of control.
She was muttering. She was saying "Come on, give me one, give it to me, come on…"
"Jelly?" questioned Harry, looking very concerned.
"Harry? Harry! It's come too far, it's out of control, it's…it's—"
With a scream Jelly fell to the ground, clutching her head. Harry didn't know what to do…he could feel her pain, though not as severely, but couldn't see what she saw. In a minute or so it was suddenly all over. Harry's hair remained still, as did Jellt's, and the magical vibes Jelly gave were perfectly normal again…blissful…like they were when Harry and Jelly first met. Of course right now Harry didn't care…he was too concerned about Jelly.
With a wave of her hand she'd repaired everything that was broken, and was standing up and brushing herself off, as though nothing had really just happened. Then she went over to Harry, who looked at her, very concernedly.
"It was a power imbalancement Harry," she said. "Whenever the amount of power inside me is too much, it gets really, really painful…unbearable…one becomes wreckless."
"But why would your power build up too much?" asked Harry. "I mean, you use up all your powers in school work.
"No," said Jelly shaking her head. "Every day whenever I don't use up any power, it get's stored up inside me, and then it builds up, and it can't get out, so then one gets out of control, until I have a vision that is."
"Is a vision what consumes all of the power?"
"Yeah. I can never remember what I see, but it uses all of the energy. Sometimes I don't get a vision though, and I have to use all the power destroying stuff. It can take weeks."
Harry had a flashback of the pain he had felt coming from Jelly. Just that feedback for a week would be murdering. He wondered how Jelly survived getting something 100 times worse.
"Is there a way to get rid of these surges?"
"No. Some would say to use all the power every day, but that can't be done. If I uses all my power every day I'd faint…I'm always gonna have some power extra every day. So no there is no cure…I'm working on it though…there's gotta be one somewhere."
Hermione, who had been listening to their conversation, wrinkled her brow. So she needs a cure…might be something I can do…
A week or so after that experience nothing really happened…but then of course, something did have to happen, or else I wouldn't be continuing this chapter would I?
It was another Potions lesson, and Jelly was running a bit late (something about forgetting a book) so Snape began the lesson by saying "Guess our little Hand user forgot to turn up today…(Slytherins snickered) so we will begin the lesson and she will have to catch up. Now, today we will be doing a new potion, called the Surrender Solution. Does anyone have any idea what it does and is not Miss Granger."
Hermione put down her slowly raising hand, looking slightly deflated. Malfoy then had a go.
"The Surender solution makes you seem almighty and powrerful," he told the class. "When you have some, anyone that approaches you can only do what you order them to do, and this means that you can be ordered to do very nasty things…I care not to go into examples Professor."
"Nicely said Mr Malfoy. So, the ingredients for this—"
Snape was cut short by Jelly running in, appearing red faced and breathless. Snape turned and glanced at her in disapproval.
"Very sorry about that Professor…I was getting my book."
"And you shall be rewarded with 10 points away from Gryffindor. Now sit down and Miss Granger will undoubtedly explain to you what we are doing."
Jelly sat down slightly embarrassed, the Gryffindors looking on and wondering why she would dare to be late for a Potions class…and why she'd been given such mild punishment. No matter.
"Each of you will have to test it on your partners. I am only going to allow simple commands like walking over to the sink or picking up a ladle. Anything major, or offensive, I shall be forced to take 50 points from that house."
The Slytherins couldn't feel very threatened about this…they knew Snape had never taken points off them and probably never would. The Gryffindors knew they would have to follow instructions however, and they set straight to work.
"Hmmm…said jelly when Hermione told her about the Potion. I remember doing one of these once at my old school in a more advanced lesson I was put in for some reason…and some of the things people were forced to do…wow…"
Hermione swore she saw a small tear slip down Jelly's cheek…but she didn't inquire. She figured that Jelly had been made to do something that she regretted…but it couldn't have been that bad, not with a school policy like that.
Anyway the Potions were finished. Hermione was able to command Jelly to add some beetles to the Potion to give it a stronger surge of power, and Jelly gave Hermione instructions to walk over to the sink and wash out her Potions ingredients…nothing major there.
From the other side of the room Malfoy had told his partner to stand on the table and sing lullabies, much to amusement of everyone but his partner, who looked hurt. Jelly was disgusted.
"Why doesn't the teacher do something?"
"What a question Jelly," remarked Ron "Think about it."
"Jelly looked over and saw Snape not really caring at all about Malfoys orders. If anything he was amused. Jelly couldn't stand that.
"Professor, that was unfair! Wasn't Malfoy told that he could only give small commands…his partner was obviously embarrassed…why is it OK for him to do that when it's clearly hurting his partner?"
Everyone turned around or looked up to look at Jelly. She didn't seem the least bit embarrassed, but rather very insulted that it would be allowed. Talk about biased
Snape studied her for a minute, and then said "One more outburst like that, and I will take that 50 points off Gryffindor I'd promised. Now sit down and continue writing up your work."
Jelly didn't have a choice. Still fuming, she sat down and got out her quill.
She didn't notice Malfoy coming up behind her. His Potion was still strong, he hadn't taken any of the reversal potion yet, and he was soon within range for the potion to take effect. Jellys mind became a blank.
"Jelly," said Malfoy "Walk over there and bang your head against the wall."
She got up and did this. When she was finished Harry, watching in amazement, could see the bruise on her head. He could see now what Hermione meant when she said that this potion was not to be taken lightly. What else would Malfoy do to her?
"Jelly, knock over Longbottoms cauldron and make it seem like an accident."
This she did aswell. When Snape looked up he saw nothing. Hermione had just reversed the damage with a very quick little charm she'd figured out.
"Malfoy, stop it. You'll get her in trouble."
"Yeah…that's the point." Said Malfoy with an evil smile.
"Jelly, go over there and slap Hermione across the face as hard as you can."
Jelly, of course, had no choice. She walked over like a robot and slapped Hermione as hard as she could. Hermione couldn't hide her scream of pain.
"Malfoy!" yelled Harry. "Knock it off! Snape wouldn't even allow you to do this."
"On the contrary Potter," said Malfoy indicating Snape writing something down, not caring at all about what the class was doing.
Harry was furious. Seeing Jelly like that, in someones control, was so weird, so scary, that it was unbearable to him. Jelly had no idea…but of course she'd find out the instant the Potion was reversed. Harry didn't want to think about it. He looked down and began writing his summary, and didn't notice Malfoy leading Jelly out of the room.
At the end of the lesson Malfoy managed to creep back and make it seem as though he hadn't just made Jelly do something horrendous. Jelly was still under his control, and followed Malfoy back in suddenly.
"Now, for all of you who were too stupid to figure out how to reverse the potion I will reverse out all the rest," said Snape. Malfoy hadn't bothered reversing Jelly's…though he knew how. He just wanted to see her reaction when Snape reversed it.
"Now," said Snape when he was done. "You will all read up on the chapter that we covered today by doing this Potion, and clearly summarise it for me. Do care to remember what you've written…it will be important in the future."
He dismissed the class, and Harry, Ron, Hermione and Jelly came out at the same time.
"Interesting lesson," said Harry. "You all right Jelly?"
Bad question. Jelly looked up at Harry, and Harry could clearly see that she was not OK. She'd only just then remembered what she had done, and feeling for the bruise on her head, she ran back to the dormitory and didn't show up for Charms.
"Hermione…do you think you could give her a cheering charm?" asked Harry when they'd come out and were on their way back to the Gryffindor Tower. They were of course talking about Jelly, and Harry was worried…he could sense that something was really, really wrong with Jelly.
"No, I think the best thing we can do is talk to her and find out what happened…without magic."
In the common room they found Jelly in a chair, looking at the fire, her eyes wide open with terror. It reminded Harry of Dobby.
"Jelly?"
She looked up and saw Harry there. She shook and went back to her terrified state.
Harry came over to her and knelt down in front of her. "Jelly, what is it? Come on, you can tell me. You have to get it off your chest. Please."
Jelly rose her head and looked at Harry, her eyes still wide open. "Harry. You wouldn't want to know."
"Well no I don't want to know…but I have to know. What did he do to you?"
"Malfoy? oh…it wasn't him…he did all of those things, then he took me outside and made me imitate animals…nothing that big, but…what happened in Australia…I…I can't…"
Harry looked at her more…then suddenly he realised. "Oh!"
Jelly suddenly looked at him with even more terror. "You can't tell anyone…it wasn't my fault…they forced me…I couldn't get out…it was too much…"
Jelly fell into Harry's arms…and he held her there, and was just there for her…it was secure, and Harry knew that she needed a friend. Ron and hermione, who were standing on and watching, understood as well (well it took Ron awhile) and just stood there, unable to think of what they could say or do…it was shocking…were people in Australia really like that?
Ahhhh yes everyone, we have now discovered a very deep secret of Jellys…but one must wonder, is this something to do with her past, and was it a regular person, or was it someone evil…hmmm, who knows?????
Well don't ask me cause I don't!
Hope you all enjoy this chapter everyone cause it took me a fair while to write it…I also hope y'all R&R because the story will get interesting…we're about o get round to the whole thing with Voldemort in the story.
