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Chapter 5: Sea witches
"Okay, there's been two other attacks- or disappearances one third year Gryffindor and one seventh year-Cho."
"Cho!" Harry whispered loudly.
"Keep your voice down, someone might hear." Hermione said. Ron was sure that Harry and Hermione were looking at him.
The past week, Hermione and Harry had been avoiding Ron. They whispered during class times and passed notes to each other. And Ron had been avoiding them, sitting by Dean and Seamus. Ron had thought that they would all be friends by now but they hadn't of apologized.
"So, as we've been studying other parts of lands of the spiritual and magical we are now starting a new unit. The Underwater world. Any detectives in this class will much enjoy this unit, for the recent school attacks are having to do with our very own lake." The DADA teacher, Professor Squilt, smiled. "I am much interested in this world. You do not study the more complex beings of the water until next year, but we are to study some of the common ones. Anyone know of some creature who live underwater?"
"Finally were studying the water unit." Hermione said, her hand raised.
"Thomas?"
"The giant squid."
"Yes. Brown?"
"Merpeople?"
"Yes, superior creatures.Potter?"
"Grindylow." Harry said.
"Mmhmm.Finnigan?"
"Fish."
"Yes.but let's think more mystical and precise.Granger?"
"Sea witches." Hermione said innocently, smiling. Everyone turned their head and looked at her.
Professor Squilt bit her lip. "One of our more complex creatures there."
"Won't you tell us a bit about them?" Hermione said. "I've read about them in books.they seem interesting."
"Yes they are.but I'm sure you'll hear all about them next-"
"They seem to fit the profile of these attacks." Hermione said over Squilt's voice. "Green, big, slimy.that's what all six victims said."
"Six?"
"Actually the three who survived. Tresher, Thomas and Finnigan." Hermione said. "Ask them yourself- Dean-Seamus?"
Everyone looked and Dean and Seamus. They mumbled some things.
"Actually I didn't get a really good look at it." Dean said. Everyone looked at Seamus.
"Well.yeah.it was green and large and slimy and had seaweed on it.but all I saw was an arm. Big ugly thing-gy."
Everyone looked at the teacher and many people started talking all at once demanding more about the Sea witch.
"Alright! Okay first of all the Sea witch is a beautiful creature."
Everyone looked and Seamus. Seamus answered, "I don't know!"
"You've never seen the rest of a Sea witch." Squilt sighed and pushed back her hair. "Long golden hair.large turquoise eyes, thin figure." Squilt started to take out books from under her desk. "It's an underwater Veela, you could say. But once it touches the air, oxygen and chemicals and magic mixed into it, it is a 'big ugly thingy.'"
Seamus sank low into his seat.
"It's quite pleasant and angelic looking but the creature does not love. But it does not hate. All they want is to gain power, to live on ground showing their true features. There are many theories why they want to live out of the water. I believe that they want to find something to love. "
Squilt put books on the front row tables to be passed back.
"Tell us about its history." Hermione said, who was writing every word the teacher said. "Did it.*make* anything?"
Squilt stared at Hermione. "I'm beginning to think you're one of our detectives." Hermione blushed slightly. "It did make something. A gem. One Sea witch queen made a gem that could possibly give them anything they wanted-but it was stolen. By a Wizard. And ever since then the Sea witches have feared the more powerful Wizards and Witches."
"But are they likely to attack Wizards and witches in training?" Hermione asked. Everyone looked at Squilt.
"Possibly." Squilt said softly. "Now-enough of this."
Everyone talked, wanting to know more.
"I said enough." Squilt said firmly. "Now-open your books to the first page."
Everyone groaned and mumbled as they did what they were told.
"I bet the Sea witch is the attacker and the stone is the one Ron has." Hermione said to Harry. "Maybe Squilt knows more about them."
"So-more homework?"
"Definitely- see if you can get a hold of necklace and I'll handle Squilt."
They were plotting against him! Ron shook his head. He wasn't going to let them lay a finger on his necklace until he did some homework himself.
***
Ron ate little and headed to the library. He grabbed all the books he could find on complex water creature. There were little articles and stories on Sea witches, just the basic things that Ron already knew about.
After putting away three fourths of the books away he examined his necklace. Could a Sea witch really have made it? Then Ron got an idea. If he could get every question correct this past week without knowing what it was about, possibly in the back of his brain he had knowledge on Sea witches.
Ron slipped the necklace over his head and began to think. In his brain it felt like a person searching through a billion files on a billion things. Sea witches. Underwater witches that are known to gain power. Sea witches. Underwater creatures with gold hair, blue eyes and tall, thin figure. Sea witches. Communicators through song. Sea witches live their lives trying to find the gem. Gem: green with engraving around the stone.
"Hey Ron!"
Ron looked up and saw three short girls smiling at him.
"Huh?"
"I'm Emma, She's Esther and that's Elizabeth." One of the girls said.
"We just really liked that Quidditch game." Esther said.
"You Gryffindors?" Ron asked closing and gathering the books on his desk.
"Slytherin third years." Emma said.
"Ohh." Ron said backing away.
"That Quidditch game has been flying around the school, I'm sure you're parents know." Esther said nodding.
"That's-great?" Ron said shrugging and saw Harry and Hermione coming in. "Well I-"
"We were wondering if you wanted to hang out sometime." Emma asked hopefully.
"I'm booked. all this month." Ron lied. Girls had been coming up to him asking if they could hang out.
"Really?" Esther said.
"You say that as if you don't believe it." Emma said to Esther. "Next month maybe?"
Ron started to get frustrated. He had no time to waste time on three silly Slytherin third years. Ron knew that Hermione and Harry thought all this was stupid too. And that this was all what he wanted. "Maybe never."
"What?" said Esther.
"Okay I've got to ask- what's wrong with her?" Ron said, pointing to Elizabeth. She'd been humming and swaying all this time.
"What?" Elizabeth said, exiting daydream land. "I just can't get this song out of my head." Elizabeth began to sing loudly and badly then she stopped. "You hear that?"
"I only hear ringing in my ears." Ron mumbled.
"Come on girls- LET'S GO!" Elizabeth began to march. "Nice meeting you Ron." Ron looked at Harry and Hermione. Why did he feel so embarrassed?
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Loads of thanks to Jelsemium and kat_o_lune.
Chapter 5: Sea witches
"Okay, there's been two other attacks- or disappearances one third year Gryffindor and one seventh year-Cho."
"Cho!" Harry whispered loudly.
"Keep your voice down, someone might hear." Hermione said. Ron was sure that Harry and Hermione were looking at him.
The past week, Hermione and Harry had been avoiding Ron. They whispered during class times and passed notes to each other. And Ron had been avoiding them, sitting by Dean and Seamus. Ron had thought that they would all be friends by now but they hadn't of apologized.
"So, as we've been studying other parts of lands of the spiritual and magical we are now starting a new unit. The Underwater world. Any detectives in this class will much enjoy this unit, for the recent school attacks are having to do with our very own lake." The DADA teacher, Professor Squilt, smiled. "I am much interested in this world. You do not study the more complex beings of the water until next year, but we are to study some of the common ones. Anyone know of some creature who live underwater?"
"Finally were studying the water unit." Hermione said, her hand raised.
"Thomas?"
"The giant squid."
"Yes. Brown?"
"Merpeople?"
"Yes, superior creatures.Potter?"
"Grindylow." Harry said.
"Mmhmm.Finnigan?"
"Fish."
"Yes.but let's think more mystical and precise.Granger?"
"Sea witches." Hermione said innocently, smiling. Everyone turned their head and looked at her.
Professor Squilt bit her lip. "One of our more complex creatures there."
"Won't you tell us a bit about them?" Hermione said. "I've read about them in books.they seem interesting."
"Yes they are.but I'm sure you'll hear all about them next-"
"They seem to fit the profile of these attacks." Hermione said over Squilt's voice. "Green, big, slimy.that's what all six victims said."
"Six?"
"Actually the three who survived. Tresher, Thomas and Finnigan." Hermione said. "Ask them yourself- Dean-Seamus?"
Everyone looked and Dean and Seamus. They mumbled some things.
"Actually I didn't get a really good look at it." Dean said. Everyone looked at Seamus.
"Well.yeah.it was green and large and slimy and had seaweed on it.but all I saw was an arm. Big ugly thing-gy."
Everyone looked at the teacher and many people started talking all at once demanding more about the Sea witch.
"Alright! Okay first of all the Sea witch is a beautiful creature."
Everyone looked and Seamus. Seamus answered, "I don't know!"
"You've never seen the rest of a Sea witch." Squilt sighed and pushed back her hair. "Long golden hair.large turquoise eyes, thin figure." Squilt started to take out books from under her desk. "It's an underwater Veela, you could say. But once it touches the air, oxygen and chemicals and magic mixed into it, it is a 'big ugly thingy.'"
Seamus sank low into his seat.
"It's quite pleasant and angelic looking but the creature does not love. But it does not hate. All they want is to gain power, to live on ground showing their true features. There are many theories why they want to live out of the water. I believe that they want to find something to love. "
Squilt put books on the front row tables to be passed back.
"Tell us about its history." Hermione said, who was writing every word the teacher said. "Did it.*make* anything?"
Squilt stared at Hermione. "I'm beginning to think you're one of our detectives." Hermione blushed slightly. "It did make something. A gem. One Sea witch queen made a gem that could possibly give them anything they wanted-but it was stolen. By a Wizard. And ever since then the Sea witches have feared the more powerful Wizards and Witches."
"But are they likely to attack Wizards and witches in training?" Hermione asked. Everyone looked at Squilt.
"Possibly." Squilt said softly. "Now-enough of this."
Everyone talked, wanting to know more.
"I said enough." Squilt said firmly. "Now-open your books to the first page."
Everyone groaned and mumbled as they did what they were told.
"I bet the Sea witch is the attacker and the stone is the one Ron has." Hermione said to Harry. "Maybe Squilt knows more about them."
"So-more homework?"
"Definitely- see if you can get a hold of necklace and I'll handle Squilt."
They were plotting against him! Ron shook his head. He wasn't going to let them lay a finger on his necklace until he did some homework himself.
***
Ron ate little and headed to the library. He grabbed all the books he could find on complex water creature. There were little articles and stories on Sea witches, just the basic things that Ron already knew about.
After putting away three fourths of the books away he examined his necklace. Could a Sea witch really have made it? Then Ron got an idea. If he could get every question correct this past week without knowing what it was about, possibly in the back of his brain he had knowledge on Sea witches.
Ron slipped the necklace over his head and began to think. In his brain it felt like a person searching through a billion files on a billion things. Sea witches. Underwater witches that are known to gain power. Sea witches. Underwater creatures with gold hair, blue eyes and tall, thin figure. Sea witches. Communicators through song. Sea witches live their lives trying to find the gem. Gem: green with engraving around the stone.
"Hey Ron!"
Ron looked up and saw three short girls smiling at him.
"Huh?"
"I'm Emma, She's Esther and that's Elizabeth." One of the girls said.
"We just really liked that Quidditch game." Esther said.
"You Gryffindors?" Ron asked closing and gathering the books on his desk.
"Slytherin third years." Emma said.
"Ohh." Ron said backing away.
"That Quidditch game has been flying around the school, I'm sure you're parents know." Esther said nodding.
"That's-great?" Ron said shrugging and saw Harry and Hermione coming in. "Well I-"
"We were wondering if you wanted to hang out sometime." Emma asked hopefully.
"I'm booked. all this month." Ron lied. Girls had been coming up to him asking if they could hang out.
"Really?" Esther said.
"You say that as if you don't believe it." Emma said to Esther. "Next month maybe?"
Ron started to get frustrated. He had no time to waste time on three silly Slytherin third years. Ron knew that Hermione and Harry thought all this was stupid too. And that this was all what he wanted. "Maybe never."
"What?" said Esther.
"Okay I've got to ask- what's wrong with her?" Ron said, pointing to Elizabeth. She'd been humming and swaying all this time.
"What?" Elizabeth said, exiting daydream land. "I just can't get this song out of my head." Elizabeth began to sing loudly and badly then she stopped. "You hear that?"
"I only hear ringing in my ears." Ron mumbled.
"Come on girls- LET'S GO!" Elizabeth began to march. "Nice meeting you Ron." Ron looked at Harry and Hermione. Why did he feel so embarrassed?
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Loads of thanks to Jelsemium and kat_o_lune.