When Jake and Selena finally arrived at the Divination
Tower, the class was well underway. Ron and Harry
glanced up and smiled, motioning towards their table
where they had saved them seats. Once they were
seated, Trelawney glanced at them airily. She claimed
to have seen in her crystal ball that they would be
late and to expect them. Harry rolled his eyes at her
words since everyone in the school knew about their
sudden leave by then.
"And now, I ask each of you to please pass around the
scroll which will be going around. It is an ancient
document which I spent most of my life in acquiring.
It is page from the Book of Prophecies, a book which
belongs in the Elf Kingdom. I had to pay a high price
for it." Trelawney went on and on about her great
sacrifice as the scroll went around. When Jake held
it, a strange shiver passed through him.
The paper was a very elaborate piece of silver
parchment with blood red letters intricately spun
together. The language was unreadable but still,
anyone could see that it was something magical.
When the scroll page touched Selena's fingers, her
body tensed and her mouth fell open. Jake glanced at
her and grabbed her shoulders, seeing the terrified
_expression on her face. Unfortunately, he couldn't do
a thing as her skin turned completely black, her
golden hair turned blood red, and her blue eyes grew
to consume the white part. Her body convulsed and she
fell limp, the scroll falling from her fingers!
"Selena! Selena wake up! What's going on?!" Jake
demanded angrily. Harry tried to shake her awake as
well but she made no sign of being alive, not a pulse
nor even a breath of air.
"Wake up damnit!" Jake yelled angrily as he slapped
her across the face. As he did so, the necklace around
his neck slipped out from his robes and brushed her
face. Jake starred down at the stone and felt a
strange jolt in his heart. The stone was pulsing
between red and green, changing each time that Jake's
heart beat came. Usually the stone would have been
blue, but now it was having a spasm attack at the
contact to her skin.
When the stone touched her, he felt himself go rigid
as her mouth opened and an unearthly voice filled the
panicked room, silencing everyone.
"My plan has succeeded!" Harry stiffened, his eyes
widening to the size of saucer plates! He KNEW that
voice! "Now that I am here, the two from my world
shall die quickly. One more potion and I shall soon be
ready for them." Selena laughed cruelly, her lips
curling into a sneer.
"Wake up!" Jake yelled angrily, ignoring the chill
sweeping into the room.
"With my control over the Jade, she shall regret the
day she was born! One more spell, and the Spade shall
be mine!" Selena said. Jake pulled out his wand and
pointed it at her angrily.
"Invierto!" He yelled angrily, trying to awaken her.
Nothing happened.
"No one can wake her." The voice which wasn't really
Selena's said triumphantly. "Only a kiss could awaken
her now." Harry felt his stomach fall through the
floor. He took a step forward slowly.
"I know that voice." He mumbled. Parvati and Lavender
began screaming deafeningly so everyone's attention
fell on them. Harry took a step forward and willed
himself to kiss Selena's cold lips.
When he did, a shriek escaped her mouth and then she
rocketed up, her hair golden, her skin a pale white,
and her eyes normal. She curled up into a protective
ball just as Harry and Jake managed to hug her at the
same time.
This way, surrounded by warmth, Selena's trembling
stopped. Soon her breathing returned to normal and
Trelawney took a step towards them.
"A prophecy!" She whispered excitedly. "I've witnessed
only one in my life but I've never read of one being
so violent! You have the Inner Eye my dear, and very
strongly." Jake glared at her with an
'is-that-supposed-to-comfort-her?' look. Harry stood,
blushing.
"I saw . . . this horrible monster." She mumbled. "I
think he was a man once but he looked . . . like a
snake. He had these red eyes, it was so creepy."
Selena shivered and Jake lifted her up, still hugging
her.
"Are you okay? Do you think that you can go to our
next class?" Selena nodded numbly, pushing Jake away a
little.
"I'm fine." She said, waving her hand in front of him.
"Just a little shaky."
"This is NOT to leave the room! If you do so, I shall
fail each and every one of you! Understood?!"
Trelawney shrieked, surprising everyone. She pointed
to Selena lovingly, her eyes filled with tears. "Her
prophesy is to be kept a secret. If any should hear of
it, others shall try to claim her soul and she shall
forever be bonded to her gift!" Crickets could have
made more sense than the silence which followed.
Lavender and Parvati immediately started going around
the room, hissing that if they even heard a sliver of
a room close to the prophesy they had just heard, they
would personally strangle ever person in their class.
"My dear, please take this." Trelawney said, lifting
from around her neck a beautiful pendant. It was like
a pink tear drop attached to a delicate golden chain
formed to look like a wraith of leaves. Each golden
leaf was connected with a gray-blue opal.
"What is it?" Selena asked, a little suspicious.
"It is a fortune-enhancing necklace. It came with the
scroll. I have tried to use it and it has succeeded in
making me prophesizes more accurately, and also
protects me from those spirits which try to enter my
body while I am Seeing." Her eyes grew even larger as
she held the necklace. "Take it."
"I . . . thank you." She took the necklace and placed
it around her neck. Instantly she felt much safer. She
even managed a smile.
"Will you be my apprentice?" Trelawney finally
blurted.
"No." Selena said quickly. "I can't."
"You must my dear! You must learn to control and
enhance your gift!" She said, her former sincerity
gone in her excitement. She was now a very greedy
teacher trying to get minimal credit for showing
someone a trade which would be important in life.
"I'm sorry, but I can't. Bye professor!" Selena
grabbed her bag, grabbed a hand, and left the Tower.
She was walking for about two minutes before she
glanced back and gasped. She hadn't been tugging Jake
along as she had originally thought, but actually
Harry. He had his bag slung over her shoulder and his
face was curious.
"Why did you bring me along?" He asked curiously.
"I thought you were Jake! I'm sorry!" She said
quickly.
"Er, that's okay." They started walking in silence,
not really sure where they were going. It end up that
they became thoroughly and completely lost.
"Where are we?" Selena finally demanded.
"I have no idea." They opened a door to find a steep
drop waiting for them. Apparently the door led right
outside, which happened to be several hundred feet in
the air with nothing to break their long fall.
"I don't think I've heard of a door like this." Harry
muttered.
"My neither. Come on, let's get out of here." The were
on the verge of opening another door when Selena heard
a faint voice beside her ear. 'Go down those stairs
and straight ahead until you come to the mermaid
painting. Once there, take a hard right and down the
stairs.' She blinked and looked around. Deciding that
the only way to get out of this mess was to listen to
someone, she began to lead Harry out of their current
location and right into Jake and Fleur.
Meanwhile, Jake had left the Divination Tower
furiously. He had been about to follow Selena and
Harry (he knew she hadn't noticed who she had been
dragging behind her) but Professor Trelawney got in
his way immediately.
He managed to get away from her only to run into Darla
outside of the room. When she saw him, she began
running after him. Jake turned tail and ran for his
sanity. After making sure that no one was around to
watch, he placed the Jelly-legs curse on her as well
as another painful one which produced boils all over
her body. When he got away from her and her screams,
he ran into Fleur.
'This is just one weird day.' He thought to himself
tiredly. Fleur served as an anchor back to reality and
made Jake feel a lot better. He was leading her
towards Hagrid's hut for his lesson in Care of Magical
Creatures when an angry figure stormed past them. It
was Shadow.
"Where is she?!" He demanded angrily.
"Who are you talking about?" Jake asked with a dark
grin.
"You know perfectly well who I mean! Where's Selena?!"
He demanded angrily.
"She's with Harry." Jake said, his eyes dancing
evilly. "I wouldn't disturb them if I were you."
Shadow had turned several different colors before he
stormed away angrily. "Annoying bugger." He mumbled.
"Do you know him? He's been pestering a lot of the
girls." Fleur said. Just as they were about to head
out to the hut again, something else stood in their
path. Draco Malfoy and his two cronies glared at them.
"What are you doing here?" Malfoy asked snidely.
"Same as you. Walking." Jake said coldly as he began
to pull Fleur with him.
"Have you heard of the battles?" Malfoy asked as they
were about to leave. Jake turned to him, annoyed. He
was secretly wondering how many fireworks rammed down
Wormtail's throat would blow out his tongue.
"What battles?" Malfoy smirked and pulled out several
clippings from both a Muggle newspaper and the Daily
Prophet.
"Read up on it." Malfoy advised as he tossed it to
Jake and began to walk away. Jake took the newspaper
clippings and looked at them thoughtfully.
ANGELS AND DEMONS FIGHTING! IS THIS THE END OF THE
WORLD?
By: Darla Lightwing
Last night, various Muggles and two witches have
reported unusual gang fights taking place in Madison
Square Garden, located in New York City. Witnesses
have testified that several people in black robes with
fire-embroidered gloves and black wings were seen
viciously attacking white robed, wing embroidered
gloved people with white wings in the center of the
square. Supposedly the sides were too preoccupied with
their fight to notice that they had an audience until
one of the demons fell against a witch. At that point,
the demons and angels vanished without so much as a
pop.
It is this reporter's personal opinion that these
attacks are a sign of things to come. A war between
Heaven and Hell has started anew and it is this
reporter's opinion that sides must be taken quickly.
Jake felt rather sick as he turned to the next
clipping. This one was from a Muggle newspaper.
FIRE BURNS DOWN DEPARTMENT STORE; DEMON ATTACK OR
TERRORIST BOMBING?
There have been frequent battles raging all around the
world in which groups of people either wearing black
robes or white robes have been spotted fighting in
magical ways and causing severe damage. Is this a war
between angels and demons or has a new terrorist cult
decided to make their plans widespread? Turn to page
six for more details.
Jake read several more articles with Fleur leaning
over him to see why he was so pale. Selena and Harry
arrived and, when Jake showed her the clipping, she
turned very pale.
"Do you think this has anything to do with Shadow
coming here?" Jake muttered as the four made their way
to Hagrid's hut. Selena shrugged.
"I don't know. This is getting really complicated."
Selena whispered.
"And we have Potions with Snape soon!" Selena turned
to Jake in disbelief.
"There might be a war going on with us stuck in the
middle and all you can worry about is Potions?" Jake
shrugged.
"What's wrong with that?" Selena shook her head.
"Nothing." As they arrived at Hagrid's hut, Fleur
returned to the castle to find her Headmistress.
Hagrid went on about the Blast-Ended Skwerts that the
class was taking care of. When Hagrid sent them out to
check how each one was growing, Jake turned towards
the Forbidden Forest. It was eerily quiet, as if the
entire forest was listening to something going on
within it.
"Hagrid, we'll be back." He said as he tugged Selena
towards the forest. They moved towards the forest,
knowing that Hagrid was under orders from Dumbledore
to allow them to wander where they chose.
After lighting their wands with a quick spell, they
didn't have to go very deep into the forest before
they saw flashing swords and billowing robes. Thirteen
black-robes people were leaping from side to side, in
their fire-embroidered gloves were swords made out
steel. Their opponents were fourteen white-robed
people with feather-embroidered gloves carrying swords
of gold.
They would occasionally throw either fire or ice at
each other. When they noticed that they had an
audience, they disappeared without a sound. Jake
turned to Selena thoughtfully.
"What is going on here?!"
"Alright out there?" A booming voice of Hagrid's was
heard somewhere close by. Selena turned to get back but Jake approached one of the trees. Selena stopped to see Jake walking toward
where the strange beings had suddenly reappeared and started fighting anew.
"Jake!" Selena hissed nercously, "We have to get back. We need to
talk to Dumbledore about this."
"Hang on a sec Selena." Jake approached a little closer to
see the black marks on the trees and ground. The marks seemed so
familiar. Jake snapped his head up.
Selena backed up nervously. "Now I know." Jake whispered.
"Jake?" Selena whispered.
Jake turned and got back to Selena, "Remember the
marks in the Owlery?"
"Yes why?"
"Maybe those were the same marks."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who would be stupid enough to fight in the
owlery? That's crazy. Fighting when there are owls
around." Selena shook her head in disgust.
"You saw why they were edgy. Maybe Shawn and Meimi
noticed something. They aren't ordinary birds you know."
"We have to speak with Dumbledore after Potions."
Selena and Jake rushed to the Dungeons but were stopped
by Malfoy, "What is it with you two? Why do you keep running through the halls like someone wants to kill you? Is there
something we don't know?" He said drawlingly.
"Yes. Your nose hair's gonna grow into ringlets." Jake
spat sarcastically and poisonously. Selena eyes darted
back at them.
"We better get into class." Selena said fidgetly. A swooshing sound indicated the presence of another person.
"Indeed you must. Before it would be another week of
detention." Snape said greasily as he glided into his room. Selena and Jake made quiet rude comments about him.
Once they got into class, Snape was barking
instructions on making a next potion that could cure
blindness.
"What is it that you saw in the forest Jake?
Something intriguing?" Malfoy asked sneerily. Jake
glowered at him as Selena made a point to ignore him.
"Yes, and you know something Dray? It was your mother
in there with a bunch of Centaurs." Selena dropped a vial and hastily went to pick it up, the corners of her mouth twitching.
A few Gryffindors clapped their mouths to keep from
laughing. Malfoy looked as he was about to kill.
"What's going on here?" Snape said greasily as he
strided over to their desk. Selena glared at him.
"They insulted my mother Professor." Malfoy said in his best teacher's-pet voice. Jake could have gagged.
"Five points from Gryffindor for such insolence."
Malfoy sneered truimphantly. Jake glowered even more darkly than before. Selena's mouth was hanging open in shock. When Snape had returned to shadowing Harry and his potion, Jake leaned slightly closer to Malfoy as he tipped some gross-smelling liquid into his cauldron.
"How is your daddy Dray? Kissing off Voldie to show
he's worthy to be his Se..." Selena elbowed him roughly.
"Don't you dare talk about my father Jake." Malfoy hissed, his cheeks turning bright red at Jake's insistant and rare need to offend him.
"Now what is going on?!" Snape shouted as he strode over to theirdesk again. Selena glanced at Jake worriedly.
"He insulted my father!" Malfoy said angrily.
"If I hear one thing about Draco's family again, it
will be a month's worth detention." Snape said, his eyes lighting with delight at the idea of getting Jake into trouble.
"Yes sir." Jake said between clenched teeth.
Malfoy smirked as Jake glowered at him. 'If I were headmaster, I
would never have to hire Snape. I would sent him to straight to
Azkaban.' Jake thought angrily.
"When you are done, take the cauldron off the fire and
then add two tails of the common rat." Snape
instructed.
Selena had done hers as magnificently as Jake but
Neville had failed his (as usual). He accidently put in three
when he thought he had two since the two tails seem to
be squashed into one. And the cauldron began to melt.
"You idiot boy!" Snape shouted. Jake looked at Neville
with worried _expression on his face, "It's not his
fault! The tails seems to be entangled together."
"Be quiet! I did not ask you to speak! Five points
from Gryffindor." Snape said viciously, a half-crazed grin lighting his features.
"This is a school! We have rights to make mistakes
until we can learn to fix it properly. If we could just do this too
perfectly, then why should we even learn it again!?" Jake demanded angrily. Harry and Ron were starring at Jake in a mixture of admiration and disbelief. No one was brave enough or stupid enough to say something like that to Snape's face.
Now he done it, "Detention Jake! For a month for that
tone of yours and if you dare to critize the way I teach in this
class again, you will be sorry indeed." Selena's face was bright red with fury and rage and before the Professor could even turn away, she exploded.
"You idiot! He's right, who cares if we make a
mistake? We are here to learn! We don't have to be
perfect, we can always try helping others to learn
instead of treating people like crap!" Snape and the rest of the students just starred at her in shock (except for Jake who was nodding).
"Well, well, well. you just earned a month's detention
too. Amazing how much stuck up celebrities can be.
Fame isn't everything." Snape said with a horrible smirk. Selena opened her mouth to tell him off again but Hermione had come up behind her and stuffed her mouth closed.
Jake growled silently. Snape gave the duo a poisonous
sneer. As after the class, Snape has assigned their
detention to clean out the entire dungeons in a month.
Just when Jake and Selena were muttering to each other
about Snape's dumb behavior, the two red haired Weasley twins
popped out of the hidden wall beside them.
"Viola! Wassup?" Fred asked. George grinned
pleasently.
"Not much except we got detention with Snape because
he can't handle the bloody truth." Jake said darkly. Selena was still muttering angrily to herself.
The twins laughed, "Ain't that the truth!" Fred said.
"Hey we don't have much but some secret prank we might
pull on the Slytherins. Heck, even though we're not
too sure if it might work perfectly with the two of
us. Anyhow, how did you get detentions?"
"Snape gave us detention just for pointing out that
this is a school for education. Not for
perfectionists. Otherwise no one would be here to learn
if they knew it too well right?"
"Huh. Damn right. Were some of the teachers like that
in America?"
"Pretty much." Jake said, "But not all of them are
that bad. Some were a bit like Professor Lupin."
"You seem to know how to make people laugh and you
seem tough. Unafraid to stand up and say what you have
to say even if it means getting months of detentions." Fred said with a dramatic air to him. Selena giggled.
"And your point would be?" Jake asked skeptically.
"I presume you heard of the Mauraders? The generations
of law breakers willing to help the next generations
too?" Jake and Selena nodded.
"Indeed I do George, yet I don't know why you're asking me
this." Jake said.
"What we're asking is, are you willing to risk
yourselves to discover more than what teachers can
teach and apparently, make people laugh more?" Selena and Jake exchanged surprised glances.
"What do you have in mind?" Jake grinned. Selena
looked at him and then to Fred.
"Are you asking us to join your little gang of
mischeif?" Selena asked slowly. Sounding so much like
Hermione.
"Naturally. That is if you don't have objections to
it."
"Wait, don't tell me..." Jake grinned, "Suppose we
might discover more secrets that we never stumbled on and
try getting revenge on those bloody Slytherins for all the
trouble they caused us?"
Fred and George nodded.
"And you want us to break the rules and laws just so
we can get away with anything without getting caught? I don't know . . . ."
Selena said, frowning.
Fred and George shook their heads no, "No, we know
better than that, all we want to do is find out lots
of things we never heard of before. Things teachers
never told us." They said innocently. Selena still looked skeptical with the whole idea. They were getting into enough trouble on their own.
"What do you say Selena? Might be a chance to avoid
Shadow eh?"
"Who's Shadow?" The twins asked at the same time.
"Nobody really, just a obessed guy who wants to get in
Selena's..." A sharp pain smacked into his arm. Selena
glared at him before smiling broadly. "Fine, but I'll only do so under one
condition."
"Name it." Said the twins in usion.
"We get to make the shots."
Tower, the class was well underway. Ron and Harry
glanced up and smiled, motioning towards their table
where they had saved them seats. Once they were
seated, Trelawney glanced at them airily. She claimed
to have seen in her crystal ball that they would be
late and to expect them. Harry rolled his eyes at her
words since everyone in the school knew about their
sudden leave by then.
"And now, I ask each of you to please pass around the
scroll which will be going around. It is an ancient
document which I spent most of my life in acquiring.
It is page from the Book of Prophecies, a book which
belongs in the Elf Kingdom. I had to pay a high price
for it." Trelawney went on and on about her great
sacrifice as the scroll went around. When Jake held
it, a strange shiver passed through him.
The paper was a very elaborate piece of silver
parchment with blood red letters intricately spun
together. The language was unreadable but still,
anyone could see that it was something magical.
When the scroll page touched Selena's fingers, her
body tensed and her mouth fell open. Jake glanced at
her and grabbed her shoulders, seeing the terrified
_expression on her face. Unfortunately, he couldn't do
a thing as her skin turned completely black, her
golden hair turned blood red, and her blue eyes grew
to consume the white part. Her body convulsed and she
fell limp, the scroll falling from her fingers!
"Selena! Selena wake up! What's going on?!" Jake
demanded angrily. Harry tried to shake her awake as
well but she made no sign of being alive, not a pulse
nor even a breath of air.
"Wake up damnit!" Jake yelled angrily as he slapped
her across the face. As he did so, the necklace around
his neck slipped out from his robes and brushed her
face. Jake starred down at the stone and felt a
strange jolt in his heart. The stone was pulsing
between red and green, changing each time that Jake's
heart beat came. Usually the stone would have been
blue, but now it was having a spasm attack at the
contact to her skin.
When the stone touched her, he felt himself go rigid
as her mouth opened and an unearthly voice filled the
panicked room, silencing everyone.
"My plan has succeeded!" Harry stiffened, his eyes
widening to the size of saucer plates! He KNEW that
voice! "Now that I am here, the two from my world
shall die quickly. One more potion and I shall soon be
ready for them." Selena laughed cruelly, her lips
curling into a sneer.
"Wake up!" Jake yelled angrily, ignoring the chill
sweeping into the room.
"With my control over the Jade, she shall regret the
day she was born! One more spell, and the Spade shall
be mine!" Selena said. Jake pulled out his wand and
pointed it at her angrily.
"Invierto!" He yelled angrily, trying to awaken her.
Nothing happened.
"No one can wake her." The voice which wasn't really
Selena's said triumphantly. "Only a kiss could awaken
her now." Harry felt his stomach fall through the
floor. He took a step forward slowly.
"I know that voice." He mumbled. Parvati and Lavender
began screaming deafeningly so everyone's attention
fell on them. Harry took a step forward and willed
himself to kiss Selena's cold lips.
When he did, a shriek escaped her mouth and then she
rocketed up, her hair golden, her skin a pale white,
and her eyes normal. She curled up into a protective
ball just as Harry and Jake managed to hug her at the
same time.
This way, surrounded by warmth, Selena's trembling
stopped. Soon her breathing returned to normal and
Trelawney took a step towards them.
"A prophecy!" She whispered excitedly. "I've witnessed
only one in my life but I've never read of one being
so violent! You have the Inner Eye my dear, and very
strongly." Jake glared at her with an
'is-that-supposed-to-comfort-her?' look. Harry stood,
blushing.
"I saw . . . this horrible monster." She mumbled. "I
think he was a man once but he looked . . . like a
snake. He had these red eyes, it was so creepy."
Selena shivered and Jake lifted her up, still hugging
her.
"Are you okay? Do you think that you can go to our
next class?" Selena nodded numbly, pushing Jake away a
little.
"I'm fine." She said, waving her hand in front of him.
"Just a little shaky."
"This is NOT to leave the room! If you do so, I shall
fail each and every one of you! Understood?!"
Trelawney shrieked, surprising everyone. She pointed
to Selena lovingly, her eyes filled with tears. "Her
prophesy is to be kept a secret. If any should hear of
it, others shall try to claim her soul and she shall
forever be bonded to her gift!" Crickets could have
made more sense than the silence which followed.
Lavender and Parvati immediately started going around
the room, hissing that if they even heard a sliver of
a room close to the prophesy they had just heard, they
would personally strangle ever person in their class.
"My dear, please take this." Trelawney said, lifting
from around her neck a beautiful pendant. It was like
a pink tear drop attached to a delicate golden chain
formed to look like a wraith of leaves. Each golden
leaf was connected with a gray-blue opal.
"What is it?" Selena asked, a little suspicious.
"It is a fortune-enhancing necklace. It came with the
scroll. I have tried to use it and it has succeeded in
making me prophesizes more accurately, and also
protects me from those spirits which try to enter my
body while I am Seeing." Her eyes grew even larger as
she held the necklace. "Take it."
"I . . . thank you." She took the necklace and placed
it around her neck. Instantly she felt much safer. She
even managed a smile.
"Will you be my apprentice?" Trelawney finally
blurted.
"No." Selena said quickly. "I can't."
"You must my dear! You must learn to control and
enhance your gift!" She said, her former sincerity
gone in her excitement. She was now a very greedy
teacher trying to get minimal credit for showing
someone a trade which would be important in life.
"I'm sorry, but I can't. Bye professor!" Selena
grabbed her bag, grabbed a hand, and left the Tower.
She was walking for about two minutes before she
glanced back and gasped. She hadn't been tugging Jake
along as she had originally thought, but actually
Harry. He had his bag slung over her shoulder and his
face was curious.
"Why did you bring me along?" He asked curiously.
"I thought you were Jake! I'm sorry!" She said
quickly.
"Er, that's okay." They started walking in silence,
not really sure where they were going. It end up that
they became thoroughly and completely lost.
"Where are we?" Selena finally demanded.
"I have no idea." They opened a door to find a steep
drop waiting for them. Apparently the door led right
outside, which happened to be several hundred feet in
the air with nothing to break their long fall.
"I don't think I've heard of a door like this." Harry
muttered.
"My neither. Come on, let's get out of here." The were
on the verge of opening another door when Selena heard
a faint voice beside her ear. 'Go down those stairs
and straight ahead until you come to the mermaid
painting. Once there, take a hard right and down the
stairs.' She blinked and looked around. Deciding that
the only way to get out of this mess was to listen to
someone, she began to lead Harry out of their current
location and right into Jake and Fleur.
Meanwhile, Jake had left the Divination Tower
furiously. He had been about to follow Selena and
Harry (he knew she hadn't noticed who she had been
dragging behind her) but Professor Trelawney got in
his way immediately.
He managed to get away from her only to run into Darla
outside of the room. When she saw him, she began
running after him. Jake turned tail and ran for his
sanity. After making sure that no one was around to
watch, he placed the Jelly-legs curse on her as well
as another painful one which produced boils all over
her body. When he got away from her and her screams,
he ran into Fleur.
'This is just one weird day.' He thought to himself
tiredly. Fleur served as an anchor back to reality and
made Jake feel a lot better. He was leading her
towards Hagrid's hut for his lesson in Care of Magical
Creatures when an angry figure stormed past them. It
was Shadow.
"Where is she?!" He demanded angrily.
"Who are you talking about?" Jake asked with a dark
grin.
"You know perfectly well who I mean! Where's Selena?!"
He demanded angrily.
"She's with Harry." Jake said, his eyes dancing
evilly. "I wouldn't disturb them if I were you."
Shadow had turned several different colors before he
stormed away angrily. "Annoying bugger." He mumbled.
"Do you know him? He's been pestering a lot of the
girls." Fleur said. Just as they were about to head
out to the hut again, something else stood in their
path. Draco Malfoy and his two cronies glared at them.
"What are you doing here?" Malfoy asked snidely.
"Same as you. Walking." Jake said coldly as he began
to pull Fleur with him.
"Have you heard of the battles?" Malfoy asked as they
were about to leave. Jake turned to him, annoyed. He
was secretly wondering how many fireworks rammed down
Wormtail's throat would blow out his tongue.
"What battles?" Malfoy smirked and pulled out several
clippings from both a Muggle newspaper and the Daily
Prophet.
"Read up on it." Malfoy advised as he tossed it to
Jake and began to walk away. Jake took the newspaper
clippings and looked at them thoughtfully.
ANGELS AND DEMONS FIGHTING! IS THIS THE END OF THE
WORLD?
By: Darla Lightwing
Last night, various Muggles and two witches have
reported unusual gang fights taking place in Madison
Square Garden, located in New York City. Witnesses
have testified that several people in black robes with
fire-embroidered gloves and black wings were seen
viciously attacking white robed, wing embroidered
gloved people with white wings in the center of the
square. Supposedly the sides were too preoccupied with
their fight to notice that they had an audience until
one of the demons fell against a witch. At that point,
the demons and angels vanished without so much as a
pop.
It is this reporter's personal opinion that these
attacks are a sign of things to come. A war between
Heaven and Hell has started anew and it is this
reporter's opinion that sides must be taken quickly.
Jake felt rather sick as he turned to the next
clipping. This one was from a Muggle newspaper.
FIRE BURNS DOWN DEPARTMENT STORE; DEMON ATTACK OR
TERRORIST BOMBING?
There have been frequent battles raging all around the
world in which groups of people either wearing black
robes or white robes have been spotted fighting in
magical ways and causing severe damage. Is this a war
between angels and demons or has a new terrorist cult
decided to make their plans widespread? Turn to page
six for more details.
Jake read several more articles with Fleur leaning
over him to see why he was so pale. Selena and Harry
arrived and, when Jake showed her the clipping, she
turned very pale.
"Do you think this has anything to do with Shadow
coming here?" Jake muttered as the four made their way
to Hagrid's hut. Selena shrugged.
"I don't know. This is getting really complicated."
Selena whispered.
"And we have Potions with Snape soon!" Selena turned
to Jake in disbelief.
"There might be a war going on with us stuck in the
middle and all you can worry about is Potions?" Jake
shrugged.
"What's wrong with that?" Selena shook her head.
"Nothing." As they arrived at Hagrid's hut, Fleur
returned to the castle to find her Headmistress.
Hagrid went on about the Blast-Ended Skwerts that the
class was taking care of. When Hagrid sent them out to
check how each one was growing, Jake turned towards
the Forbidden Forest. It was eerily quiet, as if the
entire forest was listening to something going on
within it.
"Hagrid, we'll be back." He said as he tugged Selena
towards the forest. They moved towards the forest,
knowing that Hagrid was under orders from Dumbledore
to allow them to wander where they chose.
After lighting their wands with a quick spell, they
didn't have to go very deep into the forest before
they saw flashing swords and billowing robes. Thirteen
black-robes people were leaping from side to side, in
their fire-embroidered gloves were swords made out
steel. Their opponents were fourteen white-robed
people with feather-embroidered gloves carrying swords
of gold.
They would occasionally throw either fire or ice at
each other. When they noticed that they had an
audience, they disappeared without a sound. Jake
turned to Selena thoughtfully.
"What is going on here?!"
"Alright out there?" A booming voice of Hagrid's was
heard somewhere close by. Selena turned to get back but Jake approached one of the trees. Selena stopped to see Jake walking toward
where the strange beings had suddenly reappeared and started fighting anew.
"Jake!" Selena hissed nercously, "We have to get back. We need to
talk to Dumbledore about this."
"Hang on a sec Selena." Jake approached a little closer to
see the black marks on the trees and ground. The marks seemed so
familiar. Jake snapped his head up.
Selena backed up nervously. "Now I know." Jake whispered.
"Jake?" Selena whispered.
Jake turned and got back to Selena, "Remember the
marks in the Owlery?"
"Yes why?"
"Maybe those were the same marks."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who would be stupid enough to fight in the
owlery? That's crazy. Fighting when there are owls
around." Selena shook her head in disgust.
"You saw why they were edgy. Maybe Shawn and Meimi
noticed something. They aren't ordinary birds you know."
"We have to speak with Dumbledore after Potions."
Selena and Jake rushed to the Dungeons but were stopped
by Malfoy, "What is it with you two? Why do you keep running through the halls like someone wants to kill you? Is there
something we don't know?" He said drawlingly.
"Yes. Your nose hair's gonna grow into ringlets." Jake
spat sarcastically and poisonously. Selena eyes darted
back at them.
"We better get into class." Selena said fidgetly. A swooshing sound indicated the presence of another person.
"Indeed you must. Before it would be another week of
detention." Snape said greasily as he glided into his room. Selena and Jake made quiet rude comments about him.
Once they got into class, Snape was barking
instructions on making a next potion that could cure
blindness.
"What is it that you saw in the forest Jake?
Something intriguing?" Malfoy asked sneerily. Jake
glowered at him as Selena made a point to ignore him.
"Yes, and you know something Dray? It was your mother
in there with a bunch of Centaurs." Selena dropped a vial and hastily went to pick it up, the corners of her mouth twitching.
A few Gryffindors clapped their mouths to keep from
laughing. Malfoy looked as he was about to kill.
"What's going on here?" Snape said greasily as he
strided over to their desk. Selena glared at him.
"They insulted my mother Professor." Malfoy said in his best teacher's-pet voice. Jake could have gagged.
"Five points from Gryffindor for such insolence."
Malfoy sneered truimphantly. Jake glowered even more darkly than before. Selena's mouth was hanging open in shock. When Snape had returned to shadowing Harry and his potion, Jake leaned slightly closer to Malfoy as he tipped some gross-smelling liquid into his cauldron.
"How is your daddy Dray? Kissing off Voldie to show
he's worthy to be his Se..." Selena elbowed him roughly.
"Don't you dare talk about my father Jake." Malfoy hissed, his cheeks turning bright red at Jake's insistant and rare need to offend him.
"Now what is going on?!" Snape shouted as he strode over to theirdesk again. Selena glanced at Jake worriedly.
"He insulted my father!" Malfoy said angrily.
"If I hear one thing about Draco's family again, it
will be a month's worth detention." Snape said, his eyes lighting with delight at the idea of getting Jake into trouble.
"Yes sir." Jake said between clenched teeth.
Malfoy smirked as Jake glowered at him. 'If I were headmaster, I
would never have to hire Snape. I would sent him to straight to
Azkaban.' Jake thought angrily.
"When you are done, take the cauldron off the fire and
then add two tails of the common rat." Snape
instructed.
Selena had done hers as magnificently as Jake but
Neville had failed his (as usual). He accidently put in three
when he thought he had two since the two tails seem to
be squashed into one. And the cauldron began to melt.
"You idiot boy!" Snape shouted. Jake looked at Neville
with worried _expression on his face, "It's not his
fault! The tails seems to be entangled together."
"Be quiet! I did not ask you to speak! Five points
from Gryffindor." Snape said viciously, a half-crazed grin lighting his features.
"This is a school! We have rights to make mistakes
until we can learn to fix it properly. If we could just do this too
perfectly, then why should we even learn it again!?" Jake demanded angrily. Harry and Ron were starring at Jake in a mixture of admiration and disbelief. No one was brave enough or stupid enough to say something like that to Snape's face.
Now he done it, "Detention Jake! For a month for that
tone of yours and if you dare to critize the way I teach in this
class again, you will be sorry indeed." Selena's face was bright red with fury and rage and before the Professor could even turn away, she exploded.
"You idiot! He's right, who cares if we make a
mistake? We are here to learn! We don't have to be
perfect, we can always try helping others to learn
instead of treating people like crap!" Snape and the rest of the students just starred at her in shock (except for Jake who was nodding).
"Well, well, well. you just earned a month's detention
too. Amazing how much stuck up celebrities can be.
Fame isn't everything." Snape said with a horrible smirk. Selena opened her mouth to tell him off again but Hermione had come up behind her and stuffed her mouth closed.
Jake growled silently. Snape gave the duo a poisonous
sneer. As after the class, Snape has assigned their
detention to clean out the entire dungeons in a month.
Just when Jake and Selena were muttering to each other
about Snape's dumb behavior, the two red haired Weasley twins
popped out of the hidden wall beside them.
"Viola! Wassup?" Fred asked. George grinned
pleasently.
"Not much except we got detention with Snape because
he can't handle the bloody truth." Jake said darkly. Selena was still muttering angrily to herself.
The twins laughed, "Ain't that the truth!" Fred said.
"Hey we don't have much but some secret prank we might
pull on the Slytherins. Heck, even though we're not
too sure if it might work perfectly with the two of
us. Anyhow, how did you get detentions?"
"Snape gave us detention just for pointing out that
this is a school for education. Not for
perfectionists. Otherwise no one would be here to learn
if they knew it too well right?"
"Huh. Damn right. Were some of the teachers like that
in America?"
"Pretty much." Jake said, "But not all of them are
that bad. Some were a bit like Professor Lupin."
"You seem to know how to make people laugh and you
seem tough. Unafraid to stand up and say what you have
to say even if it means getting months of detentions." Fred said with a dramatic air to him. Selena giggled.
"And your point would be?" Jake asked skeptically.
"I presume you heard of the Mauraders? The generations
of law breakers willing to help the next generations
too?" Jake and Selena nodded.
"Indeed I do George, yet I don't know why you're asking me
this." Jake said.
"What we're asking is, are you willing to risk
yourselves to discover more than what teachers can
teach and apparently, make people laugh more?" Selena and Jake exchanged surprised glances.
"What do you have in mind?" Jake grinned. Selena
looked at him and then to Fred.
"Are you asking us to join your little gang of
mischeif?" Selena asked slowly. Sounding so much like
Hermione.
"Naturally. That is if you don't have objections to
it."
"Wait, don't tell me..." Jake grinned, "Suppose we
might discover more secrets that we never stumbled on and
try getting revenge on those bloody Slytherins for all the
trouble they caused us?"
Fred and George nodded.
"And you want us to break the rules and laws just so
we can get away with anything without getting caught? I don't know . . . ."
Selena said, frowning.
Fred and George shook their heads no, "No, we know
better than that, all we want to do is find out lots
of things we never heard of before. Things teachers
never told us." They said innocently. Selena still looked skeptical with the whole idea. They were getting into enough trouble on their own.
"What do you say Selena? Might be a chance to avoid
Shadow eh?"
"Who's Shadow?" The twins asked at the same time.
"Nobody really, just a obessed guy who wants to get in
Selena's..." A sharp pain smacked into his arm. Selena
glared at him before smiling broadly. "Fine, but I'll only do so under one
condition."
"Name it." Said the twins in usion.
"We get to make the shots."