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--- Chapter 5: Kiwi College of Witchcraft and Wizardry ---
Harry had noticed over the last few weeks that Artemis's pet phoenix, which was called 'Goldenglow', was getting progressively more dejected looking. Harry was beginning to wonder when it was going to die and be reborn, he hoped he would still be there when it did, since he wouldn't mind seeing that happen to a phoenix again. He was just looking over at it, after losing yet another game to Mike when Goldenglow flopped off his perch and hit the floor of the cage with a heavy thud.. and then burst into flames. "Hey look!" exclaimed Harry, "Goldenglow is being reborn!" Everyone in the room got up and crowded around his cage to look. After a while the fire went out and all that was left on the bottom of the cage was a pile of ashes and a feather. "Wow look!" said Trinity, pointing at it. Artemis put his hand into the cage and snatched it up. "Goldenglow has never given a feather before," he stated looking at it in wonder. "I don't think it's a very good specimen though, I've never seen one like this before.. look how its twisted.. it's almost like two feathers in one, kindof twisted together.." "Like a double helix," said Claire cutting into Artemis. Artemis handed the feather to Mike, who clearly wanted to examine it because he had his hand held out ready. After Mike had looked at it, Trinity held it, then she handed it to Harry. Harry took the twisted golden sparkling wing feather and immediately felt a sense of power rush up his arm. He had felt that sensation before, but it had been less powerful then. The first time he had held his wand in Mr Ollivanders shop in London. He stared at the feather for a minute and then handed it quickly back to Artemis, the others where gaping at him. For a minute there they had seen him shimmer and look suddenly very tall and powerful. "Well," said Artemis pulling himself together and trying not to look surprised. "I better put it somewhere safe until we can find some more out about it."
The next day dawned sunny and the snow had mainly all melted during the last two weeks. The seasons were reversed here in the Southern Hemisphere and it was nearing the end of winter. Mrs Cloric had cooked Harry a large bowl of porridge for breakfast, and he sat in the kitchen eating it with the others who were strangely quiet that morning. Finally, as he took his last mouthful, Neo spoke up. "We're really going to miss having you around you know, Harry," he said. "Yeah," said Mike. "You play a mean Seeker on my team, I'm going to have to settle for Luis winning now," he said grinning. "But you make up for it in chess," said Luis to Mike quickly. "I'll miss you too," confessed Harry, "But we will be able to keep in touch with each other with that Wizard ICQ you gave me, so perhaps it won't be so bad." The others nodded their agreement, and Harry left the kitchen to get his cloak and things together. Just as Harry was sitting on his bed shoving some spare candy in the pockets of his robes he had put on, Artemis entered the room. "All ready to leave Harry?" he asked. "Yes, I didn't have much with me to pack up anyway," Harry said. "Well here's something else," Artemis said, handing Harry a large glass bottle. "It's that potion that my wife and Claire used to help you recover. Perhaps it will help that friends parents of yours you spoke about." "Oh Neville," Harry remembered out loud, "I totally forgot about that! Thankyou so much, I'm sure that he will be really pleased." "That's alright, it's the least we can do for you," said Artemis, "Now if you are ready, we better leave now while it's still early. "Harry," said Trinity and Neo, as Harry entered the living room behind Artemis, "We brought you a going away present in town the other day." Trinity handed Harry a black scarf with a white kiwi and a feather pattern on it. The kiwi was charmed to run up and down the scarf chasing the feathers. "Hey thanks," said Harry grinning, it was actually kindof cool. "Yes, and you have to come back and visit us sometime," Mrs Cloric said to Harry, and then to Artemis, "Be careful, make sure you look after him." "I will," he said, and then, "follow me Harry," and he slid open the ranch slider, and stepped outside into the crisp air. Harry followed him outside and slid shut the door. Then he ran across the yard to catch up with Artemis. "So how exactly do we get to your school?" asked Harry. "It's quite simple really," said Artemis, as they crossed through the gap in the trees, walked across the road and climbed over the stile. "Well, you see that sheep pen in the middle of the field?" Artemis said pointing. Harry looked and nodded his head, he had noticed it while playing Snowditch with the others, and wondered where all the sheep were. "Well all you have to do is walk into it and close the gate behind you, and then walk through the gate," Artemis explained. "Oh," Harry said. "The walking through bit is how the students at Hogwarts get onto platform 9 3/4's which is hidden from the muggle world, so.. is there a train on the other side or something?" Harry asked. "No," Artemis smiled, "You will find yourself right outside the front gates of Kiwi College of Witchcraft and Wizardry." "Alright," said Harry as they reached the sheep pen. Artemis undid the catch on the gate and it swung open. Then Harry followed Artemis into the sheep pen, and Artemis shut the gate and the catch clicked into place. The paddock had suddenly disappeared from view, everything was a misty grey. "Just walk through the gate in front of you then," said Artemis. So Harry did what he was told and he walked towards the very solid looking wooden gate and soon found himself on the other side, having not hit it at all.
He found himself suddenly standing on red paving stones in front of a black wort-iron gate, with the words 'Kiwi College of Witchcraft and Wizardry' written in spidery iron letters at the top. Underneath was a motto: "Beati Mundo Corde." Harry knew enough Latin from his 4 years at Hogwarts to know that it translated as 'Blessed are the Pure in Heart'. So I guess they wouldn't be likely to have any Slytheriny types here then, he thought to himself. Artemis appeared beside him just then, and walked forward and held his wand against the gate. "Open Up. I'm Artemis Cloric, DADA Teacher of Kiwi College." The gate must have been charmed to respond to those words because it obligingly swung open, and Harry took a look at the school lying in front of him. It wasn't exactly a castle like Hogwarts was. Or that is, it wasn't a castle at all. It appeared to be two stories and very modern looking which Harry thought was odd for a wizarding place. It had many many glass windows and as he watched they appeared to move about, some of them were sliding up to the second story as he watched, and some of them where getting bigger, or turning from squares into rectangles. Harry felt like it was the kind of thing he could just gaze open mouthed at all day. Artemis gave him a nudge and told him that they would have to hurry inside, in case any of the teachers turned up to do some weekend preparation for classes. "Right," said Harry, looking around some more. There was a patch of grass on either side of the paved path leading up to the school and neatly trimmed green hedges. Harry followed Artemis up the path and looked at the glass door leading into the school. It had a chrome polished frame. In fact, every bit of the outside of the school building that wasn't glass appeared to be chrome. It looked almost like it was out of some muggle sci-fi movie. "The school is um.. well rather modern looking isn't it?" stuttered Harry, not sure how best to phase it. "Yes," said Artemis shortly. "I liked the old school better, but it was rebuilt in the 70's when this kindof design was the in-thing. One things for sure though, we have the most up-to-the-minute developments in this school, and it is no problem adding to the school as the wizards in the 70's had a better idea of how things where developing than the ones who built the original school in the 1700's." "Um.. what exactly happened to the original school?" asked Harry. "Well Voldemort destroyed it of course," said Artemis matter of factly, "or at least his followers did. Did you never get told in class that the only wizarding place left that was safe from Voldemort was Hogwarts?." Harry nodded, "Yeah, I had heard that, but I didn't realize they were in New Zealand." "His followers were everywhere. Our school wasn't particularly hard to destroy, because up until that point, New Zealand wizards had always been particularly trusting, and would openly invite foreign wizards into the school. But all that's changed now. This place has more charms protecting it now than possibly even Hogwarts has, although I can't confirm that. It's pretty safe from attack though, to say the least. We have to get special permission from the ministry before we invite foreigners in.. that's why it's best if we don't run into anyone while we are here now" Artemis then turned to the chrome and glass door and put his left hand against the glass, then put the tip of his wand in the gap between his index finger and his thumb. "Kiwi College, recognize me as Artemis Cloric," he said in a kind of chant. "Of course during school days the gates and front door are open to admit students, but any intruders would still have to get past all the charms and teachers," explained Artemis. The door slid open and Artemis and Harry stepped inside. It was a medium entrance room and there was a glittering sliver reception desk on the other side of the room. Off to the left and right of the desk where two chrome archways, but without doors set in them. Harry followed Artemis across the room towards the rightmost archway feeling very much like an outsider in this strange school, with its cold chrome walls and moving glass windows.
After walking though the chrome archway, Harry found himself in an open courtyard standing beside Artemis in front of a chrome signpost with many hundreds of signs attached to it. They were all pointing in different directions and had things written on them such as 'Divination Room' and 'DADA Combat Room 3'. "Now let me see..," said Artemis. "But you've been a teacher here for 17 years!" said Harry rather shocked. "Surely you know your way around?." "Well yes," Artemis reassured Harry, "But all the rooms move about, and the only way you can find them is by following the signs, as they are the only ones who know where the rooms are at any precise time." "Oh, I see," said Harry, "some of the rooms at Hogwarts move about too, but since they only stay on the same floors we are expected to be able to find them without signs." "Well here we are," said Artemis pointing to a sign that said 'Port Key Room' and was pointing to the right. Artemis turned and hurried across the courtyard keeping to the paving on the side and Harry followed him through an archway into a hall. After hurrying down the hall for a while they reached another signpost at an intersection of hallways that they again consulted. Harry this time was the first to find the correct sign, and which pointed down a hallway going north. They went down this hallway and finally came to a door with a sign on it saying 'Port Key Room'. "This is it," said Artemis.
Artemis opened the door and stepped inside, Harry following closely behind. The room was furnished in blue, and had shelves from floor to ceiling. On every shelf was box upon box, labeled with unmeaningful names such as 'U[rune_symbol]-47'. "The labels are co-ordinates," Artemis explained. "When you are learning to apparate, you will have to learn how to use co-ordinates to find your way to places you have never been before with precision." "Oh right," said Harry, looking around, "So what co-ordinates are we looking for?" "The ones starting with U for United Kingdom for a start," said Artemis. Harry scanned the boxes on one side of the room, which were not in alphabetical order. He could have sworn that some of them were sliding around on the shelves not wanting to be looked at. Out of the corner of his eye he was sure he could see a couple of the boxes moving behind other boxes.
Harry reached out and quickly grabbed one of the hiding boxes off the shelf and glanced at the label. Sure enough it started with U. "I've got one," he said turning around and handing it to Artemis who put it on the blue table by the chrome window. Artemis took the lid off the box. Inside it was a file of slim sliver cases, which Harry thought, looked like credit card cases, kind of similar to the posh one his Aunt Petunia owned. Artemis flicked through them and took one out half way along. "We're in luck," he exclaimed, "This one goes to Hogsmead, and yes, it's the only one to the U.K., all the rest here are to Uganda, the United States and the USSR." Artemis put the lid back on the box and placed it back on the shelf. "Well all ready to leave Harry?" he asked. "Yes," was all Harry could say, he had a bit of a lump in his throat, wishing he could stay a little longer and have a look around. Artemis flicked open the lid of the sliver case and inside was what looked like a gold coin, although not a galleon. "That's the portkey," Artemis explained. "The silver case keeps it protected from your touch when its not being used. So on the count of 3 we will both touch it" Artemis looked at Harry straight in the eyes, and then said, "One.. Two.." Harry put his finger over the gold coin beside Artemis's.. "Three," said Artemis and they both touched the portkey at the same time. Harry felt the familiar pull behind his navel, but this time he didn't feel at all worried, after all, he was only going from one safe place to another.
--- Chapter 5: Kiwi College of Witchcraft and Wizardry ---
Harry had noticed over the last few weeks that Artemis's pet phoenix, which was called 'Goldenglow', was getting progressively more dejected looking. Harry was beginning to wonder when it was going to die and be reborn, he hoped he would still be there when it did, since he wouldn't mind seeing that happen to a phoenix again. He was just looking over at it, after losing yet another game to Mike when Goldenglow flopped off his perch and hit the floor of the cage with a heavy thud.. and then burst into flames. "Hey look!" exclaimed Harry, "Goldenglow is being reborn!" Everyone in the room got up and crowded around his cage to look. After a while the fire went out and all that was left on the bottom of the cage was a pile of ashes and a feather. "Wow look!" said Trinity, pointing at it. Artemis put his hand into the cage and snatched it up. "Goldenglow has never given a feather before," he stated looking at it in wonder. "I don't think it's a very good specimen though, I've never seen one like this before.. look how its twisted.. it's almost like two feathers in one, kindof twisted together.." "Like a double helix," said Claire cutting into Artemis. Artemis handed the feather to Mike, who clearly wanted to examine it because he had his hand held out ready. After Mike had looked at it, Trinity held it, then she handed it to Harry. Harry took the twisted golden sparkling wing feather and immediately felt a sense of power rush up his arm. He had felt that sensation before, but it had been less powerful then. The first time he had held his wand in Mr Ollivanders shop in London. He stared at the feather for a minute and then handed it quickly back to Artemis, the others where gaping at him. For a minute there they had seen him shimmer and look suddenly very tall and powerful. "Well," said Artemis pulling himself together and trying not to look surprised. "I better put it somewhere safe until we can find some more out about it."
The next day dawned sunny and the snow had mainly all melted during the last two weeks. The seasons were reversed here in the Southern Hemisphere and it was nearing the end of winter. Mrs Cloric had cooked Harry a large bowl of porridge for breakfast, and he sat in the kitchen eating it with the others who were strangely quiet that morning. Finally, as he took his last mouthful, Neo spoke up. "We're really going to miss having you around you know, Harry," he said. "Yeah," said Mike. "You play a mean Seeker on my team, I'm going to have to settle for Luis winning now," he said grinning. "But you make up for it in chess," said Luis to Mike quickly. "I'll miss you too," confessed Harry, "But we will be able to keep in touch with each other with that Wizard ICQ you gave me, so perhaps it won't be so bad." The others nodded their agreement, and Harry left the kitchen to get his cloak and things together. Just as Harry was sitting on his bed shoving some spare candy in the pockets of his robes he had put on, Artemis entered the room. "All ready to leave Harry?" he asked. "Yes, I didn't have much with me to pack up anyway," Harry said. "Well here's something else," Artemis said, handing Harry a large glass bottle. "It's that potion that my wife and Claire used to help you recover. Perhaps it will help that friends parents of yours you spoke about." "Oh Neville," Harry remembered out loud, "I totally forgot about that! Thankyou so much, I'm sure that he will be really pleased." "That's alright, it's the least we can do for you," said Artemis, "Now if you are ready, we better leave now while it's still early. "Harry," said Trinity and Neo, as Harry entered the living room behind Artemis, "We brought you a going away present in town the other day." Trinity handed Harry a black scarf with a white kiwi and a feather pattern on it. The kiwi was charmed to run up and down the scarf chasing the feathers. "Hey thanks," said Harry grinning, it was actually kindof cool. "Yes, and you have to come back and visit us sometime," Mrs Cloric said to Harry, and then to Artemis, "Be careful, make sure you look after him." "I will," he said, and then, "follow me Harry," and he slid open the ranch slider, and stepped outside into the crisp air. Harry followed him outside and slid shut the door. Then he ran across the yard to catch up with Artemis. "So how exactly do we get to your school?" asked Harry. "It's quite simple really," said Artemis, as they crossed through the gap in the trees, walked across the road and climbed over the stile. "Well, you see that sheep pen in the middle of the field?" Artemis said pointing. Harry looked and nodded his head, he had noticed it while playing Snowditch with the others, and wondered where all the sheep were. "Well all you have to do is walk into it and close the gate behind you, and then walk through the gate," Artemis explained. "Oh," Harry said. "The walking through bit is how the students at Hogwarts get onto platform 9 3/4's which is hidden from the muggle world, so.. is there a train on the other side or something?" Harry asked. "No," Artemis smiled, "You will find yourself right outside the front gates of Kiwi College of Witchcraft and Wizardry." "Alright," said Harry as they reached the sheep pen. Artemis undid the catch on the gate and it swung open. Then Harry followed Artemis into the sheep pen, and Artemis shut the gate and the catch clicked into place. The paddock had suddenly disappeared from view, everything was a misty grey. "Just walk through the gate in front of you then," said Artemis. So Harry did what he was told and he walked towards the very solid looking wooden gate and soon found himself on the other side, having not hit it at all.
He found himself suddenly standing on red paving stones in front of a black wort-iron gate, with the words 'Kiwi College of Witchcraft and Wizardry' written in spidery iron letters at the top. Underneath was a motto: "Beati Mundo Corde." Harry knew enough Latin from his 4 years at Hogwarts to know that it translated as 'Blessed are the Pure in Heart'. So I guess they wouldn't be likely to have any Slytheriny types here then, he thought to himself. Artemis appeared beside him just then, and walked forward and held his wand against the gate. "Open Up. I'm Artemis Cloric, DADA Teacher of Kiwi College." The gate must have been charmed to respond to those words because it obligingly swung open, and Harry took a look at the school lying in front of him. It wasn't exactly a castle like Hogwarts was. Or that is, it wasn't a castle at all. It appeared to be two stories and very modern looking which Harry thought was odd for a wizarding place. It had many many glass windows and as he watched they appeared to move about, some of them were sliding up to the second story as he watched, and some of them where getting bigger, or turning from squares into rectangles. Harry felt like it was the kind of thing he could just gaze open mouthed at all day. Artemis gave him a nudge and told him that they would have to hurry inside, in case any of the teachers turned up to do some weekend preparation for classes. "Right," said Harry, looking around some more. There was a patch of grass on either side of the paved path leading up to the school and neatly trimmed green hedges. Harry followed Artemis up the path and looked at the glass door leading into the school. It had a chrome polished frame. In fact, every bit of the outside of the school building that wasn't glass appeared to be chrome. It looked almost like it was out of some muggle sci-fi movie. "The school is um.. well rather modern looking isn't it?" stuttered Harry, not sure how best to phase it. "Yes," said Artemis shortly. "I liked the old school better, but it was rebuilt in the 70's when this kindof design was the in-thing. One things for sure though, we have the most up-to-the-minute developments in this school, and it is no problem adding to the school as the wizards in the 70's had a better idea of how things where developing than the ones who built the original school in the 1700's." "Um.. what exactly happened to the original school?" asked Harry. "Well Voldemort destroyed it of course," said Artemis matter of factly, "or at least his followers did. Did you never get told in class that the only wizarding place left that was safe from Voldemort was Hogwarts?." Harry nodded, "Yeah, I had heard that, but I didn't realize they were in New Zealand." "His followers were everywhere. Our school wasn't particularly hard to destroy, because up until that point, New Zealand wizards had always been particularly trusting, and would openly invite foreign wizards into the school. But all that's changed now. This place has more charms protecting it now than possibly even Hogwarts has, although I can't confirm that. It's pretty safe from attack though, to say the least. We have to get special permission from the ministry before we invite foreigners in.. that's why it's best if we don't run into anyone while we are here now" Artemis then turned to the chrome and glass door and put his left hand against the glass, then put the tip of his wand in the gap between his index finger and his thumb. "Kiwi College, recognize me as Artemis Cloric," he said in a kind of chant. "Of course during school days the gates and front door are open to admit students, but any intruders would still have to get past all the charms and teachers," explained Artemis. The door slid open and Artemis and Harry stepped inside. It was a medium entrance room and there was a glittering sliver reception desk on the other side of the room. Off to the left and right of the desk where two chrome archways, but without doors set in them. Harry followed Artemis across the room towards the rightmost archway feeling very much like an outsider in this strange school, with its cold chrome walls and moving glass windows.
After walking though the chrome archway, Harry found himself in an open courtyard standing beside Artemis in front of a chrome signpost with many hundreds of signs attached to it. They were all pointing in different directions and had things written on them such as 'Divination Room' and 'DADA Combat Room 3'. "Now let me see..," said Artemis. "But you've been a teacher here for 17 years!" said Harry rather shocked. "Surely you know your way around?." "Well yes," Artemis reassured Harry, "But all the rooms move about, and the only way you can find them is by following the signs, as they are the only ones who know where the rooms are at any precise time." "Oh, I see," said Harry, "some of the rooms at Hogwarts move about too, but since they only stay on the same floors we are expected to be able to find them without signs." "Well here we are," said Artemis pointing to a sign that said 'Port Key Room' and was pointing to the right. Artemis turned and hurried across the courtyard keeping to the paving on the side and Harry followed him through an archway into a hall. After hurrying down the hall for a while they reached another signpost at an intersection of hallways that they again consulted. Harry this time was the first to find the correct sign, and which pointed down a hallway going north. They went down this hallway and finally came to a door with a sign on it saying 'Port Key Room'. "This is it," said Artemis.
Artemis opened the door and stepped inside, Harry following closely behind. The room was furnished in blue, and had shelves from floor to ceiling. On every shelf was box upon box, labeled with unmeaningful names such as 'U[rune_symbol]-47'. "The labels are co-ordinates," Artemis explained. "When you are learning to apparate, you will have to learn how to use co-ordinates to find your way to places you have never been before with precision." "Oh right," said Harry, looking around, "So what co-ordinates are we looking for?" "The ones starting with U for United Kingdom for a start," said Artemis. Harry scanned the boxes on one side of the room, which were not in alphabetical order. He could have sworn that some of them were sliding around on the shelves not wanting to be looked at. Out of the corner of his eye he was sure he could see a couple of the boxes moving behind other boxes.
Harry reached out and quickly grabbed one of the hiding boxes off the shelf and glanced at the label. Sure enough it started with U. "I've got one," he said turning around and handing it to Artemis who put it on the blue table by the chrome window. Artemis took the lid off the box. Inside it was a file of slim sliver cases, which Harry thought, looked like credit card cases, kind of similar to the posh one his Aunt Petunia owned. Artemis flicked through them and took one out half way along. "We're in luck," he exclaimed, "This one goes to Hogsmead, and yes, it's the only one to the U.K., all the rest here are to Uganda, the United States and the USSR." Artemis put the lid back on the box and placed it back on the shelf. "Well all ready to leave Harry?" he asked. "Yes," was all Harry could say, he had a bit of a lump in his throat, wishing he could stay a little longer and have a look around. Artemis flicked open the lid of the sliver case and inside was what looked like a gold coin, although not a galleon. "That's the portkey," Artemis explained. "The silver case keeps it protected from your touch when its not being used. So on the count of 3 we will both touch it" Artemis looked at Harry straight in the eyes, and then said, "One.. Two.." Harry put his finger over the gold coin beside Artemis's.. "Three," said Artemis and they both touched the portkey at the same time. Harry felt the familiar pull behind his navel, but this time he didn't feel at all worried, after all, he was only going from one safe place to another.
