A/N:  While I was perusing some of the Harry Potter books, I came across several interesting things.  I would like to share one of them with you. In the second book when Harry encountered Hagrid down Knockturn Alley and asked him why he was down it; Hagrid responded "I was lookin' fer a Flesh-Eatin' Slug Repellent.  They're ruinin' the school cabbages."  Now, this can mean he was looking for one of two things, either he was looking for a something to repel flesh-eating slugs or he was looking for a slug repellent that in and of itself eats flesh.  Now, if he were looking for the latter, he would have to put it on the cabbages rendering them lethal if eaten, this would probably not be what he was after.  If, however, he were looking for the former then the cabbages would be safe to eat and would repel the flesh-eating slugs.  But, if the slugs were flesh eating, why would they be ruining the school cabbages?  Wouldn't they be eating flesh, as opposed to the cabbages?

A/N:  I was reading the reviews for this story and I would like to say a few things:

Yes, I play Magic, The Gathering, though I haven't had an opponent in a while.  I play a black and blue control deck featuring such cards as counter spell, control magic, terror, library of leng, clone and the ever popular royal assassin and vesuvian doppelganger, just to name a few.

Next, to clarify on the spells; the new ones for the wizards I just make up, but the ones for the sorcerers I borrow heavily from Wizards of the Coast, who make Magic, The Gathering, and also own TSR, inc who makes Dungeons and Dragons.  As a matter of fact, as I write this, I am looking at my copies of the AD&D Wizard's Spell Compendium, volumes one, two, three, and four.  They contain all known spells for D&D made between 1975-1995, and list everything from Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting to Zone of Despair.  I will also try to put in an author's note, at the bottom of each following posting, the names of the spells I used.

Now, I know what you're thinking right now, enough of all this fucking babbling; get on with the goddam story.

            Chapter 8

            The Sparks Fly

            Hermione, who was already eating breakfast, well more picking at it than eating it, greeted Harry and Ron the next morning.  The conversation was light among them, as it was between everybody, everyone trying to stay away from the subject of what was happening.  It didn't take Harry very long to come to terms with events but Ron was a different matter.  He kept making suggestions to go for a walk on the grounds and to go and visit Hagrid down in his cabin and only Hermione's repeated interference kept him from leaving the castle.  Not much happened the rest of the day, though Harry got the shock of his life when he saw Professor Moody sitting at dinner, quite alive, pulling a sandwich out of his cloak.

            If nothing much happened during that day, then only two things happened over the next week: Jack and Shit.  And it wasn't until the Divination class after the announcement that Andranos was seen again, apart from his own lessons of course.  When Harry and Ron when up to this particular Divination class, they were the last into the room and found, to their displeasure, that the only available table, was the one Andranos was sitting at.  Professor Trelawney, when they had all settled into their seats, informed them all that she was going to review 'the orb' with them, for the benefit of their guest today.  Sure enough, each table had a crystal ball upon it.  Halfway through the lesson, during which Andranos kept rolling his eyes and sighing dismissively, he caught Harry's attention and grinned mischievously.  He flicked his head toward Trelawney and put his finger up to his lips, signaling Harry to be quiet.  Next, Andranos stared into the crystal ball for a few seconds before letting out a loud gasp.  Then he stood up abruptly, wrenched the ball off of the table, and then bashed Lavender over the head with it.  Trelawney rushed over to him as he sat back down and yelled, "What on earth possessed you to do that!"

            Andranos looked up at her with a deadly serious look on his face and said, "I was looking into the orb just now, and I saw myself smashing her over the head with it."  He leaning forward, placed his hand on his chest and continued, "Who am I to question fate?"

            Trelawney stared back at him for a minute and said with a very tight voice, "Well, if that is the case…please be sure to tell me before hand if you have anymore of these, visions."

            Harry could have died laughing right then and there but he chose to not to do it out loud.  He instead dropped his quill on the ground so he could go down and get it so no one would see his face, which he could not control.  Ron joined him for the same reason.  Trelawney sent Lavender to the hospital wing to make sure nothing was broken, she also replaced the crystal ball that was used, which Was broken.  Once her back was turned, Andranos pulled out a cigarette and, setting his finger on fire again, lit it.  Ron also pulled out a cigarette and held up his fist at Andranos.  He twiddled his thumb up and down, to which Andranos responded by providing him with some fire.  They both leaned back and enjoyed their treats, all the while Trelawney scowling at them for polluting her perfumed room.  Harry was still getting used to this new habit of Ron's, as was Hermione for that matter, but they decided that Ron would only resent them if they tried to stop him.

            At dinner that night, a unicorn interrupted the meal.  A unicorn that came crashing through one of the windows in the great hall.  Hagrid immediately went running up to it and found, written in red blood, "Surrender now and all pure bloods will be spared." Later examination could find no marks of any kind on the corpse, apart from those of going through a glass window, and those of slamming into the Hufflepuff table.  Nothing was removed from the unicorn, no blood, not the horn, nothing.  All the teachers, Hagrid especially, were appalled by this wonton disregard of life, especially something so pure.

            Dumbledore approached the window, after the unicorn had been taken away, and shouted "Reparo!" after which the glass fixed itself.  After this, Andranos came to his side and held his hands up over his head, clutching something in each of them.  He stood there for a minute muttering nonsensical words at the window.  When he finished, the glass glowed brightly for a few moments and looked completely normal.  He walked around and did this to each of the windows in turn.  Harry, Ron, and Hermione left the hall while he had only done this to half of them, debating what he was doing.

            "Well isn't it obvious," Hermione said as they approached the fat lady.  "He's making them shatter proof."

            "Then why doesn't he get Dumbledore and the rest of the teachers to help him," Ron countered.

            "Well, I was talking with him the other night and …"

            "Again!"  Ron shouted.  "What is it you talk about with him that you can't talk to us about?"

            "And," she continued as if she didn't hear him, "he said that most sorcerer spells are much more powerful than wizard spells.  Torchlight."  Once she said the password, the fat lady swung open.  When they made their way through, they found Andranos standing near the fire.  The Gryffindors had grown accustomed to finding him in their common room and having him appear out of nowhere and started paying as much attention to him as they would a flea crossing the room.  "Oh.  Are you already finished with what you were doing?"

            "Well, I did all the windows in the great hall," Andranos said without turning around, "but I ran out of components before I could do all of the windows on the first floor.  I'll finish up with them tomorrow.  Shall we go down to my lab, or should we wait for another day?"

            "No, we can do it now."

            "Alright, first we go to the library then to the laboratory."

            Hermione turned right around and opened the portrait hole again and yelled back, "Bye guys," without even turning to look at them.  Andranos followed right behind her muttering, "All this fucking walking is getting on my nerves, but, it's better than having them door in here."  Harry remembered then that Andranos had said in his last lesson that he had cast something called 'Wall with No Doors' on every inch of the castle.  This spell would prevent any and all means of magical transportation within it, this included Dimension Doors, which were by far his favorite means of transit.

            Ron Looked straight into Harry's eyes and said, "Mind if I borrow your cloak?"

            "Alright, but I'm going with you."  So Harry dashed up to his dormitory and grabbed the invisibility cloak out of his trunk, threw it into his bag, and dashed back down the stairs.  He and Ron left Gryffindor tower and made their way down to the dungeons, throwing on the invisibility cloak as they got down there.  They then slowed down to a walk as they picked their way through corridors trying to remember where the lab was.  When Harry spotted a large group of people blocking their way, "Shit!  The lab is just down there," he whispered in Ron's ear as he waved down the hall.

            "Hey," Ron whispered back, "doesn't this place look kinda familiar?"  Harry looked around and was struck immediately with where the crowd was, right in front of the wall that lead to the Slytherin common room.  Upon closer inspection, he noticed that the crowd was composed entirely of what looked like every Slytherin in the school.

            "What's all this," Snape said as he swept past the invisible pair.  "Why aren't you all inside?"

            "It's that goddam sorcerer, Professor," one of the seventh year students said, "He changed the password again!"

            "Are you sure?  Have you tried it yourself?"

            "Yes Professor," the unnamed student said again.  "Look.  Parselmouth."

            Just as he said that last word, a translucent image of Andranos appeared to one side of the crowd and said, "Ah, but that won't get you in, you see.  To gain entrance you must ask yourself these questions three: what's large, what receives, and what describes you all?"  When he finished, the image vanished.  Snape stared at the wall for a minute before saying in a loud clear voice, "Bigot."  The stone door that the wall concealed slid open as a new image of Andranos appeared just inside the opening, "Your powers of logic are impressive, they are, but I shall concoct a more difficult one in a ten-day."  Once the image said this, it too vanished.  The Slytherins filed through the doorway, and within just a minute they were all gone, Snape going further down the hall, presumably to his office.

            After they were sure the coast was clear, Harry and Ron proceeded to and slipped inside of the lab.  Almost as soon they closed the door, they heard Andranos' voice coming toward them.

            "Quick, in the corner," Harry said, pulling Ron with him.  The door opened before they got where they were going and they had to tiptoe the rest of the way.

            "But if what you're saying is true, why don't they just storm the castle," they heard Hermione say.  "I mean, it's within their powers to do it, right?"

            "Of course it is, but ask yourself this, would you really want them to?  Would you rather have them burst through the front door than have them sit around outside?"

            Harry saw them both walk into the room, Andranos closing the door with a wave of his hand.  Hermione continued with, "Well, er, I don't know, what would you rather have them do?"

            "Well, I would rather have them come straight in here, but then again, I've been Trained to handle that type of situation.  I've been trained to handle this type of situation too for that matter."

            "Oh, there's something I've been meaning ask you," Hermione said as they both took a seat at the table, "what type of training do you get at the Fyndow Academy?"

            "Well, like I told you before, the Fyndow Academy trains battle mages, mage is another term for a sorcerer, and anything having to do with battle and war, they train for it.  Everybody gets overall training for two years, then they get access to sort of a community laboratory, one really big room about the same size as the first floor of this castle, with about seventy five separate work stations, each one approximately as big as this one," he continued waving his hand around.  "On the floor above that, is the library, it's about the same size."  Even from his vantage point, Harry could see Hermione's eyes widen with glee.  Her head started tilting to the left and Harry thought for a minute that she might be fantasizing about the library.

            Suddenly, her head snapped back to its normal position and she said, "Oh!  Do you have any more of that wine you had before?"

            "Well, I've only got a little bit left," Andranos said as he left the table, walked over to a nearby bookshelf, and picked up an empty bottle.  "Okay, I haven't done this in a while so it'll take me a minute to find the spell."  He set the bottle down on the table along with two wine glasses before going to a different shelf to retrieve a rather large, leather bound book, which he also set on the table.  From yet another shelf, he picked up a glass pitcher and filled it with water from the spout that was in the room.  He set the water on the table and opened the book and placed a small red bookmark just inside the front cover.  "Metamorphose Liquids," he said while he stared at the book.  He then ran his finger across the top of the book and opened it, about halfway through it.  The bookmark was on the page that he opened to, which Andranos removed and put back in the front.  He stared at the book for a few moments before shutting it.  He then opened the empty bottle, and upturned it over one of the glasses; a few drops went into the glass.

            "What are you doing," Hermione asked with a look on her face that said she already knew what he was doing.

            "Shoosh," Andranos replied.  He put his arms above his head and said, "Zeenakuma cyinaku," he put his arms back down.  "Cyinaku," he put the middle finger on his right hand in the tiny pool of wine in the glass and put it gingerly into his mouth.  "Cyinaku geentag," he then put the middle finger of his left hand in the pitcher of water.  Immediately, starting at his finger and spreading from there, the water turned a dark, violet color.  He poured some of it into each of the glasses and handed one to Hermione.  She sipped it and let out a satisfying sigh.

            "Oh, that's good.  Where did you get it?"

            "Well," Andranos said as he sat back down, "it's a wine of elvish invent, I know not how they make it, nor do I care.  I, er, I was supposed to give it to your headmaster, but I, er…forgot to give it to him," he finished with a grin.  Hermione gave him a piercing stare.  "Alright, alright."  He got up, retrieved another jug, filled it with water, and performed the spell again, changing the water in turn.  He then carefully poured the wine into the bottle, but the cork in, and picked up a quill and a piece of parchment, handing the latter to Hermione.  "Could you do me a favor and write down the following words: with Andranos' compliments."  She did as she was asked and handed the note back to him.  He picked up the paper and the bottle and walked over to the ghast's cage.  After unlocking it, he handed the objects to his servant.  "SLAVE!  Take these to Professor Dumbledore immediately."  Andranos opened the door and the ghast shot out of the room like a bullet.  Andranos closed the door behind it, picked up the empty pitcher, put it into the basin by the waterspout and said, "Wash this."  Instantly, the pitcher rose into the air, along with a scrub brush and started being washed on it's own.  He put the wine in the other pitcher into yet another bottle he fetched from some unseen corner of the room, putting it back there when he was finished.  Harry saw him slip a few fingers into one of the pouches on his belt and withdraw some kind of powder, which he sprinkled on the table while saying "Zanakee".  The table shrunk until it was small enough to fit in the palm of his hand, putting it on a shelf when it stopped shrinking.  He moved the chairs to one side, Hermione standing up to allow her to move her's.  She put the wineglasses she was holding on the granite counter along the wall.  "Alright, are you ready to begin," Andranos said as he reached down, grabbed the bottom of his gown-like robes, and pulled them off.  Harry got a shock when he realized that Andranos wasn't wearing Anything under his robes.  Harry looked to his side and saw Ron's eyes squinted, pointed toward the floor.  He was tempted to throw the cloak off of himself, whip out his wand, and throw every curse and hex he knew at Andranos but somehow, seeing as how he would be facing a battle mage, he decided it would not be a wise thing to do.  He looked back up and saw that Andranos had already thrown his robes off to one side and, feeling a fresh sense of fury, Hermione was removing her clothes.  When she got down to her underwear, she stopped, tossing her clothes to one side as well, holding her wand out in front of her.  Harry was struck just then about how attractive Hermione was, thinking he had to be an idiot for having to see her in nothing but a bra and panties to notice.  Ron looked up just then and Harry had to restrain him from charging Andranos right then and there, wand be damned.

"Okay, I'm ready.  Are we going to continue were we left of the other night?"

"Yes," Andranos responded, holding up a small staff, roughly four feet long.  He held it in his hand, holding it above his head while shouting "Vor!"  Immediately, a white flash filled the room and Harry was momentarily blinded.  It took him a minute to fully regain his vision and for all the black dots to disappear.  "Alright, let's try it again, remember the motion," the naked man said as he took a few steps back.

Hermione swung her wand over her head, did a small circle in front of her and shouted "Rodea Banis!" a faint blue jet shot out of her wand and hit the staff.

Andranos held the staff up over his head and shouted "Vor!"  Another blinding white flash filled the room but Harry was smart enough to close his eyes before hand.  Still, when he opened them black spots danced before him.  "Okay, that was good, but remember to give it that little flick at the end."

Hermione reared back and did it again, but gave the wand a little upward flick before she shouted "Rodea Banis!" and another blue jet, this one a little darker, shot from her wand and hit the staff.

Andranos held the staff up again and shouted "Vor!" but this time nothing happed.  Again he shouted "Vor!" but still nothing happened.  "Very good.  Now lets try something else.  With the same movement, say 'Vigia Indosa', I've already prepared a few things for this spell."

Hermione performed the same motion and shouted "Vigia Indosa!" but nothing happened.

"Oh, I forgot, this one is Without that little flick."

"Thanks for telling me," Hermione said back to him, "You know, I'm staring to think you just like watching me dance around in my knickers."  She swung her wand over her head, did a small circle in front of her and shouted "Vigia Indosa!"  Everything in the room, the shelves, the cages, the books, the table, even Andranos and Hermione, briefly glowed faintly and sparks flew off of them.  Andranos, who was ginning before, dropped his smile and he snapped his head to look straight into Harry's eyes.  He turned his body to face him too, swung his left arm in front of him and his right arm behind him.  He then swung his right arm as if he was bowling while saying "Zeena Kuma Tee!", the whole process taking less than a second.  When his right arm got perpendicular to his body, a bolt of lightning shot out of his hand, heading straight for Harry.

A/N:  Andranos set his finger on fire with a Cantrip.

            Andranos was casting Glassteel on the windows.

Andranos closed the door with a Cantrip.

Take a wild guess what Andranos cast on the water.

An Unseen Servant washed the pitcher.

Andranos shrunk the table with the reversed form of the spell Enlarge.

Vor! Is a command word, it activates a spell stored on an object.  I don't know what spell will do what the staff did, so don't ask me.

Rodea Banis! is a conversion of the spell Wandbane, which renders a wand or other magical device useless for a short time.

WARNING!  WARNING!

If you like a sense of suspense, don't read down any further.  If you can't stand to not know everything, read on.

Vigia Indosa! Is a conversion of the spell Invisibility Purge, guess what that does.