Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all associated characters are property of J.K. Rowling, spells used in the elementals book are property of Blizzard

Chapter 2: The Elemental Keeper

Harry stared at the letter dumbfounded "who would write to me like this," Harry muttered to himself thoughtfully.



He had no idea who this person could be and had even a fainter idea about where he could possibly meet this person. Suddenly a dark suspicion started to brood over him. *This is probably a trap* he crossly thought. Harry knew he wasn't exactly popular with Voldemort's death eaters. In fact he was pretty sure that he was on top of Voldemort's hit list.



As he sat there thinking about what to do he heard his aunt's raspy voice, barking at him to make breakfast. Harry had become accustomed to this type of treatment so he decided to put the letter away and obey his aunt. As he was making breakfast, which he barley got to eat owing to the fact that Dudley ate most of it, he made a decision. He was going to wait for this mystery person who wrote to him on his front lawn on one condition. He was going to wear his Invisibility Cloak, which was passed onto him by his father, and he was going to bring his wand.



Once Dudley finished his twelfth piece of bacon Harry was forced to clean the table. Once he finished he tried to make a quick run to his room but Aunt Petunia caught him. "Where do you think your going," she said with a sneer on her face.

"I was just about too-," Harry began

"You where just about to go weed the garden," Aunt Petunia cut him off with malice in her eyes.

Harry grumbled but knew that their was no point in arguing so he shuffled his way to the garden. There really weren't many weeds owing to the fact that they forced Harry to tend to the garden every day. No matter how bad the weather was you could always find Harry fixing up the garden. As he was moving the soil around, trying to make him look busy he saw one of his neighbors standing there out of the corner of his eye. If he didn't know better he would of swore that she had apparated there. There stood Arabella Figg his very old neighbor that had watched over him ever since he had moved in with the Dursleys. She was a squib but still knew about the wizarding world, so Harry enjoyed her company.

She stood there in an old musty turquoise blue sweater and faded looking jeans. She was leaning on an oddly familiar looking wooden staff, with a red orb glowing faintly on the top of it.

He stared in awe at the staff which continued to glow red. He had never heard of anything like that in Hogwarts so he assumed it was just an old antique.

Harry politely looked up and greeted her. She responded in a caring matter and asked him why he was once again tending to the Dursleys garden. "rotten muggles still treating ya bad?" she asked in a hush whisper.

"Yea," Harry replied "so… any news from the wizarding world?

"Well…there is something…but…well…I really can't tell you just now…maybe sometime a little more private" she replied in a shaky tone, and Harry couldn't help but think she tried to catch his eye.

"WHY DOES EVERY ONE THINK IM NOTHING BUT A STUPID BOY!?!?," Harry yelled "I'M ALMOST A FULLY QUALIFIED WIZARD…AND TO THINK OF IT I'VE ALREADY BEEN THROUGH MORE THEN MOST WIZARDS EVER EVEN DREAM OF!"

Harry had once again let his temper get to him, and he immediately wished he hadn't. Aunt Petunia heard his outburst, grabbed Harry by the collar and with a last piercing stare to Ms. Figg threw him into the house. Harry knew he wasn't supposed to mention magic around the Dursleys or any of the neighbors. He knew that the Dursleys wanted no one knowing who he really was. He also knew that because of his little eruption a big telling off would be coming once Uncle Vernon came home.

Soon however it was almost time to meet his mystery writer. He went into his trunk and took out his Invisibility Cloak and his wand. He jumped out off his window onto the soft grass, and looked around for a moment. No one seemed to be any where in site. He made a quick glance at his watch and saw that it was two minutes to eight. He waited there patiently for a while until he noticed something moving in the darkness. As he looked closer to see who it was he accidentally stepped onto his invisibility cloak causing it to fall off of him. He looked in front of him and standing there was a giant black, horse like creature with two giant horns patruding from it's head. It slowly made its way closer to Harry until its foaming mouth was only about a foot away from Harry's face. Harry turned around and started to run when he tripped over a loose rock sticking out of the ground. Harry landed flat on his face and it felt as if he had badly sprained his ankle.

He turned back around to face the creature which surprisingly seemed to have been replaced by a hooded figure cloaked in completely black. He couldn't see the persons face but he knew that he must be one of Voldemort's death eaters.

"aha so I've finally found you Mr. Harry Potter," the man said in a croaky harsh voice. "Luckily for you my orders where to bring you to my master alive," he continued. "Still he never said I couldn't have a little fun with you…..crucio!"

Harry waited for the pain to hit him. He waited to feel the agony of a thousand knives piercing through his skin. Harry closed his eyes and braced himself for the most ultimate off all pains, but surprisingly it never came. As Harry opened his eyes he was surrounded in an ice blue doom of what seemingly appeared to be ice.

"WHAT!" Harry heard the cloaked man say, "what magic is this!"



Harry looked forward and saw a frail looking lady holding a wooden staff with a faintly glowing red orb toping it in front of her like a sword. Harry heard her yell an incantation that he had never heard of before "ista glacius." Ice shot out of her wand, the death eater just barley dodged it.

"Avada Kadarva," Harry heard the man shout but the spell hit the lady and went flying back at him nearly hitting him. Finally realizing that he had no chance against her he made a mad dash to grab Harry and run. "hacru inferno!," the women yelled causing a giant fire wall to appear separating Harry and the death eater.

Harry heard a loud pop and realized that the death eater had apparated to safety. The fire wall suddenly disappeared as did the dome of ice that was protecting Harry from the death eaters spells. Harry took another look at the women who had saved his life and realized that it was none other then his neighbor Ms. Figg. "Miss- miss Figg," Harry stammered "you told me that you- that you were a squib."

"Well I cant do magic like they teach you in Hogwarts," he heard her answer "I am a Sorceress, the elemental keepers. There are quite a few of us in the world Harry," she started to explain. "I've known about four in my lifetime, and I am the only officially registered one. The note that you received was in fact from me……I can only guess how the death eater knew. I came here to give you some explanations and to pass down a very ancient art of magic to you."

"What do you mean?" Harry asked "are you going to teach me how to do that magic you used to protect me?"

"I need not teach you Harry," she explained " here come take hold of my staff."

Harry did as he was told and the orb on top of the staff went from a dull faint red to a vibrant bright color of gold.

"Yes it is as I had suspected," Ms. Figg said in response to the glowing "it is time I passed it down. You see Harry each person chosen to become a Sorceress, or Sorcerer in your case only has the gift for only about a year or two. My time is just about up so I feel it is time that I passed it on too you."

"But……..why me?" Harry asked mystified "why would you hand such a great and powerful gift to me?"

"you will need it the most," she replied warily "very dangerous things will be happening, to try and over throw He-who-must-not-be-named. Dumbledore is going to start recruiting students from the school to join the order. According to a prophecy that he keeps rambling about you are the one who must kill You-know-who, you will need all the protection you can get…this type of magic should be able to keep you safe, and might be your only chance to defeat him. Go back up to your room there should be a certain book one of your friends got you that will be of more interest now."

With that the front door of number four Privet Drive started to open, causing Ms. Figg to run out of sight. Cat like Harry gathered all of his things and dove back into his window.…Aunt petunia who emerged from the door, oblivious to all that had just happened right under her nose.

A/N tried to spice things up a little more in this chapter please R&R with suggestions and comments.