Chapter Four: Flying
Later that day the Slytherin sixth years and the Gryffindor sixth years walked down to Hagrid's hut for Care of Magical Creatures.
"He's a buffoon, I tell you" Malfoy told Kae. Pansy Parkinson nodded.
"In our third year, he set a Hippogriff on Malfoy" she said.
"Nearly bit off my arm" he said. "It was supposed to executed but it got away." Kae nodded, her nose cringed.
"There yer are" came Hagrid's voice. Kae gaped at him but then noticed what she was doing and went back to her uninterested look. Slowly the students gathered around him.
"Yer the new student, aren't you?" Hagrid asked Kae. Kae gave him a disgusted look. "Er.. I'm Hagrid, the Care of Magical Creatures teacher."
"So, I've heard" Kae said, a hint of fear in her voice. Hermione sniggered.
"Er… then… um… well. We'll be starting with something slightly difficult this year" Hagrid began. "We – we'll be working with er… fairies" he said.
"Fairies?" Seamus Finnigan looked amused just as he had with Gilderoy Lockhart's Cornish Pixies in their second year.
"Er… yeah. But they're harder to look after than one thinks" Hagrid explained. "Just wait here one moment" he said and quickly went into his hut.
"Fairies?" Malfoy said. "From flubberworms to fairies, that's an achievement" he told those around him. Harry looked once again like he would strangle Malfoy but Hermione held him back.
"I'm going to do the first strangling this year" she told him glaring at Kae.
"Watch out they don't hit you with their fairy dust" Malfoy sneered. Hagrid came out of his hut followed by a swarm of glittering pink, light blue and white.
"Er… each come up and choose a fairy to talk to and er… work with" he than said. The girls rushed forward and each choose a fairy that they liked. The boys just followed slowly and picked one that was closest.
"What yer have to do is er… ask the fairy about themselves and make a report on them. Like where they live and what's typical for a fairy" he explained stuttering. Malfoy raised his eyebrows.
"So have to talk to this tiny thing in a normal conversation?" he asked. Hagrid nodded slowly.
The students plopped themselves down onto rocks, fallen logs or the ground and began talking with their fairy, most of them stuttering lightly.
The pink fairy hovering in front of Kae looked at her bored. She looked at it but more shocked than bored.
"So, are you going to ask me something not?" the fairy asked and examined her fingernails.
"Ah… well" Kae stuttered and quickly thought back to what Hagrid had said. "Er… well, w-where do you live?" The fairy sighed.
"You're a boring discussion partner" she said and flew a loo-di-loop. "Maybe I could pep the discussion up?" she added grinning widely. Kae's eyes opened wide.
"N-no" she said and fell back off the log she had been sitting on. Students in her close vicinity giggled at the girl who had seemed so tough. Kae gulped and quickly sat up.
"T-then…" she stopped at seeing Neville and Dean floating up in the air, their fairies waving their hands about and talking to each other. Kae gulped again and looked at her fairy, who was very amused by this. Kae stood up.
"Got to go" she said hastily and ran off.
"Not so fast" her fairy yelled and grabbed some fairy dust. Kae immediately rose into the air, her fairy now waving frantically with her hands.
"Boring, boring little human. Here's something fun to do" she moved Kae in a wavy line and Neville's fairy found this so amusing that Neville bobbed along next to Kae, both of them looking equally terrified. Dean had apologized to his fairy for calling her little and she had dropped him on the ground.
"N-now let them down, softly" Hagrid told the two playing fairies. Nevile's fairy glared at him and flew off into the forest, leaving Neville hanging in the air near to tears.
Kae's fairy had ignored Hagrid and was 'throwing' her up in the air and stopping her just before the ground.
"Let me go" Kae cried holding onto a stone. It loosened and went flying up with Kae.
"Leave her alone" Hagrid told the fairy.
"Well, fine" the fairy said unhappily, flew off into the forest and left Kae up high holding onto the stone. The other fairies said goodbye nicely to their conversation partners and then followed the other two fairies into the forest.
Later, when Kae and Neville were back on the ground (Professor Flitwick had performed a charm to get them back down to the ground), the students headed to the Great Hall to have lunch.
Strangely enough the whole school new that 'the new girl' seemed to be scared of fairies.
Kae, herself, hadn't appeared for lunch and couldn't hear any of them jeering.
"Wouldn't have thought an almighty girl like her would be scared of fairies?" Ron said and had some sandwich.
"She always has been. That's how her parents knew she was a witch. When I went to Hogwarts they told my parents that a fairy had her dangling from her roof by her foot because she didn't believe in fairies. She was about seven then. Apparently she was left up then as well" Hermione explained.
"She seemed scared of Hagrid too" Harry noted. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"That's because he's huge. And they know barely anything about giants at Wolfsberg" Hermione told them.
"Ah."
"Well, I hope it did her good this time" Seamus said.
"Why did she have you hanging, Neville?" Dean asked rubbing his arm onto which the fairy had dropped him. Neville blushed.
"She said she didn't like my ears" he told them. "And my pen was too fluffy." Ron sniggered but stopped when Hermione jabbed her elbow into his side.
"What really happened?" Ron's younger sister Ginny asked. "I heard the fairies banged you together and made you slap each other."
"No, no" Dean said. "Actually they just rose us into the air and er… made us fly around in the air. Later Kae's fairy made her dance around in wavy lines and Neville's found it funny to copy. Mine dropped me then and Neville's left him in the air, while Kae's just shot her into the air with a rock. It was actually quite funny – after she'd dropped me."
"I hope it teaches her a lesson too" Ginny said and then turned back to her food.
Er… yeah. Not the flying you'd expected, right? ^^ well… it was quite funny… writing it ^^ no bones broken, just bruises…
Ah well… see ya next chapter ^^
Thank you Chame! Thank you so much. I really need someone not to criticize my work…. Otherwise I lose faith in the story… _._ Thx ma friend ^^ And CHECK YOU MAIL, nya ^^
