Chapter 7

Yeerks are Jerks! (Harry)

My name is Harry Potter.

I was now faced with six kids who were Animagi of dangerous animals.

I stared at the six kids.  "Who are you?" I asked, slowly drawing my wand out.  "First, who are you?  How do we know we can trust you?" a tall boy with brown hair and eyes said, standing up.  "I'm Harry Potter.  How do you know you can trust me?  I've been fighting against Voldemort for four years." I said, pointing my wand at them.  They stared at it.

"My name is Jake.  This is Marco, Rachel, Tobias, and Cassie.  This is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill.  We call him Ax for short.  We don't know who this Voldemort is." Jake said cautiously.  His eyes darted around the room.

"Okay.  You tell me your story, I'll tell you mine and I won't blow you to smithereens.  Deal?" I asked, extending my hand.  Jake took it and shook it roughly.  I looked around at his friends.  The one called Ax I could throw off with a good Jelly-Legs Curse.  Then, Jake started to explain.

When Jake was done explaining, I explained.  Marco was in hysterics.  "Wizards?" he laughed, "WIZARDS!?"  I looked at him coolly.  "I can prove I'm a wizard." I said.  "Yeah, then turn me into a frog!" he said.  "We haven't learned human Transfiguration yet… but I have a good spell."  I pointed my wand at him.  "Expelliarmus!" I yelled.  Marco flew backwards and into the wall.  "Ow!" he cried, sliding down the wall.

"Now prove to me that this… Aximili is a space alien." I said, lowering my wand.  "Should I, Prince Jake?  Jay-kuh.  Kuh.  Jake." Ax asked.  "Go ahead.  And Ax?  I'm not a prince.  Don't call me Prince Jake." Jake said.  "Yes, Prince Jake." Ax said.  I snorted.

I watched Ax.  He was starting to turn blue.  Suddenly, two stalk eyes sprouted out of the top of his head.  I stumbled back into the wall.  His legs split in two and stretched.  A deadly looking tail sprouted out of his backbone.  A blade on the end of his tail was like a scythe.  The clothes he was wearing got sucked up into his skin.  His hands sprouted two extra fingers.  His mouth disappeared completely and his regular eyes got huge.

Do you believe us, Harry Potter? Ax asked.  I heard it in my head.  "That," I said shakily, "Is the weirdest looking centaur I have ever seen."  Cassie looked over at me, shocked.  "Centaur?  You've seen a centaur?" she asked incredulously.  "Yeah.  I've seen three.  I'll take you to meet them sometime.  Only, don't ask them many questions.  They're star-gazers." I said, remembering my detention from my first year.  "Ax isn't a centaur.  He's an alien race called the Andalites." Tobias said.  I nodded.

Suddenly, there was a clamor from outside.  "Oh no!" I gasped.  "A teacher!  Or, even worse, Filch and Mrs. Norris!  My invisibility cloak isn't big enough to hide all of you!  Um… the slowest… er… morphers can hide under the cloak with me."  Tobias came running and I threw the cloak over us.  "I'm not in my true form," he explained, "I'm a red-tailed hawk.  I don't have time to morph back and then morph small."

Jake, Rachel, Marco, Cassie, and Ax had all morphed fly.  The last blue hair had disappeared off Ax's fly body when Mrs. Norris came around the corner.  I held my breath.  She looked around the room.  Her large, lamp-like eyes looked right through me.  "What is it, my sweet?" asked a hoarse voice.  I watched Filch enter the room.  He lifted a lamp up and scanned the room.  "C'mon, there's nothing in here." He said.  Seeing nothing but a bunch of flies, they left.

I breathed again.  I looked at Tobias.  "I think I know where you can sleep tonight.  I hope you don't mind snakes." I said.  I hate snakes! yelled Marco.  "Well, it's the only place I can think of.  The Weasley twins know all the passageways.  The only one they don't know… well, c'mon."

I tiptoed down the corridor, looking left to right to see if anyone was near.  Suddenly, a vase whizzed past my ear.  I whirled around.  Peeves the Poltergeist was hovering in my face.  Tobias made a weird noise. 

"Why, it's Mr. Pot-head!" cackled Peeves.  I narrowed my eyes.  "Do you want anything in particular, Peeves?" I asked cautiously.  "Maybe, maybe not," he answered in a singsong voice.  I searched desperately for an answer to this.  Then it dawned on me.  "Peeves, if you don't move now, I'm going to the Bloody Barron with you!" I said threateningly.  Peeves eyed me suspiciously and zoomed away.  I sighed.

"Bloody Barron?" asked Tobias as I led the way.  The flies that were the Animorphs were on his shoulder.  "He's the only person Peeves with listen to," I explained.  I turned the corner and looked at the door I was facing.  I ignored the "Out of Order" sign and walked in.  Tobias had stopped.  "This is a girls' bathroom!" he said.  "It's also Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.  No one comes in here." I said.

I watched as Myrtle glided sullenly through the stall door.  Tobias jumped back.  "Hello, Myrtle." I said.  "What do you want?" Myrtle asked, sulking.  "I was just going to…"  I jerked my head to the sink.  "Ooooh!  You're going down there again?  I thought it was dead." She said excitedly.  I shuddered.  "It is.  Well, it was good talking to you, Myrtle.  Bye." I said, and turned to the sink.  "Visit me sometime, will you?" Myrtle asked.  "Uh… sure.  Okay." I said.

"Open." I said in Parsletounge.  Tobias looked at me, startled.  The sink glowed and revealed the passageway to the Chamber of Secrets.  "Uh… er… you can go first." He said, glancing nervously at the pipe.  "Okay," I said, jumping down.  It was a terrific ride.  I landed at the bottom with a thump.  "Okay!  You can come down!" I called to Tobias.  He screamed as he fell.  He ran into my legs and I fell.

"It's dark down here." He squeaked.  I pulled out my wand and muttered, "Lumos."  The tip of my wand lit up and I looked around.  The part of the roof that had fallen in was still there.  Tobias and I barely fit as we went through it.  Tobias gave a yell and jumped back when he saw the Basilisk skin.

"Hey, kid, calm down!  It's just the skin!  Just the skin!" I yelled.  I dragged him through the remaining Chamber.  "OH MY GOD!" he screeched when he saw the dead snake.  "It's dead!  I killed it three years ago!  See?  There's a hole through his head!" I said, trying to calm him down.  The others demorphed.  They acted the same way Tobias had.  I sighed and told them about when I killed it with just a sword.  They stared at me.  Rachel looked awestruck.

"I know it isn't perfect, but it'll have to do. No one will bother you, unless a ghost accidentally comes down. I have to go back to my dormitory.  Ron is going to be wondering where I am.  He'll get suspicious." I said, shuddering.  I knew he was a Controller.  Cassie knew what I was thinking.  "He's a Controller, isn't he?" she asked softly.  I nodded, taking a deep breath.  "You've lost everyone.  Now you're loosing your friends." She whispered.  I felt the corners of my eyes prickling.  I turned away.  "I got to go," I said, leaving quickly.  I felt them watching the back of my neck.

"Don't worry, Harry!" Marco called, "Yeerks are jerks!  They'll pay!"  I ran faster so I wouldn't cry.