Destined For Greatness
Child of the new Dawn
Disclaimer: don't own don't sue
A/N ok I'm really sorry about the long waits so I'll try to update around once a week or once every two weeks
Thanks to Kemenran my beta
Discoveries
Al and Kent soon discovered saying that they were going to help and actually doing it were two different things.
The first problem was that all the students infected with the sickness were kept in a corridor and there was no way to sneak in without getting caught. Al had convinced Aber to make sure of that and got him out of trouble when he was caught by setting off a bunch of dung bombs (a newly created trick that left a nasty smell and big cloud of gray smoke) off in the hall before the nurse, Madam Salima, could work up a good rant.
The second problem was that if highly trained healers had no idea what it was, what could two boys in their first year of Hogwarts find a cure? They didn't even know where to start.
The third problem wasn't as big as the others but did cause a problem, was the lack of healing books. Students wanted to keep themselves healthy, so they had checked them all out. Unfortunately for the students, many who checked out the books took ill and then their books were confiscated for fear of being contagious.
Al and Kent solved this problem by writing home asking their families for healing books. Of course the poor family owls had to stay at Hogwarts for a week afterwards from all the stress of carrying five books each; each one had about four hundred to six hundred pages.
Finally there was the problem of trying to figure out the cure in between classes and homework.
They quickly learned not to ask the teachers anything after Professor Todd spent half the lesson lecturing about how students should stay away from anyone looking even slightly ill and that no one should approach the 'infected corridor'.
So far all Al and Kent could do was read the health books their parent's had sent them and reassure Katie that muggle-borns weren't the cause.
The rest of the school, however, did not share their views. More notes had been discovered, supposedly written by muggle-borns, saying that this was but a taste of what they would do to pure bloods.
Katie had tearfully told Al and Kent that she had been dragged into the headmaster's office along with other first year muggle-borns and interrogated about the notes.
Vito and his lackeys always laughed gleefully at the muggle-borns moving together as was now a school rule.
"All muggle-born students must not come in contact with any other students, furthermore, muggle-born students are not premittied to walk the corridors alone, they must always be accompanied by no less than two other muggle- borns." Kent read aloud from one of the signs pinned around the school.
He turned back to Al, "What do you reckon? Do you think we could pass off as muggle-borns so we can talk to Katie?"
"You two are the only pure-bloods I know that would 'want' to pass off as one of 'them'."
"Shove off Vito." Al snapped at him, ignoring the little voice in the back of his head reminding him that he should not be yelling like this to Vito.
"Oh I'm scared now. You better be careful, hanging around mud-bloods is what got all the others sick. You could be next..........."
"You know, I wouldn't be surprised if 'you' were behind all of this!" Kent snapped at him.
Vito smirked and turned on his heel and walked away followed by his two lackeys Armon and Rupert.
Kent turned back to Al, "I bet he is involved in this!"
Al watched Vito cross the hall and head down to the dungeons, thinking carefully, "Well," he began slowly, "If we could find out the password I bet we could sneak down into the Slytherin common room and listen to Vito talk when he can't see us."
Kent snorted, "Armon and Rupert may be that thick but Vito will notice who is hiding behind a chair or something."
Al smiled, "But he won't see us." With a quick glance around the room he leaned closer to Kent whispering, "Aber found an old invisibility cloak in our attic. It's really old and has a tear in the corner but it still works. We could borrow it and wait for a Slytherin to open the door to the common room and sneak in while its still open."
"Brilliant." Kent breathed.
"Tonight then?"
Kent glanced at a miserable group of muggle-borns and nodded, "Tonight."
~ An hour before dinner~
"Please Aber?"
"Tell me why you want it and then I'll give it to you."
"But- fine. Kent and I are going to sneak into the......... kitchen. We're going to have a snack after hours. Its for...... a bet."
"Oh," Aber muttered disappointedly, "And here I thought it'd me something interesting. Just give me back the cloak tomorrow."
He thrust the cloak at him and wandered off muttering about how lame little brother's ideas were.
Al stuffed the cloak into his bag and hurried off to dinner.
~ After Dinner~
Al waited behind the statue of Godric Grffindor for Kent. After his legs had fallen asleep Kent appeared.
"Over here!" Al whispered.
Kent glanced around quickly then joined Al behind the statue.
"Ready?"
Kent nodded and Al threw the cloak over them both, careful to keep an eye on where the hole was.
Just at that moment, Vito and his lackeys exited the Great Hall. Kent and Al shared a triumphant look under the cloak and followed them a few steps behind, walking as quietly as they could.
The Slytherin's were quite the whole time until they reached a patch of bare stone wall and Vito said, "Immunity." The wall slid back revealing the Slytherin common room.
'Gryffindor is much more comfortable than this.' Al thought to himself as he looked around at the green draped, straight backed chairs.
Vito stretched out on the couch with a bored expression on his face, before he sat up and looked around the room. Al and Kent instinctively flinched as Vito's dark eyes passed the spot where they were standing.
Then Vito called to another Slytherin, "Deacon, I think we have some new targets."
A small boy with blonde stringy hair called back from the table he was working on, "Oh and who are our lucky people?"
"Albus Dumbledore and Kenton Olivander."
The boy, Deacon, looked up in surprise and Al could see a potion vile and various chopped up ingredients set out on the table.
"Dumbledore AND Olivander? That's pretty high up for so soon. I mean its only almost half term, shouldn't we wait a bit more?"
Vito glared at him, "If it wasn't for me then we wouldn't even be able to have those mud-blood lovers in the hospital wing now. Dumbledore and Olivander are already meddling, and if we get them then we'll have them out of our hair and their parent's will insist that all mud-bloods be removed. And, after a week or so, we'll stop putting it out and they'll recover eventually."
Al and Kent shared a look both wondering what they were poisoning the students with.
The door opened again and Deacon immediately tapped his wand on the table and whispered something. Everything disappeared.
Al and Kent took their chance and hurried out of the common room and didn't stop until they were in the Entrance Hall.
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A/N Ok as far as the time right now they are almost at half-term holidays start in a week. Please review!
Scarysecrets- yep I finally updated! Lol I'm thinking of adding a food fight somewhere what do you think? Lol he'd curse you I'd bet if you said that! Lol now don't get jealous! Hey that's not nice! Umm yeah sorta I have to have a girl in there somewhere. Thanks!!
EriEka127- thanks! I'm glad you like it!
Athenakitty- humm did they have those when Dumbledore was a kid? Now you know but how are they going to prove it?
Child of the new Dawn
Disclaimer: don't own don't sue
A/N ok I'm really sorry about the long waits so I'll try to update around once a week or once every two weeks
Thanks to Kemenran my beta
Discoveries
Al and Kent soon discovered saying that they were going to help and actually doing it were two different things.
The first problem was that all the students infected with the sickness were kept in a corridor and there was no way to sneak in without getting caught. Al had convinced Aber to make sure of that and got him out of trouble when he was caught by setting off a bunch of dung bombs (a newly created trick that left a nasty smell and big cloud of gray smoke) off in the hall before the nurse, Madam Salima, could work up a good rant.
The second problem was that if highly trained healers had no idea what it was, what could two boys in their first year of Hogwarts find a cure? They didn't even know where to start.
The third problem wasn't as big as the others but did cause a problem, was the lack of healing books. Students wanted to keep themselves healthy, so they had checked them all out. Unfortunately for the students, many who checked out the books took ill and then their books were confiscated for fear of being contagious.
Al and Kent solved this problem by writing home asking their families for healing books. Of course the poor family owls had to stay at Hogwarts for a week afterwards from all the stress of carrying five books each; each one had about four hundred to six hundred pages.
Finally there was the problem of trying to figure out the cure in between classes and homework.
They quickly learned not to ask the teachers anything after Professor Todd spent half the lesson lecturing about how students should stay away from anyone looking even slightly ill and that no one should approach the 'infected corridor'.
So far all Al and Kent could do was read the health books their parent's had sent them and reassure Katie that muggle-borns weren't the cause.
The rest of the school, however, did not share their views. More notes had been discovered, supposedly written by muggle-borns, saying that this was but a taste of what they would do to pure bloods.
Katie had tearfully told Al and Kent that she had been dragged into the headmaster's office along with other first year muggle-borns and interrogated about the notes.
Vito and his lackeys always laughed gleefully at the muggle-borns moving together as was now a school rule.
"All muggle-born students must not come in contact with any other students, furthermore, muggle-born students are not premittied to walk the corridors alone, they must always be accompanied by no less than two other muggle- borns." Kent read aloud from one of the signs pinned around the school.
He turned back to Al, "What do you reckon? Do you think we could pass off as muggle-borns so we can talk to Katie?"
"You two are the only pure-bloods I know that would 'want' to pass off as one of 'them'."
"Shove off Vito." Al snapped at him, ignoring the little voice in the back of his head reminding him that he should not be yelling like this to Vito.
"Oh I'm scared now. You better be careful, hanging around mud-bloods is what got all the others sick. You could be next..........."
"You know, I wouldn't be surprised if 'you' were behind all of this!" Kent snapped at him.
Vito smirked and turned on his heel and walked away followed by his two lackeys Armon and Rupert.
Kent turned back to Al, "I bet he is involved in this!"
Al watched Vito cross the hall and head down to the dungeons, thinking carefully, "Well," he began slowly, "If we could find out the password I bet we could sneak down into the Slytherin common room and listen to Vito talk when he can't see us."
Kent snorted, "Armon and Rupert may be that thick but Vito will notice who is hiding behind a chair or something."
Al smiled, "But he won't see us." With a quick glance around the room he leaned closer to Kent whispering, "Aber found an old invisibility cloak in our attic. It's really old and has a tear in the corner but it still works. We could borrow it and wait for a Slytherin to open the door to the common room and sneak in while its still open."
"Brilliant." Kent breathed.
"Tonight then?"
Kent glanced at a miserable group of muggle-borns and nodded, "Tonight."
~ An hour before dinner~
"Please Aber?"
"Tell me why you want it and then I'll give it to you."
"But- fine. Kent and I are going to sneak into the......... kitchen. We're going to have a snack after hours. Its for...... a bet."
"Oh," Aber muttered disappointedly, "And here I thought it'd me something interesting. Just give me back the cloak tomorrow."
He thrust the cloak at him and wandered off muttering about how lame little brother's ideas were.
Al stuffed the cloak into his bag and hurried off to dinner.
~ After Dinner~
Al waited behind the statue of Godric Grffindor for Kent. After his legs had fallen asleep Kent appeared.
"Over here!" Al whispered.
Kent glanced around quickly then joined Al behind the statue.
"Ready?"
Kent nodded and Al threw the cloak over them both, careful to keep an eye on where the hole was.
Just at that moment, Vito and his lackeys exited the Great Hall. Kent and Al shared a triumphant look under the cloak and followed them a few steps behind, walking as quietly as they could.
The Slytherin's were quite the whole time until they reached a patch of bare stone wall and Vito said, "Immunity." The wall slid back revealing the Slytherin common room.
'Gryffindor is much more comfortable than this.' Al thought to himself as he looked around at the green draped, straight backed chairs.
Vito stretched out on the couch with a bored expression on his face, before he sat up and looked around the room. Al and Kent instinctively flinched as Vito's dark eyes passed the spot where they were standing.
Then Vito called to another Slytherin, "Deacon, I think we have some new targets."
A small boy with blonde stringy hair called back from the table he was working on, "Oh and who are our lucky people?"
"Albus Dumbledore and Kenton Olivander."
The boy, Deacon, looked up in surprise and Al could see a potion vile and various chopped up ingredients set out on the table.
"Dumbledore AND Olivander? That's pretty high up for so soon. I mean its only almost half term, shouldn't we wait a bit more?"
Vito glared at him, "If it wasn't for me then we wouldn't even be able to have those mud-blood lovers in the hospital wing now. Dumbledore and Olivander are already meddling, and if we get them then we'll have them out of our hair and their parent's will insist that all mud-bloods be removed. And, after a week or so, we'll stop putting it out and they'll recover eventually."
Al and Kent shared a look both wondering what they were poisoning the students with.
The door opened again and Deacon immediately tapped his wand on the table and whispered something. Everything disappeared.
Al and Kent took their chance and hurried out of the common room and didn't stop until they were in the Entrance Hall.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
A/N Ok as far as the time right now they are almost at half-term holidays start in a week. Please review!
Scarysecrets- yep I finally updated! Lol I'm thinking of adding a food fight somewhere what do you think? Lol he'd curse you I'd bet if you said that! Lol now don't get jealous! Hey that's not nice! Umm yeah sorta I have to have a girl in there somewhere. Thanks!!
EriEka127- thanks! I'm glad you like it!
Athenakitty- humm did they have those when Dumbledore was a kid? Now you know but how are they going to prove it?