Hello again minna! I'm back after a long period between updates, but I had
a small problem, I had to idea where this story was going, my main goal had
been to get everyone to school and then I'd figure out everything else.
Only that I had gotten them to school and had no idea what to do. But it's
fixed now! Yay! all better!
I went to Anime North during the May 2-4 with Kaze-chan, one half of Target Zero, who did not review the last chapter gasp neither of you reviewed!! I forgive you since kaze came down for four days...anyways so that was fun! I met all kinds of cool people! Michael Dobson, Monica Stori, David Kaye, Richard Cox and Brian Drummond!! Yay!! it was really a ton of fun! I can't wait till next year, ne kaze-chan?! woot!
And just one more thing, I have now started a DA account I'm hinotama85...if you're a member there check me out and I'll check out your gallery for sure!! Serryn (her DA account is under serryn as well I do believe) actually made a pic of Nami for me awhile ago and it's on her account so you can check that out as well I think its wonderful!! And I love it a lot thanks Serryn!
So this is chapter 17...sorry for the super long wait, hopefully it was worth it, I will admit I had way to much fun writing the DADA class and I guess there is a little Anzu (Tea in the English version) bashing, I am not fond of her at all, but its just a small amount
Disclaimer: I do not own HP or YGO
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Nami's head was bent over her potions notes as she walked into the classroom, quickly going over what she had written the previous night. Once she was in the room, she noticed it was completely empty, devoid of any signs of life. Nami glanced at her watch, to see how early she was for class and did a double take. Her watch stated that it was just after six o'clock, which Nami knew very well that it wasn't. Sitting down in her desk, she flicked her watch, in hopes of reviving it, but to no avail.
Maybe it needs a new battery,suggested Kaya from where she sat in her soul room.
"It can't need a new battery, I just changed it before I left home."
Do batteries have an expiration date, you know like food?Kaya had learned the hard way that one should not each foods that are past the expiration date. Maybe it was already past it.
"I didn't see the expiration date, I just handed the guy my watch and said it needed a new battery."
At this point there was laughter coming from behind Nami, when she turned around she was faced with Harry, Hermione and Ron, smiling and laughing friendly.
"Muggle technology doesn't work in Hogwarts," Hermione explained, "you're battery is probably fine and will work again once you are outside Hogwarts."
Nami smiled and thanked them for the explanation, but inside she cried in embarrassment, /Kaya! I sat here and talked to myself! They must think I'm insane!/
Kaya laughed, I'm sure they don't think your insane, a little crazy maybe, but not insane.
As soon as the rest of the Gryffindors and Slytherins filed into the classroom, the great black bat like professor swooped in and near glided up to the front of the classroom. Professor Snape sneered at his students, well mostly the Gryffindors.
"This year you will perform you OWL tests and every single one of you will pass. Do I make myself clear?" he was answered with silence. "This year will be the same as any other year, no foolish wand waving, no silly incantations and no second chances.
"New students, you will be expected to perform at the same level as everyone else, you will learn that there are no exceptions for this class, whether you are new," Snape glared at each of the new students before continuing, "or famous," he stopped and gave Harry an evil glare. "You," he turned towards Nami, "I would strongly recommend that you find a new lab partner, or work alone, I will not mark easier because you are partnered with Mr Longbottom, if Mr Longbottom causes an explosion, or if he melts your cauldron, again, you will be penalized as well." Neville shrank in his seat, and Malfoy laughed silently. "Now get to work, you will hand in your potion at the end of class."
The rest of potions was spent with Snape circling the classroom, praising the Slytherins and belittling the Gryffindors, especially poor Neville, who seemed to get the worst of it, followed closely by Harry.
After the bell rang and everyone handed in their attempts at the potion, the students scurried off to their next class. Nami left with a smile on her face, and a slightly depressed Neville on her left.
"Don't let what he says get to you Neville!" Nami tried to cheer him up.
Yugi appeared on Neville's other side, "Yea, and I don't know what everyone keeps talking about, you don't seem to be terrible at potions, nothing went wrong today, nothing at all."
Neville thought for a moment, "You're right! Nothing went wrong, I didn't melt a cauldron and cause half the class to be covered in painful blisters, or cause the potion to explode and nearly kill the other half of the class! I did it!" Neville skipped off down the hall towards his next class, still singing 'I did it!' and earning some rather strange looks.
"Do you think those things actually happened?" Yugi questioned.
Nami swallowed, "I don't know, I just hope they don't happen ever again!"
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After Potions that day the fifth year Gryffindors had Defence Against the Dark Arts, a class they all had been awaiting with excitement. No one had ever had Dumbledore as a professor before, though they knew he had to have been a professor at one point in time, and even stranger that before then he would have been a student. As they entered the classroom they were greeted with the sight of Dumbledore standing at the back of the classroom with an old chest and all the chairs and desks pushed back against the walls.
"Ah, yes, yes," Dumbledore greeted them, his eyes twinkling, "come in, come in. We just have to wait for the Slytherins to join us and we can start."
The class filed in and stood in the centre of the room, they only waited another couple of minutes before the Slytherin fifth years filled the rest of the room. Malfoy glared daggers at Harry, Ron and Hermione before he turned and glared at Malik and Ryou.
"Welcome to Defence Against the Dark Arts. I will not be teaching the class for the rest of the year, we have another professor coming, I do think you will like him," Dumbledore glanced quickly at Harry, "but right now, I think we have a wonderful class ahead of us."
Malfoy snorted under his breath, "I still don't see why they let him stay as headmaster, he's an old loon, right off his rocker," Malfoy sneered to anyone in earshot.
Harry glared, but before he could respond in Dumbledore's defence he was cut off.
"Even so, this old rocker-less loon is still in possession of his hearing, Mr Malfoy," Dumbledore gave Malfoy a hard look before continuing. When he did continue he smiled and spoke with a light tone, "The other day while cleaning out my office's backroom I came across this wonderful chest, it's fairly big, and I thought it would make a wonderful edition to my study. However, once I opened it, I came to discover a boggart, who was slightly ruffled at being disturbed, instead of taking care of him, I thought it would be great for your class. A bit of review, and I always did wonder what Professor Snape would look like in a green dress," he wink as Neville, "after that encountered with the boggart in your third year. Now, would someone please inform the recent additions to your class what a boggart is? Yes, Dean, you take a go at it."
Dean, who didn't have his hand raised, started slowly, "Well, ummm, boggarts live in old closets and chests and stuff, and no one knows what they look like really, because they take the form of what scares us the most, so what we do is we make what scares us funny, and yea," he finished lamely.
"Honestly," Hermione sighed, "they're shape shifters, we confuse it by there being so many of us, and what really finishes a boggart off is laughter."
"Excellent Ms Granger, you as well Dean," Dumbledore smiled, "five points each to Gryffindor. Now the incantation: riddikulus. Good, good, now form a line, everyone will have a go, new students at the back, good, good, no, no, Neville, you up front, I want to see Professor Snape, there we go! Ready? I'll let him or her out now...I do wonder, would a boggart have a gender?...right, right, here it comes," Dumbledore lifted the lid of the old chest and out stepped Professor Snape.
"Riddikulus!" cried out Neville, and suddenly Snape was wearing a green dress, with a green hat, complete with a stuffed vulture and a big red handbag. The class erupted into laughter, and Dumbledore gave a light- hearted chuckle.
"Next!" he called out.
As the class proceeded, each student having a turn, the new students sat at the back of the line astounded.
Oh, this does look like fun!Bakura cackled evilly, I wonder what I am the most afraid of.
Before Ryou could even think of a response Bakura changed places, giving a good hearty evil laugh as Ron's giant spider began to tap dance and step on it's own feet. Malik laughed as well, but a little more cautiously, since he was unsure what his greatest fear was.
/Yami, what is your greatest fear?/ Yugi questioned thoughtfully.
I am not sure, perhaps losing to Kaiba.
/You lost to Kaiba once,/ Yugi pointed out.
Yes, I did, but you interfered, I would not have if you didn't, so it doesn't count,Yami said this in a way that gave Yugi the impression that he was to stick to this story.
/Um, Yami, I think maybe you should do this, because my greatest fear would raise some questions we wouldn't want to answer./
Why? What do you fear Yugi?
/Losing you,/ Yugi replied honestly, /you are my best friend, I am afraid that you will leave me, or be taken away./
Yami gave Yugi a smile, Do not worry, I will not leave you, you, too, are my friend. I will face the boggart.
By the time Yami switched with Yugi they were nearing the front of the line, only a few remaining Slytherins were left, including Malfoy.
"Yes, yes, Mr Malfoy, do come closer," Dumbledore encouraged.
Malfoy stepped closer and the boggart changed into an older looking version of himself, blond, almost white, hair slicked back, and his dark robes billowing around him slightly. The older version of Malfoy, recognized as his father by many, stood with his arms crossed, and finally spoke in a very serious tone, "Make your choice Draco! Do you choose –"but before he could finish Malfoy pointed his want at the boggart and cried out "Riddikulus!" Sudden the senior Malfoy was sporting a tutu in a rather vicious shade of pink that simply screamed it was so bright. Mr Malfoy continued to perform several pas de chats followed by some very well done balancés and a few pirouettes as Draco moved aside.
Dumbledore carefully stored away the scene he had just witnessed before smiling happily and continuing down the line. Finally Malik was standing face to face with the boggart.
After a moment of hesitation the boggart changed shape, revealed Malik hanging from a purple swirling wall, slowly disappearing, until all that was left were his hands and part of his face. Malik held up his wand and shouted the incantation, the image of the mostly disappeared Malik was replaced by another picture of a disappeared Malik, this time with much more untamed hair. Malik gave the image a glare before he moved on, allowing Yami to the front of the line.
Ron turned to Harry and Hermione as Malik walked away, "So, he's afraid of disappearing into a swirling purple wall, understandable. But how does making yourself have a bad hair day make if funny?" he whispered.
Harry looked at Malik as he stood to the side to watch his friends go up against the boggart, "I have no idea, but something isn't right here."
The boggart, still in the form of Yami Malik, looked at Yami with its one remaining crazed eye and changed. This image revealed a tall youth, with short brown hair hanging in his eyes and he stood with his pelvis sticking out in a ridiculous fashion, standing at a platform, a few cards held in his hand. He sneered at Yami and spoke, "This is it Yugi, prepare to bow before me as the better duellist!" he drew a card from the deck in front of him and smirked, "You lose." Yami glared icicles at the boggart Kaiba, "Not in a million years!" and he pointed his wand and spoke the incantation. Suddenly in front of the taller boy appeared a girl with short brown hair standing at a similar platform, so the boy was now facing her instead of Yami. The new girl spoke, "And with the power of all my friends and our great friendship that can overcome all things, I attack you, Kaiba, and win! YAY! Friendship can solve all things!"
The entire class just looked at the scene playing out before them, no one was laughing. But Malik and Bakura made up for that, they both were rolling on the floor holding their sides cackling like monkeys.
"Oh! Anzu! That's terrible!" Malik cried with laughter, still on the floor.
"Mr Ryou Bakura, you're next," sing-sang Dumbledore.
Bakura moved and positioned himself by the boggart, "Do you're worst," he taunted it.
Anzu and Kaiba looked at Bakura and changed into what Bakura deemed the most fearsome creature on the face of the planet.
"Poodles!? You're most afraid of poodles!?" It was Yami's turn to roll on the floor with laughter with Malik.
Bakura shuddered at the poodle standing in the classroom, "Those things are not normal! They're balls of mutant fur from spacing coming to take over the world!"
"Bakura," Yami laughed, "it's just a dog! Be a man!!"
"DOGS WITH PARASITES THAT RESEMBLE FUR FEASTING AWAY AT THEIR FLESH READY TO POUNCE ON ONE OF US UNSUSPECTING HUMANS AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT,"(1) Bakura yelled, flailing his arms. He turned on the truly terrifying poodle and growled, "Riddikulus!"
The poodle just looked at Bakura, and then suddenly it howled in pain and began to shrink, and then disappear, until all that was left of a fuzzy ball of fur.
"What happened to it?" asked Nami.
"The mutant fur from space ate the poodle, until all that was left was the mutant fur, waiting for its next victim," Bakura laughed out loud, he was alone in his laughter.
Dumbledore smiled, "A truly eye opening experience about the origins of poodles, but class is almost over, you are next Ms Edana."
Nami held her head high and walked up to where Bakura stood still laughing at the ball of mutant fur. The fur from space quivered and began to expand, changing into a tall man. The man looked at Nami and shook his head, "I'm disappointed in you, you know better than that! Give it here, come now, give it to me, you can't keep it!" Nami blinked back tears as her gold cross appeared in Nathaniel's hand and she sniffed.
"Now, just think of how to make it funny, and say the incantation," Dumbledore coached, smiling kindly.
Nami shook her head, "I...I...it's not funny...at all. Losing your best friend isn't funny."
Dumbledore stepped in front of Nami, placing himself between the boggart and his student. The boggart twitched and became a drawer, clearly labeled 'socks', but the drawer was empty and beside it was a goat, half a sock hanging out of his mouth. Dumbledore pointed his wand, murmured the incantation and suddenly the goat coughed back up the sock it was munching on, and then the sock started to dance, and as it danced it multiplied until there were enough socks to fill the entire drawer. Dumbledore chuckled at the frolicking garments and finished off the boggart, pushing it back into its chest as the bell rang.
"Have a lovely lunch, and watch out of goats, they will eat your socks. I do dislike being sockless," Dumbledore waved his students out the door smiling and still chuckling.
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The afternoon following Defense Against the Dark Arts passed quickly and without incident for the Gryffindors, they suffered through a double period of History of Magic, where every single student slumbered for the entire time, and afterwards were rewarded with a period of Herbology.
By after dinner, once everyone was fed, and homework was finished, all the Gryffindors congregated in the common room where Fred and George passed out their latest invention for trial runs. As the young witches and wizards laughed merrily, Nami sat in the corner of the common room with a quill and some parchment.
Nathaniel,
I hope all is well with you. Things are fine here at school, it's different and a little hard, but I'm practicing and getting better! I've met a lot of people and I've made some really close friends already, like Neville, whose been going to Hogwarts since he was eleven, and he comes from a wizarding family, its very different, he has been showing me a lot of stuff from his home that I never knew existed, but I've also met three other people who are also new to the wizarding world, Malik, Ryou and Yugi. They're really nice too, umm, kinda strange, actually really strange, but nice nonetheless, erm, most of the time.
I've sent this by owl, as you're already noticed. Every morning the mail arrives by owl, and hundreds of the birds flock into the dining hall and drop off the letters. It amazes me every morning, mind you I've only been here for a few days. To write back, you can just attach it to the owl, or so I'm told, I've never done it before! Can't wait to hear from you! And don't forget to keep me posted if anything comes up with Dad, alright? Thanks.
Hope to read from you soon,
Nami
Nami paused and examined her parchment, rereading what she has written. Once she decided that it was to her satisfaction, she stood and put away her things and left to make her way to the owlery.
Ten minutes later Nami was very hopelessly lost.
Turn left,Kaya directed.
Nami looked to her left, /No, I'm sure it's not down there. Bah,/ she grunted in frustration, /everywhere looks exactly the same! I swear Kaya, that suit of armour was in the last hallway we walked down!/
Actually, I think you're right,Kaya admitted, it does look exactly the same,Kaya appeared beside Nami in spirit form, look,she pointed to the suit's thigh, it has the same scratch!
"This is hopeless," Nami concluded out loud.
"Where are you trying to go?" inquired a voice from behind Nami, which, when Nami turned around, turned out to be Harry.
"Oh, hi Harry, I'm trying to get to the mailbox, but I'm afraid I've become rather lost, and I keep walking in circles, since I've seen this suit of armour at least three times!" Nami gestured to the suit where Kaya stood looking at Harry.
Harry gave a sympathetic smile, "The suits of armour move, much like the paintings, and the staircases," Nami and Kaya both moved away from the suits, though Harry only saw Nami move. "I'm going to the owlery as well, so I'll show you the way."
"Mailbox, owlery, its all the same," Nami commented as Harry led the way down the hallway to their right.
/Ha, I didn't think we should have gone right!/ Nami stuck her tongue out at Kaya from behind Harry's back.
After another five minute walk Harry declared that they were at the owlery, where he explained that Hedwig, his owl, and Eamerru would sleep. As they walked through the door Nami looked at all the owls that stayed in the round room of one of the towers.
"Eamerru," Nami called for her owl, and when she didn't appear, she called again, "Eamerru!"
Harry looked around for the dark owl he had sat beside in the van on the way to King's Cross, but failed to find him. "Looks like she went out for a bit."
Nami sighed, "Oh, well, maybe I'll just write another letter in a few days and send it then."
Harry smiled, "You could use a school owl, not everyone has their own owl," he gestured towards some tawny owls sitting on the closest ledge to them.
Nami looked at the bird closely, "Do you think he'd make it all the way to Egypt?"
Harry leaned in closer as well, inspecting the owl, "I'm not sure, but you know what, I'll use this guy, since I'm just sending a note to Ron's mum for him, Pig seems to have also taken a day off," Harry explained, "and you can use Hedwig, she can do the long distance, no problem."
Nami smiled at Harry and patted Hedwig on the head, "Thanks Harry! You're the best!" Nami tied her letter to Hedwig's leg before explaining where Nathaniel lived.
"Not a problem, friends help each other," Harry smiled warmly as he tired his letter to a school owl's leg and gave it the proper directions.
Harry and Nami watched as the two owls flew out the large window and out of sight, while Kaya poked another owl, amused at its obvious confusion, since it couldn't see her.
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(1) Bakura's response is thanks to Serryn, I as talking to her on MSN and telling her about Bakura's fear of poodles, and she answered those exact words and I thought "that is amazing, I am going to use it!" and so I did, and would like to give her the credit for it! that's Serryn!
Serryn – heya! So I finally finished this...thanks for all your help this chapter...I finally got this under control and I know where its all going...you rock! Talk to you later, ja ne!
DarkMagicianPrincess – there MORE! Lol, with more to come...hopefully a lot more quickly then this chapter thanks for the review
Maruken – thanks for the review I got myself a DADA teacher now....he'll make an appearance just before Halloween
Kanikameskhenet – you're out of school now right? Lol, how did it go? Hope it went very well...I've already chosen most of my classes for next year ah! Hope you enjoyed this chapter
Anime Lover – hehe hello again! A new chapter!! Yay! hope this one was as funny as the last one...I had a lot of fun with the boggart tell me what you think!
Titansfan545 – its still coming...slowly but surely...and now hopefully not as slowly, thanks for the review! I live to get them!!
Dreamsinfinity – I can't say I know what you mean by a mary sue...but I think I'm glad you didn't find one lol...hope this chapter lives up to the rest of the story!
Brendan – hey! I'm still alive lol! But I've fallen of the face of the planet...hopefully I'll make it back onto the planet in the near future! Took me FOREVER to get this done...been working on it for like three weeks! Bah! But its done now...keep that guy in line, ne?
annonomis - well, I have to give you a special thanks, it was your review that got me off my lazy bottom and had me write the rest of this yesterday and today thanks for the review...I do live to get them hug thank you so much for the compliment! Hope you enjoyed this chappie as well
I went to Anime North during the May 2-4 with Kaze-chan, one half of Target Zero, who did not review the last chapter gasp neither of you reviewed!! I forgive you since kaze came down for four days...anyways so that was fun! I met all kinds of cool people! Michael Dobson, Monica Stori, David Kaye, Richard Cox and Brian Drummond!! Yay!! it was really a ton of fun! I can't wait till next year, ne kaze-chan?! woot!
And just one more thing, I have now started a DA account I'm hinotama85...if you're a member there check me out and I'll check out your gallery for sure!! Serryn (her DA account is under serryn as well I do believe) actually made a pic of Nami for me awhile ago and it's on her account so you can check that out as well I think its wonderful!! And I love it a lot thanks Serryn!
So this is chapter 17...sorry for the super long wait, hopefully it was worth it, I will admit I had way to much fun writing the DADA class and I guess there is a little Anzu (Tea in the English version) bashing, I am not fond of her at all, but its just a small amount
Disclaimer: I do not own HP or YGO
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Nami's head was bent over her potions notes as she walked into the classroom, quickly going over what she had written the previous night. Once she was in the room, she noticed it was completely empty, devoid of any signs of life. Nami glanced at her watch, to see how early she was for class and did a double take. Her watch stated that it was just after six o'clock, which Nami knew very well that it wasn't. Sitting down in her desk, she flicked her watch, in hopes of reviving it, but to no avail.
Maybe it needs a new battery,suggested Kaya from where she sat in her soul room.
"It can't need a new battery, I just changed it before I left home."
Do batteries have an expiration date, you know like food?Kaya had learned the hard way that one should not each foods that are past the expiration date. Maybe it was already past it.
"I didn't see the expiration date, I just handed the guy my watch and said it needed a new battery."
At this point there was laughter coming from behind Nami, when she turned around she was faced with Harry, Hermione and Ron, smiling and laughing friendly.
"Muggle technology doesn't work in Hogwarts," Hermione explained, "you're battery is probably fine and will work again once you are outside Hogwarts."
Nami smiled and thanked them for the explanation, but inside she cried in embarrassment, /Kaya! I sat here and talked to myself! They must think I'm insane!/
Kaya laughed, I'm sure they don't think your insane, a little crazy maybe, but not insane.
As soon as the rest of the Gryffindors and Slytherins filed into the classroom, the great black bat like professor swooped in and near glided up to the front of the classroom. Professor Snape sneered at his students, well mostly the Gryffindors.
"This year you will perform you OWL tests and every single one of you will pass. Do I make myself clear?" he was answered with silence. "This year will be the same as any other year, no foolish wand waving, no silly incantations and no second chances.
"New students, you will be expected to perform at the same level as everyone else, you will learn that there are no exceptions for this class, whether you are new," Snape glared at each of the new students before continuing, "or famous," he stopped and gave Harry an evil glare. "You," he turned towards Nami, "I would strongly recommend that you find a new lab partner, or work alone, I will not mark easier because you are partnered with Mr Longbottom, if Mr Longbottom causes an explosion, or if he melts your cauldron, again, you will be penalized as well." Neville shrank in his seat, and Malfoy laughed silently. "Now get to work, you will hand in your potion at the end of class."
The rest of potions was spent with Snape circling the classroom, praising the Slytherins and belittling the Gryffindors, especially poor Neville, who seemed to get the worst of it, followed closely by Harry.
After the bell rang and everyone handed in their attempts at the potion, the students scurried off to their next class. Nami left with a smile on her face, and a slightly depressed Neville on her left.
"Don't let what he says get to you Neville!" Nami tried to cheer him up.
Yugi appeared on Neville's other side, "Yea, and I don't know what everyone keeps talking about, you don't seem to be terrible at potions, nothing went wrong today, nothing at all."
Neville thought for a moment, "You're right! Nothing went wrong, I didn't melt a cauldron and cause half the class to be covered in painful blisters, or cause the potion to explode and nearly kill the other half of the class! I did it!" Neville skipped off down the hall towards his next class, still singing 'I did it!' and earning some rather strange looks.
"Do you think those things actually happened?" Yugi questioned.
Nami swallowed, "I don't know, I just hope they don't happen ever again!"
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After Potions that day the fifth year Gryffindors had Defence Against the Dark Arts, a class they all had been awaiting with excitement. No one had ever had Dumbledore as a professor before, though they knew he had to have been a professor at one point in time, and even stranger that before then he would have been a student. As they entered the classroom they were greeted with the sight of Dumbledore standing at the back of the classroom with an old chest and all the chairs and desks pushed back against the walls.
"Ah, yes, yes," Dumbledore greeted them, his eyes twinkling, "come in, come in. We just have to wait for the Slytherins to join us and we can start."
The class filed in and stood in the centre of the room, they only waited another couple of minutes before the Slytherin fifth years filled the rest of the room. Malfoy glared daggers at Harry, Ron and Hermione before he turned and glared at Malik and Ryou.
"Welcome to Defence Against the Dark Arts. I will not be teaching the class for the rest of the year, we have another professor coming, I do think you will like him," Dumbledore glanced quickly at Harry, "but right now, I think we have a wonderful class ahead of us."
Malfoy snorted under his breath, "I still don't see why they let him stay as headmaster, he's an old loon, right off his rocker," Malfoy sneered to anyone in earshot.
Harry glared, but before he could respond in Dumbledore's defence he was cut off.
"Even so, this old rocker-less loon is still in possession of his hearing, Mr Malfoy," Dumbledore gave Malfoy a hard look before continuing. When he did continue he smiled and spoke with a light tone, "The other day while cleaning out my office's backroom I came across this wonderful chest, it's fairly big, and I thought it would make a wonderful edition to my study. However, once I opened it, I came to discover a boggart, who was slightly ruffled at being disturbed, instead of taking care of him, I thought it would be great for your class. A bit of review, and I always did wonder what Professor Snape would look like in a green dress," he wink as Neville, "after that encountered with the boggart in your third year. Now, would someone please inform the recent additions to your class what a boggart is? Yes, Dean, you take a go at it."
Dean, who didn't have his hand raised, started slowly, "Well, ummm, boggarts live in old closets and chests and stuff, and no one knows what they look like really, because they take the form of what scares us the most, so what we do is we make what scares us funny, and yea," he finished lamely.
"Honestly," Hermione sighed, "they're shape shifters, we confuse it by there being so many of us, and what really finishes a boggart off is laughter."
"Excellent Ms Granger, you as well Dean," Dumbledore smiled, "five points each to Gryffindor. Now the incantation: riddikulus. Good, good, now form a line, everyone will have a go, new students at the back, good, good, no, no, Neville, you up front, I want to see Professor Snape, there we go! Ready? I'll let him or her out now...I do wonder, would a boggart have a gender?...right, right, here it comes," Dumbledore lifted the lid of the old chest and out stepped Professor Snape.
"Riddikulus!" cried out Neville, and suddenly Snape was wearing a green dress, with a green hat, complete with a stuffed vulture and a big red handbag. The class erupted into laughter, and Dumbledore gave a light- hearted chuckle.
"Next!" he called out.
As the class proceeded, each student having a turn, the new students sat at the back of the line astounded.
Oh, this does look like fun!Bakura cackled evilly, I wonder what I am the most afraid of.
Before Ryou could even think of a response Bakura changed places, giving a good hearty evil laugh as Ron's giant spider began to tap dance and step on it's own feet. Malik laughed as well, but a little more cautiously, since he was unsure what his greatest fear was.
/Yami, what is your greatest fear?/ Yugi questioned thoughtfully.
I am not sure, perhaps losing to Kaiba.
/You lost to Kaiba once,/ Yugi pointed out.
Yes, I did, but you interfered, I would not have if you didn't, so it doesn't count,Yami said this in a way that gave Yugi the impression that he was to stick to this story.
/Um, Yami, I think maybe you should do this, because my greatest fear would raise some questions we wouldn't want to answer./
Why? What do you fear Yugi?
/Losing you,/ Yugi replied honestly, /you are my best friend, I am afraid that you will leave me, or be taken away./
Yami gave Yugi a smile, Do not worry, I will not leave you, you, too, are my friend. I will face the boggart.
By the time Yami switched with Yugi they were nearing the front of the line, only a few remaining Slytherins were left, including Malfoy.
"Yes, yes, Mr Malfoy, do come closer," Dumbledore encouraged.
Malfoy stepped closer and the boggart changed into an older looking version of himself, blond, almost white, hair slicked back, and his dark robes billowing around him slightly. The older version of Malfoy, recognized as his father by many, stood with his arms crossed, and finally spoke in a very serious tone, "Make your choice Draco! Do you choose –"but before he could finish Malfoy pointed his want at the boggart and cried out "Riddikulus!" Sudden the senior Malfoy was sporting a tutu in a rather vicious shade of pink that simply screamed it was so bright. Mr Malfoy continued to perform several pas de chats followed by some very well done balancés and a few pirouettes as Draco moved aside.
Dumbledore carefully stored away the scene he had just witnessed before smiling happily and continuing down the line. Finally Malik was standing face to face with the boggart.
After a moment of hesitation the boggart changed shape, revealed Malik hanging from a purple swirling wall, slowly disappearing, until all that was left were his hands and part of his face. Malik held up his wand and shouted the incantation, the image of the mostly disappeared Malik was replaced by another picture of a disappeared Malik, this time with much more untamed hair. Malik gave the image a glare before he moved on, allowing Yami to the front of the line.
Ron turned to Harry and Hermione as Malik walked away, "So, he's afraid of disappearing into a swirling purple wall, understandable. But how does making yourself have a bad hair day make if funny?" he whispered.
Harry looked at Malik as he stood to the side to watch his friends go up against the boggart, "I have no idea, but something isn't right here."
The boggart, still in the form of Yami Malik, looked at Yami with its one remaining crazed eye and changed. This image revealed a tall youth, with short brown hair hanging in his eyes and he stood with his pelvis sticking out in a ridiculous fashion, standing at a platform, a few cards held in his hand. He sneered at Yami and spoke, "This is it Yugi, prepare to bow before me as the better duellist!" he drew a card from the deck in front of him and smirked, "You lose." Yami glared icicles at the boggart Kaiba, "Not in a million years!" and he pointed his wand and spoke the incantation. Suddenly in front of the taller boy appeared a girl with short brown hair standing at a similar platform, so the boy was now facing her instead of Yami. The new girl spoke, "And with the power of all my friends and our great friendship that can overcome all things, I attack you, Kaiba, and win! YAY! Friendship can solve all things!"
The entire class just looked at the scene playing out before them, no one was laughing. But Malik and Bakura made up for that, they both were rolling on the floor holding their sides cackling like monkeys.
"Oh! Anzu! That's terrible!" Malik cried with laughter, still on the floor.
"Mr Ryou Bakura, you're next," sing-sang Dumbledore.
Bakura moved and positioned himself by the boggart, "Do you're worst," he taunted it.
Anzu and Kaiba looked at Bakura and changed into what Bakura deemed the most fearsome creature on the face of the planet.
"Poodles!? You're most afraid of poodles!?" It was Yami's turn to roll on the floor with laughter with Malik.
Bakura shuddered at the poodle standing in the classroom, "Those things are not normal! They're balls of mutant fur from spacing coming to take over the world!"
"Bakura," Yami laughed, "it's just a dog! Be a man!!"
"DOGS WITH PARASITES THAT RESEMBLE FUR FEASTING AWAY AT THEIR FLESH READY TO POUNCE ON ONE OF US UNSUSPECTING HUMANS AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT,"(1) Bakura yelled, flailing his arms. He turned on the truly terrifying poodle and growled, "Riddikulus!"
The poodle just looked at Bakura, and then suddenly it howled in pain and began to shrink, and then disappear, until all that was left of a fuzzy ball of fur.
"What happened to it?" asked Nami.
"The mutant fur from space ate the poodle, until all that was left was the mutant fur, waiting for its next victim," Bakura laughed out loud, he was alone in his laughter.
Dumbledore smiled, "A truly eye opening experience about the origins of poodles, but class is almost over, you are next Ms Edana."
Nami held her head high and walked up to where Bakura stood still laughing at the ball of mutant fur. The fur from space quivered and began to expand, changing into a tall man. The man looked at Nami and shook his head, "I'm disappointed in you, you know better than that! Give it here, come now, give it to me, you can't keep it!" Nami blinked back tears as her gold cross appeared in Nathaniel's hand and she sniffed.
"Now, just think of how to make it funny, and say the incantation," Dumbledore coached, smiling kindly.
Nami shook her head, "I...I...it's not funny...at all. Losing your best friend isn't funny."
Dumbledore stepped in front of Nami, placing himself between the boggart and his student. The boggart twitched and became a drawer, clearly labeled 'socks', but the drawer was empty and beside it was a goat, half a sock hanging out of his mouth. Dumbledore pointed his wand, murmured the incantation and suddenly the goat coughed back up the sock it was munching on, and then the sock started to dance, and as it danced it multiplied until there were enough socks to fill the entire drawer. Dumbledore chuckled at the frolicking garments and finished off the boggart, pushing it back into its chest as the bell rang.
"Have a lovely lunch, and watch out of goats, they will eat your socks. I do dislike being sockless," Dumbledore waved his students out the door smiling and still chuckling.
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The afternoon following Defense Against the Dark Arts passed quickly and without incident for the Gryffindors, they suffered through a double period of History of Magic, where every single student slumbered for the entire time, and afterwards were rewarded with a period of Herbology.
By after dinner, once everyone was fed, and homework was finished, all the Gryffindors congregated in the common room where Fred and George passed out their latest invention for trial runs. As the young witches and wizards laughed merrily, Nami sat in the corner of the common room with a quill and some parchment.
Nathaniel,
I hope all is well with you. Things are fine here at school, it's different and a little hard, but I'm practicing and getting better! I've met a lot of people and I've made some really close friends already, like Neville, whose been going to Hogwarts since he was eleven, and he comes from a wizarding family, its very different, he has been showing me a lot of stuff from his home that I never knew existed, but I've also met three other people who are also new to the wizarding world, Malik, Ryou and Yugi. They're really nice too, umm, kinda strange, actually really strange, but nice nonetheless, erm, most of the time.
I've sent this by owl, as you're already noticed. Every morning the mail arrives by owl, and hundreds of the birds flock into the dining hall and drop off the letters. It amazes me every morning, mind you I've only been here for a few days. To write back, you can just attach it to the owl, or so I'm told, I've never done it before! Can't wait to hear from you! And don't forget to keep me posted if anything comes up with Dad, alright? Thanks.
Hope to read from you soon,
Nami
Nami paused and examined her parchment, rereading what she has written. Once she decided that it was to her satisfaction, she stood and put away her things and left to make her way to the owlery.
Ten minutes later Nami was very hopelessly lost.
Turn left,Kaya directed.
Nami looked to her left, /No, I'm sure it's not down there. Bah,/ she grunted in frustration, /everywhere looks exactly the same! I swear Kaya, that suit of armour was in the last hallway we walked down!/
Actually, I think you're right,Kaya admitted, it does look exactly the same,Kaya appeared beside Nami in spirit form, look,she pointed to the suit's thigh, it has the same scratch!
"This is hopeless," Nami concluded out loud.
"Where are you trying to go?" inquired a voice from behind Nami, which, when Nami turned around, turned out to be Harry.
"Oh, hi Harry, I'm trying to get to the mailbox, but I'm afraid I've become rather lost, and I keep walking in circles, since I've seen this suit of armour at least three times!" Nami gestured to the suit where Kaya stood looking at Harry.
Harry gave a sympathetic smile, "The suits of armour move, much like the paintings, and the staircases," Nami and Kaya both moved away from the suits, though Harry only saw Nami move. "I'm going to the owlery as well, so I'll show you the way."
"Mailbox, owlery, its all the same," Nami commented as Harry led the way down the hallway to their right.
/Ha, I didn't think we should have gone right!/ Nami stuck her tongue out at Kaya from behind Harry's back.
After another five minute walk Harry declared that they were at the owlery, where he explained that Hedwig, his owl, and Eamerru would sleep. As they walked through the door Nami looked at all the owls that stayed in the round room of one of the towers.
"Eamerru," Nami called for her owl, and when she didn't appear, she called again, "Eamerru!"
Harry looked around for the dark owl he had sat beside in the van on the way to King's Cross, but failed to find him. "Looks like she went out for a bit."
Nami sighed, "Oh, well, maybe I'll just write another letter in a few days and send it then."
Harry smiled, "You could use a school owl, not everyone has their own owl," he gestured towards some tawny owls sitting on the closest ledge to them.
Nami looked at the bird closely, "Do you think he'd make it all the way to Egypt?"
Harry leaned in closer as well, inspecting the owl, "I'm not sure, but you know what, I'll use this guy, since I'm just sending a note to Ron's mum for him, Pig seems to have also taken a day off," Harry explained, "and you can use Hedwig, she can do the long distance, no problem."
Nami smiled at Harry and patted Hedwig on the head, "Thanks Harry! You're the best!" Nami tied her letter to Hedwig's leg before explaining where Nathaniel lived.
"Not a problem, friends help each other," Harry smiled warmly as he tired his letter to a school owl's leg and gave it the proper directions.
Harry and Nami watched as the two owls flew out the large window and out of sight, while Kaya poked another owl, amused at its obvious confusion, since it couldn't see her.
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(1) Bakura's response is thanks to Serryn, I as talking to her on MSN and telling her about Bakura's fear of poodles, and she answered those exact words and I thought "that is amazing, I am going to use it!" and so I did, and would like to give her the credit for it! that's Serryn!
Serryn – heya! So I finally finished this...thanks for all your help this chapter...I finally got this under control and I know where its all going...you rock! Talk to you later, ja ne!
DarkMagicianPrincess – there MORE! Lol, with more to come...hopefully a lot more quickly then this chapter thanks for the review
Maruken – thanks for the review I got myself a DADA teacher now....he'll make an appearance just before Halloween
Kanikameskhenet – you're out of school now right? Lol, how did it go? Hope it went very well...I've already chosen most of my classes for next year ah! Hope you enjoyed this chapter
Anime Lover – hehe hello again! A new chapter!! Yay! hope this one was as funny as the last one...I had a lot of fun with the boggart tell me what you think!
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Dreamsinfinity – I can't say I know what you mean by a mary sue...but I think I'm glad you didn't find one lol...hope this chapter lives up to the rest of the story!
Brendan – hey! I'm still alive lol! But I've fallen of the face of the planet...hopefully I'll make it back onto the planet in the near future! Took me FOREVER to get this done...been working on it for like three weeks! Bah! But its done now...keep that guy in line, ne?
annonomis - well, I have to give you a special thanks, it was your review that got me off my lazy bottom and had me write the rest of this yesterday and today thanks for the review...I do live to get them hug thank you so much for the compliment! Hope you enjoyed this chappie as well