HUNTED BY MEMORIES
ANNOUNCEMENT: Special thanks to Mystique who helped me for helping me with this chapter. I owe you. This chapter is for you.
CHAPTER 4: THE FURTIVE CHARM
"Its located on an island, along the pacific" Destiny said to Pamela as they made their way to the Great Hall for breakfast. Destiny was answering all Pamela's questions about her old school. They became friends instantaneously on Destiny's first night at Hogwarts, and Jet took to Frank Goyle and Vince Crabbe. From the moment they arrived at Hogwarts, they earned instant popularity. Due to the fact that they are smart and good looking.
"What do we have for today?" mused Jet as his left hand was running through the Wednesday column of his timetable while the other held toast. "Oh its Charms together with the Gryffindor's. My first class with them" he declared as he put his timetable away.
"Jet there are seeker tryouts this afternoon. Why don't you try out?" asked Frank without looking up, his brow furrowed in concentration over his homework.
"Or you might want to speak to Professor Flint. Well you know he is our house head. You were a seeker on your old school right?" asked Vince.
"Yeah, I was, but I'm not sure if I will continue playing Quidditch. I'm planning to quit," he said.
"What! Are you bloody mad? You are planning to quit Quidditch? No! You must be kidding me! That's crazy Jet!" Frank held panic in his voice.
"Our house desperately needs a seeker! Since Terrence Higgs Jr. graduated two years ago. We haven't won the house cup for the past two years" Pamela exasperated as she listened to their conversation.
"I heard you're a damn good flier Jet" Vince cajoled trying to convince Jet.
"Not exactly" he said feeling a little embarrassed.
"Don't lie Jet, your sister told us!" said Pamela. Jet gave Destiny a withering look.
"Des?"
"Yeah?"
"What did you tell them?"
"Told them were a damn good flier back at Atlantis. That your team won the house cup during your sixth, forth and second year." Said Destiny, her face holding a mischievous smile.
"But Des you know that Quidditch is not my thing!" he protested.
"So what Jet, look you cant have your skateboarding passion here!"
"What's a skateboarding?" asked Vince.
"Oh it's a dangerous muggle sport just like Quidditch. Lots of death defying stunts that can really kill you and break your bones" answered Jet flatly.
"How do you play it?" asked Pamela curiously.
"You don't play it, you ride it" finding them befuddled he said ".never mind guys, you'll never understand it. It's not worth explaining without seeing it" he said, his eyes still on Destiny.
"Come on Jet, your getting paranoid. Nothing's gonna happen to you if you will play Quidditch for your last year" said Destiny in convincing voice.
"I still don't know," said Jet.
"Jet, they always told you that you have an incredible talent. That you are born with a broom and a snitch in your hand" said Destiny again, still trying to convince her brother.
"Why don't you try it then?" asked Jet in a sinister way.
"We're talking about you, not me" Destiny retorted.
"You play Quidditch?" asked Frank.
"Yes she does! I wonder why she did not blurt that out to you. In addition, her team defeated my team back on our fifth and third year. However, I was lucky to get the snitch last year! Moreover, to add with that she had the same style as mine. She's also a damn good seeker!" he said eyes flashing dangerously. What is the point of hiding it anyway? She already told his secret.
They made a deal over the summer that it was about time to stop their Quidditch sibling rivalry. Destiny and Jet had a rivalry back in Atlantis. It was not a big rivalry; they were and are still close to each other and they still share their little secret. They get along, and have the same likes and dislikes, but not when it comes to Quidditch. Their sibling rivalry started when they were both selected to play seeker for their respective houses. They belonged in different house. In addition, they were lucky enough this year that they were put in the same house. It was also their little secret that the hat wanted to put Jet in Gryffindor but he asked to be sorted into the same house as Destiny.
"Jet Stop it!" said Destiny with an angry voice. "You know that I told dad that I'll never played Quidditch again, although I don't understand why he's proud for the both of us, as a seeker. A promise is a promise Jet. Even though our muggle parents don't have any idea what Quidditch is," she said in a hiss as she bowed her head. She felt so upset; she made a promise to her father that she'll never play Quidditch again. And she doesn't want to break that promise.
Jet stood up and sat beside Destiny. He hated it when Destiny got mad for no valid reason. He patted her shoulder as he said, "Okay. I am sorry. Please don't get mad."
"I'm not mad. I'm just a little upset."
"Okay then. I'll go to the tryouts this afternoon" he stated which Destiny gave him a bright look. "By the way that won the cup last year?" he asked their friends.
"Gryffindor" replied Vince "And their seeker is a good player, there's no doubt about that"
"Who's their seeker anyway?" asked Destiny.
"Potter" said Pamela admiringly. It was known to them that Pamela fancies James Potter. Then he pointed James across the Gryffindor table.
"Potter?" it was Jet.
"Yeah Potter. As in James Potter- son of the legendary great Harry Potter, hero of the world who defeated You-know-who" said Vince.
"Who Voldemort?" said Jet that made Pamela, Vince and Crabbe almost jump out of their seats.
"Please Jet, don't say that name. You're frightening us!" said Vince giving him a death glare.
"What's the big deal with that name. The man died 20 years ago. He's gone to his kingdom in hell" he said followed with a smirk.
"You can't see the big deal because you were not born with a fear. Well to tell you honestly we were born after the war, and for a while people still thought that he would come back from the dead." said Frank defensively.
"Yeah I think so because we are born in a world that the name Vol,-you-know- who does not exist" Jet admitted.
"So are you going to the tryout this afternoon?" asked Frank once again, making sure that they really convinced Jet.
"Yeah as long as you're there with me!" he said as they stood up one by one to go to their Charms class.
~*~*~*~*~*~
The Slytherin gang were sitting at the back corner of the Charms classroom, since they arrived it was the only vacant area. Destiny was sitting beside Jet. While Frank and Vince are sitting together. And Pamela was sitting beside Dan Higgs; he is the Slytherin keeper and the captain.
Destiny took out book out of her bag, along with her pens. She's the only in her class that is not using a quill, perhaps the only one in Hogwarts. She also took out some pieces of parchment. Jet gave her an odd look when he saw his sister taking out her stuff.
"Des-" he said feeling a little bit annoyed.
"I don't think we'll be needing that right now" he said jokingly.
"Sod of Jet! Do you think I'm going to read this boring book? Hell no!" she said in disgusted voice. And she shoved her book at the corner of the table. Destiny looked around the classroom. And she observes that the guy called James Potter was sitting on the front row together with his red headed friend. She pondered for a while; she had never seen anybody with hair quite so red. Well except of course her mother, and trying to picture her mother's hair. But it was too hard for her to think of her mom's hair, since her mom developed a habit of dyeing her hair into auburn.
It was then James Potter turned his head and their eyes met. Damn, he looks good! She said to herself. He smiled at her and she smiled back. Then she looked away, feeling too shy to look at James' cute face.
"Morning class." greeted Professor Malfoy as she came out of her office carrying books. She put down her books and seated on the teacher's desk upfront.
James who was sitting in front perceived that there was something about Professor Malfoy that he could not explain. She seems so happy; he had never seen her that way ever since she became his teacher since first year. Professor Malfoy still looked so beautiful and she still looked so young. She had a flawless aristocratic face that made everybody else look common people. She was a lonely lady and nobody knew why, today however she looked so happy her face a glow.
"For the first term you will be needing two books. And I do expect that you have those books. After the Christmas holiday, we will start with another book again. Well we don't have that book in Hogwarts and I will order that book from Flourish and Bolts, now if you want to have that book you need to pre-order it. Before the end of the class, those of you who want that book need to talk to me" she started.
"So, can somebody tell me what is 'Furtive Charm'?"
John, who was the best student in Hogwarts just like his mother Hermione Granger Weasley raised his hand. Professor was about to point his hand when a noise from the back row caught her attention. She looks at the back and stood up from her chair. She hate it when someone was trying to interrupt the lesson. She headed where Destiny and Jet was sitting.
Professor Malfoy was staring at the McBride twins. They looked like each other. There was something about them that she couldn't explain, aside from the fact that Jet look like her son Draco. Her son, who died 20 years ago. During those years, she buried her self into loneliness and tried to forget all the pains. When she saw Jet McBride, and noticed how Destiny acted like Draco, the memories of Draco start to haunt her nights again.
"Ms. McBride and Mr. McBride will you kindly share to the class your little discussion?" Destiny looked at her started talk.
"I was saying to my brother that 'Furtive Charm' is also known as 'Cryptic Charm'," said Destiny.
"I was asking my sister what is a 'Furtive Charm' since I've never heard that term before. To where we came from we used the term 'Cryptic Charm' and not Furtive Charm" said Jet.
"It's called that, because it was still a mystery to every wizard, how that charm had been performed. The person who used that charm died 20 years ago" said Destiny.
"It was only used by one person, just to protect a diary. And there have been attempts to destroy it more than a hundred times" finishes Jet with a silent sigh. Because of the fact that they are not talking about the charm, they are talking about Quidditch.
"Very good" said Professor Malfoy "Furtive Charm, is just a simple charm. Anybody can do it, but we are unaware of what lies beneath the mystery of that charm. Because the person who performed that charm died 20 years ago. There are lots of theories about that charm, but until now even those have been baseless"
"Now can anybody tell me why some wizards think that the Furtive Charm is useless?"
"Because its been used to protect to a very useless diary of a lonely sixteen years old girl" this time it was John who answered the question.
"I disagree with that!" said Destiny "The charm has been used for some specific reason."
"What to protect a useless diary?" said John.
"Well if you pay attention to those diary entries, you will find it interesting. Especially the story behind that diary"
"What? A sad story about two person who are forbidden to love each other!"
"That's why the person who used it protected the diary with the charm to let everybody learn a lesson from them! Come to think of it why would somebody wants to protect a diary without any good reason? The diary has been reserved on purpose" Destiny said annoyingly.
"Oh yeah. To let everybody know about their forbidden love" said John.
"Enough! McBride, Weasley! This is not a debate class. This is a Charm class" scolded Professor Malfoy "Ten points from Gryffindor and Slytherin for such a manners!" she said and she went to her office. Inside Professor Malfoy is experiencing a headache. She was having some doubts for two days now, and that doubt was growing stronger as she witnessed how Destiny McBride acted like Draco.
The day ended the same when the Slytherin's and Gryffindor's had another class together in the afternoon. Destiny and John ended up having a debate again. And Professor Flint didn't even try to stop them, because he was enjoying it. For him it was some kind of a fun, it reminded him of a certain Malfoy flair he hadn't seen in 20 years. That night it became an instant rumour around the Great Hall there was a new rivalry. The rivalry between Destiny McBride and John Weasley.
TO BE COMTINUED.
HELP: I have ideas what will be the ending for this fic. But I don't know what will I write for the next chapter. Can anybody give me some ideas? And anyways where are the best places in Hogwarts that a person is experiencing déjà vu's?
PLEASE REVIEW.REVIEW.AND REVIEW!
ANNOUNCEMENT: Special thanks to Mystique who helped me for helping me with this chapter. I owe you. This chapter is for you.
CHAPTER 4: THE FURTIVE CHARM
"Its located on an island, along the pacific" Destiny said to Pamela as they made their way to the Great Hall for breakfast. Destiny was answering all Pamela's questions about her old school. They became friends instantaneously on Destiny's first night at Hogwarts, and Jet took to Frank Goyle and Vince Crabbe. From the moment they arrived at Hogwarts, they earned instant popularity. Due to the fact that they are smart and good looking.
"What do we have for today?" mused Jet as his left hand was running through the Wednesday column of his timetable while the other held toast. "Oh its Charms together with the Gryffindor's. My first class with them" he declared as he put his timetable away.
"Jet there are seeker tryouts this afternoon. Why don't you try out?" asked Frank without looking up, his brow furrowed in concentration over his homework.
"Or you might want to speak to Professor Flint. Well you know he is our house head. You were a seeker on your old school right?" asked Vince.
"Yeah, I was, but I'm not sure if I will continue playing Quidditch. I'm planning to quit," he said.
"What! Are you bloody mad? You are planning to quit Quidditch? No! You must be kidding me! That's crazy Jet!" Frank held panic in his voice.
"Our house desperately needs a seeker! Since Terrence Higgs Jr. graduated two years ago. We haven't won the house cup for the past two years" Pamela exasperated as she listened to their conversation.
"I heard you're a damn good flier Jet" Vince cajoled trying to convince Jet.
"Not exactly" he said feeling a little embarrassed.
"Don't lie Jet, your sister told us!" said Pamela. Jet gave Destiny a withering look.
"Des?"
"Yeah?"
"What did you tell them?"
"Told them were a damn good flier back at Atlantis. That your team won the house cup during your sixth, forth and second year." Said Destiny, her face holding a mischievous smile.
"But Des you know that Quidditch is not my thing!" he protested.
"So what Jet, look you cant have your skateboarding passion here!"
"What's a skateboarding?" asked Vince.
"Oh it's a dangerous muggle sport just like Quidditch. Lots of death defying stunts that can really kill you and break your bones" answered Jet flatly.
"How do you play it?" asked Pamela curiously.
"You don't play it, you ride it" finding them befuddled he said ".never mind guys, you'll never understand it. It's not worth explaining without seeing it" he said, his eyes still on Destiny.
"Come on Jet, your getting paranoid. Nothing's gonna happen to you if you will play Quidditch for your last year" said Destiny in convincing voice.
"I still don't know," said Jet.
"Jet, they always told you that you have an incredible talent. That you are born with a broom and a snitch in your hand" said Destiny again, still trying to convince her brother.
"Why don't you try it then?" asked Jet in a sinister way.
"We're talking about you, not me" Destiny retorted.
"You play Quidditch?" asked Frank.
"Yes she does! I wonder why she did not blurt that out to you. In addition, her team defeated my team back on our fifth and third year. However, I was lucky to get the snitch last year! Moreover, to add with that she had the same style as mine. She's also a damn good seeker!" he said eyes flashing dangerously. What is the point of hiding it anyway? She already told his secret.
They made a deal over the summer that it was about time to stop their Quidditch sibling rivalry. Destiny and Jet had a rivalry back in Atlantis. It was not a big rivalry; they were and are still close to each other and they still share their little secret. They get along, and have the same likes and dislikes, but not when it comes to Quidditch. Their sibling rivalry started when they were both selected to play seeker for their respective houses. They belonged in different house. In addition, they were lucky enough this year that they were put in the same house. It was also their little secret that the hat wanted to put Jet in Gryffindor but he asked to be sorted into the same house as Destiny.
"Jet Stop it!" said Destiny with an angry voice. "You know that I told dad that I'll never played Quidditch again, although I don't understand why he's proud for the both of us, as a seeker. A promise is a promise Jet. Even though our muggle parents don't have any idea what Quidditch is," she said in a hiss as she bowed her head. She felt so upset; she made a promise to her father that she'll never play Quidditch again. And she doesn't want to break that promise.
Jet stood up and sat beside Destiny. He hated it when Destiny got mad for no valid reason. He patted her shoulder as he said, "Okay. I am sorry. Please don't get mad."
"I'm not mad. I'm just a little upset."
"Okay then. I'll go to the tryouts this afternoon" he stated which Destiny gave him a bright look. "By the way that won the cup last year?" he asked their friends.
"Gryffindor" replied Vince "And their seeker is a good player, there's no doubt about that"
"Who's their seeker anyway?" asked Destiny.
"Potter" said Pamela admiringly. It was known to them that Pamela fancies James Potter. Then he pointed James across the Gryffindor table.
"Potter?" it was Jet.
"Yeah Potter. As in James Potter- son of the legendary great Harry Potter, hero of the world who defeated You-know-who" said Vince.
"Who Voldemort?" said Jet that made Pamela, Vince and Crabbe almost jump out of their seats.
"Please Jet, don't say that name. You're frightening us!" said Vince giving him a death glare.
"What's the big deal with that name. The man died 20 years ago. He's gone to his kingdom in hell" he said followed with a smirk.
"You can't see the big deal because you were not born with a fear. Well to tell you honestly we were born after the war, and for a while people still thought that he would come back from the dead." said Frank defensively.
"Yeah I think so because we are born in a world that the name Vol,-you-know- who does not exist" Jet admitted.
"So are you going to the tryout this afternoon?" asked Frank once again, making sure that they really convinced Jet.
"Yeah as long as you're there with me!" he said as they stood up one by one to go to their Charms class.
~*~*~*~*~*~
The Slytherin gang were sitting at the back corner of the Charms classroom, since they arrived it was the only vacant area. Destiny was sitting beside Jet. While Frank and Vince are sitting together. And Pamela was sitting beside Dan Higgs; he is the Slytherin keeper and the captain.
Destiny took out book out of her bag, along with her pens. She's the only in her class that is not using a quill, perhaps the only one in Hogwarts. She also took out some pieces of parchment. Jet gave her an odd look when he saw his sister taking out her stuff.
"Des-" he said feeling a little bit annoyed.
"I don't think we'll be needing that right now" he said jokingly.
"Sod of Jet! Do you think I'm going to read this boring book? Hell no!" she said in disgusted voice. And she shoved her book at the corner of the table. Destiny looked around the classroom. And she observes that the guy called James Potter was sitting on the front row together with his red headed friend. She pondered for a while; she had never seen anybody with hair quite so red. Well except of course her mother, and trying to picture her mother's hair. But it was too hard for her to think of her mom's hair, since her mom developed a habit of dyeing her hair into auburn.
It was then James Potter turned his head and their eyes met. Damn, he looks good! She said to herself. He smiled at her and she smiled back. Then she looked away, feeling too shy to look at James' cute face.
"Morning class." greeted Professor Malfoy as she came out of her office carrying books. She put down her books and seated on the teacher's desk upfront.
James who was sitting in front perceived that there was something about Professor Malfoy that he could not explain. She seems so happy; he had never seen her that way ever since she became his teacher since first year. Professor Malfoy still looked so beautiful and she still looked so young. She had a flawless aristocratic face that made everybody else look common people. She was a lonely lady and nobody knew why, today however she looked so happy her face a glow.
"For the first term you will be needing two books. And I do expect that you have those books. After the Christmas holiday, we will start with another book again. Well we don't have that book in Hogwarts and I will order that book from Flourish and Bolts, now if you want to have that book you need to pre-order it. Before the end of the class, those of you who want that book need to talk to me" she started.
"So, can somebody tell me what is 'Furtive Charm'?"
John, who was the best student in Hogwarts just like his mother Hermione Granger Weasley raised his hand. Professor was about to point his hand when a noise from the back row caught her attention. She looks at the back and stood up from her chair. She hate it when someone was trying to interrupt the lesson. She headed where Destiny and Jet was sitting.
Professor Malfoy was staring at the McBride twins. They looked like each other. There was something about them that she couldn't explain, aside from the fact that Jet look like her son Draco. Her son, who died 20 years ago. During those years, she buried her self into loneliness and tried to forget all the pains. When she saw Jet McBride, and noticed how Destiny acted like Draco, the memories of Draco start to haunt her nights again.
"Ms. McBride and Mr. McBride will you kindly share to the class your little discussion?" Destiny looked at her started talk.
"I was saying to my brother that 'Furtive Charm' is also known as 'Cryptic Charm'," said Destiny.
"I was asking my sister what is a 'Furtive Charm' since I've never heard that term before. To where we came from we used the term 'Cryptic Charm' and not Furtive Charm" said Jet.
"It's called that, because it was still a mystery to every wizard, how that charm had been performed. The person who used that charm died 20 years ago" said Destiny.
"It was only used by one person, just to protect a diary. And there have been attempts to destroy it more than a hundred times" finishes Jet with a silent sigh. Because of the fact that they are not talking about the charm, they are talking about Quidditch.
"Very good" said Professor Malfoy "Furtive Charm, is just a simple charm. Anybody can do it, but we are unaware of what lies beneath the mystery of that charm. Because the person who performed that charm died 20 years ago. There are lots of theories about that charm, but until now even those have been baseless"
"Now can anybody tell me why some wizards think that the Furtive Charm is useless?"
"Because its been used to protect to a very useless diary of a lonely sixteen years old girl" this time it was John who answered the question.
"I disagree with that!" said Destiny "The charm has been used for some specific reason."
"What to protect a useless diary?" said John.
"Well if you pay attention to those diary entries, you will find it interesting. Especially the story behind that diary"
"What? A sad story about two person who are forbidden to love each other!"
"That's why the person who used it protected the diary with the charm to let everybody learn a lesson from them! Come to think of it why would somebody wants to protect a diary without any good reason? The diary has been reserved on purpose" Destiny said annoyingly.
"Oh yeah. To let everybody know about their forbidden love" said John.
"Enough! McBride, Weasley! This is not a debate class. This is a Charm class" scolded Professor Malfoy "Ten points from Gryffindor and Slytherin for such a manners!" she said and she went to her office. Inside Professor Malfoy is experiencing a headache. She was having some doubts for two days now, and that doubt was growing stronger as she witnessed how Destiny McBride acted like Draco.
The day ended the same when the Slytherin's and Gryffindor's had another class together in the afternoon. Destiny and John ended up having a debate again. And Professor Flint didn't even try to stop them, because he was enjoying it. For him it was some kind of a fun, it reminded him of a certain Malfoy flair he hadn't seen in 20 years. That night it became an instant rumour around the Great Hall there was a new rivalry. The rivalry between Destiny McBride and John Weasley.
TO BE COMTINUED.
HELP: I have ideas what will be the ending for this fic. But I don't know what will I write for the next chapter. Can anybody give me some ideas? And anyways where are the best places in Hogwarts that a person is experiencing déjà vu's?
PLEASE REVIEW.REVIEW.AND REVIEW!