Here's chapter 8! I was surprised to see so many reviews after half a day of an update. I love you peeps!
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/Yami to Hikari/
/Hikari to Yami/
(Voldemort's thoughts)
Chapter 8: Ancient Magic and Quidditch Tryouts
The next Saturday was Quidditch tryouts for Gryffindor House. Everyone followed Harry out onto the pitch. Yugi followed Hermione into the stands by one of the goalposts.
Harry walked to the center of the pitch. "Okay, we need a keeper, three chasers, and two beaters. I don't want to favor any old members who may not want to do it anymore so I'll have tryouts for all positions. Except mine of course. I guess we'll do beaters first. Who wants a go?"
Andrew Kirk and Jack Sloper walked up. Ryou almost did but he stopped himself.
/Ryou you twit! Let me go! I wanna try/
/Now you listen to me you big fat daredevil! While you live in MY body you follow MY rules. I know being a "no rules" person that must be SO hard to follow. I am not trying out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. If I won't, YOU won't/
/Grr./ He pouted in his soul room. Ryou took a seat in the stands. Andrew and Jack got onto their brooms as the bludgers were released. Both boys did very well, not missing any hits.
"Anyone else?" asked Harry as they touched down.
/I WIN/ Yami Bakura rushed forward. "Me!" He pulled out a school broom and got into the air.
/Why, WHY are you making me do this/
/If I am a beater, it allows me to LEGALLY smack hard, dangerous things at the enemy. I might knock off a head or two./
/Eeew. Get me killed and I'll…/
/Oh shut up/
Yami Bakura went into the air along with another Gryffindor fifth year. Every time he went to hit a ball, however, nothing happened. He missed every time. Harry blew his whistle and he touched down.
/You are so going to get it later./
/I told you! You are not playing on the team./
/…/
/You cause too much trouble as it is! Maybe in another thousand years…/
/Oh shut up/ Yami Bakura slammed the door to his soul room so hard, Ryou felt a sharp pain in his temple. "Ow…"
"Okay, the new beaters are Jack Sloper and Andrew Kirk," said Harry. Next we'll do chaser. Can everyone who wants to tryout form a line here?" There was a rush to be first. Seto, Marik, Katie Bell, Ginny, and a gaggle of girls who had been staring at Seto and Harry with their mouth's wide open, not blinking (the whole fan club thing) got in line. Marik went up first. Harry threw him the Quaffle and told him to get the Quaffle in 20 times. He made an impressive 17 out of 20. Katie Bell made 19 out of 20. Romilda Vane, who was too busy goggling at Seto while in the air, lost control of where she was going and crashed into a goalpost. Her friend, Marina Spats, got hit with a bludger while trying to decide which hoop to throw the Quaffle into. Seto made 18 out of 20 and Ginny made all twenty.
"The Gryffindor chasers are Ginny Weasley, Seto Kaiba, and Katie Bell," announced Harry. "Now for the keepers!" Ron, Malik and Cormac McLaggen stepped forward. Malik went up first, borrowing Ron's broom.
"Save up to five hoops," said Harry, "Katie will throw the Quaffle." The returning chaser took the Quaffle from the ground and sped into the air. Marik took his spot at the goals. After the round, Marik had saved all of them. Ryou, Yugi, and Hermione cheered from the stands. Cormac went up next. Harry felt something about him, and from then on didn't seem to like him all too much. "Same as before," said Harry, "save five. This time, you go up, Ginny." Ginny replaced Katie and starting chucking the Quaffle. He did rather well, but on the fifth try, he zoomed completely in the wrong direction.
"Four out of five. Not bad," said Harry. "Ron you next. Seto, replace Ginny, please." Seto took the Quaffle and attempted to make the ball score. Ron barely made five out of five. Marik and Ron did a tie breaker. Ron won by a nose.
"Ron is our keeper!" said Harry. He turned to pack up the balls, when Cormac got into his way.
"Let me go again. It wasn't fair! Seto Kaiba's his pal and went easy on him!"
"That's not true!" said Harry boldly. "You had your chance. Ron's the new keeper! Besides, next to him was Marik anyway!"
"IT STILL WASN'T FAIR!" yelled Cormac.
"My decision stands, McLaggen. Good night." Katie had already put the balls away. It was already dark, everyone trudged inside.
The next morning, a new familiar notice was posted in the common room. Seto, already downstairs on his laptop, had already read it. Disgusting him so much, his work was interrupted with many typos and errors, therefore ticking him off greatly. Hermione and Harry noticed this.
"Something wrong, Seto?" asked Harry.
"Yes. Typos suck, but then again, I an think of something far worse than spelling mistakes."
"What?" asked Yugi, coming down the dorm stairs.
"Over there," he said pointing to the notice board. It was below the results from the Quidditch tryouts.
By Order of the Ministry of Magic:
Professor Dolores Umbridge will now have the power to inspect and weed out any teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that goes off of their assigned topic, end the formation of clunks and grant permission for new ones.
Cornelius Fudge Minister of Magic"It's like last year all over again!" exclaimed Hermione in horror, "oh no!"
"What is?" yawned Ron from the top of the stairs.
"You don't want to know," said Harry grimly.
The walls of the Ancient Magic Class for carved in ancient hieroglyphics. Large tablets of former Pharaohs and leaders stood infront of the class. However, what struck a cord with the foreigners was the Tablet of the Nameless Pharaoh. A tablet decrypting the Millennium Items stood in the middle of the class. Everyone nervously took a seat in the dim room. It was next to Snape's dungeon class, and there were no windows. The only light were torches and candles. Professor Shadi entered the class in his "through the floor vortex thing" (the same way he met Yugi in Duelist Kingdom, though the floor). This scared a couple of Hufflepuff girls and Neville Longbottom nearly fell out of his chair. He caught himself in the nick of time, however, Draco Malfoy gave the chair a small tug and Neville fell to the stone floor with a loud thump anyway.
"Do that again, Draco Malfoy, and you won't be around to apologize next time," said Shadi in his expressionless tone. The class hushed immediately.
"I am Professor Shadi. There will be NO slacking off or foolishness in this class. In Ancient Magic we will discus both the dark and light magic used in Egypt, Greece, and Rome (there had to be wizards somewhere!). The first half of the year will cover Ancient Egypt from 30,000BC to the end of the "Shadow Magic" and the death of Pharaoh Set (1)
Most of the carvings you see here are the actual carvings preserved by magic. You may view them, but if I catch one of you touching any one of them, you will have three weeks worth of detention. I am not bluffing." Shadi closed his eyes and raised hands palms up. Textbooks appeared at everyone's desks. "We will start with learning the Hieroglyphic language used by the Egyptians. Later, when you do reports, you will write them in the hieroglyphic text. To start the year, we will begin a unit on the Ancient Pharaoh and Shadow Magic that nearly ended the world. Now, today, you will be able to familiarize yourself with the room, and its ancient artifacts from long ago."
"That's all?" asked Natasha Edwards, a Gryffindor Sixth year from her seat next to Hermione.
"Yes, or you can work on your pair projects," said Shadi, "to begin the course, each of you will be paired and will have to do research reports on a Pharaoh from Egyptian History (2)." Shadi opened his desk with a wave of his hand and removed a list on some very old and different parchment.
"This paper is Papyrus. The Egyptians used it over 5000 years ago. Because of its fragile state, students are not allowed to toy with it. Now, the pairs. Harry Potter and Yugi Muto, you will research Pharaoh Akunumkanon. Hermione Granger and Marik Ishtar will research Kumighrash the Sorcerer(made up). Crabbe and Goyle will research Pharaoh Atemu, Ronald Weasley and Ryou Bakura will do Thief King 'Kura (three guesses who!), Natasha Edwards and Pansy Parkinson will have to do Amuknsa (made up), and Seto Kaiba and Draco Malfoy will do Pharaoh Set. Neville Longbottom and Dean Thomas will do Pharaoh Jksanadin (made up). Any questions?"
Malfoy silently swore. How dare that turbaned oaf pair me with a Mudblood! Just wait 'till my Father hears about this!
"You may wander the room at the artifacts around the room, please be careful not to touch anything. If you wish, since there is a free period next for all of you, I may let some of you go the library to begin research. Yes, Miss Edwards?"
"When are our reports due?" she asked.
"By next Friday. Yes, Bakura?"
Ryou spoke softly, "Where can we find the information?"
"Ah, yes. For some of you, the findings will be as simple as looking into your head. Others may look in the Restricted section. I will give you all passes to go. You may come up with your partner one at a time to collect your pass. Otherwise, the period is yours, but keep the volume to a minimum." Shadi explained in his expressionless tenor.
After the bell rang, the class split off. Seto, Hermione, and Marik headed to the library while Ron and Harry ended up following Yugi and Ryou to the common room.
"We are so lucky! The people we have to research are here in your head, Ryou!"
"What about us, Yugi? How are we going to research on Akunumkanon?"
"I have a solution to that!" said Yami. He went upstairs to his trunk and returned with an old book. "Yugi got this for his 16th birthday (June 4th I think) It's about my father." He handed Harry the book and they began to leaf through it.
Ryou looked at his assignment sheet.
"It says we have to list the source(s). I guess we can put "first hand". After-all, he's in my head! No wait, you put that, I'll stick in "personal library"."
"What about "Ryou's spirit"?"
"That works!"
/Yami/
/What do you want NOW Ryou/
/I have to do a report on you/
/Uh huh…and I am SO very interested in this because why/
/So I would be so very happy if you would come out and tell us your life story/
/You expect me to go out and tell my life like it's the Domino Beacon (made up Domino local newspaper)? Forget it. Get an "F"/
/But…/
/But nothing/
/You can control what I eat for the next 2 weeks! Please help me pass my class/
/Depends, who's teaching/
/Err….I'll tell you after the two weeks are up./
/Well, I won't bother with declining a lot of meat. You got yourself a deal, wimpy one/
Yami Bakura came out of the ring and began to tell his story, Ryou and Ron taking notes as they go along.
Seto was working next to Hermione on their Arithmacy partner project when Draco Malfoy stormed up to them.
"Kaiba."
Both Gryffindors looked up at the same time and placed their quills in their ink bottles.
"What, Malfoy?" asked Seto coldly, returning to his work.
"I want the information for Shadi's report."
"Uh, huh…"
/Seto? Did you even finish your report/
/I'll weasel the info out of you later…just make some type of book about you…put in hieroglyphics. Malfoy makes me boil over./
/As you wish, your majesty/ Seto rolled his eyes and within a minute, a book magically appeared in Seto's bag.
"Give me the source! I don't have time to wait for you to finish whatever you're doing. I have things to do! This is supposed to be "partner work"! Leave Granger and work with me, not that I need you're help," he added hastily.
"Here, take this book and leave me alone." He threw Set's "life book" at Malfoy and the pale boy barely caught it. Draco flipped through it and bugged his eyes.
"What kind of stunt is this!" he demanded. "I can't read any of this!" He shoved the book under Seto's nose, so quickly that he nearly knocked over the inkbottle.
"Quiet!" hissed Madame Pince. Draco put his face dangerously close to Seto's nose.
"If this is some kind of trick…"
"Looks normal to me." Hermione took a look. It indeed was in plain text English. "You may need you're eyes checked, Malfoy," she said coldly.
"I didn't ask your opinion, Granger." He stalked off, Crabbe and Goyle following behind him.
"Did you do that on purpose?" she asked.
"Of course, I can't stand him, and if Crabe and Goyle had a brain, they'd feel the same."
"Oh, Marik and I already did our essay. We had to go to Madame Pince for information on Kumighrash. Apparently he was the father of Priest Akunadin of the Pharaoh Atemu's counsil. He was king for a while but gave the throne to his brother. It then passed to Yami Yugi's line of father and son. Kumighrash was also one of the worst sorcerer's who used the evil Shadow Magic when he learned of it. When he did, he transformed part of himself into a Millennium Item, since his son was creating them. No one ever found the item. Rumor had it that his son found it and locked it away, far from the burial ground of the other items," she looked at him, "weird isn't it?"
"If it was made into a Millennium Item…c'mon!" He quickly packed the work away into his bag, regardless who's it really belonged to and bolted from the library. Confused, Hermione ran after him, grabbing her own bag as well.
"Where are we going?" she asked as they ran down the dungeon staircase…
Please at least 5 reviews for another chapter. Oh and Dark Magician Grrl! You're character makes first appearance here! She'll be back a little later to come
(1) I have NEVER EVER seen any part of Memory Saga so most of the Memories thing I made up. In my thing, when Atemu died, Set took the throne
(2)ALL of these pairs are randomized and Pharaohs are randomized. Just so you know. I drew them from a hat. Most of the names and history I made up.