Elysian Potter: The Forgotten Queen.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, nor do I own the original idea for this story. All rights for the characters go to the magnificent J. K. Rowling and the original idea belongs to CharmedMilliE-Karry Master.
Elysian's Theme Song: You Should See Me In A Crown, Billie Ellis – Castle, Hasley
Chapter Sixteen: The Writing on the Wall and Rogue Bludgers
"What's going on here? What's going on?"
Attracted no doubt by Draco's shout, Argus Filch came shouldering his way through the crowd. Then he saw Mrs Norris and fell back, clutching his face in horror.
"My cat! My cat! What's happened to Mrs Norris?" he shrieked.
And his popping eyes fell on Harry.
"You!" he screeched, "You! You've murdered my cat! You've killed her! I'll kill you! I'll –"
"Argus!"
Dumbledore had arrived on the scene, followed by a number of other teachers. In seconds, he swept past Harry, Ronald and Lavander and detached Mrs Norris from the torch bracket.
"Come with me, Argus," he said to Filch. "You too, Mr Potter, Mr Weasley, Miss Brown."
Lockhart stepped forward eagerly.
"My office is nearest, Headmaster – just upstairs – please feel free –"
"Thank you, Gilderoy," said Dumbledore.
The silent crowd parted to let them pass. Lockhart, looking excited and important, hurried after Dumbledore; so did Professors McGonagall and Snape.
No one spoke and quickly the students all left the corridor but not before Elysian slapped Draco on the back of the head. Quickly the Slytherins made their way back towards the dungeons. Elysian, as usual, was the first to walk inside and sit down and it was only then that everyone else flooded in.
"Do you think he did it?" she could hear people whispering.
"So," Draco said, "do you think he did it? That he's gonna be expelled?"
"No," Elysian answered.
"Why not?" Theo asked.
"Because he's the Gryffindor golden boy, the perfect child," Elysian answered. "Do you really think Dumbledore would expel the one student he actually gives a dam about?"
"That's unfair," Hermione hissed, "I mean, sure Harry's nice and all, to me anyway, and he didn't so anything but still!"
"Hermione, my darling friend, there is one thing you have to learn about my brother. 'Harry Potter' and 'fair' well, they aren't a pair that go anywhere near each other."
"So what are we doing?"
"What do you mean?" Daphne asked.
"Well, for starters Hermione is going to return to Gryffindor tower before someone notices her disappearance," said Elysian.
"Right!" Hermione nodded quickly.
"I'll walk you to the portrait hole," Draco cried running after Hermione.
Elysian smirked as she watched her friends 'secretly' kissed and held hands as Hermione exited the Slytherin common room. She was glad her friends had become an item and would quickly sort out plans to include that seeing as Draco had finally stopped being a prat.
~EP~
Elysian couldn't honestly believe the standards for teaching were so low, no actually she could believe it as Dumbledore seemed to only care about keeping the world ignorant. No matter how many complaints were sent to the board of governors or Dumbledore himself, no one had talked to Lockhart about actually teaching the syllabus. It was time to set things right and Elysian knew exactly how to do it. Ginny Weasley had already gone to bed so she knew they were all safe to speak about this idea without it getting back to Dumbledick.
"We are beginning a House Duelling club," said Elysian once Blaise had finished.
"We are?" asked a seventh year.
Elysian was standing on a table in the middle of the common room that evening. Her head was held high and her voice could be heard all throughout the common room calling everyone to attention. She could see people nodding along with her idea and knew that the question being asked was just for confirmation.
"Yes, we are," said Elysian. "For too long we have been forced to suffer the incompetence of the DADA teachers, it's time we took our education into our own hands. The Seventh-years have already taken their OWLS and so can easily show us the practical spells we need to learn while books can teach us the rest. I'm sure many of you get tutoring at home from your families which means you probably know a lot more spells so we'll be teaching those as well."
"Why?" asked Daphne, "if they're not on the syllabus, why should we teach them to each other?"
"Because this isn't just about our education anymore, Lockhart proved that. Slytherin house is the house everyone targets and its time we protect ourselves, I'd even go so far as to learn the unforgivable if it meant we would all be safe."
She watched as her words sunk in and soon everyone was agreeing with her and offering their words. The Seventh-year students immediately agreed with the idea and began writing down a time table for their evening sessions. Professor Snape walked in while they were doing this and was soon informed of what they planned on doing.
"While I agree that this is an excellent idea," Snape began, "the Headmaster, should he find out, would immediately have it disbanded and everyone in detentions or suspended for it."
"Then we'll live up to the Slytherin code and not get caught," said Elysian with a sly grin.
The Professor just nodded at her before disappearing. It was then that Daphne suggested everyone signing a contract to prevent anyone from speaking about it. Every Slytherin was quick to sign the spelled piece of parchment which would, should anyone try to tell the secret, steal their voice and hex them with a memory charm until they could be trusted once more. The Seventh-years had been eager to try and combine the spells while the other years were just excited to see the spells being cast.
"Now that it's done," Elysian began, "how about we start writing up anyone from other houses we want to include?"
"Other houses?" asked Draco.
"Yes, like Hermione and Neville and the Twins," said Daphne, "and possibly Luna Lovegood."
"Why would we want to invite them?"
"One, Neville is excellent in Herbology – a subject most of us are lacking in – two, Hermione is our Gryffindor Spy and knows almost all of the Seventh-year spells already, and three, the Twins are pranking geniuses so surly we should get them on our side?"
"Daphne has an excellent point," Elysian said. "that and it would allow us to truly see if there are teachers who favour everyone else over us."
"Alright," one of the prefects said, "let's do it."
And soon everyone was planning and deciding which one of their friends they would ask.
~EP~
Elysian woke early on Saturday morning and stared up at the ceiling for a while thinking about the upcoming Quidditch match. She was bursting with excitement, mainly at the thought of Flint saying that Gryffindor had lost, but also at the idea of facing the Gryffindor teams with brooms they wouldn't be expecting and tactics they would never see coming. She had never wanted to show up her brother so badly in all her life. After an hour of lying there with her insides churning and bubbling, she got up, dressed and went down to breakfast early, where she found the rest of the Slytherin team eating quietly whilst grinning at the misfortune of the Gryffindor one.
As eleven o'clock approached, the whole school started its way down to the Quidditch stadium. It was a muggy sort of day with a hint of thunder in the air. Daphne and the other Slytherins who weren't playing were rushing over to wish them good luck as she entered the changing rooms. She pulled on her emerald Slytherin robes and then slipped into the boy's changing room to listen to Flint give his speech.
"The Gryffindors believe we'll be using the Nimbus'," he began, "they don't know we switched brooms or that the plays they saw are all fake. We have two of the best second-years on our team," he nodded towards Draco and Elysian, "and all they have is Harry Potter."
A chorus of 'boos' was heard.
"So how about we get out there and prove our Potter is the best Potter!" Flint cheered.
As they walked out onto the pitch, a roar of noise greeted them; mainly cheers, because of the supporters they had in Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, but the Gryffindor crowd made their boos heard. Madam Hooch, the Quiddich teacher, asked Flint and Wood to shake hands, which they did, giving each other threatening stares and gripping rather harder than was necessary.
It seemed the Gryffindor's had realised they had been deceived as they stared at the brooms the Slytherin team were holding. Wood's face paled dramatically and Elysian immediately knew that they hadn't practised and prepared for the lower class of broom. The Weasley twins were sending Elysian happy smirks as they all got ready to get into the air.
"On my whistle," said Madam Hooch, "three… two… one…"
With a roar from the crowd to speed them upwards, the fourteen players rose towards the leaden sky. Both Harry and Draco rose higher than the rest of the team while Elysian and the other chasers got into position. Elysian could hear Draco taunting Harry above her but she ignored them and focused on the quaffle. The twins were purposefully missing her as they tried to hit the bludgers towards her and Slytherin scored another twenty points because of it.
Suddenly a bludger came flying past Elysian with the sole intent of destroying her brother.
The Twins worked hard to get the Bludger away from Harry while Elysian and the Slytherin chasers continued to score and Draco zoomed to catch the snitch. Madam Hooch's whistle rand out and all of the teams dived for the ground before huddling and beginning to think.
"They won't concede," said Elysian, "they'll think we did something to the bludger."
"Why? We're already beating them in points and that's without the snitch," said Draco.
"We're Slytherin."
"Point," everyone agreed.
Soon they were back in the air and getting ready for another round. Draco immediately spotted the snitch and dived for it, followed closely by Harry with the bludger still trailing behind him. Elysian was quick to order the beaters to run interference while she and the chasers continued to get points for Slytherin: the Gryffindor team were all distracted by making sure their precious Potter was alright.
Then they heard a sickening crunch and everyone turned to see the bludger colliding with Harry's arm before being destroyed. The crowd held their breath as they waited to see who had the snitch before Draco came flying towards them holding the small golden ball over his head.
"Slytherin has won!" Lee Gordon cried.
No one seemed to care, however, which allowed the Slytherin team the chance to get away as quickly as possible before they could be questioned. They would be having a massive celebration tonight in the common-room before Ginny went to bed, that much was for sure.
~EP~
Professor Snape arrived half-way through the part and ushered Elysian up to the infirmary where her brother was sleeping. Apparently, he had asked for her but she knew that it was her parents who had asked so they could find out who hexed the bludger. She arrived at the hospital wing a few seconds after her parents left and were soon led inside by Madam Pomfrey to where Harry was sleeping.
"What am I doing here Harry?" Elysian asked with venom in her voice.
"I thought you'd want to see me," he answered weakly.
"How about I tell you this now. No Slytherin enchanted that Bludger, we don't even know what spell could cause it to follow you. Now I'm going to go and bask in the defeat of the Gryffindor team. Okay?"
Harry was about to protest but Elysian had already walked through the doors and back the way she came. She stopped, however, when she heard the familiar pop of a house-elf and quickly figured out who had hexed the bludger.
"This plan was better yes?" Dobby asked.
"Way better," Elysian agreed, bending down to face the house elf. "But it still won't work."
"Dobby knows this. Dobby must try."
"I understand sweetie," Elysian smiled patting Dobby on the head. "Now how about going to visit Potter before you're seen."
"Thank you, my Queen."
And with that, the elf disappeared.
"I really need to find out who owns that elf. Any elf trying to kill my brother is an elf I want."
