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Chapter 11: I Speak for the Trees
"Wait, we're what?" Kilee squeaked a week later as she, James, Albus, and Scorpius waited outside the potion room. Scorpius rolled his eyes, "We're stealing a moonstone from Professor Parkinson's room."
"How exactly do you plan on doing this without getting caught?" Kilee demanded.
James gave her an odd look, "We're not going to. You are."
"What?" Kilee squeaked, "Why me?"
"You're good at the whole sneaking thing," Albus explained, "Besides, it was either that, or you could play distraction and Scorpius and James are doing that."
"What are you doing?" Kilee demanded.
"Lookout, 'cause I'm bad at distracting and can't sneak to save my life," Albus said.
Kilee thought for a moment, then sighed, "Fine, I'll sneak."
"Great," James said brightly, "The distraction is in 5…4…3…2…1!" James and Scorpius took off running. Albus and Kilee both hid behind a suit of armor.
Then… BANG! BANG! BANG! POP!
Professor Parkinson ran out her room, wand drawn. This was her free period. Then, Kilee ran into the classroom towards the private stores.
"Moonstone...moonstone," she muttered to herself as she dug through the bottles of potions ingredients, "I don't even know what a moonstone looks like!"
"Hurry up!" Albus hissed. Kilee looked towards the ceiling, then, in an act of brilliance (or stupidity), stole the whole cupboard.
"Wha…" Albus said in shock when he saw Kilee carrying an armful of potions ingredients.
"I didn't know what a moonstone looked like, so I just grabbed everything!" Kilee said, handing some of her load to Albus. Albus looked slightly shell-shocked, but followed Kilee down the hall anyway.
"Where are we meeting the others?" Kilee asked once out of sight of the classroom.
"Some passage James found. It should be right…here." He stopped in front of a humped witch, pulled out his wand, tapped the statue, and said "Dissendium". It opened. They climbed in and waited. 5 minutes later, two sooty boys climbed in as well, laughing their heads off. It was Scorpius and James.
"Did you get the…whoa!" James said as he saw the giant pile of potion materials, "Why did you get all that?"
"No one told me what a moonstone looked like!" Kilee whined.
"So much for Parkinson never knowing…" Scorpius mumbled.
"Kilee," James said slowly as he looked through the pile, "I hate to break it to you, but the one thing that you didn't grab was a moonstone."
"WHAT?" Kilee yelped, "But…but…but there was nothing left!"
"You did look in her desk, right?" Scorpius asked.
Kilee blinked. "She has a desk?"
Albus put his face in his hand and said, "She told us in class yesterday that she keeps her moonstone in her desk for luck."
"I don't have potions with you!" Kilee yelled.
"Well," James muttered, "I think it's safe to say that this was a disaster."
"What are we supposed to do now?" Scorpius asked, "She will know now that someone's after her stuff."
"Well," Albus hesitated, "I do have a back up…"
"Well?" James prompted.
"It goes like this…"
The next day in Kilee's potion class, Professor Parkinson was paranoid and Kilee was slowly feeling worse and worse about the plan. However, it was soon too late to do anything, as a squeaky voice soon rang through the class, "I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees!"
"What?" snapped Professor Parkinson, "Who said that?"
Kilee could have cried as a little furry orange guy with a yellow mustache appeared in the doorway. It was oddly Albus shaped and it repeated, again, "I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees!"
"No, I think you're Mr. Potter, and you speak for the idiots," said Professor Parkinson. The 'Lorax' turned and ran. As Kilee had hoped, Professor Parkinson ran after him. When she was out of the room, Kilee leapt out of her seat and ran into Professor Parkinson's office. She ran to the desk and almost immediately found the moonstone. She stuffed it into her pocket and made a fake retching sound. When she came back, her classmates looked at her sympathetically.
"Feeling sick again, Kilee?" Sharon Corner asked, sadly. Kilee nodded miserably, feeling like she could do the conga she was so happy.
Ten minutes later, Professor Parkinson returned to the class looking very pleased with herself.
"Poor Albus," Kilee thought as she pulled out her potions book. The rest of the day passed uneventfully, Kilee learning that the poor 'Lorax' had gotten 4 weeks of detentions, Then, later that night, Kilee was smuggled into the Gryffindor common room and they began the next step.
"What does the journal say to do next, James?" Albus asked.
"Erm… well its exact wording is 'Put the neato rock thingy on the not at all worth it part broken by wrath of Evens mirror, say the magic words Animagus Revelo and stare'"
"That means…" Albus prompted.
"I think we just have to do what it says," said Kilee. She put the moonstone on the mirror, said "Animagus Revelo!" and stared at the moonstone. "How long do I have to stare before something happens?" she asked.
"Uh," James skimmed the page, "Actually, it doesn't s—"
"Eep!" Kilee squeaked, her eyes going wide.
"What is it?" Scorpius asked excitedly.
"It's me! Except one minute I'm a rabbit and the next I'm human!" Kilee explained in a low voice, very happy as she stared at the mirror.
"It must show you what animal you become," Albus reasoned.
Kilee beamed, "I'm a bunny! I like bunnies!"
"Can I try?" Scorpius asked.
"Sure," Kilee scooted over and Scorpius looked.
"I'm…a dog?" Scorpius said.
"You sound disappointed," Albus said.
"I wanted to be a squirrel," Scorpius sighed as he handed the mirror to Albus.
Albus looked in, then groaned, "I'm a hummingbird!"
Kilee laughed, "Aww! You're a cute birdie too!" she said looking over his shoulder.
"Shut up," Albus mumbled.
"Why? Don't you wanna be a bird?" James said with a smirk.
"Why me?" Albus groaned.
"You know," James grinned, "We're gonna look really funny: a rabbit, a dog, a hummingbird, and a werewolf. What a sight!"
"Now Al will be a really good lookout!" laughed Kilee.
"This is so not fair," Albus sighed, burying his head in his hands.
"Look on the bright side," James said, "Now if Madam Hooch ever looses the snitch, they can use you!" Scorpius and Kilee roared with laughter while Albus desperately tried to come up with a good comeback. He failed.
"Al," Kilee finally said after a lot more teasing, "It's not so bad. I mean, hey! I'm a rabbit, Scorpius isn't a squirrel and James turns into half a monster every month."
"Isn't he always a monster?" Albus said, congratulating himself on his very late comeback.
"Whatever you say, bird-boy," James rolled his eyes.
"What do we do next?" Kilee asked, breaking up the fight.
"Uh…" Scorpius stole the book from James, "It says: 'What's the password?'"
"We have to find a password?" Kilee said in despair.
"That's what it says," Scorpius sighed.
"This doesn't mean another study session, does it?" Albus asked, completely alarmed.
Kilee just gave the three Gryffindors a grim smile as she made to leave the common room. "Saturday. 8 o'clock AM. Be there" Then she flounced away.