Chapter Eight: Attack Of The… Duckling?
As predicted, Draco should have kept an eye on his teddy bear. He spent an hour trying to get it down and was reduced to tears when one of the ears fell off.
"I'll get you Potter! My father will be coming here! I'll have you expelled!" Malfoy cried.
"Oh bite me!" Harry laughed.
Aidan laughed. "Or we could bite him?" He suggested, showing his growing wolf teeth.
Malfoy whimpered and ran.
Aidan and Harry laughed.
"Have you seen how many kids have lined up at Links feet?" Aidan asked Harry.
"No. But I've heard there are a lot."
"I bet they just don't want to get hexed."
They both laughed at that.
"So do you know where Izzie is?" Harry asked Aidan.
Aidan shook his head. "Nope. Disappeared after lunch."
They walked past a Ravenclaw who had pissed Ron off the other day who was now wearing one of the 'Hex me if I speak' signs. He was whispering to his friend.
Harry and Aidan grinned at each other and hexed the boy wordlessly and walked away laughing.
"This wandless magic stuff is fun." Harry laughed.
"You can say that again. Come on, I want to see what new idea's Redtooth has."
"Ok. I want to see Ginger anyway."
Aidan sniggered.
"Shut up!"
Ruins…
"You again?" Izzie exclaimed when she saw the little yellow duckling. "Listen, your going to get yourself into trouble if your not careful. Here," She scooped it up, "I'll take you someplace safe."
Izzie did one last look around the ruins, looking for her father, and gave up. She saw no Death Eaters, or any other of her father's strange army. She was getting worried, whatever her father was up to, he was determined to keep it from her. Well not for long!
She started back to Hogwarts, trying to keep the frantic duckling quiet.
"Hey Harry!" Izzie called. "Harry, Lightning!" She yelled.
"He's not in here." Hermione told her. "What's that?"
"A duckling I found." Izzie grinned, holding him out.
"Oh he is so cute!" Hermione exclaimed.
"Isn't he?" Izzie agreed.
Laughter told them the others were coming down now. They turned to see Ginny walking in with a hand over her mouth trying not to laugh. Harry and Aidan chasing each other, Ron trying desperately to get a spider off his arm and the twins trying to untangle their robes.
Izzie and Hermione looked at each other, eyebrows raised.
"You know, out of all the people in this school they could prank, have you noticed they prank each other most?" Hermione asked.
Izzie nodded, "Strange isn't it?"
Ginny came over calmly, ignoring the students laughing at the five boys. "Oh that is SO cute!" She squealed when she spotted the duckling.
The other two girls nodded.
The twins finally got themselves untangled and came to look at the duck.
"You're not going to keep him are you?" Fred asked.
"Of course I am!"
"Um, what about Lily-flower, won't she eat him?" George said.
Izzie thought about it. "That does present a problem."
"It's alright; we can all look after it." Ginny said.
At that moment, Ron crashed into them, running from the spider.
"Oh for heavens sake!" Hermione exclaimed in exasperation as Izzie dropped the duckling by accident and Ginny and Ron went tumbling to the ground.
Hermione flicked her wand and the spider vanished.
"Why is there a duck on my face?" Ron yelled suddenly.
Nearly everyone in the Great Hall looked at him oddly.
Izzie picked up the duck. "You poor little thing! Did that mean rad faced idiot scare you?"
"Oh god! Their turning girly!" The twins exclaimed, pretending to hide.
Izzie glared at them and had to jump out of the way as two wolves shot past her.
"What are they doing?" She asked no one in particular, watching as the black on tackled the grey one and started bitting his ear.
"I'm not sure, they came up arguing over something and then Harry suddenly started chasing Aidan." Ginny said.
"We heard Aidan teasing Harry." The twins said.
Izzie rolled her eyes. "Come on Ginny, this is a woman's job."
Ginny giggled. Izzie handed Hermione the duckling and Ginny and Izzie walked over to the two fighting wolves. Izzie put her fingers to her lips and let off a shrill whistle, making both wolves jump and break apart.
"Change, now!" Izzie demanded.
Harry and Aidan stood.
"Jerk." Harry muttered.
"Dick."
"Bitch."
"Ass."
"Go shove you-" Harry was abruptly cut off when Ginny kissed him.
He blinked a couple of times when she stopped. It seemed Aidan was in a similar position, except he and Izzie hadn't stopped yet.
Ginny giggled at the loot on Harry's face. Harry looked back at her and grinned.
"Ok, I can live with that." And he kissed her again.
"Ok, break it up! We do want to eat you know!" Some random kid yelled out.
Harry and Ginny laughed.
"Watch this." Harry whispered to Ginny.
He flicked his wand and a bucket of water appeared over Izzie and Aidan's heads. Harry twitched his wand and the bucket tipped.
"Hey!" They both yelled.
Harry laughed, letting the bucket fall and hit Aidan on the head.
Izzie scowled at Harry. Harry shrugged. "Our audience decided they had had enough."
Izzie rolled her eyes. "We're supposed to be in charge… why are you taking orders from them?"
Harry laughed and shrugged.
"What's with duck?" Aidan asked, pointing at Hermione.
"Isn't he cute?" Ginny said.
"Not really." Harry muttered.
He got slapped on the arm by Izzie. "He is so."
She started to walk over to Hermione. Before she got there however several things happened.
First, Hermione dropped the duck due to it biting her. Second it started to change. Third, several people screamed and fainted when the duck's new form finished. And fourth,
"I must thank you Isabeau, if it weren't for you, I would never have gotten the chance to get in so easily." Voldemort sneered.
"Izzie!" Izzie snapped, "And what do you mean, where's…" She trailed off as her eyes widened in realisation.
Then she did something Voldemort wasn't expecting but perhaps should have been. She started to laugh.
"Oh, my, god!" She laughed. "You're a duck! And not just a duck, a duckling!" Her shoulders shook and she looked like she was in danger of falling over.
Voldemort just stood there looking as though he really wanted to smash his head into a wall. "Oh shit."