Oh Fudge (Part Two)
The park had dried in time for everyone to meet, including Dal and Hedgin in the park. That is, everyone except Irumi, who was taking care of her service hours. And oddly enough, Ai. Everyone there thought though that Irumi would bring him when she headed to the park. They had found a place near the park water fountain to meet. The fountain had fantasy and mythological creatures adorning it and a plaque.
"My name is Dal and this is Hedgin," One of the two young male Hobbits said.
"My name is Hermione Granger," Hermione said and shook their hands.
"Granger ...?"
"As in Harry Potter?"
"Yes, but ..." Hermione was interrupted by the two conniving.
"We usually pretend to be Hobbits from Lord of the Rings."
"But why can't we pretend to be something else today."
"Alright, I'll pretend to be Harry,"
"And I'll pretend to be Ron,"
"We now need to find wands,"
"Ai, you want to play,"
The elfling shook his head and the two Hobbits headed off looking for the perfect sticks for wands. Hermione stared after them for a bit, then turned to China and Hyacinth. "Are those two always like that?"
"Unfortunately, yes," China murmured under her breath.
The Hobbit pretending to be Ron found a stick that fit his mood and began swishing it back and forth, pretending to turn things into food, which was expected of Hobbits and their interests. This caused the other to hurry up and pick a stick out. Hermione watched as they made they began to poke each other with their sticks to turn the other into something else.
"Hermione, what in the Halls of Mandos is Quiditch?" Irumi said, a frantic look on her face..
"Quiditch?" Hermione stared at her, completely surprised. Irumi wasn't fond of the wizarding world, so there was no clue as to where she came across the word.
"Quiditch is a Wizarding sport. They play it on brooms," China watched Irumi go pale. "Why do you ask? Aren't you supposed to be at the old arena for community service?"
"It was because they are forming a Quiditch team that is formed of all the races. Apparently Anwe is getting back into the international league." Irumi said, her voice slightly strained.
"You mean a Hobbit is going to be on the team!" Hyacinth clapped her hands with glee.
"A Beater, apparently." Irumi said. "For some reason this oaf with a lime green bowler got it into his head that I'm not ten, but twenty-five. He decided that an Elf wold be wonderful as a Seeker and that I'm the one."
"Cor ... Corne ... Cornelius ... Fudge," Hermione stammered in disbelief.
"Fudge is right, as I don't how I'll get out of this mess and Lord Oropher will most definitely not be happy with me yet again." Irumi said, partially misunderstanding what Hermione was trying to say.
"No, I meant ... Cornelius Fudge ... the Minister of Magic for Great Britain,"
"So that's his name. He was there along with this big eyes lady."
"Umbridge," Hermione said, anger in her voice. They knew that it was directed at said woman.
"You don't like her? I go a bad vibe about her. She thinks the same, but I am thinking for different reasons." Irumi placed a hand on her chin. "I really don't like her."
Hermione's eyes were wide. "You shouldn't. She is the one who is for placing all sorts of restrictions on magical creatures and getting them registered."
"Unicorns ... well I should hope there is regulation to protect them," Irumi said and the other girls nodded their heads.
"Irumi, by her book, all of you are magical creatures. Her regulations are to restrict your guys freedoms where we come from. She feels that your no better then an animal. And she is of the opinion that you only resemble humans by form. She's also about this whole concept of Pure Blood. Don't ask what that's about."
"Science terms, yes. Humanity, all the races are part of humanity," The Goth Elfing narrowed her eyes.
"This is the Wizarding world we're talking about, not the Muggle one. So, no science but magic. She is of the opinion that you guys aren't of humanity."
Irumi said in a contemplative tone. "Then what is her goal for going along with this."
"She wants to see Anwe fall flat on it's face. It obviously doesn't have the race restrictions that other countries do. She thinks that you're the thing to do it."
"Irumi, this is political. You're going to have to go to Lord Oropher." china spoke up, concern in her voice.
"I was going to, to see if he could get me out of this mess," Irumi said. "Hermione, how would you like to meet him?"
"An Elven Lord," Hermione stammered. "If he's anything like Thranduil..."
Hyacinth laughed. "They may lose their temper, but they really are nice."
"Oii, Hedgin, Dal. The two of you want to come," China called out to the two Hobbit's who were running amuck.
"No. Ron and I are busy trying to find Malfoy to hex him," The one who was pretending to be Harry spoke up.
Hermione stared at them. "I don't think I really want to know what goes on in their heads. I am also glad Ron and Harry aren't here to see this. I don't know what they'd think."
"Hyacinth?" China turned to the Hobbit.
"I think ..." She paused for a second. "I'll stay to make sure the loonies don't cause trouble."
"Then it is the three of us." Irumi said, standing up and dusting her self off.
"My only question is, why would people from the ministry of Britain be here, of all places."
"Because we have no Wizard school so they get sent there." Irumi said matter factly.
China shook her head. "They probably sent word to all the countries with an international Quiditch team to come help them."
"They didn't get a good response. They ended up with ... those two ... and the head of the Bulgarian ... Quiditch Department I think?" Irumi stated. "Shall we be going?"
Author's note - If anything confuses you guys, please do let me know. The Parts of 'Oh Fudge' I had completely had written, but then I decided it would be more beleivable if I introduced Errol earlier. And Ai was orriginally in this chapter, but I figured, if he's taking care of Errol, that's where he'ld better be. (The character that would best work for this and 'Error, Errol, Error' was Ai, and, well ... he doesn't talk.