The Heir Diaries.
Chapter Three: Attention to Detention.
Iris dodged a colourful blast of light as Juno hurled an orange flame at her from the palm of her hand. Not expecting something so strange to happen, she stood in shock before coming to her senses and jumping behind a tree. The fire ball hit the tree and blew a hole through the middle. Iris once again had the jump out of the way.
In the commotion of all the jumping out of the way, Iris dropped her wand somewhere and dropped to her knees to look for it, but Juno was continuously hurling balls of fire at her, so she quickly gave up after being hit in the arm, a big black burn spreading down and around, and decided to use her telekinesis powers.
Juno thought she was winning this battle, but suddenly the trunk of a tree was hurtling towards her. She ducked low, but a lone branch smacked her in the cheek, forming a purple bruise and a long scar from the bottom of her eye downwards. Her anger built up higher as she stood gracefully, dropping her wand on the ground.
The wind suddenly picked up, a mighty storm beginning to brew, and Iris was thrown backwards into the Black Lake. A sinister laugh escaped Juno's lips as she watched Iris gasp for air as she kicked and splashed around the water, swimming for the shore.
Iris saw a stern looking tabby cat strutting past as she came to the shore, and pointed her finger at it. It floated up high in the air and was about to throw it at Juno when a high pitched scream was heard, yelling for her to stop what she was doing. She looked around and saw Professor Longbottom running towards them.
Spinning around fast to face them, the cat escaped her telekinesis powers and was hurled towards the Forbidden Forest, disappearing between the gaps of two very tall trees. Instead of the cat scampering out of the trees, a very angry Professor McGonagall appeared and started walking towards her, her lips in a tight straight line.
Juno slowly walked backwards so as to make a quick escape, but instead she walked backwards into a tall, muscular frame. Turning around, she found herself looking up at the face of Professor Snape. Iris watched the pair carefully and saw that they had exchanged smiles that told her there was a secret between the two that only they knew.
McGonagall brought her back to her senses as she stopped in front of Iris. "Come with me, now," she demanded. She beckoned Juno towards her and both girls followed their headmistress towards the school, Professor Snape and Professor Longbottom following behind them.
Down at the headmistress' office, McGonagall assigned the girls a week of detention for fighting in school bounds. Later that evening, the girls were cleaning out the Trophy Room that was located behind a door in the back of the Great Hall.
"This is your entire fault," Juno spat.
"My fault?" Iris screeched disbelievingly. "How is it my fault? I was doing perfectly fine learning spells with Jane, and then you come along and attack me."
"Perfectly fine?" Juno laughed haughtily. "Yeah, because learning how to make teeth larger is sooo useful in the Wizarding World."
"Well—well, how do you know that you won't become a magical dentist thing when you're older, huh?"
"Okay, two reasons. One, that's a muggle job, and two, you can use spells to fix your teeth."
"Exactly! That's why you'd need that spell."
"Not unless you were training to be a hamster!"
Iris glared at Juno before turning back to polishing a Quidditch trophy. There was an awkward silence, and Iris couldn't help but think how... different Juno was. One minute she was as mysterious as could be, and then the next she's starting up a fight with you. Iris wondered if Juno was a bit two-faced; had two different personalities: mysterious and silent, and fierce and crazed.
Setting her gaze back on Juno, she couldn't help but ask, "So, what's going on between you and Professor Snape?"
Iris saw a smile appear on Juno's lips, which quickly disappearing as she noticed Iris watching her.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Juno snapped. "And if there was anything going on, it wouldn't be any of your business."
Iris could tell that Juno didn't want to talk about it, so she changed the subject.
"So, why do you care about my spells?" Iris stood up sitting on the table, using her telekinesis; the Trophy's polished them-selves.
"I don't care," Juno mumbled stubbornly, as she watched the trophy's polish themselves. "How do you do that?"
"Oh, I have an extra power or two," Iris answered. "It's Telekinesis. I saw that you have an extra power, too. You control elements, right?"
Iris saw Juno nod silently out of the corner of her eye, but she was completely oblivious to see that Juno had become very annoyed after that.
Dear Diary,
How can I begin to describe my day?
You know that completely ignorant and mysterious girl I met the other day, Juno Valentine? Yes, well, we had a little run in today. When I was just practising spells with her, as innocent as can be, she charges up to me and starts a duel, mimicking how pitiful Jane was at teaching the right material! Of course, I learnt a lot of spells from the duel, but I also got injured quite a bit.
The funniest part of the duel was when I threw McGonagall at the tree. Yes, McGonagall. She was in the form of a cat, so I didn't know until she came storming from the Forbidden Forest. Anyway, we got in trouble after that. We had detention with Filch and we had to clean the trophies in the Trophy room, without magic. And there were HUNDREDS of trophies in there. I almost committed suicide—that's a joke.
Anyway. I did notice the total of three things about Juno today; one, she has two personalities (it's like, one second she's all mysterious, then the next all nasty, and afterwards she's all nice), two, she can control elements (like water, fire, earth, ect — I wonder if she can do anything else?), and three, there seems to be something going on with Professor Snape and her, because I saw them share a secret smile when we'd just finished our duel (I wonder what it is?).
I think most of this year is going to be devoted to finding out who Juno Valentine really is.
- Iris, xx