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Chapter 27

A New Pet For Me

The next morning the school was told about the poor boy named Colin Creevey, the night of the Quidditch match, the boy was attacked. He, like Mrs Norris, was now petrified, by the creature in the Chamber of Secrets.

I didn't hear anything from the walls last night, but I was a little preoccupied. We finished the prototype of one of the candies, the Nosebleed Nougat. Right now there are two peices of candy, one to cause the nosebleed, the other to make it stop. At one point we want to make it to where there is only peice of candy, half to cause and half to cure. It was really exciting, but I do kinda feel bad about that Colin kid, and Harry, everyone thinks he is the heir, which could happen, as soon as I give up eclairs, which won't be happening anytime soon.

We did talk about the prank for next years Halloween, Fred and George thought my idea was pretty good, but it was a year away, so they didn't want to competly agree to the vampire idea. I guess they are right, it is a long time till Halloween, maybe I can use it on the Slytherins next semester, it would be fun to use on them as a group as well, my own comeback for their initiation test they made me go through last year. Though there was this one prank that George came up with, we would do it before Christmas, it will be a blast.

Three weeks past while we worked on our pranks. Class during that time was quite boreing, except for the one time in Potions. Somehow, a Filibuster Firework went off and landed in Goyle's potion. The cries of the student who were to close to the cauldren were intense, but Snape put a stop to it. I knew who did it, but just because I saw Harry and Ron's satisfied smile, followed theor gaze to Hermione and caught satisfied thought of success from all three. They were taking ingrediants from Snape's personal shelf, I also got a glimps of a potion brewing in a bathroom stall, I might have to ask about it later, stupid curiosity.

Other than that incident, nothing else happened, no one was attacked, no goodpranks were pulled, went to class, went to eat, and went to sleep, a moslty normal three weeks. Normal at least, until I came down the stairs into the Entrance Hall, on my way to eat some eclairs, no wait a nice bowl of healty oat meal, screw that, eclairs, and found myself in a huge crowd gathered around the message board. Being the kitty cat that I am, both in personality and animagus form, I let my curiosity take me to the front of the crowd so that I could read the message that had everyone's attention.

Attention Students of Hogwarts

You are invited to the first meeting of the Dueling Club

The first meeting is tonight, December 15, at 8:00, in the Great Hall

A dueling club? That sounds great, I can't wait to try it! All the other students surrounding me felt the same so I knew I would see them later tonight.

Dragging, not really, they wanted to come, Fred and George behind me, we ran into the Great Hall at 8, ready for action. In the Great Hall all of the tables had been pushed to the edges of the room, and a golden platform had been placed along one of the edges of the room. There was excited chatter all around the room, this would be a night of fun, I could really tell.

Now, my instincts aren't always that good, this night was a prime example. It started going downhill as soon as Professor Lockhart came out on stage and told us that this club was his idea, that he would be the one to teach us to duel. He also informed us that Professor Snape would be his teaching assistant, I caught the first thought I have ever gotten from Snape at that moment, it involved lots of pain for the man dressed in icky plum.

The two professors started off the first meeting by demonstrating how an actual duel would be like. After crossing their wands, and bowing, they starated. Professor Snape beat Lockhart with a simple dissarming spell, it was quick and sweet. Lockhart, of course, quickly retaliated that he knew what Snape was doing, but he felt that we should know the move Snape just showed us, always tring to save face, that man is.

After their duel, the two professors went through the students and split them into teams. Professor Snape quickly made his way to the Gryffindors and started splitting up friends, like Harry and his two pals. He put me with a seventh year Gryffindor I have never met before. Being the friendly person I am, I intorduced my self to the boy infront of me.

"Hi, myn name is Adonia, I'm also in Gryff..."

"I know who you are, you're the fake Gryffindor, the halfling who is part Slytherin. Just shutup and we will duel when ever the professors tell us to start."

My gosh, I'm a halfling..who knew. What a jerk! I really can't stand people like him, they just get to me. I waved George off, he had overheard the Jerk, and was coming to offer me assistance.

~Don't worry George, I'll get him back in the duel. No one treats me like that and gets away with it.~ I told Gerogre through our mental path so he would know that I really was ok, and to not alert the Jerk that I was going to get him back in the duel, my sneaky Slytherin side I guess.

~All right. Kick his butt, I know you can.~ And with that he went back to facing his partner, a third year Ravenclaw.

"Wands at the ready," even Lockharts voice is annoying, "When I count to three..." I sort of blocked out some of his little speach, "One...two...three--"

I sent a quick tickle charm at the Jerk, not a stong spell, but effective. He somehow dodged my spell, could be because he jumpped to left of where he was standing as soon as Lockhart said three.

He retaliated with a Jelly Legs curse, I only managed to dodge it by using the counter curse, the two curses hit in midair, leaving a greenish blob in the air where they collided.

Before I could send my own offensive spell towards the Jerk, he used a spell that I have only heard about, but yet to learn. The spell, Ossisrupi, is ment to break the bones, whatever bones the spell caster thinks hardest about while casting, of the one the spell is intended for, which in this case would be me.

Not wanting to have any of my bones broken, (I have had the experience before, when I was younger I broke my knuckle bone on my right hand, not fun), I did a mirror charm, and thought about which of the Jerk's bones I wanted to break.

Not expecting me to do a mirror charm, or be acurate enough to send the spell back at him, he was unable to dodge his own spell. His muffled cries, as right his radius (the arm bone that goes along to the thumb), I chose his radius because that was his wand arm. With out the use of his arm, and due to the fact that he was in pain, he was unable to retaliate anymore, so I won the match.

But I had yet to get back at the guy, so I used one of my favorite anti-bully charms that I made up when I was bullied back at my old school. I came up with the charm that I used one day when I was playing in the backyard. At my old house, we had a forest that ran along the back of the yard, so we always had interesting critters. One day, the cutest little baby came out of the woods. Being the animal lover that I am, I played with it for a while, but like most baby animals, the mother isn't too far behind. This animal's mother had the most interesting defense mechanism, seeing me playing with it's baby, she came running at me, then let loose a spray of the most nasty smelling liquid, I have ever had to smell. My mother, smelling me when I came home said the only way to get rid of the smell, besides magic, was to bathe in tomato juice, my mom, being a witch used magic, but the other method gave me the perfect idea for my first anti-bully charm. The Skunk charm, would make the bully smell like skunk, at least until they bathed in tomato juice. The bully wouldn't be able to use magic to get the smell to go away, as I included an anti-magic spell into the charm. And, since most magic users wouldn't think about using a muggle method to getting rid of the stench, the only way to rid of the smell is to come and say sorry and have me tell them the cure, it usually took a week before the smell made them desprate enough to come and apologize.

So I used my skunk charm on the bully jerk, as soon as I did so, Professor Lockhart, called a quits to the dueling. Some of the other pairs were still going, mainly Harry and Draco, and Hermione and Millicent, another Slytherin. Once their duels were done, Lockhart decided that he and Snape would take a group and personally show us another duel, using said pair. Professor Snape volunteered Harry and Draco, knowing their hatred of the other, I knew this duel would be a good one.

The two boys started with the help of the two professors and the duel went from there. Draco started and finsihed the duel by using the spell that Snape had just wisperd into his ear.

"Serpensortia." as soon as Draco said his spell, his wand exploded and a huge black snake came out of it. I love snakes, but no one else seemed to if the screams I heard around me were anything to go by.

Lockhart, being the know-it-all that he is, decided to take things into his own hands and cast a spell to get rid of the pretty black snake. His spell sucked, it sent the snake ten feet into the air, only to have the poor thing crash back onto the stage. The snake was a bit upset by his flying lesson, and started to attack this Hufflepuff boy that I had seen, but never met.

Harry, being the type of guy that he is, told the snake to leave the boy alone, it took me a second to realize that he was speaking in Parseltoung, the snake language. His being able to do so seemed to scare people more than the snake itself did. The boy the snake was going to attack, yelled at Harry, then ran off.

I stepped up to the stage as Professor Snape went to cast a spell, and Harry's friends dragged him off as the hall started muttering darkly about snakes and heirs. I picked up the snake and started talking to it before Snape could finish his spell to banish the snake back to where ever he came from.

"Professor Snape, do you think I could keep him?" I gave him my best pretty-please look. Even with that look on my face, he shocked me.

"You want to keep the snake?"

At my nod, he said, "If you take care of it, I guess you can." With a weird look on his face, he walked out of the room.

"Well snake, you are going to live with me now. What is your name?"

The snake looked me into the eye, he really is a pretty snake, and said, "I am called Natrix."

With that, Natrix and I walked back up to my dorm room. I had to tell him he could eat all the mice he wanted too, but not Shadow my cat, or any of the other pets in the caslte. And, as of night, I had a new friend pet.

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