During which we play with the elements~ X33333

Chapter 4

Monday found the trio standing outside the school looking at a huge carnival tent that had been organised by the staff and the student prefectural board to encourage and build up the moral of the students and teachers of Hogwarts. Hogwarts Fun Day was supposed to be all fun and games.

"Why do we have teams?" Hermione asked, crossing her arms as she looked through a list of groups tacked on the notice board that was erected just outside the allocated "Fun Space". Within the "Fun Space" were several stations consisting of "Dunk you friend in whatever you like!" booth, where apparently you can still breath and see in whatever it is that you're being dunked into, so its fun for the dunker and the dunkie. There was also the Mirror-Maze, where the mirrors do all sorts of crazy things to your appearance, and if you're lucky, give you prizes and free coupons for the drinks and food booths. If you're unlucky, the picture of you in the worst outfit possible appears outside at the end of the maze in the "Hall of The Hilarious".

"Apparently these are some House-Games to gain points for our Houses" Harry replied, pointing to the instructions on another notice.

"And now for the TUG-OF-WAR! All teams line up and begin!" A sudden announcement declared.

Harry, Hermione and Ron made their way over to the allocated area, and as Ron was the tallest of the lot, he ended up in front, while the stronger, shorter and stockier ones were at the back, adding the necessary dead weight to the end of the rope.

The whistle blew and Ron picked up the rope with the rest of his teammates.

Draco Malfoy went sauntering up to the first position on the rope of the opposing team and the Gryffindor team members rolled their eyes - of course, it would be Slytherin that they were up against.

"Weasley! Oh, this will be an easy win" Smirked Draco Malfoy, picking up his end of the rope as his team members did the same.

Ron instantly glared at Draco and growled " READY!" to signal that his teammates start pulling.

"Why don't we make this more interesting, shall we?" Malfoy grinned and suddenly, the whole rope burst into flames!

Ron immediately realised that Malfoy's team were fine as they were all wearing leather and probably non-flammable be-spelt gloves, whereas his team had nothing.

Ron bit his lip. Hoping that his tea mates didn't notice, water crumbled from his hands and crept over the whole rope, extinguishing the flame.

Draco, not to be outdone, cast the spell again and the flames shot higher. Previously, Ron had stopped the flames just as his team's side began to burn, but this time it was too high, and the rest of the team suddenly jumped and cried out as the flames licked their fingers.

"What's going on Ron?" Harry cried out, but Ron was too busy to reply.

Eyes like a pair of blue slits, water crested and rolled out of Ron, and once again banked the flame, pushing it back towards Draco.

Draco got furious at that point and refused to give in, and a rush of fire left his hands and pushed back against the water and without realising it, Ron and Draco were creating a wall of fire and water, push and pull.

"Stop you two stop it!" Their teams began to call out, but they were lost in their fight. Even after everyone let go of the rope, Ron and Draco were still at it. Harry tried to reach Ron but he was too cold to touch, while Doyle tried to reach Draco but he was too hot to get near enough to do anything.

This all progressed to this stage within a matter of minutes, However to the two teams watching the fight, it seemed like the power struggle went on for blinding hours as time seemed to stand still as their magic was pitted against each other.

"STOP!" Came a great spell which rang in the boy's ears.

At that command, Ron and Draco finally came to their senses. Both sides of the rope extinguished and the two boys collapsed to their knees, exhausted.

Professor McGonagall marched up to the two teams.

"What exactly do you boys think you are doing? DETENTION! BOTH OF YOU! And 50 points deducted from both houses!" She hollered, grabbing Draco and Ron by the ears and dragging them back into Hogwarts, leaving behind two groaning and mopping teams of students.