Hp Druids
The first weeks of Classes were smooth for Devon, he woke up and got up he drew his Wand from his staff and entered the common room.
He looked and noticed everyone was leaving for the great hall for breakfast. Devon ate and followed Harry Ron and Hermione to charms class.
Devon watched from the back as the professor gave the feather lifting lessons and watched the dynamic blow up spectacularly in their face. Well…Ron did Harry…well…Harry just sat there.
If Devon was honest he had no idea what to expect from the boy who lived.
I mean this is the kid that defeated Voldemort and single handedly ended the war as a child. But to Devon he was a meek kid who would rather ghost through classes "no one pay attention to me I'm no one special potter."
Devon rolled his eyes at how idiotic he was being.
He snapped himself out of his thoughts when he heard Hermione speak to him
"It's Levi-OSA not Levioasa!"
"Well you try it then!" Ron huffed and sat back in his chair as Hermonie rolled her eyes and performed it perfectly making The professor very happy.
"Oh splendid Ms Granger!" Professor Flitwick said before he looked up and his smile fell.
"Um Devon…" he said
Devon looked at the professor
"Yes…" he said uncaringly
"I know your able to do this but participation is required for this course…" he said
Devon rolled his eyes and wordlessly flicked his wand and the feather shot up following the trail of his wand not a bob or weave at all.
"Oh splendid!" I knew you could do it…and yes next week we will be dealing with something more exciting for you. With that off you go children!" The professor sent them on there way.
Devon heard Harry and Ron ranting loudly in the hall about the class.
"Can you believe her, that women!" Ron said after he finished scoffing at Hermione's nagging. To which said girl pushed past the two of them roughly.
"I think she heard you." Harry said
Ron looked over to see Devon picking up a book from the ground
"What's that mate?" He asked
Devon looked at the book "I think it's Hermonie's. I'll go give it to her." He said
Harry shook his head "no it's fine I will, I have next class with her anyways after lunch." He said
Devon nodded and noticed Ron scoff and walk away as Harry
At the lunch room they sat and ate when the professor of the Defense against the Dark arts teacher burst into the room screaming his heart out in fear
"TROLL! In the dungeon!"
Everyone stared at him as he looked and said
"Thought you ought to know…" before he fainted
There was a brief flash of panic before the loud boom of Dumbledore was heard "quiet!"
"Prefects please escort your Houses to their dorms. The Slytherins will remain here for now until the matter is resolved!" The headmaster finished
Suddenly there was movement as Devon followed the rest of the Gryffindors he saw movement Ron and Harry were whispering
"Hermonie she doesn't know anything about the troll!" Harry said
Ron nodded and trying to be sneaky broke off from the main Gryffindors
Devon rolled his eyes at how obvious they were being and looked back to Dumbledore to try to warn him.
Only to see a sly smile on the old man's face.
'What are you planning old man?' Devon asked himself before he took action and followed the two boys.
They stopped at the Girls bathroom corridor. Just as the troll walked in.
"Damn how did it leave the dungeons?!" Ron asked
"Forget that Harmonies in there!" Harry said
"If your going in at least don't go in half cocked." Devon said making the boys turn
"Devon!" Ron gasped
"How did you get here?!" Harry asked
Devon rolled his eyes "obviously your not as sneaky as you boys think you are. Here." He said as he handed the boys a potion looking like green slime.
"It's a kinetic nullifier so if you get thrown around it will blunt the damage done. One swig each otherwise you might bounce off the walls and never stop." Devon said
Harry and Ron did as he asked as Harry handed back the Vile to Devon who also took a swing emptying it before chucking it at the ground making it shatter.
"To buy us time with the troll and give Hermonie a few extra seconds." Devon said
Only to hear a scream come from the bathroom
"Oh looks like she's seen the troll." Devon quipped
"Come on!" Harry said drawing his wand
Ron and Devon followed
Devon stopped them by the door.
"Do any of you know offensive spells?" Devon asked
Harry and Ron looked at Devon Dumbfoubded
Devon sighed "fuck give me an opening and I'll try to knock it out!" Devon said as he rushed it and flicked his wand
Harry and Ron rushed in just in time to see Devon blow up a stall the troll was about to swing at changing it into a hand to catch the club
"Hermonie move!" Harry screamed
Hermonie looked up to see the wooden splinter hand start to crack and she just got up when it exploded showering her in shrapnel.
"Ahhhh!" She screamed
Devon grit his teeth
"ANY DAY NOW BOYS!" He roared
Harry and Ron looked at each other stunned before jumping into action Ron grabbing a large 2x4 and yelling
"HEY PEA BRAIN!" And tossing it
Devon scoffed "that's the best you can do?! Damn it RON DODGE!" Devon snapped
Ron just barely ducked in time as the club flew over his head
He was scared shitless
"Devon Devon HELP!" He cried
"I need a minute to prepare Harry go help Ron!"
Harry was by hermione checking up on her and nodded as he rushed in blindly
"Oh blathering Idiots!" Devon cursed as Harry was T-boned by the club and sent flying into the wall bounced off it and landed on his shoulders.
Ron looked at Harry
"DO SOMETHING!" Ron gasped as he jumped away just in time.
Harry stuck his wand up the trolls nose
Devon looked like he would die of an aneurysm.
Damn it Defendo!" He snapped hitting the troll in the knee cap Only for the spell to bounce off the knee and out the door down the hall.
"Crap forgot Trolls are more resilient to magick Devon hissed as he tried to think.
In that time Ron had used Wingardium Leviosa and knocked the troll out.
Devon looked up to the knocked out troll and smiled
"Good going Ron!" Devon said
Harry collected his wand from the trolls nose and wiped it off his pant leg
"Oh honestly, Scourgify." Devon said as he cleaned away the rest of the wand and the pants.
Just in time to see the teachers rush in.
"Oh my!" Mcgonagall gasped.
"What happened!" She asked
"We noticed Ms Granger wasn't at the table when the order to return to the common room was annnounced so we went to find our lay ward companion." Devon said
"And I assumed you had to rope in these two first years along with you Mr. Oak" the Gryffindor Head of house Said with blatant anger. Obviously thinking her own conclusion was right.
Devon shook his head "no professor I noticed they were going first and I shadowed them to make sure they were safe." Devon asked
"Did you not think to warm a teacher?!" She snapped
Devon was about to respond but Dumbledore stepped forward first "all that matters is that the students are ok. Isn't that right Merniva." He said
The transfiguration professor sighed and nodded "Yes Albus." She said as the matter was dropped
"Now was any of you hurt in the exchange?" Albus asked as Madam Pompohy stepped forward.
"Only Hermione I believe she got showered with Wooded Shrapnel when I Used the wood to to block the Club going for her back." Devon said
Mcgonigall looked at Devon in shock "that's a sixth year spell how…" she asked
Devon looked at her "there's a reason I wasn't paying attention to the class Professor and not because I didn't know the material." Devon said
Professor Mcgonigall nodded "very well, we will talk about this more later." She said as she turned to the other two
"Now what I don't understand is what caused you at all to do something so stupid Devon aside you should have found a member of staff." She said
Hermione stepped forward
"Please professor, they were looking for me. I well I read a book that some trolls are weak to Certain types of spells and I wanted to try it and I thought this was the best time." Hermione asked
Devon slapped his head "please don't tell me it was one of Lockhart's books!?" He sighed he was quietly ingnored.
"Were you the one who let the troll into the school Ms Granger?!" Severus Snape hissed
"N-no I-I'd never-!" Hermione gasped
"Severus you know full well only teachers can open the doors to Hogwarts how dare you try to frame a student on something such as this!" Mcgonigall yowled.
Before looking over "of course the question of where that Defendo came from is something I'd like to know. Was that you Ms granger?" McGonagall asked
Hermione was able to try to speak but Devon cut her off.
"No that was me as well Professor. I forgot that mountain trolls were more resistant to Spells of all kinds so it bounced off. I hope no one was hurt from my reckless spell slinging." Devon said
Albus smiled "only the wall dear boy. But you did give several teachers a fright. It's now we located you." The headmaster said
Devon nodded.
Snape glared around "but back to how the troll got in if it wasn't Ms Granger I can only think of one other person who would fit the bill to do this in this room. Something tells me he'd be quiet willing to do it so Glory Chasing and all that." He glaired at Devon as well as Harry. Neither boy knew if he was talking about themself or the other.
Snape looked at the headmaster " I will inform the house the Crisis has past and lead my students to there common room Goodnight Headmaster." He said as he left.
"You three should head back to the Common room as well. I want no talk of what went on here." There head of house said
Hermione started to walk but fell being caught by Ron and also helped by Devon "oh boy that's a big Showstopper. Madam Pompey your going to need a numbing potion and a infection nullifier for Ms. Granger here.
The mediwitch snapped into action "back of the leg? Very well lay on your stomach Ms Granger I'll levitate you to the hospital wing." She said
As the two headed off Leaving the boys alone with Mcgonigall and the Headmaster.
Devon patted them on the back "you should go I'll catch up with you later." He said
Harry and Ron left as did Mcgonigall who escorted them.
"I know you saw me signal you. Why didn't you interfere?" Devon asked
Dumbledore sighed "there are many secrets of hogwarts Mr. Oak, some are better kept out of hands of those who grasp them." The headmaster said mysteriously.
"So it wasn't a test for the Boy at all alright I'll accept that I did most of the heavy lifting myself anyways." He said
Dumbledore smiled a twinkle in his eye
"Yes although I do say if it was a test I'd say he passed quite well anyway… dinner is now being served in the common room I would hope you get there before it all goes cold. Happy halloween Mr. Oak." Albus said as he left
"Happy Samhain headmaster." Devon said as he made his way to the common room.
He finished his meal and noticed Harry and Ron were twiddling with there food looking sullen.
Devon was just about to intervene when the Portrait hole opened and Hermione stepped in.
Harry and Ron lit up instantly as they saw her and the three sat down and talked as if they were all brother and sister.
Devon looked over to see the mediwitch smiling and nod to him thanking him for his input on how to heal Hermonie.
Devon smiled as he got up from the table and headed to his room.
He reached his room and opened his truck at the foot of the bed and pulled out a smaller box.
He opened it and pulled out several ingredients. A bag of flour. A silver Bowl, a Bottle of water. And a Cloth.
He set the ingredients down and started to prepare the spell.
He put a fair bit of flour in the silver bowl and started to pour the water onto the flour, not enough to cover the flour but enough to make it damp. He then began to mash the flour and water mixture together.
After a bit of mixing he realized it was too damp and added a bit more flour into the mix and kept mixing.
Finally he had finished and he moved the Flour and Water mix onto the Cloth. Where he began to fold it. He tucked two fingers on the right side of the flour not all the way across but enough to get a nice hole in the middle. Devon then folded the other side of the mixture to cover his fingers and pinched the ends together before slowly pulling his fingers out leaving an air bubble in the mixture. He then began to seal the mixture with more of the Flour Water mix being careful not to break the air bubble. One that was done Devon stood up and went to his bed and grabbed his staff sliding his wand into the top he headed over to Spell again and in deep thinking the cloth tied itself up and began to steam, Devon was cooking the mixture.
Within a minute it was done and he carefully untied the cloth and set the basically hardtack offering cake off to the side as he began to clean up his work station.
Once he finished cleaning he got another bag from his trunk and put the Offering cake in the bag. Now all he had to do was wait.
As Night fell Devon noticed the students heading off to their rooms to sleep Devon followed to get his stuff and headed back to the common Room.
He found it empty, and sighed. As he headed to the portrait hole.
"And why are you up this time of night?" A voice said from behind him
Devon turned around to see Percy Weasley sitting in one of the red chairs.
"McGonagall sent me to collect you. She figured you'd do something like this. Follow me." He said as he got up and lead Devon to McGonagall's office.
"Professor is here." Percy said
"Thank you Mr. Weasley you may go." The Headmistress said
Percy nodded and left.
"I assume your doing your Druidic offering Ceremony tonight Mr Oak?" McGonagall asked
Devon nodded "I always do it on Samhain. The end of the year marks a time to give back to Nature so it can be used for the creation of next year."
The head of house nodded "and I assume it can't be done here." She said
Devon nodded "it has to be given freely by nature and freely taken by nature." He said
McGonagall nodded " I will escort you outside so you are not punished by Mr Felch but you are not to go in the forbidden forest." She said
Devon nodded "I was only going to be go into the courtyard." He said
McGonagall smiled and stood up
"Very well follow me." She said
She lead Devon outside and he buried the offering cake in the dirt saying a soft prayer thanking the universe for his outcome of getting to Hogwarts safety. And helping Harry and Ron save Hermione. Before wishing he'd be able to protect Harry until he was able to teach him enough to defend himself.
Devon stood up and followed McGonagall back to the common room
On the way they did run into Mr felch
"Ahh Students out of bed breaking curfew!" He said with a smile
"Mr. Oak is with me Mr felch." McGonagall said making mr felch deflate
"Rotten boy…worse than the deadly twins." He muttered as he walked off.
McGonagall lead Devon to the portrait hole.
"Tomorrow after transfiguration I want you to stay after so we can talk understood?" She asked
Devon nodded
"Good night Devon." She said as she walked away before turning
"I must say you do look a lot better with that staff than without." she said before leaving
Devon laid in his bed and nearly went to sleep.
Before he recognized the day
October 31th the day that… Voldemort attacked the Potters… Harry.
Devon shot up from the bed and entered Harry's dorm shaking the boy awake.
"Harry are you ok?" Devon asked
"Um…yeah…why wouldn't I be?" Harry asked
Devon was confused for a moment before he hid it with a smile he patted Harry on the shoulder "nothing mate get done good rest…" he said as he left before Harry could say a word.
The next day Devon sat in transfiguration class as they went over more critical theory as to what the Do's and don'ts are for transfiguration. Including the standard "don't transfigure your own damn wand."
Devon rolled his eyes at that one not because it was so obvious. He knew someone had to do it before so the rule had to made but what bothered him was every year someone who ask the same thing either "but how can you do magic without a wand? Or who would do such a thing?"
Unfortunately for Devon Hermione herself was the one to ask that question as he tried very hard to meld his head to the desk. Something the teacher made a remark of with a smile.
"If you're trying to meld your head to the deck Mr oak please keep at it I believe you almost have it." She said with a ghost of a smile. Before shifting to a more stirn tone to answer Hermione's question.
The class ended and everyone left but Devon who approached The teachers desk.
"Professor." Devon said
McGonagall looked up "do you have another class after this one Mr. Oak?" She asked
Devon shook his head "DADA. But it's mostly theory again and I don't mind skipping it." He said
Professor McGonagall nodded "yes, that Defendo was Certainly something else. I'd say you'd make Your Professor proud." She said
Devon rolled his eyes. As McGonagall continued
"Anyways I asked you here because I wanted to gauge your ability. To that point I want you to transfigure the list before you. Keep going down until your tired." McGonagall said
Devon saw the list a Rat to a Goblet. A stone block to a Statue. A butter knife to a spoon. A pin to a toothpick. Etc
Devon began and found he had exhausted the list quiet thoroughly even going so far as to change them all back again
McGonagall nodded
"Very well I see more testing is in order I'm not one for dueling but I master at Transfiguration. Let's see if you can do the same prepare yourself!" Merniva said
Devon snapped to see a deck flying at his face as he transfigured it into a pile of feathers.
McGonagall flicked her wand and suddenly Devon was in a snake pit. As Devon transfiguration the stone he was standing on to be 2 feet higher to avoid the snakes biting him.
The match went on for quite some time. But Devon found it to quiet a workout and McGonagall found it to be the most amount she had to use rapid transfiguration at once. And while a teacher was good for getting down simple spells. Devon allowed her to see she did have some rust on her.
"Thank you Mr. Oak you may go." McGonagall said
Devon was winded and panted and nodded "we really should do this again sometime Professor I found that most enjoyable." He said
Professor McGonagall smiled "we will see Mr. Oak." Was all she said
Devon left and headed to lunch.
Classes were good and ok. Devon watched as "the Golden Trio" as they called themselves talked and spoke in hushed voiced Devon Sat across from them.
"Is there something important your trying to hide? If so your doing a bad job at doing so." He said
Hermione rolled her eyes "honestly do you ever relax?" She asked as Ron and Harry looked at each other in shock
Suddenly the owl post came And Harry Happened to get a Nimbus 2000.
"Wha-how did you get that?" Devon asked
Harry explained the story to Devon about the weekend flying class and Malfoy taking Neville's remembrall
Devon scoffed "won't he ever learn?" Devon asked
"We ask ourself that everyday." Weasley said
"I've got practice the game is in two days." Harry said as he headed off.
Devon. Watched him go.
"Ok but seriously what are you hiding?" He asked
Hermione looked around "not here, meet us in the common room tonight and we will tell you." She said as they headed off
That night they filled Devon in about Fluffy. And the trapdoor. On Halloween Devon nodded
Hermione asked the question "by the way where were you. Ron and Harry went looking for you to talk to you about this but they couldn't find you." She said
Devon shrugged "I went outside." He said
"You went outside at night?!" Hermione gasped
"I was supervised." Devon rolled his eyes
"What were you doing out there?" Ron asked
Devon looked at Ron
"Druid stuff." He said
Ron said nothing more but Harry and Hermione still poked and prodded Devon turned the conversation over to fluffy and got back on track. Before they went to bed Devon in his mind thinking who would try to get past fluffy.
The next few days went by quickly as Devon noticed Everything. He had noticed the day before the Game Snape was limping. And scowling more than usual. It also just so happened to be the day Gryffindor and Slytherin had potions that day.
They entered the potion classroom and they noticed Snape was most vile today talking 150 points away from Gryffindor.
"Jeez it never ends with him." Ron huffed. At the end of the class as they headed off to lunch
Of course Fluffy wasn't the only thing on Devon's mind he had watched the Quidditch game as well between Gryffindor and Slitheryn where Harry made his debut as Seeker. Honestly he was there mostly to watch Harry; he had no interest in the sport just to make sure he was ok.
His heart leapt to his throat as he noticed Harry was bucking on his broom. And as Hagrid commented he knew it was something amiss.
Hermione and Ron ran off and Devon followed them as they reached the Teachers stand Hermione lit Snapes Robes on fire. And Devon zapped Quirrell with his hand. As he felt a dark force nearby emanating from Quirrell.
Devon looked at his hand once it was done he felt strange. Why did that happen? These questions would bug Devon for the rest of the year
The three of them returned to their seats just in time to see Harry grab the snitch. The game was over.
After the game Hermione and Ron explained to Harry what happened. And that Snape was the one to jinx his broom.
Harry connected the dots to say he was going after the things Fluffy was guarding.
Devon was too wrapped up in his investigation of what happened with Quirrell to warn them about the hearring they stumbled on with.
Eoc