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Chapter 3 : First Classes
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"This is a really odd place. Moving suits of armor, moving and talking pictures... almost feels like some kind of muggle carnival house." said Cedric as he strolled down the hallways, Sirius walking behind him.
"I'm sure Muggle Carnivals wouldn't get this wierd," stated Sirius as he clasped his hands behind his head and leaned back on them. "Well, except for the bearded lady."
Cedric chuckled as they rounded the corner. Pausing in his tracks, Cedric made a "hmm" sound as he looked around the area. "This looks like the third hallway, near the Status Magic Classroom. So if we head down this way, and down that corridor and down those stairs, and around the corner and Filch's cat...."
Sirius began to whistle the theme to Mission : Impossible and Cedric glared at him. Sirius grinned at him but continued to whistle as the two spirits walked down the hallway, past the open door of the supposed Status Magic Classroom and Sirius paused. "Hey, I wanna check out what's going on in here," said Sirius and without preamble, walked into the open classroom.
"Sirius, no!" Cedric exclaimed but grumbled and walked in after him.
Inside, Professor Flitwick had not noticed the pair of spirits standing at the back of the room as the fifth year Gryffindors had Charms Class. They were levitating Cannonballs around the room and doing a remarkable job of it. "Nice float spell," remarked Cedric.
"Feh, I can do better," remarked Sirius. Cedric gave his fellow aeon a look. "All right, I can't. Are you happy now?"
"Can you please keep it down?" asked a girl from the back row as she turned around, exasperated. "We're... erk!"
"We're erk?" quipped Sirius. "I'm sure that's an appalation for a spirit I haven't heard of yet."
The girl looked back and forth at the pair and Cedric said in a low voice, "I knew you shouldn't have walked in here."
"What's the harm? Not like I'm an escaped convict, right?" said Sirius.
The girl, now identified as Lavender Brown of Gryffindor, at least by Cedric's reckoning, passed out. The act of passing out though made several turn around. Three kids in the front of the classroom turned around and one of them made Sirius and Cedric pause. "Oops," said Cedric.
At the shocked stare of one Harry Potter, not the one they were accompanied by, Cedric laughed and said, "Sorry, took a wrong turn at Muggle London. I was headed for the Blitz Stadium. No one know where it is? Good! We'll be on our way. SIRIUS RUN!"
The pair bolted for the door, got wedged in it, popped out and charged down the hallway. "I KNEW YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE WALKED IN THERE!" shouted Cedric as they tore down the hall, nearly bowling Sir Nicholas over as they skidded around the hallway.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING SOONER?!" exclaimed Sirius.
"GOD I HATE YOU!"
"THE FEELING'S MUTUAL!"
Back in the classroom, Hermione shook Harry. "Harry? Are you all right?"
"That.... was Cedric," whispered Harry. "But... he's supposed to be dead.... and Sirius isn't...."
With that, the Boy Who Lived passed out.
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Harry shook his head as the two Aeons leaned against the wall, looking side to side in case of any persuers. When Harry had felt the panic flow through their link, he had immediately excused himself from the class and rushed down the hallway to where the pair were panting. Technically, they did not need to breathe, but old habits die hard. He folded his arms across his chest and said, "You just couldn't help but step into that classroom, could you Sirius?"
"What can I say? I can't resist." Sirius retorted with a smirk. Cedric paused to give him a glare and the elder Aeon stuck his tongue out at him.
In the hallway, there was an audible pop as a harried man dressed in the armor of the Paladin seemed to skid out of Harry's chest. Brushing himself off, he shook his head and grumbled, "That went well."
"Hullo James," said Sirius with a grin. "Did the fight with Lily go any well?"
"Not really," grumbled James. "I lost and she kicked me out of the soul for a while."
Cedric laughed and Harry shook his head to avoid letting his father see the the smirk that was threatening to turn into a ear to ear grin. James glared at the Holy Aeon and rumbled, "Just you wait until you're married to some nice spirit."
"I doubt that'll happen anytime soon," replied Cedric flippantly. "There's not very many dead girls I have my eye on."
"I heard that there's a very nice girl haunting a lavatory somewhere around here," quipped Sirius and Cedic stuck his tongue out at Sirius.
The four men shared a hearty laugh as a soft chime rang in the hallway. Harry looked around and said, "I think you three need to get back in here or make yourselves scarce. The next class is about to start."
"Can't we go and follow you? Lily said she'll flog me if I take one step into the soul." The look on James' face was too much and Harry laughed.
"All right, all right, just stay mostly out of sight." Harry replied, pulling out some parchment. "Lets see. I want to sit in on this Care of Magical Creatures."
"Care of Magical Creatures. Sounds a lot like Trainer classes." remarked Cedric as the four headed downstairs towards the ground floor.
"It should," said Sirius who had taken the parchment from Harry and was scanning it. "It has Hagrid as the teacher."
"I wonder if he still has his preference for dangerous fiends," said Cedric idely. "Those classes alone had half of the class being subdued by a rampaging fiend. The other half eventually had to blast it into pyreflies."
Harry rubbed his neck at the memory of the innocent looking Gimme Cat that had jumped on Ron and began to maul his face when he had teased it. It was wierd looking, but fierce when you were younger and untrained in the methods of dispatching it. "I'd say that's a safe bet at times. Most of the students I've spoken to said that he's brought in some interesting things in the past. Hippogryphs, Blast-ended Skrewts...."
"Skrewt?" inquired James, confused. "That's an odd one."
"It's like a hybrid of something. Some kind of manticore and fire based creature. Shoots sparks out of it's rear end. Last year the students had to tend for theirs. Nasty looking things from what I heard of." Harry shrugged as he pushed the doors open and headed towards Hagrid's hut where most of the seventh year Gryffindor and Ravenclaws were standing around. Instead of the towering form of the half-giant, there was a woman standing in front. Beside her was a unicorn, presumably the topic of today's subject.
The three spirits skulked around the fringes of the forest as Harry ran up to a greeting by Fred. "Hullo James," greeted Fred with a hearty slap on the back. "Glad you got here so quickly. Professor Grubby-Plank is about to talk."
"Unicorns," said Grubby-Plank, a woman Harry had been introduced to on his third night in the castle. "Magnificent Creatures they are. Normally preferring a woman's touch, they will approach anything with a pure heart. Careful now, don't want to startle them. Now, what are the most magical parts of the unicorn?" Hands raised and to Harry's surprise, George's went up first. "Yes, Mr. Weasley."
"The Horn, the blood and the tail hairs," answered George as Grubby-Plank nodded.
"That's right," replied Grubby-Plank as she patted the unicorn on the flank. "The horn is a rather powerful magical artifact that can be used for many potions, but sadly the removal would kill the unicorn. The blood of the unicorn can be drunk and sustain someone even from certian death, but would give them a cursed half-life. The tail hairs we normally take for wand cores and provide power depending on how strong the creature is."
Harry raised an eyebrow as he listened intently to the lesson. Behind Hagrid's shack, Sirius turned to Cedric and said, "That's a lot of uses from unicorns. Wonder if they're good eating too." James gave his fellow spirit a punch in the shoulder as Cedric shook his head and chuckled.
"Is food all you think about?" grumbled James.
"It can be, when you've been dead for a while. Fortunately we can eat in our Aeon forms."
"At least your Aeon forms are travel sized for convenience," pointed out Cedric. "I'm what, as tall as this castle?"
"Speaking of Aeons, we've never seen the Longbottom kid pull of any summonings. You think he doesn't have an Aeon?" asked James thoughtfully.
"Probably not," said Sirius, shaking his head. "During the fight in the Ministry, he was doing a lot of dispatching though with his Black Magic and I saw fancy knife work there. But I have to say no. Frank and Alice aren't dead, just insane from hours of torture. The only reason why Lily and I are around is because we got offed by Voldie." James rubbed his neck in memory of Voldemort's Black Magic ripping into him, killing him with a combonation of Aeon and Flare spells. The memory of Diablos' Gravity based powers crushing him to the floor was heavy on his mind. God how James hated Gravity based spells.
"I know that look," said Sirius with a quirk of his eyebrows. "You're thinking about those Gravity spells again, aren't you?"
"God I hate those things," grumbled James.
Cedric sighed and shrugged. "At least you didn't get offed by a concentrated Flare spell. I was totally unprepared for that and it hurt. REALLY hurt. I was lucky to drag my soul out of my body to join with Harry before Dark and Ugly got to me."
"You STABBED Voldemort at least," said Sirius with a snarl. "I didn't get a chance to do anything to him before my bitch of a cousin zapped me good with a Thundaga."
James looked puzzled for a moment as he tapped his chin and said, "You didn't DIE from the Thundaga though."
"Naw, but the shock was enough to send me flying into an Ultima spell headed my way. I'm surprised Malfoy was able to fling that blasted thing off before he was knifed by Longbottom. Of course the blasted fool had a Phoenix Down equipped before he died. Otherwise, we may have avoided dealing with the git later in life." Sirius snorted as he watched the Unicorn wander around the girls of the seventh year. He was rather amused to see the Unicorn steer clear of Fred but not George for some odd reason that was unfathomable to him.
"Death by Ultima. I'm surprised Malfoy was able to cast that thing in the middle of the Ministry," said Cedric, shaking his head.
James frowned as he folded his arms. "Wait... they finished research into the Ultima Spell? I thought the Tenth Level was out of bounds still."
"Apparently not for Dark Knights and Black Mages," replied Sirius with a scowl. "Dumbledore long suspected that those Dark Knights had access to Ultima spells. Be glad you're not of Longbottom's family. I heard that ninth level spell known as Hadoken really kills."
"What's next?" asked Cedric as Sirius scanned the sheet. The class was dispersing at the call of Grubby-Plank and Harry was headed over to their hiding spot.
"Harry's got a free one. I think he's gonna spend the time doing stuff." At their looks, Sirius shrugged. "Stuff, you know. I don't know what he's going to do exactly."
"Blitzball practice," replied Harry as he walked up. Fishing out a Blitzball from his Personal Inventory he bounced it off Sirius' head, causing the spirit to grumble and rub his head. "Anyone up for a quick game in the lake?"
"I'm game," chorused Cedric and James with a wide grin and Sirius smirked.
"Bring it on, bucky," he said with a best as he could, western drawl as the four raced down to the lake.
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"There's something odd about your cousin, Harry," said Ron as the pair walked down the stairs towards their own class with Professor Grubby-Plank. "He's a odd duck that one, and looks just like you."
Harry grunted in thought, thinking of his detention with the famous or more like Infamous Professor Umbridge. "I suppose there's some odd things about him. Why didn't I go to my cousins instead of the Dursley's?"
Hermione clucked her tongue. "Apparently, both families didn't get along very well from what Professor McGonagall told me."
"There's something really odd about him," said Ron as he pushed the door open and stepped out into the sunshine. He then blinked and said, "There he is now."
Looking over down towards the lake, Hermione gasped as James Potter dived into the lake, holding a blue and white ball. "He shouldn't do that," she said, worried. "It's absolutely filthy this time of year, and there's all sorts of things in there."
"Merpeople, the Giant Squid," Harry ticked off on his fingers. Watching the waters calm down, he frowned and said, "He's been down there for a while. Shouldn't he have surfaced by now?"
"Bubblehead charm?" said Ron. "A lot of students know it."
Hermione shook her head. "I didn't see a charm being performed before he jumped in."
Suddenly, the water exploded upwards as a ball soared into the air. Before anyone could comment on it, James erupted from the water and spun around in an elaborate wind up before smashing the ball deep into the water with a tremendous kick. In a nearly seamless dive from his high jump, he lanced into the water, dissapearing without a trace.
Ron and Harry were gaping at the height of the jump as it had to have been 20 feet that he launched himself from the water's edge. Hermione blinked several times before exclaiming, "That's not physically possible!"
Suddenly the ball exploded from the water once more as a roaring beast-like creature grabbed it, chuckled in a deep voice and launched it with a cry of "Potter Shot FOUR!"
Another figure leapt out of the water, a small little green creature that for all intents and purposes, was the cutest thing they had ever seen. It proceeded to tackle the fire creature out of the air as a teenager launched itself out of the air, this one solid but with glowing energy around him. He caught the ball and shouted, "Sirius, overhead launch!"
The small green thing named Sirius grabbed the ball and shouted, "Puppy Dog Charge!" before diving into the water. The beast thing splashed down, his high jump arc terminated by the green thing's tackle and the teenager splashed into the water.
Blinking. And more blinking. And a breathed, "Bloody hell," from Ron.
"The hang in the air time.... those things defy the laws of physics," Hermione muttered, her mind racing.
Harry swallowed at the thought of the sheer oddities his cousin brought with him. "Lets have a chat with him, shall we?"
"Right..." said Ron, following with Hermione on their heels.
Chapter 3 : First Classes
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"This is a really odd place. Moving suits of armor, moving and talking pictures... almost feels like some kind of muggle carnival house." said Cedric as he strolled down the hallways, Sirius walking behind him.
"I'm sure Muggle Carnivals wouldn't get this wierd," stated Sirius as he clasped his hands behind his head and leaned back on them. "Well, except for the bearded lady."
Cedric chuckled as they rounded the corner. Pausing in his tracks, Cedric made a "hmm" sound as he looked around the area. "This looks like the third hallway, near the Status Magic Classroom. So if we head down this way, and down that corridor and down those stairs, and around the corner and Filch's cat...."
Sirius began to whistle the theme to Mission : Impossible and Cedric glared at him. Sirius grinned at him but continued to whistle as the two spirits walked down the hallway, past the open door of the supposed Status Magic Classroom and Sirius paused. "Hey, I wanna check out what's going on in here," said Sirius and without preamble, walked into the open classroom.
"Sirius, no!" Cedric exclaimed but grumbled and walked in after him.
Inside, Professor Flitwick had not noticed the pair of spirits standing at the back of the room as the fifth year Gryffindors had Charms Class. They were levitating Cannonballs around the room and doing a remarkable job of it. "Nice float spell," remarked Cedric.
"Feh, I can do better," remarked Sirius. Cedric gave his fellow aeon a look. "All right, I can't. Are you happy now?"
"Can you please keep it down?" asked a girl from the back row as she turned around, exasperated. "We're... erk!"
"We're erk?" quipped Sirius. "I'm sure that's an appalation for a spirit I haven't heard of yet."
The girl looked back and forth at the pair and Cedric said in a low voice, "I knew you shouldn't have walked in here."
"What's the harm? Not like I'm an escaped convict, right?" said Sirius.
The girl, now identified as Lavender Brown of Gryffindor, at least by Cedric's reckoning, passed out. The act of passing out though made several turn around. Three kids in the front of the classroom turned around and one of them made Sirius and Cedric pause. "Oops," said Cedric.
At the shocked stare of one Harry Potter, not the one they were accompanied by, Cedric laughed and said, "Sorry, took a wrong turn at Muggle London. I was headed for the Blitz Stadium. No one know where it is? Good! We'll be on our way. SIRIUS RUN!"
The pair bolted for the door, got wedged in it, popped out and charged down the hallway. "I KNEW YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE WALKED IN THERE!" shouted Cedric as they tore down the hall, nearly bowling Sir Nicholas over as they skidded around the hallway.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING SOONER?!" exclaimed Sirius.
"GOD I HATE YOU!"
"THE FEELING'S MUTUAL!"
Back in the classroom, Hermione shook Harry. "Harry? Are you all right?"
"That.... was Cedric," whispered Harry. "But... he's supposed to be dead.... and Sirius isn't...."
With that, the Boy Who Lived passed out.
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Harry shook his head as the two Aeons leaned against the wall, looking side to side in case of any persuers. When Harry had felt the panic flow through their link, he had immediately excused himself from the class and rushed down the hallway to where the pair were panting. Technically, they did not need to breathe, but old habits die hard. He folded his arms across his chest and said, "You just couldn't help but step into that classroom, could you Sirius?"
"What can I say? I can't resist." Sirius retorted with a smirk. Cedric paused to give him a glare and the elder Aeon stuck his tongue out at him.
In the hallway, there was an audible pop as a harried man dressed in the armor of the Paladin seemed to skid out of Harry's chest. Brushing himself off, he shook his head and grumbled, "That went well."
"Hullo James," said Sirius with a grin. "Did the fight with Lily go any well?"
"Not really," grumbled James. "I lost and she kicked me out of the soul for a while."
Cedric laughed and Harry shook his head to avoid letting his father see the the smirk that was threatening to turn into a ear to ear grin. James glared at the Holy Aeon and rumbled, "Just you wait until you're married to some nice spirit."
"I doubt that'll happen anytime soon," replied Cedric flippantly. "There's not very many dead girls I have my eye on."
"I heard that there's a very nice girl haunting a lavatory somewhere around here," quipped Sirius and Cedic stuck his tongue out at Sirius.
The four men shared a hearty laugh as a soft chime rang in the hallway. Harry looked around and said, "I think you three need to get back in here or make yourselves scarce. The next class is about to start."
"Can't we go and follow you? Lily said she'll flog me if I take one step into the soul." The look on James' face was too much and Harry laughed.
"All right, all right, just stay mostly out of sight." Harry replied, pulling out some parchment. "Lets see. I want to sit in on this Care of Magical Creatures."
"Care of Magical Creatures. Sounds a lot like Trainer classes." remarked Cedric as the four headed downstairs towards the ground floor.
"It should," said Sirius who had taken the parchment from Harry and was scanning it. "It has Hagrid as the teacher."
"I wonder if he still has his preference for dangerous fiends," said Cedric idely. "Those classes alone had half of the class being subdued by a rampaging fiend. The other half eventually had to blast it into pyreflies."
Harry rubbed his neck at the memory of the innocent looking Gimme Cat that had jumped on Ron and began to maul his face when he had teased it. It was wierd looking, but fierce when you were younger and untrained in the methods of dispatching it. "I'd say that's a safe bet at times. Most of the students I've spoken to said that he's brought in some interesting things in the past. Hippogryphs, Blast-ended Skrewts...."
"Skrewt?" inquired James, confused. "That's an odd one."
"It's like a hybrid of something. Some kind of manticore and fire based creature. Shoots sparks out of it's rear end. Last year the students had to tend for theirs. Nasty looking things from what I heard of." Harry shrugged as he pushed the doors open and headed towards Hagrid's hut where most of the seventh year Gryffindor and Ravenclaws were standing around. Instead of the towering form of the half-giant, there was a woman standing in front. Beside her was a unicorn, presumably the topic of today's subject.
The three spirits skulked around the fringes of the forest as Harry ran up to a greeting by Fred. "Hullo James," greeted Fred with a hearty slap on the back. "Glad you got here so quickly. Professor Grubby-Plank is about to talk."
"Unicorns," said Grubby-Plank, a woman Harry had been introduced to on his third night in the castle. "Magnificent Creatures they are. Normally preferring a woman's touch, they will approach anything with a pure heart. Careful now, don't want to startle them. Now, what are the most magical parts of the unicorn?" Hands raised and to Harry's surprise, George's went up first. "Yes, Mr. Weasley."
"The Horn, the blood and the tail hairs," answered George as Grubby-Plank nodded.
"That's right," replied Grubby-Plank as she patted the unicorn on the flank. "The horn is a rather powerful magical artifact that can be used for many potions, but sadly the removal would kill the unicorn. The blood of the unicorn can be drunk and sustain someone even from certian death, but would give them a cursed half-life. The tail hairs we normally take for wand cores and provide power depending on how strong the creature is."
Harry raised an eyebrow as he listened intently to the lesson. Behind Hagrid's shack, Sirius turned to Cedric and said, "That's a lot of uses from unicorns. Wonder if they're good eating too." James gave his fellow spirit a punch in the shoulder as Cedric shook his head and chuckled.
"Is food all you think about?" grumbled James.
"It can be, when you've been dead for a while. Fortunately we can eat in our Aeon forms."
"At least your Aeon forms are travel sized for convenience," pointed out Cedric. "I'm what, as tall as this castle?"
"Speaking of Aeons, we've never seen the Longbottom kid pull of any summonings. You think he doesn't have an Aeon?" asked James thoughtfully.
"Probably not," said Sirius, shaking his head. "During the fight in the Ministry, he was doing a lot of dispatching though with his Black Magic and I saw fancy knife work there. But I have to say no. Frank and Alice aren't dead, just insane from hours of torture. The only reason why Lily and I are around is because we got offed by Voldie." James rubbed his neck in memory of Voldemort's Black Magic ripping into him, killing him with a combonation of Aeon and Flare spells. The memory of Diablos' Gravity based powers crushing him to the floor was heavy on his mind. God how James hated Gravity based spells.
"I know that look," said Sirius with a quirk of his eyebrows. "You're thinking about those Gravity spells again, aren't you?"
"God I hate those things," grumbled James.
Cedric sighed and shrugged. "At least you didn't get offed by a concentrated Flare spell. I was totally unprepared for that and it hurt. REALLY hurt. I was lucky to drag my soul out of my body to join with Harry before Dark and Ugly got to me."
"You STABBED Voldemort at least," said Sirius with a snarl. "I didn't get a chance to do anything to him before my bitch of a cousin zapped me good with a Thundaga."
James looked puzzled for a moment as he tapped his chin and said, "You didn't DIE from the Thundaga though."
"Naw, but the shock was enough to send me flying into an Ultima spell headed my way. I'm surprised Malfoy was able to fling that blasted thing off before he was knifed by Longbottom. Of course the blasted fool had a Phoenix Down equipped before he died. Otherwise, we may have avoided dealing with the git later in life." Sirius snorted as he watched the Unicorn wander around the girls of the seventh year. He was rather amused to see the Unicorn steer clear of Fred but not George for some odd reason that was unfathomable to him.
"Death by Ultima. I'm surprised Malfoy was able to cast that thing in the middle of the Ministry," said Cedric, shaking his head.
James frowned as he folded his arms. "Wait... they finished research into the Ultima Spell? I thought the Tenth Level was out of bounds still."
"Apparently not for Dark Knights and Black Mages," replied Sirius with a scowl. "Dumbledore long suspected that those Dark Knights had access to Ultima spells. Be glad you're not of Longbottom's family. I heard that ninth level spell known as Hadoken really kills."
"What's next?" asked Cedric as Sirius scanned the sheet. The class was dispersing at the call of Grubby-Plank and Harry was headed over to their hiding spot.
"Harry's got a free one. I think he's gonna spend the time doing stuff." At their looks, Sirius shrugged. "Stuff, you know. I don't know what he's going to do exactly."
"Blitzball practice," replied Harry as he walked up. Fishing out a Blitzball from his Personal Inventory he bounced it off Sirius' head, causing the spirit to grumble and rub his head. "Anyone up for a quick game in the lake?"
"I'm game," chorused Cedric and James with a wide grin and Sirius smirked.
"Bring it on, bucky," he said with a best as he could, western drawl as the four raced down to the lake.
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"There's something odd about your cousin, Harry," said Ron as the pair walked down the stairs towards their own class with Professor Grubby-Plank. "He's a odd duck that one, and looks just like you."
Harry grunted in thought, thinking of his detention with the famous or more like Infamous Professor Umbridge. "I suppose there's some odd things about him. Why didn't I go to my cousins instead of the Dursley's?"
Hermione clucked her tongue. "Apparently, both families didn't get along very well from what Professor McGonagall told me."
"There's something really odd about him," said Ron as he pushed the door open and stepped out into the sunshine. He then blinked and said, "There he is now."
Looking over down towards the lake, Hermione gasped as James Potter dived into the lake, holding a blue and white ball. "He shouldn't do that," she said, worried. "It's absolutely filthy this time of year, and there's all sorts of things in there."
"Merpeople, the Giant Squid," Harry ticked off on his fingers. Watching the waters calm down, he frowned and said, "He's been down there for a while. Shouldn't he have surfaced by now?"
"Bubblehead charm?" said Ron. "A lot of students know it."
Hermione shook her head. "I didn't see a charm being performed before he jumped in."
Suddenly, the water exploded upwards as a ball soared into the air. Before anyone could comment on it, James erupted from the water and spun around in an elaborate wind up before smashing the ball deep into the water with a tremendous kick. In a nearly seamless dive from his high jump, he lanced into the water, dissapearing without a trace.
Ron and Harry were gaping at the height of the jump as it had to have been 20 feet that he launched himself from the water's edge. Hermione blinked several times before exclaiming, "That's not physically possible!"
Suddenly the ball exploded from the water once more as a roaring beast-like creature grabbed it, chuckled in a deep voice and launched it with a cry of "Potter Shot FOUR!"
Another figure leapt out of the water, a small little green creature that for all intents and purposes, was the cutest thing they had ever seen. It proceeded to tackle the fire creature out of the air as a teenager launched itself out of the air, this one solid but with glowing energy around him. He caught the ball and shouted, "Sirius, overhead launch!"
The small green thing named Sirius grabbed the ball and shouted, "Puppy Dog Charge!" before diving into the water. The beast thing splashed down, his high jump arc terminated by the green thing's tackle and the teenager splashed into the water.
Blinking. And more blinking. And a breathed, "Bloody hell," from Ron.
"The hang in the air time.... those things defy the laws of physics," Hermione muttered, her mind racing.
Harry swallowed at the thought of the sheer oddities his cousin brought with him. "Lets have a chat with him, shall we?"
"Right..." said Ron, following with Hermione on their heels.