The Elementals - Namacub95 (read book TXT) 📗

me that the juice from this plant's fruit cures Cocoa beans?" Professor Longbottom asked clearly unamused.

"No I mean! Uh...hay fever?" Keith said picking the first illness from his head.

"No this plant does not cure hay fever." Professor Longbottom said pinching his nose "It is a key ingredient in all Measles Remedies."

"Measles. Idiot!" Keith mumbled to himself.

Keith tried to stay on task for the rest of the lesson and not daydream again, a task easier said than done. His mind wandered off again and soon he was once again daydreaming.

This time he imagined he was in the centre of a battle, like the ones his parents sometimes talked about from when they were his age. Death Eaters surrounding him and nowhere to run there was only one option, stand and fight.

Ducking and dodging curses that were flying at him he fought. He sent hex after hex at his black robed opponents. They sent Unforgivables back at him, they were aiming to kill and he was aiming to survive.

His imagination summoned allies to help him and out of his mind came his sister, Albus, Rose and Scorpius. They stood side-by-side ready to duel and fight the Death Eaters. More curses fired and more spells shot back. Duck, dodge and fire was how the battle went in his mind.

Alice and Rose fought as a tag team fighting opponents then randomly switching to catch them off guard. Albus, Scorpius and himself fought several they were taking on some of the more aggressive Death Eaters and he seemed to be taking them further away from the girls. More curses fired but they failed to hit any of them while they seemed to be landing more hits.

RRRRRIIIINNGGGGG!

The bell sounded and Keith snapped out of his daydream yet again and moved like his classmates to put his books in his bag and vacate the greenhouse. It was the last class of the day thankfully because quite frankly Keith was ready to go to bed.

"Keith my I have a word?" Professor Longbottom asked. Keith groaned internally, he was really going to get it for not paying attention in class.

"Yes sir?" he asked.

"I noticed you seem to be distracted today. Is anything they matter?"

"Nothing I guess I just…wasn't all there."

"That's too bad because this is a very important year and you aren't doing very well in Herbology."

"I know…but…Herbology isn't really my subject." Keith admitted "No offence."

"Well Keith I'm sorry to hear that." Professor Longbottom said with a small frown "But I can give you extra help if you like…how about a tutor?"

"A tutor?" Keith asked.

"Yes Keith, a tutor." Professor Longbottom replied with a nod. "But first I need you to help me."

"What do you mean?" Keith asked confused about how he could possibly help his Herbology Professor.

"Have you seen my daughter today?"

"Shauna? No I haven't."

"I need you to help me find her. She's going to be your tutor."

"Oh…ok." Keith said with a shrug.

"Thank you Keith you can go now." Professor Longbottom said with a smile. Keith nodded and hurried out of the greenhouse following the other students to the Great Hall. That was all he had to do? Find Shauna Longbottom?

Keith frowned in thought about where he might find Shauna, he didn't really know her that well. He knew that she loved to duel and practically led the duelling club everyone had jokingly nicknamed it "Longbottom's Army". He decided to look for her after he had gotten some dinner.

Keith sat down at the Gryffindor table and pulled a bowl of stew towards himself. It wasn't long before Albus and Rose appeared followed by Alice and Scorpius.

"Hey Keith." They said as they sat down.

"Hey." Keith said swallowing a mouthful of stew.

"S'up with you?" Alice asked "You look very thoughtful."

"Have any of you lot seen Shauna Longbottom today?" he asked.

"No." Albus shook his head.

"Not me." Rose said

"Me either." Scorpius added.

"She was in my Defence Against the Dark Arts class but that was this morning." Alice said.

"Why do you want to know?" Rose asked.

"Professor Longbottom said I had to find her." Keith said "She's gonna be my Herbology tutor."

"I could have tutored you if you asked!" Rose said.

"You're my friend and all Rose but no offence…your kinda bossy." Keith replied.

"I'm not bossy!" Rose cried indignantly "Am I bossy?"

"A little." Albus said sheepishly.

"I am not!" Rose barked.

"You kinda are Rose but in a good way!" Alice said trying to save their friendship. Rose scowled and stabbed her fork into her pork with more force than necessary.

"Anyway Shauna is going to be my new Herbology tutor but Professor Longbottom asked me to find her for him."

"Why don't you ask James? He has the Marauders Map." Albus suggested.

"Yeah!" Keith said "I can't believe I didn't think of that! Thanks Al!" Keith shovelled the rest of his dinner into his mouth as fast as possible and ran off to find James.

Keith walked down the corridor keeping his eyes peeled for James. He saw Fred standing outside a broom closet with a sour expression on his face. Keith ran up to him, if anyone knew where James was it was Fred and Nicky.

"Hey Fred!" Keith called.

"Hey Keith." Fred replied.

"Fred do you know where James is?"

"Yeah, he's in the broom closet. Why?" Fred answered. Keith frowned, why was James in a broom closet?

"I need to borrow the Marauders Map." Keith said moving towards the door. Fred flung him arm across it to prevent Keith from entering.

"You can't go in there."

"But I need to see James."

"Sorry Keith but you can't go in there."

"I really need to see James."

"Seriously Keith! Don't go in there! You really don't want to."

"You don't understand! My Herbology OWL depends on me getting the Marauders Map!" Keith said shoving Fred's arm out of the way.

"Fine but don't say I didn't warn you."

Keith rolled his eyes at Fred and flung open the door of the broom closet and instantly covered his eyes. James and his cousin Nicky were inside and in the middle of a passionate kiss. Nicky and James were both shirtless but thankfully Nicky was still wearing her bra.

"Keith!" Nicky yelled in surprise and instantly stooped down to get her blouse. Keith slammed the door shut again his hand still covering his eyes.

"I told you didn't want to go in there." Fred said with a smug smirk. James emerged fully clothed from the broom closet five minutes later and looked murderous.

"What do you want Keith?" he asked.

"I need to find someone and I was wondering if I could borrow the Marauders Map." Keith said still feeling very awkward. James dug into his trouser pocket and pulled out the parchment.

"I solemnly swear I'm up to no good." James said taping it with his wand before handing it to Keith "When your finished tap it and say "Mischief Managed" and I want that back."

Keith nodded and took the Map from James and muttered a sheepish apology and sprinted off. Looking at the Map Keith saw the dots with names floating beside them moving around the page. Most of them were clustered in the Great Hall but a few were in the Common Rooms and some were wandering the corridors. He scanned the Map for any sign of Shauna Longbottom and found her dot in an empty classroom on the third floor.

Keith ran to the third floor with his eyes glued to the Map praying that Shauna wouldn't move. Mercifully she stayed were she was in the classroom. When Keith arrived at the classroom he tapped the Map

"Mischief Managed." He said and the parchment turned blank once again. Keith pushed open the door of the classroom and saw Shauna standing in the middle of the room with a Transfiguration textbook open on the desk beside her.

"Shauna!" Keith called and she turned to look at him. Shauna had shoulder length blonde hair, pale blue eyes and a round face like her father and like her mother was a Hufflepuff. Shauna narrowed her eyes at Keith.

"What do you want Downes?" she asked.

"Your dad asked me to find you." Keith answered. "He said you'd tutor me for Herbology."

"Did he?" Shauna said slamming her Transfiguration textbook shut.

"Yeah." Keith replied getting the feeling that Shauna wasn't particularly thrilled about tutoring him.

"Typical! Dad never asks me whether I want to do anything or not." Shauna muttered.

"Please? I really could use your help."

"Fine." Shauna said with a scowl "I'll tutor you."

"That's brilliant thanks!" Keith said happily. Shauna didn't respond to this and walked straight past Keith and out the door.

Chapter 9: The Five Elements Part 1

October 31st in Hogwarts was always a memorable occasion and this year would be no different. The student body was hyped up for the Hogwarts feast and this year there was going to be a party for the whole school which included fancy dress.

The teachers however saw the upcoming Halloween event differently than the students did and set an almost unbelievable amount of homework. This according to Keith was how the teachers celebrated Halloween.

As the holiday inched closer the students' moods soared and even the homework didn't seem to dampen the mood of celebration. The teachers however still set homeworks and expected them to be handed in by the next class, holiday or not.

Saturday 31st of October arrived and the Hall was decorated with pumpkins and live bats as per tradition and rumour was that Professor McGonagall was getting a troupe of dancing skeletons.

"I wish Rose, Terra and Alice would hurry up!" Keith moaned. Albus, Scorpius, Keith and Andrew were standing outside the Girl's Bathroom waiting for their three friends to finish getting ready. Keith was dressed as Frankenstein's monster, Scorpius was Superman, Albus was Indiana Jones fake whip and everything and Andrew was a vampire.

"Mate they're girls. It takes them forty minutes at least to get ready." Andrew said taking out his fake vampire fangs.

"Hey do you think Rose'll dress as Lois Lane for Scorp?" Keith asked with a snigger. Andrew and Albus burst into laughter and Scorpius turned red. "And maybe Terra will dress as that girl…Ella or something for Andrew." Andrew rolled his eyes at Keith while Albus and Scorpius were nearly doubled over in laughter.

"What are you lot laughing about?" Alice, Rose and Terra had all emerged from the bathroom. Terra was dressed as a 'sexy' devil and Rose was in a long eighteenth century dress and had her red hair in an elaborate hairstyle while Alice was wearing a knee-length black dress with purple boots and a purple witch's hat.

"Who are you supposed to be?" Keith asked Rose who rolled her eyes.

"Jane Eyre." She answered.

"Jane who?" Keith asked and Rose slapped his arm causing him to recoil before walking over to stand by Scorpius. Terra walked over to Andrew and gave him a peck on the cheek and they both waved goodbye to the five friends.

"Keith haven't you got anyone to go with?" Rose asked.

"Yeah, Shauna's going with me." Keith answered.

"Did she actually agreed to this or was