Harry Potter and the Book of Impossibility

Chapter 10 - Halloween

 

It was the week before Halloween, and Harry and Karlien had been studying the book his father and Sirius wrote about becoming an Animagus. They read it every night, they were reading for 2 weeks, and they still weren’t finished. But they thought they could finish it tonight.

They were lying in bed, reading. Harry, who read faster, had to wait every once in a while, because he had finished a page, and she didn’t. That gave him time to think about it.

‘Think of the animal you want to change into.’ The book had said.

Harry thought of an animal he wanted to change in. Could he change in several animals? No, he couldn’t, once you’ve decided what to become, you had to perform a terribly complex spell, which only worked if you performed it yourself, you have to drink an Animagus potion with the essence of the animal, and within a minute after you change back to human, you have to perform the spell.

Once you’ve performed the spell correctly, you can not change animal anymore, so there was no way to become two animals.

 

"This is going to be really hard," Harry said to Karlien, when they finally finished the book

"Were did you get essence of a Phoenix?" He asked her.

"That’s the point I failed becoming an Animagus," she said, "I couldn’t find a piece of a Phoenix. But I’m willing to try again, because I really want it."

"Do you think we should try this?" He asked.

"Yes, I do think it would be handy, especially now Voldemort’s back, we can hide better that way." She said.

"But should we let Ron and Hermione ‘play’ with us?" He asked.

"Why not? The more people, the higher the chances of success with one of us. But we can’t tell anybody else, not the ministry, not Sirius or Remus, not our parents, nobody."

"You’re right, we can’t tell anybody." He agreed.

"Which animal would like to become?" She asked.

"A lion." He said.

"Why that? Because it’s the Gryffindor symbol?" She asked

"No, because it’s one of the few things Voldemort is really afraid of, he could easily handle a lion, but because he’s afraid of it, he only stands looking at it, peeing in his pants, not able to do anything at all," he said, "nobody has total powers, nobody could either, everybody has a weakness." Said Harry.

"What’s you weakness?" She asked curious.

"Loosing you." He said, he gave her a kiss, and fell asleep.

She did the same, soon after him.

 

"Ron, which animal would you like to become?" Harry asked the next morning.

"I don’t know, why?" He said astonished, because he never expected this question.

"Never mind why, what’s you favourite animal?" Karlien asked.

"Well, not a spider, my favourite animal is a bat." Said Ron.

"A bat, why?" Hermione asked astonished.

"I don’t know, I just think they’re fascinating." Ron said.

"And you, Hermione?" Harry asked, turning to Hermione.

"An owl." She said.

"I wonder why…" Karlien said ironic.

"The Wise Owl, from all the fairy-tales, did your parents read fairy-tales to you too?" Ron asked.

"Yes," she said blushing furiously, "and I always liked them very much, especially the wise owl."

"And must have liked Batman, don’t you?" Hermione asked.

"Of course he doesn’t like Batman, he likes Spiderman!" Harry said, they all laughed, including Ron, who didn’t understand all this, because he was grown up in a wizard family, and had no idea what Batman and Spiderman is, but because all the others laughed, he laughed.

 

On Halloweens morning, when everybody was in the Great Hall to have breakfast, the Great Hall was decorated like every Halloween, Harry and co. were talking about nothing that was even remotely interesting.

Dumbledore was talking to Sirius and Remus, and Snape wasn’t there. What could have made a Halloween breakfast better? Exactly, nothing could. But making it worse, was possible, and one of the many things that could make worse, happened.

 

Suddenly, Snape ran into the Great Hall, just as Quirrell did when the troll was in the castle.

He ran straight to Dumbledore, and told him something nobody could hear, except Dumbledore.

"What do you think he’s telling him?" Ron asked.

"I’ve no idea, but I think it isn’t very good news. Did you see how he looked? He looks happy when terrible things happens, well, there must have happened something really bad, because he looked everything but happy." Harry concluded.

"Your right, let’s wait what happens." Ron said.

Everybody in the Great Hall was looking at Dumbledore and Snape, all the student, the teachers, the ghosts and even all people in the paintings on the wall.

 

"Excuse me, I will be right back," He said to the whole Great Hall, "Minerva, Sirius, Remus, Severus, will you please come with me? Ronald, Virginia, Fred and George Weasley, you come too."

Ron looked shocked, Ginny, Fred and George did too, they were afraid something bad happened to their family. They stood up, and realised all the eyes were pointed at them. They all followed Dumbledore into a room next to the Great Hall, the same room Harry had to go when he was chosen as fourth champion.

 

"There has been an attack, done by death eaters." He began, he almost whispered, and very slow.

Ron held his breath, he was sure he didn’t wanted to hear what he was going to hear next.

"Cornelius Fudge has been killed last night, in his house, he was found death this morning, by Percy Weasley, he was looking why he was late, because they were going to start the trail on the Malfoys today, and he found him death. Not Only Cornelius, but also his wife and six children, the oldest child was twelve years old, were killed.

I’ve asked you to come with us," He said to the Weasleys, "because your father will be Minister now, and we will be protecting your family, you will be protected just as Harry Potter is protected. It will make it impossible for someone who wants to do harm, come within a mile radius of your house, the ministry has the same protection, and Hogwarts has its own ways of protection. You can go now, you can tell your friends, but this has to remain silent as much as possible, do you understand?"

"Yes, we do." They all said. And they left, back to the Great Hall.

 

"What happened?" Hermione said.

And Ron told the whole story.

Harry, Karlien and Hermione were shocked, just as the others who heard it.

"They killed his children too? That’s just cruel!" Karlien said.

"Yeah, that’s why Voldemort and the Death Eaters did it." Harry said.

"So your father is Minister Of Magic now?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, I don’t know if he’s glad being it." Ron said, with a very sad, and low voice, looking to his knees, thinking about how dangerous it must be to be Minister Of Magic. He was in great danger now too.

"Come on Ron," Hermione said, putting her arms around him, and laying his head on her shoulder, trying to comfort him, "Be glad nothing to your family happened."

"Yet" Ron said.

"O come on Ron, you will be protected very good, everyone in your family will." Karlien said, who was now trying to comfort Ginny.

"She’s right," Harry said, "there’s no need to worry, because nothing will happen."

 

They spent the rest of the day trying to forget the events of that morning, by practising on becoming Animagus. They were practising the spell, because if you performed it wrong, terrible things could happen.

Then they were discussing how to get lion, bat and Phoenix pieces. "Owl can’t be a problem, but we’ll have to go to Hogsmeade to buy lion, bat and Phoenix pieces," Hermione said, "Phoenix feathers are really expensive, but you can buy them everywhere, I believe lion’s hair is only for sale in special potion shop, but there’s such a shop in Hogsmeade, and you can buy bat hear in Zonkos."

"I guess we’re lucky, tomorrow we can go Hogsmeade, without breaking rules, which by the way doesn’t matter to me, but makes it easier." Karlien said.

"Yeah, lets buy everything tomorrow." Harry said.

They went to the common room, where the radio was tuned on Wizard FM, Barry Paf was just talking and pronouncing a song, The Weird Sisters - Of course I can love you.

I was a nice song, but not as good as the songs Karlien requested at the disco. They decided to write a fastparchment to Barry Paf.

 

Hi Barry,

 

How are you doing? We’re fine.

We would like to request a song.

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping, we know it’s a strange name, but it’s a real good song.

 

Love,

 

Karlien (and Harry, Ron and Hermione)

 

Five minutes later, Barry pronounced the requested song, and they al really enjoyed it.

They had a great night, almost as good as with the disco itself, and when it was eleven o’clock, everybody went to bed, Harry, Karlien, Ron and Hermione did too. Ron and Hermione went to bed right away, but Harry and Karlien took a romantic bath. They were playing with the taps, Karlien was learning him how to swim good, and she was also learning him some Dutch words, which she had been doing a lot lately, she hoped he could master the Dutch language, and it worked very well, he was very talented on languages. He could introduce himself, and knew some verbs. His pronunciation was terrible, but she could understand him, and was sure her family could understand him too, when he had to talk to them in Dutch.

 

Before they knew it, it was 1 o’clock, and left the bathroom, straight to bed.

"Let’s do it now." She said with a very naughty voice.

"Let’s do what?" said Harry, while he made the privacy screen.

"What we’ve planned for Christmas." She said.

"What? Do I have to ask you to marry me right now? Unprepared?" he asked.

"No silly! The other thing, you know what I mean."

"Won’t you become pregnant then?" He asked.

"Impossible!"

"Why?"

"Because of the time I’m in with my period, you know how that works?" she asked.

"Yes, a little bit, I heard Petunia talk to Dudley about it once, I still haven’t figured out why she did that."

"Well, you can only become pregnant when you do it between the 8^th and 18^th day, that’s what they say. It’s my second day now, so I can’t become pregnant now. And if I become it, I can let it taken away in the hospital wing."

"Ah, I get it. But how do you know that you can let it be taken away in the hospital way, do you have experience with it?"

"No I haven’t, this’ll be my first time. How I know it? I know someone who became pregnant accidentally." She said.

"You make me really curious you know, who was it?"

"I can’t tell you, I promised her not to tell it, she was desperate, and the ‘father’ didn’t know about it." She said.

"Come on, I won’t tell anybody else." He begged.

"Nope, I won’t tell you." She said.

"Since when do we have secrets for each other? I told you things I didn’t even told Ron and Hermione, I swore Dumbledore not to tell them."

"Okay, I’ll tell, but promise not to tell the ‘father’ or anybody else."

"I promise." He said.

"It was Hermione, you remember when they told us about the deal they made for the first day at Hogwarts?"

"Yes, the same deal we have for Christmas, and we’re going to do early, with Halloween, tonight." He said.

"Yes, that deal," she said, "well, it made her pregnant, she was horrified someone would find out, She didn’t want to tell Ron, or any other boy. I was the only girl she trusted, so she told me. I suggested her to go to Madame Pomfrey, she asked me to come with her, I did.

Madame Pomfrey gave her a potion, and it was gone. She also promised not to tell anybody." She said.

Harry was shocked, Hermione pregnant? From Ron?

"Please tell me if you are pregnant, I really want to know, don’t act like Hermione. Because I really think it’s important for the boy to know it."

"We’ll just avoid me becoming pregnant, agree?"

"Agree."

"But back to my earlier question, Lets do it now!"

"Okay" he said nervous, and he performed a privacy screen so powerful, that even I, the writer of this book, wasn’t able to see through it.