Chapter 12

Haven Shuttle Port

They shuttle touched down smoothly on one of the ramps that were prepared for incoming shuttles.

“Alright,” said Holly once the motors on the shuttle were turned off. “You six better get under the cloak to stop you being seen. We’ll head to my appartment and then to police plaza. I want to see how our friend Sool is going to handle a dungbomb or two.”

The six humans nodded and they slipped under the cloak.

The door to the shuttle opened and Holly stepped out. Foaly was the next and finally the people that were hidden under the invisibility cloak.

They walked down the ramp which proved to be a little tricky for the humans because they were a lot bigger then they steps. Finally they rached the bottom of the ramp and turned their attention to the exit of the complex.

They made straight for it.

Once they exited the building the humans couldn’t help it. Their mouths dropped open. (Even Artemis’s mouth opened a little)

They had never seen anything like it in their entire lives. There were people the size of Holly a fair number of them did not resemble her at all. They saw sprtes, gnomes, pixies, elves, centaurs, dwarfs and goblens all jumbled up together. They looked at the high tech buildings around them.

“Holly?” said Harry quietly. “Could we head to the police Plaza first. I think that we need to get this pranking over with and then we can have a good laugh at your appartment.”

“Good idea,” repied Holly. “We’ll head straight for the plaza. When we get there I can slip under the cloak and Foaly can just walk in there. Once we’re in the ops booth we can plan our next move.”

They turned left and headed towards the tallest building that was vissible from the shuttle port. They reached it in around five minutes.

Holly carefully slipped under the cloak and found herself able to see the six humans.

They all headed towards the entrance doors. The two officers looked at Foaly and allowed him through. The other seven Marauders followed and found themselves in a crowded reception desk. They made their way accross it to the double doors that lead to the rest of the building. They climbed up a few flights of stairs and many corridors till they reached a door which looked like it had extra sicurity. Foaly brought up one hairy palm and placed it on a DNA scanner. It scanned his fingerprints and a ligt beeped green. The doors slid open with a pneumatic hiss.

Inside was the biggest amount of electrical equipment that any of the humans had ever seen. There were at least twenty screens in the booth and nine keyboards. Foaly sat down in a special swival chair. Once they were all in the doors slid shut with another hiss.

Foaly gestured to a couple of couches in a corner. They all sat and Foaly started typing on one of the keyboards.

“It feels good to be back in here,” he said.

“Id does feel good to be back here for a while,” agreed Holly. “But I’ve grown used to the castle and the mountains and forest that’re around it. I’m getting used to calling it home.”

“That’s how I feel about Hogwarts,” replied Harry. “Hogwarts is more my home then anywhere else in the world. It was the first place that I was really happy. My whole life is there and I wouldn’t leave it if I could.”

Holly nodded. If she wasn’t careful she could end up wanting to live amoung the humans which was forbiden.

“Right,” said Fred. “I think that we should get started on planning this prank that will made this Sool git suffer.@

“I have an idea,” said Holly. “Remember what we did to Umbridge, with the photos?”

They nodded.

“well when we pull this prank then we could take pictures of it and hand them out to everyone in Haven.”

“That’s evil,” said Hermione.

“That d’arviting idiot deserves it,” said Holly, almost growling out the words. “Where’s his office Foaly?”

Foaly turned back to his computers and began typing on the keypad in front of him.

“Looks like he’s in the commanders office,” he replied.

Holly clenched her fists.

“That office begins to Root, even if he’s, he’s.” She couldn’t finish the sentence. She still saw the commander vanishing in a ball of flames in front of her. It was the nightmare that haunted her almost every night. It wasn’t uncommon for her to wake up at least once a week, sweating and with tears running down her face.

Harry put a hand on her shoulder.

“I know how you feel,” he said. “If I lost Sirius then I’d be the same way. He’s like my dad and from what I’ve heard Root was like your dad.”

Holly gave a weak smile and turned back to Foaly.

“Any air vents big enouph for a dungbomb to fit through?” she asked.

“Yes,” replied Foaly. “i can seal up the door and the window. That way he won’t be able to escape the smell. Once it’s in I can seal up the vents so there’s no fresh air comming in. He’ll be stinking.”

A mischievious grin spread accross Holly’s face as she pitured Sool in the office and then suddenly he won’t be able to breathe because of the horrible smell tha the dungbombs will give off.

Just then there was a knock at the door. Foaly looked towards one of the screens.

“Trouble,” he said.

“What kind?” asked Ron.

“No,” replied Foaly smiling a little. “Trouble Kelp.”

Holly stood up and walked over to the screen that showed the elf major standing on the other side of the door.

“What kind of name is Trouble?” asked Fred.

“The name of Holly’s boyfriend,” replied Foaly with a smirk.

“He is not,” replied Holly sharply though her face had turned a slight pink.

“Should we let him in?” asked Hermione woridly.

“The seven of you can get under the cloak and I’ll let him in,” replied Foaly. The humans stood up with their heads touching the roof and covered themselves with the cloak. Holly walked over to them and joined the group that no one could see. Foaly gave them the thunbs up and he let Trouble in.

The doors slid open with a his and the elf in question stepped into the office. He looked around it and smiled at Foaly.

“Hello Foaly,” he greeted while he walked over to the centaur.

“Hello Trouble,” Foaly replied also with a smile. It had been so long since he had seen the elf that he had almost forgotten what he looked like.

“Where’ve you and Holly been?” Trouble asked the centaur. “One day you’re here and the next no one has seen you in about two months. Then you come in here like you haven’t been gone at all. I know that Sool is an idiot and he didn’t miss you but he will be a little suspicious of you coming in so suddenly.”

Foaly smiled and pointed to the screen that was displaying Sool in the commander’s office.

“WIth any luck he won’t have time to worry about me,” he said. There was something in the way that he said it that gave Trouble the idea that Foaly had something planned for Sool that the commander would not enjoy at all.

Under the cloak Holly made a movement with her hands to signal that she wanted to move closer to Foaly. The seven of them inched their way over to him, making as little sound as possible. Once they were beside him Holly said into his ear.

“I think that we can tell Trouble about it. He does hate Sool and we might need a little bit of help with this.” Foaly gave a slight nod and turned his attention back to Trouble.

“On the count of three take off the cloak,” he said out of the corner of his mouth so that Trouble would not hear.

“Well, I have a lfew suprises for you. One, two, Three.”

The other Marauders through off the invisibllity cloak and locked eyes wiath Trouble.

There ws nothing else he could do, he let his mouth fall open. If it hadn’t been conected to his upper face his bottom lip would have hit the ground with a loud thump.

“Hello Trouble,” said Holly.

For a moment Trouble just stared at her and then he rushed forward and embraced her. Fred and George snickered at the suprised look on Holly’s face as she hugged him  back. They would have to make a note to have some fun with this developemnet later.

“Holly, where the hell have you been?” Trouble asked once he had pulled away.

“Well,” began Holly.

“We’ve been getting a new type of educationj,” suplied Foaly.

Trouble looked at Foaly and burst out laughing.

“No seriously,” he choked out. “The great genius centaur went back to school.”

“Not a nromal school,” said Holly.

“A magic school,” said Harry.

Trouble turned and looked at the humans closely for the first time.

“Why did you bring them down here?” asked Trouble. “Humans aren’t suposed to know about us.”

“That’s a long story,” replied Holly. “For now all you need to know is that we found a school for magic on the surface and we joined.”

“But, humans can’t do magic,” Trouble protested.

“That’s what we thought,” said Foaly. “But we were proved wrong.”

Trouble looked at Foaly and burst out laughing again. When he calmed down he had tears streaming down his face.

“Frond,” he said. “What happened to you. Did you get knocked on the head at some point or something. Nothing on earth could make you say that freely.”

“Well we proved him wrong,~” said Fred speaking for the first time since Trouble entered the room.

Trouble turned his attention back to the kids.

“What are your names?” he asked.

“My name is Hermione,” said Hermione. “This is Harry, Ron, Artemis who I think you’ve already met, Fred and George.”

“You three brothers or something?” asked Trouble looking at the three red heads.

“Yeah,” said Ron. “Fred and George are my older brothers. Well two of them anyway. I have another three older brothers and one younger sister.”

“BIg family,” said Trouble “I only have a younger brother and he’s enouph to last me a lifetime.”

“I know how you feel,” said George. “Ron can be a bit of a pain sometimes.”

“Are you forgetting somehting,” said Ron. “i’m not the one that got a detention for trying and succeeding to blow up a toilet last year.”

“You did WHAT?” said Holly, Foaly, Artemis and Trouble at the same time.

“Not just a toilet,” said Harry. “They blew up the whole bathroom at Hogwarts.”

“And you call me crazy,” said Holly. “You two are even crazier then I thought.”

“Look who’s talking miss, I-know-what-i’m-doing-so-I-can-do-anything. Yo’re the one that was piloting that shuttle and you and Harry were the only ones that weren’t looking like vampires somehow.” Fred had said that very fast and looked very out of breath.

“You weren’t scared of the dives that Holly’s famous for?” asked Trouble looking at Harry.

“It was like what I did the first time I tried flying in my first year,” said Harry.

“Yeah,” said Ron. “He did a fifty foot verticle dive and cought a ball the sixe of your fist in his hand a foot from the ground without crashing.”

“You did what,” Trouble said. “Ok, who ordered the human version of Holly.”  Everyone laughed except for Holly and Harry.

“What kind of magic can you do?” asked Trouble.

To answer his question, Hermione took out her want and pointed it at him. She muttered an incantation and Trouble was lifted off of the ground and floated in mid air. Hermione lowered her want and Trouble was gentle placed back on the ground.

“That was different,” he said.

“That was just a basic spell that we learned in our first year,” said Ron. “We’re in fifth year now so we’re learning tones of advanced spells.”

“Speaking of advanced spells,” said Harry.

“When do you think Magonagall will ask if anyone is wanting animagi lesson?” said Holly, finishing Harry’s sentence for him.

“Magonagall?” asked Trouble.

“She’s one of the strictist teachers at the school,” said Holly. “She’s even stricter then the drill sargents and the LEP academy.”

“What’s animagi lesson mean,” asked Trouble.

The Marauders grinned at each other. Foaly stood up and they all formed a line.

“This is what she means,” said Foaly. With that they all closed their eyes and transformed into their animagi forms.

Trouble just stared. In front of him was a horse, a golden eagle, a fox, a white Indian tiger, a Siberian tiger, an arctic wolf and two phoenixes. They turned back into their original forms

“How did you do THAT?” Trouble said after a moment of stunned silence.

“That’s what animagi means,” said Hermione. “It’s a person that can change into the form of an animal. It takes a lot of concentration and al lot of practise. We all learned together.”

Some other stories by Arya:

• Animagus choosus
• Moonlight Ritual

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