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Cautiously stepping through the door, Raiden felt something crunch every so slightly beneath his feet and looked at the floor. Was that... frost? And why was it so cold in here? He shivered, wand at the ready, a sense of dread and despair creeping up his spine..
Wait... wait, what? He looked at the floating thing across the room. What... was that? Surely it wasn't... It couldn't be? They wouldn't let one of THOSE in the school!
But it was, and Raiden shrank back slightly at the sight of it. It moved forward, toward him, and he started shivering uncontrollably. Sadness wasn't something he was used to feeling, and having it suddenly hit him in waves was overwhelming.
"Patronus," he whispered. "The spell... The spell... happy thoughts."
He backed up against the wall, trying to think. Happy thoughts. How could he be happy? Shiro was all the way in Japan, Celandine and Garret weren't friends, and he hadn't gotten to see most of the people he really liked this term. Nicholai Toussaint had gone away and wasn't coming back, his mom and dad were keeping secrets from him, he missed Daphne Hopton, he wasn't quite sure he was good at any type of magic at all... He slid down the wall, to the floor, on the edge of tears.
"NO," he said sharply to himself, "No. No, no no. Don't..." They were going to ride the Whomping Willow after this was all over! He thought of Celandine Toussaint, meeting her on his first day here, her pirates in the potatoes, meeting Barry and Cale and Anna and Daphne and the crazy pirate girl and everyone else and how happy he'd been... "Expecto Patronum!"
Something strange and awkward flew out of his wand. Yes, flew. It wasn't a bunny, like it was last time. Well not fully, at least. It had duck wings, and a duck bill, but it had a bunny body and tail and floppy ears... he stared at the shiny hybrid creature for a second, clearly confused as to who it belonged to (it couldn't be his, right? His hadn't looked like that before!) before he pointed at the dementor with his wand. "Get it! Make it go away!"
The strange creature charged the dementor, wings flapping, ears flopping, beak snapping, and Raiden felt suddenly warm. He stood awkwardly and ran to the next door, his bunky creature holding off the dementor just long enough before disappearing. |