Magic Within Us - An Ateez Hogwarts AU

Chocolate and Quidditch

Wooyoung walked into the Library and he looked over to where Madam Pince was shelving books against the back wall. Her wand levitated the books as they returned to their spots.

"Hello," he said once he got close enough. "I've been sent here for my detention."

Madam Pince turned to him and smiled. "Wonderful, you can join the other one over by the history section. Start there and then make your way over to the magical creatures section. Mr. Seonghwa can surely show you what to do.

Wooyoung turned and headed back into the Library. Seonghwa was standing high up on a ladder as he approached.

"I was told to find you for my detention. It seems we'll be serving our detentions together." He said with a smile.

"Well, there could be worse people to spend several shelving books with." Chuckled Seonghwa as he stepped down from the ladder. "The cart is over there, we have to do it all by hand. Madam Pince says it's not punishment if we get to use magic. But it's not that bad. The books are sorted by publication date and then by author's last name." Seonghwa was already walking back to the cart as he explained to Wooyoung. "Pretty simple. Got it?"

"Got it." Said Wooyoung.

An hour passed by as they worked and shelved books, slowly moving out of the history section to the charms section.

"Can I ask you a question?" Wooyoung spoke up finally as he placed a worn green book on kitchen charms back on the shelf second from the bottom.

"Yeah, what's up?'

"It's about San."

Seonghwa patiently waited for Wooyoung to continue.

Wooyoung traced his hand along the spine of one of the books on the shelf in front of him. "I don't know how to help him. He's dealing with so much and we don't even know half of it."

"What are you most worried about?"

Wooyoung glanced around him, nervous. He didn't want them overheard. "Sometimes San just- there's a darkness he carries with him, not evil, but it's empty, hollow. He retreats back into his head and then his eyes go dark. When I got back from St Mungos it was especially bad. He looked like- like an empty glass Bottle that had been left in the sun for too many years and was just one more day away from breaking."

He went back to the cart and picked up the closest book. "I'm scared. I don't like seeing that part of him and knowing that there's nothing I can do to help."

"So we help him anyway we can."

"I've tried, he barely lets me in. He says he can't." He remembered San in the empty classroom, eyes fracturing as he stumbled over his words, trying to get them out but unable to speak still.

"The only thing we can do right now is help him with what we know. And we know that the prophecy is our best chance." Seonghwa paced away from him and searched for the correct placement of a specific book.

"You're right. Have you found out anything?" Wooyoung waited with the book in his hand for Seonghwa to speak.

"I was looking at sweet briar and Acontie. Sweet briar is a wild rose, I'm not sure what that's supposed to tell us. Why would Mortem be carrying wild roses?" Seonghwa came closer, the books they were supposed to be shelving forgotten.

"Hmm... What about Aconite? Did you find out what it is?" Wooyoung lifted his hand and bit down on his fingernail.

"You're not going to like this one." Said Seonghwa.

"What is it?"

"Aconite is another name for Wolfsbane."

"Shit. Fuck. Fuck." Wooyoung's head fell into his hand, his fingers pulling through his hair. It was no coincidence that the werewolf was in the forbidden forest the same night that Jongho gave San the prophecy.