The Four Guardians of Nature

Chapter 7: Herbology

         We ran out of the dorm and headed out of the entrance, I had never even seen the outside of Hogwarts because of the 'incident' with Oliver, so I was understandably amazed when I saw the glistening waters of the lake with the giant squid inside, the Forbidden Forest with dozens upon dozens of magical and non-magical creatures, and a cabin with Hagrid standing in front of it. He spotted me and waved, which I returned kindly, and when Sean noticed that I was lagging behind he grabbed my hand and pulled me towards a greenhouse with a man standing outside it tapping his foot. "Well, well. Nice of you two to join us. I expect more of you Sean. And what happened to your hair?" The man said. Sean answered, "Sorry dad. And the hair I because of her." Pointing at me. I sheepishly looked away and forced myself to keep repeating I feel nothing, I feel nothing. In order to not have my hair, along with my face to turn bright pink. "And who might this little flower be?" Sean's dad asked, turning to me. I looked at him and saw that he had the same golden amber eyes and sharp sculpted nose but the rest of his features didn't match Sean's.
        "Kassidy Declore." I answered, holding out my hand. "Hmm... I'm professor Longbottom. If you are who you say you are, show me your birthmark." He said suspiciously. I held out my arm and rolled up my sleeve to show my now branch-with-four-leaves birthmark. He took my arm in his hands, and it took all my willpower to not pull away with how tightly he was gripping it, and said, "How could you lie to a professor? 30 points from Hufflepuff." "But she's not lying dad! I saw her mark ma'self, and then she fainted while talking to professor Dumbledore because of the extreme pain in her arm, and when she woke up her birthmark had grown into that!"  Sean finished. The next thing that happened was so amazing that Sean's dads eyes lit up, my hair started purple, but as the color got lower and lower it faded into gold. "I feel nothing." I said. After that my hair went back to its usual brown. "Believe me now?" I asked, my hands on my hips after I jerked my arm out of his grasp. He frantically shook his head yes and gestured for us to get inside.
"Today, we will be working with Mandrakes. So what are the properties of a, oi! You! Get your earmuffs on!" Professor Longbottom yelled at a Slytherin. "As I was saying, what are the properties of a Mandrake?" He finished. No one raised their hand for an answer. I sighed and raised mine "Kassidy? Do you know?" The professor asked
"Yes." I said "Well then tell us, what are the properties of a Mandrake?" "A Mandrake's, or Mandragora's cry is fatal to those who hear it if they are matured. But if they are still young, their cry will only nock someone out cold for several hours. They also have very strong restorative properties and, if used with the right ingredients, can revive a petrified person. Their roots closely resemble a human." I finished. Professor Longbottom looked impressed and said "Very good Kassidy." A smug look flashed in his eyes as he said, "Could you possibly repot the Mandrake?" "Yes." I answered confidently. The look of smugness was instantly replaced with surprise.When I first got my books I looked at the pages and blinked, and then I had them memorized. One of the pages had very detailed instructions on how to properly repot a Mandrake.
I put my earmuffs on, made sure that everyone else had them on too, put some potting soil in the empty pot, put on my gloves, gripped the Mandrake tightly at the base of the leaves, pulled it out, endured the muffled screech while I put it in the other pot, and started to bury it. When I finished the professor took it and examined it and said in defeat, " You potted it perfectly." I smiled smugly at him and he just looked away as he said, " 30 points to Hufflepuff." The Hufflepuff part of the class cheered and patted me on the back while the Slytherin part grumbled "Filthy Mudblood." And started to taunt me as we walked out and it took everything in me to not cry.
When we were back inside, I grabbed Sean and dragged him over to a non-occupied area and told him while my voice was cracking and tears were rolling down my cheeks, " The Slytherins called-" voice crack, " -called- called me a-a mudblood and then t-taunted me until we stepped back into the main school and I-I pulled you over here." By now I was sobbing and so Sean hugged me and stroked my hair saying not to listen to the Slytherins. And then came the same voice that called out my name before I was put in Hufflepuff saying, "Oh my, what happened to her Sean?" "Some Slytherins called her a Mudblood and taunted her until she pulled me over here." He called to her. I could feel his shaking clenched fist under my thick hair. I stepped away from him and turned to the woman while wiping my face who said to me, " If I showed you pictures of the first years in that house, would you be able to identify them?" I shook my head yes and she muttered an incantation and around 18 pictures appeared out of thin air.
She laid them down in a circle and I stood in the middle looking at them. I found the five that I was looking for. Two of them were girls with brown skin and long flowing hair, one of them had almost black pupils, and the other had eyes that were so light that they almost looked white. Another one was muscular with crazy brown hair and deep brown eyes. The fourth I recognized as the boy Oliver bought a candy bar for on the Hogwarts Express. The last one, which I was horrified to realize, was in fact Oliver. A single tear rolled down my cheek and the lady with the black hair asked if I was sure that "Potter" was one and I shook my head yes. She clenched her teeth and said, "I will have these five punished and fifty points will be taken from Slytherin, ten points per person. By the way, what is your next class?" "Oliver tore up my schedule and when I did the repairing spell, he tore it up again and used a fire spell to burn it to ashes and when they saw me trying to repair it again one of them held me down and covered my mouth while the blond one did the c-c-cruciatus curse on me for only about two seconds." I finished. The lady gave a gasp of shock while I sat down and held my knees to my chest while crying in them, remembering the unbearable pain that I felt although it was only for a few seconds.
"Y-your sure that it was the Cruciatus curse?" Sean asked his voice shaking with anger I looked up to see his eyes were also filled with anger and hatred while I said, "yes. I remember the blond one yelling crucio and feeling as if my guts were being stabbed with knives and then Oliver yelled at him to stop and said that he was going to far while the girls were laughing at my writhing form and the muscular one grunting to keep both of his hands on my mouth so that I wouldn't scream loud enough for anyone to hear." I finished as another wave of sobbing came over me. "We have to tell Professor Dumbledore." The lady and Sean said in unison. They hauled me up and took me to the professors office, I don't remember what happened after that but I do remember Dumbledore asking what happened and Professor Magonagal (that was the black haired lady's name) telling him everything and him ordering Magonagal to take me to St.Mungos (which from reading, is the hospital for magical injuries) and having Sean stay overnight to be sure that I was okay.

Hey ma peeps! Oooooooooo blond boy is in trouble!!!!!! Hope you enjoyed! It might be a bit long, but there is really good content in here to make up for that. I'll post tomorrow so we can see what happens to Kassidy in St.Mungos. Love y'all ✌🏼