Title: Bane of the Marauders (5/?)
Author: Kate R.
Disclaimer: Own nothing and no one used herein. JKR Owns Harry and Co. Joss
and ME own Buffy and Co. I make no prophet off this story.
Monday dawned and found Giles in a healing class with several third years. He was sitting in the back off the room prepared to take notes and to practice when a group of Hufflepuffs filed in. They were the best in healing for some reason. Giles needed to work with them to learn to do this. He was sitting when Madam Pomfrey came in. She suspected she knew why he was there and her face held sadness in it. She had seen Ethan, she had seen the damage to his Aura and she knew what caused it. But not who had done it. Although, she ahd a nasty suspicion. There ahd been and incident and she had been told to treat Ethan for the bruises from his fall and release him. Something had been wrong even then. But she hadn't known what until Ethan came back with Rupert. "Hello, Rupert," she said. "Would you mind explaining to the class why you are here? I can see some of them want to know."
"Sure," he said as he stood and walked to the front of the room so he was facing them all. Hermoine Granger came in a moment later as she was taking this class as well. He looked them all over and finally he spoke.
"More than 20 years ago the man I love was hit by a mispronounced Curse. It was intended to be for confusion but the student who threw it, a man named Sirius Black, did not say the words right. What came out was the word Chaos. Now, when you throw Chaos at someone, it causes near irreparable harm. It tears the magic Aura up something fierce. Ethan adapted. But he is still hurt by it. I'm in this class because I need to learn to heal some of it."
"What are the symptoms?" a boy asked. Giles sighed.
"They change, David is it?" he asked. Receiving a nod he smiled softly. "One time it may be a bad joke to burn off the magic, the next he may appear in my flat screaming as the magic burns through him. The results always make him bleed whether it be me having to hit him to break the thrall or his magic cutting him. I have to be able to heal it."
"You said Sirius Black said the spell wrong?" Hermoine asked. Giles nodded so she asked what she ahd wanted to know since Harry told them Ripper hated his father as well as Sirius. "Then why do you hate James Potter as well?"
"Because it was spite that ahd them plot to nail Ethan in the back with a curse that James knew Sirius could not pronounce. James was mad because I stopped him tormenting another student. I turned his magic off for a week by the way. Ethan taught me to do it. Ethan and I are both very powerful Wandless Wizards. With Wands we are downright scary when angry. Anyway, I stopped them and they were mad so when James got his magic back they decided to get even. The spell, had it been said correctly, would have caused Ethan a day of disorientation. Sirius said it wrong. And for 20 years I have had to watch Ethan suffer because neither of them could be bothered to study the damn spell they wanted to use. So, yes, Miss Granger, I hated James Potter. I hate Sirius Black, and no, before you ask, I don't hate Harry for what James did. I strongly dislike him for what he has done but not for anything his father has done."
At that moment, the bell chimed signaling the end of class. They were assigned chapters 1and 2 for the next class and sent on their way. Hermoine walked out to the quad to think where she met with Ron.
"Sirius hurt someone, Ron," she told him. James helped. That is why Ripper hates them both so much. I want to find this misspoken curse and see what all it causes. If it is as bad as he says it is, then I think I can sympathize with his hate."
Ron nodded and followed Hermoine to the library. They all had different electives so Harry was in class and they were not.