The Elementals by Namacub95 (best book club books for discussion .txt) 📕

met his bright green and she smiled. Her concentration wavered for a second too long and she was hit directly over the heart by a large black flame which caused her to fly backwards and hit the ground. Lightning bolts cracked around her body and then she was completely still Albus didn't see her chest rising and falling to signal that she was breathing, she was dead.

The hall was silent for one long agonizing minute as all took in Alice's body which lay sprawled on the ground. Then a scream of pure agony ripped the silence and Albus turned in shock to find sitting on the ground behind him all bound together were their parents. His own parents stared at Alice's body with almost identical expressions of shock, Scorpius's father stared at the ground and his mother stared sadly at Alice's body, Uncle Ron looked furious and Aunt Hermione had tears welling in her eyes but Professor Downes Keith and Alice's mother was screaming and sobbing while struggling against the ropes that bound her while their father had tears rolling silently down his cheeks. Keith gave a roar of rage and proceeded to bang his fists against his sister's protective force field

"You bitch! You killed my sister!" he yelled in fury trying to batter down the force field. Ellesheil watched them all and then laughed at them.

"I won!" she laughed maniacally. She then looked at Albus and grinned sadistically "Wake up Albus. C'mon Al wakey wakey." The voice didn't sound like her own instead it sounded like James's.

With a jolt Albus awoke and stared into his brother's chocolate brown eyes.

Chapter 2: Return To Hogwarts

Albus clutched James's shoulders for support as he tried to get his breathing regular again, the dream was still etched into his mind.

"Wow Al! Relax! I was only waking you to say that breakfast's ready." James said prising Albus's hands from his shoulders.

"Sorry." Albus managed to say between breaths. "'M fine I'll be down in a minute." James looked at him quizzically but walked out of the room.

Albus ran a hand through his messy black hair stared around his room trying to find something that would shake the dream from his mind. His room was exactly the same as always blue painted walls and matching carpet. A large window behind his bed and a desk near the door. Photos and a calendar on the walls, nothing at all out of the ordinary. Albus threw the covers off himself and climbed out of bed walking over to his calendar to cross off the days until he would return to Hogwarts for his fifth year. Today was September first? He had completely forgotten but had the good sense to pack his trunk as soon as he had gotten his new spell books and robes.

"James! Give me my wand!" yelled his sister Lily

"I don't have it!" retaliated James

"I saw you with it a minute ago! Now give it!" Lily demanded. There was the sound of scuffling outside his bedroom door and Albus poked his head out to see his older brother and younger sister wrestling on the ground for a wand that James held in his right hand as far from Lily's reach as possible. Lily had jumped on top of James who was holding her back with his free hand.

"Get off Lily!"

"Then give me my wand!" Lily demanded.

"James give Lily her wand!" yelled Ginny from the bottom of the stairs "And get down here! Breakfast's ready!" James froze at his mother's voice just long enough for Lily to retrieve her stolen wand. Lily then stuck out her tongue at James and ran down the stairs followed closely by Albus and James.

Ginny was in the kitchen serving pancakes while Harry sat at the kitchen counter drinking a cup of tea and reading the Daily Prophet. Ginny placed a plate of pancakes in front of them

"Have you got your trunks packed?" she asked.

"Hea Um." Said James with a mouthful of pancake

"Swallow and repeat." Ginny said shaking her head and smiling. James gulped down the pancake in his mouth

"I said yes mum." He repeated before stuffing the rest of his pancake in his mouth.

"Albus?"

"I packed mine weeks ago." Albus answered.

"What about you Lily?" Ginny asked turning to her youngest child.

"Finished last night mum." She answered. After eating breakfast and getting dressed in Albus's case, the Potter family was ready to leave for King's Cross Station. The drive took them half an hour which seemed like no time at all despite James poking fun at his sister because she was finally joining the Gryffindor Quidditch team which she responded with teasing him about Nicky Skilling his 'girlfriend'. In no time at all they had arrived and met Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione at the barrier with Rose and Hugo.

"Hi Al!" Rose said happily running over to him and pulling her cousin into a hug. "I missed you! I wish you could have came to Australia with us it was brilliant!"

"But you were only gone a few weeks and it was to visit your grandparents!" Albus pointed out while pulling away from Rose.

"I still missed you and I brought you back something too!" she said.

"C'mon Al! We're going to miss the train!" called James. Rose and Albus glanced around to make sure no muggles were watching them before walking through the barrier.

Platform 9 ¾ was packed as usual with students who like James, Albus, Rose, Lily and Hugo were all returning to or going for the first time to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The steam from the brilliant red train was thick and it was difficult to spot any of their friends.

"James!" Fred Weasley bounded through the thick clouds of steam. He like his mother had dark skin and black hair which he wore in dreadlocks but he had bright blue eyes like his father. Fred was followed by a girl with wavy auburn hair which looked more like red than auburn and sparkling aqua eyes.

"Hey Fred! Hey Nicky!" James said happily. James then disappeared into the steam with them. Albus gave his mother and father a hug and walked off to find their own friends. They didn't have to walk long to find Professor Naomi Downes who was bidding farewell to her husband Evan Downes with their children not far away making faces of disgust at their parents emotional farewell. Alice spotted them first and nudged her brother.

"Hey guys!" Keith called to them. Although Keith and Alice were twins they were almost nothing alike Keith was almost a foot taller than Alice and not as thin. Keith had black hair with baby blue eyes, which according to Alice gave him his name as his mother's Uncle Keith had exactly the same eyes while Alice had dark brown hair and hazel eyes like her mother's. Keith was the more outgoing twin while Alice tended to be more reserved.

"Hi." Rose said grinning at them "How was your summer?"

"We went to Ireland! It was awesome you should see Dublin it's huge! Mum said that Grandma grew up there so we're really retracing our history. It was brilliant fun though especially when we went to Grandma's hometown Kilkenny! We have second cousins there and their all muggles except for one that's showing signs of it." Keith said talking extremely fast which was a habit of his. Alice smiled at her brother and nodded occasionally when he turned to look at her. Albus and Rose listened with bemused expressions when they heard the whistle blow for the train.

"C'mon!" Albus said as all four ran to the doors just as they were closing. Albus waved at his parents as the train rounded the corner and the station disappeared from view.

"I hope Scorp's saved us a compartment." Keith said as he scanned the train. Albus shrugged

"Have any of you heard from him over the summer?" he asked.

"You know I haven't. Dad would go mental if he knew I was friends with Scorpius." Rose said.

"I don't see why!" Keith said in an exasperated tone

"I've told you before it's about our parents." Rose replied.

"You'd think they'd be over it by now." Alice said. Albus nodded. Rose hadn't told Ron about her unlikely friendship with Scorpius, and had threatened Albus with unimaginable pain if he told. Albus knew better than to cross his cousin. He also knew that Rose had a slight crush on Scorpius too and unknown to her Scorpius liked her too. Harry had taken his friendship with Scorpius well especially when he actually met him. He had deemed him a nice boy and completely unlike his father and more like his mother Astoria.

"You should just tell Uncle Ron he'll understand." Albus pressed

"You don't know my dad very well then Al." Rose responded. Albus sensed that it wouldn't do any good to press the subject further although Keith looked like he was going to press on regardless.

"Guys!" Scorpius Malfoy stuck his head out of a compartment grinning at them. All waved and hurried over to the compartment that he had managed to save for them.

"Hey Scorp." Keith said slapping his friend on the back. "Good summer?"

"Can't complain." Scorpius shrugged flopping onto the seat beside Alice "Just the usual stuff like being dragged from fancy party to fancy party and boring stuff like that."

"Ugh! I hear you mate!" Keith said disgusted at the very thought of anything that required him to dress in dress robes. "Did you hear about the qualifiers for the Quidditch World Cup? Ireland and England are through! Hey Al didn't your mum play in the World Cup?" Keith rapidly changed the subject to Quidditch the favourite topic.

"Yeah she was one of the substitutes but that was before James was born." Albus answered. "England will win this year."

"No way! Ireland will." Alice said looking confident.

"Traitor! Dad's on the England team this year!" Keith said glaring at his twin.

"Mum's half Irish and she supports Ireland too! Plus Dad's only a substitute anyway he might not even play." Alice retorted.

"God it must be anarchy in your house." Scorpius joked turning to the girl beside him who stuck her tongue out at him.

"England might get knocked out in the first round like last time." Rose pointed out.

"Does no one in this compartment believe that England'll win? I feel like a loner here!" Keith shook his head. Albus and Rose both raised their hands in response. Alice glanced at Scorpius with a grin or triumph

"Don't look at me like that I support Bulgaria." He said Alice frowned.

"Traitor you're supposed to be the one who sticks up for me." Alice said in a tone of disappointment. Alice and Scorpius had always been close it was actually Alice that brought him into he group because before that Albus, Keith and Rose didn't talk to the son of Draco Malfoy.

"I still am Ali-baba." Scorpius said pulling Alice into a one armed hug

"Don't call me that!" Alice said trying to throw Scorpius's arm off herself. Scorpius laughed and ruffled her hair

"Admit it you love that nickname Ali-baba." He said.

"Piss off Scorpius." Alice said crossing her arms and glaring out the compartment's window.

"You wound me Alice." Scorpius said clutching his heart. Alice stuck her tongue out at Scorpius and he laughed at her. Everyone in the compartment was laughing along with Scorpius