The Fantastic Quartet

The Fantastic Quartet


Ron closed his eyes and concentrated. He heard them all gasp, as his human shape melted away, and was replaced with flowing water, that hit the floor and moved long as if it had a life of its own, which in fact it did. Ron quickly changed back and shuddered and said “Whoa, that’s gonna take some getting used to, especially that feeling when my body turns into complete liquidated form.”

Ron then had the room of requirement conjure a large circular shaped swimming pool, in the middle of the open space. He then conjured a considerably smaller version of the glass ball, Harry had conjured earlier. He commented “Ok. I’m going in, and under, give me ten minutes and I’ll be back up. I could most likely last all day, but we don’t have that long.”

Just as Ron was about to dive into the pool, Harry called out to him. “Wait a minute mate, what is the temperature of that water, because something tells me that is not vapour produced from boiling water?” Ron merely called back “Wait and see; I’ll see you in ten minutes.”

Harry shrugged and shook his head and said “Oh, well, let him do his thing. He must obviously know whether he is or isn’t able to withstand whatever temperature he’s about to dive into.

They all moved to the edge of the pool, after Ron had dived in and was submerged with barely a splash. It was hard to believe the being who, had just dived so effortlessly and gracefully, was in fact Ron Weasley.

Sirius commented as they watched Ron swimming around with the glass ball held firmly in his hand. “Damn, he’s swimming like a fish, I’ve never seen the human form swim or move so gracefully and look so natural, as if they were born to exist under water.”

Hermione said “Sirius, I think that may have something do with the fact that no human being was ever created or meant to exist so naturally under water. But Ron on the other hand, his whole DNA and biological structure, even his immune system, has obviously been redesigned to exist under water. After all it is water, which Ron controls and commands.”

Remus asked “How exactly do you know all of this Hermione?” Hermione replied “We all know, all four of us were shown the same visions, shown how we have been drastically altered, and how our new biology and immune systems react and don’t react to certain things, conditions and habitats, that a human immune system and biology and DNA can’t withstand.”

Ginny moved to the edge of the pool and called out “Ron, it’s been ten minutes, get your liquidated hind back up here.” Ginny quickly step back and Ron began to swim rapidly under the water towards the pools edge. Ginny exclaimed “Whoa, look at him move!”

Ron quickly hit the surface and threw his head back, his long aqua braid flying around him. He shook his head to dislodge some of the water from his ears and hair. They all noticed he was not even breathing heavily, his breathing pattern was normal, as if he had just been standing or sitting around, and not swimming at a rapid speed for the last ten minutes.

He swam to the very edge and handed the glass ball to Sirius, as he climbed out of the pool. Sirius let out a yelp and dropped the glass ball, causing it to shatter, when he had realised the glass was ice cold, and a thick layer of ice clung to it, and was sticking to his bare flesh.

Sirius quickly started waving his hands about, blowing on them, trying to warm them and bring some feeling back into them. He exclaimed irritably “Damn it Ron! Exactly how cold was that water, as there was bloody icicle’s on that glass, it even started to stick to my flesh after mere seconds of holding it?”

Harry stepped forward and quickly took Sirius hands in his own gloved ones, before Sirius could stop him. He channelled the correct temperature that wouldn’t burn Sirius. He held Sirius’s hands until the feeling had returned to them.

Sirius eyed Harry and said “Wow that feels absolutely wonderful, you’re like a human heater. I envy whoever ends up marrying you and sharing a bed with you. Hell they’d never have to worry about wearing thermals or using a heating charm ever again, with you nearby.” Harry laughed and rolled his eyes before letting go of Sirius’s hands.

Severus waved his wand over the pool before he shook his head in disbelief and said “To answer your question Black, the temperature of the water could have come from the Artic, in other words, subzero.”

Sirius turned and scowled at Ron and commented irritably “Bloody hell, what are you trying to do, give me bloody frost bite? I cannot believe you gave me glass that spent the last ten minutes submerged in waters worthy of the Artic, sub-bloody-zero.”

Ron merely shrugged and took a deep breath before blowing hard over the pool. They all watched as an icy mist fired from his mouth rapidly. Within seconds the entire pool was frozen solid, fit for ice skating. Ron smirked and said “Well, what can I say, if it weren’t on the subzero scale, it sure as hell is now.”

Sirius did not know whether to laugh, cry, or smack Ron back into his diapers. He shook his head and said sarcastically “Right Mr. arse freeze, so far your able to swim and breath under water, at subzero temperatures. You can literately blow ice from your gob. And apparently you having super hearing and can control your magic wandlessly and none verbally. What else have you got up that icy sleeve of yours?”

Ron smirked at the irritated canine Animagus. Ron opened his palms and thrust them out in front of him, after he had the room conjure him two circular targets. With his left hand he shot out a strong blast of water, hitting the target dead on centre. And then with his right hand, a strong mist of ice blasted out, and covered the centre of the target, with a thick layer of ice, that they could see glistening brightly and could hear crackling loudly.

The room then conjured life like dummies resembling Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini and Pansy Parkinson-Zabini. Ron’s aqua eyes flared brightly and dangerously with pure rage, at the sight of them. Everyone immediately caught onto this fact.

Ron held both hands palm upwards and quickly produced solid balls of ice. One after the other he rapidly produced ice ball after ice ball, throwing them with deadly accuracy at the life like dummies, which looked human, and moved like a human being.

Everyone looked on horrified as the balls of solid ice hit each of the dummies viciously, although that was not what was horrifying or chilling to watch, as these weren’t your typical ice balls. No these balls of ice in particular were infused with a deadly form of acid, which was rapidly eating through the flesh of the dummies.

The dummies quickly melted away and were replaced by several solid golden, platinum and brass framed mirrors. Ron rapidly flung the ice balls at each of the mirrors, until the acid substance in the ice, ate through the mirrors, including their frames.

Ron then lowered his hands and tried to calm down, not wanting to give anyone an excuse to give him a lecture on his choice of dummies. He couldn’t help it, whenever he thought of those three Slytherin’s in particular, he was filled with a rage like he never known in his entire life. It was because of those bastards and their idiotic shit, that he was the way he was.

Ron took a deep breath and said “Ok. Gin, it’s your turn, show us what’s behind those silver eyes and all of that stark whiteness.” He noticed everyone including Albus was looking at him worriedly. Snape on the other hand looked disturbed. Ron merely raised a singular eye brow at him, daring him make even a mere comment.