Rise Of House Cason

Art left the office and immediately took out his Fantastic Beasts book and looked up Hidebehinds.

Hidebehind

M.O.M. Classification XXXX

The Hidebehind is an accidentally created species, which was imported to North America by Old World crook Phineas Fletcher. Fletcher, a trader in banned artifacts and creatures, had intended to import a trafficked Demiguise into the New World, with the aim of manufacturing Invisibility Cloaks. The Demiguise escaped on board ship and bred with a stowaway ghoul. Their resultant offspring escaped into Massachusetts' forest when Phineas's ship docked and their descendants continue to infest the region today.

The Hidebehind is nocturnal and has the power of invisibility. Those who have seen it describe a tall, silver-haired creatures, something like a skinny bear. Its preferred prey is humans, which Magizoologists speculate is the result of the known to treat the unfortunate creatures in his power.

Closing the book, he frowned and thought that the Hidebehind was a pitiful creature that was created at the hands of wizard brutality. Art only had a few months before he took all of his OWL exams and needed to brush up if he wanted all Outstandings on his exams.

Art quickly found the twins and Cedric and told them that he was going to America for the last half of the school year. The twins were dumbstrucked as they just stared at Art while Cedric chuckled and wish him luck.

"What about our exams? How are we supposed to pass without you here!?" Fred asked.

Art laughed loudly as Cedric just shook his head in derision.

The twins and Cedric spent more time in the Room of Requirement with Art these last few months, practicing Transfiguration, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Astronomy and Herbology. Art also made time for his Healing, Wards, Care of Magical Creatures and Runes.

Cedric took an interest in Healing and Art taught him a few simple spells and potions.

Hagrid had became the for Care of Magical Creatures and asked Art to help him with his lessons.

"Start small but interesting Hagrid, like Nifflers." Art advised looking over Hagrid's plan.

"I planned to do Hippogriffs… but Nifflers are good too." Hagrid grumbled, scratching his head.

"Unicorns are interesting too, just keep the male students back."

The school year continued on and soon Art was leaving to the Ministry for his OWLs. Although Art was prepared his felt nervous and jittery. OWLs shaped the future path of your career and though Artland had no idea what he was doing in the future, he wanted to give himself as many options as possible.

Dumbledore was personally escorting him to the Ministry and then straight home to his parents where he would pack and say goodbye to them for six months. Before he met Dumbledore, he went to the Owlry and found Grey who was mad at him for not paying attention to him for a while.

Art apologized and took out a large rat and threw it at him. Grey caught it and gave Art a long side glance before digging in. Art laughed and waited for him to finish before tying one letters and a parcel to his legs.

"For Fleur, okay?" Art stroked his feathers gently before sending him off.

The letter was explaining that Art was going overseas and how he missed her, the gift was a necklace he saw in Diagon Alley.

He soon met Dumbledore in his office.

"You ready?" he asked, a smile on his kind face.

"I am." Art said.

"The exams will take over 8 hours in total but I think you should be able to finish in 6 hours, especially the practical part. Now take my hand."

Art looked at him suspiciously, "I thought it was impossible to Apparrate inside of Hogwarts."

"Well… being the Headmaster has its perks." Dumbledore gave a mysterious smile.

Art took his hand, not asking any other questions. They soon Disapparated and appeared somewhere in London. Dumbledore guided him into an old telephone booth where he dialed 62442 and spoke into the phone, "Albus Dumbledore and Artland Cason."

Soon the booth started to shake and sink into the ground. Finally the booth stopped and a female voice sounded out, "Welcome to the Ministry of Magic, Level 8, the Atrium."

Exiting the booth, Art saw the familiar sight of the Atrium which was filled with activity of witches and wizards going on there way. Dumbledore and Artland made their way towards the Department of Magical Education.

Arriving there, Art was surprised to find Amelia, Cornelius Fudge, Barty Crouch and the pink toad lady that attacked him from behind.

"Quite an audience today Cornelius." Dumbledore said, raising an eyebrow.

"Well he is representing The UK Ministry of Magic overseas, we are here to see if he is all you made him up to be." Fudge said, hiding a small sneer that Art didn't miss.

Art threw him an arrogant smile, "Shouldn't be too hard, Ministry standards don't seem to be too difficult."

Rage filled the Minister's face while Crouch through him a glare. Even Amelia gave him a withering look while the pink toad's smile remained but her eyes narrowed.

"Be respectful Art." Dumbledore said quietly.

"Respect is earned, not given." Art muttered and took a seat, taking out quills and ink.

"Do you have a subject you wish to start with?" an old man asked, his hands filled with exams.

"Doesn't matter." Art said, grabbing the first exam from him.

The man nodded and sat down in front of him, watching him closely.

For the next 6 hours Art wrote a number exams for all his subjects. Crouch and Fudge came and went, periodically checking in on his progress. Art finally placed his quill down and massaged his sore hand.

The old man came and collected the last exams and left with them. Soon eight older men came over and lined up.

"These gentlemen will be giving you the practical part of the exam." Dumbledore said quietly.

Art nodded and gave a smile towards them respectfully, "It's an honour."

A elderly lady stepped forward and said, "I am Griselda Marchbanks, head of Wizardry Education Authority. I will be testing your Transfiguration."

"Perfect. Shall we start?"

Madam Marchbanks nodded and brought out a number of objects for him to transfigure, which he did with ease.

She smiled and asked, "I heard you are an animagus, care to show me? For extra marks of course."

Art smiled and shifted into a Wampus, causing the examiners to applaud lightly.

"Perfect Mrs. Cason, now let's move to Charms."

An older gentleman stepped forward and introduced himself as Professor Tofty.

Art nodded and performed to numerous charms he asked perfectly. He smiled and wrote on his board. Tofty tested him in Defence Against the Dark Arts and Astronomy.

"Very good Mr. Cason! Now I heard you are able to cast a patronus?" he asked with excitement in his eyes.

"Of course professor." Art casted his Thunderbird patronus causing everyone to gasp.

"Is that… a Thunderbird?" one of the examiners asked in shock.

"Yes." Amelia said proudly, her eyes glowing with pride.

"Incredible! Incredible Mr. Cason!" Tofty said, his old eyes full of life.

Art smiled, "Mr. Tofty, I created a spell based off of the Patronus, can I show you? For extra marks of course."

Tofty was shocked but quickly nodded his head.

"Impetum Patronus!"

A Thunderbird came out of Art's wand but it was covered in blue lightning. It let out a cry.

"It is an attack base spell that is very versatile." Art said proudly.

Tofty looked at the bird with amazement in his eyes. He laughed and looked at Dumbledore, "I thought you were overpraising him Albus but it looks like it was true."

Dumbledore let out a light laugh and nodded, "He is talented."

The exams continued in this way as Art continued to impress the examiners. Fudge's face had an unnatural look on it as Art continued to impress. Amelia smiled with pride as Art continued to show off.

A Healer named Miriam Strout tested his healing spells and potions which Art performed beautiful in. She even tried to get Art to take an intern position at St Mungo's.

Art respectfully declined her and looked towards the Minister for the last test, Dueling.

"We have prepared an Auror for your duel, Kingsley Shacklebolt." Fudge said through gritted teeth.

A large black man came out and smiled at Art before bowing and taking out his wand. Art returned the gesture and prepared himself.

They exchanged spells for a bit until Art suddenly dashed toward him quickly. Shacklebolt was surprised but quickly responded, creating a wall of stone. Art smashed through the stone and casted another created spell. A clone of Art appeared and they both attacked Shacklebolt from different sides.

Shacklebolt destroyed one of the clones and quickly stunned the remaining. Right when he thought he won, he felt something pressing into his neck.

"I lost." he said, a small bead of sweat on his forehead.

Art lowered to wand and took a few deep breaths. The clone spell took a lot of magic as he had to create the clone from pure magic.

"What the hell was that!?" Fudge said stunned.

"It's how I duel." Art said, laughing.

Everyone was silent as they watched Art put his wand away.

With that the exam was over.