CHAPTER 1 OF BOREDOM PERSISTS!
A groan echoed through the room and Corin laughed softly at his brother, "Dante, you have to wake up it's time to break the fast." He pulled the black covers from over Dante's head and smiled when his brother rolled over only to land on the floor with a grunt. Corin shook his head and gave a small smirk when Dante gave him a glare, "It's not my fault you fell brother, as you could have avoided this by waking at the designated time." Dante lunged and tackled Corin to the floor and tried to pin the younger of the two down on the wood floor.
Dante smirked back at Corin as he successfully pinned him to the floor and then rolled off of the boy while laughing, "You should have seen your face Cor! Hey, don't we get our letters today?" Dante stood up and offered a hand to Corin who accepted and was pulled to his feet. The two shared a look and grinned only to freeze as a scream echoed through the building, "I didn't have anything planned for today, did you?"
"No, I thought we were going to be good today so we could get our things." Corin and Dante exchanged a wary glance before exiting the room. The two crept down the hallway and to the stairs when they saw Dante's mother yelling angrily at one of the house elves. "No offense Dante, but your mom is scary."
Dante shot him a wry grin as he descended the stairs, "Duly noted Cor. Mother, what angers you so?" He slid in-between his mother and the elf and gave a small smile.
"This thing dared to tell me that he could not retrieve my money from Gringotts, money that was to pay for your things as well as Mr. Hawks." She glared heatedly at the whimpering elf and Dante bit back a sigh.
He stepped further back from his mother and smiled innocently at her, or as innocent as he could smile while plotting. "I was hoping that you could take us to Gringotts first, mother. It is after all one of the safest places and you are sure to run into Lord Malfoy who, as I see, respects you greatly as a woman and as a witch."
She smiled a little as Dante brushed her ego before turning gracefully on her heel and looking over her shoulder at the two boys, "Come along my little Drakes, I have already received your letters and wish to be done with shopping by the days end." Her long black dress and midnight blue shawl glimmered in the light as she turned the corner and the two boys let out a breath.
Dante turned to the elf with a small smile and Corin leaned against his shoulder, "Do try and stay out of mothers way, elf, she will forget this once, but I doubt she will look over this for a second time." The elf nodded frantically and disappeared with a pop leaving the two boys alone to their thoughts, "I hate talking like that. It makes me sound all stuffy." Dante pulled a face and caused Corin to start laughing loudly. Dante joined him and soon the two started walking in the direction of Lady Salir.
Corin looked in awe as they entered the alley and on more than one occasion drug back by his shirt to stand next to Dante. Dante for his part had an uncaring expression on his face only giving out soft looks to his brother or the occasional sly ones when he saw people being so easily manipulated. "This is the way to Gringotts right?" Corin looked over his shoulder at Dante who nodded in return. Without so much as a look, Corin shot off, weaving in and out of other witches and wizards to reach his destination while at the same time he tried to avoid being caught by Dante's iron grip.
Dante growled when he finally caught up to Corin and shook his head in disbelief as his brother started antagonizing one of the goblin guards, the guard on his part looked none too pleased. "Corin! Stop antagonizing the guard and follow me, you're lucky that mother was off doing whatever it is she does at this time of day!" Corin could only laugh and Dante was forced to smile and laugh as well following the crowd into the bank as they calmed themselves.
Corin and Dante finished the last of their ice cream with grins as they waited for Lady Salir to pick them up and bring them home. "I think today ended rather well, don't you?" Dante smiled, his eyes resting on a black haired figure wearing horrible clothes and a pair of glasses.
Corin followed his gaze and frowned as well as they watched the boy get pushed to the ground by an over enthusiastic witch screaming about Lockhart, "It was until that banshee started screeching." The two got up and went on either side of the boy easily hauling him up to his feet and over to their seat. "You okay?"
The boy seemed extremely wary of them and Dante smirked at him, "If you wish to venture back into the banshee's crowd we will not move to stop you." Dante leaned back into his seat and folded his arms across his chest.
"I think I'd rather stay here." The boy flattened his hair across his forehead and Corin pushed him into a seat before pulling another one over for himself.
"That's nice, I'm Corin and that's my brother Dante." He saw the boy glance between him and Dante with a questioning look, after all the two didn't look like brothers, Dante was tan, muscular, had midnight blue hair and auburn eyes while Corin was pale, lithe, and had black hair with golden streaks.
Corin smiled and pat his arm sympathetically, "We're not related by blood, but by choice. If you ever need something just look for us, we're going to be first years at Hogwarts!" Corin stood and ruffled the boys hair with a smile and Dante followed his lead, but as Corin started to walk away Dante lingered back.
"Whatever anyone tells you, the houses don't define the people, the people define the houses. Even then not all are as they seem to be so keeping an open mind would be wise and don't forget to study hard." Dante gave him a small smile and left after the trouble maker as he saw Corin slip a rat, from where he couldn't even guess, into an old lady's hand bag. Before the lady could notice, Dante had grabbed Corin by the upper arm and started dragging him off to his mother.
The day was September 1st and the household was in a riot as the two boys got their things together at the last minute and threw things around and about. Lady Salir was panicked as well and had quickly ushered the boys to breakfast while she shrunk, stored, and checked over everything before sending them off through the floo with a small smile. The two boys landed gracefully on the other end and looked around in the bare side room they were in before out the window at the red train that waited to carry new and old students to Hogwarts.
Corin gasped in awe and he turned to Dante, who was pushing his midnight blue hair away from his eyes, only to laugh when he saw the same expression in his older brothers face, "isn't this exciting Dante?!" Corin pushed the door open with a pale and held it so that Dante could pass through. "I mean we're finally going to Hogwarts!"
Dante laughed along with Corin as his auburn eyes wandered over every student and every animal, he noted the four owls, two cats and the arguing couple that stood over a black haired boy. He noticed a brown haired kid with green eyes ignoring the little blonde that trailed behind and a bushy brown haired girl that was spewing out all kinds of facts. "Yeah it is, now let's go find a compartment to ourselves so we can plan how best to spend out first year at Hogwarts. As little angels or little devils."
Death: This first chapter was written by me so the next will be written by Tarfish also added to this is a small chat website i made so that if anyone had questions they could ask us there and everyone can recieve the answer. the website is BoredomPersists . chatango . com of course there are no spaces. PLEASE REVIEW! Now that ive said my peice here is Tarfish willing to impart some of her knowledge.
Tarfish: Woohoo! Chapter one is done! We'd love to hear what you all have to think so let us know if you have any suggestions! 3 I bet you all just can't wait for my chapter, hm? *seductive wiggly eyebrows*
Death: Oh dear, i'm slightly frightened now...
