1. Puberty and her seven dorks.
The one with theIntroductions
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters you recognize. All others and the plot is a pure fruit of my imagination.
'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' is a tale originated from German oral tradition, the story was written by the Grimm brothers between 1812 - 1822 and published in the book 'Kinder-und Hausmaërchen'. 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' is now in public domain, nevertheless, I'd like to thank the authors for giving this wonderful story to the world and my source of inspiration to this story.
Also, due to copyrights of the names of the seven dwarfs I had to change them into similar ones, don't worry, I'll always put a chart in the beginning of each chapter remembering who is who.
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Memoir flashes - summer vacations - third year.
"Paul, just insert the movie on the DVD already!" I said laughing at his confusion.
"How do you even do this? Is a round thing, and this is rectangular!" Paul said angrily.
"If I move Harry will take over my place in his sleep!" I said looking sideways at Harry who was already soundless asleep at my right.
"Daniel, just be useful and hold him off, will you? Or we'll never watch this dam thing." Paul said frowning at the DVD on his hands making Daniel laugh crazily.
Daniel was the only muggle born in our group. The rest of us were all half muggle, half wizards, except for Paul, he was the only pureblood of the group.
Dan and I where the only ones raised as muggles, you see, my mum died when I was eight, she was an extraordinary witch who worked at the Ministry creating new charms. One day one of her charms went really bad. She died in my living room, held by my father and looking straight into my eyes. I don't really like talking about it, but the point is: since my dad is a muggle, he raised me like one, so I was provided a normal muggle childhood until I received Hogwarts' letter.
"All tight, all right, I'll hold him." Dan said still laughing a bit.
"Atchim!" Ken sneezed extremely loudly.
"Bless you." We all said in unison. We were so used by now with Ken's allergies that it was sort of a reflect.
"On three Dan! One! Two! Three!" I said getting up at the latter while Dan hold Harry firmly, still laughing.
"Here, I said pressing the 'open' button on the DVD and inserting the disk.
"Wow! Look at that!" Paul said making me an Dan roll our eyes while the rest of our gang looked astonished.
"It's like magic!" Jimmy said dully.
"All right, shush everyone, movie is about to start!" I said passing the remote control to Dan.
I had been daydreaming about my prince charming since dad showed me Snow White a few months after my mum passed away, so it was more than time to show the movie to my boys. I used to think I would be a princess, we had the same surname and all! But that went over the drain once I started Hogwarts and my puberty attacked.
Honestly, I keep reading the golden trio's stories and wondering if they were teenagers at all. First for the obvious reason, look at what those three had to deal with when they were only eleven, I mean, a Death Eater professor?! And all right, stories never showed that they were the popular kind of gang - in a beauty kind of way. Actually looking at their pictures when they were young showed quite the opposite, they were skinny, and had bad hair and all, but not once single pimple. And let's face it, they have managed somehow to have perfection instead of children.
All Wotters where insanely smart and gorgeous looking. Take Dominique for example, I've been sharing a dorm with her for the past five years now, and the girl just keeps getting more and more princess like.
But I diverse, honestly, who goes through puberty without once single pimple to deal with? My puberty started when I was twelve, and it hit me like hell! My boobs started growing disproportionately to my tinny size - and yeah, I'm sure you're all wondering why would I complain to have huge boobs by the age of twelve, but you're forgetting the hormone rush that comes with it. Oleos skin, acne everywhere, my hair started having this crazy waves on the top of my head, hair shouldn't do that! And no matter what magic I tried on it, nothing would help.
When I finally understood that I was not born to be a princess, I found myself without friends. The Gryffindor girls that shared the dorm with me where all beautiful - except for maybe Molly, she's the only Wotter that lacked beauty, but she was extremely annoying, even for an eleven year old without friends. I even wonder how she ended up in Gryffindor and not Ravenclaw, but I guess all Wotters have a free pass to Gryffindor or something - with few exceptions, like Albus Potter, who was in Slytherin, and Louis and Lucy, who were in Ravenclaw.
That's when I found my geeky boys. Daniel Elliot and Paul Batts were in Gryffindor with me. Johnny Curtis, Jimmy Abbey and Harry Grey where Hufflepuff's, and finally, Brian Corey and Ken Fox were Ravenclaw's. We had one thing is common: our not good looks. When you're a teenager, that's all that matters to find you gang.
"Once I become a healer, none of that 'true loves kiss' crap is gonna matter, I'd save Snow with poor skills!" Brian said making me giggle.
"Hey! They're like us!" Harry said opening his eyes. I have to give it to him, he always seems to be fast asleep, but even so he suddenly says something that indicates he was paying attention all along.
"What do you mean?" Jimmy asked puzzled.
"Well, there're seven of them and a White, just like us!" Harry said smiling.
"Are you calling us dwarfs?!" Paul said frowning while Daniel laughed.
"Not dwarfs, but dorks, yeah." Jimmy finished grinning.
"Hey! That's brilliant!" Brian said with a strange sparkle in his eyes. He always gets that when he had one of his "great" ideas. "We have been looking for nicknames for a while now, right?"
"Yeah, so?" I asked crossing my arms puzzled.
"So that's our nicknames! Just there!" Brian said excitedly pointing at the tv.
"We can't just use the same names, it'll be too obvious." I said rolling my eyes.
"Ok... maybe... but we can figure this out, let's see... I'll be Healer, Johnny is Shy, Ken is Sneeze - which is basically what he does anyway - Daniel is Cheerful, Jimmy is Stoned, Harry is obviously Drousy, Paul is Grouchy-"
"HEY!" Paul interrupted annoyed but blushed when Brian gave him an 'exactly what I mean' look.
"And Mary is Snow, of course!" He finished.
"That's brilliant!" I said grinning. I always wanted to be Snow White! Of course I have absolutely no similarity to her whatsoever, brown hair, brown eyes and my skin wasn't even close to being as pale as it was supposed to be if I truly was Snow White, but anyway...
"Why do I have to be Stoned?" Jimmy asked duly making us all roll our eyes. That's exactly why.
"All right, that's gonna take a bit of getting used to, but I like it!" Johnny said smiling.
And that's when they became my seven dorks.
Back to the present
I'm just standing in my room looking at myself at the mirror. I didn't change all that much. I kept telling myself, but the strange feeling in my stomach contradicted me. I looked different and I felt different.
The day I arrived home for my summer vacation my dad announced to me that he was invited to a Healertor's program that helped people in Cambodia, he was leaving the next day, and so was I. He thought that being a girl at my age, with no mother, I should hang around more with other girls.
"Not that I don't love the boys." He had said.
I constantly felt that my father blamed himself for not being able to help me during all this brutal puberty years. So he had different plans for me this summer, instead of having me staying with one of my dorks, he was shipping me to an all girls summer camp in the US.
Naturally I was completely against it, but my arguing proved to be all in vain - and that says a lot, cause I'm actually quite brilliant at arguing my cause. But once the first week of camp was over, I started to agree that going was the best decision ever.
My roommates decided that since there were no boys to entertain them, they were making my makeover their priority task. The shoved a bunch of muggle products in me, had me taking a medicament that I'm quite sure needs a Healertor's approval to buy, since it literally pilled all my pimples off my face, putted a bunch of products in my hair that made the funny waves go away and made me buy an entire new closet and make-up kits.
By the end of summer, I was this new girl staring at her own reflection incapable to believe this was herself. I even got to have my first kiss at the last party we had where the boys from the boys camp came over. His name was Michel, he wasn't the most gorgeous guy ever, but he was quite sweet and it had been nice.
"Sweetheart, are you ready? You'll miss the train if we don't get going." I heard my father's voice calling me from downstairs.
"Yeah dad, be there in a minute!" I shouted back and finally moved away from the mirror taking a deep breath.
'Nothing has changed, you're just different.' I thought to myself as I took my purse and headed down.
"Don't worry sweetheart, you look lovely." My father said to me once we arrived at the station, giving me a small kiss on the top of my head, as if he was reading my mind. "You go in now, go find your friends." He said staring at the blank wall between platform 9 and 10.
"By daddy, I'll miss you!" I said hugging him.
"I'll miss you too princess." He said smiling at me.
The station was packed with students and parents, but my dorks where nowhere to be seen. 'What a huge surprise...' I thought ironically. They were all staying at Harry's house for the past two days, and let me tell you, the guy's called Drousy for a reason!
I glanced one last time to the platform, there were a couple of Ravenclaw's in my year giggling loudly before they spotted me and started to whisper while staring. 'Great' I thought to myself before I hopped in the train. Finding an empty compartment was always a task, and since I arrived here early I should at least take advantage of it. I putted my trunk in an empty compartment so that people would known this was taken and went to the loo.
Just as if my luck couldn't get any better I got locked inside the bathroom. Yey! Amazing way to start a new year at Hogwarts, right? NOT! After a while of countless tries to open it, I finally gave up and sat down, some girl was bound to use the loo sooner or later, right? But apparently it was going to be later... When the train finally showed signs of movement I stood up again, trying in vain to open the door. The train then started to gain speed, making me - of course - loose balance and hit the door with such strength that not only it finally pushed opened, but - again, of course - made me fell into the ground. I picked myself up quickly and double checked to see if anyone notice. To my great relief, finally one thing seemed to be at my favor this 'lovely' mourning, and no one did.
Only apparently, I spoke to soon...
When I pushed the door of the compartment that I had left my things in open, I almost lost balance again out of complete chock. Instead of my dorky friends, it was occupied by Dominique Weasley, Debby Fenn - both my roommates - Fred and his sister Roxanne Weasley and James freaking Potter.
"So you are M.W.?" James asked looking straight into my eyes, grinning while pointing to my initials in my trunk. "You own me a galleon Freddy, looks like the new student is quite a sight." He added while Dominique, Debby and Roxanne rolled their eyes.
New student? What the fuck is he going on about?
"She is hum Jamesey? Hey newy, where're you from?" Weasley said throwing something at Potter that I could only assume to be a galleon while grinning at me.
What happened next was a little bit too fast. Fred Weasley was a beater at the Gryffindor's team, so when he threw the galleon at Potter while looking at me, the galleon hit him straight in the top of his head and changed its course to my face. Instinctively I protected my face with my hand and grabbed the galleon, putting it in my pocket.
Hey! they were betting on me, I may at least make some money out of it!
"Wow! Tell me you were sorted into Gryffindor, we really need a new seeker!" James said eyeing me as if what I did was amazing instead of just normal reflexes. Honestly, the thing was coming for my face, anyone would have catch it, right?
And frankly, are this two fucking kidding me? We've shared a common room and classes for over five freaking years now! I rolled my eyes and looked at Dominique and Debby for help. They shared a dorm with me for five freaking years for crying out loud!
"Don't mind my brother, he's been dropped as a child." Roxanne said smiling at me.
Roxanne, smiling at me? Merlin certainly lost it this time.
"Don't just stand there, come on in, we won't bite!" Dominique said smiling at me and indicating me a seat right next to hers. I was almost going over when she added. "Why don't we start with the basic information's? What's your name?"
I widen my eyes at her in disbelieve. WHAT THE FUCK?!
So I did what any girl would do, I shook my head in disappointment and closed the compartment door shut to go look for my dorks. Yes, they're Wotters, saviors of the world and blablabla, but seriously, how can anyone be so self-centered? It's just rude!
I was completely relive when I found my friends only a few cabinets away, and was ready to open the door when someone called me:
"Hey, what're you doing?" I looked behind me to see that it was Dominique talking to me. Everyone had followed. Joy.
"You shouldn't go in there." Debby said looking at the compartment window. "They're freaks!"
"They're my friends Debby." I stated looking at her in my most threatening way, who the fuck does she think she is?!
"Snow?!" Shy said opening the compartment door, but staring at me like a fish - wide eyes and mouth opening and closing and all.
"Shy!" I said throwing myself at him for a bear hug ignoring the chock in all Wotter's face as they finally understood who I was.
"What happened to you?!" Grouchy said frowning at me.
"Oh I missed you two Paul! Don't be so Grouchy!" I said laughing at my pun intended and closing the compartment door at all Wotter's and Debby's face.
I looked around at all my dorky friends smiling, and after a few seconds they recovered from the shock of seeing the 'new' me and smiled back.
"I like it!" Cheerful said smiling at me.
"Course you do, you're Cheerful!" Sneeze said rolling his eyes.
"What was 'the golden clan' doing following you up here? And where the hell have you been?!" Stoned asked.
"Oh you guys won't believe the nerves on those self-centered bastards!" I said seating next to Drousy and trailing off telling them the whole story.
"Did you see the look on James Potter's face?!" Drousy said laughing. "It was hilarious he looked baffled!"
"Honestly, I've been having classes with them for over five years! And I share a dorm with the girls!" I said in disbelieve.
"Well in their defense you really look different Snow." Healer said eyeing me weirdly.
"Is it too much?" I asked concerned.
"Don't worry Snow, you look better than ever!" Cheerful said reassuring me and I smiled at him.
"Ok." I said relaxing a bit. "So, what did I miss?!" I asked them.
It had been certainly weird not seeing them over the summer, we usually did so many things together on our vacation - specially on summer - that not having them around seemed a bit off. Even though I did ended up having the time of my life at camp.
Unfortunately I knew I would never speak to the girls again, it was a muggle camp, so all my promises of writing them e-mails where in vain since muggle electronic devices wouldn't work at Hogwarts, and I couldn't owl them unless I intended to scare them to death!
"You know, the usual..." Stoned said and I nodded, we usually did do the exact same things for or summer break. "But it was weird not having you around this year, can you believe that Mss. Frances finally has a boyfriend?!"
"No!" I said in complete chock. Mss. Frances was Drousy's neighbor, she was about seventy years old and has been single for as long as we lived - that is if you don't count her weird relationship with all her eight cats, and yes, she did seemed to think that she was married to all of them.
"Yep, and it's freaking disgusting! It looked like their relationship is a menáge between them and all the cats." Healer said making a discussed face to which we all copied.
"Oh, and one of the caramel ones died, they did quite a service in her backyard, it went on for an entire day..." Sneeze said rolling his eyes.
No, we're not animal haters, in fact we all love cats, but what you all have to understand is that those cats are pure evil! There's always at least one outside to hiss at us if we open Drousy's front door and we haven't been able to go to his backyard in ages because apparently they feel like they own the place.
"I just hope they don't get another one to replace it..." Grouchy said crossing his arms and making us all nod in agreement.
"But it doesn't look like we're the ones with news to tell, you look like you had the time of your life Snow!" Shy said sweetly.
"Not the ones with news? Mss. Frances is dating! That seems like shocking information to me!" I said and immediately we all started laughing.
"Seriously though Snow, tell us about your summer." Drousy said smiling at me.
"Oh, It was amazing! I mean, I really missed you guys, but the girls were really nice to me, which was kind of a relieve, you know how worried I was about being thrown to the wolves, but since there were no boys they seemed to think that giving me a makeover was a lovely summer camp project." I finished shrugging while smiling.
"That explains a lot." Grouchy said raising his eyebrows while staring at me.
"Grouchy, don't be such a pain, she looks great!" Healer said frowning at him.
"I never said she didn't." He said rolling his eyes.
"Can you two let Snow finish?" Sneeze said looking annoyed at the pair.
"So anyway..." I continued ignoring Grouchy's interruption. "Did you know that muggles have an insanely amount of beauty products that actually had effect on my skin?!"
"I think we could tell that Snow." Cheerful said laughing.
"Oh, and I had my first kiss!" I said excitedly.
"YOU DID?!" Drousy shouted so loud that I almost fell off my seat. Drousy was normally pretty quiet.
"Merlin Drousy! You almost scared Snow to death!" Grouchy said shaking his head in disapproval but laughing all the same.
"Sorry Snow. I was sort of Drousy when you said it, caught me off guard, that's all. "He said shrugging and making us all laugh.
The rest of the train ride was pretty much the same, we chatted like if there were years of catching up to do - although in my case, my summer had more things going on than all my previous year all together. My dorks seemed pretty excited for me which only made me relax even more.
Maybe I still was the same dorky soul, only with better taste, make-up and experience, or something along the lines.
AN: And so I give you the first chapter of my story! What did you think?! As I said I know it's not a common topic, but that's the fun in it, right?! Please don't forget to help me and review it so that I know whether I should continue this story or not!
And here is a sneak peek of what the next chapter will look like in case the story is worth continuing:
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"Because I'm captain and I need a new Seeker!" He said shrugging.
"So why don't you stop wasting your time with me and go find one?" I said turning my back to him and proceeding to walk towards the dungeons. My dorky boys quickly followed.
"Attitude, I like it!" I heard Weasley saying and rolled my eyes.
"They completely lost it!" I told my boys a bit annoyed.
"I'd watch out for that one Snow, Wotters tend to get things their way..."
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