Walking In the Snowy Meadows. a fanfiction.
Chapter 1: New to the school, er, castle
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i slowly trudged onto the train, holding a black bag with pink, green, yellow, and blue splatters on it, filled with my ipod, cellphone, and my purple laptop. i stuck out like a sore thumb as i walked slowly to an empty room thing. all of those kids had plain old slacks, skirts, and sweaters, opposed to my dark skinny jeans, black and purple skater shoes, and a white teeshirt with a zebra wearing a rainbow mohawk, and my green ambercrombie sweatshirt. but most of all, i am the only one here with an american accent.
i sighed and put in my earphones and turned on my ipod, going to my "Linkin Park" album, with my favorite songs ever, new divide, bleed it out, and what i'v done. my name, though, fit in pretty well, Charlotte Meadows. i had dusty blond hair, about a few inches longer than my chin, with deep brown low lights and platinum blond highlights, and my eyes, my favorite feature about me, are an amazing deep violet, and totally natural, no contacts or surgery, i was born with them.
just as the 4th song on the album was finished 3 other people walked into my train cart, one a readheaded, rather trashy looking boy (a/n im not bein mean to ron mkay he is awsome, Charlotte is very jugdmental ok.), one a girl with long wavy brown hair, and another boy with glasses, shaggy black hair... and a, lightning shaped scar?
i couldn't help myself, i took out one of my earphones, "how did you get that scar?" i said, tilting my head slightly. he looked surprised. "oh, um, i'm surprised you dont already know who i am." he said with a heavy british accent. "um, should i?" i replied, totally surprised now. "well, ya, i'm harry potter, the boy who lived." "um, nope, doesnt ring a bell." now i was really confused, "oh, i'm Charlotte by the way, Charlotte Meadows." i let a little wave out form my hand. "I-i'm Ron weasly." said the readhead, looking totally awstruck next to me, i know who will be my stalker this year. 'and i'm Hermione granger." said the girl, holding out her hand, i shook it, not really knowing what else to do.
"so, you have an american accent, should'nt you be all the way where that wizard school is, charles madison's school for witchcraft and wizardry, right?" said Ron, back to his senses now."um ya, well, i kinda, got, kicked out." i said, averting their gaze, apperantly british peple are all goody goody two shoes. " what? what did you do to get expelled?!" Hermione asked, looking slightly amazed at my juvenile delinquent-ness. "i, um, kinda got in a huge fist fight witht this one chick, got her in the hospital, due to accesive blood loss and broken a broken leg and arm."
the boys seemed to like my bad girl behavior, hermione, not so much. "wicked." said ron, still looking up and down my body, partcularly at my chest, i zipped up my sweatshirt. "how did you get in the fight, and did you use magic?" harry asked, leaning in closer. "well, she was starting shit with me, we used to be friends, but she talked behind my back and told my secrets, and i got sick and tired of it so, we got in a fight on school grounds, so ya. and i like using my own hands better than a feeble little tree branch." i now had my ipod turned off as we got into a really cool conversation about witches, wizards, and Hogwarts, the school that we would be arriving at in about an hour.
"so, i really havnt seen anyone, like you, at hogwarts before." hemione said shyly as i twiddled with my redwood wand, vines carved in at the grip. "like me, meaning total bad ass emo-skater chick, right?" i said, looking up at her, "well, ya, no ones really, dressed like that before." "hermione!" ron said as the fat old lady came up to us saying, "want anything from the trolly?" i got berti bott's every flavored beans and a chocolate frog, using five dollars worth of my "muggle money."
"well, you'll have a lot of catching up to do, seeing it's fourth year." harry said as i sighed, thinking about my old home in alabama, but unlike others there, i have a normal accent. my mom moved all the way here, leaving our friends and family behind. "ya, well, our um, headmaster said that our school was more advanced than yours." i said, hoping not to offend the 3. "oh really," hemione said, sounding like a total smart ass, "like what, what spells did you learn?" i kinda snickered on that, "well, for one we learned Avada kadavera, and the crutatious curse." i said, they all stared awstruck at me. "but thats illigal!" she exclaimed. and yes, it was, the ministry of magic said so. "ya, so." i said, shruggung my shoulders. "but cant your teachers get sacked for teachin you that spell?" geeze she is a goody-goody. "not if fudge doesnt find out, and besides, it the dark arts, we need to know how yo deffend ourselves." i replied, even though i could throw one hell of a punch.
the train came to a stop as a male british voice began to speak over the intercom. "all students should file off the train in a neat, orerly fashion, first years follow hagrid to the docks please." click. the intercom turned off. "um, do we grab our luggage?" i asked, confused as we got off of the train. "they do, you follow me wih the first years." a gruff voice said from behind my back, i turned around to see a ginormouse man with long frizzy black hair with a beard to match. i jumped back a little. "see you later Charlotte." Harry said, waving. i smiled, "call me Snowy." i said.
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i stuck my hand into the deep, black water over the side of the boat. "AHHHHHHHH!" i said as i pulled my hand out of the water. "what? whats wrong?!" a little blong girls screamed. " SOMETHING BIT ME!" i said, loud enough for hagrid to hear. "oh, dont do that, them mermaids are mean as a werewolf." he said calmly, like this happns everyday.
as we walked in my newly bought black cloak was drifting around me, i felt like jane form twilight! it was finally my turn to take a seat on the stool and have the musty old hat on my head to sort me into one of the 4 houses" Charlotte Meadows" an old woman in green called. "hm, right then. creative mind, couragouse, smart, ah! i know just where to put you!. the hat mumbled, then shouted, "GRIFFINDOOOOOORE!!!!!!" a patch magically appeared on my cloak, along with red trim on the sleeves, hood, and bottom. more than fifty students jumped up and cheered, i could hear ron, harry, and hermine the loudest. i smiled and walked over to them
"hey sexy! come here!" a male voice said, i turned around to see a pale faced guy looking at me, wearing a green trimmed cloak, slytherine. "what did you just say?" i said with attitued, pissed off at him. ' ah come on, you know you want this." he said again, opening his arms. i raised my hand and bitch slapped him. " DO NOT SAY ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN OR YOU WILL BE SO SORRY!" i screamed as he whimpered and out his hands to his now red face.
"why did you slap draco malfoy?" harry said, spitting out the name as he said it. "he was calling me sexy and tryin to get in my pants." i said as i grabbed a bowl of salad. they all giggled, along with a pair of readheaded twins, probably related to ron. " thats malfoy for you." twin one said, his name was george. "ya, he tries to screw everyone!" the other one said. "and by everyone, we mean the sexy girls!" they both said at the same time, giving me a half-joking half-longing look, they were one year ahead of me but still 14, i dont think so.
"fred! george!" ron said, obviously embarassed. "ron its okay, they were just joking." i said as i gave them a look meant to say, "no way are you gettin any". "oh, suuuuuure we were." fred said. then an amzingly hott guy with bronze hair and blue eyes came up to me. "hello," he said, his voice like velvet, "i'm cedric diggory, your new here, right?" i nodded," i'm Charlotte Meadows, but everyone calls me snowy." i replied, i like this guy. "oh, well how'd you get that name?"he asked, sitting down in between me and some redheaded girl, also related to ron. "well, one time when i was really little i was playing in the snow and when i came inside i looked like a snowman. my parents started to call me snowy so it just kinda stuck." i explained, giggling at the fond memory when my parents were still together. " hm, are both your parents magic?" he asked. "well, my mom is, but my dad's a muggle, they split up when i was 5 after she told him, he just couldn't take it. but i still visit him on the weekends." everyone was listening now. "oh! i'm so sorry, that must be so tough!" hermione said, giving me a sympathetic look."no, no, its okay, it was when i was 5, i barley even remember it." i lied, actually, it seemed like only yesterday when my dad brought home the divorce papers.
"well, Snowy, its saturday tomorrow, maybe i could show you around the school." cedric said, obviousley hoping i would say yes. "um, okay." i said, not in a girly breathless way, but kind of a whatever way. now harry looked really pissed. "hey, maybe we could all go for some butterbeers tomorrow, too." cedric added, inviting harry, ron, hermione, fred, and geoge. "sure, thatd be great," hermione siad, answereing for all of them," i love butterbeers!"
"tch! forget butterbeer!" i said, "get me a tequilla!" they all laughed and we all went to our common rooms, cedric alking me to the griffindore house, despite the fact that he was in hufflepuff. "did you really mean the whole tequilla thing?" he asked, still having his arm around my back slightly, guiding me to the fat lady painting, "nah, i kinda wanted straight liquor more." i said, totally seriouse, and it was true, i love straight liquor. "okay, good, becaus ei'd prefer liquor over taquillas any day!" he said. we both laughed as a hand went up my grey skirt, i spun around to see draco malfoy, trying to get at my as." WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?" i screamed at him, pushing him to the groung, accidentally giving him a veiw up my skirt. "i see you wear thongs." was all he had to say. cedric stepped in for me then, "hey! leave her alone, malfoy!" cedric said, looking very threatening. draco looked horrified as cedric put a fist up to his chin and the other holding onto his shirt, malfoy ran away like the baby he is.
"sorry about him, lets just say his mother dropped him 10 too many times." i laughed, "eh, i've had worse." i said, still laughing. "so, are you seriously wearing a thong?" he asked, smiling. i giggled as ten boys all looked at me. "maybe." i said, giving a false sense of embarassment. i was, too, and proud of it, but i'll wear shorts under this thing next time i wear it. cedric laughed, "well, see you tomorrow, meet me here at about 12:30, okay?" he said. "wouldnt miss it for the world." i replied, stepping into the common room, lit by some lamps and a fire. we waved goodbye and he turned around and left.
"aw! you got a date with cedric!" one girl called out, her name was cho. "um, ya, arent you in a different house?" i asked, wondering why a ravenclaw was in our house. "oh, i snuck in to see giny." she said, putting an arm around the redhead. "how'd you get in, cho?" giny asked."the window. learning to fly a broom is very helpful." i smiled, i liked cho. we talked a little more befor i went to the girls dormitory, seeing that my red and black plaid suit cases were already on my bed, with a girl named parvati patil, with a twin sister in ravenclaw, padma patil. "hi!." she said, "i'm parvati." i smiled, she was the first girl form india i'd ever met. "i'm Charlotte, but you can call me snowy." i replied, praying to god that i didnt have to tell the story of how my nickname came to be, she already heard from harry that one.
we both got into our pajamas, my bottomes blue with white stripes from hollister and my metro startion shirt, and her in matching top and bottoms of sheep. we walked downstarirs with my laptop. i showed her all the funny videos i could think of from america that i found, mainley all from AFV. parvati laughed her head off. we satyed up until 12 talking to fred and george about pranks and funny stories. then went to bed, excited about tomorrows date with cedric diggory.
the next day i woke up at 9:00. i went to the dineing hall in my pajamas to get some coffee and a biscut, releived that cedric didnt see me in my pj's. then i went to take a shower, shaving my legs and armpits, blow drying my hair and straightening it, and putting on eyeliner and stuff. the outfit i chose were my purple skinny jeans and my black zoo york tee shirt, the letters in light purple and blue. i put in my pink hoop earrings, big enough to be a bracelet. i also wore my black and white studded belt, with pink yellow and blue tiny splatters on it. i painted my nails black and was ready to and i met outside of the fat lady painting and were off.
"...and this is the candy shop." cedric said, taking me by the hand and pulling me into the store. i was amazed at how many sweets were in just one place, hosmead was amazing! "oh wow!" i said, looking at him. he stared into my eyes, "your eyes are amazing! are they really that color?" i looked away and shook my bangs back into my face, "oh, ya, i was born with em. thanks." crap, this was exactly the reaction i get with everyone when they see my eyes. " why do you try and hide them under your hair?" he asked, pushing my bangs apart to look at my eyes again. "i dont know, i just kinda, dont really like it when people start gushing over them, it makes me feel weird." i replied, my face getting red."well dont, your eyes are beautiful, and you should show them off." he said, i smiled and we went off to the hogs head to have some butterbeers with harry ron hermione and a few other people.
"hi everyone!" i said cheerfully as i sat in between cedric and a girl named luna lovegood. "hello," she siad, "i'm luna lovegood, and you must be Charlotte, harry's been talking a lot about you." she smiled, i laughed and looked at harry, he was so embarassed. "aw harry, its okay." i said, waving my hand. after a couple rounds of butterbeer harry finally spoke, "so, snowy, are you trying out for the quidditch team?" he asked, twiddling with his fingers and looking at the floor. "well, i was seeker on my team back in america so sure." i replied. "were you good?" cedric asked, i smiled, "ya, i held the school's record for the fasted snich-catching time." i replied, i was proud of my accomplishment. "you did? a girl?" ron said, okay, he just got on my bad side, hermione and i slapped his shoulders. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?" we both said. "nothing." he replied, shrinking back a little. harry laughed.
after a few more butterbeers and a conversation about fudge and the ministy we all went home, cedric and i falling a little behind the rest. "did you have fun?" he asked looking down at me, considering we were aout 3 inches apart. "yes i did, we should do it again sometime." i replied, my heart skipping a eat as he had me trapped in between him and a tree. "we should." he said, leaning down to have our lips meet. "wait, wait." i said, wriggling my way out of the tree. "um, we only met yesterday, i think its to soon." my face blushed as i said this, hoping not to hurt his feelings. "oh, thats okay, i can wait." he said, shrugging his arms. "im glad you understand." i replied, streching up to kiss him on the cheek. we went on to the school, me secretly hoping no one saw what had just happened.
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"well, how was it?" parvati asked, leaning over slightly in our dorm, with giny, parvati, cho, and padma on our beds too. "oh, it was amazing!" i said, and then went into detail about how cedric almost kissed me but then i refused, only kissing him on the cheek. "aw! why didnt you?" giny asked, a year below us. "i felt it was just to soon, i mean, come on! we only met yesterday!" they laughed. then padma got all seriouse an quiet. "hey, do you wanna see what the boys are saying?" she asked, holding up a sting with one ear at each end. "yes! lets go!" we all said, hermione already fast asleep a few beds over. thats what you get for drinking too many butterbeers.
we walked across the hall to the balcony and sli the ear under the boys dormitory door, ron's voice came on. "... and it really hurt when they hit me!" he said, i had to giggle a little, recalling hermione and i hitting him for being sexist. "well you deserved it! girls are sensetive about that stuff!" harry said, laughing. " you know harry, you should ask snowy out on a date, its so obviouse how you like her!" fred said, hearing someone else in the distance rumaging through what it seemed like bottles. "what? i do not!" harry said as we slowly opened the door just enough to see what they were doing. ron, neville, and fred were pinning harry to the bed as george poured some sort of liquid into harrys mouth. he sat up, forcibly swallowing the liquid.
"now harry, we'll ask you one more time, do you like charlotte meadows?" fred asked, all the boys looking at him. harry reluctantly answered. "well, ya, i guess so, but its too early to tell really." he said, all of us looked at each other in shock then went back to the girls dormitory. "he likes you!" cho explaimed silently, "and so does cedric! your so lucky!" all the others agreed. i was still worried about harry, i didnt know how i felt about him or cedric yet.
after a long talk about cute boys, cedric, and harry cho left with padma on the back of her broom, then giny, parvati, and i went to bed, stiill thinking about what i'd heard in the boys dormitory.