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"Well, ladies and germs, off you trot to bed, except fifth years. Chop, chop," said Albus Dumbledore to the great hall. It was Friday, October 13th.
"I wonder what he wants," whispered Harry Potter to his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.
"I don't know, but Fred and George said we're gonna like it," said Ron. "But they didn't tell me why. Said Dumbledore wants it to be a big, big, biggy surprise. For fifth years only."
"Oooh, I wonder what it could be," said Lavender Brown to her friends Parvati Patil and Callie Roberts, who were across from Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Maybe it's a trip to Hogsmeade," Callie said.
"Perhaps it's a dance," Emmy Monet called hopefully to her boyfriend, Ernie Macmillan, who was a Hufflepuff.
"Seamus, if it's a dance, will you go with me?" Lavender asked, giggling.
"Of course," said Seamus Finnegan. Lavender, Parvati, and Callie all giggled.
"I want to go with Draco Malfoy," said Callie, a little too loudly.
"Callie, he's a Slytherin," Hermione said, horrified.
"Well, Hermione, he's so hot, and besides, I like bad boys," Callie retorted, as she stared at Draco. His silvery blonde hair and eyes were gorgeous!
"I hope it isn't a dance," moaned Harry, remembering the Yule Ball.
"But everyone would love to go with you," Ron joked. Harry blushed to the roots of his very untidy black hair, embarassed. Many girls had asked him, just because he was a champion. Many girls, exceopt the one he wanted... Cho Chang.
"I wouldn't like to go with Eloise Midgen," Dean cracked. Hermione glared at him, enraged by his insulting her.
"Not funny, Dean," she said scathingly. Eloise was a chubby Ravenclaw with a face full of zits, but they weren't as bad as they used to be. Besides, Hermione viewed as a sweet, caring, sensitive person. So what if she wasn't gorgeous?
" Settle down, settle down, you can get excited later," said Dumbledore patiently. Everybody settled down. "The fifth years get to take a very special, thrilling field trip. A little bit of fun before the brutal studying for the O.W.L.s."
"I hope it isn't educational," Seamus said, making a face.
"You are all going to have the time of your lives," Dumbledore said. He got quiet, smiling at Pansy Parkinson, Millicent Bulstrode, Gemma Tack, Allison Mitton, and Rebecca Fawcett, who were whispering together. Everybody turned to look at the five girls.
"You students get to go to a haunted house. But it isn't any haunted house. You all have to work together to get through it. The trip will last for six days. Four of those days, each day, a group of ten will go through the haunted house. It will be an alphabetical thing, and each group will either be all girls, or all boys." There was a loud groan at that announcement. "There is a list of the groups outside the Great Hall. You all can go look at it now, then return for more instructions." There was a loud ruckus of scrambling as all the fifth years went out into the Entrance Hall to look at the list.
Group 1 1. Allison Mitton 2. Emmy Monet 3. Anthony Nott 4. Pansy Parkinson 5. Padma Patil 6. Parvati Patil 7. Aria Perks 8. Callie Roberts 9. Gemma Tack 10. Lisa Tupin Group 2 1. Hannah Abbott 2. Susan Bones 3. Mandy Brocklehurst 4. Lavender Brown 5. Millicent Bulstrode 6. Kendra Eades 7. Rebecca Fawcett 8. Hermione Granger 9. Kelly Haverty 10. Eloise Midgen Group 3 1. Terry Boot 2. Vincent Crabb 3. Evan DeLisio 4. Justin Finch-Fletchely 5. Seamus Finnegan 6. Liam Fugerson 7. Gregory Goyle 8. Michael Ivans 9. Simon Katz 10. Neville Longbottom Group 4 1. Ernie Macmillan 2. Draca Malfoy 3. Chuck Moon 4. Harry Potter 5. Matthew Stebbins 6. Patrick Summers 7. Logan Svackinetowicz 8. Dean Thomas 9. Ron Wesley 10. Blaise Zabini
"All, right, Ron, we're together!" Harry cheered.
"It's too bad Hermione isn't with us," said Ron wistfully.
"Oh, man," Millie Bulstrode groaned. "I'm with four Hufflepuffs and Eloise Midgen."
"That really stinks," said Allison Mitton sympathetically, patting Bulstrode on her square, bulky shoulder.
"Those two are jerks," said Hermione, scowling with a look of loathing. Ron and Harry stared.
"That's really out of character for you," said Harry, looking dumbfounded.
"Oih, really," said Hermione, bristling. "Are you saying I don't stick up for others?"
"No, but you never call people jerks," said Ron.
Hermione quickly changed the subject. "Let's go back in. I'm glad Lavender, at least, is in my group, even if she is a bit of, well, an airhead, to put it very bluntly. And Kendra Eades is in my group."
"Who is Kendra Eades?" asked Ron, wondering who the girl was who went with this unfamiliar name.
"Kendra Eades is a Hufflepuff in our year," said Hermione. "She is the same size as Harry, has curly brown hair, gray eyes, and her hair is down to her shoulders." She nodded over at a girl fitting the description, who was chatting with a skinny, surly-looking black-haired girl who was shrieking, "My name is Antonia, or TONI! I'm a freaking girl!"
Everybody else went into the Great Hall. And Dumbledore began to talk again, after handing out lists, of group statistics. Hermione began to pore over the list, reading the details on those in her group. Name, Hair Color/length/texture, eyes, height, weight, freckles? Glasses? Hannah, blonde/chest/straight,blue, 5'2", 112 Susan, red/shoulder/wavy, green, 5'0", 103, freckles Mandy, brown/chest/straight, brown, 5'5", 128, glasses Lavender, blonde//waist/wavy, blue gray, 4'10", 91, freckles Millicent, black/shoulder/straight, brown, 5'9", 161 Kendra, brown/shoulder/curly, dark gray, 5'4" 120 Rebecca, blonde/chin/straight, green, 5'3", 119, freckles Hermione, brown/chest/curly, brown, 5'7", 126 Kelly, sandy/hip/wavy, hazel, 5'4" 109 Eloise, dark blonde/chin/straight, brown, 5'3" ,141, freckles, glasses
"Daag, Eloise, you are huge," said Millicent. "HEY, EVERYBODY, ELOISE WEIGHS 141 POUNDS AND IS ONLY 5'3"!!!!!" All the Slytherins began to laugh. Eloise turned beet red.
"HEY EVERYONE!" yelled Mandy, who was a Ravenclaw like Eloise, "MILLICENT WEIGHS 161 POUNDS. HER WEIGHT MAKES ELOISE LOOK ANOREXIC!" Everybody except the Slytherins laughed this time. Millie looked outraged, especuially since she knew her weight was okay for a person of her height. The audacity of that Ravenclaw Brocklehurst! 141 really was overweight for someone of Eloise's height, but not 161 for Millicent.
"Okay, students," said Dumbledore. "Group 1 goes first, then group 2, then 3, then 4. Usually it's men first, but this time it's ladies first."
"I just realized something," said Ron. "Whoever made the lists spelled my name, and Malfoy's, Crabbe's, and Justin's names wrong. He put-a - a girl's name for Malfoy," he snickered. Harry, and Hermione laughed. "Oh, man. This is too funny"
"I guess I'll introduce you guys to Kendra in Herbology," said Hermione.
"I know who you're talking about," said Harry.
Two days later, it was Herbology. Kendra Eades was talking to Aria Perks and Kelly Haverty. "Kendra!" Hermione said.
"Yeah?" said Kendra.
"Come here," said Hermione. "I've never introduced you to Ron and Harry." Kendra walked over, her brown curls bouncing like ping-pong balls on her shoulder.
"Okay, Kendra. The black-haired one the same size as you is Harry, and the redhead is Ron. Harry and Ron, this crazy person is Kendra Eades," said Hermione. Thankfully, Harry thought, Kendra isn't gawking at my scar. He liked the girl already, for the one thing she was doing.. or rather, wasn't doing. "Do you want to work with us?" Hermione asked.
"Sure," said Kendra, pushing a handful of curls over her shoulder. Her eyes remind me of Cedric Diggory's," Harry thought sadly, the briefest of nostalgic expressions crossing his face.
"Herbology is my favorite class," said Kendra with a grin. "Except last year, with the bubotubers, that was gross. Reminded my of the lunch at my old school." Kendra grinned again.
"You're Muggle-born?" asked Harry.He was liking her more and more, Kendra seemed to be a very funny, friendly type.
"Yup," said Kendra. "I have a bratty 10 year old brother named Jared. At my old school, the scrambled eggs bounced. They served "scrambled eggs" for lunch. Can you believe that? I think I'm permanently traumatrized by that stuff! Thank goodness Hogwarts has good food."
"I think all Muggle schools serve gross stuff, which they call food," said Hermione matter-of-factly, thinking it probably had something to do with the cooks having to serve a large number of students at once, in the time span of 40 minutes.
"My mom made me get the school lunch. She claim's it is more nutritious," Kendra said, rolling her smoky gray eyes with mirth.
"How can something be nutritious if you can't eat it?" joked Harry. Ron, Kendra, and Hermione laughed.
"That's exactly what I'd say to my parents whenever they lectured me about wasting food! I always threw that crap out!" Kendra said. That was a perfectly reasonable arguement, about inedible food not being truly nutritious, but her parents had never bought that. Nothing would convince them to stop making Kendra buy her lunch.
"I feel left out. I've never been to a Muggle school," Ron said sadly.
"Oh, you didn't miss much," said Harry, remembering that unpleasant era in his life. He didn't have any Muggle friends, because Dudley had been such a terrible bully that the entirety of the student body didn't dare to befriend Harry.
A couple of weeks later, it was time to leave for the Merlin Haunted House. There were four flying carts, one for each group, for planning. As each group went, then they had to be seperated from those that didn't go. Hermione and Kendra shared a seat.
"Okay, girls," said Professor sprout, who was on the carriage. "I am going to hand out a sheet and you have to say what you are bringing to the haunted house. I hope you all brought your waterproof jeans and sweatshirts, and your caps. Our robes and pointy hats aren't good for the haunted house. And I hope you all got your names and Houses printed on the shirts." She handed out a piece of paper.
Kendra: I'm bringing a scrunchie, perfume, and my rock collection. Hermione: I'm bringing the Monster Book of Monsters, Halloween Creatures, and All About the Merlin Haunted House. Hannah: Hairspray, hairbrush, makeup kit. Susan: Young Witch magazine, Witch Weekly, Teenage Witch newsletter. Mandy: Monster book of Monsters, brush, a wizard radio. Lavender: styling gel, makeup, makeup remover. Millie: cat, box of spiders, spider food. Rebecca: life jacket, rope, rock collection. Kelly: diary, mirror, air freshener. Eloise: acne medication, gigantic pearl necklace, flashlight.
"Hhm, interesting things," Kelly commented.
"Yeah," agreed Kendra. "Air freshener?" Kelly shrugged. "I like things to smell good. And you're bringing perfume."
"You've got a point," said Kendra. The next day, the whole throng of fifth years stood in front of the massive haunted house. Group 1 was clad in identical sweatshirts, jeans, hats, and sneakers.
"Okay, people," said McGonagall. "You may enter in pairs." Allison and Pansy entered first, and immediately screamed. Then Gemma and Toni entered. They screamed too. Aria and Callie did the same, and so did Emmy and Parvati, and Lisa and Padma.
"I do hope nothing too horrible is in there," Hermione commented to Harry, Ron, and Kendra anxiously. They nodded in agreement.
The next day was the day of truth. It was time for Group 2.
"Nervous?" Kendra asked Hermione. Hermione nodded. Everybody else entered: Hannah and Susan, Lavender and Kelly, Millie and Eloise (to Millie's disgust), and Rebecca and Mandy.
"Ready?" said Hermione.
"Yeah," said Kendra. Clutching hands, the two friends entered and instantaneously let out long, continuous screams of horror.
Disclaimer: I own nothing! Don't sue, I don't have any money at the moment, I spent it all at the mall!
"Well, ladies and germs, off you trot to bed, except fifth years. Chop, chop," said Albus Dumbledore to the great hall. It was Friday, October 13th.
"I wonder what he wants," whispered Harry Potter to his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.
"I don't know, but Fred and George said we're gonna like it," said Ron. "But they didn't tell me why. Said Dumbledore wants it to be a big, big, biggy surprise. For fifth years only."
"Oooh, I wonder what it could be," said Lavender Brown to her friends Parvati Patil and Callie Roberts, who were across from Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Maybe it's a trip to Hogsmeade," Callie said.
"Perhaps it's a dance," Emmy Monet called hopefully to her boyfriend, Ernie Macmillan, who was a Hufflepuff.
"Seamus, if it's a dance, will you go with me?" Lavender asked, giggling.
"Of course," said Seamus Finnegan. Lavender, Parvati, and Callie all giggled.
"I want to go with Draco Malfoy," said Callie, a little too loudly.
"Callie, he's a Slytherin," Hermione said, horrified.
"Well, Hermione, he's so hot, and besides, I like bad boys," Callie retorted, as she stared at Draco. His silvery blonde hair and eyes were gorgeous!
"I hope it isn't a dance," moaned Harry, remembering the Yule Ball.
"But everyone would love to go with you," Ron joked. Harry blushed to the roots of his very untidy black hair, embarassed. Many girls had asked him, just because he was a champion. Many girls, exceopt the one he wanted... Cho Chang.
"I wouldn't like to go with Eloise Midgen," Dean cracked. Hermione glared at him, enraged by his insulting her.
"Not funny, Dean," she said scathingly. Eloise was a chubby Ravenclaw with a face full of zits, but they weren't as bad as they used to be. Besides, Hermione viewed as a sweet, caring, sensitive person. So what if she wasn't gorgeous?
" Settle down, settle down, you can get excited later," said Dumbledore patiently. Everybody settled down. "The fifth years get to take a very special, thrilling field trip. A little bit of fun before the brutal studying for the O.W.L.s."
"I hope it isn't educational," Seamus said, making a face.
"You are all going to have the time of your lives," Dumbledore said. He got quiet, smiling at Pansy Parkinson, Millicent Bulstrode, Gemma Tack, Allison Mitton, and Rebecca Fawcett, who were whispering together. Everybody turned to look at the five girls.
"You students get to go to a haunted house. But it isn't any haunted house. You all have to work together to get through it. The trip will last for six days. Four of those days, each day, a group of ten will go through the haunted house. It will be an alphabetical thing, and each group will either be all girls, or all boys." There was a loud groan at that announcement. "There is a list of the groups outside the Great Hall. You all can go look at it now, then return for more instructions." There was a loud ruckus of scrambling as all the fifth years went out into the Entrance Hall to look at the list.
Group 1 1. Allison Mitton 2. Emmy Monet 3. Anthony Nott 4. Pansy Parkinson 5. Padma Patil 6. Parvati Patil 7. Aria Perks 8. Callie Roberts 9. Gemma Tack 10. Lisa Tupin Group 2 1. Hannah Abbott 2. Susan Bones 3. Mandy Brocklehurst 4. Lavender Brown 5. Millicent Bulstrode 6. Kendra Eades 7. Rebecca Fawcett 8. Hermione Granger 9. Kelly Haverty 10. Eloise Midgen Group 3 1. Terry Boot 2. Vincent Crabb 3. Evan DeLisio 4. Justin Finch-Fletchely 5. Seamus Finnegan 6. Liam Fugerson 7. Gregory Goyle 8. Michael Ivans 9. Simon Katz 10. Neville Longbottom Group 4 1. Ernie Macmillan 2. Draca Malfoy 3. Chuck Moon 4. Harry Potter 5. Matthew Stebbins 6. Patrick Summers 7. Logan Svackinetowicz 8. Dean Thomas 9. Ron Wesley 10. Blaise Zabini
"All, right, Ron, we're together!" Harry cheered.
"It's too bad Hermione isn't with us," said Ron wistfully.
"Oh, man," Millie Bulstrode groaned. "I'm with four Hufflepuffs and Eloise Midgen."
"That really stinks," said Allison Mitton sympathetically, patting Bulstrode on her square, bulky shoulder.
"Those two are jerks," said Hermione, scowling with a look of loathing. Ron and Harry stared.
"That's really out of character for you," said Harry, looking dumbfounded.
"Oih, really," said Hermione, bristling. "Are you saying I don't stick up for others?"
"No, but you never call people jerks," said Ron.
Hermione quickly changed the subject. "Let's go back in. I'm glad Lavender, at least, is in my group, even if she is a bit of, well, an airhead, to put it very bluntly. And Kendra Eades is in my group."
"Who is Kendra Eades?" asked Ron, wondering who the girl was who went with this unfamiliar name.
"Kendra Eades is a Hufflepuff in our year," said Hermione. "She is the same size as Harry, has curly brown hair, gray eyes, and her hair is down to her shoulders." She nodded over at a girl fitting the description, who was chatting with a skinny, surly-looking black-haired girl who was shrieking, "My name is Antonia, or TONI! I'm a freaking girl!"
Everybody else went into the Great Hall. And Dumbledore began to talk again, after handing out lists, of group statistics. Hermione began to pore over the list, reading the details on those in her group. Name, Hair Color/length/texture, eyes, height, weight, freckles? Glasses? Hannah, blonde/chest/straight,blue, 5'2", 112 Susan, red/shoulder/wavy, green, 5'0", 103, freckles Mandy, brown/chest/straight, brown, 5'5", 128, glasses Lavender, blonde//waist/wavy, blue gray, 4'10", 91, freckles Millicent, black/shoulder/straight, brown, 5'9", 161 Kendra, brown/shoulder/curly, dark gray, 5'4" 120 Rebecca, blonde/chin/straight, green, 5'3", 119, freckles Hermione, brown/chest/curly, brown, 5'7", 126 Kelly, sandy/hip/wavy, hazel, 5'4" 109 Eloise, dark blonde/chin/straight, brown, 5'3" ,141, freckles, glasses
"Daag, Eloise, you are huge," said Millicent. "HEY, EVERYBODY, ELOISE WEIGHS 141 POUNDS AND IS ONLY 5'3"!!!!!" All the Slytherins began to laugh. Eloise turned beet red.
"HEY EVERYONE!" yelled Mandy, who was a Ravenclaw like Eloise, "MILLICENT WEIGHS 161 POUNDS. HER WEIGHT MAKES ELOISE LOOK ANOREXIC!" Everybody except the Slytherins laughed this time. Millie looked outraged, especuially since she knew her weight was okay for a person of her height. The audacity of that Ravenclaw Brocklehurst! 141 really was overweight for someone of Eloise's height, but not 161 for Millicent.
"Okay, students," said Dumbledore. "Group 1 goes first, then group 2, then 3, then 4. Usually it's men first, but this time it's ladies first."
"I just realized something," said Ron. "Whoever made the lists spelled my name, and Malfoy's, Crabbe's, and Justin's names wrong. He put-a - a girl's name for Malfoy," he snickered. Harry, and Hermione laughed. "Oh, man. This is too funny"
"I guess I'll introduce you guys to Kendra in Herbology," said Hermione.
"I know who you're talking about," said Harry.
Two days later, it was Herbology. Kendra Eades was talking to Aria Perks and Kelly Haverty. "Kendra!" Hermione said.
"Yeah?" said Kendra.
"Come here," said Hermione. "I've never introduced you to Ron and Harry." Kendra walked over, her brown curls bouncing like ping-pong balls on her shoulder.
"Okay, Kendra. The black-haired one the same size as you is Harry, and the redhead is Ron. Harry and Ron, this crazy person is Kendra Eades," said Hermione. Thankfully, Harry thought, Kendra isn't gawking at my scar. He liked the girl already, for the one thing she was doing.. or rather, wasn't doing. "Do you want to work with us?" Hermione asked.
"Sure," said Kendra, pushing a handful of curls over her shoulder. Her eyes remind me of Cedric Diggory's," Harry thought sadly, the briefest of nostalgic expressions crossing his face.
"Herbology is my favorite class," said Kendra with a grin. "Except last year, with the bubotubers, that was gross. Reminded my of the lunch at my old school." Kendra grinned again.
"You're Muggle-born?" asked Harry.He was liking her more and more, Kendra seemed to be a very funny, friendly type.
"Yup," said Kendra. "I have a bratty 10 year old brother named Jared. At my old school, the scrambled eggs bounced. They served "scrambled eggs" for lunch. Can you believe that? I think I'm permanently traumatrized by that stuff! Thank goodness Hogwarts has good food."
"I think all Muggle schools serve gross stuff, which they call food," said Hermione matter-of-factly, thinking it probably had something to do with the cooks having to serve a large number of students at once, in the time span of 40 minutes.
"My mom made me get the school lunch. She claim's it is more nutritious," Kendra said, rolling her smoky gray eyes with mirth.
"How can something be nutritious if you can't eat it?" joked Harry. Ron, Kendra, and Hermione laughed.
"That's exactly what I'd say to my parents whenever they lectured me about wasting food! I always threw that crap out!" Kendra said. That was a perfectly reasonable arguement, about inedible food not being truly nutritious, but her parents had never bought that. Nothing would convince them to stop making Kendra buy her lunch.
"I feel left out. I've never been to a Muggle school," Ron said sadly.
"Oh, you didn't miss much," said Harry, remembering that unpleasant era in his life. He didn't have any Muggle friends, because Dudley had been such a terrible bully that the entirety of the student body didn't dare to befriend Harry.
A couple of weeks later, it was time to leave for the Merlin Haunted House. There were four flying carts, one for each group, for planning. As each group went, then they had to be seperated from those that didn't go. Hermione and Kendra shared a seat.
"Okay, girls," said Professor sprout, who was on the carriage. "I am going to hand out a sheet and you have to say what you are bringing to the haunted house. I hope you all brought your waterproof jeans and sweatshirts, and your caps. Our robes and pointy hats aren't good for the haunted house. And I hope you all got your names and Houses printed on the shirts." She handed out a piece of paper.
Kendra: I'm bringing a scrunchie, perfume, and my rock collection. Hermione: I'm bringing the Monster Book of Monsters, Halloween Creatures, and All About the Merlin Haunted House. Hannah: Hairspray, hairbrush, makeup kit. Susan: Young Witch magazine, Witch Weekly, Teenage Witch newsletter. Mandy: Monster book of Monsters, brush, a wizard radio. Lavender: styling gel, makeup, makeup remover. Millie: cat, box of spiders, spider food. Rebecca: life jacket, rope, rock collection. Kelly: diary, mirror, air freshener. Eloise: acne medication, gigantic pearl necklace, flashlight.
"Hhm, interesting things," Kelly commented.
"Yeah," agreed Kendra. "Air freshener?" Kelly shrugged. "I like things to smell good. And you're bringing perfume."
"You've got a point," said Kendra. The next day, the whole throng of fifth years stood in front of the massive haunted house. Group 1 was clad in identical sweatshirts, jeans, hats, and sneakers.
"Okay, people," said McGonagall. "You may enter in pairs." Allison and Pansy entered first, and immediately screamed. Then Gemma and Toni entered. They screamed too. Aria and Callie did the same, and so did Emmy and Parvati, and Lisa and Padma.
"I do hope nothing too horrible is in there," Hermione commented to Harry, Ron, and Kendra anxiously. They nodded in agreement.
The next day was the day of truth. It was time for Group 2.
"Nervous?" Kendra asked Hermione. Hermione nodded. Everybody else entered: Hannah and Susan, Lavender and Kelly, Millie and Eloise (to Millie's disgust), and Rebecca and Mandy.
"Ready?" said Hermione.
"Yeah," said Kendra. Clutching hands, the two friends entered and instantaneously let out long, continuous screams of horror.