Alright guys: Same story, new nickname.. And to all those who read this the first time: Welcome to my wicked mind!
Hermione looked at the big, old castle. It reminded her of Hogwarts... It was one year now since she left Hogwarts... She had studied in america for a year and now she had come back to england to continue her studying here...
She went into the castle and when she spotted a girl with long, blonde hair, she said "Hey, excuse me, could you..."
The girl looked at her, rised her eyebrows and turned without a word. Okay, english universities were not very different from american ones and Hermione had at least learned one thing in america: Never ever ask girls with long, open, blonde hair or boys in football-jackets anything. If you at least got an answer, it was wrong.
So she looked round, searching for someone she could ask about the way to the dorms when she spotted a girl with cherry-red hair and black clothes. Hermione smiled. She herself wore black and she had coloured her hair black. And she had straitened it. And that girl looked like a mix of punk and gothic, but she still had her own style... Her style really reminded Hermione of her own...
She hurried a little to catch up with the girl. "Hey, uhm, sorry?"
The girl stopped, looked at her and smiled "Hey"
"Hey... I'm Mya and..."
"I'm Sydney and let me guess... You are new and lost."
Hermione smiled "Yeah, kind of... In my letter it says 'Corridor 457, Room 56 B and...'"
"... and that's great 'cause I'm just on my way to Corridor 457, Room 60 B and you can just come with me... "
Hermione smiled "Thank you... you know I just arrived from America and I hope my roommate is just as nice as you, because I couldn't stand another blonde- roommate-girlie"
Sydney smiled "Oh, your roommate is male and definitely not blonde... He's in the punk-rock-metal-maybekindapop-whatever-band my sister and me are playing in. He's the leadsinger... His name is Spike McCarthy, he says, but it isn't. Nobody knows his real name but a new girl that knew him when he still had his old identity and she recognised him. She won't say a word about who he is but that's okay with us. We all have our little secrets..."
Hermione stared at Sydney "Uhm... okay"
Sydney smiled "In america nobody had roommates from the other sex, I guess? Typical for Americans... Here it is kinda normal, we're all mixed, you know... Oh, and that other boy is in your room too, uhm... What was his name? Oh, yeah...Rick LaVelle... kinda cute, too... Spikes best mate, ya know? I share a room with my twin sister, Tricia... and with this kinda cute boy who just started his studying, Dean. He had to wait a year to get a place to study here, ya know?"
Hermione looked up when she heard the name "Where does he come from?"
"Hogwarts. He just moved in yesterday, ya know? And he's kind of... well, the boy is wearing football jackets, if you get my hint... And I think that's a pity, because he could be so nice..."
"Dean Thomas?"
"Thomas? Yeah, I think so... D'you know him?"
"He was one of my mates at Hogwarts..." Hermione really missed everybody from Hogwarts... Ron, who had died in the final battle... Harry, who was killed by deatheaters after he had defeated Voldemort... She was the last survivor of the golden trio... "He's probably the only mate I had that still lives..."
Sydney looked at her from the corner of her eyes "Yeah, well... My best mates were... Harry Potter and a guy you surely never heard of... Ronald Weasley was his name..."
Sydney smiled "Oh, I'm sorry your best mates are not here any longer, but I do know the name Ronald Weasley... His death is the reason his sister started wearing black... The girl that knew Spike, ya know?"
Hermione stared. That couldn't be true... "You know Ginny Weasley?"
"Yeah, sure. We are planning to get her as a background singer..."
"Oh Sydney, could you please, please, please take me to her? Do you know where she could be?"
Sydney smiled "This is your room. I'll help you get your stuff in, you come with me fetching my electric guitar and I'll show you my sister, Spike, Rick and Ginny, deal?"
"Deal" Hermione smiled and when they got Sydneys black guitar, they hurried to get back to the entrance and down into the dungeons. Hermione heard someone sing...
"That's Spike singing. You know, we just got a band half a year ago and we are still covering songs, but we have some texts... the only thing that's missing is a melody... so we keep playing the songs of some muggle bands for a while... Mainly linkin park and ghost of the robot, you know?"
Hermione listened to the song. The voice of the singer was so full of emotion...
"I died in my dreams, what's that supposed to mean?
Got lost in the fire
I died in my dreams reaching out for your hand
my fatal desire..."
Hermione smiled "But that's the funeral song of The Rasmus"
"Yeah, I said we play MAINLY Linkin Par and Ghost of the robot, not only. And Spike just likes the funeral song more than anything. He says he wants to hear it at his funeral... as if he could hear anything at his own funeral..."
Sydney pushed a door open and stepped in "Hey guys, shut up for a moment, I found a lost pet"
"Again??"
"Oh Rick, shut up. As if you ever disliked one of my new pets..."
Hermione stepped in. There was a girl with a deep red electric bass guitar that looked exactly the same Sydney did, just that her hair was black... And then, there was a boy with black hair sitting behind the drums and smiling sheepishly "I think this pet is really cute, so just bring her in..."
Then Hermione saw somebody with really bright, red hair and she smiled widely. "Virginia Weasley, why haven't you responded to my last letter and why haven't you told me you were going to university??"
Ginny smiled "Because I wanted it to be a surprise to you and in your last letter, you just told me that you were so keen to go to university and asked me what I would do after Hogwarts and what should I have written to you? 'I can't tell you, I want it to be a surprise'? Luckily Syd found you... " She walked over to Hermione and took her into her arms "I missed you so much, Mya..."
Hermione smiled and looked at the last person left in the room. He had black, spiky hair and stood with his back to Hermione. He felt her staring at him and turned
"Hey pet..."
