Making Hogwarts Headlines
Chapter 1: The Exclusive
Yup. Another one...but I couldn't help this one as I completed Admirer and felt bummed out about it.
Disclaimer: This is for fun and never for profit. I may have to sell my own exclusives to Rita for I have very few galleons...but in this case, I wasn't the one that went to Rita regarding this article about Professor Vector.
Hogwarts…a Monday morning…
Professor Sinistra could never quite get used to her work hours, despite having worked them for several years. But such was the life and schedule of an Astronomy professor at Hogwarts. Classes later in the day and into the night, sleep in a bit and wake up, and it was very much the same until Friday.
Breakfast for her was when most of the staff was having Lunch. But once she awoke she very much enjoyed this time of day. A few hours before work started; she relished the peace and quiet away from the students and a few select hard to deal with staff members because classes were in session or most were in the Great Hall lunching.
She had contacted the kitchens and the house elf had brought her juice, cereal, toast, and a pot of very strong coffee….which, unfortunately, she had not surmised that on this very day, she would need a lot.
Actually, she wished she had been prepared for what she read very soon after, because she might just have asked the elves for a bottle of firewhiskey….maybe two…so as to give one to her very good friend, Septima Vector.
Maybe a third to give to Professor Snape…
No, she thought, nix that. A restraining order and protective charms would have to do…
But for some reason she doubted it was Vector's fault when she had opened up the paper and read and yelled out loud in a screeching voice. "WHAT THE…"
And the panic started to sink in…the horror…the sick feeling in her stomach knowing, really, not knowing what the hell was going on and how the hell it had happened.
Even after she fell off her office chair in shock and rolled into a fetal position on the floor after taking the ceramic cereal bowl, silverware, their contents, the crystal juice glass, the plates, the china coffee pot and cups and saucers and creamer and even the sugar bowl with her as her back and the rest of her met the hard cold stone floor.
And even the ill-omened paper fell with her, which was opened to Rita Skeeter's section.
By Rita Skeeter. ..She kept re-reading the article, from where she was sprawled out on the floor, but her eyes kept falling on the name of the author.
Hogwarts Profiles: Professor Septima Vector
Three years into her tenureship as Arithmancy professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor Septima Emma Arabella Vector is still one busy witch.
Gilderoy Lockhart feeling she needed some well-deserved recognition, one could say publicity, arranged an interview with her.
Sitting behind her desk, I studied her, remembering the accounts of many of how fetching she is. If long dark hair with waves falling down your back, eyes that are a dark blue bordering on purple, white skin, and slight dimples when she managed to give rare smiles….well, if that appeals to you…
She sits up straight as if she has practiced balancing books on her head all her life. She possesses a soft voice, almost child-like, that can raise to a shrill yell resembling a banshee if need be, as an anonymous caretaker of Hogwarts who chose not to be identified can attest too.
She was born in Wales to Leslie Vector and Annabelle Langley-Vector. Her brother Geoffrey is said to be just as handsome, to those their looks would appeal to. She has a pet toad that one of my anonymous sources said they overheard a professor remarking that resembled its owner once. She attended the Welsh Wizarding Academy and then interned at Gringotts bank before joining full time upon graduation. She had travelled to some exotic locales to as some consider it "break and enter" for goblins, and left to take the vacant arithmancy chair at Hogwarts upon the retirement of the former professor.
My profile of Professor Vector is the first of a series that will unfold in the Daily Prophet with several articles dedicated to each professor before I move on to the next.
Also, I interviewed several of her co-workers who gave a more intimate portrait of Miss Vector; family, friends, Professor Snape, now her boyfriend, and many others from her past and present.
Join me next week readers for the second installment of my profile on Hogwarts professors, as I profile Professor Vector.
"Professor Snape, now her boyfriend…"
Oh, dear Merlin…there had to be some mistake…
Either way….Snape would destroy her.
Professor Sinistra struggled to get up from the floor.