Ah, yes. Twinkie got bored one day and decided to write another story. Not the best idea. I think I have writer's block... aww phooey. No I don't! I'm just lazy!!!!! Haha. Anyway, here's another Tori Story. (hey, that rhymes!) She's my favorite character to use, but I might drag others into this too. Let me know if you want to be one of them!
Disclaimer: Ok, if I owned Harry Potter, I would totally be rubbing it in your face right now. But since I don't... Oh yeah, and I also don't own heffalumps or Jedi peeps.
Gryffindor Dorms, 8:37 PM, George's Point of View
Hogwarts. Nothing vaguely interesting going on here at the moment. There usually isn't anyway. Oh well. Nothing I can't fix! Well, me and Fred anyway. But now that I think about it, it hasn't been totally silent here. Nope, we just got a new girl. Tori, I think?? Yeah. She's from... Cadencera. It sounds like Kay-den-sarah. It's a pretty cool place; I've heard about it on the wizard radio. But why she's here, I have no idea. Cadencera is in France, like Beauxbatons, just a little more south towards Spain. Apparently there's this gorgeous campus with phenomenal teachers, so what is she doing in Hogwarts? That, my friends, is one of the many questions I do not have an answer to. Another is how they get the jelly in the donuts. It's a mystery!
Random Tower in the Castle, 9:48 PM, Tori's Point of View
"Gah. Why am I here again? I don't want to be here! I want to go back to Cadencera!" I ranted to my teddy bear and heffalump. Teddy had always been there with me, wherever I went, so this was no exception. I actually brought most of my stuffed animal collection; it's just that Teddy and Wally were out. Wally is my heffalump. He's cute... ANYWAY! "Urrr..." I said out loud, knowing perfectly well that no one could here me. Or so I thought.
"Troubles, Miss Gray?" a voice said through the door. Miss Gray. It's a little depressing. I don't like that. Okay, so my full name is Victoria Cassidy Scott Gray.(Yes, I have two middle names and yes, one of them is a guy name. Whatever. It's a family-heirloom-type name) But I must say, as long as he doesn't call me Victoria, we're on good terms.
"To be honest, I'm a little frustrated," I replied, opening the door to reveal none other than Albus Dumbledore. His bright blue eyes twinkled with a hint of mischief, but were mostly filled with worry and authority.
"With what, my dear? A troubled mind is not a good one," he said, evidently going for a Jedi Master quote.
"Well," I said, drawing out my answer, "I'm having a little trouble adjusting. I mean, I still haven't been sorted, I'm barely unpacked, I'm gonna have to move rooms soon again anyway, so I'm having to live not being unpacked right now, I'm homesick for Cadencera, I miss my friends, my family can't come here for holidays, I'm frustrated that I'm going to have to make all new friends, I'm concerned that I might have to wear the atrocious uniforms that all the students here wear, I'm a little mad because I have to retake all the courses that I've already passed- with flying colors, I might add- because your test system is different than Cadencera's, and there's this one guy that's really creepy that won't seem to leave me alone. I had to charm my door AND staircase to keep him out! Phew!" I said all in one breath.
Dumbledore took a minute to process everything I just said, then responded with, "Now, while I can't help you with your boy problem, I can help with the other ones. First, you don't need to be sorted right away. Just get comfortable here first. Go ahead and unpack; I'll let you permanently use this dorm since you are a special case student, meaning you're an exchange."
"Oh!" I interrupted. "That's what I am??"
"Yes," he replied, seemingly unphased that I interrupted. "Anyhow, as I was saying, since you are an exchange student, you will be making frequent visits back to Cadencera to make reports, so that fixes your homesickness and the fact that you'll see your old friends a little more. Your family may not be able to visit you here, but that is because we send our students home for the holidays. You will return home on Christmas. Don't worry about making friends, with a spirit like yours, it should come quite easily. As for your courses, you will be taking written exams for the classes you have passed, meaning for each one on the list we gave you, you passed, you will take a written exam to make sure you have passed on Hogwarts' standards. With a brilliant girl like you, it should be easy."
I nodded, twirling my medium-length, purple-streaked hair around my finger, taking everything in. But then I noticed that he skipped the part about the uniforms. "What about the uniforms?" I asked hesitantly, hoping that he wouldn't make me wear them. "At Cadencera, we had rules saying that no two people could be wearing the same thing, unless it was a special occasion, and even that didn't happen often. I'm so used to not wearing uniforms, that I think if I had to start to wear one, my mind would start to wonder from my lessons to what I was wearing, and my grades would fall."
"Ah yes, I was informed of that," Dumbledore said, twiddling his thumbs. "But as school rules, uniforms are enforced. I'm sorry but you will be wearing the uniform, minus the house colors of course, until you are sorted."
My heart sank. I hadn't had to wear uniforms since... ever! EVER!!! This was sooooooooo not good. But I didn't let that show. "Thanks, Dumbledore!" I said as he left my room, magicking up a set of uniforms for me as he left. "Ok, there is NO freaking way I'm wearing those," I said to myself out loud. "I may be a goody-two-shoes sometimes, but here is where I draw the line! Now where is my wand? I need to make some alterations..."
Outside of the Staircase to Tori's Tower, 10:03 PM, Malfoy's Point of View
"Grr... MALEBARRIO!!!!!!!" I shouted, making up a spell to try and deflect the barrier that Tori had put on the staircase. If I'm to woo her, how am I supposed to do that when she has a barrier on her room?! I can't! I jumped out of the way just in time to see my spell backfire on me, leaving a black scorch mark on the floor. Suddenly, the space where the door would be started to ripple, as if someone threw a rock on it, causing a ripple effect. I thought it was my beloved coming out, so I quickly made flowers appear in my hands. But as this someone got closer, I realized it was just Dumbledore, and so I made the flowers disappear.
"Is she ever coming out?" I asked him.
"Eventually, young Draco," Dumbledore responded wisely, knowing that this was Tori's 'creepy guy that won't leave her alone'. He finished his response, then continued walking back to his office.
"WHY WON'T YOU COME TO ME TORI?!" Malfoy wailed to the staircase.