AN: Just realised I've been ignoring something I could do for one of my 'character is Harry' Fics! Blooky!
Peeves shot through the empty school with a devious grin, before he stopped, hearing crying coming from a room. Curiously he poked his head through the wall to find a small ghost wearing a bedsheet over their head crying and moaning about someone called Vernon. For once in his existence he made a choice, and shot off to find one of the House Ghosts.
1 hour later
The ghosts of the four houses of Hogwarts floated around the small ghost, with Peeves floating nearby a little worried. "It's good that you came when you did Peeves… This poor thing is at the brink of core-collapse." The Grey Lady said worried. The other ghosts stared at her, Core-collapse could only happen with young ghosts, freshly dead, or children when they became ghosts.
Years later
The students walked into the great hall, looking around in awe, the House Ghosts at their tables and Peeves flying around happily as he bounced into a wall over and over. As the students had been sorted and Dumbledore stood up to give the first part of the speech, music flooded the great hall. A ghost that seemed to be wearing a bedsheet over it's floated in wearing muggle headphones.
"Oh… Did I come in at a bad time? I'm sorry…" The ghost said quietly, sound different compared to the other ghosts.
"No, you just caught us off guard, come here and meet the new students!" The Fat Friar said kindly as the ghost floated over, noticing staring.
"Ok…" They said shyly as Dumbledore gave his announcement.
"I don't recognise you…" A 2nd year Hufflepuff said curiously. "Are you a new ghost?" He asked.
"Oh… No, I've been here a while… The other ghost's just didn't think I could take all the attention." They said embarrassed.
"Oh, sorry. I'm Cedric Diggory." He said with a small nod.
"Me…? Oh… I'm Napstablook… Nice to meet you I guess…" They said nervously, "I sorta hang out in the Hufflepuff common room… So if you want to talk or something… Just look for me… I guess…" They said worried.
"I'll do that." Cedric said with a grin.
A Slytherin had an evil grin as she aimed her wand at the shy ghost, planning to freak the thing out for a laugh, the Bloody Baron distracted by the first year students asking him questions. As the spell left her wand Napstablook moved slightly and it hit a wall, getting everyone's attention, Napstablook, bravely, floated towards her as the music came back at full force, the student getting ready to do it again.
"Yeah!
Guess I look funny,
I'm not real sunny, though
No, no no, nnnngh,
Just pluggin' along, listenin' to the radio
I'm fine, excuse me, I'm sorry,
Do what you got to, don't mind me
I'm not a barrel of sunshine, even my tears are crying
Guess I'm in for a beating
Don't mind my frown,
I'd weigh you down,
I'd just waste your time,
Incorporeal,
Sorry, McGonagall,
I can barely rhyme…
Don't waste your life,
Your pain and strife,
On a guy like me,
Please stop it, slick,
Put down that stick,
Don't lower my HP.
You know, I'm only sitting here watching you try to hit me to be polite… You can't kill a ghost.
Yeah!
I'm real sorry
I don't feel starry, though
No, no no, nnnngh,
Makin' mixtapes, are they okay, I don't know
Long ago, I forgot how to laugh
I know how to say heh, that's just half of it,
Not sure if I'm even real,
I'm just not really feeling up to it
Hey
I made a hat
How about that?
Oh, oh, oh,
I made it out of tears that I shed during this spat
Just another day in my little life
Full of melancholy, gloom and strife,
I'm sick in the head, don't wanna leave bed,
I didn't want this afterlife!
Sometimes it's cool
I feel like such a fool
Feeling like I have been schooled
A lonely piece of trash
Man, I want to crash,
Be a weepin' ghoul
Yeah, my life is pain
Yeah, I'm quite insane,
Even with this hat
Yeah, am I sayin'
Yeah too much?
Sorry about that."
At that moment a first year Hufflepuff, very short, ran over and hugged the sad Ghost.
"I just now realized I probably could have left at any point… But then you'd be unhappy too… So… sorry…" Napstablook then noticed the first year hugging them."W-what? Are you… hugging me? That's nice, but… I can't really hug back… It would be weird…
Wow
Are we friends now
Don't even know how
This happened!
Guess I'll live with it, guess this is my life now
I can't believe we stopped the fight,
Is this your way of trying to make it right?
This is the longest anyone's listened to me,
And the record won't break after tonight
I'm full of cheer
And can't you hear
It in the way I sing?
Well you should go,
Before I go
And ruin everything
Pretend you beat me down,
That would stop my frown,
Give me a little glee
Meanwhile, I am
Just going to jam
To this melody
I'm fine, excuse me, I'm sorry,
Do what you got to, don't mind me
I'm not a barrel of sunshine, even my tears are crying
Thanks for stopping the beating
Just another day in my little life
Full of melancholy, gloom and strife,
I'm sick in the head, don't wanna leave bed,
I didn't want this afterlife…" They froze as the song ended and floated away, the first year going back to the table with a smile.
"Well… You're certainly the first person to try that with Napstablook. They don't interact with people much!" The Friar said in surprise. "What's your name?" He asked the child.
The child stared at him for a few moments before grinning. "I'm Frisk!"