Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter; it owns me.
Author's Note: I wrote a story previously that wasn't very popular, but if you're read that one then don't keep old prejudices towards me. I really am trying. I have to make a lot of assumptions on the character of Roger, so feel free to correct me if there is something about him from the books that I misinterpreted or forgot. Cedric's not dead, btw. His death works well with J.K's story, but not mine. Obviously, or else Cedric would just be a figment of Jimmy's imagination. Okay, I will shut up in the sense of typing. Right now.
Chapter 1
Jimmy is a girl. Yes, a girl. She prefers not to disclose her real, full name because it's not very pretty (Jim Brunhilda Towne). Her parents, who are quite loopy, thought she would be a boy. They didn't bother changing "Jim" to a girl's name because they thought it was funny. They added the "Brunhilda" to her name after the cleaning lady, Brunhilda, saved her pregnant mother's life by accidentally tripping and falling on a Copperhead snake headed straight for the mother and fetus Jimmy. One would think that Jimmy wouldn't care about something like her name, but she's human, she has every right to be called whatever she wants. The reason most people would think that Jimmy wouldn't care about something like her name is because she's very open with the things she does. She's shy, but she minds her own business and answers other people's questions cordially. Once she gets to know a person, she becomes more comfortable with them.
She goes through a lot of phases. There was a time when she didn't talk for a month, which stirred a lot of irritability among her classmates and teachers. She finally stopped when Professor McGonagall threatened to send a letter home to her parents for bad participation. It didn't make her miserable though, she just decided to move on to a different phase. Her life moves in phases. When you really get down to it, she's in love with life and wants to do as much as she can, but alone, because she is a tad shy. She wants to do a lot of different things and wants to be completely immersed in what she's doing, so phases seem like the best way to go.
Since it is her last year at Hogwarts, she decides to try to understand her classmates, as she might never see them again, but she wants to do it in a silent way, because that way she's most comfortable. She's particularly taken with the very handsome Roger Davies. It's one of those things she's a little embarrassed about, since he's such a huge pick among a lot of girls in Hogwarts, besides Cedric Diggory, but no one has to know. It is just a tiny crush.
Roger puzzles Jimmy. When he walks around the school, he acts like he's really full of himself. He places himself in the spot of most popular Ravenclaw when there are probably more likable characters for the spot. However, one day when Jimmy was waiting outside a store in Diagon Alley, she spotted Roger give one solid gold Galleon to a homeless man when no one else did, probably because there aren't a lot of them around Diagon Alley, just Knockturn Alley. There was another time in their 3rd year when there was a ball and everyone had a partner except for Jimmy, so he walked up to her and said, "You smile to yourself a lot. It's nice." She believes there is a side to Roger Davies that is reserved for only her to see because she likes him for not only his handsome exterior but also because of his soft heart. Her hunger to find out more about Roger once traveled to the point where she went to her father's office in the Ministry of Magic and stole a family photo album from his colleague, her future lover's father. Okay, so she likes him a lot.
The only person who knows about this infatuation is Jimmy's best friend Emily Schmellon. They first became friends when they got sorted into the same house (Gryffindor) obviously because they both encompass unusual names. Towne and Schmellon equal partners in crime. They are very silent about it though. No one would ever suspect them if a love potion lands in Snape's pumpkin juice. Sometimes authorities would accuse poor Fred and George Weasley of carrying out Jimmy and Emily's dirty work, but they seem to take it pretty well since they break so many rules anyway. Emily helps Jimmy stalk Roger and George Weasley has been after her for years. When Emily flatly rejects him after his weekly attempts, he resorts to pumping Jimmy for information.
"No, she will not." Jimmy tells him as he approaches.
"Why?" He says, furrowing his eyebrows.
"You're not her type." She answers. Jimmy feel horrible always doing this to George and it's so obvious that she's running out of excuses. Jimmy, under Emily's orders, has already told George that Emily's a lesbian, she's come out of a difficult relationship, she's trying to focus on school, all that rubbish. She doesn't understand why she doesn't like him; he's kind of cute, even though he's a year younger than her.
"Well then, what is her type?" He inquires, furrowing his eyebrows.
"She's not attracted to humans." She replies, inventing more excuses.
"What's she attracted to then, trolls?" He furrows his eyebrows and throws his arms in the air.
"House elves." She says while staring at the Spew badge she got from Hermione.
"Why? Does she really?" He questions, while furrowing his eyebrows.
"Of course not you duffer." She releases. "I really have no idea what's going on in that head of hers. So please stop raping me for information and stop furrowing those damn eyebrows."
Jimmy is a little jealous of Emily because she has someone who likes her enough to constantly badger her. She wishes Roger did that with her. Even though Roger doesn't know it, Jimmy constantly badgers him with a file she keeps of him. She calls it "The Roger Davies Files." In it is a notebook filled with notes about Roger Davies, everything she has seen Roger touch, every picture of him, anything affiliated with Roger in the slightest way. Emily constantly points out to Jimmy that Roger might be more than just a phase since it's been going on for a while and with great strength too.
"It's taking over your life." She points while drawing a picture of Hagrid in a leotard. "Undeniably more than a phase, if you ask me. And stop carrying that bloody embarrassing Roger Davies file of yours. What if someone finds it? It has your name written all over it."
"I need it to look at during classes." Jimmy retorts.
Jimmy does make an effort to try and forget about Roger, but he's just tattooed to her brain. It's a sick, sad obsession. It's not the small crush she wants it to be.
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"Mr. Davies, stop whispering love songs to Mr. Diggory during my class. You can do that in detention, which you are rather close to getting." Snape barks.
Jimmy stares longingly and wishes Roger was whispering love songs in her ear. Wait, never mind, he never really whispered love songs to Cedric during class, she thinks.
"Flint! Montague! What are you doing back there?" Snape asks.
"They're having wild sex." Emily whispers.
That's where Jimmy loses it. Her olive-skinned face turns bright red and there's probably no one in Outer Mongolia who did not hear her strident laughter. Once Jimmy starts laughing, it takes her about half an hour to stop. Snape grows very irritated of her and finally decides,
"Miss Schmellon, switch seats with Diggory."
That sure as hell stops Jimmy's laughter. Why does Emily get to sit next to the love of Jimmy's life? Emily looks like she's been struck by lightning. Jimmy wants to pull that greasy mess of hair off of Snape's stupid head. Jimmy is fuming when Cedric sits next to her. Even the smell of his refreshing aftershave does not stop her from thinking murderous thoughts.
"Are you okay?" Cedric asks her with a look of concern.
"I'm not feeling too good." She lies. "I think I'll go see Madam Pomphrey."