-Chapter 2: Recurring Dreams
After I'd woken up, I had finished the 'About Me' report and the odd dream I'd had was temporarily forgotten. That night I didn't dream, and the next night as well. Though the night before school was another matter entirely…
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…I brushed my teeth, washed my face, and followed the typical bedtime routine. After I was snuggled under the covers, I closed my eyes. I really don't remember falling asleep. What I do remember is a pulling sensation slowly coming over me as I gained consciousness in another world.
Suddenly I was in a rather uncomfortable position at the bottom of a pile of bodies. I groaned and attempted to remove and elbow from my eye.
"Jade, get your elbow out of my eye please."
"Shelina, remove your foot"
"Ouch! Fuzzy, watch where you put that bracelet…it's sharp!"
After we eventually straitened out, we sat in the compartment we'd mysteriously appeared in on the Hogwarts Express. Don't ask me how this happened, though as I'm the author/narrator/first person P.O.V., it might be a good idea to do so; even if I won't tell you. (I do know, though you'll have to wait 'til further chapters to find out.)
I sat in my seat and listened to the others talk. I sometimes did this when I was feeling contemplative…which was rather often to tell you the truth, but once again, I digress.
The five of us had been in the same dream twice now…or at least it seemed that way. We agreed to meet on the first day of school, or tomorrow, at the gym area to discuss it. In the mean time, we would play along with what we knew of the train ride and the welcoming feast. Thus we began to act like typical first years and began discussing houses.
"I think I'll be a Ravenclaw. I'm smart like that."
"Jade, if anyone would be a Ravenclaw it would probably be Spoof."
"Bri, don't say that, it's not nice…besides. I'm probably going to be in Gryff or Hufflepuff. Even though I'd much rather be in Slytherin. Hey Fuzzy, watch Shelina be in Hufflepuff. Heheh."
"Hey! Be nice to the short one…I think I'll be in Gryffindor! Sarah will probably be in Gryffindor."
"Shelina, I think they're right, you'll probably be in Hufflepuff. If I get into Gryffindor, I'll shoot myself. Fred the face on my hand will help me. Silly Gryff's don't know how to stay out of trouble…"
(Order of speech if you couldn't tell: Jade, Bri, me/Spoof, Shelina, Fuzzy.)
We all laughed at each other as we do everyday. We made fun of Shelina's height as usual, Fuzzy made reference to Fred, a face she drew on her hand, as usual, and Bri made use of perverse metaphors. It was business as usual for us…at least until things began to happen. With no warning, our compartment door slid open to admit a snotty blond boy.
We all knew who he was and what his ideals were. We all knew what he was going to do, what insults he was going to through. What we didn't expect, was what happened at the end…
As you may have realized,
Shelina is rather sensitive of her height, well, you are about to
find out just how sensitive she really is.
As the compartment
door slid open, I got my patented Spoofy-sense-of-forboding. As the
twat opened his mouth, it increased.
"My name is Draco Malfoy.
I'm here to tell you lot to steer clear of Slytherin because we
don't like your kind around."
He got right up in Fuzzy's face so she flicked him on the forehead and replied with a warning of her own.
"Listen up you little twat. We may be girls and
muggleborns, but that does not mean we won't kick you butt if you
try anything stupid. It's five against one…rather 3 and 1/2.
Those thugs behind you count as 1 and ½ each. Though you, my
sorry little friend, only count as ½."
Malfoy changed a
lovely color of red, I imagine he looked rather like an over-groomed
tomato…not that tomatoes ever really groom…but you get the point.
Anyway, he just had to make a comment about Shelina…
"Yea
well, at least I'm a half…the little midget over there could only
count as barely an eighth…"
He was about to learn why you
don't piss the midg…err, Shelina off. She twitched for a moment,
and then she pounced on him. Bri, Fuzzy, Jade, and I all watched in
astonishment as Shelina want berserk. She jumped forward and kicked
out. Who knew she was so forceful in her anger?
To say the least of
it, poor Draco walked, rather was dragged off with several bruises to
the shins and a bleeding lip.
As the compartment door slid shut
to once again keep the outside noise out, we stared at Shelina. She
stood with her feet spread shoulder-width apart and she was panting
with her fists clenched at her sides. Needless to say, we didn't
make anymore midget jokes for the rest of the train ride.
Shortly
after the Midget Incident, the food trolley came by. Jade couldn't
resist buying a few chocolate frogs and I myself purchased a box of
Berty Bott's Every Flavored Beans. Shelina bought some Caldron
Cakes and Bri bought some sort of oriental wizard treat. Fuzzy
thought a Blood Pop looked rather interesting so she bought one to
test. She also bought a few Chocolate Frogs though.
At one point,
we had to stop Jade from almost jumping out the window after a
chocolate frog that got away. I discovered what it's like to have
tasted the bottom of a stale boot. Bri found that you must be careful
when trying new foods. Shelina realized you should not try to eat a
caldron cake by putting your fist into it and eating it away from
your hand. Fuzzy found that blood pops were indeed rather tasty…if
you ignored the coppery taste. When the voice sounded that we were
five minutes from Hogwarts, us five just sat and chilled. We'd
appeared in the pile with our robes on already.
I had Tyth wrapped around my neck so she looked like a necklace, I hoped no one would notice…at least not until after the Sorting and such. Once the train had stopped, they followed Hagrid's call of 'Fir's years, fir's years over 'ere.' The boats were fun, I'd seen the movies in the real world, but it was nothing like actually being there.
The castle lights sparkled off the surface of the lake. The moon shone bright, it was also reflected in the glassy surface of the lake. The only disturbance of the scene was the thrashing of the Whomping Willow in the distance and the ripples made by the boats and the giant squid.
I'm rather embarrassed to say it, but I leaned over the side of the boat so far that if Fuzzy and Bri hadn't grabbed me, I would have been swimming in the lake instead of admiring it. Jade of course, laughed at me. We docked and somehow made our way into the waiting room thing, waiting in front of the doors that would lead to the Great Hall and our Sorting. I heard people muttering about fighting trolls and laughed as I remembered it was the Weasley twins that started that rumor…at least in the book. I couldn't wait to talk to the hat, though my name was rather far down on the list…it was only in the 'L's'.
Ah, there was the encounter with Draco and Harry. That was rather impressive if you think about it. Mini-political moves were being carried out. Intimidation from both parties, but to bad for Malfoy because he'd lost that battle. Okay, once again, I digress. McGonagall gave her four-house speech, of which I ignored, though Bri, Fuzzy, and Shelina watched her with rapt attention…even though I'm sure they knew most of it by heart.
Finally, we were told to divide into a
single file line and follow her into the Great Hall. She had the hat
and stool with her. She set both down and began to read from her
list. I ignored her until Jade was called up. The hat took quite a
while before calling out, "RAVENCLAW" I tuned it out again for a
while, until it was Bri's turn. It barely took ten seconds before
the hat shouted, "GRYFFINDOR".
I was next. I walked up to the
hat, looked a few older years in the eye as if I knew something they
didn't…which I did, and put the hat on my head.
'Well, this is rather odd. You are the third one tonight!'
'Third what?'
'Never mind, never mind. Now, let's get down to business, shall we?'
I gave a mental shrug. 'You're the expert.'
'Ah, you've got some cheek, don't you? You're just like your friend Jade. You all are rather smart-alecky. You are rather cunning, but then, you've all been thus far. You wish to prove that this is or isn't a dream. You want to prove that you can pass classes; you want to prove that you can do this and other things.'
'Oi, hat. Put me in Slytherin.'
'Well, another child trying to tell me how to do my job…humph. I was leaning towards that house anyway. 'Why would you request it may I ask?'
'Heheh…imagine Snape's face when I get placed in Slytherin. Me, not only am I a muggleborn, but I'm also part of the group that drove him to nearly ripping at his hair in the span of about two hours.'
'Ah, I see. Slytherin it is then.'
With that, the hat called out, 'SLYTHERIN' and Snape's eyes filled with a comical horror…though it didn't show on his face. Shelina went up next, the hat sat for all of four seconds before shouting, 'HUFFLEPUFF'. Much to Shelina's horror, or so I assumed as the look on her face was rather interesting. Last but not least was Fuzzy. She didn't walk up to the hat, she skipped. Once there, she plopped the hat on her head and it called out, 'SLYTHERIN', for all to hear. Once she joined me, we tuned out the rest of the sorting. I didn't mention it before, but Harry Potter got into Gryffindor. You don't honestly think I'd change it that much did you? You did! For shame…I feel so accused, so…so labeled.
Anyway, I digress.
So me and Fuzzy decided that we didn't want to have to mouth to our friends across tables all night and stood up. Dumbledore had given his little speech and as you all have probably heard and/or read it a bazillion times…I digress.
We motioned Shelina, Jade, and Bri over towards where we were standing. They came and we plotted…
When we broke our huddle, we all walked over to the Gryffindor table with Bri and sat together on one of the vacant ends. (Everyone tended to fill the table from the middle out.) At this point, there was absolute silence in the Great Hall. Fuzzy began to talk about her spiky and how a certain person kept taking it from her. I watched as various teachers twitched in their seats, wanting to reprimand us for disrupting the feast. They knew very well though that it was not forbidden to eat at different tables.
Well, we didn't have an encounter with the young Harry Potter, but we did get to watch Shelina go nuts on Draco and Snape nearly have a conniption. Suffice to say, by the time we said our goodbyes to each other we were pretty smug. Going up to our dormitories, we left with our respective house. Me and Fuzzy went arm in arm towards the group of Slytherin first years and proceeded to follow the prefect. Once we got to the dungeon entrance of the Slytherin common room, we found that the password was Blood Pop. We got a type of orientation from first the prefect that was leading us around and then Snape himself. Fuzzy'n me made a sort of peace with the man for the time being, or we assumed as much anyway because he didn't glare at us. By the time we got to bed it was really late, as soon as I fell asleep, my mum was shaking me awake and telling me to get dressed.
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I sat up groggily. This was becoming inconvenient, I felt as though I had gotten many hours of sleep but my mind told me I'd only just gone to sleep. This was the second time this week this had happened. I decided to discuss it with my friends when I got to school. I got dressed in a plain pair of jeans and a t-shirt, nothing very exciting. I went through the morning ritual: wash face, brush teeth, brush hair, etc.
I was all ready to go, even waiting at the top of the driveway for the bus. Except that the bus blew by me like I wasn't even there…anyway, by the time I got to school, it was rather late so I didn't have a chance to talk to everyone until after school.
(Since I don't much feel like typing dialogue at the moment…)
We ended up discovering that we had all had the same dream. It appeared that something was connecting our dreams…then I remembered the mysterious bruise I had found on my arm yesterday. Now I remembered that I had pinched myself in the dream…right where I had the bruise. I said as much to Fuzzy, Shelina, Bri, and Jade. We then decided that we were somehow dreaming ourselves into the Harry Potter world…
-End Chapter 2-
-Special Bonus Part 2-
Harry was once again very confused. He had fallen asleep with a full stomach in his four-poster bed at Hogwarts and was now waking up in his bed in the dream again. He lay there for a few more minutes, pondering on this coincidence. He also pondered the strange group of girls that were in his year…they appeared to be insane. He shook his head and decided to think on them later, right now he was being yelled at to get up for school. He got up and got dressed, fought over the bathroom to get his teeth brushed and headed down to the first level of the orphanage. In this odd dreamscape he was Harvey Pottinger, though he was stilled called Harry. He got on the school bus and when he got to school, he had to sit through all the boring orientation things that teachers were so fond of. It's not like we don't know the rules…don't chew gum, don't misbehave, don't talk out of turn, and don't be disrespectful. Always have a pencil, any late work is half-credit, etc…
By the end of the day, Harry was bored and tired…and he had to write out three 'About Me' papers…that night he fell asleep again and woke in his real world…
-End Special Bonus Part 2-
TBC…
Ok, I admit that this one wasn't as good as the last. I was/am tired of typing it and I just wanted it done. Now I can write what I want to write…classes! Next chapter: We encounter young Harry, Shelina goes berserk again, I turn Bri's hair pink with a spell gone wrong, Professor Flitwick is scarred for life, and much more!
Spoof's Fanfic Pet Peeves:
When people take up half the chapter to respond to reviews. It really irritates me when I find a story that is 40,000 words only to find that 20,000 or so of those words a taken up with lengthy A/N's and review responses.
