Christina awoke early, and proceeded to get ready for the day, and headed down to breakfast. She met David, who also couldn't sleep, in the Common Room, and they went downstairs together. Hermione was already there. Schedules were passed out by McGonagall, as the students slowly trickled in. David and Christina were both overloading. They were taking the usual: DADA, potions, History of Magic, Transfiguration, Charms, Herbology, Astrology, Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Runes, and Arithmacy. Hermione was also in these classes. Ron and Harry had elected to take divination instead of ancient runes, and had a gap when the other three took Arithmacy. Potions was first up for all of them.
As they walked into the dungeons, Harry, Ron and Hermione noticed right away that, yet again, they had potions with the Slytherins. Christina and David don't see anything wrong with this. Harry leads his friends to the back on the left side of the classroom: the Gryffindor side. Christina and David pick seats in the back on the left side. Unbeknownst to them, the left side is Slytherin territory. "What the hell are you two idiots doing? This is our side. Your side is over there," a platinum blonde called out, pointing over to the other side. "I don't see any signs. It's a free country. I can sit where I fuckin' want to sit. And you and your dumb-ass friends can just deal with it!" Christina yelled back at him.
"That will be twenty points for language Miss. White. And you and Mr. Johnson better move over to the other side." Professor Snape had entered just as she started her rant. She glared daggers into his eyes, and answered "No. We will not move. I'm sitting here. You all can either deal with it, or forcibly move us, in which case, I claim sexual assault, and get your sorry ass fired!" The room was dead silent. Snape quickly strode up to her, leaned down, and whispered in her ear in a deathly tone "this behavior will NOT be tolerated. You will obey my rules. Do I make myself clear?" He strode away, and she sat without moving a muscle. He turned around and in that deathly tone repeated "Do I make myself clear?" "Crystal," but stayed in her seat. He, oddly, gave up, and started class "take fifty more points for your cheek Miss White." The class however, didn't know what to think. For one, a student stood up to him. On the other hand, she lost a lot of points, seventy in total, and it was only the first class of the year!
Transfiguration went much the same. Christina mouthed off, gaining detention from McGonagall. Except this time David earned it with her, and both lost 10 points each. History of Magic was just in general a bore-fest. Luckily Professor Binns was so into his lecture, he didn't notice when Christina and David slipped out the back.
During lunch, she and David sat on the end of their House, table near the door. Their entire House was mad that in just half of one day, they had lost nearly a hundred points.
Following lunch was Ancient Runes. Only David, Christina and Hermione had this class. While not as bad as Potions, points were still taken for Christina's cheek. Suffice to say, her day was not going well.
Last was Defense Against the Dark Arts, with Professor Lupin, one of the people at the castle that Christina was trying to avoid as much as she could. Once again, she and David seated themselves in the very back. The Golden Trio was in the very front. And once again, there were Slytherins. The professor entered "Good Afternoon. Would you please put all your books back in your bags. Today's will be a practical lesson. You will need only your wands." The class walked out of the room, and around to the teacher's lounge. He strode up a wardrobe, which rattled. "Inside this wardrobe is a boggart. Today we will be learning the spell to get rid of these nasty, annoying…,"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Are you seriously saying that this damn school doesn't teach what the hell a boggart is till THIRD year?!" Christina interrupted.
David responded with, "Why the hell then did we get forced here? I thought the point was so we could learn more, and better protect ourselves?"
"Yeah, no kidding. This place is a bunch of crap. I'm leaving," added Christina, as she turned to leave the room, and David followed. Her hand was on the handle, when it suddenly locked. She turned to face her professor, with her glare that could rival Snape's.
"Miss White, Mr. Johnson, I do not tolerate such language, or behavior. If you will kindly come back and join the group, I will continue with my lesson." She huffed, reluctantly turned around, went back over to the group, and leaned against the windows on the side wall.
"That will be ten points from Miss White, and five from Mr. Johnson. Now, as I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted, boggarts and annoying creatures. Can anyone tell me what a boggart is?"
"Shapeshifter, your worst fears," Christina answered boredly, without raising her hand and being called on. "Thank you Miss White, but please wait to be called on." She mumbled to David "Whatever."
"Right, so a boggart is a shapeshifter. Can anybody see the advantage then?" "More people equals more options, and the damn thing gets confused" answered David. "Yes, but you two need to remember to be called on. So we have the advantage. Who would like to go first?" No one raised their hands. "Christina, since you seem to know it all, why don't you and David take the first two goes at it?" All they Slytherins snickered. For the first time, it was a Gryffindor being lectured about respect and not one of them.
"Fine, whatever. Whatdaya say David? I'll go first, and then you? Let's prove we aren't stupid. Ok, release the little shit." Lupin opened the door. Out came the dead body of her mother. She took a breath, obviously affected, and cast "Riddikulus," which turned the corpse into Snape wearing cotton-candy pink robes. The class was at first shocked by the depiction of her fear, but then laughed at Snape in pink. David stepped up to take his turn. Snape quickly turned into David falling off of his broom during Quidditch. "Riddikulus," quickly transformed the image into a monkey trying to do trapeze work at the circus.
A line followed after David, and all students took a turn performing the spell. Until it got to Harry, and the boggart turned into a dementor. Lupin jumped in front, his boggart turned into a full moon, then into a balloon upon the spell, and was directed back into the wardrobe. He dismissed class.
Everyone filed out to get their bags from the classroom, and then on to dinner. Christina and David went back to their rooms to dump their books. She decided to change first: Short denim skirt, black strappy high heels, and a red tube top. So not Hogwarts dress code, but she didn't really care. They had lost one hundred and fifteen points, and with what she was wearing, nobody in Gryffindor wanted to sit anywhere next to them. Only Draco Malfoy said anything when he walked past them to get to his own table, "are you sure you don't belong in Slytherin? Seriously, you are acting more like us, then like the precious Lions," and he walked away smirking. They quickly ate and got out of there.
"I just can't take it!" Christina was frustrated. "I hate this school! I hate that I was forced here! I hate him for ruining my life!" David pulled her close as they walked up the staircases to their Common Room. Everyone was still at dinner, so nobody heard them. David pulled her into an alcove and kissed her. It took her mind off of her rant, and calmed her down.
They went into the common room. Christina got out her laptop, and luckily was able to get an internet connection through her USB aircard. She and David were writing an email to their friends back in America when most of the House walked in. Most of them had never seen a laptop, and where therefore very intrigues by it. "What does it do?" asked one boy. "Why do you have it?" asked someone else. They were tired of the mindless questions and Christina snapped "I have it, cuz I want to! It's my escape from this shitty world! If I'm stuck in this godforsaken place, I need some way to contact my REAL friends!" and she stormed up to her room. David also left to his. Safe to say, everyone in the Common Room was really confused about these new American students. They were really out there, had no sense for rules and yelled a lot.
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