Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay. I've been slammed with homework lately and midterms did not help. I'll try and write a chapter at least once a week from now on, but I may get delayed during December due to exams.
By the way, I realized after rereading the first chapter that I accidentally put "the blonde kid" in Rikki and Lily's year. Woops. Sorry about that. I decided not to change that and just keep them all in the same year, so the epilogue chapter of the 7th Harry Potter book did happen in this story, just minus the Scorpius and Draco Malfoy part.
Enjoy!
Chapter 2
Let me tell you something. Waking up to a pintsized redhead smacking you in the face with a pillow is not the best way to wake up (or to wake me up for that matter). See, I'm pretty violent in the morning (verbally and physically). My brothers dare each other to wake me up anytime before noon. And trust me; you do not want to wake me. Once my oldest brother Alec had to wake me up at 5am so we could go and see the American Quidditch World Cup. Let's just say I hit him in a bad place (accidentally of course) and he walked pretty funny for the rest of the day. And ever since, my brothers fear me in the morning. So, when Lily woke me up at 7am this morning, I was 2 seconds away from grabbing the pillow and beating her with it while swearing profusely, but because I only met her last night, I could only glare at her and try and go back to sleep. I can't go insulting one of the only friends I have already. It can wait till tomorrow. I barely had a chance to close my eyes before Lily pushed me onto the hardwood floor of our dormitory.
"Son of a…what the hell Lily?"
"It's time to get up sleepy head! There's so much to do today. We have to get downstairs for breakfast; I have to ask Al about some of the classes we'll be taking today. Ooh! And we'll get our timetables today! I wonder if we'll have any classes with the Slytherins today. And then we have to…"
"Lily. I'm begging you. Please no talking until I have some coffee. I'm not exactly a morning person."
"You're allowed to have coffee?" said some girl I didn't even recognize. How did she get in here? Oh. Wait. I think she may be one of my roommates.
"Umm…I don't mean to be rude or anything, but who are you?"
"Oh! My apologies. My name's Mary Finnegan." She looked like a nice enough girl. Her straight, chestnut colored hair was cut where it just barely touched her shoulders and her large brown eyes reminded me of dark chocolate. I'm not exactly a fan of dark chocolate personally, but her pale complexion made her eyes really stand out. "And who would you be?"
"My name's Rikki Corvine and this annoyingly talkative redhead over here is Lily Potter." Before Lily could even say 'hi', a girl who I could tell I was going to hate walked out of the bathroom. You know those people who just make you go 'I hate you' before they even say a word, and then they say something really rude and then you know why you hate them? Yeah, this was one of those moments.
"Listen and listen good. I don't care what you're names are. Under no circumstance are any of you allowed to touch any of my things. I don't care if you need a hair tie or a bobby pin. If you touch my stuff, I'll hex you so bad you'll wind up in the hospital wing for a month. Now, get out of my way." What a diva. Who does she think she is? She may have long, perfectly curled blond hair, ice blue eyes, and a figure any girl no matter what year they are in would die for, but she has no right to talk to any of us that way.
"I'm sorry. I didn't catch your name. Would it happen to be Stuck-Up-Supposed-To-Be-In-Slytherin Biotch, would it?" That definitely got Lily laughing and I can see Mary trying not to smile.
"You better watch yourself. My family is very prestigious in the wizarding world. You wouldn't want to get on my bad-side. Although, you wouldn't even be worth my time." she said with a smirk. And oh did I want to smack that smirk right off her face, but before I could, Lily (while holding me back) asked the stuck up blonde what her name was.
"I'm Icy Greengrass. Now, if you'll excuse me. I have more important things to do than talk to some lowly first years." Oh yeah. Icy was the perfect name for her. She's cold hearted to the core.
"Well, she's a ray of sunshine isn't she?" Mary said while rolling her eyes. Lily and I couldn't help but laugh. "So, are either of you muggleborn? I just can't get enough of muggle technology."
"No. I'm a half-blood and Rikki's a pureblood, but I have some muggle stuff like an Ipod and a computer. Have you ever played the Sims? I can't get enough of it!" And as Lily and Mary obsessed over the Sims, I left to go take a shower. If any of you have ever spent more than a few hours traveling, you'll know that you feel kind of grimy the next day.
After taking my shower and getting dressed in my new uniform, I wiped the large vanity mirror to clear away the fog. As I looked at myself, I couldn't help but notice how plain I looked when compared to Lily and Mary. Both of them had a perfect pale complexion while I am slightly tan from being outside so much this past summer. Lily has incredible bright green eyes like her brother, and Mary has her dark chocolate eyes, while I have just plain brown ones. Lily has long and straight red hair that reaches the middle of her back, and Mary has her short and cute chestnut colored hair, while I have long and thick dark brown curls that drive me crazy and never seem to stop being frizzy. And while I may call Lily pintsized as a joke, she's actually about 2 inches taller than me and Mary's probably a good 3 or 4. I have got to stop comparing myself to those two (and Merlin forbid Icy) and get ready for classes. After I finished combing through my long hair and putting it back in a ponytail, I left the bathroom and walked with Mary and Lily (who must've gotten dressed while I showered) down to the Common Room.
As I didn't bother to look around last night since I was so tired, I was surprised by how comfy and cozy the room really was. The room was about the size of a normal house's living room and filled with comfy red chairs (that one next to the window is so mine!). The red walls of the room were covered with moving portraits (and one guy sleeping in one) along with a few small bookshelves. The fireplace was in the center of the room and was currently extinguished (I mean it is still hot outside since summer just ended). I wonder what the room would look like when it was lit at night. I can't wait to see that.
After looking around the Common Room, the three of us headed out of the portrait (who probably has one of the worst singing voices on the planet) and down seven flights of stairs. Man, if I make the Quidditch team, it's going to be brutal if I have to walk up all these flights right after practice.
As we reached the bottom of the stairs and headed into the Great Hall, I didn't really take the time to look around the room since all I saw was food on the Gryffindor table and walked (or more like ran) over to a group of empty seats near the middle of said table. Lily and Mary just laughed at me (which I just shrugged at) and sat down on either side of me (Lily on my left and Mary on the right) and started their own conversation about Merlin knows what. I know I wasn't paying attention.
I guess I should've been paying more attention since I didn't realize that Icy was seated near us until I heard this annoying screeching sound that seemed to come from a few seats down. I nearly jumped, but realized that it was just Icy's laugh. I kid you not, it sounded like a cat got its tail stepped on. I couldn't help but feel pity for the boys sitting next to her. Stupid idiots. I was about to suggest moving farther down the table when the blonde kid from last night sat across from me. Now that I got a chance to look at him, I realized that he had platinum blonde hair that surprisingly enough didn't look dyed, ice blue eyes, and really pale skin (can you say sunlight?). Said blonde kid sitting across from me wasn't the reason I decided not to move, but rather the glares he was earning from the rest of the table were. Me, being my curious (or more like nosy) self, decided to ask the million dollar question.
"Hey blonde kid, why is everyone glaring at you?" I never said I was subtle.
"Huh?" Said blonde kid looked like he hadn't slept at all last night. There were bags under his eyes the size of Texas and he was slouched over the table. I kind of felt sorry for the guy.
"I was just wondering why everyone at the table is glaring at you. Did you snore in your sleep or pull a prank last night or something?"
He looked pretty uncomfortable and I almost felt sorry for asking until he explained.
"No one wants me to be in this house. They hate my family so they take it out on me by glaring at me. I wouldn't be surprised if it got worse."
I'm not a big hugging type of person, but you couldn't help but want to hug this kid. I thought for sure Mary was going to.
"Why would everyone in our house hate you or your family?"
"Because my family was on the side of Lord Voldemort during the war and people hate my family since they believe we got off easy. It doesn't help that my family has been in Slytherin since the creation of this school. "
Now, I may live in the middle of nowhere, but even I had heard about Lord Voldemort and how he nearly destroyed the Ministry as well as the whole Wizarding World. I'm glad the guy's dead and all, but I don't see why a bunch of kids here would hold a grudge against a kid that was not only not even born when Voldemort fell, but none of us were either.
"No offense or anything, but that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Kids here are glaring at you for something you had no part in and for what happened long before you were even born. If their dumb enough to do that, then I want nothing to do with them. I promise I won't glare at you unless you do something stupid." I said with a huge grin on my face.
That at least got a laugh out of him.
"Hey Rikki. Morning Lil…"
Al stopped whatever greeting he was going to give us when he saw the blonde kid that sat across from us laughing. When the blonde kid realized that he was being stared at by Al, he stopped immediately. You could've cut the tension with a knife. While Al and the blonde kid stared at each other, I was just hoping and praying that Al wasn't as stupid as our other fellow classmates.
"Hi."
"Hi."
Wow. What a great vocabulary both of them have this morning (note the sarcasm).
"You…must be Scorpius Malfoy, right?"
"Yeah, and you must be Albus Potter." Please don't fight. Please don't fight. Please don't fight.
"You can just call me Al. Albus makes me feel 80 years old."
Oh thank Merlin's sweaty underpants! They can get along.
"Phew. I thought for sure you guys were going to fight. So, you're name's Scorpius?" I said while trying not to laugh (and failing miserably).
"Yes it is. And who are you?" he said with a mock glare. Ok. Note so self, blonde kid gets annoyed when you laugh at his name.
"Well, my name's Rikki, this is Lily, and Mary."
Both Mary and Lily smiled and waved at him (and Mary waved at Al as well), but before Scorpius (as I now know is his name) could even wave back, all of us received our timetables for the year from Professor Longbottom. As Al sat down to read his, Lily and Mary were staring at me as I started freaking out over my own.
"What! Double potions on our first day! Sweet! I can't wait till class starts."
I looked up from my class list and saw everyone within hearing distance staring at me as if I had grown not one extra head, but eight.
"What? You guys don't like potions?"
"Are you insane? Do you even know who teaches Potions?" said some random kid that looked like Al, but taller.
"Um…no. Why? Is the teacher here a jerk or something?"
"Hey Rikki. We call our teachers here professors."
"Darn it. Sorry."
"Yeah. Jerk is the nice thing to call him. Professor Pane (no pun intended) is the meanest professor here. He made me clean and organize the Potions supply room and classroom twice a week for a month last year!"
"James, you're forgetting the fact that YOUSET HIM ON FIRE during your Potions class." Oh. So that's his name. He must be Lily and Al's older brother they were talking about.
"That's not the point. He's still cruel."
"How'd you set him on fire?" I know this had to be a prank of some kind. I can practically smell it.
"I, accidentally of course, put a WWW product into a Slytherin's potion which ended up turning said potion into a flaming fire ball that flew around the room. Professor Pane barely got burned." Told you so.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME? James, he had a bald spot on his head for a month because of your little stunt."
"How could you know that Lily? You weren't even here."
"I heard Mum and Dad talking about it when they thought I wasn't there." she said with a Cheshire cat grin.
"Anyway, he's a jerk and you'll come to hate potions class just like the rest of us."
"Is that so Mr. Potter? I never knew you had such strong feelings about my Potions class." some creepy dude wearing black said. He had kind of longish dark brown hair that barely reached his shoulders with black eyes and had to be at least 6'2". I had seen him coming from the Head's table (as Lily told me it was called) and down our aisle next to the Ravenclaws, but I decided to let James dig his own grave. See, this is why you don't wake me up early. I'm cruel to everyone. Bwahahahahahaha!
"Perhaps you would like to continue your previous detention in my classroom tonight and for the rest of the week as well." he said with an evil smirk that could rival my own. I like him already (A.N. Get your minds out of the gutter! She is not hooking up with Professor Pane. She just likes the fact that he tortures others, James especially.)
"Aww…come on Professor. I was just kidding."
"Let's make that two weeks shall we. Same time as last year." And at that, he walked away, leaving James dumbstruck.
"I can't believe I got detention for that!"
"Well, you did kind of have it coming. You insulted his class and him. I would've done worse." I said with a smile. Of course James was glaring at me, but I just ignored him and read through the rest of my timetable.
Monday/Wednesday/Friday:
Double Potions: 9-11am
Transfiguration: 11-12pm
Lunch
Herbology: 1-2pm
Double DADA: 2-4pm
Tuesday/Thursday:
History of Magic: 9-10am
Charms: 10-11am
Break: 11-12pm
Lunch
Muggle Studies: 1-2pm
Care of Magical Creatures: 2-3pm
(A.N. I don't know if there are more classes, but those are the only ones I could think of. Students don't usually take Divination/Arithmacy until 3rd year. Let me know if I missed a few.)
"What kind of a sadist has us taking History of Magic at nine in the morning? I couldn't even get through page one of the book we got for it!"
"Well, you could always sleep during that class. That's what I do." Al said with a smile.
"That's not a bad idea." I think Mary could already see the evil plan for falling asleep during class forming in my head because she gave me a look that clearly said 'don't even think about it'.
"Oh alright. I'll try and stay awake." Talk about a plan being ruined. For now. *evil smirk*
"Good."
"Um guys. We have class in like 5 minutes. We should probably get going." WHAT!
"What!" As I looked around the Great Hall in full on panic mode, I realized that we were the last ones in the room.
"We got to go now! I can't be late for my favorite class! Move it!" I practically hauled both Mary and Lily out of there seats and dragged them down the hall with Scor (as I decided to call him since his name is such a mouthful) and Al laughing behind me. We ended up splitting up with Al at the top of the Grand Staircase with Al heading up to the Third Floor for DADA and the four of us heading toward Potions. We luckily made it to class with a minute to spare.
There were only 4 seats left in the back which we took (Lily sitting next to Mary with Scor sitting next to me in the very back). We had just gotten our books out when Professor Pane came into the classroom and walked towards his chalkboard.
"In this class, you will learn how to cure the ill and poison your enemies. If you're capable enough to actually follow the directions in your books, you will probably survive the year. Probably. If you lose a limb or burn yourself because of your own stupidity, I will not care. Now, turn to page 8 in your books and collect the ingredients from the supply room and get to work. You have until the end of class to successfully brew a pepper up potion. If you cannot complete it before the end of class, you will fail." And with that cheery welcome, he went to his desk and started working on some papers.
When I looked over at Scor to ask him if he wanted to get the ingredients or start reading the directions for the potion, I realized that he wasn't there. I was about to ask Lily or Mary if they had seen him when he came back to our table, arms full of ingredients and put them on the table.
"Wow! You memorized the ingredients we needed?"
"Yes. It wasn't that hard. They were all on a small table in the supply closet."
"Oh. Well, thanks for going to get them."
"No problem." he said with a smile.
I don't know if Scor was just being nice since I didn't hate him or glare at him (which some of the people in our class were doing), but I was happy that I had him as my partner. Scor was surprisingly good at Potions like I am so we ended up brewing our potion with over an hour to spare. As I cleaned our cauldron with an Evanesco spell (A.N. I don't know if that's the right spell, but I think it works.) that I had learned while reading my Charms book on one of my place rides, Scor bottled up our pepper up potion and took it up to Professor Pane's desk.
"Here you are Sir." I'm guessing that our Professor was pretty shocked that we were already done since his eyes nearly popped out of his head.
"Miss Corvine, could you please join Mr. Malfoy at my desk." Wondering why the heck I had to walk all the way to the front of the classroom, I quickly joined Scor at our Professor's desk.
"You two mean to tell me that you brewed a pepper up potion in less than an hour perfectly?"
"Well, yes. We followed the directions as they were written and we didn't have any problems. Is that bad?" I asked, worried that he wouldn't believe us and we'd have to do it again.
"I'm just surprised is all. As you can see from Mr. Thomas' potion. He can barely get the right color let alone complete it early. Well done, both of you. You may leave class then."
"Thank you Sir." Scor and I said at the same time as we walked (or more like I skipped) back to our table. I was so excited that I didn't even realize that Lily and Mary had also finished up their potion and Mary had started to walk her potion towards Professor Pane's desk. He was just as surprised by their potion as he was with ours.
"You guys finished too? Sweet! We've got about an hour before Transfiguration starts. What do you guys want to do?"
"We could explore the castle. So long as we don't get lost, we should still make it to Transfiguration on time."
"Sounds good Scor. It doesn't bother you that I call you Scor does it?"
"Not at all."
"Good. Let's grab Mary and go." I said while Lily was packing up the rest of her stuff.
As we headed out of classroom much to the disdain of our fellow Gryffindor and Ravenclaw classmates, we all missed the small smile that graced Professor Pane's face.
End of Chapter 2
Hey guys! I know I said I was going to have a secret conversation and all that jazz, but this chapter had already gone over 8 pages on my computer so I decided to end this chapter with Rikki meeting Scor, James, and Professor Pane as well as the group going to Potions class. I have a feeling this story is going to be a heck of a lot longer than I planned. Oh well. More for you guys to read. I still haven't gotten any suggestions for the new name of the DADA professor, so I purposely made that class happen towards the end of the day (so there should be at least one more chapter before I have to write her into the story). Please send me some suggestions guys. As you noticed with Professor Pane, I'm not that creative with Professor's names. Thanks to everyone who reads my story! Please review. I love constructive criticism.
Next Chapter: Rikki and the others go to Transfiguration class, Lunch, and Herbology. I may throw a prank in there somewhere, but no promises. Once again, if you guys want something to happen in the coming chapters, send me a message. I'll try and fit it in.
Laters. ^_^