Charlotte's Adventures Chapter 2
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The next morning I was woken up by Olivia yelling - "Wake up! Wake UPPPPPPPPP!" "Shut up Olivia!" said Isabella angrily. "Yeah, yeah. Shhh." came a sleepy voice next to me. I turned my head, and half of Alice's head was under the covers, and she looked half-asleep. "I'm warning you! Get up now!" said Olivia tiredly. It looked like she'd done this routine millions of times. I got up, then glanced at Rose and Isabella. They were still in bed. I turned and grinned at Olivia, then motioned for her to come out into the corridor with me.
A couple of minutes later, 3 buckets of water floated out of the bathroom, and hovered above the 3 occupied beds. Olivia and I were already dressed and ready to run away the second they spilt. "I still can't believe you learnt all of Grade One in 3 days!" whispered Olivia to me. "I set my mind to it. Ready?" Olivia nodded. "3, 2, wait!" I said. "What?" asked Olivia. In answer, I pointed my wand at all the girls' clothes in turn and muttered under my breath. The girls' clothes drifted down the stairs. Then I whispered "3, 2, 1!" and the buckets of water fell onto the girls. Olivia and I ran, and hid in an alcove just outside the common room portrait with James, Liam, Fred II and Alex. A few seconds later, the girls ran out into the corridor, soaked. "James Sirius Potter!" screamed Rose. I looked at Olivia and she nodded. I twirled my wand and quickly pointed it first at Olivia, then at me. Ropes bound us, and I dropped my wand. I looked at Olivia, and then we both screamed with perfect timing, "ROSE!" Rose yanked open the curtain, and stared at us. Her eyes then flicked up, and saw James, Liam and Fred. Alex had disappeared. "James!" she yelled. Isabella and Alice came running over. Rose was close to hitting James, I could tell. James whimpered and sprinted past everyone, quite literally running for his life. Rose ran after him screaming, "James Sirius Potter! You get back here right now! IF YOU DON'T GET BACK HERE RIGHT THIS VERY INSTANT, I'LL OWL MUM AND DAD! THEN I'LL RIP YOUR DAMN HEAD OFF!" As Rose's screams faded into the distance, the girls untied us.
"What did you do to them?" said Isabella, fixing the boys with a stern gaze.
"Ugh, we, ugh... James did it!" said Fred. "But we helped him!" said Liam helpfully.
"Do you have a death sentence?" I asked Liam. "No..." said Liam cautiously. "Because if you don't, why on earth would you admit that you had snuck into our dorm, tied me and Olivia up, then put us in this alcove, then poured freezing cold water over the others, then ran off?" I said sarcastically. "Because quite frankly, Rose is probably off killing James, and the way it looks, Isabella is going to kill you."
Fred and Liam turned to look at Isabella. Her face was turning red, and she looked like she was going to explode.
"I'd run if I were you." said Alice.
The boys ran past Isabella and down the corridor.
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When Rose had arrived back, the girls went back up to their dorm. I did a warming spell that dried the clothes out in an instant, and then they all got ready. After I had finished tying up my hair, and Isabella and Rose had stopped with the make-up, we went down into the common room.
Alex, Liam and Fred were in the common room. When we went down, they came up to us. "Look, we're really sorry about pouring water all over you. We know it was wrong," said Fred. "We won't do it again. Can we be friends?" We looked at the three boys, then at each other. Then I pulled Olivia away from the others. "Should we tell them?" I asked. "I feel bad about hiding what we did." Olivia glanced at the girls, then called "Ali, come over here for a sec." Alice came over. "What's wrong, Olivia?" "What would you, Bella and Rose say if we told you that we helped to play a prank on you guys that involved getting wet, stealing your clothes, then blaming the boys?"
"Well…" said Alice, in shock. "I would say that I forgive you, but Rose and Bella are really angry." I felt a shiver of guilt run down my spine. What had I done? The boys were getting the full blame for this, when James and I had convinced the others to do it.
The common room portrait opened, and James rushed in. "I did it, I did it!" he gasped. I just couldn't stand there while he took all the blame; I was as much to blame as he was. Before I could think my actions through, I strode over to the group and said, "No, it was me. It was all my idea, and I was stupid to drag the boys and Olivia into this. I deserve whatever punishment you chose to give me. I just hope you can forgive me for what I did, because I know it was stupid and idiotic. I hope I'm still your friend after what I've done to you." I gulped. "No, Charlotte didn't do anything." said James. "Yeah." said Liam. "She had nothing to do with it." said Fred.
I rolled my eyes. They were covering for me even after I had committed to doing the prank.
"Look," said Olivia who had run over with Alice. "Me, Charlotte, James, Alex, Liam and Fred were the ones in on the prank. I warned you, remember?" I thought back to this morning. Olivia had said that she was warning them. The other girls looked at each other. "We forgive you." said Rose, turning back to us.
I ran over and hugged her.
"Girls are so stupid." James whispered to Fred. "I mean, what the hell goes on in their heads?" He thought we couldn't hear them, but I could. "Uh, guys?" said Isabella. "Yeah?" said Rose. "We need to go to breakfast. We have about..." she checked her watch "5 minutes to get there, 10 to eat, then 5 to go to class." "What are we doing standing around waiting then? Let's go!" said Olivia. We all grabbed our bags and rushed out of the common room door.
"Hey! Wait up!" we turned around, and James, Alex, Liam and Fred were running after us. "Look, promise you won't tell anyone?" said Liam. "Yeah, sure. What is it? In case you haven't noticed, we're sort of late for breakfast, so make it quick." said Alice.
"Sure." said Fred. Then Liam pulled a tapestry across to reveal, well, nothing. Then James pulled out his wand, looked around to check no one was coming, and said "Aperio." A door appeared. "Come on, come on." said Alex, ushering them towards the door.
They opened it and stepped into a small hallway. "Keep going." said Alex impatiently. They walked around a corner and into a room with a fire, some sofas and chairs, and two more doors. "Please, sit." said James, gesturing towards the sofas. They sat down, and Isabella started talking. "What are those two doors for?" The boys looked at each other. They then turned back to us, identical evil grins on their faces. "Go through and find out." said Fred.
I glanced at Olivia. "I'll take the right one, you take the left," I said resignedly. "On 3. 1, 2, 3!" said Olivia. We both opened the doors. As small squeak of fear escaped me, a shiver of fear raced down my back. "I just got a bunch of stairs." said Olivia disappointedly. "What'd you get? Charlotte?" They looked over at me, then Rose raced to my side. "What's wrong?" I had frozen in fear. "H-h-hole." I stuttered.
Staring at me was a hole, big enough for a grown man to slide down. I could see a faint glimmer of light at the bottom of the hole. "Are you afraid of heights?" said Rose sympathetically. I nodded. She took me over to the sofa and sat me down. "Charlotte, are you okay now?" "Yeah, just a shock." "Okay," said James, looking worried, "Are you alright?" "Yeah" I replied.
Fred flipped a switch on the side of the wall. Lights came on in the hole, which I now saw was a slide. "It takes you right down to the Entrance Hall. It only takes 2 minutes, while walking takes 5." said Fred. "Let's use it then!" said Alice excitedly. "Okay, guys." said James. "You will stop beside that suit of armor that we turned blue last year. See you soon!" And with that he pushed me down the slide.
"AHHHHHH!" I yelled for at least 30 seconds before I heard Olivia who was coming down after me scream "SHUT UP CHARLOTTE!" I shut up after that and soon screeched to a stop. A wall was in front of me, with a lever at the side. I yanked it down, and the wall lifted, revealing a tapestry. I slipped under it and appeared next to the stairs. "Cool." I whispered to myself.
A few seconds later Olivia appeared next to me, then Rose, then Isabella, and finally Alice.
"Come on!" We raced into the hall. Thankfully, most people were still eating. I sat down, and grabbed a piece of toast. Just as James, Alex, Liam and Fred ran in and sat down, Professor McGonagall stood up. "Can everyone go to these teachers for their school timetables. Year 1's to me, Year 2's to Professor Flitwick, Year 3's to Professor Longbottom, Year 4's to Professor Walter, Year 5's to Professor Smith, Year 6's to Professor Taylor, and Year 7's to Professor Murray."
We all raced over to Professor Longbottom. "Hey Neville!" yelled James, waving at Professor Longbottom. "Slytherins here, Gryffindors next to them, Ravenclaws next to Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff next to Ravenclaw." said Professor Longbottom with a smile. We lined up, and Professor Longbottom charmed the papers so that a pile of papers started at the front of the line, and went backwards. I picked up my timetable, then followed Rose back to the table.
I looked at my timetable. First Ancient Runes, then Transfiguration, a Break, then Herbology, Lunch and finally Double Potions. Not a bad Monday. "What do you have?" I asked Rose. "Same as you. Thank Godric I have someone to talk to." she answered, glancing at my timetable. "Oh, I have Divination!" said Alice excitedly. "Same." said Olivia and Isabella.
"Come on, we gotta get to Ancient Runes." I said, and we ran out of the room. "This way." said Rose, pulling me up another flight of stairs. We arrived at Ancient Runes and sat halfway through the class. Alex soon joined us there. "James, Fred and Liam are in Divination." he told us.
Professor Etruscan (said E true scan) started the lesson. We learnt that there are many sorts of rune alphabets, but we learn Ancient Runes, or the Elder Futhark. The Ancient Runes alphabet has 24 letters.
"Next, Transfiguration." said Alex, and we rushed to the Transfiguration classroom. Professor Taylor was standing at the front of the room, while people made their way to their seats.
"Hello, and welcome to Transfiguration. Today we will be learning about Animagus'. It is a very advanced branch of Transfiguration, and it takes a long time to achieve. Many people prefer to spend the long hours you must spend training to become an Animagus doing other things. It is an extremely long process, and the shortest time anyone have ever achieved turning into their Animagus form at will was 1 year and 10 months. Anyone that becomes an Animagus must immediately register at the Ministry. I tried for over 2 years to become an Animagus. Your homework is to research Animagus' and give me a foot of parchment on them. "Then, in front of our eyes, she turned into a small, well-bred-looking dog, with a clean, grayish coat. Half the class clapped, while the rest of the class didn't seem to be paying attention.
"Excuse me," said Professor Taylor, drawing the class's attention towards her. "Not to be rude, but some of you seem quite distracted today." "Well, Professor," said Alice nervously "Some of us just had our first Divination lesson, and-" "I see." said Professor Taylor briskly. "So, which one of you is going to be hurt in some way or form this year?" "Me. I'm going fall really sick, and might die." said Fred. "Well, Mr. Weasley. Professor Whittle enjoys creeping out-" a White, transparent crocodile drifted into the room. "Do not tell. Looking forward to some fun." said the croc, and then it disappeared. "Actually, Mr. Weasley, you look in fine health to me. If you fall ill, you do not need to hand in your homework." Everyone laughed, then Professor Taylor carried on with the lesson.
At the end of Transfiguration, they had a quick break, and then all of them strolled down to the Greenhouses.
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