Spoiled brats and broken toys
chapter 3: up the food chain
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
After the feast everyone was led to their dormitories by the prefects. Ravenclaw and Gryffindor to the towers and Hufflepuff and Slytherin to the dungeons. As suspected, they were quite cool, dark and smelled somewhat like rain. After living with the Black's for over a month Evangeline got quite used to dark interiors .
After speaking with Mulciber and Avery for a while, she found out that they were actually quite the good company. True slytherins yes but good company none the less. At one point the trio was talking about their family and how they were related. Turns out the Everbrights and the Mulcibers were distant family, 4th cousins to be precise.
Finally the group of slytherins stopped at a piece of wall. 'ok the password changes every month and will be posted on the notice board in the common room this month the password is pureblood' right after the prefect said it the wall opened up to reveal a passageway. Walking further into the dungeons they finally got to an open room. The high ceilings had several windows in, showing the water of the black lake. There were several black and green leather couches surrounding the fireplace where a green flame was casting it's light on the surrounding area. Lamps hung from the ceiling casting a green light around the room. And If you looked through the windows you could see some fish swimming.
'girl dormitories through that hallway' the prefect pointed to the left 'boy dormitories through the other one. And no wandering around the dungeons past 10.' With that the first years started to get seated too. The green eyes of Evangeline looked around for her two new ... acquaintances so she could talk to someone. Not finding them she seated herself in one of the couches before the fire claiming it as hers. 'hey first year that's our spot' 2 older students stood in front of the sofa looking down on the brown haired girl. She merely looked up 'look I don't care. This is my spot now and in case you didn't know it. Your name wasn't on it.' And she resumed to looking at the fire. 'look here Shorty we have been using this couch for two years so off you go' he made a little movement with his hand, that one would normally make at a dog. The small girl took her wand out of her robe pocket and muttered the jelly-legs jinx. In an instant both boys where on the floor. There were a few chuckles from surrounding slytherins that patted her on the shoulder.
The following morning she woke up at 7and after getting dressed she put a dark green headband on her head. She was pretty proud of herself, already working her way up in the ranks, having 2... friends and roommates that didn't bother her too much. Everything seemed to go alright.
At breakfast she sat next to Avery who sat next to a boy she didn't know. And on her other side sat one of her roommates Annabell Harthrown. 'so I heard what you did last night to the Rivers brothers. Heh got to give it to ya. Good job.' He patted her head. 'oh btw this here is Severus Snape, If you ever have any problems with potions or DADA go ask him. I swear you He's like a genius or something in those subjects.' He muttered the last part to himself before shoving a piece of bacon in his mouth.
Somewhere during breakfast professor Slughorn came to deliver the schedules. 'miss Everbright, good to finally meet you personally. I have to say your father was quite the wizard. Very wise and very good in potions. I hope I can expect the same from you?' he smiled down at the girl before handing her the schedule. She looked it over
Monday and Thursday Tuesday and wednesday friday
7:00-8:00: breakfast 7:00-8:00: breakfast 7:00-8:00: breakfast
8:30-10:10: double transfigurations 8:30-10:10: double Herbology 8:30-10:10: study
10:10-10:30: break 10:10-10:30: break 10:10-10:30: beak
10:30-12:10: double charms 10:30-12:10: double history of magic 10:30-12:10: double transfigurations
12:10-13:30: lunch 12:10-13:30: lunch 12:10-13:30: lunch
13:30-15:10: double potions 12:30-15:10: study 13:30-14:20: potions
15:10-15:30: break 15:10-15:30: beak
15:30-17:30: study 15:30-17:30: free
18:00-19:30: dinner 18:00-19:30: dinner
All in all the time table looked alright. Lots of double lessons but that could work in favour of the students. Annabell took the time table from her roommate to compare. 'seems like we have some different classes... strange' she handed the paper back to her new friend and went back to eating.
'so short stuff' the boys had been using that nickname all week long and indeed the girl was several centimetres shorter. 'heard you had another run in with the Rivers brothers. What did you do this time?' she had become quite know for being the tormenter of Nate and Joshua Rivers. Since the incident on the first night they had started bothering her regularly though never with bad intentions. It seems as the three of them started to respect each other... but that didn't mean that the little Everbright didn't like hexing them anymore.
Growing up as an only child, Evangeline had never had the pleasure of annoying her siblings. Now at Hogwarts she started to see Nate and Joshua as her siblings. Even with their rough start and looking at them, Mulciber and Avery had to say the feeling was mutual.
'so professor McGonagall let us work on her essay during the last 20 minutes of class which saved me a lot of time last evening.' Delilah and Evangeline , even though they were in rivalling houses, still had contact regularly and walked to classes together. Now on Friday it was time for their first history of magic lesson. Both had heard a lot about the teacher mister Binns. Apparently he was a ghost, died in his sleep in the teachers' lounge but his spirit continued to teach. And according to Avery, he was so boring his lessons turned into a nap time from 2 hours. As long as you pass and make your essays he's ok with it.
'so is it true about the giant squid that's living in the black lake?' Delilah's Blue eyes focussed on the rippling in the water looking for something to prove that this creature does indeed live in the lake. 'Yeah it does live in there. When you look through the windows in our common room you can sometimes see one of its tentacles. And one time a girl had seen its eye. She was so spooked by it that she had run back to her friend to talk about it nonstop for an hour.' The girl laughed a bit at the memory. 'anyway. How is Sirius doing? I haven't talked to him since we come here.' Indeed the black haired male had not yet talked to her even though he did say he would. Over the time she had spent with him, she got quite attached. 'you mean Sirius Black? Oh I don't know, I don't really talk to him that much. Only when I'm looking for Remus.' The blond haired girl became close with the blond haired male quite fast. As soon as they saw that the both of them liked to read. They started talking. Since Delilah was a muggle-born, Remus became quite interested in what she read. With him being a half-blood, he grew up mostly with wizard written books.
'hey Snivillus, shouldn't you be in the showers instead of pollution the air with your greasy hair?' the girls looked behind them and saw where the commotion was coming from. Sirius was standing next to the black haired boy better known as James potter, looking down on Severus Snape who was trying to ignore them both. Not liking the fact that they were ignored, they raised their wands. 'look Potter, Black, just leave me alone alright. It's not like I am doing anything to you right now am I?' he glared at them both. 'well just being outside is your crime so get lost or we may have to use force.' At that point Evangeline stood up and started to make her way to the little group. 'Sirius, just let him be and give your niece a hug alright?' the dark eyes of Sirius focussed on her and he smiled. 'Evangeline, haven't seen you in a while... so this greasy git your friend or something?' he looked at her in confusion while she shook her head no.' No no, he's not my friend but he helps me with my potions essay so I need him alive and in one piece.' She looked at Severus snape who was glaring at her. 'hmp you got lucky Snivellus. Come on James I'm done here' James looked in confusion at his best mate but followed none the less. 'and now you Snape. I just helped you so you better help me alright? I have an essay on the ingredient of a boil curing potions for next week Tuesday and it better be ready by then.' With that she walked back to her friend who was still sitting down in the grass by the lake.
Authors note:
Evangeline is starting to get more assertive and mean. Also using situations in her favour.
poor Sevy xD anyways. For the timetable I chose double lessons since that would be easiest to work. And the hours are roughly the hours my school uses except for the study hours.
Another thing. I would like to thank Strawberryowner for letting me use her character.
