R&R please, and remember...don't own them. -2
Chapter Three
"You do that." I say, opening the door of the carriage. As I look up at this castle, I realize something. I have only one more time after this. If I screw up this year, I only have one more chance. "Come on Linsi," I say to myself, "leave your mark. Your brother's The Boy Who Lived, and who are you? You're his sister. That's your claim to fame. Well, other than tying for hottest girl at Hogwarts." I smile to myself. "Although that was something, this is your only life. Make the best of it."
"You know, talking to yourself is the first sign of madness." says a voice in my ear.
"Peeves!" I yell, "You know that you've long past that mile-marker."
"Ms. Potter! Stop screaming! Silence is golden," cries professor McGonagall.
"Oh, but screaming is fun!" I cry.
"Well, don't do it in the entrance hall." She requested. I turn and go into the great hall. "Kay Luna, here we go!" I say to her.
We walk to the end of the Ravenclaw table and sit by ourselves. "I wonder who our new headmaster will be?" Luna asked.
It was apparent very soon. The headmaster was Dumbledore.
This wasn't the Dumbledore that I knew. He had waist-length red hair and a beard. He wore a rainbow tie-dyed cloak and cap. And around his neck was a nylon cord that had a large peace sign on it. But that wasn't the weirdest thing. The weirdest thing was… Dumbledore was not human. He was a ghost. A real, true, floating, no-legs-but-a-curly-white-floaty-thing-instead ghost. "Can we have a ghost for a headmaster?" I wondered aloud.
"We have a ghost for a teacher, so why not?" answered Luna.
"Yup. I guess you're right." I said.
The Dumbledore ghost thing rose in the air. "As you can see," he commented, "I have changed. No longer am I a solid being, and no longer can I stand. I trust that you all know what happened to me. I was murdered by Severus Snape, last year's Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. So now, I am dead. These are not the words you normally hear from somebody. So now, I must introduce our new DADA professor, Professor Hollows!" A lady with red-tinged eyes and elbow-length smooth black hair stands up and smiles without opening her mouth. "Professor Hollows will also be the new head of Slytherin, as that was her house when she was here." It was silence in the great hall, all except for the Slytherin's who continued to clap and cheer. There hasn't been a witch or wizard that's gone bad that wasn't in Slytherin.
After the feast:
"Well," asks Ginny, running up to them, "what do you think of the new teacher?"
"I don't think she has teeth," says Luna.
"Well, she was eating a steak, so that wouldn't make sense, would it?" Ginny said, squashing that idea.
"How was it cooked?" I asked.
"Very rare, and when she cut into it, blood seeped out," Ginny answered, disgusted.
"Figures."
"What's going on in your pretty little head?"
"Absolutely nothing."
"Yeah right. Tell us!"
"I have a theory. But we'll have to wait and see, won't we?" I grinned mischievously. "Night, y'all!"
"Good night, Linsi!" Ginny called over her shoulder.
"Harry!" I said running over to him.
"What?" he asked looking slightly afraid.
"Relax. I just came over to say good night!" I say, kissing my middle and index fingers than placing them on his cheek. Ron looked slightly jealous.
"Night sis. But you might want to give Ron a kiss also, 'cuz he looks like he's about to explode." I looked at Ron. His face was violet.
"Night Ron." I peck him on the cheek. His face quickly turns from violet to red.
I run off to find Luna, and we walk up to the common room together. "Peregrine," I say to the gargantuan raven, and it steps aside to reveal a background tapestry. I push it aside, and we walk into our common room. "Ooh, it's been redecorated!" I squeal, overly excited at finally having something different.