And by wonderful tomorrow, I of course mean miserable and rainy, but hey, look on the bright side, I get to sit inside and do nothing! YES! Anyway, Christmas was wonderful; did I also mention that tomorrow means the train ride back to Hogwarts two weeks after Christmas? Probably not, but that is not the point, the point is sadly irrelevant. I would like to take this opportunity to tell you all that I have a potty mouth, why am I talking to myself like an audience, I must be more psychotic than the doctors feared. Not the point, I am a potty mouth, and its surprising that I haven't used any naughty language whilst writing this, I am very proud of myself.
"GOD DAMNIT JAMES POTTER! How many times must I tell you to shut off that infernal watch, if it beeps even one more audible beep I may be thrown over what little threshold there is on my temper."
Who knew I was gonna do that? Seriously folks, the kids' watch is the most annoying thing, and I know that I got it for him and everything, but I was kinda hoping that he wouldn't figure out how to set the alarm, I hate that stupid noise with a passion. Kind of reminds me of a certain class in high school when the kid I had to work with had a watch that went off at the exact same time every day. Damn watches to hell and back. Just to let you know, I have been trying to get in touch with Amelia, I guess I feel that her little mind is taking in too much. I guess I'll have to talk to Dumbledore about it; he's the resident genius here.
"Ahhh Amelie, I knew you would want to try and contact her." Dumbledore says in that infuriatingly know-it-all voice. "But there isn't a way for it to be done, you will just have to wait until you are older and meet her again."
Stupid wise people never know what to do.
"I hate history of magic." I say to no one in particular, during History of magic.
"You don't even take the class, why do you come?' Sirius asks me.
"Because you guys need something to do during this class, and, hard to believe, but, I can't keep myself occupied all day when I'm all alone."
"Then take some classes! It's that easy." Remus snaps at me, he doesn't like to talk during this class, or any class for that matter.
"That's easy for you to say, oh brilliant one, but think of my predicament, why am I not taking classes? Huh? Huh? Well?"
"It's not a predicament it's a gift, it's absolutely brilliant it's, uh, well, I don't rightly know what it is."
"James, just shut up before you hurt yourself," Lily says while taking notes, "And Amelie, I looked your 'predicament' up, and its ok, I mean it's not like you're the only one who can do it, it's just not common."
"Great, I don't think I'm a freak or anything guys, I just wish I had a wand, just to say I've got one."
"You can have mine, then I would have a reason not to come to class." Sirius says smiling.
Just to let you all know, in case I haven't already mentioned this to y'all, I don't have a wand, I am a witch, I just don't need a wand. Like, for example, the first day here, I was sitting in the back of the Gryffindor/ Slytherin Transfiguration class, and I got mad at Sirius, so Snape's teapot went screaming through the air at Sirius's head and would have hit him but Remus stopped it, he's too useful. It went screaming at his head a' cause I was thinking about throwing something really heavy at his head, (the bookshelf wouldn't budge). Needless to say I'm not allowed in there again. If you don't understand my predicament, I can only say that I don't need a wand to do magic, which limits the classes I can take. And I bet you're wondering why I don't rightly take history of magic, which would be because I have a useful little mind that absorbs writing, useful eh? Well, actually the reason I don't take the class is because such decent into the hustle and bustle of the school clouds my inner eye, or at least that's what the book on divination says.
Would you like to know what classes I DO take? Too bad, I'm gonna tell you any way. I take Ancient Runes, with Lily and Remus. I take Astronomy, with the marauders and Lily and Dorcas, uhhhhh, I am forced to spend hours in the Restricted Section of the library reading up on Divination, a class that this school doesn't even have.
Ahhhh the end of the year exams, or O.W.L's for us fifth years. What really sucks is the fact that I have to take all of the normal exams with everyone else, plus an extra one where they test my abilities and see if I am truly as superb as the teachers say I am (I doubt they say that, but, who cares, I can dream.) I have to have a test on metamorphamagical prowess, or, in English, how well I can transform from one thing to another, I am a metamorphamagus, in case I haven't already told you that. At the moment I am supposed to be listening to Remus, who is teaching me the history of the magical world. After he is done with that, he gets to teach me some potions, how exciting.
"Amelie, Listen, and do stop writing in that damn diary, will you?" Remus asks, exasperated, I should feel worse than I do, he is giving up precious studying time to teach me history and I'm not paying attention.
"I'm sorry, go ahead, keep teaching." I smile at him and he looks down blushing. He's so cute, wicked awesome too.
"Aren't they cute together? He can never seem to be mad at her for very long can he." Lily says a little bit away from Amelie and Remus.
"You should hear him talk about her, jeeze, he doesn't shut up, Amelie this, Amelie that." James says, never taking his eyes off of Lily.
"Very cute, but he wont ask her out, because other guys have their eyes on her, he's afraid that he'll disappoint her. Which I find funny, because she would say yes in an instant." Dorcas states.
Lily clucks her tongue disapprovingly as Sirius tackles James into her neat pile of Ancient Runes notes. "Must you two be so ignorant of other people? Must you be jerks?" She asks loudly, and pushes James' head away from her and stands up, clearing her papers away and up to her room with a flick of her wand. "Don't talk, I know the answer already." She heads over to Amelie and Remus. "Has Remus taught you anything yet?"
"Oh yes, he's such a good teacher that even when I wasn't paying attention I learned stuff. Aren't you a good teacher Remus, haven't I learned stuff."
"Yes you have learned stuff, a whole lot of stuff, in less time than it took Professor Binns to teach it." He says laughing at the silly way I said it. I do a little victory jig, which sends Lily into fits of giggles. "Well, I think you've learned enough for today Amelie. I still don't understand why you have to take all the tests if you don't take the classes."
"That, my friend, you will have to ask Dumbledore, because I have absolutely no idea. I think he said something about them wanting to justify the reasoning behind me not taking the classes."
"Maybe, and this is just a thought, you could actually pay attention to what he says to you once in a great while, it may come in handy." Lily reprimands me. For heavens sake! You try listening to him, all it is, always, is why I have to do this, then he goes into a longer explanation about something he said, then he veers off again, and again, then he makes a U-turn, right back to what we started talking about. Did I mention that repeats? I have to say 'Uh, sir? I have to be in class, like, right now.' It's ridiculous.
"Goodnight everyone! Amelie, are we going to go to your room tonight? It is Friday." Dorcas asks from behind me.
"Oh my dear girl you are a GENIUS! How could I have forgotten that it was Friday?" I ask myself puzzled.
"Because you were too busy paying attention to Remus," Lily says quietly to me, "Yes, Amelie, are we going to your room?"
"You evil little- yes, yes we are, as a matter of fact. Why don't we invite the three dunderheads along?"
"Marvelous!" "Splendid!" "Why not?" Sirius, James and Dorcas say at the same time.
So off we head, out of the portrait hole and down the hall, up a flight of stairs, then down another hall, up another flight of stairs, then I stop in front of a picture hanging on the wall.
"Amelie, this isn't your room." Dorcas says puzzled.
"Well duh, dear. I can't go to my room without grabbing some stuff."
"Oh yeah, you left that stuff you had gotten after finding out about it during the Ancient Runes exam." Lily states.
"Precisely." I say, "It took me a while to find this hiding place too, which really sucked. But I found it, and now the thing is hiding, so I have to get it."
"Uhh, Thing? Amelie, what exactly did you find?" James says worriedly. The poor boy, I seem to frighten him.
"You'll see."
"Amelie, you're not talking about that monster thing you were so interested in during class, are you?" Remus asks me hesitantly.
"Well, I guess I should tell you all what happened in our exam today. The instructor of the exam comes in and says 'you will be solving a series of sphinx-like riddles. When you reach the last riddle it gives you a spell, incantation, potion directions, I don't really know, to the final product.' So I was being annoying and said that the final riddle wasn't really a riddle then, but that part doesn't matter." I take a breath, how to explain, "Oh! I'll show you."
"Show us what?" Sirius asks.
"Ooo, She's going to show us the exam, like a movie! When I was reading up on what she could do, I found out that she could transport us mentally to a time and place to show us something. How exciting." Lily says, way too fast, I, of course am not paying attention.
"Wait, isn't that cheating?"
"Do you want to see the thing first, or do you want me to show you the class first?" I say, ignoring whoever made that comment.
"We never saw it, you were the first, and only, person to finish the riddles, would it be easier to show us first, then while we're in there, you can show us how you solved it. Or is it easier to solve first show later?" Remus says partially to himself, partially to me.
"Now, the guy will tell us all the rules and junk, because we will be sitting in the exam room." I pause. "Alright, we are going to go into the room now. The thing will not be in there, so DO NOT GET DISTRACTED AND LOOK. Got me? Ok, everyone in."
Everyone files into the room behind me. "Alright everyone, sit down, shut up, and please fasten your seatbelts as we are heading down memory lane at approximately 60 minutes per second, in approximately, 2 minutes."
"That was a mouth full." Sirius whispers to James, and anyone else that can hear anything at all.
"What was my first rule, Sirius…" I wait about 2 seconds, "Sit down, are you sitting? No, DO IT. Next, Sirius, what was my second rule?" 1…………2…………3 "Oh, too slow, the correct answer was shut up, give the man a t-shirt, for being a dumb ass. Ok, what is going to happen is you are going to land, sitting, on the exam room floor, just as your sitting now, though it doesn't really matter. The people in the room cannot see you, hear you, or speak to you. So DON"T TRY IT." I shoot a look at James and Sirius before continuing. "I'm only showing you this to show you all the riddles." I take a breath, "Everyone ready?" They all nod they're heads and sit closer to one another. "This may take a second, I have to write some stuff on the floor." Where's that damned piece of chalk? Oh, duh, in my bag.
I look down at the floor then I look towards the door thinking. "Lily! Let me give you the short in short." I say as she comes running up to me. "If the Runes on the floor are disturbed in any way whilst we are gone, we will not be able to get back, and we would have to run around hiding for the rest of the day."
"I thought you said that they can't see us." Lily points out.
"Yes, but I'm writing the Runes for precisely the time the exam took for me, which I think was two and a half hours." We get 3 hours for each exam. "If they are messed up, then we wont be able to leave that time, and we will be able to be seen, we'll have to wait until after we have left this room, watch for the person who might ruin it, and fix it. Do you want to do that?" She shakes her head. "I want this room locked, and sound proofed, if all goes well, we should arrive back shortly after we depart."
"That makes no sense. You said that the Runes would bring us back in 2 and a half hours."
"Well at least you pay attention. I meant that at the end of the exam, which was 2 and a half hours long, we would be automatically transported to within seconds of when we left."
"Then why lock it?"
"I don't know what time it is." And with that I turn around. And start making marks on the floor.
