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Hey guys! Sorry about the wait, but exams come first. Even if they are only end of year ones. But, this is the first new chapter of the story, so I hope that you enjoy it.
So, let me present a long chapter of
Caitlin Lillian Potter and the Room of Requirements, Chapter 6, Take 1:
It was about 10 PM when Caitlin was finally woken up. Not by Hermione, but another very welcome face
"Hey sweetie" Lily said "Time to go to bed" to which Caitlin mumbled a reply "Come on, up you get" and she pulled Caitlin onto her feet. She only then realized that Hermione wasn't there.
"She had to go home earlier. Her family are going on holiday so she needs to catch her plane" Caitlin just nodded and leant on her mother. "She'll be back in 3 weeks, so how about tomorrow we go out shopping, impress your girlfriend when she returns"
If Caitlin had been any more awake, she would have protested and said that Hermione wasn't her girlfriend, but she was too tired to argue. So, the pair slowly made their way towards the castle to bed.
The next morning, Caitlin woke up and found herself in her dorm room 'Obviously Mum carried me in here'. She had a shower and got dressed before exiting the common room to find breakfast. Inside the Great Hall, she found her parents, Sirius and Remus 'Obviously arrived last night' huddled together around a sheet of parchment. She sat down next to them, and shovelled some cereal into a bowl before leaning over.
'Ways to Torture/Annoy/Seriously Piss off Dumbledore'
Get Prongs to drag him by his beard on his broom.
Slowly slice him into crisp thin slices
They had only got 2 so far.
"How about you charm hit lemon drops to swarm around him and attack him like bees, before they all cram into his mouth at once and suffocate him to death" Caitlin offered. The four jumped in surprise, obviously oblivious to her presence. "Or you could fill his bedroom with them so he would drown."
"You" James said "Are just like your mother. A beautifully innocent expression on the outside, but truly evil on the inside" and he wrote it down. They contemplated a few more ideas, before they gave up and returned to breakfast. They talked about Caitlin and Harry's schooling, as well as what they planned to do once they left school, which in Caitlin's case was an Unspeakable.
"So Caitlin, where shall we go" Lily asked when they arrived in muggle London. She had gone with her family; Lily had somehow managed to persuade James and Harry to come along, to get a new wardrobe to 'impress her girlfriend'. Of course, Caitlin denied that she and Hermione were anything but friends, but she got the suspicion that they didn't believe her.
Several hours and a good £1000 later, they finally returned to Hogwarts, along with many bags of clothing. They didn't risk shrinking them, since they could easily be spotted by muggles. Caitlin decided that she was definately not a girly girl, and that shopping should become the 8th deadly sin. Her mother didn't seem to agree with her though.
"Now Caitlin" Her father said once they had returned "Tomorrow we're going to go to Potter Manor, your ancestral home so you need to pack your things for us to leave"
To say that Caitlin was ecstatic was an understatement, she had always wanted to live with her parents like normal children, and she was finally getting to do so.
The next morning, the family of four arrived at Potter Manor for the first time in 14 years. But, time had not acted on the house, and it seemed as if it was only yesterday that the family had left its walls to seek protection elsewhere. The sight was breathtaking. The house itself had four floors, and seemed to go left and right for miles.
Inside, it was like a palace to Caitlin. There was a huge chandelier, like the one in Gringotts Caitlin noted, hung in the centre of the multi floor entrance hall. The entire house seemed to be in Gryffindor colours, which were going to be changed according to James.
After a tour of the house where she found a library that would keep her occupied for years, or 2 days for Hermione, as well as the swimming pool, the muggle entertainment room with all the latest movies, probably bought by elves; and the excersise room with a full size running track, Caitlin decided to paint her room.
Two hours later she was lying in her bed. In her room. She liked that she now had somewhere to call home for once.
It was two days later that Lily approached her daughter's bedroom door, trying to persuade her to come out. As she approached, she decided that the corridor that led to the room was slightly different, but she couldn't determine what. So, she grasped the handle, and opened the door. Inside, she saw Caitlin at her desk, doing what looked like homework. Of course, Lily approved of this and went away again.
Of course, things were not so for Caitlin. As her mother had approached her room, she had tripped the runes that warned her if anyone approached. She then quickly pressed the rune on the side of her desk. This then swapped the books and work on her desk with some that looked like homework, which had been finished at the Dursleys. As soon as Lily went, she pressed the rune again, and went back to her work.
On her desk was a dismantled tube. It was about 20cm long, and black in colour, with a blue circuit board style design printed on it that glowed slightly. On the outside, were about ten activation runes. Inside however, was her own invention. The inside was like a muggle filing system, currently with ten 2cm square cards. When expanded to their full size, 50 times larger, you could see they were covered in runes. Each card was then synced to one of the activation runes on the casing, and you got an incredible piece of work.
She had gotten the idea of the item from Dudley surprisingly, or more his computer, just before her fourth year. He had hundreds of different programs on there, all of which were activated with a single icon. The actual programs were stored in folders, the equivalent of her cards. She had started the project during her spare time, and had gradually added to it over the years.
She was currently working on her most complicated entry, which would turn the tube into a broom, in the style of a film she had seen the previous year, Tron. (A.N. Think Light Bikes in Tron Legacy) She had taken the idea from the film and was trying to recreate the effect, only the animation wouldn't work quite right. She hoped that this version would work. So, she synced the card and shrunk it, placed it into the casing, and sealed it up using a strong sticking rune.
Walking outside, she activated the notice me not runes on her T-shirt. She had these on all the T-shirts and shirts she had, and they made her totally invisible, not just the clothing. It was alot more practical than her cloak and not even Mad-Eye could see through it. She then pressed the rune and let it do its magic.
The broom seemed to start to form, first from the brush end, moving up the length for about 3 seconds, before the broom was formed. The runes then instantly cast the required charms, making the broom work, the whole process taking about 4 seconds from baton to broom. The broom was the same design as the baton, with a black base colour and the blue circuit board design around the broom, not unlike the light bikes.
Caitlin had spent hours on this during the last year, and just as much time was spent in the hospital wing from her failures. She had confided in McGonagall that she was making her own broom, to stop her from being curious about her time of absence. Not even Hermione knew about this project.
Once the broom had been tested, Caitlin pressed the return rune at the end of the broom, turning the broom back into the black and blue baton. She then deactivated the runes on her shirt, before going indoors to annoy some parents.
The baton thing is a thing of my creation after seeing Tron Legacy itself. And no I'm not stupid enough to say that Tron Legacy was out in 1996, but the original Tron was, so she got the idea from that, just to clarify. Also, think of the transition from baton to bike in the film, and picture that on a broom. That 's what I'm trying to describe. Also, its features will gradually come apparent, and more will appear throughout the story.
Anyhow, hope you enjoyed it, and please review. Even if you say that its the worst story in the world and I should go and shoot myself. Which probably won't happen. Sorry. Actually, I'm not sorry at all... Sorry, I'm rambling so I think I should shut up now. Bye!