Disclaimer- 'I do not own J.K. Rowling's ideas. O snap.'-Atillathehun
A/N- I just thought that I would just make a quick author's note. I don't own J.K. Rowling's work, but I do own some original characters in this story. Also, (I have said this countless times), my friend Gryffindor-Chika owns some of the characters in my story, but I guess we both share the ones we made up, so we both kind of own them. Anyways, if I ever have written 'Gathering Hall', I send my apologies. It is actually Great Hall, and I before had said the Gathering Hall is where they eat, and the Great Hall is the Entrance. Sorry for any confusion. If I do get anything wrong, though, tell me in a review. I love getting GOOD ones. Enjoy!
Chapter 6
Fights, Food, and Surprises
Blaze and Laura climbed through the hole in the wall where the picture would be. When the got through, they ended up in a bottom-right corner of a room, and were facing a fireplace. The room was about twenty-four and a half feet from left to right, and was eleven and a half feet from top to bottom. At the far left of the room there is a wall, and at the bottom-left corner of the room, there was a door that lead to a square room, eleven and a half feet from top to bottom, and left to right. If you were to look around, you would see that it resembled the Gryffindor Common. The wall were bright red brick, with some golden bricks, that actually looked like bars of gold, that bordered the top and bottom of the red walls, and one line of gold bricks that went right through the middle. The bricks weren't bumpy and scratchy, they were smooth.
There was one window, and it was right next to the fireplace, but it wasn't very big. It was about the size of a pillow. Hanging from every wall, about seven feet apart from each other, were crimson banners with golden lions on them. There were about there were five in the first room and two in the other, smaller, room, and they were hanging from where the wall met the ceiling all the way down to the floor. There was one maroon leather couch directly to your left when you got in the room, and its back was against the bottom wall. There was a glass table in front of the couch. Otherwise there were many maroon chairs all around the first room, about eight of them in a circle in the top right corner, three of them in front of the fireplace, and about five more in random places. The carpet was red and yellow stripes.
In the other room, the smaller one, there were exactly eight chairs around a big table with a giant golden lion imprinted in it. There was also the Hogwarts banner in the top right corner. The room sort of resembled a meeting room.
"Ah, it is still the same, even after a half of a year with out anyone going in here," said James as he sat at the end of the maroon couch, his favorite spot.
"Even with every Gryffindor who is a Second Year of higher knowing about it, I guess no one really came in here," said Sirius, collapsing on the couch next to James.
"Well, remember, Macnar started to mess up Hogwarts last year around mid March, so no one had the time to come in here," reminded Blaze, taking a chair by the fireplace, (which was facing the fireplace like the other two), and turned it around so he could sit in it and see the others when they were talking.
"That's true," admitted Laura.
"So…….." said Megan, "what are we to do here?"
"I guess we could just catch up," suggested Lily.
"But we've already caught up all that we can in Diagon Alley, and on the Hogwarts Express, and at the Opening Feast, and at the party last night!" explained Eric.
"Okay then, how about……um…….oh I don't know what we are to do!" exclaimed Olivia.
"I guess we could just do whatever we want to do," suggested Serenity.
"Well, I'm beginning to think this was a lovely waste of time," commented Sara.
"This is more of a place to do homework and talk about your day or past days that week or so at Hogwarts," said Lora.
"Are we allowed to be here?" asked Jessica, changing the subject.
"JESSICA!" yelled Blaze in frustration, "if Dumbledore knows about it and has been here before, and we weren't allowed here, don't you think he would have said something!?"
"I was just wondering, okay!?" replied Jessica in a half hurt yell.
"Okay," said Blaze calming down.
"So……….." said Remus.
"So who votes we should leave?" asked Cole. Everyone except Jessica raised their hand.
"I never knew we were allowed to be here, so I never had a good time, but know that I know we can be here, it was starting to get fun," replied Jessica who was still half hurt, but know it was because she was the only person who wanted to stay and when she made her last comment, many people looked at her in annoyance.
"Well, I guess we should go then," said Zach. Everyone left the room into the hallway, and took the same route back from where they came from.
When they finally got to the bottom floor, they went back to the Great Hall, but found some old friends there as well.
"Well, well, well, look who we have here!" spoke a voice that was hated for many years.
"Well! Look what the cat dragged in!" exclaimed Laura. There stood Blake and Brittany at the bottom of the staircase, and all the others were at the top of the staircase.
"Yeah, it's Fake and Barfney!" yelled Blaze, and everyone including him laughed.
"We told you that we were going to get you back for what you did to us on the train!" yelled Blake in a frustrated yell.
"You poor dears," said James in a fake voice.
"Shut up James or I'll hex you!" yelled Brittany.
"Oh will you?" asked Sirius, not really believing her.
"Would you like us to both hex you guys!?" asked Blake in frustration because twenty-two people were snickering at him and Brittany.
"I'd just rather see you try!" exclaimed Dylan.
"Yeah!" said Peter P. (And for your information, Peter Pettigrew never joins forces at all with the Dark Lord in the years to come, and Lily and James never die at a young age by Voldemort, but I probably won't write a fan fiction about that from 'The Chronicles of Hogwarts' series).
"Yeah!!" repeated Margaret, but with a little more enthusiasm.
"Do you think you could possibly hex, charm, curse, or jinx us in the middle of the Great…….." said Cole, but he was cut off by several flashes of yellow lights that hit him, Dylan, Eric, Megan, Olivia, Melissa, Andrea, Allison, Sara and Lora, causing them to fall back. Michael ran behind the corner of a wall to get out of the open fire area. Peter P. and Margaret ran right behind him to get out of the open fire area as well. Jessica ran after those three because she didn't want to break the rules by fighting with magic in Hogwarts.
Blaze, Laura, Zach, Serenity, James, Lily, Sirius, and Remus were the ones who were still standing. Zach and Sirius both shot spells, but Zach said his wrong, so it back fired on him, and Sirius's spell missed, bounced off a piece of armor hanging on the wall, and hit Remus. Zach and Remus were both down. All of them kept firing, but all their spells seemed to have somehow always missed. After about a minute of missing, Blaze stopped firing. He sat there for a moment listening, then said, "Everyone throw your wands behind yourself, and then duck down!" They were all confused why he had said this but they all trusted Blaze and they all knew he had a good idea.
They all threw their wands behind them and ducked down. Just moments later Professors McGonagall and Flitwick came to see what the ruckus was. They walked into the Great Hall to find twenty-two kids on the ground, and Blake and Brittany holding their wands straight at the other kids. (The first people who got hit with the yellow spell were merely just knocked over, but none of them dared to get back up).
"MR. MALATOY, AND MRS. TIMBERLAN, WHAT IS GOING ON!?" yelled Professor McGonagall.
"They were attacking us because I accidentally threw up on them on the Hogwarts Express," said Blaze, in an innocent voice. Everyone replied with "yeah," or "it's true!" and Jessica stated that it was an accident, so they didn't really break any rules.
"Is everyone ok?" asked Professor Flitwick.
"Yes," said everyone in a more cheery mood.
"Blake and Brittany," said McGonagall, taking a deep breath, "in my office NOW!"
"Yes Professor," mumbled Blake and Brittany. They both walked up the stairs at a slow pace. When they got to the top, they looked to their right and gave glares at the others, then turned to their left and followed McGonagall.
"Are you guys sure you are all right?" asked Flitwick.
"We're sure," said Lily.
"Okay," replied Flitwick, "but if you guys feel weird or different, go straight to the Hospital Wing, got it?"
"Yes," they all answered as Flitwick walked away. When Flitwick was out of earshot, the others started to talk again.
"That was a close one!" exclaimed James as everyone got up from their positions.
"Yeah," replied Sirius, "that was. It was a good thing that Blaze was thinking on his feet, as usual."
"I'm don't think on my feet that much," said Blaze, denying the good comments.
"How come no one is here in the Great Hall anyways?" asked Laura, and this was a good point because no one had been the Great Hall this whole time.
"I guess Blake and Brittany's ugliness scared them off!" replied Eric as everyone laughed.
"Or maybe it was their B. O.!" added Dylan and everyone laughed harder.
"Or maybe it was because of Blake and Brittany's dumbness!" exclaimed Jessica, and right then, the laughter died. "Why does the laughter always die when I say something!?" asked Jessica.
"Because you're not funny at all!" replied Zach.
"Shut-up," answered Jessica.
"Maybe it's because everyone is outside," suggested Serenity.
"Yes, that could be true. It is a lovely day out," stated Olivia.
"Then why don't we go outside?" asked Cole.
"Yes, lets!" said Allison. For some reason, she was in a good mood, but I guess you would be to if you just got your worst enemies in trouble, and you got off the hook.
"You guys go ahead, Melissa and I are going to go look at the postings in the Great Hall," said Andrea.
"Okay then," said Lora, "we'll catch up with you guys later!"
"Okay," said Melissa as her and Andrea went inside the Great Hall. The rest of the kids opened the big oak doors of Hogwarts and stepped out. The bright sun shone down on there faces and there was a small breeze that gently shook the bright green leaves on the trees.
"So…," said Michael, "what are we going to do?"
"Should we go swimming?" asked Margaret who loved to swim.
"No," replied Remus, "I think it's too early for that."
"Well," said Serenity, "what time is it?"
"Well according to my watch, it's about eleven o'clock," answered Blaze.
"What should we do then?" asked Eric.
"I say we go and eat!" replied Peter P., "I'm hungry and there will be pudding there!
"Yippee!" squealed Margaret.
"Who votes on eating right now?" asked Blaze. Only Margaret and Peter P. raised their hands.
"Okay then, I guess you guys can go eat," said Olivia, "but see what Andrea and Melissa are up to."
"Okay," said Margaret and they were off.
"I say we go to the Quidditch Pitch and play some Quidditch," said Eric.
"Yeah, but that's probably where half the school is right now, if so, there will be no spare brooms left for all of us to use!" replied Megan.
"It was just a suggestion!" said Eric, "and plus, I don't see you coming up with any ideas!"
"I say we go walk in the gardens," said Megan.
"That sounds like a great idea!" exclaimed Sara.
"Well, I don't know if we have that much time to do that though," said Olivia, "it takes a while to get over there."
"We could just sit out here and talk," suggested Cole.
"But that's all we've been doing is talking and talking and talking and arguing and talking!" said Jessica, "Don't you guys want to do something else?"
"Like Quidditch!" said Eric.
"Not Quidditch!" mocked Megan.
"Shut-up Megan!" exclaimed Eric.
"I'll shut you up, you oaf!" replied Megan in a yell.
"GUYS!!" yelled Jessica, breaking up the argument, "this is what I was talking about!"
"Well, should we just go and eat lunch now and then do something after that?" asked Blaze.
"Sure. Why not?" said Olivia. At that, they all went back into Hogwarts and into the Great Hall. There they found Melissa, Andrea, Margaret, and Peter P. Margaret and Peter P. were gorging themselves with pudding, and Melissa and Andrea were watching them, and they were a little disturbed.
"Anything new on the Postage Board?" asked Lora as they entered the Great Hall and sat by their friends.
"Not much," said Melissa, "there is a notice about the door at the end of the right wing on the fifth floor is closed due to an episode that happened last year by some seventh years, but I'm not sure what they did."
"But," continued Andrea, "there was one thing on the board that caught our eyes, but you guys might disagree with us on this."
"Okay……, on what?" asked Allison.
"Well," said Melissa, "it said something about a foreign exchange program…."
"….and we're going to go on a Foreign Exchange Student Program!" finished Andrea. Everyone was quiet (and even Margaret and Peter P. dropped their pudding at the last comment, and that was rare), until Lily broke the silence.
"When are you guys leaving?" she asked.
"Well, we found McGonagall and told her that we would like to participate, so she signed us up," replied Melissa.
"So when are you guys leaving!?" asked Remus in a frustrated tone.
"Well……" said Andrea, "next weekend."
"WHAT!?" they all yelled.
"We're sorry! We forgot to talk to you guys first!" answered Melissa.
"Yeah, you kind of left that part out!" yelled Allison.
"It's not the end of the world!" yelled Melissa.
"Yeah, we'll write and we may come back on brakes, if aren't going home, and….. you'll see us again!" stated Andrea.
"But it won't be as funny and fun without you guys here!" said Margaret.
"You guys still have Allison!" pointed out Melissa.
"And me!" said Jessica. Everybody (as usual) stared at her and then ignored her.
"Do you even know where you'll be going?" asked Blaze.
"No," answered Andrea, "not yet. Not knowing is supposed to be the fun of it."
"Well, it's not very fun," stated Peter P.
"Well," said Melissa, "we better go pack."
"Yes, lets!" said Andrea.
"We'll all go with!" said Olivia.
"But wait, the boys can't go into the girls' dormitories!" said James.
"But they can help carry the stuff to McGonagall's office!" said Lily in a cheery mood.
"Fine," said Sirius, who was really not in the mood to argue.
"Well, let's go then," said Sara as they started to file out.
"You guys go ahead," said Cole, "we're going to stay behind and eat."
"Ok," said Lora as almost everyone walked out of the Great Hall. Blaze, Serenity, Laura, Megan, Eric, Michael, and Cole stayed behind.
"So," started Blaze, "tell us again. What did you exactly see?"
"I take it that you told Cole, Eric, and Michael?" asked Laura.
"Just them!" answered Blaze, holding his hands in mid-air.
"Well, I guess it wasn't a super freaky, but it was scary," explained Laura.
"But did it look like his shadow, or was it just a shadow?" asked Megan.
"I don't know," said Laura, "it could've been anything. It could have been another student trying to freak me out, or it could have been Peeves, or it could have been my imagination for all I know."
"O well," said Cole, "let's eat."
"Yeah, let's eat. I'm starving, and plus, I don't want to help with Melissa and Andrea's packing. It's boring," complained Eric.
"I'm starving too and………….." but Michael never got to finish his sentence because there came a voice, and the voice was yelling at them.
"I HOPE YOU GUYS ARE HAPPY!!" yelled the voice of a very angry Blake.
"Hey, weren't not all guys!" said Megan.
"Oh really, I didn't notice. Actually, I always thought that you all were a bunch of girls!"
"Really?" asked Blaze, "cause I always thought the same as you, except you were a third girl, a third pig, and a third Unicorn blood sucker."
"Yeah, well, I always thought that, that, that, that you were so stupid that….ARGH!" exclaimed Blake as he walked out of the Great Hall.
"He's mental," said Laura.
"No kidding!" exclaimed Eric.
"You just figured out that he is mental and belongs in St. Mongo's Hospital," said Megan, "either that, or in solitary confinement!"
"No," replied Laura, "I was just stating a fact."
"Yeah," said Blaze, "an obvious fact."
"Hey, you know what," said Laura, "you need to shut-up."
"Ooooo! What are you going to do if I don't?" asked Blaze.
"You are so stupid!" yelled Laura as she sank her fork into her baked potato. When they were arguing, their food had arrived. They dug into their food and within ten minutes, their food was gone.
A/N- I may not be updating very soon because I am working on a new Fan Fiction based on 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series, but I will update, but not as often. Please review!!!
Blaze