Chapter 7
"So, how do you like Hogwarts?" Harry asked Aliss as they sipped butterbeer in the three Broomsticks.
"It's nice, although quite small" Harry nearly choked on his drink.
"Small? If Hogwarts is small, I really don't want to know what big is" Aliss smiled.
"I didn't mean that exactly. I meant that compared to Salem, its quite small" She rectified.
"Oh, I see. So, how was Salem?" Harry asked and Aliss' face immediately lit up.
"Well, it was much bigger than Hogwarts see, because we had many more people. It was an all girls school and there were no houses" Aliss told him nostalgically.
"Oh? So how were the students separated?" Harry asked curiously.
"Well, instead on four towers, we had seven sets of dorms. Each year slept in a separate dorm complex" Aliss told him, wistfully. "In each dorm, there was a huge common room and a small game room full of muggle games"
"That seems quite nice, much nicer than here in fact" Harry noticed that her face changed slightly. "Miss Salem do you?" Harry asked.
"Of course I do! I've attended school for six years of my like there! I made my friends and grew up there. It would be inhuman not to miss it" Aliss said.
"Of course; say, do you want the full tour of the village?" Harry asked finishing the butterbeer.
"Sure" Aliss smiled and the two left together.
"That was amazing" Aliss breathed as they finished their tour of the village. "I've never actually been to an all wizarding town before"
"Don't they have those in America?" Harry asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, they have a lot, but I've never got to visit one. My parents were very strict and Salem was not surrounded by one" Aliss told him absentmindedly. "You know, I overheard some teachers talking about some huge announcement the other day. I think something big is happening today" Aliss muttered to herself.
"Yeah, probably, but I highly doubt that it's going to be too exciting" Harry sighed. "Probably something like a boring new class being formed, or some two bit club" Harry sighed "I wish something fun would actually take place in this damned school"
Aliss laughed. "And what do you classify as fun?" She asked playfully.
"Well, I wouldn't mind a-" He was cut of by Weasley and Thomas.
"Hey snake boy, get away from the new lion. We don't want her to be corrupted by slimy gits like you!" Weasley screeched. Harry stuck up his hand and made a rude gesture with it without even turning back. Weasley fumed. What happened next however shocked Harry.
"Yeah Harry, why don't you go hand out with all your little death eater friends?" Thomas sneered and Harry's bloody ran cold. His body went stiff and he stormed back to the castle without even looking back.
"Harry, where are you going?" Aliss shouted and began to pursue him. He however didn't stop until he reached the castle gates. "Wait up!"
He quickened his pace. He broke into a power walk and didn't stop until he reached the Slytherin dorms.
"Harry, mate, what's wrong?" Theo asked seeing Harry's face, but Harry didn't bother to respond. He went up to his dorm and took out a small diary and began to write. He didn't stop until he ran full out of the ink he was using.
Draco looked toward the Slytherin dorms. Harry still hadn't come out and he was worried. He didn't dare disturb his friend upstairs, no one was crazy enough to do that, but this was getting ridiculous! Harry had even skipped out on dinner and dessert. Something had happened and Draco was curious to know exactly what it was.
"Hey Draco, Harry down yet?" Theo asked as he and Daphne took a seat across from Draco.
"Not yet" Draco told him, lost in his thoughts.
"I hope he's okay. The last time this happened was when Potter made it into the triwizard tournament. Harry locked himself in the dorm for almost two days" Daphne recalled.
"Yeah, but I'm more worried about him missing that" Draco told them.
Theo chuckled. "Yeah, if we didn't tell him and he did miss it, he would be right ticked off at us. I mean, he'd probably hex us" Theo thought aloud.
"Well, if he doesn't come down tomorrow morning, I'm going to give him a piece of my mind! He knows Snape will kill him if he doesn't show to potions tomorrow" Daphne said, folding her hands.
"Then you wake him Daph; your temper is the only one that can match his!" Theo exclaimed pushing Daphne towards the dorms.
"Nice of you to through your girlfriend to the dogs Nott!" Daphne exclaimed pushing him on the arm playfully. "I thought I meant more to you that that!"
"Fine, we'll flip a coin, okay?" Draco offered. "Heads Daphne goes and tails Theo can go" Draco said and pulled out a galleon.
"Funny Draco, but I have a better idea" Daphne said smiling wickedly. "Send Crabbe and Goyle to go get Harry. Those two are as thick as trolls" Draco and Theo looked at each other and sported twin smirks as well.
"OH, Crabbe, Goyle!"
A/N: First things first, my first review of the last chapter, thanks to BrightFeather. And in response to your review, the username is on the site harrypotterfanfiction, not FFN. Anyway, thanks to all who reviewed and all that stuff.
A lot going on in my world; to anyone who follows the Barrack Clinton struggle, you guys no what I'm talking about. The suspense is murderous. So, my chapter was quite short, and I would produce longer chapters if I didn't have to do a report on the uses and theory of Fractals. Why does anyone care anyway? Sure they look great, but why study them? They seem totally annoying. In fact the only fractal I like is the triforce in Zelda. The one brilliant use of a fractal.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter and the rant about the most impersonal things in my life. If you have the time, go to youtube and type in "Mandelbrot zoom" and listen to the song. When you call something a "badass fractal" its like hilarious. Math nerd cursing snort snort (No offence to anyone esp. Asians of Chinese/Korean descent. It's all for laughs, nothing serious)
