I will continue to write!! even if it's just for one person! :cheers:
Anyway, this is kinda a true story, i mean the convo with Harry and Kayla, cept it was with a friend of mine and a boy named Lucas... true story true feelings true stupidity on my part heh so i put it in!! see ya at the bottom
CHAPTER SEVEN
HALLOWEEN
October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students. Her Pepperup potion worked instantly, though it left the drinker smoking at the ears for several hours afterward.
Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, flowerbeds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid's pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds.
Arianna took the rain as an excuse to go to the library. She just loved the idea of getting a book and reading it near a window.
"Ari?"
Arianna turned around to find a first year Hufflepuff, Kayla Darienzo standing with a book in her hands.
"Kayla!"
"I thought I heard your name being sorted!" Kayla smiled.
"So what are you doing here?" asked Arianna.
"Getting a book, then I was going to go back to my common room, but we haven't talked in a while, so you want to go walk around the castle?" asked Kayla.
"Sure!" Arianna and Kayla walked out without a book.
"So how's school going for you?" asked Kayla.
"It's ok, I'm in second year's potions class and I already hate two people, oh and I've already been accused of trying to curse someone too," Arianna said.
"Second year and what?" asked Kayla.
"Ever heard of Harry Potter?" asked Arianna sitting down on some stone steps facing the door to the outside.
"Yeah!" said Kayla. "The boy who lived."
"I hate him."
"Why?"
"Draco Malfoy said he killed a teacher last year!"
"I heard he was—"
"Yeah I know he was possessed or something, but he could have told me that right?"
"I guess so."
"Then Ron tried to curse Draco so I raised my wand to stop him. I didn't do anything and a green light shot out of the opposite end of Ronald Wesley's wand and Harry said I cursed him!"
"Did you?"
"No! His bloody wand was broken and the spell he said backfired on him!"
"I think you two just got off on the wrong foot," suggested Kayla.
Arianna sighed.
"Who's that?" asked Kayla pointing to a kid with mud on his robes trudging inside.
"Potter…" Arianna said as she stood up.
"Come on Ari let's say hi," suggested Kayla.
"You go I'll be over there," Arianna said and walked off.
Kayla shrugged and stood up.
"Hi Harry!" she said to him.
"Hi, not to be rude but, who are you?" he asked.
"I'm Kayla Darienzo, Hufflepuff first year," she said and stuck out her hand.
They shook hands.
"Nice to meet you," he said.
"Do you know Arianna Meares?" she asked.
"Yeah…"
"What do you think of her?"
"…Why?"
"Well, because she was ranting on and on about you before and I just wanted to know the other side of the story."
"Um…she's rude and doesn't give anyone a second chance."
Kayla stared at him in disbelief.
"What?" asked Harry.
"She's one of the shyest people I know, one of the kindest people I know and I don't think you know her all that well enough to say she doesn't give anyone a second chance."
"She hasn't given me one…"
"What do you mean?"
"Just her remarks, I dunno."
"In muggle band camp she met this guy named Jon. At first they were very rude to each other a she claimed she hated him the most. It turns out she felt the complete opposite and loved him to death."
"She's insane."
"No, my point is, she pretended to hate him because she was afraid to get hurt. A lot of her friends left her over the summer because of one reason or the next. Making new friends is hard for her; just understand that if not anything else."
"So, what you're saying is that she loves…"
"Kayla!" Arianna came around the corner.
"Yeah?" she said turning her head.
"Julie's looking for you." She said eyeing Harry.
"Hi Ari," said Harry.
"Don't call me that," she said and walked away again.
"I might be saying something Harry, and I might not be. Just look at it from her point of view: She can talk to you because you're fighting. If you didn't fight she thinks you wouldn't talk to her at all. Think on it," said Kayla and with that the first year left Harry Potter standing in muddy robes thinking.
"Kayla!" he called after her.
"Yeah?"
"Thanks," he smiled.
Kayla smiled back and then walked over to where Arianna had walked off. When she turned the corner she saw Arianna leaning against the wall with her arms crossed. She looked upset.
"What did you tell him?" Arianna whispered as they walked away.
"Just become friends with him it wont hurt you," Kayla pleaded.
"Um…Nah."
"Ok, whatever," Kayla sighed. They both laughed. Then Kayla said she had some homework to do so she went off to her common room and Arianna headed off towards her's
"A death day party?" Asked Melissa keenly when Harry had at last joined the group in the common room.
"I bet there aren't many living people who can say they've been to one of thoes, it will be fascinating!" said Hermione.
"Why would anyone want to celebrate the day they died?" asked Mark.
"Sounds dead depressing to me," said Ron who was halfway through his Potions homework and grumpy.
Rain was still lashing the windows, which were now inky black, but inside all looked bright and cheerful. The firelight glowed over the countless squashy armchairs where people were reading, talking, doing homework, or in the case of Fred and George Weasley, trying to find out what would happen if you fed a Filibuster firework to a salamander. Fred had "rescued" the brilliant orange, fire-dwelling lizard from Care of Magical Creatures class and it was now smoldering gently on a table surrounded by a knot of curious people.
Harry was about to ask where Arianna was when the salamander suddenly whizzed into the air, emitting loud sparks and bangs as it whirled wildly around the room. But seeing Percy bellowing himself hoarse at Fred and George, the spectacular display of tangerine stars showering from the salamander's mouth, and its escape into the fire, with accompanying explosions, drove Ari out of his head…for now.
When Halloween arrived Harry looked positively depressed.
Arianna laughed, "A promise is a promise!"
Harry glared at her. He, Ron, Arianna, Julie, Mark, and Lucas were waiting for Hermione. Ari, Julie, Mark, and Lucas were just hanging around with Ron and Harry until Hermione came to get the two disappointed second years.
"Shut up, Arianna," Ron snapped.
Ari snorted and stuck her toung out at Ron. Who in return did the same.
"Ron, stop," Harry said.
"What the hell's wrong with you?" asked Ari; normally Harry would have yelled right back or something.
"He probably doesn't want to go to the party," said Lucas.
This made Ari laugh again, "You said you'd go to the deathday party!"
So at seven o' clock the first years left the second years and went to the great hall. A thousand live bats fluttered from the walls and ceiling while a thousand more swooped over the tables in low black clouds, making the candles and pumpkins stutter. The feast appeared suddenly on the golden plates, as it had at the start-of-term banquet.
Just as the dessert appeared Melissa sighed.
"What?" asked Julie as she passed a bowl of vanilla ice cream to Ari.
"Harry's all alone on Halloween," Melissa sighed.
This made Arianna drop her spoon.
"He's got Hermione and red head with him," said Julie.
"And a bunch of dead people," snorted Arianna.
"Can we go?" asked Melissa. She made puppy eyes at Ari who eventually gave up.
"Alright, I'm full anyways," she sighed. So Mark, Ari and Melissa went to the dungeons. Ari dragged Mark along because he wasn't doing anything.
The three first years met the second years on the stairs leading up from the dungeons.
"Harry! We were just coming down," said Melissa.
"It's dead boring and cold so we're leaving to go back to the feast," said Ron eyeing Arianna who looked bored. "What're you doing here?"
"Being dragged along by Melissa," Ari sneered.
"You said you where full…" Melissa pouted.
"Shut up!" Ari turned a bit pink. Mark put a hand on Ari's shoulder.
So the six of them went back to the entrance hall.
Harry stumbled to a halt making Arianna bump into him.
"Watch where…." Ari started.
Harry put his hand over Arianna's mouth, "It's that voice…. shut up a minute…!"
Arianna froze there looking at Harry who seemed to have gone insane.
"Harry, what're you…"
"Listen!" said Harry urgently, everyone froze.
Harry looked up as his hand dropped from Ari's mouth.
"This way," he shouted and grabbed Arianna's wrist as he began to run, up the stairs. They sprinted up the marble staircase to the first floor, everyone following behind.
"Harry!" Melissa yelled.
"Shh!" Harry paused, "It's going to kill someone!"
Then he ran up the next flight of stairs, still dragging Ari by the wrist. They ran around the whole second floor, losing Melissa in the process. They finally stopped in a deserted passage way. Harry let go of Arianna wrist.
Ari doubled over and began breathing hard.
"Harry, what was that about?" asked Ron wiping sweat off his brow. Mark went over to Arianna to see if she was all right.
"Look!"
Something was shining on the wall ahead. Everyone squinted in the darkness. Foot high words had been daubed on the wall between two windows, shimmering in the light cast by the torches.
THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN
OPENED ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.
"What's that?" asked Ron, a slight quiver in his voice.
As Harry, Hermione and Ron edged nearer, Harry almost slipped, there was a huge puddle of water on the floor; Ron and Hermione grabbed him and looked at the dark mass underneath the writing. There was a splash as the three leapt back.
Mrs. Norris, the caretaker's cat, was hanging by her tail by the torch bracket.
For a few seconds they didn't move, then Mark broke the silence, "She can't breath!" Hermione hurried over to Ari and Mark and said an incantation to make her breath better, but failed.
"Let's get out of here," said Ron.
But it was too late. People came from the just dismissed feast and entered the corridor from either side. Noise settled down as they saw the writing, Mrs. Norris, and a collapsed Arianna on the floor. Harry and Ron stood alone and Mark and Hermione tried to help Arianna. It didn't look good.
Then someone shouted through the quite.
"Enemies of the heir beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!"
It was Draco Malfoy. He had pushed to the front of the crowd, his cold eyes alive, his usually bloodless face flushed, as he grinned at the sight of the hanging, immobile cat.
Finally getting into the swing of things! Malfoy has a bloodless face...haha review please! By the way, my putting chapters up might get slower now cause i'm still writing chapter eight...yeah sorry
