Hey! Here's the disclaimer and lets get things moving along!
Me: Can anyone say the disclaimer for me?
Percy Jackson from Percy Jackson and the Olympians: I will.
Me: OMS! (Oh my stars!) It's PERCY JACKSON (I scream like a fan girl)!
Percy Jackson: So, can I say it?
Me: Uhhhh, YEAH!
Percy Jackson: Starwarsdiva411 doesn't own anything that has to deal with Percy Jackson and the Olympians or Harry Potter.
Me (finishing): I only own Alex, Bella, M&M, Brent, Narcissa, Minnie, the prefect from the last chapter. AND THE STORY LINE!
Percy Jackson: Cool.
Me: On with the story. And Percy, you are a Seaweed Brain.
Percy: Thanks for the comment.
A Map Becomes Our Hero
My nightmare was like this.
I was falling. Falling into lifelessness. I landed on hard and cold floors. Darkness surrounded me.
"Hello!" I croaked. I started walking around,slowly pulling my wand out of my pocket.
"Alex," a harsh,coarse voice called softly.
"Who's there?" I exclaimed. I turned my head around to see who it was, but it was just darkness.
"Alex!" I turned around in a flash. My hand was trying to keep the grasp of my wand.
"Who are you?" I exclaimed, my voice cracking.
The voice started to laugh. I gulped. I didn't know what to do.
A shimmer at the end of the room came. I started walking towards it slowly, my wand by my side. The shimmer was showing a scene from something. Like a flashback. The flashback was in a Dark Forest. There were people with large cloaks and skull masks. They were surrounding two people that I immediately recognized. Hagrid was wearing his large clothes, but he had a worried look on his face. Mum had her hair down but there were tons of scratches all around her face, like she was fighting in a battle or something. Standing in front of Mum was a figure with jet black hair, like mine, black leather jacket and jeans. His eyes looked tired and weak. I realized that it was my green eyes. It was my father. But what was he doing in my dream? On the opposite side of my dad was a man. He had a black, floating cloak covering his body. He had his hood over his snake-like face but you could see his blood red eyes staring at my dad.
The snake man began to speak, "The Boy Who Lived, is no more." What was he talking about? He held out his wand and said,"Avada Kedavra!" A bright green light floated towards my dad. I was speechless. My dad took a quick glance at my mum, looking at her. But he was also looking at me also. The green light floated faster towards my dad. I knew what was going to happen.
"DAD!" I screamed, but I knew that wasn't going to change anything.
"Dad!" I yelled.
"Alex! Alex!" Someone said shaking my body to get me to wake up. I opened my eyes. I was in the Slytherin Girl's Dormitory, just the way I left it before I went to sleep. On my bed was Bella and M&M, on each side, their faces pale white.
"Hey guys?" I said uneasily.
"You had a nightmare, didn't you?" Bella said.
"No," I lied plainly.
"Oh. Then why were you yelling 'Dad!' then," Bella got me.
"Okay. You win. I had a nightmare. What time is it?" I asked trying to rush through the conversation. Bella rolled her eyes while I looked over at my Ipod Touch to see that it was 6:45.
"Uhhhh, guys?" I said.
"Yeah," Bella and M&M said together. Creepy.
"What time does class start?"
"At 7:20," M&M said stopping herself. We all looked at each other. We were still wearing our pajamas.
"CRUD!" We exclaimed. The twins got off my bed and went running to the showers. I got out of bed and started to make it. After I finished that, I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth and combed my curly, tangled hair out nice and smooth. After that was done, the twins were still in the shower, I got a piece of parchment and started writing a letter to my dad.
Two minutes later, the twins were out of the shower and I rushed in. I take really fast showers so that was a good thing since we were already late.
I went out a few minutes later and M&M was just staring at me.
"What!" I asked/yelled. I'm always in a bad mood when its morning. Don't ask why.
"How could you take a shower that fast?" M&M answered/yelled. I didn't answer her. We didn't have time for this.
I got dressed and did all the things that I needed to do. My hair is the easiest thing for me to take care of. All I have to do is blow dry and comb it out and then I'm done. Thank God.
We were finished getting ready in under twenty minutes. Amazing, I know. After we were already to go, M&M looked at our schedule for the day and our first class was Transfiguration with Professor McGonagall. Yay! Not really.
There was only one tiny problem, we didn't know where the Transfiguration class was. Okay, I lied a little bit. It was a HUGE problem. Then, in my evil mind, I had the most brilliant idea that man has ever made. Okay, maybe not that brilliant but it was to me.
I ran to my bed and pulled out my suitcase.
I waved my wand and said,"Alohomora!" And immediately, the suitcase opened.
"ALEX! What are you doing!" M&M exclaimed. Right after she said that, I found what I was looking for.
"HAHAHA! I found IT!" I yelled insanely. Bella and M&M just stared at me and my amazing thing that I was holding.
"What in the Hades is that?" M&M exclaimed pointing to my belonging. It was my turn to stare at her.
"Percy Jackson talk," Bella explained to me.
"Right," I said. "And to answer your unusual question. This is the Marauder's Map."
"And this is so great because?" Bella asked. I just stared at her.
"This map isn't great. It's AMAZING!" I explained. "Just watch and learn." I took out my blackish brownish wand and said," I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Then, black, ink writing appeared on the page saying,
"Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs
Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers
are proud to present
The Marauder's Map
I opened the map and looked for Professor McGonagall's class.
"So this is a map of Hogwarts?" M&M asked.
"No, its a map of my house," I said sarcastically.
"Sorry! I'm just curious!" M&M exclaimed. My face was in the map, still trying to find Professor McGonagall's room.
So, this map is my brother James' map. Dad gave it to him on his birthday, but when he was at school, I used it for my own purposes. I wanted to see what happened at Hogwarts. Why? I was curious. But sometimes, James used some of the secret passages that were in the map. So I told James where to go and he gave me back the results. Back to the story, shall we.
"Okay, so we could go the long way which wouldn't save us time at all. Or we could use the shortest way and get there in about ten minutes," I explained to the twins. "Maybe even 5 minutes if we ran."
"How many minutes does it take to get to class the long way?" Bella asked.
"About 30 minutes," I replied.
"How do you know?" M&M asked. Man, these girls ask a lot of questions! We didn't really had time for questions. But whatever.
"My brother, James, tried all the ways and gave me back the results," I told them.
"Okay, lets go with the 10 minute pass," Bella said.
"KK. Lets go before we get more late than we already are." We got our backpacks and we left the dormitory. I looked at my Ipod touch to see what time it was. It was 7:45, we were really late. We ran out of the Common Room and into the dark hall that I went through last night. I had the Marauder's Map in my hand, so I wouldn't get lost. That would be really bad if we did.
We took the short cut and we finally got to Professor McGongall's classroom. We speeded through the classroom. We saw all the kids in their seats copying things in their books. In front of the classroom, was a maple stained desk with a tabby cat on top of it. The old cat was just minding her own business until she stared at us. Then, all of a sudden, the tabby cat on the desk transformed into an older women with her hair in a tight bun and was wearing emerald green robes.
Bella and M&M just stared at Professor McGonagall like she was a disease or something. I was used to this. You see, my dad was like what Professor McGonagall was. An Animagus.
"That was bloody brilliant, Professor!" M&M exclaimed.
"Thank you, Miss Thayapran," Professor McGonagall greeted. She then turned toward me. "Miss Potter."
I turned my eyes up to her. "Yes, Professor?"
"You don't seem impressed."
"Well, Professor," I started. "I would be really impressed but I'm used to the Animagus thing." After I said Animagus, Professor McGonagall looked amazed with my knowledge of dark arts.
"Now, Alex. How in the world, did you know that?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"I just know," I lied. I didn't want to tell her the actual secret about how I knew about Animaguses. And its not because of my dad that I knew.
"Well then, will you and Miss Thayapran please take your seats," Professor McGonagall ordered. Bella and I took the first seats that were in the front. Brent and M&M were behind us. I looked behind me and I saw M&M making signals to me. I couldn't help but chuckling to myself. I knew that they were about Brent.
"Miss Potter! Please pay attention!" Professor McGonagall exclaimed. I immediately turned my head towards the front of the class.
Professor McGonagall talked to us about what we would be learning this year and such. I didn't pay much attention. I looked at my schedule to see what class I was going to next. Potions with Professor Slughorn. Ode to Joy. I looked at the Marauder's Map to see were Slughorn's classroom was and which way would be the quickest.
Twenty-five minutes later, the bell rang for us to leave the class. Professor McGonagall wanted us to write an essay on what we were most excited to learn about in Transfiguration. I started writing most of it. What I wanted to learn was how to make a boy turn into a toad.
"What class do we have next?" Brent asked, when we were out of the classroom.
"Potions with Professor Slughorn." Bella answered. I wasn't paying much attention. I was just looking around at the students. But there was one that I spotted immediately.
"Hey guys," I said. M&M, Bella, and Brent stared at me. "Lets get to class, I don't want to be late again." They all nodded and we all walked to Slughorn's class.
