Chapter Nine – Random Day

"Hey, Eila, do you think Professor Hiltraud is cute?" asked Rana as she sipped her morning coffee perpetually.
"I…I-I guess so…but I mean…he is a teacher," Eila replied, drinking a steaming chocolaty beverage, "At least he didn't give us too much homework, but he is weird, from what you said."

Rana nodded in agreement. Eila was chugging down the rest of her, what looked like, chocolate milk and was left with a tasty brown mustache. She licked it off her upper lip playfully. She was about to get up, until the suave second year she had met in the halls the other day, Steven, sat down across from her. He flipped his hair stylishly and asked Eila, "So how was your first day, shorty?"

Eila looked down nervously and blushed. She replied, "Oh…it was good. I didn't get too much homework and the teachers I've met so far seem to be nice."

"That's what you say now. Especially Professor Hiltraud, he's a nutter."

Rana gave him a nasty look from the corner of her eye, he was a nutter, but she still liked him. Eila said, "Oh…I wouldn't say he's a nutter. Maybe a little strange, but not a nutter."

Steven shrugged. He said to her as he got up quickly, "Well, I'll see you around, shorty." Steven exited the Great Hall.

Rana gave Eila a look and said, "Who the heck was that? And why did he call you shorty?"

"That was the second year I told you about. He's the one who told me about Professor Hiltraud being a crazy nutter. His name is Steven and he probably called me 'shorty' because he's a lot taller than I am. He looks about…five foot, four and I'm only four foot, nine. So six inches. Yes, that must be the reason."

Rana squinted at Eila and said, "You know, you don't have to rationalize everything."

Eila tilted her head to the side, got up, and also left the Great Hall.

After classes…

Eila was sitting on a squishy couch in the Gryffindor common room. She was reading a book called Who took my Steak-and-Kidney pie? A Life Guide. James looked over her shoulder and said, "You're such a nerd, Eila. Or are you a geek? Or do you just have no social-life?"

Eila stared intently at her book as Sirius and James snickered at their so-called insult. Eila shut her book—Thud. She stood up and said, "Yo' Momma!"

"What about her?"

"Yo' Momma so fat that when she fell in love, she broke it!"

"Oh? Well…your Mom—" said James, trying to think of an insult.

"You're so white, James."

"…Your Momma is so stupid that she higglypanked a twigglypuff! Oooo! Burn!" A crowd was now forming around the two. The crowd also said 'Oooo' as if James had insulted her greatly.

Eila raised her eyebrow and replied, "What the heck is that?" Rana walked up to Eila, whispered something into her ear, and stepped back into her spot.

Eila looked angered at James and said, "Yo' Momma so ugly, she walked into taco bell and they all ran for the border!" The other half of the crowd 'Ooooed' towards James's side.

James said angrily, "Yo' Momma so ugly that when she saw a Blast-Ended Skrewt, the started singing, 'We are Family!'" His side, once again, 'Ooooed'.

"Yo' Momma so ugly she turned Medusa to stone!" opposed Eila. Her side 'Ooooed'.

"Oh no, you didn't. Girl, you did not just—"

"Yeah, I went there!" taunted Eila. Eila huffed and opened her book again and started reading once more. Rana laughed maniacally as she ran over to Lupin. She said to him, "Come one Lupin! Insult me about my Momma!"

Lupin replied, very properly, "Why would I want to insult you about your mother?"

"Because my mother is Satan herself!" replied Rana.

"Okay…Your Mother is so horrid that she…yelled at you…" said Lupin

"Yo' Momma so ugly that could wake the dead with that face." Taunted Rana.

"Your Mother is so obese that she had two helpings of butter for lunch."

"You're even whiter than James, Remus." Joked Rana.

"No, I'm just smart."

Rana replied smartly, "You have no sense of humor."

"Yes, I do! See? What do you get when you cross a clown with a goat?"

"I don't know Remus, why don't you just tell me?" replied Rana sarcastically.

Lupin started to laugh uncontrollably and said, "A SILLY BILLY!!"

"…That was wicked, Remus. Now tell me if you have any good jokes?"

"That was good!"

Rana coughed dryly and walked off. Lupin frowned.

Eila was sitting at the dinner table, but she was not eating. Her eyes were moving rapidly along the pages of the same book that she was reading earlier. She was so immersed in her book that she didn't notice Rana standing behind her.

"HAPPY INSULT PEOPLES' MOTHERS DAY!!!!" shrieked Rana right into Eila's ear. Eila jumped and screamed loudly in fright. She yelled back, "WHAT WAS THAT FOR? SCARE ME HALF-TO-DEATH, WILL YOU?"

"Sure!"

"No! Let me read in peace!"

"Gosh, Eila, you need to chill."

"I don't want to chill. I'm going to go do that extra-credit assignment."

"That's not due for another week, why are you worrying about it now?"

"Because I don't like to procrastinate."

"Nerd."

"I AM NOT A NERD!!!!" she screamed so loud that the entire Great Hall had heard her. She marched angrily out of the hall and headed towards the Gryffindor commons. Just as she approached the stare case she saw Professor Hiltraud. He had pinned Professor Slughorn, the potions teacher, up against the wall with his right hand balled into a fist, raised in the air menacingly.

Professor Hiltraud whispered threateningly to Slughorn, "I'd be careful if I were you, Horus."

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