Scene 9

Setting: Outside the Room of Requirement

Summary: The two get a surprise

(Walking to the Room of Requirement)

Sphynx - I love being here, I never thought that I would ever be a wizard...

Elise - What are you talking about?

Sphynx - All my life my grandma's been saying 'Draco, that son of your's will be a

squib, and he won't amount to anything.' or, 'Draco, your good for

nothing wife has cheated on you look at that kid, it looks nothing like you,

it won't be going to school at Hogwarts, it will go to some muggle

school!' But I have proven them all wrong, I got my letter two days

before Ashleigh did and of course my whole family was in an uproar; apperating to Hogsmeade, walking to Hogwarts to complain about a

squib getting his letter before a "real" witch got hers. Mum was pissed

that they would ever consider me of no importance... I've gotten used to it though.

Elise - Sphynx, how long have you known you were... Different?

Sphynx - Different...?

Elise - Yes, different, you know different than the rest of your family...

Sphynx - Oh, all of my life, relatives have been coming to family get-togethers and

they never forget to point out that I look nothing like the Malfoy lot... And

it's true, I have no features of my Dad nor of my Mum for that matter.

Elise - Have you considered that you were adopted?

Sphynx - Yeah, like my father would ever let my Mum adopt someone other than a

Malfoy!

Elise - Yeah, maybe you were adopted from another Malfoy...

Sphynx - Evil runs through the Malfoy blood, I am not adopted from a Malfoy... I

just favor Mum's side of the family I guess, being nice and all...

Elise - Yeah, I guess that's all it is then.

(They hear someone coming out of the Room of Requirements, so they quickly run to what looks a lot like a Janitor's closet and wait for someone to leave, but the noise wasn't coming from inside the room, it was coming from down the hall, it was Jacob, with the Ravenclaw girl)

Sphynx - Hey do you want to see them jump out of their shoes?

Elise - Yeah, let's see a show!

Sphynx - Do you have your invisibility cloak?

Elise - It's in the room...

Sphynx - Well they're just sitting there making out, hurry and get the cloak and

come back to the closet and we'll devise a plan from

there...

Elise - Okay!

Sphynx - Don't forget to wear the cloak as you exit the room or they'll see you.

(Elise hurries to the Room of Requirement, (that Jacob and the Ravenclaw girl don't know about) and she comes back to the closet)

Sphynx - Okay, how about we sneak up on them and we tackle them?

Elise - We want to scare them, not beat them up!

Sphynx - Oh, that's right... I forgot...

Elise - How about we make our arms come out of the cloak and grab them; they'll

think that our arms are ghost arms...

Sphynx - Hey that's pretty good, but how about we stand pretty close together and

we put the cloak on our heads and they'll think that we're headless ghosts.

Elise - Hey that's really good! Let's go with that!

(They do exactly what Sphynx just suggested and they go to Jacob and the Ravenclaw girl and act like they're clawing at their bodies and they are scared Sht less! Jacob and the girl leave as fast as possible and Sphynx and Elise feel pretty proud of themselves.)

Sphynx - Did you see how fast they ran!

Elise - Yeah, I can't believe that they could run that fast! And did you hear them

scream!

Sphynx - I know! That was the coolest thing I've done with someone else, EVER!

Elise - Are you serious?

Sphynx - Yeah! Oh man Jacob's legs were hitting about 90!

Elise - And Brooke's were too!

Sphynx - Brooke...?

Elise - The Ravenclaw girl, she's one of my... aquaintances.

Sphynx - Do you two not get along or something?

Elise - Well, actually... Oh it's not important.

Sphynx - Tell me!

Elise - (Rolling her eyes) Oh, if you must know!

Sphynx - I must!

Elise - (Smiles) Ok, well before you came to the Flourish and Blotts, I saw Jacob,

but I didn't know his name.

Sphynx - So...?

Elise - So, I liked him.

Sphynx - Well, where does that Ravenclaw girl come in?

Elise - She comes in at the same time I do; while I happened to be walking up to

him to talk to him, Brooke came up at the exact time. It all started...

(Goes into a flashback)

(Elise sees Jacob and walks toward him)

Jacob - Hello...

Elise - (Starts to talk but is cut off before any words come out)

Brooke - Hey! (Jokingly) You're following me around aren't you!

Jacob - What if I am?

Brooke - Then I say have fun with that! (spots Elise, sort of pissed tone) Who's this?

Jacob - Who? (looks around) Oh, we've never met. (To Elise) I'm---

Elise - I'm looking for an adequite quill, do you know which is the best? (disappointed that that's the best she could come up with on the spot, thinks to herself 'if only I could have my mother's quick thinking wittiness!')

Jacob - Well, right now we just use plain quills that everyone else uses, but if you're a reporter, like Rita Skeeter for instance, then you use the Quick Quotes Quill, an acid green quill used for quoting people quickly, but sometimes they mix up words and get some magic folk into trouble.

Brooke - What kind of question is that? Everyone uses the same kind of quill!

Jacob - Well, she might be from non-magic folk...

Elise - I have you know that I am of a magical background!

Brooke - It didn't seem like it...

Elise - Well I don't see any point in knowing which quill is which!

Brooke - Then why did you ask?

Jacob - Well I think I'd better be off...

Brooke - And do I!

Jacob - Nice meeting you, uh...

(Brooke takes Jacob by the arm before Elise could answer)

(Flashes forward into the present again)

Elise - And that's when you came in and I met you.

Sphynx - Do you...

Elise - What?

Sphynx - Do you regret meeting me?

Elise - No, why?

Sphynx - You seem to be head over heels in love with Jacob is all...

Elise - You know that's a lie!

Sphynx - How can I be so certain!

Elise - Because I would never lie to you.

Sphynx - If you had the chance, would you date Jacob?

Elise - What kind of question is that?

Sphynx - A question that I would like to have the honest answer for.

Elise - Only if we wern't dating.

Sphynx - Would you rather date him?

Elise - No! Of course not! What the bloody hell Sphynx!

Sphynx - Hey listen Elise, um, I think it would be best if we didn't date.

Elise - Why!

Sphynx - Because, you and Jacob might have more luck...

Elise - Are you dumping me!

Sphynx - Well, yeah.

Elise - Good luck trying to get into the Room of Requirements without me!

(She storms off and Sphynx remembers that he is still holding Elise's invisibility cloak)