On the days leading up to Valentine's day Jeanne wondered if she should do anything special for the day. Usually she made chocolates with Quin and gave them to her friends. She knew how to do it on her own, but she didn't know who to given them too, so she made a list.
On the top of the list were Allen, Matt, Astoria, and Lily. They were followed by Fred, George, Lee, Cedric and Rodger. Should she also give Harry some too? Maybe give some to Robert and Penelope as well? And what about the rest of the Slytherins? It would be un fair to leave all of them out. But then how many was that? It had to be at least forty. She hummed in thought as he made her way to the kitchen. If she started now, then she could make enough if she spread it out over the next four days. So, with the idea in her head she headed for the kitchen. The house elves insisted on helping her.
By the 13th of February all of her chocolates were finished, and she had separated them by type. The simple ones with Snakes on them were for the Older Slytherins. The ones with a decorative S were for her house-year mates. Her older friends had chocolates with their house Animal on it, and Matt and Allen got a maple leaf and a star respectively. She smiled and asked the elves in the kitchen to give them out at breakfast the next day. She couldn't keep the smile from her face until the next day, when she woke up to find the castle covered in pink.
The closer to the great hall she wandered, the brighter and more extravagant it all was. Allen had groaned about the bright shades of periwinkle and baby pink the whole way to the hall, while Matt grumbled French curses under his breath at how cheery everyone was.
"It can't be that bad, maybe it's a tradition?" she couldn't convince herself that the tacky decorations were a yearly thing. It was obvious from the reactions of the older students.
"If this is tradition, then I'm not coming back," Matt huffed. Allen pushed his brother as they walked into the hall. They wandered over to their seats and sat down. They blinked at their plates when two chocolates appeared on them. They looked to each other, and then to Jeanne, but the little blonde didn't have any chocolate on her plate. She hummed happily as she helped herself to breakfast, paying no attention to the confused Slytherins who had chocolate appearing on their plates as they took their seats. But no chocolate appeared in front of Jeanne. The students were confused, until they heard cheers from the Weasley twins, who were holding up squares of chocolates with Lions on them, as Lee Jordan scoffed an identical one. Rodger Davis, Penelope Clearwater and Robert Hillard were comparing the chocolates that arrived on their plates and Cedric was staring at his in confusion. He glanced at everyone else who had the mysterious appearing chocolates and noticed they had something in common to one another. All of them were friends or house mates of Jeanne, who didn't seem to have any chocolates on her plate at all.
Jeanne caught his eye and smiled brightly at him, before turning back to her breakfast. Cedric smiled to himself as he took a bite from the well-crafted treat. It was good. Not the best chocolate he had ever had, after all nothing could beat honey-dukes chocolate, but it was nice. It looked like everyone in Slytherin had gotten one, and even harry was nibbling on his own small piece of Chocolate in confusion. All of Slytherin house was happy that morning as they ate their breakfast and tried to figure out who had made the chocolates for them all. No one seemed to notice that Jeanne didn't get one. The rest of the hall were trying to figure out who had sent the chocolates, before realising that one of their own had also gotten one of the odd treats.
"What if it's a trick by the Weasley twins?" Cho Chang, a Ravenclaw third year ask as Richard started to eat his.
"They had some too, and so does Lee Jordan and Harry potter. Why would they prank all of Slytherin, a Hufflepuff, three of us Claws and themselves?" Penelope questioned. The rest of the house tried to come up with logical explanations before one first year with light blond hair piped up.
"They aren't pranks, they were gifts from the pretty polar bear," she hummed softly. They all looked at her strangely before Roger cheered and nudged Richards side in excitement.
"They're from Jeannie! She must have made them for her friends and then felt bad for not sharing with her whole house. That's why all of Slytherin have chocolate too. She is far too sweet to be a Slytherin. I wonder if she would have done well in Hufflepuff…" the rest of the house watched as Roger started to talk to himself over everything he knew about the first year and her friends. It was odd, but it did make sense. Jeanne was friends with the Weasley twins, and Lee Jordan. She was Harry's sister, as far as they knew, and she was Cedric's potions partner. It did make more sense than the Weasley twins playing a prank on themselves. So, Ravenclaw decided that the sweet little girl needed something in return for her kindness and the fact that she made sure to remember her Ravenclaw friends. Some suggested buying her sweets, until another pointed out that they had never seen her eat sweets before. The only sweet things she seemed to eat were pancakes and ice cream. Maybe flowers? They would figure something out.
It hadn't taken the twins long to figure our that Jeanne had given them, and the entirety of Slytherin house, the chocolate squares. They had cheered, and lee had proclaimed the chocolate to be spectacular, vowing to reward the sender in any way possible, so when Lockhart declared that he was having Dwarfs go around to give out valentines well wishes and gift they had a brilliant idea.
Throughout the day Jeanne was stopped no less than four times. Each time it was a poem she was given. She thought it was funny to read the poems, but she didn't like that the dwarfs were being forced to hand out the valentines.
"Roses are red
Violets are blue
The chocolate was sweet
And so are you"
Jeanne smiled as the crumby poems were read aloud to everyone in hearing distance. She had gotten several others before that one too, and she couldn't forget the lovely bunch of roses and iris's she was given as well.
The day passed peacefully for Jeanne, who receives three more poems, another bunch of flowers, a bunch of hyacinth flowers. They were very sweet, but she didn't know who they were from. She had asked if people knew, but no one was saying anything, so instead she decided to go to the library to work on one of the many puzzles she had encountered over the last few months of being at Hogwarts. There was, the many mysterious passageways, the founders and they secret's that had to have left behind, the way into the other three common rooms and what Slytherins monster was.
It wasn't hard to figure out that the monster was some sort of serpent or lizard, and it had to be able to survive for long periods of time. She had thought that it might have been a dragon (She had hoped it was a dragon at least. Dragons were cool and fierce and would be brilliant guards for the chamber of secrets) But a dragon wouldn't have been able to survive that long without food or sunlight. It would be easier if she could decide what mystery to start with. The passageways she could always just ask the twins about them, she could ask the heads of the houses about the founders (But really, where was the fun in that), and she could just have to be sneaky to find the other common rooms, but she could try looking up magical snakes in the Library. And maybe James could help her look. After all, Illvermony must have had some different books than the Hogwarts library. Right?
Hello my lovelies!
I'm back, and I'm ready to write for you all. So, quick updates, university is done until September, so I'll have plenty of time to write! But I might have to take some summer classes because I did absolutely awful this semester and need to make up some marks. So that's all up in the air for now but I will let you know what's going on once I know. Also, I have a job now, so I probably won't be posting on certain days, most likely any updates will be on week days.
Anyways, new chapter with Jeanne being a sweet heart and making her friends and house mates chocolates. But will she find out what is in the chamber before Hermione does, or will it forever be a mystery that she tries to solve? Who knows, I guess you'll just have to keep reading to find out.
Love you all
Scarlet x
