Chapter Thirty Eight: Bad Luck
Ray and Dora ran back to the heads tower the second they returned from Hogsmead.
They had both forgotten something rather important, like, let's say, School.
"Malfoy Mansion!" they screamed and puffed back to their home
Once there they stripped their outer layer of robes, quickly thanked Mitty and ran to school.
Once they were there they had missed the first four classes for the day.
Dora checked her pockets, and so did Ray, both sighed when they found their wands still securely on them.
The bad feelings had been increasing lately, and the Malfoys had basically threatened them, in a nice we care about you way, to keep their wands on at all times.
They rushed to Math, where Kat, aka Kathleen, was tapping her foot in a way that three years ago, greeted Ron and Harry if they were late to a lesson.
Kat, almost, quite literally, looked like Hermione's twin.
Her personality being exactly the same didn't help any either.
"You two, I swear, where have you been all day, your moms said they saw you both off!"
"Sorry, Kat." Ray breathed her hands on her knees.
Running half the length of the castle grounds up to the fourth highest tower, on the fourth floor down their street and six blocks to school was pretty hard. Both of them were begging the sky for more air.
"Gees, I haven't ever seen you two out of breath like this before, oh well, tis your punishment, take it as it is, and come on." Did I mention Kat likes talking a fourth in old English?
Yeah, she'll randomly add tis, thine, thou, art, ECT. to anything she says.
But she also worries a lot; in fact, she taught our dear Mione how to worry of grades.
"You two should start working out more." She notified them once they were out of class.
"more?" Dora said a bit scared.
"You're joking." Ray whispered.
Ok, so maybe she wasn't.
But the fact remains, you gain a hell of a lot of exercise with their schedules as of late.
Twenty potions essays a month along with five projects from random other professors, add on the fact that they go to two schools, each a fair jog from the other.
Top that off with the homework they get from their normal school and dealing with their parents.
It was worth every hardship, but with Kat saying that they needed more exercise, well, imagine a Hermione death sentence study session with exercising.
"Honestly, were did you two run from? Home? Only a small ways, plus I've seen both of you manage that with less than a blink of an eye."
Did I mention she worries?
"It's nothing Kat," Ray comforted her, "We've been getting little sleep as of late, you know, additional projects to further our understanding of the class room material that is no where near touched in the homework assigned to us by the teacher." She quoted Kat and Mione's favorite speech, "Half of what you learn, you do by figuring it out on your own!"
"Oh, well, that's all well and good Ray, but if you two are becoming so tired your missing class, then you maybe over doing it a bit."
"We'll try to cut back," Dora grinned as she caught her second wind. "Honestly."
Dora felt something warm in her back pocket.
"I got to use to the restroom, save me a seat ok Ray Kat?" she thought for a second. "Decem Diamondus (ten of diamonds?)?"
"Sum?(Yes?)" Ray turned to her friend, and Kat starred at the two of them as they spoke a dead language.
"Miser sum.(I'm worried.) Regina core est.(About the queen of hearts.)" Dora explained.
Ray patted her sleeves until she suddenly stopped, feeling the warmth under her palm. "Felix omnes sunt?(is everything fine?)"
"I'm checking." Dora explained and went off.
"What's going on Ray?"
"Come on or we'll be late." She prompted, changing the subject.
"You know something." Kat stopped and crossed her arms.
"What? Of course I know something; I know a lot of some things." Ray explained quickly, "Speak more specific."
"Mione, she spoke nothing but Latin when she came back from school the first time. Now you and Dora are too."
"It's simpler to keep secrets is all." Ray defended herself. "Not that we are keeping any from you, it's just easier."
"RACHEL!!!!" Dora zoomed and nearly toppled her friends.
"What?" she asked.
"Come on. We have to go. NOW!" she pulled her reluctant friend to her feet.
"Why? What's going on?"
"Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, they are all here, we are so busted sister, come on move your rump!" and she basically ran/dragged her away from Kat.
"Hay KAT! Tell teach we left early!"
"Rachel Anne Smith, Doreen Crystal Spinet, get your pathetic excuses for carcasses back here this instant! You've missed too much school as it is!!!"
Everyone starred at her since the people she was taking to were no longer present.
She blushed slightly and ran after them.
They weren't missing more school if she had anything to do with it.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"I feel, Delirious? Nauseated? TIRED!! Isn't this the second time we've dashed for our lives sake today?" Ray complained.
"Run now, talk later." Dora chided.
They managed to run all the way home again.
However when they stopped to catch their breath out in front of Draco's house, they realized that they had a visitor.
"Who lives here?"
"Shit." Ray cursed.
"Bloody shit." Dora corrected.
"Bloody hell." Ray changed her opinion.
"Go back to school Kat. No reason we all should miss."
"Oh I can miss, I haven't been preoccupied as of late like two girls I know of."
"Dora Ray! Come on in quick-who is this?" Mrs. Malfoy asked.
"Who are you?" Kat countered.
"She followed us Nar, Could you handle her while we get beheaded by our beloved teachers?" Dora begged.
"Certainly, hurry up now, Dumbledore looks mad, and mind you, that's hardly a good sign."
The two walked into the house, and Kat made to follow them, but was cut off by Draco's mother.
"I don't believe we've met? I'm Narcissa Malfoy, my family and I moved here this summer." She held out her hand, in form of greeting.
"Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but I want to know what's been up with those two as of late."
"Mrs. Malfoy?" Hermione called out from inside.
"Mione Dear come on out here kindly?" she called back.
She walked out, Hogwarts robes and all.
"KAT?!" she shouted. "Great, of all the bloody luck!"
"Mione what in heavens name are you wearing?" Kat looked over her soul sister in appalled.
"Dear me." Narcissa commented, "You two look nearly alike."
"We know." They said at the same time.
"What are you wearing Mione?" Kat asked again, this time more darkly.
"Go back to school Kat." Mione Ordered the best she could.
"Why should i? My three best friends see fit to skip, so-."
"We are in trouble." Mione explained, "or we'd all be in school right now."
"Whatcha get in trouble for?" Kat asked innocently.
"Mrs. Malfoy? Take her back, its only a little ways that direction." Hermione pointed down a street. "Use any means needed, but do remember the laws."
"Of course, luck to you."
"I'll need it." And Hermione went back in.
"Where is she going?" Kat Commented as Mrs. Malfoy came closer to her.
"Forgive me." She said softly. "Patrificus totallis!"
Suddenly Kat felt rather stiff, and in no control of her body.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" she was caught by nothing before she hit the ground.
Scared and floating she had no choice but to go where this lady lead her.
"I'm terribly sorry, but you couldn't have stayed there. I'll need to erase your memories of all you have witnessed, I'll try to keep some of your lessons in your head, but I may miss. I have never been too good at memory charms."
"What are you?" Kat managed to say through a full body bind.
"That's un important." She dropped her a few feet from school were no one would see them.
"Finite incartum!"
she fell from the air and starred up at the kind lady.
And inched away slowly.
"Once again, I'm sorry, Obliviate!" and Kat remembered little more.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Meanwhile, inside Draco's house.
Ron, Dora, Ray, Draco, Tom, Hanna, Hermione were all standing in front of three not very happy teachers.
"Muggles." Dumbledore stated for the hundredth time.
"Muggles." The group answered back.
He sighed.
"How?" Minerva asked this time. "How did they manage to get into the castle and sorted?"
"We were witches at the time." Ray explained.
"And aren't now?"
"We still are!" Dora covered. "We just weren't always witches." She mumbled.
"Pray tell us that again Ms. Spinet." Dumbledore said softly
She took a deep breath, "We - just - weren't - always - witches." She repeated.
"How is that even possible?" He asked dumbfounded.
Snape and the accused became rather quiet.
"Ms. Smith, Summon me that glass of water." Dumbledore ordered softly.
"Accio Water." She ordered with a flick of her wand, and she directed it at the headmaster.
"Perfect control." Dumbledore mused, "something few witches and wizards gain even over a good length of time,"
"How did you gain magic?" McGonagall asked.
"Umm." They all muttered.
Ron honestly didn't know this answer, but from the looks of things, It wasn't just the royals who knew. Snape knew as well.
"Very well, is no one going to speak up?"
"It's just very complicated professor." Hermione offered.
"We have time." Dumbledore sat back.
They sighed.
"How did you find out about them Professor Dumbledore?" Draco asked stalling for time.
"I asked the sorting hat when I couldn't contact their parents." He answered simply.
"Traitor." Ray muttered.
Dumbledore became temporarily def and ignored the comment.
"Any of you figured out how to say it?" Hanna asked.
They all shook their heads.
"Hay, I wasn't even in on this from the beginning, how am I supposed to know how you managed to do an impossible thing?" Ron muttered.
"Mr. Weasley may leave, he doesn't know" Snape told the headmaster.
"Thank you professor."
And he flooed back to the castle.
"Ok, I think I can explain it." Hermione decided.
"Very well, proceed."
"Well, I promised Dora and Ray I'd spend my birthday with them this year, but I couldn't easily leave school. They kinda knew by then that I was a witch."
"They did?" McGonagall asked, but Dumbledore silenced her.
"Well, so me Draco Hanna and Tom decided that it would be simpler to have them over at the school, but how to do that when muggles can't approach the place?"
"We figured that if they had some magical ability, they would be able to see it, but before we could do that, we needed to get them to the school. That put us in a bit of a bind." Draco went on.
"Flooing was the best way, since squibs can do it; we figured that you didn't need any magic to do it. So Dora and Ray were flooed to Hogwarts." Hanna went on.
"Mione Gave them magic, and Draco gave them wands, well I'm not quite clear on much, but it was mainly for the purpose of seeing Mione." Tom offered.
"I also had something to do with this sir." Snape confessed. "I aided Mr. Malfoy in making their wands, and spelling them so that they wouldn't appear muggle by any means."
"I see." Dumbledore commented thinking. "Well, I do believe that this was mainly Mr. Malfoy and Ms. Grangers Idea and work?"
Everyone nodded.
"Then a congratulations is in order, for doing something never thought possible, but I must ask that you take better care over your two friends." He warned. "No one, I repeat no one is to know. Then again, this might just be the lead we need for the war." Dumbledore went on muttering like he normally did, as they all flooed back to Hogwarts, minus Dora and Ray, who were once again Running back to classes.
"I HATE RUNNING!!" Ray whined the entire way.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
AN: Ok so not so bad of luck, but you though there for a second didn't you?
Well something bad had to happen!!!
It was just getting to good to be true.
About the Latin.
First I'm only a pathetic 2.75 years latin student. So my spellings and endings may be weird. And yes I gave rough meanings IE Sum miser or Miser Sum, in latin order isn't highly important. Oh well it literally mean I am miserable. I'm worried works well.
I hope that helps some.
Review
Relena~
Ray and Dora ran back to the heads tower the second they returned from Hogsmead.
They had both forgotten something rather important, like, let's say, School.
"Malfoy Mansion!" they screamed and puffed back to their home
Once there they stripped their outer layer of robes, quickly thanked Mitty and ran to school.
Once they were there they had missed the first four classes for the day.
Dora checked her pockets, and so did Ray, both sighed when they found their wands still securely on them.
The bad feelings had been increasing lately, and the Malfoys had basically threatened them, in a nice we care about you way, to keep their wands on at all times.
They rushed to Math, where Kat, aka Kathleen, was tapping her foot in a way that three years ago, greeted Ron and Harry if they were late to a lesson.
Kat, almost, quite literally, looked like Hermione's twin.
Her personality being exactly the same didn't help any either.
"You two, I swear, where have you been all day, your moms said they saw you both off!"
"Sorry, Kat." Ray breathed her hands on her knees.
Running half the length of the castle grounds up to the fourth highest tower, on the fourth floor down their street and six blocks to school was pretty hard. Both of them were begging the sky for more air.
"Gees, I haven't ever seen you two out of breath like this before, oh well, tis your punishment, take it as it is, and come on." Did I mention Kat likes talking a fourth in old English?
Yeah, she'll randomly add tis, thine, thou, art, ECT. to anything she says.
But she also worries a lot; in fact, she taught our dear Mione how to worry of grades.
"You two should start working out more." She notified them once they were out of class.
"more?" Dora said a bit scared.
"You're joking." Ray whispered.
Ok, so maybe she wasn't.
But the fact remains, you gain a hell of a lot of exercise with their schedules as of late.
Twenty potions essays a month along with five projects from random other professors, add on the fact that they go to two schools, each a fair jog from the other.
Top that off with the homework they get from their normal school and dealing with their parents.
It was worth every hardship, but with Kat saying that they needed more exercise, well, imagine a Hermione death sentence study session with exercising.
"Honestly, were did you two run from? Home? Only a small ways, plus I've seen both of you manage that with less than a blink of an eye."
Did I mention she worries?
"It's nothing Kat," Ray comforted her, "We've been getting little sleep as of late, you know, additional projects to further our understanding of the class room material that is no where near touched in the homework assigned to us by the teacher." She quoted Kat and Mione's favorite speech, "Half of what you learn, you do by figuring it out on your own!"
"Oh, well, that's all well and good Ray, but if you two are becoming so tired your missing class, then you maybe over doing it a bit."
"We'll try to cut back," Dora grinned as she caught her second wind. "Honestly."
Dora felt something warm in her back pocket.
"I got to use to the restroom, save me a seat ok Ray Kat?" she thought for a second. "Decem Diamondus (ten of diamonds?)?"
"Sum?(Yes?)" Ray turned to her friend, and Kat starred at the two of them as they spoke a dead language.
"Miser sum.(I'm worried.) Regina core est.(About the queen of hearts.)" Dora explained.
Ray patted her sleeves until she suddenly stopped, feeling the warmth under her palm. "Felix omnes sunt?(is everything fine?)"
"I'm checking." Dora explained and went off.
"What's going on Ray?"
"Come on or we'll be late." She prompted, changing the subject.
"You know something." Kat stopped and crossed her arms.
"What? Of course I know something; I know a lot of some things." Ray explained quickly, "Speak more specific."
"Mione, she spoke nothing but Latin when she came back from school the first time. Now you and Dora are too."
"It's simpler to keep secrets is all." Ray defended herself. "Not that we are keeping any from you, it's just easier."
"RACHEL!!!!" Dora zoomed and nearly toppled her friends.
"What?" she asked.
"Come on. We have to go. NOW!" she pulled her reluctant friend to her feet.
"Why? What's going on?"
"Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, they are all here, we are so busted sister, come on move your rump!" and she basically ran/dragged her away from Kat.
"Hay KAT! Tell teach we left early!"
"Rachel Anne Smith, Doreen Crystal Spinet, get your pathetic excuses for carcasses back here this instant! You've missed too much school as it is!!!"
Everyone starred at her since the people she was taking to were no longer present.
She blushed slightly and ran after them.
They weren't missing more school if she had anything to do with it.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"I feel, Delirious? Nauseated? TIRED!! Isn't this the second time we've dashed for our lives sake today?" Ray complained.
"Run now, talk later." Dora chided.
They managed to run all the way home again.
However when they stopped to catch their breath out in front of Draco's house, they realized that they had a visitor.
"Who lives here?"
"Shit." Ray cursed.
"Bloody shit." Dora corrected.
"Bloody hell." Ray changed her opinion.
"Go back to school Kat. No reason we all should miss."
"Oh I can miss, I haven't been preoccupied as of late like two girls I know of."
"Dora Ray! Come on in quick-who is this?" Mrs. Malfoy asked.
"Who are you?" Kat countered.
"She followed us Nar, Could you handle her while we get beheaded by our beloved teachers?" Dora begged.
"Certainly, hurry up now, Dumbledore looks mad, and mind you, that's hardly a good sign."
The two walked into the house, and Kat made to follow them, but was cut off by Draco's mother.
"I don't believe we've met? I'm Narcissa Malfoy, my family and I moved here this summer." She held out her hand, in form of greeting.
"Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but I want to know what's been up with those two as of late."
"Mrs. Malfoy?" Hermione called out from inside.
"Mione Dear come on out here kindly?" she called back.
She walked out, Hogwarts robes and all.
"KAT?!" she shouted. "Great, of all the bloody luck!"
"Mione what in heavens name are you wearing?" Kat looked over her soul sister in appalled.
"Dear me." Narcissa commented, "You two look nearly alike."
"We know." They said at the same time.
"What are you wearing Mione?" Kat asked again, this time more darkly.
"Go back to school Kat." Mione Ordered the best she could.
"Why should i? My three best friends see fit to skip, so-."
"We are in trouble." Mione explained, "or we'd all be in school right now."
"Whatcha get in trouble for?" Kat asked innocently.
"Mrs. Malfoy? Take her back, its only a little ways that direction." Hermione pointed down a street. "Use any means needed, but do remember the laws."
"Of course, luck to you."
"I'll need it." And Hermione went back in.
"Where is she going?" Kat Commented as Mrs. Malfoy came closer to her.
"Forgive me." She said softly. "Patrificus totallis!"
Suddenly Kat felt rather stiff, and in no control of her body.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" she was caught by nothing before she hit the ground.
Scared and floating she had no choice but to go where this lady lead her.
"I'm terribly sorry, but you couldn't have stayed there. I'll need to erase your memories of all you have witnessed, I'll try to keep some of your lessons in your head, but I may miss. I have never been too good at memory charms."
"What are you?" Kat managed to say through a full body bind.
"That's un important." She dropped her a few feet from school were no one would see them.
"Finite incartum!"
she fell from the air and starred up at the kind lady.
And inched away slowly.
"Once again, I'm sorry, Obliviate!" and Kat remembered little more.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Meanwhile, inside Draco's house.
Ron, Dora, Ray, Draco, Tom, Hanna, Hermione were all standing in front of three not very happy teachers.
"Muggles." Dumbledore stated for the hundredth time.
"Muggles." The group answered back.
He sighed.
"How?" Minerva asked this time. "How did they manage to get into the castle and sorted?"
"We were witches at the time." Ray explained.
"And aren't now?"
"We still are!" Dora covered. "We just weren't always witches." She mumbled.
"Pray tell us that again Ms. Spinet." Dumbledore said softly
She took a deep breath, "We - just - weren't - always - witches." She repeated.
"How is that even possible?" He asked dumbfounded.
Snape and the accused became rather quiet.
"Ms. Smith, Summon me that glass of water." Dumbledore ordered softly.
"Accio Water." She ordered with a flick of her wand, and she directed it at the headmaster.
"Perfect control." Dumbledore mused, "something few witches and wizards gain even over a good length of time,"
"How did you gain magic?" McGonagall asked.
"Umm." They all muttered.
Ron honestly didn't know this answer, but from the looks of things, It wasn't just the royals who knew. Snape knew as well.
"Very well, is no one going to speak up?"
"It's just very complicated professor." Hermione offered.
"We have time." Dumbledore sat back.
They sighed.
"How did you find out about them Professor Dumbledore?" Draco asked stalling for time.
"I asked the sorting hat when I couldn't contact their parents." He answered simply.
"Traitor." Ray muttered.
Dumbledore became temporarily def and ignored the comment.
"Any of you figured out how to say it?" Hanna asked.
They all shook their heads.
"Hay, I wasn't even in on this from the beginning, how am I supposed to know how you managed to do an impossible thing?" Ron muttered.
"Mr. Weasley may leave, he doesn't know" Snape told the headmaster.
"Thank you professor."
And he flooed back to the castle.
"Ok, I think I can explain it." Hermione decided.
"Very well, proceed."
"Well, I promised Dora and Ray I'd spend my birthday with them this year, but I couldn't easily leave school. They kinda knew by then that I was a witch."
"They did?" McGonagall asked, but Dumbledore silenced her.
"Well, so me Draco Hanna and Tom decided that it would be simpler to have them over at the school, but how to do that when muggles can't approach the place?"
"We figured that if they had some magical ability, they would be able to see it, but before we could do that, we needed to get them to the school. That put us in a bit of a bind." Draco went on.
"Flooing was the best way, since squibs can do it; we figured that you didn't need any magic to do it. So Dora and Ray were flooed to Hogwarts." Hanna went on.
"Mione Gave them magic, and Draco gave them wands, well I'm not quite clear on much, but it was mainly for the purpose of seeing Mione." Tom offered.
"I also had something to do with this sir." Snape confessed. "I aided Mr. Malfoy in making their wands, and spelling them so that they wouldn't appear muggle by any means."
"I see." Dumbledore commented thinking. "Well, I do believe that this was mainly Mr. Malfoy and Ms. Grangers Idea and work?"
Everyone nodded.
"Then a congratulations is in order, for doing something never thought possible, but I must ask that you take better care over your two friends." He warned. "No one, I repeat no one is to know. Then again, this might just be the lead we need for the war." Dumbledore went on muttering like he normally did, as they all flooed back to Hogwarts, minus Dora and Ray, who were once again Running back to classes.
"I HATE RUNNING!!" Ray whined the entire way.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
AN: Ok so not so bad of luck, but you though there for a second didn't you?
Well something bad had to happen!!!
It was just getting to good to be true.
About the Latin.
First I'm only a pathetic 2.75 years latin student. So my spellings and endings may be weird. And yes I gave rough meanings IE Sum miser or Miser Sum, in latin order isn't highly important. Oh well it literally mean I am miserable. I'm worried works well.
I hope that helps some.
Review
Relena~