Black Velvet – 04
A/N – Sorry it took so long... *hides under a rock* FF.N was acting up all month, and then I kinda forgot about it... So, ummmm.... yeah... enjoy or whatever.
A/D – JKR owns all HP characters. April owns herself. I own Rhea. Michelle owns herself and Bastet's last name. The Coca-Cola company also owns Bastet's last name, which is Dasani. I like Dasani water. Oh well. Liz owns Bastet. I wish I owned Draco. Wow, I'm writing really short sentences...
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"So, what do we do?" Hermione asked boredly, sitting on her bed.
"We have a large number of options, none of them are good," Sabrina replied.
"And then there are the options within the original options," Rhea said.
"I think Rhea's drifted off to another point of existance, she is no longer with us mentally," Lauren sniggered.
"Rhea, beware the aurora borealis," Bastet smirked.
"And the cheesy poofs!" April added.
Rhea smiled, "I fear not the northern lights, nor the unhealthy snack items. My path is clear, and nothing is there to stop me."
April sighed, "Rhea, this is planet Earth, requesting landing."
Rhea smirked, "I don't care about your pathetic little problems."
"Rhea, what do you want to do?"
"I want to go back into my fantasy world-"
"With Draco," Lauren sniggered.
"Maybe," Rhea looked at her.
"I wonder if we went and killed Draco right now if she'd try to stop us," Bastet said irritably.
"Of course I would, you pulled me out of my world, and I'm back again, there's nothing you can do about that, I'm not drifting off again," Rhea answered.
"I think Rhea's mad at us," Sabrina sniggered.
"I have reason to be, but I'm not."
"Good. What do you want to do?"
"I dunno," she looked out the window, the sun was close to setting. "Let's go outside."
"Sounds fine, what are we going to do?" Hermione asked.
"Homework, talk, you know, the usual," Rhea got up and stretched.
"Do you want to get the others?" Lauren asked.
"Sure, why not? Hermione, get Harry, Ron, Justin, and Cedric, will you? Michelle, do you mind getting Draco, Lily, David, Mindy, and Jake?" Rhea asked them all. "We'll all help, Lauren, go with Hermione, and the rest of us will go with Michelle."
"Sounds fine, we'll all meet at the lake in 30 minutes, kay?" Lauren jumped off her bed. Rhea nodded, then went off to find the Slytherins.
They all went down in the dungeons, barely avoiding Snape and Filch, who were patrolling the area, and would suspect something. Sabrina quietly led the way, being the sneak of the group; she was best at it. Rhea followed closely, then the others in a straight line.
"Rhea, go in front, I don't know the way," Sabrina complained in a whisper.
"Fine," Rhea slipped in front of Sabrina and swiftly traveled along the dark corridor. She came to the wall where the Slytherin common room was located. She knocked a few times along the wall before finally coming to a hollow area. She took out a heavy dragon-hide book and slammed it as hard as she could against the wall.
"Open up, Draco!" she called. She slipped her book back in her bag. The wall opened a little and he slipped out.
"What?" he asked, a bit annoyed.
"Come on, we're gonna do our homework outside, it's nice out there," Bastet sneered.
He looked back at the wall. "Ok, hang on," he said as he slipped back in, mumbling the password softly.
"You don't have to be so mean," Rhea glared at Bastet, her frosty blue eyes narrowed.
"Yes I do," Bastet glared back.
"You look hardly intimidating with chestnut-colored eyes," Michelle said dryly.
"Oh, shut-up."
"We don't care about your pathetic little problems, Bastet," April glared at her.
"Bastet, go with April to the library and see if you can find the other four," Rhea said firmly, not wanting to have to put up with them. "Get to know each other and stop arguing," she snapped at Bastet.
"Look who needs to stop being mean," Bastet snapped back, walking off after April.
Draco slipped out again with his bag. "Sorry it took so long, Pansy kept questioning why I had to go so quickly," he said. "Where'd you evil friend and April go?"
"They'll be back, come on, let's go," Michelle said.
"Okee dokey, then," Rhea smirked and led the way back.
They arrived at the edge of the lake a little bit after Hermione and the others did. Bastet and April hadn't returned. Rhea looked up at the sun, which looked like a big orange ball of fire. She took out her wand, melted a large area of snow, dried the area, then sat down in it.
At that point, April and Bastet arrived with the four Slytherins.
"You were right, it is nice out here," Mindy said, looking around. "And you've even dried a spot for us, how nice."
"Come on everybody, sit down! We all take the same classes, except for Hermione, so we should have the same homework," Sabrina pointed out.
"You guys have Divination homework?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, thrilling, isn't it?" Rhea asked. "I have a million ways to die, but can only use one."
"Maybe you should quit and take Arithmancy," Sabrina said.
"No, I'd really rather read your tea leaves and predict your death 96 times!" Rhea giggled.
"Uh oh, let's make her stop before she goes into a giggling seizure!" Lauren exclaimed.
"It's not my fault, but it probably has given me brain damage," she said calming down a little.
"Nobody knooows," April sniggered.
"Yes, I know I have a queer sense of humor," Rhea said to David, who was staring at her.
"That's ok, we do, too," Lily smiled.
"This feels like a gang, we get along together fine, we should think up a name for ourselves," Cedric cut in.
"I don't think it would be a good idea to make ourselves look like a gang-" Hermione started.
"Why not? We have nothing to lose, let's be outgoing," April said.
"I feel like I'm turning into an American," Hermione sighed.
"That's a good sign," Michelle smiled.
"It is?" Draco and Hermione asked together.
"Of course, why wouldn't it be?" Rhea asked.
"I dunno," Draco admitted.
"You're even starting to lose that English accent of yours," Bastet pointed out.
"I think we all are, we've been exposed for too long," Ron sighed.
"Except those four, they haven't been around us long enough," Rhea smirked. "But I think eventually they'll become more American."
"Rhea, I've been thinking, where do we stay over the summer? The Leaky Cauldron gets expensive over a time," Justin turned to her.
"We'll find a place, though, maybe we could even take a trip back to America," she smiled. "And we could bring all these guys, too."
"Sounds good, where are you from?" Harry asked.
"Ohio, but California, Florida, and New York are fine, too," April answered.
Ron looked a bit uncomfortable, "Wouldn't it cost a lot to get us back and forth?"
"We'll use a Portkey," Rhea looked at him.
"Oh, ok then," Ron said, turning slightly pink.
"Rhea has a nice little cottage-" April started to explain.
"It's not a cottage, more like a mansion," Justin cut her off.
"Whatever it is, it's in the open country, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and it came with 3 house elves."
"Abydos is the one we have now, the other two I let free, but Abydos wanted to stay with his wife, who lives in the house, too, I think, but she doesn't work," Rhea said.
"Why doesn't she work?" Draco raised an eyebrow.
"I'm not even sure if she really exists."
"How can you not know if a house elf exists?" Harry asked.
"I've never seen her, I haven't even seen my whole house yet! It has 10 floors and is bigger than you can imagine, it has 2 levels of basement!"
"How long have you had it?" Draco asked.
"It's been in my family for ages, I don't know, but my mother died a year before I was accepted in Buckeye, so I never did get to fully explore it, I was too busy," she answered.
"Buckeye?" Ron asked.
"It was our school, it's named after a tree," Sabrina sniggered.
"A tree?" Jake laughed.
"Yes, the Ohio state tree," Rhea smirked. "A poisonous tree, at that, too."
"A poisonous tree, there's an interesting concept," Lily said.
"There are lots of poisonous trees around Ohio," April said. "We learned about them a few summers ago at camp."
"You just don't really notice them," Michelle said, writing out a transfiguration essay.
David chose that time to start laughing, "Look at us, we're sitting in an area of cleared out snow talking about what we're gonna do over the summer!"
"What the heck, why don't you all just stay at my place over the summer?" Draco sighed.
"Seriously?" Rhea looked at him.
"We might have to turn their hair different colors, cover up Harry's scar, and play with their faces for awhile, though," he smirked, looking at Ron and Harry.
"That's easy," Rhea took out her wand and turned Ron's hair gray. "Oops, meant that to be black," she tried again and succeeded. She waved her wand at Harry, and turned his hair blond and his eyes brown.
"Brown eyes don't go with blond hair, you idiot," Bastet raised an eyebrow.
"I know that," Rhea turned their eye and hair colors back to normal.
"You turned my hair blond.. ick," Harry shuddered.
"What's wrong with blond?" Rhea asked.
"They're usually stuck-up and stupid," Bastet answered.
"Hey!" April, Draco, Lauren, and Mindy all said at once.
"Watch what you say and where you say it, Bastet, especially who you say it in front of," Rhea smirked.
"I was referring mostly to Draco," she answered.
"Hey!" Draco, Michelle, and Rhea all said at once. Harry and Ron sniggered at Michelle and Draco.
"Mine!" Rhea grabbed Draco's arm defensively, looking at Michelle.
"I don't belong to you, you don't own me," Draco said.
"I know that, I'm just joking around," she smiled at him.
"How much of our homework do we have done?" Hermione asked everyone.
"I'm done with Divination, Transfiguration, and our little werewolf essay for Defense Against the Dark Arts," Rhea answered.
"Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Transfiguration," April, Michelle, Lauren, and Sabrina chorused.
"Potions, Charms, History of Magic, and Herbology," Lily, Mindy, Jake, and David all said.
"Defense Against the Dark Arts and Potions," Draco and Bastet said.
"Potions, Herbology, and Transfiguration," Harry, Ron, Cedric, and Justin replied.
"So we're all around the same place, good," Hermione said. "I'm done with Potions, Transfiguration, and Charms. Almost done with History of Magic."
"Now I'm done with Potions, too," Rhea said, putting it in a folder, than sticking it in her bag.
"Help me?" Draco asked Rhea.
"Transfiguration?"
"Yep," he looked disdainfully at his book.
"You idiot, that was easy, you only have to write out how to change a nightstand into an armadillo," Justin said.
"Play to your strengths, Justin, Draco's good at Potions, and you're not, so I wouldn't be talking. You both have good areas," Rhea looked up at him.
"It doesn't take a talent to be mean, your words can crush things that are unseen," April recited.
"Very good, April, now try thinking up something on your own," Bastet replied.
"God, didn't you just listen to what I said?"
"I don't think she did," Mindy said.
Justin looked at Rhea, "Why are you going out with that idiot?"
"Really, Justin, we could care less who everyone dates. Heck, you can date Mindy for all we care!" Michelle glared at him.
"Why don't you go out with David, then?" he retorted.
"No, I don't think David likes me much, anyways, though, do you, David?"
"It all depends on how you look at things," David answered.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Bastet raised an eyebrow.
"It means he either likes her looks or her attitude, but he wouldn't go out with her because she's Gryffindor," Rhea said, not looking up.
"Don't be a house-ist!" April giggled, and hit him over the head with her wand.
"I don't like being hit over the head, would you stop it?" David complained.
"No, we like picking on you," Jake sniggered.
"No offense to you guys, but these transfiguration books suck," Rhea said.
"They do not! They have just enough information in them!" Hermione argued.
"Either way, I prefer my other book over this one," she said as she pulled out a thick and surprisingly light book with a gold and silver colored cover. "Use this."
"Who's that by?" Hermione asked.
"My mom, she was a writer, also great at transfiguration, she enchanted it to be light as a feather."
"Impressive, was she American?"
"Of course. I was born in this country when my mom was staying with my father for awhile, then she inherited the house and we moved there when I was about 3. My dad was British," Rhea answered her, smiling.
"Was she an only child?"
"Yep, and so am I, therefore I'm a spoiled brat who gets whatever I want! Actually, I own the house now, because my father was killed by Voldemort when I got taken away. I'm surprised that Voldemort actually did something good for once."
"He just took another innocent life," Harry glared at her.
Rhea laughed, "My father was anything but innocent, he took me to Voldemort when he knew I would probably be killed by him."
"I guess."
"You know what really gets me, is that every evil Dark Lord person change their facial features and make themselves look disgustingly ugly. If they're going to take over the world, the least they can do is look good. Almost as bad as Michael Jackson, you know?" Rhea shuddered. Everyone laughed, and Rhea smiled.
"Your mom seemed to know you were going to be in the house of the panther, didn't she?" Draco asked Rhea as he opened the book, which had dark purple writing and ruby-colored chapter headings.
"Yeah, the book's dedicated to me, too. There are 4 books; each dedicated to a member of the family. The other 3 are dedicated to my cousins. They all have the same cover, except with different titles. You're reading Advanced Transfiguration, the most difficult spells and potions are in that, it even has how to become an Animagus," she smiled almost guiltily, her eyes glinting.
"You're not registered, yet, are you, Rhea?" Hermione looked at her, smiling.
"Whatever gave you the idea that I could change into an animal, it IS very difficult, I would expect you to be able to that, if anyone here," Rhea laughed.
"Rhea can turn into a panther," April smirked.
"A panther? Interesting," Lily said.
"Yes, well, she was put in the house of the panther, so it's self-explanatory," Sabrina said. "I was put in the house of the panther, too, but Justin was put in the house of the hawk, and Bastet was put in the house of the cobra."
"I'd rather not talk about it," Bastet said flatly.
"Of course you would, back in the states you kept going on and on about how your team was the best out of the four," Lauren protested.
"Better than yours," Bastet retorted.
"The sharks might not have been the best, but we were better than you," Lauren snapped.
"How did you all become friends if you were in different houses?" Jake asked.
"Our houses weren't so against each other," Michelle answered.
"We each had our own tower, but all our classes were mixed," Rhea explained.
"Some of our classes are mixed, but we still don't get along well," Mindy pointed out.
"Some people you're not meant to get along with at this point, you might later in your life, but not now."
"Kinda like I'm not supposed to get along with Malfoy, but Rhea's trying to force me to," Bastet replied.
"I doubt Draco wants you to get along well with him, Bastet. You absolutely hate each other, I'm not trying to get you to be friends, just call each other by your first names."
"Give it up, I'm never gonna call him by his first name," she glared at Draco.
"Not like I'm gonna call you by yours, you're Rhea's evil friend, I don't find Bastet fitting for you," he sneered.
"Neither do we," Michelle pointed out.
"Idiot," Bastet snarled.
"Look, she's promoted herself to wolf-level! Is she allowed to do that?" April sniggered.
"I don't think she is. Bastet, go back to being your monkey-like self!" Justin joined in.
"Come on! If you're going to gang up on someone, gang up on Malfoy!" Bastet whined.
"He's not fun to insult anymore with Rhea around, she'll just beat our brains out with a hockey stick," Ron said.
"Where the heck did that come from?" Rhea asked.
"I don't think he knows," Harry sniggered.
"Nope, but it probably came from one of you, I must have picked it up, sounds American, doesn't it?" Ron asked.
"I do have a question, though. Rhea, how can you like Draco? He's so… evil!" Harry looked at Rhea.
"Evil would be a good thing, I'm evil, he's evil, maybe we should all become a big evil group of insane people!" Rhea sniggered.
"Why does Harry have a wand?" Michelle asked suddenly.
"Because he's a wizard," Hermione answered, looking at Michelle weirdly.
"I don't trust him with a wand!" Michelle took it away.
"Hey!" Harry looked at her.
"I think Michelle has gone insane. Michelle, hand over the wand," Rhea said slowly.
"Why? I wanna play with it!" Michelle complained.
"Play with your own wand you idiot."
Michelle took out her wand, "You have a very good point," she threw Harry's wand back to him.
"Rhea, I'm not sure if we should trust MICHELLE with a wand at the moment, I think she might need to get some rest, don't you?" Lily laughed.
"Michelle, sit down and stop acting like an idiot!" Rhea glared at her.
"Take me to your leader," Michelle giggled.
"I AM your leader, you idiot," April said.
"Yes, it's either you or me, I'm not sure," Rhea looked at her.
"You keep threatening to turn people into fish, so, obviously you have a knack for getting everyone's attention."
"Heh, yeah," Rhea smirked.
"Do you guys realize how late it is?" Fred and George walked up.
"No, actually, we didn't until you came. Wow, it's dark, isn't it?" Michelle said dumbly.
"McGonagall sent us to get you before Snape took any points from Gryffindor," Fred explained.
"Yes, so come on," George said. All of them stood up and followed Fred and George into the castle.
"It's been a long time since Gryffindors and Slytherins got along with each other," Fred said.
"I don't think McGonagall wanted it to happen, Snape seems to be rather unpleasant about all of this, but Dumbledore didn't seem to care," George continued.
"Basically what we're saying is Gryffindors and Slytherins don't mix well, they never had, and they probably never would, but Rhea, you've seemed to get to them, somehow they don't care what house you're in and you don't care what house they're in."
"Let's say Draco was in Gryffindor. In that case, you wouldn't make a big deal about all of this, but you still are, just because it's not normal. I'm not normal, and I never will be," Rhea said coldly.
"You see, the thing is he's NOT in Gryffindor."
"Would you stop arguing about me, I don't like it much," Draco cut in.
"None of us like them arguing about houses, but there's nothing was can do there," Mindy sighed.
Fred and George smirked and led Rhea and her group up the steps and directed Draco and the other Slytherins down the steps into the dungeons.
He (Draco) walked swiftly along the corridor, his cold eyes alert for anyone who might be lurking down there. He walked past a classroom, but was grabbed by the arm and pulled in. The door shut behind him and Snape turned the lights on.
"Draco, I'd like to speak to you for a few minutes," he said silkily.
"Sure," Draco said, not exactly having a choice. "About what?"
"Your little friends. Sit," he motioned to a desk. Draco sighed and walked over to the desk and sat down in it. Snape sat down at his own. "Karasa may have been a good thing for you, Draco. She's intelligent, that's true, and she's willing to help you with the subjects you don't do well in, but she's Gryffindor. And although she does have good taste in her choice of friends, usually, you shouldn't be around her too much.
"She's a pureblood, I understand that, her family was one of the greatest, until her father came along. But the point is she's in Gryffindor, and you weren't meant to be together. The other four, who she picked out, those are who you should be with. Mindy's a nice girl, why not her?"
"Mindy doesn't even like me much, she's only around me because Rhea chose her and her friends to come sit down with us and her other friends," Draco said.
"Opposites attract, Draco. But Karasa has Potter following her around all the time. She doesn't like him much, does she?"
"No, she hates him."
"Like I said, she may have good taste, but the hat chose her for Gryffindor, it considered her for Slytherin, but she didn't fit in. She didn't like you when you first met her, is that right?"
"She looked ready to kill me the first time I met her in Diagon Alley because I called her a mudblood. The second time was on the train and she slapped me across the face."
"She had reason to, but that's not the point. The point is that she adapts well to the people around her, and gets used to them. That's what happened to you, she got used to having you around."
"She saved my life, Professor."
"Was it out of sympathy or was it because she truly liked you?"
Draco thought about that for a minute. "She said no one deserved it, but she almost burned my wrist off, too," he pulled his sleeve up a little to show the top of his wrist, which had a flame-shaped scar on it.
Snape raised an eyebrow, "She has power, I'll admit that. If she could master fire at such a young age."
"What?"
"She can master fire, that's why it almost burned your wrist off and why you have the flame-shaped scar there. She healed you, correct?"
"Yes."
"Do you care for her as she does you? If she hated you, she would have let the flames turn you into powder."
Draco nodded, "I care for her."
"There's nothing you can do about her if she gets attached. She's dangerous, you don't want to get on her bad side."
Draco smirked a little. "Potter asked her why she liked me, he said I was evil. She said evil was a good thing. And Michelle doesn't trust Potter with a wand," he sniggered. "She took it away from him."
"Her family is known for their transfiguration skills, that's one of the most dangerous subjects, because she can turn you into something small and crush you if she feels like it. Be careful with her, she's still Gryffindor, but you care for her, so there's nothing I can do now. Think about what I said, though," Snape opened the door and let Draco leave.
Rhea sighed and looked out the window. "Look, it's a blizzard!" she cackled.
"Oh, cackeldy cackledy yourself," Bastet said irritably.
"Care of Magical Creatures and Herbology are canceled," Hermione told them.
"Yes, thrilling, isn't it?"
"Very," Rhea sighed and jumped out of bed, her purple satin pajamas ruffling in the slight breeze that always seemed to be in the dorm, keeping it just the right temperature.
"Aren't you cheery today?" April looked at her unenthusiastically.
"It's Friday, of course I am!"
Michelle opened one eye lazily and yawned. It was pretty early, 6 AM, and Rhea was too chirpy and cackley for Michelle. They all got out of bed and changed into their robes.
"I wanna wear dark purple instead of black, I wonder if they'll mind," Rhea looked at her robes.
"Probably," Hermione looked at her, "Although those are dark enough to be accepted."
"Yippee!" Rhea threw them on and combed through her hair quickly.
"All your robes look really tight on you, you know that?"
"I know, they were made that way."
"You like having tight robes?"
"They not tight! They're not loose, but tight is when it gets uncomfortable. These are perfect."
"Rhea likes to show off," Lauren smirked.
"Darn right I do," Rhea smiled at Lauren and put her brush away. She slipped on a necklace with a dark purple butterfly charm on it to match her robes and put 4 thin bracelets on, 2 black and 2 white.
"Draco probably likes you in tight clothes," Sabrina sniggered.
"If he does, great; if he doesn't, too bad!"
"I see you really don't care what your boyfriend thinks of you," Bastet said disapprovingly.
"I am Rhea, hear me... Cackle!" Rhea said, cackling.
"I'm impressed, but don't you have better things to do?" Bastet said sarcastically.
"My homework, but that really doesn't matter, does it?"
"It doesn't unless it's due soon," Hermione looked at her.
"We only have half a day today, right?"
"Yeah, and we only have potions because Care of Magical Creatures and Herbology was canceled."
"We have a weird schedule," Rhea said thoughtfully, looking it over.
"It used to be the same thing everyday at our school," Michelle said.
"Fooooooood," Rhea looked at all of them. "Ready now?"
"I guess," April said as she put her hair up in a ponytail, then put a baseball cap on, slipping her ponytail through the back opening.
"You wear that backwards and you'll look like you're in a gang," Sabrina smirked.
"You just look like the gang-type, you know, Sabrina, dark hair, dark eyes," Lauren smiled.
"And you don't?"
"Not at all, my friend."
"Come on, El Queero," Bastet growled, pulling Rhea.
Rhea slipped out of Bastet's grip. "Follow me, my fellow oddballs," she smirked, ducked under Bastet's arm and ran down the steps, the others following close behind.
"Come, Justin, we're running from Bastet," Rhea smiled and grabbed his wrist, pulling him with her.
"Aren't you just the cheery one today?" Draco said as she ran into him.
"Oh, yes, of course I am, I always am, you should know me by now!" Rhea giggled and ran past him. Draco sighed and spotted Bastet heading his way. He sidestepped her and she ran past him.
"What a pleasant morning with the Gryffindors," Mindy sniggered.
"She could have trampled you, Draco," Jake laughed, watching Bastet.
"No, she would have gotten me by the neck and strangled me," Draco smiled.
"You seem cheery too," Rhea said as she returned, than darted past him, followed quickly by Michelle, April, Lauren, and Sabrina.
"Weirdo," David said, turning his head towards Rhea.
"Isn't this fun," Rhea said sarcastically, grabbing Draco. "Come and join us, Draco," she sniggered as Michelle stumbled over her foot.
"No, that's quite all right," he answered, watching Lauren 'accidentally' setting Cedric's robes on fire.
"What, too violent for you?" April stopped in front of him.
"No, not at all," Lily smirked and pulled Jake into the fray.
"Let's all have fun killing each other in the corridors, then, but maybe this would be better for outside," Rhea said.
"Well, let's get to breakfast, then, shall we?" Draco raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, of course, but I doubt we'll be able to make a refined entrance," Rhea giggled and let go of his arm.
"We'll either make a refined one or a dramatic one, most likely it will start out refined and we'll all end up falling over each other," Hermione laughed.
"Let's make a pathetic attempt to be refined," Draco smiled.
"Why not?" Rhea giggled, and walked into the Great Hall next to Draco, but Bastet tripped over Hermione, who tripped over Harry who had tripped over Lauren because Lauren was prancing around like a fairy.
"Beautiful entrance done by the Gryffindors and some Slytherins," Dumbledore laughed; he had been talking to the rest of the hall. "I'm glad you 16 decided to join us."
"Thank you, Professor Dumbledore," Rhea giggled. Harry glared at her, but just sighed and walked to the Gryffindor table.
"We were discussing the blizzard when you came in," Dumbledore smiled as they took their seats. "As I was saying, there will be no Herbology or Care of Magical Creatures classes today, because they utilize the outdoors. Most of you will only have 1 class today, then have the rest of the day off. No one is permitted outside without permission from Hagrid."
There was a groan from most of the students; it had been beautiful outside the night before. They wondered what could have happened.
Rhea looked at the food that sat in front of her, she really wasn't hungry. She hardly ever was hungry for reasons unknown to anyone. It was a family thing, they usually didn't eat much.
"What's the matter, Rhea? Not hungry?" Bastet smirked at her. "Or are you just off daydreaming again?"
Rhea glared at Bastet, picked up her wand and threw some jelly in Bastet's face. She smirked and turned away again.
Bastet wiped the jelly off her face, grabbed Rhea's shoulder and spun her around angrily. Rhea smiled and ducked out of Bastet's grip.
"You really MUST learn to control me, Bastet. You don't seem to be enjoying anything I do lately. Why is that? Are you jealous, or are you just ticked off? Maybe you don't like the idea of me dating someone that would probably have represented your house back in the states, but that doesn't make any sense, now does it? I really don't think so. Maybe you should ask yourself what your problem with me is. Wouldn't that be a better solution than trying to kill me?" Rhea said sweetly.
"Rhea, leave Bastet alone, she can't handle herself, so she won't be able to handle you, too," Sabrina sniggered, ducking under Bastet's arm.
"I guess that would be a better idea."
"So do I," April sighed.
Rhea looked at Justin, "What's wrong with you?"
"There's absolutely nothing wrong with him, he just feels like making all of us think that there's something wrong with him," Michelle said.
"We must go, come on," Rhea grinned, picked up her bag, and pulled them all out of the Great Hall gracefully.
"Aren't you the graceful little fairy today," Ron said grumpily.
"I wouldn't consider myself a fairy, but ok, whatever," Rhea answered, leading the way down to the potions class. She arrived next to a crowd of Slytherins, who she didn't want to get to close to.
"Your boyfriend is a Slytherin and you don't want to get near them?" April raised an eyebrow.
"I don't enjoy big clusters of sweaty people."
"Not many people do," Mindy said, pulling David out of the crowd.
"Then what's the point of piling up like that?" Lauren sighed and leaned against the wall next to Cedric.
"There isn't one, they just do because they're a bunch of idiots," Bastet said.
"I'd watch it if I were you, you haven't made a very good first impression on a lot of people, and first impressions are almost everything," Mindy said, glaring at her.
"You just need to get to know me better."
"That's the whole thing, I don't WANT to because you're just gonna keep insulting me like that," Mindy glared at her.
"Can we stop this?" Rhea yelled. Everyone looked at her and stopped moving. "Much better, what's the use of piling up like that?"
The Slytherins shrugged and spread out a little.
"Now we have more air, isn't it great?" Justin said almost sarcastically.
"Aren't you the witty one today," Michelle yawned.
"We're gonna get new partners today," Mindy said, leaning against the wall next to Justin.
"I'm thrilled," Rhea sighed.
"Now Rhea's sad because she won't get to be Draco's partner anymore," April smirked.
"Isn't it tragic?" she pulled Draco over to her. "Alas, I must leave you for one whole class!"
"Yes, Draco, she's always this weird," Lauren said, looking at him.
Draco smirked, "I wasn't going to ask that, I was going to ask who told you that. Only a few people are getting moved."
"Oh goody, I'm one of the select few who gets to be moved," Mindy frowned.
"Who was your partner before?"
"Him, so I guess it's a good thing that I'm getting a new partner," she wrinkled her nose at David, who glared at her.
"You guys really don't like each other much, do you?" Sabrina sniggered.
"Not at all," David said.
"Then why the heck do you hang out together?"
"David is Jake's friend," Mindy said.
"So who's your friend?" Lauren sniggered.
"Lily and Jake, I can't stand David."
"You don't have a boyfriend?" Lauren asked.
"No, not yet at least, I have a few people in mind, but no one seems to like me much," Mindy sighed.
"If someone can like Draco, someone can like you," Ron sniggered. Draco glared at him. Rhea whacked Ron on the head. "Hey! It was just a joke!"
"I'm sure she believes you. Rhea's very protective of her boyfriends, you know," Sabrina laughed.
"Come on," Rhea rolled her eyes and pulled Draco in after her.
Everybody followed them into the classroom and went to their assigned cauldrons with their partners nervously. Professor Snape looked around and got an evil little smile on his face.
"As some of you may have heard, I will be changing your partners. Some of your partners, not all of you will be switched," Snape said, looking around.
Rhea pushed Draco a few feet away from her, causing him to trip over the table and almost lose his balance. Rhea covered her mouth with her hand as she started giggling. All of her friends sniggered.
"Is there a problem, Miss Karasa?" Snape glared at her.
"Draco was taking up my personal space, sir," she bit her bottom lip to stop giggling. Everyone sniggered, knowing that she was going out with Draco.
"How was he doing this?"
"He was stealing all my air," she giggled. Draco rolled his eyes at her and smirked.
"Miss Karasa, don't resort to such violent ways of getting him to move or I'll have to give you a punishment. Throwing people into walls isn't going to make them go away," he looked at all of Rhea's friends, who were also giggling. They calmed down quickly.
"Yeah, don't throw me into walls, it isn't going to make me go away," Draco whispered and smiled at her.
"Actually, it probably would, but you caught your balance before you hit the wall," Rhea whispered and held back another fit of giggles. She watched as Snape quickly switched a bunch of people around, but he kept Draco and her together. Justin was put with Mindy and David was put with Ron. Lily was put with Harry.
They didn't cook anything that class because of the partnering. He collected all of their essays on potions that had jellyfish parts used in them and dismissed them early.
"I think you gave him a headache, Rhea," Lauren giggled.
"Why DID you throw Draco away from you?" April asked.
"We don't get along very well," Rhea had another fit of giggles.
"He knows that's not true, you know, EVERYONE knows about you and Draco," Sabrina said.
"Of course they do, it's kind of obvious," Rhea smiled and stopped giggling.
"Still, Rhea, he was stealing your air? That's pathetic," Lily said. Rhea giggled an answer.
"She IS pathetic," Michelle sighed.
"I'm surprised he didn't take points from Gryffindor or give you a detention for acting like an idiot," Harry said. "He'd probably take 50 points from us if I did that."
"Yeah, you're gonna throw Draco into a wall, then say he was stealing your air, I don't think you're THAT stupid, Harry," Rhea giggled again.
"Rhea, calm down already!" Lauren squeezed the back of Rhea's neck.
"Ouchies, let go of my neck!"
"Take a deep breathe, and let it out slowly," Michelle said.
"I can't if she's holding my neck, you idiot!"
"I'm back again," Draco said, poking Rhea in the back.
"And I'm just getting beaten up today!" she giggled again, slipping out of Lauren's grasp. "I'm free!" she ran behind Lauren and walked next to Draco. "Watch, she's gonna turn around and try to grab me in about 3 seconds," Rhea whispered. Sure enough, Lauren turned and made a grab for Rhea, but Rhea ducked and Lauren tripped over her.
"There, you've seen what happens when you try to catch an idiot," Michelle said.
"Rhea's never done that before, maybe her reflexes have gotten quicker," Lauren sighed.
"Maybe Rhea plays baseball, but I think it's just the British air," April smiled.
"Yes, see, his air is British and mine is American, therefore he WAS stealing my air," Rhea giggled. "Where are we going?"
"Nobody knows, but we do know that wherever we are going, it hasn't been used in a long time," Hermione coughed.
Rhea noticed lots of dust and cobwebs, but obviously the Professors and the Caretaker must know about the area, so why hadn't it been used?
"Why doesn't anybody dust?" Michelle asked.
"Who knows, maybe it's a secret hallway or something," Justin sighed.
"Most likely, yeah," Harry said.
"I've never really noticed THIS hallway before," George said looking over Harry's shoulder.
"How is it that you two always seem to pop out of nowhere?" Rhea asked them.
"We figured out how to aparate on school grounds," Fred sniggered. "Actually, you weren't really heading anywhere in particular, and you walked through a wall, so we figured that you must have discovered SOMETHING that wasn't on the map."
"Maybe if you don't believe it's here or if you don't know it's here than it doesn't show up," Hermione said.
"Maybe I'm just special," Rhea sniggered.
"Actually, we probably just didn't notice that we were about to walk into a wall," Jake said.
"I happen to do that a lot, you know, just walk straight into a wall. If this was our school, I would probably be locked in a room or something."
"Yes, the doors lock on you sometimes," Bastet smirked
"That only happened to me, though!" she frowned and took out her wand. "Alohomora," she sighed, unlocking the door in front of them.
"The reason that Rhea's so good at wand-work is because the doors kept locking on her," April explained. "Sometimes they would open with a simple charm, sometimes they wouldn't. Of course, if she were a panther, she could just knock the door down."
"Yes, but sometimes they turned into walls and hid from me!" Rhea smiled.
"Hey, is it just me, or do we need to get everyone in our group hooked up with someone? Our single ones are Mindy, David, Justin, Michelle, Harry, Ron, Bastet and Hermione. Let's see, Mindy, take your pick!" Lauren said.
"What the heck possessed you to say that?" Rhea giggled.
"Actually, I already did have someone in mind," Mindy blushed a little.
"Let me take a wild guess and predict who will be with who this summer. Harry will be with Bastet; Justin will be with Mindy, let's see, Ron and Hermione or Ron and Michelle? David and Hermione or David and Michelle?" Rhea looked at the four.
"The most likely is Ron with Hermione and David with Michelle," April said thoughtfully.
"Me with Bastet? Are you insane?" Harry sniggered.
"Of course I am, but actually, Bastet seems to be flirting with you quite a bit," Rhea laughed.
"Idiot," Bastet glared at her.
"Who, me? No, I'm happy with my prize, much better than Harry," Rhea smiled. "No offense or anything," she added quickly, looking away from Harry.
"Draco, you're HERS now, and that's how you will be referred to most of the time. RHEA'S boyfriend, or RHEA'S husband. It's never DRACO'S girlfriend or DRACO'S wife," Sabrina said.
"What makes you think we're gonna get married, isn't it a little too early to tell?" she frowned.
"Not the way you love him. I'd say you're almost obsessed, actually."
"I know something that Bastet's obsessed with. Draco's money," Rhea said. "Or the money he's expected to inherit if he doesn't die."
"You know, there's a whole 5000 page book on the evilness of his family," Bastet said.
"Like I said before, and will say again, even if Draco WAS evil, evil can be a good thing."
"It CAN, but it usually ISN'T!"
"Well it would be if Draco was evil," Rhea said. "Let's go do something…"
"Like…?" April asked.
"I dunno, something."
"Ok... whatever you say, but I'm the one who gets whatever she wants."
Rhea rolled her eyes.
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A/N – Ok, I'm in a strange mood and there's nothing anyone can do about it. I would like to thank the sponsors that I don't have and I will now advertise things that I am not sponsored by. Or something like that. Go buy SR-71's CD and then Our Lady Peace's CDs... all 4 of them! *cackles and runs in circles, then falls over* And Tonic and Matchbox 20 and Third Eye Blind and Three Doors Down and Pink Floyd and Savage Garden and Vertical Horizon and then at least one of Sugar Ray... *takes a deep breath, then continues to ramble*
A/D – JKR owns all HP characters. Me and my friend own all the original characters except for April, who happens to own herself, thank you very much. Now I will ramble on about books instead of music; Dracula is pretty good, and so is the Voyage of the Basset series (each book is by a different author), and so on and so forth. Yadda yadda yadda. *sighs* The sign said 'Yoga Class for Cats'. Make what you will of that, it's by Our Lady Peace. Nyahahaha! Oh, BTW, for those of you reading the Raven fic... I'm working on it, but my humorous talent (what talent?) has drained from me for the time.