A/N- I don't own the Fat Lady, Voldemort or his story, Harry Potter (no wait! I DO own him! ::roll of eyes:: ), any of the houses, Snape's little spiel at the beginning of class, the boil cure, any of the classes, and anything else you recognize.
A/N- This may make Slytherin look bad. I have absolutely NOTHING against Slytherin, but the book said that most evil wizards and witches came for it, and my characters were brought up by parents who this Slytherin is bad, so they this it is bad. So don't tell me I made Slytherin look bad! I know I did!
Good Night, Bad Morning, Good Evening
After the feast, Alexz, Jenn, and Hailey followed the rest of the Gryffindors to the Gryffindor Common Room, trying to remember which way they turned, but it was no use. "Ok, so it was left, left, right, up the flight of stairs, right, right again, up two flights of stairs, left, right, left, Fat Lady, correct?" Alexz asked as she got into bed. Alexz's bed was the one in the left corner.
"I thought it was left, left, right, up the flight of stairs, right, left, up two flights of stairs, left, right, right, Fat Lady." Hailey said, getting into the bed on the right of Alexz's.
"I thought it was left, left, right, up the flight of stairs, left, right, up two flights of stairs, right, right, left, Fat Lady." Jenn said, walking out of the bathroom, and heading for the bed directly across from Alexz's.
"Oh, I give up!" Alexz said, flinging up her hands in annoyance.
"Well, we just will have to follow someone else to breakfast tomorrow." Hailey said. Just then, Kassidy walked into the dorm.
"I got lost," she said, her eyes smiling. "By the way, I don't think we've been introduced. I'm Kassidy Anderson."
"Alexz Magic." Alexz said smiling at Kassidy.
"Jennifer McKelly, but you can call me Jenn." Jenn said.
"Hailey Baker." Hailey said.
"Well, nice to meet you all." Kassidy said.
"I can't believe Adriana was in Slytherin, and was happy about it!" Alexz said.
"Yea I know, I heard that Slytherin has given the most dark wizards, and that You-Know-Who was in Slytherin." Jenn said.
"Who's You-Know-Who?" Hailey asked.
"His name is Voldemort, but no one likes to say his name, so they call him You-Know-Who, or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. He is probably the most powerful wizard of our time, aside from Dumbledore." Alexz said in a mysterious voice.
"Is he still alive?" Hailey asked.
"No, he met his downfall when he tried to kill Harry Potter, a little one year old. The curse somehow didn't kill Harry, but caused Voldemort to loose all his powers." Jenn whispered.
"So, he's dead?"
"Some think so, others think he is still out there, biding his time." Kassidy piped in.
"What do you gals think?" Hailey asked.
"Me? I think he's still out there, barely alive. I mean, you don't become as powerful as he was without thinking about what would happen if anyone caught up to you and tried to kill you." Kassidy said thoughtfully.
"I think he's dead. There is no counter curse to the killing curse." Jenn said.
"I'm not sure, but if he is still alive, I am sure that we will be seeing him again, soon." Alexz said. After a few minutes of silence, Alexz said, "Well, I think I will go to bed, 'night all." Everyone laid down in their bed, whispered good night, then Alexz clapped twice, and the candles that lit their room, went out.
The next morning, Alexz was awoken at 8:00 by Jenn jumping on top of her. Alexz screamed. "Jenn! What are you doing? Do you REALLY want me dead?" She said rolling over and knocking Jenn on the floor. She landed on her bottom with a thud.
"Ow! No, I don't want you dead, I just want you to get up. You don't want to miss breakfast, do you?" Jenn said, standing up and rubbing her sore bottom.
"What time is it?"
"Ummmm… 8 o'clock am."
"Erghhhh. Alright, alright, I'm getting up." Alexz said, throwing back the covers on her bed and getting out of her bed grumpily. She grabbed her robe and stalked off to the bathroom.
"She's definitely not a morning person." Jenn whispered to Hailey. Hailey giggled and continued to brush her hair. After about ten minutes, Alexz came out of the bathroom, hair wet and much happier than she was when she went in. She put on her school robes, brushed her hair, then said, "Ok, let's go." Jenn, Hailey, and Alexz walked out of the dorm, down the stairs, out the portrait hole, and into the Great Hall, after they found someone to follow so they wouldn't get lost.
They entered the Great Hall and sat down at the Gryffindor table. Kassidy was already sitting down, so they decided to sit with her. She was sitting with four boys, the four first year boys. "Hey, Kassidy." Alexz said as she sat across from her.
"Hey, Alexz, Jenn, Hailey." Kassidy said, smiling at them. "This is Christopher Gamble," she said, pointing to a tall boy with raven back hair, and happy dark brown eyes, "Jonathan Freeburg," she said pointing to a boy with dark brown hair, and sparkling green eyes, "Tyler Rygonner," she said, pointing to a boy with curly light brown hair, and honey brown eyes that had a mischievous sparkle in them, "and Ryan Tomas." She said pointing to a boy with sandy blonde hair, clear blue eyes, and a warm smile. Ryan looked up at the girls when Kassidy introduced him, and smiled warmly. Alexz smiled back.
"Nice to meet you all." Alexz said.
"Yes, it's a pleasure," Jenn said holding out her hand and batting her eyelashes, jokingly. "So, what class do we have first?" She asked, picking up her schedule.
"Potions, with the Slytherins." Tyler said sourly.
"Poo." Hailey said.
"Oh, Kassidy forgot to introduce us!" Alexz said. "I'm Alexz Magic, this is Hailey Baker, and this is Jennifer, Jenn, McKelly." Alexz said pointing to each of the girls in turn.
"Nice to meet you all." Ryan said smiling.
"Yea, a real pleasure." Tyler said laughing.
"Do I hear sarcasm in that tone, Tyler?" Alexz asked, her eyes sparking with mischief.
"What? Moi? Sarcasm? Never!" He said, laughing.
"My mistake." Alexz said laughing.
"We'd better go, I don't think being late for our first class, Potions at that, would be a good impression." Hailey said, looking at her watch.
"Ok, let's go." Alexz said grabbing a waffle, and standing up. The others followed behind her, but Jenn ran up to walk with her.
"Don't you think Ryan is cute?" She whispered.
"He's ok, I guess. He seems very nice, so that's a plus." Alexz whispered back. They walked down to the dungeons, after getting directions from an older student, and were about two minutes early. They found seats in the back of the classroom, and sat down. Jonathan next to Christopher, who was next to Tyler, who was next to Ryan, who was next to Alexz, who was next to Jenn, who was next to Hailey, who was next to Kassidy. Alexz looked around the classroom. Her eyes fell upon Adriana who was sitting next to a sour looking girl with hard brown, almost black, eyes, and long dark brown hair that was strait, very strait, it looked almost unnaturally strait.
Just then, Snape swept into the classroom. "Good morning." He said, his voice barely above a whisper, but they could all feel it stinging their insides and hear it as though he was screaming. "Welcome to Potions. There is little wand-waving here, and you will probably not count this class as a true 'magic class.' I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death- if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually teach."
"I'm not a dunderhead." Alexz whispered to Jenn. Jenn giggled. Snape's cold eyes came to rest on them. "Did I say something funny?" He asked.
"No, sir." Alexz said calmly.
"Nothing at all, sir. Nope, nothing funny." Jenn squeaked.
"Good." Snape gave the girls another hard look before he looked away. "When I call your name, please tell me if you are here. Anderson, Kassidy."
"Here!" Kassidy said.
"Baker, Hailey."
"Here." Hailey whispered.
"Baker, Hailey." Snape said again.
"Here!" Hailey said again, waving her arm in the air.
"Really, you must learn to speak up." Snape said. "Freeburg, Jonathan."
"Presente!" Jonathan said loudly. The other Gryffindors laughed while the Slytherins scowled.
"That will suffice. Gamble, Christopher."
"Here." Christopher said.
"Ice, Adriana."
"Here." Adriana said coolly.
"Liviosa, Cole."
"Here." Cole said.
"Magic, Alexz."
"Here physically, but not mentally." Alexz said smiling. Snape looked up from his list, looking Alexz strait in the eyes.
"Miss Magic, if you cannot control your mouth, I will. Now, you have done nothing but interrupt my class since the moment you walked into this classroom. I am warning you, child, do not let it happen again. Are we clear on this?" Snape said, fire burning in his eyes.
"Crystal, Professor." Alexz said, not breaking her gaze with Snape.
"Very well." Snape looked back at his list. "McKelly, Jennifer."
"Here." Jenn said. Snape continued to read off names. Ryan scribbled something on a piece of parchment, & slid it to Alexz. Alexz picked it up, and read:
You should watch your mouth, you don't want to get on the wrong side of Snape.
Alexz picked up her quill and wrote back:
I can take care of myself, I'm a big girl, you know. And as for Snape, there is no good side of him.
Ryan read the note, looked at Alexz, and frowned. He couldn't write back because Snape had just finished calling attendance. They were put into groups of two; Jenn was working with Hailey, Kassidy with Jonathan, Tyler with Christopher, so Alexz was with Ryan. They had to make a simple potion to cure boils. Alexz and Ryan worked in silence for about ten minutes until Ryan's voice broke the silence.
"I didn't mean that you couldn't take care of yourself, because I'm pretty sure that you can. All I was saying is that Snape can get rather nasty and you shouldn't make him be any nastier towards you than he already will be." He said, not looking up at Alexz. Alexz didn't say anything, she just continued to work on her potion.
After class, Alexz walked out without a word to anyone. She found her way to Transfiguration, their next class, pretty quickly, and sat down in the back of the classroom. After about five minutes, the rest of the Gryffindors joined her. Jenn plopped down next to her and said, "Hey, Alexz, where did you go after class? One minute you were there, then you were gone."
"Well, I left pretty quickly. I wanted to see if I could get here by myself." Alexz lied.
"Oh, I thought you and Ryan were arguing or something." Jenn said shrugging. Alexz squirmed in her seat as Ryan looked down at her, then took the seat three away from hers.
"So you are fighting." Jenn said seeing how Ryan and Alexz looked.
"No, we're not fighting, exactly. He just said some stuff that offended me, that's all." Alexz said. "Well, not offended, but stuff I didn't like."
"Oh." Jenn said as Professor McGonagall walked into the classroom.
After Transfiguration, the Gryffindors and the Ravenclaws (they had Transfiguration with Gryffindor) set off to the Great Hall for lunch. Alexz sat next to Hailey and Jenn with Kassidy next to Hailey. Christopher, Tyler, Jonathan, and Ryan sat at the other side of the table.
"So, tell me what he said." Jenn asked Alexz eagerly.
"Well, he said that I should watch my mouth around Snape and that I shouldn't get on the wrong side of him. I told him I could take care of myself and that Snape didn't have a good side. Then when you two left me all alone for making the boil stuff, he said that I shouldn't make Snape any nastier that he would already be to me." Alexz explained. "I guess that's not much to get annoyed at, but I just didn't want to hear it at that moment. I mean, I just got yelled at by Snape and he's telling me not to make him angry."
Jenn nodded and said, "Well, he asked me after Transfiguration if you were mad and I said you weren't mad, just a tad annoyed. He looked really upset, so I think he's going to apologize. I think he likes you, Alexz." She added, eyes twinkling.
"Give me a break! I just met him!" Alexz said laughing.
"Well, I heard this quote once, 'It takes an hour to like someone, a day to love someone, but forever to forget someone.' I think that applies here."
"So, you're saying he's going to love me tomorrow? Give me a break, Jenn."
"You never know. But anyway, what do we have next?"
Alexz fished around in her bag, looking for her schedule. "Ummmm Charms with Hufflepuff." She said when she found it.
"Well, we had better go, we have five minutes to find it." Jenn said, getting up. Alexz followed along with Hailey and Kassidy.
Charms went along uneventful, except for Kyle Brandonburg (a Hufflepuff) making the match they were trying to transfigure into a needle stab Ryan in the head. After Charms, the Gryffindors went to dinner, then back to the common room to do the homework Snape gave them.
"I can't believe he gave us homework on our first day!" Jenn complained.
"I know." Alexz agreed. She looked over at Ryan who was writing away on a piece of parchment. He looked up and slipped the parchment to her. It read:
Alexz-
I didn't mean to offend you by what I said. I'm sorry if I did, but I was just trying to look out for you.
-Ryan
Alexz took a rubber stamp and a pad of ink out of her bag. She put the stamp on the inkpad, then pressed it on the parchment. She handed it back to Ryan. He opened it up, and saw that across the parchment, was a big red
After they had all finished their homework, or were too tired to finished, they all said goodnight, then walked up to their dorms. As Alexz got into her bed, Kassidy asked, "So, Alexz, what did Ryan write you on that parchment? He seemed pretty happy about your reply." She smiled.
"Oh, he just asked me to marry him, and I said yes." Alexz said sarcastically. "No, he was just apologizing for what he said earlier, and I accepted his apology."
"Oh…" Kassidy started. Jenn interrupted.
"See! I told you he liked you!"
"You're right." Jenn looked shocked. "He likes me as a friend. That's it, Jenn, a friend." Alexz hopped into her bed, pulled the hangings around it, and fell asleep.