Disasters and Love Potions
By: Celeia
A/N: Thanks again to everyone who reviewed chapters 1 or 2 or both. I am quite proud of this fic, as this is my first, and am glad that you all enjoyed it. Please continue reviewing! I am also in need of some formatting help. I noticed that in the second chapter, the quotation marks turned out to be little boxes, and the smiley faces I put into my A/N's turned out to be J-like figures. I also noticed how many of my paragraphs were put together that weren't on my Microsoft Word program. If anyone can help me with formatting, please e-mail me at SunFire395@aol.com. Thanks again and on to the story!
Disclaimer: Please do not sue me for use of J.K Rowling's characters. I am merely a fan of her, and decided to use her characters in a little fiction of mine. However, I do own Holly Rodgers, Irene Morrison, Jennifer Norwall, Kevin Pardac, and Ryan Golde. Oh yeah, and the plot.
The whole room full of students silenced for McGonagall's announcement. McGonagall straightened her back and examined the students before her.
"As Professor Dumbledore said, I have an announcement to make." The Hall full of peering eyes underneath black school hats looked at her expectantly. She continued, "On February 14, also known as Valentine's Day, we will hold a formal dance."
The hall broke out into mumbling voices, which quickly turned into loud chatter. Molly eyed her friend Jennifer and they shared a small giggle. She also caught the eye of Arthur, who smiled at her, causing her to blush.
"Quiet! Quiet everyone, I am not finished with the announcement." McGonagall's stern voice broke through the voices of excitement. The hall hushed once again and faced McGonagall. "As I was saying, the dance shall be held from 7:00 at night on February 14th, to 11:00 at night, third years and up are invited." At this several of the first and second years of the Hall scowled and rumbling protests broke out.
"I'm sorry," McGonagall continued, "but we feel as though first and second years are not old enough for this sort of thing." She eyed the younger ones harshly, which caused them to stop their grumbling. "Everyone who is to be going has to have a partner to accompany them."
With this comment from McGonagall many of the students starting eyeing each other, smiling, winking, and blushing. Molly knew whom she wanted to ask to the Valentine's dance. Seeing that she would never get the courage to ask a fifth year, especially after the ordeal she put him through, was another story.
Irene, who was sitting on Molly's right, leaned over and whispered, "Do you think I should ask Kevin?" Molly glanced over at Arthur's friend Kevin, who seemed very interested in his green beans, and was not his usual laughing self. "Yeah, I say you go for it 'Rene."
Irene smiled and answered, "Yeah, maybe I'll ask him tomorrow, that way he's bound not to have a date already."
Molly never thought of that, wonder if he already has a date? Molly questioned herself. Oh no, I sure hope not! She thought again. Molly didn't know what to do, she was afraid of asking him to the dance, and she knew he would definitely not ask her.
"Hey Mol…earth to Molly…come in Molly!" Jennifer was poking Molly in the arm."Oops! Sorry I was thinking." Molly said coming back to reality. "About what, Arthur?" Holly said teasingly.
Molly blushed at her friend's comment and hit Holly in the arm. "Ouch! Why did you do that for?" Holly said hitting Molly back.
"Because I do not like Arthur. I don't." Molly answered huffily. Holly, Jenny, and Irene all exchanged knowing glances.
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It was the day after the spider incident, and the dance announcement. Molly was right in predicting the weather, over the night snowflakes fell down upon the grounds of the magical school, and it was a wonderful day to have fun out in the snow. Molly and her friends had managed to get a lot of the Gryffindors out into the snow for a big House snowball fight. Arthur and his friends were among those who were outside goofing off, and so were Molly and her friends of course.
"Hey Mol!" Molly spun around from gathering up a snowball to face Jenny. Before she knew it a big snowball hit her right on the chest, and Jenny stood before her grinning.
"Oh you!" Molly screamed chasing after her friend with the huge snowball she had gathered up. Holly and Irene soon caught on to what Molly was up to, and after sharing a mutual smile; they too ran after Jenny pelting her with snowballs.
The girls eventually tired out and fell down on the ground laughing and all red in the face. Just then, a snowball hit Molly in the back of her head. She spun around causing snow to fly everywhere and saw her older sister Laura Roberts, who was a sixth year and had a darker shade of red hair than Molly did. She was grinning and laughing.
"Laura!" Molly exclaimed. She grabbed as much snow as she possibly could and proceeded to aim at Laura. She let go of the snowball and it flew through the air, looking like it was going to hit her smack in the face.
All of a sudden, Laura ducked away from Molly's snowball, revealing a stunned Arthur Weasley staring at the snowball flying towards him like a deer that saw headlights.
Oh no! It's going to hit him! Molly thought to herself desperately. It was too late, Arthur's stunned face was now bright red through the snow that was slowly melting and dripping down his cloak.
"Well, well, well, Weasley. Wiped out by a girl, huh? That weak Roberts girl too." Lucius Malfoy and his little group of Slytherins had arrived at the field by the lake where all the Gryffindors had gathered. "Hmm..if I was you I would smack her for doing that to me." Lucius sneered. Arthur, wiping away the cold flakes of snow looked angrily at Lucius.
Molly blushed an embarrassed shade of red. She turn around and fled to the stairs that led into the Entrance Hall of the castle, climbed the marble stairs to the Gryffindor tower, entered into the common room, proceeded to her dormitory room, and collapsed on her bed. Her friends followed her, panting as a result of trying to catch up to the quick girl, and collapsed on to Molly's bed also.
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"Molly, here I brought you some dinner." Holly said to her friend holding out a plate of fried chicken, bread, and corn. "Also some dessert." She produced a plate with apple pie on it. Molly took the plate gratefully and began to eat.
Molly had skipped going down to dinner in fear that she would embarrass herself again in front of Arthur. She instead stayed up in her dormitory all afternoon wishing she wasn't so clumsy and such a fool.
"Molly, cheer up, it really wasn't your fault. It was more your sister's, Lucius and his gang of slimy Slytherins, and yes, Arthur's fault." Holly assured her friend putting her arm around her.
"Arthur's fault? How was it his fault?" Molly question miserably. "Because, he could of ducked the snowball like Laura did." Holly answered her.
"No he couldn't, it was coming at him too fast, and he had no time." Molly said gloomily. "Listen Molly, I'm sure he will have forgotten about it by tomorrow, I suggest you come down to breakfast tomorrow like it didn't happen, I'm sure that's what he'll do." Holly answered matter-of-factly.
"Okay Holly, I will. But I just want to be left alone right now okay?" Molly said to her friend.
"I understand Mol, Irene followed Kevin into the library anyways, and I'd better go quick before Kevin notices that Irene's drooling over him." Holly said to Molly. Molly managed a small smile.
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"This is so stupid!" Jenny said angrily. "What is?" Irene asked Jenny. "This stupid charm is stupid! It won't work! I am supposed to be making the last thing I had in on my desk reappear, and I last had my quill on my desk, and all the stupid charm is managing to do is turn the quill into a dart!"
"Here, let me help." Molly voiced, Charms was her favorite class and she was very good at it. It was the Monday, and Molly was back in her usual spirits. She seemed to have gotten over the snowball incident, and so did Arthur. It was almost Transfiguration class, and Irene was planning to ask Kevin to go to the dance with her after studying him in the library that Saturday. Molly was scared of being Arthur's partner again, and was thinking about faking sick if she was paired up with him.
The bell rang and the class moved to get out of the door and off to their next classes. "Molly, you ok?" Irene said to Molly nervously. She couldn't believe she was going to ask Kevin to the dance in only a few minutes. Molly nodded, though she seemed lost in thought again. Irene turned to her other friends instead. "So who do you guys want to go to the Valentine's dance with?" She asked Jenny and Holly. Jenny answered first, "I'm thinking about asking Michael Klines, he's really nice, and we get along well." "Oooh Jenny!" Irene and Holly teased their friend.
"Aw shut up guys, he's nice." Jenny answered annoyed. "What about you, Holly?" Irene asked of Holly.
"Oh I dunno, I think I'm going to wait and see if anyone asks me, and if nobody does, then I'm going to see if Mark wants to go." Holly was a good friend of a fourth year Gryffindor boy named Mark Davidson.
"That's a good idea." Molly finally said something. "Hey Mol! You're back to earth!" Holly exclaimed. "Yup, back to earth." Molly said grinning at her friends.
"Well, you're happy now aren't you Mol?" Irene said. "Yeah, I guess I am, I mean it wasn't such a big deal Saturday was it?" Her friends smiled and each told her it wasn't.
They continued through the halls until they heard the murmur of their classmates in the Transfiguration wing. Arthur and his friends were in their usual spot, by the door, talking and laughing.
Holly nudged Irene and whispered, "Here's your chance, go ask him!" She pointed to the boys, who had stopped laughing and seemed like they were calming down before McGonagall's class.
"Kevin, can I talk to you?" Irene asked tentatively. Ryan nudged Kevin the ribs and Kevin turned and walked towards the girls.
"Um…we don't want to be late Holly, Jenny!" Molly ushered her friends into the classroom leaving Irene alone with Kevin.
The girls sat down a table by themselves, discussing the dance and Irene's current situation. Irene walked in the door, beaming and blushing, hurried over to her friends and exclaimed, "He said yes!"
Molly giggled, quickly joined by the rest of the girls, and they all congratulated Irene. "Now if Kevin said yes to me, then Arthur will say yes to you." Irene told Molly confidently.
"Yeah I guess," Molly answered slowly, "maybe I'll ask him after class!" "But I thought you didn't like him?" Jenny asked grinning. Molly blushed at this, they all knew she did. Irene, Jenny, and Holly all nodded in agreement to Molly's statement, and gave words of encouragement to their friend.
After a partnerless lesson of Transfiguration, in which Molly spent figuring out what she was going to say to Arthur, the bell rang. Students clambered about getting their belongings together for the next class. Arthur's happened to be Potions, so Molly had to act fast. Molly gathered up her nerves and her friends smiled at her.
Well, here goes nothing. Molly said to herself as she often did. She walked out the door and briskly walked to catch up to Arthur. Oh thank God, he's alone. Molly thought happily. Arthur's friends had different classes than Arthur.
"Arthur!" Molly called out in a strangely squeaky voice. Arthur spun around. "Oh, hi Molly!" Arthur said smiling at her. "What is it?"
"I was…I was…I was," Molly stuttered out. "Yes?" Arthur asked Molly quizzically. "I was wondering if you would…if you…would..would..gotothedancewithme?" Molly finally blurted out.
"Alter my pants for me?" Arthur asked genuinely confused. "Oh no! Molly, I'm sorry but I really have to go! I'm going to be late from talking to you for Potions!"
"Oh…" Molly just kept looking at him. "Oh!" She suddenly exclaimed. "I guess I'll see you later?" Arthur asked her. "Oh, sure." Molly said disheartedly.
Oh great. Just great, I managed to make a fool out of myself again, plus made him late for Potions. I didn't even get to know if he wanted to go with me or not. Alter his pants? Oh Molly, either he's deaf or you cannot speak worth beans. I have a feeling it's the second one. Molly sighed to herself.
"Well, I better follow him to see if he got into any trouble, I sincerely hope he didn't!" Molly voiced out loud. Molly had a free period right after Transfiguration on Mondays. "Hope?" There is no hope!" Molly jumped back. "Who was that?" She said out loud. "Me!" Molly turned and faced a portrait of a greenish creature with big ears. (A/N: Yoda, from Star Wars. You know how he says, "Try? There is no try…" Well that's my take on it.)
Weird, Molly thought to herself. She began to follow Arthur from a distance down to the dungeons, so he didn't notice her. When he reached the Potion's dungeon, and walked inside, she put her ear up against the crack in the door and listened.
"Mr. Weasley! You are late for my class. 10 points from Gryffindor and a detention for you tonight." Professor Siam was very mean to everyone but the Slytherins, the House that he was head of. Arthur turned bright red and slumped to his desk.
Molly also turned red and ran back up to the Gryffindor tower. It looked like she was going to be skipping dinner in the Great Hall again.
A/N: Wow, that was long for me. Well, I hoped you enjoyed that chapter, and if enough people want me to, I'll continue the story. Well, I'll probably continue it anyways, but I still appreciate your reviews. Please tell me if you liked it, and if you didn't tell me why. Thanks!