Chapter 1: Harry Meets Rob
Harry was quietly listening by a crack in the door right outside the Ravenclaw girls' dormitory wearing his invisibility cloak while Cho Chang, his secret crush, was having a party. He knelt down on the cold stone floor, hoping to hear who Cho likes during their "girlie conversations." Suddenly he felt that he was not alone. Harry was startled by someone behind him.
"Why are you spying on the girls?" says a ghost, casually leaning against the stone wall. Harry could see his tight black shirt and faded jeans. The ghost turned his head and smiled, giving Harry a better view of his curly light brown hair. "Eep! You scared me! Who are you? And better yet, how can you see me? I'm invisible!!" Harry gasped.
"Ooh, sorry buddy. My name is Rob, I'm Ravenclaw's ghost. I haunt these parts. It's my job, ya know?"
"I didn't know Ravenclaw even had a ghost," Harry says.
"Well, I don't come out much. I like my solitude. I fear laser pointers, large crowds, people who drive slow on the left side of the road and evil children." Rob shuddered.
"Can you handle those Slytherins?" Harry questioned.
"Not really. I work here to be as far away from Slytherin as humanly, or ghostly, possible.
"I feel your pain. Speaking of pain, no offense, but how'd you die?" Harry asked.
"Well, I was in Potions, sitting in the front row, minding my own business, when Professor Snape added too much powdered rattlesnake. Two words: big kaboom. Lot's of people suffered purple boils from where the concoction hit them, but since I was in the front row, I received the full blast. I died. Right before I died, I experienced some mutations. That gives me super powers, like seeing normally invisible things.
"Wow...that's pretty cool. I never heard of Snape making a mistake during a class before." Harry said. "It was a total cover up. No one else knew. Snape erased the students' memories or the incident for fear of a bad reputation," Rob explained.
"Ha! Snape would have deserved the humiliation!" Harry thought to himself.
"Yeah, I hate Snape too." Harry looked bewildered. "Oh, part of my powers is reading minds. I know exactly what your thinking right now. I also know you have to pee really bad..."
Harry's face turned a deep magenta. Just then, on the other side of the door, girls were screaming. The conversation ended between Rob and Harry so they could both hear the cause of the shrieks.
"Your turn! I choose Cho! Truth or Dare?" one girl said in a high pitched voice.
"Uh...Truth!" responded Cho.
"Okay then," said the girl from before, "who do you like and why?"
"Oohh..do I have to??" Cho pleaded.
"Yep!" chimed rest of the girls in unison. "You gotta! You don't have any more chickens!"
Cho sighed. "Okay. I like... Draco Malfoy because he's wild!" The group responded with peals of laughter, and then the girls continued on with their game.
Harry's mouth dropped open and eyes widened in disbelief. Rob certainly seemed happy. "Oooohhh...BURNT! Ah, hahaha! Cho doesn't like you! Na nanananana!" Then Rob disappeared through the wall, laughing his head off. Harry stood there, alone and confused. "She...she likes Malfoy!?!?"