As the Snow Falls

As the Snow Falls

Chapters 2

Disclaimer - I only own Elayne Mantavo, Aaron Mantavo, Eliza Mantavo, and Madame Karvanti. That's it! The rest is JK's!

Author's Note Number One: Hey ppl! I haven't been here for a LONG time! Rn't ya just SOOOO happi to see me??? O...well, you can still fake it right? ;) Neways, I just wanted to say sry that this came out so late...but life's hectic. What with finals and tests and school ending and getting summer together, and making plans with friends, and well... that's all besides being the crazy Jaxx that I am! I'd also like to say that I am now ButterflyGurl's new beta reader! YEAH!!!!!!!!! Im SOOOOO proud! :) wells, neways, I'd appreciate feedback, it might help me make this better and will probably make me want to write and get the next set of chapters out! ::winks:: o. and im changing Elayne's last name to Mantavo. I didn't like Carnacarn the best, ya kno? :) Neways, here ya go! A delightful - hopefully - helping of ATSF!

O - and remember - this is a VERY LONG TIME AGO! EVEN BEFORE SNOW WHITE: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED! In this story its just after women have gained the right to practice magic, and use it. As u may guess I'm having this done a LONG time before Muggle women get the rights to work and stuff like that...this is SO long ago I can't even begin to describe when I think that it might be set! But...still, it may seem like now, since I write like this.

~Chapter Two: What goes on inside THAT head??~

Didn't get me in time?? What's wrong with that witch?? I thought to myself as I walked into the great hall. She made it seem as if I weren't kicked out of Bauxbatons... It's not my fault that those rats found their way into the kitchens, now is it?? Or that Jeffery Winicker found out that I was the one that cast the spell that made a jalapeno pepper fly up his nose...was it? Or when I - Wait... maybe those aren't such a good questions to ask...

At Bauxbatons, I had had the record of Detentions. I was the most "horrible" student that they had ever faced before. And what really surprised them was that I was a girl. I live in a time, when girls have just gotten the rights to learn and practice magic. They had just made the change from a Witch's finishing school to a co-ed magic school when I came along. I guess they just couldn't handle me, though, so I was sent here, to Hogwarts.

A house-elf soon appeared to take my broom away, and then I didn't have much of a choice but to walk up to the great platform in the front of the hall.

I stood, feeling very uncomfortable with all of the 11 year olds around me, until an old man with dark brown eyes and gray hair came up and put a hat, that looked as if it were almost brand-new, on a stool. This is kind of weird... I thought, and then it began too sing. It sang about the four different houses here...Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slyntherin. Gryffindor, the house of the brave...that's me, but it sounds so...so...goodie, goodie! Nah, guess that ones scratched off my list. Ravenclaw...smarts? well, needless to say I don't belong there...I'm not dumb or anything, but I'm not a genius either! Huffelpuffs...well, they sound like a pack of wimps to me...DEFENATLY not my style. Hmmm...Slytherin sounds by far the best. Cunning...will do almost anything to make things work...that sounds pretty much like me! I thought to myself. Soon all of the eleven year olds were sorted and then it was just me.

The man came up again and said, "Hello Children. We have a transfer student this year. Her name is Elayne Mantavo and I hope that you will all make her feel welcome. Now, Elayne, please come and be sorted." The man pulled me over to the hat and set it down on my head. Everyone was staring at me. O well, who cares I thought, angrily to myself. Not such calm thoughts, Miss Mantavo. A voice said in my ear.

"W-wha..." I started saying aloud, when the voice spoke again.

No, its quite all right. No problem here. And I'm supposed to speak to you through your mind! I am after all, the sorting hat!

What? That's pretty cool. How do I get sorted? I asked the voice - er, hat.

Well, I am searching all your thoughts right now, and I'm trying to decide where you belong...despite what you may think, you actually have a lot of good in you. The hat said.

Really? I asked. This was surprising. No one had told me that I was a good girl before...well, my mother might have when she was alive, but...now that it was only dad, Eliza - my evil stepmother, and me, I was usually told the complete opposite.

Yes. I knew your father too. Aaron Mantavo. he came here a very long time ago. I'm sorry to find out that he has changed. From your memories it seems that he changed a great deal from how he used to be.

Y-you knew my father? He's changed? This can't be possible, my family's been French for generations. He didn't come here. I don't want him to have come here. He is awful and I don't want to ever be anything like him! I thought, shaking my head. By this time people were starting to get bored, or curious as to what was going on in the long conversation I was having with the sorting hat.

Well, we had better get a move on! People are starting to wonder...I see that you want to be in Slytherin...but...you are so good... the hat thought to me. Hmmmmm...well, I do think that you would fit in there...have fun in your new home - SLYTHERIN! The hat shouted out the last word. I took the hat of quickly and turned to a the table that was cheering. It was long and green with shinning silver tableware on it. Though, the crowd seemed to have a bit of a dark personality, I thought that I would be happy here.

Author's Note Number Two: Heys! I'm pretty pleased with this chapter! I like it! :) and remember - like I said before in 4R&AP, not all slytherins are bad! I have a specific reason for putting her there! And I do think that Mantavo suits her better than Carnacarn as a last name. O well. I hope you like. And Remember - Feedback is a girls best friend - so please review!!!!! Smiles from Jaxx :)