They talked about the first day of classes as they walked toward a painting
of a man swimming in a lake.
"Pass word?" it asked.
"Firefly." Brian said. The painting swung forward to revile a pathway. They crawled through it and into the Hufflepuff common room.
The room had a fireplace in one corner and in the other sat a table. There were smaller tables all the way around the room. Two different doors lead to different rooms. Katriena went up the one of the right. The girl's dormitory was through there. The boy's was down the other one. Katriena climbed some stairs till she reached the highest room. She slept in there with three other girls. As she opened the door a white cat rushed out to meet her. Trouble was purring as she rubbed up against her legs.
Jessi continued to climb stairs after flight of stairs. She opened a hidden panel and continued on. She walked down a hall toward a painting of a very fat lady in a pink dress. Just as Jessi was about to talk to the lady in the pink dress, something stepped out from the shadows. Jessi jumped back surprised. It was one of the ghosts. The ghost floated on past Jessi at a high speed. That surprised Jessi because most of the time the ghosts would at lest say hello. Jessi watched the ghost leave, shrugged her shoulders, and turned back toward the painting.
"Why of the all the times for her to leave." Jessi said as she saw that the Fat Lady had left her painting. "Great now what do I do?"
Jessi looked at the empty painting once more than turned around and walked back the way she had come. She was walking down the stairs deep in thought, wondering what to do now, that she didn't notice that she had stepped on the vanishing step. She gave a small yell as her left leg sank down into the stair, all the way to her knee. She was thrown off balance. As she put out an arm to stop her self from falling any further, her book bag was thrown down the rest of the stairs. The stuff inside the bag was spilled out all over the stairs.
"Oh no." Jessi moaned as she tried to pull her leg free from the stair. The stair would not let her go.
Jessi tried to sit down in the stair above her but couldn't. She didn't want to stand the whole time while she waited for someone to come help her, but she had a feeling that if she sat on the vanishing stair she would sink in further.
As she was trying to think of something to do, something passed right through her. It left her felling cold and clammy. She looked up to see Nearly Headless Nick, Sir. Nick, float on up the stairs.
"Nick!" Jessi called to him.
He stopped when he heard his name called and turned around.
"Ah, fellow Gryffindor how can I help you." He said as he came back over to Jessi.
"Nick can you please go and find someone. The bell should ring in a few moments. Everyone will probably go down the dinning room. I need someone to come help pull me free." Jessi asked, for she knew that Nick would do what she asked.
"Yes I will." He started to float away. He called over his shoulder,
"I'll be right back."
That night after dinner the students had some free time. Jessi, Shannon, Katriena and Brian decided to walk around the courtyard. They were talking about how the rest of their day had gone.
"I had to wait around for Nick to come back with Ron and Harry to come and free me. I hate that stair case." Jessi was telling them about what had happen to her after they had left Professor McGonagall's office.
Katriena was trying to cover a laugh, but wasn't having much luck.
Jessi was about to say something when someone threw something at them. They all turned around to find Harry and Ron holding what looked like plain Muggle water balloons. The small group scattered as Harry threw another one at them. Jessi laughing rushed toward them in hopes of knocking them over or at least get one water balloon. They pelted her with one. As Jessi shook the water off of herself Katriena and Shannon came up behind the two. They managed to take a couple of water balloons from the boys before Ron decked Shannon with one. Katriena threw one of the ones that she had been holding at Harry. He ducked, it hit Ron bursting all over him. Hermione and Ginny were standing up by the door when Brian came up to them, shaking water all over them as he went inside. They looked at the others as they came up the steppes.
"You had better run for it. Filch has been around and he's not in the greatest mood. Some new first years made a mess down in the charms room today. Feathers every where." Ginny said as the wet people came into the castle. Brian and Katriena took off at a dead run with the others following behind them. Katriena and Brian went down some stairs while the others went up the stairs. They were leaving a wet trial behind them.
Jessi, Shannon, Harry and Ron were starting to get out of breath from running up different flights of stairs. Shannon took off toward the left of the four floor. Her common room was down that way. Jessi, Harry and Ron kept on climbing. The Gryffindor common room was up near the towers. They were still a good few staircases when they heard a meowing behind them. They all turned and looked. At what they saw they took off, only faster this time. The meowing sound had come from Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris. Everyone in school hated that cat, including Katriena and cats were her favorite animals. They had almost reached the hidden panel that would let them into the hallway that went to the Gryffindor common room, when they heard someone running behind them.
"Oh no." Jessi moaned. She had once gotten in trouble by Filch. It happen in her first year, most students got in trouble with him during their first year, she had accidentally exploded some dugbombs, that the Weasley twins had given her as a joke, in the hall. Filch had been there in a minute of it going off. She got into so much trouble that day.
"Come on if we really make a run for the panel we can make it into the common room." Ron gasped. His face was red from the effort of running up the stairs. Jessi and Harry didn't say anything but only ran faster. They ran like they had never run before. (Okay maybe not Ron and Harry but Jessi sure did) they reached the painting that covered the Gryffindor but the Fat Lady was one again gone.
"Oh man this is bad." Ron said looking back toward the panel. They could her footsteps coming from in there.
Jessi, Harry and Ron got ready for Filch to come out at them but when the panel opened they saw that it was Neville Longbottom.
"What's going on?" Neville asked, as he looked his friends over as they released a long breath.
"Oh nothing expect trying not to have a heart attack." Ron mumbled as the Fat Lady finally came back to her painting.
"Pass word?" she asked.
"Artemis Foul." Harry said. The Fat Lady opened up to revile the tunnel into the Gryffindor Common room.
As Jessi and the boys were running up the stairs Shannon was running up and down other flights of stairs. She had passed some other students from Ravenclaw. They looked at her like she had lost her mind.
"Shannon what's the rush?" a blond hair girl asked.
"I'm all wet if Filch catches me it'll be another Howler from home about getting into trouble. So if Filch comes this way tell him nothing. Okay Mandy?" Shannon said as she rushed by.
"Okay." Mandy said shaking her head.
Shannon finally made it to the hidden door to the Ravenclaw Common room. It was a door and not a painting. She had to tickle it in a special spot to get it to open. The spot changed every few days, and sometimes the spot was on the doorframe. Shannon tickled it and the door opened. The Ravenclaw common room was done out in blue and sliver. A picture of the founder was hanging above the fireplace. There was only one table in the room. It was long and sliver. Shannon went through a door. The stairs went down to the different rooms. Shannon found the one she shared with three other girls. She walked over to her wardrobes and opened it. She pulled out some dry clothes. She sat down on the bed only to jump right back up. She had almost sat on Pippin.
The weeks flew by. It was a month into the term when the captains for the Quidditch teams started to round up their teams. And it didn't make things any better when the teachers piled the students with a lot of homework.
"Man I don't know if I'll ever get this right." Katriena said as she tried to turn a desk into a dog. She had gotten the tail part done but not the rest.
"Okay class that's good for today. You may go." Professor McGonagall said as the bell rang.
"Hey Katriena!" someone yelled over the voices in the hallway.
Katriena turned to look. It was Shannon. She was rushing toward her.
"Here." Shannon said handing a note to Katriena and than rushed off toward her class.
Katriena didn't have a chance to look at it till she got to class. And even than she had to be careful. She had Potions with the 7th year Ravenclaws. She didn't mind that she had that class with them, the Gryffindors had it with the Slytherins, but she didn't like the person who taught it. No one liked Professor Snape. And he didn't like anyone, except his own house, Slytherin.
Katriena was teamed up with a girl from Ravenclaw, Hannah. They were trying to make a potion that would turn anything that drank it into a wolf. Theirs was too thick.
"Oh man here comes Snape." Hannah whispered to Katriena.
"Well class it seems that not all Ravenclaws are smart and neither are the Hufflepuffs. Shall we test this?" Snape looked in on their mix, "Miss Young I believe you have a cat, am I right?"
Katriena didn't say anything. She didn't want Professor Snape to turn Trouble into a wolf.
"Well?" Snape snapped.
"Yes sir." Katriena said slowly, "But she's up in my room." Well that's what she hoped. The owls and cats could roam all they wanted inside the castle.
"In your room? I don't think so. I think if you look over in that corner class, Miss Young's cat sunk into the room today." Snape pointed.
The whole class looked. And he was right, Trouble was sitting there. She looked up as the class looked down at her. Snape walked over and picked her up by the back of her neck. Trouble hissed.
"Now if they did their potion right the cat will turn into a wolf." He was about to take some of the potion out of the caldron it was in the bell ringed. Snape looked furious at it, "Fine I want a whole parchment on this potion due to me Monday."
Katriena packed up all her stuff than grabbed Trouble from Snape. She didn't look back even when Snape took five points from Hufflepuff. She carried her cat into the dinning hall.
"Katriena why do you have Trouble with you?" Jessi asked as she sat down next to Katriena. The teachers didn't care if the students ate with their friends as long as it wasn't a feast.
"Professor Snape was going to try our Wolf Changing potion on her. We made it too thick. It wasn't right. Trouble had followed me into the class." Katriena sat Trouble on her lap as the food appeared on the plates.
The next day was the first feast on the term, beside the start of term feats. It was finally Halloween. Two months had passed. The next day would be the first game of the year. It was Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. All the teachers let their last class out early. Harry and Ron ran down to Hagrid's cabin. They had gotten a letter that morning from him. It said something about he had something to show them. Hermione had to run up to the Gryffindor tower to put all her books away.
"Hey Hagrid. Open up." Harry yelled through the heavy wooden door.
The door opened real slowly. As the door continued to open Hermione came running down the lawn toward the cabin. They finally were able to see inside the cabin. Fang, Hagrid's dog, came leaping out at them. He jumped up on Ron trying to lick his ears.
"Well what do you want to show us?" Harry asked as they walked in side the cabin. Ron was pushing Fang off.
"Look what I got!" Hagrid said with a smile pointing to something on the table.
The three looked at it. It was a box and inside was something that they had only seen once up close. (Well except for Harry who had seen this sort of thing a second time) It was a scale. A really small one at that. And under it was a tooth and a claw. The scale was a green color.
"Hagrid you didn't get another dragon egg did you?" Harry asked still looking inside the box. Hagrid had once own a dragon egg that had hatched into Norbert. Ron still had a small scar on his hand from where it had bit him. In the end they had written to Ron's brother, Charlie, to came and get the thing.
"No, no. This stuff didn't come from any old dragon. It came from Charlie. He wrote me that it's Norbert's." Hagrid smiled thoughtfully.
Ron, Hermione and Harry looked at each other. They didn't know what to think of this. They didn't talk or think about Norbert every often but than again they had their hands fell of the new animals Hagrid got.
"Come on you guys. Let's get up to the castle for dinner. I'm hungry." Ron said as he started to walk up to the castle. The others followed him.
They had just gotten to the door of the great hall when something dropped on their heads. They were not the only ones. Something had also fallen on to Shannon and Ginny's heads. They looked up to see a bucket floating in mid air. As they watched it something dropped out of the bucket and on to the head of a Ravenclaw third year's head. It was what looked like green Jell-O. Hermione looked closer at it.
"This isn't Jell-O it's one of Professor Snape's potions. It's the.." Hermione was cut off as she felt something growing from her head. She put her hand up to her head. Her hair was growing really fast and it had turned into ropes. "Great. Harry, Ron this is bad for every person the potion does something different to them."
She turned around to look at them but found herself looking at Harry with hair down to his feet. Ron's hair had disappeared and was replaced with a garden growing on his head. Shannon and Ginny's hair was both growing like crazy.
"Students please come in and sit down." Professor Filtwick said as he came up to the door. He was shocked to see 5 students with weird hair duos. The poor Ravenclaw had lost all her hair and was about to burst into tears.
The bucket tipped over, dumping the rest of the potion on the students standing below. Professor Flitwick was caught in the middle as Hermione, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Shannon and the Ravenclaw girl tried to make a run for it. As they all tried to get out of the way a ghost popped into the air were the bucket had been. It was Pevees. The only ghost at the school who didn't listen to any of the teachers or other ghost.
"Pevees when I tell Dumbledore that you've been down in Snape's room stealing his potions again you'll get it." Poor Professor Flitwick was covered in fuzz. He could hardly see out of it. "Well come on to the hospital wing. I believe that Madam Pomfrey has something that can fix this."
Hermione had to lead the way for she was the only one who could see, the Ravenclaw girl was still in tears.
"Well what's this?" Madam Pomfrey asked as they all walked into the hospital wing.
"Please Madam Pomfrey can you do something to help us with this mess?" Hermione asked.
"Yes I can, but some of you will have to stay here for the night. Let's see. Professor Flitwick come over here. You too girl." She led them over to some tables. She gave them some white potion. Professor Flitwick could see again and the girl's hair was growing back. "Okay now tell me what length to grow it to." Madam Pomfrey kept giving the girl some of the white medicine.
When the girl finally left her hair was longer than it had started out as.
"Okay. Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley over here please." Madam Pomfrey directed them behind a curtain. She came out again, "Miss Granger, Wagner and Weasley over here." She led them to a different curtain. She gave them all some dressing gowns to put on. She pulled the curtains away from them after they had all got dressed. She went into her office as they all climbed into the beds. She came out with three different bottles. She spooned some that was pale green into three spoons.
"Here you go dears." She said as she handed it to Harry, Shannon and Ginny. "And this one for you Mr. Weasley." She handed him a spoon with a red medicine in it. She poured some purple medicine into the last spooning than handed it to Hermione. "Now you three," she pointed at Harry and the two girls, "your hair is going to keep growing till it can't grow anymore. It's going to an itchy night for you three." She turned back toward Ron, "Mr. Weasley yours is going to die than re-grow back into your normal hair. And Miss Granger yours will also fall out. Your hair will grow back really curly this time." She walked away shaking her head as all five of them looked at her back with disbelief.
"Great. This is just great. No Halloween Feast this year for us." Ron said lending back on his pillow.
"I know." Hermione said.
"Well at least you can see. All I see is hair and more hair. And it's making my face itch." Harry said from behind al his hair.
"I know." Ginny and Shannon both said as one.
They were still mumbling when the door to the hospital wing opened. In walked Katriena, Brian and Professor Dumbledore. He looked at them with a smile on his lips and a sparkle in his eye.
"Well it seems that Professor Flitwick was right. I'll have some dinner sent up to you five." He left them still with a smile.
"Shannon if only you could see your self. You look like Cousin It." Katriena giggled.
"Shut up Katriena." Shannon said from behind all her hair.
"Cousin It?" Ron asked puzzled.
"Just some one from a TV show." Brian said as the door opened again. This time it was Jessi. She was carrying a tray of food with her.
"Hi guys." She sat down the tray on a table. She handed a plate of food to each of her friends. "Man Shannon I wish I had a camera or something because you look really funny."
"Leave her alone." Ginny said from behind all her hair.
"How did this happen?" Katriena said as she helped Ginny with pulling the hair out of her face so she could eat.
"Pevees." Ron said between bites. His garden had just bloomed. It had caught all that could see it by surprise. "What?" all the others had started to laugh.
"Okay, okay. Now go on get. These five need their sleep. I believe Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley more than anyone does. They have a game in the morning." Madam Pomfrey said as she herded the other three out of the room.
The five didn't have an every good night. Harry, Shannon and Ginny were up half the night starching their heads as the hair grew. Ron's garden had turned brown before lights out, now it had fallen out. There were little puffs of red hair beginning to show. Hermione's hair had also fallen out. The brown hair had begun to grow back. Around one in the morning Harry and Shannon's hair had finally stopped growing. Ginny's didn't stop till almost four.
They were woken up by voices. "Do you think they got enough sleep to play?" Harry was the first to wake.
He could see Jessi and another player from the Gryffindor team standing at the foot of his bed.
"Well you're finally awake." Jessi saw that he was awake. "Think you can play today?"
"Yeah we can." Ron had woken up to the question.
"Well their not going anywhere till I've said they could." Madam Pomfrey had come out of her office with a tray of food. She looked them all over as they ate. Jessi and the other Gryffindor looked on as they ate. They than waited out in the hall while they all got dressed.
Later as the Gryffindor team was in the locker room getting ready their captain was giving them a peep talk.
"Okay, this is the final year for our seeker, for the beater and two of our chasers." The captain of the Gryffindor team, Thomas, said, "We need to win that cup this year. The Gryffindor team hasn't won it sine Harry's third year."
Harry and Ron looked at each other. They knew what needed to be done in order to win. Jessi had been on the team long enough to find a few games, but never the cup.
"We need the golden snitch caught only if we are a 30 points ahead, but if you see their seeker going after it don't hesitate to go after. We need to win." Thomas said before turning to the chasers, "We need some good team work here from you three. Try that little trick that we thought of if everything starts to get rough." He than turned to Jessi, "Us as beaters need to make sure that we hit the beaters more at the Sytherian chasers more than anything."
"I'll make sure that no one gets a goal while I'm in front of the hoops." The keeper, Alison, said. She was a four-year but she had already proven herself as a good keeper.
"Right now let's go." Thomas said as he led the way to the door that lead to the field.
As the door opened cheers from the Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and the Hufflepuffs meted them. As Jessi mounted her broom she could see Shannon, Brian, Ginny and Katriena holding up a huge banner with her name on it. She watched it change to read Harry's name than it changed again to read Ron's.
"Well, well. Look Potter and Weasley have a fan club." Malfoy said from his broom. Jessi could see the name of his broom printed on the handled. It read Nimbus Two-Thousand and One. Jessi looked down at her broom. She was riding a Nimbus Two-Thousand. Harry had by far the fastest broom out there, the Firebolt.
"Okay I want a nice clean game."
The balls were released. They were off.
"And the game starts. For the Gryffindor team chasers Weasley, Thomas and Snalt head for the Slyerian end of the field." Hermione had taken up telling people what was going on after the Weasley twins' friend, Lee Jordan, had left Hogwarts.
"Think you can stay on that broom girl?" A Slyerian beater was flying right over Jessi. She didn't look up. She turned right heading for the Gryffindor end.
"Hey Jessi, hit that one toward the Slyerian chaser that's on Ron's tail!" Harry yelled as he flew past her, Malfoy was right be hind him. Malfoy was the seeker form the Slyerian team.
Jessi looked over to where Ron was flying.
"Pass word?" it asked.
"Firefly." Brian said. The painting swung forward to revile a pathway. They crawled through it and into the Hufflepuff common room.
The room had a fireplace in one corner and in the other sat a table. There were smaller tables all the way around the room. Two different doors lead to different rooms. Katriena went up the one of the right. The girl's dormitory was through there. The boy's was down the other one. Katriena climbed some stairs till she reached the highest room. She slept in there with three other girls. As she opened the door a white cat rushed out to meet her. Trouble was purring as she rubbed up against her legs.
Jessi continued to climb stairs after flight of stairs. She opened a hidden panel and continued on. She walked down a hall toward a painting of a very fat lady in a pink dress. Just as Jessi was about to talk to the lady in the pink dress, something stepped out from the shadows. Jessi jumped back surprised. It was one of the ghosts. The ghost floated on past Jessi at a high speed. That surprised Jessi because most of the time the ghosts would at lest say hello. Jessi watched the ghost leave, shrugged her shoulders, and turned back toward the painting.
"Why of the all the times for her to leave." Jessi said as she saw that the Fat Lady had left her painting. "Great now what do I do?"
Jessi looked at the empty painting once more than turned around and walked back the way she had come. She was walking down the stairs deep in thought, wondering what to do now, that she didn't notice that she had stepped on the vanishing step. She gave a small yell as her left leg sank down into the stair, all the way to her knee. She was thrown off balance. As she put out an arm to stop her self from falling any further, her book bag was thrown down the rest of the stairs. The stuff inside the bag was spilled out all over the stairs.
"Oh no." Jessi moaned as she tried to pull her leg free from the stair. The stair would not let her go.
Jessi tried to sit down in the stair above her but couldn't. She didn't want to stand the whole time while she waited for someone to come help her, but she had a feeling that if she sat on the vanishing stair she would sink in further.
As she was trying to think of something to do, something passed right through her. It left her felling cold and clammy. She looked up to see Nearly Headless Nick, Sir. Nick, float on up the stairs.
"Nick!" Jessi called to him.
He stopped when he heard his name called and turned around.
"Ah, fellow Gryffindor how can I help you." He said as he came back over to Jessi.
"Nick can you please go and find someone. The bell should ring in a few moments. Everyone will probably go down the dinning room. I need someone to come help pull me free." Jessi asked, for she knew that Nick would do what she asked.
"Yes I will." He started to float away. He called over his shoulder,
"I'll be right back."
That night after dinner the students had some free time. Jessi, Shannon, Katriena and Brian decided to walk around the courtyard. They were talking about how the rest of their day had gone.
"I had to wait around for Nick to come back with Ron and Harry to come and free me. I hate that stair case." Jessi was telling them about what had happen to her after they had left Professor McGonagall's office.
Katriena was trying to cover a laugh, but wasn't having much luck.
Jessi was about to say something when someone threw something at them. They all turned around to find Harry and Ron holding what looked like plain Muggle water balloons. The small group scattered as Harry threw another one at them. Jessi laughing rushed toward them in hopes of knocking them over or at least get one water balloon. They pelted her with one. As Jessi shook the water off of herself Katriena and Shannon came up behind the two. They managed to take a couple of water balloons from the boys before Ron decked Shannon with one. Katriena threw one of the ones that she had been holding at Harry. He ducked, it hit Ron bursting all over him. Hermione and Ginny were standing up by the door when Brian came up to them, shaking water all over them as he went inside. They looked at the others as they came up the steppes.
"You had better run for it. Filch has been around and he's not in the greatest mood. Some new first years made a mess down in the charms room today. Feathers every where." Ginny said as the wet people came into the castle. Brian and Katriena took off at a dead run with the others following behind them. Katriena and Brian went down some stairs while the others went up the stairs. They were leaving a wet trial behind them.
Jessi, Shannon, Harry and Ron were starting to get out of breath from running up different flights of stairs. Shannon took off toward the left of the four floor. Her common room was down that way. Jessi, Harry and Ron kept on climbing. The Gryffindor common room was up near the towers. They were still a good few staircases when they heard a meowing behind them. They all turned and looked. At what they saw they took off, only faster this time. The meowing sound had come from Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris. Everyone in school hated that cat, including Katriena and cats were her favorite animals. They had almost reached the hidden panel that would let them into the hallway that went to the Gryffindor common room, when they heard someone running behind them.
"Oh no." Jessi moaned. She had once gotten in trouble by Filch. It happen in her first year, most students got in trouble with him during their first year, she had accidentally exploded some dugbombs, that the Weasley twins had given her as a joke, in the hall. Filch had been there in a minute of it going off. She got into so much trouble that day.
"Come on if we really make a run for the panel we can make it into the common room." Ron gasped. His face was red from the effort of running up the stairs. Jessi and Harry didn't say anything but only ran faster. They ran like they had never run before. (Okay maybe not Ron and Harry but Jessi sure did) they reached the painting that covered the Gryffindor but the Fat Lady was one again gone.
"Oh man this is bad." Ron said looking back toward the panel. They could her footsteps coming from in there.
Jessi, Harry and Ron got ready for Filch to come out at them but when the panel opened they saw that it was Neville Longbottom.
"What's going on?" Neville asked, as he looked his friends over as they released a long breath.
"Oh nothing expect trying not to have a heart attack." Ron mumbled as the Fat Lady finally came back to her painting.
"Pass word?" she asked.
"Artemis Foul." Harry said. The Fat Lady opened up to revile the tunnel into the Gryffindor Common room.
As Jessi and the boys were running up the stairs Shannon was running up and down other flights of stairs. She had passed some other students from Ravenclaw. They looked at her like she had lost her mind.
"Shannon what's the rush?" a blond hair girl asked.
"I'm all wet if Filch catches me it'll be another Howler from home about getting into trouble. So if Filch comes this way tell him nothing. Okay Mandy?" Shannon said as she rushed by.
"Okay." Mandy said shaking her head.
Shannon finally made it to the hidden door to the Ravenclaw Common room. It was a door and not a painting. She had to tickle it in a special spot to get it to open. The spot changed every few days, and sometimes the spot was on the doorframe. Shannon tickled it and the door opened. The Ravenclaw common room was done out in blue and sliver. A picture of the founder was hanging above the fireplace. There was only one table in the room. It was long and sliver. Shannon went through a door. The stairs went down to the different rooms. Shannon found the one she shared with three other girls. She walked over to her wardrobes and opened it. She pulled out some dry clothes. She sat down on the bed only to jump right back up. She had almost sat on Pippin.
The weeks flew by. It was a month into the term when the captains for the Quidditch teams started to round up their teams. And it didn't make things any better when the teachers piled the students with a lot of homework.
"Man I don't know if I'll ever get this right." Katriena said as she tried to turn a desk into a dog. She had gotten the tail part done but not the rest.
"Okay class that's good for today. You may go." Professor McGonagall said as the bell rang.
"Hey Katriena!" someone yelled over the voices in the hallway.
Katriena turned to look. It was Shannon. She was rushing toward her.
"Here." Shannon said handing a note to Katriena and than rushed off toward her class.
Katriena didn't have a chance to look at it till she got to class. And even than she had to be careful. She had Potions with the 7th year Ravenclaws. She didn't mind that she had that class with them, the Gryffindors had it with the Slytherins, but she didn't like the person who taught it. No one liked Professor Snape. And he didn't like anyone, except his own house, Slytherin.
Katriena was teamed up with a girl from Ravenclaw, Hannah. They were trying to make a potion that would turn anything that drank it into a wolf. Theirs was too thick.
"Oh man here comes Snape." Hannah whispered to Katriena.
"Well class it seems that not all Ravenclaws are smart and neither are the Hufflepuffs. Shall we test this?" Snape looked in on their mix, "Miss Young I believe you have a cat, am I right?"
Katriena didn't say anything. She didn't want Professor Snape to turn Trouble into a wolf.
"Well?" Snape snapped.
"Yes sir." Katriena said slowly, "But she's up in my room." Well that's what she hoped. The owls and cats could roam all they wanted inside the castle.
"In your room? I don't think so. I think if you look over in that corner class, Miss Young's cat sunk into the room today." Snape pointed.
The whole class looked. And he was right, Trouble was sitting there. She looked up as the class looked down at her. Snape walked over and picked her up by the back of her neck. Trouble hissed.
"Now if they did their potion right the cat will turn into a wolf." He was about to take some of the potion out of the caldron it was in the bell ringed. Snape looked furious at it, "Fine I want a whole parchment on this potion due to me Monday."
Katriena packed up all her stuff than grabbed Trouble from Snape. She didn't look back even when Snape took five points from Hufflepuff. She carried her cat into the dinning hall.
"Katriena why do you have Trouble with you?" Jessi asked as she sat down next to Katriena. The teachers didn't care if the students ate with their friends as long as it wasn't a feast.
"Professor Snape was going to try our Wolf Changing potion on her. We made it too thick. It wasn't right. Trouble had followed me into the class." Katriena sat Trouble on her lap as the food appeared on the plates.
The next day was the first feast on the term, beside the start of term feats. It was finally Halloween. Two months had passed. The next day would be the first game of the year. It was Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. All the teachers let their last class out early. Harry and Ron ran down to Hagrid's cabin. They had gotten a letter that morning from him. It said something about he had something to show them. Hermione had to run up to the Gryffindor tower to put all her books away.
"Hey Hagrid. Open up." Harry yelled through the heavy wooden door.
The door opened real slowly. As the door continued to open Hermione came running down the lawn toward the cabin. They finally were able to see inside the cabin. Fang, Hagrid's dog, came leaping out at them. He jumped up on Ron trying to lick his ears.
"Well what do you want to show us?" Harry asked as they walked in side the cabin. Ron was pushing Fang off.
"Look what I got!" Hagrid said with a smile pointing to something on the table.
The three looked at it. It was a box and inside was something that they had only seen once up close. (Well except for Harry who had seen this sort of thing a second time) It was a scale. A really small one at that. And under it was a tooth and a claw. The scale was a green color.
"Hagrid you didn't get another dragon egg did you?" Harry asked still looking inside the box. Hagrid had once own a dragon egg that had hatched into Norbert. Ron still had a small scar on his hand from where it had bit him. In the end they had written to Ron's brother, Charlie, to came and get the thing.
"No, no. This stuff didn't come from any old dragon. It came from Charlie. He wrote me that it's Norbert's." Hagrid smiled thoughtfully.
Ron, Hermione and Harry looked at each other. They didn't know what to think of this. They didn't talk or think about Norbert every often but than again they had their hands fell of the new animals Hagrid got.
"Come on you guys. Let's get up to the castle for dinner. I'm hungry." Ron said as he started to walk up to the castle. The others followed him.
They had just gotten to the door of the great hall when something dropped on their heads. They were not the only ones. Something had also fallen on to Shannon and Ginny's heads. They looked up to see a bucket floating in mid air. As they watched it something dropped out of the bucket and on to the head of a Ravenclaw third year's head. It was what looked like green Jell-O. Hermione looked closer at it.
"This isn't Jell-O it's one of Professor Snape's potions. It's the.." Hermione was cut off as she felt something growing from her head. She put her hand up to her head. Her hair was growing really fast and it had turned into ropes. "Great. Harry, Ron this is bad for every person the potion does something different to them."
She turned around to look at them but found herself looking at Harry with hair down to his feet. Ron's hair had disappeared and was replaced with a garden growing on his head. Shannon and Ginny's hair was both growing like crazy.
"Students please come in and sit down." Professor Filtwick said as he came up to the door. He was shocked to see 5 students with weird hair duos. The poor Ravenclaw had lost all her hair and was about to burst into tears.
The bucket tipped over, dumping the rest of the potion on the students standing below. Professor Flitwick was caught in the middle as Hermione, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Shannon and the Ravenclaw girl tried to make a run for it. As they all tried to get out of the way a ghost popped into the air were the bucket had been. It was Pevees. The only ghost at the school who didn't listen to any of the teachers or other ghost.
"Pevees when I tell Dumbledore that you've been down in Snape's room stealing his potions again you'll get it." Poor Professor Flitwick was covered in fuzz. He could hardly see out of it. "Well come on to the hospital wing. I believe that Madam Pomfrey has something that can fix this."
Hermione had to lead the way for she was the only one who could see, the Ravenclaw girl was still in tears.
"Well what's this?" Madam Pomfrey asked as they all walked into the hospital wing.
"Please Madam Pomfrey can you do something to help us with this mess?" Hermione asked.
"Yes I can, but some of you will have to stay here for the night. Let's see. Professor Flitwick come over here. You too girl." She led them over to some tables. She gave them some white potion. Professor Flitwick could see again and the girl's hair was growing back. "Okay now tell me what length to grow it to." Madam Pomfrey kept giving the girl some of the white medicine.
When the girl finally left her hair was longer than it had started out as.
"Okay. Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley over here please." Madam Pomfrey directed them behind a curtain. She came out again, "Miss Granger, Wagner and Weasley over here." She led them to a different curtain. She gave them all some dressing gowns to put on. She pulled the curtains away from them after they had all got dressed. She went into her office as they all climbed into the beds. She came out with three different bottles. She spooned some that was pale green into three spoons.
"Here you go dears." She said as she handed it to Harry, Shannon and Ginny. "And this one for you Mr. Weasley." She handed him a spoon with a red medicine in it. She poured some purple medicine into the last spooning than handed it to Hermione. "Now you three," she pointed at Harry and the two girls, "your hair is going to keep growing till it can't grow anymore. It's going to an itchy night for you three." She turned back toward Ron, "Mr. Weasley yours is going to die than re-grow back into your normal hair. And Miss Granger yours will also fall out. Your hair will grow back really curly this time." She walked away shaking her head as all five of them looked at her back with disbelief.
"Great. This is just great. No Halloween Feast this year for us." Ron said lending back on his pillow.
"I know." Hermione said.
"Well at least you can see. All I see is hair and more hair. And it's making my face itch." Harry said from behind al his hair.
"I know." Ginny and Shannon both said as one.
They were still mumbling when the door to the hospital wing opened. In walked Katriena, Brian and Professor Dumbledore. He looked at them with a smile on his lips and a sparkle in his eye.
"Well it seems that Professor Flitwick was right. I'll have some dinner sent up to you five." He left them still with a smile.
"Shannon if only you could see your self. You look like Cousin It." Katriena giggled.
"Shut up Katriena." Shannon said from behind all her hair.
"Cousin It?" Ron asked puzzled.
"Just some one from a TV show." Brian said as the door opened again. This time it was Jessi. She was carrying a tray of food with her.
"Hi guys." She sat down the tray on a table. She handed a plate of food to each of her friends. "Man Shannon I wish I had a camera or something because you look really funny."
"Leave her alone." Ginny said from behind all her hair.
"How did this happen?" Katriena said as she helped Ginny with pulling the hair out of her face so she could eat.
"Pevees." Ron said between bites. His garden had just bloomed. It had caught all that could see it by surprise. "What?" all the others had started to laugh.
"Okay, okay. Now go on get. These five need their sleep. I believe Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley more than anyone does. They have a game in the morning." Madam Pomfrey said as she herded the other three out of the room.
The five didn't have an every good night. Harry, Shannon and Ginny were up half the night starching their heads as the hair grew. Ron's garden had turned brown before lights out, now it had fallen out. There were little puffs of red hair beginning to show. Hermione's hair had also fallen out. The brown hair had begun to grow back. Around one in the morning Harry and Shannon's hair had finally stopped growing. Ginny's didn't stop till almost four.
They were woken up by voices. "Do you think they got enough sleep to play?" Harry was the first to wake.
He could see Jessi and another player from the Gryffindor team standing at the foot of his bed.
"Well you're finally awake." Jessi saw that he was awake. "Think you can play today?"
"Yeah we can." Ron had woken up to the question.
"Well their not going anywhere till I've said they could." Madam Pomfrey had come out of her office with a tray of food. She looked them all over as they ate. Jessi and the other Gryffindor looked on as they ate. They than waited out in the hall while they all got dressed.
Later as the Gryffindor team was in the locker room getting ready their captain was giving them a peep talk.
"Okay, this is the final year for our seeker, for the beater and two of our chasers." The captain of the Gryffindor team, Thomas, said, "We need to win that cup this year. The Gryffindor team hasn't won it sine Harry's third year."
Harry and Ron looked at each other. They knew what needed to be done in order to win. Jessi had been on the team long enough to find a few games, but never the cup.
"We need the golden snitch caught only if we are a 30 points ahead, but if you see their seeker going after it don't hesitate to go after. We need to win." Thomas said before turning to the chasers, "We need some good team work here from you three. Try that little trick that we thought of if everything starts to get rough." He than turned to Jessi, "Us as beaters need to make sure that we hit the beaters more at the Sytherian chasers more than anything."
"I'll make sure that no one gets a goal while I'm in front of the hoops." The keeper, Alison, said. She was a four-year but she had already proven herself as a good keeper.
"Right now let's go." Thomas said as he led the way to the door that lead to the field.
As the door opened cheers from the Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and the Hufflepuffs meted them. As Jessi mounted her broom she could see Shannon, Brian, Ginny and Katriena holding up a huge banner with her name on it. She watched it change to read Harry's name than it changed again to read Ron's.
"Well, well. Look Potter and Weasley have a fan club." Malfoy said from his broom. Jessi could see the name of his broom printed on the handled. It read Nimbus Two-Thousand and One. Jessi looked down at her broom. She was riding a Nimbus Two-Thousand. Harry had by far the fastest broom out there, the Firebolt.
"Okay I want a nice clean game."
The balls were released. They were off.
"And the game starts. For the Gryffindor team chasers Weasley, Thomas and Snalt head for the Slyerian end of the field." Hermione had taken up telling people what was going on after the Weasley twins' friend, Lee Jordan, had left Hogwarts.
"Think you can stay on that broom girl?" A Slyerian beater was flying right over Jessi. She didn't look up. She turned right heading for the Gryffindor end.
"Hey Jessi, hit that one toward the Slyerian chaser that's on Ron's tail!" Harry yelled as he flew past her, Malfoy was right be hind him. Malfoy was the seeker form the Slyerian team.
Jessi looked over to where Ron was flying.