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Authors Note: Yet another pointless take on year one… Have a read and tell us what you think…. Should we continue? I say this only once… Read and risk your own sanity…
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One Point, Oh dear… Is that a flying monkey I see? AAAAAAA Oh yeah. I'm dreaming.. Never mind..
I woke up with a start… The Slytherin dormitories were really cold and the beds weren't nearly soft enough… Argh! Breakfast time soon… Yay! I love food.. The feast was great apart from my company, what a bunch of low life scum! And that Malfoy kid, I could see we were just going to hate each other, calling me goofy… grrrrr! Oh yeah where was I? Breakfast… A thought to soothe anyone's mind… I sniggered and thought of what Eleri might be doing now… She'll be out with all the Hufflepuffs having fun no doubt… From what I could gather they seemed like friendly people. Anyway, I got up and it seemed like an okay place to be, though I didn't know what my first lessons were going to be like. I have potions with the Gryffindors, maybe I could find out what was so special about that Harry Potter or maybe I could find out at breakfast… Yes that was what I was going to do, find out at breakfast… I'd speak to Eleri, she was bound to have found out already, nosey so and so…
I bimbled down to breakfast to see Eleri at the Hufflepuff table buttering some toast… I called her to me and she jumped not expecting me so early, she walked up to me wearing a huge grin.
"What have you been doing?" I said noticing the dreamy look on her face and she looked back to the Hufflepuff table.
"Cedric Diggory!" She sighed quivering and biting her lip.
"Uhhh… Okay," I said looking at the table where a handsome boy was sitting, didn't interest me much. "Anyway! Have you found out what's so special about that Harry Potter yet? I'm unsure but the Slytherins seem to hate him for whatever he did."
"Oh him! I hate him! He's got his head so far up his ass!" She said looking disgusted after being so happy.
"Dude, he's eating breakfast!" I said wondering how in hell he could look so stuck up scoffing down bacon with his red headed friend next to him (who was looking even less of a stuck-up than that Harry Potter.) "So, what is it that he did?" I asked becoming impatient, I tend to have a very short fuse - I can't help it!
"Oh, he 'supposedly'," she drawled, making the quoting signs with her fingers. "Defeated the Dark Lord, whoever that is."
"Oh, nothing important then. I thought he might have been born royal or something the way the Gryffindors greeted him yesterday." I sighed a little, I could go back to being normal again.
"Anyway what's the Slytherin common room like?"
"Well, it's kinda damp." I said bluntly cringing at the thought of having to live there for the next seven years.
"That sums up everything about the Slytherins then. Did you see that grouchy old Professor that looks like a grease monger yesterday? His name is Snape." She said screwing up her nose.
"I know..." I said slowly. "He's the head of Slytherin." I groaned as Eleri laughed her head off almost choking on her toast.
"Really?!" She said slowly recovering from her bout of laughter.
"Yeah." I said depressingly glancing over to the staff table.
"Hey cheer up!" She said patting me on the back. "You don't have to turn into one of them." I smiled and looked to the staff table where Professor Snape was glaring at Eleri and me, probably because Slytherins and Hufflepuffs never ever, under no circumstances talk to each other as friends. What did they think we were going to do? Blow up the building? Nahhh.. But the way Snape had contorted his face you would have thought we were planning to bomb the houses of Parliament.
"He's watching us." I whispered through gritted teeth. "Run!!!" I yelled.
"AAAAAAAA!" We wailed running from the Great Hall arms flailing.
"Okay I think we're safe! We're not being watched anymore." I said looking at Eleri as she began casually wolfing down her toast once more.
"Hey where are we?" She said looking around the unfamiliar room.
"Whoa!" I said; my nasal system was doing somersaults. "Stinks in here!"
"Dude, everything stinks to you!" Eleri reminded me.
"Oh yeah," I said turning around. "AAAAAAAA!" I screamed, when Eleri turned around she dropped her toast that she was chewing on and joined me in the vocals.
"What-the-f*k-is-THAT?!" I said so quickly that Eleri only just made out what I was saying.
"It's-a-three-headed-dog-from-ancient-Greek-legends-and-is-called-a-Cerberus!!!" She seemed to know what it was but getting away from it would be a different thing.
"IS IT DANGEROUS??!!"
"YUP." She gulped.
"Great. Erm… Anything we can do?" I said swallowing hard the feeling I was gonna snuff it.
"DUH! RUN!!" She said turning around.
"AAAAAAAAA!" We screamed running away. We're good at running away.
We ran out of a door and down several flights of stairs… I think we ran from the third floor. I couldn't tell, I wasn't concentrating. We stopped at the bottom. Well crisis over I think… At least I thought so; Eleri didn't stop running.
"Hey Eleri!" I shouted. "We're okay come back!"
"Oh!" She said stopping abruptly and walking back calmly. "So what lessons do we have next?" She asked as if nothing had happened.
"I have double Potions with Snape and the Gryffindors," I grumbled.
"Oh well see ya later I have Herbology with the Ravenclaws." She twittered running to where ever the Hufflepuffs came from… Well don't look at me like that, how do I know?
"Bye.." I said quietly as she skipped away. She's way too happy, the bloody Slytherins reject me just because I'm muggle born, ass holes!
Now then, to Potions. The sooner I get there I guess, the sooner I can leave.
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Well that certainly was an interesting lesson. Well okay I didn't do much and well, I didn't attract attention to myself so I guess there was no point telling Eleri about it. And she seemed happy enough, when she came round the corner she saw Cedric and stopped next to me staring at him with great interest as he walked along in front of her not bothering to cover up the fact that she was doing it. I guess she wasn't afraid of what people might think as I would be. Then a boy from my Potions class walked past as she looked from Cedric's butt to this boys face. He was with Harry Potter, and had red hair – the same boy I saw with the 'saviour' this morning so I figured they must be friends. He seemed like the kind of person who had a lot of tolerance seeing as he was being ignored as people were all interested in Harry and didn't give a monkeys about him.
Eleri had begun grumbling about her dirty fingers and the fact that she'd got dirt in her nails. She silenced suddenly though as Harry Potter and his friend strolled past with three second years trailing excitedly.
"Eleri!" I said jabbing her in the ribs. "Stop staring. He might notice!"
"That's the point!" She said, ignoring me and smiling widely at the boy who didn't take a blind bit of notice about her.
"Ohh!" I said frustratedly. "I'm going to my common room… I'll see you later!"
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I'd never seen such an angelic boy in all my life… I can't forget about him, I just can't… Should I go up to him and declare my love or should I lie low a while?? Hmmm, nah, time to go to my first flying lesson with Madam Hooch – boys can wait!
"Welcome to your first flying lesson!" She bellowed over the din the morning birds were making. Great! My first flying lesson with the Ravenclaws! I'm so nervous I could faint right now on this muddy looking spot!
"Put your hand over the broom and say 'Up'!" Ok, this is it! My first ever go at riding a broomstick! Cool!
"UP!!" It zoomed straight into my hand! Wow! Does this mean I'm a natural?!
"Well done! Now mount your brooms and stay on the ground while I teach you the basics, that's it, I want you all to follow my command and gently push yourself off the ground, make a short distance to that tree and lean to the right side to go around it, then back again. When you want to stop, gently lean forward until you can safely walk on the grass again with your feet. Ready? Go!" I needed no persuasion, I was up and off before the others could react to her last words. The wind ran through my hair cold and refreshing waking me up much better than a bowl of Cornflakes ever could! I LOVE THIS!!!!
Trees are no obstacle to me, it was so easy to round I can't believe this is still the basics! I wonder what the advanced lessons are like? I never thought I'd be able to fly like this in my life, only in my dreams have I ever had such freedom and control over something so fast and magical!
"Well done, to all of you but I am most impressed with Miss Nuvios here who completed the task a full ten seconds before you all and who managed to stop with total confidence. Being muggleborn I am most impressed!"
I wish. That wasn't really what happened, I actually managed the tree as good as she said but suddenly found myself quickly losing control of the battered old school broom when it came to the point I was supposed to stop, so I, remembering what she had told us, leaned down on the broom to land but suddenly it swerved up and then back down – The thing was so old I doubted whether it was actually going to be flyable at all in a few more minutes! I had absolutely no control over it! HELP ME!!
"
Hooch yelled something at me as I ripped through the air by her, but I couldn't hear over my screaming. The broom swerved to the left, then the right, down to bounce off the ground and up to hover over it again until I could see ahead of me the long sweeping Hogwarts lawns. I gulped and lay flat against the broom, as I did so it spun round like a washing machine, a flying human bullet I was, zooming across the Hogwarts grounds – I was amazed the old Sweeper had this much speed stored up in it after all these years.
It descended once more and I felt it twist up a fraction of a second before it met the ground.
"SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE!!!!" I screamed in the loudest and highest exhausted voice not trying to hide my complete fear. The Sweeper began to rise up, I held on as it smoothly looped three times and went back the way it had came making me hang upside down on it heading back to my flying class.
I risked opening my eyes to see the familiar human blurs of Hooch and the other Hufflepuffs in my year whom I couldn't make out, before pelting head first into a tree. I don't need to tell you how much that hurt.
"Excellent control! Never have I seen such control over a wild broom from a first year and a muggleborn may I just add!"
What did she say? I have no idea as I twitched on the tree roots with a broken broomstick on top of me, a broken neck too no doubt. How did I survive that?
"Can you stand up?" She asked with sudden concern in her voice.
"Muh?" I mumbled blinking my eyes and reorganising my limbs in their right places. Others now were coming towards me with looks of admiration on their shocked faces. Well I wasn't going to sit there and be a show was I?
"Carefully Nuvios, you don't have any broken bones do you?" Hooch hovered like a worried mum as I rolled onto my belly and onto my knees, finally pushing myself up to stand shaking a bit after having broken the sound barrier, I must have feeling like this!
"I okay…" I grinned suddenly realising how cool I must have looked zooming away like that and doing all those tricks even though I was screaming like a baby back there.
"Good girl." Madam Hooch patted my shoulder and led me back to the ring of used brooms. "Would you like to sit this one out?" She offered her hand in case I was going to collapse right there, but although my muscles ached and my neck was stiff I really wanted to carry on with the lesson.
"I'm fine Miss, what are we doing next?" She gave me a confused frown but shrugged her shoulders and walked away unable to do anything more. I suppose she would throw that old broom away after we had gone off for our next lesson.
We continued, I took it a little slower this time, rounded two trees, then went over them and spiralled down and round them and back. We had to go up in a vertical line, then horizontally and finally she produced a firmly locked wooden crate which she opened to reveal five balls.
"These two red ones are called Quaffles, yes I know most of you know because you've no doubt played I at home with your families but this is for the benefit of the mugggleborns. Okay, these two Quaffles are what score the goals if a Chaser uses them, these two black ones are called Bludgers and are there to beat opponents off their brooms." They were chained and vibrated within them active and desperate to escape. "They aim for heads so watch out, Beaters have the job to bat them away to the other team. This tiny walnut sized one is called a Snitch; the Seeker has to capture it to win the game for their team, winning them an extra one hundred and fifty points and the admiration and congratulations from their house. Any questions? No? Okay, That's it then, lesson one is over; you may come down form your brooms and go off to you next lesson." Just as she finished speaking and I had landed one of the cannon ball sized Bludgers broke free of its chains and hurtled for all the class. The girls screamed and flung themselves to the floor, the boys yelled and ran out the way dropping their brooms and pelting across the lawns. I was the only target left.
"AAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"
WHACK!
The ball was hurtling off over the forest now as I stood with my broomstick before me, snapped and held on by a few splinters after the blow I had given the Bludger with it. Hooch smiled, then as the Bludger returned for more she performed a quick restraining spell and cased it back in the crate.
"An excellent flyer with good control and a possible Beater." She mused taking the second broomstick I had broken in the lesson from me looking at it disappointed. "I shall look forward to your next class Nuvios, I predict great talent in you." I blushed. Then trembling with pleasure and nerves I headed off back to the castle giggling nervously with the rest of the Hufflepuffs as they congratulated me for my wonderful entertainment on their first day. Cool! I love flying!
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The scene in the common room was not cool! In fact it annoyed me. Malfoy was grumbling about Harry, and Mudbloods in general as he referred to us as when I walked in. Well, he then started on me, as you can imagine I was not impressed. I looked at him blankly again to try to stop him and draw his attention to something else.
"You don't belong here you stupid Mudblood!"
"Why not?!" I shouted at him that was something that I don't think he was expecting, my expression had changed completely and this time I couldn't ignore this obnoxious jerk! He sneered at me then continued to talk to the others about me like I wasn't there. I hit him on the back of the head gently, a sort of friendly tap in a non-friendly way. "I am here you guys!" I said trying to get their attention but no one was listening. Malfoy then started making some references to my being unworthy of this house and how I must be completely gutless. That was it!
"Excuse me Draco!" I said burning from the inside out. "But never ever call me gutless! What is it you want me to do?!" I snapped.
"You are gutless!" He drawled. "Yellow, spineless…" This was just childish! What a gump! The list scrolled on and all I wanted to was wipe that smug look off his face, prove myself worthy as it were. Stupid hing to do, shouldn't have to and I knew it but I had to live here!
"Okay… That's it. I'll jump off the astrology tower if that's what you want… Come on Malfoy, watch me… I'm gonna do it!" I said. Yeah I know it's stupid and Eleri would probably try to stop me but she wasn't here, ha! His expression changed to an even deeper sneer.
I walk out of the common room and a group of Slytherins follow me including Malfoy. I could only assume that he wanted to watch me wimp out like the rest of them. I reached the bottom of the stairs and proceeded to climb them. Malfoy was close behind me but by that time half of the people who had followed lost interest. I got to the top and looked out… It was frikking high! I stepped onto the wall of the window and Malfoy looked like he was about to back down.
"Okay Quillix, you don't have to jump. You're just gutless anyway. You're not going to do that!" He said trying to make out I was scared.
"Well I'll see ya later. Race ya down!" I said stepping backwards off the ledge smiling facing him, just before I could see him no more I saw the look on his face. It was priceless, he went almost transparent with fear, I looked at the flor that I was now falling to. The wind was now brushing through my hair and well… It was fun, up to a point; the floor was getting closer to me and it was freaking me out. I watched TV a lot, I've seen Drop Zone and I knew a bit about science… I just have to slow my decent by creating a bit more drag. I started to fall slower and then began to swim in the air towards the lake, near the edge a bit into an area that seemed to be getting deeper. It was gonna hurt when I hit it. One hell of a belly flop!
Yikes!
Poor planning, poor planning.
SPLASH!
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